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By Erin Tasker Use a cellphone while driving around Mid Canterbury this week and the chances are you will get caught.

A blitz on drivers using cellphones will be the focus for police nationwide from today until Sunday.

The campaign is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the introduction of legislation banning mobile phone use while driving and to remind drivers of the risk associated with distraction while driving. Recent figures show drivers are still learning.

In Mid Canterbury, local highway patrol staff issued 43 infringement notices in the 2010/11 year, and 102 in the 2011/12 reporting year.

That was a trend mirrored around Canterbury, where the number of tickets issued in the region rose by 120 per cent in the space of a year.

Superintendent Carey Griffiths, national manager road policing, said the campaign was timed to remind drivers to be aware of the risk that distractions represent, especially talking on cellphones.

“But distraction can come in many forms – changing the CD, unrestrained pets, quarrelling children, things rolling round in the car, eating, putting on make-up, to name a few common ones that we come across,” he said.

“Driving a car is not something to be taken casually. Everyone should approach driving with respect; after all, for most people it is the most dangerous activity they will ever undertake.”

Although the legislation allows the use of hands-free mobile phones, police recommend that drivers minimise the potential for distraction by switching phones off while driving, or pulling over to make or receive calls.

“We are now several years down the track. We don’t see any excuses for people still failing to comply with this legislation. We will be taking a very firm approach and police will be out nationwide doing their best to impress upon drivers how serious we are about this issue.”

Police will also be checking to ensure all vehicle occupants are wearing seatbelts.

“We know that wearing seatbelts continues to save lives but there are still some drivers and their passengers who just don’t get it.

“So we will also be focusing on

making sure that everyone in all vehicles is wearing a safety belt or child restraint and action will be taken against any drivers or their passengers detected who are not wearing seatbelts.”

They were two simple things drivers could do to keep safe, Mr Griffiths said.

“It is not hard or time consuming but it can be the difference between life and death if something goes wrong.

“We want every journey to be a safer journey for every road user.”

The cellphone law came into affect on November 1, 2009, following the deaths of a Mid Canterbury couple in a car crash involving a young man who drove through an intersection. He had been drinking and sending and receiving texts before the crash.

Record numbers rise to the challenge

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Competitors in the 35km Classic Mountain Bike race ride the picturesque farmlands of the Mid Canterbury coast in the Longbeach Coastal Challenge yesterday.

By Myles Hume They knew it was going to be big, but Longbeach Coastal Challenge organisers never expected it to be this big.

With 800 participants expected to bike, run or walk the coast of Mid Canterbury, even more flocked to the Tannaghmore farm property as more than 900 people signed up for the event, leaving organisers ecstatic with the way “hundreds and hundreds” of hours of work played out yesterday.

Last year, 635 competitors rolled up with the walk and run added to the schedule, but this year’s total dwarfed that, leaving spokesperson Jo Taylor excited about how far the event has come in six years.

“It was just absolutely incredible,” Ms Taylor said.

‘The weather could not have been better and we had so much great feedback from people, some were even saying they will be back next year with 10 mates’ - Jo Taylor “The weather could not have been better and we had so much great feedback from people, some were even saying they will be back next year with 10 mates.”

Organisers saw the biggest numbers ever in the 12km walk where 160 signed up, while 100 took part in the 12km run and 60 confronted the half marathon.

Ms Taylor said having those events appealed to people of all shapes and sizes while families also made up a large part of that.

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However, in the main event, the 35km Classic Mountain Bike ride, a record 180 athletes competed with one of those being Anton Cooper, who won the junior men’s crosscountry title at the ICU Mountain Bike World Championships in September.

Cooper has dominated the event in recent years where he set the course record of 1 hour 9 minutes, riding over the farmlands, coastal tracks, streams and gullies of the Mid Canterbury coast.

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By Erin Tasker The organisers of Saturday’s Flight 4 Life at Lake Hood can’t believe how well the inaugural event went.

What started off as a simple idea and just an excuse to fly some kites, turned into an international event with people coming from as far away as Singapore and Germany to take part.

And most have booked to come back again next year.

“I think we might have started something, everybody

is booked for next year,” said Craig Hansen, one of the organisers.

He said it was hard to know how many people actually turned out to watch the kites of all shapes and sizes in action, but 350 people responded via a Facebook page to say they would be attending, and most of them came along with family and friends.

“We had exactly what we wanted, which was people picnicking with their kids and creating memories. You just can’t buy that stuff,” Mr Hansen said.

It was a weather dependent event, and the weather couldn’t have been better.

“We couldn’t have asked for better wind, we had consistent wind all day,” Mr Hansen said.

He said the event was so much better than the organisers ever expected; they had to do three runs back to town to get more sausages and bread to feed the hungry crowds.

The event was a fundraiser for Canteen and girl guides spent the day walking around with buckets collecting donations, which have yet to be tallied up.

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This year he was not able to beat his record, finishing with a time of 1 hour 15 minutes, but claiming the fastest time of the day and earning himself a $650 pay day.

“He was absolutely amazing and some of the course marshals were saying ‘was that Anton?’ because he was going so fast,” Ms Taylor said.

His female counterpart, Kristine Marriott, took out the open women’s 35km bike race with a time 1hr 37mins, setting a new course record for the grade.

Meanwhile, in the half marathon Martina Fellman won the open women’s grade with Nathan Turner winning the men’s open grade.

In the 12km run, Jake Bell won the open men’s grade while Hollie Woodhouse took out the women’s event.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DEATHS COONEY, Laurence Killoh – On 23 November, 2012, at Nurse Maude Hospice, Christchurch, after a short illness. Dearly loved husband and friend of Merle. Much loved Father and Father in law of David and Susan (UK), Jo and Dave (Christchurch), Jude and Richard (Auckland).

Treasured Grandad of Amelia, and Lincoln; Lucy, and Lizzie; and Isla. Aged 73 Years. Messages to PO Box 665, Ashburton, 7740.

A memorial service for Laurence will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on Thursday 29 November, commencing at 1.30pm. At Laurence’s request a private cremation service has been held.

Paterson’s Funeral Services, FDANZ, Ashburton CRIBB, Arthur William – On 23 November 2012 a Rosebank Hospital, Ashburton. Much loved husband and best friend of Jean. Much loved Father and Father in law of Peter, Barbara, Heather and Michael Valentine, and the late John. Loved Grandad of Rayne; Hannah, Courtney, and Troy; Carl, and Dale; and Great Grandad of Hudson. Loved Uncle of all his nieces and nephews, and friend to all. In his 81st year.

Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton, 7740. Arthur’s funeral service will be held in Our Chapel, Corner East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on Thursday 29 November, commencing at 2pm. To be followed by Private Cremation.

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Sellers score massive gains

By Kirsty Wynn It’s almost as good as claiming Lotto’s first-division prize – the winners in Auckland’s frantic housing market are selling their properties for hundreds of thousands of dollars above their official valuations.

Statistics show that in the past six months there have been at least nine properties that sold for $500,000 or more above their CV, and one went for a whopping $1.2 million above valuation.

Most of the properties to shatter their valuations are family homes in top school zones or close to the city, according to the figures obtained from Quotable Value.

The housing boom is also making it difficult for independent valuers to put an accurate price on properties.

An example of the gains being made is a 1960s brick and tile home on Auckland’s North Shore.

The Mairangi Bay property at 8

Penzance Road was revalued by the council last year at $880,000 but sold at auction in May this year for $1.5 million – a staggering 70 per cent more than its CV. New owners Sally and Jason Galea bought the property with their two young children in mind, and have no plans to subdivide the sprawling 1140sq m piece of land.

“We have already had two people knock on our door and ask if we are willing to sell a portion, but we said no. This size property is the last of its kind around here, and we wanted somewhere for the kids to run around.”

Galea thought the CV of $880,000 was low, and said the family had extended themselves to buy the property but were happy with their new home. Their previous home, just 200m up the road, had also sold well above CV. The Penzance Road home was close to the beach, cafes and good schools, so interest was high and had pushed the price up, said real

estate agent Deb McCool.

Other properties in the area had sold for between $120,000$200,000 over CV but Penzance Road stood out.

“Properties like this are few and far between, and there were around 200 people at the auction and bidding was strong,” McCool said.

Putting an accurate price on any property was a real problem at the moment because there were more buyers than sellers, McCool said.

She recently sold a house at auction for $749,000 that the vendor was about to accept $680,000 for.

She said council valuations were meaningless and that even registered valuers were struggling to find accurate prices at the moment.

Another stand-out property was 18 Rangitoto Avenue in Remuera, which sold for $2,895,000 in August – $1,175,000 over its recent CV of $1,720,000.

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Group may fight demolition Pearce

By Susan Sandys The New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) may yet appeal an Ashburton District Council decision to allow demolition of the category two Methven Public Library building.

The trust has 15 working days from when it received the decision after it was released on November 12, to review it and make further submissions.

An appeal would be under section 120 of the Resource Management Act and it would be lodged with the Environment Court.

NZHPT was the only opposing submitter to an application to the council for demolition by the Methven Public Library committee.

Consent for demolition was granted by independent Commissioner Patricia Harte after a council hearing on October 29. Consent was also granted to the Methven Historical Society committee for demolition of the Methven museum, however, the trust would be more likely to appeal the library decision.

It has considered there is more of an opportunity to save the 1883 library, a wellconstructed Italianate building, as the library committee

owned the land the library was on and planned to join with the museum on the site.

NZHPT area manager Owen Graham said the trust was still reviewing the decision and as yet had no comment on whether it would appeal the decision or not.

Methven Public Library committee chairperson Eleanor Marr said if the NZHPT did appeal and lost its appeal, “all they are doing is delaying the demolition”.

In the event of an appeal being successful, the library building would succumb to neglect as the library committee would be forced to start a new library elsewhere.

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By Myles Hume Ashburton golfer Daniel Pearce was determined a back injury was not going to stand in the way of finally living his dream as a professional golfer.

Tweaking his lower back shortly before his third round at the New Zealand Golf Open at Clearwater in Christchurch, Pearce, 24, contemplated pulling out of the tournament where he made his first appearance as a professional golfer.

When he woke up before the fourth round yesterday, Pearce thought it was all over.

But a trip to the chiropractor and a tube of Deep Heat later, he soon found himself shooting his best round of 70 for the tournament.

“I was a bit nervous going into it, I was thinking anything could happen today.”

It didn’t start well for Pearce, with the injury creeping into his mind on his first tee shot of the day.

“I almost missed my first tee shot. It didn’t come anywhere near the middle of the club and I saw a few spectators getting out of the way.”

But he managed to push through the pain barrier, leaving him “stoked” after eventually finishing tied for 16 and claiming a pay packet of around $4500.

“It’s not the biggest cheque in the world but I’m pretty happy to be earning over $4000 in my first tournament as a pro,” Pearce said. “I guess it makes all those long hours worth it and all those hours wondering why I’m doing it.”

It’s only the start of a great week for Pearce who is set to marry his partner of three-and-a-half years, Sarah Flynn, on Saturday.

Pearce now turns his sights to claiming a spot in Qualifying School in Australia in December before earning a tour card.

The value of having a website stocked with plenty of information has been hammered home to the Ashburton District Council with the release of its new district plan.

Councillors and council staff worked for months reviewing the district plan and when this was released in draft form it attracted hundreds of submissions and comments. Months of hearings followed before the final was released.

And when that plan became public property, the council not only saw the number of visitors to its building and phone calls for information increase, it also watched the number of visits to its website increase almost three-fold.

Copies of the notified district plan are available on-line but also in hard copy from the council office. The plan spells out the rules around what development can occur and where, around the district.

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Baring all. Brian Newth shows the judges his art work in the full body tattoo section at Saturday’s Ashburton Motorcycle Show, run by the Jokers Social Club.

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Police have confirmed a body discovered in a forest area close to State Highway 38 near Murupara is missing 51-year -old Michelle Hoffman-Tamm from Rotorua.

Ms Hoffman-Tamm’s family had been advised.

A forensic examination of an address in Holland Street was expected to continue for a couple more days, police said.

Ms Hoffman-Tamm’s body was discovered on Friday afternoon.

Police said they received information connected to Hoffman-Tamm’s disappearance that led them to the search of the patch of forest, 10km from Murupara.

A post mortem examination on the body took place in Auckland at the weekend.

A 44-year old woman appeared in Rotorua District Court on Friday charged with assaulting Ms Hoffman-Tamm, who went missing 18 days ago.

The Rotorua woman, who was granted interim name suppression, did not enter a plea when she appeared before a community magistrate and was remanded in custody to reappear in court on December 3.

Since finding Ms Hoffman-Tamm’s body, police have upgraded their investigation to a homicide inquiry.

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Rainbow, who marketed and sold the property, said buyer competition was fierce.

“Two hundred parties registered from open-home viewings and at auction. Five parties were competitively bidding against each other, which ensured the top price was achieved,” Rainbow said.

He said the CV could be a ballpark figure but a lack of stock and high demand meant the price was pushed up by bidders who all desperately wanted the home.

The house had undergone significant internal renovations and remodelling work that were not factored into the $1,720,000 council valuation.

“A council valuation is a broad snapshot of a suburb, and fails to take into account added-value work that owners have invested in,” Rainbow said.

“This was certainly the case for 18 Rangitoto Ave, where a substantial sum had been spent including the kitchen and outdoor entertaining area.”

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It’s been called one of the best motorbike shows in Australasia, and the Jokers Social Club’s Ashburton Motorcycle Show lived up to its billing on Saturday.

Bikes and bikers alike went on show at the Ashburton Racecourse, as bikes battled out across various categories for the title of the best in show, and many of their tattooed riders showed off their body ink to find the best.

Jokers vice-president Gerald McKenzie said it was a successful show, with huge numbers through the gates. People came from around the country for what is now a well-known show which the club runs every two years.

“People actually build bikes for

our show,” Mr McKenzie said.

And the reason it was so good was largely down to the venue.

Mr McKenzie said while other bike shows were often in halls, the Ashburton Racecourse was a much friendlier venue.

They have the motorcycles – all buffed and shined to the max – in one part and the tattoo show upstairs, where this year about 60 bodies went on display.

There were judges to decide the best bikes and the best tattooed bodies, and Mr McKenzie said he didn’t envy the job of either.

This year’s show was the club’s 11th and each year the proceeds go to a charity. Just how much they raised is yet to be tallied up, and what charity the money goes to will be decided at the club’s next meeting.

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Man, 61, gored by cattle beast

By Anna Leask A man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was gored by a longhorn cattle beast, which lifted him into the air several times while its horn was lodged in his stomach.

The 61-year-old Woodville man was gored as he tried to move the beast in a paddock at Woodville, east of Palmerston North, at about 2.30pm yesterday.

He was with two other people, who watched on in horror as the beast’s horn drove into his torso near his stomach and chest. The animal lifted him up and down off the ground and left him with lifethreatening injuries.

Am ambulance was called and paramedics treated the man, who was still conscious, until the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter arrived to airlift him to hospital.

Base manager and pilot Chris Moodie said the witnesses said the beast had become agitated.

“Clearly it meant to harm him, he has been genuinely attacked,” he said.

“But what caused that, we don’t know.”

He spoke with the witnesses,

who were shaken by what they had seen, and managed to work out “the mechanics” of what had happened – where the horns had penetrated the man and how deep.

“He was very seriously injured.

There’s no doubt about that.”

Federated Farmers Manawatu/ Rangitikei president Andrew Hoggard said it was unusual for someone to be gored.

“To actually be gored is pretty rare, usually (beasts) are dehorned,” he said.

“It wouldn’t be uncommon to hear of a crushing injury when you’re in the yards or working with bulls. But it’s pretty rare to hear of someone being gored.”

He said anyone working with such large animals needed to be extra careful to avoid injury.

“The main thing I tell my staff when dealing with stock is to keep their wits about them, never turn your back on them and always know what your escape plan is – what way you’re going to run and what fence you’re going to jump over, and whether you can actually make it over the fence.

“When you’re dealing with potentially stressed animals you should always have a couple of people with you. It’s safety in numbers.”

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Outdoor dining

By Sue Newman Ashburton has finally handed the district’s hospitality outlets an opportunity to take their business out onto the street.

For years the rules around cafes extending their trading area out on the pavement have been shrouded in confusion. In the past, businesses that have secured the right to place tables outside their front door have had to jump through the Ashburton District Council’s policy hoops.

Some asked and were declined, others asked and were granted permission subject to a raft of conditions. The problem for everyone involved was that the council’s al fresco dining policy was at best, unclear, and it didn’t fit modern day trading needs.

When the Ashburton Trust applied for consent to create a dining and drinking area outside Braided Rivers, it discovered that gaining council approval was going to be a far from simple

undertaking. What it wanted and what the council could allow were poles apart. The trust didn’t give up and the council came to the party by undertaking a review of its al fresco dining policy.

The policy has been reviewed, the changes made and trust chief executive Giles Beal said the new al fresco area should be open for business early in the new year.

He anticipates the trust will need to spend at least $120,000 to create an area that will accommodate 12 tables for dining and drinking and a separate area for streetside smokers.

It is still finalising a deal to lease the parking spaces it will require from the council to create the area and the project just needs the final sign off from the trust board.

While it had been a long road to securing approval for the outdoor area, Mr Beal said the council had gone out of its way to work with all hospitality outlets in Ashburton to ensure the final policy would best meet everyone’s needs.

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• Three crashes Three crashes kept emergency services on their toes in Mid Canterbury yesterday. Ashburton police senior sergeant Grant Russell said the first occurred at 11am, when a motorcyclist pulled out in front of a van on State Highway 1, at Chertsey.

The motorcyclist was taken to hospital with a broken leg. Then at 1.30pm a car lost control and hit a power pole on Grahams Road. The male occupant was taken to hospital and treated for moderate injuries. The third occurred at about 6pm and was a three-car nose-to-tail on State Highway 1 near Fairton.

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Paralympic swimmer Sophie Pasco cuts the ribbon to officially open the newly heated Tinwald Pool while Alistair Wing and Beverley Walls watch on.

Tinwald pool open for business

A lucky Lotto punter has won more than $20 million dollars after buying the winning ticket from an Invercargill stationery shop.

NZ Lotteries’ chief executive Wayne Pickup said Saturday night’s winner was the ninth Lotto multi-millionaire this year. “A win this big is simply life changing, no matter what your situation – so no doubt they’ll be celebrating,” he said. The winning Lotto Powerball ticket was sold at Windsor Stationery & Lotto in Invercargill. The total prize is made up of $500,000 from Lotto First Division and $20m from Powerball first division.

In Saturday night’s draw another lucky Lotto player from Christchurch won a $500,000 share of Lotto’s first division.

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• Lotto results Official Lotto results for draw number 1329 drawn on Saturday.

Winning numbers (in ascending order): 3, 4, 18, 19, 34, 35.

Bonus number: 21.

Powerball winning number: 9.

Strike: 4, 34, 35, 18.

By Erin Tasker A one-legged swimmer who is the best in the world officially opened the Tinwald pool yesterday, before showing everyone just how good she is.

Multi-gold medal winning Paralympian Sophie Pascoe cut the ribbon on the redevelopment at the Tinwald Domain’s pool yesterday, and told those who had gone along to see her that it was great to see swimming alive and well in the Ashburton community.

She then jumped in the pool to test out the now warmer waters herself, and had a two-length freestyle race against former Ashburton swim team captain Chris White. It went down to the wire, but Pascoe looked to have just got her fingertips to the wall first, much to the delight of the crowd.

Pascoe, who lost a leg as a toddler after a run-in with a lawnmower, has become a household name after her Paralympic efforts. But she told the crowd it had been far from easy getting to where she has.

“I have overcome a lot of hurdles I guess but I’ve never let having one leg hold me back,” she said.

And the Tinwald Reserves Board was pleased she took the time out of her busy schedule to make the trip down and open the pool for the summer, and staying in the pool and mingling with the many children who made the most of the free swimming opportunity.

Tinwald Reserves Board chairman Alistair Wing said the heating of the pool had been two years in the making but now it was completed they hoped to keep the water at a constant temperature of around 27-degrees, hopefully lengthening its season.

Mr Wing said the project had been spearheaded by Beverley Walls and had it not been for her – and the businesses and organisations that came on board with vital sponsorship – the redevelopment would not have been the success it was.

The pool will be open from 1pm until 7pm on Saturdays and Sundays up until Christmas and after that it will be open every day until school goes back.

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Santa made one of his first public appearances of the festive season at yesterday’s Tinwald Festival. A large crowd of mainly families with young children went along to the free event at the Plains Railway, and they were greeted by warm temperatures and plenty to see and do. There was music and entertainment, ice-creams and other refreshments, steam train rides, classic cars and other old time transport there to have a close-up look at, while the visit from Santa provided the youngest festival-goers a chance to put in their early requests for what they want to find under the Christmas tree. Making sure Santa knows exactly what they want are Casey (left), 5, and Jesse Phillips, 4.

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Business really is booming I

t’s a good time to be a tradesperson in Mid Canterbury.

Or to be training to be one, as 10 students from Ashburton College discovered.

Before they had even finished their final year at school, the 10 were already snapped up by local firms to become full-time apprentices.

At the same time, other tradespeople are forced to recruit overseas, while the Christchurch rebuild has also started its aggressive recruiting campaign to lure prospects from this region.

Over 50 interested candidates had a chat to the people in For Real bus last week and over 20 signed up to go and work in Christchurch.

This move has annoyed Grow Mid Canterbury boss Rob Brawley as he believes the region needs to hold onto its own people to cope with the demand in the growing district.

Employers share that frustration as many struggle to find new blood in their own backyard.

Someone like business owner Shane Woods, who had to fly all the way to the Philippines to find new painters, would have wondered why some of those people heading to Christchurch would not prefer to learn the trade in their home town.

The pressure is on to find qualified staff in Mid Canterbury but that situation may even get worse if the Christchurch rebuild starts in earnest. Currently many builders are still occupied with repairs through EQC

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and Fletchers, but once the insurance companies start releasing money for total rebuilds, the available work is likely to explode.

Add to that the thousands of new sections being developed from Ohoka to Rolleston and the building industry looks set for years to come.

Skills shortage has been a major issue in Ashburton for years, but if demand for new sections in the local developments continues to grow, many prospective home owners and developers may struggle to actually get the houses built.

Local builders and other contractors may be forced into a bidding war just to keep their current staff, as recruiting from elsewhere in the country could become a struggle.

More expensive wages will lead to more expensive bills for home owners, so in the end, it may become a problem for all of us.

Employers may need to investigate why those individuals who stepped onto the For Real bus cannot find work in Ashburton and how they can be attracted and upskilled through expanded apprenticeships programmes.

Other initiatives like the trade courses at the College and overseas recruiting need to be applauded and encouraged to avoid the district becoming the victim of its own success.

Stabbed teen ‘not in gang’ ‘He is a quiet and special boy who doesn’t belong to any gang’

By Lin Ferguson Medical staff have told the father of a teenage boy stabbed in the face with a screwdriver in Wanganui that it is too dangerous to operate to remove a piece of bone in his brain.

The father of Manutahi Edward, 16, has also denied his son is a member of a gang.

The teenager was stabbed in the face with a screwdriver on Wednesday night on the corner or Keith Street and Glasgow Street, reportedly because he was wearing a blue hat, a colour associated with the Black Power gang.

He was initially taken to

- Len Kahui Wanganui Hospital but transferred to Wellington Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

Yesterday Len Kahui said the stabbing into his son’s cheekbone had been so violent it had pushed a piece of bone up into his brain.

“The piece of bone is in a bad position and the doctors told me it was too dangerous to operate.

They told me that only time will be the healer now.”

Six weeks ago Mr Kahui was

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New Zealand’s first Olympic gold medal winner in women’s sprint canoeing, Lisa Carrington, has won the supreme Albie Pryor Memorial Sports Person of the Year at the Maori Sports Awards in Auckland on Saturday night. The 23-year-old Bay of Plenty sprint kayaker blitzed the field to win her final by almost half a second.

Twenty-two Olympians, three Paralympians, 11 world champions and four world champion teams were honoured at the 2012 Maori Sports Awards.

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• Man killed A 38-year-old man was killed yesterday when his light truck collided with a logging truck in Napier, throwing him into the inner harbour. Police said a doctor on the scene, who went to the aid of the deceased in ankle-deep water, said he believed the man died immediately on impact. The head-on collision occurred at 1.23pm.

Police said it appeared the driver of the south-bound light Nissan truck was not wearing a seatbelt.

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• NZ fights back

Final thought: One final thought on this “topic of the day”; would not the doughty Shane be a better bet for

By Nick Lindo Jones the top Labour job than EYE ON POLITICS either of the Davids currently squabbling over it? Despite some possibly inappropriate, offstage moments in hotel rooms far away and late at night, Mr Jones has though that formidable lady all the credentials – not least is comfortably ensconced in his Maori associations – needed the UN building in New York, to rouse and rally the troops she still inspires awe and fear and give the present PM and amongst my Labour associates his economically challenged back here. Will the party ever comrades the fight and fright of be rid of her? Pah!” Mr Cunliffe their lives. is seriously discombobulated.

Regardless: Regardless of DS swinging: So out comes DS swinging at the Labour con- the “unanimity” in which David Shearer is today revelling, it’s ference. He makes a suitably still hard to see in him the “fighting” speech. The delegates leadership qualities needed for applaud dutifully but not rapelectoral triumph in a mere turously. He is adamant he two years’ time. For Labour to will still be at the head of the be out of office until 2017, at party in 2015 but quickly corleast, could be a party killer. rects himself to promise contiMeanwhile … Wearing a pink nuity only till the next vote in shirt of dubious appeal and a 2013. In February of that year, broad smile of roguish enthu“Stubble” Cunliffe will have the siasm, our PM is strutting his chance of a fresh challenge, stuff in Myanmar, Cambodia but only if he can motivate, and all stations East. As often under the new party voting as he can manoeuvre it, he is rules established at the conference, 40 per cent of the current to be seen in the close company of his good friend – and less mix of List and Electorate MPs garishly clothed – the newly rewhich equates to 14, including elected Barack. himself. Should he so motivate, Frequently, the two can be the game would then be well observed in apparently earnest and truly on, with the root and conversation, though whether branch members now enfranthey are swapping mere social chised to have their say in who pleasantries or discussing matthey wish to be the leader. ters of supreme importance to A week a long time: If a both our “Great Nations” it’s week is a long time in politics, hard to say. The latter, one three months is an aeon. The hopes. summer break may be a time Mr Key (JK) searching: Mr of intrigue and uncertainty in Key is in search of trade deals, the Labour Party making Mr Free Trade Agreements (FTA) Key’s Christmas seriously more and any other money-making enjoyable. He has done nothopportunity which will, he ing to “divide and rule”. Labour hopes, give our sagging econoseems to have done it all on its my the get-up-and-go it presown.

ently lacks.

On hand, but at a respectful pace behind his leader, there stands Our Man of Trade, Mr Tim Grosser, ready to capitalise on any opening – however limited – Mr Key is able to prize from his hard-nosed hosts.

Pitch queered: Unfortunately, however, JK seems now to have queered his pitch by specifically rejecting attempts by reporters and others to persuade him to take up in Cambodia the cause of human rights, a topic about which President Obama and Australian PM, Julia Gillard seem only too happy to speak.

Argues JK: “Not the occasion.” Au contraire, “Very much the occasion,” suggest Julia and Barack. Possibly, then, a goal for John but perhaps he’s right to stick to trade and not be side-tracked by the labyrinthine complexities of eastern social politics.

Presumably that old adage still stands, namely, if we did business and engaged in trade only with those whose attitudes to their own citizens we fully approved of we would soon be in a financial wasteland and wondering from where our next meal was coming.

China, of course, comes to mind, a nation with little regard for internal human rights but one to which all “Western” nations are currently clamouring to sell any number of goods and services.

Novopay debacle: Now returned from his trade mission, with or with out juicy agreements worth millions in his back pocket, Mr Key would be well advised to sort out the Novopay debacle so teachers can be properly paid what they are owed before Christmas.

This mayhem over pay has been the last straw for the education world, 2012.

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Government doesn’t care about Dotcom, Key says

By Kieran Campbell Prime Minister John Key says the Government doesn’t care about Kim Dotcom and neither do most New Zealanders.

Hitting back yesterday at claims made by the Megaupload millionaire last week, Mr Key said the only person who cared about Dotcom was the man himself.

“The Government actually doesn’t care about Kim Dotcom.

He might think we get up every morning and it’s a top-of-mind issue, but it’s not,” Mr Key said on TVNZ’s Q+A yesterday.

“In fact, most New Zealanders don’t care about Kim Dotcom.

“The person who cares about Kim Dotcom is Kim Dotcom.

“And as we’ve said all the way along, if this guy believes he’s so innocent, get on a plane, go to America and fight your case.

If you win, come back to New Zealand no problem.”

Dotcom claimed last week he had proof Mr Key had lied about his knowledge of the internet entrepreneur earlier than the day before the January raid on Dotcom’s Coatesville mansion.

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Dotcom is currently opposing an extradition attempt by the United States, which alleges massive breaches of copyright and money laundering in relation to Megaupload.

Mr Key said to lie means “you have to deliberately mislead people, and there’s no way I’ve done that”.

“He [Dotcom] is completely and factually incorrect,” the Prime Minister said.

On the last episode of Q+A for the year, Mr Key denied criticism he had been “grumpy” and “tired” this year.

“When you work long hours, from time to time you’re going to look tired,” he said.

“I get off a plane and I start working. That’s the way it works.

“I work a lot of hours and I have a lot of papers to read and a lot of things to deal with.

“Am I grumpy? Not in the slightest.”

On the question of whether he will lead National to the 2014 election, Mr Key said: “I believe for sure I will be. I have the support of my caucus, unlike Labour.”

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Ross Taylor said at the toss “we need to show the public that we can fight”, and the New Zealand cricket captain led by example with a gritty innings in the second cricket test against Sri Lanka in Colombo last night. It was an important knock, not least of all because of what happened in the last test in Galle and the fallout from the New Zealand public, and in a curious way Taylor might have been batting to save his captaincy.

That issue is still to be played out, and there is mounting speculation Taylor’s future will be debated on New Zealand’s return from Sri Lanka, but he combined beautifully with Kane Williamson to take their side through to 175-2 at tea, and 186-2 with Taylor notching up a fine century, as the Guardian went to print.

• Driver injured A stockcar driver suffered serious injuries after his car collided with another car before hitting a concrete wall, during a race at Te Marua Speedway in Wellington on Saturday night. The man, in his 50s was extricated from the car by the on-track emergency services the man. He was treated at the scene and flown

by Westpac Rescue Helicopter to Wellington Hospital’s emergency department.

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Search set to continue today The search for three missing fishermen on a boat due to reach Kiribati three days ago was to resume at first light today.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion completed an initial radar search of the sea south of Tarawa Island, Kiribati, yesterday.

It has not managed to spot the fishermen, who were last seen aboard a six-metre boat.

The Orion has now landed on

Tarawa Island and will resume the search today, a Maritime New Zealand spokesman said.

Earlier yesterday the Orion, while on its way to search for the missing fishermen, discovered another damaged yacht that had also been reported missing. The aircraft was en route to Kiribati when it was diverted to look for a 38-foot British catamaran Troutbridge.

The yacht, with just the skipper

on board, had lost contact with another yacht accompanying it after a storm on Thursday night.

It was heading to New Caledonia from Fiji.

The plane made contact with the Troutbridge skipper, who reported that while the catamaran had suffered hull and rig damage and was leaking, pumps on board were working effectively and he was carrying on to Noumea.

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stressed that Manutahi was not associated with any gang.

“He’s a big 16-year-old but he’s just a big kid really, a big gentle, kind kid.”

Mr Kahui said as far as the case goes it rests entirely with the police.

Detective Sergeant John Gleeson said inquiries were continuing and police were still visiting properties throughout the area and talking to people.

Whanganui Detective Sergeant Dave Kirby said police were still looking for a male Maori, 1.83m (6ft) tall, with a number one haircut. He is believed to have a beige pitbull with him.

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• Carrington wins

Shearer may not have won the war o, “unanimously acclaimed”, Mr David Shearer (DS) has won the battle for the Labour leadership, but has he – as it is customary to ask – also “won the war”?

Significant threat: Mr David Cunliffe (DC) has left the field, inevitably, “to lick his wounds”, “consider his options” and, no doubt, grind his teeth in pent-up frustration. He took on Big David and, seemingly, lost. But doesn’t a cornered and on-the-prowl David remain a significant threat to a contented David who now sits atop the Labour pile basking in his new-found, personal popularity and surveying the political panorama before him?

Can he afford to be fully content and confident when, in the dark shadows of the Back Benches, to which he has unceremoniously banished him, there lurks “dirty” David with resentment smouldering and long knife poised, pointed at the back of the man he feels has usurped him.

Thinks DC: “That leadership was rightfully mine. When uncharismatic Phil Goff at last accepted he hadn’t the persona to be PM, it was to me my colleagues should have turned, experienced, economically savvy, as I am, hard yards done, the man to mould the party into the election-winning force of 2014. I was “da” man – and still could be – to topple the odious John Key (JK) and scatter the proud, neighing Nats to the four winds.

“I even acquired manly facial hair to prove just how up with the play, the times and the fashion I am. I should have been a shoo-in. But then David “UN” Shearer is a Helenanointed appointee and even

forced to leave his rented house in Auckland after it was sold so he sent Manutahi and his daughter to stay in Wanganui.

“I have been trying to get a Housing Corporation house. I thought I would get one within weeks so I sent Manutahi and my small daughter to stay with their older sister and brother in Wanganui until a house came through.”

On Wednesday, Mr Kahui got

the phone call telling him his son had been stabbed.

“What a terrible day, a really terrible day for our family.”

Mr Kahui said he was thankful he was able to stay at Ronald McDonald House while he is in Wellington.

“Because Manutahi is 16 we are able to stay there ... it is pretty wonderful for us and we really appreciate it.”

He admitted that some of the family were gang members but not Manutahi.

“He is a quiet and special boy who doesn’t belong to any gang.”

Mr Kahui is a Black Power member and two of his other sons are members of the Tribesmen, but he

Robin Kilworth’s claims of attainment in the consultation process may have some validity but she misleads our community yet again as she flags the decision regarding the Ashburton Airport proposal.

The stance of the district council in taking the Sim families through the stress and legal cost of the litigation process and an independent arbitrator is not consultation.

Indeed, council’s poorly proposed airport scheme has cost ratepayers twice over, (consultants’ plans and legal representation at an inde-

pendent hearing)and the Sim’s, a third time cost, legal fees to protect their assets.

That is not consultation, that

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Factory blaze kills 104

By Shafiq Alam More than 100 workers have been killed in a fierce blaze which tore through a garment factory in Bangladesh, forcing people to leap from high windows to escape choking smoke and flames.

Firefighters battled for several hours to control the fire, which broke out in the ground-floor warehouse of the nine-storey factory, 30 kilometres north of the capital Dhaka yesterday.

Survivors told how panicked staff, mostly women, desperately tried to escape the blazing building, which made clothes for international brands including Dutch chain C&A and the Hong Kongbased Li & Fung company.

“There were more than 1000 workers trapped in the factory,” one worker who gave her name only as Romesa, 42, told local media from her hospital bed.

“I jumped from a window on the fourth floor and found myself on the third-storey roof of another building. Several people fell out of the window and died.”

The operations director of the fire brigade, Major Mahbub, who uses one name, told AFP that the death toll had been lowered to 104 from 121.

“There was some double count-

ing as different fire teams were working on different floors,” he said.

“But now we have a total of 104 dead bodies including several who jumped to their deaths. Most bodies were found on the second floor.

Most died of suffocation.”

The owner of the Tazreen factory, Delwar Hossain, told AFP that the cause of the fire was not yet known but he denied his premises were unsafe.

“It is a huge loss for my staff and my factory. This is the first time we have ever had a fire at one of my seven factories,” he said.

The cause was not immediately known but fires as a result of short circuits and shoddy electrical wiring are common in Bangladeshi garment factories, which use cheap labour to produce clothes shipped to Western countries.

Such tragedies are not confined to Bangladesh. A blaze in a Pakistan garment factory fire in September killed 289 workers and injured 110 more.

Of the workers who were injured, dozens suffered disabling injuries and about 2000 other workers have lost their livelihoods.

Two of the three Pakistan factory’s owners are facing murder charges and have been sent to jail on remand.

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Worldwide bid to crack pigeon code

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Firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighbourhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday.

People from around the world are coming forward to try to crack a World War Two message found on the leg of a dead pigeon – but it remains a mystery.

The code, hand-written on a small sheet of paper headed “Pigeon Service”, was found in a small red canister attached to the bird’s skeleton up a chimney at a house in Bletchingley, Surrey.

Experts from UK intelligence agency GCHQ have said the message, which has 27 five-letter code groups, is impossible to crack without its codebook.

They were also left stumped by missing details, such as the date of the message and the identities of the sender, “Sjt W Stot”, and the recipient, “X02”.

“We have had about 50 people getting in touch since our request for help was published yesterday, mainly by email but also some phone calls,” a spokesman said yesterday.

“They have been of varying ages, from school kids to people who were alive in the war. There have been men and women, and not just from the UK – from Holland and the USA too.

“They’re approaching it from different angles, but no one has come through with a solution, saying this is what it definitely means, so the quest continues.

Dallas star Larry Hagman dies in Texas

By Lynn Elber JR Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron — and coaxed forth a Texassize gusher of ratings — on television’s long-running and hugely successful soap, Dallas.

Although he first gained fame as nice guy Air Force Major Tony Nelson on the fluffy 1965-70 NBC comedy I Dream of Jeannie, Hagman earned his greatest stardom with JR. The CBS serial drama about the Ewing family and those in their orbit aired from April 1978 to May 1991, and broke viewing records with its “Who shot JR?” 1980 cliffhanger that left unclear if Hagman’s character was dead.

The actor, who returned as JR in a new edition of Dallas this year, had a long history of health problems and died on Saturday (NZ time) due to complications from his battle with cancer, his family said.

“Larry was back in his beloved hometown of Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved the most. Larry’s family and closest friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday,” the family said in a statement.

Larry Hagman The 81-year-old actor was surrounded by friends and family before he passed peacefully, “just as he’d wished for,” the statement said.

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“He brought joy to everyone he knew.

He was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented, and I will miss him enormously. He was an original and lived life to the fullest,” the actress said.

Years before Dallas, Hagman had gained TV fame on I Dream of Jeannie, in which he played an astronaut whose life is disrupted when he finds a comely genie, portrayed by Barbara Eden, and

takes her home to live with him.

Hagman also starred in two short-lived sitcoms, The Good Life (NBC, 1971-72) and Here We Go Again (ABC, 1973). His film work included well-regarded performances in The Group, ’Harry and Tonto and Primary Colors.

But it was Hagman’s masterful portrayal of JR that brought him the most fame. And the “Who shot JR?” story twist fueled international speculation and millions of dollars in betting-parlor wagers.

It also helped give the series a place in ratings history.

When the answer was revealed in a November 1980 episode, an average 41 million US viewers tuned in to make Dallas one of the most-watched entertainment shows of all time, trailing only the MASH finale in 1983 with 50 million viewers.

It was JR’s sister-in-law, Kristin (Mary Crosby) who plugged him — he had made her pregnant, then threatened to frame her as a prostitute unless she left town — but others had equal motivation.

Hagman played Ewing as a bottomless well of corruption with a charming grin: a business cheat and a faithless husband who tried to get his alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen (Gray), institutionalised.

“I know what I want on JR’s tombstone,” Hagman said in 1988. “It should say: ‘Here lies upright citizen JR Ewing.

This is the only deal he ever lost.’”

On Saturday, Victoria Principal, who co-starred in the original series, recalled Hagman as “bigger than life, on-screen and off. He is unforgettable, and irreplaceable, to millions of fans around the world, and in the hearts of each of us,

who was lucky enough to know and love him.”

The Fort Worth, Texas, native was the son of singer-actress Mary Martin, who starred in such classics as South Pacific and Peter Pan. Martin was still in her teens when he was born in 1931 during her marriage to attorney Ben Hagman.

As a youngster, Hagman gained a reputation for mischief-making as he was bumped from one private school to another. He made a stab at New York theatre in the early 1950s, then served in the Air Force from 1952-56 in England.

While there, he met and married young Swedish designer Maj Axelsson. The couple had two children, Preston and Heidi, and were longtime residents of the Malibu beach colony that is home to many celebrities.

Hagman was diagnosed in 1992 with cirrhosis of the liver and acknowledged that he had drank heavily for years. In 1995, a malignant tumour was discovered on his liver and he underwent a transplant.

After his transplant, he became an advocate for organ donation and volunteered at a hospital to help frightened patients.

“I counsel, encourage, meet them when they come in for their operations, and after,” he said in 1996. “I try to offer some solace, like ‘Don’t be afraid, it will be a little uncomfortable for a brief time, but you’ll be OK.’ “ He also was an anti-smoking activist who took part in “Great American Smoke-Out” campaigns.

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Historians believe the bird may have been dispatched from Nazi-occupied France on June 6 1944, during the D-Day invasions.

Because of Churchill’s radio blackout, homing pigeons were taken on the mission and released by allied forces to inform military chiefs in England how it was going.

Unlike other carrier pigeon messages, though, the one found by David Martin as he ripped out a fireplace while renovating his home is written entirely in code.

World War Two experts suspect the bird was destined for the top secret Bletchley Park, which is just 80 miles from Martin’s home. During the war, codebreakers worked there around the clock in top secret – deciphering Nazi codes including Enigma.

Military pigeons were dropped behind enemy lines from bombers, whereupon resistance fighters picked them up, before releasing them homeward bound with top secret messages.

It is thought the destination X02 may have been Bomber Command.

Bletchingley is just five miles from Field Marshal Montgomery’s secret Reigate HQ, where Operation Overlord, the name given to the D-Day landings, was planned.

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• Overpass collapses At least 13 people have been killed and dozens are feared missing after an overpass under construction collapsed in Bangladesh’s southeastern port city of Chittagong. “So far 13 dead bodies have been recovered,” sub-inspector Mohammad Alauddin told AFP, adding that military rescue teams had been called in to help with the search for victims.

The number of missing could not immediately be confirmed but police constable Shakakhawat Hossain told AFP from the scene that dozens could be trapped under the debris.

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• Editor resigns over photos The editor of the Irish Daily Star newspaper has resigned in the wake of the controversial publication of topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge. Michael O’Kane had been suspended from his role in September while an internal investigation was carried out into the tabloid’s decision to rerun pictures of Kate and Prince William sunbathing on a private holiday in France. Media tycoon Richard Desmond, whose Northern and Shell group coowns the newspaper with the Irish-based Independent News and Media, had threatened to shut the Dublin operation down.

In a statement, the Irish Daily Star said: as a result of the publication on September 15, “issues arose with the shareholders of Independent Star Limited”. “Having considered those issues in tandem with Mr O’Kane, it is Mr O’Kane’s decision to resign as editor of the Irish Daily Star, effective immediately,” it said.

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• Fifty Shades a party game An Australian-owned and operated global games and media company has signed a deal to produce a party game based on the best-selling book Fifty Shades of Grey.

The game has been approved by author E L James and will be available in Australia, Canada, the UK, the US and New Zealand on December 14, Imagination announced yesterday. “We are delighted to be partnering with E L James on this project,” Imagination’s CEO Shane Yeend said. “The Fifty Shades books are a bona fide cultural phenomenon, and they offer an exciting new play pattern for our range of party games that allows everyone to finally reveal their Inner Goddess,” Yeend said.

Fifty Shades of Grey has sold more than 1.28 million copies in combined physical and e-book formats in Australia, and more than 50 million copies worldwide. - AAP

• Gangnam breaks record Psy’s Gangnam Style has became YouTube’s most-watched video of all time, registering more than 803 million views to overtake Justin Bieber’s Baby.

The 34-year-old South Korean rapper has rocketed to fame since his Gangnam Style video – in which he performs his now famous horse-riding dance – became a worldwide hit following its release in July. Earlier this month the song ousted Jennifer Lopez’s dance hit On the Floor from second place on YouTube, and on Saturday it overtook Bieber’s hit. In the evening, it had racked up 803,761,928 views against 803,658,345 for Baby. - AFP

• Heavy shelling in Syria Heavy shelling by government forces have targeted schools scattered across rebel-held areas along the outskirts of Damascus, activists say, as state media reported that the schools were being used as barracks for insurgents. “Dozens of schools were targeted by government forces since Friday night, in the areas of Tadamoon, Azamiyeh al-Sham and Zabandani,” activist Haytham al-Abdallah told DPA. Abdallah said the troops’ shelling is aimed at destroying education and health facilities in rebel-held areas across Syria. The news agency SANA rebuffed rebel claims and said schools in some areas near Damascus were being transformed into “barracks for terrorists to launch attacks and prepare car bombs to target the innocent Syrian people”. Elsewhere, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy fighting in the northern provinces.

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Moira Tarry strides out during the running/ walking section of the Longbeach Coastal Classic yesterday.

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Nola McFarlane leads Hannah through a rally class during the Mid Canterbury Canine Obedience Club’s obedience and rally show at the Ashburton Domain.

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It was a busy weekend in Mid Canterbury, with a dog show, a motorcycle extravaganza, a kite festival, a spectacular mountain bike and running/walking race, and the annual Tinwald Festival among the events on for the public to head along to.

Guardian photographer Kirsty Graham went along to them all, to capture all the action on camera.

Left: Graeme Chapman and his grandson Kayne, 20 months, take a closer look at a steam locomotive during yesterday’s Tinwald Festival.

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Monday, November 26, 2012

‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Issue 19, November 26, 2012

Message from the Principal

Congratulations

‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’ Kia ora and Greetings It’s that time of year again where the much younger members of our families and community listen to puzzling conversations about how quickly the year has gone, and shops and businesses have started putting up their Christmas decorations. Here at College we manage the trifecta of maintaining learning and study programmes for our students; getting everything completed by the end of the year and preparing for next year.

Well underway are our additional activities to keep our Year 9 and 10 students engaged.

These include lunchtime competitions, an inter-class challenge, the Junior Dance on the night of 28 November, and our annual “Get Out There Day” where students choose to participate in a cultural, craft, physical or outdoor activity offered by staff.

Today we welcome the majority of next year’s Year 9 students to the College for the morning.

Aside from meeting key staff members we also have activities, such as a treasure hunt, to help them find their way around the College and reduce the commonly shared “fear of getting lost”.

It is also an important day for us, as we have the opportunity to welcome them to College, talk about what will happen in eight weeks when they are back as Year 9 students, and encourage them to stay engaged and keep working at their current school, lest many years’ good work be damaged by the last few days.

as we recognise the achievements of our students. These range from several Prize Givings, to the SLSU’s Geraldine Picnic Day and the Pakeke Lions trip for our SLSU students, to the Year 13 Leavers’ Dinner.

You will have heard much about the new payroll system, ‘Novopay’, that the Ministry of Education and their contractor Talent2 have been struggling with since August. Possibly no-one is more enthusiastic about the system becoming error-free than myself or our administration staff.

Personally, I believe that there are inherent programming issues in the actual software, as this is the only way I can explain the dozens upon dozens of random errors and mistakes that Novopay has generated, without prompt or reason, for our staff whose pay rates do not change from one fortnight to the next. Given the system is not coping with an ordinary fortnightly payroll I am more than concerned about how it won’t cope with the additional demands of the end of year and start of new year pay processes.

We have a number of contingency plans in place, including making special payments to any members of staff whose pay disappears or has suddenly shrunk.

End of Year Award Recipients It is always a pleasure at the conclusion of each College year to acknowledge students’ success resulting from their commitment and application during the year as well as recognising, with appreciation, community support of many of these awards.

Following Year 12 acknowledgements in our last newsletter we now congratulate Year 13 and Year 11 top scholars and recipients of a number of the major awards.

Year 13 Graduation Ceremony This ceremony was held at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Wednesday 07 November.

DUX of Ashburton College 2012 Olivia Quinn and therefore recipient of the ‘Rotary Club of Ashburton Charitable Trust Scholarship Award’ and the Ashburton High School Centennial Trust Plaque In gaining Dux Olivia also attained the following awards –       

Accounting (Gabites Ltd Prize) Biology (Drummond Memorial Prize) Economics Physics (John Hefford Memorial Prize) Unichem Cup for the top student studying three Sciences Year 13 Excellence Award Application and Effort

Proxime Accessit (Runner–Up to the Dux) Caitlin Swan

In the long run? I expect that the desperate attempts by a clearly failing business and a mis-led Ministry to minimise, explain away or push blame onto schools themselves will be seen for what they are. Novopay will then either be fixed; replaced by a better product that, to save face, is given the Novopay name; or possibly, more likely quietly dumped to join the NZ Police’s INCIS computer programme on the ‘failed-big-I.T.-experiment’ pile.

And recipient of the Rotary Club of Ashburton Charitable Trust Scholarship Caitlin’s pathway to this high achievement came via awards in -

Cheers Grant McMillan Principal

Parents and Caregivers will also be aware of the many celebrations and activities planned

Congratulations Ashburton College Inaugural Golf Croquet Tournament

Chemistry (Drummond Memorial Prize) Painting Statistics and Modelling (John Stewart Memorial Prize) Technology – Digital Information Year 13 Excellence Award Application and Effort

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R O McDowell Crystal Trophy for Character and Leadership (presented by the Ashburton High School Centennial Trust)

On Saturday 3 November Ashburton College staged its first ever Golf Croquet Tournament competition.

Matt Boote and Laurent Fifield Beth Jopson and Angus Mackenzie Emily Calles and Jordyn Love Brittany Butler and Caitlin Adlam

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George McDonald

After six rounds two teams were unbeaten and played off in the final: Adam Greaney and Andrew Hawthorne up against Ryan Hampton and Harry Ferguson.

Aorangi Secondary Schools’ Golf Croquet Championship Winners - 2012 (pictured left, left to right): Ashburton College students Andrew Hawthorne and Adam Greaney.

This win has qualified Adam and Andrew to compete at the National Golf Croquet Tournament to be held in Palmerston North, March 2013.

The event was held in Timaru, early November. At this event two finalists from each of Oamaru (Waitaki Boys’ High School), Timaru (Timaru Boys’ High School) and Ashburton (Ashburton College) competed to find the Aorangi Region representative to the National Championships.

Adam and Andrew went through undefeated into the final game against the favourites, Waitaki Boys’ High School, and took this game out 7 – 3 to be clear winners.

A huge thank you is extended to Ashburton’s Waireka Croquet Club for their wonderful support in preparing all of our teams for this final. The hours they have spent helping the Ashburton College teams train was doubtless rewarded by such an outstanding result. ‘Thank you ladies and Les’.

Canterbury Schools’ Junior Sailing Regatta This event was held at the Pleasant Point Yacht Club, Christchurch on 19 November, the first such event in the two years following the Christchurch earthquake. College teacher Chris Thompson says there was a smaller fleet than previous years because sailing activity has been quite badly affected by the earthquakes and lack of venues.

However, Ashburton College students had a successful day: 1st in Sunburst Class, 9th in fleet:

Aimee Denbee and Gemma Duncan (obscured) in “Dreamin’ Dean” (pictured below left, about to depart).

2nd in Sunburst Class; 10th in fleet:

Tom Norton and Josh Collins in ‘Two-Eighty’ (pictured below right heading to the start area).

Back row, left to right: Harry Watson, Jayden Reid, Zach Naldrett, Flynn Beeman, James Tocher-Morgan, Josh Strange.

Front row, left to right: Josh Buchanan, Logan Havis, Oliver Adlam, Josh Gill (Captain), Connor O’Grady, Bradley Horrell.

College lost the toss and were asked to bowl first, which the team would have chosen. Staff member and coach, Michael O’Callaghan advised that the pitch was very green and the outfield very slow so they knew that run-scoring was going to be tough.

Josh Buchanan opened the bowling and had some early success. He was tough to get away and was seaming the ball alarmingly. Once he had made the early breakthrough, Oliver Adlam was introduced into the attack and had instant success picking up 5 quick wickets. College dismissed Roncalli for 73.

When it was the College’s turn to bat, our openers Bradley Horrell and Zach Naldrett made a solid opening partnership and, although we continued to lose regular wickets, we were always above the run-rate and were able put a few partnerships together.

Harry Watson saw us home with 7 wickets down.

Man of the Match was Oliver Adlam with 5-17.

We are now drawn to play the winner from Geraldine/ Mount Hutt in the second round.

Aoraki Junior Volleyball Tournament Girls’ Section Ashburton College fielded two teams in this tournament held in Timaru on 08 November.

The AshColl Red Team of Jess Dray (Captain), Murran Buller (pictured right), Lucy Clough, Shannon Crequer, Emily Hickman, Brooke Maslin, Lote Touli and Shirley Uesele, competed against 11 other teams in Division 1.

The team, coached by Year 11 student Losana Cakaunitabua performed very well reaching the semi-final but losing narrowly 1-2 to Timaru Girls’ High School and finishing 3rd overall in Division 1.

The semi-final game went right to the wire against our old foes Timaru Girls’ High School with the third set going to 15-14, ultimately in Timaru’s favour.

The AshColl Blue Team of Ruby Wills (Captain), Victoria Coley, Caitlin Johnstone, Kate Lloyd (pictured left), Lizzie Leonard and Imogen Redpath, coached by Year 11 student Sala Touli concluded the tournament in 1st place overall, Division 2 (8 teams) following a 2-0 win in the final over Geraldine High School.

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Adam Greaney and Andrew Hawthorne Christal Brosnahan and Alicia Calles Ryan Hampton and Harry Ferguson Sonya Leadley and Brittney Davis

The game was all tied up going into the last hoop where a brilliant shot from Andrew Hawthorne secured the win for Adam and Andrew and led to them competing with such success at the Aorangi Secondary Schools’ Championships.

Ashburton College’s Year 9 Boys’ Cricket Team (pictured below) had a win against Roncalli College on Wednesday 14 November, at Ashbury Park in Timaru, in the first round of this New Zealand-wide Junior Knockout Competition.

Sam McLay

Eight teams took part, all coached by members of the Waireka Croquet Club:    

Fooks Memorial Award for Prominence in Scholarship, Leadership and ExtraCurricular Activities

New Zealand Community Trust Cricket Competition

Throughout the tournament the Blue Team didn’t drop a set in finishing clear winners.

Boys’ Section

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The AshColl Boys’ Team, coached by teacher Dave Christensen and Year 12 student Emerson Sooaemalelagi finished 2nd overall in Division 1, from 8 teams, following wins over Geraldine High School (2-0) and Mackenzie College 2-1) but a loss in the final to Timaru Boys’ High School (0-2).

Lions Club of Ashburton Senior Service and Leadership Award 

Team members were: Iosia Afoa, Matthew Beveridge (pictured left), Cameron Clayton-Turpin, Junior Fuluasou, Kieran Hunt, Matt Rae, Blair Snowball, Richard Sooaemlelagi, Jesse Stewart.

Alasdair Tarry

R O McDowell Award for Pride in their School and Community 

Jake Crouchley

Appreciation

Lions Club of Ashburton County Award for Citizenship and Community Involvement 

Dave Christensen says that the student coaches – Sala, Losana, Emerson – have all been of great value.

Louise Cross

Butterick Memorial Trophy for Scholarship in English and Sporting Endeavour 

C H Andrews Prize for Initiative and Enterprise 

Hunter Crouchley

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Henrietta Read

T T Ryder Prize for Cheerful Effort in Y13 and Building Significantly on Year 12 Work 

During the year the girls have been coached by Year 13 student Mel Buller with help from Sala and Losanna.

Andrew Robertson

Lagan Gardyne

Aoraki Secondary Schools’ Sports Awards 2012 In our last newsletter we listed Ashburton College awards recipients. Since then we have had photos of some of these people sent through to the College. We share these with you.

Turner Memorial Prize for Citizenship Students for this award are shortlisted by teaching staff and the recipients then voted on by their Year 13 peers. 

Abbie Muir

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Sam Johnstone

Community Contributed Awards On behalf of our student recipients Ashburton College acknowledges, with gratitude, the community-minded support which enables the annual provision of the following generous scholarships.

Ashburton Trust / Lion Foundation Tertiary Study Scholarships      

Pieter Taco Bierema Amy Cullimore Sam McLay Olivia Quinn Andrew Robertson Alasdair Tarry

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Louise Cross Issy Ferguson George McDonald Henrietta Read Caitlin Swan Hannah Wightman

Catherine Bell Golf

Braden Kell – Air Pistol Shooting

Ben McFadden Water Skiing

Tessa Stewart Morrison – Basketball

MSA Scholarship 

Sam McLay

EA Networks Scholarship for a student studying to enter the Electrical Industry 

Simon Crequer

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Jake Crouchley

Ashburton Masonic Lodge Centennial Scholarship 

Rory Brown

George McDonald – Cross Country

Year 11 Prize Giving Conditions were ideal with about 10 knots of wind. The boats were divided into two fleets with twelve boats in each. With only three Sunbursts in the race, competition wasn’t wide-ranging but the two College crews had their own race within the race. They swapped the lead with each other several times, but the girls eventually pulled away to be the first of the two home. They were very nervous before the start as this was their first regatta, but this event has given them a lot of confidence.

Ashburton High School Centennial Trust Top Scholar Award

Adam Tupper

Adam gained this award via       

Top Scholar in English (Ricoh Copiers Prize) Top Scholar in Mathematics (Ricoh Copiers Prize) Geography – joint award Technology Digital Programming Video Conferencing excellent achievement award for Level 1 French Academic Excellence Application and Effort

Thistle Masonic Lodge Prize for Citizenship

Sala Touli

(Pictured above) – the fleet in the start process with the College’s two Sunbursts, being the larger boats in the middle of the picture.

Hannah Wright Water Skiing

Michael O’Callaghan Staff contribution

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‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Issue 19, November 26, 2012

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Events

Ashburton College Year 9 Academic Scholarships Awards Of Excellence

“BANG, CRASH, TAP” RAW Dance Company Workshop

Scholarships are available to any Year 8 student who is a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident and who is applying for entry to Year 9 at Ashburton College in 2012.

As part of the RAW Dance Company’s National Tour the crew offered Ashburton College students a fully interactive student workshop, on Tuesday 13 November. Fifteen students participated in this opportunity, held in the College Dance room.

Up to two scholarships are awarded annually.

International Students – Day Out

Applications available through student’s school or on request from Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator, Ashburton College (308 4193, ext 812).

Students were able to learn some hip hop dance moves, have a go at beat boxing and experiment with drumming and body percussion.

Information will be with contributing schools this week.

They came away from the workshop feeling excited and keen to show off their new moves and demonstrate their beat boxing skills!

Closing date for applications – 3:30pm, Wednesday 28 November 2012.

Examinations will be held at Ashburton College on Monday 03 December 2012, 9:00am – 11:15am.

Clearance of Excess Furniture - $2:00 Gold Coin Sale (for most items unless ticketed otherwise)

Wednesday 28 November (if wet, postponed to Thursday 29 November)

5:00pm – 8:00pm Ashburton College Creek Road Entrance Shelf Units – Stainless Steel Sink Units - Filing Cabinets (various sizes) – Lockers - Office/Computer Desks – Bench – Desks (staff, classroom, double) and Chairs (classroom and padded) – Wooden Cupboard Units – Fixed Shelving and Cupboards (various sizes) – Fume Cupboards – Wooden Folding Doors – Table – Coffee Table – Umpires’ Chair – Acoustic Tiles – Fire Hose Reels – Metal Gates (various sizes) – Bike Stands – Diesel Tank – Woodwork Machinery (drawer saw, table saw).

Reminder: Year 13 Sign-Out Day – Wednesday 05 December Details are – Time: Venue: Bring:

12:30pm – 1:30pm College Office (Student Counter) Any outstanding text/library books, hire blazers (dry cleaned) and other College property.

Check and amend: Forms on the desk at Student Counter, re intentions for 2013.

Collect: Testimonials and/or Phoenix Magazine For students unable to come on this day, you can sign out at the Office up until Wednesday 19 December.

Remaining Prize-Giving Dates: Families are most welcome to attend these celebrations of success.  

Year 10 Year 9

Thursday Thursday

13 December, 13 December,

12:30pm 1:45pm

College Auditorium College Auditorium

2012 Final Day for Junior Students

On the journey there the key question was ‘can we still bike if it is raining?’ And the famous Kiwi reply was ‘of course we can!’

Well, the weather behaved and off we went on our bikes, on a 6.5 km ‘Easy Track’.

Parts of it did not altogether seem that easy - there was a little bit of screaming, a little blood, a few bruises and sore bottoms – but we all made it around. Some in only 30 minutes! Others took a little longer.

Then we got to relax in the hot pools. It was fantastic day and a true Kiwi experience.

Many of the students who participated in the workshop went to watch the performance at the Event Centre that evening and were thoroughly entertained by the high energy show.

Forthcoming Events November

Term Dates 2013:

26 26-29 27 28

New Entrants Morning – all contributing schools SISS Junior Volleyball Championships Board of Trustees Meeting, 7:00pm, Menorlue $2.00 Gold Coin Sale, excess furniture, Creek Road Entrance to College Junior Dance, 7:00pm-10:00pm, Sports Hall 29 Fonterra Science Roadshow, Ashburton Intermediate School SLSU Picnic Day, Geraldine 30-02 Dec SISS Track Cycling Championships, Invercargill

Term One: Term Two: Term Three: Term Four:

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Year 9 and 10 Thursday 13 December Friday 14 December is a Teacher Only Call-Back Day.

Michelle Hosking, International Department Director, tells us that on Tuesday 13 November a group of international students and two teachers travelled to Hanmer for a day of mountain biking (group ready to set off, pictured below) and a visit to the hot pools.

Wednesday 30 January Monday 06 May Monday 29 July Monday 14 October

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Friday 19 April Friday 12 July Friday 27 September Thursday 12 December (Year 9 and 10 students) Friday 13 December (teacher only day)

Some Key Beginning of Year Dates (2013):

Aoraki Junior Beach Volleyball Year 9 Ashburton College Academic Scholarship Exams, 9:00am – 11:15am.

Peer Support Training Days, Year 11 students SLSU Pakeke Lions Annual Trip, Ashburton Airport NCEA Scholarship/Examinations finish today Year 13 leaving procedures, College Office, Student Counter Clothing Shop open, 10:00am – 1:00pm. Come to College Office.

GOT (Get Out There) Day – various locations, permission slips issued NZSS Athletics Year Leavers’ Dinner, Hotel Ashburton, 6:30pm Erin Simpson Show, Teen Challenge, Burnham Military Camp SLSU Prize-Giving, 2:00pm, SLSU Year 10 Prize Giving, 12:30pm Year 9 Prize Giving, 1:45pm Final Day, Year 9 and 10 students Ashburton College Rowing, Otago Championships, Lake Ruataniwha Newsletter 20, final for 2012

Year level enrolments (specific dates to be

Uniform Clothing Shop will be open during this week Friday 25 and Monday 28 January International Student enrolments Monday and Tuesday, 28 and 29 January Teaching Staff Only Days Tuesday 29 January International Students’ Orientation Day International Students attend from this day Wednesday 30 January – Friday 01 February Year 13 Leadership Camp, Living Springs Wednesday 30 January International Students’ Orientation Day Year 9 Induction Day Year 9, 12 and 13 students attend Thursday 31 January All students attend Year 10 and Year 11 Induction Day Likely International Student Trip Day

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Breaking old ground to capture a legend It’s a searing July day in the middle of France and, being hundreds of kilometres from the nearest beach, I’ve found the perfect place for relief - a cool cellar in the soil’s chalky depths, where there happens to sit some of the country’s best wine.

Above our heads is the quaint Burgundy village of Meursault, with its ancient stone-walled houses, winding lanes and small, lively square, where a handful of locals are enjoying coffee in cafés or doing what the French do enviably well - “flaneuring”, or sauntering about blissfully with seemingly little purpose.

Meursault sits on Burgundy’s Route des Grands Crus (roughly “road of the great wines”).

Just down the road lie the vines of Chevalier-Montrachet, which many believe produce the best white wine in the world, and the beautiful wine trade capital of Beaune.

On the other side of town are the prized vineyards of Vougeot, Gevrey-Chambertin and RomaneeConti, which produces the world’s most expensive wine.

In 1780 the Archbishop of Paris

Burgundy the place is steeped in history so too is the wine produced in the district. Caroline Berdon went to France to not only experience life in the area but to sample and savour its produce. famously declared it to be “velvet and satin in bottles”. Today each one fetches between 457-915 euros ($721 to $1443).

Pinot noir and chardonnay make up the vast majority of Burgundy’s wine. These grapes love the chalky, limestone soil here, a remnant from the region’s time as a Jurassic seabed some 150 million years ago.

Meursault is famous for delectable, buttery chardonnays. And down here in our dark cellar, vigneron Alain Bizouard, whose family has been making wine on the Domaine Coche-Bizouard for generations, has laid out 12 bottles for us to try. They are smooth, light and, yes, deliciously buttery.

Given that the wines were mostly from the same year, all made from chardonnay grapes by the same winegrower, they all taste remarkably different. This is what our English wine guide

Tracy Thurling, who has lived in Burgundy for 12 years and has an incredible knowledge of the local wine industry, describes as the “mystery of Burgundy”.

It’s what the Burgundians themselves call “terroir” - the legendary French term used to describe the unique chemistry between the soil, the geology, the climate and the humans who have worked the land.

Among Burgundy’s mosaic of modest vine plots, one may produce dense and silky wine; another just a few metres away may make something more fruity and feminine.

This is why the Bizouard family’s scattered 15 plots all produce very distinct flavours and aromas.

“It takes us centuries to understand our soil and work with it,” explains the vigneron.

I am reminded of a quote I have come across a few times during

A visit to the Chateau de Meursault for a wine tasting wouldn’t be complete without a tour of the cellars.

YOUR

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ARIES (Mar 21st Apr 20th) The Sun starts the week in an exact Trine to Uranus. This is one of the most positive of planetary angles and it is especially good for you because of Uranus’s location in your sign. This aspect is basically telling you to follow your gut instincts, to be bold and show a fearless approach. Obviously don’t be reckless but go with the moment should it feel right.

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TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) Your ruler Venus is angling really well to Pluto, the planet of change, today. Venus is located in your sector of relationships and the chances are you are going to get a much clearer and even deeper connection with someone you are fond of, or indeed love. Sometimes we can take one another for granted. You’ll be less inclined to do this now.

GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) Expect things to happen quickly today.

You are generally a bright-minded person but your bubbly instincts are given a further pep. This can help you to process information very quickly and tackling puzzles, crosswords and brainteasers will give you a real buzz.

It’s also a good time to look at your finances. Someone’s sound advice can aid you.

CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) You might realise that someone means a great deal more to you than you had previously thought.

Perhaps busy schedules are preventing you and yours from really spending quality time together but today the spark that brought you together in the first place is much more likely to be to the fore. Enjoy celebrating your mutual affection.

Chateau de la Velle in Meursault on the Côte d’Or - just one of many places you can stay in the Burgundy district. my time in Burgundy by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince.

“We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”

This seems to encapsulate the way things are done here.

Burgundy is a place where knowledge is cultivated, where workers allow the soil to breathe and grow so both can be passed onto the generations who follow, as has been done for centuries.

History and tradition seeps through every stone wall, every chateau, every twisting vine. The Romans first made wine here in the second century. By the eleventh, the monks had noticed how different soils were producing different wine so carved up the land into plots to reflect this.

Their judgment was bang on.

When the National Institute of Appellations d’Origine came along at the beginning of last century to organise the plots into the appellations of Grands Crus (the best), Premiers Crus, villages and regional AOCs (Appellations d’Origine Controlee - the tipple), they didn’t need to change a thing. And so the legend of terroir lives on.

I ask Bizouard about our relatively new Australian wine industry. He smiles wryly.

“It is impossible to compare our wines to Australian wines, or to be able to predict what Australian wine will be like in the future,” he tells me. “The soil is too young. It hasn’t had the chance yet to develop.” His look suggests it would be polite to leave the conversation there.

It’s not just the New World that gets a scoff in these parts. Ask a Burgundian about Bordeaux and he or she will delight in telling you about its flashy exuberance, crass commerciality, inferior, less diverse wines, and its failure to protect its small producers.

The Burgundy vineyard is, on average, 2.5 times smaller than that in Bordeaux, yet there are 98 appellations in Burgundy, compared to just 57 in Bordeaux.

In the legendary Clos de Vougeot in Burgundy’s Cote de Nuits, for example, 81 owners currently share the 50 hectares of land and they all work the land in their own way.

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LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) You can find yourself craving extra mental stimulation.

Your love of routine is challenged by this but it can be entirely positive. Something may have become so samey that it has lost any of its original lustre anyway so this is an excellent day to try and prime new approaches.

You can be particularly innovative and novel in your approach.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) Your word power is boosted and if you have something sincere that you want to say, this is an excellent day to make your move. It may even see you invite someone out on a date.

You can also find yourself moving the furnishings around.

A reorganisation or de-clutter can be the perfect fillip and help you to feel more comfortable at home.

Thurling explains that because many of the plots are so small in Burgundy and the terroir varies so greatly, it is difficult to achieve economies of scale here.

“So Burgundy is often not of interest to the more commercially minded producers,” she says.

Until this summer, it seems.

In August an unnamed Chinese casino magnate from Macao bought the 12th-century Chateau de Gevrey-Chambertin and its two-hectare vineyard for 8 million euros. Furious local winegrowers are now pushing for state intervention to keep their plots for the French.

It is the first Burgundy chateau to fall into Chinese hands.

(In Bordeaux, the Chinese started buying up chateaux in 2008. They now own 20.)

I wonder what Saint-Exupery would make of all this. Today’s children who will tend Burgundy’s plots tomorrow may well include some outsiders.

This is one excellent reason to

visit Burgundy now. The other is that sizzling sun that has been beating down on the vines over the late northern summer.

After a worryingly cold, wet and miserable spring, the extremely hot later months have left experts describing the 2012 vintage as a true classic.

IF YOU GO STAYING THERE: English-speaking ABC Bourgogne rents out a variety of stunning holiday homes in the region, some located in the heart of Burgundy’s vines; see www.abcbourgogne.com.

There are a number of beautiful hosted guest houses, or “chambre d’hotes”, dotted throughout the region that offer bed and breakfast and often dinner. One of the best, which is siutated just a few minutes drive from the vines, is Chateau de Digoine, with its own 13th-century chateau on the grounds; see www. chateaudigoine.com.

PLAYING THERE: Because many of the cellar doors along Burgundy’s Route des Grands Crus are reasonably close, many visitors opt to rent bikes and get about independently. This is certainly the best way to take in the beautiful Burgundy countryside.

But if you want to penetrate a little further and visit some of Burgundy’s many private estates and artisanal producers, a wellconnected guide is essential.

English guide Tracy Thurling customises private tours for all durations, budgets and interests; see www.burgundybyrequest.com.

The Domaine Coche-Bizouard is at 5 Rue de Mazeray, Meursault.

See www.coche-bizouard.com.

Beaune’s famous wine auction takes place on the third Sunday in November amid a three-day festival devoted to the food and wine of Burgundy called Les Trois Glorieuses. It’s a fantastic time to visit. Book accomodation early.

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LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) A meeting of minds is possible. It’s not always easy to connect with the people that can inspire us.

After all, they may not be in the same street or even the same locality. Yet through the internet, your work or your interests you can find yourself really enjoying some intellectual sparring or some friendly banter. A property valuation can also come out well.

SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) Someone can be really touched by something you say today.

This doesn’t have to be in a romantic context. For example, showing appreciation to a friend or colleague can be just as important. Venus is likely to be evoking powerful emotions in you and who you want to share these with may surprise you. You can give out a powerful vibe.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) With the festive season racing up you may have some cherished thoughts about people from your past. You may ask yourself whether to send a card. If the memories are sweet enough, why not?

Some of your key hopes can also start to power forwards quickly. Mercury’s forward motion will help this so don’t hold back from pressing on.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) If you find yourself remembering something really useful from your past, it wouldn’t be a surprise. Our memories are like giant, sophisticated databases and something you recall could be really useful. This can also be a day when you appreciate the quality of your friendships. In fact, one bond could grow a whole lot closer. Appreciate shared values.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Your quirkier, more individualistic way of looking at life can hold you in great stead. Someone influential may notice your gift for spotting opportunities or for getting jobs done in the blink of an eye. They might not say anything to you but your stock can rise in their eyes.

In love, someone can drop a subtle but powerful hint that they fancy you.

PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) This may not be the best of times to follow the well-trodden path if you want to improve your fortunes. In a fast-moving world knowledge is key and if you feel you can add to your skills in a more relevant way, do research your options. In love, you can crave the real thing: a tie which is totally committed and sincere. Don’t accept second best.

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DAILY DIARY MONDAY NOVEMBER 26 9.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women Circuit Training in hall. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

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

9.30am. AGE CONCERN. Ladies exercise group. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

9.30am-12.30pm. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open.

Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am. PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Christmas meeting, The Plains Railway, Maronan Road.

10.00am. CARDIAC COMPANIONS. Fortnightly meeting, exercises, occasional speakers. Buffalo Lodge Hall, Cox Street.

10.00am. ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF ASSOCIATION. Members will play a Gross/Nett in grades. Ashburton Golf Club.

10.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Play Group in lounge. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

10.30am. AGE CONCERN. Men’s exercise group. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.30am. PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT. Walking group, walk and talk, get fit and meet new people. Meet outside the Hockey Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display in Heritage hangar RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. Seafield Road. Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT. Multi Cultural Playgroup. at the Plunket Rooms Cameron St. 6.00pm. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women Circuit Training in hall. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

6.00pm. ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Pot lunch tea, Christmas posy bowls. Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

6.30pm - 8.15pm. M.S.A. DANCE SECTION. Dance your favourite dance, check our noticeboard in the foyer for our itinerary . All welcome. M.S.A. Havelock Street.

7.00pm. ASHBURTON INDOOR VOLLEYBALL. 4-a-side competition for people of all abilities. Ashburton College Main Gym. 7.30pm. CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre commences this evening. All Welcome. Cnr Winter and Burnett Street Parish Centre.

7.30pm. ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Monthly meeting.

Rover Den, Mania-o-roto Scout Park. Chalmers Ave.

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10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Maintenance Tai Chi. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

12noon - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON J.P.’S ASSOCIATION. J.P. signing centre, document signing service. 122 Tancred Street, Community House, behind Westpac Bank.

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6 0 Sovolksy (5) 57....................... A Forbes (a1) 7 80720 Samphire (11) 56.5.............. R Hutchings (a) 8 5084 Timely Magic (13) 56.5................C Dell (a2) 9 0x79 Herman 56.5................................. Scratched 10 09. Kens Legacy h (1) 56.5.......... A Morgan (a3) 11 69x Reves En Rouges (7) 56.5.S Shirahama (a2) 12 653 Giulietta (9) 55......................... P Turner (a1) 13 00x03 Natassja Kinski h (6) 55............B Grylls (a3) 14 6540. Keepit (8) 55............................B Hutton (a4) 15 6x879 Cosmic Dust (2) 55............. J Whiteside (a3) 4 2.48pm BOXING DAY RACES AT PIRONGIA 2000 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 2000m 1 0x04 Informer (12) 58.5....................... L Satherley 2 487 Fender (3) 58.5............................T Thornton 3 27x00 Forgotten Hero (9) 58.5..............M Sweeney 4 00x00 Rodinsky (2) 58.5....................K Chiong (a4) 5 0 Silent Victoree (8) 58.5.................... C Grylls 6 67349 Solar Eclipse (1) 57 7 9x77 Lorenzo (10) 57......................... M Cameron 8 x4853 Savana From Havana (7) 56.5.R Hutchings (a) 9 4x000 Bella Lady (6) 56.5.......................... M Wenn 10 00x0 Champagne Girl (5) 56.5................. R Jones 11 088 Cheyenne (4) 56.5........................... S Spratt 12 85760 Rhythm Keeper (11) 56.5.................S Collett

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3.23pm TE AWAMUTU COURIER 2000 RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 x4622 He Kin Talk (11) 59......................C Dell (a2) 2 8x700 Stingray tdh (14) 59................... M Cameron 3 00x96 Chapel Bay (8) 58........................... A Calder 4 x5926 Day Walker th (7) 58........................ S Spratt 5 19932 Fightfirewithfire (3) 58.................... V Colgan 6 96910 Varnish m (10) 58........................T Thornton 7 24x60 Mr Toogood tdh (5) 57................M Sweeney 8 57019 Supreme Lady tdbh (13) 56............. C Grylls 9 480x7 Roydon th (4) 55.5.................. A Forbes (a1) 10 05180 Divine Miss Em tdm (1) 55.. M Dravitzki (a3) 11 x9706 Skai Glen (9) 55................S Shirahama (a2) 12 06567 Steel (12) 54.5..................... R Hutchings (a) 13 40943 Seagold (2) 54........................... M D Plessis 14 x7069 Prickley Princess h (6) 54.............. R Norvall 6 3.58pm HYAMS JEWELLERS 1400 RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 4x1 The Mig t (9) 59............................. R Norvall 2 500x0 All In Bluff d (5) 58.................... K Joyce (a4) 3 x2441 Already Perfect h (6) 57.5.... M Dravitzki (a3) 4 5x31x The Tidy Express 57.5.................. Scratched 5 6x086 Heza Rebel d (4) 57.5.................C Lammas 6 44x31 Centre Point td (8) 57...................... S Spratt 7 x4028 Queen Of Rock m (3) 57.................N Harris 8 6218x Pay Attention 56.5......................... Scratched 9 12x87 Pretty To Watch 56.5..................... Scratched 10 23x78 Torque It h (10) 56.5.................B Grylls (a3) 11 8210x Boomchuckalucka db (2) 56...... M Cameron 12 30x73 Deecruz (1) 55.5........................ M D Plessis 13 89737 Hula Belle dm (7) 54.5.................... A Calder 7 4.33pm TAB TE AWAMUTU ON CAMBRIDGE ROAD 1400 RATING 75 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 0179x Mons Calpe (8) 59.......................T Thornton 2 25010 Nothing dm (13) 58............. J Whiteside (a3) 3 8748x Barry’s Joy t (2) 56.5................... L Satherley 4 11895 Monkey Rock tdm (11) 56.5... M McNab (a1)

5 9x387 Splitsecond (5) 56.......................... V Colgan 6 2x937 Trendy (10) 56..................................S Collett 7 20096 Hawick Park dm (7) 56....................N Harris 8 1493x Opal Creek td (9) 56........................ M Wenn 9 x9804 Street Law (12) 55.5 10 162x0 Wine’nsoda (4) 55.5....................M Sweeney 11 310x8 Sinead t (6) 54.5........................ M Cameron 12 028x6 Rose Of Falkirk (1) 54.................C Lammas 13 81099 Molto Grato tmh (3) 54.............B Grylls (a3) 8 5.08pm TE AWAMUTU CLUB 1150 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1150m 1 9x Mechant 58.5................................ Scratched 2 70x65 Sighlent Spur (3) 58.5......................N Harris 3 3 Perfect Flow (1) 57 4 Elusive Gold 57............................. Scratched 5 Rowell h (9) 57................................... D Hain 6 2238x Mandy O’Reilly 56.5...................... Scratched 7 x7403 Walsburgs Flight (10) 56.5.. J Whiteside (a3) 8 x8450 Striking San (2) 56.5................... L Satherley 9 7x785 Big Bang Baby (6) 56.5................... M Wenn 10 47652 Pacific Choice 55.......................... Scratched 11 Chocolat h (7) 55........................M Sweeney 12 5 Heart Of Hearts (12) 55 13 0 Wealth Lady 55............................. Scratched 14 Shaheen (11) 55 15 Izzanorange h (8) 55.....................M Tanaka 16 9x0 Nipabrandy (4) 58.5........................... M Hills 17 The Sheriff 57............................... Scratched 18 07x Jonah h (5) 58.5.............................. C Grylls 19 75006 River Moy 56.5.............................. Scratched 20 80x8 Reine Rouge 55............................ Scratched

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Blinkers on : Head Honcho (R2), Beauty Perception, Sovolksy, Reves En Rouges (R3), Silent Victoree (R4), Mr Toogood, Supreme Lady, Prickley Princess (R5), Trendy (R7) Blinkers off : Kens Legacy (R3), Cheyenne (R4), Stingray (R5), Heza Rebel (R6) Winkers on : Bowen Boy (R1), St Kazak (R3), Seagold (R5), Nipabrandy (R8) Winkers off: Silent Victoree (R4), Opal Creek (R7)

Palmerston North greyhound fields Palmerston North Greyhounds Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 26 Nov 2012 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.12pm (NZT) AWAPUNI RACEWAY C0 C0, 375m 1 8331 Gem’s Conquest (c1) nwtd...............G Quirk 2 67343 Knocka Off Time nwtd....................J Harland 3 32563 Another Gunna nwtd..................J McInerney 4 43263 Emma Rose nwtd.............................B Shaw 5 32 Bone Nerd nwtd........................... M Roberts 6 22x27 Saddleback Patch nwtd................A Williams 7 53654 Yeah Nah nwtd.....................................L Udy 8 246 Chase Ostee nwtd............................G Quirk 9 375 Brave Phoenix nwtd..................... J Chatfield 10 76631 Monkey Queen (c1) nwtd....................W Kite 2 12.32pm WOODVILLE DASH C1 C1, 375m 1 62211 Time’s Up nwtd...........................B Goldsack 2 23421 Call Me Ralph nwtd.......................J Harland 3 11271 Another Snazza 22.76...............J McInerney 4 62433 That’s King nwtd......................... B Hodgson 5 83333 Homebush Esme nwtd...............J McInerney 6 25151 Family’s Pride (c2) 21.72 F &.........Turnwald 7 85312 Phantom Haka nwtd..................J McInerney 8 22168 Regina Haka nwtd........................P Blanche 9 72654 Call Illusion nwtd...............................L Ahern 10 53187 That Is All nwtd S &...................C Blackburn 3 12.52pm J P PRINT, PETONE C1 C1, 457m 1 77414 Bigtime Drifter nwtd..........................L Ahern 2 35432 Eunuchs Luck 26.76..................A Blackburn 3 36233 Talk It Over nwtd.................................. L Bell 4 64227 Hear Hare Here nwtd........................L Ahern 5 44421 Flying Moe (c2) nwtd........................B Shaw 6 21225 Bigtime Latte 26.65...........................L Ahern 7 15215 Triple Aye 26.56......................... W Hodgson 8 35542 Opawa Miata nwtd...........................S Maher 9 72654 Call Illusion nwtd...............................L Ahern

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MORNING

6.00 9.00 12.00 12.30 1.30 2.00

Breakfast.

Good Morning.

ONE News. (T) Emmerdale. (PGR, T) Coach Trip. (PGR, T) Four Weddings USA.

(PGR, R)

3.00 60 Minute Makeover.

(G)

4.00 Te Karere. (T) 4.30 ONE News.

4.55 Come Dine With Me. (G, R) A daily lifestyle show that sees five very different people compete to be named the ultimate dinner party host.

5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat.

(T) Who will survive the hot seat? Six contestants go head-to-head to win the cash in a game of strategy, skill and survival.

6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Close Up. (T) 7.30 Border Patrol. (Final,

eVeNING

PGR, R, T)

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2 78424 Darlek Khan 21.49.........................J Harland 2 16453 Inishrush nwtd J &...........................D Fahey 3 13811 George Baxter 22.11.................J McInerney 3 23554 Walk Da Torque nwtd................... M Roberts 4 33212 Clone Your Own 21.60.........................A Lee 4 34111 Sam I Am 26.33...........................A Turnwald 5 34423 Mindariva 21.20................................L Ahern 5 41847 Mr. Meticulous 25.72 A &..................... J.Hall 6 11131 Daddy Lowe 21.17............................L Ahern 6 54474 Thanks Charlie (c3) nwtd...........J McInerney 7 41457 Chelsea’s Beauty 21.75................ T Downey 7 48318 Mint Power 26.24........................D Schofield ACROSS DOWN 8 36222 Bigtime Kinvara nwtd........................L Ahern 8 22112 Darlyne Ottey 25.86..........................L Ahern 9 38348 Cawbourne Levi nwtd................J McInerney 9 86611 Mick Mania (c3) 26.10................G Hodgson 2.

Bow (3) 1.

Legacy (11) 10 43472 Ripped Jeans 21.59.......................... S Clark 10 58768 Asher (c3) 26.19...............................R Waite 3. Black wood 9. Finish (3) 11 3.15pm NI CHALLENGE 8 2.22pm NZRS NOVICE FINAL NZRSf, 457m STAKES(5) (GROUP 2) HT3 1 64211 Sharkie’s Dream (c2) 27.30.............S C5q, 457m 4. Urge (6) 10. BandMaher (9) 2 1131 Opawa Swede (c1) 26.71 J &..........D Fahey 87626 Another nwtd.................J McInerney 5.Breeze Mean (7) 11. Pedantic (5) 1 2 35123 On 3 12511 Jack’s First (c2) 26.86.......................B Shaw Trey nwtd...............................D Schofield (9) 13. Fishing 4 24541 Hey You (c1) 27.18..............................W Kiteboat (7) 3 11142 Benny6.

RoxList 25.96........................D Schofield 5 33212 Squeezer (c1) 26.83.........................G Machall Act26.12 (11)A &...................... J.Hall 14. FeastQuirk (6) 4 31237 Louie 7.

6 1 Coalpit Mick (c1) 27.06.................A Williams nwtd J &.........................D Fahey 8. Take the blame 16. Heaviness (6) 5 6 13318 Jinjarango 7 61861 Hello Ello (c2) 26.39...................

B Johnston 24858 Dyna Groll (c4) 25.94 C &............D Roberts 8 16821 Opulent (c1) 27.03 A &.......................Seque 18. Fatty (7) 7 88127 Three Inch(5,3,3) Nail 25.73.......................L Ahern 9 21225 Bigtime Latte (c1) 26.65...................L Ahern 8 55753 Barry’s (c4) nwtd. ......................R Waite 12.WayMeant (9) 19. Bit (5) 10 44421 Flying Moe (c2) nwtd........................B Shaw Emergencies: 15.

Female catF &.........Turnwald (7) 20.(GROUP Standard for 9 41234 Retaliate First (c3) 26.14 9 2.40pm NI CHALLENGE STAKES 2) HT1 (6) decision (9) 10 58768 Asher17.

C5q, 457m (c3)Pattern 26.19...............................R Waite 1 44312 Koko Whiz 26.63.........................D Schofield 12 3.33pm NI19.

CHALLENGE STAKES (GROUP 2) HT4 Small change (5) 21.

Spring (3) 2 18146 Necter 25.85.....................................L Ahern C5q, 457m 21.

Mournful (3) 22. Scraps 3 42312 Ultimate Dream nwtd...................

M Roberts(4,3,4) 1 17214 Rybenbrook Josh 25.67....................L Ahern 4 57238 Lochinvar Elle 26.44...................D Schofield 2 76317 Magic Lass nwtd C &....................D Roberts 5 72222 Riley’s Mate (c4) nwtd.......................

S Clark SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLE No 12,063 Fahey 3 21127 Pretty Good 0.00 J &.......................D 6 17544 Cawbourne Tank (c4) nwtd........J McInerney 4 61174 Visionary Man 25.98................L MacDonald Across: Fahey 1 Fast; 3 5 In85461 Grizz action; 926.10.......................................

Root out; 10 Upset; S11 7 31112 White Air nwtd J &...........................D Clark 8 61716 Ate To Much nwtd F &....................Turnwald Complication; 13 Scribe; 15 Writhe; Appreciation; 20 6 18485 Tilt Your Glass17 nwtd...................D MacAuley Emergencies: ...........................D Schofield About; 21 Overawe; 7 2222456 Fancy Drearily;Tip 23nwtd.

Zeus.

9 86611 Mick Mania (c3) 26.10................ G Hodgson Hart nwtd......................J McInerney Down: 1 Waite Forecast; 8 2 11126 Russell Storm; 4 Notice; 5 Counterpanes; 6 10 58768 Asher (c3) 26.19...............................R 9 41234 Retaliate First (c3) 26.14 F &.........Turnwald In short; 7 Nuts; 8 Collaborator; 12 Keenness; 14 10 2.57pm NI CHALLENGE STAKES (GROUP 2) HT2 10 58768 Asher (c3) 26.19...............................R Waite Reprove; 16 School; 18 Irate; 19 Said.

C5q, 457m LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 1 35165 Rybenbrook Flash 25.80...................L Ahern - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

tV3

6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Hi-5. (G, R, T) 7.00 Stitch! (G, R, T) 7.25

3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) Top Chef. (PGR, R) Ent. Tonight. (G, R) 3 News.

Home And Away. (G, R) Dr Phil. (PGR, R) Dr Oz. (PGR, R) Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. (PGR, R, T) Tabatha tries to retool a California salon owned by newlyweds who are new business partners.

4.00 Rachael Ray. (G, R) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 5.30 Home And Away. (G, T) Tamara shows up in Summer Bay, but refuses to testify, Leah finds herself even more suspicious about Jamie, and April isn’t giving up on her sister.

6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 3.00

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. (G, R, T) 7.50 Transformers Prime. (G, R, T) 8.15 Tiki Tour. (G, T) 8.40 The Magic Roundabout. (G, R, T) 9.05 Fireman Sam. (G, T) 9.15 Chuggington. (G, R, T) 9.25 Mr Men. (G, R, T) 9.30 Infomercial.

11.00 Korero Mai – Speak To Me. 11.30 Neighbours. (G, R, T) 12.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 12.30 Hope And Faith. (G, R, T) 1.00 My Kitchen Rules. (G, R, T) 2.00 Jeremy Kyle USA. (PGR) 3.00 Mr Men. (G, R) 3.05 Pocoyo. (G, R, T) 3.10 Franklin. (G, R, T) 3.30 Spongebob Squarepants. (G, R, T) 4.00 Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. (G, R, T) 4.30 Life With Boys. (G, T) 5.00 Horace In Slow Motion. (G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 My Wife And Kids. (G, R, T) 6.00 Neighbours. (G, T) 6.30 Spin City. (G, R, T) 7.00 Shortland Street.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. (PGR, T) 8.35 Grey’s Anatomy. (PGR, T) As Adele’s condition continues to deteriorate, Richard considers altering their living situation.

9.35 Private Practice. (PGR, T) Corinne’s mental condition is making it close to impossible for Sam to take care of her.

10.35 Ellen Degeneres – Here And Now. (PGR, R, T)

12.55 Te Karere. (R, T) 1.20 BBC World – GMT With George Alagiah.

2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain.

3.30 Business Report. 3.45 Sport Today. 4.00 BBC World News.

4.30 HARDtalk. 5.00 Hub with Nik Gowing. 5.05 The Believer’s Voice Of Victory. 5.35 Te Karere. (R, T)

12.00 Regular Show. (Final, PGR, T) 12.30 Drop Dead Diva. (PGR, R, T) 1.30 Infomercial. 2.30 Trading Houses. (Final, G, R, T) 3.25 Police Women Of Maricopa County. (AO, R) 4.15 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (G, R) 5.30 Infomercial.

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

(PGR, R)

12.35 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. 5.30 City Impact Church.

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

Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G) 6.00 That ‘70s Show. (G, R) 6.30 Futurama. (G, R) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PGR, R) Lisa becomes addicted to secondhand smoke when she joins a ballet academy, and Homer befriends some raccoons who stole his beef jerky.

7.30 Beauty & The Geek Australia. (PGR) Hosted by Bernard Curry this year sees the introduction of the series’ very first millionaire geek. The beauties have their number skills tested in a car wash maths challenge.

8.30 FILM: Blue Crush 2. (2011, AO) Sasha Jackson, Elizabeth Mathis, Ben Milliken. A young surfer leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfil her mother’s dream of surfing Jefferys Bay. 10.50 Persons Unknown. (AO, R) 11.45 Entertainment Tonight. (G)

4. Competition (7) 8. Disturbance (6) 9. Progress (7) 10. Carry (6) 11. Avaricious (6) 12. Wrangle (8) 18. Recover (8) 20. Self-confidence (6) 21. Gratify (6) 22. Solace (7) 23. Actually (2,4) 24. Think (7)

DOWN 1. Exact (7) 2. Threatening (7) 3. Splendid (6) 5. Poor (8) 6. Rouse (6) 7. Ebb (6) 13. Uncivilised (8) 14. Escape (3-4) 15. Under (7) 16. Resist (6) 17. Wretched (6) 19. Soften (6)

SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLE No 12,064 Across: 1 Inheritance; 9 End; 10 Orchestra; 11 Fussy; 13 Trawler; 14 Regale; 16 Weight; 18 Adipose; 19 Piece; 20 Criterion; 21 Spa; 22 Odds and ends.

Down: 2 Nod; 3 Ebony; 4 Incite; 5 Average; 6 Catalogue; 7 Performance; 8 Carry the can; 12 Signified; 15 Lioness; 17 Design; 19 Pence; 21 Sad.

the bOx NYPD Blue. (M) Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) Cash Cab USA. (PG) America’s Funniest Home Videos.

6.30 The Eagle. (2011, M) 8.25 Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. (2008, M) Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges.

9.55 Making Of We Bought A Zoo. (2011,

8.05 8.30 9.25 10.20 11.10 12.55 1.45 2.45 3.10

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) Monk. (PG) Law & Order. (M) WWE NXT. (M) SmackDown! (M) NYPD Blue. (M) Monk. (PG) Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) America’s Funniest Home Videos.

3.35 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00

Cash Cab USA. (PG) The Simpsons. (PG) Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) Law & Order. (M) America’s Funniest Home Videos.

10.10 Father Of Invention. (2010, PG) 11.45 War Horse. (2011, M) Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson.

2.10 The Switch. (2010, M) Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman.

3.55 Another Earth. (2011, M) Brit Marling, William Mapother.

5.30 Paranormal Activity 3. (2011, M) Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown.

6.55 Jack And Jill. (2011, PG) Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes. Family guy Jack prepares for the annual event he dreads. the Thanksgiving visit of his passive-aggressive twin sister, Jill.

8.30 Faster. (2010, 16) Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton. An ex-con sets out to avenge his brother’s death that happened during a heist years ago.

He’s tracked by a cop and an egocentric hit man.

10.10 Zookeeper. (2011, PG) Kevin James, Rosario Dawson.

11.50 Faces In The Crowd. (2011, 16) 1.35 Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings.

(PG)

(PG)

(PG) (PG)

7.30 CSI: Miami. (M) 8.30 CSI: New York. (M) 10.30 Law & Order. (M) 11.30 NYPD Blue. (M) 12.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 1.00 Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) 1.25 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 1.50 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.15 Monk. (PG) 3.05 CSI: Miami. (M) 3.55 CSI: New York. (M) 5.35 Simpsons. (PG)

sky sPORt 2 sky sPORt 1 7.30 Cricket. Australia v South Africa.

Second Test Day Four. Highlights.

8.00 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second Test Day One. Highlights.

8.30 Golf. NZ Open. Round Four. Clearwater Golf Club, Christchurch. Highlights.

9.30 Golf. European PGA Tour. DP World Tour Champs Round Four. Highlights.

10.30 Rugby. End Of Year Tour. Wales v All Blacks. From Cardiff. Replay.

12.30 Lawn Bowls. NZ Open. Women’s Pairs 2.00 Golf. NZ Open. Round Four. Highlights.

3.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. DP World Tour Champs Round Four. Highlights.

4.00 The Cricket Show.

4.50 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second Test Day One. From Colombo. Highlights.

5.20 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second Test Day Two Morning Session. Live.

7.35 Crowd Goes Wild.

8.05 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second Test Day Two Afternoon Session. Live.

1.00 The ITM Fishing Show.

1.30 SKY Sport What’s On. 2.00 Golf. NZ Open. Round Four. Clearwater Golf Club, Christchurch. Highlights.

3.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. DP World Tour Champs Round Four. Highlights.

4.00 NBL. Melbourne v Wollongong. Replay.

sky MOVIes 1

6.00 6.50 7.15 7.40

6.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

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

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 The Angry Beavers. (G, R) 7.30 Monsuno. (G, R) 7.55 The Wild Thornberrys. (G, R) 8.20 Go Diego Go. (G, R) 8.45 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends. (G, R) 9.10 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.20 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.25 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.30 The Wiggles Show.

(G, R) 9.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (G) 9.50 Action Central. (G, R) 10.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame

The Switch

relaxes at the Hilton Iru Fushi in the Maldives, and Sophie Monk stays at the refurbished Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

3.05 Legend Of The Seeker.

6.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 6.30 The Crowd Goes Wild.

7.00 Best Of Qi. (PGR) 7.30 Life. (G, R) 8.35 MasterChef USA. (G) The three judges introduce the remaining seven home cooks to the next Mystery Box Challenge, and Chef Ramsay warns the competitors to open the containers carefully because what’s inside is alive!

9.35 Prime Rocks: Michael Jackson Bad 25. (PGR) 10.40 Who Do You Think You Are. (G, R) 11.35 David Letterman. (G)

ACROSS

movie

Sky Movies, 2.10pm (G, R) Jennifer Aniston plays Kassie, whose 7.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat. friend Wally (Jason Bateman) loves (G, R) her but won’t admit it. When Kassie 7.30 Home Shopping. (G) decides to have a baby using donor 12.00 Great Outdoors. (G, R) 1.00 The Crowd Goes Wild. sperm, Wally drowns his sorrows and (G, R) in a moment of inebriated, misguided 1.30 Hot Property. (G, R) affection, switches his sperm with the 2.00 Getaway. (G, R) Jules donor’s. Seven years later, the proof and Jason check out bach accommodation in of Wally’s drunken decision is walking New Zealand, Kelly and talking, with consequent hilarity. © Central Press Features

6.00 3 News.

7.00 Campbell Live.

7.30 The Block Australia.

(PGR, T) Its room delivery day, and no team has had more than a couple hours sleep in the past 48 hours.

8.35 Homeland. (AO, T) In an effort to clarify his priorities, Brody makes a necessary phone call before things spiral further out of control.

9.40 Nurse Jackie. (AO) 10.50 Nightline.

11.20 Sports Tonight. Presented

by Howard Dobson.

11.35 Medium. (AO, T)

(PGR, T)

8.00 High Country Rescue.

(New, G, T) Follow New Zealand police officers and Search and Rescue volunteers as they risk their lives in some of the most remote and treacherous parts of the South Island.

8.30 The Suspects. (AO, T) 9.30 Unforgettable. (AO, T) 10.30 ONE News Tonight. (T) 11.00 Hawthorne. (AO) 11.55 I Shouldn’t Be Alive.

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6.53 Soccer. English Premier League.

Tottenham Hotspurs v West Ham United. Delayed.

9.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Southampton v Newcastle United.

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11.00 The Cricket Show.

11.30 Basketball. NBL. Perth Wildcats v NZ Breakers. Highlights.

12.30 Soccer. English Premier League.

Chelsea v Manchester City. Replay.

2.30 Rugby. End Of Year Tour. Wales v All Blacks. From Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. Replay.

4.30 Basketball. NBL. Perth Wildcats v NZ Breakers. Highlights.

5.30 Golf. European PGA Tour. DP World Tour Champs Round Four. Highlights.

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7.00 Lawn Bowls. New Zealand Open.

Men’s Triples 8.30 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. Brazilian Grand Prix.

Replay.

11.00 Rugby. End Of Year Tour. Wales v All Blacks. From Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. Replay.

1.00 Snooker. Premier League. Final.

Replay.

4.00 Pacquiao Marquez 24/7.

4.30 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. Brazilian Grand Prix.

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3.05 Nightmare At The End Of The Hall.

(2008, M) Sara Rue. 4.35 Faces In The Crowd. (2011, 16)

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Swamp Loggers. (PG) Man Vs. Wild. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Nightmare Next Door. (M) I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) On The Case With Paula Zahn. (M) Stalked: Someone’s Watching. (M) Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? (M) Disappeared. (M) Secrets Of The FBI. (PG) Swamp Loggers. (PG) Man Vs. Wild. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Deadly Seas. (PG) You Have Been Warned. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Flying Guillotine.

Jamie and Adam test if it’s safe to use C4 as a cooking fuel as long as you don’t drop anything on it.

Meteorite Men. (PG) The Dry Lake Bed, Nevada. Dry lake beds are a great place to find new, never before discovered meteorites. The guys cover as much ground as possible.

I Was Murdered. (M) I Married A Mobster. (M) Scorned: Love Kills. (M) On The Case With Paula Zahn. (M) Swamp Loggers. (PG) River Monsters. (PG) You Have Been Warned. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Dirty Jobs. (PG)

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9.00 Deja Vu. (2006, M) Denzel Washington.

11.05 In Her Shoes. (2005, M) Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette.

1.15 Click. (2006, M) Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale.

3.05 Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas. (2000, PG) Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen.

4.50 Fever Pitch. (2004, M) Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon.

6.35 Speed. (1994, M) Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves. An L.A. Bomb Squad specialist must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph. Starring.

Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves. 1994.

8.30 Heartbreakers. (2001, M) Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Meet Max and Page, a mother-daughter duo, who have perfected the art of seducing wealthy men using a repertoire of scams. Starring. Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt. 2001.

10.35 Blade Runner: The Final Cut. (1982, M) Harrison Ford, Sean Young.

12.30 Directors: Edward Zwick. (2011, PG).

1.00 Fever Pitch. (2004, M) Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon.

2.45 Speed. (1994, M) 4.40 Heartbreakers. (2001, M)

shINe 6.00 Life Questions 6.30 Unlocking the Bible 7.00 Booga Booga Land 7.30 Bedbug Bible Gang 8.00 Kingsley’s Meadow 8.30 Impact for Life 9.00 In Touch 10.00 The Men’s Series 10.30 Life Questions 11.00 “Philosophy, Science and the God Debate” 11.30 The Verdict of Science 12.00 Impact for Life 12.30 Enjoying Everyday Life 1.00 The 700 Club 1.30 The Men’s Series 2.00 Give Me An Answer 2.30 “Philosophy, Science and the God Debate” 3.00 Booga Booga Land 3.30 Bedbug Bible Gang 4.00 Kingsley’s Meadow 4.30 Xtreme Life TV 5.00 Rock Nations TV 5.30 Verdict of Science 6.00 Life Questions 6.30 Destined to Reign 7.00 The 700 Club 7.30 UCB Meets 8.30 The Bible Series: Jacob 10.00 Impact for Life 10.30 The 700 Club 11.00 “Philosophy, Science and the God Debate” 11.30 The Verdict of Science 12.00 Give Me An Answer 12.30 In Touch 1.30 Life Questions 2.00 Impact for Life 2.30 The Bible Series: Jacob 4.00 “Philosophy, Science and the God Debate” 4.30 The Verdict of Science 5.00 The Men’s Series 5.30 Connection Point

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Coldstream, Sharks to fight it out

By Myles Hume Allenton’s three-match losing streak has left a two horse race with the Tech Sharks and Coldstream set to vie for the Pritchard Shield in Mid Canterbury senior men’s cricket.

A 34 run loss to the Tech Sharks on Saturday has taken Allenton out of the running, after they were leading the competition only a couple of weeks back.

Coldsteam secured their top spot on the table and next week will coincidently play Tech Sharks in a showdown for the silverware after brushing aside a spirited Fairfield at the Fairfield oval.

At the bottom half of the table, it was a low scoring affair between Methven and Tech Stags, with the game all over by 3.30pm as the Methven bowlers dominated.

Allenton v Tech Sharks The Tech Sharks carried their strong form on to the pitch at the domain, leaving the hosts deflated after a 34 run defeat.

After winning the toss, the Tech Sharks opted to bat first where openers Ben Mably and Jason Morrison set the platform for their side, putting on 48 runs for the first wicket.

After Mably went out for 23, Sam Hurley went for 16, while the top order continued to chip in with minor contributions as the wickets fell steadily.

However, Tech Sharks were able to grab hold of their innings when middle order batsman Dan Hurley came in and strung together an unbeaten 57 run effort, taking his side through to 206 all out in 40.4 overs.

Opener Jeff Naish proved the rock for his Allenton side, putting on 88

• Taylor, Elliot called up Hooker Hika Elliot and utility back Tom Taylor have been called into the All Blacks as the squad deals with injuries and another judicial issue. As expected Elliot has been drafted in from the just completed NZ Maori tour to cover for the rash of problems at hooker. Keven Mealamu is still recovering from his latest calf problem and remains an uncertain starter for Sunday’s test against England.

The side’s other senior hooker Andrew Hore is likely to face a judicial hearing this week after clobbering Wales’ lock Bradley Davies in the opening minute of yesterday’s match. Dane Coles is the only fit hooker, so a rapid call was made to draft in Elliot before the Maori squad flew home. Taylor’s inclusion is more of a mystery. However, it suggests injury problems for all three five eighths are more serious than first thought. - NZH

runs while team members cheaply fell around him. Tech Sharks’ Poku Paraia dismantled the batting lineup, taking 5/20 after his fellow bowlers cleaned out the top order.

Allenton eventually fell short of the Tech Sharks’ total, all out for 172 in 39.1 overs.

• McLaughlin V8 victor

Coldstream v Fairfield Coldstream kept their unbeaten season alive on Saturday when they pushed past lowly ranked Fairfield.

Coldstream elected to bat first where they were able to put together a handy 188 all out in 42 overs.

Fairfield’s Ryan Cockburn took the sting out of the Coldstream batting taking 5/20, however two strong contributions courtesy of Regan Broker (86) and Jono Print (58) kept the Coldstream side in good stead.

But it was all too much for Fairfield, who crumbled in 30 overs with Coldstream’s Grant Watson almost singlehandedly cleaning up with 7/27.

All out for 103 runs, Brent Ferguson was the standout batsman for Fairfield, managing 39 runs.

Coldstream won by 85 runs.

Tech Stags v Methven Methven’s bowling attack, spearheaded by Ash Mills and Elliott Nicholson, uprooted bottom dwellers Tech Stags, helping their side to a six wicket victory within 37 overs.

Tech Stags were put in to bat at the domain where they struggled against an attack that had them all out for a low 69 in 18 overs.

Medium-fast Mills took six scalps for 19 runs and was assisted by Nicholson who chipped in with 3/25.

Methven lost early wickets, however they were able to chase down the total within 18 overs with only four men sent back to the pavilion.

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The Ashburton District Council crew (front) joined about 450 crews at the Ashburton Club Regatta at the weekend where Ashburton College crews featured highly.

Confidence boost for local rowers they went up against 450 crews from as far as Oamaru to North Canterbury.

Kate Hayman, 16, was one of the standouts for the College team where she took out the under 16 and under 18 women’s singles titles and won the club doubles with Georgia Lysaght. She also featured highly in other races throughout the weekend.

In the corporates, the Redmond’s eight, who were race favourites, came third in their respective grade no thanks to a faulty boat, while the Ashburton District Council eight finished last in the C grade, a

By Myles Hume Ashburton rowing appears to be in good stead for the upcoming season if the performances from the weekend’s regatta on Lake Hood are anything to go by.

Crews from the Ashburton Rowing Club and Ashburton College competed in the Ashburton Club Regatta alongside two local corporate eights teams.

Ashburton College, who were racing under the club umbrella, claimed six wins, bumping up their confidence for the season ahead as

harsh reflection of their hard work and dedication.

Ashburton College rowing coach Steve Beveridge said it was important the teams got some experience under their belts as they gear up for the season ahead.

“It’s the start of the season so you have to get out there and do as much racing as you can because you can only paddle up and down the lake so many times,” Beveridge said.

Ashburton Rowing Club president Justin Wall said crews were blessed with such a “glorious” weekend, which saw the lake only chop up

A tough draw and two narrow losses means the Mid Canterbury sevens team won’t be making the trip to Queenstown come January.

It is the first time the team will not be at the national tournament to be played in the tourist hotspot early next year after losing all three games at the South Island qualifying tournament in Timaru on Saturday.

The team needed to finish in the top five, but finishing seventh after taking on top teams Otago, the eventual winners, runners up Canterbury and North Otago.

For coach Mark Cousins and his squad, it was one of those days.

“You have to take the good with the bad, so you just have to give everything you have got and I’m pretty sure the guys did that so you can’t be too disappointed,” Cousins said.

After losing to Canterbury 24-5, the team took on favourites Otago in the second match where the team were only moments away from an upset.

Down 21-0 at half time, the Hammers were able to muster 21 points to draw level with the southerners with only a couple of minutes left on the clock.

“The game was right in the balance and then they picked up two late seven pointers, but in the middle period of that game we dominated and played our best rugby of the

tournament,” Cousins said.

The Mid Cantabrians were agonisingly short of securing a national spot, losing 35-21.

North Otago provided the third opposition, the Hammers needing at least a draw to make it to the nationals.

But they were haunted by a case of déjà vu. Sitting at 19-19, Mid Canterbury were hot on attack in the dying seconds but a mistake left North Otago with a late opportunity.

“They got the ball and all of a sudden there were a few phases and then they scored,” Cousins said.

It was a tough day for the Hammers, made tougher by the controversial draw.

“There’s no doubt it (that the draw played a part), there were no pool games or playoffs, it was just a random draw,” Cousins said. “North Otago, who got seventh last year, were playing teams that got fifth and sixth this year so they get two bites at qualifying which is a pretty favouable draw for bottom place.”

However it wasn’t all bad news for Mid Canterbury as local connections Matt Thatcher, Misi Salave and Solomona Paraki represented runners up Canterbury, while Erica Prescott played for the Canterbury women’s side who beat Tasman in the final. Salave and Paraki didn’t have memorable finals though, both leaving the field with leg injuries.

Kama Heney (left) and Amber Kururangi share a moment with Kiwi league superstar Ruben Wiki during a training session he held in Ashburton on Saturday.

Wiki was in town to raise awareness around White Ribbon Day – the day where men take a stand and say violence towards women is not ok. He spoke at a dinner in Ashburton on Friday night after a full day of getting out and about and meeting the Ashburton community. On Saturday morning he was up bright and early for a training session with members of the Ashburton Barbarians league team.

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Aussies get a sniff of test victory Australia’s front-line bowlers have laid the platform for an important second Test victory over South Africa in Adelaide, but there’s still more work required on day five today if they’re to secure a 1-0 lead in the series.

South Africa reached 4-77 at

SCOREBOARD Results Basketball NBL Results

Round 8 PERTH WILDCATS 89 (S Redhage 20 K Lisch 18 B Robbins 11) bt NEW ZEALAND BREAKERS 64 (C Jackson 15 W Hudson 12 C Webster 11) at Perth Arena.

SYDNEY KINGS 83 (B Madgen 29 C Henry 15 D Lazare 14) bt CAIRNS TAIPANS 76 (J Wilson 19 B Hill 15 C Tragardh 12) in overtime at Cairns Convention Centre.

PERTH WILDCATS 68 (M Knight 16 K Lisch 15 J Wagstaff 15) bt TOWNSVILLE CROCODILES 63 (G Ervin 17 T Blanchfield 13 P Crawford 11) at Townsville Entertainment Centre.

Standings

P W L Pts %Won Wollongong Hawks 7 6 1 117.18 85.71 New Zealand Breakers 9 7 2 106.55 77.78 Perth Wildcats

8 5 3 106.16 62.50 Adelaide 36ers

8 5 3 98.66 62.50 Sydney Kings

10 6 4 100.39 60.00 Cairns Taipans

9 3 6 98.22 33.33 Melbourne Tigers

7 2 5 100.77 28.57 Townsville Crocodiles 10 0 10 83.10 0.00

Equestrian Southern Canterbury A&P Association Waimate, November 24 2012 Horse Grand Prix (One Star) Series: Tegan Fitzsimon (Rolleston) Alacazam 1, Brittany Whelan (Dunedin) George Jetson 2, Tegan Fitzsimon (Rolleston) Dual Diamond 3, Stacey Anderson (Christchurch) Saddlery Barn Cruiser 4, Nicole White (Invercargill) Cricklewood Ace 5, Chris Harris (Alyesbury) Zilco Te Peka Lotto 6.

Gilltrap Audi South Island Mitavite Young Rider (One Star) Series: Rose Alfeld (Weedons) My Super Nova 1, Devon Van Til (Rangiora) Akubra 2, Brittany Whelan (Dunedin) George Jetson 3, Katie Meredith (Ohoka) Critter 4, Larissa

in the latter part of Saturday.

He said he was impressed with how the Ashburton crews were shaping up for the season, however he was concerned with the latest crop of rowers from Christchurch city where they lacked time on the water due the rowing facilities being damaged by the earthquake.

Other strong performers from Ashburton were Matt Beveridge who won the under 16 men’s singles and took out the under 16 men’s doubles with Matt Rae. Sean McCormack and Benji Barry also featured highly, winning the men’s novice doubles.

Top tips from a legend

Finals spot elusive

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Thoroughgood (Christchurch) Chrialka Jago 5, Katie Meredith (Ohoka) Streetwise 6.

Pony Grand Prix: Steffi Whittaker (Halswell) Moonlight Glow 1, Arabella Jarman (Kaiapoi) The Shepherd 2, Lucinda Askin (Ashburton) Buckle Up 3, Grace Percy (Queenstown) Paradise Brigadier 4, Emma Waite (Ashburton) Spring Brooke 5.

Caledonian Amateur Rider Series: Kate Taylor (Kurow) Next 1, Jenna Walls (West Melton) Baltimore 2, Jackie Wear Guscott 3, Jacquita Farquhar (Outram) Rustic Moonlight 4, Angela Lissington (Amberley) Donala Dundee 5, Elizabeth Bell (Rakaia) Double Bass 6.

KiwiSpan Junior Rider Series: Olivia Robertson (Ohoka) Mimoa 1, Sally Spicer (Christchurch) Weiti Eros 2, Thomas Kerr (Ashburton) Magic Moments 3, Rose Alfeld (Weedons) Capprera 4, Arabella Jarman (Kaiapoi) Two For One 5, Harry Feast (West Melton) Double J Butler 6.

Football English Premier League Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 0 Manchester United 3 (Evans 64, Fletcher 68, Hernandez 72) QPR 1 (Mackie 52) Wigan Athletic 3 (Gomez 58, 68, 90+2) Reading 2 (Morrison 35, Al Habsi 79 og) Everton 1 (Naismith 12) Norwich City 1 (Bassong 90) Stoke City 1 (Adam 26) Fulham 0 Sunderland 2 (Gardner 73, Sessegnon 87) West Bromwich Albion 4 (Gera 30, Long 44, Lukaku 81 pen, Fortune 90+5) Standings

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stumps yesterday, chasing 430, still requiring 353 runs with six wickets in hand to pull off a record-breaking fourth-innings win.

If the Australians win the series they can assume South Africa’s world No.1 ranking and all the Proteas will be thinking about is

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Celtic Squash Club Draw for summer league tonight: 6.00: James McCloy v Billy Nolan, Laurence McCormick v Sandy Richardson; 6.30: Mick Hooper v Mark Holmes, Bill Bullock v Ian Dolden; 7.00: Rebecca Abernethy v Di Ness, Cath Blacklow v Ben Aldridge; 7.30: Lucas Hooper v Susan Dargue, Chantelle Kentish v John Surridge.

Squash Club Annual General Meeting at 7.30pm Wednesday night (November 28).

Twilight netball Mid Canterbury Netball Mitre 10 Mega Twilight Netball Draw Week 5 Tuesday 27th November 2012 Heartland Court: 6.00pm, Dragons v Udder Chaos; 7.00pm, ; Ashburton Ligers v Mixed Up Neumanns Tyre Services Court: 6.00pm, Scoring All Night v Doggies; 7.00pm, Semi Pro’s v Moisties; Ashburton Guardian Blue Court: 6.00pm, The Geez Team v Dodgy Knees; 7.00pm, High Raters v S & Giggles; Ashburton Guardian White Court: 6.00pm, Megz Team v Canterbury Dirty Tactics; 7.00pm, Childs Play v Legal Ganstaz; Ashburton Guardian Red: 7.00pm, Seeds R Us v Hoops I Did It Again;

staying 0-0 and forcing a decider in Perth.

When Ben Hilfenhaus (1-23) had Graeme Smith (nought) caught at slip in the first over of the Proteas’ second innings and Hashim Amla (17) fell the same way to impressive spinner Nathan Lyon (2-15),

the world’s best were officially on the ropes. Alviro Petersen (24) and Jacques Rudolph (3) offered little resistance, leaving it to remaining batsmen AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis and the injured Jacques Kallis to attempt a rescue mission of almighty proportions.

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Scott McLaughlin sealed the inaugural overall V8 SuperTourer title in style at the Mike Pero Real Estate 350 at Ruapuna in Christchurch yesterday but admitted he had made the biggest mistake of his successful season in the final race when he took out Greg Murphy.

McLaughlin won the first race but in the second he collided with Murphy, spinning him down the order and incurring a 50-second penalty for himself and Jono Webb a penalty which handed the enduro series title to Murphy and co-driver Jack Perkins. “I’ve had a great season but I made a mistake there and I’ll definitely go and see Murph and apologise,” said the youngster, who has been the driving revelation for New Zealand in V8s in Australia and New Zealand this season and a deserving champion in - APNZ SuperTourers.

• Boost for Phoenix After snatching a 1-1 draw with Perth Glory on Saturday night, the Wellington Phoenix have laid the foundation for a string of good results, according to assistant coach Chris Greenacre. The Phoenix were staring down the barrel of four consecutive losses before they embarked on a gruelling two-game trip to Australia.

After a win against Newcastle and Saturday’s draw they are poised to launch a much-needed revival, with two home games coming up. “If we had talked about this result before the game and someone had asked if we would take four points from six going to Newcastle and Perth I think we would have taken it,” Greenacre - HOL said.

• Magic in turmoil The fallout from Sheryl Dawson’s axing as Magic chief executive has begun, with two board members resigning in the wake of Dawson’s exit.

Despite the Magic winning the ANZ Championship and securing a new major sponsor (Kia Motors), Dawson didn’t even make the final shortlist with Tim Hamilton appointed to the top job. The decision was first foreshadowed in the Herald on Sunday on October 28, when it was revealed that former board chairman Peter de Luca had been replaced and Dawson was no certainty to continue in her role.

Long time board members Paula Thompson and Shirley Baker have given notice in the wake of the decision, with Thompson saying she was “gobsmacked” by the process as well as the final outcome.

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One last hurdle for All Blacks and a slog-fest against the Boks.

A healthy mix of recovery and preparation will be on the All Black agenda as they set themselves for their final task after seeing off Wales 33-10 at the Millennium Stadium.

Late five-eighths inclusion Aaron Cruden earned an “outstanding” description from coach Steve Hansen after kicking 18 points in a controlled display.

Dropped into the All Black starting team late in Cardiff following Daniel Carter’s sudden withdrawal, Cruden provided much the same portfolio as the great man.

It was, probably, Cruden’s coming of age performance: the best test he has produced in eight starts.

His 24-minute cameo against Ireland in June was memorable, but his work in Wales ticked a whole lot more boxes and allayed doubts about his overall tactical command and ability to kick, direct and generally impose himself.

By Wynne Gray One week left on tour, one victory against England standing between the All Blacks and a remarkable test season.

They know what to expect, more of the bludgeoning collisions which have dominated the opposition rugby playbooks in Edinburgh, Rome and Cardiff.

There will be even more resolve from England who have been sawn off by the Wallabies and Springboks and will be aching to redress this season and a spotty home record against the All Blacks.

Two wins and a draw in the last 10 tests against the All Blacks at Twickenham is not a grab-bag of results and confidence to inspire the red-rose group.

They looked more like fading violets a week ago in their ghastly strip and only a shade better as they returned to their white uniform

The incentives to finish with a win are varied.

It will be captain Richie McCaw’s swansong before he disappears for a six month spell and will complete a year when the side pushed on from the World Cup-winning deeds.

It will signal a season in which the coaches and staff have done a fine job and need to work out strategies over the break which they think will now take this squad to the next level.

“I thought it was pretty clinical for the first 60-65 minutes,” Hansen said. “The last 15-20 we may have lost our way a bit and kicked too much ball away.

“I think we were trying to play some smart rugby while we had a guy [Cory Jane] in the bin.

“But at the same time we gave Wales a lot of opportunities to come back at us.

“Overall, second last game of the season, for me it was a 10 out of 10 so pretty happy.”

Poor old Rhys Priestland in the Welsh No 10 jersey must have been shattered - it couldn’t have been much for him to see the All Blacks dig into their kit bag, pull out Cruden and then discover he’s quite a bit better.

But Cruden was better - more commanding, more in control, more able to channel the flow rather then let the game wash over him much as it did Priestland.

No doubt there will be a diverting few days with Andrew Hore heading for the judiciary after his swinging arm inside the first minute which took lock Bradley Davies out of the game.

With Keven Mealamu in recovery from a calf strain, special attention will be paid to the health of young hooker Dane Coles.

There are others. Tony Woodcock has a dead leg and sore calf while there was a general weariness about the group even though they have been looked after on this trip.

From the sideline

McCaw felt the test was one of the most physical he had been involved in for some time.

He had been impressed by the way Wales kept coming at them even with a large deficit.

His side had played pretty well throughout but suffered when they tried to “shut up shop” towards the end.

The All Blacks built such a lead they were able to give the subs more of a run to save others with tired legs.

“We have got to be smart about what we are doing because we have got another game next week and more games next year,” Hansen said.

“Giving people an opportunity to get out on the park is massive, particularly a park like this where the crowd can play a big part and there is a lot of noise and you don’t hear the calls and you have got to learn things and adapt and adjust to that.”

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There’s a new name on the Gala Cup strong backhand and consistent play once again.

“He’s beat me once before, a long time ago, but we can’t be having that,” Rhys said.

It was the first time they had faced off in the final after falling on the same side of the draw in previous years, and with their parents courtside, Rhys was not going to let his seventh title evade him.

It capped off a proud weekend for the Cromie brothers who took out the men’s A grade doubles title on Saturday, beating Rob Howe and Simon Jordan 6-3 6-2.

Meanwhile in the women’s A grade final, Ashleigh Leonard upset favourite Rebecca Robinson 7-6 (7-3) 6-0, in a match that Gala Cup tournament director Tony Brosnahan labelled “a real arm wrestle”.

By Myles Hume Rhys Cromie overcame a case of sibling rivalry to equal a longstanding record at the Gala Cup tennis tournament yesterday.

The 21-year-old dismantled his brother Jayden, 23, in the men’s A grade final at the Mid Canterbury championships, equalling the tournament record of seven titles set by AC Browne in the late 1950s.

Seeded number one, Rhys ousted his brother 6-3 6-0 after a closely contested first set, Jayden carrying his sharp form from the round robin into the final.

However the fourth seed, and Rhys’ doubles partner, ran out of legs in the second set, surrendering to his younger brother’s

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He said Leonard was able to carry on her strong form from the club competition and fight for the top spot in the women’s grade that Robinson had dominated in recent years.

Leonard also snapped up another title with doubles partner Stacey Hopwood, beating the mother/daughter combination of Linda and Rebecca Robinson 6-4 6-2 in the A grade women’s final.

In the men’s A reserve grade Hayden McNulty claimed top spot, while Christal Brosnahan took out the women’s equivalent.

Joseph Benny and Duncan Rollinson claimed the men’s A reserve grade doubles title and Brosnahan took out a second title with doubles partner Milly Young in the women’s A reserve A grade section.

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Ashleigh Leonard upset top seed Rebecca Robinson at the Ashburton Trust Gala Cup on Saturday, while yesterday Rhys Cromie claimed his seventh crown at the tournament.

Having watched his New Zealand Open lead slip through his fingers during the final round, Mark Brown was left to ponder an off-day on the greens at Clearwater yesterday.

The Lower Hutt professional had 33 putts during his final round as the three-stroke lead he held overnight evaporated in front of his eyes.

Australian amateur Jake Higginbottom claimed the New Zealand Open title with a onestroke, ahead of compatriots Jason Norris and Peter Wilson.

Brown’s one-over 73 saw him slip to fourth overall at fourunder, and the 37-year-old was visibly devastated after he walked off the 18th green.

“I played well enough. I played beautifully for the first 10 holes.

I didn’t miss a shot, really, and only holed one putt,” Brown said.

“I had 33 putts for the day, so that’s never going to win a golf tournament and probably proves you can’t win a golf tournament with your long game. You’re going to have to hole a few putts and today that didn’t happen. It was frustrating because it seems to be happening quite a bit lately.”

After having only 28 putts in his third round, when he fired a sixunder 66, Brown was disappointed to see his putting desert him when it mattered most.

- APNZ

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Guardian Weather

Monday, 26 November 2012

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19

RANGIORA

Wa i m a k a r i r i

LAKE COLERIDGE

Map for today

19

DARFIELD

19

Rakaia

ASHBURTON

20

Ash

Geraldine

Ran

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gitata

TIMARU

19

Compiled by © Meteorological Service of NZ Limited 2012

Waimate

For the very latest weather information including Weather Warnings, visit:

TODAY

NZ Today

20 OVERNIGHT MIN 7

MAX

22 OVERNIGHT MIN 7

MAX

20 OVERNIGHT MIN 8

MAX

19 OVERNIGHT MIN 6

THURSDAY: Showers and cold southerlies developing.

Midnight Tonight

ia

Wind less than km/h 30

MAX

WEDNESDAY: Fine spells, some morning drizzle. Northeast breezes.

18

ka

TODAY

LYTTELTON

AKAROA

Ra

Canterbury High Country

TOMORROW: Fine spells. Light winds.

21

LINCOLN

Canterbury Plains

TODAY: Morning cloud then fine.

Southerly turns northeast.

23

CHRISTCHURCH

20

METHVEN

Ashburton Forecast

30 to 59

Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill

Fine spells. Light winds.

Morning patchy drizzle, then fine spells.

Northeast breezes.

morning min max

15 13 15 12 12 11 9 8 9 5 4 10 8

TOMORROW

WEDNESDAY

60 plus

fine fine fine drizzle fine fine fine showers fine fine fine fine shower

Fine apart from areas of morning cloud.

Southerly breezes developing in the morning, then turning northeasterly.

20 21 23 18 19 23 25 16 23 19 21 16 15

THURSDAY

NZ Situation

A slow moving high over the Tasman Sea extends a ridge to the northern New Zealand and generates southwest flow over the country.

A trough moves over the South Island on Wednesday.

Showers and cold southerlies developing in the morning.

FZL: 3000m lowering to 2600m

Early drizzle about the main divide clearing, then fine everywhere.

Wind at 1000m: NW, gusting 60 km/h in exposed places.

Wind at 2000m: Strong W 60 km/h turning SW in the afternoon.

TOMORROW

FZL: 2600m

Mostly fine.

Wind at 1000m: NW for a time.

Wind at 2000m: W, strong for a time.

WEDNESDAY Mainly fine. Gusty northwesterlies at low levels, strong or gale westerlies about the tops.

THURSDAY Showers and strong cold southerlies developing. Snow lowering to 800 metres.

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

A few showers. Cold southerlies easing.

Fine spells and a few showers. Strong southerlies easing.

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showers rain rain rain fine showers fine fine showers rain thunder fine rain rain rain rain fine rain rain fine rain rain rain rain fine rain showers snow showers fine showers rain fine showers showers fine rain rain rain fine rain rain rain fine rain

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River Levels

cumecs

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 9:45 am, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 9:00 am, yesterday

158.0 10.0 10.8 94.0

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

to 4pm yesterday

max

Ashburton Airport

min grass 16 hour Nov 2012 min to date to date

22.7

9.4

Temperatures °C

Rainfall mm

Wind km/h

max gust

5.6

0.0

85.2 731.5

NE 24

Christchurch Airport 21.4 12.3 11.4

0.0

34.8 614.4

E 37

Timaru Airport

0.0

52.2 586.6

SE 19

Average

19.3

Average

7.9

18.8

8.0

19.9

Average

5.8

5.4

7.3

17.6

–

6.0

54

626

39

576

46

470

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

6

Monday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Tuesday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

Wednesday

6

9 noon 3

6

9 pm

2 1 0

2:58

9:07 3:18 9:22 3:41 9:50 3:58 10:03 4:23 10:32 4:37 10:44 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 5:48 am Set 8:53 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Set 4:10 am Rise 6:38 pm

Full moon

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Rise 5:48 am Set 8:54 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Set 4:43 am Rise 7:36 pm

Last quarter

7 Dec www.ofu.co.nz

4:33 am

Rise 5:47 am Set 8:55 pm

Fair

Fair fishing

Set 5:19 am Rise 8:31 pm

New moon

13 Dec 9:43 pm

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