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Hepatitis A is a spreading concern throughout Canterbury this week, after three confirmed cases at Lincoln.

Staff, pupils and their families were vaccinated against Hepatitis A at the Lincoln University Early Childhood Centre on Friday, after a child from the preschool was diagnosed with the virus.

Both parents of the child were diagnosed with Hepatitis A, and have no known connection with the cases in Ashburton.

Twenty-two cases of Hepatitis A have been confirmed in Mid Canterbury this year, with the latest three cases identified just over a week ago.

More than 500 Mid Canterbury preschoolers, early childhood staff and food handlers have been vaccinated against Hepatitis A since the beginning of the outbreak in May this year.

Many of those cases were young children, with those affected ranging in age from 14 months to 53.

Second crash in two weeks Police were called to a vehicle crash on State Highway 1 at the Works Road intersection at 7pm on Saturday, the second crash at the site in less than two weeks.

No other vehicles were involved, and police suspect the driver fell asleep at

the wheel and drifted off the road.

The condition of the driver is unknown.

Ashburton Fire Brigade were called to two false alarms on Saturday, the first in Fairton at 6.30pm, and the second at 9pm in Allenton.

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■ Early symptoms of Hepatitis A can be mistaken for the flu, while some people, especially children, may have no symptoms at all.

Canterbury medical officer of health Alistair Humphrey said vaccinating all children under five in the district would cost about $200,000, but if that was what was required to stop the outbreak he would ensure this happened.

“We haven’t reached this point yet but we have the assurance from the DHB that they’d fund this if we needed to do it.”

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A woman has turned up alive nearly two weeks after her family held a funeral and burial for her. Services for 50-year-old Sharolyn Jackson were held on August 3 in New Jersey. Jackson’s mother, Carrie Minney, says the woman in the casket looked just like her daughter, except for the nose. She says the family assumed something had happened to the nose during the embalming process. After Jackson showed up at Pennsylvania Hospital last week, police confirmed her identity through fingerprints. Her son went to the hospital and immediately recognised her.

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A suspected live grenade turned out to be just a shell, bomb experts called to a Wellington backyard yesterday found.

Police and New Zealand Defence Force bomb experts were called about 1.30pm yesterday to examine what was thought to be a grenade in a Mount Cook backyard. But the object turned out to be an empty shell. It was likely World War Two era, which looked like a fist-sized pineapple, police said.

The shell was uncovered when the property owner was digging in the garden.

An American couple’s wedding went an extra round when boxing great Mike Tyson (right) just happened to stumble upon the wedding party posing for pictures. The boxer was crossing the lawn of a casino resort in Verona, New York, as Greg and Amber Keller snapped photos. Greg Keller said Tyson posed for photographs, congratulated the happy bride and groom on their union and was “extremely nice”.Tyson was in Verona for his first promotional fight card featuring boxers from his newly created Iron Mike Productions.

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Home fit for a prince Three rare albino hedgehog babies, born on the same day as Britain’s new prince, have moved into a miniature castle at a Moscow petting zoo. George, Alexander and Louis are named after the Prince of Cambridge. The one-month-old hedgehogs have moved into their new home at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre. It’s a wooden castle with carefully carved windows, dark velvet curtains and a plush bed.

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At least one million cockroaches have escaped a farm in China where they were being bred for use in traditional medicine, a report said. The cockroaches fled the facility in Dafeng, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, for cornfields after an “unknown perpetrator” destroyed the plastic greenhouse where they were raised. Disease control authorities have sent five investigators to the area to come up with a plan to stamp out the insects. By the time the greenhouse was damaged, more than 1.5 million cockroaches had hatched.

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Paralympic athletes from across the world descended on Mount Hutt yesterday to test the slopes before the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup kicks off today.

The IPC World Cup speed events are the first ever to be hosted in New Zealand, and Paralympic athletes from 10 different countries will be based in Mid Canterbury during the two days of competition.

The super giant slalom and super combined race events

will be held at Mt Hutt today and tomorrow, with standing, sitting and visually impaired categories.

Mt Hutt skifield operations manager James Urquhart had a busy day yesterday, as the athletes hit the slopes in force to prepare for the competition.

“We’ve got 54 athletes here, plus their teams with their trainers and physios, so it’s a massive set up. We’ve got all the teams up here at the moment, so we’re seeing all the big names coming and going today.”

The events provide a prime opportunity for New Zealand athletes to qualify for the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, and he said that the unique slopes at Mt Hutt were partly responsible for bringing the events to New Zealand.

“We’re the only place in the country that has a long and fast enough terrain for these guys. We’ve got the long vertical slopes, and they can now race from the bottom to the top without having to cross the tbar line.”

He said that hosting the

events also provided an opportunity to discuss training in Methven with some of the athletes.

“We’ve got the opposite season to everyone else, of course, which makes it an ideal international training ground.”

Spectators are welcome at the events today and tomorrow, with racing starting at 9.30am.

A prizegiving will be held at 5pm today outside the Methven Heritage Centre, where a display on the IPC and athletes completing at the events will be up over the competition.

Bike park saved Bike Methven’s Robert Todhunter competes in a downhill series at the Mt Hutt Bike Park last year. Downhill and cross country tracks at the park have been saved thanks to a purchase by Methven area farmers.

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A group of Methven area farmers have saved the Mt Hutt Bike Park, by purchasing land formerly owned by the University of Canterbury Students’ Association.

Bike Methven has traditionally leased the park land from the association, where they have constructed a system of trails and have hosted national races.

But the riders were threatened with losing all their hard work when the land came up for sale

earlier this year.

That was when a group of Methven farmers came to the rescue. Philip Wareing, Russell Currie, Ben Todhunter and Graham Robertson bought the land for an undisclosed sum.

Mr Wareing said yesterday the first priority for the new owners would be to log 30 hectares of pines and oregons.

Then it would set about providing covenance for the bike tracks, to ensure whatever happened to the land in the future, the bike tracks would remain.

“We are all Methven people, we can see the good work the cycle people have done up there.

It was an opportunity to purchase it to put the covenance on it so the tracks are set in concrete, and we can look at other options after the tracks have been protected.”

Mr Wareing was interested in hearing from anyone who might have a suggested purpose for a former student association 30-bed accommodation house, the only building on the land.

There were no plans for fur-

ther development, other than re-planting the forestry trees.

Bike Methven member Alistair Gilchrist said the student association needed to sell some of its assets after the Christchurch February 2011 earthquake.

The 242-hectare block was offered to Bike Methven in the first instance, however the group was not in a financial position to buy it.

It was fantastic to have the trails preserved for riders and future generations.

By anna LeaSk and HeatHer Mccracken There is evidence a firearm was used at a house where a man and a woman were found dead in south Auckland, police say.

The bodies were discovered yesterday morning by two girls, one of whom was the daughter of the dead man, police said.

Detective Inspector Dave Lynch told media at a press conference yesterday the man and woman were found dead in a bedroom at the semi-rural Papakura property at 11.20am yesterday by the man’s daughter.

He said she didn’t notice anything amiss on Saturday night and discovered the bodies when her father had not risen by 11.20am.

Police said they had identified the man but not the dead woman. The 51-year-old man was a tenant at the Ponga Road property, and the owners are overseas.

Mr Lynch said there were indications of violence, but would not say if there were signs of intrusion.

The last known contact the man had with anyone was Friday night.

Later yesterday police said ESR staff and a pathologist had been to the scene and there was evidence that a firearm was used at the scene.

“At this stage police are still unable to fully establish what has happened, and are keeping an open mind as to whether a third person or persons are involved,” police said.

David Todd, who lives nearby on Coal Mine Rd, said police and armed offenders squad members were seen in the area yesterday morning, and people leaving the area were being questioned by police.

He said he didn’t know the residents at the address under investigation.

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Historic dress sale will raise money for gay youth By edward rooney A slice of gay New Zealand history goes up for auction this morning.

The dress worn in New Zealand’s first same-sex marriage is being offered for sale, and the proceeds will go to Rainbow Youth, a support group for ado-

lescent gays.

Tash Vitali told the Herald on Sunday the couple agreed on the day of the wedding that the Sera Lily dress worn by Melissa Ray

should go to a good cause.

Vitali, 37, and Ray, 29, chose the material and matched it to a Sera Lily design as part of a ZM radio prize package for the wed-

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Tracking Chch businesses A study is under way into what happened to hundreds of Christchurch inner city businesses after the devastating earthquakes.

The University of Canterbury project is tracking individual businesses to find out if they’ve relocated, downsized, or ceased to trade.

Preliminary analysis shows that 15 per cent of businesses have not relocated or reopened new stores but have simply downsized with fewer stores in

Christchurch than before the quakes.

“This demonstrates the advantages of larger businesses with diversified locations,” says Tracy Hatton, a postgraduate student who is heading the project.

A second part of the study will investigate the stories behind the numbers with interviews carried out with businesses that have ceased trading, with aim of seeking to understand what circumstances

they faced and the choices they made.

“I will also look at how many organisations actually fail or how many choose to exit,” Ms Hatton said.

“I want to know how many of the businesses that cannot be found are actually these new business with new names and locations.”

Inland Revenue figures, reported by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera), show that around

10,000 new businesses have been registered in Canterbury since September 2010.

The University of Canterbury’s research to date also shows that there are many businesses that have managed to sustain themselves for more than two years with plans still in progress to reopen their businesses, indicating that length of closure is not necessarily an indicator of likely resumption of trading.

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Dogs with a nose for food danger

Teddies out in force

Clever canines able to sniff out minute traces of peanuts could soon be available to help New Zealand children with severe allergies.

The dogs would be trained in much the same way as drugsniffing dogs used in airports.

Wanganui woman Merenia Donne, founder of Kotuku Foundation of Assistance Animals Aotearoa, has been training diabetes dogs and now plans to start training dogs for children at risk of anaphylactic shock if they come into contact with even tiny quantities of peanut.

Donne said the dogs were invaluable overseas.

In one American case, peanut-sniffing pooch LilyBelle was trained to raise a paw to warn her 7-year-old companion Meghan Weingarth if her food contained nuts.

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Gracie MacDonald and her teddy listen to a story at the teddy bears’ picnic at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre yesterday.

With games, activities and ‘best bear awards’ on the day, there was plenty to keep both teddies and children occupied.

Funds raised will go towards the Ashburton Parents’ Centre.

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Volunteers may be unpaid but they won’t be unsupported in Mid and South Canturbury, after a $23,000 grant towards supporting the work of volunteers.

The grant was part of annual funding for Volunteering Mid and South Canterbury, and is about 20 per cent more than was granted in previous years.

Volunteer Mid and South Canterbury co-ordinator Lyndal Watt said demand for their services had increased significantly over the past two years.

“It’s hard to say what’s responsible for that. We have definitely seen a lot more organisations looking for volunteers, but part of it could be that we are advertising our services better and that more people are putting their hand up to volunteer.”

As well as helping to fit volunteers into roles where they are most needed, the organisation works to promote, support and recognise volunteers for the work they do in the district.

Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew announced news of the grants on Friday in her role as Community and Voluntary Sector Minister, and was pleased to see a portion going to her electorate.

“Volunteering Mid and South Canterbury plays a leading role in the volunteer sector in both Mid and South Canterbury.

“Whether it is arts, sports, health and emergency services or working with migrants, volunteers make a huge contribution to sustainable, active communities.”

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EDUCATION

Focus on agriculture

BY MYLES HUME

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Ashburton College is helping lead the way in putting agriculture on a level playing field with other subjects.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan is also one of five principals on an advisory group to the Agriculture Industry Training Organisation (AgITO), and says a number of initiatives are under way to promote primary industries to pupils in the Ashburton District.

It comes off the back of a report by KPMG Agribusiness which found the subject is often “overlooked” and viewed as “second class opportunities”,

effectively impacting on the industry.

Mr McMillan said agriculture and agribusiness, New Zealand’s largest trade sector, was starting to take priority at the college.

“I think that nationally, given the size of agriculture to New Zealand, there should be more, but there’s a lot going on in Mid Canterbury and a lot more to come,” he said.

That includes working with Federated Farmers and Grow Mid Canterbury on how to directly link NCEA qualifications to the industry, liaising with Aoraki Polytechnic and providing work experience opportunities to get a taste of the

industry.

Ashburton College also just approved more agricultural courses, including a focus on agribusiness.

And Mount Hutt College has NCEA agriculture and horticulture courses available from Levels 1 to 3.

Federated Farmers skills and education spokesperson Jeanette Maxwell said Ashburton College was leading the way, but felt nationally schools were disregarding its importance.

“Agriculture is seen as a subject where you can get easy credits but these are multi-million dollar businesses we are running and we need the best and brightest.”

She said qualifications in agriculture, particularly in arable and sheep and beef sectors, needed to be on an even keel with other career pathways.

Mr McMillan said popularity in agriculture was “quietly growing”, and it was now about pupils realising the qualifications were just as strong as other subjects.

“It’s about understanding how it works, the credits you gain in Level 1 operating a piece of machinery can sometimes be seen as easier than the credits you get in Level 1 maths, however they both go in different directions and I think sometimes people get confused about that.”

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In brief Arson charges A 30-year-old Blenheim man has been charged with arson following a suspicious house fire on Saturday night. The blaze at the Wither Hills house address about 7pm and gutted the house. Two vehicles also suffered extensive damage in the blaze. No one was home at the time, police say. The man was remanded in custody to appear in the Blenheim District Court today.

The Fire Service and police are still investigating.

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Man killed in crash A middle-aged man was killed yesterday afternoon in a car crash on State Highway 45 in Taranaki.

Police were called to the crash scene just south of Opunake at 3.04pm. Only one vehicle was involved, said police duty Inspector Chris Tate. He did not know whether anyone else was travelling in the car. Police suspected speed was a factor and investigations were ongoing, Mr Tate said. The man’s name would be released once police notified his immediate family.

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Boat sinks One person died yesterday when a boat sank on North Lake Mavora near Queenstown. There were three young men on board. One of them managed to swim to shore and raise the alarm after the 15-foot private boat sank, Senior Sergeant John Pine of Invercargill police said. Police received a call about 12.30pm and sent out a search and rescue helicopter and boats. A second person made it to shore and was speaking to police about their ordeal. Police later found the body of the third person.

Names would be released once next of kin were told, Mr Pine said.

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Discharged A man who fell from a second storey balcony in Auckland has been discharged from hospital.

The 45-year-old man was taken to Auckland Hospital with head injuries after falling from the balcony on Hazel Avenue, Mt Eden, about 12.30pm on Saturday. APNZ

Highway restored

In training for the ice cream-eating competition are (from left) Devin Young, John Hetrick and Perry Hunt.

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BY EMMA CROPPER Give him 14 minutes and plain lump-free ice cream and John Hetrick will have no problem demolishing the lot.

Devouring the treat so quickly is something Mr Hetrick learnt he could do through “just eating”.

“I’ve always loved ice cream and it is just something that is a bit of a laugh,” he said.

It began as a casual competition every now and then between friends, but has now led Mr Hetrick to being the star of a fundraiser for Collegiate Squash Club on September 12.

The quick eater said he normally only ate ice cream a couple of times a week.

“It wouldn’t do the figure any good,” said Mr Hetrick.

He is not invincible to the pain that is brain freeze, how-

ever, and said he just keeps at it when it arrives.

However, the fast eater had not come close to the world record who could eat over six litres in eight minutes, but would be competing against locals who would be trying to beat his record.

Tip Top are sponsoring the event, and although Mr Hetrick had been the winner of his casual competitions, he does

not think he will take out the top spot on the day.

“I think there will be others who are better than me,” he said.

The competition will have two sections try and battle it to eat a tub of ice cream the fastest.

Individuals will go head to head to beat Mr Hetrick, and competitors could also enter in the pairs division.

State Highway 6, from Haast to Lake Hawea, has been restored to two lanes after 700 tonnes of rock, including a boulder “the size of a house” were blasted into smaller chunks and removed. Several slips resulted in massive rocks falling onto the highway early Friday morning, closing the road to all traffic. The biggest boulder, measuring about 10m by 10m, and weighing 200 to 300 tonnes, crashed onto the road about 1km west of Clarke’s Bluff. Contractors worked from first light to dusk on Saturday, blasting and removing about 700 tonnes of rock. - APNZ

Lotto results Official Lotto results for draw number 1368 drawn on Saturday.

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Bonus number: 1 Powerball winning number: 1.

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RAPE

Man jailed

BY KATIE HOLLAND A Rotorua man has been jailed for raping a mentally impaired woman.

Christopher Bryant, 20, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court on Friday to five years and three months’ prison after he previously pleaded guilty to rape.

Judge Ian Thomas said Bryant, then 17, invited the young woman to his house for dinner in May 2011, with the intention of having sex with her.

She told Bryant ‘no’ and tried to leave, but he wouldn’t let her.

The victim had the functioning level of a 10- to 12-year-old so was “extremely vulnerable”, the judge said.

“You were aware of her disability and you exploited it for your own sexual gratification,” he told Bryant.

Bryant’s lawyer, Harry Edward, said his client had serious cognitive and behavioral problems which “probably impacted on why he did what he did”.

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An international feast Ashburton College’s arts and languages week ended on a high on Friday with an international food lunch and a visit from Christchurch’s court jesters.

Students, including (from left) Laura

Harrison, Tessa Puleaga and Kaweau Patea, were able to choose German, Thai, Japanese, Chinese or Indian food for lunch. Winners from Monday night’s music evening provided the entertainment over lunch.

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Thompson comes back from scandal Scandal ripped away his role in the public eye - now Alasdair Thompson is seeking to return via the October elections.

Since his highly publicised fall from grace, says Thompson, he has become a Christian and boned up on feminist theory.

Just over two years ago,

Thompson, 66, was sacked as Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive after attributing gender pay in part to some women having “sick problems” once a month and taking time off, reducing their productivity.

Thompson told the Herald

FURLONG MURDER

Van owner ‘freaked out’ Two former associates of Jane Furlong who drove a Morris van that police have linked to her murder can be revealed.

Richard Burrows from Drury has been interviewed by police at least three times about the Morris van he owned about the time of Furlong’s disappearance in May 1993.

He swapped the distinctive van with Mark Boniface, from Port Waikato, for three weeks around the time of Furlong’s disappearance.

Boniface said police also questioned him a month before they appealed for sightings of the van last month.

Police refused to comment on either man’s involvement in the case but, in another substantial development, police confirmed a key witness was helping with the inquiry and detectives were trying to corroborate the information being provided.

Furlong, a 17-year-old part-time prostitute, was last seen on Karangahape Rd on May 28, 1993. Her remains were unearthed at Port Waikato last May. A homicide inquiry was launched after the remains were confirmed.

Speaking for the first time in an interview with the Herald on Sunday, Burrows said his father gave him the white Morris van. About the time of Furlong’s disappearance, he had agreed to swap the van for a motorcycle belonging to Boniface.

“When my father found out, he said there was no way I was swapping that motorbike for the van.”

He believes he later sold the van to a car dealership called Jack’s Motors in Panmure.

Burrows said he “freaked out”when police asked the public for sightings of the van between Karangahape Road and Port Waikato.

He told the Herald on Sunday that he had driven the van to Port Waikato with two friends soon after Furlong went missing.

Burrows said he and many friends were desperate to see Furlong’s killers brought to justice.

“It’s quite disturbing to think that it could have been someone within the circle, somebody we know.”

Operation Darlia head Detective Inspector Mark Benefield said detectives were yet to determine whether the van had been used to take Furlong to Port Waikato.

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on Sunday he’s written a book, called Life Changing, which is due out in October; become a business consultant; chaired a trust which helps young people into jobs; and travelled extensively through Europe and North America.

He’s also completed an Alpha

Course on Christianity and read books on theology.

“I have become a Christian after mostly being uninterested in religion and probably pretty much a sceptical agnostic,” he said.

He has enlisted with Volunteer Service Abroad but will pull

out if elected to the Auckland District Health Board.

He has been reading feminist literature too, something he wishes he had done years ago. “I developed an intense interest in the subject in the process of researching issues like the gender pay gap for my book.” - APNZ

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BY ADAM BENNETT Deputy Labour leader Grant Robertson is the first contender to confirm he will contest the leadership following David Shearer’s resignation last week.

Mr Robertson confirmed the decision to the Herald yesterday.

He said he decided to run, “because I think I can unify our party, I represent a new generation of leadership, and because I believe I can lead us to victory in 2014”.

Wellington Central MP Mr Robertson’s announcement comes as little surprise given expectations the Labour leadership race would come down to him and New Lynn MP David Cunliffe.

Mr Cunliffe did respond to the Herald’s messages yesterday but his wife said he was still making his mind up. He, and any other contender, have until 10pm today

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A poll by TVNZ’s Q+A programme yesterday had Mr Cunliffe as the early favourite.

The telephone poll of 517 people showed he had 29 per cent support from voters across the

political spectrum followed by Jacinda Ardern on 15 per cent, Shane Jones at 11 per cent, Mr Robertson on 10 per cent, and Andrew Little on 9 per cent.

Both Ms Ardern and Mr Little have ruled themselves out of the leadership race, while Mr Jones is yet to declare either way.

Mr Robertson yesterday said he wasn’t concerned by those numbers.

“It’s early days and this is one of those occasions when you can say there’s only one poll that matters, it’s a poll of MPs members of the party and affiliated unions and that’s the poll I’m focused on.”

The leadership contest will be decided over the next three weeks.

Voting will take place by post and at a series of meetings beginning next Saturday with the final result expected on September 15.

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Search on hold Kids as young as The cash-strapped search operation for missing yacht Nina is on hold while bad weather hits the targeted search region south of Norfolk Island - and while thousands of satellite images are scoured over for a positive clue.

A private search for the missing historic schooner, whose crew of seven was last heard from in rough Tasman Sea conditions on June 4, was launched after the official one was called off on July 4.

Family and friends of the missing crew have been fundraising to keep private search efforts alive.

Their hope for the missing 85-yearold vessel was renewed when recent satellite images captured an orange object, possibly a liferaft, similar to the one the Nina carried.

Searchers had covered a high probability area to the west and north of Norfolk Island. Nothing of particular interest had been located.

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BY LYNLEY BILBY A preschooler who violently attacked another child at an early childhood centre is at the centre of an official complaint to the Ministry of Education.

Confirmation of the incident backs up social worker claims that children as young as three are attempting to stab or strangle other kids, as they act out behaviour they have seen at home or on TV. Health and education authorities have confirmed a child enrolled at a South Auckland early childhood centre tried to seriously harm another youngster.

A Counties Manukau District Health Board spokesperson said specialised behavioural counsellors were involved with a troubled child stemming from an incident at a preschool.

Ministry of Education deputy secretary of regional operations Katrina Casey said: “The ministry received a complaint following an incident involving a child at a South Auckland ECE centre.

“The ministry is supporting staff at the centre who are working with parents and children to ensure a safe and secure learning environment.”

Casey refused to provide details of the attack - citing privacy concerns - but said the ministry had not received any other similar complaints

this year. Details released under the Official Information Act reveal the youngest child to be stood down from school last year for assault was five and the youngest to be suspended was also five.

However, South Auckland social workers say they are dealing with troubled children aged three and four who are strangling classmates and stabbing them with scissors.

ChildForum chief executive Dr Sarah Farquhar says the ministry is unlikely to have a full picture on the level of violence in preschools because early childhood centres are not required to report incidents to the ministry.

“I believe that it would be helpful if the ministry collected information on exclusions and suspensions and used this to identify services with the highest rates of exclusion so professional support can be given to teachers and services will be less likely to push for children to leave.”

Recently released 2011 figures from the Ministry of Education show standdown rates of misbehaving students continue to fall but education experts and teachers say there is an increasing number of children who are difficult to handle.

South Auckland psychologist Barry Kirker said most violent children were too young to be called psychopaths.

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Yosemite National Park threatened

Croc attack?

Police were searching a northern Australian river for a 24-yearold man suspected to have been snatched by a crocodile while swimming with a friend.

Police received reports Saturday afternoon that the man had been attacked by a crocodile while he swam at Mary River, an Outback tourist destination 110km southeast of the Northern Territory capital Darwin, Police Senior Sergeant Peter Lindfield said. Mary River Wilderness Retreat employee Erin Bayard said the missing man and his friend had ignored warnings not to go in the water.

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The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze.

The accusations by the regime of President Bashar Assad against opposition forces came as an international aid group said it has tallied 355 deaths from a purported chemical weapons attack last week in a suburb of the Syrian capital known as Ghouta.

Syria is intertwined in alliances with Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militant groups. The country also borders its long-time foe and US ally Israel, making the fallout from military action unpredictable.

Violence in Syria has already spilled over the past year to Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Battle-hardened Hezbollah fighters have joined the combat alongside Assad’s forces.

Meanwhile, US naval units are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers a military response to the alleged use of chemical weap-

ons by Assad’s government.

US defence officials said the navy had sent a fourth warship armed with ballistic missiles into the eastern Mediterranean Sea but without immediate orders for any missile launch into Syria. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to discuss ship movements publicly.

Obama emphasised that a quick intervention in the Syrian civil war was problematic, given the international considerations that should precede a military strike.

After Obama met with his national security team yesterday, the White House said US intelligence officials are still trying to determine whether Assad’s government unleashed the chemical weapons attack earlier this week.

The White House statement said Obama received a detailed review of the range of options he has requested for the US and the international community to respond if it is determined that Assad has engaged in deadly chemical warfare.

Obama spoke by telephone with British Prime Minister David Cameron about Syria, the White House said.

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A woman is in hospital after a group of up to nine people beat her until she was unconscious on a full Melbourne bus.

The 26-year-old St Kilda woman complained to the driver after the rowdy group boarded the bus in the city, because they were being boisterous and knocking into other passengers.

After she complained, one of the women in the group threw a drink over the St Kilda woman then punched her in the face, police say.

Other group members then dragged the woman to the ground where they punched and kicked her body and head until she was unconscious.

Several other people had also complained to the driver about the group, which was standing in the aisle because the bus was full.

The group fled after the bus driver opened the door on Swanston Street.

The victim was taken to hospital where she is in a stable condition.

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A comprehensive encyclopedia of one of the world’s major religions is set to be unveiled next week in the US. The 11-volume work covers Hindu spiritual beliefs, practices and philosophy, and is the culmination of a 25-year academic effort. The encyclopedia is written in English and includes about 7000 articles on Hinduism and its practices. The work also deals with Indian history, languages, art, music, dance, architecture, medicine, and women’s issues.

The entire encyclopedia contains more than 1000 illustrations and photographs.

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Woman dies on plane Authorities say a Saudi woman who was travelling by plane to Houston from Qatar to seek medical treatment died en route.

The Houston Chronicle reports 49-year-old Fatimah M. Alsiari, a Saudi Arabian citizen, was onboard a non-stop flight from Doha, Qatar when she died. A physician aboard the plane tended to Alsiari but could not help her. It was not known if the doctor was accompanying her.

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Voice ‘stolen’ Iconic US rock and country star Linda Ronstadt says she “can’t sing a note” anymore after Parkinson’s disease stole her voice. Though she was diagnosed just eight months ago, the 67-year-old singer behind 1970s hits like It’s So Easy and That’ll Be the Day, said at the weekend the symptoms first started appearing eight years ago.

“No-one can sing with Parkinson’s disease,” Ronstadt lamented.

“No matter how hard you try.” She produced more than 40 albums and collaborated with other stars, including Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, The Eagles, James Taylor, Neil Young and Elvis Costello. – AFP

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Bulls on the run in US Runners clear out in front of the bulls during The Great Bull Run event at the Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Virginia at the weekend.

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Prince stunned fans at a gig in New York when he took to the stage for an impromptu performance with his former backing group New Power Generation. The band is playing a six-show residency at the Big Apple’s City Winery, and promised fans a special guest appearance every night.

The crowd was thrilled when Prince graced the stage sporting an afro and carrying a gold cane.

Prince played Musicology, Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough and Nothing Compares 2 U, the track made famous by Sinead O’Connor.

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abour’s new leader has to demonstrate some serious charisma and even better new policies when he or she goes toe-to-toe with Prime Minister John Key for next year’s election.

Labour leader David Shearer did the right thing for his party by stepping down last week as his party was facing an uphill battle against the personality of Mr Key. The opposition has presented a number of interesting policies over the past few months but has failed to make major inroads into John Key’s stranglehold on the electorate.

Despite a number crises and controversies battering the image of the National-led Government, Mr Key continues to come out squeaky clean and riding high in the polls.

Intriguingly, Mr Shearer stepped down only four days after a Roy Morgan poll predicted that his party would be able to win the election along with the Greens if it was held last week.

A few days later, however, a Fairfax poll put Labour back at 31.6 per cent with National recovering to a massive 48.3 per cent.

The fact that Mr Shearer has struggled to reach 20 per cent support as preferred Prime Minister in most polls, since taking over the leadership, has been the strongest indication that he was not the man to go head to head with Mr Key. His downfall also shows that it takes a lot more than Mr Shearer’s much-praised intellect and integrity to succeed in politics where charisma, television appeal and the common touch are the real clinchers.

All eyes are now on the articulate David Cunliffe who possesses many of the attributes and is considered the front runner because current deputy leader Grant Robertson may be too inexperienced. The social conservatives within Labour may also be reluctant to support Mr Robertson as the first gay prime minister of New Zealand.

Mr Cunliffe’s reputation took a beating during his unsuccessful coup against Mr Shearer early this year, so it will be intriguing how he comes through the leadership scrap before taking on the National Party.

With Labour’s new leadership election format, where the unions could hold the key, the initial battle may just be as interesting as next year’s main event.

The facts about ‘the facts’

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he outgoing chief executive of Ashburton District Council in his infomercial in the Ashburton Guardian of August 21, 2013, presents some facts (but not as he contends “the facts”) regarding the art gallery/museum.

Regrettably his explanation of the so-called “facts” is onesided. Here are a few facts he didn’t mention.

Mr Lester refers to “stand alone community consultation” (whatever that might mean) in 2007. In October 2007, at a time when council expected to sell the present art gallery site to the Ashburton Trust, council adopted a statement of proposal to enable construction of a new art gallery/museum on the West Street site. That statement included the following: ■ The proceeds from the sale of the County Council building and land will be used to help fund the new facility.

■ Council has been offered $2 million for the County Council building by Ashburton Licensing Trust (ALT). Council believes this sum represents a fair price for the building and that it provides sufficient funding to enable the construction of a purpose built facility to be considered.

■ The features of the proposed facility include “spe-

Alister Argyle responds to last week’s opinion commentary by council chief executive Brian Lester.

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cialised lighting to enable quality display experience and fit for purpose storage of art works, archive material and museum items with temperature and humidity control”.

■ Certain of the design features referred to in the consultation proposal are not included in the final building, and most importantly the sale to ALT at $2 million has not eventuated.

The “consultation” undertaken by council was totally inadequate for the following reasons: ■ First, when the proposal was initially mooted, the indications given (including one by the chief executive

in a public meeting) were that the sale to ALT at $2 million was a near certainty. Again, at a consultation meeting regarding the 2009 Community Plan ratepayers present were told that a contract had been signed even though it had not been signed at that time.

■ Secondly, reports prepared at the request of the then Ashburton Art Gallery Incorporated (AAGI) detailed a wide range of concerns regarding the proposed facility. The first report created a furore within AAGI who were issued with an ultimatum that they either accepted the current plan or the project would not go ahead. It is apparent from council records that only 6 of 18 members of the AAGI signed in support of the plans and during the course of the matter the then curator of the art gallery resigned. Despite this, on August 20. 2009, the chief executive wrote a letter to the editor of this newspaper containing various “facts” including “the vast majority of representatives from the organisations (art gallery, Museum and genealogy) involved

have managed to agree on the layout and design of the building”.

Had all of these matters been the subject of disclosure during the consultation process then the outcome of the original and subsequent consultation would have been vastly different.

By the time the proposed sale to ALT collapsed and council called for submissions on the draft annual plan for 2011, citizens were becoming more aware of the real issues and, as a result, the submissions made to the 2011 draft annual plan numbered 30 of which 27 were opposed to the project and only three in favour of it.

Perhaps now, if Mr Lester is so intent upon ensuring that “the facts” are available to the public, he and his council could release details of correspondence with its contractors regarding cost increases on the project.

We all know that there will be significant cost over runs but to date, despite Official Information Act requests and a reference to the Ombudsman, council has steadfastly refused to release this information. We are entitled to know what it is that council does not wish to be made public, before the elections.

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Major reform of resource management system overdue A s part of the Government’s priority to deliver better public services, we have announced major reforms of our resource management system.

The Resource Management Act (RMA) is not just about environmental protection, it is also our planning law.

Our proposed reforms will balance environmental protection with effectively dealing with and providing for the function and development of our cities and towns – including public infrastructure like roads and schools.

These reforms are about providing greater certainty for communities to plan for, and meet, their area’s needs in a way that reduces the unacceptable costs and delays that have become the norm.

The RMA was an innovative approach at its inception, but 22 years later our reforms are both necessary and overdue.

Some of the main changes proposed are:

■ A requirement for councils to work together to develop a single plan, covering all the rules in their area ■ A new national planning

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template that sets out the structure and key content all councils must follow in the development of their resource management plans New fast-track consenting rules and processes to improve timeframes for simpler consents Enhanced provision for natural hazard management, learning the lessons from Canterbury Requirements to better engage with local iwi in making planning decisions Require councils to provide a minimum of 10-years of urban land supply to cope with projected population growth Revise and consolidate the current sections 6&7 into a single list of matters of national importance Establish a clearer performance-monitoring framework for councils, making

them more accountable on how they are meeting environmental, cultural, social and economic needs Taken together, the changes will streamline and improve decision-making at every level.

Tighter rules for overseasbased student loan borrowers

National has introduced a bill proposing higher repayment obligations for overseas-based student loan borrowers to encourage them to pay off their loans sooner.

Major changes in this bill would help to bring overseasbased borrowers’ repayment obligations into line with those of New Zealand-based borrowers, and speed up their repayment rate.

Overseas-based borrowers are responsible for 80 per cent of all overdue loan repayments, which amounted to $535 million as at June 30, 2013.

It also means arrest warrants could be issued enabling arrests at the border, catching the most serious cases of nonrepayment.

We’re focused on encouraging personal responsibility for loan repayments, aligned with

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Customs stops up to $1 billion in P

Methamphetamine and its precursor drugs, with a street value of up to $1 billion, have been stopped at our border since 2009 – that’s an estimated $410 million of drug harm prevented.

Since 2009, the Methamphetamine Action Plan focused the Government’s attack on the supply, manufacture, and consumption of methamphetamine because of its prevalence in the illicit drug market.

Sixty-six kilograms of methamphetamine, and 3.3 tonnes of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine have since been intercepted through the International Mail Centre, sea cargo and air cargo shipments, and from individuals arriving in New Zealand.

Building a more competitive and productive economy is one of our priorities – stopping this vile drug from entering the country is essential to this.

Jo Goodhew is the MP for Rangitata.

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Caught between heaven and hell in Pompeii

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ount Vesuvius dominates its landscape now perhaps even more than when it famously erupted over Pompeii almost 2000 years ago.

It killed thousands then, and draws millions now. Three million visitors a year make it Italy’s second most popular site behind the Colosseum in Rome.

The world’s fascination with Roman times shows no sign of abating at Pompeii, thanks mainly to the size of the site.

The ancient trading city’s ruins – a misleading word, since so much is so well preserved – cover almost 50 hectares, with around one quarter still to be excavated.

“Pompeii is so important,” says guide Giuseppe Dipino, “because here you get a good idea of an entire city, not just one section of a city.”

The volcanic ash that buried Pompeii has preserved the site so well that it’s easy for the modern day visitor to imagine what life was like before the night of August 24, 79 AD, when Vesuvius blew its top.

Many of the structures around the forum, or main

When Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2000 years ago it killed thousands, but now it draws millions of tourists as Doug Conway found out on a recent visit. square, are still intact.

Hand-carved columns decorated with flowers and insects look every bit as precise as the day they were fashioned.

Tiled bars, which once dispensed soup and wine (by all accounts a disgusting vinegary drop) abound.

So do pizza-style ovens, and mills once turned by donkey power to make flour.

The roads, cobbled in basalt, still show the ruts created by chariot wheels. One features marble “cats’ eyes” visible to pedestrians in moonlight.

Graffiti remains on the stone walls - carved pictures of gladiators, boats and penises (a frequently represented symbol of prosperity) - along with political slogans and recommendations for the city’s best prostitutes. Street girls operated legally, paying two axs a day in tax, equivalent to about

25 per cent of the fee for one client.

One wealthy resident’s villa has the tiled welcome sign “have” (now ave) in ceramics on the front portico.

Most of Pompeii’s treasures – frescoes, coins, pots and pans – have been moved to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, but some remain.

The best is an intricate mosaic depicting a 333 BC battle between Alexander The Great and Darius.

A few archaeological plaster casts of the volcano’s victims remain, too, complete with skulls, teeth and finger bones, petrified for eternity at the moment of death.

One is that of a slave; clearly visible around his waist is the belt that was used to tether him by chain at night.

The men’s and women’s saunas are well preserved, as

are the old gladiator barracks, and the 5000-seat theatre is still used for concerts, from the ima (first class) and media seats right up to the cheap summa class seats.

Life and death in old Pompeii was captured so instantly in the 300 degree inferno of Vesuvius that archaeologists discovered, for example, 81 carbonised loaves of bread in one bakery.

The eruption was so monumental that it pushed the sea back permanently by more than one kilometre.

Vesuvius hasn’t erupted since 1944, and that was a mild one, though the lava flow it released is still visible in all its hardened glory today.

“The next one will be big,” says our guide. “We have all the warnings scientists give us, so we will be well prepared. But it must happen some time.”

Inhabitants of the city of 20,000 people were well aware of the dangers of the towering mountain 13km away, so why did they live there? “Why do people live in Florida?” replies our guide.

The most scenic base from which to explore Pompeii is

the dramatic Amalfi coast, which has been declared a UN heritage site since the days it attracted celebrities like Sophia Loren and Rudolph Nureyev.

The grand cliffside village of Positano is just half an hour’s drive away. It’s also close to Sorrento, where you can catch a ferry to Capri, the romantic island where Caesar Augustus holidayed, Tiberius spent the last decade of his life and modern-day emperors Churchill and Eisenhower held a wartime summit in 1943.

Vesuvius, high enough at 1281 metres to be snow-capped in winter, offers commanding views of Capri, the Bay of Naples and the Sorrento Peninsula.

Previous earthquakes have destroyed a funicular railway and a chair lift, but you can drive to 1000 metres and then make the 20 minute hike to the top. Peer over the rim and you will see smoke drifting up.

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Ashburton Guardian

Monday, August 26, 2013

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■ RUGBY

Hammers lead with bonus point

By Jonathan Leask

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Mid Canterbury’s Tevita Tupou congratulates try-scorer Logan Bonnington in Mid Canterbury’s 31-12 win over Poverty Bay at the Ashburton Showgrounds on Saturday.

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Development side continues streak

By Jonathan Leask

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The Mid Canterbury rugby development squad made it back-to back wins beating North Otago development 34-21 in Ashburton on Saturday.

Backing up from a 31-10 win over Canterbury Maori Development a week earlier, the development squad outscored North Otago development five tries-tothree.

Tries to wing Richard Burns, fullback Aleki Hifo and Heartland import Muleli Bula were all converted by halfback Jamie Fletcher to have Mid Canterbury up 21-7.

Burns had all but scored a second on the brink of halftime but botched it as he attempted to beat a defender in the in-goal.

That mistake started to look

costly as North Otago started the second half with two converted tries to draw level at 21-all as the visitors were able to pin Mid Canterbury inside their own 22.

Fletcher had hobbled off with a knee injury early in the second half and Josh Nonu stepped up and landed a penalty to put the host in front 24-21 with 10 minutes to go.

Bula then showed the wheels that had Heartland coach Glenn Moore bring him down from Glenmark when the speedster chased down a kick through to score his second and put Mid Canterbury out to an eight-point lead.

Burns then made amends and finally finished of his second try with time almost up to seal the 34-21 win.

Mid Canterbury kicked off their Heartland Rugby Championship with a bonus-point 31-12 win over Poverty Bay in Ashburton on Saturday.

It was a solid first-up effort where Mid Canterbury produced five tries but was secured through strong defence.

Looking rather pleased with the result, coach Glenn Moore was still reserved with his review of the winning start to the Heartland campaign.

“Obviously we are pretty happy to get the win but there is plenty to work on,” Moore said.

“We were a bit slow to start but really built into it.”

Poverty Bay made the early running to lead 7-0 after they put wing Sisa Vosaki in the corner in the fourth minute.

The Hammers then came on stronger to lead at halftime, aided by two Poverty Bay yellow cards (hooker Kolo Mahe followed by flanker Efoti Moimoi) in the lead up to the break.

Second five Esera Lauina and lock Grant Polson marked their first caps with tries in the first half before prop Tukulua Tolu dived over before halftime with two conversions from Murray Williams putting the Hammers ahead 19-7.

A strong start from the kickoff had import halfback Jake Ashby, another earning his first cap, snipe the blind and score the bonus point try.

Poverty Bay was then back to 15 and produced a prolonged assault on Mid Canterbury’s

line, but the host resisted six goal-line stands before the visitors were finally rewarded with Mahe making up for his earlier indiscretion with the try in the 72nd minute.

The Hammers hit straight back through replacement lock Logan Bonnington and the Williams conversion capped off the 31-12 win.

Pleased with the five tries and a bonus point Moore was impressed with the defence, the vastly improved line-out and praised captain Jon Dampney who has quickly grown into the captaincy “leading from the front and getting stuck into everything”.

After showing signs of potential frailties early on the defence stood up, with the cause aided by the calibre of Williams clearing kicks to ease the pressure, with the performance and impact from the import players another positive aspect.

Peni Manumanuniwila was caught out on defence a few times at the start of the first half but resolved the issues and was a big threat with ball in hand, and with the Ashby-Williams combination developing quickly.

It was fair first up performance that achieved the desired result, and had the added bonus of four tries, giving the Hammers and ideal platform to build from.

Mid Canterbury 31 (Esera Lauina, Grant Polson, Tukulua Tolu, Jake Ashby, Logan Bonnington tries, Murray Williams 3 conversions.)

Poverty Bay 12 (Sisa Vosaki, Kolo Mahe tries, Sam Parkes conversion.)

Mid Canterbury tops Heartland table The opening day of the Heartland Championship was a day of upsets and being the only team to win with a bonus point Mid Canterbury, top the standings.

Perennial Meads Cup finalists and competition favourites Wanganui were beaten at home 17-16 by King Country

while Wairarapa Bush also surprised North Otago 20-18 in Oamaru.

Thames Valley were too good for South Canterbury when they came back from an 11-17 halftime deficit and kept the visitors scoreless in the second half for a 21-17 win in Paeroa.

Defending champions East Coast started with a win but were pushed all the way by Horowhenua Kapiti, Mid Canterbury’s next opponent, before taking a 25-24 win.

The West Coast derby went the way of the West Coast, beating Buller 23-17 in Greymouth.

Dagg targets goalkicking for ABs Israel Dagg is a man of many talents. He’s like to add one more trick to his repertoire though - trusted and reliable goal-kicking.

The All Black fullback has a booming right boot that, other than one conversion against Ireland last year, had only been used for banging the ball long out of trouble.

But on Saturday, he took advantage of Tom Taylor be-

ing temporarily incapacitated midway through the second half to add a penalty to his solitary conversion. The speed at which he fetched the ball, lined it up and knocked it over, suggested he was more than happy to be given his chance.

“It was right in front and I had been practising all week in front of Richie [McCaw] and Shag [Steve Hansen],” Dagg said. “When he [McCaw] said

do you want to take it, I said, ‘yeah, why not, it is right in front. I can’t miss this’.”

Given the number of goalkickers in the squad, it doesn’t necessarily feel like there is a pressing need for Dagg to develop that as part of his portfolio. But all the ABs’ kickers play at first-five and if any are having an off day, to change the kicker, the All Blacks have to go to the bench. - APNZ

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In brief 99th cap Six Mid Canterbury rugby players earned their first cap in the win over Poverty Bay at the weekend but it was hooker James Carr’s 99th cap for Mid Canterbury and should he take the field against Horowhenua Kapiti in Levin this Saturday he will become the 21st Mid Canterbury centurion.

Canberra still in it Canberra haven’t given up on making the NRL finals despite Manly all but ending their chances with a crushing 36-22 win at Canberra Stadium on Sunday.

The heavy loss capped a tumultuous week for the Raiders in which club legend David Furner became the first coach in club history to get the sack - with interim coach Andrew Dunemann’s top grade coaching career getting off to an inauspicious start.

The Sea Eagles edged one step closer to locking down a top four finals berth, while the 12thplaced Raiders are now only a mathematical possibility of making the top eight due to their poor forand-against record.

Winterbottom wins

New Zealand’s Kieran Reid (left), Charles Piutau (centre) and Steven Luatua walk with the Bledisloe Cup after defeating Australia at Wellington on Saturday.

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Hansen has more injury concerns

By Daniel RichaRDson All Blacks coach Steve Hansen can be thankful his side don’t have a game this weekend.

Hansen has lost another fiveeighth after fourth-string pivot Tom Taylor suffered an injury to his ribs during Saturday night’s 27-16 win over Australia in Wellington as the All Blacks retained the Bledisloe Cup. The All Blacks don’t play again until September 7 when

they host Argentina in Hamilton and Hansen said Dan Carter and Beauden Barrett, both sidelined with calf issues recently, should be available.

“At this stage we are expecting Dan and Beauden to be right, but Colin Slade will come with us to Hamilton,” Hansen said.

Blindside flanker Liam Messam, who has missed the first two tests of the Rugby Championship with a hamstring issue, could also be in line to return in

Hamilton. Taylor will be out for three weeks, while fellow pivot Aaron Cruden (knee) won’t be back for another fortnight.

Hansen has a couple of other injury concerns with Owen Franks (groin) and Ma’a Nonu (ankle) both feeling sore following last night’s game.

Another prop is likely to join the All Blacks squad this week.

Australian coach Ewen McKenzie took issue with a handful of refereeing decisions from

Saturday’s game and was concerned that players continued to infringe when an advantage was being played.

“Where it becomes a problem is the initial infringement. If the initial infringement is a repeated one at the breakdown then they play advantage and [the next] penalty is offside, the penalty becomes the offside and they don’t go back to the original penalty, which might have been a yellow card,” McKenzie said.

Otago’s historic win steals ITM limelight

By Jonathan leask anD aPnZ

Otago fans celebrate.

The highlight of the second round of the ITM Cup was on Friday night when Otago claimed the Ranfurly Shield for the first time in 56 years.

Otago beat Waikato 26-19 in Hamilton to hoist the log of wood for the first time since 1957 after Hayden Parker scored 21 points for the southerners to etch his name into Otago rugby folklore.

Otago will put the Shield up in round three on Sunday against Hawkes Bay, with the Magpies disappointed with the 24-20 defeat to their rivals Bay of Plenty

in Tauranga’s yesterday.

The second-half sin-binning of wing Zac Guildford was the turning point.

The Magpies led 13-8 at that stage and looked comfortable until Guildford was shown a yellow card and the Steamers scored 13 points to take the lead.

The Steamers then did enough to hold on for the win and earn the right to be called the “Bay” for another year, after last winning the fixture in 2010.

In the last match of the round Auckland edged out the Manawatu Turbo’s 21-18 in Palmerston North taking the lead with two quick tries mid-

way through the second half.

The round had started with Counties Manukau putting North Harbour away 44-14 on Thursday with Wellington outgunning Taranaki 29-10 on Friday before Otago’s heroics.

On Saturday Canterbury proved too strong for the Tasman Makos 28-13 in Blenheim.

From 8-all at halftime the defending champions had a strong second half to wear Tasman down for the win.

Northland then picked up their first win of the ITM Cup, edging Southland 13-9 in Whangarai in a game both sides deserved to lose.

Ford driver Mark Winterbottom has scored an overdue V8 Supercars win at Winton, claiming victory in the first of Sunday’s two races at the rural Victorian circuit.

Winterbottom had enjoyed four pole positions in 20 races at the tight three-kilometre track, but never a win before this one.

“That’s awesome, that was a tough race,” said Winterbottom after his 300th career start. The Ford Performance Racing driver started third on the grid and took charge on the first lap, jumping ahead of pole-sitter Jason Bright and fellow front-row starter Tony D’Alberto.

Grant progresses It was business as usual for the New Zealand rowing crews on the opening day of the World Championships in Korea yesterday.

Ashburton’s Duncan Grant was the first New Zealand crew to progress through to the next round in the lightweight single after finishing third in his heat.

Chertsey’s Hamish Bond and Eric Murray looked comfortable in their men’s pair heat taking the win with clear water in a time of 6:32.70 to head to the A/B semi-final. Mahe Drysdale pushed through the discomfort from his recent bike accident to take a win in his heat to progresses to the quarter-final in his first international hit out since the Olympic Games.

Rasmussen to Magic?

Grace Rasmussen has emerged as a major target of the Magic - and they appear to have sealed the signature of another Silver Fern, as their 2014 squad finally comes together. With their defensive end taking shape with the retention of Casey Kopua and Leana de Bruin, and the attack looking solid with the recruitment of Joanne Harten from the Tactix, the 2012 ANZ Championship winners have focused on midcourt. Rasmussen was also seen as a hot prospect when she made her Ferns debut in 2010.

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■ NETBALL

BY JONATHAN LEASK

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United went within one goal of making the semi-finals but instead fell one point short after they drew 19-all with Hampstead in the final round of premier netball on Saturday.

College A secured a valuable four points beating College B in the opening game of the day which meant United needed a win to finish fourth, but the draw had them fall one point short.

College A took fourth place and will meet the unbeaten Celtic A after they came from behind to beat Methven 22-19, with the defending premiers up against Hampstead in the other semifinal.

After a series of patchy performances United lifted with the prospect of a semi-final at stake and started strongly to lead 6-4 after the first quarter. Hampstead had the lead at halftime 10-9 and were still one goal in front 16-15 heading into what was a tense last quarter.

United hit the lead with the clock winding down and Hampstead delayed scoring the equaliser knowing United had the centre pass. After the goal was finally scored United had a small window of opportunity with which to snatch the win but couldn’t get a shot up in time.

“We were one goal short but we should have won some of the earlier games instead of leaving it up to the last game,” coach Karla Newlands said.

For United the draw wasn’t enough, but it was for College A. College A had their full squad back on deck and overcame a stern challenge from their B team to win 26-20 in the opening game of the day before a nervous wait to see how United fared to know their fate, and the draw had them finish fourth by a solitary point.

“We got in by one point so it is exciting for us,” college coach Angela Mitchell said.

“We have Celtic which will be a big challenge but we are really looking forward to it.”

Celtic completed an impressive regular season clean sweep coming from behind to pip defending champions Methven for a 12th straight win.

Methven had their nose in front by one point over the first three quarters leading 6-5, 12-11 and 17-16 but Celtic came home stronger to clinch the 22-19 win and a clean sweep of both the Premier and Senior A round robins.

One point puts College through

College A’s Ella Robertson is swarmed by College B defenders Ella Sinclair and Amanda Fleming during their premier netball clash on Saturday.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Warriors survive scare to keep season alive

BY MICHAEL BROWN It’s often said sport is a game of inches but in the case of the Warriors on Saturday night their season came down to a few millimetres.

Leading the Titans 24-16 with four minutes remaining, the Warriors conceded a late converted try to Anthony Don and then watched in horror as a diving Kevin Gordon latched onto a bouncing ball to touch down with seconds remaining.

Fortunately for the Warriors, Gordon grounded the ball on the dead ball line rather than in the in-goal area to be denied by the video referee and ensure the Warriors kept their season alive.

“I was a little frightened,” Warriors coach Matt Elliott admitted after the 24-22 win. “But

I guess we probably shouldn’t have been in that situation.

“We probably could have handled the last 10 minutes a little better but I’m really proud of how we turned that second half around and fought hard for a large part of it to steal a win.”

The Titans nearly stole it back through Gordon’s efforts but the Warriors deserved to collect the two competition points.

It now sees an extremely congested ladder with two points separating the Knights in seventh and Broncos in 13th. The Warriors are 11th with two games remaining and their inferior points differential (-84) means they need to win their last two against the Raiders and Dragons to have any chance of making the top eight.

It represents one of the easier

run-ins of teams jostling for the last two playoffs positions but there are a few reasons why they need to be wary, not least of all the fact they have largely struggled this season against sides they should beat.

Although Canberra have a dreadful away record, they have won two of the last three at Mt Smart Stadium and four of the last five between the two sides.

On top of that, the Warriors have found beating the Dragons the most difficult assignment in the NRL, having won just four of the 19 games (21 per cent) between the two sides overall and only one of the last 10.

The win was the most important thing on Saturday night after a three-game losing streak but there were some aspects about the Warriors’ perfor-

mance to be cautiously optimistic. They recovered from a 16-6 deficit, played with a lot more intensity and desperation than the last three weeks and got a lot more mileage out of their forward pack.

Centre Konrad Hurrell was a handful with one terrific try and 10 tackle breaks, fullback Kevin Locke was a lot more involved running for 188m after a wor-

ryingly quiet period (he ran for a dismal 37m last weekend) and Shaun Johnson was dangerous and is looking a more assured goalkicker than earlier in the season.

Jerome Ropati also made a valuable contribution, and not just because he scored two tries. The 28-year-old was playing his first game since May and his presence on the wing helped stiffen a right edge which has leaked a lot of points this season.

Instead it was the left edge which looked more vulnerable, although they weren’t helped by the fact centre Dane Nielsen lasted only 40 minutes because of his ankle injury.

“The boys found a way to win,” Elliott said.

They now need to find a way to win their next two. - APNZ

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■ AMERICA’S CUP

Kiwi speedsters turn heads

By Dana Johannsen Team New Zealand clocked up another jawdropping America’s Cup speed record yesterday and the whispers are NZL05 is capable of going much faster, with the magical 50-knot barrier mentioned.

The Kiwi boat closed in on speeds on 90km/h as they blitzed Luna Rossa in race seven of the Louis Vuitton Cup final, twice eclipsing their previous top speed of 44.15 knots set in the round robin.

They hit 44.8 knots on the first reach, before their speedo ticked a shade over 47 knots in a wild rounding at the top mark - the same area of the course where they took a nosedive in race one.

In a finals series that has failed to deliver compelling racing, the record generated excited talk from commentators and fans back on dry land.

But it went unnoticed by the crew on board.

“We were unaware of it until the shore crew jumped on board and told us we had a new speed

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In brief Coastal Spirit through Coastal Spirit and Glenfield Rovers will meet in the ASB Women’s Knockout final after posting comfortable victories in this weekend’s semifinals. Coastal Spirit ran out 4-0 winners over Seatoun AFC in Christchurch, while Glenfield Rovers matched that scoreline against Claudelands Rovers in Hamilton.

Federer falls to 7th Roger Federer plans to prove doubters wrong at the US Open despite having fallen to a seventh seed, the 17-time grand slam’s champion’s lowest US Open spot since 2002. The 32-year-old Swiss star will open tonight at Arthur Ashe Stadium against Slovenian Grega Zemlja with hopes of bouncing back after a secondround exit at Wimbledon - his earliest grand slam ouster since winning his first major in 2003 at the All England Club.

“The rankings, they fluctuate a lot, especially if you don’t play so well,” Federer said. “If you play great you move up or go down rather quickly.”

Emirates New Zealand speeding around the course yesterday morning.

record, and we’re sort of going ‘oh really, when was that?”‘ said Team NZ strategist Adam Beashel.

“We’re trying to get the thing going faster and faster and every day, so it’s just nice to know the numbers are going up.”

The speeds being recorded in San Francisco are unprecedented for

the America’s Cup, with the foiling catamarans sailing at speeds five times faster than the traditional monohulls used in previous editions.

Even Oracle Team USA’s giant 90-ft trimaran, nicknamed Dogzilla, in which they beat Alinghi in a Deed of Gift challenge to claim the the America’s Cup, did not

crack 40 knots.

Despite his team copping another hefty loss as Team NZ moved to match point in the finals, Luna Rossa helmsman Chris Draper could not help but be enthused by the exhilarating ride around the race course.

“Ten years we would have set the world speed record today, but we’re

racing those boats around marks.” said Draper, noting his team clocked up over 46 knots on a reach before the race.

“They’re just nuts to sail.”

There is an air of resignation about the Luna Rossa team as Draper accepts there is little they can do to best Team New Zealand.

- APNZ

■ HOCKEY

Auckland, Midlands take national titles Auckland’s men made it a hattrick of National Hockey League titles after beating Southern in a shootout yesterday, while Midlands won the women’s championship for the first time.

In a replay of last year’s final, Auckland again proved too strong for the Southern side, who twice came from behind to

force the game into extra time only to be undone in the climactic shootout at North Harbour Hockey Stadium.

After Auckland’s Ryan Archibald made no mistake from the opening one-on-one opportunity, Black Sticks teammate Hugo Inglis put his shot wide to leave Southern playing catch-up.

They failed to complete yet another comeback, losing 4-3 and leaving Inglis, the tournament’s top scorer, looking dejected as he collected the tournament’s most valuable player award.

There was no such drama in the women’s section, with Midlands routing Capital 5-0 to win the K-Cup for the first time ever

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Black Stick Gemma Flynn and Shiloh Gloyn both notched doubles to easily take care of a Capital side who knocked out favourites Auckland.

The Auckland women eventually finished third, leaving the men to grab some glory for the province.

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Steyn kicks for win A last-minute penalty by flyhalf Morne Steyn sealed an unimpressive 22-17 win for South Africa over Argentina on Saturday in a scrappy Rugby Championship Test. After a humiliating 60-point defeat in Soweto last weekend, the passionate Pumas were the better side in chilly Mendoza for much of the match and led until eight minutes from time. Steyn slotted two penalties in the closing minutes to keep South Africa top of the table - level on nine points with New Zealand but ahead on points difference.

Ashes washed out Australia’s Ashes campaign is poised for a fittingly-frustrating end after rain washed out day four of the fifth Test at the Oval. Steady rain in London prevented a ball being bowled on Saturday, with umpires abandoning play. It left the final Test of the series doomed to finish in a draw, leaving Australia facing their first Ashes without a victory since 1977. The match was already headed for a draw before the bad weather returned, with England putting on the brakes on.

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CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. At being sorted out, was kept in repository (6) 8. Managed cash, as loss was shown by spread in the US (5) 9. Hardens what flare in arguments (7) 11. Quite carried away, etc, with one cast change (8) 12. In the South-east roadmaking material will look hard (5) 15. It will make better copper join the Sappers (4) 16. Ends unpleasantness: keep away the agent (3) 17. One who can hardly see an elevation on the skin (4) 19. The whole, taken together, is far too big for comfort (5) 21. Mind recent removal of beginners for being blue (8) 24. Sort of wound us with thong, perhaps (7) 25. 15 taking in 16’s first to use bad language (5) 26. A number for one to catch in New York (6)

Ashburton Guardian

CRYPTIC Across 1. Candlestick 9. Never 10.

Turpentine 11. Agree 12. Brittle 14. Hid 15. Moth 16. Antics 17. Beet 21.

Soot 22. Panisk 23. Etch 26. Hen 27.

Stentor 29. Banjo 30. Production 31.

Those 32. Differences Down 2. Actor 3. Lipsticks 4. Sinner 5. Irish Sea 6. Knead 7. Overdo 8.

Freethinker 12. Blanket bath 13. Iota 18. Tea-kettle 19. Sound off 20. Gilt 24.

Canton 25. Astute 26. Hoped 28. Ounce

embracing the right is calamitous (4) 5. Chop end off tree to hold it from being commonplace (5) 6. Granny will unite closely (4) 7. Elegance is his, endlessly, in small volume (4) 10. Engaged in fisticuffs, perhaps, when doing away with it (9) 12. One gets it to get one’s cards (4) 13. So prim in potential, one must lock one away (8) 14. What Leonard has is what one can see through (4) 18. Wages for stoker initially – and

DILBERT

the other men on board (5) 20. Sort of drink one hasn’t enough to pay for? (5) 21. Nip the top off the measurement (4) 22. Mild expression of annoyance will make one ply one’s needle (4) 23. An act in variety theatre will go off like the milk (4)

QUICK ACROSS 1. Fades (4) 3. Examining (8) 9. Rescue (7) 10. Unspoken (5) 11. Giving in (12) 13. Short journey (6) 15. Wood (6) 17. Bargaining (5-7) 20. Money (5) 21. Inspiring (7) 22. Close examination (8) 23. Extras, in cricket (4)

QUICK Across: 1. Egocentric 7. On tap 8.

Audited 10. Wayfarer 11. Oral 13. Raised 15. Alumni 17. Hide 18. Beholden 21.

Techies 22. Adage 23. Adolescent.

Down: 1. Entry 2. Orphaned 3. Elated 4. Tidy 5. Interim 6. Not worth it 9.

Dalliances 12. Allocate 14. Induced 16.

Census 19. Draft 20. Till.

DOWN 1. Catastrophe (8) 2. Tooth (5) 4. Fashionable (6) 5. Got worse (12) 6. Substance which produces sweet smell when burned (7) 7. Fortitude (colloq) (4) 8. Cope financially (4,4,4) 12. Walks unsteadily (8) 14. Happen again (7) 16. Stress (6) 18. Sarcasm (5) 19. Regrettably (4)

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YOUR STARS

by Forecasters

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Where there is tension on the work front this comes with both a nose for money and the intellectual savvy required to work smarter.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) On the work front you have a chance to establish what you do and don’t want, putting your foot down if necessary.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) While you can’t please everyone all the time or be all things to all people, you can do what feels right in the moment.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) With your professional instincts sharp you’re able to get a better read of the big picture and of your real priorities.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) With heart and mind on the same page you’ll find it harder to hide behind your excuses, with your excuses being challenged.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) As you start to reclaim your personal power, this is going to test your relationships but in a way that brings more authenticity.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) This is the first time in decades that an annual slow down has met resistance from professional forces, making it important to work smarter.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Take any tension seriously, especially as it comes with a chance to pull back and get your bearings, not only professionally but across the board.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) The Moon is making a very timely return to your work sector, making sure you have your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) A number of different planetary standoffs will see things come to a head, yet it’s more about getting your attention.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) In their early days in your financial sector the Sun and Mercury are under pressure, creating some financial tension but also some real opportunities.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20) The Sun and Mercury’s departure from your work sector over the last few days is a chance to give your personal life some much needed attention.

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CAVILL, Peter Foster – On 25 August 2013 at Ashburton Hospital. Truly loved partner and soulmate of Carol. Dearly loved son of the late Eileen and Reg. Loved brother and brother in law of Reg and Mary-ann, Margaret and the late Eric (Chic) McDowell, Barbara and Alan Behrnes, Janice and Dave Taylor, the late Helen Armstrong, Trisha and Peter Dowdind, Annette and Bevan Clemens. Respected by Ray Like and Di, Len and Janene Luke. Messages to PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A funeral service for Peter will be held in the Church of the Holy Name, Sealy Street, Ashburton on Wednesday 28 August commencing at 2pm.

To be followed by Private Cremation Paterson’s Funeral Services, FDANZ, Ashburton

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30 to 59 fog

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TOMORROW

WEDNESDAY Mostly fine with northwesterlies. A change to strong cold showery southwesterlies in the evening, with snow down to 500 metres.

Showers and snow gradually clearing and cold southwest winds easing.

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Timaru

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mainly fine

Dunedin

few showers

Invercargill

few showers

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

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showers fine fine fine showers drizzle fine showers fine fine fine fine rain fine drizzle

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Rise 12:53 am Set 10:44 am

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cumecs

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday 118.7 Nth Ashburton at 3:00 pm, yesterday

6.01

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7.89

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

43.9 252.7

Waitaki Kurow at 3:00 pm, yesterday Source: Environment Canterbury

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 12.5 13.5 Max to 4pm 2.9 Minimum -0.9 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm August to date 19.4 Avg Aug to date 49 2013 to date 602.0 449 Avg year to date Wind km/h S6 At 4pm Strongest gust SW 20 Time of gust 2:19pm

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Canterbury Readings

Wednesday

7:35 1:45 7:59 2:13 8:31 2:41 8:57 3:09 9:29 3:40 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.

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Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing Monday

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Wellington

Snow clearing and becoming fine.

Strong cold southerlies easing.

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Fine apart from some cloud about the divide.

Wind at 1000m: NW gusting 50 km/h in exposed places.

Wind at 2000m: W 50 km/h.

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For the very latest weather information, including Weather Warnings, visit metservice.com

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OVERNIGHT MIN

Palmerston North few showers

FZL: 1500m

Rain about the divide in the morning, spreading elsewhere in the afternoon or evening and turning to snow. NW, severe gale in exposed places, turning cold S.

THURSDAY

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FZL: 1600m

Mainly fine. A few showers about the divide, clearing in the afternoon.

Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: W 60 km/h, easing.

Fine with light winds.

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Tomorrow, a disturbed westerly flow covers New Zealand. A trough followed by colder southerlies is expected to move over the South Island later on Wednesday and the North Island on Thursday. It is followed by a high moving onto New Zealand on Friday.

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6am Breakfast 9am L Sailing – America’s Cup Louis Vuitton Cup – Final.

From San Francisco Bay (if required).

10am Good Morning 11am Cowboy Builders 3 Noon One News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Declan’s upset; Katie wakes after a nightmare. 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me Australia 3 2pm Four Weddings USA 3 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 MasterChef Australia 3 The remaining 11 contestants face an empty mystery box, and must fill it with ingredients they love, and one hard-to-love ingredient. 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Dog Squad 0 8pm Life Flight 0 8:30 Person of Interest AO 0 9:30 Castle AO While investigating a woman’s murder, Castle and Beckett find evidence that links her death with the man responsible for Beckett’s mother’s murder. 0 10:25 One News Tonight 0 10:55 Football – English Premier League (Highlights)

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:35 Tiki Tour 0 7am Fish Hooks 3 0 7:25 Rated A For Awesome 0 7:50 Transformers Prime 3 0 8:15 Franklin 0 8:40 Mike The Knight 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Home And Away 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon The Secret Circle PGR 3 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle PGR 2pm My Kitchen Rules 3 0 3:10 Supernormal 3 0 3:20 Angry Birds Toons 0 3:30 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 4pm Kickin’ It 3 0 4:30 The Erin Simpson Show 4:59 Horace In Slow Motion 3 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street Emma gets the right answer; Roimata takes her life into her own hands; Brooke suffers a fall from grace. 0 7:30 The Middle 0 8pm Suburgatory PGR 0 8:30 Grey’s Anatomy AO 0 9:30 Private Practice AO 0 10:30 N Monday Mornings AO

12:05 Sailing – America’s Cup (Highlights) 12:50 World’s Strictest Parents US PGR 3 0 1:45 Infomercials 5:05 Believer’s Voice Of Victory 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11:30 Orange Is The New Black AO 12:35 Brothers And Sisters PGR 30 1:30 Infomercials 2:35 Private Practice AO 3 0 3:25 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 4:15 Anderson Live 5:05 The Erin Simpson Show 3 5:30 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 N2K PGR 7am The Kitchen Job 8am Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 8:30 Cheese Slices 9am The Story Of Wales Huw Edwards presents a history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before.

10am Travel Wild 10:30 Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast 11:30 Saturday Cookbook Foodloving Nadia Sawalha and chef Mark Sargeant wake up the nation with a mouth-watering line up of food.

12:30 Home Of The Future 1:30 Days Of Our Lives PGR 2:30 Wild At Heart PGR The story of a family who moves to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve.

3:30 The Stagers 4pm Trish’s French Kitchen 4:30 Secret Meat Business 5pm Design Star 6pm My Kitchen 6:30 House Crashers 7pm Oddities 7:30 B-Guided 8:30 Walking Through History With Tony Robinson 9:30 Coast 10:30 Stupid Stupid Man A0 11pm Oddities 11:30 Wild At Heart

TUESDAY

12:30 Benny Hinn 1am House Crashers 1:30 What’s Really In Our Food?

2am Trish’s French Kitchen 2:30 Secret Meat Business 3am Design Star 4am B-Guided 5am Coast

TV THREE 6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 The Shopping Channel 11:30 The Office 3 Noon 3 News 12:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 30 1pm Dr Phil AO 2pm The Dr Oz Show PGR 3pm Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 3 0 3:30 F House Rules 3 5pm Entertainment Tonight 5:25 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals Jamie Oliver cooks Asian sea bass, sticky rice and dressed greens, chorizo carbonara, and Catalan market salad. 0 6pm 3 News

7pm Campbell Live 7:30 N The Block NZ PGR Four new teams set out to arrive in first place at The Block New Zealand and choose the best house. 0 8:35 M Predators AO 3 2010 Action. A group of killers is brought together on an alien planet to be hunted by a new breed of alien Predators.

Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo. 0 10:50 Nightline 11:30 Sons Of Anarchy AO 3 The Sons loan out their porn stars in exchange for a gun deal, but one member of the MC is unhappy about it. 0 12:30 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 City Impact Church

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Moe 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 7:55 Hey Arnold! 3 8:25 Chuggington 8:35 Bananas In Pyjamas 3 8:50 Bob The Builder 9am Thomas And Friends 9:10 Peppa Pig 3 9:20 Barney And Friends 3 9:50 Humf 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Moe 3 3pm Sticky TV Featuring – Franklin And Friends and Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion.

4:30 Four Live 6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 6:30 Futurama 3 7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30

The Simpsons 3 0 How I Met Your Mother PGR 3 New Girl PGR 3 Up All Night PGR Reagan and Chris try to prove they are not boring; Ava gets rid of her clutter with help from Scott, and meets her biggest fan.

9pm Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 PGR 3 9:25 Raising Hope PGR (Starting Today) 3 9:55 Parks and Recreation AO 10:20 The Ringer AO 11:15 Entertainment Tonight 11:45 Infomercials

PRIME

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Inside the Human Body PGR 8:35 Aftermath – On the Road to Recovery PGR The rumbles may have eased, but the stress remains. A look at how Cantabrians are coping with the psychological impact of the earthquakes.

9:35 60 Minutes PGR 10:40 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 11:10 The Late Show With David Letterman A late-night comedy and talk show.

12:05 Home Shopping 1:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2:05 Home Shopping

THE BOX 6am NYPD Blue MVLS 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 7:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 8:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 8:30 My Name Is Earl PG 8:55 24 MVLS 9:45 Law And Order MV 10:35 CSI – Miami MV 11:25 SmackDown! MC 1:10 NYPD Blue MVLS 2:20 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 2:45 My Name Is Earl PG 3:10 24 MVLS 4pm Hardcore Pawn PG 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Law And Order MV 6pm America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 6:30 The Simpsons PG 7pm Hardcore Pawn PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 CSI – New York MV 9:30 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 10:30 Law And Order MV 11:30 CSI – Miami MV

TUESDAY

12:25 24 MVLS 1:15 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 1:40 My Name Is Earl PG 2:05 NYPD Blue MVLS 3:10 CSI – New York MV 3:55 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 4:45 24 MVLS 5:35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG

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6am L Golf – US PGA Tour The Barclays – Round Four. From Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey. 10am Golf – European PGA Tour (Highlights) Johnnie Walker Championship – Round Four.

11am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Tasman v Canterbury.

1pm Cricket – International England v Australia – Fifth Test, Day Five.

3pm Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Winton 360 – Race 25.

3:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Winton 360 – Race 26.

4pm Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) 4:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 6:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) 7pm Arena Access 7:30 Cycling – La Vuelta Race (Highlights) Stage Two – Pontevedra to Baiona Alto Do Monte Da Groba. From Spain.

8pm Rugby – International (Replay) All Blacks v Wallabies. From Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

10pm Football League Show 10:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Winton 360 – Race 26.

11pm Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Winton 360 – Race 27.

11:30 L Motorcycling – British Superbikes Championship Round Eight. 5am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 5:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Sharks v Roosters.

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Kai Time On The Road 8pm N Project Matauranga 8:30 Native Affairs 9:30 A New Hope AO 10pm Tatai Hono 3 10:30 Rugby League – UK Super League 3

TUESDAY

12:30 Te Kaea 3 2 1am Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Dirty Jobs PG The Dirty Truth.

7:30 Sons Of Guns M Wedlock and Load. 8:30 Tuna Wranglers PG 9:30 Deadliest Catch PG 10:30 Top Hooker PG 11:30 River Monsters With Jeremy Wade PG 12:30 I (Almost) Got Away With It M Got to Build a Bridge to Freedom.

1:30 Blood, Lies And Alibis M 2:30 Auction Hunters PG 3pm Auction Hunters PG 3:30 Sons Of Guns M 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 Mythbusters PG 6:30 Sons Of Guns M 7:30 Auction Kings PG 8pm Auction Hunters PG 8:30 Mythbusters PG 9:30 The Big Brain Theory PG 10:30 Deadly Devotion M 11:30 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M TUESDAY Midnight I Was Murdered M 12:30 Sons Of Guns M 1:30 Auction Kings PG 2am Auction Hunters PG 2:30 Mythbusters PG 3:30 The Big Brain Theory PG 4:30 Flying Wild Alaska PG 5:30 Auction Kings PG

Predators

8:35pm on TV3

SKY MOVIES 6:40 Directors – Randal Kleiser PG 2009 Documentary. 7:10 Courageous MV 2011 Drama. Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel. 9:20 The Dark Knight Rises MV 2012 Action.

Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway.

12:05 The Descendants ML 2011 Drama. George Clooney, Shailene Woodley.

2pm Men In Black 3 MV 2012 Sci-fi Comedy. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones.

3:45 Have A Little Faith PG 2011 Drama. Martin Landau, Laurence Fishburne.

5:20 One For The Money MVL 2011 Comedy. Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara.

6:55 Robot And Frank ML 2012 Drama.

8:30 Immortals 16V 2011 Action.

10:25 A Few Best Men 16VL 2011 Comedy.

TUESDAY

Midnight Machine Gun Preacher 16VLS 2011 Action. 2:05 All Souls Day 16VS 2005 Horror. 3:35 Immortals 16V 2011 Action. 5:25 All Souls Day 16VS 2005 Horror.

6:55 Have A Little Faith PG 2011 Drama.

Aftermath – On the Road to Recovery, 8:35pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS 7:15 Ray MC 2004 Drama. Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Terrence Howard. 9:45 Lethal Weapon 3 MVL 1992 Action. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover.

11:45 Entrapment MV 1999 Thriller. Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

1:40 Gangs Of New York 16VLS 2002 Historical Drama. Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz.

4:25 50 First Dates MS 2004 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider.

6:05 Blood Diamond 16V 2006 Drama. Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou.

8:30 Dead Calm MVLS 1989 Thriller.

Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman.

10:10 The Wrong Man 16VLS 2006 Crime.

TUESDAY

Midnight Directors – Mike Figgis PG 2011 12:30 50 First Dates MS 2004 Comedy. 2:10 Blood Diamond 16V 2006 Drama. 4:30 Dead Calm MVLS 1989 Thriller. 6:05 Directors – Mike Figgis PG 2011 6:35 The Wrong Man 16VLS 2006 Crime.

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6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

7am Deal Or No Deal 3 Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $200,000.

7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR A talk show focusing on tough medical questions in an open forum.

1pm The Jeff Probst Show 2:05 Masterchef USA PGR 3 3pm Millionaire – Hot Seat 3 3:30 Getaway 3 4pm The Late Show With David Letterman 3 5pm Deal Or No Deal 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Korero Mai 3 2 3pm Warrant Of Fitness 3 3:30 Rolie Polie Olie 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm F Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

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6am What’s On 6:30 Rugby – International (Highlights) All Blacks v Wallabies.

7am Canoeing – Slalom World Cup (Highlights) 7:30 Red Bull Chronicles 8am L Motorsport – IRL IndyCar Series Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma. From Sonoma Raceway in California.

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Noon Golf – Canadian Women’s Open (Highlights) Round Four.

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3pm Rugby – International (Highlights) Argentina v South Africa.

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11pm L Monday Night With Matty Johns

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Wakanui Black captain Daniel Lovett with the Walker and Hall Shield Trophy that his side won for a third straight season on Saturday.

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■ HOCKEY

Three-peat for Wakanui champions

BY JONATHAN LEASK

JONATHAN.L@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Wakanui Black clinched a Walker and Hall Shield hat-trick with a 3-0 win over Northern Hearts in the Mid-South Canterbury men’s hockey final in Timaru on Saturday.

They not only secured a third straight title for Wakanui but capped off an unbeaten season in style with a convincing win.

“I actually thought we played

really well in what was real final hockey,” Wakanui Black’s Mark Bennett said.

The finals atmosphere made for a tense and tight opening as both sides counter-punched looking for chinks in the other’s armour.

Wakanui lost the experienced former Black Stick Ryan Wilson to a reoccurrence of a hamstring strain early but on the 20 minute mark fellow former international Hugh Copland showed his

class beating defenders and firing in a rocket reverse stick shot to put Wakanui up 1-0.

“It was one hell of a shot and I think the goalie is still looking for it because he didn’t see it.”

Down 1-0, Hearts looked for ways to get back in the game, “making a nuisance” of themselves with some physical challenges, but Wakanui held them out.

A bit of luck then had Wakanui Black go up 2-0 courtesy

of the new own goal law.

The ball was fired into the Hearts’ circle looking to miss but the Hearts’ goalie made a play at the ball only to deflect it into the goal, gifting Wakanui a two-goal buffer.

“It was a bit of a lucky goal but it probably changed the game quite a bit. “ Wakanui then got right on top and from a penalty corner Copland against showed his finishing skills slotting home his sec-

ond to take a commanding 3-0 lead to take their third straight title.

Bennett praised the “outstanding work” of former Canterbury representative Adam Wilson, the classy finishing of Copland and the clean sheet from goalie Ryan Carr who “made a number of exceptional saves” to keep Hearts scoreless.

The women’s final also had defending champions St Andrews overcome Craighead 8-7.

Hammers win opening game

Semi-final spots sorted

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