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Strike action puts people’s lives on hold By Sue Newman

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Over the past 10 months Canterbury District Health Board staff have been on strike on 21 occasions. Those strikes have added hundreds of thousands of dollars to the board’s operating costs and they have affected 135 days of hospital work. Those are the facts. But what those days of strike action have also done is to push back surgery dates for hundreds of people, many of whom have been sitting on waiting lists for many months, if not years, for operations that are described as elective but which, in reality, will improve their quality of life. Ask Colleen Linwood. The facts do not tell the human story, she said. Colleen is now looking at her fifth date for surgery, November 5. She says she’s crossing fingers, toes and even eyelashes that nothing steps in the way this time. For her, the wait for a hip replacement has been long, frustrating and painful. It’s carved swathes off her quality of life and makes it impossible for her to work. Pain is her constant companion, pills her only relief, but come November 5, barring another round of strike action, Colleen hopes she’ll finally get a new hip. It’s been a long journey, one that began in 2013. She was in constant pain, struggled to walk and a visit to the doctor sent her off for an X-ray. The results were clear, her hip joint showed severe deterioration, a replacement was needed. But Colleen had one problem standing between her and surgery – she was severely overweight. She

was also well under 50, often cited as the cut-off age for the procedure. “They requested that I lose a lot of weight to get to the right weight before surgery, a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or under,” she said. That meant opting for regular pain killers and a commitment to shed the excess kilos. She tried, struggled to do this on her own, but nothing worked. The weight stayed, the pain stayed and her medication increased. She was forced to leave work and her life became defined by the pain in her hip. In April last year she asked for help, booked into a gym and got serious about weight loss. It worked. She went back through the public health process for acceptance for surgery. Again she was rejected. Yes her BMI had dropped significantly but it was still marginally over the magic figure of 40. “They told me I needed to lose more weight for my own health and I’ve worked extremely hard with the guys at the gym to lose 39kg,” she said. That was in April last year and since then she’s dropped well below the goal and continued to build up her fitness. This year she received the best possible news. She’d finally made it onto the waiting list. Surgery was booked for March 19 Colleen continued to work at the gym, continued doing all she could to get her body into a healthy state for surgery, and started to dream of a new life.

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Exhibition a mammoth effort

Debbie Lambert is preparing for an upcoming solo exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery, as well as an exhibition at Parliament’s Bowen House next year. PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 251019-SS-0031

Ashburton’s Debbie Lambert never went to art school, but in the process of clocking up thousands of “brush hours”, she has carved out a successful career as a painter. Susan Sandys reports.

ebbie Lambert has just completed and delivered 11 works for an upcoming solo exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery. Nature Revealed comprises some mammoth works, at up to 1.5 by 1.2 metres in size, and it has been a mammoth journey creating them. It all began when art gallery curator Shirin Khosraviani approached her two years ago. “Very humbled, very excited,” was how Lambert said she felt at the time, and it has been a case of brush in hand and head down ever since. Lambert works from the garage at her home, where she lives with husband Ken. “It’s like painting outdoors really, because I just lift the door up. If it gets really cold, I just go in by the fire and thaw out, have a cup of coffee and come out again.” Art is in Lambert’s blood. Her parents were both painters and in primary school she attended an after-school art extension programme. She took art through

high school and at teachers’ college when she was training to be a primary school teacher. Shortly after her first child was born, her mum shouted her a painting course, with well-known New Zealand artist Randall Froude. “My painting has evolved since learning from him, it’s just been brush hours really,” Lambert said. She took the opportunity to make it her career following being restructured out of a sales job some years ago. “I just saw it as an awesome opportunity to paint full-time and see what could happen and it’s been really amazing,” she said. The mum of three and grandmum of two is known New Zealand wide for her stunning landscapes, in oils and watercolours, which can fetch more than $7500 each. Her works for Nature Revealed are all in oil, and are representative of a love of the outdoors cultivated over many years.

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Paintings, not cars, fill the garage at Debbie Lambert’s Ashburton home. PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 251019-SS-0019

For many of her smaller works, she has been a convert to the discipline of alla prima, that is completing a painting on site in one day. Doing this transfers to the work a certain aliveness, energy, and three-dimensional aspect which does not come from painting from a photograph, she said. Adding to the work once it was home could only make it more manufactured and contrived, and for Lambert, she likes to top off her efforts on site with her signature. “My philosophy is when I have signed it, I have finished it,” she said. Her work as a landscape artist has taken her to some stunning locations, covering from the mountains to the sea, and from Stony Bay in the Coromandel Peninsula in the north, to

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Glenorchy in the south. A recent highlight was rock-hopping downstream along Cave Creek on the West Coast with family friend and well known kayaker and geologist Paul Caffyn, surrounded by huge boulders. “It’s so amazing, the sand made the water gold, it was like walking in gold glitter,” she said. “In one of the paintings, I have got Paul painted in so you can see the size of the boulders.” The highest location she had ever been was Black Mountain on Mesopotamia, courtesy of helicopter pilot Malcolm Prouting dropping her there as he ferried a group of hunters. She said it had been fantastic to look down on the Rangitata and Clyde from such a vantage point, so different to what one would normally see from the

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ground. Nature Revealed will have its opening night on November 13, and the exhibition will run from the following day until January 10. It follows exhibitions last year in private galleries, at Leeston, Selwyn and Hokitika, as well as at the Dunedin Art Show. Lambert has another high-profile exhibition approaching for next year, at Parliament’s Bowen House. She said she and the four fellow New Zealand painters of Adrienne Pavelka, Bernadette Parsons, Claire Forbes and Brent Forbes had just had their application accepted for the exhibition, which would run from April 1 to 30. “It was done on the spur of the moment, I rang a couple of a friends and they said ‘Let’s do it’,” she said.

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Emergency services kept busy By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Emergency services were kept busy over the long weekend with a variety of call-outs from tree fires to car crashes. Firefighters were first called out to Tinwald at 5.48am on Saturday morning after a car had run in to a petrol pump at a petrol station. A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said there was a small amount of fuel that had leaked as a result, and that fire crews worked with staff to clean it up. Members of the Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade were called to a vegetation fire at 11.20am on Saturday. Chief fire officer Tyrone Burrowes said it was a small grass fire on the outskirts of the town. Burrowes said it was fortunate there had been no accidents given it was a long weekend. On 10.46am on Sunday Ashburton firefighters were called to a tree fire at a property on the corner of Milton Road South and Beach Road. In the late hours of Sunday emergency services were called to a crash on Beach Road east. Emergency services were alerted to a collision between a car and a power pole at 11.20pm which brought powerlines down on to the road. A police spokesperson said the power company was notified and

dealt with the powerlines, and a tow truck was required for the car. On Monday morning firefighters and police attended what was thought to be a suspicious fire at Bunnings. A number of pallets were on fire when fire crews arrived, and it took a number of pumps and a tanker to extinguish the fire. No jobs were reported overnight Sunday after the Methven Rodeo following on from good behaviour at the event. Constable Trevor Gurney said on the day that police were pleased with the outcome of the event. “From our point of view it has been a great community event and we’ve not had to deal with any major issues at the rodeo,” he said. “We’ve also been happy to see that most people managed their intake of alcohol responsibly. “There were no arrests made and only one person was trespassed from the event.” A person was taken to Christchurch Hospital by helicopter on Saturday evening after two personal locator beacons were activated on Mt Somers at around 5pm. The personal locator beacons were reportedly activated after a person had fallen 30 metres. A St John spokesperson said two helicopters were sent to the scene, and that one person was taken to Christchurch Hospital in a moderate condition.

Firefighters deal with a tree fire near Ashburton on Sunday morning. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 271019-JPM-0006

Strike action puts people’s lives on hold From P1 But what she couldn’t control were issues and events within the health system. Strike action and more urgent cases kept getting in the way. Her March date became April 16 then August 26 and October 16. Now she’s looking at November 5 and said she’s afraid to get her hopes up. On one occasion surgery was cancelled the day before, on another it was four days out. Her

child care, transport plans and after surgery care plans were already in place. Another strike got in the way. With each surgery date she’s travelled to Christchurch to a preop clinic. More expense. In spite of the long run of cancelled surgery dates, Colleen is philosophical. “Sooner or later we’ll get there. I don’t blame people for striking, but it has become a real pain for me and there will be a lot of other

people in the same situation. I’ve been waiting an awfully long time and I’ll be very, very happy when I finally get it,” she said. The waiting is made a little more bearable by knowing that post surgery she’ll get her life back. “I want to do something with my life. I want to get out there, do things and get a proper job. I’m not blaming anyone but it’s hard not to when you’re the one who’s bumped off the list.” She wishes the people who hold

the health purse strings would look at a strike situation from the patient’s point of view. “These endless strikes are affecting so many people, Something needs to happen at the top. These people don’t want to go on strike they don’t do it for nothing, their cause is important.” Colleen knows she’ll be part of a large group of people affected by a health year marred by strike action. She says they’re the forgotten

part of the equation and most will be waiting in considerable pain for surgery. “I support the staff 100 per cent but it’s unfortunate that it affects us, the people who are waiting for surgery.” Each time her date has been cancelled, Colleen said the team at Fit 4 Life Gym have been her lifeline. They’ve kept her body working and her spirits up. “I can’t thank them enough, they’ve changed my life.”

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■■ASHBURTON COLLEGE

College keen for more international students By Sue Newman

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Flying stakes stunner Racing fans were treated to sunny skies and competitive racing at the Ashburton Flying Stakes meeting at the Ashburton Racecourse yesterday. One of the key build-ups to the New Zealand Cup, a good crowd gathered to watch the best pacers and trotters hit the track. A live band kept the crowd entertained with classic tunes while cold drinks and hot chips were a must for punters. While the feature races were taken out by visitors to the district, there was a special win for local trainer/driver John Hay who guided home Rebel Kibbybones in the Cyril Hay Memorial Trot, while Leo O’Reilly picked up a win on the Jim Hooper trained Just Michael in the first. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 281019-JPM-0014

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Relationships between schools and education agencies in Japan and Ashburton College were cemented recently when college principal Ross Preece spent time in Japan. While he did not intend to widen the catchment for students from Japan, Preece said it was important to nurture the relationships the college had as part of its drive to create a broad international student base at the school. “I’d like to grow our international student numbers but we don’t want to have a mass of students from one country; our intention is to grow our numbers across a range of countries,” he said. The college had hosted international students for a number of years but this had been the first year where significant effort had gone into broadening that base, but that was unlikely to show in additional students until 2021, Preece said. While some schools focused on large numbers of students from one country, the college believed that did not encourage those students to integrate in their new school as they’d always gravitate towards their own cultural group. His preference is to have five students from each of 10 different nationalities represented in the student body rather than 10 each from five countries.

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Telling the stories of forgotten businesswomen By Sue Newman

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Catherine Bishop is making it her mission to bring to life the stories of the ordinary Kiwi women that time has forgotten. Those women were not the country’s movers and shakers, but they were women who carved their own path in life, some from necessity, others driven by ambition. In her latest book, Women Mean Business, she celebrates the achievements that are all the more remarkable because they came during the 19th century, a period in time when men were the traditional breadwinners. While the concept of businesswomen might often be considered to be a late 20th century phenomenon, Bishop has discovered many hundreds of stories that show businesswomen were carving out their own niche in colonial New Zealand. “There were thousands of women who ran their small business from home in the 19th century, and my focus and interest is on the women and their stories, the ones that have slipped under the radar,” she said. Bishop’s fascination with pioneer businesswomen started as part of her work on her PhD. She was living in Australia and working on the topic of gender in business in Australia. One thing led to another and she decided to explore a similar issue in New Zealand. Finding those stories, however required spending many hours poring through newspaper archives on Papers Past. Often it would simply be a name and an occupation that would spark a

search, but inevitably one woman led to another and Bishop was left with vignettes of hundreds upon hundreds of previously unrecognised women who had played an important role in the history of the towns and cities they called home. “I spent many hours going down rabbit holes and discovered that women, in surprising numbers, were doing some pretty amazing things. They were’t all running boarding houses or working as dressmakers. These women had found their own unique selling points,” Bishop said. While some were brothel keepers or midwives by necessity, there were plenty of colonial women who were clearly motivated by ambition. “For example there was a middle class woman who ran a school. She said it showed her husband the she could keep herself.” The sheer number of stories she unearthed meant many ended up on the cutting room floor, although keeping her criteria to between the years of 1840 and 1880 helped keep numbers in check. While many of those women set up business by necessity, often when they were widowed, there were many who arrived in New Zealand already widowed, dragging children behind them and determined to carve out a new life for their family. Others were single and decided to strike out on their own. “We don’t think about women in the 18th century having a sense of adventure, but it’s clear that some of them did,” Bishop said.

Researching, writing and living other people’s stories is both fun and fascinating, she said. “It’s like I’m part of their personal family history. And what I have discovered is that businesses seem to be run the same way by men or women, it’s just that these women have done it with

one hand tied behind their backs, looking after children.” Bishop is currently on a self-funded book promotion tour of New Zealand and her book, Women Mean Business, Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand is available from the Ashburton Museum.

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SPCA warns about pet costumes With the rise in social media there has been a huge increase in people dressing up their pets in costumes, but the SPCA is warning that these can sometimes be restrictive or unsafe. In some circumstances, clothing may offer a welfare benefit to the dogs. For example some dogs may benefit from the warmth and waterproofing clothing provides. Dogs with little hair or body fat, such as whippets or greyhounds, get chilly and may actually benefit from an extra layer to

keep them warm. If you’re going to dress your dog up in any sort of clothing, consider the material. Just like you’d hate to wear an itchy jersey all day, so too would your dog. Ensure that the material is something you’d feel comfortable wearing, and that won’t overheat. Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, so be sure that the item of clothing fits properly. Something too tight will not only be horribly uncomfortable, it can cut off circulation.

Clothing that is too big could get tangled up, slip down, or fall off, risking your dog taking a tumble, tripping, or hurting themselves. Clothing that covers a dog head to tail is too much for them. Clothing should cover the body, not their face. While it might look cute, it is also likely to be heavy and restrictive, and not a natural state for your dog to be in. Make sure your dog’s eyes, nose and mouth are uncovered as this could obstruct their airways and

cause trouble breathing. Beware of beads, pom-poms, and plastic on clothing. Dogs naturally like to chew on things, and if any pieces like googly eyes, beads or buttons are hanging off, they will likely go for it. This can present a serious choking hazard for them, so be sure to cut these pieces off. Any clothes that stop your dog from moving normally or restricts their legs, muzzle, ears, or tail should be avoided. The costume should not prevent your pup from reaching

their food or water bowl, and nothing should stop them from sleeping or moving freely. If your dog is walking funny or showing signs of discomfort, you should remove the clothes immediately. Be mindful of your dog’s body temperature. Dogs with thick fur, obese dogs or brachycephalic breeds, such as pugs, are more vulnerable to overheating. Never leave your dog unattended in a costume or clothes. They could get tangled, choke, or overheat.

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Famed Auckland leopard seal Owha injured NZME A leopard seal famed for making her home in Auckland’s city harbour has reportedly been shot in the face. Owha, who lives in the Waitemata, was seen bleeding from her face at the weekend. Photos of her injuries showed a clear puncture wound on the left side of her face. Dr Ingrid Visser, co-founder of LeopardSeals.org, said the wound was confirmed by three veterinarians as likely the result of a gunshot. “I was horrified to hear that this incredible animal was attacked in this way,” Visser said. “I’ve spent hours with Owha and there is absolutely no excuse for someone to do this.” Despite concerns about Owha’s welfare they had decided not to intervene because of the risks involved for the seal during capture and sedation. They would continue to monitor her for any change in her behaviour or body condition.

Niwa marine mammal biologist Dr Krista Hupman said Owha was being monitored but was doing okay. She was resting and swimming as usual, but researchers would watch her closely for any change in condition. Hupman said anyone who saw the seal should call 0800 LEOPARD (0800 536-7273). She also urged anyone who had seen Owha in the past week to make contact so a timeline of her movements could be created. They were working closely with the Department of Conservation and leading wildlife veterinarians to assess the next steps. “We ask everyone to give her the space that she needs while she deals with this injury.” Owha returned to Auckland during Labour weekend last year – keeping cautious crowds entertained as she spent Labour Day basking in the sun. The 3m-long seal is a familiar sight in Auckland. Owha is short for her name

“He owha na oku tupuna”, which translates to “treasured gift from our ancestors”, received from Auckland hapu Ngati Whatua Orakei. Leopard seals are a native species and protected under the

Marine Mammal Protection Act 1978. Anyone charged under the act with harassing, disturbing, injuring or killing a seal faces a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment or a fine to a max-

imum of $250,000. A young leopard seal was killed after it was shot in the face in 2018 on a Northland beach. Four teenage males, two aged 16 and two aged 15, were referred to Youth Aid over the incident.

■■NEW ZEALAND POLICE

The 1800 who were never to be By Derek Cheng NZME

If Police Minister Stuart Nash was embarrassed that the Government’s target of 1800 more police officers was effectively halved by a single comment, he did a good job of hiding it. He had cause to be embarrassed. For two years Nash had been trumpeting the Coalition Government’s goal to grow the police force by 1800 more officers in three years, over and above those who left the force for whatever reason. Whenever questioned about it, he said that the target accounted for attrition. He said countless times that it was an aspirational goal as it had been budgeted over five years, rather than in this three-year term, though he was keen to push for more money and complete it in a shorter timeframe. And then, with a single word, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern undercut him by appearing to change the target when questioned about it in parliament – more likely to

Stuart Nash have been an error than wilful. She was asked in the House if the Government was on track to meet its target of 1800 new police this term. Her unequivocal “yes” prompted much gasping and guffawed surprise from National MPs who were used to Nash’s talk about the extra police being budgeted over five years. From that moment, all answers

about the target had to fall in line with Ardern’s answer. The following day, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters made it clear in the House that the target was about the number of new recruits, not net additional officers. This meant that the goal would be achieved in just over two years, instead of more than four years, based on the current trajectory. To avoid embarrassing his leader, Nash said there were always two independent targets: 1800 new police, as per the coalition agreement, and 1800 additional net police, a goal with coincidentally the same number. He had just neglected to mention the two different targets at any time over the previous two years. Nash added that only Ardern and Peters could speak for the Labour-NZ First agreement, effectively nullifying everything he had said in the past two years about the target in that context. Both Ardern and Peters have a leg to stand on, given that the Labour-NZ First coalition agreement commits to “strive towards adding

1800 new police officers over three years”. But if you accept that there were always two targets, you also accept that they have been indifferent onlookers while Nash, for two years, had talked about a different target. And not just Nash. Police and the Police Association have also spoke with one voice about 1800 additional net police officers; Association president Chris Cahill was as upset about Peters’ and Ardern’s comments as Nash should have been, but was later reassured that 1800 additional net police was still being promised. That’s not to say that hiring 1800 new recruits is not be celebrated, as it will be in a November police graduation attended by both Ardern and Peters. But shifting the goalposts so suddenly is far from a good look. It was a similar case for Phil Twyford, who a year ago had the carpet pulled out from under him regarding the regional fuel tax. Ardern, seemingly on the fly, declared in the House that there

would be no regional fuel taxes other than in Auckland while she was Prime Minister . Twyford fell in line. He said Ardern had talked to him about the idea on the morning that she declared it in the House, but had to sing a different tune when Ardern said she had made it known to Ministers for some time. He then said he had known Ardern’s view on the issue since the beginning of 2018 – several months before the law enabling the tax to be implemented was passed. Twyford had simply chosen not to pass that information on to the 14 councils that had expressed an interest in having a regional fuel tax. Twyford, like Nash, also didn’t come across as aggrieved by Ardern’s comments. In both cases if Ardern had made an error, she could have clarified it afterwards instead of making the policy shift sideways to align with what she had said. Such errors undermine her ministers, whether intentional or not.

One dead, one seriously injured after large Auckland house fire NZME There were harrowing scenes of grief outside a Manurewa home where a person died and three others were injured in a large house fire yesterday morning. Family of the victims could be seen huddling in grief outside the house. Several people could be seen wiping away tears and con-

soling each other at the scene. Police confirmed one person died in the blaze, which began just before 7am. It appeared the fire had begun in the top storey of the large property. When firefighters arrived they were told two people were trapped inside the blaze. They were able to rescue one of the pair but the other

person was dead. St John ambulance said one person had suffered serious injuries. Another was being treated for moderate injuries and the third person was in a minor condition. The three survivors were taken to Middlemore Hospital. A Counties Manukau DHB spokeswoman said two of the

three survivors had been discharged from Middlemore Hospital. The third is in a serious but stable condition. Police confirmed they understood no children were among the people hurt. A resident on the street said several fire appliances, police officers and St John staff attended

the deadly fire. Another nearby resident said they only heard about the blaze when a neighbour banged on their door early yesterday morning. They went outside to see firefighters already battling the flames – which endangered other properties at one point, she said. “It gave everybody a fright’’.

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■■ISLAMIC STATE

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Threat remains despite death AP Eliminating the Islamic State’s elusive leader gives President Donald Trump a new argument for leaving Syria, but the US military campaign against the extremists is far from finished. The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by US forces leaves the Islamic State without an obvious leader, a major setback for an organisation that in March was forced by American troops and Kurdish forces out of the last portion of its self-declared “caliphate,” which once spanned a swath of Iraq and Syria. But the militant group, which arose from the remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq after that group’s defeat by US-led forces in 2008, has ambitions to regenerate yet again. And it remains a dangerous threat in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. Key to the Islamic States is its “kill where you are” ethos, encouraging a far-flung network of followers, including those in the United States, to commit violence however and wherever they can. That jihadist message is likely to live on, even with the death of al-Baghdadi. That means US forces, perhaps in reduced numbers, will continue hunting and attacking key Islamic State targets, even as Trump says he’s committed to a 2016 campaign pledge to bring them home and end “endless wars” started under his predecessors. Trump earlier this month went from declaring a near-complete withdrawal of US forces from Syria to deciding that some – perhaps several hundred – must stay to keep eastern Syria’s oil fields from falling back into the hands of the Islamic State. Trump also agreed to keep about 150 US troops at a base in southern Syria. In announcing that al-Baghdadi had blown himself up after being cornered in a dead-end underground tunnel in Syria, Trump acknowledged that Isis which he often calls “100 percent” defeated, still has ambitions to make a comeback. This, he said, explains why

S Club 7 may reunite S Club 7 are coming back together to celebrate 20 years since they first formed with a concert in 2020, reports say. All seven members – Rachel Stevens, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Tina Barrett, Bradley McIntosh, Jon Lee and Paul Cattermole – have been keen to perform in a UK arena tour. “There is talks between band members now about doing a reunion arena tour next year,” a source close to the band said. “A lot of the bandmates are up for it. “It’s still early days but they are talking and fans may be in for a treat in 2020. “It all makes perfect sense for a reunion celebrating 20 years of S Club 7.”

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the leader of the Islamic State militant network is believed dead after being targeted by a US military raid in Syria. PHOTO AP Baghdadi was in the Idlib province of northwestern Syria, an area largely controlled by a rival group – the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham – although other jihadi groups sympathetic to Islamic State are also there. Trump suggested that other countries, including Russia, carry on the fight against Isis, but there is no indication that US forces will abandon the mission any time soon. According to defence officials in Iraq and Afghanistan who study Islamic State and have watched its movements, the group is growing in power and numbers outside of Syria. Its flagship affiliate is known as Isis-Khorasan in Afghanistan, and it is expanding into other countries, including Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, India, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Many of those affiliates have li-

aisons in the terror group’s hub in eastern Afghanistan. In addition to conducting high-profile attacks inside Afghanistan, the official said the Islamic State has also already proven its ability to inspire and enable terrorist attacks outside Afghanistan, including a deadly one in Sweden. It is this global reach that makes the Islamic State a continuing worry, including for US officials seeking to protect the homeland. Al-Baghdadi served as a direct inspiration for extremists in the United States, where multiple jihadists in the last five years invoked his name as they carried out deadly acts of violence. Omar Mateen, the gunman who in 2016 killed 49 people inside an Orlando, Florida nightclub, pledged allegiance to al-Baghdadi during a 911 call

in which he identified himself as an Islamic soldier. Months earlier, Tashfeen Malik, who along with her husband killed 14 people at a San Bernardino, California, holiday party, took to Facebook after her massacre was already underway to declare her support for al-Baghdadi. The death of al-Baghdadi leaves the group without an equally brand-name successor and deprives would-be jihadists of a figurehead leader to rally behind. Counterterrorism experts say that leadership void is a significant loss for a terror group that had lost the vast stretches of the physical caliphate in Syria and Iraq it had once controlled. But they also caution that they expect the group’s ideology to endure beyond al-Baghdadi.

Minogue on show business Singer Dannii Minogue has revealed she had to “bow out” of the world of show business because it was “really crushing” her. The 48-year-old Australian star spent four years as a judge on the X Factor alongside Simon Cowell, before returning to Melbourne in 2011 to judge the Australian version of the show. Dannii, younger sister of fellow pop star Kylie, said she had suffered “anxiety, depression, stress” at the height of her career. She has previously spoken about how she used Botox as a “subconscious” way to cover her inner feelings during difficult times. Dannii revealed: “It really got to a point where I was just happy to bow out.”

Nasa’s Halloween sun pic NNZME Nasa has shared a scary photo of the sun, just a few days before the spooky celebration of Halloween. Posting on social media, Nasa wrote that “even our star celebrates the spooky season”. “In 2014, active regions on the Sun created this jack-o’-lantern face, as seen in ultraviolet light by our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite,” they wrote on Facebook. They also encouraged others to download the photo just in time for Halloween.

Elaborating more on how the sun morphed into a sinister face, Nasa said: “They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. “This image blends together two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths at 171 and 193 Ångströms, typically colourised in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance.” Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which took the photo, is constantly monitoring the sun from its orbit in space.

Viewers left in tears The opening scenes follow the only mammal that can live this far south on Earth – the weddell seal. Out on the ice, where they are far from predators, we witness one of many seals giving birth. While it appeared to be the start of a heartwarming journey, Attenborough warned viewers that baby seals are unable to swim for the first 10 days of their lives. And when a raging blizzard hits the solid ice, the young mums are faced with the toughest decision – to stay with their pups or shelter in the water. Once the storm has cleared, it is shown that some of the pups sadly didn’t make it. And the tears came.

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hanks goodness the Rugby World Cup is effectively over. It sounds odd, and I am of course upset that the All Blacks were swiftly given the boot by a far superior English side at the weekend, but I am pleased the entire circus will slowly wind up. Our two major television channels will remove their seemingly huge team of staff from Japan and we will be able to access mainstream media websites without being flooded with stories on obscure angles concerning the All Blacks and the World Cup. I’ve enjoyed this quality coverage, but there is plenty going on in the world, and I think things got a little giddy with the world seemingly revolving around the All Blacks.

Other important sporting occasions, like both the male and female New Zealand Rugby League teams playing Australia, happened over the weekend, but their column inches shrunk up thanks to the All Blacks. I’m a sporting fan and did enjoy the stories I was reading, but I could feel sympathy for those parts of the New Zealand public that doesn’t actually care about

rugby. News sites in the United States have a Republican button which removes all news relating to the Republicans, and I feel that something like that could’ve been handy for people in New Zealand. There was a heck of a lot of arrogance in what was being written about the All Blacks, and does not look great now that they have been booted from the tournament and will have to play out the game which has, in the past, been described as like kissing your sister, the third and fourth place play-off. While Wales and the All Blacks probably want to do nothing more than put their heads under their pillows and cry, they will be forced to kit up one more time.

It is not a situation any All Blacks fan expected to find themselves watching, and probably shows a bit of the nation’s arrogance about the All Blacks. Stories were written and published online about Beauden Barrett’s wife preparing for a trophy celebration in their Auckland home, TVNZ didn’t even bother to get the rights to broadcast the game off Spark Sport, probably under the assumption they would have the All Blacks covered with the two semis and the final. Bookmakers had the All Blacks around 13 point favourites for the match, workplace tipping comps would have been loaded with selections for the All Blacks to beat England, and I hate to think how many people will have lost

points in the MSA sports tipping competition. All Blacks fans are upset that their beloved team has lost, and while in the past fans have been quick to blame the referees or dodgy dinners, there was only one answer for the arrogant All Blacks dumping out of the World Cup, and that was England were the better side. Even the departing Steve Hansen was able to admit that fact. But now we will hear all about the third and fourth play-off, Steve Hansen vs Warren Gatland and many other things around the game, but after that, fortunately, the entire circus will be over.

Court, President Ronald Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use. In 1995, Peter Jackson and Costa Botes’ documentary about Colin McKenzie, a forgotten hero of early New Zealand moviemaking, was later revealed as the biggest Kiwi film hoax of the century. In 1998, Senator John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier. In 2017, all but 10 members of the Houston Texans took a knee during the national anthem,

reacting to a remark from team owner Bob McNair to other NFL owners that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison”. Ten years ago: President Barack Obama paid a post-midnight visit to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to honour the return of 18 soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Five years ago: Ordering firm restrictions for US troops returning from West Africa, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the military men and women helping fight ebola had to undergo 21-day quarantines upon their return — longer than required for many civilian health care workers. One year ago: A new-generation Boeing jet operated by the Indonesian budget airline Lion

Air crashed in the Java Sea minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board; it was the first of two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max, causing the plane to be grounded around the world as Boeing worked on software changes to a flight-control system. Today’s birthdays: Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 72. Actress Kate Jackson is 71. Country musician Steve Kellough is 63. Actor Dan Castellaneta is 62. Comic strip artist Tom Wilson is 62. Actress Finola Hughes is 60. Singer Randy Jackson is 58. Rock musician Peter Timmins is 54. Actress Joely Fisher is 52. Rapper Paris is 52. Actor Rufus Sewell is 52. Actor Grayson

McCouch is 51. Rock singer SA Martinez is 50. Actress Winona Ryder is 48. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 47. Actress Gabrielle Union is 47. Actor Trevor Lissauer is 46. Actress Milena Govich is 43. Actor Jon Abrahams is 42. Actor Brendan Fehr is 42. Actor Ben Foster is 39. Rock musician Chris Baio is 35. Actress Janet Montgomery is 34. Actress India Eisley is 26. Thought for today: “Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”— Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher (born 1847, died this date in 1911). - AP

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, October 29, the 302nd day of 2019. There are 63 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy slammed ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermath were blamed for at least 182 deaths in the US. On this date: In 1787, the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had its world première in Prague. In 1894, it remains the third deadliest shipwreck ever in New Zealand waters: 121 lives were lost when the steamer Wairarapa struck Miners Head, on the northern tip of Great Barrier Island, 90 km north-east of Auckland. In 1901, President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted. In 1919, The passing of the Women’s Parliamentary Rights Act enabled women to stand for election to the House of Representatives, 26 years after they won the right to vote. In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed. In 1929, “Black Tuesday” descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America’s “Great Depression” began. In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In 1960, a chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board. In 1967, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, closed after six months. In 1987, following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the US Supreme

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funnily enough, striving to get it down to where New Zealand is now. None of them are focusing on absolute reductions like we face here; in fact if you take the UK as an example, their recently released document listing their ambitions – which some commentators have said Kiwi farmers should emulate – actually talks about the need for production not to fall. They are all looking at similar style farm plans and on farm action that we are focusing on here. So to those farmers who argue we shouldn’t have to do anything, well sorry but this is where things are headed. If we want to stay ahead of the pack in terms of claiming the lowest footprint then the actions we’re looking to undertake across the primary sector in terms of farm level planning and research are important. The big difference overseas is they don’t have this threat of regulation/ETS hanging over their heads for now. Their focus at a farm level is a lot more holistic than ours. So they are being less strict with burden of proof, etc, when claiming carbon sequestrations. For example, the English are talking about claiming sequestration credits for hedgerows and the French around soil carbon. In New Zealand we get stuck

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Email us! with all these official Kyoto rules and thus can only claim credits on trees that are planted more than 30 metres wide, planted after 1990, and soil carbon isn’t even on the radar. We’re told to focus on gross emissions and then talk separately about any carbon sinks, rather than a holistic, net approach looking at the whole farm and what actual additional warming is coming from it. That’s the developed world. In developing countries it’s about survival, access to technology and other factors we take for granted. So while Greta was on stage bemoaning her stolen childhood I was seeing presentations from India and Africa that provided a reality check for her claims. The big challenge I see is that the parts of the world where agricultural emissions are going up, and have the highest footprint, are developing nations. That won’t be solved by meatless Mondays or going dairy free. Those people need those sources of nutrition. For them, animal-based pasto-

ral agriculture is far more resilient than alternatives and provides other synergies as well. The fertiliser they use to grow their crops comes from their animals. In agriculture, the real global warming gains that can be made aren’t about shutting down animal agriculture in developed nations. Rather it’s about taking the knowledge and expertise from the developed world and assisting those developing nations to move ahead with their agriculture systems. Those actions will do more for improving a whole range of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals than going vegan ever would. Andrew Hoggard is the Federated Farmers’ Vice-President. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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he International Dairy Federation has just held its annual meeting and World Dairy Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. You’re probably thinking that’s hardly the most well-known dairy nation but in fact Turkey does have a very long history of dairying, and in recent years they have been investing in modernising their systems. Indeed, the two dairy farms we visited both had milking parlours very similar to ones found in New Zealand. The main differences were the totally housed nature of their farms, and the very labour intensive systems they used. When it costs less to hire a person than to buy an automatic teat-sprayer, then you just hire someone to spray teats. Same with drafting gates, etc. My main interest at the conference was in seeing how the big issues affecting New Zealand farmers are being dealt with overseas. Of special interest to me was climate change, and it was great to see a presentation on the actual warming effects of methane by researchers from Oxford University, again re-emphasising the point methane does not need to go to zero and that only a 0.3 per cent reduction per year is enough to ensure that no additional warming of the atmosphere occurs. There was also a presentation from the French dairy industry on what they are doing and I had good chats with colleagues from elsewhere. A key point I took from all of it was that every western country is looking to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint per unit of milk –

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(Extraordinary Council Meeting, April 14, 2016), was moved by none other than councillor Neil Brown. The minutes of that meeting also record one member of the public in attendance – me. I was also in attendance, and almost fell off my chair, when both McKay and Brown made campaign promises to reopen the i-SITE. To reinstate the i-SITE on the current site would require a redesign of both the CBD redevelopment plans and the library and

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Mid Canterbury farmers have had a gutsful of the politics hurting their industry, says Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers president David Clark. The Valetta farmer said he was pleased Government had chosen to allow farmers to follow their own journey to reducing greenhouse emissions by 2025, but if they didn’t measure up by then farming would be included in the emissions trading scheme (ETS). The agricultural sector proposed its own programme to manage and mitigate onfarm emissions after Government said it planned to tax farmers on emissions via processors of milk and meat. If the industry does a good job and a new mechanism for pricing emissions is found, farmers will be excluded from the ETS. “On the face of it, it is good news that they have gone with option two, which is working to measure on-farm emissions,” Clark said. “But I am not sure whether Government should be congratulated going with what was only the most logical option.” He said agricultural emissions continued to be a distraction from the biggest greenhouse gas problem, the burning of fossil fuels for cars and airplanes. “New Zealand farmers are some of the most efficient producers of food in the world from a greenhouse gas point of view. We are leading the world, and getting better. The ETS is just a tax, nothing more, nothing less.” Farmers would be fully engaged with the industry programme, but Federated Farmers remained absolutely opposed to farming entering the ETS, he said. An emissions tax would undermine Kiwi farmers’ competitiveness and encourage less efficient farming systems in other parts of the world. Clark said methane targets remained unchanged and would ultimately mean cutting stock numbers to achieve them. “We can achieve 10 per cent by 2050 by doing things like different feeds and management, but to achieve 24-47 per cent, we

Valetta farmers Jane and David Clark. have to cut stock numbers. “If this Government or Greenpeace or any other climate change activist was really interested in climate change, they would know methane is a distraction and we need to find an alternative for fossil fuel.” Farmers were sick of being vilified by politicians, he said. On top of the Zero Carbon Bill, farmers

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Environment. Clark said farmers were a hardy bunch and while “political ideology” was causing worries, they needed to remember they were already resource-efficient. Feedback from “middle New Zealand” had also given them heart despite anti-farming messages being delivered by politicians on the extreme left, he said.

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MARKET REPORT By Guy Trafford The recent announcement that farmers will be exempt from any ETS charges has been largely welcomed by the livestock sectors. The most positive aspect of the announcement is that the preferred approach of government to tax farmers has been overturned, at least for now. The quid pro quo is that the five years are to be used to come up with a counter scheme to make it possible, and agreeable to farmers, to assess farm emissions and sequestrations at the farm level. Taxing at the processor levels was a particularly dumb idea and was a straight-out tax on production with no incentives to find more efficient ways to produce products. The new scheme will allow farmers to become more innovative and inventive to find practical ways to reduce emissions. Given that Fonterra has been leading the way on this one and already intends to have all their dairy farmer suppliers fully conversant with what their individual farm’s emissions are in a relatively short time shows that this approach is not only possible but close to being achieved. The catch is likely to the auditing process that will inevitably follow to make sure that the figures farmers have put forward do bear a close resemblance to what the auditors find. Sheep and beef farms will have a greater variability between farms and seasons depending upon selling dates, weights, lambing and calving percentages and a range of other factors. This will mean the sheep and beef sector will likely need to keep more accurate records than in the past to justify seasonal changes. However, the benefits should provide the incentive. If, for some reason, the farmer sectors fail to meet this challenge then the Government has promised a return to what was originally planned. Government has put $229 million on the table to assist farmers through this transition phase and presumably this includes assisting in the funding of a new workable scheme. Rolling forward five or more years it will be interesting to see who MPI (or IRD?) appoint to do the checking. Perhaps the poor souls roped into the M. bovis programme can move onto greener pastures. With the raft of new compliance requirements to be adhered to it does beg the question about the cost and time required to check the numbers. The low rate agriculture is going to be required to pay, at least up to the medium term, will mean that the ETS post 2025 is hardly going to be a cash cow unless some additional pretty heavy user-pays programme comes in. On current emissions pricing, which is unlikely to remain at this level, the ETS programme would cost farmers about $0.01c per kg of milksolids and $0.03c per kg of sheep meat. The low rate for all is because agriculture still is (only) liable for 5 per cent initially. On the surface it does look as though the farmer sector has got off very lightly. However, the methane reduction target is still there and trumps everything else with its 10 per cent reduction by 2030 and the 24-42 per cent reduction by 2050 (with provisos). Another positive outcome of the move back to on-farm assessments has meant that National are less likely to make changes at some future point, providing more certainty for business. Greens have come onboard with this watered-down version also, and the cynic in me wonders what behind the scenes horse-trading went on. Despite Shane Jones denying a week or two back that the Government has a policy of giving overseas investors a green light to purchase farmland, little has been done to slow the transfer of land. In fact, it has taken a leap forward with Green MP Eugenie Sage, Minister for Land Information, announcing that Pan Pa, the Japanese owned and Napier based timber

exporter, is able to purchase a further 20,000 hectares of land for forestry planting. Sage is not known as being friendly to farming and is an advocate for tree planting. If the plantings stay on steeper hills between Napier and Wairoa, criticism could be muted. However, if it moves onto prime land, as has been happening elsewhere, then the decision will be tested. Perhaps the Greens believe they have already lost the primary vote and so getting more criticism from this sector may be water off the duck’s back. With the next election only 12 months away no doubt politicians’ behaviour will soon start to be shaped by the need to get back or into power.

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Some good and some not so good results depending what industry you’re in. Sheep Lifts for both lamb and mutton on their respective schedules this week. Given we are almost into November the continued strength of the sheep meat schedules is surprising although always welcomed. Saleyard prices are also holding depending largely upon what quality is coming forward. Wool Prices took a small step backwards. But given the volatility being experienced this year nothing too dramatic. Beef Prices have followed the pattern set by the sheep sector with small schedule lifts and saleyards holding or better. Venison Another fall on schedule this week. This aptly shows the benefit the Chinese market is having on the sheep and beef sector with prices still lifting, while venison, with a less diverse market, is struggling to hold onto the recent gains and is well back on last season. Dairy It’s good to be wrong sometimes and the latest Fonterra update has been a classic case in point. Three months ago, most commentators were not picking a $7 in front of the Fonterra (interim) payout, with the exception of ASB. The 30-cent lift with a mid-point of $7.05 is the welcome news farmers have been waiting for. The $1 spread does provide quite a bit of wiggle room, however a lift is a lift. The perverse link to the added value side of the business does mean that side will struggle a bit more with the higher ‘purchase’ cost of the raw product but with no dividends forecast for the upcoming season (at this stage) then the impact will be minimal at least to farmer shareholders. With the improved payout (assuming it does come to pass) it means the average dairy farmer gets another $17,000 of income and this translates into about $440,000 to the wider community which then starts the money merry go-round which some have put at up to x6 multiplier effect. However, the reality for many, if not most, is that this money will go straight to the banks, and while putting dairy farmers in a safer space, little will end up going into the wider community. Such is the reality of dairy farming with high debt ratios. The lift in the base price was, according to Miles Hurrell, based upon the strength in the GDT auction prices. To be fair they have stopped their decline of the earlier part of the season, but it would be a brave person, based upon the results, to say they have recovered. Since the big drop in May ($US1086 to $US993 for GDT TWI) the price has been bouncing along relatively flat varying between $US1020 to $US1014. The WMP price which is arguably more important has a (very) slightly improved position with its range for the same period varying between $US3017 to $US3133. So, I suspect it is future assessments that are driving the lift in the payout rather than historical and perhaps some desperation to finally find some better news to put out there.

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WHEN COUNTRY COMES TO TOWN By Heather Chalmers

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eeds of Mid Canterbury is the theme of this year’s Ashburton A&P Show being held on November 1 and 2, with a marquee to showcase the region’s arable industry. “Some people think we are all dairy, but Mid Canterbury has a big seed production industry,” Ashburton A&P Association president David Butterick said. “There is also quite an infrastructure around the industry, including seed companies and seed dressing plants which em-

major changes were planned for this year’s show. “We are hoping for plenty of entries, some good weather and an enjoyable couple of days,” Butterick said. Just over 100 applications had been received for trade sites, association secretary Lucille Brown said. “Some come every year, but we always have some new people wanting trade sites.” She had extended the horse entries by a week after a slow start and was “now swamped”. Other classes had also re-

ploy quite a few people.” A mixed cropping farmer at Lauriston, Butterick grows wheat, barley, peas, grass seed, clover and radish and Asian brassica seed crops. He also runs sheep, dairy heifers and steers for Five Star Beef, as well as leasing ground to a seed potato grower. While not an exhibitor himself, he has never missed a show and has been a volunteer, particularly in the sheep pens, for the past 25 years. After a change of layout two years ago to ease congestion, no

ceived good entries. Crowds will be entertained by musicians, as well as Sport Suzie, who will put on two shows, combining aerobics, sport and circus. The fire service will also provide a demonstration following the grand parade. Fifteen food sites had been allocated, to cater for all tastes. The show attracts exhibitors from all over the South Island, offering a strong two-day competition for horses and dog trials and a one-day competition for sheep, wool, pet lambs, poultry,

alpacas, shearing, goats, donkeys, grain and seeds, highland dancing and home industries for adults and students. Dairy cattle will again be absent from the Ashburton A&P Show for the second year in a row because of the risk of cattle disease mycoplasma bovis. Butterick said the cattle committee had decided not to show them again this year because of the threat of transmitting the disease. This also impacted on children’s calf classes, but pet lamb classes were available.

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A HISTORY OF OUR A&P SHOWS

he Ashburton A&P Show is held on the weekend following Labour weekend of every year and is the largest twoday annual agricultural event held in Mid Canterbury. It has been hosted at the Ashburton showgrounds on 17.4 hectares of land owned by the Ashburton Agricultural & Pastoral Association since its founding in 1877. Ashburton A&P Association’s mission statement is “Promoting excellence in agriculture and goodwill between Town and Country”. The show attracts exhibitors from all over the South Island. Each year the president chooses a show theme and many exhibits/competitions are based around this theme – this year’s theme is Seeds. The show offers strong twoday competition for horses, dog

trials and one-day competition for sheep/wool/pet lambs, cattle (dairy, beef and calves), poultry, alpacas, shearing, goats, donkeys, grain and seeds, Highland dancing, tiny tots and home industries for adults and students. All events are well supported offering a good standard of competition to competitors. Over 190 sites complement the livestock competitors together with food, music, displays, entertainment and competitions. History The Ashburton A&P Association was formed on October 1, 1877, when a meeting of farmers was held at the Somerset Hotel and its first show was held on November 15, 1878, probably at Tinwald. The first president was John Grigg of Longbeach who held the position for two years, photos of all the past presidents of the

Ashburton A&P Association can be viewed in the A&P lounge at the grounds and the minute books are in safe keeping at the Ashburton Museum. In the 1920s the show was a two-day show during the week, later it became a one-day show, then in the 1960s became a dayand-a-half, due to the number of horse entries, then later a full two-day show again. The A&P in 1957 purchased and took over the old Ashburton Saleyards and extended the grounds towards the main road. This gave the association valuable space which is well utilised at show time. In the list of past presidents, a large number of family names keep turning up, there are several grandfathers, fathers and their sons who have held office. Up until some time in the 1930s, a Winter Show was held

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in Ashburton’s Arcade. Over the years, the committee have organised a lot of agricultural related events such as ploughing matches, prime stock sales at Tinwald saleyards and, until recently, the annual ram fairs. Between 1942-1944 there were no shows held due to World War Two and the grounds were used as an army camp. The annual show takes place at the end of October, the week following Labour weekend, at the association’s showgrounds at Brucefield Avenue, Ashburton, where there are excellent facilities for the public to enjoy. The show is run by a small hardworking committee helped by a large team of volunteers who work together in the week prior to the show. As far as show attractions, there is an excellent ring for horse events and enough space

for exhibitors, including a large Home Industries Pavilion which replaced one that was burned down in 1989 by an arsonist. A standard has been set and the committees over the years have worked tirelessly to provide one of the best two-day shows in the South Island, attracting entries from a wide area. The Ashburton A&P Association is fortunate to own its own grounds and these are hired out regularly to various groups during the year and it has been the home base since 1956 for the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union. In the summer months large showjumping events are held regularly in November and January, along with other smaller horse events. Information courtesy of the Ashburton A&P Show website. www.ashburtonshow.co.nz

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PASSIONATE ABOUT PRECISION AGRICULTURE

he story hasn’t changed much in the 10 years since Agri Optics’ inception – we need to be smarter with what we do on farm to not only maximise profit but also minimise our environmental footprint. And our current position with regards to this government’s environmental regulations make it even more poignant. Precision agriculture (PA) has long been touted as the way to reduce or redistribute input use, maintain or increase crop and pasture production, all the while focusing on using technology to measure, justify and implement the decisions being made on farm. Today’s PA suite at Agri Optics includes tools and technologies such as AquaCheck soil moisture sensors, Halo Farm Systems telemetry and farm control options (milk vat monitoring, pond level sensors, effluent management, weather stations and much more), Smart Soil Surveying to better understand your soil types

and manage inputs (water and nutrients in particular) in a more targeted way, Smart Fertiliser Management to better understand and manage your soil nutrient levels at a spatial level and Trimble Ag Software including PurePixel for identifying crop and pasture variability. The Agri Optics team are passionate about PA and simplifying what can seem like a daunting topic to farmers. It really can be as simple or as complicated as farmers want to make it but like anything, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it, often resulting in increased gross margins across farm. Agri Optics founder and director and local Mid Canterbury farmer Craige Mackenzie says “it’s hard to be green when you’re in the red” so utilising precision agriculture to help put what you need only where you need it is a big step towards increased farm profitability and productivity. While precision agriculture is typically talked about as what

happens at the paddock level, the real smarts of PA is what happens behind the scenes in specialist software packages that work to pull as much onfarm data together as possible to enable farmers to make highly informed decisions for each area of their farm and paddocks. The skilled Agri Optics team work with a range of specialist software packages as well as farmers’ existing platforms and data where possible to pull the information together, allowing famers the ability to have all the information possible for farming in today’s environment successfully. For more information on how to unlock the potential of your data and how precision ag could be implemented to help strengthen your farming business give the team at Agri Optics a call today.

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LOCKWOOD: 70 YEARS OF QUALITY, STYLE

uality, style and high performance never go out of fashion. When it comes to housing, there is only one name which has, for nearly seven decades, consistently delivered all three. And that name is Lockwood Homes. Combining the natural advantages of solid wood construction with a range of designs from the classic to the contemporary, Lockwood has proudly produced homes and commercial buildings since 1951. The real testament to quality, style and performance is that our buildings, whether in Central Otago or the tropical South Pacific, have literally stood the test of time, taking the toll of the years in their stride. That’s because we start with a

system of principles and fundamentals we call Good Design: simple, thoughtful, beautiful and effortlessly functional. Avoiding fads and trends, we focus on details contributing to durability rather than those leading to maintenance overheads. Using a uniquely manufactured building system, every Lockwood starts out in our Rotorua factory as sustainably sourced radiata pine. A process of meticulous engineering and precision manufacturing results in pre-cut components being delivered directly to site. At the job site, Lockwood components and joinery are locked together using a patented aluminium “X” profile, and laterally braced by spring-loaded tie rods, making for a resil-

ient structure that flexes under force. This is where our professional Lockwood building specialists complete the builds, organising all sub-contractors and site requirements for you. Detail is paramount. Nothing is arbitrary or left to chance, with care and accuracy in the design and manufacturing process resulting in the highest standard of finished homes. That’s how Lockwood earned its CodeMark certification: annual audits confirm rigorous quality control processes from start to finish. Because it is solid wood, a Lockwood build offers unique advantages, including natural earthquake and extreme weather resistance. Thermal efficiency comes

as part of the package; wood ‘breathes’, contributing to air circulation and a dry home. It also forms a natural insulating layer (beefed up by insulation sandwiched between the solid timbers). This delivers energy efficiency 50 per cent greater than the NZBC energy efficiency requirements for wooden homes. When the tree is responsibly harvested the carbon is locked in the wood and remains there for the life of any products made with that timber. It’s why we describe our homes as Ecosmart. Wood also does something else better than just about any other construction material. It handles the knocks and bumps of daily living without damage. This means avoiding many

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“Keeping ourselves and our families safe” Make sure to visit the new Safety Village at this year’s A&P Show – Site 1301-1304 12 community agencies will be there, with heaps of information and activities for you: • • • • • • • •

Find out about “Ashburton Gets Ready” See a live fire demonstration with the Fire and Emergency NZ fire education trailer Check out the “Escape My House” virtual reality experience Try the inflatable maze evacuation challenge See defibrillators demonstrated Have a look inside an ambulance Have a go at CPR Pick up a copy of the Safety Village brochure to keep and enter the competition – first prize is a family pass for an Akaroa Harbour Nature Cruise • Activities for the kids

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Enjoying a sunny Labour weekend Sunny weather soaked Mid Canterbury over the Labour Day long weekend and there was plenty for the Guardian’s photographers to snap in that time. Left – Plenty of people turned out for the Ashburton Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning. 261019-RH-005

Right – Taupiri Unahi puts in a big swing at t-ball on Saturday. 261019-RH-010 Below left – Alex Veint sends the ball down the wicket for the Tech Stags on Saturday. 261019-RH-033

Above – A few showers at the end of the day did nothing to dampen the spirits of the punters at the Methven Rodeo. 271019-RH-0002 Left – Nick Reynish made a hard landing at the Methven Rodeo on Sunday.

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Above – There was even time for a spot of crowdsurfing at the rodeo. 271019-RH-0008 Left – Spankem was too good for his stablemates in the Ashburton Flying Stakes yesterday. 281019-JPM-0025

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TEST YOURSELF

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1 - Joe Pesci played the gangster Tommy DeVito in which 1990 film? a. Goodfellas b. Casino c. The Godfather Part III 2 - The Canterbury Bulldogs are an Australian team in which sport? a. Rugby League b. Rugby Union c. Cricket 3 - In what part of the world would you find the Aral Sea? a. Central Asia b. West of Africa c. East of Canada 4 - Which Elton John song begins with line ‘It’s getting late, have you seen my mates?’ a. Rocket Man b. Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) c. Bennie and the Jets 5 - Hematite is an important ore of which metal? a. Aluminium b. Copper c. Iron 6 - Which of these countries is the largest by area? a. Argentina b. Japan c. United Kingdom 7 - What sort of condiment is traditionally served with roast beef? a. Horseradish sauce b. Apple sauce c. Cranberry sauce 8 - Which of these is an airline that operates within New Zealand? a. Air Nelson b. Air Napier c. Air Hamilton

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Looking back at the Radiant Hall By Rosie Twamley

f our past exhibitions at Ashburton Museum can highlight how a magnificent story can come from just one object, this is particularly true with the Radiant Hall exhibition. While Meet You At the Radiant Hall ran way back in 2017, we’ve been reminded of it recently with our current exhibition, Ashburton: Feels Like Home, which features many objects from throughout the district and the stories they bring to life. Meet You at the Radiant Hall started out with just one object: the old yellow and red sign that spelled out the name of the venue. The end result coming away from the exhibition was nearly a book of stories as people filled in the gaps of the hall’s social history. While the hall was opened in the 1930s and demolished in 1996, the memories stayed with the people who enjoyed their time at the Radiant Hall. The hall building was once home to Cookson stables, but it soon turned into a popular spot for the people of Ashburton to gather for a range of occasions. A soldiers’ banquet in June 1937 is an example of the many occasions that saw the hall packed to capacity. Another was when Labour politician Clarence Farrington Skinner spoke to a large crowd at the hall in 1951. Another event was a meeting held in the hall in 1960, which saw the creation of the Mid Canterbury Operatic Society. Even Governor-General Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson in 1964 made an appearance at the hall. One of the more interesting events that occurred at the radiant hall were the boxing tournaments held in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with a few matches having occurred earlier on, like one match in 1938 between Les Adams and Johnny Foster. The tournaments drew large crowds but they weren’t the most popular thing to do at the Radiant – that was definitely dancing. Dancing the night away The 1960s were a time when dancing became less formal and more fun. Even in little old Ashburton dances like the Freddie, the Locomotion, the Mashed Potato, the Shimmy and the Twist took over the dance halls, and in particular, the Radiant Hall. Being held every Saturday night, people recall arriving on a push bike with their hair carefully wrapped up under a scarf, and smoothing down their homemade dress made specially for going out, paired with stiletto shoes. Dance cards were used by the bands performing to announce the next dance, some examples included the Fox Trot, Monte-Carlo Waltz, One Step, Medley, Destiny and Gypsy Tap. The photos that came from the dance hall at this time are full of happy, young, energetic youth having the time of their lives and

The Ashburton County Scottish Society Hall which used to be the Radiant Hall. most likely meeting their future partners! Dancing brought people together and created great memories to look back on. Just one example out of many was Laurie Cromie of Rakaia, who met the girl who would become his wife one Saturday night in 1950 at the Radiant Hall, getting married just one year later. Peter Posa was a popular and well-known name in New Zealand in the 1960s. With hits like Wheels, The White Rabbit and Guitar Boogie, he was a big star when he came to the Radiant Hall for his headlining concert in 1963. His golden guitar and good looks saw people twisting the night away in beautiful dresses and dancing attire. He had caused some controversy with his album The White Rabbit and Other Tunes For Playboys, no doubt it would have been thrilling to see him perform live for the teens who were also going through stages of breaking the rules

Peter Posa meets fans at the Radiant Hall, 1963.

A full crowd in for a boxing match at the Radiant.

Lively dancers at the Radiant Hall, 1963.

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‘Great way to accept the challenge’ By Michael Neilson NZME

He might not be happy about the scoreline but a Maori researcher has applauded the English response to the All Blacks’ haka. Prior to England’s 19-7 Rugby World Cup semi-final win over the All Blacks on Saturday night the team already made headlines for their radical response to haka. England lined up in front of the traditional challenge in V formation and had to be told to retreat by officials when they moved too close to the All Blacks. And it has since been revealed England could be fined due to breaching a “cultural ritual protocol”, whereby opponents are not

to cross the halfway line. Massey University physical education lecturer Jeremy Hapeta (Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Huia and Ngati Pareraukawa), who has carried out research into haka use in sport, said while it could have broken rugby laws, the English response was not disrespectful to Maori. “For whatever reason, they keep them far apart these days, but certainly from a Maori perspective I don’t think many across the motu will be offended. “Haka are about laying down a challenge, and they require some sort of response. I think this was a great way for the English to accept the challenge, it showed they

did not want to stand there and be passive, but wanted to channel the All Blacks’ energy.” English player Mako Vunipola admitted after the game that “we knew it would rile them up” of the All Blacks, while the captain, Owen Farrell, who could be seen smirking during the haka, said: “We wanted not to just stand there and let them come at us.” Hapeta recalled the game in 1997 when former All Blacks hooker Norm Hewitt was leading the haka and his opposite Richard Cockerill came close enough to hongi. Hewitt has since said he never took offence at the gesture, but that incident – which very nearly

led to blows – led to rugby officials ensuring the players were kept apart during haka. In 1989 Ireland captain Willie Anderson also led his team right up to the faces of the All Blacks team during the pre-match haka. Of the incident, former All Black – and one of the men credited with reviving the All Blacks haka – Buck Shelford said: “If they want to come up let them come up – it’s fine as long as no one touches anybody ... save that for the game.” Hapeta said over the years many teams have sought to develop a response to the haka. In the 2011 Rugby World Cup final the French formed an arrow, and more recently in the quar-

ter-final Irish fans sang traditional songs. The All Blacks loss on the weekend could disprove the long-held theory the haka gave them a competitive edge, and could lead to more teams adopting their own response, Hapeta said. Prior to this year’s World Cup Hapeta called for more protection from “disrespectful” commercial use of haka. One of the worst instances came in the Rugby World Cup 2015, when British clothing company Jacomo ran a “Hakarena” campaign, which mashed together the Macarena song with Ka Mate lyrics and gestures, and involved English rugby players.

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The moment which hurt the most for the All Blacks By Phil Gifford NZME

Six talking points from Tokyo as Rugby World Cup reality settles in. THE BIG HURT At a relatively sparsely populated press conference the day after the All Blacks’ loss to England most questions were about hardcore rugby matters. But by far the most electric moment came when TVNZ’s Matt Manukia asked who All Black coach Steve Hansen had been on the phone to when he made a call on the field immediately after the semi-final. “I don’t mind you asking,” said Hansen. “I rang my wife.” Then he had to stop, take a drink of water, and gather himself, before he continued. “We had a bit of a chat.” The pause was barely more than 10 seconds, but somehow seeing such patent emotion from a man as stoical as Hansen illustrated how raw the loss was more than any number of words could. AND THE AMEN CORNER AGREES The only undefeated All Black coach, Sir Fred Allen, had a mantra that “rugby’s a pretty simple game but people try to bugger it up by complicating things”. The late Sir Fred would have applauded Steve Hansen’s summation of the semi-final. “England don’t play a sophisticated game. Win the ball, give it to a big bloke and run hard. Win that collision. It’s rugby in a simplistic form, but it’s beautiful. “From the time the game was played to the last time it was played, the team that goes forward will win the game. (England) won those collisions, and when you win them you win the game”. WATCHING THE OTHER SEMI WAS NO FUN EITHER If, as a New Zealander, you were still reeling from our semi-final thumping, there was no joy to be gained from South Africa’s 19-16 win over Wales. Of course, if it had been the All Blacks playing Wales we’d have been happy with an ugly win, as this was for South Africa. But the Boks-Wales match denied all that the William Webb Ellis creation story glorifies, that the key difference in rugby is carrying the ball in hand. If you love rugby, how could you get any pleasure from a game in which the only variation was whether the halfbacks kicked

short, or the first-fives kicked long? RASSIE’S PREDICTION, SADLY, MAY PROVE TO BE VERY TRUE South African coach, Rassie Erasmus, after the semi-final with Wales, said, “I am not sure it will be a final won through an expansive game plan and wonderful tries.” The last time England and South Africa met in a World Cup final was 2007 in Paris. South Africa won 15-6. Not one try was scored, and neither team made much effort to score one. It was, by a long stretch, the worst 80 minutes of mind-numbing, tedious, rubbish rugby ever seen in a cup final. That year Eddie Jones was the South African assistant coach. You join the dots. THIS REALLY ISN’T SOUR GRAPES, HONESTLY, IT’S NOT The All Blacks lost to England because, as Steve Hansen has said ever since the semi-final in Yokohama had just finished, England played better than us. But World Rugby really needs to urgently address the offside line at the breakdown. One of the reasons the Springboks-Wales semi was crap was the fact that, again and again, the defensive lines for both sides England players in their “V” formation while the All Blacks perform the haka. were patently offside, and virtually never penalised. Why not change the rules, and say that defensive players, apart from a halfback or acting halfback, have to be five metres behind the back foot at the breakdown? RUGBY WORLD CUP All teams will still cheat a metre or so, but JAPAN 2019 it would hopefully mean there was at least R E S U LT S - S E M I F I N A L 2 a tiny bit of breathing space for a team that wanted to run the ball. WHO WANTS YESTERDAY’S PAPERS? International Stadium Yokohama 5% EARN UP TO 45 While on the topic of refereeing, has the1 F REWARD POINTS F issue of high tackling now become a forgot- O 30s NOW ten, slightly embarrassing, issue at the cup? There were moments in both semi-finals $2889 VS was $33.99 that would have had a referee in the first round of pool play reaching for, at the least, 60s NOW a yellow card. Fusion Health Allergen Support contains 04 $45 herbs traditionally used to support the They were just moments, and by and was $52.99 body’s natural defences against allergens. large, the tackling techniques of the last four teams standing were impressively Offer ends 30/09/2019 or while stocksaclast. Always read the label and use as directed. symptoms persist, see your healthcare professional. Blackmores, Auckland. TAPS PP4517. curate. But it wasIf hard to escape the feeling that somewhere in the www.Health2OOO.co.nz background the ASHBURTON The Arcadefor World Follow Health2OOOGroup head of refereeing Rugby, Alain on: 308 1815 Rolland has(03) quietly told his men that unh2k11@xtra.co.nz less they find a severed head rolling across SCORE SCORE the pitch, the days of dealing the cards for high tackling are over.

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Serving up another top tournament By Erin Tasker

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Mid Canterbury turned on a top weekend for some top tennis to be played at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre over Labour weekend. It’s a weekend that, every year, sees the popular Ashburton Trust Junior Tennis Open tournament take to the court. It’s a tournament that attracts well over 100 players from around the South Island, due to the fact it’s a tier three tournament with plenty of ranking points on offer, and just like it is every year, this year’s chapter was a huge success. A number of Mid Canterbury players were sprinkled throughout the grades, and while some came away happy, others found themselves on the wrong side of upsets. The youngest grade on offer – the nine and unders – was dominated by out-of-towners, with top seed Jake Karathra taking out the singles by beating Bilal Ahmad in the final, while Liam Jones and Frank McHarg took out the doubles round robin. Mid Canterbury’s first taste of success came in the boys’ 10 and under grade, where Josh Gilbert lived up to his top seeding by taking out the singles, while Arabella Brosnahan took the girls’ singles title. In the 10 and under doubles, Sakeri Parnell and Eethern Tay took the boys’ title and Brosnahan and Rosalie Pollyn took the girls’ title. An unseeded player came through to take the 12 and un-

der boys’ singles title, with Alvin Na beating Mid Canterbury’s top hope Riley Breen early in the piece and then going on to beat Jack Hansen-Ratter in a three-set final. Breen and Hansen-Ratter combined as a doubles pairing and made it through to the final, but lost to Tate Aikawa and Tyrell Eden. In the 12 and under graded singles section it was an all Mid Canterbury final, with Ashton Cromie beating Sebastian van Rooyen 6-4 7-5, while in the 12 and under girls’ singles final second seed Alex Wylie downed third seed Dora Cheng in the final. Cheng then combined with Alaa van Meurs to take out the girls’ 12 and under doubles title. In the boys’ 14 and under singles, top seed Blake Cullen took the title, beating second seed Ej Emilio Gonzaga in the final, and the two also combined to take the doubles title, beating George Austin and Lucas Evans in the final. The fourth seeded pairing of Holly-Jayne Feutz and Angel Spooner took another title for Mid Canterbury, winning the girls’ 14 and under doubles title, beating Danielle Scheepers and Isabella Van Dooren in a three-set final, while the girls’ 14 and under singles title was won by top seed Jess Aldridge, who beat Brianna Howell in the final. A girls’ 14 and under graded singles title was also up for grabs, and that went to Ashleigh Lawler, while the boys’ 14 and under grade singles title was won by Finlay Murray.

Ollie Bubb returns a shot during the Ashburton Trust Junior Open tennis tournament at the weekend. PHOTO ROBYN HOOD 261019-RH-020 The oldest age group battled out was the 16/18 year old grade, where Mid Canterbury’s Jade Brosnahan made it a double, with the top seed taking out the singles final 6-3 6-1 against Amelia

McKeown, and then combining with Ilapaula Cabalse to take out the girls’ doubles round robin. The top two seeds made it to the final of the 16/18 boys’ singles, with top seed Luke Tanner

beating second seed Nathan McKenzie in three, while Tanner and Max Aldridge took the doubles title courtesy of a walkover in the final, where they’d been due to play Luca Landells and Tyler Leonard.

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Gatland desperate for farewell win over All Blacks NZME Welsh coach Warren Gatland has described Friday’s World Cup bronze medal match against the All Blacks as “monumental”. The third and fourth place showdown is seen as the game nobody wants to play, with disappointed players having to drag their battered bodies into a season-ending contest. But there are still things to play for in Tokyo. In former All Black Gatland’s case, there is a personal milestone to chase. The All Blacks’ long winning record against Wales will be on the line. It will also see British and Irish Lions boss Gatland go head-tohead with Steve Hansen one last time, after the pair drew the 2017 series. “For me, it’s my last game in charge against the All Blacks. It will be monumental,” Gatland said after losing the semi-final to South Africa. “As a coach, it’s the only team I haven’t beaten with Wales. It would be nice to be able to achieve that. “I’m very disappointed but incredibly proud of what this group of players has done at this World Cup. “We’ve got another game to

South African halfback Faf de Klerk commiserates with Welsh captain Alun Wyn Jones after Wales lost their Rugby World Cup semi-final. go, we play the All Blacks. My first game in charge was against England and the dream was for it to be my last game, but it’s not to be.” Gatland is returning to New Zealand to coach the Chiefs, before

taking a break to guide the Lions again in South Africa. Gatland said: “The All Blacks are probably hurting as much as we are at the moment. The third and fourth play-off is a tough game to

play but you have to give it the respect it deserves. “Go out there and do the best you can to try and win it. We’ll look closely at players in the next few days and see how they pull up

ahead of the game against the All Blacks. “We have to think about whether we make a few changes and give some players a rest with a five-day turnaround. “Then I’ll look with some excitement at the challenges ahead for me ... maybe get some revenge on South Africa.” Gatland said it was important to be humble and he congratulated South Africa after their three point semi-final victory. “I’ve been more disappointed in other games in my career where we haven’t given 100 per cent or the team just hasn’t fronted on the day,” he said. “I can’t ask any more of these players and how hard they tried. We’ll put tonight’s game behind us and start thinking about next Friday.” Gatland also had a warning for England, whose demolition job on the All Blacks makes them World Cup final favourites. “We’ve seen in previous World Cups, sometimes teams play their final in semi-finals and don’t always turn up in the final,” Gatland said. “It will be interesting to see how England are next week.”

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Winding up for a big one Putting everything he had into a shot during the opening day of the t-ball season at Argyle Park on Saturday morning was Flynn Ross. While other Mid Canterbury Softball grades got under way the week prior, under-7 and under-10 t-ball competitions started on Saturday, with Ross and his Borough Red Sox team-mates among those making the most of the perfect playing conditions for opening day. PHOTO ROBYN HOOD 261019-RH-008

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Final a 12-year-old repeat NZME Twelve years on, South Africa and England will meet again in a Rugby World Cup final. The Springboks have moved into their third World Cup finale, holding off a valiant effort from Wales to advance, winning 19-16 thanks to a late Handre Pollard penalty. England await in Yokohama on Saturday, looking for belated revenge for the 2007 final, won by South Africa, who have a perfect record in their two World Cup finals to date. Based on their performances so far this tournament, it’s a deserved honour for the Springboks, despite an inconsistent showing in their semi-final. In a game that promised little in terms of attacking rugby and delivered even less in the first half, it took 56 minutes for the line to be crossed. Only then did things get interesting – and dramatic. Earlier, six penalties had been slotted, with Pollard and Dan Biggar the solitary source of attack for both sides. Pollard produced three penalties in the first half, while Wales ended the first half with as many scoring plays (two) as injuries. Two Biggar penalties were negated by injuries to prop Tomas Francis (shoulder) and winger George North (hamstring). The Springboks were trying their usual tricks, opting for the rolling maul off lineout wins, or running it straight and hard in the middle of the park, but Wales largely had their measure with a stout defensive line. However, Warren Gatland’s

Coro St wins out over RWC bronze match NZME

The Springboks celebrate their semi-final win over Wales on Sunday evening but now face England on Saturday night in the Rugby World Cup final. men offered similarly little on attack, with neither side showing much ambition or creativity on attack as they seemed scared to take major risks. That continued until the final 20 minutes when the game burst into life. First Pollard made a decisive bust which ended with Damian de Allende breaking several tackles to cross in the corner, giving South Africa a seven-point lead. Wales though, were going blow for blow with their counterparts,

and immediately strung together 21 phases to hammer the South African line. A scrum was the eventual result of that pressure, which then paid off as Josh Adams went over, with Leigh Halfpenny producing a stunning conversion from the left sideline to tie proceedings at 16 points apiece. Rhys Patchell’s attemped dropped goal with eight minutes to go had neither the distance nor the accuracy, and Wales’ discipline let them down at the

death, giving away a penalty with just four minutes remaining. Pollard comfortably stepped up to nail the winning kick, sending South Africa into the finale, and Wales to a meeting with the All Blacks in the dreaded bronze medal match. South Africa 19 (Damian de Allende try; Handre Pollard con, four pens) Wales 16 (Josh Adams try; Leigh Halfpenny con, Dan Biggar three pens) HT: 9-6

It’s the game no one wants to play – and TVNZ will not screen the All Blacks’ playoff for the Rugby World Cup bronze medal with Wales on Friday night. Instead Kiwi fans will have to put up with Coronation Street. TVNZ confirmed to the Herald yesterday that it will not be covering Friday’s bronze medal match and will air Coronation Street instead, saying “it’s not our choice”. “TVNZ was given rights to cover 12 matches and unfortunately the bronze game wasn’t one,” a TVNZ spokeswoman said. The game will be broadcast live on Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport. Coro fans will be jumping for joy knowing they won’t have to wait another week to see Evelyn rip into Bethany and Gail reaching out to Shona as she grieves a loss like no other. The playoff for third kicks off at 10pm on Friday night, but Coro St screens from 9pm-10pm, followed by 1 News Tonight. All Blacks supporters have been left in shock that the state broadcaster doesn’t have the ability to show the swansong clash for All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen and skipper Kieran Read. “[It’s] arguably a more important game than any of the pool stages after the defeat in Yokohama,” one fan told the Herald.

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Spankem shows class with gutsy win By Matt Markham

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He might not have the absolute brilliance of some of the highclass stablemates who have gone before him but when it comes to true grit and professionalism there haven’t been many better than Spankem. And despite the apparent lack of pure x-factor the diminutive little pacer with the big ticker looks set to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Lazarus, Adore Me and Il Vicolo and head into the New Zealand Trotting Cup week with the well-deserved tag line of being the horse to beat following his tradesman like victory in yesterday’s Ashburton Flying Stakes. It was nothing flashy, just good simple harness racing done effectively and when you’re talking bare margins in fast times, in harness racing terms it’s golden. “He’s just the ultimate little horse,” co-trainer and driver Mark Purdon said. “You ask him to do anything and he’ll step up and do it for you, he’s a pleasure to do anything with.” In a field of stars in yesterday’s $50,000 feature, the five-year-old pinged to the lead, handed up to the right horse and then never looked back – sprinting up the lane to win in emphatic fashion giving the All Stars’ stable their sixth consecutive win in the race.

The Ken Ford trained Marcoola produced a New Zealand record-breaking effort in the Ashburton Trotters’ Flying Mile yesterday, winning by 12-and-a-half lengths in the hands of Sheree Tomlinson. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 281019-JPM-0015 “I wasn’t probably that keen on handing up to be honest, especially after he’d begun so well but Natalie was pretty intent on getting there and it was clear she wasn’t going to hand up to anything else so it made sense.” With his cup preparation hav-

ing gone almost faultless, Purdon is now keen to let things slide toward cup week in an easy manner with the annual cup trial in two weeks the last time he will be seen in public before the big dance. While he was good, some of Spankem’s stablemates were

equally as impressive including defending New Zealand Trotting Cup king Thefixer who left Natalie Rasmussen smiling from ear-toear and declaring him right back on track to defend his crown. “He was awesome, he just needed that run but he’ll be ready to go

A fitting win

Yesterday’s Ashburton results The weather was fine and the track fast for the Ashburton Harness at Ashburton yesterday. RACE 1 – ZILCO NZ/MORRISONS SADDLERY & FEED PACE, $10000, 2400m 4-4 Just Michael (8) L O’Reilly 1 2-1 The Guild (6) J Hay 2 1-2 Prospect Park (2) C D Thornley 3 Scratched: Darryl Kerrigan, Tiger Moth. Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Unico Gem, 3-3 Adhika, 7-7 Westburn Bliss, 6-6 Off The Edge, 9-9 Webs Reactor, 8-8 Gotta C Tintin, 10-10 Franco Hatton. 3/4L, 2-1/4L, 1/2L. Time: 3:02.29. MR: 2:02.70. Last 800m: 56.92. Win: $7.30. Places: $1.80, $1.20, $1.40. Quinella: $9.10. Trifecta: $56.00 (8,6,2). First4: $433.80 (8,6,2,5). RACE 2 – ASHBURTON GUARDIAN TROT, $12000, 2400m 1-2 Desperateandangerous (13) B Borco 1 5-4 Sierra Gold (2) R Holmes 2 6-6 Don’t Look Back (3) G Smith 3 Scratched: Rogie Falls, Bright Glow. Also (in finishing order): 9-9 Blink N Bones, 8-8 Terrier, 7-7 Rachmaninov, 10-10 DD’s Super Stuart, 4-5 Flying Monkey, 11-11 Boyz Invasion, 3-3 Tonique De Feu, 2-1 Ardee Trouble. 1/2L, 3/4L, 3/4L. Time: 3:09.20. MR: 2:06.90. Last 800m: 58.87. Win: $3.50. Places: $1.80, $2.20, $3.10. Quinella: $24.10. Trifecta: $248.10 (13,2,3). First4: $974.00 (13,2,3,8). Double: $21.40 (8/13+), $17.20 (8/2). RACE 3 – MAINLAND WOOL MOBILE PACE, $12000, 2400m 7-7 Dan Fernando (9) M Anderson 1 2-2 Tyron’s Bit Of Lemon (7) J Dunn 2 4-6 The General (5) B Orange 3 Scratched: Pur Dan, Bush Man. Also (in finishing order): 5-4 Burnham Boy, 1-1 Roll The Dice, 6-5 Patronus

Star, 3-3 Nirvana Beach. Nk, 1/2L, 3/4L. Time: 2:56.19. MR: 1:58.10. Last 800m: 56.95. Win: $27.80. Places: $9.20, $2.10. Quinella: $40.20. Trifecta: $570.10 (9,7,5). First4: $6247.90 (9,7,5,4). Treble: $1017.40 (8/13+/9). RACE 4 – THE PHAT DUCK HANDICAP PACE, $12000, 2400m 2-3 Yorkshire (10) C D Thornley 1 6-6 Franco Niven (11) T Williams 2 3-5 Stars Tonight (7) G Smith 3 Scratched: Ardent Lustre, Victor Tango, Dadndave. Also (in finishing order): 14-12 Bound To Impress, 1-1 Heisenberg, 7-7 The Kaik, 8-8 Unico Legend, 9-9 Homebush Lad, 5-4 Norman Richards, 11-11 Franco Hampton, 12-13 Frankie Jones, 13-14 Gotta Future, 4-2 Baltimore Jack, 10-10 Silk. 3/4L, 1/2 hd, 3/4L. Time: 2:59.74. MR: 2:00.50. Last 800m: 55.77. Win: $6.10. Places: $2.70, $3.30, $2.80. Quinella: $52.20. Trifecta: $378.40 (10,11,7). First4: $3166.00 (10,11,7,5). Double: $82.50 (9/10), $96.00 (9/11). RACE 5 – CYRIL HAY MEMORIAL TROT, $12000, 2400m 5-4 Rebel Kibbybones (11) J Hay 1 4-2 Another Chapter (2) J Curtin 2 1-1 Never Mind (1) M Williamson 3 Scratched: Red Harbour. Also (in finishing order): 8-8 Sugar Cane, 7-6 Ali Lindenny, 9-9 One Night Out, 10-10 Clyde, 6-7 Escargo, 2-5 You Really Got Me, 3-3 Idle Stuartia. 3/4L, 3/4L, 3-3/4L. Time: 3:03.30. MR: 2:03.00. Last 800m: 58.99. Win: $8.50. Places: $2.00, $1.90, $1.60. Quinella: $23.00. Trifecta: $157.20 (11,2,1). First4: $1499.70 (11,2,1,10). Quaddie: $10493.00 (13+/9/10/11). RACE 6 – WHAT THE HILL TROTTERS

FLYING MILE (MOBI, $30000, 1609m 1-1 Marcoola (1) S Tomlinson 1 6-7 Destiny Jones (3) S Ottley 2 4-3 Habibi Inta (7) B Orange 3 All Started. Also (in finishing order): 8-8 Theodosia, 7-6 Great Things Happen, 3-4 Winterfell, 5-5 Woodstone, 2-2 Sundees Son (Disqualified). 12-1/2L, 1L, 4L. Time: 1:53.86. MR: 1:53.86. Last 800m: 55.72. Win: $1.90. Places: $1.10, $4.40, $1.50. Quinella: $36.90. Trifecta: $262.20 (1,3,7). First4: $1713.60 (1,3,7,4). Double: $15.80 (11/1+), $70.00 (11/3). Treble: $134.10 (10/11/1+). RACE 7 – MID CBRY TROTTING OWNERS LADIES MILE MBL, $13000, 1609m 10-9 Change Is Good (11) M Anderson 1 6-6 Sweet Mary (12) M Williamson 2 1-1 Nemera Franco (2) C D Thornley 3 Scratched: Queen Bee Bardon. Also (in finishing order): 3-2 Kendra, 7-8 Bettor’s Heart, 4-4 Samskara, 11-11 Be Mine Tonight, 8-10 Anamajor, 5-5 Nakuru, 9-7 Vinnie Rulz, 2-3 Ivana Flybye. 3/4L, 3/4L, Hd. Time: 1:56.11. MR: 1:56.11. Last 800m: 56.78. Win: $43.20. Places: $6.80, $3.00, $1.60. Quinella: $140.50. Trifecta: $2249.50 (11,12,2). First4: $3702.90 (11,12,2,6). RACE 8 –ASHBURTON MSA LIQOUR CENTRE FLYING STKS, $50000, 2400m 1-1 Spankem (9) M Purdon 1 3-3 Thefixer (7) N Rasmussen 2 2-2 Self Assured (2) B Orange 3 Scratched: Gran Chico. Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Chase Auckland, 8-8 Another Masterpiece, 9-7 A G’s White Socks, 10-9 Smokin By, 7-10 Our Uncle Sam, 6-6 Cruz Bromac, 4-4 Ultimate Sniper.

now,” she said. Behind the first two, Self Assured, Chase Auckland and Another Masterpiece were also good. The day was supposed to be all about the pacing feature but an hour before that race one trotter made the day all about him. His name, Marcoola. Last year’s Dominion Handicap winner produced a New Zealand record-breaking effort to win the Ashburton Trotters’ Flying Mile by twelve and a half lengths in the hands of young Sheree Tomlinson – announcing their readiness for the Cup Week features. Drawn barrier one, Marcoola and Tomlinson trotted to the lead early and never looked back getting further and further in front of their rivals and stopping the clock in a blistering 1:53.8 for the one mile journey, almost a full second quicker than the previous national mark of 1:54.5. “He came out of the gate so well that I just let him run,” Tomlinson said. “I never turned the stick, he did it so easy.” Marcoola, who is trained by Tomlinson’s grandfather, Ken Ford will now more than likely head to Kaikoura for the South Bay Trotters’ Free-For-All next Monday before attacking cup week and attempting to defend the Dominion crown.

1-1/4L, Hd, Nse. Time: 2:57.78. MR: 1:59.20. Last 800m: 54.38. Win: $2.70. Places: $1.10, $1.60, $1.50. Quinella: $4.40. Trifecta: $25.00 (9,7,2). First4: $107.20 (9,7,2,11). Double: $127.00 (11/9+), $46.00 (11/7). RACE 9 – FASTTRACK INSURANCE $2.5K ADDED HANDICAP, $14500, 2400m 1-1 Oscar Bonavena (15) M Purdon 1 11-11 Take After Me (5) R Houghton 2 4-5 Overzealous (8) P Davis 3 Scratched: She’s Allthe Craze. Also (in finishing order): 8-9 Missie Castleton, 3-3 Valloria, 5-4 Idle Moose, 7-8 Justamollyarcher, 10-7 Momentous, 9-10 King Cassidy, 14-12 Mr Fahrenheit, 13-14 Majestic Sunset, 6-6 The Dominator, 12-13 Ideal Invasion, 2-2 Globe Trekker (Pulled up). 5L, Nk, 5L. Time: 2:59.80. MR: 2:00.50. Last 800m: 57.79. Win: $1.30. Places: $1.20, $10.10, $3.20. Quinella: $44.00. Trifecta: $684.20 (15,5,8). First4: $6402.10 (15,5,8,2). RACE 10 – EA NETWORKS MOBILE PACE, $12000, 2400m 1-1 Above N Beyond (6) J Dunn 1 3-3 Jazzy Star (9) S McNally 2 2-2 I’m Tough (5) T Williams 3 Scratched: Jay Tee Tyron, Naholo, Bettathanfast. Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Kingmaker, 4-4 J B Mauney, 8-8 Playa Vista, 6-6 Franco Texas, 7-7 Rah De Rah. 2-3/4L, 1L, Nse. Time: 2:55.97. MR: 1:58.00. Last 800m: 57.29. Win: $1.40. Places: $1.00, $1.90, $1.60. Quinella: $3.10. Trifecta: $15.20 (6,9,5). First4: $47.40 (6,9,5,7). Quaddie: $367.80 (11/9+/15+/6+). Place6: $8.30 (1+,2,11/1+,3,7/2+,11,12/2,7 ,9+/5,8,15+/5,6+,9). Double: $2.10 (15+/6+), $3.60 (15+/9). Treble: $5.00 (9+/15+/6+).

By Matt Markham

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While yesterday’s Ashburton Trotting Club meeting was so much about the big stars and the build up to Cup Week at Addington, the locals made sure they put their stamp on the meeting too. And the most fitting result of the day came not in a feature, but a lower grade trotting event when the John Hay trained Rebel Kibbybones was victorious in the Cyril Hay Memorial Handicap Pace. The moment was made even more special with Hay wearing the colours of his late father to victory in the race, much to the delight of the big group of family members on course and the entire harness racing industry. Raced, trained and driven by Hay, Rebel Kibbybones had shown he was ready to put his best foot forward with a bold second at Methven a fortnight ago when in a fresh state and came with a sustained run to win impressively. Earlier in the day the locals were in on the action too when Jimmy Hooper produced Just Michael to win in the hands of Rakaia horseman, Leo O’Reilly. A five-year-old gelding, Just Michael had been knocking on the door of success for all of his 12 start career prior to yesterday and when O’Reilly managed to find a dream run just off the speed, he unleashed in impressive fashion to win with plenty in store. The son of Bettarthancheddar had placed three times prior to yesterday and took his earnings to more than $10,000 with the victory. It capped a good week for O’Reilly who picked up a double at Oamaru last Thursday winning with two of his own runners, Darryl Kerrigan and Sounds Lika Gem.

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Northern raiders ready for Cup Week Leading trainer Barry Purdon’s team enjoyed a perfect hit-out before their raid on the New Zealand Cup carnival when scoring four wins at Alexandra Park on Friday night. New Zealand Cup bound pacer Mach Shard completed a nearly perfect preparation of his own in his final lead up race before the New Zealand Cup to round out the Clevedon trainer’s quartet. Mach Shard will head south to compete in the New Zealand Cup trial after improving on two excellent second placings behind Triple Eight to win Friday night’s feature handicap pace over The Devils Own and his stablemate Ball Of Art. “He has had a pretty uninterrupted preparation going in to the cup,” Purdon said. “But, he has been lucky, too, because Zac has had him in the right spot each time.” Bookies have clearly not been impressed with Mach Shard’s spring campaign as they have left the five-year-old at juicy $41 odds to win on the second Tuesday in November. The Mach Three pacer will be accompanied on his trip south by Wainui Creek, who won her

Sires Stakes heat on Friday night, but he just isn’t ready for that yet. “He is a bit precocious at this stage.” Friday night’s Sires Stakes heat was won by Line Out, who held out his stablemate Copy That and the Purdon trained Bad To The Bone. Bad To The Bone ran in to third after copping a big check half way down the straight when Ideal Agent ducked in in front of him. That third placing should be enough to secure the three-yearold a spot in the series final on New Zealand Cup day. Copy That and Line Up were already well up the leader board before their quinella. As were Flying Even Bettor and One Change, who ran first and third in the heat of the series at Addington on Friday night. That should leave plenty of space for Bad To The Bone and Addington runner-up Down To The Bone to make the $170,000 final. Purdon’s bag of four wins at Friday night’s meeting also included Flying Finn, who scored a penalty-free win for stable junior driver Nathan Delany.

first race since November of last year on Friday night. Getting caught in the parked position after a quick first 400m was not enough to stop the 4yrold from holding out Sole Ambition in a Purdon stable quinella. Wainui Creek was strong to the line, which thrilled her trainer after she blew out late in her first up run two weeks ago. “I was really pleased with her, I thought the first start she had she just came to the end of it,” Purdon said. “But, to do what she did on Friday night was a good effort.” “She will go down south and start in the mares’ races on the second day of the cup meeting.” Wainui Creek is eligible for the $40,000 Sires Stakes Southern Mares Classic on Show Day. Major Jellis, who remains unbeaten after winning on Friday night, was eligible for three-yearold Sires Stakes Series for colts and geldings had Purdon chosen to take the pacer in that direction. However, the trainer decided against having a crack at the series and he will not make a trip south. “We could have had a go at the

Champion North Island harness racing trainer, Barry Purdon. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu Harness Racing Club Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 29 Oct 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 3.01 CENTRAL ENERGY TRUST HANDICAP TROT $9000, r40+ discrhcp, stand, 2500m 1 16508 Danke (1) fr..................................... G Martin 2 71705 Mackerelli (2) fr....................K Blakemore (J) 3 16238 Burt Munro (3) fr................... D Ferguson (J) 4 2348x Leesa Castleton (4) fr.....................S Phelan 5 43469 Takenoprisoners (1) 10M.............. D Butcher 6 8197x Laura Bush (1) 20M.......................T Mitchell 7 10x05 Stylish Duke (U1) 30M...................B Orange 8 35606 Sundons Flyer (1) 40M........... A Harrison (J) 2 3.26pm CARTOWN PACE $9000, r40-r49, mbl, 2500m 1 5500x Iamthedream (1) fr.........................T Mitchell 2 0640x Scelta Uno (2) fr..........................P Ferguson 3 60068 Den’s Legacy (3) fr.........................B Orange 4 73000 Artfilly Crafted (4) fr....................... D Butcher

Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 29 Oct 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.15pm (NZT) FORBURY PARK FIRST 4 SPRINT C0, 310m 1 Father Leo nwtd.........................J McInerney 2 42462 Lakota Wichapi nwtd....................... H Cairns 3 63432 Eric Blueblood nwtd...................J McInerney 4 75746 Homebush Maree nwtd..............J McInerney 5 31 Horse Range Gold nwtd................... M Grant 6 36443 Absent nwtd....................................G Cleeve 7 87772 Bound Up nwtd..........................J McInerney 8 24542 Goldstar McQueen nwtd S &...........B Evans 9 6 Auto Speed nwtd............................R Adcock 10 Homebush Fudge nwtd..............J McInerney

5 0790x Mister Mighty (5) fr................ D Ferguson (J) 6 0x700 Chromozone (6) fr...........................S Phelan 7 9780x Ryans Gal (7) fr..........................S Abernethy 3 3.51pm MANELINE FARRIERS SUPPLIES MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2500m 1 9360x Tommy Tahi (1) fr........................P Ferguson 2 360 Ohoka Bandit (2) fr.........................T Mitchell 3 92786 Absolut Russian (3) fr....................B Orange 4 Novak Djokovic (4) fr.................. J Abernethy 5 384x Machteer (5) fr...............................B Butcher 6 77x I Said Imracn (6) fr............................B Taylor 7 55623 Ace Strike (7) fr............................. D Butcher 8 24948 Benjamin Button (21) fr..............S Abernethy 4 4.17pm OUTBACK TRADING MOBILE PACE $9000, r40-r47., mobile, 2000m 1 8932x Contractual Issues (1) fr........ D Ferguson (J) 2 000x2 Fancy Schmancy (2) fr...................B Orange 3 x2103 Tempo Rose (3) fr..........................B Butcher

4 08595 Vanhalem (4) fr...............................S Phelan 5 9700x Red River Dash (5) fr.................S Abernethy 6 69999 Beaudiene Emerald (6) fr........ A Harrison (J) 7 98009 Martin McGuinness (7) fr...............T Mitchell 8 89Px0 Bettor Trenz (21) fr...................... A Drake (J) 9 22000 Red Terror (22) fr........................... D Butcher 5 4.44pm ALBERT “OLDIES” MOBILE PACE $9000, r55-r59., mobile, 2000m 1 x559x Burst Out Laughing (1) fr.....K Blakemore (J) 2 77481 Captain Max (2) fr..........................B Butcher 3 3966x Ideal Tiger (3) fr...............................S Phelan 4 97882 Karmic Way (4) fr.................. D Ferguson (J) 5 569x8 Lincoln Moment (5) fr..................P Ferguson 6 79x67 Mucho Macho Man (6) fr................B Orange 7 212x0 The Kapiti Express (7) fr............ J Abernethy 8 21221 Jingles Bromac (21) fr................... D Butcher 9 6525x Sweet Maggie Ryan (22) fr........S Abernethy 10 x4301 Changearound (23) fr.............. A Harrison (J)

6 5.10pm ITM PALMERSTON NORTH MOBILE PACE $9000, r49-r53., mobile, 2000m 1 0089x Voodoo Prince (1) fr.......................B Orange 2 62505 Peter Forsberg (2) fr................... J Abernethy 3 745Px Milner (3) fr......................................S Phelan 4 20010 Stevie Lynn (4) fr............................T Mitchell 5 84497 Westar Sam (5) fr.......................... D Butcher 6 4312x Maria Kirilenko (6) fr...................S Abernethy 7 71873 Molly Dooker (7) fr.................. A Harrison (J) 8 9x479 Matai Minky (21) fr.........................B Butcher 9 1848x Mr Billiards (22) fr........................P Ferguson 7 5.38 WELCOME MEMBERS NEXT MEETING THURSDAY MBL PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., 2000m 1 44587 Jessie Kelly (1) fr............................B Orange 2 298 Carse O Fern Cully (2) fr....... D Ferguson (J) 3 Tactful Reaction (3) fr................. J Abernethy 4 50 Greenback Boogie (4) fr.................T Mitchell 5 8459x He’s Gratis (5) fr................................B Taylor

6 3756x Shan One (6) fr....................... A Harrison (J) 7 50239 Payment Plan (7) fr....................S Abernethy 8 8x87 Yankee Dancer (21) fr....................B Butcher 9 Emmi Rose (22) fr...........................S Phelan 10 7596x Speciale Uno (23) fr....................P Ferguson 11 69 Sarandon (24) fr............................ D Butcher SELECTIONS

7 56511 Goldstar Avalon nwtd S &................B Evans 8 85734 Kalonga 19.08 S &...........................B Evans 9 23458 Ezra Blueblood 18.75.................J McInerney 10 27445 Dizzy Banjo 19.02...............................C Weir 11 3.12pm PETER SINTON PLUMBING SPRINT C3/4, 310m 1 21464 Magic Jess Lass 18.40...................C Healey 2 57188 Come A Guster nwtd........................ M Grant 3 76375 Opawa Jumper 18.35.......................R Wales 4 66242 Eyrewell Turbo 18.37....................... H Cairns 5 87353 Nippa Martino 18.53..................J McInerney 6 14664 Mitcham Reado 18.52................J McInerney 7 61885 Amuri George 19.08...................J McInerney 8 61184 Reign Of Fire 18.37....................J McInerney 9 23458 Ezra Blueblood 18.75.................J McInerney 10 27445 Dizzy Banjo 19.02...............................C Weir 12 3.35pm OGRC LATE QUADDIE C2/3, 545m 1 32F22 Know Denying 32.73.......................G Cleeve 2 x8846 Goldstar Ashton 32.81 S &..............B Evans 3 55134 Orina Allen 33.21..........................C Roberts 4 4x766 Classy Witch 32.54.........................G Cleeve 5 64615 Know Equal 32.82...........................G Cleeve 6 32747 Opawa Silver 32.52..........................R Wales 7 54866 Cosmic Stu 32.65.......................J McInerney 8 17588 Sefton Joy 32.75..............................R Wales 13 4.01pm BRIAN BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C1, 310m 1 47853 Homebush Scorpio 18.41..........J McInerney 2 Fx863 Epic Owen nwtd J M........................ McCook 3 72417 Souffle Sue nwtd........................J McInerney 4 36344 Smash Dragon nwtd........................ M Grant 5 24132 Homebush Jordie 18.89.............J McInerney 6 76x86 Crushington nwtd.......................J McInerney 7 85534 Regal George nwtd....................J McInerney 8 42888 Pretty Keen 18.62..............................S Keen Emergencies: 9 8x628 Smash Ocean 18.80....................D Kingston 10 56737 Sozin’s Blue 18.69.....................J McInerney 14 4.28 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUE BAGLEY C1, 310m 1 36584 Smash Out nwtd.............................. M Grant

2 28768 Gracie Lee nwtd.........................J McInerney 3 35262 Homebush Flynn nwtd...............J McInerney 4 73384 Nikko Baxter 18.71.....................J McInerney 5 57452 Yi Feng 18.76.............................J McInerney 6 55412 Homebush Liam 18.72...............J McInerney 7 26216 Goldstar Willa 18.68 S &..................B Evans 8 22271 Sozin’s Azure nwtd.....................J McInerney 9 42225 Homebush Reed 18.84..............J McInerney 10 26837 Impressive Flash nwtd...............J McInerney 15 4.54pm RACING AGAIN THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER C1, 310m 1 48573 Epic Mate 18.85 J M........................ McCook 2 45744 Homebush Hundy 18.57............J McInerney 3 44822 Goldstar Wynter nwtd S &................B Evans 4 34383 Punch On Scooby 18.91............J McInerney 5 37884 Smash Gator nwtd........................... M Grant 6 13343 Khatia nwtd................................J McInerney 7 22622 Homebush Rehaina 18.78.........J McInerney 8 31583 Sozin’s Delight nwtd...................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 42437 Homebush Miles 18.46..............J McInerney 10 18735 Homebush George nwtd............J McInerney SELECTIONS

Race 1: Sundons Flyer, Laura Bush, Leesa Castleton, Stylish Duke Race 2: Den’s Legacy, Iamthedream, Scelta Uno, Mister Mighty Race 3: Ohoka Bandit, Machteer, Ace Strike, Absolut Russian Race 4: Fancy Schmancy, Contractual Issues, Vanhalem Race 5: Lincoln Moment, Captain Max, Mucho Macho Man Race 6: Westar Sam, Peter Forsberg, Stevie Lynn, Maria Kirilenko Race 7: He’s Gratis, Tactful Reaction, Jessie Kelly, Sarandon LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

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1.07 BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS STAKES C1, 545m 1 68462 Know Leave 32.83..........................G Cleeve 2 87572 Shift The Blame 32.60................J McInerney 3 26566 Zefside nwtd...............................J McInerney 4 11 Seve nwtd.......................................D J Lane 5 21338 Mitcham Manering nwtd.............J McInerney 6 37653 Chunk 32.86...............................J McInerney 7 65632 Goldstar Scooby nwtd S &...............B Evans 8 56532 Goldstar Chief nwtd S &...................B Evans 9 48465 Homebush Vassy nwtd...............J McInerney 10 44556 Goldstar Vale nwtd S &....................B Evans 5 1.25pm FORBURY NOVICE SPRINT C1, 310m 1 24462 Andrea Said nwtd J M...................... McCook 2 43714 Sozin’s Assassin nwtd................J McInerney 3 21 Know Debt nwtd..............................G Cleeve 4 23122 Know Baby nwtd.............................G Cleeve 2 12.32 OGRC EARLY QUADDIE SPRINT C0, 310m 5 27686 Homebush Rapper 18.75...........J McInerney 1 85783 Chicago Head nwtd....................J McInerney 6 88831 Homebush Mandy nwtd.............J McInerney 2 43732 Homebush Caesar nwtd............J McInerney 7 33514 Cool Beans nwtd........................J McInerney 3 445 Know Frenzy nwtd...........................G Cleeve 8 42356 Brut Magic 19.27.............................C Healey 4 68743 Citizen Zagreb nwtd...................J McInerney 9 21287 Prince Rohit nwtd.......................J McInerney 5 8x2F2 Opal Hunter nwtd.......................J McInerney 10 18735 Homebush George nwtd............J McInerney 6 72827 Nykara nwtd..................................... M Grant 6 1.43pm ST KILDA VETERINARY CENTRE SPRINT 7 521 Oakmont nwtd.................................D J Lane C2, 310m 8 8888 Homebush Odette nwtd.............J McInerney 1 62125 Citizen Aguero nwtd...................J McInerney 9 5 Homebush Showoff nwtd...........J McInerney 2 85857 Amuri Magic 18.64.....................J McInerney 10 7 Gotcha Georgie nwtd J M................ McCook 3 43518 Goldstar Tasman nwtd S &...............B Evans 3 12.50pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ 4 43511 King Toliman nwtd.........................C Roberts 5 18772 Eyrewell Bentley 18.81.................... H Cairns C1, 545m 1 35632 Lakota Micco 33.10......................... H Cairns 6 53635 Homebush Comet 18.69............J McInerney 2 42325 Shermo Bale nwtd........................C Roberts 7 24781 Homebush Finn 18.56................J McInerney 3 17648 Homebush Carl nwtd.................J McInerney 8 83142 Goldstar Galaxie 18.93 S &.............B Evans 4 5x432 Know Talent nwtd............................G Cleeve 9 87446 Punch On Jessie 18.58..............J McInerney 5 55685 Trajan nwtd.................................J McInerney 10 88864 Blazing Banjo 18.72...................J McInerney 6 32346 Goldstar Mauney 33.33 S &.............B Evans 7 2.00pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER STAKES C1/2, 7 41322 Gracias Maestro nwtd...................... M Grant 545m 8 74554 Black Dan 32.67.........................J McInerney 1 82546 Kia Tere nwtd S &.............................B Evans 9 37264 Goldstar Truman nwtd S &...............B Evans 2 22561 Punch On Woody nwtd..............J McInerney 10 77685 Smash McDougal nwtd................D Kingston 3 26778 Opawa Mason nwtd.........................R Wales

4 44518 Lakota Tonka 33.47......................... H Cairns 5 53777 Smash Surprise nwtd....................... M Grant 6 44823 Goldstar Alaska 33.38 S &...............B Evans 7 71435 Our Anna nwtd.................................R Wales 8 12142 Tricky nwtd......................................D J Lane 9 37264 Goldstar Truman nwtd S &...............B Evans 10 48465 Homebush Vassy nwtd...............J McInerney 8 2.18pm ALL FENCING SOLUTIONS STAKES C1/2, 545m 1 43341 Know Crime 32.48..........................G Cleeve 2 66321 Machine Gunn nwtd.......................R Adcock 3 35461 Mick The Mower 33.31...............J McInerney 4 42454 Goldstar Whitey nwtd S &................B Evans 5 67327 Neptune Allen nwtd.......................C Roberts 6 13212 Goldstar Yankee 33.28 S &..............B Evans 7 14355 Lakota Kohana 33.39...................... H Cairns 8 57583 Opawa Roy 32.75............................R Wales Emergencies: 9 71874 Opawa Al 32.90...............................R Wales 10 44556 Goldstar Vale nwtd S &....................B Evans 9 2.36pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C2, 310m 1 88722 Mitcham Trudy 18.81..................J McInerney 2 25711 Homebush Aimee nwtd..............J McInerney 3 43151 Opawa Oscar nwtd..........................R Wales 4 37244 Memphis Jewel nwtd.....................C Roberts 5 67858 Punch On Rex 18.86..................J McInerney 6 66541 Homebush Boden 18.60............J McInerney 7 34234 Goldstar Montana nwtd S &.............B Evans 8 11432 Dusty’s Ink 18.87.............................B Healey Emergencies: 9 56646 Nippa Enough 18.87..................J McInerney 10 87638 Shaw Winner nwtd J M.................... McCook 10 2.54pm DELTA ENGINEERING SPRINT C3, 310m 1 77135 Homebush Sayer 18.56.............J McInerney 2 11532 Starr Blueblood 18.72................J McInerney 3 76548 Bashful Buffy 19.19....................J McInerney 4 63681 Go Mufasa nwtd...............................R Wales 5 73217 Homebush Tesan 18.69.............J McInerney 6 54743 Dyna Lenny 18.67.........................C Roberts

Race 1: Horse Range Gold, Father Leo, Absent, Auto Speed Race 2: Oakmont, Know Frenzy, Opal Hunter, Nykara Race 3: Shermo Bale, Gracias Maestro, Lakota Micco Race 4: Seve, Know Leave, Mitcham Manering, Goldstar Scooby Race 5: Know Debt, Know Baby, Cool Beans, Prince Rohit Race 6: King Toliman, Citizen Aguero, Goldstar Galaxie Race 7: Tricky, Opawa Mason, Goldstar Alaska, Kia Tere Race 8: Know Crime, Machine Gunn, Opawa Roy, Neptune Allen Race 9: Homebush Aimee, Goldstar Montana, Dusty’s Ink Race 10: Homebush Sayer, Starr Blueblood, Homebush Tesan Race 11: Magic Jess Lass, Mitcham Reado, Come A Guster Race 12: Know Denying, Classy Witch, Orina Allen, Sefton Joy Race 13: Souffle Sue, Smash Dragon, Epic Owen, Pretty Keen Race 14: Goldstar Willa, Homebush Liam, Homebush Flynn Race 15: Epic Mate, Khatia, Homebush Hundy, Goldstar Wynter

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gards to the penalty count and written it down because this is how disturbed I am by it,” Taurua said. “You have umpires coming in who haven’t played or officiated a game, get off the plane and next minute the whole interpretation of things have gone out the window ... what are we trying to do with our game?” “I think as a national body in our sport we really need to look at the officiating or what the format is. “We have somebody who comes in here from Singapore – where are they ranked? – and blows it out of the window and we have no interpretation of the rules. She hasn’t been here. “That’s the most disappointing thing ... we couldn’t compete and give the fourth test what it deserved.” Yuliani made a number of con-

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ACROSS 1. Intelligible (7) 5. Horseman (5) 8. Pirate treasure (6,2,5) 9. Units of measurement used in printing (3) 10. Fair and decent (9) 12. Turn (6) 13. Woodland (6) 15. Educational outing (5,4) 16. Child (3) 18. Latest and best (5,2,3,3) 20. Stupid person (colloq) (5) 21. Regarded as (7)

DOWN 1. Mistake (5) 2. Give a bribe (6,3,4) 3. Promoted, in the military (9) 4. Mass departure (6) 5. Regret (3) 6. Total mess (colloq) (4,9) 7. Move back (7) 11. Military transport (9) 12. Declined (7) 14. Like better (6) 17. Old-fashioned (5) 19. Self-esteem (3)

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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Previous solution: gnu, gnus, gun, guns, lug, lugs, lung, lungs, nus, slug, slung, snug, sun, sung

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Across: 1. Kick 3. Adorable 9. Elation 10. Hound 11. Out 2 Implications 20. Khaki7 of the blue 13. Entice 15. Clutch 17. 8 1 9 3 21. Intoned 22. Disaster 23. Grin Down: 1. Keel over 2. Coast 4. Dinghy 4 5. Rehabilitate 7 6. Bouquet 7. Ends 8. Difficulties 12. Phased in 2 319. Skid 14. Tomcats 16. Scribe 18. Owner

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isolated snow thunder flurries

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Canterbury High Country

TODAY

Showers spreading north from late morning as northwesterly winds change southerly, some heavy and possibly thundery. Showers clearing in the evening with winds easing.

TOMORROW Increasing high cloud with isolated showers as winds turn northerly. Rain spreading from the south from late afternoon with a strong southwest change, then easing to isolated showers and retreating to the coast in the evening. Becoming fine. Northeasterly breezes.

FRIDAY Fine, apart from some evening cloud. Northeasterly breezes.

World Weather

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

fine fine showers cloudy fine showers fine fine fine thunder thunder fog fine cloudy cloudy

showers

Showers about the divide gradually easing. Further east, occasional showers spreading from the south from late morning. All clearing in the evening. Snow to 1300m at times. Wind at 1000m: W 30 km/h. Wind at 2000m: W 45 km/h, easing to 35 km/h in the afternoon.

Hamilton

showers

Napier

cloudy

TOMORROWFZL: 2000m lowering to 1200m at night

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

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9 noon 3

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5:04 11:17 5:29 11:39 5:57 12:12 6:21 12:34 6:52 1:07 7:15 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

Rise 6:19 am Set 8:14 pm Bad

Wellington

fine

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

fine

Greymouth

showers

Christchurch

showers

Timaru

showers

Queenstown

showers

Dunedin

showers

Invercargill

showers

Rise 6:18 am Set 8:16 pm

Bad fishing

Bad

Rise 7:09 am Set 9:22 pm

Rise 6:16 am Set 8:17 pm

Bad fishing

Bad

Rise 7:43 am Set 10:35 pm

Rise 8:22 am Set 11:45 pm

Full moon

4 Nov 11:25 pm

Last quarter

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River Levels

cumecs

2.85

Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 317.0 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

9.93

Sth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

10.3

Rangitata Klondyke at 2:30 pm, yesterday

113.6

Waitaki Kurow at 2:06 pm, yesterday

216.9

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Auckland

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NZ Today

Rain spreading north about the divide with possibly heavy falls there, with snow possible to about 1600m. Further east, high cloud with isolated showers, but rain spreading north from late afternoon. Rain easing to isolated showers from the south in the evening. Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h, rising to 45 km/h in the evening. Wind at 2000m: NW 35 km/h, rising to 50 km/h in the afternoon.

THURSDAY

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

A front over the upper North Island moves away to the east today while a weak ridge develops over the rest of the country. A front moves north over the country and weakens tomorrow, clearing early Thursday. This is followed by an easing southwesterly flow as a ridge builds over the country for Friday through the weekend.

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Angus Jemmett eyes up a delivery during his side’s loss to the North West Youth 1st XI on Saturday.

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North West claim nail-biter By Erin Tasker

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It’s been a tough old start to the season for the Ashburton College 1st XI cricket team. They’re three games into this season’s Canterbury Youth 1st XI grade competition and yet to record a win, although their latest loss couldn’t have been much closer.

They took on the North West Youth Cricket 1st XI at the Ashburton Domain on Saturday and lost by just the one wicket. Ashburton College won the toss and elected to send North West – a combination side made up of players predominantly from Burnside High School and Papanui High School in Christchurch – out into the field. For the third week in a row,

Ashburton College fell just short of the 100 run mark, all out for 95 in 39.5 overs, with Liam Sullivan the best of the batsmen at eight, finishing 28 not out, while Angus Jemmett scored 16 opening, and Isaac Bazley and Tom Middleton both chimed in with 13. For North West, David Neal took 3/24 off 10 overs. In reply, Ashburton College’s

bowlers claimed regular wickets and had North West well and truly in trouble, nine down for 81. Fourteen runs shy of the target and just one wicket in hand, a nail-biting finish ensued and eventually it went the way of the North West side, with Neal the one to guide them home, finishing 20 not out. For Ashburton College, all

bowlers took at least one wicket, with three bowlers taking two wickets each. Will Copland took 2/10 off 6.4 overs, Sullivan took 2/23 off five overs, and Angus Jemmett took 2/8 from his 10 overs, which also featured six maidens. Next week Ashburton College are on the road back up to Christchurch, to play St Andrew’s College’s 2nd XI.

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