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Confirmed cases of whooping cough (pertussis) in Ashburton have prompted a warning to parents to look out for symptoms and ensure immunisations are up to date.

In the week before Christmas there was one reported case of pertussis in Ashburton.

Canterbury medical officer of health Dr Alistair Humphrey said the number of cases in Canterbury was falling, but he warned people to be aware of the symptoms and seek medical advice.

Whooping cough is a highly infectious bacterial disease that starts with cold-like symptoms that progress to a severe cough.

The cough is accompanied by breathlessness, a flushed face.

Sometimes a whoop is heard as the person breathes in after coughing. Symptoms can also include fever and sneezing.

Dr Humphrey said the disease could affect people of any age but was more serious in children under two years old. It can last up to three months.

Although only one case had been confirmed, he said it was

entirely possible there were more cases.

Anyone with a cough persisting for a week should see their doctor. And if after two weeks it had not cleared up they should go back, as whooping cough required a special antibiotic treatment which was not effective after three weeks.

Dr Humphrey said infants were especially at risk of breathing difficulties and pneumonia, which could lead to hospitalisation.

He recommended parents kept young children away from people with symptoms.

People with whooping cough can remain infectious for three weeks.

Free vaccinations are available for children, and during past epidemics it saved lives, Dr Humphrey said.

Babies are immunised at six weeks, three months and five months.

Boosters are given at four and 11 years.

Dr Humphrey also recommended pregnant women get vaccinated to protect their unborn child, and grandparents should also consider getting immunised.

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New Springsteen album leaks online

Bruce Springsteen’s new album has leaked online weeks ahead of its scheduled January 17 release. The album, High Hopes, appeared briefly on Amazon.com this week and is now circulating on filesharing websites. It is not known if the early release was deliberate or due to human error. Earlier this month Beyonce surprised fans with the sudden release of her fifth studio album. The publicity propelled the album to the top of the US chart in its first week. High Hopes, announced in November, is Springsteen’s eighteenth album. It features various songs recorded over the past 10 years and includes appearances by former members Danny Federici, who died in 2008, and Clarence Clemons, who died in 2011. Springsteen is touring New Zealand in March.

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Cannabis bakery prepares for legal sale Business owners are counting down the hours until tomorrow when marijuana is legal for recreational use, but not all stores are selling marijuana that is for smoking.

“We are a wholesale bakery. We handcraft small batches,” said Love’s Oven bakery manager Hannah O’Rourke. “We have about five recreational orders to prepare right now, but each order is about 10 times the size of our typical medical marijuana orders,” said O’Rourke. Love’s Oven is one of a handful of cannabis bakeries that got their recreational licence with retail pot business owners. “We will be very busy,” said O’Rourke. However, there are guidelines.

“All recreational products have to be 100 milligrams or less.

As to medical marijuana, we sell 4000 milligram cups of butter,” said O’Rourke. O’Rourke says their ingredients also must be divided between recreational and medical.

Packaging will change too and be plain, simple, and not easy for kids to open. The pastry chef, Hope, was busy decorating tiny chocolate treats for recreational users.

“There are other items on our recreational menu that are not available for medical,” Hope said. “More things that are for the one time tries or first time users like caramel, and we also do funny things like misfortune cookies.”

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Strawberry busted in test drop An 80-pound illuminated strawberry that’s lowered every New Year’s Eve in downtown Harrisburg has ended up in a messy jam.

The berry fell three stories and smashed during a practice run at the Hilton Harrisburg on Friday. Officials say a faulty harness clip is to blame. The Hilton is working to build a new strawberry for revelers to ring in 2014. The strawberry drop started in 1989. The berry that broke Friday had been used for around 10 years.

Courtney Love shares love advice with fans Rocker Courtney Love has made an online New Year’s resolution to forgive and forget. The former Hole frontwoman, who was married to Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain, says she has harboured regrets about her handling of past romances but is no longer interested in holding grudges. Love has written on her Facebook page: “I think at nearly 50 the basis of any realtionship (sic) should be restraint and pragmatism before the big dramatic tsunami - s**t i wish i knew this at 20, and to become best friends and to make sure your exes dont all hate you (sic). its important to leave romances nicely - and its 2014 so im letting alot of grudges just go, i dont have time... none of it matters... “so to everyone take my advice, lose the grudges and grudge matches first of all youll make alot more money if that doesnt incentivise you, youll just be happier and get kissed more (sic).”

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Gambler rewards cabbie A poker player who left $300,000 in the back seat of a Las Vegas taxi made good on his promise, handing over a $10,000 reward to the honest cabbie who returned the stash. Yellow Checker Star Cab Company CEO Bill Shranko confirmed Gerardo Gamboa had been paid by the poker player.

The cab company also honoured the driver’s good deed by naming him employee of the year, awarding him $1000 and giving him a gift certificate to a Las Vegas steakhouse.

It’s unclear how Gamboa plans to spend the belated Christmas gift. Before he learned about the anonymous gambler’s gift, Gamboa said he wasn’t in it for the money.

“If he doesn’t give me anything, that’s okay,” Gamboa said earlier. “I’m not waiting for any kind of return. I just wanted to do the right thing, and I appreciate what the company did for me.”

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on last year,” she said.

Coronation Park in Tinwald often hosted Lake Hood boaties, but rain has prompted many to stay away and leave numbers “patchy” at the camp ground.

However, many hold out the hope of a return with tonight’s fine weather prediction coupled with a festive atmosphere.

Mt Somers Holiday Park campers (from left) Oliver Davidson, mother Michelle, Connie, 13, and Lily, 7, spent time inside yesterday out of the rain.

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■ NEW YEAR’S EVE IN MID CANTERBURY By myles Hume

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A heavy police presence, sun and low key celebrations are what holidaymakers in Mid Canterbury can expect this evening for New Year’s Eve festivities.

Campers across the district today will be stocking up their chilly bins and gathering with loved ones as they look to enter 2014 with a bang, some with the hope it will bring a clean slate and achievable resolutions.

A window of fine weather in what has been a week of miserable weather will only help fuel festive spirits with forecasts of sunshine and a high of 22 degrees Celsius to carry on through into the night.

Ashburton police will keep a watchful eye to ensure holidaymakers do not begin the year on the wrong foot, with extra staff rostered on with a heavy presence expected in the Ashburton Lakes area, in particular, where teenagers ran amok this time last year.

“We really want people to think about how they are going to get home so they do not drink drive, and also just consider how much you are drinking,” Sergeant Bryan Ennis said.

Ashburton bars are expected to be bustling with revellers, and campgrounds alike, which are hosting events tonight and throughout tomorrow.

Mt Somers Holiday Park manager Mandy Gordon said a New Year party was to be held in the local domain by a DJ, with the money raised from the event to go towards helping run the

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town’s community pool.

Rakaia Holiday Park is also expected to hold their annual party to start this afternoon, but, like many other camp ground celebrations this year including Mt Somers, it is likely to be a low key affair.

The weather has forced many campers to bundle their tents

Mid Canterbury party spots ready to rock

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Ashburton no longer hosts a New Year’s Eve street party but hotels and clubs around the district still want revellers to have a good time.

In Methven, both the Blue and Brown hotels are hosting New Year celebrations, one aimed at families and the other for the late night crowd.

The Blue Hotel has early celebrations on offer for those with young ones or those who want to get to bed early. They advertise early celebrations “just on dark” with sparklers and balloons for all.

Diners at the hotel can eat and relax with the acoustic music of Adam Wilson who starts from 5pm.

Over at the Brown Pub is a New Year’s Eve party with spot prizes and tickets to the Wellington Sevens to be won and a DJ playing the night away.

In Rakaia the Railway Tavern

Family celebrations will be at the Blue Pub.

has a DJ to entertain its patrons and dance in the New Year, In Ashburton, the MSA has “middle of the road” band Cuda Groove playing through until 1am and Liam Kennedy-Clark also scheduled to play. The Shed will host a Mardi Gras party.

The Lake House Bar and Restaurant is also joining in the spirit, set to host live music.

For most of Ashburton’s bars and hotels it is business as usual with many expecting a quiet New Year’s Eve.

into their vehicles and make for drier conditions.

Rakaia Holiday Park manager Robyn Jackson said it had been the worst Christmas and New Year period, in terms of occupancy, in her 12 years in the job.

“I’m quite sure the weather has impacted on our occupancy – we are well down on numbers

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■ TAURANGA HOLIDAY PARK UNDER FIRE

Teen boozers welcomed A Tauranga campsite which has banned adults and families in favour of those who are “young, dumb and full of beer” has been slammed by police and an alcohol abuse expert.

Silver Birch Holiday Park has created a “teenage heaven” where more than 210 under25s have set up tents in what has been nicknamed “Alcohol Alley” to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Park managers Allan Sherson and Richie Robin say they’re giving the youngsters a safe environment in which they can enjoy themselves.

They have four security staff working shifts to keep an eye on the revellers, fenced off the camp, and patrol for under-age drinkers.

But others are concerned that it’s encouraging binge drinking and lacks proper supervision.

“It is grossly irresponsible,” said Professor Jennie Connor,

head of Preventive and Social Medicine at Otago University in Dunedin.

“Large numbers of very young drinkers, with very little supervision, is saying that they are encouraging drunkenness.

It says they are encouraging them to behave in a reckless fashion.

“To explicitly exclude adult supervision just seems outrageous. It’s a publicity stunt, it’s a money making venture, and it’s pathetic really,” she said.

A senior sergeant at Tauranga police station said police hadn’t heard about the plan but were concerned.

“I saw this today and passed it to my boss who rolled his eyes as much as me. It’s the first we’ve heard of it,” he said.

Tauranga and Mount Maunganui are traditional New Year’s Eve hotspots.

Tahuna Beach Holiday Park in Nelson used to welcome hundreds of youths to the campsite

- the biggest in the southern hemisphere - for decades.

But management stopped providing “youth sites or heavy drinking sites” to young people, who used to flock from all over the South Island for New Year’s celebrations, as it became too much hassle and too expensive.

Tahuna manager Ann Cumpstone was stunned that the Tauranga camp has turned to such a market.

“Really? They’re doing this?” she said. “We haven’t had any youth sites, or heavy drinking sites, for six or seven years. It just cost too much in security and in damage. It was just the product of excessive alcohol.”

It was also difficult to monitor under-age drinkers, Ms Cumpstone said.

“I wish them well and hope it all goes all right. They will have to make sure that no under-18s are getting alcohol, or else they better watch out.”

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New Year Honours 2014 NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT Dames Companion Trelise Pamela Cooper, MNZM, Auckland, for services to fashion and the community.

Alison Mae Paterson, CNZM, QSO, Auckland, for services to business.

Knights Companion Dr Noble Thomson Curtis, Rotorua, for services to Maori education.

Archbishop David John Moxon, Rome, for services to the Anglican Church.

Robert John Parker, Christchurch, for services to local body affairs and the community.

Bob Parker Peter James Vela, ONZM, Hamilton, for services to the thoroughbred industry.

Companions Richard Miller Ballantyne, Christchurch, for services to business and the community.

Frana Grace Cardno, QSO, Te Anau, for services to local government.

Alastair Kinloch Carruthers, Auckland, for services to arts governance.

The Hon Lester Hugh Chisholm, Christchurch, for services to the judiciary.

Peter Charles Cooper, USA, for services to urban redevelopment.

Professor Cynthia Margaret Farquhar, MNZM, Auckland, for services to women’s health.

Earl Raymond Hagaman, Christchurch, for services to business, tourism and philanthropy.

Lieutenant General Richard Rhys Jones, Wellington, for services to the State.

urch, for services to business and the community.

Karen Elizabeth Walker, MNZM, Auckland, for services to fashion design.

Honorary Companion Dr Kurt Michael Campbell, USA, for services to New Zealand-United States relations.

Officers Dr Margaret Rosemary Nelson Agee, Auckland, for services to mental health education.

Jane Mary Annear, Timaru, for services to local government.

Graham Lindsay Blow, Wellington, for services to astronomy.

Peter Savery Braithwaite, Christchurch, for services to education.

Ronald Morrison Brown, Auckland, for services to the transport industry.

Professor Robert Allan Buckle, Wellington, for services to business and education.

Hekenukumai Puhipi Busby, MBE, Whangarei, for services to Maori.

Adrian Lawrie Buttimore, Christchurch, for services to the treatment of kidney disease.

Elizabeth Jean Chesterman, Christchurch, for services to the Cancer Society of New Zealand.

John Gordon Coles, Waimate, for services to local government.

Ann Kaye Crosby, Hamilton, for services to business and philanthropy.

Bernard Thomas Crosby, Hamilton, for services to business and philanthropy.

Dr Stephen Latham Goldson, Christchurch, for services to science.

Wendy Ruth Hawke, Auckland, for services to inter-country adoption.

Marjorie Joe, MNZM, JP, Napier, for services to Maori and the community.

Prudence Ann Kelly, Wellington, for services to education.

Thomas Craig Lambie, Pleasant Point, for services to agriculture.

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Rhys Jones Donald Mitchell McKenzie, OBE, Waiheke Island, for services to physiotherapy and the blind.

Donald George McLaren, ONZM, Auckland, for services to the animal health industry and racing.

The Hon John Maurice Priestley, QC, Auckland, for his services to the judiciary.

John Richard Reid, OBE, Auckland, for services to cricket.

Peter Ramsay Townsend, Christch-

Natalie Lavery, Upper Hutt, for services to senior citizens.

Alan David Livingston, Hamilton, for services to sports and the community.

Dr Tearikivao Maoate, Christchurch, for services to Pacific health.

Patrick John McManus, Westport, for services to local government.

Susan May Morris, Taumaranui, for services to local government.

Professor Stephen Richard Munn, Auckland, for services to health.

Geoffrey Peter Murphy, Wellington, for services to film.

Maureen Helena Pugh, Kumara, for services to local government.

Professor Frederick William Seymour, North Shore, for services to psychology.

George Walter Hugh Vercoe, QSM, ED, Morrinsville, for services to local government.

Dale Williams, Otorohanga, for services to local government and youth.

Members Vailankanni Wenceslaus Melchoir Anthony, Auckland, for services to New Zealand-India relations.

Brooke Archbold, JP, Auckland, for services to the Coastguard.

Douglas Charles Beilman, Paraparaumu, for services to music.

Jennifer Mary Bornholdt, Wellington, for services as a poet.

Stephen John Boxer, Manukau, for services to youth.

Senior Sergeant Ian Thomas Campion, Tauranga, for services to the New Zealand Police and the community.

Eleanor Catton, Auckland, for services to literature.

services to real estate and the community.

Ian Edward Mills, Lower Hutt, for services to civil engineering.

Ross William Norman, United Kingdom, for services to squash.

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Eleanor Catton Kevin Barry Chapman, Auckland, for services to publishing.

Allan Sedman Chisholm, Paraparaumu, for services to music.

Dr Harry Clark, Palmerston North, for services to environmental science.

Barry Roger Clarke, Dunedin, for services to the community.

Michael James Cooney, Tauranga, for services to the community.

Peter Courtenay Dale, Te Horo, for services to sport.

Emeritus Professor John Frederick Davidson, Wellington, for services to education and the arts.

Sheryl Lorene Dawson, Tauranga, for services to netball.

Julia Ruth Einhorn, Te Aro, for services to tertiary education and art.

Dr Gary Brian Evans, Lower Hutt, for services to science.

Alexander William Familton, Palmerston, for services to local body government.

Rita Taimalietane Fatialofa-Patolo, Auckland, for services to sport.

Karyn Wendy Fenton-Ellis, Ngaruawahia, for services to the community, arts and racing.

Johanna Mary Frances Galvin (Sister Loyola Galvin), QSM, Wellington, for services to gardening.

Dr Rolf Gjelsten, Wellington, for services to music.

Priscilla Jean Glasson, Christchurch, for services to health and the community.

Francis Roger Maher Hooper, Auckland, for services to fashion design.

Patricia Hubbard, Wellington, for services to early childhood education.

Kathleen Maureen Te Wehioterangi Jehly, Rotorua, for services to education and Maori.

Philip John Keoghan, USA, for services as a television presenter and to tourism.

Philip Trevor Kerslake, Upper Hutt, for services to people with cancer.

Simon Charles Hayes Leeming, USA, for services to New Zealand-United States relations.

Inspector (Ret.) Murray David Lewis, Tauranga, for services to the New Zealand Police and diplomacy.

Amoroa Luke, Blenheim, for services to Maori.

Peter James McDonald, Stratford, for

Gregory Leo O’Brien, Wellington, for services to the arts.

Jeffrey Owen Olsen, Auckland, for services to the New Zealand Customs Service and sport.

Dr Allan Leslie Panting, Nelson, for services to orthopaedics.

Helene Pohl, Wellington, for services to music.

Sergeant Bevan Douglas Seal, Christchurch, for services to the New Zealand Police and youth.

Amanda Skoog, Wellington, for services to ballet.

Alan Charles Sorrell, Auckland, for services to film.

Richard Tayler, Christchurch, for services to athletics.

Tutagaloa Tutose Tuhipa, Auckland, for services to education and the Pacific community.

Hafeiki Vilitama, Niue, for services to Niue.

Robert Craig Walker, Auckland, for services to heavy haulage and the community.

James Leybourne Wallace, Geraldine, for services to the arts and conservation.

Wayne Wills (Bill Hohepa), Auckland, for services to recreational fishing and the community.

Dr Catherine Ruth Wylie, Wellington, for services to education.

QUEEN’S SERVICE ORDER Companions Barbara Wendy Arnott, Napier, for services to local government and the community.

Belinda Clark, Wellington, for services to the State.

Mary Winifred Harris, Otaki, for services to Parliament.

Neville Owen Harris, Lower Hutt, for services to the State.

Rex Edward Hawkins, JP, Taupo, for services to the community.

William Alexander Moore, Wellington, for services to the State.

John Chester Pike, QC, Wellington, for services to the law.

Laurel Heather Taufauata, Auckland, for services to health and the Pacific community.

Judge Barrie Stephen Travis, Auckland, for services to the judiciary.

QUEEN’S SERVICE MEDAL Mervyn Roxford Ah Chee, Auckland, for services to hospitality and the community.

Brian Maxwell Arons, Wellington, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service.

Gretl Bass, Auckland, for services to the community.

Stuart James Batty, JP, Christchurch, for services to the community.

Derek Beveridge, Oamaru, for services to the community.

Kingiareta Richard Biddle, Rotorua, for services to Maori and mental health.

Helen Louise Blake, Levin, for services to philanthropy.

Bruce Eiohan Brownlie, Feilding, for services to aviation and health.

Richard Charles Cashmore, Tauranga, for services to business, sport and the community.

Christine Chambers, Whakatane, for services to the community.

Reverend Judith Anne Cooper, Auckland, for services to Maori arts and the community.

Colin Ian Crombie, Napier, for services to philanthropy.

Manoj Daji, Auckland, for services to sport and education.

George Bruce Darvill, Paeroa, for services to the community.

Garry Dockary, Hastings, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service.

Janet McLeod Forbes, Wellington, for services to prisoner rehabilitation programmes.

Janet Margaret Froggatt, Dargaville, for services to the community.

Norah Fryer, Auckland, for services to early childhood education.

Merle Chalwyn Gibson, Richmond, for services to music and the community.

Murray David Giera, Christchurch, for services to the community.

Mark Christopher Grantham, Auckland, for services to the community.

John Morris Green, Rotorua, for services to conservation.

Christopher John Haines, Invercargill, for services to education.

Lynette Anne Holland, JP, Christchurch, for services to education and the community.

Raymond Andrew Johnston, Pukekohe, for services to the community.

Stephen Andrew Johnston, Christchurch, for services to surf life saving.

Joan Charlotte Franceska Kennett, Palmerston North, for services to early childhood education.

Dr Harry John Kerr, Hastings, for services to health and the community.

Murray Allan Kidd, JP, Auckland, for services to the community.

Candy Michele Lane, Auckland, for services to dance.

Candy Lane Janice Ann Lewis, Tauranga, for services to the New Zealand Police and women’s health.

Wendy Logan, Nelson, for services to early childhood education.

Xiao-Jun Lu, Manukau, for services to the Chinese community.

Han Leang Ly, Auckland, for services to the Cambodian Chinese community.

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Dedicated firefighter works for ‘family’

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A year to forget has become a year to remember for Chris Price as he becomes Ashburton’s latest New Year Honours recipient.

Mr Price receives a Queen’s Service Medal for his service to the New Zealand Fire Service, and while he gets the title, he says the award is recognition for his family and fellow firefighters as much as it is for him.

Mr Price – who has been a firefighter with the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade since 1980 and currently holds the rank of station officer – has spent much of the past 30 years dedicating his life to the fire service, both as a volunteer firefighter and on the administration side.

But earlier this year, work and firefighting took a backseat when a routine check-up knocked him for six.

Mr Price was diagnosed with a mildly aggressive prostate cancer earlier in 2013 and had surgery in May. The diagnosis came as a complete shock for Mr Price, who said he had been feeling fine and hadn’t noticed any symptoms.

He’d taken up an offer of a free medical check from the New Zealand Fire Service, something they offered all firefighters who assisted in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes. It was that chance medical check which revealed the cancer.

He’s now telling everyone who will listen about the importance of regular check-ups.

He knows he’s lucky his cancer was found early enough to do something about it. Now he’s getting on with life and being back on the fire truck when the siren sounds.

David John Mackie, JP, Clinton, for services to the community.

John Roger Macnaughtan, JP, Auckland, for services to New ZealandRussia relations.

Joan Elsie Marks, Whangaparaoa, for services to the community.

Robert George Maskill, Greymouth, for services to education.

Alan John McLay, Oamaru, for services to the community.

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Chris Price has received a New Year’s Honour for his service to the New Zealand Fire Service.

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For him, the fire brigade is like a big family.

“I always liken it to being in the Jaycees or something, but we’ve got better toys.”

It takes dedication and it’s not always pleasant, but it’s worth it.

“If you go out in the middle of the night and have a successful outcome that’s a great reward.”

Mr Price became a firefighter while completing an apprenticeship with Smallbone Bros, right next door to the fire station. During a stag night with some firefighters, someone pointed out he was really handy to the station and sugDr Logan James Ewart McLennan, Porirua, for services to health and education.

Jacqueline Nuki McVinnie, Hamilton, for services to ecclesiastical embroidery.

Neil Alexander Bisshopp Monro, Palmerston North, for services to rugby and the community.

Marguerite Rose Moore, Westport, for services to women’s health.

Lloyd Henry Morris, JP, Whangarei, for services to the community.

June Nixey, Wellington, for services to prisoner rehabilitation programmes.

Peter Franklin O’Brien, Auckland, for services to the community.

Davorin Ivan Ozich, Ranui, for services to the Croatian community.

Simon Jigwan Park, JP, Wellington, for services to the Korean community and education.

Allan Anthony Pengelly, Auckland, for services to sport and the community.

Wendy Katrine Pettigrew, Whanganui, for services to heritage preser-

gested he go and meet with the then chief. He did, and never looked back.

“Back in those days if you were walking past the fire station they would pretty much reach out and grab you,” he said.

These days there is a sevenday recruitment course and medical and police checks as part of the sign-up procedure.

“Back then we were doing about 180 calls a year and fires and accidents were the bread and butter, and you still occasionally got the odd cat up a tree, but now there’s a lot more medicals,” he said.

He was asked to stand for vation.

Stephen George Poole, JP, Auckland, for services to the community.

Kenneth Bruce Popple, Porirua, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service and the Coastguard.

Glyn Griffiths Powell, Auckland, for services to aeronautical heritage preservation.

Joyce Patricia Prankerd, Paraparaumu, for services to netball.

Christopher Bruce Price, Ashburton, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service.

Elaine Elsie Sharman, Lower Hutt, for services to music.

William Mervyn Shepherd, Whangarei, for services to hockey and farming.

Kanagarasa Sivaraj, Auckland, for services to the community.

Michael Richard Skerrett, JP, Invercargill, for services to Maori and the community.

William Huston Smale, Auckland, for services to education.

Margaret Anne Stove, Australia, for

the Canterbury Provincial Fire Brigades Association, the organisation that runs competitions, provides welfare support at local levels, and assists brigades with internal issues.

That led to being elected on to the United Fire Brigades Association (UFBA), the national body, on which he served three two-year terms, the last two as vice-president and president.

Now that his time with the UFBA is up, he’s enjoying spending more time at home, starting projects he didn’t have time for before, and getting out on his motorbike.

He’s still fighting fires around Mid Canterbury and services to hand-knitted lace design.

Linda Tame, Christchurch, for services to education.

Linda Tame Janice Margaret Taouma, Auckland, for services to early childhood education.

Barbara Joan Taranaki, JP, Cambridge, for services to the community.

Henry James Towersey, Whakatane, for services to the community.

even works for the New Zealand Fire Service now, as the region four fleet co-ordinator looking after 88 brigades, 160 trucks and 40 white fleet vehicles around Canterbury, the West Coast and Nelson/Marlborough.

All volunteer firefighters need understanding employers, particularly in a brigade like Ashburton which has this year attended more than 450 callouts. Mr Price says he’s lucky to have had that support all the way through, from Smallbones, to Burnett Transport, to AIS – which at one time had five volunteer firefighters working there – and then EuroAgri.

Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Victor Turner, Mt Maunganui, for services to the New Zealand Police and the community.

John James Tutty, Gore, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service.

Maevis Elsie Watson, Rotherham, for services to health and the community.

Allan Webb, Te Awamutu, for services to the film industry.

Graham Allan Wilshier, Otorohanga, for services to the community.

NZ DISTINGUISHED SERVICE DECORATION Warrant Officer Class 1 Graeme Alexander Bremner, for services to the New Zealand Defence Force and brass bands.

Warrant Officer Class 1 Paul Allister Mumm, for services to the New Zealand Defence Force.

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A year to forget has become a year to remember for Chris Price as he becomes Ashburton’s latest New Year Honours recipient.

Mr Price receives a Queen’s Service Medal for his service to the New Zealand Fire Service, and while he gets the title, he says the award is recognition for his family and fellow firefighters as much as it is for him.

Mr Price – who has been a firefighter with the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade since 1980 and currently holds the rank of station officer – has spent much of the past 30 years dedicating his life to the fire service, both as a volunteer firefighter and on the administration side.

But earlier this year, work and firefighting took a backseat when a routine check-up knocked him for six.

Mr Price was diagnosed with a mildly aggressive prostate cancer earlier in 2013 and had surgery in May. The diagnosis came as a complete shock for Mr Price, who said he had been feeling fine and hadn’t noticed any symptoms.

He’d taken up an offer of a free medical check from the New Zealand Fire Service, something they offered all firefighters who assisted in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes. It was that chance medical check which revealed the cancer.

He’s now telling everyone who will listen about the importance of regular check-ups.

He knows he’s lucky his cancer was found early enough to do something about it. Now he’s getting on with life and being back on the fire truck when the siren sounds.

David John Mackie, JP, Clinton, for services to the community.

John Roger Macnaughtan, JP, Auckland, for services to New ZealandRussia relations.

Joan Elsie Marks, Whangaparaoa, for services to the community.

Robert George Maskill, Greymouth, for services to education.

Alan John McLay, Oamaru, for services to the community.

Alan McLay

Chris Price has received a New Year’s Honour for his service to the New Zealand Fire Service.

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For him, the fire brigade is like a big family.

“I always liken it to being in the Jaycees or something, but we’ve got better toys.”

It takes dedication and it’s not always pleasant, but it’s worth it.

“If you go out in the middle of the night and have a successful outcome that’s a great reward.”

Mr Price became a firefighter while completing an apprenticeship with Smallbone Bros, right next door to the fire station. During a stag night with some firefighters, someone pointed out he was really handy to the station and sugDr Logan James Ewart McLennan, Porirua, for services to health and education.

Jacqueline Nuki McVinnie, Hamilton, for services to ecclesiastical embroidery.

Neil Alexander Bisshopp Monro, Palmerston North, for services to rugby and the community.

Marguerite Rose Moore, Westport, for services to women’s health.

Lloyd Henry Morris, JP, Whangarei, for services to the community.

June Nixey, Wellington, for services to prisoner rehabilitation programmes.

Peter Franklin O’Brien, Auckland, for services to the community.

Davorin Ivan Ozich, Ranui, for services to the Croatian community.

Simon Jigwan Park, JP, Wellington, for services to the Korean community and education.

Allan Anthony Pengelly, Auckland, for services to sport and the community.

Wendy Katrine Pettigrew, Whanganui, for services to heritage preser-

gested he go and meet with the then chief. He did, and never looked back.

“Back in those days if you were walking past the fire station they would pretty much reach out and grab you,” he said.

These days there is a sevenday recruitment course and medical and police checks as part of the sign-up procedure.

“Back then we were doing about 180 calls a year and fires and accidents were the bread and butter, and you still occasionally got the odd cat up a tree, but now there’s a lot more medicals,” he said.

He was asked to stand for vation.

Stephen George Poole, JP, Auckland, for services to the community.

Kenneth Bruce Popple, Porirua, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service and the Coastguard.

Glyn Griffiths Powell, Auckland, for services to aeronautical heritage preservation.

Joyce Patricia Prankerd, Paraparaumu, for services to netball.

Christopher Bruce Price, Ashburton, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service.

Elaine Elsie Sharman, Lower Hutt, for services to music.

William Mervyn Shepherd, Whangarei, for services to hockey and farming.

Kanagarasa Sivaraj, Auckland, for services to the community.

Michael Richard Skerrett, JP, Invercargill, for services to Maori and the community.

William Huston Smale, Auckland, for services to education.

Margaret Anne Stove, Australia, for

the Canterbury Provincial Fire Brigades Association, the organisation that runs competitions, provides welfare support at local levels, and assists brigades with internal issues.

That led to being elected on to the United Fire Brigades Association (UFBA), the national body, on which he served three two-year terms, the last two as vice-president and president.

Now that his time with the UFBA is up, he’s enjoying spending more time at home, starting projects he didn’t have time for before, and getting out on his motorbike.

He’s still fighting fires around Mid Canterbury and services to hand-knitted lace design.

Linda Tame, Christchurch, for services to education.

Linda Tame Janice Margaret Taouma, Auckland, for services to early childhood education.

Barbara Joan Taranaki, JP, Cambridge, for services to the community.

Henry James Towersey, Whakatane, for services to the community.

even works for the New Zealand Fire Service now, as the region four fleet co-ordinator looking after 88 brigades, 160 trucks and 40 white fleet vehicles around Canterbury, the West Coast and Nelson/Marlborough.

All volunteer firefighters need understanding employers, particularly in a brigade like Ashburton which has this year attended more than 450 callouts. Mr Price says he’s lucky to have had that support all the way through, from Smallbones, to Burnett Transport, to AIS – which at one time had five volunteer firefighters working there – and then EuroAgri.

Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Victor Turner, Mt Maunganui, for services to the New Zealand Police and the community.

John James Tutty, Gore, for services to the New Zealand Fire Service.

Maevis Elsie Watson, Rotherham, for services to health and the community.

Allan Webb, Te Awamutu, for services to the film industry.

Graham Allan Wilshier, Otorohanga, for services to the community.

NZ DISTINGUISHED SERVICE DECORATION Warrant Officer Class 1 Graeme Alexander Bremner, for services to the New Zealand Defence Force and brass bands.

Warrant Officer Class 1 Paul Allister Mumm, for services to the New Zealand Defence Force.

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■ UNUSUAL ASHBURTON CAT

In brief Drink driving A 47-year-old man was processed with a breath alcohol limit of 688mcg after being pulled over

by Ashburton police on East Street on Sunday. Also, a 17-yearold local teenager, who was an unlicensed driver, was processed with a reading of 305mcg on Eaton Street, with the under 20 limit being zero. Both will appear in Ashburton District Court early next year.

Ashburton burglary Ashburton police are seeking information into a burglary at a Hampstead address during the weekend.

Quad bike arrest A Mid Canterbury man has been charged for receiving a stolen quad bike, following a spate of quad bike thefts in November. He will appear in Ashburton District court early next year.

Fairton crash

Haxtendorf Cattery breeder Mary Hefford and Larry the lilac kitten, who is off to Australia.

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Lilac Larry packs bags for Perth Larry the lilac kitten is heading offshore to offer his services to an Australian cat breeder.

Ashburton owner and Haxtendorf Cattery breeder Mary Hefford said Larry, a “lilac” kitten, was a genetic throwback going back generations.

“They are not rare but they are not often seen.”

Her usual breeding cats were British and Russian breeds in blue or black colours.

When Larry was born, she was puzzled.

It was the first time she had produced a lilac.

A lilac is produced as a result of a chocolate gene and for Larry it turned out to be 10

generations back on his mother’s side, and 12 generations back on his father’s side.

His parents were both British Blues - Haxtendorf Minnie Caldwell (mother) and Intrigue Magnitude to Remember (father).

Larry, born October 9, will head off to live with an Aus-

tralian British breeder in Perth.

He will leave at 16 weeks on what is likely to be his first and last OE. Mrs Hefford said she never intended to breed a lilac and never wanted to again but Larry had won her over. Along with his lilac-coloured coat, he was laid back and special.

■ HOLIDAY ROAD TOLL

Fewer kittens to re-home, says SPCA

Death toll at 5

By Michelle NelsoN michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

With fewer kittens to re-home this Christmas, the Ashburton SPCA is hopeful its neutering programme is paying off.

“It hasn’t been too bad this Christmas, we haven’t seen the same rush with kittens we usually do at this time of year,” Mid Canterbury SPCA inspector John Keeley said.

“I’d like to think people have been more responsible about spaying and neutering their pets, after the thousands we’ve spent.”

The society has helped with subsidies for pet owners who qualify for assistance and in the past run free de-sexing clinics to assist with curbing the population of unwanted cats.

However, Mr Keeley said

the issue of feral cats remains a problem.“There a few pockets of feral cats, especially around Hakatere and in town – there’s one on Middle Road and one on Trevors Road – the problem is people who let cats breed uncontrolled, and let them go wild,” he said.

“The council doesn’t take any responsibility for them, and there’s not much we can do either.”

A record number of 35 feral cats were caught and euthanised by Environment Canterbury contractors in an trapping operation the Ashburton River bed this spring.

The trapping has been undertaken annually since 2003 to protect nesting endangered birdlife on the river and 276 feral cats have been caught.

Lotto reward A couple who won a million dollars from a Lotto ticket given as a Christmas gift plan to thank the relative who bought it for them by paying off their mortgage. Lotto spokeswoman Kirsten McConchie said the first division-winning ticket was bought at a Tauranga Lotto outlet and and sent to a couple in Taupo by a family member as a Christmas gift. Ms McConchie said the middle-aged couple were “very, very excited”.

“They were nervous about the win. They celebrated with fish and chips.”

Meth lab found

■ LOCAL NEUTERING PROGRAMME

A 46-year-old woman was killed in a collision between a car and a bus in Hamilton yesterday.

A male passenger from the car was taken to Waikato Hospital with suspected arm injuries. No one from the bus was hurt.

“The intersection was controlled by traffic lights and there were a number of vehicles in the lines of traffic as well as pedestrians and shoppers at the two nearby blocks of shops,” acting Detective Sergeant Tom Evans of Hamilton police said.

The death takes the Christmas holiday road toll to five.

A 4-year-old girl who died when the car her mother was driving left the road and flipped yesterday was named as Kahui Matauwhati. Police said their car crossed the cen-

A motorist was lucky to escape unharmed after losing control on Cochranes Road when approaching the intersection with Seafield Road on Saturday. The car skidded off the road resulting in minor damage. No one was injured.

tre line, hit a culvert on the other side of the road and the vehicle has rolled.

Alcohol and speed did not appear to be factors, he said.

An 11-month-old girl died on Saturday when the van her mother was driving left the road on the Kapiti Coast, flipping up to six times before landing on its roof.

The woman, in her early 30s, was flown to Wellington hospital in a serious condition.

The baby’s father, a passenger in the van, escaped the crash with minor injuries.

One person died and two others were injured in a headon crash between Te Anau and Mossburn in Southland yesterday.

Car passenger Sandy Paul Waenga Brown, 21, from Paua, was the first person killed in the holiday period.

- APNZ

Four people have been charged after police discovered a drugs lab on a rural Coromandel property.

Police became suspicious after vehicles were seen in the supposedly unoccupied property southwest of Whitianga. Two officers saw a woman on a quadbike on the property’s driveway, with a man following her in a ute, Detective Sergeant Dave Grace of Waikato police said.

A search found a jar containing methamphetamine and the officers also located a .22 pistol, some scales, close to $5000 in cash and a meth pipe.

Mother suffers burns A Rotorua mother suffered burns to both hands as she rescued her five young children before her house was engulfed in flames.

The fire, which started in a bedroom, destroyed the Ngongotaha property. Only a blackened shell remained - with charred furniture, cupboards, kitchen appliances and a pile of damaged clothes and bed frames.

The woman received treatment for her burns at Rotorua Hospital but none of the children suffered any injuries. She lived at the house with her partner.

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Mid Canterbury fruit growers are pinning their hopes on sunny forecasts to help ripen crops. But it does not look likely.

The past few days of rain, coupled with future forecasts of showers from New Years day and beyond was not impressing growers.

With around two weeks to go in their season, both Southberry, in Tinwald, and Smithfield Raspberries, in Ashburton, had fruit to sell but wanted more sunshine to get the best out of their crops.

Southberry owner Vicki Dobson said

fruit was being picked and frozen but there was still fresh fruit for sale and going to market.

The farm had raspberries, boysenberries, tayberries, ranui, red and black currants and gooseberries.

She said there was picking between showers but it was not ideal conditions.

“We need some sun.”

Smithfield Raspberries owner Marilyn Smith was also picking when they could.

They had a selection of raspberries, blackberries and ranui berries for sale.

“We have the odd little window (of sunshine) … maybe tomorrow,” she said wistfully.

■ SUPERSONIC RECORD

Rocket engineers still searching A group of rocketry students have given up their search for a small supersonic rocket after losing it following a record attempt in Banks Peninsula early last week.

The team from the University of Canterbury launched the rocket from Kaitorete Spit last Sunday to try to break the New Zealand altitude record for the specific class of motor the rocket uses.

The record stands at 1117 metres.

Prior to the launch, the 41mm-diameter, 541mm-long rocket was expected to

reach an altitude of 2.6km with a maximum speed of 1425 km/h.

Twenty-three-year-old George Buchanan, who project-led the launch along with fellow final year rocketry student David Wright, said it was unlikely they would find the rocket after its transmitter failed. “We put out the call for the farmers to [let us know] if they come across it, but it’s unlikely that we’ll be doing any more searching.”

He was confident though that they had broken the altitude record.

- APNZ

■ AMBULANCE BURGLED

Thief makes off with defibrillator Ambulance staff have been stunned by the brazen theft of a defibrillator from the back of an ambulance while its crew dealt with an emergency.

St John Queenstown ambulance officers were “distraught and extremely disappointed” by the theft of the $30,000 monitor-defibrillator from the unlocked ambulance during a medical call in the resort town on Sunday, St John Central Otago manager Kelvin Perriman said.

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tending to the patient inside, someone ... entered the ambulance and removed a cardio monitor and defibrillator. The crew were unaware until they got back to the station the device had gone from the ambulance, so potentially it could have put lives at risk, although we do carry a smaller back-up automated external defibrillator.”

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■ RUSSIA

Fears mount for Winter Games

By Dmitry Zaks A female suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people at a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, heightening security fears six weeks before the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Investigators said the woman set off her charge after being stopped by a police officer at metal detectors by the main entrance, when the station was packed with New Year travellers.

Footage captured by a nearby camera showed a huge orange fireball blow out the front doors and windows of the three-storey building.

Russia’s Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said officials had begun an inquiry into a suspected “act of terror”.

“A suicide bomber who was approaching a metal detector saw a law enforcement official and, after growing nervous, set off an explosive device,” Markin said.

Doctors and police said 16 people, including the bomber, were

killed and nearly 45 injured by the explosive equivalent of more than 10 kilograms of TNT. Russia’s interior ministry said it was stepping up security at all main train stations and airports.

“These measures involve a greater police presence and more detailed passenger checks,” an interior ministry spokesman told the Interfax news agency.

The website and state-run RIA Novosti identified the bomber as a Dagestani woman named Oksana Aslanova. Female bombers are often referred to as “black widows” and Aslanova had been widowed twice; her Islamist husbands having been killed in fighting with federal forces.

Militants are seeking to impose an Islamist state throughout Russia’s North Caucasus. Their leader, Doku Umarov, has ordered rebels to target civilians outside the region and disrupt the Games.

The UN Security Council condemned the attack “in the strongest terms”, a statement issued by its president, Gerard Araud, said, calling it a “heinous act”. - AFP

Seven children drown Seven Vietnamese schoolchildren drowned while swimming in the sea during a picnic near the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City, local police say. The school trip ended in tragedy after the children were swept out to sea by strong waves at Can Gio beach, a coastal area on the outskirts of Vietnam’s second largest city.

“The last bodies were found early Monday morning,” a policeman in Can Gio district said, without giving further details.

- AFP

Ship still icebound

The flash of an explosion illuminates the entrance to Volgograd railway station in Volgograd Russia. ap photo

A stranded research ship will spend its seventh night wedged in Antarctic sea ice after strong winds pushed back an Australian icebreaker sent to its rescue. The Aurora Australis icebreaker battled through enough sea ice yesterday to come within 10 nautical miles of the stranded vessel, which is carrying more than 70 scientists, explorers and tourists. But in the latest setback to the on-going rescue mission, the icebreaker abandoned its first attempt and sailed into open water as poor weather moved in.

Rescue authorities have now put the mission on hold over safety concerns, but may try again when the weather improves. The ship’s passengers, from Australia and New Zealand, have been stuck on the ship since Christmas Eve. - AAP

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■ NEW YEAR HONOURS

Townsend ‘locked into Christchurch’

By HamisH FletcHer Chief executive at the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce Peter Townsend said his organisation has acted as a “safe pair of hands” for businesses in the region since the Canterbury earthquakes.

The 65-year-old, who personally lost his own house in the disaster, has been appointed a companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and to the community in the New Year Honours.

Townsend, who has spent 17 years leading the CECC, said he would be “seriously considering retirement” if not for the earthquakes.

“The earthquake, for personal reasons and for commercial reasons, has effectively locked me into Christchurch for some time yet so [there’s] no sign of retirement on the horizon at this stage,” he said.

“

The good news is we have had remarkable business survival

Townsend said the CECC, which employs 31 people, has been “pivotal business support agency” following the quakes.

“The Chamber of Commerce, together with other agencies, has acted as safe pair of hands for business in our community and the good news is we’ve had remarkable business survival.

“The churn rate for businesses

has been almost no different postearthquake to pre-earthquake - in other words means business survival has been quite extraordinary,” he said.

The human tragedy of the earthquakes was “horrific” and the material damage “unbelievable”, but Townsend said there was now a chance to recreate the centre of the city, which would provide “enormous economic opportunity for the people of Christchurch”.

“The way I describe the commercial opportunity is we’ve effectively locked in three years of Fonterra’s total export earnings into the city of Christchurch .... that’s insurancedriven capital that’s locked into our community,” he said.

Townsend also serves on a number of boards, including New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the business grants committee for Callaghan Innovation.

- NZH Peter Townsend: 17 years of leading the CECC.

■ MEXICAN INVASION

Compiled by

Conor Kerlin: Tough going at first

total newcomer to the local restaurant sector. Aucklanders have been eating at Victoria St’s Mexican Cafe since 1983.

The Mexican Cafe’s general manager, Jeff Langford, says other Mexican restaurants operated in the city through the late 1980s into the early 1990s, including Pancho’s in Elliott St and Guadalupe in Karangahape Rd. Mexicali Fresh - which offers Californian-style Mexican fare and operates a production-line food preparation system similar to Subway’s - now has five stores across Auckland. Kerlin says the company could potentially open 40 to 50 stores in New Zealand.

McCaw says the timing of Mexico’s entry into the market certainly helped its success.

“We were in the right place at the right time with a very cool product.”

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When Mexicali Fresh opened its first store on Auckland’s Princes Wharf in 2005 its maiden customer posed a worrying question: “What’s a burrito?”

The American family who established the business hadn’t expected the first year of running the restaurant to be such tough going.

“Being from the States we just figured everyone knew about Mexican food and it was quite shocking at first,” says co-founder Conor Kerlin, a Californian native.

Making matters worse was the onset of winter, he says, which resulted in a downturn in trading in the Princes Wharf area.

Kerlin, whose stepfather John Buell ran Mexican restaurants in the US for three decades, says Mexicali Fresh began gaining real traction only when its second store opened in Newmarket’s Nuffield St in 2006.

“It took a couple of years for people to experience Mexicali and kind of get used to the food.”

Mexican has been one of the dominant trends in Auckland’s quick service restaurant scene over the past couple of years.

Mexico, a restaurant chain, opened its first site in Britomart in early 2012 and now has four restaurants in Auckland and Hamilton - as well as another store in Sydney - and is aiming to have 12 New Zealand outlets by mid-2015.

The Original California Bur-

rito Company opened in Auckland’s Commerce St in 2011 and expanded at breakneck pace to have around a dozen stores operating in this country and Australia by earlier this year.

Over the past few months, however, all its New Zealand sites have shut - except two run by franchisees in Ellerslie and Manukau - after bank funding for the business dried up.

Mad Mex, a taco and burrito chain with more than 30 Australian outlets, opened its first New Zealand store in Wellington in March and established two more in central Auckland.

New Zealand master franchise holder James Tucker, the entrepreneur behind the Habitual Fix food stores, plans to open more than 30 Mad Mex sites in this country.

Other eateries include Jalapeno’s Mexican Grill in Auckland’s O’Connell St, Taqueria in Ponsonby Rd and Mexican Specialties in Ellerslie, and Restaurant Brands is once again showing interest in bringing US chain Taco Bell to New Zealand.

Nick McCaw, Mexico’s cofounder, says that in the past couple of years Mexican food has become a valid alternative for diners who might once have chosen Indian, Japanese or Thai.

“It was a natural thing,” he says. “New Zealand was just catching up [with other countries].”

But while it has seen a lot of growth in recent years, Mexican cuisine is by no means a

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OUR VIEW

Weather may play big role in festivities Michelle Nelson CHIEF REPORTER

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new year is just a day away, and across the country people are gearing up to celebrate.

This often takes the form of a camping holiday, but the weather in the lead up has been less than conducive to outdoor living.

Many people at Mid Canterbury camp sites and holiday parks have already packed up, making a break for it as soon as the tents were dry enough to fold up.

Yesterday a brief storm delivered thunder, lightning, rain and even a shower of hail. It was off-putting to say the least – and caused would-be campers to reconsider their options.

With the demise of the street party in Ashburton, there is no public celebration.

The bars will be open, but that’s not an option for families with young children.

Apparently Methven is the place to be, should you wish to celebrate the arrival of the New Year in relative comfort.

The Blue Pub is hosting a family event in the early part of the evening, and the Brown Pub is putting on a party to see in the New Year.

That leaves most of us to gather with friends and family for private celebrations, and probably even more of us at home in front of the television.

Hut holders at Lake Clearwater will be hoping the bad weather leading up to the big event deters the young freedom campers who created havoc last New Year, fighting, lighting fires and pelting police with bottles.

In response the hut holders have cancelled their traditional celebrations, and there will be an increased presence at the lake tonight.

It’s a shame an occasion enjoyed by so many has been marred by a handful of miscreants bent on destruction.

With that thought in mind, the staff at the Guardian wish you all a happy and peaceful New Year.

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s I look back upon 2013, I am going to present my own personal ‘awards’ reflecting on some of the big items over the past year.

Given a lack of water defined 2013 at its beginning and water quality defined it at year’s end, my Al Gore Award for Most Underreported Inconvenient Truth goes to the Ministry for the Environment’s “River condition indicator Summary and key findings”.

Why else would a 10-year summary of water quality testing released in July get so little fanfare for revealing, “Of the parameters we [the MfE] monitor, all are either stable or improving at most monitored sites. Four of our parameters show stable or improving trends in 90 per cent of sites”.

Allied to this water theme is my Harold Camping/The End is Nigh Environmental Armageddon Award.

This one goes to any celebrity water quality scientist telling the media that virtually all freshwater bathing sites are unsafe. It’s like hyperinflation meets bathing water quality but most Kiwis swimming at freshwater spots are letting their freestyle do the talking.

The Two Faced Special Achievement Certificate goes to our friends at our national fishing club who told everyone in the media how terrible our water quality is and who’s largely to blame.

That’s until they want to sell their fishing licences when the fishing magically becomes fantastic.

The Sir Richard Hadlee That’s Not Cricket Award for Media Experts goes to the media interviewing any ‘expert’ who is also a well-known opponent on the topic they’re being asked about.

Case in point are the 60 top freshwater scientists who developed the national bottom lines proposed in freshwater reform.

Why did the media ignore all of them to interview people who’ll blame dairy farming

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As an ex-pat Dutch-Kiwi myself I understand the pull of the Netherlands but Theo (Spierings) needs to take off his rose-tinted glasses

for everything bar the Black Death?

My Nero Award for Crisis Management goes to Fonterra for that near disaster with WPC80.

Unlike my other award contenders, Fonterra also picks up the Jimmy Spithill/Oracle Team USA Award for Best Comeback.

When Fonterra looked at sixes and sevens the board knew there needed to be change and the recommendations in the reviews that followed the crisis are being put into action.

Best of all, farmers and New Zealand are looking down the barrel of a great dairy payout this season.

So long as the weather and markets continue to play ball everyone and including the

environment will win.

This said, my You’re not in Guatemala now Dr Ropata award goes to Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings. As an ex-pat Dutch-Kiwi myself I understand the pull of the Netherlands but Theo needs to take off his rose-tinted glasses.

There’s no way New Zealand farming is eight to 10 years behind Europe. Aside from the massive subsidies up north, inside the farm gate we remain streets ahead of most countries except in one respect.

That is talking about sustainability and getting what we do well reported in the media.

My Politician of 2013 award goes to Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy. This man maybe underrated by the snobbish media elite but he did

not panic in a crisis, rightfully called his own ministry to account over the red-meat debacle and has got Government Industry Agreements through cabinet. He’s a doer.

A close second is Labour’s Damien O’Connor. We may not always agree but he’s got fire and passion and Labour should be listening to him on wider policy as there’s no other farming expert in their ranks.

As for the big one, The Lorde/Eleanor Catton New Zealander of the Year award goes to the dairy farmers of New Zealand. These are the guys and girls who get up in the small hours and who work hard to be the best farmers in the world.

These people are absolutely committed to do the right thing by their animals and the environment.

I have never been prouder or more inspired by the dairy farmers I meet.

These are the real stories that deserve to be told and my New Year’s resolution is to get them told.

Willy Leferink is Federated Farmers Dairy Chairperson

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■ LAND AND WATER REGIONAL PLAN

■ RED MEAT REFORM

Committed to action on water

Three broad options under consideration

Federated Farmers’ three Canterbury provinces are totally committed to doing their bit for the community and for farmers when it comes to water management.

“As people head to the summer barbecues no doubt water quality will feature as part of the discussion,” Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury provincial president Chris Allen said.

“The recent Lincoln perceptions survey shows we’ve got a wee way to go before public perceptions of what food producers do catches up with reality.

“It is our real hope that the work we’re doing on-farm, the Canterbury Land & Water Regional Plan and the enormous amount of research going into water and soil science, will help to narrow the gap between perception and reality.

Mr Allen said many of the positive stories never make the news.

“I freely admit that farmers investing in things like riparian plantings, stock exclusion and soil moisture equipped irrigators isn’t easy to convey to the public, but they are just three of the many things we’re doing on-farm and they are having good results,” he said.

Chris Allen

North Canterbury provincial president Lynda Murchison, who is also an environmental planner, outlined the role Federated Farmers is playing.

She said the Canterbury Land & Water Regional Plan was about communities taking responsibility for the effects everyone has on the environment rather than it being just a cost burden.

“You could say it is the policy bones but the meat will come from the Zone Committees and the Matrices of Good Management,” Ms Murchison said.

“Federated Farmers is fully engaged in the collaborative Zone Committee process since this is about finding solutions.

Solutions which give the local people, with skin in the game,

some say in what they want from water.

“We need to make this plan work for everyone, town as well as country, but it will not be easy, straightforward or without some trade-offs.

“It’s why farmers need to get on top of the impact we are having on water quality. It’s why we need to make full use of the tools that are available to us, like the nutrient management tool Overseer.

“Once you know what your losses are on-farm, as opposed to what you think they are, you become informed on what your options are,” Mrs Murchison said.

South Canterbury provincial president, Ivon Hurst said getting the balance right was important.

“That’s where Federated Farmers comes in because it’s all about good land husbandry,” Mr Hurst said.

“It’s about securing good resource management policy that is not only cost effective, but enables and incentivises good management practice over a time period that does not financially cripple those undertaking it.

“To me this is a universal message for town and country alike,” Mr Hurst concluded.

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Federated Farmers members are considering how best to reform the country’s $6 million red meat industry, and an “Anzac” approach uniting with Australia is on the agenda.

“While our options for redmeat reform advances three broad options, the solutions within each are more like a ‘pick and mix’,” Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre spokesperson Jeanette Maxwell said.

The options are defined as processor focused, behaviour focused, and marketing focused.

Federated Farmers members will be asked for feedback on the proposals, which will determine centralised reform of the industry “Arguably, the processor focused options for reform will generate much discussion.”

Throughout the year there has been a push buy some groups to merge the major processing cooperatives; however Mrs Maxwell said copying the Fonterra model could spell disaster. Any merger would require a reassessment of the entire industry, especially its capital structures.

“We also look at tradable processing rights, which is similar in concept to quota management in fisheries,” she said.

“It would need legislation and there are some fishhooks, but if they can be worked through, it could help to reduce overcapacity in the industry.

Federated Farmers have also raised the option of toll processing – which separates out processing and marketing, and total value transparency, which Mrs Maxwell says has never been discussed.

The Behaviour Focused option reflects that the dairy industry was static until the industry itself drove it from the grassroots up.

Mrs Maxwell said behavioural change was necessary to shift the focus form procurement to market requirements, and matching suppliers with companies.

The third section discusses Marketing Focused options, and examines aspects of the existing industry, from the WTO single desk model to in-market collaboration by exporters.

“Being market focused could include multiple marketing companies involving strong producer and customer/consumer relationships,” Mrs Maxwell said.

“A twist on market collaboration is for an Anzac approach, where Australia and New Zealand unite to achieve greater scale, while improving research investment and market development.”

An electronic copy of Meat Industry Options: A discussion paper is available from the members-only section on Federated Farmers website.

The options paper will be publically released in the New Year.

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Market Price Trends

Milk solids pay-out rise Westland Milk Products, New Zealand’s second biggest dairy co-operative and third largest dairy exporter, has lifted its predicted pay-out to its supplier/shareholders by 30 cents to $7.90 to $8.30 per kilo of milk solids.

The predicted pay-out is before retentions. Previously Westland’s highest pay-out (in 2007-08) was $8.29 per Kg/ MS. Chief executive Rod Quin says the pay-out will be good news for the co-operative’s shareholders.

“Coming on top of a previous season where we experienced drought and floods, farmers

will welcome this boost in their income.”

Mr Quin said the pay-out prediction has been made possible by a strong outlook for milk prices and continuing high demand for the co-operative’s products, especially infant formula for China.

“Forecast pricing looks firm.

But the New Zealand dollar is showing considerable volatility, which is why there is a forty cent range in the prediction.

International demand is still being driven by China but is strong across all key markets.

Milk powders are still returning better than protein powders but the gap is closing.”

Week beginning December 30, 2013

L A M B ($) Including 1 kg Shorn Pelt this week

Westland’s milk production is up 16 per cent on the season to date compared with last year, but in line with budget. This includes farms that have started to supply in Canterbury.

Canterbury suppliers went from 14 in the 2012/13 season to 34 for this season and Canterbury milk is now 18 per cent of total volume.

Westland invested in a new nutritionals plant that was commissioned at the beginning of 2013 and this is now paying dividends for the company.

“Infant formula demand remains very strong particularly in China despite recent events,” Mr Quin said.

13.0kg YL SI 13.5kg YM SI 15.0kg YM SI 15.0kg YM NI 15.0kg YM Market Indicator 17.5kg YX SI 19.0kg YX SI 19.0kg YX NI 21.0kg YX SI 21.0kg YX NI 23.0kg YX SI

As 2013 draws to a close, processors and farmers can look back on what was a very good year in terms of a recovery in global lamb demand and pricing. Prices are still below where both parties would ideally like them to be, but a positive trend looks likely to continue through 2014.

China has played a big part in the quick turnaround, taking huge volumes of lamb off the market during the first half of 2013 when there was a significant oversupply of product.

UK demand is bouncing back.

But lamb demand in Continental Europe has been slower to recover.

BEEF The past 12 months didn’t

1 year ago

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44.49 64.83 83.58 86.98 61.40 97.20 104.76 110.93 114.29 122.66 116.22 40.42

45.02 65.30 84.11 84.33 61.03 97.37 104.95 107.26 115.06 118.60 117.08 40.42

37.36 57.04 74.74 72.34 58.84 86.50 93.18 91.77 102.08 101.48 102.89 40.42

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68.29

69.61

66.10

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396 426 414

396 426 397

411 428 397

416 437 407

386 391 377

M Cow SI (160-195kg) NI M Cow Market Indicator

262 304 315

262 304 302

270 304 304

270 311 302

280 302 316

Bull SI (296-320kg) NI Bull Market Indicator

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391 395 373

401 396 377

406 401 375

386 399 392

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70.49

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260 292 299

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turn out to be as positive as expected for NZ beef markets. In the US it was widely predicted there would be a shortage of lean beef due to fewer cows being processed as producers rebuilt herds. However any chance of that was quashed by widespread drought which forced producers to cull even more cows, ramping up supplies of lean beef and pushing prices lower.

While that kept a lid on manufacturing beef prices, dry conditions in Australia put pressure on prime beef markets. Australia processed record numbers of cattle in 2013, resulting in unprecedented shipment volumes for a number of months. The impact of this was seen in virtually all of NZ’s beef export markets.

last 4 weeks 3 months week ago ago

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387 420

395 420

383 418

447 422

338 408

473 443

417 422

4950 5800 6100 5560 13350

4900 5370 6090 5250 13620

4080 4120 4010 4560 11870

4630 5370 5800 5240 13190

W O O L Data: WSI Fine (21 microns) Medium (25 microns) Medium (27 microns) Medium (29 microns) Coarse (35 microns) Coarse (37 microns) Coarse (39 microns) 2nd Shear (37 microns-85mm) Lamb (31 micron-75mm)

GRAIN

Feed grain prices have been steadily rising this year, since the late summer drought that covered the North Island.

This kicked off demand for feed, which was compounded by high demand for supplementary feeds from farmers looking to take advantage of the expected record milk prices in the 2013/14 season.

Looking forward to 2014, there is a significant split between the spot market and pre-harvest contract prices, which are $30-50/tonne lower in some cases. However, import prices for Australian feed wheat and barley are low, and this means many buyers are locking in imports for supply that would previously have been bought domestically

W H E A T ($NZ/Tonne) ASW (Aus standard White) NZ Free (12.5% protein)

DAIRY PRODUCT PRICES Butter (NZ$/tonne) Skim Milk powder Whole Milk Powder Cheddar Cheese Casein

5070 5930 6230 5990 13690

5450 6050 6570 5990 * 14550

4258 4446 4502 4926 11572

Prices are indicative only. They are compiled from an assessment of sales made worldwide on one-off basis in US $.

Quota market sales and contracts are excluded. The prices are then converted to $NZ/t FOB at current exchange rates.

OVERSEAS

MEAT

UK PM Lamb (p/kg) CIF US Bull (USc/lb) CIF US Cow (USc/lb) CIF Venison Bone-in leg (E/Kg)

PRICES 430 206 197 6.40

430 209 199 6.40

0.817 0.497 0.596 3.85

0.822 0.503 0.601 3.78

395 202 192 6.40

330 223 211 6.40

395 202 192 6.40 *

430 * 209 202 6.40 *

355 209 194 6.43

0.830 0.828 0.514 0.514 0.609 0.634 3.43 2.76 (Estimates only) 133 46 126 10 20 18 7.2 3.3 11.0

0.776 0.497 * 0.586 2.76

0.863 0.561 0.659 3.85 *

0.809 0.511 0.630 2.74

101 8 5.3

179 19 10.0

FINANCE US Dollar UK Pound Euro 2 Year Wholesale Rate (%)

PROCESSING

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Lamb SI Mutton SI Beef SI Information provided by NZX Agrifax

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Baked salmon with tomato salsa

■ Preheat the oven to 200°C. Rub 2 Tbsp of the oil all over the tomatoes. Place them in a roasting dish and cook for 10 minutes or until roasted. Remove from the oven, cool, mash and add

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QUICK MEAL 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 4 ripe tomatoes, cored 6 sundried tomatoes, sliced 200 g cherry tomatoes, halved 1/2 cucumber, peeled, seeded, diced 1cm 1 pinch chilli flakes 1/2 cup basil leaves plus extra for serving salt, ground black pepper 700g baby potatoes, scrubbed 2 handfuls rocket leaves 1/2 cup chopped parsley 1/2 cup sliced mint leaves 1 clove garlic, finely chopped 200mls unsweetened yoghurt 600g piece of skinned boned salmon fillet 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

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the sundried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, chilli, balsamic and basil.

■ Mix well, taste and season.

■ Boil the potatoes until tender.

Drain, crush slightly with a fork and add the rocket, parsley, mint and garlic. Stir in the yoghurt, taste, season, cover.

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■ Break the salmon up and serve with the tomato mixture and the potatoes. Sprinkle with extra basil leaves before serving.

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Above: Alex Hooper, (left), on the wheel of Jason Christie as they round a corner midway through the Tinwald Cycling Club’s 64km club championship race.

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Photo Donna WyLie 081213-DW-213 Below: Kees Looij and Karen Bishop flank Mid Canterbury Badminton patron Rod Cummings at the competition’s prizegiving.

Above: Being named the Heartland Player of the year at the Steinlager Awards in Auckland capped of a big season for Jon Dampney.

Below: Western Bartlett in mid-flight as he makes an attempted layup against Canterbury during the Under 16 Quad tournament in Ashburton.

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Photo tetsuro MitoMo 011213-tM-003 Left: Swimmers work their way across Lake Hood during the Jennian Homes Lake Hood Open Water Swim which featured a record number of entries for the second year-in-a-row.

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M8 Rangiora harness

In brief

Today at Rangiora Raceway

First Classic seed ousted

Rangiora Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Rangiora (All weather) Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2013 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 2.12pm HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE YALDY HANDICAP TROT $7000, 3yo+ c0 to c1 spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 00420 Lavros Segil (1) fr............................... R May 2 04036 Boylanova (2) fr ............................ J Wheeler 3 07x Sungait Sally (3) fr ........................R Holmes 4 33332 Total Exposure (4) fr....................... D Nyhan 5 0 Successful Woman (5) fr ......... C D Thornley 6 x070x Willie Shine (U1) fr ...........................J Curtin 7 Innes Boyz (U2) fr ..........................T Chmiel 8 70520 Waihemo Angus (U3) fr............ S Smolenski 9 21x90 Wishes Star (1) 30 ..................... S Ottley (J) 10 48x27 Evander D Go (2) 30 ......................N Burton 11 08506 Sophistication (3) 30 12 70053 Lisa Marie P (4) 30.......................M Perriton 13 48451 Brite N Early (5) 30 ...................... P Wakelin 14 68x5x Yaldy Boyz (6) 30 .............................. R Todd 15 74400 Gold Harmony (7) 30 ..................... K Barron 16 96x0x Peterhof (8) 30 ...............................G Archer 17 50200 Kaizen (U1) 30 .......................... M Edmonds 18 00374 Armed Force (U2) 30 ......................M Jones 2 2.47pm THE YALDY BAR MAIDS MOBILE PACE $6500, 3yo fillies c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 400x3 Jungle Jewel (1) fr ......................... K Butt (J) 2 Priscilla Shard (2) fr ........................... R May

The first seed fell on the opening day of the ASB Classic, with Mona Barthel defeated in straight sets yesterday at Stanley St. But No 5 seed Jamie Hampton avoided a similar fate, bouncing back from a 6-1 reverse in the first set against Tamira Paszek to claim the match in three. Meanwhile, in the opening match on centre court, Garbine Muguruza of Spain defeated American Christina McHale in straight sets to advance to the second round. - APNZ

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3 64324 Crimson Glory (3) fr ....................T McMillan 4 6600 So You Think (4) fr .......................... K Barron 5 Ask Me Mach (5) fr..................... S Ottley (J) 6 Kotare Yassi (6) fr ............................ G Smith 7 Rapunzel Rock (7) fr ........................J Curtin 3 3.23pm REGAN TODD SPONSORED BY THE YALDY PACE $6500, 3yo+ c0 pace, stand, 2000m 1 03 Hayleys Comet (1) fr .................... S McNally 2 0908x Katapo (2) fr ................................... K Barron 3 31x2 Strike On Command (3) fr .................. R May 4 06x Agnes de Gerolstein (4) fr .....J Anderson (J) 5 020 Rip Roaring (5) fr ...........................T Chmiel 6 0x905 Ardwells Key (6) fr ........................ G O’Reilly 7 00x00 Fifteen C (7) fr ........................... C McDowell 8 Swiss Lass (8) fr ............................G Archer 9 0570x Tom Bola (9) fr ..............................L O’Reilly 10 69857 Wouldntuliketoknow (10) fr...... L McCormick 11 80080 Zoerotten (11) fr ......................... S Ottley (J) 12 70x Willywinit (12) fr........................... J Sheenan 13 Gannicus (13) fr ............................ R Rennie 14 x2888 Lifestyler (14) fr ........................ T Woodward 15 99045 Starry Delight (15) fr................ C D Thornley 16 07068 Travelling Man (16) fr .......................J Curtin 4 3.58pm BOB BUTT SPONSORED BY THE YALDY MBL PACE $6500, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 Ling Rowl fr .................................. Scratched 2 56x30 Rock Till You Drop (1) fr...................M Jones 3 07096 Stans Day (2) fr ........................ S Smolenski 4 69243 Betabeeasy (3) fr ........................... K Barron

M5 Auckland harness

1 65304 Ireby Betty (1) fr ........................C Hunter (J) 2 260x3 Revell Yell (2) fr ....................... S Golding (J) 3 34305 Tyron’s Falcon Ella (3) fr..............J Young (J) 4 965x3 All For D B (4) fr ...........................A Veint (J) 5 64508 Shantahlia Knight (5) fr .............. T Quate (J) 6 50x08 Thatshowie Roll (6) fr ...............J Thomas (J) 7 x6210 Glamar Girls (7) fr ...................... R Close (J) 8 09x00 Unique Chance (8) fr..................B Munro (J) 9 00350 Albie Al (9) fr ................................. K Butt (J) 10 418x0 Fifi La Finn (10) fr.................. J Markham (J) 11 8x105 Nic Mac Willy (U1) fr ..................... K Cox (J) 12 43221 Clarisa (1) 10 ............................. S Ottley (J) 13 12422 Major Moment (2) 10...............B Thomas (J) 7 5.43pm THE BREW CREW MOBILE COFFEE MOBILE PACE $7500, c2 to c3 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 15569 Thrill (1) fr.........................................J Curtin 2 5D814 Mach’s Gladiator (2) fr.............B Thomas (J) 3 86185 K C Pedro (3) fr ...............................A Hastie 4 70772 Classiebee (4) fr................................. R May 5 6x444 Fifth Edition (5) fr ............................ G Smith 6 59960 Flyin Ryan fr ................................. Scratched 7 67155 Hi Jinx (6) fr....................................T Chmiel 8 37561 Still Laughin (7) fr ........................... K Barron 9 58250 Flyover (8) fr ............................ C D Thornley 10 96007 Hairy Maclary (U1) fr.....................R Holmes 8 6.18pm KEN BARRON SPONSORED BY THE YALDY PACE $9000, c4 to c8 spechcp pace, stand, 2600m 1 76512 Supreme Gem (1) fr ................ C D Thornley 2 49006 Buy Chevron Direct (2) fr ................M Jones

3 13563 Bettor Rock On (3) fr .......................... R May 4 166x6 Jivin Cullen (1) 10 ........................... G Smith 5 18224 Blazin N Cullen (2) 10 .................. G O’Reilly 6 6x513 Motu Cup Day Cullen (3) 10.............J Curtin 7 50455 Cam Before The Storm (4) 10 .... S Ottley (J) 8 6857x Twilight Rascal (U1) 10 ................ S McNally 9 25734 Beach Bunny (1) 25 ....................... K Barron 9 6.48pm SEE THE NEW YEAR IN AT THE YALDY MOBILE PACE $7000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 51 Magic Oats (1) fr ............................T Chmiel 2 x69P0 Riverboat Gracie (2) fr.............. T Woodward 3 14890 Boltmaro (3) fr .............................. G O’Reilly 4 x11x0 Red Hot Toddy (4) fr ....................... K Barron 5 16879 Bay Emerald (5) fr .........................R Holmes 6 21262 Dark Side (6) fr....................................B Butt 7 211 Star Of Dionysis (7) fr.......................J Curtin 8 7P827 Batini fr ......................................... Scratched 9 20541 Leading The Way (8) fr ............ C D Thornley 10 05006 Shantahlia’s Star (21) fr ..........B Thomas (J) 11 87877 Baileys Desire (22) fr......................... R Todd 12 3106 Mr Franklin (23) fr.............................S Dolan 13 1x406 Sage Creek (24) fr ..........................M Jones 14 82785 Woodlea Wager (U1) fr ...................... R May Pacifiers off : Sungait Sally (R1) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Today at Alexandra Park Raceway

Auckland Trotting Club Inc Venue: Alexandra Park Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2013 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.15pm MAJESTIC HORSE FLOATS HANDICAP TROT $14,999, 3yo+ c1 to c2 discrhcp trot, stand, 2700m 1 88978 Kissme Earl (1) fr ........................ I Brownlee 2 53385 Ivanov (2) fr ........................................L Chin 3 6355x Wingsonhai (3) fr.........................A Donnelly 4 06072 Our Super Ram (4) fr ...................... P Young 5 50625 Bruno Paillard (5) fr .......................... D Dunn 6 11 Any Old Way (6) fr ............................ P Nairn 7 24387 Springfield Legacy (7) fr ...... S Abernethy (J) 8 54462 Sastre (8) fr .......................................J Dunn 9 77274 Kip Keino (9) fr ............................ R Brosnan 10 42239 Torbjorn (10) fr ...........................P Ferguson 11 55103 Ballyronan (11) fr ..................... M McKendry 12 86201 St Pierre (U3) 10 ............................J I Dickie 13 61100 Love Ya Doosie (1) 10 ....................T Herlihy 14 55840 Meander With Pegasus (2) 10.......B Orange 15 64631 Itsnowornever (U1) 10...................N Chilcott 16 x0P75 Tuxedo Junction (U2) 10 .............. D Butcher Emergency: Tuxedo Junction 2 12.51pm BRECKON FARMS YOUNG GUNS SERIES (H2) MOBILE PACE $25,000, 2yo mob. pace, 1700m 1 5 Chachingchaching (1) fr ...............R Downey 2 Express Stride (2) fr .......................T Herlihy 3 7 Iceobar (3) fr .................................M Purdon 4 6 Beaudiene Boaz (4) fr ...................S Lawson 5 4 Jonny B Good (5) fr.......................T Mitchell 6 Sirius Star (6) fr ..........................P Ferguson 7 2 Ardee (7) fr ................................... B Mangos

Manning breaks records Peyton Manning has broken one NFL passing record and stretched another as the Denver Broncos also set a league mark for the most points in a single season. The record-shattering effort came in the first half against the Oakland Raiders, giving the visiting Broncos a 31-0 half-time lead. Manning, the 37-year-old quarterback, threw for 266 yards and four touchdowns in the first half against the Raiders.

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08631 Boizel (2) fr....................................... D Dunn 50525 Stig (3) fr ............................................ D Butt 31526 Realmein (4) fr ....................................A Butt 62733 The Fiery Ginga (5) fr....................... A Clark 1x117 Irish Whisper (6) fr..........................T Herlihy 73564 Dr Hook (7) fr ................................M Purdon 23241 Stent (8) fr ...................................C DeFilippi 6 3.13pm ALABAR SIRES STAKES CHAMPS SILVER MBL PACE $16,000, 3yo fillies mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 90215 Gold Dust Woman (1) fr ................Z Butcher 2 92143 Koree Jayne (2) fr............................. D Dunn 3 x8170 Sabellian (3) fr...............................B Orange 4 0509x Gold Diamonds (4) fr 5 x2159 Angelina Jolie (5) fr ...................... D Butcher 6 21250 Asuka (6) fr ....................................J I Dickie 7 7050P For Your Eyes Only (7) fr .............. B Mangos 8 57502 Shestherealdeal (8) fr ............... J Abernethy 9 34041 Simply Stunning (21) fr ........... T Macfarlane 10 43x39 October Brown (22) fr ....................T Herlihy 11 27751 Sweet Art (23) fr .............................S Phelan 12 40 Secret Lotion (24) fr ......................M Purdon 13 018 Elly May Clampett (25) fr...............T Mitchell 14 40 Letting Go (26) fr ........................P Ferguson 15 84 Art Critic fr .................................... Scratched Emergencies: Gold Diamonds, Art Critic 7 3.48pm ALABAR SIRES STAKES CHAMPS FINAL MBL PACE $160,000, 3yo fillies mob. pace, 2200m 1 51131 Ideal Belle (1) fr..............................T Herlihy 2 12143 Pricillas Girl (2) fr ..........................T Mitchell 3 32288 Lincolns Megastar (3) fr ...............R Downey 4 92143 Koree Jayne (4) fr 5 41602 Raksdeal (5) fr ...............................C Barron

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4x351 Mighty Flying Mac (2) fr ................... D Dunn x2112 Elios (3) fr..........................................J Dunn 11343 Randalstown (4) fr.........................P Butcher x2401 All Star Man (5) fr ..........................M Purdon 53643 Five Card Draw (6) fr.................... B Mangos 70472 Kiwi Ideal (7) fr ...............................T Herlihy 11115 Tiago Bromac (8) fr ....................P Ferguson 92123 Give The Wink (21) fr ................... D Butcher 10 5.33pm MANUKAU SUMMER CUP MOBILE PACE $30,000, ffa mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 70472 Kiwi Ideal (1) fr ...............................T Herlihy 2 22311 Franco Nelson (2) fr ..........................J Dunn 3 13355 Lets Elope (3) fr ....................... M McKendry 4 12617 Besotted (4) fr ..............................R Downey 5 x4412 Pembrook Benny (5) fr ..................Z Butcher 6 75021 Easy On The Eye (6) fr ..............P Ferguson 7 x7342 Bettor Cover Lover (7) fr............... B Mangos 11 6.08pm HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE AUCKLAND TC MOBILE PACE $14,999, 3yo+ f&m c1 to c3 mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 414 Ideal Alice (1) fr ..............................J I Dickie 2 2x312 Chillysjustastrutter (2) fr ................P Butcher 3 42983 Lislass (3) fr ............................. M McKendry 4 63Fx7 American Angel (4) fr ..................J Stormont 5 01316 Going To California (5) fr ...............Z Butcher 6 65424 Onlyforyou (6) fr ............................... D Dunn 7 42776 Bettor Romance fr ........................ Scratched 8 15x94 Spirit Of Art (7) fr.........................C DeFilippi 9 1P1x1 Snooki (21) fr .................................T Herlihy 10 981x1 Whisper Jet (22) fr ........................M Purdon 11 12x68 Splendour (23) fr ..................... T Macfarlane 12 0x806 On A Promise (U1) fr ........................J Dunn

5 28x7. Skychi h (12) 56.5 ....................... R Hannam 6 986x5 Mion Jay h (4) 56.5 .................... M Dee (a2) 7 x58x6 I Candy (13) 56.5 .................... D Turner (a2) 8 8x Diamond Thorn (1) 56.5 ...... R Hutchings (a) 9 00 Kates Delight (2) 56.5 ..................... K Myers 10 Lady Jessica (7) 56.5 ......................S Collett 11 00. Who Why (10) 56.5............... V Johnston 12 648 Azraf 55........................................ Scratched 13 7. Chonney h (11) 55 ................... B Grylls (a2) 14 8x098 Composing h (8) 55 ........................R Myers 15 07076 Mrs Clooney (5) 56.5...................... J Parkes 16 0x007 Gina (15) 56.5 ..................... M Dravitzki (a2) 17 0x800 Rise And Fall 56.5 ........................ Scratched 18 89497 Scarred (16) 58.5 Emergencies: Mrs Clooney, Gina, Rise And Fall, Scarred 7 4.06pm HOOKER PACIFIC STRATFORD CUP $20,000, OPEN HANDICAP, 2000m 1 80006 Crocodile Canyon tdm (12) 59 ........R Myers 2 46661 Pump Up The Volume m (4) 58.5 .... K Myers 3 48875 Go Danny dm (5) 58 ................... B Lammas 4 x8290 Volkswood d (7) 58......................... J Parkes 5 72969 Figure Again m (10) 55.5 ........... V Johnston 6 00x39 Thorn Prince m (2) 55.5 ..................S Collett 7 0x684 Ballybit d (11) 55.5 .............. R Hutchings (a)

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Stratford RC Venue: Stratford Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2013 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.34pm BRIAN DARTH FUNERAL DIRECTORS MAIDEN $8000, MDN, 2000m 1 23x92 The Big Opal h (4) 58.5............ B Grylls (a2) 2 7336 Potter (5) 58.5 ................................D Walker 3 46x67 Albakirkee (10) 58.5 ....................... J Parkes 4 62528 Missteeflying b (3) 56.5 ............ A Taylor (a2) 5 5x704 Timely Magic (9) 56.5 ................. R Hannam 6 74004 Bella’s Delight (13) 56.5 .................. K Myers 7 064 Loveyoulongtime (1) 56.5 .......L Whelan (a1) 8 56045 Miss Professional (7) 56.5............. T Russell 9 03056 Shezastunna (2) 56.5 10 70x05 Irish Spring (8) 56.5 .........................K Smith 11 0x056 Skybird (12) 56.5......................... B Lammas 12 x0060 Scotch Hoppa h (6) 56.5 .................S Collett 13 80. Eyeful Tower h (11) 55 ....................R Myers 2 1.10pm AITKEN TRANSPORT/MCDONALD’S REAL ESTATE R75 $9000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2000m 1 21791 Flynn m (6) 61 2 x5250 Maravi (1) 59 .............................. M Dee (a2) 3 06x60 Dancing Embers m (5) 58 ................S Doyle 4 17255 Yin Yang Master (9) 58 ................... J Parkes

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07405 Jokraar d (3) 57........................... R Hannam 61x00 Park Princess (8) 56.5 ....................S Collett x6738 Chevremont d (7) 55.5 ........ R Hutchings (a) x8160 Lustre (4) 55.5..................... M Dravitzki (a2) 1x080 Saki House h (2) 54 ........................R Myers 3 1.46pm TARANAKI TURF CLUB/MIDHURST TAVERN MAIDEN $8000, MDN, 1200m 1 3x26 Norman b (5) 58.5 ...................... M Dee (a2) 2 7x Clyde h (3) 58.5 ...............................S Doyle 3 Key West h (10) 58.5................... R Hannam 4 Retrospect 57............................... Scratched 5 24363 Edge Of Glory b (4) 56.5 ................ J Parkes 6 52793 Zetow (6) 56.5 ................................D Walker 7 4x2 Cherry Bomb (2) 56.5 ......................K Smith 8 4x9x8 Queen Of Excuses (11) 56.5 9 Miss Moore h (9) 56.5 ......... M Dravitzki (a2) 10 Moi Oh Ma h (1) 56.5 .......... R Hutchings (a) 11 Silver Bubbles h (8) 55 ....................R Myers 12 Sheez The Boss (7) 55 ................... K Myers 4 2.21pm TAG OIL RATING 65 $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 542x7 Sharmack db (2) 59.5 ................. R Hannam 2 129. Duffers Creek mb (9) 59.........L Whelan (a1) 3 x1944 Sound Barrier d (3) 57.5 ......... D Turner (a2)

Gunners back on top Arsene Wenger insists his boys have grown into men after backing Premier League leaders Arsenal to maintain their impressive title challenge in the New Year. Wenger’s team ended 2013 with 82 points - more than any of their Premier League rivals - as they returned to the top of the table thanks to a hard-fought 1-0 victory at Newcastle.

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5 Southern Shift (4) fr.................... R Close (J) 6 x0020 Mach Cullen (5) fr ............................J Curtin 7 Doctor’s Brother (6) fr..................T McMillan 8 0x450 Twitch (7) fr .................................. G O’Reilly 9 3 Lake Eyre (8) fr .................................. R May 10 38669 Fulham Flyer (21) fr.......................R Holmes 11 029x0 Johnny Vegas (22) fr ......................T Chmiel 12 El Chango (23) fr.......................... S McNally 13 Fernleigh Rebel (24) fr ........................B Butt 14 857xP Narissa Franco fr.......................... Scratched 15 Whoosh Factor (25) fr ............. C D Thornley 16 x00x0 B Four Da Fire fr .......................... Scratched Emergencies: Ling Rowl, Narissa Franco 5 4.33pm NTH CANTERBURY TROT WORKOUTS COMMITTEE HCP TROT $9000, c4 to oc spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 62352 Live The Dream (1) fr ......................... R May 2 54127 Sundons Comet fr ........................ Scratched 3 07x98 Westmelton Willie (U1) fr..................T Healy 4 10163 Regal Petite (U2) fr .................... S Ottley (J) 5 52241 Whata Gamble (1) 10 ......................M Jones 6 00100 Sunny Kash (2) 10 .................. C D Thornley 7 D3216 Dixie Commando (3) 10 ................J Geddes 8 x1521 Royal Aspirations (1) 30 ........... S Smolenski 9 30603 Quality Invasion (U1) 30.................G Archer 10 79579 Uncas (U2) 30 .........................B Thomas (J) 6 5.08pm STEVIE GOLDING SPONSORED BY THE YALDY HCP PACE $6500, 4yo+ c1 to c2 spechcp pace jun.d, stand, 2600m

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4 928x8 Liberating tdh (5) 57 ................... M Dee (a2) 5 64263 Catwomandu mbh (6) 56.5 ............ J Parkes 6 0x017 Pure Blonde d (8) 55.5 .................... K Myers 7 01 Porotene Chance (11) 55 .... M Dravitzki (a2) 8 01x0. Imapuss dm (7) 55 ..........................R Myers 9 38555 Rampantexcuse (10) 55 ..................S Collett 10 x3182 True Spirit db (4) 54.5 .............. A Taylor (a2) 11 8510x Time To Sparc dmh (1) 54........ B Grylls (a2) 5 2.56pm ITM STANDARD TIMBER/STEELFORMERS RATING 85 $9000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1480m 1 8x328 Better Keeper h (5) 59.....................R Myers 2 1937x Sadlers Rock (4) 58.5 .................... J Parkes 3 0x34x Precious Time (6) 58 .................. M Dee (a2) 4 7x8Fx William Of Orange (3) 58 ...............D Walker 5 43010 Royal Haze 57.............................. Scratched 6 02x16 Yardstick t (2) 57 ................. R Hutchings (a) 7 70039 Gendarme (1) 57............................. K Myers 8 62669 Heapzacash m (7) 55.......... M Dravitzki (a2) 6 3.31pm FRITZ REUTER IMMIGRANTS/CRAIG ROBINSON FARM MDN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 x4250 I’ve Got This (9) 58.5........................K Smith 2 0030x Lykaroc h (6) 58.5 .................... A Taylor (a2) 3 8 Waikirikiri (14) 57 ..................... A Forbes (a) 4 3x Love Me Moore h (3) 56.5 ........... B Lammas

Results

Men: Kevin Bishop and Ray Kirdy 89, Bill Mason and Justin Smith 88, Steve Johnson and Belinda Kirdy 87, Ton Kittikote and Colin Johnstone 84.

Nearest pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2; Roger Bruce.

Ashburton Golf Club Gluyas Ford # 6; Brent Kirdy. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Bruce Collins.

Saturday 28 December The third round of the Summer Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Dave Stableford was held on Saturday; Gill. Two’s: Ton Kittikote, Roger Bruce. best scores were John Power 46pts, Net eagle; # 7 Not struck Terry O’Reilly 45; Lindsay Stoddart, George Brown and Terry Molloy Mayfield Golf Club all 41; Brent MacGregor and Pk Saturday, December 28.

Ngutu 40; Rodney O’Neill and Greig Four ball best ball par round: Winners: Allen Dixon and Murray Sparrow 39 from others Nearest Pins: Robbies Bar & Bistro: Keir 11 up, John Low and Wayne Blair John McArthur, Braided Rivers: Ron 10 up, Peter McLauchlan and Ian Carlson, Rothburys Insurance: Pieter Beach 9 up. vanVollenhoven, Netherby Meats: Nearest pins: Aon Insurance Brokers Miti Daniel, Robilliards (Nearest #2 Steve King, John McAuliffe pin #18): Rodney O’Neill, Charming Bayley’s Real Estate #11 Andrew Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Lake, Marilyn Cross Property Brokers George Brown. #5 Not struck, ANZ Bank #14 Steve Twos: John McArthur, Pieter van Cross, ATS second shot #9 and #18 Vollenhoven, Mike Holmes, Ross Andrew Lake.

Chatterton, PK Ngutu and Brent Ash Vegas Player of the Day: Wayne MacGregor.

Blair 76-10-66 Birdie Jackpot #9 Nett Eagles #4

■ Golf

Tinwald Golf Club Twilight results December 26th Pairs best ball stableford Kevin Bishop and Stan Stringer 24, Ray and Belinda Kirdy 23, Bruce and Elizabeth Collins 23 Nearest the pin. # 6 Elizabeth Collins # 16 Paul Boon.

Tinwald Golf Club December 28th South African Stableford

■ Shooting

Ashburton District Rifle Club 600 yards 29th December John Miller 47.3, 50.2, 97.5, Darian Miller 47.3, 49.4, 96.7, Andrew Orr 48.4, 45.5, 93.9, John Snowden 42.4, 49.4, 91.8, Murray Cook 45.3, 45.2, 90.5, Brian Hawksby 42, 47.2, 89.3, Coby Snowden 44.1, 45.1, 89.2, John Fleming 44.3, 43.1, 87.4.

50053 Duke Of York d (3) 54.5 ............ B Grylls (a2) 03165 Re Deel 54.5 ................................ Scratched 9x508 Juliann m (8) 54 .................. M Dravitzki (a2) 72322 Pirinitete (1) 54............................ R Hannam 06x60 Dancing Embers m (6) 54 ................S Doyle 889x3 Skytower th (9) 54 ...................... M Dee (a2) 8 4.41pm J SWAP CONTRACTORS RATING 65 $9000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 27402 Centavada m (3) 59 .......................D Walker 2 x4721 Sheez All Heart d (6) 57.5...............R Myers 3 2170x Get Flash dm (9) 57.5 ............L Whelan (a1) 4 3x403 Falzano (8) 57 ..................... R Hutchings (a) 5 718x0 Just Like No Other d (1) 56.5 ...... R Hannam 6 400x6 North Of Sunset d (5) 56.5..............S Collett 7 18x80 Big Lucy d (7) 56 ..............................S Doyle 8 87660 Trickjah dm (2) 55.5 ......... J Shackleton (a2) 9 x576x Kitty Russell (4) 55 ..................... M Dee (a2) Blinkers on : Potter (R1), Norman (R3), I Candy, Diamond Thorn (R6) Blinkers off : Better Keeper (R5), Love Me Moore (R6), Volkswood (R7) Winkers on : Catwomandu (R4), Better Keeper (R5), Love Me Moore (R6), Thorn Prince (R7) Winkers off : Park Princess (R2), Edge Of Glory (R3), Chonney (R6), Kitty Russell (R8)

Draws

■ Bowls

Allenton Bowling Club 3rd January Friday Triples - the following skips have entered teams - R. Anstiss, N. Atkinson, B. Brasell, G. Clarke, R. Cockburn, G. Crack, G. Eder, M. Grice, B. Harper, B. Harrison, R. Herriot, B. Holdom, D. Kiddey, C. Leech, E. Maw, A. McIntosh, B. Neilson, Jo Ryk, Judie Ryk, B. Saussey, N. Sharplin, M. Smallridge, G. Taylor, A. Waddell, T. Watson, W. Watson, B. White, B. Williams - 12.30 pm start (whites to be worn) - Inquiries to Judie Ryk phone 3087907

■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club Saturday 4 January The fourth round of the summer Stableford will be held Start Time: Morning 8.00am Afternoon Report at 11.30 for an 12noon start. Saturday Starters: Morning tbc Afternoon Paddy Bradford and Match Committee Results Match Committee

Tinwald Golf Club Saturday 4th - LPJ Trophy Draw for the 2nd round of the LPJ Trophy (stableford) to be played on Saturday will be at the clubhouse for 8am and 12.30pm. Players are asked to report 15 minutes prior to tee off times.

Starters:am B Collins. pm B Collins.

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Stableford Competition Open To All Golfers Handicap and Non-Handicap Grades Cash Prizes Make up a four or come along for a clubhouse draw

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Food available Contact:

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10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

9.00pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWLAD. Welcome in the New Year. St Andrews Church, Cnr Jane and Thomson Street, Tinwald.

Holiday Services

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL GENERAL WARDS - (Medical and Surgical): HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring DAILY, 2pm - 4pm and 6pm - 7.30pm 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

DUTY DOCTORS CHALMERS WARD - (including Assessment, This service is for EMERGENCY MEDICAL Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN CARE ONLY. Please remember your VISITING. Community Services Card. Emergency MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm. phone until 8am Tuesday - 0800 700 155.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may Allenton Medical Centre, Harrison Street, visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm. will be the duty practice for Wednesday, TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, January 1 and Thursday, January 2 until 8am -unrestricted visiting.

Friday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm both days. ASHBURTON REST HOMES COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, No appointment necessary. Surgery phone unrestricted visiting.

308 9139.

CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA visiting.

For weekend doctor and emergency details please telephone the Rakaia Medical Centre, PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted visiting. ph 303 5002.

18th January $30

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Theatre Royal, Timaru 21st March

TRADES, SERVICES

For bookings phone

308 7646

CERAMIC tiles - tile quality ADULT guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection available at ENTERTAINMENT Redmonds Furnishing and CALL Zoe. Available Flooring, Burnett Street. everyday.

No texting.

Discretion assured. Ph 021 0233 9259.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

PLANTS, PRODUCE NEW potatoes. Digging daily 3kg-$5.00, 5kg-$8.00.

Bennett, 22 Melrose Rd, phone 308 4015.

1.00pm - 7.00pm TINWALD SWIMMING POOL. Outdoor pool open to the public. Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road.

Thursday 10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 7.00pm TINWALD SWIMMING POOL. Outdoor pool open in the Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.nz for more information.

TINwALD POOL

Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road. Weekends 1pm – 7pm

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm MENTAL HEALTH STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis POST DELIVERY CENTRES Team.

Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a INFORMATION CENTRES message.

ASHBURTON - Closed Public Holidays.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE METHVEN - Closed Public Holidays.

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

BUS DEPARTURES EMERGENCY DENTIST Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service.

Dr Justin Wall, phone 027 2011 193 LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 provide an accident and emergency service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. between 9am-10.30am both days, by Except in cases of emergency persons BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. appointment only. Please contact your local requiring medical attention must consult OMMUNITY ERVICES Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm. dentist on all non-statutory days: Ashburton their own or the duty general practitioner.

ART GALLERY REFUSE AND RECYCLING Dental Centre-308 1953. Dentistry on Persons subsequently requiring treatment Closed Public Holidays.

Park Side-308 7472. Rumping Dental at Ashburton Hospital must have a general The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Surgery-308 5248 or G&E Dental in ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Parks and Methven Greenwaste and Inorganic practitioners.

Hornby, open daily including public holidays Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: Materials drop off will be closed on Wednesday, PHARMACIES for general and emergency dentistry, 10:00am - 1:00pm - Sunday 1:00pm January 1, 2014. Kerbside collections Unichem Ashburton Pharmacy, cnr East 9am-5pm on 03 928 2495. For after hours 4:00pm Wednesday collections will be on Tuesday, & Burnett Streets, Ashburton, will be open trauma ring Christchurch Hospital Dental December 31, Thursday collections will be on ASHBURTON MUSEUM from 10.30am - 12 noon on Wednesday, Department on 03 364 0250.

Friday, January 3.

January 1 and Thursday, January 2, and from Closed Statutory Holidays.

6.30pm - 7pm both evenings.

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COMMUNITY POOL

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

5th January $40

◊ Rebuild Sumner/ New Brighton Tour

Southberry Open 7 days 9am - 6pm Freshly picked Raspberries Ranui Tayberry and P.Y.O. No Eftpos.

56 Tinwald/ Westerfield/ Mayfield Road.

Phone 03 308 1338.

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

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Beckley Coachlines Programme

◊ Ellerslie Flower Show

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30th January

Find us on MacMillian Street

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING. Professional window tinting of cars, homes & offices. Quality films for privacy, UV (fading), heat, safety & security.

Phone Craig Rogers your ONLY local applicator 307 6347 or 0800TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ.

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ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 027 683 8111,

149 Cameron St, Ashburton: The duty vet for emergencies this weekend is: Ben Hallenstein.

Full emergency service all weekend.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686,

West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven. Saturday clinic: 9am-12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195,

Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am-12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Reon McMurtries, Small: Toni Johnston.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 03 308 2321 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am-12 noon. 24-hour weekend emergencies: Large: Tammy Wilson, Phil Stokes. Small: Nina Fields.

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CRYPTIC

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ACROSS 1. Think skilled enough to be of some importance (12) 8. Cut down on tree distribution in ranch after a loss (8) 9. Customary tax for one North of the Border (4) 11. On the qui vive with the French in painting (5) 12. Sort of varnish in equal parts with credit (7) 13. Charter one in her form of it (4) 15. Beautiful fairy going around as a prefix (4) 19. Run away and hide company in mixed bands (7) 20. Deck one out with a party the Navy has to follow (5) 22. Right one is about to flower (4) 23. Foul and unwholesome tang may have an entry in the street (8) 24. Country with a bitter grain output (5,7)

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DOWN 2. Extravagant, old – true form of it (5) 3. Confectionery you and I are given in collections (6) 4. Tame party upset by lice (6) 5. The reason to be? Roughly, employment! (7) 6. Demanding too much tax i.e., rotten to get nothing in exchange (12) 7. Astounding that it should be upset in busting it (12) 10. Behave after cruel training starts (3)

14. Uneasy at the way I’ve got to go after the others (7) 16. Fight for seats at the theatre (3) 17. Top journo got it in and rode around (6) 18. Instructed to be tense, by the sound of it (6) 21. Half look at a sanctimonious creature (5)

OL O H C S O T K C A B ASHBURTON,

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

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Phone 307 6466 Mobile 0274 508 191 13 Robinson Street, (old Spray Marks site) Riverside Industrial Estate, Ashburton

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 TV ONE

©TVNZ 2013

6am 60 Minute Makeover 3 7:05 Dickinson’s Real Deal 3 8am Cowboy Builders 3 0 9am Infomercials 9:30 The Chase 3 0 10:30 Ellen PGR 3 11:30 Infomercials Noon The Inspectors 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1:30 House Guest 3 2pm Come Dine With Me 3 0 3pm The Renovation Game 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Ellen With guest Andy Samberg.

5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat Hosted by Eddie McGuire. 0 6pm One News 0

7pm Border Patrol 0 7:30 Tricked 0 8:30 M Message in a Bottle 1999 Romantic Drama.

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman. 0

11:10 M Lean On Me AO 1989 Action Drama.

Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd. 0 1:10 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 2 0

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Home By Novogratz 7am Venice 24/7 7am Atlantic Britain 8am Great Animal Escapes 8:30 Caroline Quentin’s National Parks 10am Secret Removers 11am Oddities 11:30 Off The Eaten Track Noon Bath Crashers 12:30 M Abroad PGR 2010 Drama.

2:15 The Long Way Round PGR 3:30 Great Animal Escapes 4pm Heaven’s Garden 4:30 New British Kitchen – Torode And Hardeep’s Tour 5pm Better Homes And Gardens 6pm Bondi Vet 6:30 House Crashers 7pm Auction Hunters PG 7:30 The Apartment Hosted and judged by Jamie Durie.

8:30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features Nick delves into the history of homes as their owners begin restoring them to their former glory.

9:30 International Open House 10pm West End Salvage 10:30 School Of Comedy AO 11pm Auction Hunters PG 11:30 Gator Boys

WEDNESDAY

12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Better Homes And Gardens 2am The Apartment 3am International Open House 3:30 West End Salvage 4am School Of Comedy AO 4:30 Bondi Vet 5am Heaven’s Garden 5:30 New British Kitchen – Torode And Hardeep’s Tour

TV TWO

©TVNZ 2013

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:53 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 6:55 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:20 Back At The Barnyard 3 0 7:50 Ben 10 – Omniverse 0 8:15 Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide 3 0 8:35 I’m In The Band 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Let’s Get Inventin’ 3 0 11am The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3 0 11:30 Ellen 3 Noon Mike And Molly PGR 0 12:50 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here AO 3 1:50 Fool Britannia 3 0 2:50 Austin And Ally 3 0 3:10 M High School Musical 2006 Family Musical. 0 5pm M Toy Story 1995 Animated. 0 6:35 M Toy Story 2 1999 Animated. 0 8:25 M Shanghai Noon PGR 2000 Action Western.

A Chinese Imperial Guard comes to America to rescue a kidnapped princess and finds himself facing gunslingers in the West. Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Owen Wilson. 0 10:40 M Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery AO 1997 Comedy.

Michael Myers, Elizabeth Hurley. 0 12:25 M Deuce Bigalow – Male Gigolo AO 1999 Comedy. Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin. 0 2am Two And A Half Men AO 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

TV THREE 6am Infomercials 7am What’s Really In Our Food? 3 0 7:30 The Kitchen Job 3 0 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 The Shopping Channel 11:30 Entertainment Tonight 3 Noon Would I Lie To You? PGR 3 0 12:30 90210 PGR 3 1:30 N The Defenders PGR The guys defend a man accused of murder. 0 2:30 N HomeMADE Two teams of emerging designers renovate two houses in five days, with the winner receiving a prize of AU$100,000.

3:30 The Queen Latifah Show 4:30 Big Brother Australia Highlights of life in the house.

6pm 3 News 7pm Bondi Vet 7:30 The Block – All Stars PGR 0 8:45 The Graham Norton Show AO 10pm Would I Lie to You? UK AO 10:40 The Good Wife AO Alicia must win a stay of execution for a guilty man because he has information that could keep another of her clients from a murder conviction.

11:35 Big Brother Australia Highlights of life in the house.

12:30 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 Infomercials

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 3 7am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 7:25 Beyblade – Metal Fury 3 7:50 Monsuno 3 8:15 Chuggington 8:25 Franklin And Friends 3 8:50 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 9am Bob The Builder 3 9:10 Thomas And Friends 3 9:20 Peppa Pig 3 9:30 Wonder Pets 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3:05 Pingu 3 3:10 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 3:25 Go, Diego, Go! 3 3:50 Beyblade – Shogun Steel 4:15 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 4:40 Scaredy Squirrel 3 5:05 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5:35 Dragons – Riders Of Berk 3 6pm Sabrina The Teenage Witch 3 0 6:30 Everybody Hates Chris 3 7pm Just Shoot Me! PGR Finch conspires to set Maya up on a date with another woman. 0 7:30 Hot Set PGR 8:30 M Mickey Blue Eyes AO 3 1999 Comedy Romance.

An Englishman living in New York is lured into the arms of his girlfriend’s Mafia family.

James Caan, Hugh Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn. 0 10:35 NYC 22 AO

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day one in Auckland.

8:35 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors 1pm The Jeff Probst Show 1:55 Beauty And The Beast PGR 3 When Vincent accidentally crosses paths with his former fiancée, his identity and his relationship with Catherine are threatened.

2:50 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:20 The Late Show With David Letterman 3 4:20 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day One from the ASB Tennis Arena in Auckland.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat Hosted

by Eddie McGuire.

7pm Best of QI PGR 3 7:30 60 Minutes PGR 3 Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert, who have been living in the bush and filming Africa’s big cats for 30 years.

8:30 Michael Jackson – The Life of an Icon PGR 3 The Jackson family and their friends share stories about the late Michael Jackson’s life and career.

6am Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) Australia v England – Fourth Test, Day Five.

6:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Melbourne Renegades v Brisbane Heat.

7am Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day One. 8am L Darts – World Championships Semi-finals. From Alexandra Palace in London, England.

Noon Cricket – International (Highlights) 1pm The Cricket Show 1:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) 2pm Arsenal TV 5pm Bowls – New Zealand Open (Highlights) 6:50 L Cricket – International Pakistan v Sri Lanka – First Test, Day One. 9:05 The Cricket Show Analysis and highlights of the week’s games, with features and player profiles from grassroots to domestic and international cricket.

9:35 L Cricket – International Pakistan v Sri Lanka – First Test, Day One. Coverage of the afternoon session from Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.

11:30 Entertainment Tonight Midnight Infomercials

11:40 The Late Show With David Letterman A late-night comedy and talk show.

12:40 Home Shopping 1:40 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2:10 Home Shopping

2:30 Mass Participation – Gabon Marathon (Highlights) 2:35 L Cricket – International Pakistan v Sri Lanka – First test, Day Two. Afternoon Session. 3am Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Match of the Day – Day Two. 4:30 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights)

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Ako 3 3pm Maara Kai 3 3:30 Brian Jacques’s Redwall 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

THE BOX 6am NYPD Blue MVLS 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Pawn Stars PG 7:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 8:05 The Pretender PG 8:55 Numb3rs MV 9:45 Law And Order MV 10:35 CSI – Miami MV 11:25 CSI – New York MV 12:15 Sons Of Anarchy 16VLS 1:15 Numb3rs MV 2:05 NYPD Blue MVLS 3:10 The Pretender PG 4pm Pawn Stars PG 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Numb3rs MV 6pm America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 6:30 Pawn Stars PG 7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2013 ML 10:35 M Out For Justice 18VL 1991 Action. Steven Seagal.

WEDNESDAY

12:30 The Pretender PG 1:20 NYPD Blue MVLS 2:10 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2013 ML 5:10 The Pretender PG

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 F Journey To The West 8:30 Land Of The Long White Cloud AO 3 9:30 Kaikohe Demolition AO 3 10:30 Tribe New Year’s Eve Special

WEDNESDAY

Midnight Tagata Pasifika 12:30 Te Kaea 3 2 1:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY

Message in a Bottle 8:30pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE

6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Moonshiners PG 7:30 Man v Wild PG 8:30 World’s Biggest Ship PG 9:30 Mythbusters PG 10:30 You Have Been Warned PG Backyard Boffins.

11:30 Mythbusters PG 12:30 Crimes That Shook The World M 1:30 Extreme Smuggling PG 2:30 Naked And Afraid PG 3:30 Naked And Afraid PG 5:30 Naked And Afraid PG 6:30 Naked And Afraid PG 7:30 World’s Top Five PG 8:30 Aeroplane Repo PG 9:30 Secrets Of… PG 10:30 Auction Kings PG 11pm I Was Murdered M 11:30 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M

6:45 The Sitter 16VLS 2011 Comedy. Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor.

8:05 Chernobyl Diaries 16VL 2012 Horror. Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski.

9:35 American Reunion 16LS 2012 Comedy.

11:30 Silent Hill – Revelation AO 2012 Horror.

1:05 Sherlock Holmes 2 – A Game Of Shadows AO 2011 Action.

3:10 The Night Before The Night Before Christmas PG 2010 Family Fantasy.

4:40 The Cabin In The Woods 16VL 2011 Horror.

6:15 Flight AO 2012 Drama.

8:30 The Watch 16VLS 2012 Comedy.

10:15 End Of Watch 18VL 2012 Crime.

Midnight True Crime With Aphrodite Jones PG 1am Auction Kings PG 1:30 World’s Top Five PG 2:30 Aeroplane Repo PG 3:30 Dirty Jobs PG 4:30 Ghost Lab M 5:30 Time Warp PG

12:05 That’s My Boy 16LS 2012 Comedy. 2am The Night Before The Night Before Christmas PG 2010 Family Fantasy. 3:30 End Of Watch 18VL 2012 Crime.

5:20 Flight 16LS 2012 Drama.

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Michael Jackson – The Life of an Icon, 8:30pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS 6:10 The Making Of It’s Complicated M 6:35 Semi-Pro MLS 2008 Comedy.

Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson.

8:05 Moulin Rouge MLS 2001 Musical.

Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.

10:10 King Kong MV 2005 Adventure. Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrian Brodie.

1:15 The Making Of It’s Complicated M 1:35 The Fugitive MV 1993 Action.

Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford.

3:45 The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers MV 2002 Fantasy.

6:40 Four Brothers MVLS 2005 Drama.

8:30 Mr And Mrs Smith MVLS 2005 Action.

10:35 Gone In 60 Seconds MV 2000 Action.

WEDNESDAY

12:30 The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers MV 2002 Fantasy.

3:25 Mr And Mrs Smith MVLS 2005 Action. 5:25 The Fugitive MV 1993 Action.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

31Dec13

7am Football – Spurs TV Tottenham Hotspur v Stoke City.

10am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Replay) Melbourne Renegades v Brisbane Heat. From Docklands Stadium in Melbourne.

1:30 Arena Access A show that highlights upcoming pay-per-view events in boxing, wrestling and mixed martial arts.

2pm Darts – World Championships (Replay) Semi-finals. From Alexandra Palace in London, England.

6pm Football – A-League Highlights Show A wrap up of the latest games from the weekend.

6:30 Motorsport – The Dirt This episode features the Midgets International Series 25 Lapper.

7:30 Fight Night Vyacheslav Glazkov v Garrett Wilson.

9:30 L Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Adelaide Strikers v Perth Scorchers.

WEDNESDAY

1am Cricket – International Australia v England – Fourth Test, Day Five.

1:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) New Zealand v West Indies – Second One-Day International.

2:30 Bowls – New Zealand Open (Highlights) Men’s Singles. From Henderson Bowls Club, Auckland.

4am Football – A-League (Replay) Coast Mariners v Perth Glory.

From Bluetongue Stadium, New South Wales.

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6am 60 Minute Makeover 3 7:05 Dickinson’s Real Deal 3 8am Cowboy Builders 3 9am M Gone With The Wind 1939 Drama. A manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh. 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me 0 2:30 The Renovation Game 3 A team of up-and-coming builders and designers put their fees on the line if they fail to raise a property’s value.

3:30 Te Karere 2 0 4pm Ellen With guest Chris Hemsworth.

4:55 Super Tiny Animals 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30

Border Patrol 0 High Country Rescue 0 N Meet the Frockers 0 M Made in Dagenham AO 2010 Drama. Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins. 0 10:45 M Derailed AO 2005 Drama.

Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston.

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12:45 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 0 1:10 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 0

CHOICE TV

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7pm M Journey to the Centre of the Earth PGR 2008 Fantasy Adventure.

Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem. 0 8:45 M National Treasure PGR 2004 Adventure.

Nicolas Cage, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel. 0

11:30 M Mars Attacks! PGR 1996 Sci-fi Spoof. Aliens land on Earth and gleefully terrorise the planet. 0 1:30 Infomercials 2:30 Grey’s Anatomy PGR 3 0 3:20 The Lying Game PGR 3 0 4:05 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 5:10 State Of Georgia 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

TV THREE

FOUR

PRIME

7am What’s Really In Our Food? 3 0 7:30 The Kitchen Job 3 0 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 The Shopping Channel 11:30 Entertainment Tonight 3 Noon Would I Lie To You? PGR 3 0 12:30 90210 PGR 3 1:30 The Defenders PGR Nick defends a woman accused of running down a jogger while talking on her cell phone; Pete helps a man down on his luck. 0 2:30 HomeMADE Two teams of emerging designers renovate two houses in five days, with the winner receiving AU$100,000.

3:30 The Queen Latifah Show 4:30 Big Brother Australia Highlights of life in the house.

6pm 3 News 7pm Bondi Vet A kelpie is brought to Chris in a bad state.

7:30 The Block – All Stars PGR 0 8:30 M Ghost Town AO 3 2008 Comedy. When a man dies during a routine medical procedure, he wakes up to discover he has the annoying ability to see ghosts, all of whom want something from him. Ricky Gervais. 0 10:35 Would I Lie to You? UK AO

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 3 7am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 7:25 Beyblade – Metal Fury 3 7:50 Monsuno 3 8:15 Chuggington 8:25 Franklin And Friends 3 8:50 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 9am Bob The Builder 3 9:10 Thomas And Friends 3 9:20 Peppa Pig 3 9:30 Wonder Pets 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3:05 Pingu 3 3:10 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 3:25 Go, Diego, Go! 3 3:50 Beyblade – Shogun Steel 4:15 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 4:40 Scaredy Squirrel 3 5:05 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5:35 Dragons – Riders Of Berk 3 6pm Sabrina The Teenage Witch 3 0 6:30 Everybody Hates Chris 3 7pm Just Shoot Me! PGR 0 7:30 M Blue Crush PGR 3 2002 Romance. A female surfer has her training routine for a big competition upset when she falls for a professional football player.

Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis. 0 9:45 M Bruno AO 3 2009 Comedy. Sacha Baron Cohen.

11:15 NCIS – Los Angeles AO 3 0 12:10 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 Infomercials

11:25 Celebrity Paranormal Project AO 3 The ruins of a cult commune are investigated by Evander Holyfield, Debra Wilson, Jason ‘Wee Man’ Acuna, Nikki Ziering, and Julio Iglesias jr.

12:20 Entertainment Tonight 12:45 Infomercials

SKY SPORT 1

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day two at the ASB Tennis Arena in Auckland.

8:35 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Jeff Probst Show 1:55 Beauty And The Beast PGR 3 2:50 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:20 The Late Show With David Letterman 3 4:20 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day Two. From the ASB Tennis Arena in Auckland.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Great Animal Escapes 1:30 Laid AO 2am The Cook And The Chef 2:30 Food Safari 3am Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 3:30 The Hook And The Cook 4am Bondi Vet 4:30 Bath Crashers 5am Monty’s Big Catch

6am Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day Two. 7am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Adelaide Strikers v Perth Scorchers.

7:30 Cricket – The Ashes Australia v England – Fourth Test, Day Five.

9:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) 10:30 L Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies – Third One-Day International.

Coverage of the first innings from the Queenstown Events Centre.

2:35 The Cricket Show 3:05 L Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies – Third One-Day International. Coverage of the second innings from the Queenstown Events Centre.

Best of QI AO 3 Storage Wars Texas Bondi Rescue PGR M The Quick And The Dead AO 3 1995 Western.

A lady avenger returns to a western town owned by a ruthless gunslinger hosting an elimination tournament.

Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe.

10:45 Best of QI AO

7pm L Cricket – International Pakistan v Sri Lanka – First test, Day Two. Coverage of the morning session from Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

9:05 Sky Sport – What’s On 9:35 L Cricket – International Pakistan v Sri Lanka – First test, Day Two. Coverage of the afternoon session from Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

11:20 The Late Show With David Letterman 12:20 Cricket – International 1:30 Home Shopping 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3am Home Shopping

2:30 Football – A-League (Replay) Western Sydney Wanderers v Wellington Phoenix. From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney.

4:30 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Match of the Night – Day Three. From the ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland.

7pm 7:30 8pm 8:30

MAORI TV

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THURSDAY

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8:05 The Cabin In The Woods 16VL 2011 Horror. Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson.

9:40 The Night Before The Night Before Christmas PG 2010 Family Fantasy. Jennifer Beals, Rick Roberts, RD Reid.

11:10 The Watch 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn.

12:50 That’s My Boy 16LS 2012 Comedy.

2:45 Flight 16LS 2012 Drama.

5pm The Directors – James Mangold PG 2010 Documentary.

5:30 The Devil Inside 16VL 2012 Horror.

6:55 Haywire MVL 2011 Action.

8:30 Battleship MVL 2012 Action.

10:45 Seven Psychopaths 16VLS 2012 Comedy.

7:35 Biography – Brad Pitt PG 8:25 Gone In 60 Seconds MV 2000 Action. Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie.

10:20 Four Brothers MVLS 2005 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, Terrence Howard, Tyrese Gibson, Sofia Vergara.

12:10 The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers MV 2002 Fantasy.

Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen.

3:05 Mr And Mrs Smith MVLS 2005 Action. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie.

5:05 Eragon MV 2006 Action. Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons.

6:50 Fear MVLS 1996 Thriller. Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg, Alyssa Milano.

8:30 The Rock AO 1996 Action.

Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Nicolas Cage.

10:50 Twister PGV 1996 Drama.

6am Darts – World Championships (Replay) Semi-finals.

10am Cricket – The Ashes Australia v England – Fourth Test, Day Five. Coverage of the last two hours of play from the MCG, Melbourne.

Noon Basketball – NBL (Replay) Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers.

2pm Motorsport – The Dirt 3pm Cricket – International (Highlights) Pakistan v Sri Lanka – First test, Day One. 3:30 L Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades. From the Bellerive Oval, Hobart.

7pm Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers. From the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

7:30 Motorsport – The Dirt Featuring the Midgets International Series 25 Lapper.

8:30 Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) Australia v England – Fourth Test, Day Five.

From the MCG, Melbourne.

9pm Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades.

From the Bellerive Oval, Hobart.

9:30 L Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Stars. From Stadium Australia, Sydney.

12:35 Behind The Mask 16VLS 2006 Horror. 2:10 Battleship MVL 2012 Action. 4:20 Behind The Mask 16VLS 2006 Horror. 5:50 The Devil Inside 16VL 2012 Horror.

12:45 Dead Man’s Shoes 18VL 2004 Thriller. 2:15 The Rock AO 1996 Action. 4:30 Dead Man’s Shoes 18VL 2004 Thriller.

1am Fight Night Vyacheslav Glazkov v Garrett Wilson.

3am Football – Spurs TV Tottenham Hotspur v Stoke City.

Mars Attacks!

DISCOVERY

6am NYPD Blue MVLS 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 N Pawn Stars PG 7:40 Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame 2013 ML 10:40 The Pretender PG 11:30 NYPD Blue MVLS 12:30 Raw MC 3:30 Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame 2013 ML 6:30 Pawn Stars PG 7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 M Mortal Kombat – Annihilation PGR 1997 Action. Brian Thompson, Robin Shou, Talisa Sato.

10:30 Law And Order MV 11:30 CSI – Miami MV

THURSDAY

12:30 The Pretender PG 1:20 NYPD Blue MVLS 2:10 Law And Order MV 3am M Mortal Kombat – Annihilation PGR 1997 Action. Brian Thompson, Robin Shou, Talisa Sato. 4:45 The Pretender PG 5:35 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG

Blue Crush

11:30pm on TV2

7:30pm on FOUR

MOVIES PREMIERE

6:30 Moonshiners PG Storm’s a Brewing. 7:30 Man v Wild PG 8:30 Mythbusters PG 9:30 World’s Top Five PG 10:30 Deadliest Catch PG Mutiny on the Bering Sea. 11:30 Deadliest Catch PG Dagger in the Back.

12:30 Deadliest Catch PG 1:30 Deadliest Catch PG 2:30 Deadliest Catch PG 3:30 Deadliest Catch PG 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 Deadliest Catch PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Deadliest Catch PG 8:30 The Unexplained Files PG 9:30 Ben Earl – Trick Artist PG 10:30 Auction Hunters PG 11pm Weed Country M

THURSDAY

Midnight Nightmare Next Door M 1am I Was Murdered M 1:30 I Was Murdered M 2am Everything You Need To Know PG 2:30 Man v Wild PG 3:30 Deadliest Catch PG 4:30 Flying Wild Alaska PG 5:30 Time Warp PG

THURSDAY

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Sport

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An unbeaten all men’s team emerged victorious at a rain reduced Holiday Classic Cotula Cup bowls tournament at the weekend.

Poor weather marred the two-day mixed Bowls Mid Canterbury Sub Centre event at the Ashburton bowling club, abandoning play on Sunday to preserve the greens and forcing organisers to find the top performers of the 14 entries based on three rounds played on Saturday.

Joe Ryk’s Ashburton bowling club team, consisting of Murray Anderson, Mike Quinn and Doug Kinvig, went through unbeaten to claim victory.

They were closely followed by Michael Lawson’s Allenton bowls squad, who finished second, and Dave Muir’s Ashburton MSA side in third.

All eyes on the kitty Rosemarie O’Sullivan sends another one down in the Holiday Classic.

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Keith through to post section play at nationals

BY MYLES HUME

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The sudden death stages now await Ashburton lawn bowls star Sandra Keith as she seeks an elusive fifth national title.

Keith emerged from the singles and pairs qualifying stages at the national lawn bowls open championships in Dunedin yesterday in good form and in high spirits after gaining entry into post section knock-out play in both disciplines.

During the weekend, the Dunsandel bowler won three of her four singles matches, while claiming victory in two pairs matches with club partner and fellow pairs defending national champion Serena Matthews.

They then combined again to record another two victories yesterday against Outram’s Marian Hambleton and Mary Stevenson and Taieri’s Carol Callaghan and Gloria Barton.

“I’m happy with the way we are going and the best part is we

have got a bit of improvement to be made.

“And to be honest the greens here in Dunedin are a bit different and have been a bit tricky to read and get used to,” she said.

Her singles match with Wellington’s Tanya Wheeler will be a relief for Keith, who had bowed out before post-section play at the New Plymouth nationals earlier this year, failing to defend her national title.

She will look to recapture that

2012 crown again this year, and her chances have been bolstered thanks to a juicy first round match-up of singles top seeds and Black Jacks representatives Val Smith and Jo Edwards.

“One of them is going to knock another out so it should be a great match.

“That’s just the way the draw goes,” Keith said.

The pairs title is also in Keith’s sights, and she will be looking to recapture the form her and Matthews played with to claim the

national title earlier this year.

If she is able to do so, it will be her fifth national title, putting her in an elite club of star bowlers who have achieved that feat, signified by a gold star.

“I’m not thinking of that right now, for me, it’s just one game at a time.

The singles and pairs finals are scheduled to be played on Saturday, with Keith to then join Matthews, Karolyn Boon and Pam Clarke in the fours.

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