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Quakes shake up capital Dozens of Mid Cantabrians have been caught up in earthquakes that are continuing to shake Wellington and the top of the South Island.

A 6.5 magnitude quake centred in Seddon sparked alarm at 5pm yesterday and followed a 5.8 in Cook Strait at 7.17am.

The 6.5 quake caused falling masonry, broken glass and power outages around the Wellington region and top of the South Island, temporarily closed Wellington airport and rail network, and was felt from Christchurch to New Plymouth.

Two Mid Canterbury basketball teams were in Blenheim for the weekend attending an under 15 basketball regional tournament.

Some who planned to travel home today, decided to drive home late yesterday instead.

Ashburton woman Jodene Lowe travelled to Blenheim with her son for the tournament, and said that after the quake yesterday she “packed and ran”.

“It was absolutely terrifying. We were on the top floor of our accommodation and the whole place was swaying. We were planning to stay an extra night and travel home in the morning, but after that, no way.”

She said that after experiencing several quakes in Canterbury, this felt far worse.

“It could have been because we were on the third floor, but it definitely felt worse. We headed straight home, and even travelling back we’ve seen a lot of rockfall on the road.”

With the quake hitting off-shore there were initial fears of a tsunami, but according to GeoNet the quake was too small to cause any significant wave.

Aftershocks are expected to continue in the region.

Wellington Region Civil Defence Controller Bruce Pepperell said

there had been reports of structural damage to a number of buildings around Wellington and emergency services and local authority staff were continuing to check buildings and infrastructure.

“At the moment we have had only one report of an injury around the region.”

Mr Pepperell said while the earthquake was undoubtedly frightening, it did not appear to have done widespread damage.

“While some buildings are damaged and have been evacuated, the city and region has by no means ground to a halt.”

He advised residents to check up on their neighbours - and go and stay with friends, family or neighbours if they were frightened.

A Fire Service spokeswoman said nearly 50 calls were received to the central communications centre in the half hour after the earthquake.

She said there were multiple alarm activations in central Wellington with widespread reports of structural damage.

There were cordons around Wellington’s central library after a water leak.

Office worker Alice Midgley was on the 13th floor of the Fujitsu building when the quake struck.

“I was under the desk, that was the first time I was frightened,” she said.

April Ferrino from Austin, Texas, was in a fifth-floor apartment on Lambton Quay.

“I’m from Austin, Texas so we’re used to other natural disasters - tornadoes, hurricanes.

Earthquakes are extremely terrifying because you can’t predict them,” she said.

“Things started falling off the shelves. It was terrifying.”

ANZ branches in Wellington’s central business district would be closed to customers for most of today while ANZ had them checked by engineers.

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Eleven-year-old Japanese football player Shion Yokota was greeted with a hongi by Eddie Kohunui, who led the welcome powhiri yesterday for the teams visiting for the Friendship Tournament this year.

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By Gabrielle Stuart Japanese children got their first taste of a traditional Maori powhiri yesterday at the opening of the 16th Annual Football Friendship Tournament.

The songs, haka and long line of traditional hongi greetings received the whole range of responses from laughter and tears from the players, who flew into Christchurch yesterday for the tournament.

It has been six years since a Japanese team made the trip to New Zealand for the annual tournament, after withdrawing in

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A leaky Ashburton Borough School building at the centre of a legal battle failed an inspection and never received a code of compliance.

The Ashburton District Council revealed the school’s ill-fated administrative block failed a building inspection on July 2, 2002 because of incorrectly installed cladding and never had it reinspected.

It also said the building had not been issued a code of compliance certificate.

“I am surprised the Ministry of Education did not ensure the building had a code of compliance certificate prior to the building being used,” council chief executive Brian Lester said.

“If the code of compliance had been sought this would have raised the issue of the cladding. While we don’t know if this is the cause of the problems it was certainly an issue that should have been addressed.”

He said it was the ministry’s “legal responsibility” to obtain a code of compliance.

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2009 because of the international swine flu epidemic, and in 2011 after the earthquake and tsunami.

However the local team made the trip to Hosoe, Japan last year, and several players who were hosted on the trip were looking forward to returning the favour this year.

Year 8 local boy Tobi Dalglish made the trip to Japan last year, and although he didn’t speak Japanese and many of the visiting players didn’t speak English, he said that the teams got along well.

“They’re really nice, so it’s really easy.

They took us to theme parks last year and it was great just staying with the billet fami-

lies, so hopefully we can give them a good time here.”

Lily Burdett will be captain of the first mixed Japanese and Kiwi team ever to play at the friendship tournament, and said that she hoped they would work well together.

“We’ll have a translator and a captain for each side, so it’ll be hard, but it’ll be fun.

We really just want to make our home their home, so we’ll show them around and feed them lots of L&P and kiwifruit!”

The teams will spend the day touring the district and visiting local attractions, before kicking off the official tournament at noon tomorrow.

Leaky building failed testing

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Winterbourn confirmed last month the school’s leaky administration building would be demolished and rebuilt.

He put the serious leakage problem down to the building code at the time of construction.

The Ministry of Education has refused to release any details to the Guardian in relation to the building or Mr Lester’s claims.

In a letter, the ministry’s deputy secretary of corporate and infrastructure Kristine Kilkelly said: “The ministry cannot comment in detail on matters that may be subject of current or future legal action or where such comment could prejudice future commercial negotiations.”

The ministry also would not answer questions asking if the revelation could jeopardise a potential court case.

The ministry is fighting 100 leaky building claims in court, and is currently repairing about 800 buildings at 300 schools. It has estimated the cost for all remedial work for leaky school buildings at $1.5 billion.

During the building process the council undertakes inspections to ensure the design and construction were compliant. If issues

are found during the process the inspection is failed until the problem is rectified.

If the finished building is constructed to the standard required of the building a code of compliance certificate is issued.

However, when the Ashburton Borough building failed its cladding inspection Mr Lester said the council never heard anything more from the builders in relation to the cladding.

“No code of compliance certificate was issued for the building, it is the building owner’s legal responsibility.”

Mr Winterbourn said he was not aware of issues surrounding code of compliance and the failed building inspection so it would be inappropriate to comment.

However, he did say it was likely the building would be demolished in September and an alternative building was currently being sought.

Last month, he said he was saddened to find one of the school’s “most creative” buildings would come down.

He did now know how much the rebuild would cost but said it would be “in the hundreds of thousands”.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DEATHS GREEN, Alan James On Thursday July 18, 2013, at Ashburton Hospital. Aged 89 years. Beloved husband of Joan. Much loved and respected father and father in law of William (Auckland), and Wendy and Phillip Thornton (Te Awamutu).

Awesome Grandad of Jason McArthur (Moe, Victoria), Jasmine Lyford (McKay, Queensland), and Kirsty McArthur (deceased).

A service of committal for Alan will be held at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery on THURSDAY July 25 at 1.00pm, followed by a remembrance service at the New Life Church, 58 Melcombe Street, Tinwald, commencing at 2.00pm Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton

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Take care over child IDs, Govt warned they can be allocated a National Student Number (NSN).

The ministry says the number will be used to assess participation and “develop initiatives”, however opposition parties claim the numbers will also be used to nab beneficiaries who are breaching their conditions under new welfare reforms.

The reforms, introduced this week, will require parents on a benefit to send their child to 15 hours ECE a week from aged three,

By Myles Hume The Government should tread carefully over the use of identification numbers to be allocated to youngsters in early childhood education (ECE).

That’s the message from early childhood providers in Mid Canterbury, who are working to supply the Ministry of Education with information on children so

or face having their benefit reduced or cut.

Ashburton Baptist Early Learning Centre manager Lorraine Bennett hoped the Government would not abuse their power, but said “we live in a generation when anything goes”.

She said early childhood centres would not be caught between beneficiary parents and the Government if action was taken.

“I don’t think it’s any different

than the things we have in place now, if we see suspicious behavior we have to report it, I don’t see it changing a lot.”

The Government claimed NSNs would not be used to nab beneficiaries, but did not rule out sharing information between the Education and Social Development Ministries.

Tiddlywinks director Steph Hansen said if beneficiaries had to send their youngster to early childhood, then there needed to be a way

of policing it.

More than 190,000 children are expected to be allocated NSNs which have traditionally been handed out when children started primary school.

The Ministry of Education’s website states NSNs would be used to “work with the information in a way that protects each learner’s privacy, providing basic data needed to assess trends and develop initiatives”.

House auction boosts stadium coffers

By Gabrielle Stuart HILL, Flint Alexander On July 18, 2013. Passed away peacefully, at home after a courageous battle.

Aged 88 years. Devoted husband of the late Nettie (Annette). Loving father and friend of Elly, Fred and Debs, Jim and Gill, Mary, Jo, and Barry. Much loved Uncle of Larry and Wendy Langley, and Tina and Greg Martin. Adored Grandad of Garth, Kelly, and Hayley; Ryan, and Matthew; Joseph, and Holly; and Stacey, and to Catherine, Lydia, and Jessica Langley; and Arthur, and Tazma Martin. Great granddad of Madison; and Laurie. Messages to 79 Hills Road, R D 1 Ashburton.

A Funeral Mass to celebrate Flint’s life will be held at the Church of the Holy Name, Sealy Street, Ashburton on SATURDAY July 27, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery. Recitation of the Rosary will held at the Church, Friday evening at 7.00pm.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton SMALL, Margaret Ella (Peg) Peg passed away peacefully on July 20, 2013, at Tuarangi Home, Ashburton. Aged 86 years. Dearly loved wife of the late Ron Much loved Mum and mother in law of Joss and Peter Kennard, and Ian and Sue Small (Esperance, WA). Loved Grandma of Amanda and Scott, and Nick; Kristin, Brooke, Jack, Olivia, and Courtnee.

Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton. In lieu of flowers donations to the Alzheimer’s Society would be much appreciated and may be left at the service. A service for Peg will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton, on WEDNESDAY July 24, commencing at 1.30pm. Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

Paterson’s Funeral Services, FDANZ Ashburton SMALL Margaret Ella (Peg) Passed away peacefully on July 20th, 2013. Loved wife of the late Ron, sister in law of and friend of Walter and the late Lattie Small, Lew Small (deceased), Bruce Small (deceased) Mary and the late Noel Miles, and Chriss and Bruce Henderson. Loved Aunty Peg to all her nieces and nephews.

SMALL, Margaret Ella (Peg) On July 20, 2013. Dearly loved daughter of the late Bob and Ethel Martin.

Sister and sister in law of Cip and the late Marie Sparrow. Aunty of Euan and Christine, Lois, Tony and Kylie.

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A whole community gathered to watch the auction of a house on Saturday that would provide the last of the funds needed for the EA Networks sports stadium.

Built with hard work and materials donated by Jennian Homes, Laser Electrical and dozens of other local tradespeople and suppliers, the $5 million community fundraising goal was exceeded on Saturday after the sale of the home raised $180,000 in profits for the stadium.

Construction is expected to begin on the centre next month, and stadium trust fundraising committee chairman Chris Robertson said that he had seen huge generosity from the community.

“It has been an absolutely outstanding result, thanks to all the tradespeople who contributed their hard work and donated materials to the build.”

Property Brokers auctioneer on the day, Rodger Letham, sold the house for $438,000 to local pair Jeremy Harnett and Andrea Rushton.

The project was the brainchild of Jennian Homes and the Ashburton swim team, and is the product of months of hard work since the foundations were laid in November last year.

Plans for the stadium are now full steam ahead, after council last week accepted a tender from Naylor Love to build the stadium for $25.1 million, with an additional $2.8 million tender awarded locally for site civil work.

Construction will start on the stadium next month, and the project is hoped to be complete by March, 2016.

Incidents attended to by the Ashburton Police and Mid Canterbury volunteer fire brigades recently.

Check out guardianonline.co.nz, for up-to-the-minute updates on every fire callout in the district during the week.

• Hit and run Police are seeking information into an incident when a car fled after crashing into another vehicle on Brucefield Avenue on Thursday.

• Crackdown Police were joined by a team from Christchurch for a crackdown on drink-driving over the weekend. A number of people were charged with drink-driving, some with breath alcohol readings over 600mcg, well over the legal limit.

• Dispute spills over Ashburton police arrested a woman on Saturday afternoon after a dispute spilled onto the street in Hampstead, and dealt with a 22-yearold male in relation to damage to a window on East St, Ashburton.

• Fire units busy Crews from Rakaia, Ashburton and Pendarves Fire Units were called to a house fire on Overdale Road at noon on Saturday, but the fire was under control by the time the crews arrived. Ashburton fire crew attended a false alarm on Maronan Rd in Tinwald on Sunday.

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Several local bidders and plenty of spectators turned out on Saturday for the auction of a community built home, a fundraising project for the EA Networks Centre, led by auctioneer Rodger Letham.

CBD workers told to stay home Much of Wellington’s CBD will be off limits this morning as streets and buildings remain closed following yesterday’s big quakes and aftershocks.

Some streets have been closed, businesses have advised they will be too while inspections take place, and train commuters have been left to make their own arrangements to get to work.

Wellington Region Civil Defence Controller Bruce Pepperell said there were a number of buildings in the CBD with damaged and potentially dangerous facades and there was probably damage to other buildings and infrastructure that had not been discovered yesterday evening.

“If at all possible, people should stay home - and contact their managers and employers first thing ... to get advice.

“We need to give building owners, building managers, tenants and engineers time to do checks on buildings to look for damage and make sure they are safe,” he said.

It was likely there would still be some parts of the CBD cordoned off so in some cases, people might not be able to get access to their workplaces.

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Police last night closed sections of Featherston Street, Wakefield Street and Bolton Street in the CBD, along with Willis and Webb streets, upper Victoria Street Thomson and Nairn streets around the damaged Mercure hotel.

Motorists from Brooklyn were advised to take alternative routes.

Wellington City Council’s Civic Square office buildings would be

closed to all but essential staff tomorrow while checks on the building’s services were carried out.

Council staff were advised to work from home.

KiwiRail said all Wellington commuter lines were closed, with no peak train services or bus replacements.

Tranz Metro passengers were

advised to make alternative travel arrangements.

Tranz Metro train services were suspended immediately following the magnitude 6.5 earthquake which struck in the Cook Strait at 5.09pm yesterday.

The quake followed a magnitude-5.8 quake at 7.17am in the same place.

Cursory track inspections had been undertaken across all four lines (Wairarapa, Kapiti, Hutt Valley and Johnsonville) to check for damage to the rail but KiwiRail would carry out another inspection this morning to ensure that there was no damage to the tracks, bridges and tunnels that may not have been identified in the dark yesterday.

“While there have been no immediate reports of damage following tonight’s cursory inspections, we want to take every precaution to ensure that there has been no impairment to our tracks,” said KiwiRail’s passenger general manager Deborah Hume.

“Despite efforts from Tranz Metro staff, we have been unable to source buses for this morning’s peak at such short notice,” she said.

Retirement housing A new retirement village complex, costing up to $15 million for its first stage and creating 70 jobs, is being proposed on “Hospital Hill” overlooking Oamaru by the Waitaki District Health Services Trust.

Next to the observatory with an extension to be built off Stoke Street, the “Observatory Village” is aimed at a growing demand from an ageing population in North Otago for all aspects of retirement care.

The first stage would be 21 villas of up to three bedrooms, 12 apartments, 40 rest-home care beds in individual ensuite rooms and a community centre with library, chapel, technology, media and music rooms, fitness suite, gymnasium, hair salon and provision for indoor bowls.

The almost 8ha site allows for further stages, depending on demand.

A man has been charged with murder after a woman was found dead at a block of council flats in Christchurch on Saturday night. Police have named the dead woman as Valmai Jean McFie, 67. A 59-year old man arrested last night was last night charged with her murder. The man was believed to live in a nearby unit. Police said they were called to a housing complex in Spreydon, on Saturday when a resident reported the death of a woman. Ms McFie’s body was found outside one of the units.

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• Fundraising match A parliamentary rugby and netball showcase involving famous sports figures is on the cards for September to raise money for an Carterton girl diagnosed with a rare illness. Grace Yeats, 11, of Carterton was diagnosed with severe basal ganglia necrosis following an autoimmune encephalitis. She is the 13th in the world to be diagnosed.

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Top cop admits attacking teenagers A police inspector has admitted to assaulting two teenagers in an off-duty incident that left other officers at the scene disturbed.

In an unusual twist that has angered the parents of at least one of the boys, Richard Wilkie, the Manurewa area commander, was elected chairman of the board of trustees at the college where the victims, and his daughter, are students - while the charges were

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He has already resigned from the board of Macleans College in Bucklands Beach, and the father of one of his victims thinks he should reconsider his police career too.

According to the summary of facts, Wilkie, 51, kicked and swore at the two

youths after a group of teens, including his daughter, sneaked out of their homes late one night in April. Police officers found them with alcohol.

Having been called to collect his daughter, Wilkie crossed to one of the boys sitting on the grass verge and kicked him firmly in the shin with a bare foot.

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Hagglunds save the day for skiers

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By Gabrielle Stuart Snow may fall and winds may blow, but nothing is going to stop a new team of two Hagglund all-terrain vehicles from getting skiers up the slopes at Mt Hutt this winter.

Visitors have had limited access to some of the slopes since the triple chairlift was destroyed by an avalanche on June 20, but the vehicles have arrived on the mountain to save the day, and by the end of the month should be at their new task of carrying skiers to the top of the slopes.

The Hugglunds, heavy all-terrain vehicles on rubber tracks, are new to the mountain but not to the business of carting passengers, coming from a previous role navigating all-terrain tours around Hanmer Springs.

With space for up to 17 passengers in each, the vehicles which can navigate their way to the top of the slope in just five minutes. Ski area manager James McKenzie said that the Hagglunds were a stop gap solution, but not a bad one.

“We only plan to use them until a new chairlift can be built, but in the meantime they are something cool and a little bit novel. I’ve had my first ride in them and it was actually a really fun experience, there’s a lot to see and they’re all kitted out and quite comfortable.”

Finding the Hagglunds has been a stroke of good luck for Mt Hutt after a string of wild weather this season, from the strongest winds ever recorded at the mountain at 240 kilometres per hour, which broke several windows and moved a wall, to the largest snowfall in 20 years at 2.8 metres, which caused the avalanche and left staff snowed in for five days.

Mr McKenzie said that after the avalanche the chairlift had been left irreparable, with foundations ripped from the ground, bolts snapped clean in half and beams ‘twisted like liquorice’.

“In the end it has worked out well. The chairlift had been ready for an upgrade, and we decided it would much better to wait and upgrade the terminal, rather than doing a rush job and rebuilding it as it was.”

The Hagglunds are waiting on new parts to arrive before they can be put into action on the mountain, hopefully before the end of the month.

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Help near for home buyers

By Teuila Fuatai First-time home buyers struggling to scrape together a deposit may soon be given a lending hand through changes to the KiwiSaver scheme.

Housing Minister Nick Smith yesterday told TVNZ’s Q + A programme that the Government was looking into raising the household and income thresholds for those in Kiwisaver schemes.

This would likely result in more people being eligible for the scheme’s first-home deposit subsidy.

Currently, individuals or couples are eligible only if their annual income is less than $100,000.

Prospective property prices must also not exceed $400,000 in Auckland and Wellington city, and $300,000 in other parts of New Zealand.

Dr Smith told Q + A he was already reviewing the KiwiSaver scheme’s income

and threshold caps for first-time home buyers.

“I’m worried that the income household thresholds have not been shifted for some years,” he said.

Aucklanders in particular found it difficult to access the start-up help for Kiwisaver because the price cap subsidy was restricted to houses $400,000 or less.

“I’m having a fresh look at that. I think it is important that those levels are realistic and need to respond to some of the changes that have occurred in the market,” Dr Smith said.

A crack-down on high risk loans for home owners is expected to be announced later this year - with the Reserve Bank warning restrictions would be slapped on banks approving high loan-to-value ratio lending if they did not pull back.

Dr Smith said if KiwiSaver helped get people’s deposit amounts built up, the Reserve Bank governor would comforted by the fact that there were fewer risky

mortgages of 95 to 100 per cent.

Labour rejected Dr Smith’s suggested changes, saying first-time home buyers were unlikely to find relief until the Government addressed “booming house prices”.

“It’s a joke. The numbers don’t add up,” Labour housing spokesman Phil Twyford said. Restrictions on high loan-to-value ration lending were likely to hit firsttime homebuyers by raising the required deposit amounts, Mr Twyford said.

As a result of the restriction, banks will probably raise the minimum deposit.

This would likely require first-time buyers to meet a deposit of 20 per cent, adding $60,000 on to the initial cost of an average home, he said.

First home-buyers were being “hit at every turn”, Mr Twyford said.

“They face hefty minimum deposits, forcing them to crack open their retirement savings or turn to loan sharks.”

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Shaun Thomas from the Hinds Fire Brigade works to rescue a victim imprisoned in a car during a training exercise in Hinds yesterday. The equipment looked deadly but the techniques learnt could be life savers, as firefighters from Ashburton and Hinds gathered for the training session. The brigades worked through several exercises, disassembling a car around a mock victim to rescue him alive and unharmed, as well as covering techniques for dealing with chemicals and working around electricity.

Daily Post she had struggled financially and at one stage was forced to cook a can of spaghetti over a candle because her power had been cut off. She and her husband had made some bad choices, and refused help from family.

She is married to Vance McPhee, a keen cook who was a contestant on NZ’s Hottest Home Baker and who features on the Goodman Fielder advertisement Kiwi Faves.

Official records reveal both of them have been bankrupted: Vance in 2006, Jasmine in 2011.

“Bankruptcy came from a house purchase that went bad. I am bankrupt until next year,” she said. “When I went through that hard time I wasn’t talking to my parents.

“I love my parents but I am Jasmine and it is good to be known for what you do and who you are rather than for who your parents are.”

Hannah Tamaki said she told her daughter not to mention the family connection, because “she got there on her own” and the book deal may lead to the financial independence McPhee has always wanted.

“This lady from Penguin saw her and couldn’t get her out of her mind,” Mrs Tamaki said. “I said to Brian, ‘All we are going to focus on is praying for Jasmine.’

She has all these ideas, she is helping all these people, but how do we get that to turn into money?” After the 45-minute prayer session, her daughter got the call she was hoping for.

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Jasmine McPhee has shot to fame this year with a Facebook page explaining how to feed a family of six for under $20. What the page doesn’t reveal is that she is the daughter of the Harley Davidson-riding Bishop Brian Tamaki.

McPhee, who has five children aged 3 to 17, started the page in February and now has more than 52,000 followers. The Manurewa mum has appeared on television and radio shows giving grocery and cooking budget tips and has even created a smartphone application. Now, she has a book deal with Penguin Books.

On Facebook, McPhee often refers to her father but never mentions he is Bishop Tamaki. “I wouldn’t lie about it, but I didn’t advertise it,” she said.

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he Ashburton community must start to get concerned about the continuing spread of the Hepatitis A virus.

The Canterbury District Health Board has been sufficiently concerned about the growing numbers that it contacted the Guardian on Friday to warn the citizens of Mid Canterbury to remain vigilant.

The CDHB has become alarmed after one adult from Ashburton was hospitalised with the virus last week despite having no obvious link with

OUR VIEW the other cases, having good personal hygiene and not having an infected child in his own family.

Hepatitis A is much more serious in adults than in children and this latest case is an indication that the epidemic has moved to a more troubling stage.

Many in the community must be starting to question whether

the containment strategy is actually working.

The virus first emerged in our district in late April and the health authorities’ focus centred on one local preschool. Hepatitis A is commonly passed through contact with faeces by children with poor hygiene.

The CDHB on several occasions claimed it had the virus under control by vaccinating hundreds in the community but the

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latest case is a clear indication that this confidence was unwarranted.

In fact one furious senior CDHB official rang the Guardian office back in May, berating

staff because our newspaper had questioned whether the health board should have disclosed the name of the preschool.

The CDHB official dismissed the growing concerns in the community and the demands for more information as ‘scaremongering’.

The person repeatedly claimed that the epidemic was all under control and that there was no need to give the community this vital bit of information, as anyone associated with the preschool would become social

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The latest case now even has the CDHB admitting that the number of cases has become ‘endemic’. It has called on the community to be more vigilant.

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Even though this assumption may have been over the top, the Guardian decided not to publish the name of the preschool in question and trust the expertise of the health authorities.

As time passes and more people are infected, many will wonder whether the slightly secretive CDHB approach has been working.

The preschool at the centre of this outbreak can not be blamed for one child contracting the virus and nobody in their

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Larry lamb stolen, mutilated A beloved pet lamb was stolen and later dumped with a smashed head and set on fire outside its Dunedin home over the weekend, police say.

The burning lamb was spotted dumped on the front door step of a Corstorphine home by neighbours, and police were called to the property.

Andrew Naziris found the charred carcass of Larry the lamb, who normally lived tethered at the rear of his property.

The lamb’s head had been crushed and suffered substantial burns to its body, Constable Brent Mitchell said.

“Whether it was alive or dead when it was burnt, either way it has met a fairly cruel and unnecessary way to die.”

The lamb was the family pet of Matt Johnston, 28, and his young daughter “absolutely loved him, loved him to bits”.

“It is absolutely horrible,” he said.

Larry, who spent his first few weeks living inside and was regularly been bottle-fed by his daughter, would have turned 1 in September.

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Bitter deal for diabetics Thousands of diabetics including the Health Minister’s sister-in-law - are incensed with publicly funded blood glucose testing devices. Nearly 100,000 New Zealanders rely on tests of their blood glucose levels from CareSens meters and strips.

Hypoglycaemia, or low blood glucose levels, can cause sleepiness, confusion, difficulty speaking and a loss of concentration.

Last year, Pharmac approved CareSens products and cut funding for other meters, saving about $10 million.

Michele Ryall said she would rather spend $250 a month buying strips online than use Pharmac-approved models. “It’s

getting ridiculous,” Ryall said.

“It’s getting dangerous.”

Pharmac insists the meters have been independently tested.

It advised people with concerns to contact Medsafe. “People have been using the previous meters for a long time and they trust them, which is completely understandable,” said Pharmac’s Simon England.

He said tests indicated CareSens devices were the most reliable. This week, Diabetes NZ president Chris Baty defended the meters.

She said other strips read blood glucose levels too low, rather than CareSens devices which read them too high.

In response to a question from MP Brendan Horan in Parliament, Tony Ryall said Medsafe received three incident reports last year and 11 this year for an estimated 90,000 users of CareSens.

Nearly 3000 people have signed an online petition against the sole-supply deal. Petition author Carrie Hetherington said her own readings were “scarily inaccurate”.

Another concern relates to its use in temperatures under 10C. Horan said: “Even more unsatisfactory is the response from Pharmac, telling people to warm them up under their armpits - APNZ before use.”

Flak flies after miscarriage A woman who miscarried at 18 weeks, just days after a doctor failed to detect she was pregnant, is furious the GP has escaped significant sanction.

Samantha Groombridge, 34, attended Dr Nina Lupton at the Carefirst Medical Centre in New Plymouth in January. She complained of abdominal problems and vaginal bleeding, among other ailments.

The doctor examined her and discovered the mum of three had a mass “the size of an apple” in her pelvis and would arrange for further tests.

The experienced GP from

Britain was on a 12-month period of peer supervision required for overseas doctors new to New Zealand.

Lupton did not perform a basic urine test to find out if Groombridge was pregnant.

Groombridge had had two previous home pregnancy tests return negative.

Two days after being examined by Lupton, Groombridge was taken to hospital where she miscarried a baby girl.

Groombridge complained to the Health and Disability Commissioner.

Two weeks ago, the commis-

sioner ruled Lupton’s failure to exclude the possibility of pregnancy was “a departure from expected standards” and has asked the GP to provide a written apology - but decided no further disciplinary action was warranted.

“I went to hospital with severe bleeding and what felt like labour pains two days after seeing Dr Lupton and was shocked to discover I was pregnant,” Groombridge said.

“I lost the baby and we had her cremated a few days later, which was traumatic for the whole family.

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Death from unsecured loads Loose loads are killers on our roads.

Almost 100 accidents involving material flying off vehicles and smashing into following or oncoming traffic have been reported in the last five years five of them fatal.

The family of an elderly couple - killed by steel pipes that came off a truck - are calling for more to be done to protect motorists.

On May 28 last year, Ern and Nancy Sutton, both 83, were heading from their Ureuni home to a doctor’s appointment on State Highway Three near

Motunui. An oncoming truck and trailer carrying steel pipes overturned, killing the couple.

Lyn Brough said her parents had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just a year before their death, and left behind three children, 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

“We all feel cheated that they were snatched like that. It was not a nice way for them to go.

“It’s like something’s been ripped from you. I can’t believe that we’ve all managed to get on with life.”

The truck driver, Henry Anthony Tawhai, faces two counts of manslaughter and has been remanded until a committal date on August 7.

From 2008 to 2012 there were 98 fatal or injury-causing crashes on New Zealand roads with “unsecure load” identified as a contributing factor, Ministry of Transport figures show.

Of that total five accidents were fatal, and almost 20 per cent were deemed serious.

A Ministry of Transport spokeswoman said the issue was taken very seriously.

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weltering. Just back from a euphoric, sweltering United Kingdom! The sun has shone, hot and strong for the past two weeks, and likely to go on doing so for two more at least; few citizens still alive can recall a time like it. And yes, sporting triumph at home and away has brought this uninhibited ecstasy.

The bells are ringing in every country hamlet as well as in the big cities beyond the hills; dancers are on the loose in the streets below and all the while, above this feverish outburst of patriotic fervour, the flag of St George flutters nobly in the shimmering heat.

Phew! and Wow! Triumph for the British and Irish Lions in Australia - leading to Robbie Deans’ resignation as the Aussie coach - Andy Murray’s long anticipated win at Wimbledon and England’s technology-assisted victory in the first Ashes Test have all sent the locals into an orgy of elation. “Rule Britannia” echoes from Town Halls far and wide! And all this before Kate Middleton’s - a.k.a The Duchess of Cambridge - new heir to the throne is born. More street parties, more rejoicing, more toasting!

Difference. What a difference from the customary gloom, doom and damp of more normal times.

Were the PM, David Cameron, looking for a moment to “go to the country” this would be it. As he is not obliged to do so for another two years and his contrived coalition with the Liberal Democrats seems to be just about holding he’ll have to find other ways of cashing in on this upsurge of national pride. An astute politician, no doubt he’ll find a way.

Meanwhile…….back here I find rather less united national enthusiasm for anything much with most of the arguments and controversies largely as they were when I left at the beginning of June. Mr Dunne’s vote seems to be as crucial to National as ever it was, whatever his political standing and with or without a Party behind him.

Mr Banks is down to being the one MP to vote against legislation that could involve experiments on animals. That he was the only Member to do so suggests there may have been other forces at work, which might somehow be interpreted as a last desperate subterfuge to keep alive the dying embers of the Act Party. I wonder how his decision went down with the electors of leafy Epsom.

They must be licking their lips at the prospect of getting a genuine National candidate next time and then being free actually to vote for him/her.

“Radical”. However, elsewhere and more to the point, the handpicked members of the “radical” review committee currently examining our time-proven constitution, are hard at work. They are due to report later in the year and despite some earlier bland public meetings designed, it seems, to reassure the “excitable”, this time those same “excitables”, and many others, may have something to get truly “excitable” about.

When this “radical” document finally emerges, I suggest it will shake and surprise many Kiwis at present totally unaware of what is being hatched behind their backs and below their feet.

Focus group. Last year, a focus group was presented with a

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potential outline of the new constitution to gauge likely public reaction to it. These randomly selected electors were told, “The possible outcome of this review could be a proposal to place the “principles” of The Treaty of Waitangi in a written constitution based on biculturalism.” Those well awake, on hearing the words, “the principles”, might instantly have sat up and asked, loudly, “what “principles”’? They would have been right - and within their rights - to do so.

Principles. The odd thing is that despite the word “principles” being casually thrown around in the context of the Treaty, there were - and are - in fact, no such “principles” involved.

The said Treaty actually consists of three “simple clauses”. The first declares that the Queen - Victoria, at the time - is sovereign; the third, that Maori are her subjects - along with everybody else - and the second, that among those rights and privileges is the security of one’s own property.

Thus, the Treaty gave us a sovereign (Crown), subjects and property rights but not principles.

So the thrust to introduce the unsubstantiated concept of “principles” into every piece of legislation enacted by a New Zealand government can be seen as a distorted interpretation of the original Treaty. No such principles were ever included.

Less justified. Even less justified, attempts to claim “rights” to subsequent technologies and discoveries, all of them unknown in 1840 when the Treaty was signed. If such demands are made by the “radical reviewers” it will be tantamount to there being a seismic shift in the way this country is governed, an equal division between Crown and Treaty. Those citizens - the majority? - who believe firmly in the desirability of our being “One Nation”, individuals of any colour or creed equal under the law, will hardly find this likely outcome of the constitutional assessment, to their liking. In fact their dislike of it may take extremely positive form.

And there’s more……..but this will be enough for the present.

The Government’s “need” to have Maori on board as quasi coalition partners is the political driving force at work here and now but we are of course talking of the immediate and then the very long-term future. Can it really be that our Representatives, perhaps overcome by the warm fuzzy of political correctitude, are unable to see this issue as the inherently explosive confrontation it could become?

So, important as are “Child Poverty”, “Affordable Housing”, United Future’s problems with lack of members, and all the other matters on which the media feeds for its daily stories, the Constitutional Review has to be seen as the most fundamental of them all.

So, on my return to this lovely country, that is what my “Eye on Politics” espied. I saw it as my duty to run it past yours.

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Scooter blows up like bomb A mobility scooter “went up like a bomb” in Mosgiel on Friday night.

Two loud explosions woke Eleanor Moore, 68, about 11pm.

Her mobility scooter which was charging in the carport had “blown up”in her Green Street driveway.

In shock, she stood in the Housing New Zealand flat and watched the bright glow from the fire burning beyond her drawn curtains.

The $4000 Invacare scooter she had owned for four years was her “only means of transport”.

“I’m housebound without it.”

She charged the scooter on Friday night, the same way she had for the past four years, with an extension cord from her flat.

When neighbour Wayne Sheridan heard the explosion, he jumped a fence to see a scooter and fence on the other side of

The wife of a navy veteran says she cannot understand why the Government has still not reacted to documents which showed service personnel had been exposed to much higher doses of radiation during the French nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll.

Saturday marked the 40th anniversary of the tests but Wanganui woman Veronica Cox, whose husband Tony was at the testing grounds in 1973, said many veterans continued to be ignored by Government.

Mrs Cox’s husband and her brother were both crewmen aboard the HMNZS Otago which the then Labour Government sent to the atoll in protest of the French nuclear testing.

Her brother died of oesophageal cancer in 2002 while her husband was diagnosed with cutaneous non-Hodgkins lymphoma 17 years ago. Mr Cox’s cancer shows up as lesions on the body but he has been told that once they move inside his body the diagnosis will probably be terminal.

The French military has now released documents showing the levels of radiation from the tests were much greater than they

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the property engulfed in “roaring” flames.

When he entered the flat, Mrs Moore was standing in her nightie, Mr Sheridan said.

“She didn’t want to leave. She was in shock.”

When he helped her from the house and she collapsed in the driveway he called an ambulance, Mr Sheridan said.

Mrs Moore said she “passed out with shock”. “It’s lucky me and my three cats are alive.”

The scooter was insured and she hoped Housing NZ would pay for the damaged fence and carport.

Mosgiel Volunteer Fire Brigade senior station officer Paul Falconer said the explosions were “most probably the tyres going pop once they got hot”.

Mobility scooter explosions were uncommon, he said.

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40 years since Mururoa tests originally admitted. The reports showed that levels were very high even in Tahiti, some 1250km away from the atoll.

But the New Zealand frigates Otago and HMNZS Canterbury were just 12-15km off Mururoa.

Mrs Cox said while her husband was receiving a war disability pension, he only got that with proof from a medical specialist that the only way he could have contracted his type of cancer was by being exposed to high doses of ionised radiation.

“But there are many of the crew who have died without gaining a pension, and many, many more who have been told they’re not eligible. There are still some who don’t know there is even a pension that may be available to them.

“It disturbs me that we’ve heard nothing from our Government since the release of those documents by the French military.”

The frigates were sent to the Mururoa by Prime Minister Norman Kirk as his Government’s protest against the testing.

While crewmen were not on deck when the bomb went off, almost immediately after the detonation they were ordered topside.

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Shirley Millar filled the Ashburton Senior Centre with the sounds of the accordian yesterday, at a variety concert from the Ashburton County Scottish Society. There were plenty of acts straight from the highlands at the Ceilidh concert, with entertainment including bagpipes, highland dancers and a traditional singalong.

Sweethearts wed after decades ship, kept Mr Humphries’ letters from their daughter.

The pair went on the marry other people and Mrs Bluett moved from Britain to New Zealand.

Mrs Bluett’s husband died 11 years ago and Mr Humphries’ wife died last year.

Mrs Bluett, 87, and Mr Humphries, 89, tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at St John the Baptist Church, with many locals from the Somerset village coming to wish them well.

Reverend Doris Goddard officiated at the wedding with words from St Paul to the Corinthians: “Love is patient, love is kind.

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The Department of Corrections is facing a backlash after introducing random drug and alcohol testing for prison guards.

The new testing regime took effect on July 1 and means any officers involved in accidents or fights - or who are suspected of being under the influence - will have to undergo on-the-spot testing.

The Corrections Association union estimates 2000 guards will be tested each year, at a cost of more than $1 million. President Beven Hanlon said it was ludicrous for guards to be tested when drugs were rife among the prisoners, who can be tested only if they volunteer.

A 73-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a road crash near Riversdale Beach in Wairarapa on Saturday that left an elderly woman driver injured and trapped in her car. Paddy Janes, who last year shifted to the beach resort but was well known in South Wairarapa, died at the scene of the crash after his BMW 650 motorcycle was in collision with a car. The car came to rest in a roadside ditch and firefighters used hydraulic gear to free the 77-year-old driver.

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“Love is patient” - words uttered at countless wedding ceremonies but particularly poignant for Bernie Bluett and Bob Humphries, who have finally exchanged vows after 70 years apart.

The couple were married at a small ceremony in the village of Pawlett, near Bristol, this week, after a love that has lasted the decades.

It was only recently that they found each other again after Mrs Bluett’s daughter put them in touch. Mrs Bluett, who had been living in Christchurch, returned to the UK to be with her long-lost love.

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Rev Goddard said church bells rang out after the couple’s union and a brass band played as they were cheered out of the church.

The wedding party then went to a local hotel and sat on a lawn in the English summer sun.

“They’re probably getting a little bit too old to have something into the evening, they just wanted a nice meal for everybody,” Rev Goddard said.

“We toasted them with English sparkling wine, which is what the groom wanted.”

The couple would not be going on a honeymoon, preferring just to keep each other’s company at their Pawlett home.

“I think they’re going to sit peacefully in their garden. She’s probably done with travelling.”

Rev Goddard said they were the oldest couple she had ever married or was ever likely to.

“One of the nicest things about them is that they’re still looking forward, they’re not looking backwards to the past and what might have been,” she said.

“They both acknowledge that they had wonderful marriages before and they’re looking forward. They’re pretty special.”

Mrs Bluett had previously said the pair remain upbeat about their future together.

“We may only have a year together but it’s a year we never had. We are both old, both unwell, but we feel as though we are 18 again. Happiness is everything.”

The bones of legendary warrior chief Hone Heke have been wrapped in flax, sealed in a casket and are ready for burial, a member of his whanau says. The Ngapuhi chief’s remains were removed from a Pakaraka cave two years ago by Te Matarahurahu hapu leader David Rankin, who intends to rebury them at an unknown site near Kaikohe. The move has sparked controversy, with Ngati Hine elder Erima Henare raising the possibility that Mr Rankin took the wrong bones.

• Enforcer dead The man regarded as the enforcer of drug lord Terry Clark’s heroin empire in Australasia has passed away in Wanganui from emphysema. After escaping gangland death on several occasions, he died at the age of 72.

The baseball bat-wielding Fulcher was so notorious that when he was arrested, photos of him in underpants and handcuffs appeared on front pages of newspapers.

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Fatal rollercoaster fall A woman who died while riding a roller coaster at an amusement park in Texas fell from the ride, a police sergeant said yesterday.

Christopher Cook told The Associated Press that police believe the woman fell Friday at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, and that there appears to have been no foul play.

Park spokeswoman Sharon Parker confirmed that a woman died while riding the Texas Giant roller coaster — dubbed the tallest steel-hybrid coaster in the world — but did not specify how she was killed.

Some witnesses said the woman who died wasn’t properly secured.

“We are committed to determining the cause of this tragic accident and will utilize every resource throughout this process,” Parker said. “It would be a disservice to the family to speculate regarding what transpired.”

Cook, spokesman for the Arlington Police Department, said police, fire and emergency medical services responded to the park in reference to a woman who had fallen from a train car while riding a roller coaster. He said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

He said the park and the Texas Department of Insurance, which approves amusement rides and ensures they are inspected, will be involved in further investigating the accident.

Carmen Brown told The Dallas Morning News that she was waiting in line to get on the Texas Giant when the accident happened and witnessed the woman being strapped in.

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Then when it drops to come down, that’s when it (the safety bar) released and she just tumbled,” Brown, of Arlington, told the newspaper.

“They didn’t secure her right. One of the employees from the park — one of the ladies — she asked her to click her more than once, and they were like, ‘As long

you heard it click, you’re OK.’ Everybody else is like, ‘Click, click, click.’

“Hers only clicked once. Hers was the only one that went down once, and she didn’t feel safe, but they let her still get on the ride,” Brown said.

Six Flags said the ride will be closed as the investigation continues, and a concert scheduled for yesterdau was cancelled.

The Texas Giant is 14 stories high, and has a drop of 79 degrees and a bank of 95 degrees. It can carry up to 24 riders. It first opened in 1990 as an all-wooden coaster but underwent a $10 million renovation to install steel-hybrid rails and reopened in 2011.

When the car that the woman had been riding in returned to the loading zone, two people got out and were visibly upset, Rockwell resident John Putman said.

“They were screaming, ‘My mom! My mom! Let us out, we need to go get her!’” Putman said.

Six Flags Over Texas opened in 1961 and was the first amusement park in the Six Flags system. It is 17 miles west of downtown Dallas. The park’s first fatality happened in 1999. A 28-year-old woman drowned and 10 other passengers were injured when a raft-like boat on the Roaring Rapids ride overturned in water. There were 1204 ride-related injuries reported in the United States in 2011 — about 4.3 for every million visitors — according to recent data.

Rioters wreck detention centre; $60m damage Rampaging asylum seekers have left a $60 million damage bill to the Nauru detention centre, with dozens arrested over the riot.

They torched newly constructed accommodation blocks, the health centre, offices, the dining room and vehicles.

Only the kitchen and recreation facility remain standing and usable.

“It is quite extensive damage,” a spokeswoman for the Immigration Department told AAP. No staff were injured in the unrest on Friday but a number of residents were treated in hospital for minor injuries and some for pre-existing conditions.

The spokeswoman said the damage bill was estimated at $60 million.

She said their latest information was that 125 of those allegedly

involved in this destruction were now in jail, with some 58 charged by Nauru police.

With accommodation for more than 600 trashed, residents will be housed in tents erected on the site planned for a new detention facility.

“We will have temporary ablution blocks installed and temporary water supplies put in place and meals will be prepared at the original kitchen,” she said.

Unrest at the Nauru detention facility started earlier last week with peaceful protests at the delay in processing of asylum claims.

The situation escalated on Friday afternoon with some 150 of the 545 male detainees setting fire to buildings.

Immigration Minister Tony Burke said he was waiting for reports on the full extent of damage.

He warned those involved that he had extensive powers to refuse or cancel visas on character grounds.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr said advice to him indicated the rioting was unrelated to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s announcement of the new PNG solution on Friday afternoon.

He said those detained by Nauru police should understand that they hadn’t impressed anyone in Australia.

Senator Carr admitted Australia would have no choice but to rebuild.

“As a destination country we have got to stump up the money for the accommodation and processing of people who arrive without visas,” he told Sky News.

Opposition leader Tony Abbott said riots were a problem when you - AP couldn’t stop the boats.

Baghdad car bombs kill 65 A wave of bombings in Baghdad province has killed 65 people and wounded 190, officials say, pushing the death toll for July past 500.

Twelve car bombs and a roadside bomb struck Baghdad, while another bomb hit Madain to the south of the capital, a police colonel and a medical official said yesterday.

The bombings included two attacks in a shopping street in the central district of Karrada, four in the south, another two in a northern area and two in the east.

Elsewhere five people were killed and two wounded when a bomb exploded among a group of youths

gathered on a street in Madain south of the capital, security officers and a medic said.

A policeman was killed and another wounded in a bomb attack on a patrol in the northern town of Mosul, while three civilians were injured by an explosive device west of there. And a woman died and 22 people including seven policemen were wounded when a boobytrapped car blew up near Mosul.

Saturday’s attacks came a day after a suicide bomber killed 20 people inside a crowded Sunni mosque north of Baghdad, as Iraq struggles to contain its worst violence since

2008.

More than 500 people have been killed in violence across Iraq so far this month, according to a toll compiled by AFP from medical and security sources.

Iraq has faced years of attacks by militants, but analysts say widespread discontent among members of its Sunni minority, which the government has failed to address, has fuelled this year’s surge in unrest.

Iraqi Sunnis accuse the Shi’ite-led government of marginalising and targeting their community, including making unwarranted arrests and terrorism charges.

• New bird flu case A 61-year-old woman from northern China has been confirmed as having contracted the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus, state media reports.

The woman, from the city of Langfang in Hebei province, developed a cough and fever on July 10 and four days later was given a diagnosis of severe pneumonia, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing a Beijing municipal health bureau statement.

The woman is receiving emergency treatment in a Beijing hospital, Xinhua said, citing the statement as saying she had frequently purchased vegetables at a local market where live poultry is also on - AAP sale.

• Man U boost Manchester United may have given the A-League All Stars a good thrashing at Saturday’s sold-out game in Sydney but the English lads were kinder to the local economy. NSW Tourism Minister George Souris says the ANZ Stadium spectacle delivered around 20,000 visitors and $16 million to the state. “They toured, they spent and they attended,” he said. Premier Barry O’Farrell said the match capped off a record-breaking winter of major events that injected about $100 million into local shops, hotels and restaurants.

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• Superman back Superman is coming back with a caped co-star. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder announced on Saturday at San Diego’s Comic-Con that he was making another Superman film and that it will include Batman - the first time the two superheroes will be united on the big screen. He declined to reveal many details, saying the script is just being written. He then invited an actor onstage to read a passage to hint at the story line. “I am the man who beat you,” read Harry Lennox, before an image of the Superman logo, backed by the Batman symbol, flashed on the screen.

Warner Bros. then confirmed the first-ever pairing in a - AP statement.

• Reef bombed Two US fighter jets have dropped four unarmed bombs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park when a training exer cise went wrong. The two AV-8B Harrier jets launched from aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard each jettisoned an inert bomb and an unarmed explosive bomb in the World Heritage-listed marine park off the coast of Queensland state last week, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement on yesterday. The four bombs were dropped in more than 50 metres of water away from coral to minimize possible damage to the reef, the statement said.

None exploded.

• Mel Smith dies Tributes have been paid to comedian Mel Smith after his death at the age of 60, with his sidekick Griff Rhys Jones describing him as someone who “inspired love and utter loyalty”. The star of Alas Smith and Jones and Not the Nine O’Clock News had a heart attack at his home in London. Jones, who had been friends with Smith for 35 years, said: “I still can’t believe this has happened. To everybody who ever met him, Mel was a force for life. He had a relish for it that seemed utterly inexhaustible. “He inspired love and utter loyalty and he gave it in return.”

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Seagulls annoy Giants fans Even the sea gulls are throwing the struggling San Francisco Giants baseball team for a loss this year.

Giants officials trying to find humane solution to the worsening onslaught of the birds at home games are stumped, the San Jose Mercury News reported Saturday.

The gulls have routinely showed up at the end of night games since the park along San Francisco Bay opened in 2000. But it appears an increasing number of birds are crashing night games this year, bothering players, workers and fans alike.

A national television audience witnessed a massive swarm in March during the World Baseball Classic semifinal between the Netherlands and the Dominican Republic, and similar invasions have occurred throughout the year.

Hundreds of gulls sometimes land on the field during play. They also defecate on fans and create cleanup headaches for staff.

Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford said batters are well aware of the birds.

"You're focused on the pitcher," he said. "But

you definitely notice them."

Biologists said they don't know how the sea gulls time their arrival for the end of games to feast on discarded hot dogs, popcorn and other food.

"They are incredibly intelligent animals," said biologist Russ Bradley, a sea gull specialist.

"Unless you want to build a dome, there's no easy answer."

The gulls disappeared late in the 2011 season when a red-tailed hawk nicknamed "Bruce Lee" began frequenting the park. But when the hawk disappeared, the gulls returned.

Federal law prohibits shooting the birds, and hiring a falconer to scare them away would cost $8,000 a game, said Jorge Costa, the Giants' manager of operations. The Giants are also concerned a falcon could gruesomely kill a sea gull in front of families and a television audience, Costa said.

"It's an issue we are taking seriously," Costa said. "But it's delicate. You don't want to get Giants’ Marco Scutaro, right, begins his slide into to the point where you do anything that looks home plate before being tagged out by New York inhumane."

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Leopard sharks at La Jolla Shores Beach in La Jolla, California. The sharks attract onlookers when they come close to shore from June to early December, peaking between August and September, along a small stretch of this beach north of San Diego.

Swimming with the sharks

By John Marshall Just beyond the breakers at La Jolla Shores Beach, hundreds of dark figures cruise through the sandy shallows like a scene in a horror movie.

In most cases, the sight of one shark, much less hundreds, would spark panic.

The leopard sharks of La Jolla induce a different response.

Instead of racing toward shore, visitors here head out toward the deeper water to get a closer look.

And for those who get the chance to swim with the sharks, the experience is unforgettable.

“I’ve been doing it for years and I still go out and swim with them,” said Ezekiel Morphis of HBK Sports, which offers kayaking and snorkelling tours with the sharks. “I think it’s awesome.”

The leopard sharks come close to shore from June to early December, peaking between August and September, when hundreds congregate along a small stretch of this beach north of San Diego.

The sharks are mostly pregnant females and juveniles are rarely seen, so scientists believe they gather here to help with the gestation process.

Because of a submarine canyon just offshore, the waves at La Jolla Shores tend to be smaller, which keeps the colder water of the deep from mixing with the warmer water of the shallows. With the small waves and warm water, it becomes a perfect place for the cold-blooded leopard sharks to hang out before giving birth someplace else.

“What these females are essentially doing is incubating,” said Andrew Nosal, a postdoctoral

Up close and personal - one of the leopard sharks at La Jolla. researcher at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla. “They’ve developing embryos like a mother bird would sit on the eggs to keep them to warm.”

That’s all interesting, but we know what you’re thinking: Isn’t it dangerous to swim with sharks in the open ocean?

No, at least not with these sharks.

Leopard sharks, unlike larger, fear-inducing species like the great white, are non-aggressive and actually a bit timid, darting away whenever there’s a commo-

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ARIES (Mar 21st Apr 20th) All this week your ruler Mars is going to retain a nice contact with the planet of plenty, Jupiter.

This may lead to a delightful family gathering or to the desire to improve or move on the home front.

If you are generally a more sociable kind of Aries, the move of the Sun into Leo will give you added impetus to entertain in your own environs.

TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) Your appetite for exchanges of ideas, writing down thoughts, publishing a blog or using technology can be immense this week as Mars and Jupiter travel closely together in your sector of everyday communications.

You may also find yourself embracing online dating too. After the recent impasses that Mercury created, this can be welcome.

tion in the water.

Leopard sharks also have small mouths and teeth — they feed on crustaceans, shrimp and bony fish — so even if they did bite, it wouldn’t cause nearly as much damage as some of the larger fish swimming around.

It’s still the ocean, though, so there’s always the chance larger sharks might come in to feed, but attacks on leopard sharks near La Jolla are almost unheard of.

“There’s always a small risk of danger when you swim with animals,” Nosal said. “But leopard

sharks are generally non-aggressive. They’re actually quite skittish and can be quite difficult for snorkellers to approach. The best way to swim with these animals is to float because kicking or any kind of noise tends to scare them away.”

Despite knowing the sharks are docile, it still can be a bit unsettling on the first encounter, even for the adventurously inclined.

On days with calm winds and waves, the water is exceptionally clear, making it easy to see the distinctive dark stripes and spots

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GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) The Sun and Venus link brilliantly today and can bring some kind of bountifulness to bear. In fact, all through this week there can be abundances, but not necessarily the ones you aspire to. Someone may be unexpectedly generous and gift something, or you can be particularly bold in following your instincts around your resources.

on the backs of the sharks as they swim around people’s legs or underneath those who are floating on the surface or in kayaks.

When the water gets rougher, the sand and seaweed stir and swirl around, sometimes dropping the visibility to a few metres.

The cloudy water creates an eerie underwater scene, the shadowy figures of the leopard sharks that reach up to 1.5 metres long seeming to appear out of nowhere and disappearing just as quickly.

Clear water or not, the reaction for first-timers hits a wide spectrum.

“We get everything from not much reaction to absolute terror to absolute elation,” Morphis said.

“I think people have a lot of interesting views on sharks whether they’ve been educated that they’re fairly harmless or not.”

Whatever fear people might have usually doesn’t last long.

After a few minutes of watching sharks swim around their legs or below them, the fear is usually taken over by amazement, almost a feeling of one with nature as these majestic animals cruise around in the open ocean.

“I like to think of leopard sharks as a friendly ambassador for sharks in general,” Nosal said.

“It’s a really great way for people to overcome their fear of sharks, to see that not all species are potentially dangerous, that this one really is harmless, yet they really do look like sharks.

“These are not rinky-dink animals. They look like sharks, they’re rather large and to see so many at one site is really impressive.

“I’ve been out there and been surrounded by easily 50 of these animals at once and it’s very impressive.”

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Making the switch from urban life to rural bliss is not easy.

Luckily for city slicker Nathalie, whose dream is to open a countryside bed and breakfast, her “wwoofing” experience on a French farm will give her the skills she needs.

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (Wwoof), or Willing Workers on Organic Farms, began as a fad in 1970s England but is now growing in rural France where organic farmers greet a new wave of acolytes changing the face of the sustainable exchange movement.

Wwoofing, which has existed in France for at least 20 years, gives urban dwellers the chance to try their hand at earthy pursuits such as vegetable cultivation, cheesemaking and sustainable construction.

Farmers offer their “wwoofers” a bed and board in exchange for their labour.

Australia has also embraced the Wwoofing movement, and had a steady growth of members over the past 32 years.

A spokeswoman for Wwoofing Australia, Traci Wilson-Brown, says there are more than 2400 hosts scattered Down Under.

Around 260 of these are Certified Organic and approximately 1900 are traditional farms using organic practices.

She also says many French wwoofers come to Australia. Of the 12,000 to 14,000 that visit each year, about 12 per cent are from France.

For Nathalie, a graphic designer in her forties who has always lived in the city, wwoofing is helping her make some big changes to her life.

“I’m in the process of selling my apartment and setting up an eco bed and breakfast with an organic garden,” she says, admitting the lifestyle change is a challenge.

“I’m a real city person, so I have to learn everything,” she says.

Much of the satisfaction of wwoofing comes from pitching in and learning as part of a larger group.

“This whole experience will be beneficial for the farm I want to buy,” Nathalie says, preparing for a weekend of stuffing straw insulation into the walls of a new building.

For Nathalie and her ilk, wwoofing is an opportunity to meet new people, get to grips with sustainable farming techniques and live a different kind of life for a couple of weeks.

In 2008, France played host to 3700 wwoofers, but just four years later this had grown to 10,000 amateur farmers, their ranks

Working for your meals and a bed is the Wwoofers’ way of life.

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CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) The Full Moon occurs later today in Aquarius, signalling the changing of the order with the Sun, which makes the transition from your sign to Leo. Think of all the things you have got into motion in the last four weeks and now you can evaluate how well they’re faring. With Mars and Jupiter side by side you may be full of enthusiasm.

LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) The Sun arrives in your sign and usually when this occurs it can be the signal for an upsurge in energy. This is still possible but this year I do feel that there may be some kind of lag or gap between two sets of different circumstances. Yet something you have not been so focused on, perhaps linked to your past, could come up trumps.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) Venus will join your sign tomorrow but today she’s forging a really helpful link to the Sun. Friendships are certainly emphasised and you may feel really chipper about certain involvements. But life and astrology have a habit of knocking us back if we get too upbeat too soon.

One person may seem genuine but could yet disappoint.

LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) You may be experiencing a sense of confidence and added drive that you have not had for some while, and it can be a really uplifting feeling. Ninetenths of success in life comes from feeling positive and the more you exude this vibe to others, the more good things can bounce back your way. Yet might one friend be feeling slightly marginalised?

SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) You can find yourself wanting to push through boundaries this week. This may see you want to travel further, run faster, learn something more testing or break out of any dull rut that has been confining you for far too long. The problem is that just as you really decide to go for it, some unexpected constraints can snap back into place.

drawn from France and abroad.

The number of hosts has also multiplied in the same period from 321 to 800 in 2012, according to the Wwoof association in France.

Cecile Narbonnet of Wwoof France believes the “spirit of sharing” is the key to the movement’s success. “We share experiences and exchange knowledge, without involving money or any subordination.”

In Brittany, wwoofer Sarah has spent the morning pulling weeds out of the ground at the Moulin Coz organic farm.

The 20-year-old American says she is spending time there after a year spent perfecting her French in the southern city of Montpellier.

“The way of life here interests me,” she says, conceding her main motivation is to practise her language skills.

“It’ll be useful” for if she achieves her dream of becoming a midwife for an aid organisation where often “French is the second language”, she explains.

And learning “new words related to agriculture” is just a bonus, Sarah says.

For Wilma, a 22-year-old from Berlin, wwoofing is more of a philosophical pursuit, of “experimenting, with nature, in a village, on a farm”.

“I know I won’t always live in a big city,” she adds, as she tends the land at the Pachamama organic farm in Saint-Brice-en-Cogles, north of Rennes.

For farmers, the experience is equally enriching, giving the hosts the opportunity to learn new things.

Nicolas and Anne-Sophie, vegetable farmers in the west of France, have already learned a lot from their first wwoofers.

They discovered veganism from their visitors, eschewing the consumption of all products derived from animals.

“It was very enlightening,” Nicolas says. “We ate differently and they taught us about their diet.”

Before the wwoofers came along, farmers “lived alone, isolated”, says Delphine Morel, who runs Pachamama.

“Now people come to us, and we look outwards onto the world outside,” she says with affection.

Simone Heidrich, sitting in her yurt dwelling at Moulin Coz, agrees.

“As soon as we started cultivating our crops, we couldn’t really get out any more,” she says.

But today, for this veteran traveller who has lived on three different continents, the world comes to her, thanks to her wwoofers from across the globe.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) Your ruler Jupiter really makes itself felt this week through its new-found influence in the zodiac sign of Cancer, but also because spiky Mars is set to cruise alongside for much of the time. Okay, the conjunction is not always exact, but close enough to give you extra devilment around business or property hopes. Plan well though.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) Your ruler Saturn, it is fair to say, has something of a maligned reputation, but it is the influence that gives you your grit, determination and sticking power.

This week it is going to be in a really awesome link with Mars and Jupiter. This suggests one individual can become very important to your future hopes. Soon you’ll know who.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Adopt a ‘can-do’ attitude. Don’t lose heart if certain people seem incapable of praising you or even acknowledging your presence. Some people just aren’t good at this, and he more you seek it from the wrong people, the more you’ll feel bereft. Instead, show just how hard-working and dependable you can be Aquarius.

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Dexter Dunn drives Safreda down to the line in the Hotel Ashburton Mobile Pace, last on the card, by one-and-a-quarter lengths at the Ashburton Trotting Club’s July meet yesterday.

The win with Safreda in the feature race of the day was Dunn’s second success, having earlier driven Mighty Flying Mac

to victory in the sixth. The eightrace meet had Idle Bones show diligence to get home by three lengths for a maiden win in the day’s opener paying $28.80.

The Simon Adlam-trained Hit the Spot couldn’t secure a maiden win of its own, coming third as Blair Orange drove Dream Gal to the win by half-a-length. Orange

then backed up with another winner in the third, steering Pay Me Art to the line first.

There was an enquiry into the photo-finish in race five where Jeans Mattjesty was home first, paying $10.20 for the effort, but was relegated to third with Westburn Cred promoted to the win for a slightly lower $9.50.

Avondale fields, form Avondale JC Venue: Avondale Meeting Date: 22 Jul 2013 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 5 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 3, 4 and 5 1 1.41pm (NZT) WOOTTONS AUTO MOTOR SCOOTER 3YO MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 62595 Bitethebullet (7) 57.5......................... L Innes 2 393 Joey Jonz (2) 57.5...................B Hutton (a3) 3 650x4 Bogart (8) 57.5.............................D Johnson 4 84 Domarco b (9) 57.5.......................... C Grylls 5 906 Saint Piran (1) 57.5..........................S Collett 6 99669 Goin To The Chapel (4) 57.5........... S Spratt 7 22x86 Bassaleg b (6) 55.5 8 88334 My Fiancee b (5) 55.5................ M Cameron 9 63003 Shades Of Gold (10) 55.5.... R Hutchings (a) 10 770 Strada Lass (3) 55.5.................. M D Plessis 2 2.16pm TIPPLE F&M MAIDEN 1400 $12,000, MAIDEN F&M, 1400m 1 4x262 Zest Princess (10) 57.5..................... M Hills 2 0x523 Keepit b (7) 57.5......................B Hutton (a3) 3 22x86 Bassaleg b (5) 57.5...................... O Bosson 4 x5x52 Pride And Passion b (8) 57.5..... M Cameron 5 049x3 Anaheim (12) 57.5........................... S Spratt 6 4x43. Rulaline (13) 57.5 7 0x0 Lucy Bee (1) 57.5............................ C Grylls 8 0x059 Ransomlass (3) 57.5...................R Norvall 9 86007 Amarlia (6) 57.5.......................R Smyth (a3) 10 98 Ceebeel (11) 57.5................ R Hutchings (a) 11 080x6 Jane Lour (4) 57.5.......................C Dell (a1) 12 46086 Riva Ballerina (2) 57.5........ J Whiteside (a3) 13 770 Strada Lass (9) 57.5 3 2.51pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD RATING 65 2200 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 37x73 Pherozardo m (2) 59....................D Johnson 2 5x021 Solyn dm (1) 58.5.................... P Turner (a1) 3 40x00 Bold Ransom dm (5) 57.5................S Collett 4 77690 Red Hot mh (8) 57.5........................ S Spratt 5 580x0 Rosie’s Revenge mh (7) 57....... M D Plessis 6 0590x Ike Eisenhower (6) 57.................M Sweeney

7 7x020 Polarity (4) 57............................ M Cameron 8 x9943 Saucy Penny (3) 54......................... C Grylls 4 3.26pm DAN SHEAHAN MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 0x3 Mrs Browns Boy (11) 58.5.......R Smyth (a3) 2 5. Plays Until Dark (2) 58.5............... O Bosson 3 08 Keentorule (8) 58.5................... T Wenn (a4) 4 44x32 Born Happy (6) 56.5................M Cheung (a4)

5 4x620 Senatorial b (12) 56.5....................... L Innes 6 92 Alice Web Ellis (1) 56.5...........K Chiong (a4) 7 80x72 Garden Of Gold (7) 56.5............ M D Plessis 8 8404x Leana Me (13) 56.5............ J Whiteside (a3) 9 60x54 River Moy (15) 56.5........................... M Hills 10 4 Sun ‘N’ Surf (3) 56.5.................. M Cameron 11 8. African Star (10) 56.5.................M Sweeney 12 Cool Queen (5) 56.5....................D Johnson 13 0x0 Finnys Gold (9) 56.5................B Hutton (a3) 14 x580x Vedex (14) 56.5.................... R Hutchings (a) 15 807x Moonshine Hill 58.5...................... Scratched 16 38x64 Hannah Mary 56.5........................ Scratched 17 5x7 No Redemption (4) 56.5 Emergencies: Moonshine Hill, Hannah Mary, No Redemption 5 4.01pm WESTERN LEADER RATING 65 1200 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 43x18 Perfect Flow tdm (6) 58.5..............M McNab 2 65549 La Pinnicle dm (5) 58...............B Hutton (a3) 3 93457 Tsar Reformer 58.......................... Scratched 4 32635 Sumotori d (1) 57.5........................... L Innes 5 0x533 Blue Streak d (8) 57................... M D Plessis 6 32179 Rose Tattoo d (7) 56.................. M Cameron 7 9x344 Oh Em Gee m (4) 55...................D Johnson 8 0x703 Princess Holly b (2) 54..............M Sweeney 9 0008x Light The Way (3) 54.......................S Spratt

Blinkers on: Bassaleg (R1), Bassaleg (R2) Blinkers off: Strada Lass (R1), Strada Lass (R2), Princess Holly (R5) Winkers off: Light The Way (R5) SELECTIONS Race 1: My Fiancee, Bitethebullet, Shades Of Gold Race 2: Pride And Passion, Keepit, Zest Princess, Anaheim Opie Bosson is down to ride Bassaleg Race 3: Solyn, Polarity, Pherozardo, Ike Eisenhower in the second on the card at the Race 4: Plays Until Dark, Sun ‘N’ Surf, Born Happy, Senatorial Race 5: Perfect Flow, Sumotori, Blue Streak, Oh Em Gee Avondale meeting today.

Yesterday’s Ashburton TC results The weather was fine and the track fast for the Ashburton Harness at Ashburton yesterday.

RACE 1 ASHBURTON RACEWAY FUNCTION CENTRE TROT, $6000, 2400m 10-9 Idle Bones (7) B Hill 1 7-6 Price Of Fame (6) T Trathen 2 M Edmonds 3 1-1 Barry (4) Scratched: Monk’s Gal, Trouble Ado. Also (in finishing order): 6-3 Mantorp, 14-14 Queen Mary, 8-8 Opawa Speed, 4-7 Prince Of Gems, 5-4 Regal Light, 9-10 Kosmopolitan, 15-15 Another Delight, 13-12 Boyz Let Loose, 3-5 Justakiwilass, 11-11 Breeny’s Smile, 2-2 St Pierre, 16-16 Sueno, 12-13 Sea Spray Cracker (Failed to finish).

3L, Hd, 3/4L. Time: 3:11.30.

MR: 2:08.30. Last 800m: 60.30.

Win: $28.80. Places: $6.70, $3.30, $1.70.

Quinella: $167.90. Trifecta: $4071.70 (7,6,4).

First4: Not Struck. Sub: Barry (4).

Trainer: Paul Ellis, Kaiapoi. Breeding: 3 f Monkey Bones-Idle Fiori.

RACE 2 - FULTON HOGAN FILLIES & MARES MOBILE PACE, $6000, 2400m 3-4 Dream Gal (8) B Orange 1 5-5 Ride In A Rolls (1) C DeFilippi 2 G O’Reilly 3 4-2 Hit The Spot (6) All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 1-1 Goldplay, 2-3 Classic Vogue, 7-7 Dendera, 8-8 Countess Vale, 6-6 Julia Bardon.

1/2L, 1/2 hd, Hd. Time: 3:03.90.

MR: 2:03.29. Last 800m: 58.27.

Win: $5.70. Places: $1.80, $2.90, $1.60.

Quinella: $36.50. Trifecta: $160.30 (8,1,6).

First4: $677.80 (8,1,6,3). Double: $325.70 (7/8), $418.80 (7/1). Sub: Goldplay (3).

Trainer: Phil Anderson, Weedons. Breeding: 4 m In The Pocket-Jodi’s Dream.

RACE 3 CHERTSEY TROTTING CLUB PACE, $6000, 2400m 3-3 Pay Me Art (2) B Orange 1 4-4 Crying Out Loud (8) M Neill 2 3 1-1 Westburn Elite (1) D Dunn All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 7-8 Seven Blue Chips, 8-7 Gracy Lady, 2-2 Midnight Mayhem, 5-5 Bold Lustre, 10-9 Hot Lips Brogden, 11-11 Coyote, 9-10 Laura’s Legend, 6-6 Eastwood Seelster.

Lg nk, Nk, 1-1/2L. Time: 3:05.30.

MR: 2:04.20. Last 800m: 58.15.

Win: $6.00. Places: $2.00, $2.50, $1.60.

Quinella: $16.20. Trifecta: $112.60 (2,8,1).

First4: $2193.50 (2,8,1,9). Sub: Westburn Elite (1).

Trainer: Andrew Stuart, Rangiora. Breeding: 3 g Artsplace-Pay Me Girl.

RACE 4 - WWW.ASHBURTONTC.CO.NZ MOBILE PACE, $6000, 2400m 1-1 Royal City (4) M Williamson 1 5-6 Hotdiggitydog (8) C McDowell 2 2-2 Blytheburn (7) C D Thornley 3 Scratched: Cheyenne Princess.

Also (in finishing order): 7-7 Cromac Jesse, 4-3 Ride In A Pontiac, 6-5 Washington Star, 3-4 Hayton J R. 1-1/4L, Nse, 3-1/2L. Time: 3:04.76.

MR: 2:03.80. Last 800m: 56.70.

Win: $1.40. Places: $1.40, $4.70. Quinella: $6.80. Trifecta: $27.10 (4,8,7). First4: $232.90 (4,8,7,5). Double: $8.50 (2/4+), $32.90 (2/8).

Treble: $39.60 (8/2/4+). Sub: Royal City (4).

Trainer: Maxine Green, Winslow. Breeding: 4 g Courage Under Fire-Centre City.

RACE 5 - ASHBURTON TRUST MOBILE PACE, $7000, 2400m 4-4 Westburn Creed (12) M Williamson 1 8-9 Chargedownking (4) A Poutama 2 3 5-5 Jeans Mattjesty (8) R Close Scratched: Albie Al, Star Of Courage.

Also (in finishing order): 2-2 Flyin Ryan, 14-13 Tuscaloosa, 11-11 Up Wheels, 7-7 Anvil Gav, 3-3 Supreme Genes, 12-12 Bashful Compton, 10-10 One And Only, 6-6 Gino D’Acampo, 9-8 Mimi Surarti, 1-1 Natural Courage, 13-14 Lockey.

Hd, Hd, 2-1/4L. Time: 3:02.40.

MR: 2:02.28. Last 800m: 56.95.

Win: $9.50. Places: $2.50, $5.40, $3.10.

Quinella: $130.50. Trifecta: $1109.60 (12,4,8).

First4: Not Struck. Sub: Natural Courage (2).

Trainer: Jamie Keast & Henriette Westrum, Amberley. Breeding: 6 g Falcon SeelsterSeven), Westburn Elite 3g(Falcon Seelster.

RACE 6 - TOM GUNDRY FREIGHT HANDICAP PACE, $7000, 3200m 2-2 Mighty Flying Mac (9) D Dunn 1 1-1 Gotta Go Yanky (2) B Orange 2 3-3 Quick Turn (5) N McGrath 3

Scratched: Race Cafe.

Also (in finishing order): 5-5 Billythehuntedone, 7-7 Massimo, 4-4 Fifth Edition, 8-8 Indian Arrow, 6-6 Macho Comacho, 9-9 Unique Chance.

1/2L, 2L, 1-3/4L. Time: 4:04.60.

MR: 2:03.00. Last 800m: 58.72.

Win: $3.80. Places: $1.50, $1.30, $1.70.

Quinella: $3.10. Trifecta: $33.40 (9,2,5). First4: $164.00 (9,2,5,4). Double: $22.10 (12/9), $9.30 (12/2+). Sub: Gotta Go Yanky (2).

Trainer: Cran Dalgety, West Melton. Breeding: 3 g Mach Three-Fleet’s Pocket.

RACE 7 - RENPROP LTD HANDICAP TROT, $7000, 2400m 2-3 Millicent (3) C DeFilippi 1 1-1 Mamselle (8) M Jones 2 6-6 Pammys Boy (5) M Edmonds 3 All Started.

Also (in finishing order): 8-8 Take For Granted, 5-5 Mighty River, 3-2 Foreverman, 7-7 Good Hest, 4-4 Annabelle Lindenny.

2-1/4L, 1L, 1-1/2L. Time: 3:07.80.

MR: 2:05.90. Last 800m: 59.90.

Win: $6.50. Places: $2.00, $1.30, $2.70.

Quinella: $5.10. Trifecta: $115.80 (3,8,5).

First4: $1022.00 (3,8,5,2). Sub: Mamselle (8).

Trainer: C & J DeFilippi, Lincoln. Breeding: 3 f Monkey Bones-Black Onyx.

RACE 8 - HOTEL ASHBURTON MOBILE PACE, $8000, 2400m 1-1 Safedra (12) 1 D Dunn 2 5-4 Sobek (4) J Keast B Orange 3 3-2 Beau Vite (6) Scratched: Su El. Also (in finishing order): 2-3 Blazin N Cullen, 9-8 Redmaro, 7-9 Miss Kathryn, 8-7 Loose Cannon, 6-6 Vanilla Rose, 11-11 Rome’s Burning, 10-10 Belmont Fire, 4-5 Holme Fire.

1-1/4L, 1/2L, Nse. Time: 2:57.20.

MR: 1:58.80. Last 800m: 56.36.

Win: $1.80. Places: $1.00, $2.60, $2.00.

Quinella: $11.70. Trifecta: $54.50 (12,4,6).

First4: $143.90 (12,4,6,11). Quaddie: $724.70 (12/9/3/12+). Place6: $16.70 (1+,2,8/4+,8/4, 8,12/2+,5,9/3,5,8+/4,6,12+). Double: $15.80 (3/12+), $27.00 (3/4). Treble: $98.10 (9/3/12+).

Sub: Safedra (12).

Trainer: Cran Dalgety, West Melton. Breeding: 3 f Mach Three-Sparks A Flyin.

Christchurch greyhound fields and form for today Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 22 Jul 2013 NZ Meeting number : 10 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 3.36pm (NZT) SUPER PETS DASH C1, 295m 1 66x56 Another Gunna nwtd..................J McInerney 2 36367 Homebush Limbo 17.78.............J McInerney 3 81278 Go Nola 17.55................................ G Cleeve 4 64655 Wandy Feather nwtd........................ M Grant 5 11 Quattro 17.66............................. M Robinson 6 23x51 Phat Pants 17.66 M &........................Jopson 7 17447 Black Tank nwtd L G &................. SJA Stone 8 23848 Zed Kay Man 17.60.....................D Kingston 9 57586 All Against Me 17.47..........................P Scott 10 78867 Okotoks 17.65 M &.............................. Smith 2 3.53pm HURUNUI HOTEL SPRINT C0, 295m 1 5833 Keramus Girl nwtd......................... G Cleeve 2 87521 Blue Gale Rise (c1) 17.66................ B Dann 3 5 Homebush Coral nwtd...............J McInerney 4 87365 Pep’s Pot nwtd.................................S Fagan 5 7 Jasper Haka nwtd......................J McInerney 6 72444 Bublin Jed nwtd................................ M Flipp 7 7258 Cosmic Echo nwtd A &.......................Seque 8 33526 Jumpin Sally nwtd......................J McInerney 9 55864 Vienna nwtd...............................R Blackburn

10 67788 Wongway Georgie nwtd.....................J Rush 3 44536 Valldemossa nwtd............................. M Flipp 4 471 Mer De Noms (c1) 17.50...........R Blackburn 1 6255 Fanta’s Fever nwtd C &....................... Fagan 5 86x2 Teevee Kimba nwtd........................... M Flipp 2 63546 Go Patch nwtd............................... G Cleeve 6 2872 Bowman nwtd....................................J Dunn 3 5 Homebush Verona nwtd.............J McInerney 7 72874 Hot Tea nwtd..............................A Bradshaw 8 Nero Haka nwtd.........................J McInerney 4 83224 Gorilla On Drums nwtd J &.....................May 8 5 66747 Morgan Baxter nwtd...................J McInerney 9 6x77F Juno Baxter nwtd.......................J McInerney 6 447 Em Are Dee nwtd............................. M Flipp 10 76853 Cawbourne Polly nwtd..................... M Grant 7 57641 Charles Fredrick(c1) 17.82................J Dunn 6 5.03pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE DASH C1, 295m 8 5 Petra Haka nwtd........................J McInerney 1 58288 Wandy Millah 17.63.....................D Kingston 9 55864 Vienna nwtd...............................R Blackburn 2 24223 Harper Mehl nwtd S &.....................B Evans 10 7778 Sum Are Fun nwtd............................ M Flipp 3 83573 Quiet Snort nwtd................................ J Allen 4 4.28pm YELLA MUSTARD STUD SPRINT C1, 295m 4 78514 Taieri Plains 17.69 C &....................... Fagan 1 86282 El Maestro 17.53........................J McInerney 5 55686 Botany Jessie nwtd....................J McInerney 2 14553 Son of Grace 17.61...................R Blackburn 6 42582 Bank Roller 17.76............................. M Flipp 3 53784 All Too Hard nwtd.......................J McInerney 7 21232 Starburst Benny 17.55..................... M Grant 4 64246 Canvas Rider 17.64 S &..................B Evans 8 67567 Vitalize 17.65 J &....................................May 5 65872 Yapster Jewel 17.55 M &..................... Smith Emergencies: 6 34177 Claremont Diva 17.73....................... B Dann 9 57586 All Against Me 17.47..........................P Scott 7 51122 Slingo 17.75............................... M Robinson 10 78867 Okotoks 17.65 M &.............................. Smith 8 64148 Starburst Paul nwtd.......................... M Grant 7 5.21pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STKS HEAT C1q, 520m 9 57586 All Against Me 17.47..........................P Scott 1 47428 Botany Comet 30.68..................J McInerney 10 57687 Star Gun nwtd J &..................................May 2 51675 Wagon Wheel 30.58 M &...................Jopson 5 4.46pm ISLINGTON TAVERN SPRINT C0, 295m 3 x7254 Wandy Chloe 31.05......................... M Grant 1 8x583 Springstown nwtd......................J McInerney 4 72235 Gypsy Hunter 30.85 W &................... Nissen 2 46336 Girl Pride nwtd A &.............................Seque 5 F6464 Party Rock 31.30 S &......................B Evans

3 4.11pm GARRARD’S HORSE HOUND DASH C0, 295m

6 45212 Know Solution 30.99..................... L Waretini 7 45356 Moon And Sea 31.23......................... J Allen 8 64265 Blushing Belle 30.67 L &.................... Wales 9 7557F Candy Belle 31.34 S &....................B Evans 10 45786 Noisy Leo nwtd..........................J McInerney 8 5.38pm BILL’S BAR & BISTRO SPRINT C1, 295m 1 35174 Conaloo 17.53........................... M Robinson 2 46126 Rite Round Range 17.72...........A Bradshaw 3 55645 Genista Outlaw 17.48 J &.......................May 4 45764 Cawbourne Ranga nwtd.................. M Grant 5 87764 Billy Brand 17.89............................... B Dann 6 22223 Wellywood 17.82 W &........................ Nissen 7 45454 Ohoka Hart 17.71......................... L Waretini 8 88873 Homebush Awesome 18.04.......J McInerney 9 57586 All Against Me 17.47..........................P Scott 10 78867 Okotoks 17.65 M &.............................. Smith 9 5.58pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STKS HEAT C1q, 520m 1 64657 Calm Spirit nwtd................................. J Allen 2 45741 Zarishel (c2) 30.68 H &........................Taylor 3 33323 Some Say nwtd W &.......................... Nissen 4 33863 Know Future 30.74........................ G Cleeve 5 56436 Mulberry Brook nwtd.....................K Cassidy 6 17 Game Girl 31.12 A &..........................Seque 7 87665 Opawa Cassidy 31.13 L &.................. Wales 8 x6263 Ohoka Taylor 31.28.......................A Waretini 9 7557F Candy Belle 31.34 S &....................B Evans

10 55887 Paddy Baxter nwtd.....................J McInerney 1 11423 Damarjo 17.52 H &..............................Taylor 2 31342 Make Your Point 17.40 S &..............B Evans 1 16577 Jet To Mars 17.70 M &......................... Smith 3 42711 Hooray For Hazel(c3) 17.56 M &......... Smith 2 46647 Cawbourne Hurdo 17.51.................. M Grant 4 21334 Know Lies 17.37............................ G Cleeve 3 66643 Mulberry Hunter nwtd...................K Cassidy 5 85531 Another Snazza nwtd.................J McInerney 4 45524 Genia Haka nwtd.......................J McInerney 6 32825 Bizarro 17.59 S &............................B Evans 5 16244 Cec Divine 17.90........................... G Cleeve 7 43215 Be Prepared 17.35............................ B Dann 6 88666 Thirsty Kelvin nwtd.....................J McInerney 8 36124 Another Street 17.98..................J McInerney 7 82761 Duco To Duco 17.73......................... M Flipp Emergencies: 9 23372 Jed Norton 17.36........................... G Cleeve 8 23175 Flirt With Me 17.64 M &.....................Jopson 10 64326 Don’t Call Me 17.54.......................... B Dann Emergencies: SELECTIONS 9 57586 All Against Me 17.47..........................P Scott 10 57687 Star Gun nwtd J &..................................May Race 1: Quattro, Phat Pants, Zed Kay Man, Homebush Limbo 2: Blue Gale Rise (c1), Keramus Girl, Homebush Coral 11 6.36pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STKS HEAT C1q, 520m Race Race 3: Charles Fredrick, Gorilla On Drums, Homebush Verona 1 33841 Palucka (c2) 30.69 J &.....................D Fahey Race 4: El Maestro, Slingo, Son of Grace, All Too Hard 2 57557 Autumn Spirit nwtd............................. J Allen Race 5: Mer De Noms (c1), Teevee Kimba, Girl Pride, Bowman 3 65636 Nitro Express 30.81...................... L Waretini Race 6: Starburst Benny, Harper Mehl, Taieri Plains, Bank Roller 4 716 Thanks Louise nwtd M &...............PT Binnie Race 7: Blushing Belle, Know Solution, Botany Comet 5 56676 Law To Excel 31.33 M &....................Jopson Race 8: Conaloo, Wellywood, Rite Round Range, Ohoka Hart 6 51163 Mega Girl 30.73 A &...........................Seque Race 9: Zarishel (c2), Some Say, Game Girl, Ohoka Taylor 7 26522 Know Taste 30.85.......................... G Cleeve Race 10: Cawbourne Hurdo, Cec Divine, Mulberry Hunter 8 64577 Waimak Dave nwtd....................J McInerney Race 11: Palucka (c2), Mega Girl, Know Taste, Thanks Louise 9 7557F Candy Belle 31.34 S &....................B Evans Race 12: Make Your Point, Damarjo, Hooray For Hazel(c3) 10 27787 Secret Sarah 31.03 S &...................B Evans LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 12 6.55pm SPEIGHT’S SPRINT C2, 295m - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

10 6.15pm C.T.V. DASH C1, 295m

Today’s Palmerston North greyhound fields and form Palmerston North Greyhounds Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 22 Jul 2013 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 1 12.01pm (NZT) AWAPUNI DASH C0 C0, 375m 1 5323 Cool Heir nwtd U &..................... McCracken 2 23222 Another Another nwtd................J McInerney 3 F253 Miss Sara nwtd.................................L Ahern 4 25656 Circle of Life nwtd.......................R N Maisey 5 3 Addicted nwtd...................................L Ahern 6 34572 Another Stone nwtd...................J McInerney 7 7 Ten Eleven nwtd U &.................. McCracken 8 28281 Tepirita Jazil (c1) nwtd................. C D Brider 9 38766 Addis Mate nwtd........................A Blackburn 10 58577 Cluain Meala nwtd...................... B Johnston 2 12.21pm WOODVILLE SPRINT C1 C1, 375m 1 76472 Miss Moet 22.18...........................P Blanche 2 x3772 Masonyx 22.06.............................A Turnwald 3 23336 Creme Da Genes nwtd.....................L Ahern 4 44578 Riba Lorda nwtd..........................G M Clarke 5 27487 Cawbourne Anna nwtd..............J McInerney 6 55565 Yes He Will nwtd...............................I Moore 7 32822 Home Brewer 22.37.......................A Speight 8 85377 Blue Rush nwtd L &............................ Morris Emergencies: 9 78477 Snap To It 22.23.......................... T R Pilcher 10 58848 Rijeka 21.76...................................M Gowan 3 12.40pm J P PRINT (PETONE) C1 C1, 375m

1 58348 Rebel Joe 22.41................................ A Clark 2 38118 Tarryn’s Pride 21.71 F &.................Turnwald 3 23157 Kotumba 22.03 L &............................. Morris 4 51335 Yeah Nah nwtd.....................................L Udy 5 44331 Homebush Diamond nwtd.........J McInerney 6 43371 Sydenham Opal nwtd.................G M Clarke 7 71665 Cold Turkey 21.93.............................L Ahern 8 74172 Nina Be Good nwtd............................. L Bell 9 78477 Snap To It 22.23.......................... T R Pilcher 10 88744 Thrilling Halo 21.80........................M Gowan 4 12.58pm MANAWATU RACEWAY C1 C1, 375m 1 36224 Another Pizza nwtd....................J McInerney 2 48675 Flayosc 22.37.............................. T M Furner 3 26523 Dogged Dan nwtd..............................R Hunt 4 21145 Snuffalopogas 22.04.........................L Ahern 5 45385 Time For What nwtd.......................M Gowan 6 75455 Bulet Tooth Tony 21.65......................R Waite 7 37744 Endorse nwtd..............................D Schofield 8 24445 Mac Tan 22.04 B &....................... G Atwood 9 78477 Snap To It 22.23.......................... T R Pilcher 10 46778 Ghost Chips nwtd......................A Blackburn 5 1.15pm PETER SINCLAIR PHOTO FINISH C1, 457m 1 48568 Flossy Haka nwtd.........................P Blanche 2 55475 Mission Drive nwtd...........................M Olden 3 73578 Mighty Baxter nwtd....................J McInerney 4 x2312 Boston Chanel 26.17 F &...............Turnwald 5 2163 Almost Got It nwtd U &............... McCracken 6 x1111 Mammy Brown (c2) 26.22.................L Ahern

7 F6361 Queen Cobra nwtd............................ A Clark 8 23342 Triple Aye 26.56......................... W Hodgson 9 55485 Runs Like Al nwtd........................ C D Brider 10 74688 Opawa Stu 26.54..............................G Quirk 6 1.34pm MARTON DASH C2 FINAL C2f, 375m 1 25312 Fastback King (c3) 21.85.................. A Clark 2 14121 Hot King Cole (c3) 21.84..................L Ahern 3 66645 Thrilling Terror 21.78.........................G Quirk 4 82427 Flying Blake 22.36............................... L Bell 5 52523 Thrilling Tune 21.90..................... B Hodgson 6 58323 Winsome Achiever nwtd................A Speight 7 71161 Miss Foxy Minx (c3) 21.56 G &..........Denby 8 57784 Bound By Pride 21.66.......................G Quirk Emergencies: 9 88775 Still Helina nwtd G &.................. Sarah Ross 10 46645 Kazillion 21.83...................................D Edlin 7 1.51pm ASHURST DASH C2 C2, 375m 1 86526 Eunuchs Luck 21.85..................A Blackburn 2 18688 Smidged 22.03...............................A Speight 3 78121 Coarsair 21.76 U &..................... McCracken 4 83112 Feel The Vibe 21.82....................D Schofield 5 47864 Petrol Voucher nwtd.......................A Speight 6 11467 Flirt Academy 21.88 U &............ McCracken 7 81114 Another Burst 21.94....................D Schofield 8 52215 Thrilling Might 22.03................... T M Furner 9 62675 Kango Klink nwtd...........................B Mitchell 10 44483 Mr. Big Stuff nwtd..............................G Quirk 8 2.08pm FEILDING DASH C3 C3, 375m

1 53722 All The Rage 21.91 U &.............. McCracken 2 41733 Tenkay Down 21.85.................... S Drysdale 3 72416 Missing Melody nwtd...................A Turnwald 4 25337 Yaldhurst Edward nwtd..............J McInerney 5 17758 Stunt Double 21.75...........................L Ahern 6 68871 Rando Reason (c4) 21.95................G Quirk 7 32886 Run Junior Run 21.97..................A Turnwald 8 85666 See To Believe nwtd..................J McInerney 9 83883 Ode To Liberty nwtd..........................R Waite 10 87437 Stock Taker 21.40.............................L Ahern 9 2.26pm CLOVERLEA SPRINT C5 C5, 375m 1 31547 Decado 0.00........................................ L Bell 2 15335 Cosmic Mack 21.35....................D Schofield 3 28621 Daddy Lowe 21.17............................L Ahern 4 15214 Call Me Ralph 21.49...................G M Clarke 5 84362 Little Blackspot 21.27.................D MacAuley 6 45412 Bee Rabbit 21.62..............................L Ahern 7 57211 Ate Power 21.35 F &.......................Turnwald 8 32541 Darlyne Ottey 21.35..........................L Ahern 9 57186 Red Moova Hoova 21.60 G &.............Denby 10 88177 Wise Crack Lad 21.76.....................M Olden 10 2.43pm SHANNON STAKES C4/5 C4/5, 457m 1 12573 Louie Machall (c5) 26.12 A &.............. J.Hall 2 56238 Laugh Like Santa 26.09....................L Ahern 3 5x837 Trendy Knocka’s (c5) 26.33..............L Ahern 4 44355 Necter 25.85............................... B Hodgson 5 26356 Winsome Buster (c5) nwtd.........D Schofield 6 56x11 Superior Izmir nwtd F &..................Turnwald

7 13745 Bigtime Latte (c5) 26.16...................L Ahern 8 61422 Bigtime Jet (c5) nwtd........................L Ahern Emergencies: 9 61434 Retaliate First 26.14 F &.................Turnwald 10 45441 El Jetta 26.41....................................L Ahern 11 3.01pm FOXTON SPRINT C5 C5, 375m 1 23212 Charming Nev 21.60.........................L Ahern 2 2x545 Thrilling Havoc nwtd.........................G Quirk 3 22162 Cosmic Fury 21.65...........................L Ahern 4 12745 Mirage 21.32 F &............................Turnwald 5 15316 Sir Richie 21.57................................L Ahern 6 51638 Attire 21.52 U &.......................... McCracken 7 57634 Donky Deep 21.57 G &.......................Denby 8 33544 Darlek Khan 21.42......................G M Clarke Emergencies: 9 57186 Red Moova Hoova 21.60 G &.............Denby 10 82588 Bob’s Your Uncle 21.68......................R Hunt 12 3.18pm WWW.RACINGDOGS.CO.NZ C4 C4, 375m 1 21451 Tarapunga (c5) nwtd...................D Schofield 2 51422 George Baxter 21.91.................J McInerney 3 12457 Kezz 22.06...............................T McCracken 4 76861 Slangevar (c5) nwtd...........................D Little 5 82533 Starla 21.64...............................J McInerney 6 54345 Moody Man 21.73..............................D Edlin 7 36587 Howlin Wind 21.84...........................M Olden 8 53167 Fire Boy Baxter 21.55................J McInerney 9 78331 Uno Allegro (c5) 21.74......................L Ahern 10 71767 Moon Warrower nwtd........................ J Tapiki

13 3.42pm BULLS STAKES C2/3 C2/3, 457m

1 55555 Bumpa Sticker nwtd..........................L Ahern 2 75455 Emma Marie 26.46....................... T Downey 3 13762 Deceiver 26.24.................................M Olden 4 46233 Cawbourne Bree nwtd...............J McInerney 5 74241 Cawbourne Tilly (c4) 26.31........J McInerney 6 54662 Another Dollar nwtd...................J McInerney 7 66236 Ostapchuk 26.12...............................L Ahern 8 57574 Another Breeze nwtd.................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 51117 Ritza Jack (c2) 26.09........................L Ahern 10 55181 What’s Up Gee nwtd.........................L Ahern SELECTIONS Race 1: Addicted, Another Another, Cool Heir, Miss Sara Race 2: Masonyx, Home Brewer, Creme Da Genes, Riba Lorda Race 3: Tarryn’s Pride, Rebel Joe, Cold Turkey, Yeah Nah Race 4: Another Pizza, Snuffalopogas, Bulet Tooth Tony Race 5: Mammy Brown (c2), Boston Chanel, Almost Got It Race 6: Miss Foxy Minx, Fastback King (c3), Hot King Cole Race 7: Feel The Vibe, Flirt Academy, Eunuchs Luck Race 8: All The Rage, Rando Reason (c4), Tenkay Down Race 9: Ate Power, Cosmic Mack, Daddy Lowe, Call Me Ralph Race 10: Louie Machall (c5), Bigtime Jet (c5), Bigtime Latte Race 11: Charming Nev, Thrilling Havoc, Mirage, Cosmic Fury Race 12: Tarapunga, Slangevar (c5), Howlin Wind, Moody Man Race 13: Another Breeze, Cawbourne Tilly, Bumpa Sticker LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance std - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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1. Intact (3,2,3,5) 1. Smith’s block (5) 2. Oral (5) 4. Pale (7) photo ap The top three fight it out: Chris Froome (yellow), Joaquim Rodriguez (front) and Nairo Quintana in an intense battle up the mountain in Stage 20.

3. Ogle (4) 8. Bible stand (7) 4. Yearly (6) 9. Play badly (5) 5. Mixed (8) 10. Void (4) 6. Nuptial (7) 11. Story-teller (8) 7. Understanding (13) 13. Affectionate (4) 12. Forefather (8) 14. Ring (4) 13. Oneffectively (7) 16. Discern (8) to race. to the summit ended his me. The race has been a fight every took over with two kilometres Unwilling (6)place.

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By Justin Davis “With about two kilometres single day, with crosswinds, rain, 18. team Fragrance (5) 20. Preciseand (5) The Saxo leader, however, mountains, good days in the moun- go when I was with Quintana 19. Eager (4) simply too good.

21. Italian dish (7) admitted Froome Britain’s Chris Froome virtually tains and bad days. was Rodriguez I started thinking, ‘two 22. Ratify (7) secured overall victory in the 100th “This year it was impossible, there minutes, “It’s really fitting for the 100th k’s to go now, I’ve got five Tour de France on Sunday morning edition ... it’s been a special edition.” this is it, it’s pretty much wrapped 23. Haggard (5) is one rider who is better than the (NZ time) after a thrilling penultimate Having been the form stage racer in up now,” said Froome. rest,” said Contador.

SOLUTIONSQuintana TO PUZZLE No 12,233 stage won by Colombian climbing the peloton this season, Froome took “It was overwhelming and it actually crossed the line alone in specialist Nairo Quintana. in command on stage eight with a stun- became quite hard to concentrate triumph to claim his stage Across: 3 Foolhardy; 8 Army; 9 Matchless; 10maiden Heaven; 11 Ahead of this morning’s final stage ning victory atop Ax-Trois-Domaines those last two k’s.” race18debut.

Flout; 14 Union; 15win Thee;on16his Sides; Lent; 20 Prune; 21 from Versailles to Paris, which is in the Pyrenees.

Spain’s Alberto Contador began the 25 Bestowing; As well26as securing Tramp; 24 Sister; Inca;virtually 27 Stand down. usually only disputed by the sprintIt ultimately left Froome with a stage second at 5min 11sec adrift Colombia’s first runner-up spot on 1 Bashfully; 2the Impatient; 4 Oman; 5 Local; 6 All-out; 7 ers, Froome defended his significant tidy 5:11 advantage going into the but only 21secs ahead Down: of Quintana. race, Quintana claimed the King Disc; 9Froome, Means; 11 of Fedthe up;Mountains’ 12 Thrusting;polka 13 Rehearsal; 17 as overnight lead over his rivals on the final day in the hills but, despite His inability to follow when dot jersey Sprig; 19 Triton; Heat; 24 Snow. final day in the mountains. appearing to have the legs for a third Quintana and Rodriguez upped the 22 Mewed; well as23the white jersey for the best “It’s been an amazing journey for mountaintop stage win, the emotions pace early on the final, 10.3 km climb young rider.

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Wentworth. (AO, T) Bea pays a high price for crossing Jacs, while Franky gets her revenge.

Shameless. (AO, T) Happily Divorced. (PGR, R, T)

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Mayday. (G) After less than a minute in the air, Korean Air Cargo Flight #8509 slams into a field northeast of London.

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Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 3 News.

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12.00 Rugby. International Women’s Rugby.

Black Ferns v England. Second Game.

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5.00 Motorsport. Superbike World Championship. Moscow. Highlights.

5.30 Motorsport. NASCAR Nationwide STP 300. Highlights.

6.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. First Qualifier.

Replay.

8.30 Rugby. International Women’s Rugby.

Black Ferns v England. Third Game.

From ECOLight Stadium, Pukekohe.

Highlights.

9.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Second Qualifier.

Replay.

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12.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Rabbitohs v Dragons. Replay.

2.00 Monday Night With Matty Johns.

3.00 To Be Confirmed.

4.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. First Qualifier.

Replay.

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11.00 Cycling. Tour De France. Stage 21.

Last 2 Hours.

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Highlights. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

4.30 Soccer. UEFA Womens Euro. Quarterfinal Four. Replay.

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Wests Tigers v Warriors. Highlights.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Round 19 Saturday. Highlights.

8.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Round 19 Sunday. Highlights.

8.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Rabbitohs v Dragons. Live.

11.00 Monday Night With Matty Johns.

12.00 Football. AFL. Richmond v Fremantle.

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Rabbitohs v Dragons. Highlights.

3.50 Soccer. UEFA Womens Euro. Quarterfinal Two. Live.

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8.55 Brave. (2012, PG) Voices of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly.

10.30 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

(2011, M) James Franco, Freida Pinto.

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3.45 Hotel Transylvania. (2012, PG) Voices of Adam Sandler, Kevin James.

5.20 Salvation Boulevard. (2011, M) Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear.

6.55 The Pact. (2012, 16) Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien.

8.30 Contraband. (2012, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi. To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.

10.25 Fright Night. (2011, M) Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell.

12.15 True Justice 2: Angel Of Death.

(2012, 16) Steven Seagal.

1.45 The Pact. (2012, 16) Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien.

3.20 Contraband. (2012, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi.

5.15 True Justice 2: Angel Of Death.

(2012, 16) Steven Seagal.

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8.55 The Chronicles Of Riddick. (2004, M) Vin Diesel.

10.55 Wild Hogs. (2007, M) Tim Allen, John Travolta.

12.35 Zodiac. (2007, 16) Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jnr. 3.10 Sexy Beast. (2000, 18) Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone.

4.40 The Ringer. (2003, M) Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl.

6.15 Mystic River. (2003, 16) Sean Penn, Tim Robbins.

8.30 Mrs Doubtfire. (1993, PG) Robin Williams, Sally Field. An actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children who are in the custody of his ex-wife.

10.40 Firewall. (2006, M) Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany.

12.25 Making Of Safe House. (2012, M).

12.40 Sexy Beast. (2000, 18) Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone.

2.10 The Ringer. (2003, M) Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl.

3.45 Mystic River. (2003, 16) Sean Penn, Tim Robbins.

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Defending Watters Cup rugby champions Methven will host 2012 finalists Celtic, and Rakaia meet Southern in the semi-finals following the fifth and final round on Saturday.

Methven claimed a bonus point win over Hampstead to finished top-of-the-table, one point ahead of Rakaia, while Southern claimed an impressive 41-13 win over Celtic to move into third.

That has Methven hosting Celtic in a replay of last year’s final a week earlier, while the other semi-final pits the 2011 finalists against each other when Rakaia host Southern.

Celtic struggled to fire a shot as Southern upset the hosts with a dominant display to lead 20-3 at halftime.

“We had the ball for a change which made a big difference,” Southern coach Nathan Hellyer said.

“We didn’t turn it over and were hungry to get it back when Celtic had it, and it was a day when everyone was focused together.

Tries to Will McKenzie and Gideon Lambrechts along with two conversions and two penalties from the boot of Lee Armstong had Southern ahead by 17 with Celtic’s only response a penalty from Will Hintz, converting one of four penalty attempts.

Southern had led all three of their previous Watters Cup matches at halftime and only won two, but started the second in half in perfect fashion with an Alex So’oialo try and Armstrong adding the extras in the opening minutes.

Armstrong’s first miss of the day then turned into more good fortune for the visitors as the ball hit the post, but a hounding chase from James Hastings had the midfielder scoop up the ball before Celtic reacted and score the side’s fourth try with Armstrong converting to lead 34-3.

Down by 31 points, Celtic finally got into gear with two tries to Dan Hurley, one coming from a pushover scrum, but the game was too far gone.

“We were majorly off the pace and Southern certainly lifted their game and were way above what we were,” Celtic’s Dave McCrea said.

“They took it to us and we went backwards, our lineouts were woeful and we just lost it. We just never kicked into gear and Southern played extremely well.”

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The Canterbury Country boys finished with back-to-back wins to finish 13th at the national under 17 basketball championships in Auckland.

• Bauer crashes out The parents of injured Tour de France cyclist Jack Bauer watched with horror as their son crashed on live television, and were forced to wait for news of his condition. Bauer fell head-first into a barbed wire fence on Saturday morning as his parents watched a live broadcast from their home in Parapara, west of Nelson. “We saw it all happen live but had to wait for more than an hour to hear anything, it was awful,” Carolyn Bauer said. “The impact was very bad so he is lucky his teeth weren’t knocked out, he is very happy of that.”

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• Swimmers start well New Zealand’s open water swimmers Cara Baker and Kane Radford impressed on the opening day of the FINA World Championships in Barcelona yesterday. Baker finished a career-high sixth while Radford was 18th in a bunch finish in the 5km open water swim in Barcelona Harbour. Swimming New Zealand coach Philip Rush confirmed that Baker’s sixth place was the best by a Kiwi in open water at a world championship.

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Celtic’s Will Hintz makes a break with Southern’s Ryan Gaskell covering across to make the tackle in the Watters Cup clash on Saturday.

Southern had the final say as first five eight Ryan Gaskell made a solo run to score a try and Armstrong’s conversion made it 41-13.

Hellyer said it had been “a long time coming” but Southern is hitting form at the right time, while McCrea is hoping the lacklustre display has served as a wakeup call to his charges.

It was a below par effort from Celtic and their semi-final opponents also produced a patchy performance.

Methven initially had trouble putting Hampstead away before wearing the visitors down to achieve their goal of a bonus point win.

With nothing to lose Hampstead threw the ball around and their erratic play and strong defence troubled Methven.

Hampstead opened the scoring from a charge-down in goal and Foketi Puleiku won the scramble for the bouncing ball, and Josh Nonu converted.

The hosts had numerous advances into Hampstead’s red zone but could only conjure the one try in the first half but were otherwise frustrated at every turn.

“Hampstead were throwing the ball around and we got caught up playing that way,” Methven coach Dale Palmer said.

“We had possession and territory but were down at halftime because weren’t clinical enough.”

After a scrappy first 40 minutes Methven tidied up their act and began to take command.

Pete McAndrew answered a late call up to cover an injury-hit forward

pack and scored the first of his two tries to put Methven in the lead.

Fullback Ollie Topham then kicked a penalty before going over for a try of his own to make it 18-7.

With another game falling out of reach Hampstead’s discipline fell by the wayside, receiving four yellow cards in the final 20 minutes.

Methven’s task of earning a bonus point was made somewhat easier up against only 13 Hampstead defenders.

Replacement winger Patricio Fusari scored the bonus point try before McAndrew barged over for his second, with Topham converting both for a 32-7 win.

“It was patchy and we got the result we were after but we have a lot of work to do before the semifinal,” Palmer said.

Tinwald goes top Tinwald’s 48-5 thrashing of Allenton on Saturday saw them claim the second round Centennial Mug in Mid Canterbury Senior B rugby.

Tinwald’s bonus point win boosted them above Collegiate in the second round standings, which Collegiate had led heading into their bye weekend, and also had Tinwald finish on top overall.

Southern, who were winners

of the Michael Duff Memorial in the first round, also earned a home semi-final and ended Celtic’s season with the 24-14 win.

Rakaia scored four tries out in Mt Somers in beating the hosts 27-20 to finish six points clear of Celtic for Rakaia take final semi-final berth.

Tinwald now host Rakaia, while Collegiate head to Hinds in the other semi-final.

Country basketballers leave their best till the last

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Canterbury Country is a combination of North, Mid and South Canterbury associations that formed this year under Basketball New Zealand’s new regional format. and on Saturday’s final day of the tournament the boys beat Taranaki 74-55 in the playoff for 13th.

Otago A , which beat Canterbury Country 89-61 in pool play, took out the title with an 81-74 win over Auckland.

The boys opened the tournament with a 48-73 loss to Rotorua before a nail-biting 66-64 win over Palmerston North, followed by a

70-63 win over Counties Manukau.

They completed pool play with the loss to Otago A before being edged out by Auckland Counties 74-70, but bounced back to beat Tasman 80-62 before the victory over Taranaki.

The Canterbury Country girls

finished 17th out of the 18 teams after claiming two wins against Otago B. The girls had a rough ride in pool play, beaten by North Harbour A 85-43, Palmerston North 53-41, Otago A 67-65 and then Waikato 67-31. In the crossovers they beat

Otago B 63-24 and then 73-44 to avoid the wooden spoon while Waitakere West took out the grand final 85-79 over North Harbour A. The Canterbury Country under 15s head to Wellington this week and the under 19 boys are bound for Blenheim.

The A-League stars thumped

by Manchester United hope the visit by the English giants is just the start of annual visits by world football’s superpowers. The A-League All-Stars were given a footballing lesson by the Premier League champions, but the 5-1 hiding at a sold-out ANZ Stadium on Saturday did little to quell the enthusiasm of those involved in the match. All-Stars defender Michael Beauchamp said the sell-out crowd was proof enough that there was a thirst for such matches. It’s set to be reflected this week when Liverpool take on Melbourne Victory at the MCG on Wednesday as part of their - AAP pre-season tour.

• Warriors charging Warriors coach Matt Elliott won’t countenance talk of the top eight just yet, but admits it could become a reality if they upset Melbourne this week. The hard earned - though ultimately convincing victory over the Tigers on Friday - puts the Warriors on the cusp of the eight. They remain in 11th place but within a logjam of seven teams separated by only two points.

However, the Warriors have a tough run home. Six of their final seven games are against teams above them on the ladder, including heavyweights Manly, Cronulla and the Storm and even their softest assignment St George - is at WIN Stadium, where they have an awful record. They will need at least four wins to secure a playoff berth and have just four home games remaining, which makes this Sunday’s match even more - APNZ important.

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“I think we have been building momentum well,” said Blackadder.

“I think last week [in the game against the Hurricanes] was a mind-set thing because we knew we had qualified and I think a few guys were focusing on this week.

“Our focus will be on recovering well and preparing well.”

The bonus for the Crusaders is that they were reporting a clean bill of health after Saturday’s encounter, but Blackadder couldn’t say what his plans were regarding McCaw. “I’m not in that space right now.

“He made a contribution when he came on, but we probably won’t look to make change for the sake of making change.”

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The All Black skipper made the critical observation after his 15 minutes of action on Saturday night that the Crusaders have possibly come up short for too many successive years.

He warned that despite their emphatic performance in despatching the Reds, they can’t take anything for granted, regardless of whether they are playing in Pretoria or Hamilton.

“That’s the trick of sport,” he said when asked if the Crusaders should feel confident about their chances of winning the title.

“It’s being able to back up a performance like that. We have a few players who have had these opportunities before and come up short.

“The most important thing for us is that we put in our best performance and that comes by preparing as well as we can.”

McCaw’s thoughts were echoed by Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder, and indeed departing Reds coach Ewen McKenzie, who will now focus exclusively on his new role as Wallaby supremo.

The Crusaders stack as champions elect if they can replicate their physical intensity over the next two weeks.

They owned the breakdown and collisions, Luke Romano especially adding an edge of intimidation the Reds couldn’t deal with.

Dan Carter was in special form, bringing the best out of a backline that has finally learned its attacking lines and patterns.

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terday said there was plenty more to come from his team.

“It wasn’t quite as physical or intense as what we were expecting it to be,” he said of the Reds match, a replay of 2011’s final. “In the changing rooms the guys looked really good and fresh.”

He agreed his forwards provided the platform for the four-tries-to-nil win, but added: “There’s plenty more in the tank too.”

This Saturday’s match will be the decider after a round-robin win each for the Crusaders and Chiefs - Dave Rennie’s men winning 28-19 in Hamilton in May. They are clearly the two best teams in New Zealand, if not the competition, and many will be disappointed the clash has to come at this juncture rather than the final.

The Chiefs’ last match was their 26-16 win over the Blues at Eden Park nine days ago, a performance which suggested they had their eyes on the play-offs.

While the Crusaders forwards have stepped it up, the form of playmaker Dan Carter, who won’t be involved with them next year due to his sabbatical, has allowed his backs to cut loose.

“DC is really organising that backline and Tom Taylor and Ryan Crotty have stepped up. We are playing with confidence, but there is a fair way to go yet.”

It is understood that Steve Walsh will referee the match at Waikato Stadium, with Craig Joubert controlling things at Loftus.

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By Patrick McKendry They fell at this hurdle last season, but the Crusaders feel they have the momentum and confidence to leap the Chiefs and go all the way this year.

Last night’s 15-13 victory by the Brumbies over the Cheetahs at Canberra Stadium confirmed Todd Blackadder’s men will travel to Hamilton for a repeat of last year’s semi-final this Saturday night, with Jake White’s Brumbies making the long trip to Pretoria to play the Bulls in the other on Sunday morning NZT. The defending champion Chiefs will be well rested following their weekend off, but they will be eyeing their next opponents with a new respect after the Crusaders put the Reds to the sword 38-9 in the AMI Stadium qualifier match on Saturday.

It was a performance resonant of their big victory over the Chiefs at the same venue just a fortnight earlier - a brutal, muscular, focused effort from the forwards allowing the backs to run with a freedom and style which the Crusaders haven’t displayed in years.

For the past five years the Crusaders have crept into the play-offs with more of a whimper than a bang, and their season has been cut short as a result - their best chance going begging in the 2011 final against the Reds in Brisbane.

Their current form suggests it could end differently this time.

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“You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and whenyou reach your limits; that is real joy.”

Missed chances cost Mid Canterbury dear

By Jonathan Leask It was more like points lost rather than a point gained as Mid Canterbury drew 2-2 with Selwyn in Mainland Football division one on Saturday.

A week earlier they had a drawn with Universities to be the first team to earn a point against the students but were disappointed to come away with one point against the bottom of the table Selwyn.

Added to the frustration was that despite missing several key players Mid Canterbury dominated the majority of the game and led

2-0 midway through the second half.

After a goalless first half the message from coach Peter Roberts was all about finishing, being calm in front of goal and not trying to “break the net”.

Greg Feutz missed an early chance to break the deadlock at the start of the second half but made amends when he rolled in the opening goal after beating two players in the box.

Maxi Soler came on and the Argentine almost scored with his deft first touch, before Peter Grange played a fine through ball for Feutz to latch on to and score

his second to put Mid Canterbury up 2-0.

It looked as though the visitors were on their way to a comfortable win, however, Selwyn kept battling away and two of their rare forays produced two late strikes which gave them a share of the spoils much to Roberts’ disappointment.

“We bossed the game up to the last few minutes,” he said. “We had numerous shots and chances and on another day could have scored ten goals but Selwyn never gave up and took their chances late.”

“We played most of the game with a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds in the back four.

They all did well and will develop from the experience.”

One of those was Jack Fleming who Roberts said was outstanding on his full debut, receiving the man of the match award.

The Mid Canterbury Masters were on target as they put five unanswered goals past Parkland United Blue to remain on top of their league table while in division five Methven International beat Halswell United 3-2 at Warren Park.

An under strength Mid Canterbury women went down to the league winners Selwyn Black 5-0 in the cup round robin yesterday.

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Exodus of senior players from the Magic home with her family as she links up with her local team.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed my time playing for the Magic, which has been very special, but I’m really looking forward to a fresh challenge with the Pulse as I look to build my future closer to home,” van Dyk said in a statement.

Van Dyk’s acquisition has spelled the end of Australian import Caitlin Thwaites’ time in the capital and she will likely return to a franchise across the Tasman.

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side by Maria Tutaia, Kayla Cullen and Anna Harrison (on maternity leave) who have all confirmed they will be returning to the Aucklandbased franchise for next season’s competition.

The Mystics slumped to a woeful 1-12 record this year as they picked up the wooden spoon under interim coach Ruth Aitken, but will be keen to rebound next season under the returning Debbie Fuller.

The Magic meanwhile will now be desperate to hang on to their defensive duo Leana de Bruin and Casey Kopua who are yet to announce their plans for next year.

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mality - the franchise will look to re-sign the majority of their roster from this season where they finished a franchise-best fifth.

Langman, who has played 90 tests for the Silver Ferns and had played for the Magic for her entire professional career, said it was time for a change.

“I’ve had an amazing tenure at Magic and they will always be family for me, but I just feel it’s the right time to try something new, open a new chapter in my netball career and give my all to the Mystics,” Langman said.

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The 41-year-old van Dyk has commuted to Hamilton to train and play since moving from the Capital Shakers at the end of the 2002 season.

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The Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic have lost two key performers from their side as mid-courter Laura Langman and shooter Irene van Dyk have parted ways with the franchise.

Following the departure of longtime coach Noeline Taurua, who was replaced by Australian Julie Fitzgerald, there was always a strong possibility that senior players would move on and that reality has hit home this weekend.

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