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BREADING, Keith Foster On May 20, 2013. Passed away suddenly at home, Rakaia. Loving partner and best mate of Linda Boyd.

Dearly loved dad of Sonia, Vivien, Steven and Bridget, Anita and Steve, Vanessa and Mark, and much loved

by Rebecca and Tanaya, and Hayley and Tom. Much loved ‘Dar’ of Abbey; Samantha, and the late Alex; Victoria and the late Thomas; Sophie; Chelsea, James, Jacob, and Charlotte. Messages to the Breading Family, 1722 Rakaia Selwyn Road, R D 13, Rakaia 7786. A service to celebrate Keith’s life will be held at the Rakaia Memorial Hall on MONDAY, May 27, commencing at 11.00am.

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THOMSON, Agnes Louise (Nancy)(Reg. No 818288) – Our treasured and loving mother and friend passed away May 24, 2013 at Ashburton. Aged 93 years.

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Upset over son’s treatment

By Amy McGillivray An elderly man had to drag his sick adult son down a flight of stairs and into the car after ambulance staff left them to make their own way to the doctor.

Fred Gunst, 79, has looked after his 47-year-old son, Ken, for most of his life and knew something was wrong when he got out of bed one morning to find him in exactly the same position he had left him in the night before.

Ken has lived with the effects of a cancerous brain tumour since he was 7 years old and struggled with balance, co-ordination, speech and memory.

Mr Gunst went out on the evening of May 7 and got back to find Ken in the same chair he was in

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when he left. Mr Gunst thought nothing of it until he got up at 6.45am the next day and found him in the same position.

“I knew something drastic had happened but I didn’t know what to do.”

Mr Gunst called his 76-year-old partner, a former nurse, and an ambulance.

Paramedics checked Ken thoroughly, mainly for signs of a stroke, they then left Mr Gunst and his partner to deal with Ken. “They wrote out a form and left him with me and said, ‘Take him to the doctor’. We had to manhandle him out of the house, down five stairs to the car. It wasn’t an easy task because we had to toilet and dress him before we went,” he said. “He’s a big guy, about 85 to 90kg.”

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St John Bay Of Plenty district operations manager Jeremy Gooders would not comment on the specific case citing privacy but said staff always did a detailed assessment of the patient when they arrived at a job.

The course of action was always discussed and agreed on by the patient and their family, he said.

“Some people are advised to see their GP we have those conversations about are they able to get there.

“Sometimes we will take people to medical centres if required.”

In situations where patients with known medical conditions did not have life-threatening symptoms, paramedics aimed to have them seen by those already involved in their treatment, Mr Gooders said.

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By Susan Sandys Rocky the superstar boulder will be freed from the ruins of his Port Hills home and transported to Methven on Thursday.

It will be two years, eight months and 26 days since the huge rock blasted its way into the house, and the headlines.

Shortly after the September 4, 2010 earthquake, the homeowners called the boulder Rocky, and listed it for sale on TradeMe. Mt Hutt paid $50,000 which went to the earthquake appeal.

But getting Rocky to the skifield proved a bureaucratic nightmare, involving the house being red zoned and clearance having to be given for its demolition.

The final demolition plans have now been signed off and Sicon Ltd, headed by former Mt Hutt Ski Area manager Dave Wilson, has set a date of May 30.

Mt Hutt Ski Area manager James McKenzie said Rocky was looking forward to plenty of photo opportunities on the day, and would tour Christchurch with Mt Hutt and Rock FM prior to coming to Methven. His T-shirts and books would be sold, with money going to the earthquake appeal.

“Rocky has been hidden

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away for a number of years, I’m sure this is his moment really,” Mr McKenzie said.

The rock would be transported to Methven, where a welcoming party may be held, and then taken up to Mt Hutt when access road conditions allow. He will be installed there with a plaque.

The former owner of the home which Rocky smashed into, Phil Johnson, said he had not decided whether he would be there on the day to see Rocky removed.

“I have had my closure several times over. If you can imagine you have lived in a house, brought your kids up

there, done it up and all that sort of thing. You are in no great hurry to see someone put a bulldozer through it,” Mr Johnson said.

He was pleased that Mt Hutt had invited him to the welcoming of Rocky on the skifield and was far more excited about that.

“It was a pretty positive story at a dark time,” he said of naming Rocky after the earthquake and listing him on TradeMe. Mr Johnson was pleased public interest was being rejuvenated.

“You never know, he might sort of wake up and post on Facebook, it would be cool,” Mr Johnson said.

The boulder has been reported in media to weigh anything from 15 to 30 tonnes.

Mt Hutt Ski Area manager James McKenzie said he and Sicon chief executive officer Dave Wilson, who is the ski area’s former manager and therefore the person responsible for buying Rocky to start with, had a bet with each other pertaining to the weight of the rock.

Mr McKenzie believed it would weigh about 15 tonnes, while Mr Wilson estimated about 25 tonnes.

“I guess he feels he has some ownership over it, ultimately we are taking ownership of it, so it’s quite a nice little Mt Hutt/Sicon sweepstake,” Mr McKenzie said.

The personal bet would either see Mr McKenzie buy a beer for Mr Wilson, or the other way around.

Rocky will be weighed by the crane which lifts him when he is removed from the house, which will be demolished by Sicon on Thursday.

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The decision not to take Ken straight to hospital was disappointing, he said.

Mr Gunst said he did not specifically ask the paramedics to take Ken to hospital but he expected they would have offered to transport him.

“Perhaps I should have been more forthright but that’s their job.

They know what they’re doing.”

When they finally got to the doctor’s surgery the doctor took a quick look at Ken and told them to take him straight to hospital. He was immediately admitted to the emergency department.

Doctors found the tube that drained cerebrospinal fluid from his head to his pleural cavity was blocked and took him to Waikato Hospital for surgery the next morning.

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Two women and five men have been charged over an alleged mortgage fraud scheme involving more than $9 million.

In a statement the Serious Fraud Office said it had laid 48 Crimes Act charges against the group, whose primary defendant is 44-year-old mortgage broker Eli Devoy, who also is known as Ellie Stone.

The SFO alleges that Devoy was involved in property transactions in the wider Auckland area between 2007

and 2010 and accused of havdeceived banks ing taken part into approving in the mortgage applications for scheme, where mortgages. the total alleged The SFO alleges fraud is about false documents $9.2 million. or information The others was provided to allegedly involved the banks.

- who all have Devoy faces 26 been charged Simon McArley of the 48 “obtainyesterday - are ing by deception” charg- Mehrdad Ghorbani, Mehran es, which were laid in the Ghorbani, Nasrin Kardani, Auckland District Court yes- Mehrzad Ghorbani, Hassan terday morning.

Salarpour and Javad Toraby.

The SFO first received The SFO says Mehrdad complaints about Devoy in Ghorbani also goes by November 2011. the name of Mohammad Six other individuals are Ghorbani Sarsangi. It says

Mehran Ghorbani also goes by the name of Massoud Ghorbani and Ken Williams while Mehrzad Ghorbani goes by the name of Mehdi Ghorbani.

Acting SFO boss Simon McArley said yesterday morning that financial crime increased the cost of credit and “has a direct impact on economic growth.”

“SFO is keen to work with lenders to reduce offending in this area and augment the deterrent effects of SFO’s prosecution functions with improved lending practices and procedures,” he said.

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Fury at Hinds farmer is NZ’s damning top dairy manager disability sector report

By Michelle Nelson

By Sam Morton and Myles Hume A national union that oversees disability services, including Ashburton’s only residential facility, has gone on the defensive after allegations emerged several of their carers abused residents.

The report has been met with fury and cast the spotlight on the entire disability sector.

The report, released this week, revealed serious dysfunctional processes at several facilities co-ordinated by Te Roopu Taurima between 2010 and 2011.

Among the allegations were 17 escapes, 14 alleged assaults, two residents charged by police, an inappropriate restraint, stand-over tactics, a medication error, a car accident and a fire.

New Zealand Disability Support Network chief executive Clare Teague, who represents the majority of national providers, says it is extremely disappointing to hear of the incidents, but believes the Human Rights Commission has had a knee-jerk reaction to the case – yesterday calling for a complete overhaul of the sector.

“Sadly you do get the odd 1 per cent that haven’t done a marvellous job and their quality of care has been less than desirable and absolutely under our expectations,” Ms Teague said.

“However, the vast majority of providers throughout the country have done, and will continue to do, a fantastic job, making a big difference and supporting many lives.”

She insisted the sector would bounce back and hoped to benefit from feedback flooding in.

Ashburton father Mark Somerville, whose son is disabled, reacted to the report yesterday, adding it was concerning to hear “those who were disadvantaged” had been abused.

He said there was only one residential care facility in Mid Canterbury for disabled people, which was Idea Services Ashburton, but Christchurch had a wider range of care facilities available.

“A concern for parents is what happens when we die with our kids in fulltime care, I mean it’s always a worry and that saddens me to hear there are people that will abuse those that are less fortunate than themselves,” Mr Somerville said.

“When it comes down to it, disabled people aren’t any different to children or other members of society.”

Ms Teague said the sector had gone through a large trajectory of change in recent years, encouraging new models of support to be adopted and more appropriate processes to be put in place.

She agreed there was a strong need for disabled people to make choices about how they receive services, be it in residential facilities or in supported independent living.

“It is pleasing to see many disabled residents are choosing to work towards independence – opting to work with their support providers to carry out regular daily tasks for themselves,” she said.

“The sector has come a long way and we want to make it a priority for the Government going forward ... it’s an ongoing sector.”

It is understood police have already laid charges relating to the report.

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A Hinds dairy farmer has proven he’s at the top of his game.

At last night’s Dairy Industry Awards in Wellington, Richard Pearse was named New Zealand Farm Manager of the Year title from a field of 12.

Mr Pearse, aged 30, is contract milking 955 cows for Graham and Jane Thomas at Ashburton.

With his partner, veterinarian Susan Geddes, he plans to progress to sharemilking or an equity partnership in the future, with the ultimate aim of owning a 1000 cow property.

And the $29,000 prize package he won last night will help the couple on the

journey. Head farm manager judge Tory Pederson said Mr Pearse was achieving exceptional production in his first year managing on a first year dairy farm conversion.

“The clear message the finalists gave us this year was their passion for the industry and their desire to progress. They are also focused on best practice farming and are very conscious of public perceptions,” she said.

As for Mr Pearse integrity and honesty is his philosophy, and it served him well in the lead up to the awards.

“We highly value our reputation in the dairy industry and as we are looking to progress further we believe that having a good image is crucial to our success,” he recently told the Guardian.

Richard Pearse is New Zealand Farm Manager of the Year.

He also values the input of those around him like staff, farm owners and rural professionals.

“We aim to ensure – through good communication – that people feel appreciated and involved in both the running of the farm and the business side of it as well,” he said.

Rookie dairy farmer Adam Caldwell, who works for Mr Pearse, also made it to the award ceremony as a contender in the Dairy Trainee of the Year category.

While he didn’t feature in the winners’ line up it was an impressive effort for a young man in his first season in the industry.

The New Zealand Sharemilker/Equity Farmer award went to Southland couple Don and Jess Moore, and James Warren, also from Southland, was named Trainee of the Year.

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Guardian website in national spotlight Mid Canterbury’s TV3 reporter Annabelle Tukia visited the Guardian offices yesterday to hear more about the paper’s trailblazing website Guardianonline.co.nz.

The television news crew was working on a news item about pay-for-use websites after the Guardian became the first daily newspaper in New Zealand to charge for its online news in November last year.

There has been much speculation when the bigger New Zealand papers, including The Press, and the New Zealand Herald will start charging for their online content. Industry insiders believe that both news organisations hope to have their news behind a paywall within 12 months.

Mr Lammers told Mrs Tukia that the website has created a significant audience without losing any of its print readership.

He explained how subscribers to the newspaper can register for Guardianonline for free and that a growing number of people are specifically subscribing to the digital content from inside and outside the district.

He also told the television crew that the community content of Guardianonline, including the photo galleries, the videos, the community news and events calendar can be accessed by all internet users without subscribing.

The TV3 crew said the full

• Queenstown fire Fire crews were battling a fire in a four-storey building in Queenstown’s main tourist strip last evening. Firefighters were called to The World Bar and Fat Badgers pizza restaurant shortly after 3.30pm. The fire, believed to have originated in the one of the Shotover St building’s kitchens, was spreading through the entire structure. Crowds gathered on the street outside as flames shot from the building and plumes of smoke spread into the sky. Sergeant Mark Gill understood everyone had been safely evacuated.

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• ACC interest ACC has begun contacting clients who may benefit from a Court of Appeal decision that clarified whether interest should be paid on backdated weekly compensation.

Sid Miller, ACC’s general manager claims, said the court had more clearly defined the circumstances in which ACC should pay interest on backdated compensation in cases where payments had been suspended but later reinstated from the date of suspension.

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By Myles Hume Hundreds of Mid Canterbury parents will be hitting the polls over the coming weeks, deciding who will be the best candidates to lead their child’s school.

Schools have sent out their Board of Trustees (BOT) election packages, enclosed with a list of the nominated parents all vying for a position on Mid Canterbury school boards, which govern and oversee the direction of local schools.

Several board’s spoken to by the Guardian yesterday said enough nominees had come forward for their school to host an election, with parents set to vote until the cut off stage on June 5.

Most schools had to fill five parental positions on the board every three years, while some put three forward for re-election every 18 months.

It is a relief for school such as Tinwald School, who had a severe lack of nominees, leaving their vice-chairperson Mike Farrell to call it “the worst ever” nominations period he had seen leading into the May 30 deadline.

The school saw an influx a few days before the cut-off and now has six nominees vying for five positions.

Some schools, such as Ashburton Intermediate and Hampstead School, haven’t been as lucky, both schools have the bare minimum numbers meaning they will not hold an election.

Byron Pearson will be standing down as the chairman for the Longbeach School BOT, but said the school had eight nominees, leaving parents with some tough decisions to make.

“What parents should be looking for is a good mix of experience on the board,” Mr Pearson said.

“It’s really good to have enough nominations to hold an election, it allows parents to choose who they think will best represent them.”

Ashburton College has four nominees for three positions, while Mount Hutt College, combined with Lauriston School, have six people looking to join the five-strong parent representative body.

Lauriston School principal Diane Prendergast said if boards did not have the ability to cover the financial, property, disciplinary and administrations duties, then the schools had the opportunity to “co-opt” members with expertise on to the board.

Netherby School board chairperson Paul Skinner said they had “six or seven” nominations, while St Joseph’s School had four people for its three available positions.

Parents have until June 5 to vote for their preferred members, with new boards to take office the next day.

• Chch man arrested A 20-year-old man sought by police in relation to a missing 13-year-old Christchurch schoolgirl was caught after staff at a city library who recognised him from news reports yesterday. Daniel Wiremu Gerrard, 20, was arrested yesterday afternoon at the Christchurch central library in Peterborough Street after staff members recognised him from a photo published in news media. He was arrested without incident and will appear in court today on outstanding warrants to arrest for breach of bail and wilful damage. The missing teen was located at a separate location around the same time. She is reported to be safe and well.

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• Police sting at dawn While most residents were sleeping, 50 people in Northland were woken early yesterday to the sound of police banging on their doors to chase up outstanding warrants to arrest. Police in the Whangarei and Kaipara districts from all ranks were out executing search warrants at the crack of dawn, hoping to find wanted people while they slept in their beds. Whangarei police nabbed 14 justice-dodgers, and discovered leads to follow on others who were not at home when the dawn raids occurred.

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• Wintry blast Winter looks set to arrive on schedule as weather experts predict a southerly polar blast to ice the country early next week. Forecasters say this weekend will be wet in the north, and mild and dry in the South Island as a westerly flow brings a touch of late autumn warmth. But before an expected dry Queen’s Birthday weekend, temperatures will plummet early next week and will stay in single digits for up to three days. The snowy, southerly blast could bring snow down to near sea level for Southland, much of Otago and exposed areas of Canterbury.

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NZ has a long way to go with insulation

By Sue Newman The true picture of New Zealand’s poorly-heated homes becomes very clear when you look inside the roof space, an insulation expert says.

Richard Dryden has been part of the Warm Up New Zealand insulation team for four years and says he’s still amazed at the poor state of insulation in most homes.

“The majority of the houses I see insulation in the ceiling is either not there or very, very old and ineffective and in 80 per cent where I can get under the floor and check, most don’t have any insulation at all,” he said.

He says he’s constantly surprised by the people who have gone to the expense of upgrading their home heating, but have then been disappointed with the results. Some are also shocked to find the cost of running heat pumps was higher than they’d anticipated, he said.

“Once they do their insulation, however, they’re surprised by the difference.

Insulation should always be your number one priority.”

The current subsidy scheme for homes built before 2000 is scheduled to finish at the end of June.

It has helped many people improve the warmth of their homes, Mr Dryden said, but he’s noticed a sharp decline in numbers this year.

“Yes, a lot have taken advantage of the subsidy, but ECCA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) hasn’t promoted it as actively this year and the awareness seems to have gone.”

While the subsidy provides a cash incentive, for people on low incomes living in cold homes, the cost of insulation may still be out

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of their reach, Mr Dryden said.

“There are plenty of people out there who will never do it, even with the subsidy, they just can’t afford it because it’s not just the ceiling. If we can get under the floor then, to get the subsidy, we have to do both the ceiling and the floor.”

He’s applauding changes to the insulation subsidy scheme announced in last week’s Budget.

While the details are unclear, Mr Dryden said that it appears it will focus solely on low-income homes, creating opportunities for people to have insulation installed through a combination of Government and private sector subsidy.

While the elderly have traditionally been seen as preferring a cold home to a heating bill, Senior Citizens home visitor Irene Cooper said most of her clients had heat pumps in their homes.

Most were careful with their use and kept a handle on their electricity bills by paying set amounts off their power bills year round to cope with winter highs, she said.

Some elderly, however, had the pioneer mindset that extra jerseys, rugs and hot water bottles were appropriate ways of keeping warm.

“And for many elderly, it’s their home, they’re used to it even if it’s a bit cold. Some have TV in their bedroom and they’ll put the electric blanket on and go to bed.”

With many elderly people now having heat pumps, there was a new concern over how they’d keep warm if the power went off, Mrs Cooper said.

“I’m not seeing anything I’m concerned about but we do keep an eye on people.”

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Ross Leadley from Ross Leadley Building fits Pink Batts in a new home, but some of New Zealand’s older homes are still sub-standard with their insulation.

Kiwis just ‘put on another sweater’

By Sue Newman Insulation in new, New Zealand homes was not compulsory until 1978 and that means around 75 per cent of the country’s housing stock is either under-insulated or not insulated at all.

In addition, those houses were built with only small fireplaces that heated single rooms because central heating was an unaffordable luxury. Firewood, on the other hand, was readily available and cheap.

A Canstar Blue survey reveals that one in three Kiwi households face a cold winter because their homes are poorly insulated and badly heated, raising questions about our attitude to home

heating. Turning up the heat is too costly for some families and they’re paying the price in poor health, the survey has found.

But in a country where a large slice of New Zealand’s housing stock is woefully under-insulated and ineffectively heated, living in cold homes has become something of a national habit.

An online blogger, a recent immigrant to New Zealand, tagged the immigrant factor as the key to Kiwis’ attitude to chilly houses.

Our homes are….”a colourful reminder that New Zealand was, in large part, settled by Scots so dour that they left Aberdeen and Inverness muttering darkly in a way that only the dourest of Scots can manage, that Aberdeen and

Inverness were a little too mild...”

The blogger went on to say that Kiwis did not believe in heating … “When the temperature outside dips down into single digits instead of firing up the central heating a Kiwi simply puts on yet another sweater, there being no central heating…”

The survey also found that people were turning their heating down, or off, fearing their electricity bills would be unaffordable. Many of those were young people in poorly insulated flats or elderly.

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Charges after damning report Former prison inmates were among staff at an intellectual disability care provider where patients allegedly endured assaults, abuse, stand-over tactics and hospitalisation, a report says.

Police have laid charges against some staff as a result of the damning report by the Ministry of Health, alleging wide-spread abuse at Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau, which it described as “seriously dysfunctional”.

The organisation, which cares for 300 intellectually disabled people in residences in Auckland, Northland, Waikato and Canterbury, failed to provide vital care, putting staff and patients at risk, the report found.

Those cared for by the provider have serious mental illness, challenging behaviour

and some may be in secure care facilities by order of the court.

Between 2010 and 2011 there were 47 incidents including 17 escapes, 14 alleged assaults, two patients charged by police, an inappropriate restraint, a medication error, a car accident and a fire.

Among the organisation’s failings were problems with the recruitment, training and retention of often “seriously unsuitable staff”, including ex-prison inmates, which led to patients being poorly supervised.

“Staff lacking in basic knowledge have been tasked with supervising and implementing care plans under the guise of cultural appropriateness when they had no understanding of what their role entailed,” said the report.

A failure to address bullying

and assaults including allegations of staff physically punishing patients when they “did wrong in their eyes”, put those in care at risk, the report found.

Further, organisation leaders prioritised growing the business rather than patient support and three members of one family held managerial positions, which compromised accountability.

The report recommended a ministry-appointed manager take over, urgent staff training schemes and in long-term a review of the Intellectual Disability Act so managers are made more accountable.

Clinical manager Sarah Williams, who was appointed in 2011 in the wake of the report, admitted it “was a challenge” to gain public confidence in disability care providers given the findings.

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“John Key presented their prize and said they did a really good job and was pleased to see us there.”

Along with their model, the group had to describe the adventures other youngsters would have on the playground and write a draft letter to Mr Key, explaining why he should pay for it. “(Instead) the kids wrote a rap to persuade him using Garage Band, we then put it on iTunes and sent it to the orgainsers which they played when we went up,” Ms Brown said.

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To create their ideal model, the pupils went through a rigorous process.

During the brainstorming process they pulled Google Maps up on their interactive whiteboard and mapped out their playground to scale on the site before creating the components of the model and pulling it all together.

With the $300, Ms Brown said the pupils were planning to hold a disco and generate a profit, with plans to donate the money to those in need.

The wrap and lyrics can be found on Room 5’s page on the Mt Somers-Springburn School website.

A playground only limited by the imagination of a group of Mt Somers-Springburn pupils came within a hair’s breadth of becoming a reality.

Thirteen of the school’s Year 6 pupils have been plying away behind the scenes, constructing a model playground which they believed would be “the best in the world” to be built in the centre of Christchurch as part of The Amazing Place playground competition.

The group managed second place – a whisker behind eventual winners Selwyn House with their Maragret Mahy-inspired design – and were congratulated

by Prime Minister John Key in Christchurch this week who handed them $300 to spend as a group and another $300 for the school.

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A man was killed and his two young daughters injured when their vehicle crashed and rolled several times north of Christchurch yesterday.

The crash occurred on Gressons Rd near Waikuku about 2.45pm.

Police said initial indications were that the Chevrolet Blazer was overtaking a small truck when the vehicles hit and the Chevrolet rolled several times before coming to rest in a paddock.

Sergeant Colin Stewart said the 41-year-old driver was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from

the vehicle. He died at the scene.

His two daughters, aged 5 and 6, suffered moderate injuries and were taken to Christchurch Hospital.

Mr Stewart said it appeared the small truck had been about to turn right or was turning when it was clipped by the other vehicle.

Woodend deputy chief fire officer Lewis Grant said the vehicle had gone about 15m off the road through a fence and into a paddock.

The two girls were out by the time firefighters arrived and were being nursed by members of the public.

Two people were administering CPR on the driver, who was lying some dis-

tance from the vehicle.

“We also tried to use the defibrillator on him but that was unsuccessful and the ambulance took over from there.”

The vehicle’s windscreen was broken.

“The whole crew did a very professional and a very good job and there’s nothing more that we could have done,” Mr Grant said.

The accident occurred on a long, dry stretch.

“When accidents happen on the open road they happen quickly and they have pretty dire consequences sometimes so it’s just a case of being very careful if you are overtaking and making sure it’s safe to.”

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Smith’s digs cost $7500 a week

By Kate Shuttleworth New Zealand’s new High Commissioner in London has been put up in highend accommodation in Kensington costing $7500 a week.

Instead of moving into the official residence, a Clareville St property in the upmarket suburb of Kensington, former Speaker Lockwood Smith is staying in leased accommodation in the same suburb at a cost of 4000 British pounds ($NZ7500) a week.

The accommodation is also used for a range of other functions.

Dr Smith took up the post in February after nearly 30 years as an MP.

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed Dr Smith was not offered the official high commissioner’s residence on Clareville St. Prior to him taking up the role the ministry had decided to sell the property rather than refurbishment it.

The property did not form part of the ministry’s long term plan for the post.

Dr Smith would live in the leased premises until a decision was made about the longer term plan, which also included the future of New Zealand House.

It is believed the office building that houses the High Commission and other government agencies needed substantial repairs.

A $2 million upgrade of

New Zealand House was planned for last year but had been put on hold following Budget cuts at the ministry.

Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman Phil Goff said New Zealand taxpayers should not have to fork out $7500 a week to pay for alternative premises for the High Commissioner while the official residence remains empty.

“Foreign Affairs has just been savagely restructured, with staff being made redundant and allowances slashed to save money.

“There will need to be very good reasons why $390,000 a year is being spent on alternative High Commission accommodation.”

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Good for you, President Obama Disabled bus disgust drives dad to join Govt committee MASSIVE I read some brilliant words recently.

Speaking to a group of men President Obama said, “Be the best husband to your wife, or boyfriend to your partner, or father to your children that you can be. Because nothing is more important. [“The Press” May 21, page B1.]

How clear sighted and how we need that sort of thinking in New Zealand.

The recent debate about feeding children in low decile schools raises a few questions. Have these families got enough money? Is the money being spent correctly? How much should the government be doing? Is something

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Our society holds up many images of success. All Blacks, rich business people, entertainers, even politcians but never the man just trying to bring up his children or the man trying to be a good husband.

Television is filled with programmes about dysfunctional people and so

the abnormal is normalised. Show us something about what the President is describing. A bit uncool for Hollywood maybe.

Is selfishness part of this problem?

Do we want the next generation to grow up with a Me First attitude? It’s hard to make marriage and family life work if we are selfish. Where can we look?

Jesus Christ said it this way, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Jesus loved us all the way to the cross and gave Himself for us. He is our role model. He is the One we try to follow.

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Shock at a new “disruptive” bus service for disabled Ashburton school pupils has prompted a local father to join a Government group tasked with strengthening transport services for disabled pupils.

Ashburton father Mark Somerville, whose son is disabled, is the sole parent representative on a special education school transport assistance (SESTA) reference group set up by Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye.

Ms Kaye said the group was set up after the Ministry of Education handed out contracts to new transport providers in some parts of the country when the original contracts expired at the end of last year.

Many parents, including those of disabled pupils from Ashburton College and Hampstead School, have been unhappy with the changeover in transport provider which has caused widespread disruption.

Some even said the ministry was putting money before the safety of disabled school pupils.

Mr Somerville has been one of the most vocal in his opposition against the ministry’s decision to take the contract off Ashburton Taxis and hand it Ritchies Bus and Coach, who have had to undertake a raft of changes to bring the bus up to parental expectations.

Mr Somerville is still unsatisfied with the bus service today, and has joined the reference group, They were along with 11 other disabled transport aiming to experts.

He said”. minimise When parents the impact voiced their concerns about the service on students in March, Ministry when there’s of Education group resources manager a change in John Clark went on contracts the defensive, saying the bus went through “quality requirements safety checks” and the service was up to scratch.

However, Ms Kaye admitted there had been disruption to families and operators since the contracts changed hands, but the group was working to eradicate them so similar issues did not emerge in the future.

She said the group would work through existing issues, provide advice on better monitoring and tender processes, and recommend improvements.

Mr Somerville said the SESTA reference group are planning to meet for the next six months to discuss alternative approaches, and so far he had “more friends than enemies” with his views.

Some Ashburton College parents have been unhappy with the service since the first day this year, with some pupils sitting on the bus for more than an hour, and arriving at school late.

Some parents also had issues with the wheelchair restraints being used and missed the more nimble taxi service.

Ashburton was not the only area having trouble with a new service, with schools in Auckland having likened it to the teacher payroll system Novopay, with the taxis turning up late, or not at all.

Ms Kaye said it was important the reference group was established to get it right.

“Young people, particularly those with very high needs, need to have reliable services designed and delivered for their needs,” she said.

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Legal aid system ‘unlawful’

By Matthew Theunissen The courts will continue to operate with the current legal aid system for the time being despite the Court of Appeal ruling it unlawful.

The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) launched court proceedings after the Government’s cost-saving shake-up of the legal aid system, which resulted in legal aid lawyers getting a 10 per cent pay cut.

The CBA lost a High Court case but took it to the Court of Appeal, which yesterday held that the Legal Services

Commissioner, who is responsible for granting legal aid, was unable to function independently of the Government.

Despite this, Ministry of Justice chief executive Andrew Bridgman said nothing would change for the timebeing.

“The ministry is carefully considering the judgement and its implications. We are doing this urgently, but in the meantime, for legal aid clients, nothing will change that affects the delivery of services, and lawyers will continue to be paid on the current basis pending a decision on what changes need to be made.”

CBA president Tony Bouchier

hoped the Government would go back to the drawing board and come up with a solution that was be acceptable to both parties.

“One might say that this is probably quite damaging politically because what we’ve got is a policy that has been operating illegally for some period of time.

“We’ve always been concerned that the new system of legal aid is far too rigid, it’s not working and we’re losing far too many good lawyers. The people that are victims of that process are the poor, because the people that can afford it will always be able to get good lawyers. It’s now

for the Government to consider its position as far as the decision is concerned and come up with a way to turn this ship around.”

Auckland District Law Society vice president Brian Keene QC said the judgement was a victory for defendants and their counsel.

“The right to a proper defence is a right of all New Zealanders.

It must deliver access to justice regardless of financial circumstances. We believe that limiting legal aid payments would have limited the way criminal barristers defend their clients, and so result in unsafe convictions,” he said.

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Poll closes at 6pm on Sunday The Mount Hutt College ball went off without a hitch on Thursday night.

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School ball went off without a hitch

By Myles Hume The old adage that no news is good news was ringing true for Mount Hutt College ball organisers yesterday.

With a day to hear the fall out and stories emerge from the college’s biggest event on the social calendar, principal John Schreurs said late yesterday

afternoon that nothing had come to hand and it appeared the ball had been a success.

His comments were echoed by Ashburton Community Alcohol and Drugs Service manager Chris Clark who oversaw the ball after party.

Only those who attended the ball could go to the after party with a maximum of six drinks with an alcohol level no more

than five per cent per drink.

“Everyone obeyed the guidelines we had in place so there seemed to be no problems, people were really engaging and the dance floor was full, the water was all gone and everyone ate the food,” she said.

Ms Clark said everyone got home safe and sound, with parents picking up their teens from the social event in time for the

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3.30am cut-off. Mr Schreurs said there was a great vibe in the Methven Resort Hotel, bolstered by some pupils who decided to take the more unconventional transport modes of trolleys and mobility scooters.

He was also impressed with the variety on offer for supper and the Viva Las Vegas set which was pieced together within five hours by 20 Mount Hutt College pupils.

CYF reviews 200 cases of possible abuse

By Edward Gay Child Youth and Family is reviewing the cases of more than 200 children thought to have been subjected to abuse and neglect, the Children’s Commissioner has revealed.

Dr Russell Wills said the children had been referred to CYF more than 20 times each and the notifications could include everything from serious violence to children repeatedly turning up to school hungry.

“I wish it was none but you’re going to have kids who have repeat notifications,” he said.

The review was sparked

by District Court Judge Dale Clarkson’s criticism of CYF last December after social workers failed to respond to 21 warnings relating to four siblings who were abused and neglected by

their father, a convicted child rapist, and their mother, who left them alone in a South Auckland shopping mall carpark.

Judge Clarkson was so alarmed at CYF’s “disappointing lack of protection” that she referred the case to Dr Wills.

His review of a report by CYF chief social worker Paul Nixon into that case has been completed but Dr Wills said CYF was carrying out a second review that would focus on the 200 children referred to CYF more than 20 times in the past 10 years.

“That’s a big deal and it suggests that someone hasn’t put the picture together.”

He said the review would take some time and he was confident the findings would be robust.

Labour’s Social Development spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern said it was not clear if the 200 cases included substantiated

abuse cases. “But I just don’t think it is acceptable that we are leaving any vulnerable children in a situation of abuse when CYF knows about it,” she said.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said she understood CYF was reviewing the cases with 20 or more notifications to look into the decisionmaking and practice for complex cases with multiple notifications “I welcome CYF taking an opportunity to take a step back, ask questions and find ways to improve practice and policy,” she said.

CYF has refused to release its report into the case dealt with by Judge Clarkson but an executive summary found social workers were “overly optimistic” about the parents’ abilities to change their violent behaviour.

CYF deputy chief executive Bernadine Mackenzie said the

review found that some staff did not perform.

“We have entered into a [human resources] process with three staff. A small number of others are having discussions with management around their work.”

Dr Wills said the problem stemmed from a pattern of high staff turnover and huge workloads coupled with superficial assessments by individual social workers.

“A social worker should have sat down with a supervisor and gone through the whole history.

They didn’t, that was a mistake - it was a serious mistake - and the review acknowledges that.”

Dr Wills said that while it was not unusual for parents to lie, avoid social workers and move around the country - it was unusual for cases of that nature not to be reviewed by staff.

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Smokers need support to quit

By Sam Morton Tobacco has been compared to filling 11 jumbo jets full of people and sending them off to a destination never to return.

Just weeks out from World Smokefree Day, Ashburton health promoter Gena Orpwood has slammed tobacco companies and signalled the cringing comparison to illustrate the reality of consequences smoking has in New Zealand.

“Tobacco is on the way out, but we still have an industry making a profit from a product that kills 5000 New Zealanders every year,” she said.

“Most smokers want to quit, but they don’t always have the support they need and don’t always know how, so our job is to make it as easy as possible.”

Research shows that at least eight out of every 10 people who smoke regret starting and six in every 10

have tried quitting in the last five years.

Mrs Orpwood and the smoking cessation services at Community and Public Health in Ashburton are gearing up for a hopeful influx of smokers wanting to quit.

“There’s effective support for those who want it and we can help people connect with the services or methods that work best for them,” she said.

“Some people choose to quit with a friend, while others know their whanau are in their corner cheering them on ... you don’t have to do it alone.

“It’s about empowering people to make their own choices for their own futures, free of addiction and we have all got a role to play in supporting that,” Mrs Orpwood said.

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111 diary Incidents attended to by the Ashburton Police and Mid Canterbury volunteer fire brigades recently.

Check out guardianonline.co.nz, for up-to-the-minute updates on every fire callout in the district during the week.

• Theft charges A 20-year-old Ashburton man was arrested and charged with three counts of theft, following an incident at an Ashburton address overnight Thursday. The man will appear in the Ashburton District Court on Monday.

• Minor domestics Ashburton police attended two domestic incidents on Thursday night, but no arrests were made.

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Mount Hutt College teachers spend day on Hakatere Marae While Mount Hutt College pupils gained some muchneeded sleep from the college ball, their teachers were up bright and early at the Hakatere Marae.

About 60 of the college’s staff assembled at the marae on the college’s teachers’ only day to develop their Maori awareness

and knowledge.

The latest Education Review Office (ERO) report said the college “has yet to develop a clear vision for Maori success”, and asked them to set goals and a vision to enhance Maori learning.

Principal John Schreurs said the report pointed out the col-

lege had the enthusiasm to further develop their Maori awareness, and some teachers had shown interest by learning Te Reo during the past two years.

He said it was about Maori pupils feeling as though they were more a part of the classroom.

The teachers had a programme set out at the marae, with the female teachers choosing to learn waiata (singing) or weaving, while the male teachers were taught some of the intricacies of taiaha, a wooden weapon used in Maori warfare.

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Police are speaking to the owner of a car found crashed down a bank on Paekakariki Hill Rd north of Wellington yesterday morning.

There had been concerns for the wellbeing of Blair Coleman after a member of the public discovered the vehicle down the bank after what looked like a recent crash.

Emergency services discovered markings indicating the driver had climbed up the bank after a crash.

A search was carried out by police and a dog but the driver couldn’t be located.

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The Ashburton Zone Committee will meet on Tuesday to discuss local water management issues.

The monthly meeting will begin with a report from the Department of Conservation (DOC) on the Hinds River/Hekeao catchment. The presentation looks at the in-stream intrinsic values of the catchment and will help inform the committee’s sub-regional limit setting process.

Since finalising its Zone Implementation Programme (ZIP) for water management in late 2011, a major focus for the committee has been developing a sub-regional chapter for nutrient loss limits in the Hinds catchment.

The committee began working with the community last year to look at environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes for the Hinds plains area. The committee has held a series of public meetings to get feedback to help it develop water quality and quantity limits.

These limits will feed in to the Hinds Plains section of the Ashburton chapter in the proposed Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP), which is expected to be completed later this year. The proposed LWRP provides the regulatory framework to facilitate delivery of the community’s aspirations for water management.

The DOC report shows that despite being highly modified, there is still a variety of habitats and significant values within the catchment. Habitats include a small hapua/river mouth lagoon, river channels, wetlands, and artificial drains which have become substitute habitats for a number of native aquatic species.

The committee will finish the meeting with an update from the Ashburton District Council on stockwater takes in the zone.

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

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Pay rise ‘cannot be justified’

By Chris Morris Dunedin City Council chief executive Paul Orders has turned down a $35,000-a-year pay rise, saying the increase cannot be justified when the organisation is in savings mode.

The decision came after the council’s performance appraisal

committee - headed by Mayor Dave Cull - concluded Mr Orders’ $350,000-a-year salary was 10 per cent below that of others in his role.

Mr Cull said that based on the figures and Mr Orders “excellent performance” to date, the council had offered Mr Orders a pay rise and two weeks’ extra annual leave.

Mr Orders had accepted the extra leave but declined the pay rise, citing the council’s continuing push for savings and efficiencies, Mr Cull said.

“Mr Orders has advised he would find it very difficult to reconcile a salary increase with the ongoing push for the DCC to identify economies and do more with less,” Mr Cull said.

Mr Orders was recruited from Wales and, since arriving in Dunedin in September 2011, has delivered savings from within the organisation that helped ease the council’s debt burden and reduce rates pressure.

He has taken a strict line on any budget increases, while pruning $5.6 million from spending - and creating $1.4 million of

“headroom” within the trimmed budget - ahead of council annual plan meetings earlier this year.

That helped cut forecast rates increases for 2013-14 from 7.6 per cent to 2.8 per cent initially, although investing some savings in accelerated debt repayments, to achieve greater long-term savings, saw that rise again to 4 per cent earlier this month. -APNZ

Director moves up to the big time

By Susan Sandys Children’s theatre director Jackie Heffernan will venture into adult theatre this year when she directs the Methven Theatre Company’s upcoming production.

“Lots of people ask me when I’m going to put the ‘big’ in Big Little and work with big people,” Mrs Heffernan said.

Mrs Heffernan is well known in Ashburton as being the director of the successful Big Little Theatre Company, which has about 100 students and has staged many a popular production.

Mrs Heffernan said she had long been a fan of the Methven Theatre Company when members asked her to direct their annual production, admiring members’ passion for drama as an art in itself.

She pitched to them a play which was a favourite of hers, Happy Coupling, a New Zealand comedy written by Ross Gumbley.

“I like something that’s going to stretch and challenge me, and stretch and challenge the people I’m going to work with.

“This is a challenge, because when you have a musical you have lots of bells and whistles to woo your audience with, but when you strip it back to a drama, particularly something that’s funny, you have to get your actors to work very hard.

“I think Methven actors are worthy of such a challenge.”

Happy Coupling was set in a hotel where an engaged couple’s stag and hen nights are incidentally on the same night.

Past history and surprises are revealed, leaving the audience wondering whether the wedding will go ahead.

Mrs Heffernan said a pre-audition

workshop in Methven this month saw many turn up, and the play would stage late September or early October at the Methven Heritage Centre.

Mrs Heffernan was a secondary school English and drama teacher and deputy principal of a school with more than 2000 pupils, in England, before immigrating to New Zealand with husband Chris 10 years ago. The couple have three daughters.

Mrs Heffernan went to a Mid Canterbury Children’s Theatre meeting shortly after arriving as she wanted her daughter to be in its 2004 production, Secret Garden.

But there was a discussion about cancelling the show as it did not have a director, so Mrs Heffernan put her hand up. After the show one of the parents asked her if she could teach drama to their child who was undertaking Trinity exams.

“I started with one at home, she asked if her friend could come, and then there was two. Before we knew where we were there was 22 and I had to hire a room.”

The Big Little Theatre Company was born. As unexpected as it was, establishing the Big Little Theatre Company eight years ago was in some ways a dream come true, with Mrs Heffernan’s motivation coming from her love of theatre.

“Aside from my husband and kids, theatre is my great passion in life, I love watching it, reading about it, I love studying it.”

The company has been based at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre since the centre opened five years ago, where it has staged eight full scale productions.

“I think I’m very lucky I have great students, it’s a joy to teach them, and to have fantastic parent support,” she said.

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

Feature On a hunting trip in Alaska, Davey Hughes found himself face to face with three ferocious grizzly bears. He is a regular on television’s Border Patrol, where on one of his most recent appearances he was questioned for importing animal penis bones. The Kiwi hunting personality had a much quieter week this week however, when he came to Ashburton to talk to accountants and their clients.

SUSAN SANDYS reports.

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s a large grizzly bear and one of her two adult cubs charged towards Kiwi hunter Davey Hughes in Alaska, he raised his gun.

“The bears lumbered down the hill, not quickly but with deadly intent, my world slowed,” he recounted in his book Untamed.

A week earlier he had been talking to a great Alaskan hunter, himself disfigured by a bear, who told him not to fire warning shots at grizzlies if they were within 50 metres, as it would not give enough time to reload the gun.

“All three were now within the range I’d set. I had to act.

Maybe if I shot her, maybe, just maybe, I’d have time to get another round into the charger.

If the cub kept coming, then I’d have to shoot him as well, more than likely off the end of my barrel.

“Then as the bears hit the 15-metre line a different thought entered my head. It doesn’t have to end this way. I really do not want to shoot any of these animals.

“With that in mind, I steadied my rifle and in a strong yet stern voice, told the charging bears I was the meanest, darkest, most desperado son of a goddamned bitch ever to walk the face of the earth. I was also heavily armed and incredibly dangerous. If Big Mama knew what was best for her and her cubs, she’d get the hell out.

“And so they stopped. They turned and re-entered the forest.”

He took a deep breath and both he and the grizzlies lived to hunt another day. Mr Hughes based one of his mantras for life on that occasion – “When your finger’s on the trigger or a decision has to be made, whether it’s to do with an animal, an employee or a family member – you can sometimes just lower your rifle. You don’t have to pull the trigger. You can talk.”

Mr Hughes is the founder of outdoor clothing label Swazi. He said he “and a really good team” established the brand in 1994, beginning in an old railway station in Levin. Today it continues to make all its clothing in New Zealand, one of the few remaining Kiwi companies to do so,

and employs 40 people.

The 53-year-old has appeared four times on the television show Border Patrol, about the challenges faced daily by New Zealand Customs, attempting to bring in the many results of his hunting and collecting trips.

Some of his more interesting possessions include a narwhal tooth, a particular type of whale’s tooth which is spiral shaped and two metres long, a 40,000-year-old mammoth tusk, and the penis bones of bears, raccoons and coyotes.

The penis bones make great gin swizzle sticks, according to his wife.

“I have just got so much stuff. A lot of it is millions of years old,” he said. The latter included a whale-eating shark’s tooth which was 30 to 40 million years old.

When coming through customs, Mr Hughes declares everything, and manages to get most of his finds through. He enjoys talking to customs staff, especially younger members who were learning about biosecurity.

After so many Border Patrol experiences a friend of his suggested he do his own television show, and the next thing he knew he was “dragging around a film crew” on his overseas adventures. These include dog sledding in Norway, while parachuting from a plane on to Mt Everest is among adventures he is planning. He would not be the first to do the latter.

“There’s a few other crazies around,” he said. “It’s not just about being crazy, if you want to do this stuff you can.”

The show Untamed was being edited and would screen in New Zealand.

As a hunter he was not an “armchair conservationist” but took the cause to a practical level, and never hunted endangered species and had been involved in projects, including tiger conservation.

Mr Hughes was at the Hotel Ashburton this week talking to a gathering of 150 at a Croys annual function for clients.

Croys director Anne Marett described his address as “amazing, absolutely captivating, entertaining”.

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New Zealand hunting personality Davey Hughes in Ashburton this week.

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Miss Saigon off to roaring start

By Susan Sandys Miss Saigon is fast becoming a sell-out show in Ashburton, with ticket sales climbing daily.

The show opened last night to an almost completely full Ashburton Trust Event Centre, and it is expected the show will sell out for tonight’s show.

Variety Theatre of Ashburton president Bridget Danielson said the company took on a risk when it decided to do the show for its major biennial production.

It had a big budget, $147,000, and it was the first time the company had performed the show, making it a bit of an “unknown”.

The company performed similarly big shows Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat in 2011 and Les Miserables in 2009.

However, Joseph was a longtime favourite with Ashburton audiences and the company had now performed it three times, while Les Miserables was generally a well known show compared to Miss Saigon.

It was a risk that had paid off, however, as ticket sales were booming, and the company was “very grateful” to the community for supporting it.

Mrs Danielson said while some had baulked at the price of all tickets at $50, the company believed it was reasonable, and less than what audiences would pay in Christchurch for a similar show.

Tickets for last night had come

Miss Saigon dancers perform one of the numbers from the show. close to selling out by 2.30pm yesterday, and were even closer, only about one dozen away,

from selling out for tonight. For the remaining shows more than 300 had sold for each, and they

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would also be expected to sell out.

There will be a Sunday mati-

nee tomorrow and then evening performances from Tuesday to Friday next week.

An incredible job with an incredible show Miss Saigon is one of the most acclaimed and longest running musicals internationally.

With such a huge reputation to carry, it was always going to be interesting to see how the Variety Theatre of Ashburton rose to the task of staging it.

After watching the three-hour show at a media/sponsor night and the final dress rehearsal on Thursday prior to opening last night, anyone thinking of going to see the show can rest assured, the Variety Theatre has done an incredible job with an incredible show.

The principals of Kim, played

by Jasmine Andrada, Chris (Matt van den Yssel), Ellen (Kim Willis), John (John Bayne),

REVIEW Engineer (Matt Williams), Thuy (Brent Gray), and Gigi (Nikita Hyde) are stunningly performed, with the emphasis on acting with passion and fervor, rather than focusing on getting every single note pitch perfect. That’s not to say the singing is not good, it is stunning, and one thing I was blown away by was the range of young talent we have here in Ashburton.

There are three performers who are just 17 – Jasmine, Kim and Nikita - and their performances, as of their fellow principals, are superb, both in the characters they bring to the stage and the

vocal performances to go with them.

Miss Saigon was a big budget show for the Variety Theatre, but with that came the sets specifically designed for the show.

They are spectacular and, with lighting and great costuming, support the actors in having the production shine on stage.

A large and vibrant ensemble of dancers and support actors has its own range of amazing talent, and special mention must surely go to the young dancers playing skimpily dressed night time ladies - they could not have been easy parts to play but they did it

so well. It must also have been difficult for the actors to have their director David Williams absent since he injured himself at rehearsals last week, but the show does not appear to suffer for it. I believe that the more the actors perform the show the more they will relax into their roles, and coming performances, with the show running through to Friday, can only get better.

Instrumental music is a huge part of this show, providing drama and depth, and it is very well performed by the orchestra, under conductor Jo Castelow.

The storyline is a dramatic

one, and most people seeing the show on the night I was there could not help but cry, and walk out saying “wow”. That is the quality of singing and acting talent we have here in Ashburton, the Variety Theatre performers take their audience on a journey and have them involved in the story throughout.

Having Miss Saigon in Ashburton performed by such a talented crew is like bringing Broadway to the town, so make sure if you haven’t already bought a ticket you buy one soon.

Reviewed by Susan Sandys

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Two more scenes from Miss Saigon showing the lead actors Jasmine Andrada (Kim) and Matt van den Yssel (Chris) in action.

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Opening postponed for another week

By Gabrielle Stuart After months of hardship and hard work opening night was almost in sight for Paul Millichamp – but his new bar and restaurant, Arcadia, has hit another hurdle.

Opening night for the Tancred Street site has been delayed until next weekend, after plumbing leaks and internet delays for eftpos machines made the initial opening date this Saturday impossible.

Local businessman Mr Millichamp has been working full-time since January to get the bar and restaurant ready for opening, and said the latest delays were frustrating.

“We have the staff in place and the council have been great – it’s all but ready. It’s just a lot of little things holding us back. Everyone’s been waiting so long and we’re so, so close. We’re all gutted.”

But with the renovation done, the bars, TVs and logburner installed and the staff

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ready and waiting, he’s hoping opening night won’t be far away.

“It’s just final touches now, but we want to make sure it’s completely ready and will go smoothly. We want to provide a really fun and safe environment, for serious good times, and we’re hoping the place will be something quite different.”

The doors to Arcadia should open for the first time at lunchtime on Thursday, with a grand opening planned for Friday night.

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So close, yet too far away. Arcadia restaurant and bar owner Paul Millichamp is gutted that minor delays have meant he cannot open tonight as planned. Opening night is now planned for Friday night.

Tauranga dairy bows to outcry on legal highs

By Kiri Gillespie A Tauranga dairy has bowed to public pressure and stopped selling synthetic cannabis.

News of the decision came as Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne announced he was pushing his Psychoactive Substances Bill through Parliament quicker than planned to have legislation regulating synthetic cannabis in place by July.

Raj Singh, of Matua Dairy, said although he had people boycotting his store, he chose to stop selling in response to his regular customers who supported him regardless.

“They said they did not like me selling it but still bought things from me. They look after me, so I look after them,” Mr Singh said.

Matua resident Peter Tinholt was one of a group of residents who boycotted the dairy and news of its decision and the swifter Government action was a “delightful” double whammy, he said.

“That’s just great. It’s overdue ... we need to get these products out of shops where they sell milk

and sweets.”

Mr Tinholt said he felt the Government was “dilly-dallying” and it could have approached the issue with the same vigour as it had by passing several other bills under urgency in recent months.

The Bill is currently before the Health Select Committee and expected to be reported back to Parliament on June 14. Its second reading was expected on June 27 to move through the final stages into law in July. It was originally scheduled to come into effect in August.

Mike Lawrence of Puff n’ Stuff said legal high sales helped balance the decline of people smoking cigarettes and the business would feel it when the Bill came into effect.

Last month, Tauranga MP and fellow Matua resident Simon Bridges said it was important any legislation to address the availability of synthetic cannabis was “rigorous and fit for purpose”.

“A rushed piece of legislation that will see lawyers and chemists finding loopholes around it in two months’ time, effectively

putting us back at square one, is unacceptable to me and, I suspect, unacceptable to the majority of New Zealanders,” he said.

“It is a longstanding principle of New Zealand law that the Government’s power should not be used to restrict behaviour unless it can be shown to be harmful, which is why these products are being regulated rather than banned outright.”

Labour Party leader David Shearer said in Tauranga this week synthetic cannabis needed to be trialled before it was put on the market but the matter required swifter action.

“We need to do it quickly. It’s been sitting around for too long.

We’ve known this was a problem for years.”

Mr Shearer said the Labour party would want to push the Bill through quickly.

“I’ve met too many parents who are watching the harm being done to their kids.”

Western Bay of Plenty police Inspector Karl Wright-St Clair said officers had begun to visit dairies to check they were no longer selling banned synthetic cannabis products.

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g f t beat a i u e

ow can you overcome tiredness, regain energy and put the spring back in your step?

Check out our top 10 tips to help you beat exhaustion and ensure you get the most out of yourself and your day:

Get enough sleep It may be stating the obvious, but to avoid tiredness you should ensure you get enough sleep. Your body needs sleep to recharge - and staying up and watching a movie that starts at midnight isn't going to help. If you are having any trouble sleeping, develop a better sleep routineby going to bed and getting up at the same time. Improve your sleeping environment by making sure your bedroom is quiet, dark and comfortable.

Also, by using your bedroom for sleep alone, your body will come to associate it with sleeping rather than other activities.

Try to avoid stress Stress is one of the most common reasons for feeling tired. There are several ways to tackle stress, but most important is to identify what is causing it. Then look at your options about how you can improve the situation.

Also, make sure you switch off from work in your leisure time and try some relaxation techniques such as having a massage, taking a hot bath or listening to music.

Improve your diet Without a proper balanced diet, you can start to feel a bit sluggish and are likely

to become fatigued - so eat healthy meals at the correct times. Skipping breakfast will ensure you start your day on the wrong footing and force you to run on empty until lunchtime. Eating little and often can work for some people, as it means that they've got something to sustain them rather than going for longer periods between meals.

Keeping blood sugar levels stable is also important to avoid fatigue, so eat enough carbohydrates.

Avoid caffeine Caffeine may be great for giving you a boost in the daytime, and some people just can't do without their early morning wake-up cuppa. But by the evening you really need to start thinking about laying off it. Caffeine - found in tea, coffee, chocolate and cola drinks - can cause restlessness and sleeping difficulties, which can mean tiredness the next day. It may also result in you needing more caffeine to keep you going, so it's best to try and break the cycle by cutting down on the amount of caffeine you drink.

Slow down People frequently get in the habit of trying to do too much.

The demands they put on themselves may leave them feeling

fatigued - and if there are not enough hours in the day to juggle their job, family and friends, then they may not get enough sleep either. Having a more balanced lifestyle will mean you'll be more able to function efficiently. Think about what you could change to give yourself more time for relaxation. Also, try to have realistic expectations about what you can achieve rather than running yourself into the ground.

tors such as your work environment or how much physical activity you do. Water is thought to make up around 80 per cent of the brain - so poor hydration can adversely affect your mental as well as your physical performance.

The best way to stay well hydrated is to have a water bottle within arm's reach at all times.

Try to avoid alcohol

Physical activity is a great way to boost energy levels.

If you're unfit, that generally makes you feel tired, and being tired means you won't feel like exercising. You may have to break this cycle of inactivity to get yourself feeling less tired and more energised. Introduce some physical activity into your routine - get off the bus a few stops earlier and walk the rest of the way, or cycle to work. If you can fit in some other exercise, such as running, swimming or going the gym, great. Just make sure you keep it regular and that it fits in with your life.

Alcohol can be great for helping you relax, but it can also make you feel tired - in the long-term and the shortterm. Alcohol depresses the central nervous system and acts as a sedative - so those couple of "harmless" drinks at lunchtime may have the effect of sending you off to sleep come mid-afternoon. Alcohol can also adversely affect your sleep patterns, particularly if you drink just before bed.

Although you might crash out initially, your sleep pattern will be disturbed - and not just because you'll probably need to relieve yourself in the middle of the night. The following day you may have a hangover and the associated tiredness.

Stay hydrated

Relax

Keeping hydrated throughout the day can also help to prevent tiredness. The recommended daily amount is around two litres, but this depends on fac-

Complementary therapies can help promote relaxation so you get a proper night's sleep. Reflexology, aromatherapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage are just some techniques you can try. Being more relaxed means your body will be able to recharge itself more effectively and you'll probably have much more quality sleep time.

Complementary therapies can

Exercise

help you feel more refreshed, invigorated and able do your daily tasks more efficiently - and this will free up more time for yourself.

Get outdoors Being outside can be a great revitaliser. Even just 10 minutes outside during your lunch break, breathing in fresh air, can put the spring back in your step. The body thrives on getting sunlight, so being stuck in an office or factory space is only going to bring on feelings of tiredness.

Make the most of the daylight hours when you can - and if you can combine this with physical activity, then all the better.

Also, when you're outside, remember to breathe properly.

Apparently most of us are chest breathers, rather than taking breaths right down to the abdomen. Take a little time each day to focus on your breathing to help you reenergise.

A final word ...

Fatigue is usually a temporary situation brought on by overdoing it on a particular day or group of days, and it can be lessened or avoided by using some of the simple measures mentioned above.

However, persistent tiredness can also be more a long-term thing and lead to problems with your ability to function daily. Good lifestyle choices including a healthy diet, exercise, and sleep management - should eliminate long-term tiredness, but if fatigue persists then see your doctor.

For more lifestyle news see www.realbuzz.com

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Comment OUR VIEW

Latest attack on smokers one step too far Coen Lammers editor

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mokers must feel like sitting ducks in hunting season.

The suggestion to ban smoking from all public places, as is suggested for some areas in Wellington, appears to be the most draconian attempt to stamp out the unhealthy habit in New Zealand.

Nobody denies that smoking kills hundreds of New Zealanders every year and even smokers themselves will find it hard to defend their smelly habit.

Smokers are a soft target for overzealous authorities because they get little sympathy from the rest of the community to maintain their addictive practice.

The latest attempt to curb their smoking habitat, however, raises the much bigger question of personal freedom.

Not even the most hardened smoker will try to defend their dependency when it could affect the health of others. Banning smoking from bars, restaurants, buildings, work places, play grounds and sports fields, where they might affect the health of others, has been introduced without too much opposition, but stopping someone lighting up in any public street appears to be a step too far.

Most smokers have already been beaten into submission by public opinion and legislation and will do their upmost to avoid offending or interfering with others in the community.

Non-smokers are no longer putting up with second-hand smoke and will be quick to point out when any smoker oversteps the line of common courtesy.

In 2013, most smokers and non-smokers have come to a civilised arrangement, whether it is at home, at work or in a social environment, where smokers have special areas outside bars or restaurants.

The New Zealand Government is right to make every attempt to reduce our smoking statistics, but any all-out ban seems unnecessary and would affect basic personal freedoms.

Supporters of such bans claim that it will reduce the visibility and the potential for children to interpret smokers as role models, but that would be a small gain and have significant impact on hospitality and tourism.

Smokers know the dangers of their bad habit and make a conscious choice to hasten their deaths, just like every person eating greasy food or drinking alcohol know they are harming their health.

More people die from alcohol and obesity but no-one is calling to ban hamburgers or beers.

We should support smokers to quit their addiction, but not treat them like secondclass citizens.

Why I hate cell phones I

n my view, cell phones are the main curse of modern life.

They’re everywhere, and they intrude on conversation to the extent it is becoming a lost art.

Their unceasing and highly irritating noises turn cinemas and public gatherings into a farce, private occasions and solemn moments into a travesty.

I can hear you whispering behind your hand “Bet she’s got one though”.

And I have. At times I’ve had more than one.

My personal wishes had little to do with it in that case.

If the boss wants you to carry one at all times, you do. He doesn’t tell you at the time that he’s a power mad little germ who wants you at his beck and call 24 hours a day, and if he wants to spout at 3am he will do it if he wants to.

Okay? But not for long, I have a life, and I need my sleep. I bet he doesn’t want me to spend all day in the office fielding private calls and texting.

I got my first cell phone because my doctor at the time insisted. I have a severe allergy to bee stings, and living in the wop-wops with neighbours miles away she said I needed it.

I gave the number to my closest family and friends for emergencies.

That made sense to me.

My first call came in the middle of the week about lunch time. I remember it well because I jumped when it rang, then took a while to find the phone and

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figure out how to answer it.

Not what you want when you are unclothed in a changing cubicle in the Farmers in Cuba St, and the shop assistant is pushing clothes through the curtain and trying to talk about them.

The caller wanted to know how her new cell phone worked, so she tried it out on me. Not a good choice.

Then texting came, and with it the expectation of even more instant answers and availability. There are those who text “Hw r u dng?” and have the cheek to expect a reply straight away.

I’m very tempted say “mind your own business and what’s it to you?”

But then the thought of punching the buttons several times for each letter, which is hideously slow for any one over 30, makes me give up.

I’ve found. “I’m brd” from five to six hundred kilometres away. So, what do you want me to do about it?

One former friend gave me a huge telling off for not answering texts immediately. Hers, which were daily

or sometimes several times a day, consisted of some variation on the theme of “wass up?

How do I answer that?

So if you feel like texting me, think twice.

I’m open to emergency calls, but they’d have to come close to someone bleeding to death, or nuclear war.

Broken bones might make the cut.

If it comes to it, there is not much I could do in any of those cases, apart from suggesting deep breathing.

When I’m home, I turn the beast off.

After all, isn’t that the reason for landlines?

It’s best not to get me started on text bullying. I’ve seen too much of it, and it’s absolutely destructive and horrible.

From what I know mainly affects school aged and slightly older kids.

How young do these kids get phones?

That’s a question for another time perhaps?

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- With only 2.2 seconds left on the clock, Miami Heat forward LeBron James caught an inbound pass and drove to the hoop for a game-winning lay-up as he led his side to a 103-102 overtime victory over the Indiana Pacers in game one of the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals in Miami on Thursday. James finished with his ninth-career triple-double in the playoffs with 30 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.

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goal attack Donna Wilkins might be 35 but the champion netball player is still performing at a high level in the ANZ Championship this year and has shot 186 goals from 205 attempts - good for a 90.7 per cent success rate. Wilkins and the Pulse will meet the West Coast Fever in Wellington on Sunday night.

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- Kiwi mixed martial arts fighter Mark Hunt is currently riding a four-fight win streak heading in to his heavyweight bout with Junior dos Santos at UFC 160 in Las Vegas on Sunday. Hunt, 39, is the underdog for the fight against the younger and taller dos Santos but possesses prolific punching power.

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- Manly Sea Eagles dummy-half Matt Ballin made a club-record 69 tackles during Monday night’s extra-time 10-all draw with the Melbourne Storm.

It was a busy night for the one-cap Queensland State of Origin player but not as busy as former Warriors backrower Micheal Luck, who in 2009 made an incredible 74 tackles in a 14-14 draw with Melbourne.

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Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick did things by twos during his successful stint with the Melbourne Victory from 20052011.

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won two premierships and was also named coach of the year twice. What Phoenix fans would give for a similar run of results.

of the ANZ Championship, the only team to make three grand finals and New Zealand’s only team to win the competition.

- Ali Williams played 77 tests for the All Blacks (78 games all up) between 2002 and 2012 before announcing his retirement from international rugby today.

He was part of three World Cup campaigns, finally earning a winner’s medal in 2011.

- Marina Erakovic might have won her breakthrough WTA tournament in February but things haven’t gone well since with the NZ No 1 tennis player winning only one of her seven singles matches since. It has seen her ranking drop from 67 at the start of the year to 91.

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- Magic netball coach Noeline Taurua has announced she will step aside from the franchise at the end of the transtasman league season, ending an 11-year tenure in the job.

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- Tim Southee became just the fifth New Zealand bowler to have his name etched on the honours board at Lord’s following his match figures of 10-108 in the first test against England.

The most significant number, however, was 68 - the total the Black Caps mustered in their - APNZ second turn at bat.

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have that size and that sounds odd saying that about a Warriors team.” Against the Panthers, the starting packs were almost idenBright lights tical with the Warriors only 1kg Benji Marshall’s form slump heavier with a combined weight has come at just the wrong time of 615kg. Against the Doggies, with reports suggesting some on however, they gave up 36kg but the Wests Tigers board are balk- it was probably even more given ing at plans to offer him a new Sam Kasiano is said to be conA$4 million five-year contract. siderably heavier than his official Plans at being a one-club man weight of 122kg. This weekend, might be thrown into chaos but the Knights will field a starthe’s not likely to find much love ing pack weighing 631kg, led by from the Warriors, if coach Matt prop Willie Mason (121kg). Prop Elliott’s response is anything to Russell Packer is the heaviest go by. “I don’t know if we would Warriors forward at 112kg. be able to afford the plane fares # to The Footy Show, and all that Turning back time sort of stuff,” Elliott joked.

One of the common criticisms # of rugby is the time wasted durWeighty issues ing set-pieces, but rugby league One of the myths of the NRL boffins have made moves to is that the Warriors have a big crack down on timewasting in pack. It’s something that has the NRL after it was discovered been perpetuated since the eight minutes of every match is Daniel Anderson era when big lost packing down scrums. Rules boppers was a term freely used. will be introduced this week Rugby league commentator requiring teams to be ready for Andrew Voss, however, thinks a scrum 30 seconds after one is the Warriors now look alarmingly awarded and the 40-second time small and have been outmuscled limit for line drop-outs has also over the past couple of weeks by been cut to 30 seconds. Failure both the Bulldogs and Panthers. to do so will result in a penalty, “Once the other team was on a but only from round 15 onwards roll, the Warriors looked small,” once the rule changes are propVoss said. “They may be fit but erly enforced. Imagine what physically when the other team the score might have been in gets a bit of possession you get last week’s Warriors match if big man running at you after they were forced to play under big man the Warriors don’t quite these rules.

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Standout captions from last week’s odd pictures

“Tiger’s playing ‘the snooker shot’ under the arches.”

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# Terry Baker The Warriors lost one of their biggest fans this week with the passing of Terry Baker, who died on Sunday after a long illness.

More than 1000 people turned out for his funeral at Mt Smart Stadium on Thursday, including the entire Warriors staff, broadcaster Murray Deaker, former Kiwis and Warriors coach Frank Endacott and The Mad Butcher.

Baker, who was a former policeman, was a former Warriors travel manager and was twice named Warriors Clubman of the Year (2001 and 2005). # Game of the week Craig Bellamy seems to get annoyed about most things but it will bother the Melbourne coach tremendously that his side have not won in three games. The defending champions seemed to be on a roll earlier this season, winning their first seven, but have since lost two and drawn the other. They were back to their stingy best in

“I heard he carried our team, but not the other team as well!!”

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the 10-10 draw against Manly on Monday night and it could be a crucial factor against the Roosters on Saturday. Sydney have scored only four tries in their last two games (Manly and Cowboys) after blitzing 36 in the previous five games - but they still won and now sit second on the table behind the Rabbitohs.

There are a number of players chasing Origin selection and Bellamy will also be mindful of the fact he’s about to lose a handful of players to representative football and won’t want to go into that period with another defeat. # Set up The Warriors have their own Set of Six forum each week when they choose six questions from fans to put to a member of the playing staff. This week, it was winger Bill Tupou. Talk about bad timing. A number of questions put by quizzical yet hurting fans centred around why Tupou was laughing and joking with Panthers players after last Saturday’s humiliating 62-6 defeat. It’s hard to imagine any of those made the cut. # Sunday Warriors v Knights Mt Smart Stadium, 4pm Refs: Gerard Sutton, Luke Phillips. TAB: Warriors $2.30 Knights $1.57 - APNZ

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“I remember coming to, just laying in the hallway, with blood everywhere ... I could’ve been dead for all they knew.” Brisbane woman KATIE LEWIS accuses South Sydney star Ben Te’o of a shocking physical assault, which she claims left her with a fractured eye socket. * * * * “I found myself in unfortunate circumstances that were not caused by me and I acted appropriately to deal with a difficult situation.” - BEN TE’O responds to allegations of assault, denying he acted improperly. * * * * “If you want to change the culture and you sweep things like this under the carpet you will never change anything.” The NRL’s newly installed chief operating officer JIM DOYLE’s comments regarding Ben Te’o’s alleged assault of a Brisbane woman. * * * * “Obviously it’s disappointing that guys are match-fixing. It’s not my place to say why they did do it or why they keep continuing to do it. But for me to have my image related to an article ... it’s the worst thing that can possibly be brought to a cricket player.” - DAVID WARNER explaining what sparked his explosive Twitter attack on two News Limited journalists. * * * * “Some of the guys think it’s comical and some of the guys think it was disgraceful what I did. But at the end of the day if I didn’t use the language I did, it might have went the other way.

Like I said I apologise for the language I used and if I offended anyone.” DAVID WARNER apologising for his expletive-ridden Twitter rant. * * * * “The hurt and disappointment from the notorious toxic (outburst) of last year clearly still burns Deans, but for the sake of the team he needs to get over it.” - Former Wallabies skipper ANDREW SLACK tells Test coach Robbie Deans to forgive controversial five-eighth Quade Cooper. * * * * “No certainly not. I dont think we have any players small enough on our team to let us do any dwarf throwing amongst ourselves.” - Lions centre JAMIE ROBERTS when asked if there had been any dwarf throwing during the British and Irish Lions team bonding sessions (following the 2011 World Cup debacle from England). * * * * “He called me a whiner. That’s probably right. It’s also probably the first thing he’s told you guys that’s true in 15 years. I know what he is like. You guys are finding out.” - Golfer SERGIO GARCIA firing back in his ongoing feud with Tiger Woods.

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“Oh man I’m SO pleased I’ve got those rubber legs”

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“Hey mate didn’t you hear, this game is finished.”

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Chiefs’ defence holds Crusaders at bay Chiefs 28 Crusaders 19

By Patrick McKendry A match worthy of a final, and on this form there is every chance the Chiefs and Crusaders will meet again in the play-offs.

It was a pulsating encounter in front of 22,000 at Waikato Stadium last night; full of thrust and counter-thrust, the result still in doubt until the final minutes.

The Chiefs were deserved winners, thanks largely to their defence.

They put in a committed, 80-plus minute performance which gave them first blood in this battle of the two New Zealand heavyweights.

The victory extends their lead at the top of the table and they have the luxury of a certain four points next week due to their bye.

Bundee Aki’s try with 10 minutes to go gave the Chiefs their precious buffer, and it was probably deserved after he was judged to have obstructed Tom Taylor in the build-up to Charlie Ngatai’s disallowed try only minutes earlier.

However, the foundations for this victory were set earlier in the 10-plus minutes they defended their line as if their lives depended on it.

It was a defensive performance which suggested they are definitely in with a shout to defend their title.

After Aaron Cruden’s penalty put them to within a point at 19-18 they had to hold out a series of Crusaders attacks which saw Kieran Read denied by a desperate Aki and then again close to the line.

The Chiefs simply waited it out and then swept back on to attack with barely an acknowledgement of all the tackling they had done.

Dave Rennie’s men had started the match a little tentatively, as if they didn’t know how to go about breaking down a Crusaders defence which has gone to a new level in recent weeks.

Their own form hadn’t been vintage either, but they were still winning.

They need not have worried too much.

Two charge downs provided their first-half tries - Cruden making the crucial block as Carter attempted to clear from under his posts, the Chiefs’ firstfive showing admirable poise to pick up and score.

Lock Craig Clarke was next to cash in, responding to a Matt Todd close-range try with an excellent charge down of his own, this time on Tom Marshall’s attempted clearance.

It was a good response from the home team after the early

pressure that came from the Crusaders.

Todd Blackadder’s men had gone about their work in an efficient and workmanlike way, picking up three points after Ben Tameifuna conceded a scrum penalty in his fierce contest against Wyatt Crockett.

The Crusaders didn’t panic when they were down 7-3 after Cruden’s intervention either.

There was a feeling of inevitability when Read signalled for the sideline rather than the posts when presented with an attacking penalty and his forward pack repaid his faith claiming the lineout and scoring through Todd after a series of surges in which Read played a big part.

The Crusaders held the lead for only five minutes, though, Cruden slotting a penalty and then his skipper Clarke showing extremely good game sense to put pressure on Marshall when the wing tried to clear on his own tryline.

After the break and Taylor put the Crusaders in front with his two penalties, only for the Chiefs’ defensive rearguard and ultimate victory.

Cruden’s late penalty denied the Crusaders a bonus point.

Chiefs 28 (Aaron Cruden, Craig Clarke, Bundee Aki tries; Cruden 2 cons, 3 pens) Crusaders 19 (Matt Todd try; Tom Taylor con, 4 pens) HT: 15-13.

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Whatever you think of Ali Williams, his decision to retire from test rugby was spirited.

He wanted to stay but various thoughts kept niggling at him, like the array of facial, knee, ankle and foot injuries which have impinged on much of his work since 2009.

Something told him his time in the black jersey was up; conversations with his father confirmed those feelings.

Some time during the recent national training camp, the deed was done.

Williams could have chased Ian Jones’ record 79 tests but called time two short.

“I believe in my gut the time is right now. I have had a pretty special time in the jersey but there comes a time when you need to step out and I personally believe this is the right time,” he said yesterday.

It got more difficult for the 32-year-old lock yesterday as questions about his life and times at the top brought tears among his emotional replies.

Williams had a decade in test rugby in a remarkable switch from the soccer career he pursued until late at high school.

He brought an athletic prowess and a tough mental attitude to the game, although his body did not always co-operate

Ali Williams: Has worn the black jersey for the last time with the strains of international rugby.

He retired on his terms, unlike others who fade away or take up offshore contracts.

Sometimes you wondered what air Williams was breathing but there was rarely a dull moment when he was around.

He could go too far, as he did during a news conference at the 2011 World Cup, but he was usually good copy.

Assured enough, also, to con-

front members of the media he thought had done him or his team a disservice.

He didn’t go for a strength in numbers routine; he would take you on alone. Mind you, at 2.02m he could deliver a menacing glare from his lofty gaze.

He had been on borrowed All Black time as his body slowed and limbs refused to work as well as they once had, but a lack of other quality locks and Williams’ ability to work on the nuances of the game helped him remain in an extended squad.

His knee is hampered by a lack of cartilage but his leadership has been a significant part of the Blues resurgence.

As coach John Kirwan talked about that, and his belief Williams should be classified as an All Black great, the lock started to choke up.

He is an emotional bloke, but had the sense and perspective to know this was the time to go.

“You move on, you’ve got to, you can’t hold on to things or dwell on them, you have to keep evolving, this is what I’m doing,” he said.

Williams’ strongest memory of his debut test against England at Twickenham in 2002 was fretting about the haka.

It scared the life out of him but he got the actions sorted after some “quality time” in front of the mirror.

He was having plenty of fun

• Tennis in the winter Mid Canterbury’s junior tennis talent will be braving the winter climate to compete in the Wilding Challenge 10s tennis competition. Formerly called the Pentagon Series, the Canterbury Tennis competition is a 10s zone competition which began with trial days for each zone to select a team of 10 players, five boys and three girls, aimed at introducing younger tennis players into match play. Mid Canterbury players are eligible for the Country Crushers along with Ellesmere to play against the four Christchurch zones Southern, Eastern, Central and Northwest. Mid Canterbury has a strong presence in the zone side with Edwin Dargue, Ryan McNulty, Tyler Leonard, Harry Dargue joined by Ellesmere’s Nathan McKenzie in the boys’ with Millie Ness, Sophie Ness and Sophie Adams in the girls’.

The five zone teams play a round robin and the Country Crushers open the competition against the Central Smash at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre on Sunday.

• Ford man switching?

Halfback Andy Ellis gets a ball away to the Crusaders backline

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at the Blues and wanted to have another campaign. He wanted them to succeed and to give them all his attention. That had entered his thoughts about All Black retirement, but it was just part of his decision, there were many factors.

He’d watched the All Blacks many times because of his injuries so spectating would not be a novelty.

“Whilst he’s been a great player he’s also been a good leader and to make a decision to walk away from it when he had a fairly good idea he would have been picked [for the June test series], is a courageous one,” All Black coach Steve Hansen said.

He was painted as a funnyman and joker but the real Williams was someone who cared about his rugby mates and the teams he played for.

“Once you get past all the bullshit and the chatter you get the real bloke and the real bloke is a pretty special fella. He keeps you honest, which is important for a coach,” said Hansen.

“As an ex-All Black, I’m really proud to be sitting next to [Williams] and calling him a great,” Blues coach John Kirwan said.

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In what would be blasphemy to diehard fans, the man synonymous with Ford in Australian motorsport, Dick Johnson, admits he may switch to another manufacturer after the Falcon bows out in 2016.

The three-time Bathurst 1000 winner vowed that his Dick Johnson Racing (DJR) team would remain in V8 Supercars “long into the future.” However, Johnson conceded he may not be flying the Ford flag that accompanied his record-equalling five Australian touring car championship wins and made him a household name.

Johnson kept the door open to link with another manufacturer in the future amid talk US giant Chrysler is tipped to join newcomers Mercedes and Nissan in - AAP the V8 fold next year.

• Croker may yet play Canberra coach David Furner says goalkicking centre Jarrod Croker is a chance of returning for tonight’s NRL clash against Manly. Croker has been out of the Raiders side since injuring his knee in the round-seven loss to North Queensland. The 22-year-old’s injury came just two weeks after playing his 100th game for the Raiders, resulting in him spending more time on the sideline in the past month than throughout - AAP his entire NRL career.

• City wins a thriller Micah Richards scored in the 90th minute to complete a stunning comeback from a three-goal deficit and give Manchester City a 4-3 victory over Chelsea in an exhibition thriller in the United States. The Premier League sides, both bound for next year’s Champions League after topthree finishes, attracted 48,263 to the home of baseball’s St Louis Cardinals. Demba Ba’s header gave Chelsea the lead and Azpilicueta netted a penalty in the 44th minute. Oscar made the lead 3-0 nine minutes into the second half and Rafael Benitez’s side appeared on the way to victory. But Javier Garcia put City on the board in the 61st and Edin Dzeko followed in the 64th to breathe a spark into City.

Dzeko then netted the equaliser in the 85th, setting the stage for Richards to convert the winner off a Garcia cross.

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Chasing the dream

By Jonathan Leask

It was 1.30am on a Monday morning last month that Merv Orford found fresh inspiration to pursue his dream.

The Kiwistars racing manager and his 15-year-old rider Baillie Perriton were glued to the computer screen watching live motorbike racing in Spain.

Perriton’s good friend Rangiora teenager Jake Lewis was competing at the World Superbike (WSBK) event in the opening race of the Honda European Junior Cup. Perriton and Lewis, 17, could often be seen together during the New Zealand National Superbike Series discussing race tactics and strategy in what was Perriton’s debut season.

Watching Lewis win an intense race by just 0.003 seconds on a screen in the small hours of the morning has only added fuel to the fire of the Kiwistars desire.

“I have no shame in saying that I was in tears at 1.30am on that Monday

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morning as he took the victory by the smallest of margins, 0.003 seconds.

“The result has given me so much strength to pursue the dream to take more Kiwi riders on that incredible journey.”

The success of Lewis has reinvigorated Orford and Perriton, but Lewis has a lot to answer for as he was also the catalyst.

In 2011 Orford had travelled to Europe and watched a young 15-year-old Lewis race in Magny Cours in France.

On the train back to Paris Orford had an epiphany.

“Seeing a young lad who I had

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watched progress through our local club standing on the WSBK podium was awe-inspiring, and on an early morning train journey back to Paris, the Kiwistars idea was born.

“I knew then that our youngsters were as good as any other in the world.”

Last month Lewis again stood on the podium, with Orford and Perriton glued to the computer screen on the other side of the world, further encouraging the Kiwistars plan.

Orford has always planned to have riders competing in the European Junior Cup, a race series where some of the world’s best young riders, aged from 14 to 19 years old, race at nine different European tracks on identical Honda CBR500 machines.

That’s where Orford wants to send Perriton.

“Such an opportunity doesn’t come cheap with a season in Europe costing around $100,000, but the exposure to the watching eyes of the world is

I knew then that our youngsters were as good as any other in the world

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worth every cent.”

Orford has already begun initial planning to send Perriton over to Europe in 2015.

While that plan is a definite long term goal, the short term plan remains less certain.

Perriton will be out testing on a Suzuki SV650 which could see him challenging for two New Zealand titles this year, with the team considering entering him in both the NZ 250 Production class and the NZ 650 Pro-twin class.

“At the present what’s happening in the future is to a degree speculation,” Orford said.

“Our race calendar generally isn’t finalised until August and we have lots of possible avenues to follow at present, but nothing firm.”

“It’s the nature of the sport with so much being done by individuals and no real dedicated programme or support from our governing body.

“Really we need a big corporate company to get behind specific training programmes and the mainstream media to recognise the huge talent pool that we have in New Zealand.

“That’s why getting onto the European or world stage is so hard.”

The 17-year-old Lewis has achieved the goal and now Perriton is on the same path for 2015, when he too will be 17.

Left: Baillie Perriton is a young man determined to succeed in his chosen sport.

Above: High speed is what it’s all about, Baillie roars into a corner in a race last year.

Experience key at Indy

By Eric Thompson

IndyCar driver Scott Dixon has not finished outside the top six at the Indianapolis 500 in the past seven years, and would like to add another victory on Monday to his 2008 win.

In that year, the New Zealander became the first racecar driver from these shores to win one of the most coveted motor racing titles in the world.

Some of our very best open wheel racers over the years tried, and failed, to get their likeness etched on the Borg Warner trophy.

They include New Zealand’s only world Formula One champion Denny Hulme, Ferrari works F1 driver Chris Amon, Bruce McLaren, Wade Cunningham, Graham McRae and Rob Wilson.

With Dixon’s record at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, there is not a pundit worth half his salt who would rule the twotime IndyCar champion out of notching up another win in ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing’.

He and his Target Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Dario Franchitti, a three-time Indy 500 winner, could only qualify 16th and 17th respectively, but Dixon’s not overly bothered about that.

“Sure, I would have loved to have qualified where I did when I won in 2008 [on pole] but that wasn’t going to happen,” Dixon said in the run-up to the race.

“And anyway, Dario won last year from 16th and I finished second starting from 15th.

“Our qualifying position didn’t come as too much of a surprise, and nor the qualifying position for anyone else using a Honda engine.”

Of the top 16 qualifiers, only two are powered by a Honda powerplant - Dixon and Alex Tagliani in 11th.

Chevy-engined cars were dominant during all the practice and qualifying sessions, but all is not lost according to Dixon.

While the front row of Ed Carpenter, rookie Carlos Munoz and Marco Andretti might be able to pull away on a clear track when the lights go green, the more experienced drivers will settle back knowing it’s a long old race.

“Dan Weldon also won an Indy 500 from 16th so it can be done.

It’s such a long race and can be one of attrition.

“We should have won in 2011 if we’d put more fuel in, and if you’re in the right place at the right time it can definitely happen.

“We’ll keep our heads up and keep pushing but at the moment it feels a bit like going into a boxing match with one hand tied behind our back.”

That may be the case, but if Dixon can stay off the ropes and box clever, he may be there, or thereabouts, during the closing stages of the race.

He was at pains to mention horsepower is king and makes things easier, and as the Honda engine is not pumping out as much grunt as the Chevy, a good car setup might just come into play.

“We knew last year we were down a bit on power but this year we’re still much the same, whereas the others [Chevy engines] have made a few gains.

“We’ve got a good car with a good race setup so should go all right.

“Looking back over the years we’ve always finished strong and hopefully we will again this year.

“Sometimes you think you should have won it but that’s not always the case.

“At least with Ganassi we have good strategy and good pit stops, which will give us a bit of an advantage,” he said.

Starting midfield comes with its own problems and Dixon is well aware a few drivers may suffer from the berserker rage where the red mist descends and all sensibility goes out the window.

“I’ll have to look at last year’s tape and see what happened at the start.

“You’ll always get a couple of people who will take big risks at the start to move up through the field early on.

“You have to be careful though, there’s not much grip back there nor much aero with all the turbulence going on.

“Hopefully it won’t be the end the race starting back there. We managed to stay out of trouble last year and I hope we have a decent run again.

“One thing though, it’s going be a tough race,” said Dixon.

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The best runners from the Mid Canterbury Primary Schools battled out the district’s Cross Country Championships at the Ashburton Showgrounds yesterday.

The winners from their school cross countries went up against the winners from the other schools to try to qualify for the Canterbury Primary School Cross Country Championships

Left: Our Lady of the Snows’ George Seque on his way to winning the year 6 boys’ race with Tinwald’s Ryan Allan in second ahead of Methven Primary’s Ben Farrell.

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The Mid Canterbury Intermediate Schools’ cross country is next Friday, and will also be raced at the Showgrounds.

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Right: Allenton’s Lucy Moore runs to the finish line in the year 6 girls’ race.

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Jewel hunt begins in earnest

By Jonathan Leask

Ricky May: Top driver looking to improve his Harness Jewels tally

Angelina Jolie will be in Ashburton next weekend, and she’ll be in barrier nine.

The draw for the Harness Jewels, New Zealand’s richest Harness Racing event, was completed via a live stream draw yesterday from the Harness Racing New Zealand offices in Christchurch for next weekend’s racing carnival in Ashburton.

In a simple process the names were drawn from a hat, and their barriers then randomly selected for next weekend’s premier race weekend at the Ashburton Racecourse.

The first name drawn was Meet Me in Mayfair and drew barrier five in the four-yearold diamond mobile pace.

Methven driver Ricky May will be looking to add to his 100 wins for the season and make it three in a row with Daenerys Targaryen with the

favourite in barrier eight in the two-year-old ruby mobile trot.

The three-year-old diamond will have the favourite Adore Me in saddle cloth number three but could come from barrier two if the emergency, For the Ladies, scratches in barrier one.

The three-year-old ruby trot shapes to be a real racing spectacle with the New Zealand gun Royal Aspirations, a two-year-old champion last year, lining up in barrier one for a rematch with Australian Blitzthemcalder right behind it on the second line.

There is plenty of room for an upset in race five, the Ashburton Guardian two-yearold diamond pace.

The favourite Venus Serena got a favourable draw lining up in barrier five, but has Te Amo Bromac two wider with Rockin Ruby and Angelina Jolie completing the front row, while Sabellian is the dark

horse in barrier two.

Potential heirs to the throne of the trot legends like Stig and I Can Doosit are on display in race six, the four year old ruby mobile trot.

Escapee, which is touted as being capable of a 1.54 second mile, is the favourite in barrier one but has class outside in Master Lavros in two and Cyclone U Bolt in three, which should produce an exciting opening to the 1609m trot.

After a blistering win at Addington on Thursday night the superstar came up with the worst draw with Christen Me out wide in barrier 13 in the Auckland Reactor FourYear-Old Emerald, which will make things rather interesting.

Dexter Dunn has driven Christen Me to 14 wins but the wide out draw could open the door to the likes of Field Officer, one of the most improved in the age group, starting in barrier one.

Race eight’s two-year-old emerald pace will see a good battle between an even crop of pacers before the glamour colts go head-to-head in the finale of the day in the threeyear-old mobile pace.

Already touted as the supremacy decider between Ohoka Punter, barrier three, and Bit of a Legend, barrier five, but Border Control in barrier one will ensure it’s no two-horse race, while Classiesistar which broke Auckland Reactor’s record at Addington on Thursday is the sleeper in barrier 10.

Three races complete the Jewels weekend on Sunday starting with the five-year-old pacing mares, where former jewels winner Bettor Cover Lover tipped to head the field.

Two stars line up side-byside in race 11 with two-time New Zealand Cup winner Terror To Love in barrier three alongside his arch rival Goldace.

Rounding out the seventh championship of New Zealand Harness Racing has Springbank Sam the favourite to win from the outside in barrier nine in a field featuring reigning four-year-old ruby champion Charlemagne.

A number of Jewels contenders will be on show at the workouts at the Ashburton Racecourse today.

Left: Adore Me from the powerful Purdon barn will be all the rage in the three-year-old diamond pace at the Jewels on Saturday

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Focus on the water

By Jonathan Leask

Mayfield rower Emma Dyke said goodbye to her friends at Craighead yesterday before her move to Cambridge on Sunday.

Yesterday she packed up to make the temporary move to the Rowing New Zealand High Performance base at Lake Karapiro to train towards the World Junior Championships and attend St Peter’s School, making for an emotional few days. “[Friday] was a bit depressing, but it was probably worse on Thursday when it sank in,” Dyke said.

Dyke will arrive at her new temporary home and may start her new school on Monday.

“I imagine we’ll start training first thing Monday but I haven’t been told anything about school.”

“There will be a lot of training, and hard training, so I might be too tired to go to school some days but I’ll try to keep on track.”

Her focus for the next eight weeks is putting in some big yards at training before heading to Lithuania for the Junior World Championships for three weeks, with school an afterthought as she chases her dreams on the water.

However, once she has achieved her goals in Lithuania it will be back to reality, and straight back to her friends at Craighead.

“I get back in eleven weeks but it’s straight into practice exams.”

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• Pulse ‘still in it’ The Central Pulse can be forgiven if they have dared to dream about the playoffs this week. Usually at this stage of the ANZ Championship the perennial battlers are finding ways to salvage some respectability for their campaign but things are different at the bottom of the North Island this year. In a congested points table, the Pulse are seventh but only one win outside of the top four with four - APNZ games left.

• ‘Keeping a one-off Brendon McCullum’s decision to answer the New Zealand team’s wicketkeeping SOS is his first test behind the stumps since playing Australia in March 2010. Opposition batsmen (and the television audience) will get used to his catchphrase “C’mon lads”, booming through the stump microphones as he leads New Zealand in search of their first win at the venue in 30 years. McCullum is playing his 77th consecutive test since debuting in March 2004. The first 51 were as keeper. - HOS

• Vettori ruled out Daniel Vettori has been ruled out of the second cricket test against England at Headingley.

Doug Bracewell has been picked in his place, meaning New Zealand started with four pace bowlers in a gamble to level the series. Vettori could not guarantee his fitness over five days of a test if he was required to exert himself. - HOS

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ANZ drops one-year A Mighty float! fixed mortgage rate

By Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan

MONEY MATTERS

ANZ Bank has dropped its oneyear fixed mortgage rate by 24 basis points for lenders with a minimum of 20 per cent equity.

The new rate, down from 5.19 per cent to 4.95 per cent, comes into effect today as part of a new home loan package being offered by the bank.

The Reserve Bank has faced increasing pressure to address the country’s heated property market by restricting the level of low-equity home loans banks can offer.

Loans where the borrower has a deposit of less than 20 per cent - known as high loan-to-value ratios (LVRs) - represent about 30 per cent of all new residential mortgage lending.

Such loans are most prevalent among people buying their first home.

As part of the Budget 2013 announcement last week, Finance Minister Bill English signed a memorandum of understanding with the Reserve Bank for a new set of tools to cool the housing market, which is particularly heated in Auckland and Christchurch.

The Reserve Bank would have the ability to require lenders to hold more capital on their balance sheets against certain assets, or restricting low-equity home loans, English said.

Under the agreement with English, central bank governor Graeme Wheeler will make his final policy decision independent of the government, though he is expected to advise the Finance

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Minister of any macro-prudential policy decision.

The memorandum said the Reserve Bank would have to consider the impact on monetary policy settings when using the new tools, and “in most instances macro-prudential instruments will reinforce the stance of monetary policy”.

The bank regulator has cited rising property values and the growing prevalence of low-equity lending as threats to the country’s financial health.

According to Treasury forecasts, house price inflation will rise to 7.1 per cent in the 2013 and 2014 years, compared to a peak of 6.5 per cent so far this year, before slowing to between

negative 1.3 per cent and plus 1.6 per cent over the following four years.

The International Monetary Fund last week said New Zealand housing was overvalued by about 25 per cent and if it continued to rise may force the Reserve Bank to hike interest rates.

Property in New Zealand had become less affordable in the past two decades with the median house price at about 4 times income, some 20 per cent higher than the average of the past 30 years, the IMF said in its annual report on the nation.

The IMF had previously seen New Zealand housing over-valued by between 10 per cent and 20 per cent.

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Imported petroleum hits surplus New Zealand’s trade surplus in April was smaller than expected as a rise in petroleum imports more than offset increasing meat exports after farmers culled their livestock during this year’s drought.

New Zealand’s export receipts outpaced imports by $157 million in April for an annual deficit of $694 million, according to Statistics New Zealand. That’s smaller than the monthly surplus of $475 million forecast in a Reuters survey of economists, and less than half the $337 million surplus in April last year.

Imports rose 7.4 per cent to $3.8 billion from the same month a year earlier, led by a 46 per cent jump in petroleum and products to $751 million. That’s higher than the $3.64 billion forecast in the Reuters survey.

“The value of goods imported rose on the back of petroleum

imports, which can fluctuate depending on the timing of shipments” industry and labour statistics manager Louise HolmesOliver said in a statement. “The trade surplus has compared with the previous four April months.”

The value of exports were 2.2 per cent higher than a year earlier at $3.95 billion, with an 11 per cent gain in meat and edible offal sales to $559 million as more livestock was slaughtered with farmers culling their herds during the drought across the North Island this year.

Cattle slaughtered for export rose to 841,000 in the three months ended April 30 from 677,000 a year earlier, while lamb slaughtered climbed to 8.42 million from 7.2 million and sheep slaughter increased to 9.8 million from 8.7 million. Meat exports are up 8.2 per cent to $1.77 billion in the three months ended April 30.

New Zealand meat was finally cleared for entry into China after an administrative error during the merger of several departments into the Ministry for Primary Industries confused Chinese officials who had previously approved its entry.

Exports into China rose 26 per cent to $654 million last month from a year earlier, lagging behind Australian receipts at $727 million in the month, though ahead in the three months ended April 30. The world’s most populous nation has become increasingly important to New Zealand exporters and receipts have tripled since the nations signed a free trade agreement in 2008.

Dairy products including milk powder, butter and cheese and casein and caseinates accounted for $12.36 billion, or 27 per cent, of New Zealand’s annual $46.25 billion in exports.

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Dollar pushes up wool price The local wool market strengthened significantly for the 10,400 bales on offer at the South Island sale this week, New Zealand Wool Services International reports The weakening NZ dollar, particularly against the US dollar which was down 4.97 per cent compared to the last sale on May 9 and the weighted currency indicator down 3.91 per cent was the principal market influence.

This was supported by recent

strong purchasing interest and a seasonal limited wool supply.

A nominal offering of mid micron fleece were firm to 3 per cent dearer.

Fine crossbred fleece lifted up to 3.5 per cent with the second shears 5 to 8 per cent stronger.

Good colour coarse crossbred fleece lifted 6 per cent with poorer styles 2.5 to 5.5 per cent dearer.

Coarse longer second shears were 4 to 6.5 per cent firmer

with shorter types 5 to 9 per cent stronger.

First lambs fleece ranged from 3 to 7 per cent dearer.

All coarse oddments were 9 to 10 per cent stronger.

Strong competition came from Western Europe, Australasia and the United Kingdom, supported by China, India and the Middle East.

The next wool sale, on Thursday comprises 11,300 bales from the North Island.

o what has been happening in the markets?

The big news locally has been the recent listing of Mighty River Power. This is the first of the State Owned Enterprises to undergo a partial sale and is now listed on the NZX Main Board.

Many people have now purchased the first shares they’ve ever owned and are now part owners of this company.

Once listed the Mighty River Power (MRP) share price will change in value depending on various factors and investor’s views of the company’s prospects.

At the listing price, the after tax dividend yield was around 5 per cent; slightly better than most term deposits.

It’s expected that several other companies will list on the NZX for the first time this year; some of these as government partial privatisations and others where private owners are selling to the public.

Globally overall market sentiment remained positive despite events in Europe, including banking issues in Cyprus and Slovenia hoping to join the list of those seeking bail-out funds.

Similarly, disappointing economic data from the United States and China failed to dent investor enthusiasm.

Instead, market sentiment focused on the renewed efforts of central banks to stimulate economic activity and to stem the emergence of deflationary risks.

This received a large boost from Japan’s announcement of wide-ranging and largescale asset purchases, while the re-election of outgoing Italian President Giorgio Napolitano provided some certainty for European markets.

The United States Federal Reserve targets a long run annual inflation rate of 2.0 per cent but inflation rose only 1.1 per cent during March, down from 1.3 per cent in February. Weak inflation data is also evident in other global markets.

While we’re familiar with the concern that prices may rise faster than the upper inflation limit allows for, low or negative inflation (or deflation) is also a substantial risk to economic performance.

So, while there will ultimately be an end to current monetary stimulus through low interest rates, government asset purchases and ‘quantitative easing’, the threat of deflationary pressures suggests that authorities will ensure economic growth is well embedded before withdrawing that stimulus.

This suggests that current accommodative policies still have some way to run, in which case asset prices will continue to be supported.

The accommodative monetary policy backdrop continued to buoy equity markets with moderate gains seen in most regions. Of the markets we follow, Japan was the best performer in response to a change in government policy intended to more aggressively promote growth.

New Zealand shares provided high single digit returns, helped by the information technology and aged care sectors.

In the United States, shares continued to move ahead with the current reporting season providing enough to support prices, even though revenue growth seems to have undershot forecasts. A ustralian returns were driven by very strong support for financials, consumer shares and telecoms.

Weaker Chinese growth and lower commodity prices meanwhile weighed on resource sectors such that returns were more modest.

European and emerging markets were the laggards, declining in New Zealand dollar terms.

Global interest rates responded to mixed economic data and the continuation of the current accommodative policies by declining over the quarter.

Locally, New Zealand Government bond yields fell as offshore investors sought the higher yields available in New Zealand and Australian bond markets.

Corporate bond yields also fell despite strong rallies in other asset classes. In recent months the forecast track for interest rate rises has been steadily pushed out.

No change to this trend is expected and short-term interest rates are expected to remain low.

Similarly, longer-term rates are only likely to move higher on evidence of growth recovery and price stability improvement.

A diversified, well researched, personalised investment plan can help investors reach their realistic goals. If you would like to confidentially discuss your investment requirements please contact us.

Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan are Authorised Financial Advisers with Forsyth Barr in Ashburton. To arrange a meeting to discuss your investment objectives in confidence, please call (03) 307 9540 or e-mail ian.lennie@ forsythbarr.co.nz or selwyn. sloan@forsythbarr.co.nz. To find out more about Forsyth Barr visit www.forsythbarr. co.nz.

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Bridge collapses; cars in water The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed yesterday, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and taken to hospitals.

The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge — more than half a century old — collapsed about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, Trooper Mark Francis said.

Francis said he did not know what caused the collapse, which came at the start of one of the country’s busiest holiday weekends. The collapse came before sundown on a clear day. The state Transportation Department said it was investigating whether an oversize truck load may have struck the bridge.

The collapse will raise questions about the nation’s infrastructure, which has been a popular issue with President Barack Obama, who earlier this year warned against “raggedy” roads and wants to focus more money on rebuild-

ing to improve the economy.

The American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2013 infrastructure report card gave the country a dismal grade of D-plus overall.

Xavier Grospe, who lives near the river, said he could see three partially submerged cars, and the occupants were sitting either on top of the vehicles or on the edge of open windows.

“It doesn’t look like anybody’s in danger right now,” Grospe said.

Helicopter footage aired by KOMO-TV in Seattle showed one rescue boat leaving the scene with one person strapped into a stretcher. A damaged red car and a damaged pickup truck were visible in the water, which appeared so shallow it barely reached the top of the car’s hood.

A search of the river continued, and a dive team was on the scene.

“We don’t think anyone else went into the water,” said Marcus Deyerin, a spokesman for the Northwest Washington Incident Management Team.

The bridge is not considered structurally deficient but is listed as being “functionally obsolete”.

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People look on after the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed over the Skagit River in Skagit County, Washington.

The four-lane bridge collapsed about 7pm, Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, he said.

Attack suspect identified A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said yesterday.

Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee Rigby, of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who served in Afghanistan.

In addition to the two suspects who were hospitalized after being shot by police, authorities said they had arrested a man and a woman, both 29, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Police would not say whether it appeared Rigby had been targeted specifically because of his military service.

Although he was not in uniform at the time he was killed, he was said by witnesses to be wearing a T-shirt for a British veterans’ charity.

Authorities have not identified either of the two wounded suspects and have not said when they would do so. Officials in Britain usually wait to name suspects until charges have been filed.

Anjem Choudary, the former head of the radical group al-Muhajiroun, said the man depicted in startling video that emerged after Rigby’s death was named as Michael Adebolajo, a Christian who converted to Islam around 2003 and took part in several demonstrations by the group in London.

The BBC broadcast video from 2007 showing Adebolajo standing near Choudary at a rally.

Omar Bakri Muhammad, who now lives in Lebanon but had been a radical Muslim preacher in London, also said he recognised the man seen on TV as Adebolajo and said he attended his London lectures in the early 2000s.

Bakri, speaking from Lebanon, said he remembers Adebolajo as a “shy person” who was keen to learn about Islam and asked interesting questions.

“He used to listen more than he spoke,” Bakri said. “I was very surprised to learn that he is the suspect in the attack.”

Mary Warder, who has lived in the Woolwich area for more than 30 years, said she had seen both of the suspects preaching on the streets. Shopkeepers, however, said they couldn’t remember

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Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, south-east London.

The victim, Lee Rigby seeing them.

The two men suspected of killing the 25-year-old Rigby had been part of previous investigations by security services, a British official said, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider terrorist plot.

There also was no clear indication on when or where the suspects may have been radicalised.

Rigby, the father of a 2-year-old boy, was slain outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich area of south London while horrified bystanders watched in the busy city known for its decorum.

The bizarre scene was recorded on witnesses’ cellphones, with one of the two suspects boasting of their exploits and warning of more violence as the soldier lay on the ground. Holding bloody knives and a meat cleaver, they waited for the arrival of police, who shot them in the legs, according to a passerby who tried to save the dying soldier.

A British government official said one of the two men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the terror group al-Shabab. The official would not say if the suspect had been arrested or whether he had made any other trips to the country.

Citing unidentified sources described as having “knowledge of British jihadis,” the BBC’s Newsnight programme reported that one of the suspects in the attack was arrested last year on his way to joining al-Shabab.

Prime Minister David Cameron vowed that Britain would not be cowed by the horrific bloodshed, and that it would reject “the poisonous narrative of extremism on which this violence feeds.” In Washington, President Barack Obama said the US “stands resolute with the United Kingdom” in the fight against violent extremism.-AP

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Damage could top $2 billion The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said.

State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.

Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth said the early damage tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive disaster zone that stretches more than 27 kilometres and the fact that the tornado was on the ground for 40 minutes.

The financial cost of the tornado in Moore could be greater than the $2 billion in damage from a 2011 tornado that killed 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, Herth said, adding that the Joplin twister left a smaller trail of destruction.

For the first time, authorities provided a clearer accounting of the destruction in Moore, a town of about 56,000 in a central US region known as Tornado Alley.

Moore was also hit by a massive

tornado in 1999.

Between 12,000 and 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and 33,000 people were affected in some way by the storm, said Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. He also put the monetary damage estimate at between $1.5 billion to $2 billion.

Emergency officials were unable to put a figure on the number of people left homeless, because many people have been taken in by relatives and only a few dozen have stayed at Red Cross shelters.

Six adults remain unaccounted for since the tornado, said Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management Director Albert Ashwood. It’s possible those people had just “walked off” their properties or could still be found in the rubble, Ashwood said.

President Barack Obama will travel to Moore on Sunday to view the damage first-hand and meet with victims and emergency personnel. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano visited the area,

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tive and necessary. “Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of terror,” the president said in a speech at the National Defense University.

“What we can do — what we must do — is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger, and make it less likely for new groups to gain a foothold, all while maintaining the freedoms and ideals that we

The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks to gay Scouts but not gay adult Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass defections.

The Scouts yesterday stressed that their organisation of about 2.6 million boys and about 1 million adult leaders and volunteers would not condone sexual conduct by any Scout — gay or straight. But the bitter debate is not over. Liberal Scout leaders have made clear they want the ban on gay adults lifted as well.

-AP

• Bynes arrested Rick Brown puts on a pair of boots after finding them in his tornadoravaged home yesterday, in Moore, Oklahoma. pledging the government’s support.

Dan Ramsey, president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma, said a damage estimate in the low billions is “not surprising”.

“Certainly it’s in the hundreds of millions,” Ramsey said.

“I suppose seeing projections from similar disasters, it could stretch to a billion” or more.

The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office announced that it has positively identified 23 of the 24 people who died in the tornado, and that 10 of those killed are children.

- AP

US president defends use of drones President Barack Obama sought to move the US beyond the war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.

Obama also offered his most vigorous public defence yet of drone strikes as legal, effec-

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defend.” Obama also implored Congress to close the much-criticised Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba and pledged to allow greater oversight of the controversial unmanned drone program. But he plans to keep the most lethal efforts with the unmanned aircraft under the CIA’s control.

It is an awkward position for

the president, a constitutional lawyer, who took office pledging to undo policies that infringed on Americans’ civil liberties and hurt the US image around the world.

“Now is the time to ask ourselves hard questions — about the nature of today’s threats and how we should confront them,” Obama said.

-AP

Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in New York City after she threw a marijuana bong out of a window. Police say an apartment building official called police to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the lobby. The officers went to Bynes’ apartment, where they saw heavy smoke and a bong, which Bynes then threw out the window in front of the officers.

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• Talks offer A North Korean envoy, on the second day of his fencemending visit to ally China, heeded Beijing’s wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media said. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae praised China’s work on behalf of peace and stability and its “great efforts to return peninsular issues to the channel of dialogue and negotiation,” China TV reported. -AP

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Aries 21 March - 20 April Work progress may be slow, perhaps due to feelings of restlessness and a desire to escape from too much routine. You may feel dreamy too, so concentrating may be hard. Watch out for gossip that may do more harm than good. However, a travel plan may come to fruition and could put you on a new path of discovery that lights up your life.

TAurus 21 April - 21 May You may come to some fresh conclusions about your financial situation and what you can do to improve matters. Perhaps events of the day push you to make a decision that you’ve been considering for some time.

Trust your intuition to steer you in the right direction, particularly if you’re considering buying a big-ticket item.

Gemini 22 May - 21 June Your optimistic and pleasant outlook is your gift today, so spread some cheer and enjoy being with others. A relationship issue may need careful handling, as a lunar eclipse may bring feelings and issues to the surface that have been pushed to one side. Try not to do or say anything you could regret. Falling in love could prove a giddy turn.

CAnCer 22 June - 23 July The tendency may be to dream more than to do. You may need to snap yourself out of a sluggish mood and get with it. Reflection on important issues is necessary but don’t stun your will to action in the process. If a health or energy issue becomes apparent today, get checked out by your health professional. Be selfhonest.

Leo 24 July - 23 August Benefits come through friends and through being seen out and about. The focus is on making new connections which may support you in your quest for business, romantic or personal success. A budding relationship may come to a head but don’t rush headlong into a situation that might have unexpected repercussions.

VirGo 24 August - 23 September Career plans may be subject to change. Don’t resist if new ideas mean new directions.

Today’s lunar eclipse may bring the home and career balance into awareness.

This may encourage you to make a decision which covers all bases. There’s also a chance that a career move may indicate a house move or working from home.

LibrA 24 September - 23 October You may be in two minds about the best direction to take. Studying may appeal or travel may call to you. A message or piece of information may inspire and encourage you to take a new course of action. Perhaps you have been considering this for some time. Events that occur today may push you to make that crucial move.

sCorpio 24 October - 22 November Finances may take a turn in a new direction. Today’s lLunar eclipse in your personal financial zone may cause you to reconsider you current situation. Events may push you to take action.

Don’t rush into anything though. Do what you have to do to resolve immediate issues but don’t make any longer-lasting decisions.

Mull these over for now.

sAGiTTArius 23 November - 21 December You may find yourself going through a mini-crisis which relates to you personally, and perhaps the things or people you might be attached to. Something may need to change, or perhaps it’s time to let go so that a new phase can begin. Starting afresh brings opportunities for success. A relationship may go through a transformation also.

CApriCorn 22 December - 20 January You may be conscious of your coping strategies. If you have been busy trying to get demands met and dealing with constant stress, this may be having an impact. Some ‘you time’ may be what you need to reflect on how you can make things easier. Even successes can be stressful.

Consider a break or get a series of massages.

AquArius 21 January - 19 February It’s a day for fun and good times as the focus encourages you to explore leisure and pleasure pursuits. A social event may mark a turning point. Someone you meet or connect with could influence you to take a new turn or be more adventurous. Exciting options seem to linger in the air. You may need to be flexible to make the most of an opportunity.

pisCes 20 February - 20 March The fear of doing something may outweigh the reward you might get from having a go. Part of the problem may be linked with an unwillingness to move out of your comfort zone. Today’s lunar eclipse may be a gamechanger. You may be offered a job that allows you to work from home or that allows you to follow your passion.

Go with this.

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change of seasons signals that it’s time to think about refreshing existing rose beds and planting new ones.

New season roses will begin appearing in the garden stores this month and will be around until the end of July. If you treat your roses properly you’ll be well rewarded.

Put away secateurs Stop deadheading roses now, this encourages the plant to go into its dormant state to toughen it up against winter chills.

Five top tips for roses

– When to plant:

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Plant bare-rooted roses in the cooler months, May, June, July and August. Potted roses can be planted all year.

– Where to plant and positioning:

Roses are sun lovers. They will cope with a few hours shade a day but put on the best show in full sun.

The soil needs to be well

dug over. Then blend in rose compost and add a layer of pea-straw mulch to keep the weeds at bay and help the soil hold more moisture in summer. Blend in a granular soil wetter as well to enable the soil to retain moisture and distribute water to the roots to boost the roses from below the soil.

– Feeding:

Roses are gross feeders and respond quickly to an application of rose food at planting time and again in summer and autumn.

Sprinkle around the drip line and water into soil. In exposed sites, add a layer of rose compost around the base of the plants to keep roots cool and keep the worms fed.

– Pruning:

Winter pruning is best done in July or August once the plants have become fully dormant.

Pruning any earlier in milder climates can stimulate new growth which could be damaged by frosts.

– Pest management:

Companion planting is a clever way to deter pests. Plant any member of the onion family - garlic, chives, shallots and alliums - in clumps in among the roses.

A bonus with chives and alliums is that they both flower which enhances the floral display.

Special roses Mum in a Million – Bright pink, old-fashioned looking and packed with perfume. And dark green foliage sets off the blooms wonderfully. This is set to become a mainstay with rose lovers.

Ginger Kisses – This new rose has the most intense old-fashioned style russet blooms.

As the flowers age, they develop pink tones. This fruity-perfumed beauty is set to be a winner this year.

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

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TV3

PRIME

6.00 Te Karere. (R, T) 6.30 Hyundai Country Calendar. (G, R, T) 7.00 Rural Delivery. (G) 7.30 Fair Go. (R, T) 8.00 60 Minute Makeover. (G, R) 9.00 Chinese Food In Minutes. (G, R) 9.30 Come Dine With Me Omnibus.

(PGR, R, T) 12.00 Michel Roux’s Service. (G) 1.05 MasterChef New Zealand. (PGR, R, T) 2.05 The Chase. (G, T) 3.00 Four Weddings. (PGR, R, T) 4.00 Intrepid Journeys. (G, R, T) 5.00 Extreme Fishing With Robson Green. (G, R, T) 6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Hyundai Country Calendar. (G, T) 7.30 MasterChef Masterclass. (PGR, T) 8.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (G, T) A daily lifestyle show that sees five very different people competing to be named the ultimate dinner party host.

9.35 Whitechapel. (AO, T) Chandler and the team attend the christening of Miles’ daughter but soon find themselves dealing with a murder case instead.

10.35 FILM: Fracture. (2007, AO, R, T) 12.50 The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand. (AO, R, T) 1.35 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 3.35 Neighbourhood. (G, R, T) 4.05 Infomercials. 5.30 World Church of God.

6.00 Disney Special Agent Oso. (G, R, T) 6.20 Buzzy Bee And Friends. (G, R, T) 6.30 Pocoyo. (G, R, T) 6.40 Handy Manny. (G, T) 7.00 Small Blacks TV. 7.25 Gravity Falls. (G) 7.50 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (G, R, T) 8.15 Generator Rex. (G, T) 8.40 Sym-Bionic Titan. (G, R, T) 9.05 Young Justice. (G, R, T) 9.30 Just The Job. (G, R) 10.00 Fresh. (New, G) 10.30 Neighbours Omnibus. (G, R, T) 1.00 The amazing Race australia. (G, R, T) 2.00 Hell’s Kitchen. (PGR, R, T) 3.00 Bunheads. (PGR) 4.00 Good Luck Charlie. (G, T) 4.30 Girl vs. Boy. (G, R, T) 5.00 Just The Job. (G) 5.30 according To Jim. (G, R, T) 6.00 Wipeout. (G, T) 7.00 FILM: Tron: Legacy. (2010, PGR, T) 9.30 FILM: Legion. (2009, AO, T) Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Charles S. Dutton. A group of strangers fight for the welfare of humanity.

11.30 FILM: XXX. (2002, AO, R, T) 2.00 FILM: Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring. (2001, AO, R, T) 5.05 Fresh. (G, R) 5.30 It Is Written.

6.00 Charles Stanley.

6.30 Rheem Outdoors With Geoff. (G, R) 7.00 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’. (G, R) 7.30 Knight Rider. (G, R) 8.30 Infomercials. (G) 9.30 The Nation.

10.25 Media3.

11.00 3rd Degree presents The Vote.

12.00 The Little Couple. (PGR, R) 12.30 The Little Couple. (PGR, R) 1.00 The Glee Project. (PGR, R) 1.55 The X Factor NZ. (G, R) 3.55 The X Factor NZ. (G, R) 5.00 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’. (G) 5.30 ITM Fishing Show. (G) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals. (G, T) 7.30 Grand Designs. (G, R, T) 8.30 CSI. (AO, T) David Phillips attends his high-school reunion and discovers that the prom queen has been murdered.

9.30 CSI: Ny. (AO, T) A role-playing game turns deadly when one player is murdered and another is kidnapped and held for ransom.

10.30 Outrageous Fortune. (AO, R, T) 11.30 Law & Order: Los angeles. (AO) 12.30 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Hillsong. (G) 5.30 Charles Stanley.

6.00 Home Shopping. (G) 11.30 Whose Line Is It anyway UK. (PGR, R) 12.00 Rugby League. (G) Round 10.

Highlights.

12.30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus.

(G, R) 2.30 MasterChef USa. (PGR, R) 3.30 Relocation: Phil Down Under. (R) 4.30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple.

(G, R) 5.00 Vacation Vacation Vacation. (R) 5.30 Prime News.

6.00 australia’s Got Talent. (G) 7.30 New Tricks. (PGR) When a body turns up at a prestigious boarding school the UCOS are called in to investigate, but with an affluent MP due to visit the school the headmistress is less than impressed by the UCOS’s presence.

8.40 Secret Millionaire UK. (G) Businessman Fil Adams-Mercer puts his success down to a strong work ethic but his experiences in Doncaster will prompt Fil to address his preconceived ideas about the jobless individuals of society.

9.40 Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies.

From Eden Park.

11.40 Crownies. (AO) 12.50 Home Shopping. (G)

SUNDay 6.00 6.25 7.10 7.35 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 11.55

Rural Delivery. (G, R) 60 Minute Makeover. (G, R) Sunday. (R, T) Tagata Pasifika. (R) Praise Be. attitude. (G, T) Q+a.

Marae Investigates.

Waka Huia. (T) Neighbourhood. (T) Fair Go. (R, T) Coronation Street Omnibus.

(PGR, R, T) 1.50 Rapid Response. (Final, PGR, R, T) 2.20 Coastwatch. (Final, G, R, T) 2.50 Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare.

(PGR, R, T) 3.50 Dog Squad. (PGR, R, T) 4.20 The Voice australia. (G, R, T) 6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Sunday. (T) 7.30 MasterChef New Zealand. (PGR, T) 8.30 Packed To The Rafters. (PGR, T) Dave is feeling displaced as he sifts through the carnage caused by the fire, while Julie is in denial that Ted may have dementia.

9.30 Puberty Blues. (AO, T) Sue decides to become a ‘bra burner’, with unexpected consequences, and a night out with the Greenhills gang ends in disaster for one popular member.

10.30 accused. (Final, AO) 11.45 Q+a. (R) 12.55 Call 911. (PGR, R) 1.35 Emmerdale.

(PGR, R, T) 3.30 Infomercials. 5.30 Believer’s Voice Of Victory.

MONDay 6.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.30 2.00 3.00 3.55 4.25

Breakfast.

Good Morning.

Ellen. (R) Coach Trip. (PGR, T) House Guest. (G, R) ONE News. (T) Emmerdale. (PGR, T) Come Dine With Me. (PGR) Four Weddings USa. (G, R) Ellen.

Te Karere. (T) MasterChef: The Professionals – australia. (New, T) 12.00 World’s Strictest Parents Us. (PGR, R, T) 1.00 Te Karere. (R, T) 1.35 Infomercials.

5.05 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. 5.35 Te Karere. (R, T)

SUNDay

6.00 Disney Special Agent Oso. (G, R, T) 6.25 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (G, R, T) 6.50 The Magic Roundabout. (G, R, T) 7.00 What Now? 10.00 Shortland Street Omnibus. (PGR, R, T) 12.30 FILM: The Three Musketeers.

(2011, PGR, T) 2.35 Gary Unmarried. (G, R, T) 3.05 The Carrie Diaries. (PGR, T) 4.05 Ellen. (G) 4.35 The Fresh Prince Of Bel air. (G, R, T) 5.05 Pretty Little Liars. (G, T) 6.00 america’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, T) 6.30 The War at Home. (G, R, T) 7.00 Renters. (PGR, T) 7.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PGR, R, T) 8.00 Mike & Molly. (PGR, T) 8.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PGR) When Penny learns that Leonard doesn’t celebrate birthdays, she attempts to throw him a surprise party.

9.00 FILM: Takers. (2010, AO, T) Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Zoe Saldana. A Manhattan detective is pitted against a young crew that specialises in elaborate heists.

11.10 FILM: Pathology. (2008, AO, R, T) 1.00 Happy Town. (AO, R, T) 1.55 Distraction USA. (AO, R, T) 2.45 Infomercials. 3.15 Lost Tapes. (Final, AO, R, T) 4.10 It Is Written. (R) 4.40 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR, R) 5.30 Infomercials.

MONDay

6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Buzzy Bee And Friends. (G, R, T) 6.35 Tiki Tour. (G, R, T) 7.00 Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack.

(G, R, T) 7.25 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. (G, R, T) 7.50 Beyblades Metal Masters. (G, T) 8.15 Franklin. (G, R, T) 8.40 Mike The Knight. (G, R, T) 8.50 Fireman Sam. (G, R, T) 9.00 Infomercials. 10.30 Neighbours. (G, R, T) 11.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 11.30 Spin City. (PGR, R, T) 12.00 Desperate Housewives. (AO, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle. (AO) 2.00 anderson Live. (Final) 3.00 Mr Men. (G, R, T) 3.10 Doc McStuffins. (G, T) 3.35 Kung Fu Panda. (G, T) 4.05 Good Luck Charlie. (G, R, T) It’s been a while since Amy and Bob have been on a date, so Teddy encourages them to go to dinner while the kids baby-sit Charlie.

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) 12.35 Rookie Blue. (AO, R, T) 1.35 Infomercials. 2.35 No Ordinary Family.

(PGR, R, T) 3.20 The Amazing Race. (PGR, R, T) 4.15 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR, R) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (R) 5.30 Infomercials.

SUNDay 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 9.00 9.30 10.00 11.55

Life TV. (G) Brian Houston @ Hillsong. (G) Charles Stanley. (G) The Nation.

Three60.

Think Tank. (G) Home and away Omnibus. (G, T) Entertainment Tonight Weekend.

(G) 1.00 Hamish & andy’s Euro Gap year.

(PGR, R) 2.00 Dog Patrol. (PGR, R, T) 2.30 Emergency Heroes. (PGR, R, T) 3.00 Motorsport. New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix. From Pukekohe.

3.25 Motorsport. MotoGP. Round Three. From Spain.

4.10 Motorsport. DTM C’ship. Round Two. From Brands Hatch, UK. 5.00 PlaceMakers Big angry Fish. (G, R) 5.30 The Simpsons. (G, R, T) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 The X Factor NZ. (G) 9.05 FILM: american Pie: The Wedding. (2003, AO, R, T) Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas.

Two friends from high school reunite their old buddies for their wedding.

11.10 FILM: away We Go. (2009, AO, R) 1.15 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV. (G)

MONDay 6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30

3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) The Shopping Channel.

Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 12.00 3 News.

12.30 Home and away. (G, R, T) 1.00 Dr Phil. (AO) 2.00 The Dr Oz Show. (PGR) 3.00 Top Chef. (PGR, R) 4.00 Rachael Ray. (G) 5.00 Entertainment Tonight. (G) 5.30 Home and away. (G, T) 12.15 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 City Impact Church.

SUNDay

6.00 Religious Programming. (G) 10.30 Sport Box. (G) 12.00 Rugby League. (G) Dragons v Panthers. Highlights.

1.00 Hot Property. (G, R) 1.30 Recruits. (PGR, R) 2.00 Toyota Grassroots Rugby. (G) 3.00 Netball. (G) ANZ C’ship.

Highlights.

4.00 Super Rugby. (G) Highlights.

5.00 Escape To River Cottage. (G, R) 5.30 Prime News.

6.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat. (G) 6.30 Nigella Feasts. (G) 7.00 Storage Wars. (G) In the high stakes world of Storage Wars the buyers are willing to do whatever it takes to remain standing, even if it’s at the expense of their fellow buyers.

7.30 antiques Roadshow. (G) Family treasures under scrutiny this week include a hand-made wooden model that may just be the world’s first toy train and one of the most sophisticated clocks ever seen on the show.

8.35 attenborough and The Giant Egg. (G, R) In 1961, Attenborough was handed a special memento in Madagascar - egg fragments of the largest ever bird. Now, he returns and asks whether it holds the clue to saving the island’s wildlife.

9.40 DCI Banks. (Final, AO) 10.45 True Blood. (AO, R) 11.50 Rugby League. (G) Warriors vs.

Knights. Delayed.

1.40 Home Shopping. (G)

MONDay 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 12.00 1.00 2.05 3.00

Home Shopping. (G) The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Home Shopping. (G) The Doctors. (G) The Jeff Probst Show. (G) america’s Got Talent. (PGR, R) Civilisation - Is The West History? (G, R) Niall Ferguson examines the impact of consumerism on modern society, and analyses why some companies have come to dominate marketplaces around the world.

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

12.05 Home Shopping. (G) 1.35 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.05 Home Shopping. (G)

KEy: T Teletext R Repeat S Stereo P Premiere F Final RaTINGS: G General exhibition PG Parental guidance recommended M Suitable for mature audiences aO Adults only 16 Approved for persons 16 and over 18 Approved for persons 18 and over c Content may offend l Language may offend s Sexual content may offend v contains violence

MOVIE Tron: Legacy TV2, 7pm It may sound like another unnecessary rehash made to cash in on an old story, but Tron: Legacy is not only a stunning visual experience, but a solid blockbuster with a genuinely strong story behind it.

Sam’s (Garrett Hedlund, below) mission to rescue his father (Jeff Bridges) from the digital grid of his own making takes him on a Matrix-esque quest to a dimension where computer programs assume human form and from where tech tyrant Clu (also played

by Bridges) seeks to extend his dark power.

FOUR

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Rocko’s Modern Life. (G, R) 7.30 Casper Scare School.

(G) 7.55 All Grown Up. (G, R) 8.20 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 8.40 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.05 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.30 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 9.55 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana.

(G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Mr. Young. (G, R) 5.30 Big Time Rush. (G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest Moments. (G, R) Life’s Funniest Moments features hilarious, viewer-submitted video clips from around the world.

6.30 FILM: The Borrowers. (1997, G, R) John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie. The future of a family of tiny people, who live under the floorboards of a house, is threatened by an unscrupulous lawyer.

8.20 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills. (PGR) 9.20 Millionaire Matchmaker. (PGR) 10.15 Excused. (AO) 10.40 Poker After Dark. (PGR) 11.40 Infomercials. (G)

SUNDay

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Rocko’s Modern Life. (G, R) 7.25 Casper Scare School.

(G) 7.50 All Grown Up. (G, R) 8.15 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 8.40 Go, Diego, Go! (G, R) 9.05 Wonder Pets. (G, R) 9.30 Dora The Explorer. (G, R) 9.55 Sticky TV Omnibus.

(G) 12.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Mr. Young. (G, R) 5.30 The Suite Life On Deck. (G, R) 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. (G) 7.00 Raising Hope. (PGR) 7.30 Top Chef. (PGR) 21 chefs battle for culinary honours in Seattle.

8.30 How I Met your Mother. (PGR, R) Still angry and hurt over Barney’s insensitivity after their break-up, Robin concocts a plan to bring Barney to his knees.

9.00 Rules Of Engagement. (PGR, R) Jeff has an awakening when he sees an old photo of himself in an art gallery and decides to make changes in his life.

9.30 It’s always Sunny In Philadelphia. (AO) The gang is shocked to meet Frank’s long-lost brother Gino, who unexpectedly arrives at Paddy’s Pub, and exposes a wealth of family secrets.

10.00 Wilfred. (AO) Fed up with Jenna’s overly competitive, alpha-male boyfriend, Wilfred hatches a plan to get rid of him.

10.25 Perfect Couples. (PGR) 10.55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G)

MONDay

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Sticky TV. (G, R) 7.30 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 7.55 George Of The Jungle. (G, R) 8.20 Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot. (G, R) 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 Tickety Toc. (G) 9.55 Infomercials.

(G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 3.05 Go, Diego, Go! (G, R) 3.30 Redakai.

(G) 4.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G) 2505

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Television

The Box 6.00 6.50 7.15 8.10

Lie To Me. (M) The Simpsons. (PG) Fear Factor. (M) The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 10.15 Raw. (M) 1.10 24 Marathon. (M) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.30 Psych. (M) Shawn and Gus return to Vancouver to visit their old nemesis, Despereaux, in prison at the felon’s request, who has ulterior motives for their visit.

8.30 Sons Of Anarchy. (16) When the young daughter of a prominent Charming family is assaulted during a visiting carnival, SAMCRO races the authorities to capture the assailant; and Tara’s ex-boyfriend arrives in Charming 9.35 Out For Justice. (18) 11.30 Underbelly. (M) 12.30 24 Marathon. (M) 3.00 Sons Of Anarchy. (16) 3.50 Underbelly. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 The Simpsons.

(PG)

SUndAy

6.00 24 Marathon. (M) 9.20 Out For Justice. (18) 11.10 The Simpsons Marathon.

(PG) 1.15 Psych. (M) 2.05 Sons Of Anarchy. (16) 3.00 Raw. (M) 5.45 Main Event. (M) 6.45 Smackdown. (M) 8.30 Spartacus. War Of The damned. (18) Spartacus and the rebels arrive at a crossroads. With the relentless Crassus driving his men hard in the pursuit of Spartacus, the conflict between Tiberius and Caesar escalates. 18VLS 9.35 Falling Skies. (M) Tom, Hal and Weaver meet a woman living alone in an abandoned city, and they are unsure about whether she can be trusted.

10.30 Monk. (PG) 11.30 Main Event. (M) 12.30 Smackdown. (M) 2.10 Spartacus. War Of The Damned. (18) 3.05 Falling Skies. (M) 3.55 Family Business. (18) 4.25 Monk. (PG) 5.15 Psych. (M)

MOndAy 6.00 6.50 7.15 7.40

nyPd Blue. (M) The Simpsons. (PG) Pawn Stars. (PG) America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 8.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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?

2.35 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Pawn Stars. (PG) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 5.00 Law & Order. (M) 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. Miami. (M) 3.55 CSI. Miami. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

Sky Movies 1 Movie Greats 6.05 Thor. (2011, M) 8.00 Haywire. (2011, M) 9.35 Think Like A Man. (2012, M) 11.35 Twilight Saga: Breaking dawn Pt:1. (2011, M) 1.35 Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs Evil. (2011, PG) 3.05 Katy Perry: Part Of Me. (2012, PG). A backstage pass, front row seat and intimate look at the fun, glamorous, heart-breaking and magical life of Katy Perry on and off-stage.

4.40 Win Win. (2011, M) Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan. A disheartened attorney, who volunteers as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings.

6.25 Snow White And The Huntsman. (2012, M) Kristen Stewart.

8.30 Warrior. (2011, M) Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte. An ex-Marine returns home to enlist the help of his father to train for the biggest winner takes all mixed martial arts tournament.

10.50 Jack And Jill. (2011, PG) 12.20 Conan The Barbarian.

(2011, 16) 2.10 Win Win. (2011, M) 3.55 Conan The Barbarian.

(2011, 16) 5.45 Katy Perry: Part Of Me. (2012, PG)

SUndAy

7.20 Jack And Jill. (2011, PG) 8.50 Snow White And The Huntsman. (2012, M) 10.55 Making Of: Fast & Furious 6. (2013, PG) 11.10 Warrior. (2011, M) 1.30 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn. (2011, PG) 3.15 Senna. (2010, M) Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost. The story of legendary Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna - who won the world championship three times before his death.

5.00 50/50. (2011, 16) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen.

Inspired by the true story of a 27-year-old guy who learns he has cancer and his struggle to beat the disease.

6.40 In Time. (2011, M) 8.30 Ted. (2012, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis. A grown man must deal with his foul-mouthed teddy bear who came to life as a result of a childhood wish and has refused to leave his side ever since.

10.20 drive Angry. (2011, 18) Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard.

MOndAy

6.45 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn. (2011, PG) Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis.

8.30 50/50. (2011, 16) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen.

10.10 Trespass. (2011, 16) Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage.

11.40 Ted. (2012, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis.

1.25 In Time. (2011, M) 3.15 The Smurfs. (2011, G) 5.00 The Gundown. (2011, M)

6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.30 OK TV 8.00 Wisdom for Difficult Times 8.30 The Truth Out There 9.00 Xtreme Life TV 9.30 Life FM presents 11.00 Not a Fan 11.30 Wisdom for Difficult Times 12.00 The Truth Out There 12.30 Kiwis Can Fly 1.00 Beyond Adventure 1.30 Noble Exchange 2.00 Just Thinking 2.30 Not a Fan 3.00 Nzone Now 3.15 Basic 3.30 Not a Fan 4.00 Roots and Reflections 4.30 Kiwis Can Fly 5.00 “Love, Marriage and Stinking” 5.30 Give Me An Answer 6.00 Just Thinking 6.30 Noble Exchange 7.00 Beyond Adventure 7.30 MOVIE: Billy the Early Years

6.15 Lethal Weapon 3. (1992, M) 8.10 Wedding Crashers. (2005, M) 10.10 A Few Good Men. (1992, PG) 12.25 Lethal Weapon 3. (1992, M) 2.25 A Knight’s Tale. (2001, M) 4.35 Cape Fear. (1991, 16) Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte. In this slick remake, a lawyer and his family are terrorised by a brutal criminal after withholding evidence that may have acquitted him.

1991.

6.40 Ghost Rider. (2007, M) Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes.

8.30 Two Weeks notice. (2002, PG) Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant. After waiting on him hand-and-foot, a neurotic attorney decides to quit working for her charming but self-absorbed millionaire boss. 2002.

10.15 Fatal Attraction. (1987, 16) Michael Douglas, Glenn Close.

12.15 directors: Bryan Singer.

(2009, PG) 12.45 A Knight’s Tale. (2001, M) 2.55 Cape Fear. (1991, 16) 5.00 Fatal Attraction. (1987, 16)

SUndAy

7.00 Ghost Rider. (2007, M) 8.50 Two Weeks notice. (2002, PG) 10.30 A Knight’s Tale. (2001, M) 12.40 Cape Fear. (1991, 16) 2.45 Fantastic Four. (2005, PG) 4.30 V For Vendetta. (2006, M) Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving. A freedom fighter uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society and discovers an unlikely ally in a young woman. 2005.

6.45 While you Were Sleeping.

(1995, PG) Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman.

8.30 Patriot Games. (1992, PG) Harrison Ford, Anne Archer.

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge. 1992.

10.30 The Blues Brothers. (1980, 16) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd.

MOndAy

6.00 Crank. (2006, 18) Jason Statham.

7.25 While you Were Sleeping.

(1995, PG) Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman.

9.05 Patriot Games. (1992, PG) Harrison Ford, Anne Archer.

11.00 The Blues Brothers. (1980, 16) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd.

1.10 Crank. (2006, 18) Jason Statham.

2.35 Apollo 13. (1995, PG) Tom Hanks, Ed Harris.

4.55 Eraser. (1996, 16) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams.

Sky Sport 1

Sky Sport 2

6.00 Golf. US PGA Tour.

6.30 AnZ Golf World.

7.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Round Two. Live.

10.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Round Two. Highlights.

10.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Crusaders. Replay.

12.30 Toyota Grassroots Rugby.

1.30 AnZ Golf World.

2.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Highlights.

2.30 Golf. US PGA Tour. Round Two. Highlights.

3.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Crusaders. Replay.

5.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Rebels v Waratahs. Replay.

7.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies. Live.

9.35 Rugby. Super Rugby. Force v Highlanders. Live.

11.40 MMA Hammerhead.

12.55 Rugby. Super Rugby. Kings v Cheetahs. Live.

3.00 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Stormers v Reds. Live.

5.05 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Sharks v Bulls. Live.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.30

SUndAy

7.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies. Replay.

9.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Force v Highlanders. Replay.

11.30 Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day Two. Highlights.

12.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies. Highlights.

12.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Force v Highlanders. Highlights.

1.00 Small Blacks TV. 1.30 Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day Two. Highlights.

2.00 netball. ANZ C’ship. NSW Swifts v Northern Mystics.

Live.

4.00 netball. ANZ C’ship.

Queensland Firebirds v WBOP Magic. Live.

6.00 Super Rugby Review.

7.00 netball. ANZ C’ship. Central Pulse v West Coast Fever.

Live.

9.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Crowne Plaza Invitational. Round Three. Highlights.

9.30 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Round Three. Highlights.

10.00 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies.

Highlights.

10.30 Motorsport. Superbike World C’ship. Live.

1.35 Sky Sport What’s On. 2.00 Motorsport. Superbike Race Two. Live.

3.45 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Round One Sunday. Highlights.

4.15 Motorsport. IRL. Indianapolis 500. Live.

MOndAy

9.30 Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day Three. Highlights.

10.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Crusaders. Highlights.

11.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies. Highlights.

12.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Warriors v Knights. Replay.

2.00 40/20.

3.00 Golf. US PGA Tour.

Highlights.

5.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Crusaders. Highlights.

SHINE

9.00 Not a Fan 9.30 Nzone Focus 10.00 Beyond Adventure 10.30 Beauty and the Beast 11.00 Give Me An Answer 11.30 Roots and Reflections 12.00 Nzone Focus 12.30 Just Thinking 1.00 “Love, Marriage and Stinking” 1.30 Not a Fan 2.00 Beauty and the Beast 2.30 Beyond Adventure 3.00 MOVIE: Billy the Early Years 4.30 Noble Exchange 5.00 Give Me An Answer 5.30 Running With Fire SUndAy 6.00 Living Truth: Charles Price 7.00 Jovis Bon-Hovis 7.30 Carlos the Caterpillar 8.00 OK TV 8.30 Connection Point 9.00 In Touch 10.00 Life Questions 10.30 Word For You

11.00 1.00 3.00 5.00 7.00 9.30 11.30 4.30 5.00 5.30

Crowd Goes Wild.

ICC Cricket 360.

Cricket. IPL. Replay.

Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day One. Highlights.

Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Bulldogs v Broncos. Replay.

Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Wests Tigers v Cowboys. Replay.

Rugby League. NSW Cup. Illawarra Cutters v Windsor Wolves. Live.

Rugby League. Holden Cup. Dragons U20 v Panthers U20. Live.

Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Dragons v Panthers. Live.

Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Roosters v Storm. Live.

Golf. European PGA Tour.

BMW PGA C’ship. Round Three. Live.

Golf. US PGA Tour. Round Two. Highlights.

Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Round One Saturday. Highlights.

Cricket. IPL. Qualifier Two. TBC v TBC. Highlights.

SUndAy

6.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Dragons v Panthers. Replay.

8.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Roosters v Storm. Replay.

10.00 Rugby League. NRL. Sea Eagles v Raiders. Replay.

1.45 Rugby League. Holden Cup. Warriors U20 v Knights U20.

Live.

3.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Warriors v Knights. Live.

6.00 Sky Sport What’s On. 6.30 Toyota Grassroots Rugby.

7.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Blues v Brumbies. Highlights.

8.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Force v Highlanders. Highlights.

8.30 Cricket. IPL. Qualifier Two. TBC v TBC. Highlights.

9.00 Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day Two. Highlights.

9.30 Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day Three. Live.

12.05 Golf. US PGA Tour.

Highlights.

12.35 Cricket. England v New Zealand. Second Test. Day Three. Live.

5.30 Golf. US PGA Tour. Round Four. Live.

MOndAy

6.30 Sky Sport What’s On. 7.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Crowne Plaza Invitational. Round Four. Live.

10.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

BMW PGA Champs Round Four. Delayed.

1.00 Tennis. French Open. Day One. Highlights.

2.00 netball. ANZ C’ship. NSW Swifts v Northern Mystics.

Replay.

3.30 netball. ANZ C’ship.

Queensland Firebirds v WBOP Magic. Replay.

5.00 Tennis. French Open.

Roland Garros. Day One. Match Of The Day. Replay.

Discovery 6.00 Everything you need To Know. (PG) 6.30 Swords. (PG) 7.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 8.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 9.30 ET Fishing Escapes. (PG) 10.30 How Booze Built America.

11.30 American digger. (PG) 12.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 12.30 Auction Kings. (PG) 1.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 1.30 American digger. (PG) 2.00 Property Wars. (PG) 2.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 3.30 dirty Great Machines. (PG) 4.30 Alaska: The Last Frontier.

(PG) 5.30 Bering Sea Gold. (PG) 6.30 dual Survival. (PG) 7.30 Pompeii Back From The dead. (PG) 8.30 Gold Rush. (PG) The Motherlode. Winter strikes and the miners wage the final battle for the mother lode. The Hoffmans pull out a secret weapon, Dustin plunges into freezing water and Parker mines his last ground.

9.30 Moonshiners. (M) 10.30 River Monsters. (PG) 11.30 Ultimate Warfare. (PG) 12.30 deadliest Catch. (PG) 5.30 Greensburg. (PG)

SUndAy 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.30 2.30 3.30 7.30 8.30

9.30 10.30 11.00 12.00 12.30 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.30

Swords. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) ET Fishing Escapes. (PG) Bering Sea Gold. (PG) River Monsters. (PG) Finding Amelia Earhart.

(PG) Pompeii Back From The dead. (PG) River Monsters: The deadliest. (PG) dirty Jobs down Under.

Mars Landing 2012. (PG) Alaska: The Last Frontier.

(PG) Dead Of Winter. The extended Kilcher family struggle to get through a record-breaking harsh winter. Desperate for food, Atz Lee and Jane venture onto the ice to try fishing. dual Survival. (PG) .

American digger. (PG) Revealed: dnA The next Wave. (PG) Property Wars. (PG) Amish Mafia. (M) Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) American digger. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) nightmare next door. (M) disappeared. (M) Auction Kings. (PG)

MOndAy 6.00 6.30 7.30 8.30

9.30 10.30 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.30 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.30

Auction Hunters. (PG) dirty Jobs. (PG) Amish Mafia. (M) Revealed: dnA The next Wave. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) nightmare next door. (M) Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) Crimes That Shook The World. (M) disappeared. (M) American digger. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) Amish Mafia. (M) deadliest Catch. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG)

11.00 Songs of Praise 11.35 Quick Study 12.00 MOVIE: Billy the Early Years 1.30 FEATURE: Blind Courage 2.30 Precious Memories 3.00 Hour of Power 4.00 In Touch 5.00 Living Truth: Charles Price 6.00 Running With Fire 6.30 Kiwis Can Fly 7.00 Nzone Focus 7.30 Songs of Praise 8.05 Precious Memories 8.30 David Jeremiah 9.30 MOVIE: Billy the Early Years 11.00 FEATURE: Blind Courage 12.00 Hour of Power 1.00 Nzone Focus 1.30 Songs of Praise 2.05 Precious Memories 2.30 David Jeremiah 3.30 Kiwis Can Fly 4.00 Connection Point

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To place a trades & services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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11 peterashburton street, ashburton Tel:Tel: (03)(03) 308308 3918 3918 a/H:a/H: (021)(021) 716 716 157 157

HEAVY VEHICLE DRIVER LICENCING Certified Assessor for licencing from Learner to Full • Licence classer 2 - 5 • Wheels, tracks & roller endorsements • NZTA Certified • Tranzqual Assessor Drive Rite - But Keep Left Contact Paul McCormick

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

HEAT PUMPS Perfect all year round

From your place to the airport at a time that suits you.

0508 247 BUS ashburtonshuttle@gmail.com

Plaster & Coatings

Harder. longer. Better. satisfaction guaranteed. (as licensed applicators we give warranties)

The Finishing Company 03 307 8870 or 0274 444 856 int./ext. Plaster (rockcote applicator) & textures specialist Coatings: Resin/Stone floors, Waterproofing

Mobile Mower servicing • Rotary Mowers • Reel Mowers • Ride on Mowers • Chainsaws Ashburton 308-6173 - Methven 303-3178 • Water blasters • Rotary Hoes • Small Motor Repairs • Generators

• Wall or Floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

electriCOOL Ltd

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems.

painting & Decorating contractors

if you are renovating or building a new home you need someone to trust in all your painting and Decorating neeDS – commercial or residential.

• Interior decorating • Exterior decorating

• Wallpapering • Waterblasting • roof painting

Ph 307-0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

Roofing Specialists We specialise in:

• New roofs and re-roofs • Glendeck 5 rib • Corrugated iron • Fascia, gutters and down pipes • Qualified fixers.

Free Measure & quote

03 307 0593 or 0508-453-696

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Stan Keeley, Owner

Continuous Spouting Need new spouting, fascia and downpipes?

Give Ben a call for a free quote. All jobs guaranteed.

Manufacturers and installers of continuous spouting, fascia and downpipes.

Ben Kruger • Phone 308 4380 or 021 808 739 • email: benkruger@xtra.co.nz

North park drive

CLEANERS EXECUTIVE HOME CLEANING (2012) We will clean anything from the mountains to the sea.

Call Sandra and the team on 03 307 8184 or 027 292 0180 Home • Commercial • Office

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

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* Hay covers * Motorbike covers * Ute covers * Furniture * Boats covers * Shade sails

115 Archibald Street, Ashburton. Phone 307 2354 Email address: tincanup@xtra.co.nz

Got a tree troubling you?

You need Four Seasons Treecare, your local tree experts!

• Pruning • Felling • Branch chipping (up to 12”)

• Hedge trimming • Powerline clearance • Stumpgrinding • Dismantling

0800 559 255 for a free quote

Full workshop to service any brands of small motors • Husqvarna • Gardena • McCulloch • Flymo • Honda • Briggs & Stratton • Victa • Lawn Master • Robin / Mikasa 5 Range Street, Riverside Industrial Park, Ashburton

P 307 7055 F 308 8116

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Winterising your boat engine and maintaining the trailer is advisable.

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A multi-million dollar robotic milking shed under construction.

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153 Moore Street, Ashburton

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Dairy Focus

The magazine for all South Island dairy farmers, a free publication packed with interesting and informative news, views and essential dairy related reading.

Frequency Monthly

Circulation

The circulation area for Dairy Focus covers the entire Mid Canterbury rural district, plus every dairy farm, South Island wide.

Distribution

Dairy Focus is delivered to all RD box holders in the Mid Canterbury district plus every dairy farm South Island wide. Over 7,500 households and farms.

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Vitamins are supplementary to a balanced diet.

Beauty Therapy

Call Kim today to experience the latest treatments with an internationally qualified therapist

HEALTH 2000 ASHBURTON The Arcade - Ph: (03) 308 1815 WWW.HEALTH2000.CO.NZ

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Debra Curtin - Chiropractor Mon, Wed, Thur 8-5.30pm

André Grob - Chiropractor Tues 9-5.00pm

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Formerly Curtin Chiropractic

Karl Kibler - Chiropractor Fri 9-5.00pm 1st Floor, Smith + Church Buildng Moore St, Ashburton

PH 03 308 9516

REFLEXOLOGY COURSE “Step into Natural Therapies” Introduction to Reflexology Certificate Course June 15 & 16 Southern Therapies School of NZ, Oamaru Cathy Searle 03 437 2366 MRNZ, NZCHP, NZROHA, Cert Ad Ed

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Toenail Cutting Service In the comfort of your own home.

New to Ashburton. Just $40!

Full soak, toenail trim, file and mini foot massage Sally is in Ashburton every second Friday.

Next dates: May 31 and June 14.

Contact: Sally Marchant - Registered Nurse 03 317 9622 or 021 157 8373

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JOBS

To advertise here call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Financial Administrator

Customer Service Centre Receptionist

Strengthen your accounting & administration skills....

A part-time position is available in our team. This role provides support in our accounting department three days per week primarily in accounts payable, as well as managing customer account enquiries and other regular responsibilities.

ATS is a dynamic and innovative cooperative offering members the ability to purchase all farm inputs through our stores in Ashburton, Rakaia and Methven.

This role will stretch your organisation skills as you will be managing email and phone call queries alongside daily and monthly accounting tasks such as bank reconciliation and processing of creditors, therefore we are looking for someone with the following attributes: • Excellent computer literacy especially in Excel and accounting software • Numerically minded with high attention for accuracy • Capacity to learn and understand new software and internal processes • Great communication skills on phone and email etc • Ability to prioritise varying work demands • Highly organised with ability to multi task • Previous experience in an accounting administration role preferred

This full time position is based in the Ashburton retail store requires an individual who is highly organised and able to build customer relationships, a person who will be self-motivated and committed to delivering high quality outcomes.

Ideally you will have: • Excellent organisational skills with attention to detail • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills • Intermediate computer skills • Ability to work independently

We are looking for a person who is able to offer excellence in customer service, has industry and product knowledge, attention to detail, an excellent telephone manor and possesses an exceptional attitude towards their work.

If you would like to join this motivated team, please apply

You will be part of a wider customer service team focused on all ATS enquiries. The main duties include customer facing enquiries, telephone sales and customer service.

Email your application together with your CV to: hr.manager@ats.co.nz Applications close 6th June 2013.

www.ats.co.nz

Circulation Cover

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An additional Circulation Cover role (as also advertised) could be combined with this position which would add additional hours to the role.

Key Support Role...

On-call as and when required.

In the first instance please email your CV, cover letter and relevant work references, stating clearly which position/s you are interested in, to: kirstin.c@theguardian.co.nz

This role entails providing cover for the circulation department, supervising delivery of the Ashburton Guardian to all subscribers and agents in the Ashburton District.

• Great communication skills on phone and email etc • Capacity to learn and understand new software and internal processes • Highly organised with ability to multi task • Previous administration experience preferred • Flexibility around increased hours for short periods to cover circulation • Ability to work some public holidays

Applications close June 9, 2013

Psychologist

With the nature of this role, providing cover for sick and annual leave and therefore irregular hours, it could be combined with the Financial Administrator role (as also advertised)

1.0 FTE full time permanent – Timaru

In the first instance please email your CV, cover letter and relevant work references, stating clearly which position/s you are interested in, to: kirstin.c@theguardian.co.nz

Applications are invited from a suitably qualified and experienced Registered Psychologist to provide specialist services to assist a range of school aged students and preschoolers in home and educational settings.

Applications close June 9, 2013

We are looking for enthusiastic and energetic Registered Psychologists who have: • • • • • • • • • •

The confidence to deliver services in a changing environment Recent effective practice in schools and early childhood centres would be an advantage The ability to plan and manage time effectively to meet goals and objectives Experience and interest in working with students with special needs who may have severe and challenging behaviours The personal qualities necessary for working sensitively with parents, whanau and other caregivers The ability and willingness to work cooperatively as a team member in a range of contexts Knowledge and understanding of child development Understanding of a variety of disabilities and associated personal and social issues Awareness and sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity and commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication.

PM Wanted23/5/13 Sous1:22:47 Chef/ Experienced Cook

We are currently looking for an experienced Sous Chef to work in our restaurant.

The successful applicant must have experience in the hospitality industry, common sense, mature, able to think for themselves, great personality, be a team player, qualifications are an advantage but not necessary .

This is a position for 20 - 25 hours a week; Wednesday - Sunday Please apply, with covering letter and C.V, hand delivered to:

MSA Restaurant Or email:

pip@msarestaurant.co.nz Applications close June 4, 2013

Hairdresser Required We are looking to add to our friendly and professional team We require a senior or experienced intermediate hairdresser to work on a flexible part time basis.

Relationship ManageR – ChRistChURCh

Possible future full time by negotiation.

highly CoMpetitive ReMUneRation and Benefits paCkage

about the role: Based in Christchurch this role offers a great opportunity to join New Zealand’s newest Bank as it embarks on an exciting journey of growth and expansion across the country. This is a replacement position taking on an existing portfolio of clients but with a strong focus on attracting new clients to the organisation through the promotion of our products and services.

Psychologists must be eligible for registration under the Psychologist and HPCAA Act 2004.

A current driver’s licence is essential.

To view the job description and to apply, go to our Careers Centre at jobs.minedu.govt.nz

you will be responsible for: • Actively managing a portfolio of clients

Applications close Friday, 31 May 2013.

• Seeking out new business opportunities • Adding value to customers by promoting Heartland’s Products and Services

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Te Tahuhu o te Matauranga

• Actively managing a sales pipeline

to be successful in this role you will have: • Commercial Banking experience

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to thrive in our growing salon.

• The ability to think critically and analytically • Strong attention to detail • A passion for sales and numbers heartland Bank as an employer: Heartland Bank is a financial service provider who are looking to grow the business substantially over the coming years. We offer a full banking proposition across Business, Retail, Consumer and Retail.

If you are interested in becoming part of the Heartland story please submit a covering letter and your CV to Edward Wotherspoon, Recruitment Consultant for Heartland Bank, at edward. wotherspoon@heartland.co.nz

To apply please phone

Anna 03 308 8402

To promote your business in any of the Ashburton Guardian products, call me now

ASHLEIGH FRASER

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

BUsiness | RURal | faMilies

www.minedu.govt.nz

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The Ministry of Education has an Equal Employment Opportunity policy and is a member of the EEO Trust

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JOBS

To advertise here call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Office Administrator Your Office Administrator provides professional services for local businesses choosing to outsource their office administration and bookkeeping requirements. Demand for our services is huge and as a consequence we are requiring another office administrator to share our ever increasing workload.

To fit our culture you will; • Continually strive for quality, with a focus on attention to detail • Have a passion for numbers and be extremely accurate • Show initiative and flexibility with great analytical and problem solving ability • Be positive, cheerful and easily relate to our varied and interesting clients • Have the utmost integrity and respect client confidentiality Ideally your experience will include; • Completion of bank reconciliations; with skill in the accurate coding of transactions • Significant payroll experience • Accounts payable and receivable experience • Knowledge of a variety of desktop and cloud software packages Your salary package will be at the top end of the market; reflecting your exceptional skills and expertise. You will also have the opportunity to grow your skills with on-going development and training. Hours are negotiable part or full time.

To apply, email your application, references and CV to kim@yourofficeadministrator.co.nz by 27th May 2013.

Operations / Yard Supervisor Ashburton

The opportunity has arisen for the position of Operations / Yard Supervisor in our Ashburton Branch. Ashburton is rapidly growing providing nationwide freighting services as well as storage, distribution and local deliveries.

Intensive Mixed Cropping Farmworker

Retail Sales Position We are seeking a full time experienced sales person for our busy Methven Store.

If you are interested in being involved with farming, with a main focus around the dairy industry, then this will be the position you are looking for.

You will be dealing with the farming community on a daily basis, provide advice and selling a wide range of products and services to ATS members, dealing directly with our suppliers, ordering product and being responsible for stock control.

You will also need to be strong & physically fit as some heavy lifting is required Ideally you will have: • A passion for agriculture particularly dairy • Strong customer service & sales background • Desire for personal development and willingness to learn • Intermediate computer skills • Forklift & DG endorsements would be an advantage To join this friendly, enthusiastic and motivated team, please apply.

Email your application together with your CV to: hr.manager@ats.co.nz Applications close Monday 3rd June 2013

Location: Ashburton, Canterbury Type: Full time, Permanent We are seeking a motivated person to work on our irrigated, intensive mixed cropping farm at Barrhill. Approximately 20kms from Rakaia, 16kms from Methven and 36km from Ashburton.

We grow a variety of crops, including process carrots, and also fatten lambs during the winter.

• Are you a motivated self starter who can work independently and be part of a team?

• Do you have good tractor skills, stock experience and show an attention to detail?

• Are you keen to keep learning and upskilling?

If this sounds like a position you would be interested in, please phone Alastair for further information on 03 302 1732.

Applicants for this position should have New Zealand residency or a valid New Zealand work visa.

Graphic Designer

Advertising Department of a daily paid newspaper We have a vacancy for a full-time Graphic Designer to play an integral role in the advertising team for the Ashburton Guardian daily newspaper, three monthly publications and Guardian online website. The successful candidate will not only produce accurate, quality work - they will also understand how to attract attention and create a buying response by our readers. The role also includes the co-ordination, design and layout of editorial and advertising for our monthly publications.

The following skills are necessary: • A formal qualification in Graphic Design

• Excellent verbal and written skills Reporting to the Branch Manager, the Operations / Yard Supervisor will

• The ability to multi-task easily and work well in a team be responsible for directing and managing all Freighting operations in

• Prepared to work to tight deadlines Rakaia Childcare & Preschool Limited order to achieve company objectives. The main purposes of the position ATS_EmployAd_RETAIL SALES METH_MAY13_76x150mm.indd 1 21/5/13 1:52:29 PM

• Always prepared to go the extra mile are: • To organise and ensure the smooth flow of freight, ensuring all documentation is correct.

• To manage and develop freight fleet operational processes to contribute to the growth of the company.

• To promote a high level of customer care and to liaise with customers and sales staff to gain growth.

• Ensure effective control of assets to ensure continued profitability.

• Manage and develop human resources to ensure a high skill base and improved productivity.

The successful applicant will be able to show a proven ability to manage and develop processes, demonstrate success through others, have a high level of organisational skills, excellent time management and most importantly a performance driven attitude.

You will need to be highly focused on achieving results, with strong customer orientation and transport/freight management skills. This role offers you the opportunity to be part of a growing and thriving business with a great team culture.

All applications should be in writing addressed for the attention of: Guy Gibson, TNL Freighting, PO Box 5029. Tinwald, Ashburton or email guy.gibson@tnl-group.co.nz.

Closing date: Friday, May 31, 2013.

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

www.ats.co.nz

Early Childhood Teachers - Look no Further ...

We offer an awesome opportunity to work in a semi-rural Canterbury preschool.

* Many benefits available * Great Team Philosophy * Low ratios, licensed for 25 children (8 weeks to school age entry) * Supported by Management and Administration * Encouraged and supported in professional development * Support teacher available for registration Induction & Mentoring Programme * Hours - Negotiable - Part to Full Time * Location - 35 minutes south of Christchurch, 20 minutes north of Ashburton * This position is predominantly in the ‘Over 2’s’ though some support/cover in the infants area will be required.

Applications close May 27, 2013, June 2013 start If you meet the above criteria, have the energy and enthusiasm to complement our professional team, please send your resume, with examples of recent work detailing your skills and experience, to:Desme Daniels, Advertising Manager PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740 or email desme.d@theguardian.co.nz

Full Time Picker / Packer

Teachers applying for this position need to be NZ provisionally registered as a minimum, and seriously passionate about their role in nurturing young children.

There is an opportunity for the successful applicant to be offered the additional role of Curriculum Leader which involves role modelling, monitoring and supporting our teaching teams to plan, co-ordinate and facilitate quality curriculum on a day-to-day and strategic basis.

We are seeking a physically fit, strong and reliable person to fill a position picking and packing orders.

If this is you, call now: Phone – Sonia Sturley - Centre Manager (03) 3027-543 Alternatively, you can email your curriculum vitae to sonia@bluegoosepreschool.co.nz

We require you to have excellent work ethics, good maths & written skills, and a desire to work in a team environment! To be considered for this position you will need to be able to communicate clearly and have New Zealand residency or a valid New Zealand work visa.

Let us solve your people puzzle

You will be required to pick and pack orders on a daily basis, assist with the processing of incoming shipments, package/assemble and label products as required along with general warehouse duties.

We are looking for someone who is a self starter and enjoys challenging themselves.

We offer a stable and interesting work environment plus long term career prospects for quality staff.

Workers Wanted Aztan NZ Limited July to October 1. Experienced knife hands, for processing lamb and calf.

2. Persons for rendering plant, experience preferred.

Contact Clive on 021 288 9316

If this sounds like you, please email your CV, including reference to alasdair@cm.net.nz or post to

Picker/Packer Position CM Trailer Parts PO Box 124 ASHBURTON 7740

Cleaning staff required.

Monday-Friday 3pm - 11pm approximately.

Possible weekends.

Advertise your vacancies with the Guardian today

Want to sell your car?

Call the Guardian on 307 7900 to see how

Must be enthusiastic, honest, reliable and have own transport.

Full training would be given to suitable applicants.

Phone 308 3987 Text 027 568 4392

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

Classifieds

JOBS

To advertise here call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Lifestyle Motorhomes Ltd have been innovative builders of quality motorhomes, bus conversions and custom built trailers for 12 years; we also repair and refurbish motorhomes, campers, caravans, fifth wheelers and trailers. We pride ourselves on offering a personalised service to our customers while using the latest technology. Our dedicated team of nine staff have a real passion and enthusiasm for producing a quality product that our customers are proud to own. Our workmanship is second to none therefore our services are sort after throughout New Zealand. Our customers benefit from our ability to offer in-house engineering, fabrication, electrical, joinery, trimming and upholstery from our modern facility in Ashburton.

Due to an increase in demand for our services we are looking for a person to join our team in our engineering workshop.

We are looking for a person that: • Is experienced or has a flair for fabrication • Has attention to detail “do it once do it right” attitude • Has good communicate skills • Understands the importance of exceeding customer expectations • Likes to work in a team environment • Has a good work ethic • Is honest and punctual It is an advantage but not essential to have: • Coach building and engineering experience The successful applicant will be offered a competitive package reflective of what you bring to the position. Lifestyle Motorhomes offers a friendly team environment, well equipped custom built workshops and the opportunity to grow with the business. On the job training will be offered where possible.

If you wish to discuss the position further please contact:

Bruce McPherson Phone 027 4384 250 Or send your letter of application and CV to:

bruce@bmcpherson.co.nz Or mail to:

Bruce McPherson PO Box 579, Ashburton 7740

build.refurb.repair

Concrete Placer / Concrete Worker Experience an advantage, but not essential as full training will be given to the successful applicant.

We do a variety of concrete jobs around the Canterbury area.

Applicants should possess: * Must be a team player * Hold a current drivers licence * Be reliable * Don’t mind early starts

Contact Graham Rotch P O Box 592 Ashburton 7740 Phone 027 433 9969 Email: rotchy@xtra.co.nz

To promote your business in any of the Ashburton Guardian products, call me now

EMMA JAILLET-GODIN

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

MOB TEL FAX EML ADR WEB

021 662 884 03 307 7976 03 307 7981

emma.j@theguardian.co.nz Level 3, 161 Burnett Street Ashburton www.guardianonline.co.nz

PLANTS & PRODUCE

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

DAILY DIARY SATURDAY MAY 25 9.30am - 12.30pm. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open today. Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am - 12noon. ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm. MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords Road, near the sale yards.

N.Z Tomatoes

2pack Pepper $1.99pack Seedless Grapes $3.99punnet Braeburn Apples 1.5kg $1.99bag Leeks 2 for $2 Also now available Baker Boys products, family pies $4.99ea, cake slices $3.99ea Specials available from 21-05/28-05

OPEN 7 DAYS

SUNDAY MAY 26 8.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHRUCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am. HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass.

Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.00am. ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street.

9.30am. RAKAIA PRESBYTERIAN PARISH. Cafe Church, a big welcome to everyone by the two big trees at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Main Road, Rakaia.

9.30am. ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Frank Tasker, 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton.

9.30am. METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square East church lounge.

10.00am. ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aircraft flying, weather permitting. Lovett’s Road, Off Maronan Road.

10.00am. HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH, Mass.

Sealy Street.

10.00am. ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. All age worship, Park Street.

10.00am. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. service with Rev David Brown. cnr Havelock and Park streets.

10.00am. ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street.

10.30am. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. now at 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am. RAKAIA ANGLICAN PARISH. Service with Rev Katrina Hill. St James Anglican Church, Chertsey.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic Aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm. SAVAGE CLUB. Waimate Korero, members and friends welcome. Savage Club Hall, Cox Street.

7.00pm. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. now at 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service in the Sinclair Centre with Rev David Brown. Park Street.

MONDAY MAY 27 9.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton.

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

9.30am - 10.30am. AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Ladies exercise classes start today. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.45am. THE PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting. Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

10.00am. CARDIAC COMPANIONS. Fortnightly meeting, social exercises and speaker. Buffalo Lodge Hall, Cox Street.

10.00am. ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF ASSOCIATION. Tucker Shield. Stableford in grades. $10 tournament. Methven Golf Course.

10.30am - 11.30am. AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Men’s exercise classes start today. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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

1.15pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting, all welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

2.00pm. GREY POWER. AGM and guest speaker Jim Burgess. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

6.00pm. ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Pot luck tea, speaker Ray Thompson, Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

6.00pm. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm. ASHBURTON SOCIETY OF ARTS. Social meeting, Wayne Edgerton oils demonstration. Short Street Studio.

7.30pm. ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Monthly meeting, Rovers Den, Mania-o-roto Scout Park, Chalmers Ave. 7.30pm. CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre in the Parish centre, Cnr Burnett and Winter Streets.

7.30pm. TINWALD INDOOR BOWLING CLUB. Bowlers welcome. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

$2.99kg

The Green Grocer Fresh Fruit & Vege

WANTED

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

TRADES & SERVICES

$ CASH PAID $ $ $ $ FOR SCRAP $

Looking for a builder with a little more experience?

BUYERS OF ALL METALS

4 Housing 4 Commercial 4 Farm

Copper, Brass, Aluminium etc.

Mid-Canterbury Metal Recycling

Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote.

Licensed Buyer Dealer

10A McGregor Lane, Riverside Estate (Off McNally Street)

TF-SCRAP

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Phone 308-8959 or 027-228-1467 anytime

Phone 03 308 9936 or 0274 323 258

WANTED SHEEP YARDS (steel) wanted. Can dismantle if required. Phone Steve 027 321 6060.

Let us solve your people puzzle

WANTED Rabbit cage with run. Phone 03 302 6191.

WANTED - used Ford, Belarus and Massey Ferguson tractors in any condition.

Freephone 0800-888-343.

Advertise your vacancies with the Guardian today

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Birthday Greetings Cake Tin Hire

GUARDIAN CLASSIFIEDS

20 novelty shapes

$15 for 7 days

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

ASHBURTON Hastings McLeod Ltd Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

217 West Street ASHBURTON ashburton@propertybrokers.co.nz Telephone 03 307 9176

QUALITY STYLE & LOCATION

OPEN FARM: 334 Moorhouse Road, Mayfield, Ashburton

DEADLINE SALE WEB ID AL30347

ASHBURTON 207 Smithfield Road • 1.3 ha within minutes of town centre.

• Extensive four bedroom character modern homestead.

• Spacious living area plus separate lounge.

• Spa bath in ensuite.

• HRV system, heat pump and diesel burner • Attached three car garaging • Large modern eight car workshop and garage.

• Two bay open shed • All set in spacious, mature, peaceful setting.

• Live the life.

Offers close 24th May @ 4pm.

VIEW Saturday 4 May 10.30 - 11.15am Rodger Letham 0274 333 436 03 308 8209 rodger@propertybrokers.co.nz Chris Murdoch 0274 342 545 03 307 9191 chris@propertybrokers.co.nz Paul Cunneen 0274 323 382 03 307 9190 paulc@propertybrokers.co.nz

NEW LISTING

www.propertybrokers.co.nz

ASHBURTON

Hastings McLeod Ltd Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008

217 West Street ASHBURTON ashburton@propertybrokers.co.nz Telephone 03 307 9176

QUALITY STYLE & LOCATION

DEADLINE SALE WEB ID AL30347 ASHBURTON 207 Smithfield Road • 1.3 ha within minutes of town centre.

• Extensive four bedroom character modern homestead.

• Spacious living area plus separate lounge.

• Spa bath in ensuite.

• HRV system, heat pump and diesel burner • Attached three car garaging • Large modern eight car workshop and garage.

• Two bay open shed • All set in spacious, mature, peaceful setting.

• Live the life.

Open Farm – Tuesday, May 28, 11.30 – 1.30pm

Web ID AR30728

DAIRY SUPPORT/CONVERSION/FATTENING

238ha approx - This well run unit has all the makings of a top quality dairy support or conversion property. Currently has approximately 62ha under centre pivot irrigation with a possibility of further water to irrigate the reminder of the farm. Excellent farm improvements including Offers close 24th May @ 4pm.

VIEW Presently Saturday 4 May 10.30 - 11.15am good set of cattle yards, silos, implement and hay sheds. Great all weather lane system and good subdivision. run as a dairy support property growing kale and winter feed for dairy cows and also grows sire bulls for dairy farms. The permanent material homestead Rodger Letham 0274 333 436 with modernised kitchen, living areas and bathroom is set in a mature setting with in ground pool and BBQ area a great family home in 03 308 8209 rodger@propertybrokers.co.nz Chris Murdoch excellent condition.

0274 342 545

Deadline Sale closing Friday, June 21, 2013 NEW LISTING Contact: Chris Murdoch 0274 342 545

www.propertybrokers.co.nz

WANTED TO BUY

House with a few acres Within 15-20 mins Mayfield Phone 027 259 7773

Guardian Classifieds phone 307 7900

Gareth Cox 021 250 9714

Paul Cunneen 0274 323 382

PLUMBER / DRAINLAYER Log fire installations, bathroom and kitchen renovations, plumbing repairs, hot water cylinder replacements. Peter Young reg. Plumber and Drainlayer phone 03 307 7582 or 027 280 0889.

Rodger Letham 0274 333 436

Classifieds TRADES & SERVICES

TRADES & SERVICES HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc.

Ph 027-677-1952.

03 307 9191 chris@propertybrokers.co.nz Paul Cunneen 0274 323 382 03 307 9190 paulc@propertybrokers.co.nz

It sure pays to use the best electrician in town....

ElectraServe, for everything electrical . . .

Heat Pump checks

great people great service

Have your filters cleaned + receive a 14 point maintenance check.

URBAN

79 $89

$

Dairy Farm Commercial Industrial Residential Irrigation Home Appliance Repairs Heating Satellie-TV-Audio Home automation

+GST ROOFING - for all your roofing requirements, new TRADES & SERVICES RURAL roofs, reroofing, commercial, insurance claims, repairs. +GST Licensed building CLEANING – carpet practitioner, Wiki, Vision washing and shampooing, Roofing, phone 027-476Phone 308 9008 to have a professional at your doorstep to tend to all your windows, floor stripping and 0203. polishing.

Cleaning of electrical requirements. See us for your Heatpump sales, service and installation. residential, commercial and school properties. Contact a 166 moore street ashburton p 03 308 9008 e service@electraserve.co.nz w www.electraserve.co.nz RURAL TRADING POST Tinwald Commercial Services on 03 975 8783 or 021 136 2196. Locally owned RURAL TRADING POST MOTORING and operated.

BARLEY/WHEAT/STRAW, SITUATIONS WANTED FOR: Welding – Mig, Arc, square bales, 4x3x7, 2012 Good quality, WHEEL alignments at great Mild steel fabrication. harvest. prices. Maximise the life Sandblasting. Competitive covered, Offers - must sell.

26 YEAR old male looking of your tyres with an Rates – Quality assured. Baleage also, only suitable HAY for sale, Small BLS, for part time employment. alignment from Neumanns Phone Kurt at Action for cattle or dry stock. Shed Stored Taites Road, Anything considered.

Phone Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Sandblasting Ltd. 027-332- Ashburton ph 027-476-6871 Ashburton. 03 308 0137.

Charles on 027 756 7427. or 303-7476.

Street. Phone 308-6737.

4549 or 308-4226

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

MOTORING NISSAN Pulsar 1999, one owner from new, 160,000kms, reg and W.O.F. Reliable and very tidy. $5,000 ono. Phone 308-4750.

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

Classifieds

Clearing Sale J.T & J. Barker

Friday, May 31 1.00pm 400 Dromore Methven Road

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday

Notice to Ratepayers

Entries Are Invited For The 47th Annual Implement Sale Thursday, June 13, 2013

Heart to God And Hand to Man Celebration Service and Children’s Programme

Only one enrolment can be made for any council district no matter how many properties are owned within that council district. No person may be enrolled more than once for any council district.

EXISTING RATEPAYER ELECTORS New electoral rolls are compiled every three years for the local authority elections. If you are enrolled as a ratepayer elector, or were nominated as a ratepayer elector, for the 2010 local authority elections, or at any time since that election, you should have already received an enrolment confirmation form or other advice on your ratepayer elector status. If you have not received this form or advice, or have lost it, please contact the local council to which you pay rates, or phone toll free 0508 12 10 13.

NEW RATEPAYER ELECTORS If you think you may be eligible to enrol or to make a nomination as a ratepayer elector, then you need to obtain an Enrolment Form for Ratepayer Electors from the local council where you pay your rates. Make sure you do this early to allow time for any questions to |be dealt with before the ratepayer electoral roll closes on Friday, 23 August 2013*. The Electoral Officer will be able to help you with your application.

RESIDENTIAL ELECTORS If you are registered as a Parliamentary elector, you will automatically be enrolled as a residential elector of the appropriate council district and as the case may be, community board or local board for the address in respect of which you are registered as a Parliamentary elector.

This public notice is issued pursuant to Section 39(1)(a), Local Electoral Act 2001 on behalf of all local authority Electoral Officers. * Under current legislation the Ratepayer Roll closes on 23 August but an amendment to electoral legislation - currently before Parliament and expected to be enacted soon - would change this date to 16 August.

For more information phone toll free

0508 12 10 13

To be held at the Tinwald Saleyards, Main South Road, Tinwald.

10.30am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome

Entries of tractors, surplus implements, machinery, motor vehicles, plus general farm equipment are now being accepted.

10.00am You’re very welcome!

Cnr Cass & Cameron St 308 7610 - 308 7062

In the case of partners, joint tenants and tenants in common, who collectively pay rates on a property in a council district, one of the group may be nominated to be entered on the ratepayer elector roll. Again, that person and the nominator must be registered as Parliamentary electors at addresses outside the council district within which the property is situated.

Eligibility to enrol or be nominated may depend on individual circumstances.

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting

Enquiries Phone 308-8699

10am Morning Service

131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School Hall) Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm

We hope to see you this Sunday!

Speaker: Pastor David Jensen LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church) Creche Available Refreshments to follow.

6.00pm House of Prayer YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VERY WELCOME

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

LIVESTOCK & PETS MEETINGS & EVENTS ALLENTON BOWLING CLUB Annual Meeting Monday, May 27, 2013 7.30pm All welcome Bridge Action Group

AGM Tuesday, June 4, 2013 7.30pm

BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272-101-621 A/H 03-3227626.

CALF SHED BEDDING Premium woodmulch chipped from our slabwood.

Guaranteed 100% untreated wood/bark NO CONTAMINATION OR DEMOLITION MATERIALS. Sawdust also available - Adams Sawmill, Malcolm McDowell Road. Ph 308 3595.

T.F.S. + R Rooms Maronan Road Tinwald Methven United Club Special General Meeting Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 7pm Methven United Clubrooms Business: to revise and update the current constitution.

Entry forms are available from PGG Wrightson, 30/46 Tancred Street, Ashburton Entries close on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

PGG Wrightson Auctioneers Ashburton

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts, Phone 308 5409 Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

HORSE truck, ¾’s finished.

Suitable 2 large hacks $6000 ono. Phone 027 259 7773.

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION AKAROA - Spacious holiday home with great views.

Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, heatpump, flat section with boat parking.

Close to shops. Phone 302 8028.

GARAGE SALES GARAGE Sale. Saturday, May 25. 8.00am start. 61 Wills Street.

Furniture, kitchen ware, clothes, toys, books, records, china. Big clear out - grab a baragain.

FOR SALE

HIRE BLACK tubular bunks with mattresses. $250. Large trampoline $100 ono. Ph FUNCTION/party equipment 308-7700. available for hire. Marquees, tables, chairs, glasses, cutlery, FIREWOOD - bone dry cooking equipment, heaters bluegum, ready to burn, and more.

See U-Hire $250 per 3.6m3, split and Ashburton. 588 East Street. delivered. Ph Tim Boyd 303Open Mon-Fri 7.30am- 6280.

5.30pm; Sat 7.30am-5pm; Sunday 8am- 12.30pm. Ph FIREWOOD dry macrocarpa 308-8061 A/H: 308-7460 and blue gum $250, dry www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz poplar $140, green blue gum $160. All 3.6 m3. Phone Shane James firewood 03 GRAZING 303 7063.

FIREWOOD - dry old man pine. Four and six metre FLOAT hire - single, double loads. Phone Ron Harris. and tandem. Reasonable 0274-652-122. rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & Feed. Phone 308-3422 any- FISHER & Paykel fridge freezer, 64cm wide, 67cm time. deep, 107cm high, five years old. $500 ono. Ph 308-8258.

GRAZING wanted for DECKING approx. 100 ewes for 8 KWILA weeks. Ashburton area. Ph Available in 90x19 and 140x19 with large choice of 027 602 1169. lengths available. Stocking all your timber requirements GRAZING wanted short or for under your deck as well long term, for heifer calves, Adams Sawmill, Malcolm bull calves, yearling heifers McDowell Road, Ph 308 3595 or winter dairy cows. - Eftpos/credit card.

Contact: John 027 227 6075.

OFFICE Furniture for sale as we are moving. Filling WANTED - Grazing suitable Cabinets, Tables, Room difor lambs. Numbers up to vider etc. Come in to Everist 300. Please phone 03 308 Gilchrist Lawyers, 246 1350.

Havelock St, 9-5pm weekdays to view. Or call 03 307 7441.

¾ Allens Road - $300, 3 bedrooms, cosy home with renovated kitchen and logburner, single garage, roomy back yard. ¾ Walker Street - $380, 3 bedrooms, warm home, 2 living areas, logburner, single garage and storage shed.

Property Brokers Website www.propertybrokers.co.nz Please see our TradeMe listings Property Brokers Hastings McLeod Limited Licensed Under the REAA 2008

FOR SALE

landscape supplies

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL HAMPSTEAD, 3 bedroom house, completely re-fitted, 2 toilets, $320pw. Vince Carr 03 307 8714 or 0274 34 6634.

PGG Wrightson Real Estate Ltd, REAA 2008.

PROPERTY INVESTORS Distance yourself from tenant and management problems.

Have your property managed independently, professionally and cost effectively. Property management is our sole focus 24/7. Call B&N Properties Ltd now, phone 021-1604565. www.bnproperties.co.nz TO LET 1 bedroom portacom 7mins south of town. $250 per week, power included.

Phone 03 614 7093 or 027 208 7536 (text or phone).

WANTED boarders $150 p/w Must be working. Tinwald area. Ph 027 510 1061.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

ASIAN new lady. Slim, long hair, sexy body. Busty 38DD. Friendly. Good service for SCOOTER’S - new and you. Phone 021 031 6179. secondhand three and four Only one week. wheel electric scooters and GARAGE SALE: Aitken wheel chairs. Call Fred at Electric ATTRACTIVE and busty. No Street, household items, Reddecliffe outdoor furniture, etc. Mobility Ashburton today. texting. Everyday. No W’s.

Phone Zoe 021-023-39-259.

Phone 308-3602.

Saturday 9.00am.

GARAGE SALES

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village..

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

Rentals

CONTACT: Donna Brown 027 778 8952 and 307 9195

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Important note: In this public notice the term ‘council district’ includes a city, district and regional council area and where established, a community board area. The term also includes the area of the Auckland Council and the local boards.

A firm, company, trust, corporation or society which pays rates on a property in a council district may nominate one of its members or officers as a ratepayer elector, provided that the nominator and the nominated person are both registered as Parliamentary electors at addresses which are outside the council district within which the property is situated.

Phone 302 4788

All Welcome

Local authority elections will be held on Saturday, 12 October this year. To receive your postal voting document you should ensure you are on the Electoral Roll that will close on 23 August 2013*.

You may become a non-resident ratepayer elector for a council district if you are a ratepayer for that area and the address in respect of which you are registered as a Parliamentary elector is outside that area.

Main items CRT, Saturday Press Lots of items and materials suitable for hobby and lifestyle/interests.

Take the step in faith.

Come and hear good news.

LOCAL AUTHORITY ELECTIONS 2013

RATEPAYER ELECTORS If you are a residential elector in a council district where you live, but pay rates on a property in another district, you may be eligible to enrol as a non-resident ratepayer elector in that other council district.

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, May 25, 2013

Weekend Services

Medical ServiceS

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, Ashburton Saturday open from: 9.30am - 12 noon.

Sunday open from: 10am - 12 noon.

Evenings: 6pm - 7pm Sat and Sun.

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your community Services card.

Emergency phone until 8am Monday - 0800 700 155.

Allenton Medical Centre, The Mall, Harrison Street, Ashburton will be the duty clinic for Saturday and Sunday until 8am Monday.

Surgery times 10am-12 noon and 6pm-7pm.

Surgery phone: 03 308 9139 no appointment necessary.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Helpline ServiceS

PHARMACIES

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Baring Square East, Ashburton. Ph 308 3167 Saturday-Sunday 1.00pm - 4.00pm Closed Statutory Holidays.

Group Bookings by arrangement

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

COMMUNITY POOL

WEEKEND HOURS: Hours: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

MENTAL HEALTH -

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

aSHBUrTon HoSPiTal general WardS - (Medical and Surgical): DAILY, 2.00pm - 4.00pm and 6.00pm - 7.30pm Children must be accompanied by an adult. cHalmerS Ward (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. maTerniTy Ward DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

TUarangi Home (Cameron St) - DAILY, -unrestricted visiting.

Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr rape and Sexual assault crisis Support.

Ph: 03 364 8791

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

aSHBUrTon mail cenTre FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm PoST deliVery cenTreS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP - 24 hr- Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Freephone 0800 VicTim (0800 842 846) Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Direct dials to a volunteer.

Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ashburton office - 307 8409 week-days, Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a aSHBUrTon’S STreeT receiVerS message.

Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Call us free on (0800 787 797).

INFORMATION CENTRES Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days. aSHBUrTon - Sat 10am until 2pm.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES: Sun CLOSED. coldSTream HoUSe — DAILY, unrestricted LIFELINE Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. visiting.

Phone 308-1050. cameron coUrTS — DAILY, unrestricted oMMunity erviceS meTHVen - Saturday and Sunday 10am until visiting.

3pm.

ART GALLERY PrinceS coUrT — DAILY, unrestricted Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org Phone 308 1133. Baring Square East, visiting.

Ashburton.

BUS DEPARTURES EMERGENCY DENTIST Sat & Sun: 10.00am - 4.00pm Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service.

If you do not have or cannot contact your Closed Public Holidays.

Freephone for reservations: regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 0800 802 802.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY for the name of the rostered weekend dentist BUSeS - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Saturday: 10:00am-1:00pm Sundays and Public Holidays.

Sunday 1:00pm -4:00pm

For weekend doctor and emergency details please phone Methven 302 8105. For medical attention during the weekend there are drop in clinics from 11am - 12noon and 5pm - 6pm Saturday and Sunday.

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Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners

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MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER

Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS care VeTS - Ph 03 308 2327, 246 Tancred Street, Saturday clinic: 10am - 2pm.

Emergencies: Refer to Vet Ent Riverside VeTliFe aSHBUrTon - Phone 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am-12 noon. Emergencies: Lge: Mike Johnson. Sml: Reon McMurtrie VeT enT riVerSide - Phone 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton.

Emergencies: Lge: Amanda Kilby. Sml: Juan Gray. 24-hour emergency service canTerBUry VeTS - Ph 03 307 0686, 363 West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am-12 noon.

Emergencies: Steve Williams. aSHBUrTon VeTS - Ph 027 683 8000, 149 Cameron Street Ashburton: The duty vet for emergencies this weekend is: Ben Hallenstein.

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Map for Saturday

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Wind km/h less than 30 Waimate

30 to 59 60 plus

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing 6

9 noon 3

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9 pm am 3

6

9 noon 3

morning min

6

9 pm am 3

6

rain rain fine fine showers fine fine showers fine fine fine fine cloudy

Monday

OVERNIGHT MIN

6

MAX

17

OVERNIGHT MIN

4

MAX

11

OVERNIGHT MIN

2

MAX

8

OVERNIGHT MIN

3

9 noon 3

6

9 pm

1

8 4 2 3 6 6 4 7 0 1 1 4 5

18 17 18 16 15 16 16 14 15 14 12 15 14

NZ Situation

A low moves quickly southeast over the North Island early tomorrow, followed by a strong disturbed westerly flow. This is expected to turn colder southerly over the South Island on Monday and North Island on Tuesday, before easing on Wednesday.

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9:24

3:43

9:59

4:06

10:17

4:37

10:53

5:01

11:13

5:33 11:48

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 7:51 am Set 5:08 pm Bad

Bad fishing

Rise 7:52 am Set 5:07 pm Bad

Bad fishing

Bad

Bad fishing

Set 8:33 am Rise 6:14 pm

Set 9:35 am Rise 7:21 pm

Full moon

Last quarter

New moon

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Temperatures °C

Rise 7:53 am Set 5:07 pm

Set 7:24 am Rise 5:14 pm

25 May 4:27 pm

Canterbury Readings to 4pm yesterday

9 Jun

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa

3:58 am

Ashburton Airport Average

Timaru Airport Average

Wind km/h

max

min grass 16 hour May 2013 min to date to date

10.7

2.9 -0.4

0.0

99.4 328.4 NW 20

4.3

1.4

0.2

68.0 204.6

W 19

10.6 -1.5

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38.6 193.2

E 17

14.4

Christchurch Airport 12.0 Average

Rainfall mm

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14.3 13.9

3.6 3.7 2.6

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1.1

48

268

40

232

26

194

max gust

FZL: Lowering to 1200m

Rain near the divide with snow lowering to 1000 metres, clearing in the evening. High cloud further east.

Wind at 1000m: NW gale gusting 100 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: Severe W gale 80 km/h.

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Mainly fine. Light winds at lower levels, strong southwesterlies about higher ground.

A few, mainly coastal showers with cold southwesterlies.

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Becoming fine. Southwesterlies dying away.

Fine. Southwesterlies about high ground and light winds at low levels.

Mainly fine. Light winds at lower levels, southwesterlies about higher ground.

World Weather Forecast for today

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 3:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 3:15 pm, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday Source: Environment Canterbury

3:14

TOMORROW

Mainly fine with northwesterlies, then a change in the evening to cold southwesterlies, bringing a few showers.

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River Levels

2

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FZL: 2000m

Fine with morning frosts, but cloud increasMainly fine with morning frosts. High cloud ing and scattered rain developing about the increasing in the afternoon with northwest- Divide in the afternoon. Snow down to 1700 erlies, strong in exposed places. metres.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to 40 km/h, gusting 60 km/h in exposed valleys, in the TOMORROW morning.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to gale 70 km/h Fine, apart from high cloud. Northwesterlies, in the afternoon. strong for a time.

MONDAY

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Midnight Tonight

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MONDAY: Fine northwest, then evening southwest showers.

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Canterbury Plains

TODAY: Fine with morning frosts, then high cloud. Northwest.

TOMORROW: Variable high cloud. Northwest, strong for time.

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METHVEN

Ashburton Forecast

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

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

10 4 26 9 14 17 23 28 -2 25 19 27 7 4 3

18 15 33 14 23 26 35 35 18 31 29 36 15 16 14

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

Compiled by © Copyright Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited 2013

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

4 10 25 23 28 25 6 25 7 14 8 10 16 22 32

10 16 29 27 43 33 23 34 17 19 21 17 26 31 44

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

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

9 6 8 20 11 10 17 25 7 13 23 21 17 9 3

14 14 23 28 18 17 29 32 16 21 28 31 24 20 11

For the very latest weather information, including Weather Warnings, visit metservice.com

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Gas Heater

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AA Batteries

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