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Schools battle with pools

By Myles Hume Ditching lessons at the Ashburton Community Pool is an option some Mid Canterbury schools are considering after the reinstatement of an old policy cut their swimming time severely.

Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Neil Simons said principals met this week to discuss the

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policy which has left pupils sitting on the pool bleachers to do school work while their peers swim and cost some schools hundreds of dollars.

In the past, teachers have been allowed to supervise pupils in the pool while waiting for their peers to finish 25-minute lessons with pool tutors before swapping over.

However, this year the pool has banned pupils from being in the pool

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while waiting for their lessons.

Ashburton Community Pool manager Carl Gordon said he “was implementing an old policy the pool got slack on”.

The Lions Foundation funds lessons for Mid Canterbury schools to do occasional week-long visits, while schools pay an “administration fee” to enter the pool.

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oday we have hit a major landmark in the countdown to the launch of the revamped compact Guardian.

One of the new elements we are introducing in our changed format on July 29 is a section called Your Place, which will provide some light entertainment and tips, but will especially focus on contributions from our readers.

We will invite readers to send us interesting photos from their day-to-day lives, ask families to send in photos with a little story about their pet for Pet of the Week, and ask schools to contribute photos and stories of noteworthy events in their schools.

Judging by the success and interest in the summer competition photos in the Guardian, we anticipate our local amateur photographers to jump f a new at the opportunity to no e w have their work published.

Your Place will also feature daily elements like a 10-minute recipe days to go and a daily quiz, but depending on the influx of material from readers, there will hopefully be room to add other material.

One suggestion from our readers which we hope to include is a regular historical element, looking back at photos and stories that made headlines 25 or 50 years ago.

This page will become a destination of interesting material from throughout the community and we are open to any submissions, like regular photos featuring a piece of art from the local gallery.

We have plenty of ideas but we hope to be inspired by your proposals, so please keep sending them to me at coen.l@theguardian. co.nz Thanks to those readers who have dropped by the office or sent us emails with suggestions, which is hugely helpful in determining what your Guardian will look like on July 29.

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BIRTHS

FASTIER – Glenn and Sarah (nee Tavendale) are delighted to announce the arrival of Baxter Mack on June 20, 2013 weighing 8lb. A very welcome little brother for Frederick and Stella. Many thanks to Julianne and Dr. Makary and everyone at Jean Todd Maternity.

STEWART – Mark and Stacey are pleased to announce the arrival of Olivia May, on June 4, 2013.

A little sister for Paige.

DEATHS

BRYAN, Joseph Ronald ‘Ron’ – On June 28, 2013, peacefully at Mater Christi Aged Care, late of Coffs Harbour, formerly of New Zealand.

Loved husband of Dawn (deceased), loved father of Leonie, Russell, Graham, Heather, Allan, Paul, Julia, Phillipa and their partners, cherished by his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, loved brother of Wilf, Bob (deceased), Cathy (deceased), Adrienne and Des (deceased). Aged 85 Years.

“At peace with mum now” Relatives and friends are invited to attend Ron’s Funeral to leave Our Lady of The Way Chapel, Marian Grove Toormina on TUESDAY July 2, 2013 after Prayers commencing at 1.00 pm, thence for interment in the Coffs Harbour Lawn Cemetery, Karangi. Messages can be forwarded to julia@bisco.com.au KEITH LOGUE & SONS F.D.A. of N.S.W. COFFS HARBOUR 6652 1999

TULLY, Francis Brendan (Frank) – On June 25, 2013 at Christchurch hospital, as a result of an accident. Aged 89 years. Dearly loved son of the late Michael and Margaret Tully.

Loved brother and brother in law of the late Tom, the late Joe, the late Margaret and Pat Goulter, Noreen and the late Des Tully, and Maureen and Tony Purcell. A much loved uncle, great uncle and great great uncle of all his nieces and nephews.

R.I.P. Messages to Tully Family, P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of flowers donations to St Vincent de Paul would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A funeral mass to celebrate Frank’s life will be held at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Thomson Street, Tinwald, on SATURDAY, June 29, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Rakaia Cemetery.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ANDREWS, Mark Duval (Teddy) – Vicki, Bruce, Zak and Kayla and Ella wish to thank everyone for attending Mark's funeral. Thank you for all the support, cards and food given to us all at our very sad time. A big thank you to Bishop Pongia and members of the LDS church, Ashburton. Please take this as a personal thank you to you all.

CAIRNS, Roy Oliver – Murray, David, the late Leanne, Joanne and their families would like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported them in their loss of a beloved father, father-in-law and grandfather. We appreciated your care, kindness, cards, flowers, baking and attendance at Roy’s funeral.

Please accept this as a FINDLATER, Norma personal acknowledgement Mary 77 – On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 of our appreciation. suddenly and unexpectedly.

Passed away quickly and GRANT, John Donald – with dignity at Ashburton Nola, Duncan, Robert and Hospital with her husband, Elizabeth and their families David, by her side. A would like to express their devoted, selfless wife to heartfelt thanks to family David. Mum to Daryll, and friends for the love and Jackie and Nicky. Sister to support extended to them Keith. Nana to Dylan, Hari during this sad time of and P.J., Mitchell, Max, having lost a dearly loved Thomas and Sydney, son, brother and uncle. To Melanie and Rebecca. Great those who attended the nana to Kylie and Ali. A funeral and shared their private family gathering was memories of John, we thank held on FRIDAY, June 28 at you. To those who have her request.

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FINDLATER, Norma May – Loved and respected stepmother of Tom and Sue, Jim and Corinne and Lynne Findlater.

Much loved grandmother to Teri-Jane, Sarah and Robert also Gordon.

Adored great grandmother to Logan, Kaitlin and Mackenzie, Luke and Alex. You will be missed Norm.

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Regions ‘missing out’

By Chris Morris Mayor Dave Cull has criticised the Government for pouring money into Auckland and Christchurch – including for a new covered stadium – at the expense of the regions.

And he has hinted he believes the spend-up in the cities is because the Government already has an eye on next year’s general election.

It was confirmed this week the Government planned to contribute $2.9 billion towards big-ticket projects as part of Christchurch’s central city rebuild. That included $37 million towards the $290 million cost of a new 35,000seat covered stadium in the central city, as well as the entire cost of a $284 million convention centre.

Both facilities will compete with Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium and the conference facilities run by Dunedin Venues Management Ltd. Mr Cull said there was no doubt the new venue would compete with Dunedin’s covered venue, although the true cost of building it was likely to be more like half a billion dollars.

However, Mr Cull questioned why the Government appeared to be “pouring money into Christchurch ... beyond what is necessary to bring it back to where it was”.

“There seems to be a preoccupation with central government with only Christchurch and Auckland, and I wonder whether that’s do to with the 2014 election.

“My concern is regional centres around the country are being ignored because

the Government’s pouring resources and investment in only two directions.

“In the long run you can’t have a healthy, prosperous, vibrant New Zealand if only two parts of it are developing.”

Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee’s office did not respond to a request for comment yesterday, and Christchurch City Council staff declined to answer questions about the stadium project.

Mr Cull’s comments came after New Zealand Post announced this week it was closing mail centres and axing staff - including in Dunedin - to centralise more of its operations into main centres, including Christchurch.

And, yesterday, the Government confirmed it would share the cost of

major transport projects in Auckland, including the $2.86 billion city rail loop, together worth about $10 billion.

Mr Cull said the focus on New Zealand’s largest cities was coming at the expense of the regions and was “not a healthy thing”.

“You prejudice the development of the regional centres and you actually put more pressure on an alreadyclogged development process in Christchurch and Auckland, and you actually exacerbate some of the issues they’re having.”

However, the Government’s spending plans in Christchurch would still leave the city’s ratepayers to pay $253 million towards the new covered stadium, and doubts remained over exactly when it would be built.

-APNZ

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Fire call to the police station Ashburton police had to call on the fire service yesterday. Two appliances from the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade were dispatched to the Ashburton police station about 9.30am after the alarm was activated in the boiler room. Chief fire officer Alan Burgess said the call-out was a minor issue, after it appeared the station’s heating unit malfunctioned. “After going in and having a look there was no damage,” he said.

ENGAGEMENTS LYNCH – DAVIES – Dan and Sue Lynch of Palmerston North are delighted to announce the engagement of their elder son Daniel to Sian, eldest daughter of Geoff and Elizabeth Davies of Wallasey, Liverpool, England.

WINN - TAYLOR – Pam Holmes and Peter Winn announce the engagement of Nikki Winn and Andy Taylor, son of Patricia Brooker and the late Michael Taylor.

Drug baby given morphine A baby who died while in Child Youth and Family care was born to a mother who was taking methadone and the infant had to be given morphine to wean him off the drug, an inquest in Marton has heard.

Ricco Rain ChadfieldSpittal died at 12 weeks while under the care of Child Youth And Family.

The coronial inquest into his sudden death began yesterday before Palmerston North coroner Tim Scott.

The inquest heard that a police officer was called to the home of the caregiver in

Marton on May 3, 2012. The infant was found dead in a portacot.

Ricco was born in Wanganui on February 10. He had been placed with the caregivers in March after his mother could not follow a programme to look after him.

Child Youth and Family visited the home on April 10 and April 23 before he was found dead on May 3.

A Child Youth and Family social worker, who cannot be named, said Ricco’s mother had been addicted to methamphetamine and was prescribed methadone in a bid

to get her off the drug.

When she became pregnant her baby was exposed to the methadone in the womb and when born, needed to be given morphine while he was weaned off methadone.

The court has also heard that when the child was placed with caregivers that no special treatment was required in relation to his treatment with morphine for the methadone addiction.

A Child Youth and Family practice leader said he was regarded as a normal baby.

The inquest is continuing.

- APNZ

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Schools battle with pools • From P1 Mr Simons said because pupils were no longer allowed in the pool if they were not doing a tutored lesson, it meant they had to sit poolside and wait.

“With what’s changed, we are not able to utilise our time effectively and we also have to bus those children there at a considerable cost ($500 for a

week). “If I was a kid I would want to do more than 25 minutes swimming when you are gone from school for effectively two hours.”

Mr Simons said it could be time to “rethink our options”, which may include some schools using their own community pools.

Mr Gordon said reinstating the policy was a decision “not

made lightly”, but rules were rules.

He said the policy was reintroduced to allow pool space for public users, enforce the same rules for all schools, ensure pupils were not fatigued before lessons and prevent teachers from undoing the work of pool tutors.

“Swimming is a skill that has to be repeated many times and

if they are not teaching it right it can slow down their development. There is also a fatigue factor; there’s a diminished capability to perform the skill properly when you’re tired.”

Mr Simons did not see sense in the policy, and hoped “common sense would prevail”.

He said teachers taught pupils basic swimming skills, with their training from Swimming

No sign of schooner

Dead woman’s personal items missing

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Hop, skip, jump for hearts Losing a shoe wasn’t going to stop five-yearold Jacob Ridder at Allenton School this week, as the pupils hopped, skipped and jumped to support the Heart Foundation at a Skip-athon on Thursday. Over 300 children took part, cheered on by parents, teachers and local representatives of the Heart Foundation NZ, hopping and skipping for over an hour to raise money for the Heart Foundation and learn more about keeping hearts healthy.

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Mystery has deepened over the death of Northland woman Barbara Moka after it was revealed her clothes, wallet and cellphone have vanished from her home.

It is thought her property was taken from her Rawene home in the days after she was killed at Omanaia in rural Hokianga.

Police upgraded their investigation to a homicide inquiry after a body thought to be Ms Moka’s was found on Wednesday near Te Piiti Marae where she was last seen on June 9.

Around the same time a man appeared in the Kaikohe District Court in relation to the inquiry, but all details have been suppressed until next week.

A post-mortem examination was held in Auckland on Thursday, after which police hoped to return Ms Moka’s body to her grieving family.

She is likely to be taken to the same marae, Te Piiti, where she spent her final hours attending a tangi.

Police held a press conference in Kaikohe on Thursday in which they appealed for help in finding Ms Moka’s missing property. That included an old-style grey-and-black Nokia cellphone, a wallet and much of her clothing.

As Ms Moka stood just 1.5m (5 feet) tall and weighed 45kg, most was size 8 or smaller.

Police also want to hear from anyone who saw two vehicles on Sunday June 9 and Monday June 10. They are a red 1997 two-door Toyota Cynos saloon, registration CBH261, and a green-and-grey 1990 Nissan Terrano, TF2603.

It is understood the vehicles may have been used to remove Ms Moka’s property.

They were not stolen and police stress their usual occupants are not suspects in the inquiry.

Ms Moka’s body was found in bush about 800m up a metal farm road between the marae and the scene of a minor crash involving Ms Moka’s car about 1am on June 9.

Inquiry head Detective Senior Sergeant Rhys Johnston said it had not been located in last week’s search as it was just outside the search area.

Police were making every effort to return Ms Moka’s body to her family as soon as possible, Mr Johnston said.

“The news wasn’t unexpected but they are very upset, as you would expect.”

The whanau had asked for privacy while they grieved and held her tangi.

Marae elders have placed a rahui over the area where her body was found.

Forty police staff are continuing to work on the inquiry. Searches have also been conducted at several properties, including Rawene locations, as police try to locate the missing property. Mr Johnston said the past few days of the inquiry had been long, “but it was very rewarding to be able to give something back for Barbara’s family”.

Police were grateful for the help they had received from the Omanaia community and those who had attended the tangi at Te Piiti Marae.

Call the Kaikohe police on (09) 405 2960 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111 with any information on the cars’ movements or if you were at Te Piiti Marae on June 8-9 and have not yet spoken to police.

- APNZ

New Zealand and teachers’ college. Lauriston School principal Dianne Prendergast said schools needed to reconsider their options after the school felt underwhelmed by their visit two weeks ago.

Netherby School principal Andrew Leverton said it would be difficult for his school to find an alternative because they did not have their own pool.

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A shoreline search for the crew of the historic American schooner Nina, missing en route from the Bay of Islands to Newcastle, Australia, has been unsuccessful.

An extensive aerial shoreline search was undertaken along the country’s northern west coast, an area identified by the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) based on drift modelling from the last known position of the yacht earlier this month.

The seven-strong crew of the 21-metre vessel were last heard from on June 4.

“We tasked a twin-engine fixed-wing aircraft to search the shoreline and coast starting at Tauroa Point, along Ninety Mile Beach, north of Northland, and out to and around Three Kings Islands, but unfortunately there was no sign of the vessel or crew,” mission controller Neville Blakemore said.

The Piper Chieftain, from the Hamilton-based Phillips Search and Rescue Trust, with the pilot and three observers on board left Hamilton about 10am and searched throughout the day for the vessel.

Mr Blakemore said a debrief would be held before a decision on the next stage of the search operation.

The 84-year-old wooden vessel was owned by 58-year-old American David Dyche.

He was travelling with his 60-year-old wife, Rosemary, their 17-year-old son David, a 35-year-old British man and well-known maritime technology expert Evi Nemeth, 73.

An 18-year-old American woman and a 28-year-old American man were also on board.

The RCCNZ has co-ordinated two extensive sea-based searches based on different scenarios, covering a combined area of 500,000 square nautical miles.

The schooner, built in 1928, left Opua in the Bay of Islands on May 29 and was last heard from about 370 nautical miles west-north-west of Cape Reinga.

The vessel was equipped with satellite phone, a spot device which allows regular tracking signals to be sent manually, and an emergency beacon. The beacon had not been activated, Mr Blakemore said.

After concerns were raised by family and friends, the RCCNZ launched a “communications search” on June 14, using a range of methods to broadcast alerts to the vessel and others in the area.

- APNZ

Masterton soup thief was hungry

By Kelli Hooks A Masterton man who stole three packets of soup because he was hungry will reoffend unless he gets assistance, his lawyer says.

Daniel George Carr, 43, a part-time forestry worker, pleaded guilty to shoplifting and was convicted in Masterton District Court on Thursday. He was sentenced to 40 hours’ community work.

Defence lawyer Ian Hard said Carr stole because he was hungry and would steal again to eat if he did not get assistance.

Mr Hard said Carr’s part-time work

was “sporadic work and not good enough to provide the essentials of life”.

Mr Hard said Carr was almost at the point of being trespassed from Work and Income which had prevented him from getting financial help.

But Judge Michael Behrens said he did not accept that Carr was unable to obtain the benefit. Carr admitted he had applied for a WINZ benefit and was in the process of receiving it.

Carr was also convicted of wilful trespass, driving with excess breath alcohol and a breach of release conditions.

According to a police summary of facts, on January 18, 2013, at about 2.20am, Carr was trespassed for two years from

the Wairarapa Hospital campus.

At about 10.45am that day he returned to the campus. He sat in a bus shelter within the hospital grounds, before wandering across the road to the bottle store opposite the hospital.

He returned a short time later to the hospital grounds where he was drinking alcohol in the rose gardens. Police found him in the rose gardens, intoxicated and Carr admitted knowing he had been trespassed earlier from the hospital grounds.

Judge Behrens sentenced Carr to 80 hours’ community work for all four charges and disqualified him from driving for one year and one day. - APNZ

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Us Kiwis love our older cars

By Sue Newman New Zealanders’ love affair with their old cars is earning us international recognition in a world where a 10-year-old vehicle is often considered scrap.

The average age of New Zealand’s car fleet is 13.8 years, with cars registered in 1996 being the most common, the result of the flood of 1995 to 1997 registered imported cars that arrived in the country during the early 2000s.

Some owners of old cars say they’re hanging on to their old bangers because they can’t afford to update them, but for many, owning an older car is a matter of choice. Often those older car owners are people who work in the automotive industry.

The team at Robbies spends its day tinkering with vehicles and they’re all older car owners – by choice.

Kyle Blampeid owns a 1995 Toyota Corolla 1300. He loves that car. It’s cheap to run, easy to fix and is the perfect aroundtown vehicle, he said.

“The newer they are the dearer they are to fix. It’s a good one.

I’ve had it a couple of years, it’s New Zealand new. I’ve talked about upgrading, but the new ones are expensive to fix,” he said.

Like many Kiwi men, Mr Blampied likes tinkering under the bonnet of his car and he

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Flying the flag for older cars: Kyle Blampied, with his 1995 Toyota Corolla, supports Kiwis’ love affair with their everyday runners that sees us recognised as a nation of old car lovers. knows if he bought a newer set of wheels the engine would be off-limits.

His second car is even older, a Holden Commodore. It’s a 1990 model and cost just $800 and has rewarded him with perfect

behaviour. “It goes and goes, it’s great towing the caravan and out on the open road,” he said.

The Corolla has 197,000km on the clock and the Commodore, 240,000km.

The oldies but goodies in the

car world are still on the road simply because they were built to last, Alden Thomas said.

“You can still get the parts, as long as it’s a common model.

And there’s always the wreckers‘ yards,” he said.

Cars built in the age of electronics and computers tended to age faster because problems started occurring with the electronics, Mr Thomas said.

His workmates all own older vehicles and that goes for the boss too. Robbie Kok owns an ageing Toyota and a very old Holden ute. The key to keeping the old, everyday runners on the road is to make sure they’re serviced regularly, he said.

The Motor Trade Association (MTA) doesn’t support the Kiwi penchant for old cars. It says that as vehicles age they break down more often and have significant maintenance issues.

And they’re not as safe.

A Government initiative is likely to be launched shortly aimed at reducing the number of older vehicles on the road.

Classic and vintage cars won’t be part of this; the MTA is targeting the old, everyday runners.

While cost is the prohibiter to upgrading for some people, the MTA believes hanging on to an old car is part of the Kiwi, number eight wire attitude, the Kiwi ingenuity that drives us to make do with what we’ve got.

The reluctance of New Zealanders to dump their older cars has led to an increase in the size of the national car fleet.

In 2012 it is estimated 138,000 cars were scrapped, down 9 per cent on 2011. At the same time the national car fleet grew by 22,623 units.

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By John Lewis and Shawn McAvinue A 66-year-old woman is in a critical condition and an 82-year-old woman has serious injuries after a hatchback car and heavy truck collided on a notorious accident blackspot near Henley yesterday.

Senior Sergeant Steve Aitken, of Dunedin, said a Honda Jazz car and a heavy truck and trailer loaded with plastic pipes crashed near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Henley Rd, at the northern entrance to the Taieri River bridge, at 2.17pm.

The 66-year-old car driver was in a critical condition in the intensive care unit and an 82-year-old car passenger with serious injuries was being treated in the emergency department at Dunedin Hospital, Snr Sgt Aitken said.

The state highway was a 100km/h area, he said.

Mosgiel Police Senior Sergeant Darryl Lennane said both the car and the RX

Plastics Ltd truck were travelling north.

It appeared the car had pulled over to the side of the road to let traffic pass before turning right into Henley Rd. However, when the car turned right, there was a collision with the truck, which had been following.

Snr Sgt Lennane said the truck driver was distressed after the accident but was otherwise uninjured.

State Highway 1 was closed from BerwickHenley Rd in the south, to Centre Rd in the north, and detours were put in place.

Snr Sgt Lennane said it had been the scene of several fatal accidents in the past two years.

A 66-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision on State Highway 1, at the northern entrance to the Taieri River bridge in February, 2012; and in January this year an 80-year-old man died following a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1, just south of the Taieri River bridge.

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Death reignites Rakaia fears for crossings

By Sue Newman The death of Ashburton man Frank Tully on a pedestrian crossing on State Highway One in Tinwald, has reignited concerns over pedestrian safety in Rakaia, a resident says.

Rakaia people have been fighting for years to have the New Zealand Transport Agency provide a safe passage for pedestrians crossing from one side of their village to the other.

Initially a pedestrian crossing was identified as the best option, but accident statistics proved otherwise said Rakaia community association chairman Neil Pluck.

“When we really sat down and looked at this option, the transport agency told us that, typically, what happens when you put one in, within a year there’s a death. People take pedestrian crossings for granted and just step out and stop taking responsibility for themselves.”

And while that might be relatively safe in an urban setting, in an area such as Rakaia where the speed limit along the State Highway is 70 kilometres an hour, a new range of safety issues come into play, Mr Pluck said.

“We thought about that and decided not to push the pedestrian crossing. We realised they had a point and the Tinwald accident proves this.”

Rakaia had then changed tack and pushed for a pedestrian underpass. The transport

agency gave the go-ahead in 2009 for this to be built, indicating it would stand the cost of creating traffic by-passes to allow it to happen. The community, however, had to raise the money to pay for the work.

That was four years ago and while the safety issues surrounding pedestrians crossing the State Highway had not gone away, neither had the underpass, he said.

“We’re still very keen to do this, we just need to get a solid group of people together to get on with it, to drive it forward.

It’s never dropped off the radar in terms of the Rakaia community’s point of view.”

Design work on the underpass still has to be completed, but it will be similar to a stock underpass rather than a RollsRoyce design. The project had not been priced, but was likely to cost around $500,000, Mr Pluck said.

He anticipates the community will raise some of the money and would then approach the Ashburton District Council for a loan for the remainder.

This loan would be paid back through a rate levied on Rakaia ratepayers.

“If we had this underpass in place it would make a significant difference to the east side of town as a place for families to live. Our vision is for a biking lane on the footpath to keep kids off the road altogether and the underpass so they could get to school and the domain without going on the road.”

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Methven Red Cross shop manager Susan Dickson and fellow volunteers are enjoying being at new premises in the town.

Red Cross shop in new home

By Susan Sandys Methven Red Cross shop volunteers are enjoying working from a spacious new retail space in the town centre.

Late last week as it snowed in Methven volunteers moved the contents of their former shop up the road, on Forest Drive, into the new premises, next door to the Thai Chilli restaurant.

Shop manager Susan Dickson said while it had not been ideal shifting as it was snowing heavily, it had been well worth it with the new shop being an ideal premises.

“It’s lovely and sunny, and we

are really excited to be away from the old building,” Mrs Dickson said.

The shop had been operating from a New Zealand Red Cross owned building since it opened in 1987, which had suffered damage in the recent earthquakes.

It initially moved out of the shop area into a meeting room at the building’s rear about 18 months ago.

Mrs Dickson said operating from the meeting room had been less than ideal, as it had been too small.

It had also meant the Red Cross had to hold its meetings among all the goods in the shop.

“We have been meeting stand-

ing up,” Mrs Dickson said.

“We haven’t had a meeting room and we have really missed it.”

The shift to the new retail site, which the Red Cross had secured on a short-term lease, meant that the meeting room was once again available for the group’s meetings.

The drop-off depot for residents to leave goods remained at the old shop.

“We would like to thank people for all their wonderful donations,” Mrs Dickson said.

She also wanted to remind residents not to leave unsaleable items, as the group spent hundreds of dollars every month on dump fees.

Man with 8.5kg of cannabis found guilty A Westport man’s claim that that he intended to personally use the 8.5kg of cannabis found in his possession has been rejected by a Greymouth District Court jury.

Ian Alfred Cole, 58, was found guilty and remanded for sentencing at a later date on two charges of possessing cannabis for supply.

The jury found Cole not guilty of possessing LSD for supply, and he admitted a fourth charge of cannabis cultivation.

The law decrees that anything over 28g (1oz) of cannabis is presumed to be for sale. Cole had 1436g of cannabis head; much of it in bags labelled with their respective weights; in backpacks, plus 6kg of cannabis leaf in a freezer when his car and house were searched on June 25, 2011.

A search of the car revealed a small amount of cannabis, tweezers, three tabs of LSD and a small set of scissors

Cole had 1436g of cannabis head; much of it in bags labelled with their respective weights in a metal container, 3g in a tobacco pouch and about 500g of cannabis head, much of it in self-sealing plastic bags labelled with its weight.

A search of Cole’s house revealed three self-sealing bags each containing an ounce of cannabis, another 936g of head in a backpack and 6kg of leaf in an old freezer. Police also found digital scales, $2000 in cash, and a grow-room holding 20 new cannabis plants.

A police expert said it would have been physically impossible for Cole, smoking five to six joints a day, to use up the 1.5kg of cannabis head within two years, without worrying about the leaf in the freezer, or the product from the new plants.

Cole said he had been using cannabis for medicinal purposes for 20 years and had a much higher tolerance for the drug than casual users have.

He claimed the leaf in the freezer was “cabbage” and not much use for anything, and the rest of the cannabis was all for his own use.

The jury did not believe him, finding him guilty this week.

The case follows that of an Israeli couple caught with more than 6kg of dried cannabis in Ashburton.

They pleaded guilty to cultivation but claimed the stash was for personal use and were discharged without conviction on Monday in return for a $2000 donation to the Salvation Army.

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Centre for Life ‘timely’

By Shawn McAvinue A Catholic “crisis pregnancy centre” is set to open in Dunedin but a pro-choice group has concerns the centre will counsel vulnerable women against the “evils of abortion”.

Family Life International NZ director Dame Colleen Bayer, of Auckland, said it was “timely” for the John Paul II Centre for Life to be opened in Dunedin.

Abortions at Dunedin Hospital had increased from 576 in 2010, to 778 in 2011, she said.

“The people of Dunedin have long seen a need for a crisis pregnancy centre.”

The Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Colin Campbell had expressed “delight” about the new centre, Dame Collen said.

She would be in Dunedin next month to decide on the centre’s location, she said.

There were two buildings in central Dunedin in which the centre could be located, she said.

The centre would be open in August and could offer help with mortgage payments, new prams and cots, nappies or child care to “overwhelmed” pregnant women considering an abortion.

“We make a pledge to help women - regardless of their personal circumstance - every practical help to give life to their baby, rather than to turn to abortion.”

The centre would provide free pregnancy tests, counselling to unexpectedly pregnant women and advocacy for families given an “adverse prenatal diagnosis”, she said.

Often an in utero diagnosis was wrong and when the recommended abortion was ignored, the baby was born “normal, healthy and well”, she said.

Pregnant women considering an abortion should approach a “pro-

life counsellor” to make a “fully informed decision”.

“We will counsel them, and befriend them, to show them the reality and then they can make their own decision.”

Abortion Law Reform Association southern district spokeswoman Kerri Perwick, of Invercargill, said she was concerned the centre would pressure pregnant women against abortion.

“That is a concern.”

Religious groups in other countries used the “common tactic” to open a centre and “heavily counsel” against abortion.

“If you are pregnant and vulnerable and you are looking for help and someone is telling you about the evils of abortion, and how bad you’ll feel afterwards, then that is obviously going to influence you.”

Family Planning provided pregnant women advice on all options available, Ms Perwick said.

Family Planning chief executive

Jackie Edmond said woman needed accurate and unbiased information on all available options.

She was unaware of a need for a crisis pregnancy centre in Otago.

The increase of abortions at Dunedin Hospital could be because of Canterbury women travelling to Dunedin for abortions after the Christchurch Earthquake, she said.

The Abortion Supervisory Committee Annual Reports revealed in 2009 there were 618 abortions at Dunedin Hospital, and 671 Otago women had abortions.

In 2010, there were 576 abortions at Dunedin Hospital and 652 Otago women had abortions.

In 2011, there were 778 abortions at Dunedin Hospital and 590 Otago women had abortions.

The 2012 statistics for Dunedin Hospital and Otago women had not been published, Ms Edmond said.

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Presbyterian rural parish troubleshooter Bryan Gilmour, at the Mayfield church, is overseeing combined parish discussions in the district.

Presbyterians bring in troubleshooter

By Susan Sandys Presbyterian parishes at Methven, Mayfield and Rakaia are investigating combining, and have a “troubleshooter” guiding the process.

Interim minister at the Mayfield parish is Bryan Gilmour. He is filling the part-time role, but at the same time leading discussion among Mid Canterbury’s rural Presbyterian parishes.

Mr Gilmour lives on the Gold Coast and has been a moderator of the Uniting Church in Queensland. Since retiring in 1998 he has been troubleshooting for parishes around New Zealand

and Australia. He is undertaking a six month stint in Mid Canterbury, staying at Mt Somers with his wife Dorelle.

Mr Gilmour said he was enjoying leading the discussion in the district.

“People are creatively looking at a future and becoming very excited about a future together,” Mr Gilmour said.

The three parishes could share a full-time minister. This compared to there currently being a full-time minister at Methven, which may not be sustainable in the long term, and a part-time minister at Mayfield and no minister at Rakaia.

The full-time minister would

train and equip lay people to lead services, and these would continue on a weekly basis.

The minister would create a greater sense of integration across the rural community, and there would be joint parish events, such as a Mother’s Day service recently which saw the Mayfield Church full.

“That person could actively become a member of the community, when it’s part-time things just sort of limp along,” Mr Gilmour said.

The Presbyterian church was still going strong in Mid Canterbury today, and a new combined system would be a way of strengthening it further.

Mr Gilmour has had plenty of experience when it comes to combining the wants and needs of various interests.

A highlight of his career was helping to establish the ecumenical school John Paul College in 1982 at Logan City, between the Gold Coast and Brisbane. Today that school was multi-faith, with Islamic and Buddhist students among its 2500 pupils.

And Mr Gilmour is enjoying the warmth of the reception he has had in Mid Canterbury since his arrival three months ago, while coping with living amongst snow at Mt Somers this winter.

“It’s a bit severe, but we enjoy it, we love it here,” Mr Gilmour said.

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Police fight IRD rule on plain clothes Almost an hour spent on homework

By Natalie Akoorie

Plain-clothes police officers will have their clothing allowance slashed under a plan to save money.

But the new rule could prompt a legal stoush after the Police Association called in tax experts to fight the Inland Revenue Department decision.

The decision is expected to reduce the annual $2.3 million clothing allowance

of 2100 plain clothes police officers by $759,000.

The association, the police and tax company BDO Wellington have lodged an appeal against the rule which takes effect from Monday.

Plain clothes officers – mostly detectives in criminal investigation bureaus around the country, receive a $1305 annual clothing allowance – about $50 a fortnight.

But after an audit the IRD determined the allowance should be a taxable benefit,

By Myles Hume The value of homework is under fire again in Mid Canterbury after statistics revealed primary pupils spent almost an hour per night doing extra work.

A nationwide CensusAtSchool survey found 77 per cent of pupils aged six to 12 had done some homework the night before the survey, with the average time of 53 minutes spent doing the additional work. This comes after the Guardian spoke to a former principal late last year, who said schools often handed out mountains of homework just to satisfy parents.

Mid Canterbury principals’ Association president and Longbeach School principal Neil Simons was shocked at the survey’s findings.

“I would be pretty annoyed if I was a kid or a parent who had to do 53 minutes of homework a night. At Longbeach we have backed right off it, we just send home basic facts and reading and some spelling to those who need it, which can usually take kids 10 to 15 minutes tops.”

Mr Simons said the school also offered homework challenges for those who looked to do additional work, but he did not believe homework made a significant difference.

Mother of six Nicci Glanville has children at four different schools in the district.

She said there were marked differences between the type of homework handed to her children and the time they spent on it.

But at some schools she found there was too much homework, with children doing up to an hour a night, while other schools handed out irrelevant assignments.

“I’m a great believer in homework ... if it’s going to be sent home it should be relevant and short enough so children can do it, and so parents can see what’s going on at school,” she said.

Both Mr Simons and Mrs Glanville agreed 53 minutes of homework on average for a child at primary school was excessive, and could have implications for not just the pupil but the wider family too.

“This week I’ve had kids doing gymnastics, karate, netball, swimming and other sports, kids get tired and homework can become a drama.

That’s why we say we don’t want home stress because of it,” Mr Simons said.

The survey also found 69 per cent of pupils between 13 and 18 did homework, with an average time of an hour and 13 minutes spent on it.

Looking at the average time spent, Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said it appeared reasonable, but that varied as pupils advanced through the years and when deadlines loomed.

reducing the $50 per fortnight to $34, a loss of $400 a year on a 33 per cent tax rate.

The rule is to be applied retrospectively meaning payment of the tax must be backdated to April 1, this year.

In an email to affected officers, leaked to the Herald, police industrial relations principal adviser Peter Harvey said the police would cover the retrospective payment of $189,000.

But he warned officers to set aside money in case any

backpayment was required from them.

Association president Greg O’Connor said the association believed the decision was unfair, as was another one which removed the tax exemption on rural police house rents.

Mr O’Connor said police wore a uniform, but there were some such as detectives who were required to be out of uniform for various reasons, and they had to buy their own clothes.

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DOC tracks ‘inaccessible’ Snow is continuing to weigh down buildings, at historic Hakatere Station, and the landscape, at Lake Heron (as pictured) in the Ashburton Gorge.

Department of Conservation manager Chris Coulter said yesterday the Mt Somers Track and other high country tracks would be likely to be inaccessible this weekend due to deep

snow remaining. Staff had not yet been able to get into the Woolshed Creek carpark or other areas to assess if there had been any snow damage to huts or other buildings, however they were not expecting to find any.

Meanwhile, snow cover at Lake Heron Station was reported at about 50 centimetres yes-

terday, having melted from the one metre which fell last week.

Co-owner Anne Todhunter said they had had to bring in extra staff to relieve workers who had been busy digging out the station.

Feeding out was a major task each day, with this having to be undertaken twice as much as usual.

Funding for special pupil exams ‘needs work’

By Myles Hume Some parents would not be blamed for questioning if their teen could have performed better in their end-of-year-examinations last year, a Mid Canterbury principal says.

The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation after it was found there were inconsistencies when determining which pupils with learning disabilities were allocated funding to sit examinations in special conditions.

Schools can have expert assessments carried out on pupils to push for Special Assessment Conditions (SAC) funding, while others, such as Ashburton College, have their own assessment systems in place.

A report from the Dyslexia Foundation found disadvantaged pupils who were in higher decile or private schools and had expert assessments were more likely to be given the funding, while several others in lower decile schools were left to sit their examinations in normal conditions.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said he could not comment in detail, but agreed

Grant McMillan “there clearly needed to be work done” on the SAC processes.

The Guardian asked Mr McMillan if it could have meant pupils who were suitable for SAC funding, including pupils with autism, ADHD and dyslexia, may not have got the marks they deserved.

“It certainly reads that way, where students might have been and which schools missed out are good questions. The way the dyslexia report reads, probably the students in low decile schools missed out the most,” he said.

“If a parent looked at this they may think their child could have

benefitted from it if they did receive funding.”

The special conditions for a pupil may include sitting in a class on their own, having reader-writer assistance or the use of braille.

Mr McMillan said in the past some pupils had been refused funding, but appeals meant that decision had been overturned.

He was planning to do the same this year.

He said SAC funding appeared to be “rationed” across schools, which meant funding criteria was changing on a regular basis.

But at the end of the day, it came down to the criteria and judgment from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, he said.

“One year a pupil may have got a reader-writer but a few years later a child who is of similar ability may not have.

“We work really hard to ensure no one misses out and we do a lot of extra support as you already know for those students and we always have worked really hard to make sure we have advocated for the student and their family,” he said.

Mr McMillan hoped the college would be part of the ministry’s review into SAC funding.

No longer tight-lipped over glue encounter

By Hamish McNeilly Her lips were once sealed, but a woman who accidently glued her mouth shut now can’t stop talking about her “near death” experience.

The Dunedin grandmother, who sealed her lips shut after applying a superglue instead of cold sore cream on Thursday night, said yesterday “I thought I was going to die”.

The 64-year-old was too embarrassed to be named or photographed, but was happy to share her story on the condition of anonymity.

The incident was sparked after she woke to apply some cold sore cream, kept in a drawer at her St Kilda flat.

Without turning on a light, she saw the yellow label of what she believed was the cream and “thought ‘that’s it’ and went back to sleep”.

“I woke up, I think minutes later, to have a drink and I couldn’t open my mouth ... I panicked,” said the woman, who also had a blocked nose after coming down with the ’flu.

“I thought I was going to die.”

Frantically trying to pull her lips apart, she phoned 111 “but couldn’t speak. All I could do

was grunt”. “They asked me where I lived and all I could say was ‘mmmmmm’.

“I was dry retching. I felt like I was going to be sick. I was panicking. I couldn’t open my mouth.”

Told to tap once for no and twice for yes on her phone’s speaker, she answered a series of questions including do you live in the South Island, do you live in Christchurch/Dunedin, and then suburbs and major streets.

The emergency call went for 20 minutes, when a police dog handler arrived. The police were were called because of fears the woman had been gagged.

She showed them the glue and the cream, and was taken to Dunedin Hospital.

Doctors used paraffin oil and hot water to loosen her lips and she said “it was like a wee chicken coming out of her shell”.

The first gasp of air “was wonderful”.

“I thought ‘praise the Lord’.”

One of the first things she did yesterday was throw the glue in the rubbish bin.

She expressed thanks to emergency services staff.

A St John spokesman said they were pleased to hear the lady was recovering.

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Rotary names two Paul Harris fellows Dedication to their Rotary club and to the community has earned Ashburton men Michael Kingsbury and Gray Campbell recognition as Paul Harris Fellows.

Mr Campbell is Rotary Ashurton’s fourth longest serving member, joining the club in 1974 and over his time in Rotary he has chaired every committee and was president in the 1982/83 year.

In the community, Mr Campbell was one of the key people who drove the Ashburton Sports Hall project and served for many years on its committee.

The Sports Hall is now the home of the annual Rotary Bookarama project of which he was a founding member in 1980.

He was also instrumental in the formation of the Ashburton branch of the Kidney Foundation.

Mr Kingsbury has been a member of Rotary for 35 years and for many years was the organisation’s song leader. He has also served on all committees and was president in the 1984/85 year.

Through his talent as a musician, Mr Kingsbury has played a significant role in the community as an entertainer, entertaining regularly in rest homes around the district.

RIGHT: Rotary Club of Ashburton outgoing president Russell Nelson (centre) with the club’s two new Paul Harris fellows, Michael Kingsbury (left) and Gray Campbell.

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Fatal crash: Engine trouble reported dent was continuing, and investigators remained open-minded as to the cause or causes, Mr Ford said.

“There is still a lot of work to be done.”

The focus for the safety investigation was to identify lessons that could be learned and applied in order to prevent future accidents, Mr Ford said.

The investigation had not identified any immediate safety related issues or lessons.

The CAA expected its final report into the crash to be released sometime this year.

By Rebecca Quilliam 2Degrees chief executive Eric Hertz called Air Traffic Control reporting problems with his plane’s engines moments before it ditched into the coast off Raglan, killing him and his wife Kathy, an interim Civil Aviation Authority report says.

The couple had been travelling to Timaru to see their daughter Ari when their twin engine Beechcraft Baron plunged into the sea off the Waikato coast on March 30.

In its report released yesterday the CAA said 30 minutes into the flight, after reaching its cruise altitude of 18,000 feet, the aircraft’s groundspeed “decreased sharply”.

The aircraft began a “high rate of descent”, and after about one and a half minutes, disappeared from radar, the report said.

In transmissions to Air Traffic Control Mr Hertz indicated he had an emergency and was experiencing problems with both engines.

Acting director of Civil Aviation, Chris Ford said the aircraft was found on the sea-

* Eric Hertz bed, 59 metres below the surface, inverted but largely intact.

“Examination of the aircraft’s propellers indicated that they were under little or no power at the time the aircraft impacted the water,” Mr Ford said.

“The propeller angles were in a position usually associated with a cruise setting.”

He said the operation to find and recover the wreckage from the seabed was “challenging”.

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The investigation will continue to analyse: - technical and maintenance history associated with the aircraft; - Mr Hertz’s flying background and experience; - analysis of Air Traffic Controller voice recording; - weight and balance calculations; - flight aerodynamics; and - regulations relating to foreign aircraft permanently operating in New Zealand.

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Dirty boots earn fine A Frenchman who told airport border staff that his gumboots had been bleached clean, has been fined $400 after they were found to contain a stowaway snail and were covered in goat poo.

The passenger arrived at Auckland airport on a flight from Papua New Guinea earlier this month.

He initially said he had scrubbed the boots with bleach.

But on inspection, they were found to be contaminated with manure from a goat farm.

And a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) quarantine inspector was stunned to find a snail inside the boots when cleaning them.

“The boots posed high biosecurity risk to New Zealand,”

said ministry team manager Paul Ruttley.

“If they had only been used on the street in the city, it would have been okay.

“But, as they came from a farm, they could have been carrying diseases with potential to have a devastating impact on our farming industries.”

The man was fined $400 for failing to declare biosecurity risk goods and the snail was “euthanised”, the ministry said.

Mr Ruttley says it is fairly common for MPI quarantine inspectors to intercept dirty boots, but very unusual to discover a hitchhiking snail.

Cane toads from Australia have been found inside boots in the past, he said.

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Woman lied to ACC to obtain benefit An Auckland woman who was receiving weekly ACC payments for the workplace death of a man has been convicted of defrauding the corporation after it was found she had been lying about the pair’s relationship.

Brenetta Hemi of Pukekohe received more than $100,000 in compensation payments after informing ACC she had been in a de facto relationship with a man who died in a workplace accident in June 2009.

ACC, which was contacted by Hemi a month after the man died, said an investigation into Hemi - following a tip-off in July 2010 - revealed the pair had once been an item, but had not lived together for more than eight years.

Hemi was yesterday sentenced in the Manukau District Court to seven months’ home detention. She was also ordered to receive counselling throughout this period.

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Roading before rail expansion

By Isaac Davison The Government will push major roading projects in Auckland - including a wider Southern Motorway, upgraded roads to the airport, and a freight corridor in Manukau - before it begins work on the City Rail Link and a second Waitemata Harbour crossing, Prime Minister John Key revealed yesterday afternoon.

Mr Key confirmed the Government would back Auckland’s three top transport priorities - the rail link, another harbour crossing, and the Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative (AMETI), which includes the East-West Link.

“These three projects are all identified as the highest transport priorities in the council’s Auckland Plan,” he said. “They have a price tag of around $10 billion and they are projects that need to be planned for over a

long period of time.” The harbour crossing will be twin tunnels under the Waitemata - the option of another bridge has been ruled out - and construction was expected to start between 2025 and 2030.

Auckland Council would begin protecting land for the development in December once the alignment of the crossing had been finalised.

Mr Key said construction of the rail link would not begin until 2020 unless employment levels in the central city climbed by 25 per cent and annual rail trips hit 20 million a year.

“We will consider an earlier start date if it becomes clear that Auckland’s CBD employment and rail patronage growth hit thresholds faster than current rates of growth suggest.

“I realise 2020 is not what the council leadership is wanting, but while we may differ on timeframes, there is clear recognition by the Government that the

project will be needed to address access to the Auckland CBD and improve the efficiency of rail.”

Total rail trips are around 11 million a year.

Mr Key confirmed the Government’s “next major focus” for Auckland would be the AMETI project, which is already underway but was not scheduled to be completed for 20 years.

“Given the importance of the area, delivering these projects over 20 years is simply not acceptable.”

Government has asked the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) which parts of AMETI could be accelerated with additional funding.

“As you know, the area between Onehunga, Mt Wellington and East Tamaki is home to a number of industrial and logistics businesses that make a critical contribution to the Auckland and national economy.

“About as many people are employed here as in the CBD and

there is considerable potential for more growth.

“However, the transport links in and out of this area aren’t up to the job.

“Truck drivers have told us they can get stuck in congestion at any time during the working day and a seven-minute trip between Metroport and the Onehunga wharf can take as long as 40 minutes.”

The $2.6 billion project included a $1.1 billion East-West Link, a road between Mt Wellington and Onehunga.

Government also planned to fast-track three NZTA projects: - A motorway-to-motorway link between the Upper Harbour Highway and the Northern Motorway at Constellation Drive - Widening of the Southern Motorway between Manukau and Papakura - Upgrade of the State Highway 20A link to the airport to motorway standard

These developments were designed to reduce congestion, capitalise on the benefits of the Western Ring Route, and improve access to the airport.

Mr Key said: “Under current funding assumptions, construction of these projects may be up to 10 years away from starting.

But the Government is not prepared to wait that long.”

Government will consult with NZTA on how to bring these projects forward, and will provide additional funding to make this happen.

The transport package did not mention rail to the airport, which was no longer one of the highest priorities for the Auckland Council.

It has not yet been made clear how Government will source its funding for its share of these projects, but the Prime Minister has confirmed that some of the $2.86 billion rail link could be paid for with proceeds from asset sales.

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Heroes recognised for breaking the rules

By Rebecca Quilliam

Tennis balls emblazoned with Wimbledon 2013 – and featuring NZ wool – are placed on a court during a match.

Our wool at tennis

By Kurt Bayer and Teuila Fuatai Tennis balls used at Wimbledon are made with New Zealand wool which travels 40,000km around the world before being served up at SW19, new research has found.

Quintessentially British sports equipment manufacturer Slazenger has been the official ball supplier for the grass tennis major championship since 1902, with its headquarters based in Derbyshire.

But their official ball now flies 80,000kms between 11 countries and across four continents before being manufactured in Bataan in the Philippines and then travelling back 10,700kms to Wimbledon.

After their marathon journey, they are smashed around the courts for just nine games before being ditched as too old, soft and fluffy for the top players.

Warwick Business School in England studied the supply chain, and found clay was shipped from South Carolina in the US, silica from Greece, magnesium carbonate from Japan, zinc oxide from Thailand, sulphur from South Korea and rubber from Malaysia to Bataan, where the rubber is vulcanised - a chemical process that makes the rubber more durable.

Wool then travels from New Zealand to Stroud in Gloucestershire, where it is turned into felt and then sent back to Bataan.

Petroleum naphthalene from Zibo in China and glue from the Philippines are brought to Bataan where Slazenger, which was bought by Sports Direct in 2004, manufacture the balls.

Finally, tins are shipped in from Indonesia and once the balls have been packaged they are sent to Wimbledon.

New Zealand Wool Services (WSI), which is the country’s largest wool exporter, provides the wool used in top-line tennis balls.

“The wool has to be the cream of what we produce in the way of colour and also at the top end of quality”, marketing executive Malcolm Ching said.

The company, along with two to three other New Zealand exporters, dealt with an international organisation who manufactured tennis balls for sporting corporations like Slazenger. WSI sells wool to a company that makes the covers for tennis balls, he said.

“They actually take the raw wool and turn it into a very, very fine fabric that is then attached to the rubber tennis balls.”

The high-quality of New Zealand wool made it ideal for tennis balls, Mr Ching said.

“It has a natural ability to absorb a high degree of moisture and also release that moisture again.”

The wool used was sourced from a variety of sheep breeds, he said.

Dr Mark Johnson, Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, was stunned to unearth the surprisingly long and complex journey to one of the world’s biggest sporting events.

“It is one of the longest journeys I have seen for a product,” he said.

“On the face of it, travelling more than 80,000kms to make a tennis ball does seem fairly ludicrous, but it just shows the global nature of production these days.”

However, revelations that worldfamous Kiwi wool is being bashed around centre court by Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams surprised New Zealand Slazenger.

“That’s news on me, and I’ve worked here for years,” said a woman who answered the phone at its Auckland office.

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A young couple trapped in a burning car, filling with smoke and with a high voltage power line draped over it, called their two children to say goodbye.

That was what pushed two firefighters to break the rules to get the couple out alive, the heroic pair said yesterday.

At Government House in Wellington yesterday, the Governor-General, Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae, presented Brett Delamere a Royal Humane Society of New Zealand Silver Medal and Eric Spittal a bronze medal for risking their lives to save the couple.

The couple was driving along State Highway 1 north of Oamaru in October 2008 when their car collided with a power pole. The impact brought down the live transmission line, which came to rest across the roof of the vehicle.

Power was arcing through the vehicle causing the surrounding ground to become live. Fire developed in the vehicle’s engine bay and the tyres caught light.

“I think the thing that really triggered it for me to do something about it was seeing the lady there ring her kids and then she said goodbye,” volunteer firefighter Mr Delamere said yesterday. “We had to do something.”

The first firefighter on the scene, Mr Spittal was thrown off his feet by an electric shock as he reached the car. That wasn’t enough to stop him - he then climbed under the vehicle but was forced back when electricity started arcing through his body.

Mr Spittal has never forgotten the look on the woman’s face as he was desperately trying to put out the flames with extinguishers.

“She had accepted her fate and that’s something I’ve

Royal Humane Society of NZ bravery award recipients, Station Officer Brett Delamere (left) and Rural Fire Officer Eric Spittal after receiving their medals. never been able to get out of my mind.”

With just moments before the tyres collapsed, earthing the car and putting the couple in grave danger, Mr Delamere used a fibreglass pole to lift the live line off the car. His first attempt failed, but his second was good enough to give the couple a small window of opportunity to flee the vehicle.

Mr Delamere said his technique wasn’t by the book, “but we’re all volunteers, so they can’t fire us”.

“The (fire department) wasn’t happy, but it was a perfect result.”

Also receiving a Humane Society Silver medal yesterday was Senior Constable Michael Johnston who was first on the scene where 15-year-old Dion Latta was trapped upsidedown in a waterfall in the Motatapu Gorge on New Year’s Day last year.

Dion’s foot was caught between boulders in an awkward position on the edge of a three-metre waterfall, leaving him fully submerged, but able to breathe via an air pocket.

“Friends and family were looking to me for answers and initially, I didn’t have those answers,” Mr Johnston said.

He tried numerous times to free Dion - at one stage being caught by the strong current that pushed Mr Johnston 1.5m into the deep pool of water below the waterfall.

His actions probably “bordered on insanity - you do things you wouldn’t normally do”.

But he continued because Dion was still alive. “We had to save him, bottom line.”

After three hours, Dion was eventually rescued alive but was in a critical condition, and died from hypothermia the next day in Dunedin Hospital.

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Major Rena salvage development

By Jamie Morton The huge accommodation block of the wrecked container ship Rena is to be removed, in a major development revealed by the ship’s owners and insurers yesterday.

The decision to remove the four-storey block, which contained the Rena’s crew quarters, galley, offices and bridge, has been made in advance of any move to apply for a resource consent to leave part of the ship on the seabed.

It follows concerns about the possibility the block would degrade or collapse at some time in the future and release debris that could wash up on the shoreline.

The operation, planned to start in August or September, would form another major step in a salvage operation that began when the ship grounded on Astrolabe Reef off the Tauranga coast on October 5, 2011, and has so far cost $300 million.

“Our environmental experts have not identified any environmentally harmful material in the accommodation block,” said

Captain John Owen of insurers The Swedish Club.

Any debris that might be released and eventually wash ashore would be picked up by the shoreline monitoring and clean-up process that had been put in place, he said.

“However, we understand that people do not want the uncertainty of not knowing when this might happen and how long it could go on for.

“Although there is a considerable cost to removing the accommodation section, we recognise the importance of minimising the effects on the community of the Rena grounding as much as we can.

“We appreciate that the accommodation section would have been of interest to recreational divers, and our initial approach was to consider leaving it as part of the wreck after making it safer for divers.

“However we could not tell how long it would stay in that condition before the effects of wave action and the strong currents caused it to deteriorate and become a hazard to their safety.”

The accommodation block was

More salvage work is to be carried out on the Rena to minimise the effect the wreckage would have on the environment. relatively a much lighter structure than the hull and had no direct contact with Astrolabe Reef, therefore coming with just minimal risk of causing damage to the reef, the insurers said.

US salvors Resolve Salvage and Fire, which had been tasked with cutting the ship’s bow to 1m below the shoreline, would

remove the accommodation block in two sections by means of oblique chain cutting parallel to the main deck.

The operation is expected to take up to 80 days, including 40 days allowance for poor weather and sea conditions, and cutting was expected to begin in October following the arrival of

Dampness-asthma linked

By Matthew Backhouse The world’s largest-ever study on the link between damp homes and respiratory illness has prompted calls for the Government to do more to fix the problem.

The findings of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood come as a new healthy housing campaign was launched at Parliament this week.

The study involving 46,000 children in 20 countries, including New Zealand, found living in damp or mouldy homes was associated with asthma, allergies, hayfever and eczema.

And, significantly, the findings suggest dampness itself, rather than dust mites associated with dampness, may be the problem.

Otago University health researcher Professor Julian Crane, who is part of the international research team, said the study found levels of dust mites were higher in damp homes, and children were more likely to become allergic to them in damp homes.

However, it was not the increased levels of dust mites that was associated with wheezing - it was the dampness itself.

The study also found if a child already had asthma, it was made worse by dampness and mould in the home.

Professor Crane, who is the director of Otago University’s Wellington Asthma Research Group, said the findings had significant implications for New Zealand and the current emphasis on children’s health and welfare.

“It is perhaps not surprising given this data that we have so much serious respiratory illness in children in New Zealand - we have such poor quality housing and so many children living in damp, cold, mouldy poorly heated often rented accommodation.”

He said government and health professionals had largely ignored these problems until recently, and he hoped the study would prompt further action.

The Every Child Counts healthy homes campaign, which will run until next year’s election, was launched in Thursday.

The campaign urges all political parties to ensure every child lives in

an additional crane barge from Singapore.

Once each section is cut away, it will be lifted onto a third barge for transport to Port of Tauranga. Once in port, the sections would be dismantled for scrap and, where possible, recycling.

A team of smaller craft would be stationed at the reef to collect any debris released during the removal operation, to prevent material reaching the shore.

During the dismantling phase steps will be in place to prevent any discharges into the environment.

In the meantime, the salvors would continue with the work to reduce the bow section where the ship ran aground near the highest part of the reef.

All of the bow section that was above the water line has now been removed and the aim is to reduce it down to at least 1 metre below the lowest tide mark.

Resolve was also working to recover container wreckage and other cargo from the debris field between the stern and bow sections, of which 650 tonnes have already been removed.

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Living through a wintry blast

By Alan Judge CHRISTIAN COMMENT

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A study involving 46,000 children in 20 countries, including New Zealand, found living in damp or mouldy homes was associated with asthma, allergies, hayfever and eczema. a home that is warm, dry, ventilated, safe and not overcrowded.

Every Child Counts manager Deborah Morris-Travers said housing had lacked political commitment and focus.

“We’ve left housing up to the market, and when it comes to the quality and quantity of housing in New Zealand, it’s quite clear that the market has failed.”

She said measures like insulation subsidies were a good start, but the Government needed to do more which included expanding housing health checks from state houses to include private rentals.

“Frankly, given the health costs associated with poor housing, there’s every reason for them to get on and do it, and there’s no excuse really to sit on their hands and not do more.”

Housing Minister Nick Smith agreed there was a link between cold, damp and poorly insulated homes and chronic respiratory diseases like asthma.

“This report further points to the importance of the Government’s work on a housing warrant of fitness, which

was announced as part of this year’s Budget, and I am progressing work with officials on its development.”

Dr Smith said the warrant of fitness would apply to Housing New Zealand houses and would later be extended to the community housing sector.

He said the Government had invested $420 million in a “massive programme” of private home insulation which had insulted 215,000 homes so far, with a further 46,000 homes to benefit.

Housing New Zealand had also committed to properly insulating all 69,000 state houses by the end of the year.

Dr Smith acknowledged overcrowding contributed to disease.

He said the Government would increase the number of four- and fivebedroom state homes by spending $320m on adding one extra bedroom to 1000 three-bedroom homes, and two extra bedrooms to another 1000 three-bedroom homes.

The findings of the second phase of the study have been published in the latest issue of the journal Clinical and Experimental Allergy.

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his mid-winter spell of cold weather bringing challenging conditions certainly limits our activities. There are many things we don’t feel like doing.

It’s not so easy on these frosty mornings, and wet days to get to the clothes line or the compost bin, and we even put off collecting the mail when it’s too slippery to venture outside.

It is tempting to hibernate and stay home in a form of isolation.

Yet there are occasions and experiences that attract us to abandon our hibernation and venture into the wider world, despite the weather conditions: (eg. community occasions, worship services, school events, concerts, meals with friends and neighbours etc).

I’m sure you will find on your return home, the trip to the washing line and mail box is less daunting, after the enrichment you have experienced in the wider community.

Another way you can step out of your wintry hibernation is to keep in touch with neighbours through visits and phone calls and conversations over the fence.

This has the double impact of overcoming both your own and your neighbours’ tendency towards isolation – creating a sense of community just beyond your front door.

If you are struggling to find a place in the wider community where you belong and seeking friendship and acceptance don’t overlook your local church.

There are about 20 congregations to choose from in Ashburton and more in rural communities. Churches are warm and welcoming places where you will find ordinary people with kind hearts and a love for life.

There are no tricks to joining a church, you just turn up at a service time and allow the people there to make you feel at home as they worship, sing, talk, and share a cuppa together.

Church is a good place to start when you need to grow your relationships.

Have a warm wintery season and let’s all build relationships with those around us.

Rev Alan Judge is a minister at St David’s Union Church in Allenton.

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In a time when life is getting busier and many community groups are struggling just to find members, a local organisation celebrated its 80th jubilee last week with a growing membership and plenty of achievements in the community to celebrate. Reporter GABRIELLE STUART went to the Rural Women NZ Winchmore branch jubilee to find out what kept them vibrant.

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he year was 1933.

1933 marked 40 years since Kiwi women won the right to vote, 30 years since the All Blacks played their first Test Match, and the first year that our own coins were minted, bearing a shiny New Zealand kiwi.

That year the first female Member of Parliament, Elizabeth McCombs, was elected, but it would be another 20 years before vacuum cleaners, electric washing machines and motor-powered lawnmowers were common items in Kiwi homes.

In Mid Canterbury, 1933 saw the last mostly-empty passenger trains chug their way across the Ashburton river to Mt Somers – the last year the passenger service would run in the district until the war hit and the trains returned to carry local boys away.

It was 25 years since the end

of World War One, and just six years before the next would begin.

And in the district of Winchmore, 14 ladies made a pledge to ‘meet each other face to face without self pity and without prejudice’, to try to make a difference in their community.

Noeline King was just 13 at the time, and watched her mother drive to the first afternoon meeting.

“She went with her good friend, a neighbour down the road, and her husband drove them because women didn’t drive then. One of the ladies biked quite a way to get to the meetings with her baby in a pram attached to the back, which we all thought was great.

“It was called the Women’s Branch of the Federated Farmers, and it was seen as quite the joke in those days,

Club secretary Lucille Brown was surprised with a life membership at the 80th jubilee celebrations. because of course women didn’t go to meetings.”

She joined the branch at 16 as a junior member, and said that in just a few years it became a big part of the community.

“Community was very important, and it gave us the chance

to get to know our neighbours.

We were still seeing the effects of the depression, but although we all had to work very hard everyone was happy. There were still children coming to school with no shoes, but there weren’t the pressures they faced in town and they

were happy. We had dances and card evenings, and no one would bring a plate like they do these days, we’d take a tray all piled up.”

The early days were far from easy, with World War Two beginning just six years after the group formed. From

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social evenings, dances and new babies, the focus for the women became how to make do on very little, while supporting their men overseas.

But the women of Winchmore were far from discouraged, and for both the members and the wider com-

munity the help and support of the group became even more vital.

In 1944 the president of the group, Mrs Jamison wrote the following in her president’s report: “Times weren’t easy during War, but we have proved the truth in the old saying, ‘There is great virtue in merely carrying on’.”

Far from simply carrying on, during that time the women organised fundraisers for the Red Cross, Patriotic Funds and new beds for the Ashburton maternity hospital, knitted, sewed and collected goods for the war effort, and provided hospitality to airmen staying in Canterbury on leave.

It’s a spirit that has continued in the group, which seems to be at its strongest when times are hardest, rallying to reach people isolated in the district during the big snow of 2006 and more recently, during the Canterbury earthquakes.

Current president Trish Small said it was that spirit that had held the group together through the hard years.

“The community is really the hub of all of our projects, and that is part of what keeps us vibrant.

“Our projects and functions aren’t just for our members but draw in the whole community, and that’s part of what keeps it interesting and different.”

At a time when many other community groups in the district are struggling and fewer people seem to have the time to volunteer, she said she has no answer as to why the

Winchmore Rural Women’s membership continues to rise.

“We’re very fortunate in the support we’ve had, not only in numbers but the devotion and hard work of our members. We have that energy as well as real friendship, so perhaps that’s why people are drawn to the group.”

The members are certainly willing to branch out and try new things.

“One of their recent fundraising ventures was a ruralthemed risqué calendar, organised by and starring the local ladies. The calendar raised over $26,000 towards breast cancer research, and secretary Lucille Brown said it ‘snowballed’ fast.

“We had two members who suffered from breast cancer, so because we all felt so strongly about the cause that was really what drove it. And of course it all snowballed from there, and we managed to raise an amazing amount.”

Lucille has served Wincmore Rural Women for many years, and been a member of the branch for close to 30, and this year was awarded a Life Membership at the 80-year jubilee celebrations. She said it was a huge honour.

“Without the group I wouldn’t have got to know all these amazing people. They’re there for you in the low times and there in the good times.

Honestly, every year here has been a highlight.”

And after almost 80 years as part of the group, long time member Noeline King put it simply: “I always felt as though I belonged.”

• 1933 – The Winchmore branch was started, with 14 ladies at the first meeting.

• 1935 – Community events the group organised annually included dances, the Harvest Home Ball, a Christmas function and children’s Christmas party, a branch birthday celebration and several competitions.

• 1940 – Gifts were collected each month to send to soldiers overseas.

• 1942 – A competition to find the most “useful item made from underwear” was held.

The winning item was not recorded.

• 1944 – As clothing was heavily rationed the branch hired a dressmaker to help local mothers with large families, at 12 shillings and sixpence a day.

• 1947 – The Christmas dance was postponed, due to ‘Infantile Epidemic’.

• 1951 – Trees were planted at the community hall grounds, many of which still stand today.

• 1954 – The branch’s 21st birthday was celebrated with a new embroidered table cloth, designed by the Arts students at Canterbury University and sewn by the branch members.

• 1961 – To ‘widen their horizons’, nine members took part in a tour of North Auckland, travelling by air and by coach.

• 1964 – The group sponsored a child in Germany, Dieter Vogel, sending him letters, parcels and a knitted jersey, cap and mittens.

• 1967 – Funds were raised to purchase a piano for the community hall, and several members collected and donated chairs.

• 1973 – A record $270 was raised by the members in one evening. Through a garden party, activity evenings and catering for several events, funds were raised for Leptospirosis, cot death research and flood relief

in Southland, Nelson and Marlborough.

• 1987 – The branch hosted cooking demonstrator Mrs Gwen Kerr, who spent an evening teaching techniques for using ‘one of the latest cooking aids’, the microwave.

• 1980 – As a community fundraiser the ladies catered for several events including the Big Herds Conference, where 260 meals were prepared and served. Several of the meals had to be prepared in cow sheds, where fuses kept blowing from the unusually high power usage.

• 1988 – A junior Debutante Ball was held for children aged four to10 years, complete with gowns, flowers and partners.

• 1990 – The first Youth Nights were held, where young people from the district were invited to speak about their studies and career plans.

• 1993 – Branch members participated in Women’s Suffrage Day, held at the Windermere Homestead.

• 1994 – Branch member Sandra Curd represented the group at a Farming for the Future conference in Melbourne.

• 1996 – A submission was made to council for West Street parking.

• 1997 – The neighbourhood watch programme was set up.

• 2004 – A car boot sale and auction was held, raising $6500 towards painting the Winchmore Hall.

• 2006 – Food parcels were made up and distributed to farmers isolated in the June snow.

• 2007 – Winchmore branch organised a fundraising calendar for Breast Cancer research, raising $26,201.36.

• 2011 – Joined the relief effort after the Canterbury earthquakes, with several members travelling to Christchurch to feed workers helping in the clean up, and others donating food.

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John (Santa) Key apparently can do no wrong Coen Lammers editor

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ome of you watching the announcement of Christchurch’s rebuild plans this week, may have noticed Prime Minister John Key’s intriguing body language.

Sitting between mayor Bob Parker and minister Gerry Brownlee, the prime minister was hanging on his chair like a teenage skateboarder at a high school presentation.

Utterly relaxed, bordering on disinterested, the leader of the nation watched another big government public relations boost being rolled out as he told Cantabrians how much money he was going to put towards their new big projects.

A day after giving Aucklanders what they wanted, a major injection to pay for a new rail link, New Zealand’s closest thing to Santa headed south to put smiles on Canterbury faces with taxpayers’ money.

Labour leader David Shearer may have also noticed Mr Key’s big grin, trying to figure out how his nemesis continues to sail through some rough political waters without suffering any major damage.

In fact, the latest opinion poll this week had Labour slumping to a concerning 30.9 per cent support while National’s numbers had improved to 48.8 per cent.

Earlier in the year, Mr Shearer seemed to have some real momentum, teaming up with the Greens, to announce their policy for cheaper power.

The spike, however, seems to have faded quickly and the opposition is unable to make any inroads into Mr Key’s popularity.

And this despite the maligned state asset sales, the Kim Dotcom debacle, the bungled Christchurch school restructure, the numerous leaks of private information by several government departments and the Novopay disaster.

It must be driving Labour Party strategists crazy. Even they concede that Mr Key is a political enigma and don’t understand why Kiwis just “like the bloke”.

But it must be more than Mr Key’s easy-going demeanour. Mr Shearer may not be as smooth and eloquent as the prime minister, but New Zealanders would respond if he would offer strong alternatives to the current administration.

Saying that, it is hard to beat a man who plays the public like few other elected figures and seems to have a natural instinct for what’s important to them. This week’s announcements were text-book gems on how to win over your audience and keep detractors quiet.

Labour needs to regroup and have a good look at all its options, including the leadership, if it wants to seriously challenge for power in 2014.

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hen a Topp Twin offers you the chance to shoulder a 45kg boar around an obstacle course, there can only really be one answer.

At last weekend’s Mid Canterbury hunting competition, that answer was yes. Off came the floral jumper, on came Horace the pig, and we were off.

Wearing a boar as a backpack certainly gives new meaning to the term ‘piggy- back’. It’s also a darn sight harder than it looks, as I found out at the first turn.

I was all set to go around the corner. Horace, it seems, had other plans, and momentum was on his side. After going very wide we struggled up the hill and down the straight to the halfway mark and around the cone. So far, so good.

Falling to my knees on the brow of the final hill, I momentarily disappeared inside of Horace, but a pat on the nose saw him get back into line and we crossed the finish in the second fastest time, complete with several more bruises than we’d started out with.

I was surprised to learn that this was not a one-off event, but one that youngsters begin training for before they are even old enough to say ‘Captain Cooker’.

The precursor to the ladies event had seen a host of small children running round a miniature obstacle course with a dead wallaby or hare slung over their shoulders.

They get them started on pest

control young down this way, that’s for sure.

It was also the first time that I had seen camouflage gear in action.

Boys who wear a mottled print around town tend to stand out more than anything else, but at this hunting competition the number of people sporting khaki hunting and fishing clothing made it appear as if a forest had suddenly taken root in the hotel car park.

If it wasn’t for the coffee cart line spoiling the forest ambience, the deer and tahr could’ve still been at home in the hills.

While they were not green, my gumboots and thermals were put to good use, helping me to blend in amongst the crowd.

Then came prizegiving. The question “where are you from” is usually quite benign, and when the reply is Hinds or Hakatere, people are not likely to bat an eyelid.

My answer of Auckland, however, caused a collective intake of breath so sharp that I wouldn’t be surprised if it affected the air pressure enough to show up on the national weather radar.

What was the world coming to when an Aucklander could out piggy-back everyone but an Irish vet?

As shocked as my mother may be by my latest sporting prowess, at least I can confidently tell her that I can not only stand on my own two feet with a pig in tow, I can also bring home the bacon to boot.

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straight grand slams. The streak began at Wimbledon in 2004 but was finally snapped at the same tournament when the 116thranked Ukrainian won a secondround contest 6-7, 7-6, 7-5, 7-6.

Steven Adams wears a massive size 19 shoe. The 2.13m centre was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder yesterday after only one season at the University of Pittsburgh. He’s a raw tal- With a 3-0 win over ent but he became the first New Nigeria in the Confederations Zealander to be taken in the first Cup on Monday, Spain set a round of the draft. new world record for a 28-match - Only two balls were bowled unbeaten run in competitive fixtures. And they extended that in the second Twenty20 cricket record, which dates back to the match between New Zealand and England at The Oval yester- opening game of the 2010 World Cup, with a penalty shootout day. The game was the shortest victory over Italy in the semiplayed in terms of balls bowled finals. and it meant the Black Caps took the series 1-0 after they - The second State of Origin won the opener on Wednesday by game between New South Wales five runs. and Queensland turned in to a

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farce on Wednesday when four players were sent to the sin bin following a “brawl”. Trent Merrin sparked a melee that saw him, NSW team-mate Greg Bird and Maroons Brent Tate and Justin Hodges given a rest.

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- Australian rugby coach Robbie Deans has retained James O’Connor to wear the No 10 jersey when his side meet the British and Irish Lions in their must-win test match in Melbourne on Saturday night. The Lions, who won the opener 23-21 in Brisbane last week, made five changes to their run-on side.

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Aaron Hernandez may have joined a select, notorious list, having been charged with murder while still an active athlete, but his arrest was less rare. Since this year’s Super Bowl, in February, Hernandez is just one of 28 NFL players arrested in the US.

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- After 11 years, 75 tests, 19 Twenty20s and 181 ODIs as part of the ICC elite umpiring panel, New Zealand’s Billy Bowden was given the crooked finger this week. The 50-yearold has been dropped for the 2013-14 year, having long been considered among the world’s best umpires.

victors. That saw the Magic edge the Firebirds by half a percentage point and earn a home semi.

100,000

- The Miami Heat had good reason to toast their success, beating the San Antonio Spurs in seven games to clinch back-to-back NBA titles.

And the Heat celebrated in style, racking up a US$100,000 champagne bill at Story Nightclub in Miami, the entirety of which was picked up by the bar’s owner.

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- Needing to beat the Northern Mystics by 25 goals to snatch third place ahead of the ANZ Championship playoffs, the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic did the job on Monday and ran out 68-40

Q & A: Brett Gosper

By APNZ staff

60 seconds with International Rugby Board CEO Brett Gosper Q: Brett, you’re in Moscow

for the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens, but there’ll be plenty on that tournament in the coming days. I want to know what it was like playing in pink bow-ties and sipping champagne at halftime in your days with the Racing club in France?

A: We first wore those in the 1987 final [against southernbased Toulon] and again when we won in 1990 [against southern-based Agen]. It grew out of the idea in the south of France that anyone who played in Paris was somehow “a pansy”. So the backs played on it and kept pulling these stunts. One game we wore Bermuda shorts, another game we rode onto the field on bicycles and there was another where black face paint was applied.

Q: A few of their other antics are legendary too, like wearing berets for an entire match and that tray of champagne and

Standout captions from last week’s odd pictures

glasses being carried out during the 1990 final. What was it like being part of the backline creativity with former French back Franck Mesnel and the rest of the gang known as Le Show Bizz?

A: Yes, Franck and a few of the other guys became shareholders in the Eden Park brand [named after the venue for the first World Cup which Mesnel played in]. It’s been a great success and reflects the fact they always played with a sense of fun.

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“Hello! What’s your name?”

as you sum up the situation.

Q: It all sounds quite Don Draper. What’s some of the work you’re most proud of in the advertising industry?

A: I managed to author the “Let’s make things better” line for Philips as well as Tag Heuer’s “Don’t crack under pressure”. I just loved working on the interesting brands, they helped fill my experience reservoir.

Q: Speaking of such reservoirs, you have a rare record against the All Blacks, having played them in two countries, for Victoria on the 1980 tour and for French Barbarians selection in 1986?

A: Yes, and I never beat them.

However, those sorts of experiences help give you a feel for the game and understand its technicalities and its passions. It is not essential in my position but it is a big help when connecting with people in all walks of rugby life.

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Q: You must’ve always had your own sense of creativity working for big advertising firms like McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather. How have you related that to rugby?

A: I’ve always loved rugby’s ethos because it’s so heavily weighted towards character building. The advertising experience takes you into

“Listen darling, you look delightful, but I’ve told you before, ball tampering just isn’t cricket”.

a lot of boardrooms where you have to quickly work out what the people there stand for, and what they want to achieve. It’s like you’re using shorthand with your eyes

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* * * * “You live and die by the sword ... the disappointing thing is I thought we were nearly there to cracking it, I really do.” - Sacked Australian cricket coach MICKEY ARTHUR.

* * * * “The timing is far from ideal but we didn’t feel we could sit back and hope matters would change.” - Cricket Australia CEO JAMES SUTHERLAND after sacking coach Arthur just 16 days before the first Ashes Test.

* * * * “It was a bit of a fizzer to be honest ... It just looked all a bit sterile, pedestrian.” - Former NSW enforcer LUKE O’DONNELL on the brawl in State of Origin game two.

* * * * “Seriously? This ain’t netball!” Sydney Roosters star SONNY BILL WILLIAMS tweets his disdain over the decision to sin-bin four Origin players over the melee.

* * * * “That was George, wasn’t it?” South Sydney coach MICHAEL MAGUIRE, when asked to compare Rabbitohs debutant Tom Burgess to suspended twin brother George, who he replaced in Monday’s match against the Eels.

* * * * “I wanted to run faster, because you get the adrenaline from watching the females run.” American athlete TYSON GAY after running 9.75s, the best time in the world this year, to win the 100m at the US athletics championships.

* * * * “I cried like a little girl.” Flamboyant German qualifier DUSTIN BROWN after beating Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt in the second round at Wimbledon.

“I just lost my way a little bit.”

- HEWITT after bowing out of his 15th straight Wimbledon campaign.

* * * * “I’m an upcoming player that’s doing well and they have to be supporting me and to see what they’re doing towards me is not good.” - BERNARD TOMIC slams the ATP over its ban on his father and coach, John.

* * * * “Overall I think I’ve been playing actually not so bad, like some have portrayed it. Season’s not over here.” - ROGER FEDERER insists his tennis career is not over despite crashing out of Wimbledon.

* * * * “She begins every interview with ‘I’m so happy. I’m so lucky’ - it’s so boring.” - SERENA WILLIAMS takes a catty swipe at Maria Sharapova.

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Huge fine for ‘deliberate deception’

By Jonathan Leask Mid Canterbury’s most recent opponent has landed in hot water in the latest scandal to hit Mainland Football’s division one competition.

Earlier in the season Universities were stripped of their competition points and ejected from the Chatham Cup for fielding an ineligible player, and now Waimak United has been fined $4000 for ‘’a deliberate course of deception’’ and has had a senior player suspended for 10 playing days by Mainland Football.

The punishments relate to an incident after the match

between Waimak United and Universities on May 18 where referee Marc Anderson, formerly of Ashburton, was pushed after the game.

Waimak’s Brad Stewart has been stood down effective immediately and the club has been hit with the largest fine in the football federation’s 13-year history, after the club was found guilty of deceit.

Stewart had initially been banned for nine months, Waimak coach Dave Lay was suspended for two weeks and the club stripped of three competition points before the club had appealed the penalties.

Waimak club officials provided written statements claim-

ing that Stewart was inside the dressing room at the time Anderson was accosted, while Ben Thomas was identified as the player responsible and suspended for six months and Stewart’s nine-month ban was scrapped.

However, the disciplinary committee then viewed video footage supplied by Universities, who film all their matches, and as a result Waimak was requested to answer a second charge, of attempting to mislead the committee.

The footage showed Stewart was present at the time of the incident with the referee, not in the dressing room as claimed by the Waimak officials.

The disciplinary committee met during the week and found that “the appellants embarked on a deliberate course of deception, before the panel, at the appeal hearing” and were guilty of a serious breach of the New Zealand Football and Mainland Football codes of conduct.

Waimak has the right to appeal against the latest decision and penalties to New Zealand Football. Universities had appealed their punishment earlier this season.

They were docked the ill-gotten 13 points and an additional 15 points for every game the unregistered player had played, but had the 15 points restored after an appeal.

Chiefs get the job done

By Patrick McKendry

Aaron Cruden: Kicked 14 points

A rusty performance, this, from the Chiefs, but as we have seen so often over the past couple of years, it was enough to get the job done, and in the end it was surprisingly easy.

The Hurricanes too played their part in this entertaining match at Waikato Stadium last night which marked the resumption of Super Rugby.

It was a match which featured seven tries, but plenty more excitement. Beauden Barrett’s match-up against Aaron Cruden was a cracker, the Hurricanes man probably shading it, and the battle between halfbacks TJ Perenara and Tawera KerrBarlow was another highlight.

When the dust settled it was the Chiefs who had claimed five competition points - Ben Tamifuna’s late try amidst a mass of bodies

giving them a bonus. The bald facts are they have overtaken the Brumbies to sit atop the competition ladder and are guaranteed a home qualifier place at least.

They will improve on this performance, though, and their next match at Waikato Stadium isn’t likely to be until the end of July when they host a semi-final.

The Chiefs were like a misfiring Ferrari. They sure looked the part, but their problems could have been costly.

Possession was lost too often, allowing the dangerous Hurricanes backs, with Julian Savea in top form, too much space. Conrad Smith, the returning All Blacks’ centre, was also a tireless worker.

Tackles were also missed.

There were uncharacteristic mistakes, but it would be churlish to dwell too much on them given the Chiefs’ inactivity for the past month.

Kerr-Barlow’s try in the second half - disputed due to replacement flanker Sam Cane’s obstruction of a defender knocked the stuffing out of the Hurricanes. Cruden’s conversion put the score out to 27-15.

The Hurricanes had the better start - Perenara’s superior body position allowing him to reach the line under Liam Messam, a try which owed much to Jeremy Thrush’s composure on the wing when fielding a high cross-kick from Barrett. Catch made, under pressure from Tikoirotuma, the new All Blacks’ lock did well to stay in-field and carry on his surge for the line.

Alapati Leiua’s late try was a good reward for the Hurricanes.

Chiefs 34 (Matt Vant Leven, Bundee Aki, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Ben Tameifuna tries; Aaron Cruden 4 cons, 2 pens) bt Hurricanes 22 (TJ Perenara, Beauden Barrett, Alapati Leiua tries; Barrett 2 cons, pen). HT: 17-15.

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Enjoying life as the leader again

By Kris Shannon Simon Mannering already knew what it was like to lead a streaking side but, after the last 18 months, it must have been awfully difficult to recall.

After being installed as club captain for 2010, Mannering’s Warriors enjoyed five-game winning runs in that campaign and again the following season, marks which matched the team’s third-best streak in their 19-year history.

The Warriors will again reach that figure with victory over the Broncos tomorrow, a feat which felt a long way off just a month ago.

Coming off the disastrous 2012 season which saw Brian McClennan depart, Mannering’s captaincy was in question when new coach Matt Elliott arrived at Mt Smart.

Even when his reign was eventually confirmed to continue, Mannering’s team didn’t exactly come bursting out of the blocks, with an indifferent start culminating in the infamous hammering at the hands of the Panthers.

But with the Warriors righting the ship and, in the process, saving what looked like another lost season, Mannering is again

in charge of a satisfied and successful side.

And that has made his job, both as captain and player, inordinately easier.

“When you’re winning footy games, you’re obviously doing something right, and as a captain you don’t really need to worry about too much,” he said.

“Everyone is doing their job and that’s how you get a result each week.

“Within my role, it makes things a lot simpler. Obviously there’s a lot more confidence going around the team when guys are playing good football, so it almost comes second nature to them that they’re there to do a job.

“It doesn’t have to be drilled into them as much.”

Mannering did have to double as a drill sergeant earlier this season, and he had plenty of opportunities to issue rebukes under the posts against the Panthers in May. And although it’s hard to quantify the impact of a captain when a team twists 180 degrees, like the Warriors have managed over the last month, his steady hand must have been a factor.

With that in mind, and with four consecutive wins now under his belt, Mannering was ada-

mant he would have done nothing differently as captain when the Warriors reached a nadir.

“Not too much would’ve changed from me when we were losing. I know there’s sometimes a bit of stigma around the captain and what they’re doing, but it’s more about everyone doing their job within the team.

“You try to do your best to help out around that area but it doesn’t matter if you’ve got the best captain in the world - if the team isn’t playing well as individuals and collectively then you’re not going to win footy games.”

The Warriors will be aiming to continue their winning ways

against Brisbane at Mt Smart Stadium tomorrow afternoon, a team they beat 56-18 just four weeks ago.

Mannering is hardly expecting five in a row to come easily, especially with the Broncos’ Origin contingent returning after missing the Warriors’ big win, but the streak is insignificant to him, anyway.

“It wasn’t like, after the Penrith game, we went, ‘right, we need to win these next four’,” he said.

“The guys aren’t looking at some streak, it’s just a matter of continuing on and getting results.

“Because we’re still down near the bottom of the table and there’s still a long way to go.”

That sentiment remains, even though the Warriors are just two points outside the eight.

If they do reach the end of that long road, it would be no surprise for their leader to have been largely respon- APNZ sible.

Simon Mannering

• Webber quitting F1 At 36, Mark Webber concedes age and impending rule changes in Formula One were major factors in his decision to quit the sport. But the veteran of 203 Grands Prix made up his mind a long time ago and says he is now one happy boy. The Red Bull driver will switch to sportscar racing with Porsche from 2014, in a category that nearly cost him his life 15 years ago. Webber dismissed claims his strained relationship with Sebastian Vettel had pushed him out the door, saying several factors persuaded him to leave - AAP - including his age.

• Solid start for Ko World No 1 amateur golfer Lydia Ko has made an assured start to the US Open Championship in Southampton, New York yesterday. The 16-year-old, from Gulf Harbour Country Club, has opened with an even-par 72 at the Sebonack Golf Club to be in a share of 28th place after round one of the year’s third major. The World No 16 will begin round two six shots back from South Korean Ha-Neul Kim who opened with a six-under 66 to lead by one stroke from World No 1 Inbee Park. Ko made three birdies and a bogey on the outward nine to make the turn in two-under 33 but faded on the - APNZ back nine.

• Erakovic in third round New Zealand tennis No 1 Marina Erakovic won through to the third round of the Wimbledon singles with a quality win against Peng Shuai of China yesterday.

Erakovic defeated the 24th seed Shuai 7-6 (6), 6-2 to match her best showing at the All England Club in 2008, when she became the first New Zealander since Belinda Cordwell in 1988 to reach the third round. The Kiwi hit 24 winners against the Chinese player and served six aces in what was a solid effort on court number two. - APNZ

• Tests for equestrians New Zealand jumping selectors are hoping for a little outof-season joy when senior and young rider teams take on the Australians in official tests later this year. It will be the first time since 2005 that the Trans Tasman Trophy is contested on Australian soil. Olympian and World Champs rider Samantha McIntosh (Cambridge) will be joined by World Cup campaigners Ross Smith (Canterbury) and Lisa Coupe (Kumeu), with rising young star Luke Dee (Ocean Beach) rounding out the four in the senior team. - APNZ

• Gallen still hopeful NSW skipper Paul Gallen isn’t giving up hope of playing in the State of Origin decider, despite battling a foot injury that could sideline him for up to five weeks. Scans have revealed Gallen suffered a partial tear of the plantar fascia tissue in the arch of his left foot in the final minutes of Origin II on Wednesday. It’s understood the injury could rule the Sharks captain out for three to five weeks. A Cronulla spokesman said the full extent of the damage would not be known for another seven days, once swelling around the foot had reduced. - AAP

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Jesse eyes the big-time

By Jonathan Leask

Jesse is the youngest of three brothers who are all playing high level rugby.

Older brother Todd is also based in Christchurch playing for the University Club, but has been injured this season, while his oldest brother Sam is playing for Darfield this year and has been named in the Ellesmere squad to potentially play against the Mid Canterbury XV at Kirwee on Wednesday.

Jesse Houston is making a name for himself in one of the top rugby schools in the country.

Houston moved from Mt Hutt College to Christchurch Boys’ High School this year, and the year 11 student has featured for the defending champion 1st XV in the Crusaders Secondary School competition, drawing comparison to another former Mid Canterbury alumni All Black Adam Thompson.

A distinguished athlete, he made an immediate impression at the school with record-breaking performances in the school’s athletic sports, setting a new triple jump record and taking out most of

the running events to be the under 16 champion, but quickly made an impression on the rugby field catching the eye of the 1st XV coach Mike Drury.

“He was first noticed for his outstanding work rate playing for his under 16 team in our pre-season tournament at CBHS,” Drury said.

“He appeared a wiry, hardworking type and looked to have a certain “x-factor” about him.”

He was initially selected into the school’s under 16 A side but after the 1st XV suffered a spate of injuries Drury decided to take a punt on the youngster.

“We decided to take a punt on this young man who had impressed some as looking like another good Mid Canterbury lad of the past in Adam Thomson.

“Jesse has done a fine job, whether it be playing as a 7 or 8, or on the wing.

“His passion and enthusiasm are without question and he has amazing fitness and resilience for someone of such a tender age.”

Houston is the only year 11 in the first XV and was content at the start of the season with pushing for a place in the under 16 a side.

“They had a few injuries after their Australian tour so I got asked to turn up to training and play Shirley Boys in the first game, where I played on the blindside,” Houston said.

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“At the start I didn’t really know if I was in the team or just filling in, but I played a few games in the loose forwards before a winger broke his collarbone for the big match against Christ’s College I started on the wing.”

Houston was then moved to the bench as wing cover against St Thomas the following week but another injury in the loose forwards has had him move back into the forward playing at number eight, coming a long way in a short space of time.

“I was playing under 16 club rugby and turned up with the goal to make the under 16 As. “I knew the rugby was going to be a step up and found that it was a lot faster and more structured with much bigger boys, and the game is tidier.

“Playing 1st XV is another huge step up for me, because I probably have the height but don’t have the build yet.”

Houston is now immersed in the 1st XV and the side’s goal of defending their title, with rivals St Bede’s looking like their main competition.

On Tuesday he chalked up his seventh game in a 16-15 loss to Wellington College meaning he earned his 1st XV cap, a rare feat for a year 11 at the prestigious rugby school.

“You have to play seven

games to get your cap and every couple of years a year 11 gets a cap, but not too many people have done it.”

Of the few to have achieved the feat in recent memory are All Black Aaron Mauger, Super rugby players Nasi Manu and Tim Bateman and former New Zealand secondary schools’ captain Mason Pomare as well as current 1st XV player Steve Misa.

Houston could be in line to follow a former CBHS openside flanker Matt Todd, who made his All Black debut against France last Saturday, the prestigious school’s 45th All Black.

Houston has aspirations to make rugby a career and sees sevens as a pathway to that.

He is lucky enough to have mentoring from another Mid Canterbury product out of CBHS, New Zealand sevens representative Mark Jackman, who will be coaching a CBHS sevens team later this year.

“After Boys’ High I’ll definitely go to university, probably Lincoln where I’ll hopefully get a rugby scholarship but I’ll stick with rugby and give it a real good go.

“I’m thinking sevens.

“Jackman is going to coach a sevens team here at the end of the year so I’m going to give sevens a good go and then after school I’ll give rugby and sevens a good go.

“It’s a bit of a pathway to travelling round the world and then potentially the Super 15.”

Crusaders wary of southern trap

By Patrick McKendry

The news last night that more than 4000 extra seats have been made available for tonight’s Highlanders match against the Crusaders in Dunedin should add to the alarm bells ringing in the visitors’ camp.

The Highlanders will fancy this match, and so, clearly, do their supporters.

An extra stand at Forsyth Barr Stadium has been opened - one of the end stands is usually closed during university holidays - such is the demand for the final home game of a wretched season for Jamie Joseph’s men.

Ticket sales have reached 17,000, with the additional seating bringing capacity to 22,600.

Key to the quiet confidence likely to be circulating among the Highlanders is the forward pack which Todd Blackadder has named for the Crusaders.

The front row of Joe Moody, Ben Funnell and Nepo Laulala will not worry the likes of Tony Woodcock, Andrew Hore and Ma’afu Fia excessively.

In fact, it may have provoked a feeling akin to a delicious sense of anticipation.

Tough nuts Woodcock and Hore will be going all out to intimidate the youngsters opposite them, the oldest of whom is 24-year-old Moody.

Returning All Blacks loosehead Wyatt Crockett has been named on the reserves bench, along with No8 Kieran Read and lock Luke Romano.

Brad Thorn and Josh Bekhuis, the Highlanders locks, will feel they have a point or two to prove against their Crusaders’ coun-

terparts Sam Whitelock and Tom Donnelly.

Experienced hooker Corey Flynn is also on the bench for the Crusaders.

Although two of Joseph’s returning All Blacks Aaron Smith and Ma’a Nonu also have bench roles to start with, it is the inexperience of the Crusaders forwards which could cause Blackadder’s men the most problems.

Crockett, Read and Romano have had big workloads over the past three weeks against the French, and Blackadder has to juggle their return with the knowledge that his men will be facing two massive matches over the next two weeks in the Chiefs and

Brad Thorn

Hurricanes in Christchurch.

A place in the top six is at stake.

The danger is that the Highlanders will use Blackadder’s selections as motivation - a sign of disrespect and we saw a month ago against the Blues how they can perform when they are firing.

They smashed Sir John Kirwan’s men all around the park that night, putting the game almost beyond doubt at halftime 29-7 before winning 38-28.

No amount of halftime substitutions could have saved the Blues that night.

Playing for something tangible in the Gordon Hunter Trophy clearly helped to do the trick, and, if they can reach similar heights tonight, there may be no way back for the Crusaders, even if they do have Dan Carter and Israel Dagg in the backline.

The Crusaders have struggled in Dunedin in recent years.

They lost under the roof last season amidst the farce of the overly quick stadium clock, and in 2009 at Carisbrook lost 6-0 in what was a terrible spectacle.

In their first meeting this season back in April the Crusaders were the victors 24-8.

They weren’t entirely convincing then and the feeling is they will need to be near their best tonight.

Heavy artillery will be needed, and the Crusaders will start the match having already conceded a physical and mental advantage to a team who know they have only two Super 15 matches to play after this one.

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Tough task for Blues

By Kris Shannon

If the Blues do emerge from a brutal final three weeks and eventually squeeze into the Super 15 playoffs, they certainly will have earned their place.

And the biggest challenge they will face in the remainder of the campaign could come against the lowest-ranked team - the encounter with the Sharks in Durban on Sunday morning.

Although the Cheetahs (away) and Chiefs (home) present tougher tests on paper, the Blues have several factors going against them heading into tomorrow morning’s must-win game.

Key pair Keven Mealamu and Rene Ranger will begin on the bench after arriving late in the Republic following All Blacks

duty, while lock Culum Retallick is suffering from illness and has been bracketed with Kane Barrett among the substitutes.

“It was really important that these guys [Mealamu and Ranger] got home after they’d been with the All Blacks so today will be our first training run together since the players left,” coach Sir John Kirwan said.

“It’s probably not the most ideal preparation but we’ve planned for it and we understood how it was going to be.”

Exacerbating the poor preparation is the uncertainty surrounding the health of Nelson Mandela, with the former Prime Minister’s potential passing raising the prospect of a 10-day official mourning period and throwing into doubt every sporting fixture in the country.

Sitting eighth overall and

third in the New Zealand conference, three points behind the Crusaders, the Blues really need to put the distractions to one side if they wish to completely exorcise the demons from last year’s nightmarish campaign by snatching a playoff place.

But it’s not all bad news for the Blues’ prospects.

The Sharks’ unlikely push for the playoffs has seen Kiwi coach John Plumtree fired this week, providing the South African side a distraction matching anything encountered by their opposition.

And the Blues will also be boosted by a milestone match for captain Ali Williams, who will join an illustrious group of players to have notched 100 games for the franchise, something Kirwan hopes will inspire his side.

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Some reports say he decided to declare for the draft to give financial support to his Steven Adams has become parents and 17 siblings. the first Kiwi basketball playAdams said he was happy er to be picked in the first to go to the franchise. round of the NBA draft.

“It feels amazing eh.

The 2.13m (7ft) centre from “All the New Zealand family Rotorua was selected by was just rooting for OKC. the Oklahoma City Thunder “So I’m pretty happy that (OKC) with the 12th pick of I’m ending up in OKC.” the draft yesterday afterESPN analyst Bill Simmons noon. said Adams could be a future He will play alongside difference-maker for the superstars Kevin Durant and Thunder.

Russell Westbrook.

“This is an energy guy...

Adams, the brother of Everybody loves his personOlympic shotput champion ality. People were talking Valerie Adams, is only the about him like he was Eddie second Kiwi player to be Murphy circa 1983.” selected in the NBA draft Sean Marks was the last and the first to go in its first Kiwi player to be drafted into round of 30 picks. the NBA. He was selected by He revealed a New Zealand the New York Knicks with flag sewn on the inside of his the 44th pick in 1998. suit and thanked his Kiwi Sharpshooter Kirk Penny fans during a post-selection was not drafted but played interview with ESPN. brief stints in the NBA for “Thank you for all the sup- the Miami Heat and the Los port guys and I’m pretty Angeles Clippers. much doing it as a Kiwi, Earlier, the draft got off to man. Always,” he said. a shocking start, with the The Oklahoma City Cleveland Cavaliers pickThunder are championship ing power forward Anthony contenders, with a talented Bennett at number one. roster built around a transCentre Nerlens Noel, who cendent scorer in Durant. was seen as a virtual lock to However they are weak at go number one overall, fell to the centre position, where the New Orleans Pelicans at they start fading defensive number six. specialist Kendrick Perkins He was then traded to the and bring useful-but-limited Philadelphia 76ers for star journeyman Nick Collison off point guard Jrue Holiday the bench. and a 2014 first round pick.

Adams will receive a startShooting guard Victor ing salary of at least NZ$2.2 Oladipo went to the Orlando million in his first year, risMagic at number two ing to $2.4 million in 2015. and hometown favourite

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Otto Porter went to the Washington Wizards at number three.

It’s hard to think how the 2013 Draft could have panned out better for Adams’ long-term career.

The 19-year-old is now part of an NBA franchise, he’s at one of the league’s most impressive clubs.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are a team on the verge of a huge upswing, with stars Westbrook and Durant at the peak of their careers.

The team are considered a championship contender next season.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they do get a championship next year, because their programme is really good,” says Adams.

“All I’m going to do is just be super supportive and help out in any way I can, even if it’s just being on the bench, staying positive with the boys, just training hard and competing with them.

“If that leads to a championship, I’ll do it.

“I’ll do anything to win a championship.

“That’s the main goal for the whole organisation.

“We’re all going to be on the same boat preparing for the same thing.”

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Inter Celts’ Troy Wilson attempts at a steal on Longbeach Lakers’ Dylan Talbot during the boys’ B grade final of the Mid Canterbury Intermediate Grade Basketball competition last night. After a close start the Celts came away with a 33-16 win. The A grade girls’ final then had the Robilliard Rebels edge out the Ball Bashers 28-24 before in the boys’ A grade final George and Co came out on top of Taste of Thunder 39-33. After the conclusion of the finals the rest of the league’s awards were dished out, with the most valuable player awards going to Api Terekia in the girls and Fletcher Arnold in the boys.

The most improved girls’ teams were the CPT survivors and the St Joseph’s Jazz with the Saints and Thunder getting the nod in the boys. Individually the most improved Year 7 girl was Mollie Gibson, most improved year 7 boy was Angus Mears, Eman DeCampo was the most improved Year 8 boy and Sophie Beveridge most improved Year 8 girl.

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Basketball Mid Canterbury

Capital mission for U15s Mid Canterbury has provided five of the 10 young talented basketballers in the Canterbury Country Under 15 boys team.

The side will head to Wellington in the second week of the July school holidays for the national age-group tournament, which will be held in the capital city’s new ASB centre at Kilbirnie. The facility boasts 12 indoor basketball courts.

Canterbury Country will join other South Island sides from Otago, Southland, Canterbury Metro and Tasman at the tournament from July 24-27 and test their skills against the best 20 teams from throughout New Zealand.

Four pools of five will play off for spots in the quarterfinals, leading into the semis and championship final.

Western Bartlett, Gareth Hunt, Thomas O’Brien, Liam O’Connor and Alin Onicas were selected for the initial squad in early March, attending weekly skills sessions and fortnightly, full-day training sessions since.

Two squad teams attended a tournament which was held on Queen’s Birthday weekend in Christchurch, and from that weekend the final team of 10

players was selected.

The five Mid Canterbury boys join five from North Canterbury, all continuing to train in the final leadup to the nationals in a few weeks’ time.

It is the first time Mid, North and South Canterbury have combined in this format for the age-group tournament.

Head coach for Canterbury Country U15 boys is South

Canterbury’s Julian Dale, with assistant coach Cam Chalmers from North Canterbury.

Mid Canterbury’s Eru TahuriCooper was also named as nontravelling reserve.

The local boys wish to thank the community for their support as they raise funds to assist them in their journey and assure all they will put in 100 per cent at the nationals.

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Infant formula market booms

By Jamie Gray Infant formula is clearly where the action is on the international dairy markets.

Up until now, about 92 per cent of Synlait Milk’s earnings have have come from the ingredients side of the business – specialised wholemilk and skim milk powders – with just 8 per cent coming from the nutritional products and infant formula.

While Synlait Milk is gearing up its business to take advantage of the sharp increase in demand for formula, the company is not getting too carried away.

Synlait Milk chief executive John Penno said much of the hype surrounding infant formula, including reports of product smuggled into China, showed the market had gone “a bit crazy”.

“What has happened is that you’ve had this huge demand growth in China over the last five years as they’ve gone from 70 per cent local production to 70 per cent based on imports,” Penno said in an interview.

The market dynamics surrounding China are compelling but Penno said Synlait, which is planning an initial public offer and share market listing for next month, is wary of putting all its eggs in one basket.

China delivers 20 million babies a year. Urbanisation is taking place on a large scale and

there is pressure is on Chinese mothers to rejoin the workforce soon after giving birth, often leaving the grandparents to do the child minding – hence the increased formula demand.

It doesn’t stop there. Children aged three to five years often carry on consuming formulated milk products in preference to the domestic fresh milk supply.

Penno says the China infant formula story is exciting, but Synlait Milk is taking a measured approach as it seeks to expand its presence in infant formula.

As its stands, half of Synlait Milk’s revenue comes from Asia and about half of that comes from China.

He says China’s role in mak-

Rangatira the big investor in Tuatara Brewing

By Jonathan Underhill Rangatira has emerged as the biggest shareholder in Tuatara Brewing after the Wellington-based investment company bought new and existing shares to build a 35 per cent stake in the boutique brewer.

Rangatira is understood to have invested about $5 million in Tuatara, whose current range of 10 beers include a Pilsner, APA and London Porter.

That would value the Wellingtonbased brewer at about $14.3 million.

Updated records at the Companies Office show Vasta Brewing, owned by Tuatara founder Carl Vasta, sold 34,595 shares, reducing its holding to 29.5 per cent from 45 per cent.

Co-founder Sean Murrie’s The Malthouse Ltd, which runs a bar on Wellington’s Courtenay Place, reduced its holding to 24.7 per cent from 38 per cent.

The six smaller existing investors all sold down the stakes.

Crafts beers account for only about 5 per cent of all beer produced in New Zealand and Rangatira chief executive Ian Frame has said there good growth prospects for companies such as Tuatara, given that in the US,

craft beers make up 15 per cent of the market.

Last November, Moa Group raised $16 million in an initial public offering at $1.25 apiece to fund a new brewing facility and drive sales growth.

Moa shares last traded at $1.15, valuing that company at $34 million.

The increasing popularity of craft beers has also spurred large brewers to enter the market. Last year Lion, owned by Japan’s Kirin, bought Dunedin’s Emerson’s for $8 million and the Asahi-owned Independent Liquor operates the Boundary Road Brewery.

Tuatara produces 1 million litres of beer a year, which it says ranks it among New Zealand’s top three craft breweries. It exports beer to Australia, Singapore, China, the US and Europe.

Its new Paraparaumu brewery has the capacity to produce at least 2 million litres a year with further potential to double production to around four million litres, the company says.

Rangatira shares trade infrequently on the Unlisted platform.

The 11.5 million B shares, which are mainly held by charities and have limited voting rights, were last at $7.50, while the 6.2 million A shares were last at $7.

- BusinessDesk

ing up 25 per cent of revenue is by design. “We don’t want to become too China-centric,” he said.

However, Synlait Milk does lean more towards the emerging markets, such as North Africa and the Middle East.

Unlike Fonterra, it doesn’t have presence in Europe or in the Americas.

Penno said the company’s focus was to build the infant formula business “as quickly as we can” over the next five years.

Synlait Milk is seeking to raise $75 million in new capital through the issue of shares in a $2.05 to $2.65 range. The initial public offer will include a $45m share selldown. Penno said the fresh capital would go towards projects over the next three years worth a total of $183m, which would also be funded by debt and operating earnings.

China’s Bright Dairy will retain four seats on the eight-member Synlait Milk board, despite the likelihood it will lose its majority ownership status because of the ownership-diluting effects of the offer. Bright Dairy’s ownership is likely to fall to about 40 per cent from 51 per cent.

Another cornerstone shareholder, Japan’s Mitsui, will take up its offer to maintain its holding at 22.5 per cent.

The offer documents point to a net profit of $10.84m for the current year ending July 31, up from $9.31m in 2012.

The documents also point to a $19.67m net profit for 2014.

Much of the projected increase in earnings will come from a lower interest bill resulting from proceeds from the IPO – down to a forecast $4.76m in 2014 from $12.43m in the current July year.

The company expects to list on the NZX on July 23.

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NZ building consents rise 1.3% New Zealand’s new building consents rose in May, adding to a surge in April, as construction intentions Auckland and Christchurch underpinned growth in the sector.

New building permits rose 1.3 per cent to a seasonally adjusted 1818 last month, with a big build up in Auckland apartments, Statistics New Zealand said. The rose 21 per cent in April. Stripping out apartments, seasonally adjusted permits slipped 0.3 per cent to 1591.

On an unadjusted basis, building consents climbed 44 per cent to 1971 in May from the same month a year ear-

lier, and excluding apartments were up 34 per cent to 1752.

New residential permits were up 22 per cent to 18,521 on an annual basis, and excluding apartments, consents were up 23 per cent to 16,754.

The Auckland and Canterbury regions accounted for about 57 per cent of the national total with 1122 new permits issued in May. The overheated proper ty markets in Auckland and Christchurch has been creating headaches for the Reserve Bank, which is looking at implementing limits on low equity home loans as a means to stifle demand.

The country’s construction sector is seen as the driving force in the economy in coming years with a $40 billion spend on rebuilding Christchurch, the country’s second biggest city, and the need to meet a shortage of housing stock in the biggest city of Auckland.

Yesterday’s figures showed the value of non-residential construction permits rose 24 per cent to $434 million from a year earlier, and was up 9.2 per cent to $4.04 billion on an annual basis. The value of all building permits was up 32 per cent to $1.16 billion in May, and 19 per cent to $10.89 billion annually. - BusinessDesk

Positive result for 2degrees

By Pattrick Smellie Mobile operator Two Degrees has turned in its first positive earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation since it entered the market three years ago in a challenge to Telecom and Vodafone.

Ebitda was $4.4 million in calendar 2012, compared to a loss of $38 million on the same basis a year earlier. The company’s net loss fell to $45.2 million from $86.6 million in 2011 as revenue rose about 40 per cent to $213.6 million, according to accounts lodged yesterday with the Companies Office.

Cost of service was little changed at $120 million, from $119.2 million in the previous year, the accounts show.

Staff costs rose to $58.3 mil-

lion from $43.7 million as the company started moving from its established position as a pre-paid operator to seek a chunk of the more lucrative post-paid business market.

2degrees, which began offering mobile services in New Zealand in late 2009, now employs some 780 staff and committed about $104 million in new capital expenditure last year.

The company suffered the shock loss of its popular American chief executive, Eric Hertz, in a plane crash in April and is currently seeking a new chief executive.

Last week it announced a $165 million funding deal allowing it to repay some $78.3 million of loans from telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei and to help fund the roll-out of 4G technolo-

gy for the next generation of mobile services. Accounts for Huawei’s New Zealand operation for 2012 show the company’s tax-paid profit for the year rose 136 per cent to $3.3 million, on a 43 per cent rise in revenue to $114.1 million, in part reflecting the 2degrees’ investment in 3G technology.

Interest costs rose to $3.7 million in 2012, compared with $511,000 in the previous year, while total equity rose to $449.4 million, from $329.6 million the previous year.

Well-known for its cheeky advertising, often starring comic Rhys Darby, 2degrees spent $39.7 million on sales and marketing, compared with $36.8 million the previous year.

Provision for doubtful debts jumped to $4.7 million from $812,000 during the year.

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Mandela stabilises Nelson Mandela’s health has improved and although his condition remains critical it is now stable, the South African government said yesterday. One of the former president’s daughters said he is still opening his eyes and reacting to the touch of his family even though his situation is precarious.

The report that the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader had taken a turn for the better came amid a growing sense in South Africa that Mandela was approaching the end of his life.

Well-wishers have delivered flowers and messages of support to the Pretoria hospital where he is being treated, and prayer sessions were held around the country yesterday.

President Jacob Zuma’s office said he received the encouraging update from the medical team that is treating Mandela.

“He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night.”

The president’s office said it was disturbed by what it called rumours about Mandela’s health and appealed for respect for the privacy and dignity of the former leader. Unconfirmed reports about Mandela have swirled on social media and other forums.

Mandela’s condition is acknowl-

The motorcade of South African President Jacob Zuma leaves the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated edged to be grave. He is on life support systems, according to a few television networks that quote anonymous sources, and presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj has declined to confirm or deny those reports.

Makaziwe Mandela, one of Mandela’s daughters, echoed the criticism, saying foreign media coverage of her father’s illness had

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“It’s like truly vultures waiting when a lion has devoured a buffalo, waiting there for the last carcasses.

That’s the image that we have, as a family.”

She said: “We don’t mind the interest. But I just think it has gone overboard.”

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Are your assets China official gets protected? prison for bribery A former Chinese official at the centre of a sex scandal has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for taking bribes of more than 3 million yuan ($510,000).

Yesterday’s sentence comes as China’s leadership is vowing to crack down on widespread graft.

The official People’s Court Daily said the punishment meted to Lei Zhengfu Lei Zhengfu includes confiscation of personal assets of 300,000 yuan ($48,000). The former Communist party chief of a district in the south-central city of Chongqing did not say if he would appeal.

Lei’s case has riveted the public since video clips went viral of the portly 55-year-old having sex with a woman hired by property developers allegedly in an extortion scheme.

The scandal exposed how sex, power and money have become intertwined in Chinese society.

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Boston suspect downloaded bomb instructions Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaeda magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom and later scrawled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded, a federal indictment charged yesterday.

The 30-count indictment contains the bombing charges, punishable by the death penalty, that were brought in April against the 19-year-old Tsarnaev, including use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill.

It also contains many new charges covering the slaying of an MIT police officer and the carjacking of a motorist during the getaway attempt that left Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, dead.

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s justice will be in the next world, but for his brother, accountability will begin right here in the district of Massachusetts,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley, whose jurisdiction includes Boston, said at a news conference with federal prosecutors.

The indictment provides one of the most detailed public explanations to date of the brothers’ alleged motive — Islamic extremism — and the role the Internet may have played in influencing them.

Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded by the two pressure-cooker bombs that went off near the finish line of the marathon on April 15.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured four days later, hiding in a boat parked in a backyard in Watertown, just west of Boston.

According to the indictment, he scrawled messages on the inside of the vessel that said, among other things, “The US Government is killing our innocent civilians,” “I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished” and “We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”

The Tsarnaev brothers had

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Muslim extremists. They had been living in the US about a decade.

But the indictment made no mention of any larger conspiracy beyond the brothers and no reference to any direct overseas contacts with extremists. Instead, the indictment suggests the Internet played an important role in the suspects’ radicalisation.

Before the attack, according to the indictment, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded onto his computer the summer 2010 issue of Inspire, an online Englishlanguage magazine published by al-Qaeda. The issue detailed how to make bombs from pressure cookers, using explosive powder extracted from fireworks and lethal shrapnel.

He also downloaded extremist Muslim literature, including Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation After Imam, which advocates “violence designed to terrorise the perceived enemies of Islam,” the indictment said.

At the same time the federal indictment was announced, Massachusetts authorities brought a 15-count state indictment against Dzhokhar over the MIT officer’s slaying and the police shoot-out.

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Death toll from China violence 35 The official death toll rose to 35 yesterday from an outburst of violence that included knife attacks on police in a far-western region that has seen frequent clashes between China’s Muslim minority Uighurs and the ethnic Han majority.

Initial reports said 27 people were killed in a remote town in the Xinjiang region, with state-run media saying that knife-wielding assailants targeted police stations, a government building and a construction site — all symbols of Han authority and influx in the region.

The updated death toll included some of the severely injured dying in the hospital. It also included 11 assailants shot dead in Lukqun township in Turpan prefecture, the state-run Xinhua News agency said.

Two police officers were among the 24 people they killed, Xinhua said.

A policeman patrols the road leading into the riot-affected town of Lukqun, Xinjiang province.

The reports did not identify the ethnicity of the attackers, nor explain what may have caused the conflict in the Turkic-speaking region, where Uighurs have complained of suppression and discrimination by Han people. The report also said

police captured four injured assailants.

The violence — described as a terrorist act by China’s state media — was one of the bloodiest incidents since unrest in the region’s capital city of Urumqi killed nearly 200 in 2009.

It was impossible to independently confirm the staterun media accounts. The Global Times said police set up many checkpoints along the 30-kilometre road to Lukqun and dissuaded reporters from travelling there due to safety concerns.

Information is tightly controlled in the region, which the Chinese government regards as highly sensitive and where it has imposed a heavy security presence to quell unrest. However, forces are spread thin across the vast territory and the response from authorities is often slow.

Xinjiang is home to a large population of minority Muslim Uighurs) in a region that borders Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been the scene of numerous violent acts in recent years, including the riots in the capital four years ago.

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Protesters target cup match

By Steven Wade About 5000 anti-government protesters battled police yesterday near a stadium that hosted a semi-final match of the Confederations Cup soccer tournament.

The protesters marched peacefully but clashed with police as they neared the outer limits of a security zone about 2 kilometres from the stadium in Fortaleza, where Spain beat Italy in penalty time in the warm-up tournament to the 2014 World Cup. In Rio de Janeiro, about 2000 protesters marched but didn’t clash with police.

They’re the latest in a series of massive, nationwide protests that have hit Brazil since June 17.

Demonstrators are angered about corruption and poor public services despite a heavy tax burden.

Protests are also denouncing the billions of dollars spent to host the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio — money they say should be going toward better hospitals, schools, transportation projects and schools.

Victoria Ferreira, a 16-yearold protesting near the Castelao stadium in Fortaleza, said it was ironic that “if something broke out here, some violence, there would be no hospitals to take care of us.”

Acrid tear gas still drifted in the air around Ferreira as police and clusters of protesters battled. Authorities fired tear gas and rubber bullets in an effort to scatter the crowd, while protesters responded with sling-

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A protester runs with a make-shift shield as others throw rocks at police who are firing tear gas at them a few kilometres from the soccer stadium where Spain and Italy will play in a Confederations Cup semifinal soccer game in Fortaleza, Brazil. shots, fireworks and rocks. At one point, a group of protesters broke through the outer police barrier and made a dash for the stadium, but they were pushed pack by police.

A few other scattered protests were reported around Brazil, smaller gatherings of demonstrators focused on individual issues, not the sort of massive protests seen last week when as many as one million Brazilians poured into the streets to call for change.

In Brasilia, President Dilma Rousseff met with union lead-

ers and legislators as the government continued to scramble to meet protester demands over anti-corruption measures and improved public services.

Rousseff was preparing the ground for a proposal she’s expected to deliver to congress on Monday for a plebiscite on political reform that she wants to put before the Brazilian population in the coming months.

There are no details yet on what political reforms Rousseff will suggest nor on how or when a plebiscite would occur.

Gilberto Carvalho, Rousseff’s

general secretary, told reporters in Brasilia Thursday that the biggest lesson the government took from the protests was that it needs to better hear and understand the voices coming from the street.

“For that reason, the plebiscite, which will allow people to express themselves about political reform, is extremely important,” Carvalho said. “To underestimate the unpreparedness of the population would be an error, the same error of those who disregarded their capacity to mobilise in the streets.” - AP

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A retired US general who served in the Pentagon’s upper echelon is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyber-attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been told he is a target of the probe. A “target” is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged. - AP

• Breakthrough deal European Union leaders have reached an outline deal on the 27-country bloc’s 960 billion euro seven-year budget, overcoming a British-French dispute to sign off on the agreement. British Prime Minister David Cameron had held out for the same financial conditions already promised him months ago, overshadowing a summit meant to focus on the continent’s youth unemployment problems.

- AP

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Aries 21 March - 20 April You can learn much from what others say, so stay alert as a vital piece of information may be about to come your way. One good idea could give you a fresh start, sending you off in a progressive and very exciting direction. Entertaining at home could be key to helping a budding romance take off. Your home cooking may seal the deal.

TAurus 21 April - 21 May Consider a chance to passionately kiss and make up this morning, especially if you’ve had words that may have resulted in a standoff. Financially speaking, it’s best not to believe all you hear. There may be a good dollop of wishful thinking disguising the truth of a situation. Venus might encourage you to beautify your home with a new look.

Gemini 22 May - 21 June Let others have their say but don’t rush headlong into agreeing with them. Certain facts and ideas may be larger than life and could need some scaling down to be believable. Unusual people and forms of entertainment can make for a most enjoyable day. You might be unusually pushy about making a new friend, yet this may bring happy rewards.

CAnCer 22 June - 23 July If you’re tempted to go overboard with a career decision and end up taking drastic action, you could miss the mark. It might help to take a more measured approach.

You could be looking for security in your everyday world, perhaps through a sibling. However, if you really need support, a meal with an understanding pal may be your best bet.

Leo 24 July - 23 August People seem to be sensitive today. Too much feistiness or unexpected criticism could rock the boat in a friendship or business partnership.

With Venus, the love goddess, newly arrived in your sign, an unusual opportunity may present itself. You could attract love and money.

Enjoy home life and perhaps a closer than usual connection with someone.

VirGo 24 August - 23 September It might feel good to be in charge of a job or plan, yet you may have to make a sacrifice to keep it going. At this time, it seems you are more than happy to do so. Co-operation can lead to success. Don’t be scared off by projects that require collaboration and a lot of time. It pays to keep busy and have patience. Socially, things may be delightful!

LibrA 24 September - 23 October This might be a day to write letters, deal with red tape situations or to iron out kinks in a holiday plan. Job interviews may be encouraging, with a potentially greater chance of success. Luck is on your side, especially when you pay attention to those intuitive hunches. The Moon in Aries inspires a desire to socialise. It’s a fab day for a celebration.

sCorpio 24 October - 22 November This could be a perfect day to take it easy and give yourself some down time.

Travel and a desire to move out of your comfort zone towards exciting plans and projects may keep you on the move. Fortunate circumstances seem to surround you when you’re willing to explore fresh options. You may also find yourself in the limelight.

sAGiTTArius 23 November - 21 December You may find yourself studying other people’s reactions and trying to find out who might be a competitor and who a potential friend. Mars in Gemini suggests that someone may appear twofaced, so you’re not sure whether to trust them or not. Despite this, a pleasant meeting or the chance to chat to someone of special interest may see you smile.

CApriCorn 22 December - 20 January Relationships of all kinds get a boost, bringing potential for support from unexpected people and groups. You may find yourself in demand without needing to do much to make this happen. Your love life looks hunky dory too.

Business partnerships and new romantic relationships seem to blossom almost effortlessly. Good things are coming.

AquArius 21 January - 19 February You can get off to a jaunty start as the Moon in Aries gets you in a chatty and confident mood. Making plans for fun or business means you’ll be at your best as you connect with friends or associates. You’re good at promoting yourself and could find yourself in a happy position because of it. Don’t believe fortune can’t come to you.

pisCes 20 February - 20 March Romantic options are looking good. Make the first move if you have the hots for someone. Don’t be brash. Subtle but magnetic is better. You may be in the mood to shop and to splash out on presents for your loved ones. Your natural and impulsive generosity can bubble up. Subscribing to a fitness class may give you a boost.

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An Ashburton Guardian Advertising Feature

Nursery rhymes to nurture neurons

By Amanda Wright

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t’s natural to want the best for our children.

We love them, encourage them, and dream of all they can achieve. But many people don’t understand how critical the first few years of a child’s life is to their future. It’s not quite as simple as ABC, 123.

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Television

TV1 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 9.00 9.30 12.00 1.05 1.35 2.05 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30

10.45 11.45

Te Karere. (R, T) Hyundai Country Calendar. (G, R) Rural Delivery. (G) Fair Go. (R, T) 60 Minute Makeover. (G, R) Chinese Food In Minutes. (Final, G, R) Come Dine With Me Omnibus.

(G, R) Michel Roux’s Service. (Final, G) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook. (G, R, T) Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. (G, R) The Chase. (G, T) Four Weddings. (PGR, R, T) Intrepid Journeys. (G, R, T) Extreme Fishing With Robson Green. (G, R, T) ONE News. (T) Hyundai Country Calendar. (G, T) Coasters. (G, T) Dishing Up Australia With Al Brown. (T) Call The Midwife. (AO, R, T) Jenny is placed on the district nursing roster for a few weeks to extend her experience of community practice.

Without You. (AO) Tennis. Wimbledon. Day Five.

Highlights. Day Six. From All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London. Live.

SUNDAY 6.00 6.35 6.45 7.35 8.00 8.30 9.00 10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 11.55

Rural Delivery. (G, R) Gardens Of The World. (G, R) Sunday. (R, T) Tagata Pasifika.

Praise Be. (G) Attitude. (G, T) Q+A. Marae Investigates.

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

(PGR, R, T) 1.50 The Bear Family And Me. (G, R, T) 2.50 Undercover Boss Australia. (G, R) 3.50 Dog Squad. (G, R, T) 4.20 The Voice Australia. (G, R, T) 6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Sunday. (T) 8.00 The Food Truck. (G, T) Michael Van de Elzen tries to recreate a romantic, pop-up, sit in Italian dining experience down a hidden Auckland alleyway.

8.30 Packed To The Rafters. (PGR, T) The famile are dealing with the consequences of Coby’s attack on Duncan, while Carbo, Retta and Emma complete the relaunch of their shop, now specialising in balcony gardening supplies.

9.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys. (Final, AO, R, T) Agnes is desperate for a holiday but can’t find anyone to look after Grandad.

10.05 Citizen Khan. (Final, PGR, R, T) 10.45 Tennis. Wimbledon. Day Six. From All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London.

Highlights.

11.45 Soccer. FIFA U20s World Cup. New Zealand v Croatia. Highlights 12.45 Call 911. (G, R) 1.15 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 3.30 Infomercials. 5.30 Believer’s Voice Of Victory.

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

Breakfast.

Good Morning.

The Chase. (G, R, T) Coach Trip. (PGR) House Guest. (G, R) ONE News. (T) Emmerdale. (PGR, T) Come Dine With Me. (PGR) Four Weddings USA. (PGR) Renovation Game. (New, G) Te Karere. (T) MasterChef: The Professionals – Australia. (Final, G, R, T) 5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat. (G, T) 12.00 Tennis. Wimbledon. Day Seven. From Wimbledon, London. Live.

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PRIME

6.00 Disney Special Agent Oso. (G, R, T) 6.20 Buzzy Bee And Friends. (G, R, T) 6.30 Pocoyo. (G, R, T) 6.35 Jake & The Neverland Pirates. (G, R, T) 7.00 Small Blacks TV. (T) 7.25 Matt Hatter Chronicles. (G, T) 7.50 Phineas And Ferb. (G, R, T) 8.15 Generator Rex. (G, T) 8.40 Sym-Bionic Titan. (G, R, T) 9.05 Young Justice. (G, T) 9.30 Just The Job. (G, R) 10.00 Fresh. (Final) 10.30 Neighbours Omnibus. (G, R, T) 1.00 Shipwrecked: The Island. (PGR) 2.00 Hell’s Kitchen. (PGR, R, T) 3.00 Bunheads. (G) 4.00 Girl vs. Boy. (Final, G, R, T) 5.00 Just The Job. (G) 5.30 According To Jim. (G, R, T) 6.00 Wipeout. (G, T) 7.00 FILM: Race To Witch Mountain.

(2009, PGR, R, T) 9.00 FILM: The Replacements. (2000, G, R, T) Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton, Faizon Love. A mismatched crew of outsiders receive a second chance at greatness when they are recruited to play NFL football after the professional team goes on strike.

11.20 FILM: The Informant! (2009, T) 1.30 FILM: 1408. (2007, AO, R, T) 3.35 Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths. (PGR, T) 5.05 Fresh. (R) 5.30 It Is Written.

6.00 Charles Stanley.

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

10.25 Media3.

11.00 3rd Degree.

12.00 The Little Couple. (PGR, R) 12.30 The Little Couple. (PGR, R) 1.05 Smokefree Rockquest 2012. (G, R) 1.35 Smokefree Rockquest 2012. (G, R) 2.10 The X Factor NZ. (G, R) 3.50 The X Factor NZ. (G, R) 5.00 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’. (G) 5.30 ITM Fishing Show. (G) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals. (G, T) 7.30 Ice Road Truckers. (PGR, T) 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

(Final, AO, T) The CSIs investigate a series of murders with disturbing similarities to the sins in ‘Dante’s Inferno’.

9.30 CSI: New York. (AO, T) A successful businessman is murdered in a Brooklyn housing project.

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

6.00 Home Shopping. (G) 11.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway UK. (PGR, R) 12.00 Rugby League. (G) NRL. Round 15. Highlights.

12.30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus.

(G, R) 2.30 MasterChef USA. (PGR, R) 3.30 Must Be The Music. (G, R) 4.30 Getaway. (G, R) 5.00 Wildlife Patrol. (G, R) 5.30 Prime News.

6.00 Australia’s Got Talent. (G) 7.30 New Tricks. (PGR) UCOS re-open the case of Sean Docherty, a talented young poet whose burnt body was discovered ten years ago in the scrapyard of a known gangster.

8.40 Wife Swap UK. (AO) See what happens when a gay man swaps lives with a mother of two who doesn’t believe in same-sex relationships.

9.40 Rugby. (G) Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Crusaders. From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

11.40 Mayday. (PGR, R) 12.40 Home Shopping. (G)

SUNDAY

6.00 Disney Special Agent Oso. (G, R, T) 6.25 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (G, R, T) 6.50 The Magic Roundabout. (Final, G, R, T) 7.00 What Now? 10.00 Shortland Street Omnibus. (PGR, R, T) 12.30 FILM: Are We Done Yet? (2007, PGR, R, T) 2.20 Mad. (Final, G, R) 2.35 According To Jim. (G, R, T) 3.00 The Carrie Diaries. (PGR, T) 4.00 Ellen. (G) 4.30 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. (G, R) 5.00 Pretty Little Liars. (G, T) 6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, T) 6.30 The War At Home. (G, R, T) 7.00 Renters. (PGR, R, T) 7.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PGR, R, T) 8.00 Mike & Molly. (PGR, T) Mike risks losing his eyebrows when he starts construction on his and Molly’s basement, while Carl invites Samuel to move in with him.

8.30 FILM: The Blind Side. (2009, AO, R, T) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw.

This moving adaptation of the Michael Lewis bestseller is about a young man whose size and prowess playing American-style football help him attain an education in school and in life.

11.05 FILM: Halloween. (2007, AO, R, T) 1.20 The Walking Dead. (AO, R, T) 2.30 Distraction USA. (AO, T) 2.55 Infomercials.

3.25 20/20. (R, T) 4.15 It Is Written. (R) 4.45 Anderson. (G, R) 5.30 Infomercials.

MONDAY

6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Tiki Tour. (G, R, T) 6.55 Grizzly Tales. (G, R, T) 7.20 Scooby Doo. (G, R, T) 7.50 Pokemon: Black and White. (G, T) 8.15 Franklin. (G, R, T) 8.35 Mike The Knight. (G, R, T) 8.50 Fireman Sam. (G, T) 9.00 Infomercials. 10.30 Neighbours. (G, R, T) 11.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 11.30 Spin City. (Final, PGR, R, T) 12.00 Hart Of Dixie. (G, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR) 2.00 Jeremy Kyle USA. (AO) 3.00 Pocoyo. (G, T) 3.05 Jake & The Neverland Pirates.

(G, R, T) 3.30 Kung Fu Panda. (G, T) 4.00 Good Luck Charlie. (G, R, T) 4.30 The Erin Simpson Show.

5.00 Horace In Slow Motion. (G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 Hope And Faith. (G, R, T) 12.10 Good Vibes. (AO) 12.35 Rookie Blue.

(AO, R, T) 1.30 Infomercials. 2.30 Desperate Housewives. (AO, R, T) 3.20 The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business. (PGR, R) 4.05 Anderson. (PGR, R) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (R) 5.30 Infomercials.

SUNDAY 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 9.00 9.30 10.00 11.55

Life TV. (G) Brian Houston @ Hillsong. (G) Charles Stanley. (G) The Nation.

Three60.

Think Tank. (G) Home And Away Omnibus. (G, T) Entertainment Tonight Weekend.

(G) 1.00 Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year.

(PGR, R) 2.00 Dog Patrol. (PGR, R, T) 2.30 Emergency Heroes. (PGR, R, T) 3.00 Motorsport. New Zealand Motorcycle Road Race C’ship.

Round 5. From The Taupo Motorsport Park. Highlights.

3.30 Motorsport. New Zealand Off Shore Power Boat C’ship. Round 4.

4.00 Motorsport. Rally Xtreme C’ship.

Round 2. From Hawkes Bay. 5.00 PlaceMakers Big Angry Fish. (G, R) 5.30 The Simpsons. (G, R, T) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 The X Factor NZ. (G) 8.05 FILM: Night At The Museum.

(2006, PGR, R, T) Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney. A new security guard at New York’s Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life at night.

10.25 FILM: My Wedding And Other Secrets. (2010, PGR) 12.20 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV. (G)

MONDAY 6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30

3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) The Shopping Channel.

Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 12.00 3 News.

12.30 Home And Away. (G, R, T) 1.00 Dr Phil. (AO) 2.00 The Dr Oz Show. (PGR) 3.00 Top Chef. (PGR, R, T) 4.00 Rachael Ray. (G) 5.00 Entertainment Tonight. (G) 5.30 Home And Away. (G, T) 12.00 Sons Of Anarchy. (AO, R, T) 12.55 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. 5.30 City Impact Church.

MOVIE The Replacements TV2, 9.00pm One of Keanu Reeves’ post-Matrix blunders, this baffingly unfunny comedy tries to re-create the knockabout spirit of Major League, but comes up more than a few yards short. Following the ring-ins a pro football team calls upon when their high-paid pros stage a strike, it’s formula filmmaking at its laziest, with the great Gene Hackman wasted as the team’s mentor.

SUNDAY

6.00 Religious Programming. (G) 10.30 Sport Box. (G, R) 12.00 Rugby League. (G) NRL. Tigers v Storm. Highlights.

1.00 Hot Property. (G, R) 1.30 Recruits. (PGR, R) 2.00 Toyota Grassroots Rugby. (G) 3.00 Netball. (G) ANZ C’ship.

Highlights.

4.00 Rugby. (G) Super Rugby.

Highlights.

5.00 Escape To River Cottage. (PGR, R) 5.30 Prime News.

6.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (G) 6.30 Nigella Feasts. (G) 7.30 Antiques Roadshow. (G) The team head to Hartland Abbey in Devon where items include WWII notebooks of a young plane spotter who witnessed Glenn Miller’s last flight, plus a colourful assortment of early surf boards.

8.35 Weekend Murders: Midsomer Murders. (AO) When Hollywood comes to Midsomer life imitates art as a sinister mystery escalates.

10.40 Scott And Bailey. (AO, R) 11.40 Rugby League. (G) NRL. Warriors v Broncos. Delayed.

1.25 Home Shopping. (G)

MONDAY 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 12.00 1.00 2.05 3.00

Home Shopping. (G) The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Home Shopping. (G) The Doctors. (G) The Jeff Probst Show. (G) America’s Got Talent. (G, R) My Mother Diana. (G, R) Looks at how Diana’s life shaped William’s early years, and how the controversy and media hype around her life influenced him.

4.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G, R) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $200,000 each night.

5.30 Prime News.

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

KEY: T Teletext R Repeat S Stereo P Premiere F Final RATINGS: G General exhibition PG Parental guidance recommended M Suitable for mature audiences AO Adults only 16 Approved for persons 16 and over 18 Approved for persons 18 and over c Content may offend l Language may offend s Sexual content may offend v contains violence

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Rocko’s Modern Life. (G, R) 7.30 Casper Scare School.

(G) 7.55 All Grown Up. (G, R) 8.20 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 8.40 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.05 Redakai. (G, R) 9.30 Redakai. (G, R) 9.55 Infomercials.

(G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Mr. Young. (G, R) 5.30 Big Time Rush. (G, R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (G, R) 6.30 FILM: Anastasia. (1997, G) Voices of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lloyd. Anastasia, the last surviving member of the Romanov family, undertakes a journey to find her identity. She meets a con artist who convinces her to travel to Paris with him, unaware that she is actually a princess.

8.35 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills. (AO) A Paris trip concludes with a boat ride on the Seine River, marked by a surprise connection between Kim and Brandi.

9.35 Millionaire Matchmaker. (AO) Patti plays matchmaker for a return client who disobeyed all of Patti’s rules in the past.

10.30 Excused. (AO) 10.55 Poker After Dark. (PGR) 11.50 Infomercials. (G) Sunday

SUNDAY

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Rocko’s Modern Life. (G, R) 7.25 Invader Zim. (G, R) 7.50 All Grown Up. (G, R) 8.15 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 8.40 Go, Diego, Go! (G, R) 9.05 Wonder Pets. (G, R) 9.30 Dora The Explorer. (G, R) 9.55 Sticky TV Omnibus. (G) 12.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 What’s Up Warthogs. (G, R) 4.30 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.00 Mr. Young. (G, R) 5.30 The Suite Life On Deck. (G, R) 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. (G) 6.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. (G) 7.00 All New Raising Hope. (PGR) 7.30 All New Top Chef. (PGR) 8.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PGR, R) 9.00 Rules Of Engagement. (PGR, R) Russell’s dad meets Liz, and Russell goes to great lengths to win his dad’s approval.

9.30 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. (AO) Mac steps inside the confession and tells a befuddled priest why his fatness is the fault of the other members of the gang.

9.55 Wilfred. (AO) Ryan begins to suspect that his friendship with Wilfred may be self-destructive.

10.25 Perfect Couples. (Final, PGR) Rex and Julia divide up their mum’s belongings in the season finale.

10.50 Entertainment Tonight Weekend. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G) Monday

MONDAY

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Sticky TV. (G, R) 7.35 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 8.00 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 8.30 Chuggington. (G) 8.40 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 8.50 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends. (G, R) 9.10 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.15 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.20 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 9.50 Tickety Toc. (G, R) 10.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G) 2906

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Television

The Box 6.00 6.50 7.15 8.15

CSI: New York. (M) The Simpsons. (PG) Fear Factor. (M) The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 10.20 Raw. (M) 1.10 24 Marathon. (M) 4.30 The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.30 Lie To Me. (M) Cal goes to great lengths to prevent a man fuelled by revenge from robbing a bank; in the process, Cal gets to right a wrong by holding a guilty man accountable for his actions.

8.30 Sons Of Anarchy. (16) With the IRA gun payment looming, SAMCRO scrambles to come up with the cash; the Mayans and Nords take a drastic step in strengthening their alliance; Jax finds himself in a dangerous position with Tara.

9.30 D-Tox. (M) Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job.

11.30 Underbelly. (M) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 24. (M) 2.10 24.

(M) 3.00 Sons Of Anarchy. (16) 3.50 Underbelly. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 The Simpsons. (PG)

SUNDAY

6.00 24 Marathon. (M) 9.20 D-Tox. (M) 11.10 The Simpsons Marathon.

(PG) 1.15 Lie To Me. (M) 2.05 Sons Of Anarchy. (16) 3.00 Raw. (M) 5.45 Main Event. (M) 6.45 Smackdown. (M) 8.30 Camelot. (16) Kay and Leontes seek a new warrior; Arthur and Merlin accept an invitation from Morgan; Arthur and Guinevere struggle with their relationship and he is forced to concede defeat when she marries Leontes.

9.30 Falling Skies. (M) 10.35 Monk. (PG) 11.30 Main Event. (M) 12.30 Smackdown. (M) 2.10 Camelot.

(16) 3.05 Falling Skies. (M) 3.55 Family Business. (18) 4.25 Monk.

(PG)

MONDAY 6.00 6.50 7.15 7.40

NYPD Blue. (M) The Simpsons. (PG) Hardcore Pawn. (PG) America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 8.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(PG) 8.30 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 8.55 24. (M) 9.50 Law & Order. (M) 10.40 NCIS. (M) 11.30 Smackdown. (M) 1.15 NYPD Blue. (M) 2.10 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(PG) 2.35 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Hardcore Pawn. (PG) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 5.00 Law & Order. (M) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 1.45 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.10 NYPD Blue. (M) 3.05 CSI: Miami. (M) 3.55 CSI: Miami. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

Sky Movies 1 Movie Greats 6.45 Too Late To Say Goodbye.

(2009, M) 8.15 Abduction. (2011, M) 10.05 Nitro Circus: The Movie.

(2012, M) 11.40 Prometheus. (2012, 16) 1.45 Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. (2012, M) 3.35 The Lucky One. (2012, M) Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling.

5.15 The Double. (2011, M) Richard Gere, Topher Grace.

A retired CIA operative is paired with a rookie FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator’s murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.

6.55 The Three Stooges. (2012, PG) Sean Hayes, Will Sasso.

8.30 War Horse. (2011, M) Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson. A young man enlists to serve in World War I when his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry, with hope that he and his horse will be reunited.

11.00 Wanderlust. (2012, 16) Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston.

12.40 Left In Darkness. (2006, 16) 2.10 Directors: James L Brooks.

(2011, PG) 2.40 Wanderlust. (2012, 16) 4.20 The Double. (2011, M)

SUNDAY

6.00 Making Of: Johnny English Reborn. (2011, PG) 6.20 The Three Stooges. (2012, PG) 7.55 The Lucky One. (2012, M) 9.35 Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. (2012, M) 11.25 War Horse. (2011, M) 1.50 Father Of Invention. (2010, PG) 3.25 Source Code. (2011, M) Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan. A helicopter pilot recruited for a topsecret military operation finds himself on a startlingly different kind of mission.

5.00 Girl In Progress. (2012, M) Eva Mendes, Cierra Ramirez.

As a single mom juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter plots a shortcut to adulthood.

6.35 Super 8. (2011, M) Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler.

8.30 Dark Shadows. (2012, M) Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer. An imprisoned vampire is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

10.25 Act Of Valor. (2012, 16) Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez.

MONDAY

6.45 Girl In Progress. (2012, M) Eva Mendes, Cierra Ramirez.

8.20 Super 8. (2011, M) Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler.

10.10 Flypaper. (2011, 16) Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd.

11.40 Dark Shadows. (2012, M) Johnny Depp.

1.35 Making Of Johnny English Reborn. (2011, PG).

2.05 Behemoth. (2011, M) 3.35 The River Why. (2010, M) 5.20 Kung Fu Panda 2. (2011, PG) Voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie.

6.00 Auto B Good 6.30 Kingsley’s Meadow 7.00 Carlos the Caterpillar 7.30 OK TV 8.00 Paul the Little Missionary 8.30 The Lads TV 9.00 Xtreme Life TV 9.30 Life FM presents 11.00 H2O. A Journey of Faith 11.30 Wisdom for Difficult Times 12.00 Hymns of the Forefathers 12.30 Kiwis Can Fly 1.00 Beyond Adventure 1.30 Noble Exchange 2.00 Just Thinking 2.30 Born To Be Free 3.00 Nzone Now 3.15 Christianity Explored 3.30 H2O. A Journey of Faith 4.00 Roots and Reflections 4.30 Kiwis Can Fly 5.00 “Love, Marriage and Stinking” 5.30 Give Me An Answer 6.00 Just Thinking 6.30 Noble Exchange 7.00 Beyond Adventure

7.00 Twelve Monkeys. (1995, M) 9.10 Million Dollar Baby. (2004, M) 11.20 Along Came A Spider.

(2001, M) 1.05 The Wedding Singer. (1998, M) 2.45 Wimbledon. (2004, M) 4.25 Walk The Line. (2005, M) Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon. Oscar®winning biopic of country music legend Johnny Cash, from his early days on an Arkansas farm to his rise to fame and his relationship with June Carter. 2005.

6.40 The Sixth Sense. (1999, M) Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette.

8.30 Mr: Deeds. (2002, M) Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder. A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way. 2002.

10.10 The Brave One. (2007, 16) Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt.

12.10 Cry Baby. (1990, M) 1.35 Wimbledon. (2004, M) 3.10 The Sixth Sense. (1999, M) 4.55 Walk The Line. (2005, M)

SUNDAY 7.10 8.45 10.45 12.10 1.55 4.50

Mr: Deeds. (2002, M) The Brave One. (2007, 16) Cry Baby. (1990, M) The Sixth Sense. (1999, M) Braveheart. (1995, 16) 8 Mile. (2002, M) Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy. Semiautobiographical story of a young white rapper struggling to make it in the dangerous hip-hop scene of Detroit. 2002.

6.40 Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby.

(2006, M) Will Ferrell, John C. 8.30 Inglourious Basterds.

(2009, 16) Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz. War.A story about a small group of Jewish American soldiers assigned to infiltrate occupied France during WWII and engage in acts of retribution against Nazi officers. 2009.

11.05 Happy Gilmore. (1996, M) Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald.

MONDAY

6.45 Biography: Ashton Kutcher. (2007, PG).

7.35 Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby.

(2006, M) Will Ferrell, John C. 9.20 Braveheart. (1995, 16) Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau.

12.15 Happy Gilmore. (1996, M) Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald.

1.50 Inglourious Basterds.

(2009, 16) Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz.

4.20 End Of Days. (1999, 18) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne.

Sky Sport 1 6.00 ANZ Golf World. 6.30 Golf.

USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round One. Highlights. 7.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Two. Live.

10.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. Irish Open. Round Two. Highlights. 10.30 Inside The PGA Tour. 11.00 ANZ Golf World. 11.30 Deaker On Sport. 12.30 Sea Master Sailing. 1.00 Adventure Angler Series. 1.30 Netball. ANZ C’ship. WBOP Magic v Northern Mystics. Replay. 3.00 The Netball Zone. 3.30 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Irish Open. Round Two. Highlights.

4.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Two. Highlights. 4.30 Golf. European Tour. Irish Open.

Round Two. Highlights.

5.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Hurricanes Replay.

7.00 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Crusaders From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin. Live.

9.35 Total Rugby.

9.55 Rugby. British And Irish Lions Tour. Wallabies v British & Irish Lions. Live.

12.30 SKY Sport What’s On. 12.55 Rugby. Super Rugby. Sharks v Blues From Mr Price Kings Park, Durban. Live.

3.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Bulls v Kings From Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria. Live.

5.05 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Stormers v Cheetahs From DHL Newlands Stadium, Cape Town. Live.

SUNDAY

7.15 Golf. 10.00 Rugby. British And Irish Lions Tour. Wallabies v British & Irish Lions. 2nd Test. Highlights. 10.30 Rugby. 11.00 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Sharks v Blue. Replay. 1.00 Golf.

USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Three. Highlights. 1.30 Small Blacks TV. 2.00 Netball. ANZ C’ship. First Semi-final. Thunderbirds v Vixens.

Live. 4.00 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Crusaders Replay.

6.00 Investec Super Rugby Review.

7.00 Netball. ANZ C’ship. First Semi-final. Magic v Firebirds. Live.

9.20 Cycling. Tour De France.

First Stage. Highlights.

9.50 Investec Super Rugby Fulltime.

10.20 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Warriors v Broncos. Highlights.

10.50 Cycling. Tour De France.

First Stage. Highlights.

11.20 Cycling. Tour De France.

Second Stage. Live.

4.00 Scott Dixon Indycar Special.

4.30 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Three.

Highlights.

5.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Four. Live.

MONDAY

6.30 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Crusaders Highlights.

7.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National.

Round Four. Live. 10.00 Golf.

European PGA Tour. Irish Open. Round Four. Highlights. 11.00 SKY Sport What’s On. 11.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Sharks v Blues Replay.

1.30 Rugby. Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Crusaders Highlights.

2.00 Hockey. FIH. Women’s World League. Round 3 B. Final. Replay.

4.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Hurricanes Replay.

Sky Sport 2 6.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Hurricanes From Waikato Stadium, Hamilton. Replay.

8.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Rabbitohs v Raiders. Replay.

10.00 Premier League World.

10.30 Adventure Angler Series.

11.00 Rugby League. Holden State Of Origin. Second Game. Replay.

1.00 NRL Footy Show.

3.00 Rugby League. NSW Cup. Wests Tigers v Newcastle Knights. Live.

5.00 Rugby League. Holden Cup. Wests Tigers U20 v Storm U20. Live.

7.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Wests Tigers v Storm. Live.

9.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Panthers v Dragons. Live.

11.30 SKY Sport What’s On. 11.55 Motorsport.

1.05 Scott Dixon Indycar Special.

1.35 Motorsport.

2.45 Rugby League.

3.15 Motorsport.

4.30 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Two. Highlights.

5.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Three. Live.

SUNDAY

6.30 Premier League World.

7.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Three. Live.

10.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Irish Open. Round Three.

Delayed.

12.00 Rugby League. NSW Cup. Auckland Vulcans v Cronulla Sharks. Live.

1.45 Rugby League. Holden Cup. Warriors U20 v Broncos U20. Live.

3.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Warriors v Broncos. Live.

6.00 Rugby League 40/20.

7.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Rabbitohs v Raiders. Highlights.

7.30 SKY Sport What’s On. 8.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Round 16 Saturday. Highlights.

8.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Cowboys v Sharks. Live.

10.30 Netball. ANZ C’ship. First Semi-final. Replay.

11.55 Motorsport.

2.25 Golf.

4.30 Rugby. British And Irish Lions Tour. Wallabies v British & Irish Lions. 2nd Test. Replay.

MONDAY

6.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Warriors v Broncos. Highlights. 7.00 Golf. 10.00 Rugby. 10.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership. Cowboys v Sharks. Replay. 12.30 Golf. 1.30 Golf.

USPGA Tour. AT&T National. Round Four. Highlights. 2.30 Golf. European PGA Tour. Irish Open. Round Four.

Highlights.

3.30 Motorsport. Superbike World C’ship. Imola.

Highlights.

4.00 Motorsport. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Quaker State 400. Highlights.

5.00 Motorsport. NASCAR Nationwide Series. Feed The Children 300. Highlights.

Discovery 6.00 Time Warp. (PG) 6.30 Swords: Life On The Line.

(PG) 7.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 8.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 9.30 ET Fishing Escapes. (PG) 10.30 Ice Cold Gold. (PG) 11.30 American Digger. (PG) 12.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 12.30 Auction Kings. (PG) 1.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 1.30 What Happened Next?

(PG) 2.00 What Happened Next?

(PG) 2.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 3.30 Future Firepower. (PG) 4.30 Alaska: The Last Frontier.

(PG) 5.30 Auction Hunters. (PG) 6.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 6.30 Sons Of Guns: Guns Of Glory. (M) 7.30 Alien Invasion: Are We Ready? (PG) 8.30 Bering Sea Gold: Under The Ice. (PG) 9.30 Moonshiners. (M) Secret Summit Part 2.

10.30 River Monsters. (PG) 11.30 Ultimate Warfare. (M) 12.30 Gold Rush. (PG) 1.30 Gold Rush: Behind The Scenes. (PG) 2.30 Gold Rush: The Jungle. (PG) 3.30 Gold Rush: The Long Road.

(PG) 4.30 Gold Rush: Off-Season Special. (PG) 5.30 Greensburg. (PG)

SUNDAY

6.30 Swords: Life On The Line.

(PG) 7.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 8.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 9.30 ET Fishing Escapes. (PG) 10.30 Auction Hunters. (PG) 11.30 River Monsters. (PG) 12.30 When Robots Rule. (PG) 1.30 Alien Invasion: Are We Ready? (PG) 2.30 Moonshiners. (M) 7.30 Sex In America. (M) 8.30 Alaska: The Last Frontier.

(PG) 9.30 Sons Of Guns: Guns Of Glory. (M) 10.30 What Happened Next?

(PG) 11.00 What Happened Next?

(PG) 11.30 Mythbusters. (PG) 12.30 Jungle Gold. (PG) 1.30 Auction Kings. (PG) 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 2.30 American Digger. (PG) 3.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 3.30 Nightmare Next Door. (M) 4.30 Disappeared. (M) 5.30 Auction Kings. (PG)

MONDAY

6.00 Destroyed In Seconds.

(PG) 6.30 Dirty Jobs. (PG) 7.30 Jungle Gold. (PG) 8.30 Gold Rush: The OffSeason. (PG) 9.30 Building The Future. (PG) 10.30 Nightmare Next Door. (M) 11.30 Auction Kings. (PG) 12.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 12.30 I (Almost) Got Away With It. (M) 1.30 Blood, Lies And Alibis. (M) 2.30 American Digger. (PG) 3.00 Auction Hunters. (PG) 3.30 Jungle Gold. (PG) 4.30 Gold Rush. (PG) 5.30 Mythbusters. (PG)

SHINE 7.30 MOVIE. No More Baths 9.00 H2O. A Journey of Faith 9.30 Nzone Focus 10.00 Kiwis Can Fly 10.30 Beauty and the Beast 11.00 Give Me An Answer 11.30 Roots and Reflections 12.00 Nzone Focus 12.30 Just Thinking 1.00 “Love, Marriage and Stinking” 1.30 H2O. A Journey of Faith 2.00 Beauty and the Beast 2.30 Beyond Adventure 3.00 MOVIE. No More Baths 4.30 Noble Exchange 5.00 Give Me An Answer 5.30 Running With Fire SUNDAY 6.00 Living Truth. Charles Price 7.00 Creation’s Creatures 7.30 Wemmicks 8.00 OK TV 8.30 Connection Point 9.00 In Touch 10.00 Life Questions 10.30 Word For You 11.00 Songs of Praise

11.35 Quick Study 12.00 The iHeart Revolution 2.00 Kiwis Can Fly 2.30 Precious Memories 3.00 Hour of Power 4.00 In Touch 5.00 Living Truth. Charles Price 6.00 Running With Fire 6.30 Kiwis Can Fly 7.00 Nzone Focus 7.30 Songs of Praise 8.05 Precious Memories 8.30 David Jeremiah 9.30 FEATURE. The iHeart Revolution 11.30 Hymns of the Forefathers 12.00 Hour of Power 1.00 Nzone Focus 1.30 Songs of Praise 2.05 Precious Memories 2.30 David Jeremiah 3.30 FEATURE. The iHeart Revolution 5.30 Quick Study 2906

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GARDEN MAINTENANCE

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attention: property owners For your rural, residential and commercial property maintenance contact us.

• Landscape and garden renovations • Ride-on Lawnmowing • Gardening • Hedge trimming • Clean-ups

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CHIMNEY CLEANING

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Phone Rodney

and leave a message Contact Paul McCormick

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

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• Wall or floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

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electriCOOL Ltd

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274-362-362 or 308 4573.

painting & Decorating contractors

if you are renovating or building a new home you need someone to trust in all your painting and Decorating neeDS – commercial or residential.

• Interior decorating • Exterior decorating

• Wallpapering • Waterblasting • roof painting

Ph 307-0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

Roofing Specialists We specialise in:

• New roofs and re-roofs • Glendeck 5 rib • Corrugated iron • Fascia, gutters and down pipes • Qualified fixers.

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Give Ben a call for a free quote. All jobs guaranteed.

Manufacturers and installers of continuous spouting, fascia and downpipes.

Ben Kruger • Phone 308 4380 or 021 808 739 • email: benkruger@xtra.co.nz

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CLEANERS EXECUTIVE HOME CLEANING (2012) We will clean anything from the mountains to the sea.

Call Sandra and the team on 03 307 8184 or 027 292 0180 Home • Commercial • Office

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Anna and the team at Tanglez Hair Studio would like to introduce their newly appointed hairdresser Hayley Mcleod.

Debra Curtin - Chiropractor Mon, Wed, Thur 8-5.30pm

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ElectraServe is calling for more top sparkies If you have a friendly personality and the desire to become part of a professional, progressive electrical company, ElectraServe would love to hear from you.

Due to the companies ever increasing work load, they are looking for several efficient, professional sparkies to join their team.

These positions are full time and the successful applicants must be able to work unsupervised, have a current NZ Practicing Licence and drivers licence.

2 x Domestic Electricians 2 x Farm Electricians

2 x Industrial Electricians 2 x Air Conditioner Installers

If you have the get-up-and-go email or phone: Blair Watson work 308 9008 mobile 0275 970 905 email Blair@electraserve.co.nz

Customer Service Centre Receptionist ATS is a dynamic and innovative cooperative offering members the ability to purchase all farm inputs through our stores in Ashburton, Rakaia and Methven.

This full time position is based in the Ashburton retail store requires an individual who is highly organised and able to build customer relationships, a person who will be self-motivated and committed to delivering high quality outcomes.

Ideally you will have: • Excellent organisational skills with attention to detail • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills • Intermediate computer skills • Ability to work independently

We are looking for a person who is able to offer excellence in customer service, has industry and product knowledge, attention to detail, an excellent telephone manor and possesses an exceptional attitude towards their work.

If you would like to join this motivated team, please apply

You will be part of a wider customer service team focused on all ATS enquiries. The main duties include customer facing enquiries, telephone sales and customer service.

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Agricultural/Transport Operator Midlands Contracting Ltd is an Ashburton based company providing specialist contract services to Midlands Seed and other seed companies throughout Canterbury.

We are currently seeking a motivated person who can carry out the following duties: • Agricultural contracting specialising in planting, inter-row spraying, male removal in hybrid crops and other specialist contracting work.

• Loading and transporting of export shipping containers from our supply stores to port and includes daily documentation requirements.

• Maintenance and servicing of contracting machinery.

The ideal candidate will have a basic understanding of arable crop production and machinery and have previous truck driving and loading experience. You must also hold a current Class 5 licence, be physically fit, able to multi task and enjoy being part of a team.

This is a permanent full time position with extended work hours during seasonal peak times. We offer a very competitive remuneration package and a company vehicle.

Applicants for this position must have New Zealand residency or a valid New Zealand work permit.

For further information please visit our website www.midlands.co.nz or phone Duncan King on 0274 333 352.

To apply in strict confidence now email your cover letter and CV to:

duncan.king@midlands.co.nz or write to Midlands Contracting Ltd PO Box 65, Ashburton 7740 Attention: Duncan King Applications close Friday 12th July 2013.

Email your application together with your CV to: hr.manager@ats.co.nz Applications close 6th June 2013.

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Office Receptionist We are looking for an enthusiastic, bright and bubbly person to be the front-line receptionist for our busy office.

The successful applicant will be handling the day to day running of our reception area, including inwards/outwards mail, administration support and general office duties.

If you have an excellent telephone manner and good understanding of what customer service means we would like to hear from you.

Please apply by email, or in writing with your curriculum vitae to:-

The Staff Partner Gabites Limited P O Box 424 ASHBURTON eparr@gabitesltd.co.nz Newton Apiaries requires a

Beekeeper

for the coming season.

You will need to : # be physically fit # be reliable # have a drivers licence # have beekeeping experience or bee keen to learn

Contact Derek 03 303 0730 or newtond@xtra.co.nz

The Ashburton Farmers Market Committee seeks applications for the position of Market Manager.

The Market season runs from beginning October to end of April (approx).

This is a part time job, every Saturday morning during the Market season, plus some phone and computer work and during the week.

Please reply by July 20, 2013 to secretary, Ashburton Farmers Market, PO Box 49 Ashburton, 7740.

OPERATORS • Scraper Operator • Grader Operator • Excavator Operator We require reliable, self motivated people, experience preferred, to fill the above positions in our team working throughout the Mid Canterbury area doing mainly agricultural earthworks.

Phone Ian 027 221 5288 or 03 324 2289 DENSEM CONTRACTORS

Kitchen/Cook Assistant

at the RSA permanent part time approx – 12 hrs per week Must be available for extra hours, due to catering commitments.

Contact Leanne 027 255 9155

Guardian Classifieds phone 307 7900

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, June 29, 2013

JOBS

To advertise here call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

OUR THRIVING BUSINESSES WANT YOU!

DUE TO EXPEDIENTIAL GROWTH WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO EMPLOY STAFF ACROSS ALL 3 TRADING DIVISIONS We are a family owned and operated business and our name in the industry has been built on hard work and our ability to bring projects in on time and within budget.

All staff will enjoy a wide variety of work and can choose to specialise in the field that best suits their needs.

Applicants will need to be Honest, Hardworking & Reliable.

Excellent opportunities exist for advancement with in our Group of companies.

We currently seek to fill the following positions.

Building: • Quantity Surveyor • Carpenters • Labourers • Apprentices

Precast: • Deck workers • Concrete Placers

If you want something more from your current work place and want the benefits of being part of a larger company, then contact us for more information!

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

» » » »

Full time position (30+ hours per week) Will include some weekend work Competitive wage Previous experience would be an advantage

If this sounds like you, please contact Nicky on 0275 449 524

We have an excellent opportunity for a motivated, self-starter looking for a maintenance fitter role. This position is based at our Ashburton Plant and will report to the Engineering Supervisor.

The successful applicant will be part of a strong engineering team, with a passion for excellence while maintaining and developing our assets for the future.

CMP is a technically advanced processing facility with state-of-the-art equipment, providing ample opportunity for individual growth and genuine career development.

The position is a permanent and salaried one.

• • • • • • • •

Cook Must be able to work well within a team, be able to cope under pressure and produce food with flair and creativity

CMP Canterbury Ltd, is a leading NZ meat exporter and part of the ANZCO Foods group.

Our ideal applicant will be:

LETICIA FITZGERALD OFFICE MANAGER CELL: 027 314 0094 HOME: 03 307 2667 EMAIL: tesh@mcintoshbuildersltd.co.nz

We are looking for a Cook for our busy Cafe/Deli

Maintenance Fitter

Molloy Agriculture Limited is based in Methven, Mid Canterbury. We care for our staff and are currently looking to fill the position below with a motivated and responsible team player.

Agricultural Sprayer Operator Full Time Position

Methodical and accurate, especially when under a pressured workload Able to use their initiative and work unsupervised Versatile and flexible A team player Willing to learn and develop Competent in diagnosing and problem-solving Competent in planned and preventative maintenance An excellent communicator.

Enquiries may be made to the HR Recruitment Manager, Sharon McDonald OR the Engineering Manager, John Corcoran on (03) 302 7699.

If you want to make a difference in a growing company, please apply online at www.careers.anzcofoods.com or post applications to The HR Manager, CMP Canterbury Ltd, PO Box 101, Ashburton.

Applications close 4 July 2013.

WE OFFER: • Sole operator of a 2010 Isuzu F Series Truck with a 24 metre sprayer including the latest GPS equipment • Full training will be provided at our expense for you to gain qualifications in this internationally recognised skill • Remuneration at the top end of the scale • Close to amenities such as excellent schools and Mt Hutt Ski Area BENEFICIAL TO HAVE: • Agricultural background • Class 2 Drivers Licence • Positive personal attributes including honesty and reliability Could this be the career change you have been looking for?

Unique Solutions is a local specialist human resources and safety management company whom seek the skills of a

Personal Assistant - 5 hours per week

Applications close 13th July 2013 Contact David Molloy: P: Office: 03 302 8098 E: david@molloyag.co.nz Mobile 0274 386 441 Visit our website - www.molloyag.co.nz

Customer Delivery representative monday – Friday

38 reid crescent en e oP om h

Saturday 11.00am - 11.30am Sunday OPEn HOME CanCELLEd

To be successful, applicants will be customer focused, accurate and neat with paperwork, well organised, quick on their feet and able to lift heavy laundry and hold a clean and full drivers licence.

For further information please contact Stuart Cross on 03 307 8360 Wrights Drycleaners & Apparelmaster 8 Grey Street, Ashburton 7700

• Three bedrooms • Fantastic Allenton location • New kitchen, bathroom, ensuite • Renovated throughout View at www.ashburton.harcourts.co.nz aS020513

Use your smart phone to scan me for more details

Phone 308-6497 View at www.ashburton.harcourts.co.nz

Applicants must be friendly and confident, as the position involves dealing directly with clients and suppliers.

Duties include all aspects of general office procedures, with the ability to identify new ideas to improve existing systems.

Attention to detail document presentation is a must, and experience in MS Office along with exposure in CRM software essential.

Applicants will ideally have previous experience in Human Resources and Health & Safety.

Please send or email your CV and covering letter to: Cindy Meadows, PO Box 193, Ashburton, 7740 or email cindy@uniquesolutions.co.nz Applications close Friday, July 5th, 2013 All applications will be treated in strict confidence.

Work with a great team from a purpose built plant.

Our Apparelmaster division continues to experience growth and seek a person to grow with us.

Offers Over $349,000

Due to a growing client base, Cindy now requires a dynamic, competent and professional PA to manage the administrative tasks within her business.

Confidentiality is a pre-requiste as is the ability to think quickly and be intuitive.

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

96 Tancred Street, Ashburton Phone 03 423 2273 Mobile 021 850 443

Part-time Tractor and Truck Driver Please contact

027 436 0159 or ah 303 5040

Child Carer Experienced child carer to care for three children (5 and under) in their own home, every Tuesday 8.30am - 5pm.

Light family duties involved. Own car preferable, but not essential.

Contact Trudy 308 4330 or 027 685 9460

Auto Electrician Qualified Auto Electrician required for busy Timaru workshop Austin Auto Electric

Phone John 0274 364 198 or email austinauto@xtra .co.nz

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JOBS

We are operating modern machinery with self steer. Job also involves arable farm work.

We are offering to the right person an apprenticeship in the glazing industry.

Full time or casual position.

Apply in writing to:

Our ideal applicant will be:

McCosker Direct Drilling, Wilsons Road, No 7 RD, Ashburton.

• Motivated, practical and willing to learn and develop • Versatile and flexible • A team player • An excellent communicator • Hold a current drivers licence

Or email: mccosker@xtra.co.nz

Please apply in writing to: The Manager Ashburton Glassworks 11 Peter Street Ashburton 7700 Phone 308-3918

McCOSKER DIRECT DRILLING LTD

Applications close July 10, 2013

Promoting Excellence in Agriculture and Goodwill between Town & Country.

ASSOCIATION MANAGER The Ashburton A&P Association seek an enthusiastic and motivated person to fill the part time position of Association Manager (Secretarial), to commence August 1, 2013.

We require a team player with a positive attitude and high degree of initiative, drive and an ability to work well under pressure with volunteers.

Excellence is required in the following: • People skills • Attention to detail • Ability to multi task • Ability to work to deadlines • Computer skills For any enquiries and a copy of the job description, please contact: Chris Watson 027 4325 769 or visit: www.ashburtonshow.co.nz

If this sounds like you, then please forward your confidential application along with your CV and references to: David Bennett 1272 Beach Road, 7RD ASHBURTON 7777 d.mbennett@farmside.co.nz Applications close July 8, 2013.

Office Administrator Part time

We require the services of an experienced office person to assist Emma with the day to day account activities in our very busy office.

ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Cleaning Staff

There are positions available now in the following areas – • Relief cleaners (filling in for absent staff members) • Buffer/polisher operators (experience an advantage) Expressions of interest close Friday 03 July 2013.

Please contact:

the Property & Service Office on 307 2420, and/or forward your CV to: Cleaning Positions

P O Box 204

Ashburton 7740 W Kirk Campus Manager

Carpenters or labour only builders.

Labourers Hammer Hands Apprentices

Workers required to work on shopping complex in Ashburton and repairs and maintenance work in Ashburton county.

All pay and conditions to be negotiated.

Phone Murray on 0274 342 021.

Legal Secretary

Experience in MYOB accounting systems would be an advantage.

The successful applicant will have a pleasant personality, be highly motivated, keen to work as part of a team and have a high standard of accuracy together with a sound knowledge of Microsoft Word & Excel.

Office Manager KB Panel & Paint services Ltd 154 Dobson Street Ashburton 7700 Alternatively, you can apply online to kbpanel_paint@xtra.co.nz Applications close Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Employment is under the Support Staff in Schools’ Collective Agreement, Associate Grade B, Initial payment step commensurate with experience.

Commencement: for beginning of Term 3 preferred

(Monday 29 July).

Applications close 5:00pm, Monday 08 July 2013.

Builders Required • • • •

Fixed Term position to end of 2013 College year (13 December), 25 hours/week College term time.

Enquiries/applications to: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator, Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton 7740 Email: sheena.tyrrell@ashcoll.school.nz Phone: 308 4193, ext 812; Fax: 308 2104.

Duties will include; wages, banking, creditor accounts, GST, PAYE, etc.

If you could see yourself being a part of our youthful, enthusiastic team, apply in writing complete with an up to date C.V., to:

To work in mainstream classes with identified students (Years 9-13), and other student-related tasks as requested.

Ashburton College is requesting an expression of interest from people who would like to join their cleaning team.

We wish to employ a Legal Secretary to join our busy legal practice.

As this is a new position, hours of work could be tailored to suit individual applicants availability.

Learning Support Assistant Position

Duties will include telephone enquiries, typing, filing, photocopying and other general office duties.

The applicant will ideally have had recent experience working in a legal environment and need to be selfmotivated with excellent organisational and people skills, be a team player with a flexible, proactive and professional attitude.

An attractive remuneration package and pleasant working conditions are offered. All applications will be treated in strict confidence.

Please apply in writing, enclosing a copy of your CV, to: The Office Manager ARGYLE WELSH FINNIGAN Solicitors PO Box 454 Ashburton 7740 Email: jan.johnson@awlegal.co.nz Applications close at 5 pm Tuesday, July 9, 2013

WDL – Dairy farm

WDL Dairy is located 7 minutes from Ashburton in Wakanui.

We require a part-time relief milker to assist our staff on our 200 pedigree cow dairy.

Applicants will preferably have dairy experience and/or a willingness and interest to learn new skills. Hours will be to cover days off and leave for existing staff, with some flexibility and will cover approximately 1-2 days per week.

Remuneration negotiable to experience/suitability

For further consideration email your cv (detailing experience, skills and including references and visas) to: nina@canterburydriedfoods.co.nz or phone Nina (Mobile 0275 666 682 or Work 03 302 3817).

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit, and applications will close on Tuesday, June 2, 2013 at 5pm.

To promote your business in any of the Ashburton Guardian products, call me now

ASHLEIGH FRASER

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT MOB

TEL FAX EML ADR WEB

021 892 425

03 307 7975 03 307 7981 ashleigh.f@theguardian.co.nz Level 3, 161 Burnett Street Ashburton www.guardianonline.co.nz

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There’s a buyer for every property advertised in the Guardian every Friday

To advertise here call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, June 29, 2013

Classifieds

TENDERS

Tender

– C619 Roadside Drainage Improvements, Ashburton District Tenders are invited for roadside drainage improvements of 17 kilometres of rural roads at 19 sites in the Ashburton District. The work comprises the excavation of swale drains and the removal of high shoulders.

Tender documents are available from the Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton - Phone (03) 307 7700, Fax (03) 308 1836. All inquiries should be directed to Tony MacPherson, Roading and Street Services Contracts Engineer.

Tenders close with the Chief Executive, Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton 7740, at 4.00 pm on Tuesday, 16 July 2013.

RURAL TRADING POST

WANTED

Baleage wanted!

$ CASH PAID $ $ $ $ FOR SCRAP $

we are currently after baleage!

TRADES & SERVICES

BUYERS OF ALL METALS Copper, Brass, Aluminium etc.

all sized bales wanted, all types of quality considered.

Mid-Canterbury Metal Recycling

good money paid.

10A McGregor Lane, Riverside Estate

Please call James on 027 436 9989

Licensed Buyer Dealer

(Off McNally Street)

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Phone 308-8959 or 027-228-1467 anytime

REAL ESTATE BANNER M.R.E.I.N.Z

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

ROB ROUSE Operations Manager www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

Let us solve your people puzzle

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Saturday 11.00am - 11.30am

Advertise your vacancies with the Guardian today - phone 307 7900

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Birthday Greetings Cake Tin Hire

20 novelty shapes

$15 for 7 days

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287

Quinn McDowell Happy 5th Birthday Quinn, for yesterday.

Love Mum and Dad.

Jakob Blampied Happy 1st Birthday, for yesterday. We love you loads.

Love Mum, Dad, Ashleigh and Ella-Rose. xx Jakob Blampied Happy Birthday, for yesterday.

Big 1 year old, love from both nana, grandads and all extended family.

Jackson Reed Happy 4th Birthday wee man!!

Lots of love Mum, Dad and Roxy. xxoo

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Free Birthday 12 underdays only.before Free birthday greetings greetings must mustfree be received received at least least two twoand working birthday be at working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear date of insertion, otherwise there noavailable guarantee thatground it will appear theday dayrequested. requested.

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Offers Over $349,000

Sunday OPEn HOME CanCELLEd

Guardian Classifieds

Phone 307 7900

• Three bedrooms • Fantastic Allenton location • New kitchen, bathroom, ensuite • Renovated throughout View at www.ashburton.harcourts.co.nz aS020513

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Phone 308-6497 View at www.ashburton.harcourts.co.nz

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Having a garage sale? Call the Guardian 307 7900 for all your classified requirements.

HOME handyman available. LARGE office room with Minor repairs, painting etc. adjoining reception area available for lease. Ground Ph 027-677-1952. floor and central location.

Phone Julie 027 688 4334.

RURAL TRADING POST

PUBLIC NOTICES Sale of Liquor Act 1989

Public Notice Nekita Enterprises Limited has made application to the District Licensing Agency at Ashburton for the renewal of an Off Licence in respect of the premises situated at 87 Harrison Street, Ashburton, and known as “Allenton Liquor Store” The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is- Bottle Store The days on which and the hours during which liquor is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 9.00am to 9.00pm The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Agency at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 10 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary Ashburton District Licensing Agency P O Box 94 ASHBURTON This is the second publication of this notice.

The first publication was made on June 22, 2013.

MOTORING

LIVESTOCK & PETS

WANTED - used Ford, Belarus and Massey of unwanted Ferguson tractors in any BUYER Cattle, bobby condition.

Freephone animals. calves, horse and all farm 0800-888-343. animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272-101-621 A/H 03-322TRADES & SERVICES 7626.

CALF SHED BEDDING CARPET 2 you, sales and Premium woodmulch installation. Mike Gill phone chipped from our slabwood.

0274-914-210.

Guaranteed 100% untreated NO PLUMBER / DRAINLAYER wood/bark OR Log fire installations, CONTAMINATION bathroom and kitchen DEMOLITION renovations, plumbing MATERIALS. Sawdust also repairs, hot water cylinder available - Adams Sawmill, replacements. Peter Young Malcolm McDowell Road. Ph reg. Plumber and Drainlayer 308 3595. phone 03 307 7582 or 027 280 0889.

ROOFING - for all your roofing requirements, new roofs, reroofing, commercial, insurance claims, repairs.

Licensed building practitioner, Wiki, Vision Roofing, phone 027-4760203.

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

MEADOW hay for sale.

Handy to Ashburton, $5 per bale. Ph 308 5204 or 027 555 AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 1123.

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all SMALL bales sugar grass electric heating. Sky, all mod hay $5. Also small bales cons, short walk to village..

Italian straw $3. All shed Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180. stored. Ph 03 308 9720.

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

WANTED

LET OR LEASE

LOST & FOUND

LOST - from Bullock Street/ Miller Avenue area. One black cat. May be heading back to Chalmers Avenue.

Phone 307 7601.

HIRE GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / contracting work. Call and see U-Hire Ashburton, 588 East Street.

Open: Mon-Fri 7.30am5.30pm; Sat 7.30am-5pm; Sunday 8.00am-12.30pm.

Ph: 308-8061 A/H: 308-7460 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

FOR SALE ALLENTON SCOUTS, Jamboree '13 Fundraising.

For Sale: green bluegum $150 3 cubic metres, free delivery in town. Crushed sheep manure 25kg bags, 1 for $20, 2 for $30, or 4 for $50. Please phone Rebecca 308 5738. Cheese rolls coming soon!!!

BEVEL BACK WEATHERBOARDS. New stock of weatherboard clears $5.33/m (incl GST). Stocking all your timber requirements for around the house and garden - Adams Sawmilling, Malcolm McDowell Road Ph 308-3595 Mon-Fri 7am5.30pm Sat 8am-12noon.

Eftpos.

FIREWOOD dry macrocarpa and blue gum $250, dry poplar $140, green blue gum $160. All 3.6 m3. Old man pine logs - $45 tonne delivered.

Phone Shane James firewood 03 303 7063.

FIREWOOD - dry old man pine. Four and six metre loads. Phone Ron Harris.

0274-652-122.

FIREWWOD dry Bluegum $250 per 3.6m split and delivered. Ph Tim Boyd 03 303 6280.

KWILA DECKING Available in 90x19 and 140x19 with large choice of lengths available. Stocking all your timber requirements for under your deck as well Adams Sawmill, Malcolm McDowell Road, Ph 308 3595 - Eftpos/credit card.

POTATOES: Rua and Ilam Hardy. $30 bag delivered.

Phone 308 5972.

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602.

ENTERTAINMENT Beckley Coachlines Programme “Kings of the Gym” Saturday, July 6, 2pm Court Theatre, Chch This is a comedy produced by the team who produced the popular show “The Motor Camp” For bookings phone 308 7646.

Classifieds

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, June 29, 2013

PUBLIC NOTICES

Ashburton Lakes Rabbit Control July to September 2013 During July - September 2013, the Department of Conservation, Raukapuka Area, Geraldine, intend to apply a fumigation pellet Magtoxin on Public Conservation land to control rabbits.

Location

PLANTS & PRODUCE

Granny Smith Apples Cauliflower Red & Green Grapes Now available - Fresh Bread

OPEN 7 DAYS The Green Grocer

Poisoning will occur adhoc at sites wherever burrows are encountered throughout the area. The bait will be distributed by hand and placed down burrows where rabbit sign indicates it is required.

Always remember: • DO NOT touch any bait.

• WATCH CHILDREN at all times.

• DO NOT bring DOGS into this area.

• DO NOT EAT animals from this area.

Observe these rules whenever you see warning signs about pesticides.

For an Operational Factsheet contact: Raukapuka Area Office, Geraldine Tel: 03 693 1010 A detailed map of the treatment area may be viewed on the DOC website www.doc.govt.nz under the Canterbury Pesticide Summary section, and is available from the Raukapuka Area Office, Geraldine.

.99¢ kg $1.99 ea $4.99 kg 2 for $4

Specials available from 25-06/02-07

Method of Control

The pesticides used in these operations are poisonous to humans and domestic animals.

LIVESTOCK & PETS

Saturday/Sunday Special Bananas .99¢ kg

Rabbit control is to take place on Public Conservation land at selected sites within the Ashburton Lakes Area, specifically the Lakes Hill, Swin Stream area.

Fresh Fruit & Vege

FOR SALE

landscape supplies

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

For more information about the Department visit doc.govt.nz

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL LANDLORDS. Don’t leave the management of your valuable asset in the hands of a company that’s primary income is from selling properties. Property management is our sole focus 24/7.

Contact B&N Properties Ltd now, 0800 111 252 www.bnproperties.co.nz

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

Guardian Classifieds

Phone 307 7900 ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL TO RENT - 2 bedroom + sun room, red brick, heat pump + gas fire, double garage, well fenced. $310.00 pw. Phone 03 308 1489 evenings.

Church Church Services Services Salvation? What’s that?

It is about getting to know, in life-time, Jesus Christ our Saviour and God the Heavenly Father.

We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area:

BEAT THE WINTER BLUES. Warm up with one of our smoking hot ladies, that are waiting for you in • Research, treatment, provision of equipment in sexy lingerie. The lovely relation to, and the education and training of skilled Crystal is back, and we also persons relative to, the disease of cancer. welcome Mila to the team.

NEW LADIES WELCOME. • Research, development, education for, training 021 565 126.

and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

• The needs of young people who suffer physical or mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers.

Applications close at 5pm, Friday, July 19, 2013.

For further information and application forms, please contact: The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/- Croys Ltd Level 2 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582 Ashburton 7740 Phone 03 308 8353 Email mcf@croys.co.nz

ENTERTAINMENT

Hinds Wayside Inn

Double Trouble Rock duo - live Saturday, June 29 9pm onwards.

See you there!

Guardian Classifieds

It can change your life!

Come and listen to the Gospel from the Bible.

Sundays, 4pm (one hour) in the Allenton Community Centre, Harrison Street.

Ernie Seyb, Joel van Velden Tel 021 108 3357

Jubilee Christian Fellowship

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL NEED a TENANT? 5 security checks, 4 property managers, 3 management options, Emailed Account Statements, Owner Login, Zero Tolerance Rent Arrears, Mediation and Tenancy Act compliant = your peace of mind. Its why more people are choosing McGregor Rental Management!

Taking your no-obligation enquiry now www.mcgregorrealestate.co. nz/propman.htm rentals@mcgregorrealestate. co.nz or 308 6173 and ask for our rental dept! McGregor Real-Estate LREA-2008, MREINZ

RENTAL TROUBLE? 4 property managers, 5 security checks, 3 management options, emailed account statements, owner login, zero tolerance rent arrears, mediation and Tenancy Act compliant = your peace of mind. Its why more people are choosing McGregor Rental Management! Taking your enquiry now ADULT ENTERTAINMENT no-obligation www.mcgregorrealestate.co. nz/propman.htm rentals@mcgregorrealestate.

A LOVELY new Asian, hot co.nz or 308 6173 and ask for and sexy, really friendly, our rental dept! McGregor Real Estate LREA-2008, sensual massage. Phone MREINZ Amy 021 100 3539.

10am Every Sunday All Welcome

Calling all believers. Your faith will be strengthened.

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting Heart to God And Hand to Man Celebration Service and Children’s Programme

10.00am

10.30am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

You’re very welcome!

Cnr Cass & Cameron St 308 7610 - 308 7062 Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts, Phone 308 5409 Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10am Morning Service

phone 307 7900

131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School Hall) Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm

We hope to see you this Sunday!

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

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Speaker: Bob Ritchie LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church) Creche Available Refreshments to follow.

6.00pm House of Prayer YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VERY WELCOME

GRAZING WANTED Long Term grazing wanted for 1200 Capital Stock Ewe Hoggets. Number to suit. $ Per Head Per Week paid through Winter then $ Live Weight Gain for Spring.

Enquiries: Jonty Hyslop 0275 956 450.

PGG Wrightson Timaru

DAILY DIARY SATURDAY JUNE 29 9.30am - 12.30pm. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open today. Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am - 12.00pm. ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm. MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords Road, near the sale yards.

SUNDAY JUNE 30 8.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am. HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass.

Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am. ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Cafe Service - “Taking Wings” speaker Craig Hansen. All welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service, 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton.

9.30am. METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square East Church lounge.

10.00am. ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovett’s Road, off Maronan Road.

10.00am. HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH, Mass.

Sealy Street.

10.00am. ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown. cnr Havelock and Park streets.

10.00am. ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street.

10.30am. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. now at 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am. EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

12.50pm. M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come try Petanque, everyone welcome, Racecourse Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic Aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

2.00pm. MID CANTERBURY CHOIR. “10 years of song”. $17 seniors and students, $22 adults.

Ashburton Trust Event Centre. Note Time.

3.00pm. ASHBURTON MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Bi monthly meeting. Guest Speaker, Don McLeod at the museum. Baring Square East.

7.00pm. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. now at 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service in the Sinclair Centre with Rev David Brown. Park Street.

MONDAY July 1 9.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road.

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

9.30am - 10.30am. AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Ladies exercise classes start today. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.30am - 11.30am. AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Men’s exercise classes start today. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Seafield Road.

1.15pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting, all welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

6.00pm. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road.

7.30pm. CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre in the Parish centre, Cnr Burnett and Winter Streets.

7.30pm. TINWALD INDOOR BOWLING CLUB. Bowlers welcome. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, June 29, 2013

Weekend Services HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL HML Home care Medical Limited GENERAL WARDS - (Medical and Surgical): - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr DAILY, 2.00pm - 4.00pm and 6.00pm - 7.30pm Health Advice.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

CHALMERS WARD DUTY DOCTORS This service is for EMERGENCY MEDICAL (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. CARE ONLY. Please remember your MATERNITY WARD Community Services Card.

DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

Emergency phone until 8am Monday -Husbands and patient’s own children may - 0800 700 155.

Allenton Medical Centre, Harrison Street, will visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm. be the duty practice for Saturday and Sunday until TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am -unrestricted visiting.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

MENTAL HEALTH -

COMMUNITY POOL

Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support.

Ph: 03 364 8791

WEEKEND HOURS: Hours: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP - 24 hr- STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Direct dials to a volunteer.

Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm message.

ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm both days.

No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 ASHBURTON REST HOMES: 9139. Emergency phone until 8am Monday 0800 COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, unrestricted LIFELINE 700 155. visiting.

For weekend doctor and emergency details please phone the Rakaia Medical Centre, ph 303 5002.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners

COMMUNITY SERVICES ART GALLERY

Phone 308 1133. Baring Square East, Ashburton.

Sat & Sun: 10.00am - 4.00pm Closed Public Holidays.

EMERGENCY DENTIST

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

PHARMACIES

East Street Pharmacy, East Street, Ashburton.

Saturday open from: 9.30am - 12 .30pm.

Sunday open from: 10am - 12 noon.

Saturday and Sunday evenings: 6pm - 7pm.

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm.

Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday & Sunday 10am - 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA -

INFORMATION CENTRES

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

HELPLINE SERVICES

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10:00am-1:00pm Sunday 1:00pm -4:00pm

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL

Baring Square East, Ashburton. Ph 308 3167 Saturday-Sunday 1.00pm - 4.00pm Closed Statutory Holidays.

Group Bookings by arrangement

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WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER

Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS CARE VETS - Ph 03 308 2327, 246 Tancred Street, Saturday clinic: 10am - 2pm.

Emergencies: Nina Fields.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Phone 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am-12 noon. Emergencies: Lge: Hazel Foley. Sml: Reon McMurtrie.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton.

Emergencies: Lge: Catherine Hayward.

Sml: Refer Care Vets.

24-hour emergency service CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, 363 West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am-12 noon. Emergencies: Steve Williams ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 027 657 232, 149 Cameron Street Ashburton: The duty vet for emergencies this weekend is: Len Chamberlain. Full emergency service all weekend.

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8:34 2:43 9:01 3:17 9:34 3:43 10:01 4:16 10:33 4:42 11:01 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 8:09 am Set 5:04 pm Good

Good fishing

Rise 8:09 am Set 5:04 pm Good

Good fishing

Good fishing

Set 11:26 am

Rise 12:07 am Set 11:55 am

Rise 1:12 am Set 12:24 pm

Fine weather. Strong gusty northwesterlies easing for a time.

The ridge over the North Island tomorrow should drift slowly northwards allowing westerlies to strength over the South Island. During Monday and Tuesday WEDNESDAY the ridge continues to move northwards as westerlies strengthen over southern and central New Zealand.

Fine weather. Gusty northwesterlies.

The flow should turn northerly on Wednesday.

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 3:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 3:30 pm, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

Last quarter

New moon

First quarter

30 Jun 4:55 pm ©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd.

8 Jul www.ofu.co.nz

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Temperatures °C

122.2 8.27 11.3 52.5

16 Jul

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa

3:20 pm

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A few showers about the divide. Fine in the east with some high cloud.

Wind at 1000m: NW, gusting 65 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: Strong NW 60 km/h

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WEDNESDAY Rain about the divide, fine in the east.

Strong or gale northwesterlies.

World Weather Forecast for today

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Canterbury Readings to 4pm yesterday Ashburton Airport

TOMORROW

TUESDAY

NZ Situation

Rise 8:08 am Set 5:05 pm Good

Fine with morning frosts. Northwest breezes.

TUESDAY

Source: Environment Canterbury 2:18

TOMORROW

MONDAY

FZL: 1200m

Mainly fine and frosty, but cloudy periods and a few morning showers about the divide.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to 35 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: W rising to 45 km/h.

Fine and frosty. Northwest breezes.

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TODAY: Fine, morning frost. Northwest breezes.

TOMORROW: Fine, morning frost. Northwesterlies.

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Ashburton Forecast

max gust

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

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16 17 31 19 18 27 35 31 15 30 32 41 18 15 18

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Compiled by © Copyright Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited 2013

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

9 5 28 22 26 24 2 26 14 20 16 7 19 22 28

18 15 33 28 32 33 21 34 20 29 31 15 30 30 34

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

24 14 5 23 13 14 22 25 12 11 25 23 21 19 12

30 20 23 29 22 26 33 32 20 18 33 31 24 31 16

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

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