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Facebook disgrace A targeted attack using social media has spread like wildfire, shocking many in the Ashburton community.

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■ THINK FIRST

In brief

Facebook page condemned BY MYLES HUME

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A Mid Canterbury anti-bullying advocate is condemning an Ashburton Facebook page he says victimises teenagers. Think First project co-ordinator John Hobbs, who is leading a project to crack down on bullying in Mid Canterbury, said he was “disheartened” yesterday to find a Facebook page which appears to have been opened to target a local teenager. The Guardian has chosen not to name the page out of respect to the victim of the vitriolic attack. The page received more than 400 likes yesterday, with many Ashburton teens weighing in on both sides of the debate. When advised of the page Mr Hobbs reported it to Facebook authorities. He said “there was no place for any of this in the community”, saying negative Facebook pages never ended well. “This is the kind of thing we have been trying to stop, so it is pretty disheartening to see that there’s an individual or a group who went to the trouble to take time out of their day to set something like this up that’s vindictive.” The page attracted more than 100 comments from Ashburton teens, many who were deeply

troubled by its content and concerned for the victim’s wellbeing. One person told the page administrators to “grow the hell up”, while another posted “this is so low take this off here I don’t know how people get off ripping the s*** out of people like this”. Netsafe executive director Martin Cocker said pages like this were defamatory and a civil case could be lodged. However, the Harmful Digital Communications Bill, which is set to come into effect later this year, would allow for more specific prosecution of cyberbullies such as those featured on the Ashburton Facebook page. “If people feel targeted there are organisations out there, including Netsafe, to reach out to, to help manage it.” Ashburton lawyer Jon Everist said progress had been made in prosecuting offences made using social media channels. All that is required to prove defamation is to establish who the author is and what was said was untrue and prejudicial. Mr Hobbs said it served as a timely reminder to check privacy settings on Facebook pages and to not accept friend requests of people you do not feel comfortable with.

It will be a mostly dry, sunny weekend for much of the country as spring sets in. A small low is expected to skirt northern New Zealand which could bring some clouds and a “slight risk” of showers to Auckland and surrounding areas on Saturday, WeatherWatch.co.nz said. Across Bay of Plenty temperatures look set to reach the low 20s. However Wellington and the West Coast could see some rain on Saturday but otherwise settled. The remainder of the South Island will see mostly sunny weather, but temperatures are unlikely to reach those seen in recent days. - APNZ

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Think First project co-ordinator John Hobbs is condemning a Facebook page which appeared to have been set up to target a local teen. PHOTO KIRSTY CLAY 170713-KC-041

Teen has recurring nightmares after murder in prison after he admitted being a party to that same offence. The teenagers were 15 and 14 at the time of the attack, which happened in Rotorua’s Kuirau Park. Earlier yesterday, Simon Meka Herewini, 22, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 14 years, after previously pleading guilty to murder. Rawiri James Samuel, 22, was sentenced last December to life imprisonment with a minimum

Two people in a light plane were lucky to walk away when their aircraft crashed into a paddock near Dargaville. The pilot and a passenger received minor injuries when their plane flipped while landing about 5pm on Wednesday. Dargaville Police Sergeant Nick Wilson said it appeared the pilot had flown in from the west to practise an emergency landing but stalled and flipped. When Mr Wilson arrived at the scene the two people had already gone and the plane remained upside down. - APNZ

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■ TOURIST’S MURDER

A Rotorua teenager jailed in connection with the brutal death of Polish tourist Roman Skorek has told of his recurring nightmares. William Karauna Edwards, 16, was sentenced in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday to four years and three months in jail after he previously pleaded guilty to intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to the 64-year-old in January last year. Leslie McKay Glen, 15, received two years and six months

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non-parole period of 12 years, also for murder. Justice David Collins said the group were drinking in Kuirau Park when Mr Skorek, a visitor to Rotorua, joined them. At one point Mr Skorek looked at Herewini’s crotch and later asked him to go for a walk. Samuel followed them and assaulted Mr Skorek. As Mr Skorek lay prone on the ground he was kicked and punched in the head and body by the group for about 20 min-

utes. They stole Mr Skorek’s backpack, containing a knife with a five-inch blade, leaving him unconscious in a pool of blood. They later returned and Samuel and Herewini stabbed Mr Skorek in the face and chest before Herewini cut his throat, inflicting a six-inch open wound. In court, Edwards read out a letter he had written to Mr Skorek’s daughter, saying how sorry he was. - APNZ

The illegal dumping of deadly cyanide possum bait has been condemned by Northland police as reckless and dangerous. Police and health authorities are investigating two incidents in which blue packets of cyanide paste were left on roadsides in the past two weeks. Police said the people who dumped the poison, which was “extremely toxic” to humans and animals, were reckless and appeared to have no concern for public safety. The Northland District Health Board was first notified after 150 packets were found on a road near Russell on September 21. Just over a week later, a further 58 packets were found. - APNZ

$21,500 for tourist An Australian tourist who was injured on a moving walkway at Auckland Airport has been awarded $21,500 in reparations for emotional harm and economic loss. Schindler Lifts NZ Ltd was also fined $20,000 at the Manukau District Court on Thursday. The victim suffered a fractured left hip in December last year when she stepped onto the travelator, which then started and began moving towards her rather than away from her. - APNZ

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■ EA NETWORKS CENTRE

■ DIESEL SPILL

Council considers water slide

Tongariro stream to be flushed ahead of rain

By Sue NewmaN

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It might not be a yes, but the door appears to be inching open on the prospect of Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre opening with a water slide as part of its pool furniture. At yesterday’s Ashburton District Council meeting chief executive Andrew Dalziel asked councillors whether he should prepare a business case for the water slide. He said he

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had already made some inquiries around the Hanmer Springs Thermal Pool water slides and had a good understanding of the likely issues and costs around the project. He asked if he should proceed with a business case for the project. “I’ve sat in on meetings where parties say this is gaining momentum. I haven’t done any particular work around it but I’m aware of two compa-

nies who could peer review a business case but I haven’t been given any clear direction on this.” Councillor Neil Brown agreed that the water slide was being widely talked about in the community and suggested Mr Dalziel be asked to prepare a business case for a slide to be part of the new aquatic centre. “I think the stadium trust people should do some work around this but if we’re pro-

active in this area it would be good. That doesn’t mean we’re going to build a water slide but it does mean we’ll look at the dollars around this.” The Ashburton Aquatic Park Trust is keen to have the centre open with a top level water facility in place. It has raised more than $5 million from within the community for the project and its fundraising is continuing. It believes at least $2 million will be needed for a water slide.

■ BUY NZ MADE

By Kurt Bayer Two men accused of murdering Rangiora man Tony John Lochhead in an alleged armed robbery last month have pleaded not guilty and will stand trial in a year’s time. Mr Lochhead, 51, was fatally stabbed and his brother Peter Graham Lochhead was hospitalised with injuries after an altercation at their shared home about 9.30pm on September 13. The two accused - a 36-year-old man from Rakaia and 39-year-old man from Christchurch - entered not guilty pleas at a High Court hearing in Christchurch yesterday morning. They are jointly charged with murdering Tony Lochhead, and wounding his brother Peter in the process of leaving the alleged aggravated robbery. Justice Robert Dobson granted continued name suppression for them until December 6 when it will again be reviewed. The reasons for continued suppression cannot be published. The judge told the two men in the dock that the proposed trial date is September 15 next year, which he admitted “seems a long way off ”. - APNZ

Selke Enterprises director Warrick Kemp models the classic Cheese Cutter hat in his Ashburton workshop, one of four hats he has entered in the Buy NZ Made People’s Choice Awards. Photo tetsuro MitoMo 031013-tM-023

Local products vie for awards By GaBrielle Stuart gabrielle.s@theguardian.co.nz

Voting opened this week for the first ever Buy NZ Made People’s Choice Awards, and amid the 180 iconic Kiwi products up for voting were eight made right in Mid Canterbury. Two Ashburton business have entered products in the competition, which is being held to celebrate 25 years of the Buy NZ Made campaign. Categories include Most Innovative and Most Loved, and the winning product in each category will be decided by public votes. Fourflax Ltd has entered four

of their flaxseed products for pet health in the competition, all grown and developed in the district. Director Debbie Swift said all Fourflax products came straight from the paddock to the packet, and that was part of their growing appeal both in New Zealand and internationally. “We’re involved in the whole process of creating our products, so we can guarantee that they are 100 per cent natural and 100 per cent traceable right back to the paddock where they were grown.” Selke Enterprises is a simi-

larly home-grown business, with the range of hats they have entered in the competition each handmade in Ashburton. From fisherman’s hats that doubled as a sunshade and holder for flies to dress hats designed for style, owner Warrick Kemp said the quality, design and care put into each hat was what set them apart. He wasn’t going to guess at how well they would do in the competition, but said the hats were popular with both young and old. Votes can be cast online at www.peopleschoice.org.nz, and voting closes on October 18.

Judge rules accused legally insane when flatmate stabbed Geoffrey Tampin was legally insane when he stabbed his flatmate Dean Clark to death on June 26 last year, a High Court

judge has found. In a judgement released from the Auckland High Court on Thursday, Justice David Collins

accepted the evidence of Dr Rajendra Pavagada and Professor Graham Melsop. Accordingly, Mr Tampin was

found not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the offence. - APNZ

A stream contaminated by a large diesel spill at Tongariro National Park will be flushed today ahead of rain forecast for next week. Since Wednesday, 15,000 litres of diesel have leaked from the Turoa Ski Field into the Makotuku stream - the primary tributary for Raetihi’s water supply. The town’s water supply has been shut off for at least 10 days, causing major problems for residents who are having to collect fresh water from a tanker at the Seddon Street Four Square. A boom was installed on Thursday to help contain the spill, with three more installed yesterday. However, Horizons Regional Council incident controller Craig Grant said rain forecast for next week meant the diesel would make its way down the stream too quickly. The council had decided to do a controlled flush today to allow teams to capture as much diesel residue as possible. “We believe the soil at the carpark and upper reaches of the stream still has diesel in it. By removing the contaminated soil and flushing the stream we hope to control the amount of diesel that makes its way downstream,” Mr Grant said. Teams would remove about 8 cubic metres of soil from the car park. It would be contained on-site for cleaning and would hopefully be returned to the mountain in the long-term. The holes left from the soil removal would be used as capture points for diesel residue. Any residue that escaped into the waterway would then be captured by two booms set up in calmer parts of the contaminated stream. Mr Grant said farmers who took water from the Makotuku stream were advised there may be higher levels of diesel residue today and tomorrow as the flush took place. Water in the stream already contained higher levels of hydrocarbons and people were advised to seek alternative water sources for themselves and their stock. - APNZ

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■ AMERICA’S CUP

Packed house for welcome home BY CASSANDRA MASON AND PATRICE DOUGAN The Government appears to be strengthening its resolve to back Team New Zealand in another America’s Cup bid. Thousands of fans flocked to Auckland’s waterfront yesterday to give Dean Barker and his team a warm official welcome home from their mammoth effort in San Francisco. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce welcomed the crew home in a packed event at Shed 10 by pledging Government support for Team NZ’s next America’s Cup challenge. “While you didn’t achieve everything you set out to, you did win the hearts of this nation,” he said to the thousands of fans. “Not just of our nation, but the hearts of the USA and everyone else who watched this contest.” Excitement started to brew in the crowd when Mr Joyce said he had a “special message”.

Dean Barker

“This country and this Government stands ready to be part of the next America’s Cup challenge. “As I’ve said to Grant and Dean ‘you’ve got a lot of work to do’. I said ‘work on a proposal and we’ll help you out with it’.

Mr Joyce commended the team members on their tenacity, commitment and integrity. The dignified way Dean Barker and his crew behaved in the face of such a disappointing outcome was cause for great admiration, he said. Despite the result, Team NZ had nearly pulled off a “massive upset”, Mr Joyce said. Team NZ skipper Dean Barker told the crowd he had never been so proud to be a New Zealander. “I know - and I speak for the rest of the team - we went to San Francisco to win the America’s Cup and we didn’t do that. But the messages of support, the strength of the emotion and humbling words that so many of us have received, we can never thank you enough and it definitely gives us the strength to go on.” The team knew there was a “huge amount of incredible good will” in New Zealand, but they didn’t really understand

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the extent of what was happening back home, Barker said. “But it’s really remarkable how many people have been touched and getting involved in our sport, and it makes us incredibly proud to think you have been following what we were doing. “We would have loved to have brought the cup back and have it sitting here right now, but your support has been absolutely phenomenal.” Syndicate head Grant Dalton said the support the team had received from everyone, including sponsors and the Government, had been “remarkable”. He particularly thanked the Government, saying “actually, they’re good blokes” and “really nice people”. Auckland mayor Len Brown welcomed the team back to New Zealand, saying the crew had “united us” as a nation. “We were with you on every tack, every jibe. We were leaning with you,” he said. “We’ve

all become experts on foiling, and we’ve all hated that moment when they cancelled our race too early.” TVNZ sailing commentator Peter Lester described the crew as “sailing heroes”. Fans were thrilled by the announcement that the Government was keen to help fund another challenge for the Cup. Derryn Macleod said it was “fantastic news”. “I think it’s good promotion for New Zealand’s sailing industry. It gives sailors a future, something to aspire to and it’s just incredibly good entertainment,” she said. “For little old New Zealand it’s amazing what we achieve for a small country on a worldwide scale. So in my eyes, the team won.” After the official ceremony the team walked down Queen’s Wharf past the crowds, some waving and shaking hands with fans. - APNZ

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■ EDUCATION

Bitter-sweet departure for principal BY MYLES HUME

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With the title of school principal comes a duty to the community, and when Mayfield School principal Greg Wilson departs it is that notion he will find hard to leave. The school’s teaching principal this week posted his job on the Education Gazette after recently securing a position at Nelson Intermediate as a senior teacher. When he departs at the end of the year, it will mark a bittersweet moment for Mr Wilson, his daughters Lydia-Mae, 13, Saffron, 11, and wife Lisa. “I’ve picked up a job in Nelson, I’ve been reasonably keen to move there as it’s a place where we holiday and we have got a lot of friends and family up there, so it’s a great opportunity,” Mr Wilson said. But with that excitement comes an end of a seven-anda-half year tenure that has seen him become an integral part of the Mayfield community, joining sporting teams and the Methven Lions while wife Lisa was appointed president of the Southern Netball Club.

“We have enjoyed it here, both my girls have been through the school and we have really appreciated the rural lifestyle. The kids have had the school playground in their back yard too.” When the family move their belongings out of the school house later this year, Mr Wilson hopes his replacement will build on his hard work and contribution to the school. His position as a teaching principal tasked him with “practically working two jobs”, meaning it will leave a sizable hole in the school that would need to be filled with an experienced educator with sound time management skills. “It’s been a great time here, we have a really supportive community and it’s been a pleasure to teach. The funding here is great and it is a well-resourced school. “There’s been some changes in the seven years I have been here, in particular the school is now surrounded by dairying which has changed the culture of the school.” Mr Wilson and his family drove to Nelson yesterday to visit and will move there later this year.

Mayﬁeld School principal Greg Wilson is leaving to take up a senior teaching role at Nelson Intermediate at the end of the year. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 041013-TM-009

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ously mainly assessed costs only for the construction and commercial industry - to ensure accurate rebuild costs. Insurance customers must now say how much it would cost to rebuild their property to the same standard. Previously, homes were insured for an unspecified full replacement cost. Premiums

were based on what the insurance company said a house was worth. Some firms have set up specifically to perform rebuild valuations after the changes came in. Auckland firm Sum Insured Associates offered a deal this week for $385 - a discount from the usual price of $774. Companies Office records show the

company was set up on July 4, just after insurance companies started bringing in the new requirements. The company declined to comment. Quantity surveyor Arthur Brown of Maltbys Ltd said his firm didn’t get any inquiries on residential rebuilding valuations before the rule change. I”don’t think we had any calls

at the beginning of the year, but we’re certainly noting quite a large number of calls on a weekly basis.” The executive director for the New Zealand Institute of Quantity Surveyors, John Granville, said his members had seen a rush of clients and new companies had sprouted. - APNZ

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■ EDUCATION

In brief

Smaller councils ‘more efficient’ BY MYLES HUME

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Smaller councils are more efficient in their governance of tertiary institutions, the chairman of Aoraki Polytechnic says. A little over three years ago polytechnics throughout the country were told they were to cut down their council bodies who are made up of community and institution representatives responsible for the governance of the polytechnic. This week, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce revealed he wants to do the same for uni-

versities around New Zealand, seeing them go from between 12 and 20 council members to between 8 and 12. The move has caused outrage around the country, with student associations fearing their representation around the governance table may go and along with that, their voice. Aoraki Polytechnic has a nine-strong council including acting chief executive Alex Cabrera. Chairman Kevin Cosgrove said from his experience, a smaller council allowed for more effective decision making and progress for the polytech-

nic. “It’s more effective, you have got a small bunch of experienced people on the board and that’s a lot easier to deal with, and in effect it allows for faster decision making,” he said. The Aoraki Polytechnic Council does not have a student representative, but Mr Cosgrove felt it had not silenced their voice. “It definitely hasn’t, we have been liaising with staff and students, you have to communicate well with them.” Mr Joyce made the announcement when he revealed his draft Tertiary Education Strategy in Wellington, saying it would

give “greater flexibility to universities and wananga to determine the make-up of their councils. They will be able to retain representative positions if they wish”. Methven’s Sir Graeme Harrison, also the chairman of ANZCO Foods, was recently appointed to the Lincoln University Council by Mr Joyce. However, he felt he was too early in his tenure to make comment on reducing tertiary councils. Consultation and feedback on the council body proposal will take place over the next six weeks.

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Subdivision named A new subdivision running off Allens Road will be called Allens Place. The name was the developer’s number one choice for accessing the new 15 lot subdivision that will run off Allens Road at Turton Street intersection. It is owned by Allan and Diane McCormick.

Council to close The Ashburton District Council’s offices will close form December 24 until January 6 but that doesn’t mean council services will be cancelled. Each year the council closes over the Christmas–New Year holiday period to allow its computer system to be reconfigured for the new year, but while the doors are closed it’s business as usual for many services. Calls will continue to be answered through it’s after hours service with issues forwarded on to contractors and on-call staff. The council offices will close at 1pm on December.

Funding boost Four community groups have received a funding boost through the Ashburton District Council’s biodiversity grant scheme. A total of $10,440 was given away with the Rakaia Community Association the biggest recipient at $5000. Others to receive a grant were Ashburton Conservation, $2250, Riverbridge Native Species Trust, $1000 and Staveley Campsite committee, $2190.

The Mt Hutt patrol team was out strop training yesterday, hanging out of a helicopter. These skills enable patrollers to reach people in difficult to get to spots in an emergency situation. Even an avalanche dog was in on the action during the session.

Arrests over theft A teenage girl and a man have been arrested over the theft of a cache of firearms in Hamilton this week. Police have found three of the guns which were stolen from a property on Slim St on Monday. Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Neville Ross of the Hamilton police tactical crime unit said a 16-yearold girl and a 23-year old man were arrested in relation to the burglary. - APNZ

Clariﬁcation The Guardian incorrectly reported the Ashburton Petanque Club met on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays. They actually meet Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

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■ NEW GP

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Ashburton ‘feels like home’ By GaBrielle Stuart gabrielle.s@theguardian.co.nz

There is not only medical science being practised at the Sealy Street Medical Practice this week but the finer points of economics and international trade: as they lose one GP overseas they have imported another. Dr Sion Dafydd (pronounced ‘davith’) had never set foot in New Zealand before he accepted the job at the centre, but on arriving in Ashburton this week his first impressions were that it felt like home. With just one week until Dr Rachel Norman leaves the centre for Australia, there won’t be much time for Dr Dafydd to recover from the long trip from Wales. But with a rural background and several years of experience as a GP in Cardiff, he is ready to take on the challenge. “It’s a bit of an adventure, really. I’ve always wanted to travel, so this is a perfect opportunity to see New Zealand and do a bit of work also.” His contract at the Ashburton practice is just for 10 months, but he said that that was open to re-evaluation. “The plan was that this will

The ranks of GPs at the Sealy Street Medical Practice won’t be thinned when Dr Rachel Norman leaves next week, as Welsh Dr Sion Dafydd steps in to take over the role. Photo Gabrielle Stuart 021013-GS-004

be just short-term, but everyone tells me that once you come here you never leave.” That was the case for Dr Norman, who came to Ashburton for six months and stayed for seven years. Her new role is in Surfer’s

Paradise on Australia’s Gold Coast, and she said the whole family was excited about long summers, living by the beach and, in the children’s case, the theme parks. However she is not ruling out a return to Ashburton.

“It’s been such an easy place to live and work. From the moment we moved here people were so friendly, we were instantly included and have made lifelong friends. If or when we return to New Zealand, I would love to come back to this area.”

Murderer may be out of jail in 10 years Angry scenes erupted in court yesterday after a murderer who slashed a young mother’s throat was told he could be out of jail in just 10 years. Mental health outpatient Paul Gottermeyer had already been sentenced to life imprisonment for what a judge described

Eggs laid by toxic sea slugs are the likely cause of seizures suffered by dogs walking on Auckland beaches, a marine ecologist says. At least seven dogs have become sick after walking at beaches in the eastern suburbs and the Kohimarama Veterinary Clinic this week emailed clients saying symptoms suggested the animals had eaten slug bait. However, Dr David Taylor of the Cawthron Institute said they were much more likely to have fallen victim to sea slug egg sacs. Both the slugs and sacs contain tetrodotoxin, which has been found in high concentrations on beaches in Auckland and Coromandel and was blamed for the deaths of nine dogs in 2009. - APNZ

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Toxic sea slugs?

as a “horrible attack of the utmost gravity”. On July 11 last year he knifed the woman to death in her Christchurch home before her 3-year-old daughter found her lying in a pool of blood. The girl now suffers night terrors as she relives the ordeal. It wasn’t until yesterday at the High Court in Christchurch

that the 30-year old market gardener from Kaiapoi was told that his minimum non-parole period will be 10 years. In reaching his decision, Justice John Fogarty said: “I know it’s not going to be popular with the family.” The public gallery, with about 30 family members and friends of the murdered 24-year-old,

were disgusted by the decision. Justice Fogarty reached his conclusion based on the expert opinion of three consultant forensic psychiatrists. Gottermeyer was an outpatient at Hillmorton psychiatric hospital and all of the experts concluded that he had been suffering from severe depression. - APNZ

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A moderately strong earthquake has struck close to the West Coast town of Te Anau yesterday. The 4.2 magnitude quake hit shortly after 1.30am at a depth of 15 kilometres, GeoNet reports. It was located 60km north-west of Te Anau. Meanwhile, another earthquake shook Seddon yesterday morning, reaching 3.2 on the richter scale. It struck 15km east of the upper South Island town, at a depth of 21km. - APNZ

Drugs charges A police prosecutor has appeared in court charged with using methamphetamine and cannabis. Brent William Thomson, 49, works as a prosecutor in Auckland based at the central police station. He appeared in the Waitakere District Court on Thursday on three charges - using and possessing methamphetamine and using cannabis. He was remanded on bail until his next appearance on October 17. - APNZ

Hand grenade found Army bomb disposal specialists were called to Invercargill on Thursday after a hand grenade was found by Invercargill police conducting a search warrant. Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Bowman, of Invercargill, said the search warrant was executed at an Otatara house by the Invercargill armed offenders squad and other police staff on Wednesday night. Following an examination, the squad determined it was no longer a danger. - APNZ

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Geraldine Irlen syndrome expert Sally McKerchar’s prediction there are many people battling with the little-known disability in Mid Canterbury is ringing true. In just the past two weeks, two more families have contacted Ms McKerchar, an Irlen syndrome screener, suspicious their children may have the disability that affects reading, writing, maths and ultimately selfesteem. It came after the Guardian spoke to Ms McKerchar and Heather and Hayley Steel, a mother and daughter whose lives have been changed since they were diagnosed with Irlen syndrome – a disability caused by poor development of the

megnacellular pathway, making people sensitive to light. Poor co-ordination, moving words on a page, headaches from reading and a slow reading pace are all symptoms of the disability, but it can be easily fixed by tinted glasses or coloured overlays. “I had a mother from Mt Somers who rang me up after the article and as she kept reading through she told me she was saying to herself, ‘that’s my daughter, that’s my daughter,” Ms McKerchar said. “I asked if she was prepared to travel all the way to Geraldine, and she said she would do anything she could to help her daughter, she said she had been wondering what to do until she read the article.” A boy from Geraldine has also

been screened during the past fortnight. “When I put the blue overlay over the words he said ‘wow’, how many teenage boys say that?” Ms McKerchar said she has diagnosed about 20 people with Irlen syndrome since she was given the green light to become a screener last year, saying each of her patients had become a “completely different person” when their ability to read and write had dramatically increased. “I know there are some desperate people out there who may not know they have Irlen, but if they have trouble reading it could be this and they can get in touch if they like.” Ms McKerchar can be contacted on (03) 6939101.

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Police dog Gus is up and about after surgery.

A police dog stabbed during an armed call-out near Whangarei is wagging his tail after successful surgery. Gus suffered a punctured lung after being stabbed while protecting his handler early on Thursday morning. He was flown to Auckland with his handler for emergency veterinary treatment and was expected to survive his injuries. Police reported on its Northland Police Facebook page he was happy to see his handler yesterday. “He had another little walk outside and is now waiting to get an update on his condition from the staff at the vet clinic.”

The dog’s handler thanked the public for their messages of support and said it had been “awesome and humbling to receive so much support”. Gus was injured after he and his handler were sent to an address in Parakao late on Wednesday amid reports of a 37-year-old man in an agitated state carrying a knife and possibly a gun. When police and the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) surrounded the property he stole a quadbike from a nearby house and rode off. Police followed and the chase later continued on foot. AOS, Gus and his handler tracked the man through thick bush and finally found him

about 4am, police said. The suspect then attacked, stabbing Gus and attempting to stab his handler. A struggle ensued before police managed to subdue and arrest the man. A 37-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, attempting to kill a police dog, unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and assault with a weapon. The charges were laid at a special hearing at the Whangarei Hospital. The arrested man has been remanded in custody for a psychiatric report and will appear in the Whangarei District Court later this month. - APNZ

BY ADAM BENNETT Prime Minister John Key is on the look-out for a new spymaster to advise him on internal and foreign threats. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet advertised this week to fill the newly created position of deputy chief executive Security and Intelligence for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. The successful applicant will be “responsible for the oversight of the performance of the New Zealand Intelligence Community” including both the SIS and foreign intelligence service the Government Communications and Security Bureau. Top of the list for key relationships for the successful candidate is that with Mr Key, “the role will have direct access”. The successful candidate will provide leadership and co-ordination of both the domestic and external security sector. Another important aspect of the job is representing “the national security and intelligence community in liaising with counterparts in foreign jurisdictions and utilise those relationships to identify and mitigate risks to New Zealand”. The deputy chief executive will also “co-ordinate and lead government response to specific national security events”. The job is the first top tier intelligence role to be filled since Mr Key rejected a short list of candidates for the job of new GCSB boss in late 2011 and phoned his old school friend Ian Fletcher inviting him to apply. - APNZ

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Aoraki Polytechnic hosted the Chinese Consulate (Education) on campus to explore international initiatives. Marie Ronsin, Constance Praud and their tutor Cyril Caron are spending six weeks in New Zealand as part of Aoraki Polytechnic’s Hospitality French Exchange. The students who are from Notre Dame du Roc have been joining classes, working in Starz Restaurant (on campus training restaurant), spending social time exploring

Shown right: Aoraki’s Graphics and Multimedia tutor Wayne Doyle shows some of his class project work to the Chinese Consulate.

Aoraki students design and print a range of T-shirts

The designs included such famous celebrities as John Lennon, Henry XIII, Kurt Cobain and Shakespeare. The T shirts are proving very popular with many students receiving orders to print more.

As part of the exchange Marie and Constance will complete two weeks work experience at The Hermitage, Mount Cook.

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As part of a special project, graphic design students from Aoraki Polytechnic were required to design and print a range of T shirts. The project brief was that each design show a famous dead person. After designing the final artwork, students were then required to screen print each design, model and photograph their a works and finally create a catalogue.

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Carol Moore enjoys summer on Lake Hood, where developments were aided by more than $850,000 in donations from the Trust.

Donations were made to the Vintage Railway Society towards restoration of the K88 steam train.

THE MID AND SOUTH CANTERBURY COMMUNITY TRUST: The Mid and South Canterbury Community Trust has plenty to celebrate as it reaches a 25-year milestone this year. With over $5 million donated to Ashburton organisations and projects alone, reporter Gabrielle Stuart looked into the difference the trust has made to our community today.

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The trust funded new greens for several bowling clubs.

How it works

he 12 regional Community Trusts were established by Parliament and are overseen by the Minister of Finance – but the funds they invest don’t come from our taxes. Donations from the Mid and South Canterbury Community Trust come from return on investments begun more than 40 years ago, and built on each year by continued investment of some of those earnings. The biggest portion of the investment came from the sale of shares in the Trust Bank of New Zealand, which raised $30 million and more than quadrupled the fund. One of the most important tasks of the trustees is making sure that funds continue to be wisely invested each year, in order to keep up with inflation and

build the investments for the future of the community. Community Relations Manger Clive Callow said that it was important to balance what portion of the interest each year was donated immediately and how much was invested for the future. “If too much is given in one year that will result in a lean period for several years, as the stock needs to be built up again. “The Trust relies on those investments to ensure it can be there for the community in the long term, which is what it’s really all about.” Trust chairman Peter O’Leary said that an investment hiccup wasn’t easy to recover from, and one of the ways to manage that was by making a range of investments, so as not to be left with ‘all

your eggs in one basket’. Equally challenging for the trustees was deciding where to donate the funds, as there were plenty of worthy organisations in the district that relied on the Trust for funding, he said. “It comes down to their calibre and how much they are needed in the community. We like to see how progressive the organisation is and what they are doing to grow and keep going forward themselves, because if the community is willing to get behind them with support and funding that’s a very good indicator that it is a worthwhile cause.” He said that it was also important that trustees look beyond the size of an organisation or project, as it was often the smaller groups that a donation could mean the most to.

We have had fantastic support from Mid & South Canterbury Community Trust over the years, assisting with wages for us to be able to maintain staff and helping with was the costs associated with our rebranding when we changed our name in 2011. A very helpful and supportive organisation run by community minded people. – Kathryn Raedt (Community House facilities supervisor)

History of the tr History of the Trust: 1967-Roots of what would become the Community Trust were established, when the South Canturbury Savings Bank applied to the Minister of Finance for 750 pounds to distribute in community grants. Ranging from 85 pounds to the St John Ambulance Association to 10 pounds to the Ashburton Branch of the League for the Hard of Hearing, 500 pounds in grants was distributed to the community, while

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Boy scout Logan Bartlett accepted a donation toward the build of the new Mania-O-Roto scout hall, which will serve as a hub for scout groups across the South Island.

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Sheryl Stivens helped Hampstead School students Angela Adams and Troy Baker with their class worm farm, a project supported by the trust.

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The Mid & South Canterbury Trust were one of the very early supporters to come on board with the Ashburton Stadium Complex project. In showing their support for the project they inspired confidence from the community, and were crucial to the whole success of the project.

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– Maurice Myers (Ashburton Stadium Complex Trust chairman)

The Allenton Sports Club are most appreciative of the donations they have received from Community Trust Mid & South Canterbury. Along with other supporters they made it possible to establish our artificial surface Greengauge bowling green in 2002, and recently they again helped in funding a base surface upgrade. – Lester Tarbotton (Allenton Sports Club secretary)

rust 250 pounds was set aside in a reserve fund. 1988- The regional Community Trusts were officially formed. By this time the local trust had close to $5 million invested in the reserve fund. 1996- The Trust Bank New Zealand was sold to Westpac bank. However, because the Community Trust was established by an act of parliament it could only be dissolved by one, and remained independent. Rather than sell its shares in the Trust

Bank to Westpac, the Community Trust sold the shares independently for over $30 million. By wisely investing the money, the trust received close to $3 million over the first year in interest alone. 2013- Over $21 million has been donated throughout Mid and South Canterbury, while the Trust’s investments have reached over $43 million.

he 10 community trust trustees are nominated by the community and appointed by the finance minister, and come from a range of roles and backgrounds across the district. Plenty of well-known local figures have served as trustees over the years, including former Prime Minster Jenny Shipley, former Ashburton mayor Geoff Geering and current mayor Angus McKay. Mr McKay said that the six years he spent on the trust were a great learning curve, and he loved learning more about local organisations and the work they did in the community. Donations towards the development of

Lake Hood were the hot topic of debates during his time as a trustee, as well modifying the Schools Discretionary Fund so it could be divided evenly between each child in the district. Current chairman Peter O’Leary said that each of the trustees were chosen for their knowledge of the community through active roles and service in the district. Other local faces that have served on the Mid and South Canterbury Community Trust include Cip Sparrow, the late John Srhoy, Marion Ross, Heather Sim, the late Pauline Wilson and longest-serving trustee the late Laurence Cooney.

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Two-year-old Poppy-Love Riddle found the purple princess purse of her dreams at the Kidsfest $2 market on Friday. PHOTO GABRIELLE STUART 041013-GS-002

Plenty of Methven children proved to have a keen eye for business at the Kidsfest $2 market yesterday, as both stallholders and savvy shoppers. With almost 70 kids signing up for stalls and plenty more heading down to the Methven Square to shop, it was a successful start to a week packed with Kidsfest activities. From flowers to PlayStation games, hats to scooters, there was no limit to the size or shape of the wares on offer, just on the price – nothing over $2. Although many of the stallholders spent their money as fast as they earned it, others had savings goals firmly in mind, with many aiming to raise enough to get along to Kidsfest workshops or activities next week. Six-year-old Jessica Moore proved herself a savvy toy saleswoman, with even a stuffed

donkey head amid her wares. “It used to be a ride-on horse, but we lost the stick for it. It’s still pretty useful though. If someone took the stuffing out they might use it as a puppet.” Although her sales techniques were drawing in a profit, she didn’t plan to spend any of it. “I’ll put it in my savings account.” Others proved themselves budding philanthropists. Eight-year-old Frisco Warmerdam’s bunches of tulips proved so popular at the market that he attracted a crowd, and was sold out within half an hour. And he wasn’t only a successful businessman, but a generous one, with every dollar he earned going towards a microenterprise project, building water wells in Bangladesh. Organiser Sue Duff was having almost as much fun as the children, and said the turnout was fantastic.

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Greenpeace activists T charged with piracy BY PATRICE DOUGAN Charges of piracy have been laid against 30 Greenpeace activists arrested by Russian authorities, including two New Zealanders. All crew members of the Arctic Sunrise ship, which was seized in international waters last month during a protest over drilling for oil in the Arctic, now face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Kiwi activists Jonathan Beauchamp and David Haussmann are among those facing jail. Lawyers for the environment group have lodged formal appeals in the Murmansk Lenin district court against the continued detention of the crew members, who have been dubbed ‘the Arctic 30’. A world-wide day of protest has been organised for today against the “profound injustice” of the charges, with Greenpeace calling for people to “fight against bullies”. Supporters of the activists will gather outside the Russian Embassy in Karori, Wellington, from midday today, in a picket which will also feature speeches from families of the two Kiwis held by Russian police. The mother of Mr Beauchamp, Mary Beauchamp, said the charges laid against her son “seem excessive”. “Peaceful protest is one thing, but he would never condone violence or hurtful actions in order to get the message out about the dangers of drilling for oil in such a fragile place,” she said, adding she hoped the Russian authorities would reconsider. Greenpeace international executive director Kumi Naidoo said its activists had been “accused of an imaginary offence”, and branded it a “profound injustice”. “There can be no doubt about why the charge of piracy has been brought and the legal hammer wielded,” he said.

A police ofﬁcer guards a cage with Greenpeace activist and boat mechanic Jonathon Beauchamp from New Zealand in a court room in Murmansk, Russia. AP PHOTO

“An effort is under way to intimidate us, but our peaceful passionate campaign against Gazprom and all other Arctic drillers will not be silenced.” He called on people across the world “to stand with us” against Gazprom and all oil companies who want to drill in the Arctic. Peaceful protests have been planned for more than 80 cities in 45 countries today, including a human banner on Hong Kong’s harbour, pickets at former Apartheid detention centres in South Africa, and a replica Arctic Sunrise unveiling in Madrid. It follows a week of attempts to highlight the plight of the prisoners to the global media, which saw a huge banner unfurled at a UEFA Champions

League football match sponsored by Gazprom in Switzerland, and pickets outside all of Gazprom’s filling stations in Germany. Meanwhile, Interfax News reports that Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the Russian presidential Human Rights Council, said he sees no reason to prosecute the crew of the Arctic Sunrise for piracy. He represents the council which advises Russian president Vladimir Putin on human rights issues. The 28 Greenpeace activists, a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer, were arrested following a protest against a Gazprom Arctic drilling platform, in which two people tried to climb onto the platform and hang a banner. - APNZ

Armed man arrested in Auckland BY MATTHEW BACKHOUSE A man who carried a firearm down Auckland’s Queen St on Thursday night was thrown to the ground and arrested by armed police. Amateur video of the incident, shot from a building on upper Queen St shortly after 11pm, shows traffic backed up as numerous police cars with flashing lights block the street.

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Several armed police officers can be seen in the video, with one officer taking shelter behind an open patrol car door as he trains his pistol on the offender. The video then shows the offender holding his arms on his head before being firmly pushed to the ground from behind by a police officer, who then puts the man in handcuffs. Auckland police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said police were

called by a member of the public about 11.15pm. “Somebody had noticed somebody carrying a gun, or what he thought was a gun. It wasn’t ever presented at anyone, as far as I’m aware, but he was in public place. “Police attended and located the man and took him into custody.” A man was to appear in court yesterday charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. - APNZ

here are indeed occasions in life that one feels moments of unutterable fulfilment which cannot be completely explained by words and can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. I have just finished a class with Year 9 students of St Joseph’s School who are preparing for their reception of the Catholic sacrament of confirmation, feeling fulfilled because again I experienced teaching catechesis which was my job during my early years as priest. When I was asked in the absence of our Parish Priest if I would write an article for the Christian thought for The Guardian newspaper, I thought what should I write about? I have been living in New Zealand for a year now. I arrived from the Philippines last year, September 18, 2012. Coming to New Zealand is a kind of fulfilment for me. Working for the Mid Canterbury Catholic Parish gave me a feeling of a “dream come true”. But, as I normally do, reflecting on the experiences I have had, I discover that there is something more that I long for. I still want to grow as a person; I want to meet my end purpose in life; I want fulfilment. So, I end up thinking about what it is that will really fulfil my longings and why I have these.

Fr Lito Quinones CHRISTIAN COMMENT

The more intensely we feel about an idea, the more assuredly that idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the right path to achieving it. Yet, goals are just means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. “The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it is who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfilment” (Anthony Robbins) I am sure that happiness, peace of mind and success in this journey can be available to all who make good things happen in this world, because God has endowed us all with the graces we need to reach perfection. At the end of the day, we realise that our hearts are really restless until we finally rest with that some One we call God who created us restless in this world to dream our vocation of sharing His happiness forever in Heaven. Fr Lito Quiñones is Assistant Priest, Mid Canterbury Catholic Parish

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ost people who choose to pay extra for freerange produce do so out of concern for the ethical treatment of animals, but they might be surprised to learn there is no such thing as an authorised, industry-agreed freerange standard in New Zealand. Ashburton turkey farmer Phillip Crozier has a bone to pick with an industry he says condones false advertising and refuses to put compliance standards in place for free-range poultry farming. His problem is actually with free-range turkey labelling – but he said the double standards are also endemic in both the meat and laying chicken industries – and consumers are duped into paying premium prices. Only a handful of poultry farmers are producing genuine free-range products, but under the current labelling requirements there is no way of identifying the real deal from essentially factory-farmed birds. Hens can be kept under lights, indoors in cramped conditions, and still produce eggs labelled as free range. The Ministry for Primary Industries has moved to ban the current ‘standard’ or ‘battery’ cages by 2023, but have allowed ‘colony’ farming - another type of cage. These have been touted as kinder to the birds than conventional battery systems – but this appears to be just another way to dupe consumers Mainland Poultry has consistently refused to allow the public or media access to their operations on the grounds of biosecurity, Mr Crozier said. Last year an animal advocacy group secretly filmed Mainland Poultry’s Dunedin opera-

tion, revealing up to 60 laying birds crowded into colony cages so they scarcely had room to move. “Mainland’s property looks immaculate from the outside, with lush green lawns – if hens get outside they make a mess, they scratch and make dust baths, there’s no way hens have been running free range out there,” he said. “They got away with it with laying hens for so long, they are fed inside, the water is inside, and they are kept under lights 16 hours a day. “Now they’ve extended the concept by taking laying hens out of battery cages - they put them in barns and call them free range, but they have to jump over a 60cm wall to get out-

side. “The odd one might get out but the majority won’t even realise they can – that’s not free range.” Day old chickens are allocated a

space the size of an A4 piece of paper, and a turkey poult gets the equivalent of 2.5 sheets of A4, which is okay, ac-

cording to Mr Crozier – but it stays that way throughout the bird’s life. The result is up to 15,000 hens raised in huge barns, where very few of them actually get to venture outside, and those that do certainly

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the reality is usually factory farming. Guardian chief reporter Michelle Nelson investigates.

free-range advertising Far left – Turkey farmer Phillip Crozier wants the rules around free-range poultry tightened. Left – poultry runs a ﬂock of

won’t be greeted by the lush green paddocks often featured on packaging. Within these crowded environments, it is necessary to feed antibiotics and other drugs to prevent disease outbreaks. Beak trimming – which literally involves searing part of the beak off

with hot wire, and toe amputation, also occurs out in both conventional and so-called free-range systems – to lessen the chances of stressed birds cannibalising. Even the SPCA tick is no guarantee these methods have not been used in the production of the product. These practices are not necessary in genuine free-range systems, Mr Crozier says. Crozier’s stock free-range turkeys at 500 per acre. He admits meat chickens, due to their nature, would probably not venture outside much in their short five-week lifespans in any case, but supports the concept of lib-

erty barns where they have space to move, and the opportunity to go outside. Crozier’s Turkeys on the other hand are ready to go into the paddocks at five weeks. “When you open the door they all run out,” he said. And that’s where they stay until they are slaughtered. Ozone, rather than chlorine is used to purify water supplies, and to wash the birds during processing. Where turkeys are barnraised, overcrowding means it is almost impossible for the birds to get to the exits, and those that do are often bullied back by alpha males who stand guard to assert dominance over the flock. And yet they can still carry the free-range label. Mr Crozier is critical of Poultry Industry New Zealand (PIANZ) for not taking a stance on the free-range farce – he says the industry body is pushed around by big players in the industry. “The regulations are inept – these birds are no more

free range than I’m a rocket scientist,” he said. Two big names in the Australian poultry industry have recently been found guilty of misleading consumers over the conditions in which their chickens are raised. Baiada Poultry and Bartter Enterprises – who supply Steggles branded chickens, were found to have made false, misleading and deceptive claims on

Ashburton free-range farmer Gavin Smith genuinely free-range layers.

their packaging, which stated the birds were “free to roam”. Both companies risk fines of $1.1 million per penalty. Mr Crozier would like to see the similar penalties imposed for New Zealand companies who mislead consumers. “We could have the highest standard of free-range poultry in the world, and here we are with one of the lowest levels of compliance.”

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1 – Who coaches the Mid Canterbury Rugby team? a. David Milne b. Stuart Leadley c. Glen Moore 2 - In the James Bond story, who was the Man with the Golden Gun? a. Ernst Blofeld b. Francisco Scaramanga c. Auric Goldfinger 3 – Which college is at Cambridge University? a. Kings b. Trinity c. Balliol 4 – Which country is the number one producer of coca leaf? a. Peru b. Afghanistan c. Mexico 5 – Which character does not appear in Sesame Street? a. Grover b. The Cookie Monster c. Peppa Pig 6 – New Zealand became a self-governing dominion in which year? a. 1903 b. 1907 c. 1911 7 – Which cruise ship was recently raised from the rocks where it had run aground? a. Italian Princess b. Queen of the Seas c. Costa Concordia 8 – What time does the Ashburton Library open on weekdays? a. 9am b. 9.30am c. 10am

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Victoria Talbot and Caitlin Allred work on their serve at the Mid Canterbury tennis coaching session yesterday. The midweek Twilight and Sunset Doubles competitions got under this week and the tennis season gets into full swing next Saturday with the opening weekend of the junior and open grade interclub competitions. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 041013-TM-059

Dagg out to regain magic spark BY WYNNE GRAY After the opening All Black test against France, coach Steve Hansen suggested Israel Dagg was missing the “magic bits” which made him such a dangerous fullback. He was playing solidly and delivering the aerial expertise which made him such a valuable member of the side’s back three division. However, the coach acknowledged Dagg had not clicked up another gear.

There could be many reasons. Opponents may have limited his chances, play might not have run his way or team tactics reduced his chances. Dagg is an outstanding rugby talent who is in his fourth season with the All Blacks and has competed in 33 tests. He is more naturally gifted than Mils Muliaina, has more flair than Leon MacDonald and a better all round game than Christian Cullen. But his performance and class have not yet been as broad as

Muliaina or Cullen. There are too many frayed edges which could be a sign that Dagg is trying too hard to make things happen. Kicks out on the full, carrying instead of drawing a defender and passing - they look like poor choices or an anxiety about trying to make things happen. Dagg always carries that intent. Standard catch, pass, kick routines are not rugby nectar for Israel Jamahl Akuhata Dagg, he needs more spice to fuel his rugby appetite.

Rugby is evolving with top teams reluctant to experiment and attack from inside their own half in case they concede turnovers or penalties. Dagg will be playing to instructions and the boundaries for him to “have a go” seem to have shrunk. He may also be trying a shade too hard because Ben Smith and Charles Piutau are hovering as other fullback candidates. When the All Blacks go to Europe next month does Smith go to his favoured fullback role

or will he be groomed at centre? He has to start somewhere. After eight tests this season Dagg may not have risen much on Hansen’s graph, there will still be a gap between performance and expectation, although the coach’s faith in his fullback will remain. Perhaps the shift from FNB Stadium in Soweto across the sprawling metropolis of Johannesburg to Ellis Park will provide a change of gear for Dagg as well. - NZH

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Marty Banks has been even more impressive in the ITM only a bonus point to claim the Cup. His 24 points for Tasman Rugby Championship on Sunagainst Waikato on Wednesday - By coming off the day morning and that might be bench during Manchester Unit- continued a scoring spree which a good thing considering New saw him take only five games to ed’s 1-1 draw Zealand are without a win at crack the century this season. with Shakhtar Johannesburg’s Ellis Park in 16 Donetsk on years. Their triumph in 1997 is Thursday, Ryan - He has already made two one of only three victories from Giggs set a comebacks in 11 games at the Springboks’ his glitternew record for fortress. ing basketball all-time apcareer, but pearances in - If the All Blacks do Michael Jordan the Champions League. The manage to come away with a may be primed 39-year-old surpassed Raul on rare win they might have the 144, though he could eventually for one more. experience and poise of Ma’a be caught by Barcelona’s Xavi, Former NBA Nonu and Conrad Smith to All Star Jalen who has 139. thank. The centre and second Rose predicted five-eighth will set a new world - If Manly take out the NRL that Jordan record when they take the field, grand final on Sunday, it will would play one game for his playing their 51st test together be yet another day of despair as a midfield combination. for Roosters captain Anthony Minichiello. The fullback has - Despite it being already been on the losing side a mere pre-season game, the in four grand finals and one Breakers came close to sellmore will see him become the ing out Vector Arena when first player in history with five they played the Dongguan defeats in league’s showpiece. Leopards on Thursday night. Seven thousand fans packed - With the advent of the into the downtown venue, with Australian Premier League, Auckland’s Chinese population bowls is the latest sport to join turning out in force to watch two current trends - the shortthe CBL side. ening of games and a Kiwi side competing in a trans-tasman - Otago’s winning streak competition. The Black Jacks in Twenty20 cricket came to a will be one of six teams in the close at the worst possible time, inaugural edition, in which with their first loss in 16 games matches will be two sets of five leaving them on the outer at ends. the T20 Champions League in India. With Mumbai handing - A year after becoming Perth a heavy defeat to clinch the first Buller player to score the last semifinal spot, the 100 points in a single season, Volts’ were knocked out on run rate.

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Pele goes to Hollywood The story of how Pele conquered the footballing world aged just 17 is coming to Hollywood. Filming has started in Rio de Janeiro, Seine Pictures said yesterday. The film, entitled simply Pele, “tells the wonderful story of the rise to glory of the legendary player”, said the US company, which is producing the work with Imagine Entertainment. Pele, 72, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento and nicknamed O Rei (“the King”), is widely considered the greatest player of all time, having helped Brazil to their first World Cup title in 1958 and then having triumphed again with an all-star ensemble in 1970. Brazilian singer Seu Jorge (Jorge Mario da Silva), Mexican

actor Diego Boneta and Irish screen idol Colm Meaney are in the cast for the film, which is written and directed by brothers Michael and Jeff Zimbalist. Brazilians Kevin de Paula and Leonardo Lima Carvalho play the young Pele, respectively between the ages of 13 and 17 and aged 10. Meaney will play George Raynor, who coached Sweden in the 1958 final when Pele announced his arrival as a global star. Pele, who was born in 1940 into a poor provincial family, was also in the squad which won the 1962 World Cup (although he missed much of that tournament through injury) and scored more than 1000 goals in his career. FIFA proclaimed him player of the century in 2000. - AFP

Charlotte Bobcats team this season, though the NBA would need to waive a rule preventing owners from playing for their team.

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has played a remarkable 226 consecutive netball matches for province and country since back in 2003, including an uninterrupted stretch of 92 games for the Silver Ferns since her debut in 2005. By comparison, Sean Fitzpatrick managed 51 straight rugby tests and Brendon McCullum has chalked up 77 cricket tests in a row. - APNZ

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They said it “They’ve created a monster. Frankenstein is up and running and now it’s hard to stop.” - Carlton coach MICK MALTHOUSE on the AFL’s cost-ofliving allowance, claiming it gave Sydney a leg-up in signing superstar Lance Franklin on a massive nine-year deal. * * * * “I have to admit that I really want it (the world surfing title) because my dad promised me a puppy.” - Crown contender CARISSA MOORE explains her motivation heading into the title-deciding final round of the women’s tour. * * * * “His life changed when he married the girl from the Spice Girls, yeah. And his focus changed.” - Former Manchester United manager SIR ALEX FERGUSON on David Beckham’s marriage to pop star Victoria Adams. * * * * “I don’t think I would lose ... other than to Kobe Bryant because he steals all of my moves.” - Basketball icon MICHAEL JORDAN on whether he could beat - in his prime some of the game’s greats in a one-on-one showdown. * * * * “When they said they would like to offer me a nine-year deal I couldn’t believe it, especially for somebody of my size. As you know, longevity in this game can be an issue for big blokes like me.” - With tongue firmly in cheek, GWS mascot G-MAN takes a shot at new Sydney recruit Lance Franklin after the Giants missed out on their marquee man. * * * * “I made my decision pretty much at the last minute so Sydney, to their credit, have done a good job and I’m happy to be there.” - Departing Hawthorn star LANCE FRANKLIN. * * * * “I want to apologise for any issues that I have caused and I want express my respect for my teammates, the Wallabies and the jumper.” - Wayward Wallaby JAMES O’CONNOR after agreeing to a release from the remainder of his contract with the Australian Rugby Union. * * * * “At this point we believe it’s in James’ best interests to take time and reflect on what’s important to him and what he really wants.” - Rugby WA CEO MARK SINDERBERRY. * * * * “I think the lightest I played at was something like 110 and I felt like a feather. It didn’t quite feel right.” - Manly prop GEORGE ROSE has tried doing skinny but didn’t enjoy the experience. - AAP

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Fresh from Ashburton College, Nete Caucau gets a starting berth with Mid Canterbury today. photo joseph johnson 170813-jj-017

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Ashburton College’s Nete Caucau will make his first run on start for Mid Canterbury against Thames Valley in the Heartland Rugby Championship today. The Fijian flyer played a pivotal role in leading the College 1st XV to the national top four championships this season and now gets to see if he can it foot it with the big boys. Caucau made his debut in the closing stages of the Hanan Shield victory over South Canterbury a fortnight ago, getting his hands on the ball once. He travelled to Taupo last

week, as did his fellow college team-mate Seta Koroitamana, both former Fiji under 17 representatives, but both were unable to take the field against King Country in the 32-17 win. “It was one of those games where it was that cold and blowing a gale we left the subs quite late because a lot of times you can lose momentum,” coach Glenn Moore said. “When we tried to get them on it was penalty after penalty so we couldn’t sub them on. “We tried for about eight minutes but they never got on.” Caucau gets straight on this week with Koroitamana looking

The Ashburton College senior girls’ basketball team lost to Auckland Girls’ High School 44-60 in their play-off match at the National Secondary School Championships in Palmerston North yesterday. College now face Hamilton Girls’ High School in their final match today for 19th place. They had earlier recorded two wins over their five pool games and were the unlucky ones to have drawn the bye in the quarterfinals due to the odd number of teams.

for his first cap off the bench. In the final quarter against King Country down 17-10, the Hammers came home strong scoring 22 points featuring two tries from Willie McGoon. Moore had a “gut feeling” the game would be decided in the last quarter but was banking on his side to finish strongly. “We are fitter if not as fit as all the teams and it’s a matter of having the confidence that we have the petrol in the tank.” Mid Canterbury take momentum into the match with Thames Valley, which have gone the opposite direction staring down a fourth straight loss after win-

ning their opening three games. The game kicks off at the earlier time of 1pm at the Ashburton Showgrounds. Mid Canterbury: 1 Tokulua Tolu, 2 James Carr, 3 Simon Fleetwood, 4 Grant Polson, 5 Andrew Smith, 6 Kody Nordquist, 7 Tavita Ula, 8 Jon Dampney ©, 9 Will Mackenzie, 10 Murray Williams, 11 Willie McGoon, 12 Peni Manumanuniliwa, 13 Dwayne Burrows, 14 Nete Caucau, 15 Richard Catherwood Reserves: 16 Kameka Reti, 17 TBA, 18 Mark Andrew, 19 Seta Koroitamana, 20 Davie Maw, 21 Johannes Lambrechts, 22 Josh Nonu.

The Mid Canterbury Girls suffered another hardfought loss at the Under 15 Championships in Dunedin yesterday. Mid Canterbury went down to Central Otago 1-0 after losing their to eight quarter-final to Waikato 2-1 on Thursday and now play off with Auckland, which they lost to 0-2 on Wednesday, for seventh place today. Canterbury B, featuring Mid Canterbury ex-pats Gabriella Woodman and Madi Davis, play Wellington in the final. In Christchurch at the boys’ championship, Mid Canterbury had the bye yesterday and faces North Otago today in a playoff for 13th.

Rugby The Mid Canterbury under 18s were on the end of a battering from Christchurch Metro both physically and on the scoreboard in their opening game of the South Island under 18 rugby finals in West Melton. Metro ran away with an 81-0 win and Mid Canterbury were left with a few walking wounded, losing Matthew Holmes to a broken leg and some players with concussion, leaving the side a few short ahead of their second match with Marlborough today. In Westport the Mid Canterbury under 16s went down to Nelson Bays 3-22 after trailing 3-10 at halftime, with a penalty goal to Kieran Hunt, and play South Canterbury in their last match today.

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Tough lessons in a rugby cauldron By Wynne Gray World Cup games and combat at Ellis Park are the summit of test rugby experiences, says former All Black captain Tana Umaga. He led the last All Black side to play at the Johannesburg arena, in 2004, when they were beaten 40-26 in the first year of Graham Henry’s coaching tenure. The result was disagreeable but Umaga will never forget the experience, and has pictures of himself and team-mates with former President Nelson Mandela as a souvenir. “It was awesome meeting him

and the whole occasion was very special,” he recalled. “It seemed like it was particularly crazy that day although I had seen most things and didn’t get too fazed by it. I remember talking to George Gregan later at Toulon about it and the Wallabies had met Mandela as well. “We think it was part of the Springbok plan that we got to meet this icon of the world and we were still thinking about it after we had done the haka. “It takes some players time to refocus after something like that while the crowd and the occasion lift the Springboks. “The atmosphere is something,

it is a great ploy and South Africa get so motivated by the crowd and their history.” Umaga thought the All Blacks would be well prepared for those surroundings when they return to Ellis Park for the Rugby Championship decider. They would have talked through the scenarios and listened to Keven Mealamu and Andrew Hore, who had firsthand experience of the turbulent scene in the city suburbs. “They will know how to deal with it. They have played a lot of professional rugby and they come up with strategies to deal with all sorts of things these days,”

he said. “They will talk about it and put their minds at rest about what is ahead of them.” The stadium has had some changes since the All Blacks last played there, but the players would still have to walk past a frothing horde of Springbok supporters when they disembarked from their bus for the quick walk to the changing rooms. “The only other place I know like that was at Toulon where players had to walk past screaming fans who had been banging on the bus as well,” said Umaga. “You could really feel the tension, you knew if the crowd did not want you to win.” - APNZ

Mid Canterbury missed the Meads Cup playoffs for the first time last year, leaving Wanganui as the only team to have featured in the top four every year. The Hammers are on track for a top four finish but Wanganui’s streak of playing in all seven Meads Cup finals, winning three, could be over. The Butchers are in sixth, six points adrift of the fourth placed North Otago, with the two weeks remaining. The two sides swap opponents in the final two rounds with matchups against the table-topping West Coast and second-to-last Horowhenua Kapiti, a tough road home for the coasters looking to make the top four for just the second time. Wairarapa Bush should prove too strong for a wayward East Coast to remain at the top of the table before taking on Thames Valley next week.

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Ridgey remembers the good times By Chris rattUe In his no-holds-barred manner, Matthew Ridge doesn’t miss a beat in nominating the highlight of his rugby and league career. “There’s something really special about making a grand final with your team-mates,” he says, reflecting on his golden years with the Manly Sea Eagles. “Winning a premiership is the toughest. The ups and downs, it’s a long hard slog - ask anyone who has played for his country, and they’d still say if they could win one thing, it would be a premiership. “I’ve played for the All Blacks and Kiwis, captained the Kiwis, beat Australia twice ... But winning the premiership was the best by a mile.” Manly is the club with nevergive-up written into its DNA, and it will play yet another grand final tomorrow night, against the Sydney Roosters. Ridge, a household name who lived in the headlines for many years, was among the many important authors of this n ev -

er-ending Manly script. He was the rising rugby fullback from Auckland who quit when his path to the All Blacks test team appeared blocked. Ridge took his skinny frame and muscle-bound personality to the brutal Australian league premiership and excelled from the outset. He was in the vanguard of players who set new standards in goalkicking, defence and professional attitudes. Tim Sheens, the current Australian coach, told me a story about the first time he clapped eyes on Ridge. The league newcomer had dived head first at Mal Meninga’s knees to prevent a try, something that left a big impression on Sheens, who added that he wasn’t sure if it was a sensible way to earn a living. By 1995, Manly were almost invincible, but fell at the grand final hurdle against the Canterbury Bulldogs who were boosted by a seventh tackle try. “We started arguing with the referee, lost composure,” says the 45-year-old Ridge, gazing out the window of the office that overlooks his Greenlane car grooming operation. “That was the hardest game I’ve had to lose. “I remember [All Black] Gary Whetton saying that if you lost the last test of a season, when you went to the beach it was like having a rock on your back. “You can never quite get it out of your mind. “There were guys with tears ... I didn’t cry but I was gutted. It was very emotional. “You can’t sleep properly in the week leading up to the grand final. “You worry about not letting your teammates and club down. But we let ourselves down that

Matthew Ridge: Set new standards in goalkicking, defence at professional attitudes in the NRL.

day.” Ridge pulled among the most famous of grand final moves a year later to help ensure a summer of rock-free sunbathing. But he could so easily have missed the biggest day of his footballing life. As the Super League war raged, Ridge quit the Australian Rugby League camp for the News Ltd side. Bluntly, he says it was all about money. News gave him a $300,000 sign-on, against the ARL’s $100,000 offer. After earning around $160,000 a year at Manly, he ended up on $650,000 at the Auckland Warriors. Initially caught between two camps, he resolutely - and vocally - stood down for the first part of the 1996 season, before News boss Lachlan Murdoch ordered him back into the Manly playing ranks for legal reasons. The Australian Rugby League grand final called again. Manly dominated the first half against the St George Dragons, but held only an 8-2 lead after conceding a penalty just before halftime. On the spur of the moment, Ridge acted.

Approaching the kickoff, he noticed opponents out of position and nudged a left-footed kick just over the 10-metre line, regathered, wrestled free of Nathan Brown, and set up the victory path try. “There was a lot of controversy and Nathan Brown still claims I was held in the tackle, but we both looked at the referee and he said play on,” says Ridge. “I could have looked a right knob, especially if the ball didn’t go 10 metres and they got a penalty which deflated us. “I don’t think anyone had ever tried a kickoff like that.” The rest of his club career easily fits Ridge’s black-andwhite descriptions. Manly under Bob “Bozo” Fulton’s coaching represented professionalism, blunt language and an arm around the shoulder when needed. Mistakes in training weren’t tolerated by anyone, but Fulton would sense when Ridge’s battered body needed a rest and suggest that he shoot basketball hoops instead of training. Players revelled in giving and receiving “sprays”, vocal acts that built a spirit based on sometimes pointed humour. It was a world that suited his famously brash exterior. Ridge says: “They call it bagging but it’s their humour, it builds camaraderie and it could carry a message - things like ‘hey mate, you don’t want to eat that pie ‘cos look at the size of your guts’. “But at the Warriors, you felt like you had to cuddle guys all the time. “There wasn’t enough honesty. “I couldn’t say what I wanted. It was a culture shock. So I started to change. I felt like a one-man band.” All of his good club memories lie with Manly. “If I have one regret, it was leaving Manly. I could have been a one-club player,” he says. - NZH

Cameron Smith (left) won’t be holding up the NRL trophy this year, last season’s champions the Melbourne Storm lost in a huge upset to Wayne Bennett’s Newcastle Knights in the ﬁnals series.

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In brief New look for NBL Basketball Australia and the National Basketball League have finalised their de-merger just a week out from the 2013/2014 season opener. The newly-formed independent NBL has now taken full control of the league and its brand after the split was officially ratified in Sydney yesterday. Friday’s formalities capped off several months of negotiations and NBL interim chief executive Stephen Dunn said it marked a new era for professional basketball in Australia. - AAP

Cards rout Pirates St. Louis crushed Pittsburgh 9-1 to launch their Major League Baseball playoff campaign with an emphatic win yesterday. Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright struck out nine and allowed just three hits in the opening game of the first round playoff series. “To be able to get out on a good first step and play well today, I think is big for our guys confidencewise,” said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny. Central Division champs St. Louis scored seven runs in the bottom of the third inning in which eight straight runners reached base in front of a crowd of 45,693 at Busch Stadium. - AFP

Stoner tests Hondas Retired MotoGP champion Casey Stoner has impressed his former team bosses at Honda with flying runs aboard the manufacturer’s new production bike during testing in Japan. Poor weather hampered the opening day of Stoner’s return to Motegi Circuit, but the Australian managed to squeeze in some hot laps on the world championshipwinning RC213V yesterday. He also rode Honda’s production racer for the first time, clocking average speeds worthy of the much pricier and refined RC213V. Honda is developing the track-only production bike to allow teams and riders to race in MotoGP next year with a reasonable budget. - AAP

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Just another day for super-coach By Jonathan Leask

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Joyce Read has had a busy few weeks planning the Festival of Hockey that starts in Ashburton tomorrow, the latest in long line of hockey tournaments. Mid Canterbury junior convenor James Tavendale was coached by Read in his primary days and described her as a “bit of a legend” and it’s easy to see why. Read has been in charge of “one team or another” for 43 years. “I’m not sure if is about being a keen volunteer or darn stupid but it keeps you young. “You just keep doing it and you get a lot out of it because the kids are always great.” Read first got involved with junior hockey when she put her hand up to take a Rokeby School team back in 1971, before getting involved with the representative teams. Over the years she has coached the likes of Tavendale, Skip Muir and Mark Bennett to name but a few from the early days of her almost three decades of junior hockey teams. Ryan Hampton was in her 2009 Hatch Cup team and made his senior debut this year, which could be the same path for her

Joyce Read (right) with some of her past, present and future hockey players (from left) Paddy Dekker, Luke Bennett, Mark Bennett, Jed Cameron, Zane Cameron, Ryan Hampton and Skip Muir. Photo tetsuro MitoMo 041013-tM-046

current crop of players, with Read in charge of the development boys earlier this year some of who will feature for Mid Canterbury B when the Festival of Hockey begins tomorrow.

The second tier primary tournament is for South Island B teams and districts not entering the Collier Trophy or Hatch Cup tournaments. Nine teams have entered the

three day boys’ tournament while the girls’ tournament, which begins on Wednesday, has 13 teams, making for a busy week at the turf. Nothing new for Read.

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Breakers hoping to broaden horizons By kris shannon

Man U back to basics Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic has told teammates to get back to basics as they bid to ease pressure on David Moyes at Sunderland in the English Premier League. Under-fire Moyes has endured a bumpy first-season beginning, with United slumping to 12th on the table after their worst start since 1989. Defeats at Liverpool and Manchester City had alarm bells ringing among United fans, concerned Moyes won’t be able to emulate Alex Ferguson’s glorious reign, and last weekend’s 2-1 loss to West Bromwich Albion sparked disapproval from the Old Trafford crowd. Serbian defender Vidic acknowledges United have been well below their best, and believes his defence must provide a solid foundation to allow Moyes’ men to get back on track against the winless Sunderland. - AFP

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Thomas Abercrombie is a vital cog in the Breakers machine as it chases title number four.

They have conquered Australia and now the Breakers may attempt to extend their empire into Asia. The Breakers begin their quest to continue their reign atop the Australian NBL when the new campaign tips off on Thursday, but the defending champions are also looking to broaden their horizons. With a sizeable Chinese contingent among the 7000 fans that flocked to Vector Arena for Thursday’s preseason game against the Dongguan Leopards, the Breakers’ brass saw a vivid illustration of an opportunity available in that community. But it’s one of which they were well aware, and one they hope to enhance with further links to Chinese basketball. The preseason series against Dongguan was an encouraging start, with local Chinese media out in force and a Mandarinspeaking announcer encouraging the crowd in chants, but the Breakers want more. A four-team competition be-

tween the top sides from Australia and the front runners in the Chinese Basketball Association has long been mooted, while Dongguan coach Brian Goorjian had more grandiose designs. “We’ve kind of talked about it,” said Breakers coach Dean Vickerman. “(General manager) Richard [Clarke] has spoken about the prospect of the top two CBA teams and the top two NBL teams, and it was looking like it was going to happen after this last championship. It hasn’t moved that way yet, but certainly you’d love the opportunity just to compare your league to other leagues around the world.” That opportunity could pit the Breakers against the likes of former NBA All Stars Gilbert Arenas and Stephon Marbury, who both ply their trade in the cashrich league. But Goorjian hoped the intercontinental action wouldn’t be limited to just the two leagues. The former Boomers coach had previously tried to align the Australian league with China when he was in charge of the Sydney Kings and, now on

the other side of the ledger, he doesn’t want to stop there. “When I left Australia, I realised Korea, the Philippines, Japan - basketball is huge [in Asia],” he said. “So you take a couple of teams from here, a couple of teams from Korea, a couple from China, a couple from the Philippines, and one year you play it in Beijing, one year you play it in New Zealand. You have a Champions Cup and put some money in that, I think that would be great for Australian basketball.” It’s a concept that has long been successful in European football, while cricket’s Twenty20 Champions League is growing in traction. Basketball in this part of the world has some way to go before it can reach those levels, but Goorjian sees the potential. “The Chinese love basketball it’s the No 1 team sport,” he said. “On Thursday I looked around and saw a lot of Chinese faces. You put the crowd that [the Breakers have] right now, get some Chinese sponsorship and throw 2-3000 Chinese people into these games, now you’ve got something really happening.” - APNZ

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In brief Johns makes his mark Manly five-eighth Kieran Foran credits Andrew Johns with adding the polish that has the Sea Eagles on the cusp on premiership glory and NRL domination. Foran describes working with Johns, who he considers the greatest rugby league player of alltime, as “outrageous”. And he says he and fellow half Daly CherryEvans have taken their games to a new level since the club secured exclusive use of the legendary halfback’s services this season. Prior to that Johns acted as a coaching consultant for several clubs, but his extended sessions have transformed potential into class, elevating the Manly pair to rank amongst the best playmaking combinations in the game. - AAP

Mortimer’s new year By kick off in last year’s NRL grand final, Sydney Roosters utility Daniel Mortimer was tucking into a beer to celebrate a memorable second-tier premiership. He’d captained the Newtown Jets to a 22-18 victory over Balmain, and was deep in celebrations by the time Melbourne and Canterbury took the field. It was the perfect end to a season that had frustrated the talented utility - and led to his asking Roosters coach Trent Robinson for a release from his contract before the pair had even met. He stayed, and that’s what makes Sunday’s decider against Manly so special for the 24-year-old. - AAP

Symonds revved up When Luke O’Donnell walked into training on the eve of the 2013 NRL season, Tom Symonds knew his time at the Sydney Roosters was up. Red-headed back-rower Symonds drew comparisons with Roosters great Craig Fitzgibbon, but injuries limited him to just 27 games in four years, and the arrival of Sonny Bill meant he’d have his work cut out getting into the side. He sought out coach Trent Robinson and was told he could leave. So when Manly came knocking, Symonds jumped and on Sunday he gets the chance to show the Roosters what they’re missing in the grand final. “A year ago if you’d have asked I wouldn’t haven’t envisaged this situation,” Symonds said. -AAP

History for Toovey? He wasn’t even among the four nominated for the Dally M coach of the year award but Geoff Toovey is now on the cusp of becoming only the fifth man to captain and coach the same club to an NRL premiership. Thrust into the Manly hot seat after Des Hasler’s acrimonious departure in the wake of the 2011 grand final, Toovey’s not only risen to the challenge of replacing a two-time premiership winner, but also deal with a boardroom that’s seen more fractures than an x-ray machine. Victory over the Sydney Roosters on Sunday would etch Toovey’s name in the record books alongside Sea Eagles legend Bob Fulton. - AAP

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Kiwis set to fly in grand BY MICHAEL BROWN Nine Kiwis - six Roosters, three Sea Eagles - will line up for Sunday’s NRL grand final, the highest number of any excluding those featuring the Warriors. In 1998, the first year of the NRL, only Daryl Halligan flew the New Zealand flag, although Brad Thorn went on to play for the All Blacks and Tonie Carroll had trouble deciding if he was a Kiwi or Australian. What makes the final even more exciting is the fact this year’s batch of New Zealanders are also players of considerable influence and the likes of Sonny Bill Williams, Kieran Foran, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck could have a major say on who wins. It’s hoped this trend continues, but the statistics support the growing Kiwi influence. The number of Polynesians in-

volved in the NRL is estimated to be around 30 per cent. This number increases to 40 per cent in the under-20s competition and a large proportion of them are eligible to play for New Zealand. Less than a decade ago, Brian McClennan had as little as 45 NRL players to select his Kiwis squad from, and it was often a case of picking who was available. On Tuesday, present coach Stephen Kearney has a difficult task telling some very good players they have missed out on a place in the World Cup squad. NRL clubs are tripping over themselves to sign New Zealand talent and each club has scouts in Auckland this week to scan their eye over the national 15s tournament as well as the New Zealand Residents 16s and 18s sides. It was the same last month for the national secondary schools championships. “It’s madness, to be fair, because

every club is there looking at our kids,” NZRL high performance manager Tony Iro said. “There are some really talented youngsters in that [15s] age group. “We aren’t going to go away and I think there’s a recognition from the NRL of our growing influence and they are really keen on working with us to make sure the game is developed on both sides [of the Tasman].” What will help New Zealand’s cause are new rules around State of Origin eligibility, which sees players eligible for NSW or Queensland only if they lived in that state before their 13th birthday or were the son of an Origin player. International rules are still fairly loose and there are a number of Kiwis who hold dual eligibility. Among Sunday’s

SBW the go-to man BY BEN HORNE Russell Fairfax reckons two things stand out when he compares modern day great Sonny Bill Williams to his Roosters’ premiershipwinning team-mate from the 1970s Artie Beetson. Firstly, Big Artie wobbled in contrast to the streamlined figure of supreme athlete SBW. But more importantly in the context of grand final week, Fairfax believes the Roosters’ don’t give Williams the support play that Beetson was afforded by those outside him in yesteryear. Fairfax rates Williams as the club’s best ball-player since Beetson, but says the Roosters can utilise the dual international better in Sunday’s grand final against Manly at ANZ Stadium. Williams has been a weapon for the Roosters on the right and through the middle, but Fairfax says he can do more. The former Roosters fullback and coach said Beetson was always given an array of options when he ran the football, and he believes Williams’ talents deserve the same treatment. “He needs more runners, he’s only ever got the one option,” Fairfax said. “With Beetson you never only gave him one option. You let the man do his stuff and he might slip the quick one or get held up and push away from a few people and get that one a few seconds later. “There’s not enough runners from the Roosters players. “They’ve only scratched the surface in terms of his value to the Roosters. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more come from him on the weekend. “I’m sure the coach would be working on that. (Trent Robinson) is a good coach and

he’d realise there’s a bit more to come from Sonny Bill.” Given many are tipping this could be Williams’ farewell to the NRL before a move back to rugby union and the All Blacks, there’s no doubt the Roosters will want to maximise every match-winning quality they can from their marquee man on grand final day. Fairfax was a rugby international before he made it big in league and understands the lures drawing Williams back to the 15-a-side game. He hopes the Roosters hold on to the powerful second rower, but believes the prospect of playing in the 2015 World Cup and potentially the 2016 Rio Olympic Games for New Zealand will prove too tempting. However, in a short space of time, Fairfax says Williams has made an impact on the Roosters not too dissimilar to rugby league immortal Beetson. “They both bring something to this side that’s invaluable and that lifts teams. They’re inspirational,” Fairfax said. “He’s nothing like Artie ... he’s the ultimate athlete Sonny Bill - the physique, the training methods and all that. Artie was a bit more on the heavy side, not quite as quick and he had plenty of late nights ... but he still had incredible talent.” - AAP

finalists, former Kiwis centre Ste ve Matai will play for Samoa at the World Cup and Sam Moa will turn out for Tonga and Frank-Pau Nuuausala for Samoa, if they do miss out on the Kiwis World Cup squad. Tuivasa-Sheck was also born in Samoa but is a certainty to make the Kiwis Cup squad and Wil liams could also play for either New Zealand or Samoa

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Ridgey remembers the good times BY CHRIS RATTUE In his no-holds-barred manner, Matthew Ridge doesn’t miss a beat in nominating the highlight of his rugby and league career. “There’s something really special about making a grand final with your team-mates,” he says, reflecting on his golden years with the Manly Sea Eagles. “Winning a premiership is the toughest. The ups and downs, it’s a long hard slog - ask anyone who has played for his country, and they’d still say if they could win one thing, it would be a premiership. “I’ve played for the All Blacks and Kiwis, captained the Kiwis, beat Australia twice ... But winning the premiership was the best by a mile.” Manly is the club with nevergive-up written into its DNA, and it will play yet another grand final tomorrow night, against the Sydney Roosters. Ridge, a household name who lived in the headlines for many years, was among the many important authors of this n ev -

Matthew Ridge: Set new standards in goalkicking, defence at professional attitudes in the NRL.

Cameron Smith (left) won’t be holding up the NRL trophy this year, last season’s champions the Melbourne Storm lost in a huge upset to Wayne Bennett’s Newcastle Knights in the ﬁnals series.

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■ HOCKEY

Just another day for super-coach By Jonathan Leask

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current crop of players, with Read in charge of the development boys earlier this year some of who will feature for Mid Canterbury B when the Festival of Hockey begins tomorrow.

The second tier primary tournament is for South Island B teams and districts not entering the Collier Trophy or Hatch Cup tournaments. Nine teams have entered the

three day boys’ tournament while the girls’ tournament, which begins on Wednesday, has 13 teams, making for a busy week at the turf. Nothing new for Read.

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Breakers hoping to broaden horizons By kris shannon

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Thomas Abercrombie is a vital cog in the Breakers machine as it chases title number four.

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In brief First blood to US

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Adam Scott says the International team can take a huge boost after proving doomsayers wrong with a stirring first day fightback against the powerhouse Americans in golf’s Presidents Cup. Written off by many from the outset, rookie captain Nick Price’s Internationals looked headed for widely predicted oblivion early before mounting a stirring fightback to trail by just 3.5 to 2.5 after the opening four-ball session yesterday. While behind, the rally means it’s the Internationals who take momentum into day two. - AAP

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Confidence high in primary boys’ camp By Jonathan Leask

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The Hatch Cup Primary Boys’ National Hockey Tournament hasn’t been a happy hunting ground for the Mid Canterbury in recent years, something they hope to change in Hamilton this year. Mid Canterbury has finished at the back end tournament for the past few years, going winless last year and only scoring the one goal in their final match. This year coach Stephen Mealings hopes to change that. By Jonathan Leask

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Mid Canterbury aren’t aiming to win the Collier Trophy Primary A Girls’ National Hockey Tournament, they are just looking to get some wins in Wellington. Last year’s tournament was an exercise in agony as a win eluded Mid Canterbury, with a goalless draw against Otago to finishfollowing three one goal losses in a winless five days. That was an inexperienced side and 10 of the players have returned for a second crack this year. “We didn’t have any win last year but the girls still enjoyed it even though we went very successful score-wise,” coach Nathan Busch said. “We are looking to change that this year.” The experience from last year will help and Busch has worked hard to address a key area to turn things around. “I think it’s a Mid Canterbury thing not being able to score goals and we have been trying to change that. Try to create enough space and opportunities to score goals are the big thing.

“We aim to get up into the middle level where we should be competitive,” Mealings said. To achieve that starts with winning in pool play. Mid Canterbury are in pool B where they meet the second seeds North Harbour on Monday morning and then Otago in the afternoon. They meet Manawatu on Tuesday and complete pool play against Counties Manukau and Wairarapa on Wednesday before entering cross-over play on Thursday. “Harbour will be a big test and “From where started at the start of the season to where we are at now has been a huge improvement.” Mid Canterbury are in pool C and meet Waikato in their opening game on Monday morning and then Eastern Southland in the late round. Last year Mid Canterbury met Waikato in their opener and lost by a few goals but went on to finish 23rd and Waikato thirdshowing just how tough it can be. “I’m reasonably happy with the pool that we have got. We have played Central Otago and Eastern Southland. I’m just not sure on Tauranga and Hawkes Bay and how strong they will be but we’ll find out when we get up there.” Mid Canterbury Primary A Girls’ team: Tayla Love, Taylor MacKenzie, Hayley Riordan, Lucy Moore, Britney Moore, Kate O’Reilly, Emma Warmerdam, Jaidyn Busch, Kate Donald, Kate Brady, Hannah McDougall, Abby Brownlie, Erin ConnellyWhyte, Marika Mellish, Zoe Aschen.

will show the boys what level we are up against.” Mealings said the team will target the matches against Otago and Manawatu for wins while the other two sides are unknown quantities. The team, that features a core of players who experienced the tournament last year, will head into the tournament confident of being competitive after a nine-game build up over the past few weeks, with three wins two draws and four losses. “We only lost to Canterbury

A 4-1 so the boys are gelling together nicely and doing quite well. They are all doing their job and have all stepped up. “We’ve got the ability and belief so it’s just a matter of putting it out there in each game.” #Mid Canterbury Primary A boys’ team: Simon Mealings, Harrison Davies, Matthew Harford, Tim Harford, Angus Haugh, Laurie Carter, Michael Baker, Daniel Baker, Ryan Bradley, Jeremy Eaton, Kaleb Small, Brendon Johnson, Jacob Gray, William Wallis, Zac White.

Ashes hopefuls on Australia’s one-day international tour of India have been assured good form there will count for as much their rivals’ success in Sheffield Shield at home. The 14-man party depart for the four-week today, with captain George Bailey adamant those hoping to be selected for the Ashes series starting at the Gabba on November 21 need not fear despite missing the start of the Shield season. That point was stressed by coach Darren Lehmann and national selector John Inverarity this week. - AAP

Roddick v Djokovic Retired American tennis player Andy Roddick has lifted the lid on his feud with world No.1 Novak Djokovic, revealing the two players almost came to blows in a locker room bust-up. Roddick said he pinned Djokovic up against a locker in the US Open locker room after Djokovic “beat the pants off him” in a match between the two at the final major championship of the ATP tennis season. - AFP

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Wellington to Australia flights cut Air New Zealand has confirmed it is cutting back its services between Wellington and Australia, a move which is expected to deliver a blow to the capital’s economy. The airline would drop one return flight per week from Wellington to Sydney in January, and in February it would reduce its daily return flight to Melbourne from seven days a week to six, Air NZ spokesman Andrew Aitken said. Flights to Brisbane are under review. The news comes not long after Air NZ said it was cutting flights between Auckland and Masterton, and between Wellington and Wanganui. The cuts were made because of “soft passenger demand”as flights from Australia into Wellington had on average five per cent fewer passengers than trans-Tasman flights into Auckland or Christchurch, Mr Aitken said. However, the changes would not affect jobs, and the airline would restore the flights if the demand grew. Mayoral candidate John Morrison said the news was a “body blow” to Wellington’s already sluggish economy. “How can we rebuild the Wellington economy when the national airline carrier doesn’t have confidence in the nation’s capital? What message does that send out to businesses, tourists and overseas students?” The reductions would also compromise the airport’s plans to extend its runway to secure more long-haul flights. “We need to step up the pace, otherwise we’re in danger of becoming a backwater. We’re talking about extending the runway and here we are, our very own national carrier is reducing services,” Mr Morrison said. “It is another example of an Auckland vortex dragging everything it can from the rest of NZ and it seemed Air NZ wanted to intensify the Auckland and Christchurch hubs at Wellington’s expense.” - APNZ

Georgie Pie by Christmas By GaBrielle Stuart gabrielle.s@theguardian.co.nz

Fruity mince pies won’t be the only kind being baked in time for Christmas in Mid Canterbury this year, as McDonald’s Ashburton prepares to bring back the iconic Georgie Pie this December. The Ashburton branch will be the first in Canterbury to sell the classic Steak Mince ‘N’ Cheese pies, and with pies baked fresh in the restaurant

every day that involves installing special ovens as well as extra training for staff. The distinctive square pies were launched in 11 North Island restaurants in May this year, with the only change to the original Georgie Pie recipe the removal of MSG. After initial batches sold out and demand continued to grow for the pies, the franchise announced plans yesterday to roll them out across the coun-

try, installing pie ovens in 107 branches around the country by the end of the year. McDonald’s NZ managing director Patrick Wilson said that the Georgie Pie brand evoked a lot of passion for Kiwis. “The pilot indicates people have tried the pie, and then come back for more. “It’s been great to see customers familiar with the brand, and those who never

had the opportunity to try Georgie Pie before, enjoy the product.” McDonald’s Ashburton manager Dave Whalley said that the branch had already been measured up for the pie ovens, and all the equipment for cooking the pies would be made in Canterbury. The Steak Mince ‘N’ Cheese Georgie Pie will be available in Ashburton from mid-December.

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Rise in number of job vacancies advertised By Ben Chapman-Smith The number of job vacancies advertised on the Trade Me website rose by nearly 10 per cent in the last quarter, led by growth in marketing, media and communications roles. People in IT-related positions are currently the highest earners in the country and Wellington has topped the regions for the best average rate of pay. Trade Me Jobs yesterday released data for the July to September period, showing the number of job listings increased 9.6 per cent from the second quarter. Compared to the same three-month period last year, job advertisement numbers rose 9.8 per cent. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released data last month showing total online job ads had in-

creased by 6.3 per cent in the year to August. “We’re becoming confident that the buoyancy in the Kiwi job market isn’t a temporary affair,” said Peter Osborne, head of Trade Me Jobs. “It reflects an increasing confidence as employers look to boost investment in new staff.” Trade Me also provided figures from its website yesterday about which regions offered the highest average rates of pay for full-time workers. Wellington came out on top with an average of $73,444 per annum, followed by Auckland City ($73,193) and New Plymouth ($60,017). The lowest average pay was in Horowhenua ($43,140) and Waimakariri ($45,789). The number of roles in marketing, media and communications have risen 18.8 per cent

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compared to a year ago and 31.6 per cent from the previous quarter. “An increased appetite for designers is the big driver here, not to mention the salaries on offer for these positions,” Osborne said. Other strong performing sectors in the third quarter were construction and architecture, government and council, and HR and recruitment. Osborne said pay in the IT sector had continued to climb, pushing other traditionally prominent professions further down the salary food chain. “When Trade Me Jobs first ran its salary survey, doctors and medical specialists were taking home the highest pay packets. Now they’re barely hanging on in the top five, due to consistent increases in rockstar IT salaries,” he said.

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An ugly situation Michelle Nelson CHIEF REPORTER

nce again the subject of bullying has reared its ugly head, hiding behind the anonymity of social media. Yesterday, someone launched a vitriolic Facebook page (which the Guardian has chosen not to name out of concern for the apparent victim of the attack). Of huge concern is just how quickly this disgusting site was able to do its dirty work, and how readily others became embroiled in the drama. No matter how aggrieved we might be, social media is not the place to vent. Once a comment is out in cyber space it is there forever – harmful for both the victim and the perpetrator. These things can easily return to haunt you; future employment options can be severely limited by entering into such behaviour, with an increasing number of companies trolling cyberspace to ascertain the character of applicants. It’s all well and good to pull the youth excuse out of the hat, but your children and even your grandchildren will be able to read your past like a diary – but one which can never be hidden or destroyed. And there could well be serious consequences; a young woman’s name and reputation has been dragged through the mud – which is no doubt what the founder of the page intended – but instances of people harming themselves as a result of cyber bullying are well documented. The Harmful Digital Communications Bill, due to become law in the next few weeks, will assist the long arm of the law to specifically target and prosecute cyber bullies. As the law stands now the Defamation Act offers some protection to victims – all that’s required to prove defamation is to identify the author and prove the point. With a digital fingerprint leading right to the culprit’s door, that would be fairly easy. Those responsible may yet find themselves named and shamed in courts and newspapers, with criminal records limiting their options when it comes to work and play, overseas travel plans could be stymied and in the worst-case scenarios they could end up with blood on their hands. Everyone would be well advised to consider their options long and hard before passing judgment in the ether.

YOUR VIEW Firefighter call-outs After reading the article in Thursday’s Guardian about firefighter call-outs I just wish to clarify a point. I was involved in the 1-2am call-out that was a bee sting. Following a bee sting to the eye in the late evening I was woken in the early hours to my husband having had a severe reaction with a badly swollen and numb face. I followed the correct procedure and spoke to a registered nurse on the national afterhour’s phone line. After going through checklist of questions I was advised to phone the ambulance to have him checked and monitored in case of an impending anaphylactic attack. I phoned the ambulance and at no point was the fire ser-

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vice mentioned. It was a great shock to both my husband and I and, also the ambulance crew, who were already in attendance, when the doorbell rang and were greeted by the lovely fire crew from Ashburton. This was discussed and deemed to be a fault in the emergency service system and the fire service guys all went home to their beds. We fully support the efforts put in by all the volunteers out there and at no time were we “abusing the service” as quoted in the article. We understand Mr Baker was probably trying to make a point – but he chose the wrong callout to try and do this. Lisa Norrie

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Rest Home & Hospital Retirement Village residents we would like to thank The Little Theatre Company for such a lively presentation of Aladdin & His Junior. Lots of dancing, vibrant costumes, strong singing and acting with a passion. They certainly had us spellbound from start to finish. Well done to the performers and as for the moving carpet, well, you have to see it to believe it. May, Margaret, Arthur, Heather, Evelyn and Bernice Laird (activities co-ordinator)

Fruit for all Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the council planted community fruit trees? Deirdre Moses (Text message)

Vote, vote, vote I am responding to the negative letter earlier in the week which said don’t vote for three councillors. There are many, many thousands of positive voters, like myself, who may well feel they should not vote for Angus McKay. He has made it very clear to us all that he can be negative and votes against progress. Do we want this attitude in our council? Finally come on Ashburton, whoever you support, just put the pen to the paper and vote, vote, vote! Fifty per cent is a poor election turn-out let’s do much better! (Text message)

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ocal body elections are under way, and a visit to Auckland revealed that in the big smoke the top agenda issues are just as contentious as any new Ashburton build. Auckland has enough bridges and tunnels to mean that any NIMBY calls drown each other out and leave another issue to take the limelight. I touched down to the fiercest grassroots dispute the city has seen in decades: The Battle of the Berms. The council recently stopped mowing the grassy fringes in the inner city, and the change is not going down well. It’s something I hadn’t really thought that much about before seeing the headlines on every corner of Queen Street. Forget roading, the RMA and international politics, these days the grass is all everyone is talking about. A quick stroll through any suburban neighbourhood in my home town reveals that the division lines have been drawn: half a grass verge clipped down to a number two, the other half left to toss its pollen to the wind, an instant badge of the time to house proud ratio of any given residence. This gives me new appreciation for both the care taken in Mid Canterbury and the average size of the yards in both north and south. Down south the dream of the quarter acre section has not disappeared and a mower, rake and spade remain essential implements for any household. The number of retired farm machines with ride-on capabilities, such as the machine that lives next door to us, means

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that communal grass is buzz cut with military precision, no civic intervention required. The prevalence of ride-on mowers is not so high in the big smoke, particularly in suburbs with high-density housing where no-one has any grass to mow. Those who do have a yard often face the logistical issues of living down a shared driveway. Our old flatmates have a Flymo for their modest square of foliage, but lack the abundance of extension cords required to reach past the four other houses and out to the side of the road. Their berm currently remains wild and free, much to

the chagrin of certain council candidates. As Aucklanders have just found out, now’s the time to ask the difficult questions of those standing for election. Prospective councillors’ positions on infrastructure, amenities, consents and recommended height of grass verges all come into play. As for me, I’ll come back down south with both a new appreciation for the work of our neighbours’ regular ride-on mower and a renewed interest in the issues facing my current electorate. The grass is always greener in retrospect, so I will make sure to read my own local voting papers very carefully.

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In brief Abuse hearings on again Survivors of child sex abuse in Australian institutions will be able tell their tales during Royal Commission hearings in Melbourne and Perth next week. Commissioners will be in Melbourne from Monday for more face-to-face private sessions with abuse survivors, and from Tuesday in Perth. Royal Commission chief executive officer Janette Dines says the private sessions are helping the commissioners understand the extent of child sex abuse inside the nation’s institutions. “We know that for many of the victims sharing their story with the commission is very hard. But, equally, the opportunity to tell their story has proved beneficial for many,” she said. - AAP

Unrest in Kenya Gunmen in Kenya have killed four people including a Muslim cleric in a drive-by shooting, police say, an attack likely to inflame tensions in the key port city of Mombasa. Radical preachers have said the killing was an “execution” by the police, claims the force has denied. Slain cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail was viewed as the successor to Aboud Rogo Mohammed, a controversial preacher accused of links to Somalia’s al-Shabab insurgents, who was himself assassinated in a similar driveby shooting in August 2012. Rogo’s killing sparked days of deadly rioting in Mombasa, with protesters accusing security forces of carrying out the killing, claims they denied. - AFP

Boat talks continue Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has denied there will be any change to Australia’s tough border protection policies as high-level talks continue with Indonesia on ways to combat asylum-seeker boats and people smuggling. Mr Morrison said reports suggesting a softening in the coalition’s plans following Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s visit to Jakarta this week were incorrect. “There is no change to the government’s policy on border protection,” he told reporters in Sydney yesterday. “Our resolve, our policies, our commitments to the task remain as strong and are indeed stronger than ever before.” - AAP

French-Italian lynched A European lynched by a mob in Madagascar, who also killed a French citizen and a local man, had an Italian passport, district chief Malaza Ramanamahafahy says. The three men were killed and burnt in a day-long rampage on Thursday on the tourist island of Nosy Be by residents who suspected them of murdering a young boy for his organs. “I saw his passport, he has Italian citizenship,” Ramanamahafahy said yesterday, adding the man’s visa had expired. Nosy Be lies just off the northern tip of the vast Indian Ocean island. Gory pictures taken after the lynching showed a mound of ash, wood and iron bars, with a torso and pair of charred legs the only recognisable remains. Hours later in a nearby suburb, a Malagasy was also killed, as mobs of hundreds roamed the streets setting fires.

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Turkey ‘will pay dearly’ Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned Turkey it will “pay dearly” for supporting rebels fighting to overthrow his regime, in an interview broadcast on Turkish television. “In the near future these terrorists will have an impact on Turkey. And Turkey will pay very dearly for its contribution,” Assad told the opposition station Halk TV yesterday. He was being interviewed over the presence of al-Qaedalinked rebels on the long and volatile border between the two nations. There are several hardline Islamist groups among the numerous rebel formations fighting in Syria. “It is not possible to use terrorism as a card and put it in your pocket. Because it is like a scorpion which won’t hesitate to sting you at any moment,” said Assad. Relations between once close allies Damascus and Ankara have deteriorated since a popular uprising which began in March 2011 in Syria snowballed into a full-blown conflict that has claimed more than 115,000 lives and forced millions to flee. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamicrooted conservative government has become one of the most fervent supporters of the Syrian rebellion. “All that he says about Syria and its people is a heap of lies, that is all .... Erdogan is doing nothing but supporting the terrorists,” said Assad. The Syrian leader again denied having perpetrated a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus in August which left hundreds dead and Washington threatening a military strike. He said his country’s arsenal of chemical weapons - to be destroyed under a United Nations resolution - were in the hands of “special forces” who were the only ones capable of using them. “Preparing these weapons is a complex technical operation ... and a special procedure is necessary to use them which re-

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quires a central order from the army chief of staff. As a result it is impossible that they were used.” International experts preparing to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal say they have made “encouraging” progress and expect to carry out on-site inspections within days. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations said the inspectors, who arrived on Tuesday, had made “encouraging initial progress” following a day of meetings with Syrian authorities. “Documents handed over yesterday by the Syrian government look promising, according to team members, but further analysis, particularly of tech-

nical diagrams, will be necessary and some more questions remain to be answered,” it said. The team says it hopes to begin on-site inspections and the initial disabling of equipment “within the next week”. Their immediate aim is to disable production sites by late October or early November using “expedient methods” including explosives, sledgehammers and pouring concrete, an OPCW official said. On September 17, Turkey downed a Syrian military helicopter that it said had violated its airspace, in a move Damascus said was aimed at heightening tensions between the two countries. Assad admitted the helicopter had violated Turkish air-

space, but said it was justified to prevent “the infiltration of a large number of terrorists”. He said the two pilots had been “savagely decapitated” by Syrian rebels who captured them when the helicopter came down on Syrian territory. Turkey’s parliament on Thursday extended for one year a mandate that would allow the country to send troops to Syria if necessary. Turkey authorised military action against Syria shortly after a mortar attack fired from the neighbouring territory killed five of its civilians in October last year. Since then, the Turkish military has retaliated in kind for every Syrian shell that has landed on its soil. - AFP

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Bikie tension still rising in Victoria By Melissa iaria Tensions are rising between Victorian bikie gangs as police vow to continue their crackdown and seize military-style weapons. Acting deputy commissioner

Steve Fontana said despite 10 arrests of bikies this week, police will keep the pressure on the groups out of concern innocent people will become caught up in the violence. “We’ve made some really good inroads this week, but we

are still concerned,” Mr Fontana said yesterday. “There’s been a lot of tension out in the community amongst these particular outlaw motorcycle gangs. “We’re concerned that tension is still there.”

Mr Fontana said police will be increasing their operations to clamp down on OMCG antics. Hells Angels have a number of high-powered military-style weapons still out there in the community. - AAP

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In brief 300 feared dead Italy is mourning the 300 African asylum seekers feared dead in the worst Mediterranean refugee disaster, as debate raged over Europe’s flawed migration policy. Emergency services on the island of Lampedusa said they had recovered 111 bodies and plucked 155 survivors from the water from a boat with an estimated 450 to 500 people on board. Divers who explored the wreck spoke of seeing dozens of bodies around the ship and rescuers said more bodies may have been swept further out to sea by the strong currents around Lampedusa. The badly overcrowded 20-metre vessel caught fire, then capsized and sank just a few hundred metres from Lampedusa, as its terrified passengers jumped into the sea. - AFP

Man blows himself up An unidentified man has blown himself up on the Ukrainian border with Russia, seriously wounding several guards who spotted he was carrying a false passport, Ukraine’s border service says. Border guards early on Friday stopped a minibus with Moldovan numberplates as it crossed into Ukraine from Russia through the Bachevsk border, an adviser to the head of Ukrainian border guards, Sergiy Astakhov, told AFP. The guards found a fifth passenger hidden inside the minibus, who then showed a Russian passport “which did not belong to him”, Astakhov said. “As he was being interviewed, the man blew himself up with an unidentified explosive device,” Astakhov said. - AFP President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to to M. Luis Construction, in Rockville, Maryland yesterday. AP PHOTO

Obama cancels Asian trip US President Barack Obama scrapped trips to two key Asian summits, blaming the US government shutdown for the cancellation of a tour designed to advance a central prong of his foreign policy. After days of speculation that the trip was in jeopardy following the shutdown crisis, a White House statement yesterday confirmed Obama would miss the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali and the East Asia Summit in Brunei next week. The president had already cancelled plans to visit Malaysia and the Philippines, but had delayed taking a decision on the summit meetings, both seen as an opportunity to push important foreign policy initiatives in the region. “Due to the government shutdown, President Obama’s travel to Indonesia and Brunei has been cancelled,” the White House statement said. “The President made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign

travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to continue pressing his case that Republicans should immediately allow a vote to reopen the government.” The White House said Obama had called Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to inform him of the cancellation. “He expressed his regret that the ongoing government shutdown in the United States will prevent him from attending the Summit,” the statement said. “President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed his full understanding of the situation as we have all been following closely the developments in Washington,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said from Bali. Obama also called the Sultan of Brunei, the White House said. Secretary of State John Kerry would lead the US delegations to both countries in place of Obama, the statement said, before rounding on Republicans for causing a “completely avoidable shutdown”. “The cancel-

lation of this trip is another consequence of the House Republicans forcing a shutdown of the government,” the White House statement said. “This completely avoidable shutdown is setting back our ability to create jobs through promotion of US exports, and advance US leadership and interests in the largest emerging region in the world.” The budget impasse, which has shuttered government departments and sent hundreds of thousands of federal workers home, had left Obama torn between his political priorities at home and important foreign policy goals. White House spokesman Jay Carney had already hinted that the trip to Asia was at risk if the government shutdown was not resolved by the time of Obama’s scheduled departure today. Political analysts had questioned whether Obama would risk travelling abroad and present an opening to domestic foes while on the other side of the globe. Republicans would almost

certainly accuse the president of placing more importance on striding the world stage while neglecting his duties at home. However analysts had warned a no-show by Obama could hurt US interests in Asia, allowing competitors in the region such as China to make the case that Washington is an unreliable partner. And early reaction in the region was not great. Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, said Obama’s decision “could signal the start of the unravelling of the US pivot to Asia”. “If they can furlough jobs, cease government services and risk a downgrade in the country’s credit rating, American politicians may start finding it tough to be consistent in their political reassurances about US commitment toward faraway Asia,” Tay wrote in a statement. By nixing the Asia visit, Obama will be missing a chance to rub shoulders with leaders such as China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. - AFP

Perth footballer jailed A former Perth Glory footballer who defrauded the Australian Tax Office out of $1.7 million to fund a gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been jailed for eight years by a West Australian judge. In 2001, Aaron James Cole was 20 and looked set for a long professional career when he made his sole Glory appearance as a late substitute in a 5-1 win over Sydney United. Yesterday, he was labelled by Judge Kevin Sleight a sophisticated fraudster who used his accounting skills to make hundreds of fraudulent GST claims to the ATO, which paid him $1,727,239.07 before his deception was uncovered. Betting as much as $1 million a year and sometimes owning 10 racehorses at a time, Cole devised a scheme whereby he would use details from dormant businesses to claim GST refunds. - AAP

Woman shot dead US investigators are trying to figure out what led a woman with a toddler in her car to ram into a White House barrier before leading police on a high-speed chase which ended with her being shot dead. Lawmakers and tourists scattered and ducked for cover as shots rang out during a police operation to halt the woman, who was driving with a one-year-old girl in her black sports car. Washington police chief Cathy Lanier told reporters the suspect had been pronounced dead, but refused to discuss the driver’s possible motive while the investigation was ongoing. - AFP

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Beach Road Dairy

Canterbury Seed is a successful and well respected seed production, marketing and trading company recognised for its expertise in the fields of pea, forage, cereal and vegetable seed. Their large array of products are marketed domestically and to over 40 countries around the world. They are fully owned by Winslow Ltd - part of the Carr Group, a family owned company with multiple business interests in the agricultural sector.

We have a part time position available in our busy store. • We are looking for an honest, reliable and customer friendly employee • A current Liquor license and experience essential • You will be required to do shift work, up to 30 hours per week , our open hours are 7am - 8pm, 7 days a week • You must be able to work unsupervised and also in a busy team environment • We offer the successful applicant an attractive hourly rate

Due to growth in the business and to create a succession path, we now wish to appoint two key people to newly created positions in the Canterbury Seed business, both to be based in Canterbury.

International Sales Manager – Forage and Vegetable (Ref CSSM) You will work closely alongside the Managing Director, who has been managing the forage and vegetable international sales, marketing and business development. You will acquire the skills to manage and develop new and existing customers within the international market and to take increased responsibility for this area of the business.

Cereal Seed Product Manager (Ref CSPM) In this role you will be reporting to the New Zealand Sales and Marketing Manager and liaising closely with the Brand Manager, the General Manager of Production and the company’s Arable specialists.

This role requires the ability to travel and to be on-call to meet Canterbury Seeds’ high standard of proactive interaction and responsiveness.

Your responsibility will be to work closely with our international breeding partners, growers and other stakeholders to manage the life cycle of all cereal seed grains. Your focus will be on variety selection, highest possible production quality, internal and external technical transfer, and exceptional customer service to both our retail and wholesale customers.

Competencies required to be successful in this role include: • Empathy to emerging markets and international cultures • Experience in a customer facing position with strong sales and relationship management skills • Agronomic experience in seed production • Attention to detail and accuracy • High energy levels with the motivation to be exceptional

Competencies required to be successful in this role include: • A solid understanding of cereal production and agronomy • Knowledge of grain and seed processing practices • Technical transfer experience within the sector • Trial facilitation and co-ordination experience would be advantageous • High energy levels with the motivation to be exceptional

If this sounds like you, please deliver your CV with a cover letter to Beach Road Dairy, 30 Beach Road, Ashburton.

Part Time Student

We require a part time person to fill in 2 afterschool day’s a week. Plus every Saturday morning. The right applicant must have great customer service and a passion for sports. If you think you are the right person for this position, please send C.V. and cover letter to 173 West Street, Ashburton.

These are exciting roles that will see you step up into key positions within the company. Two great career progression opportunities not to be missed! If either of these roles interest you, please phone either Alwyn Coll on 027 229 1444 or Deb Francis on 021 224 5000 for a confidential discussion. Otherwise, send your CV with letter of application to apply@agrecruit.co.nz by Thursday 17 October (Quote ref number please).

We specialise in agri-business

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EXPERIENCED SEWING MACHINIST / ASSEMBLY WORKER

Tender

Are you an outstanding sewing machinist looking for a vibrant full-or part time position? Medifab are global leaders in the manufacture of wheelchair and seating products for children and adults with disability & we strive for excellence in every aspect of our operation.

– C621 Footpath Resurfacing Ashburton District 2013/14

Our values include Honesty, Integrity, Enthusiasm along with Safety and Consistency of Care.

Tenders are invited for the asphaltic resurfacing and thin asphaltic overlay of footpaths in Ashburton, Methven and Rakaia. The work includes, but is not limited to construction of vehicle crossings and raising of utility boxes. Tender documents are available from the Ashburton District Council, P O Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton, 7740 - Phone (03) 307 7700, Fax (03) 308 1836. All inquiries should be directed to Hernando Marilla, Contracts Engineer - Urban. Tenders close with the Chief Executive, Ashburton District Council, P O Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton, at 4.00 pm on Tuesday 22 October 2013. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. NEIL McCANN Group Manager Service Delivery www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

proud of our people. progressive setting a new standard. partnership working hard together.

PIPE FITTER/SHEET METAL WORKER • Mid Canterbury • Exciting trades position

We have a full time position based at our Fairton plant, located on the outskirts of Ashburton, for a person experienced in fitting and sheet metalwork. Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, the position will primarily involve the installation/repair of various pipe reticulation systems and fabrication/repair of sheet metal equipment. The successful applicant will possess the following skills/ qualifications: • Excellent communication skills • Self motivation with the ability to prioritise workload • Work as a key member of a close knit maintenance team • Sheet metal and TIG welding competency • Industrial pipe fitting and/or plumbing experience an advantage. The successful applicant will be part of a maintenance team responsible for repairs and maintenance to a wide variety of site reticulation networks and process hygiene equipment. This position is ideal for someone looking for the challenge of working for a large company that supports career development. Applications close: 11 October 2013. Apply to the Plant Manager, Silver Fern Farms, Fairton, PO Box 30 Ashburton 7740 or online at careers.silverfernfarms.co.nz

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Please visit www.medifab.co.nz to see the interesting work that we do. If you aspire to the challenge of working to high international standards relating to medical device compliance with a team of skilled designers and fabricators then we want to hear from you. • You would need to have experience with industrial walking foot sewing machines • Be competent with binding applications • Be able to work with a range of materials, vinyl, webbings and tapes • Be able to tailor covers to meet individual requirements • Be competent at fitting covers to seat components • Consistently achieve a high-grade, factory finish • Be adept with mechanical assembly processes • Be able to read instructions and write procedures • Be particular with serial numbering, batch labelling etc. • Be a team player prepared to handle a variety of tasks • Be a quick learner, adaptive to new skills • Be able to keep up with a quick pace and meet deadlines

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CAD DRAUGHTS PERSON You will need to have: • Auto CAD experience. • Other experience also with Inventor or 3D programs would be an advantage. • General office admin and computer skills. • Work well in a team environment with excellent communication skills. • Have personal pride in your work. • Be able to work unsupervised. Are you a competent skilled CAD operator? Maybe you’re looking for a new direction in your working career or are you someone ready to start in the work place and have the skills that we need?

Bradford Precast Ltd is the leading architectural precast company in the South Island, and first choice supplier for many of New Zealand’s leading architects, engineers and building contractors. Ashburton based with a current staff of 60, we have a reputation built over 25 years, based on quality, innovation and a willingness to accept challenges. For the right candidate the overall package and benefits will be negotiated. Send your application with CV to:

John Power

Meat Industry Vacancies South Pacific Meats Ltd, Malvern is a modern sheep and beef processing plant at Burnham, south of Christchurch. We are now seeking experienced staff to fill positions for the new season:

• Beef boners and trimmers • Lamb boners/sawmen and trimmers • Beef butchers • Lamb butchers. While previous experience in the above roles would be an advantage, we will offer training to applicants with a proven work ethic and those willing to make a commitment to the meat industry. Competitive pay rates, combined with an extended season, make this an attractive industry option. If you are looking to be challenged, want to join a successful, growing organisation and one of these positions interests you, please forward your CV to: Wayne Lindsay, HR Coordinator, PO Box 8, Rolleston 7643, or email: wayne.lindsay@affco.co.nz Or, alternatively, you can apply onsite, at our plant situated at: 1044 Two Chain Road, Burnham.

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Sophia Kingan Wishing our beautiful girl a very Happy 3rd Birthday, for tomorrow. Love Mum, Dad, Lachlon, Harrison and Bailey. xxxxx Sophia Kingan Happy 3rd Birthday darling. Enjoy your day tomorrow. Love Gran Anne, Grandad, Grandma and Great Nana. xxxx

We are looking for a proactive individual who has CAD skills, can demonstrate practical and organisational thinking skills. Reporting to the General Manager, the CAD Draughts Person will be involved in producing shop drawings for Precast units.

Bremners Road PO Box 214 Ashburton 7740 P 03 308 9039 F 03 308 1191 E admin@bradfords.co.nz

Birthday Greetings

Sophie Urquhart Happy 3rd Birthday beautiful girl. Lots of love Mum, Dad and Alex. xxx

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Mid Canterbury Freight Limited Due to growth within our business we have these driving positions available. • Lift-out sider Truck & Trailer (Full Time) Bulk, Hay and general carriage. Working around the top half of the South Island with some overnight stays. Would need experience crossing alpine passes.

Sophie Urquhart Happy Birthday Sweet Heart. Lots of love Nana, Poppa & Grandad. xxx Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our ground floor office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

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$13 per pottle

• Causal/ Relief Driver This is to help out over the coming silage season and to cover annual leave. Hours can be discuss and worked to suit where possible.

Adding extra sparkle to Christmas & birthdays

If you have good people skills, tidy appearance, full class 5 driver licences and ability to work unsupervised with lots of patience then come and join our team. We offer good remuneration, tidy gear and a great friendly work environment. For more details or to apply contact Phill on 03-308-6573.

We design, we build, we innovate. 211 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton (03) 307 61 30 www.calderstewart.co.nz

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LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available! From a shovel load to a trailer load. Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

RURAL TRADING POST LIVESTOCK, PETS

Standing Grass and Lucerne

Looking for any quantity and any quality, priced accordingly. Also maize contracts available.

Phone Blake 0274 343 551

$ CASH PAID $ $ $ WANTED $ FOR SCRAP $ PETROL or kerosene cooker, Copper, Brass, Aluminium etc.

Mid-Canterbury Metal Recycling Licensed Buyer Dealer

10A McGregor Lane Riverside Estate (Off McNally Street)

Phone 308-8959 or 027-228-1467 anytime

Guardian Motoring Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements. 307 7900

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WANTED

BUYERS OF ALL METALS

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Service Bull Package

The Service Bull Package is designed to give dairy farmers a competitive finance option for their service bulls. The package is cash flow friendly and provides up to 100% finance on service bulls at rates from 0% pa.

How it works

StockCo pays for bulls that the farmer selects, no repayments are required until the bulls are sold (after mating). Repayment is achieved by the sale of the bulls through Alliance with any shortfall made up from the sale of the cull cows. The finance rate is determined based on the number of cull cows to be supplied. A ratio of 5 cull cows processed at Alliance per 1 bull financed will typically result in an interest rate of 0%. When the farmer sells the bulls and cull cows through Alliance, proceeds are credited to the farmer’s StockCo account. Excess funds are passed directly to the farmer on the same day they would normally receive payment.

Contact

Alliance Cattle / Dairy Representatives: Greg Jopson M Paul Whittaker M Ian MacLean M Colin Lindsay M

anything considered, please phone Tony on 03 688 1613 or txt 027 434 4817.

MOTORING

Call 0800 920 929 or visit www.stockco.co.nz

TILLEY lamp, or similar, anything considered, please TRADES, SERVICES phone Tony 03 688 1613 or ROOFING - for all your rooftext 027 434 4817. ing requirements, new roofs, WANTED - used Ford, reroofing, commercial, insurBelarus and Massey ance claims, repairs. LiFerguson tractors in any censed building practitioner, condition. Freephone Wiki, Vision Roofing, phone 027-476-0203. 0800-888-343.

TRADES, SERVICES

StockCo Agribusiness Managers: Mark Poole M 027 614 1148 Sam Earl M 027 677 7195

027 447 4382 027 431 3234 027 285 1988 027 201 7319

SITUATIONS WANTED

4 TINT-A-WINDOW solar protective films, UV block, fade, heat and glare control, privacy and safety films for glass. FREE quotes - 20 years local service. Bill Breukelaar - phone 0800 368 468. www.tintawindow.co.nz

CLEANING/ HOUSEKEEPING WANTED. Honest, reliable cleaner/ housekeeper available with a clean record, I am in Wakanui area and do a thorough job at a great price, can provide references if needed. Phone HOME handyman available. Diane on 03-302 3077 or 027 Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 390 0059. 027-677-1952. WORK WANTED PLUMBER / Drainlayer Log Sheep/dairy farm work fire installations, bathroom wanted by keen 20 year old and kitchen renovations, Irish farm lad with plenty of plumbing repairs, hot water stock experience, work visa cylinder replacements. Peter till August 2014 available for Young reg. Plumber and immediate start. If you can Drainlayer phone 03 307 help please contact Andrew 7582 or 027 280 0889. 027 688 7579.

RURAL TRADING POST RURAL TRADING POST RURAL TRADING POST AUSTIN ROLLER RINGS AND BEARINGS - good selection at McMullan Enterprises 126 Dobson Street 308 2059. ATS Suppliers. CALF milk required from Hinds/Mayfield area. Phone 027 498 8659.

STANDING LUCERNE AND GRASS WANTED Phone Donald Love 027 279 8704 or 03 303 6300

GRUBBER TINES, POINTS, BOLTS AND NUTS - suits all makes at McMullan Enterprises 126 Dobson Street 308 2059. ATS Suppliers.

MOWER BLADES AND BOLTS - Large range at McMullan Enterprises 126 Dobson Street 308 2059. ATS Suppliers.

PUBLIC NOTICES

NEED FEED? Maize silage contracts available for the coming season. Please ring Bruce Lilley on 027 55 33 085 to discuss your requirements: www.jacksonholmes.co.nz

Benneydale – Mangapehi – Pureora District Reunion January 25th/26th 2014 Waitomo Club. Te Kuiti Registration forms and information. Jenifer Reinhardt 07 878 4885.

jenifer.graeme@slingshot.co.nz

Nancy Timmo 07 878 3303 kntimmo@xtra.co.nz David Hunter 07 886 5337 da.@xtra.co.nz .

PERSONAL WIDOW, early seventies, independent, would like to meet a gentleman, same age, for friendship. Must be honest and have good sense of humour. Social drinker, non smoker. My interests are sports, gardening, music, meeting people, cooking. Genuine replies only, to: Advertiser 788, c/- Ashburton Guardian, PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740.

I am conducting a study of

CAR PARTS for sale - Mag wheels 14x7. Trident five slots. Excellent condition. Ford Stud pattern near new tyres. Ph 027 348 6855.

Child Youth & Family

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

and would appreciate contact by any person/s that have had involvement with Child Youth & Family both positive and negative.

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Initial contact vie e-mail

UK & EUROPE TRAVEL EXPO – Expo only deals. House of travel invite you to attend: Wednesday 23rd October, 7pm, Hotel Ashburton. Call 307 8760 for more information.

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 322 7626.

lynnphil@xtra.co.nz All contact will be in strict confidence.

LET OR LEASE

LEASE YOUR PREMISES OFF TRICROFT! Property managers/developers, Tricroft have a portfolio of commercial offices, retail space to yards/warehousing. Contact operations/ property manager, Jack Harnett on 027 463 2547 www.tricroft.co.nz

SOW FOR SALE - Very quiet great white sow, great mother. Has had piglets, last Guardian Classifieds litter was 10. $150. Ph 027 307 7900 499 4262.

Daily Events Saturday

Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

Road, Tinwald.

10.00am 9.00am - 12.00noon ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET. METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Weekly farm fresh produce, plants, coffee, food and more. North end of the West Street Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Art Exhibition, Momentum by Angela Mole. Main car park. Street, Methven. 9.30am - 12.30pm 10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open today. New members always welcome. ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Saturday’s in the West Street Car park.

Sunday

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Art Exhibition, Momentum by Angela Mole. Main Street, Methven.

8.00am ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street. 8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Spectacular views, old coach track, Porters Pass, all welcome. Phone Jenny 308-6862. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West. 8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Thomson Street, Tinwald. 9.00am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Harrison Street, Allenton.

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

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Rev John Bilverstone. Methodist Church Lounge, Baring Square East. 9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, world Communion service, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street. 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rona Russell, 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton. 10.00am ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovett’s Road, off Maronan Road. 9.30am - 10.30am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Ladies exercise classes. Senior Centre, Cameron Street. 9.30am - 12noon ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road. 10.30am

10.00am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street. 10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street. 10.00am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, cnr Havelock and Park Streets.

ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Stitch and chat with Jane’s project. Senior Centre, Cameron Street. 12.50pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet singles. The domain, Philip Street. 1.30pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald. 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall). 10.30am EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping god and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby. 12.50pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome. Racecourse Road.

10.00am

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

Children’s holiday programme, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Momentum by Angela Mole. Main Street, Methven.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Art Exhibition,

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Seafield Road.

Road, near the sale yards. 1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf croquet doubles, change partners. The domain, Philip Street. 2.00pm FAIRTON TENNIS CLUB. A.G.M. and open day, enquiries Vern 3088401. Fairton Courts.

Classic aircraft on display including DC 3. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road. 2.00pm ASHBURTON AGE CONCERN. Variety Concert, all welcome. $5 per ticket. Senior Centre, Cameron Street. 5.00pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Evensong, Park street. 7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall). 7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service in the Sinclair Centre with Rev David Brown. Cnr Havelock & Park Street. 7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre in the Parish Centre, Cnr Burnett and Winter Streets.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Community open day EA Networks welcomes you to come and join us for an open day at our new site. We will be taking guided tours through our premises.

Lettuce

$1.69ea

Tomatoes 500gm Eggplant Tele Cucumber Mandarins

Saturday 5th October 2013 10am-1pm All welcome

See you there! 22 JB Cullen Drive Ashburton Business Estate Phone: 307 9800

Mackenzie Charitable Foundation

GRAZING

OPEN 7 DAYS

AQUATIC WEED CONTROL Notice is hereby given that Landcare Services Ltd will be undertaking Aquatic Weed control in and around the canals of Lake Hood for short periods during the dates October 14 to December 15, 2013. Control method will be the discharge of Diquat into waterway as per Resource Consent. Landcare Services Ltd Telephone 0800 12 6963

LAMB grazing required, short AKAROA - CHARMING, term. Please phone (03) 302 spacious holiday home, 3 1877. GARAGE SALES bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod G ARDENING cons, short walk to village. GARAGE SALE - Trevors Rd, Phone Brian 307-8000 or 8am-1pm. Household goods, 308-6180. linen and kitchen items. Sign at gate. PEASTRAW for sale, medium HIRE squares, $30 plus GST. FOR SALE Please phone 308-5659. GENERAL hire. Lawn1920’S, LOVELY OAK gate mowers, chainsaws, concrete GARAGE SALES leg table with 2 very nice breakers, trailers, and more. chairs. $450. Please phone All your DIY / contracting 03 302 3969. work, Call and see U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street. GARAGE SALE - 71 Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; Giddings Road Ashburton. Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday Earlier Sunday, October 6 at FIREWOOD LOGS for sale. 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: 308 10am. Lots of kitchen ware, Delivered by logging truck 8061 A/h: 308 7460 furniture etc. and trailer. Ph Laurie Forestry www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz 03 689 8333.

Fresh Fruit & Vege

PERSONAL HOW WILL YOU FIND ME???

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All Welcome

Not at a bar or a club and certainly not on the internet! Your soul mate is out there, also looking for you. Find them or be found at Bridges. Over 20 years of matchmaking experience ensures your success. You don’t need a computer, all you need is a telephone and we can put you in touch as soon as tonight. Phone now 0800 856 640 til 7pm www.bridgesdating.co.nz

FOR SALE

PORT A COT plus extra mattress $70, high chair $30, both in good condition. Phone 308 3091.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

ANGEL, tall, attractive, very busty, 32 year old, in/out calls, phone 022 415 1658. ASIAN nurse 24 - Special service in and out calls, Ashburton. Ph 022 414 3494.

FIRWOOD - Green bluegum $150. Green larch $140 per 3 cubic metres. Spilt and House share $220 pw, I’m delivered. Ph 303 6280 Tim looking to share my brand new 3 bed house in Boyd. Ashburton. With sunny garden and new furniture. SCOOTER’S - new and Ideally professional or a secondhand three and four couple non smokers. I’m wheel electric scooters and out of the house all day and wheel chairs. Call Fred away every weekend so Reddecliffe at Electric hardly ever home. Big Mobility Ashburton today. house with plenty of room. Phone 308-3602 027 839 8946.

and Children’s Programme

10.00am LANDLORDS. Don’t leave the management of your valuable asset in the hands of a company that’s primary income is from selling properties. Property management is our sole focus 24/7. Contact B&N Properties Ltd now, 0800 111 252 www.bnproperties.co.nz

TO LET: House 2-3 bedroom, lounge, kitchen, garage, shed, log fire. No dogs. Allenton. Ph 308 3201 or 027 452 3107.

WANTED TO RENT - 3 bedroom house. Suitable for 3 adults, 2 small dogs, 1 cat. Town or country. Ph 03 308 7855.

You’re very welcome! Cnr Cass & Cameron St 308 7610 - 308 7062

Of God Evangelical Assembly Sunday Meeting Presbyterian Church 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

10.30am Worship

Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All Welcome

Minister: Rev David Bayne Ph 307 7355 St David’s Church 48 Allens Road Everyone welcome www.st-davids.org.nz

131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School Hall) Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm We hope to see you this Sunday!

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Methven Pharmacy, 101 Main St, Methven. Saturday and Sunday open: 4pm - 6pm.

or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.nz for more information.

COMMUNITY POOL

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

MENTAL HEALTH

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL GENERAL WARDS - (Medical and Surgical): DUTY DOCTORS DAILY, 2.00pm - 4.00pm and 6.00pm This service is for EMERGENCY MEDICAL 7.30pm CARE ONLY. Please remember your Children must be accompanied by an adult. Community Services Card. Emergency CHALMERS WARD phone until 8am Monday - 0800 700 155. (including Assessment, Treatment & Sealy Street Medical Centre, Sealy Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. Street, Ashburton will be the duty doctor for MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm. Saturday until 8am Monday. They will hold -Husbands and patient’s own children may surgery from 10am until 12 noon and from visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm. 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, Surgery phone 308 1212. -unrestricted visiting.

10am Morning Service

Heart to God And Hand to Man Celebration Service

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

CINDERELLA, available everyday, genuine calls only, no texting please. Phone PROFESSIONAL family, new 021 0233 9259. to area, require 3-4 bedroom JAPANESE fantasy doll, rural home to rent Land small and petite excellent preferred but will consider service, private location. anything. Ph 027 518 8248. in/out calls till late. Phone 022 416 1992.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts, Phone 308 5409

Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

Come and hear faith to over- Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison come in these unstable days. Children’s programme during sermon 206 Cameron Street Creche Available Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Refreshments to follow Ph 308 7511 7.00pm Valiant Man DVD YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VERY WELCOME

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We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area: • Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer. • Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture. • The needs of young people who suffer physical or mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers. Applications close at 5pm, Friday, October 25, 2013. For further information and application forms, please contact: The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation c/- Croys Ltd Level 2 161 Burnett Street P O Box 582 Ashburton Phone: 03 308 8353 Email: mcf@croys.co.nz

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Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team. SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

24 hr- Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer. Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message.

WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm. ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER

Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 027 683 8111, 149 Cameron Street Ashburton: The duty vet for emergencies this weekend is: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend. ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, INFORMATION CENTRES Call us free on (0800 787 797). West Street Clinic, Main Road, Methven. ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm. Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days. Saturday clinic: 9am-12 noon. Weekend METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA ASHBURTON REST HOMES Sun CLOSED. emergencies: Jade Hackney. LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 For weekend doctor and emergency details COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. CARE VETS - Ph 03 308 2327, 246 Tancred please phone telephone the Rakaia Medical unrestricted visiting. Phone 308-1050. OMMUNITY ERVICES Street, Saturday clinic: 10am - 2pm. Centre, ph 303 5002. CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted METHVEN - Saturday and Sunday 9am ART GALLERY Weekend emergencies: Gabrielle Thompson. Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT visiting. 5.45pm. Phone 302-8955 or Phone 308 1133. Baring Square East, VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Phone 03 307 provide an accident and emergency service. PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted methven@i-site.org Ashburton. Sat & Sun: 10.00am - 4.00pm 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton. Except in cases of emergency persons visiting. BUS DEPARTURES Closed Public Holidays. Saturday clinic 9am-12 noon. Weekend requiring medical attention must consult EMERGENCY DENTIST Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service. emergencies: Large: Amy Avery, Reon ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY their own or the duty general practitioner. If you do not have or cannot contact your Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. McMurtie. Small: Kasia Chapmen-Labecka. Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Persons subsequently requiring treatment regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 03 308 2321 Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm at Ashburton Hospital must have a general for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm. 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm practitioners in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, clinic: 9am-12 noon. 24-hour weekend NIMAL ERVICES ASHBURTON MUSEUM PHARMACIES Sundays and Public Holidays. emergencies: Large: Laura Scott, Tommy Baring Square East, Ashburton. Ph 308 3167 DOG, STOCK & NOISE Unichem Ashburton Pharmacy, Cnr East and Wilson, Catherine Haywood. Small: ref Care CONTROL Saturday-Sunday 1.00pm - 4.00pm ELPLINE ERVICES Burnett Streets, Ashburton. Saturday open Vets. Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 Closed Statutory Holidays. from: 9.30am - 12.30pm. Sunday from: 10.30am ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - 24 hour service Group Bookings by arrangement - 12 noon. Both evenings: 6.30pm - 7pm. Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757)

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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Saturday, October 5, 2013 TV ONE

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TV THREE

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Te Karere 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Fair Go 3 0 8am Fire Scene Investigation PGR 30 8:30 60 Minute Makeover 3 9:30 Come Dine With Me Omnibus PGR Noon There’s No Taste Like Home 1pm Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution 3 0 2pm World’s Strictest Parents US PGR 3 0 3pm Four Weddings PGR 3 0 4pm Real Pasifik Based in the largest Polynesian city in the world, Auckland, Robert Oliver and his team of chefs go out to meet Maori and Pacific cuisine leaders. 0 4:30 New Zealand’s Got Talent 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 N This Town PGR The best of the West Coast. 0 8:30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries AO 0 9:40 M The Spy Who Loved Me AO 1977 Action. Secret agent James Bond teams with a Soviet agent to save the world. Roger Moore, Barbara Bach. 0

6am Tiki Tour 0 6:25 Wiki The Kiwi 0 6:35 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 6:55 Stitch! 3 0 7:20 Matt Hatter Chronicles 0 7:45 Phineas And Ferb 3 0 8:10 Transformers Prime Beasthunters 3 8:40 Beware The Batman 3 0 9:05 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 9:10 Adventure Time 3 0 9:35 Regular Show PGR 3 0 10am Totes Maori 10:30 Neighbours Omnibus 0 1pm Beverly Hills Nannies 2pm The Amazing Race Australia PGR 3 0 3:05 Extreme Makeover – Home Edition 3 0 4pm Operation Hero (Starting Today) 3 4:30 N Let’s Get Inventin’ 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3 0 6pm Wipeout USA 0 7pm Duck Dynasty PGR 0 7:30 M She’s the Man PGR 2006 Romantic Comedy. Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum. 0 8pm L Lotto This week’s Lotto draw. 8:05 She’s the Man PGR Continued. 0 9:40 M Be Kind Rewind PGR 2008 Comedy. Jack Black, Mos Def. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Knight Rider 3 8:30 Infomercials 10am The Nation 10:55 3rd Degree 3 Noon N Pregnant In Heels PGR Maternity concierge Rosie Pope helps a woman with an interesting request for her home birth. 1pm The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 3 2pm The X Factor USA 3 4pm The X Factor USA 3 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 Fishing Show The team is back on the Rock of the Pacific, where, after a hectic morning’s trolling, they plumb the depths for some colourful local species. 6pm 3 News 7pm Destroyed in Seconds PGR 0 7:30 Ice-Road Truckers PGR With the end of the ice road approaching, the Ice Road Truckers must negotiate obstacles. 0 8:30 SVU AO Detectives search for a missing teenaged girl who vanished while looking for her biological father, an anonymous sperm donor. 0 9:25 Blue Bloods AO 0 10:25 Outrageous Fortune AO 3 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 3 7am Rocko’s Modern Life 3 7:30 Invader Zim 3 7:55 All Grown Up 3 8:20 Scaredy Squirrel 3 8:40 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 – Fused 3 9:05 Redakai 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Bryan And Bobby 3 3:40 Pukana 2 4:05 The Suite Life On Deck 3 4:30 Monsuno 3 5pm Mr Young 3 5:30 Smokefree Rockquest 2013 6pm Sabrina – The Teenage Witch 3 0 6:30 M Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer 2011 Family. Judy Moody’s best-laid plans for a summer full of fun go comically awry. 8:30 The Real Housewives of Orange County AO Heather hosts an evening of champagne and bowling, but the wives spare no one when an erratic confrontation occurs. 9:30 Vanderpump Rules AO Lisa stages a photo shoot for the staff; Scheana tries to gain Lisa’s respect following an unpleasant incident. 10:30 Traffic Light PGR

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? UK 3 Host Clive Anderson puts a panel of comedians through a series of games to total the points and announce a winner. Noon Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Week three finals. 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 1:30 Netball – International (Delayed) Australia v New Zealand. From the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. 3pm Rugby – ITM Cup (Delayed) Manawatu v Northland. 5pm L Prime Racing Race nine of the Spring Classic from Hastings. 5:30 Prime News 6pm Fry’s Planet Word Stephen Fry explores writing. 7pm Storage Wars PGR Dave Hester gets industrial, and profitable; Barry Weiss visits the King of Kitsch, hoping to avoid a catastrophe. 7:30 River Cottage Treatment PGR Hugh invites a select few to his farm for a taste of the River Cottage ‘grow your own’ philosophy. 8:35 Wife Swap USA PGR 9:35 Fry’s Planet Word AO 10:50 The Kennedys PGR 3

6am L Golf – Presidents Cup Day Two. From Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. 11am Golf – European PGA Tour (Highlights) Seve Trophy, Day Two. From Saint-Nom-La-Breteche, France. Noon Golf World A weekly review of golf tournaments around the globe. 12:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Manawatu v Northland. From FMG Stadium, Palmerston North. 2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Bay of Plenty v Waikato. From ASB Stadium at Bay Park, Tauranga. 4:30 Heartland Rugby The provinces battle it out for the Meads and Lochore Cups. 5:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup North Harbour v Otago. From North Harbour Stadium on the North Shore. 7:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Wellington v Auckland. From Westpac Stadium in Wellington. 9:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Bay of Plenty v Waikato. From ASB Stadium at Bay Park in Tauranga.

12:10 Louie Spence’s Showbusiness PGR 3 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:15 Neighbourhood 3 0 3:55 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

11:40 M Brooklyn’s Finest AO 2009 Action. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle. 2:20 M Superman/ Batman Apocalypse PGR 2010 Adventure. 0 3:40 M Waking Sleeping Beauty PGR 2009 Documentary. 5:05 Totes Maori 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:25 The Finder AO 3 When Isabel’s new boyfriend, a professional baseball player, is robbed, Walter steps in to help find his stolen collectibles. 12:25 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11pm Million-Dollar Cash Game PGR Would-be professional poker players vie for a chance to play three professionals for one million pounds. Midnight Infomercials

11:45 Secret Millionaire UK PGR 3 Millionaire Gordon McAlpine returns to his native Glasgow, but to an area with a life expectancy lower than the Gaza strip, that was once dubbed the murder capital of Europe. 12:50 Home Shopping

11:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) North Harbour v Otago. 1:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Wellington v Auckland. 3:30 L Rugby – International South Africa v New Zealand. From Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg.

CHOICE TV 6am Pioneer Woman 6:30 Better Homes And Gardens 8am Gardeners’ World 8:30 Attrell’s Antique Apprentices 9am Galleons Of Spice 9:30 Pioneer Woman 10am Location, Location, Location 11am LA Frock Stars 11:30 My Kitchen Noon Bath Crashers 12:30 Relocation, Relocation 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Gardeners’ World 3:30 Guide To The Good Life 4pm My Dream Home 5pm The People’s Cookbook 6pm Gourmet Farmer 6:30 Belfast Zoo 7pm Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever America’s National Parks are a collection of rare and awe-inspiring lands. 7:30 Natural World 8:30 Being Erica PGR 9:30 Twentysomething 10:30 Guide To The Good Life 11pm My Dream Home

MAORI TV 10am Toku Reo 3 2pm Waka Ama 3 2:30 Code 3 3:30 Rugby – IRB Junior World Championship 3 New Zealand v Ireland. 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Tepu 3 2 6:30 Joe’s World On A Plate 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 F Homai Te Pakipaki 3 9:30 M The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo AO 2009 Crime

THE BOX

6am Criminal Minds 16VS 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 The Unit MV 8:10 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes. 10:15 Raw MC 1:10 24 Marathon MVLS 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes. 7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Pawn Stars PG 8:30 N Billy The Exterminator PGL Billy Bretherton and his family SUNDAY make up Vexcon, one of Louisiana’s Midnight Carter Can busiest pest removal companies. 12:30 Belfast Zoo 9pm Counting Cars PG 1am Natural World 9:30 Ax Men ML 2am Lonely Planet – Best Parks 10:30 The Unit MV Ever The ultimate guide to America’s 11:30 Chuck MVS National Parks. SUNDAY 2:30 Flatmates AO 12:30 24 Marathon MVLS 3am Being Erica PGR 3:50 Billy The Exterminator PGL 4am Twentysomething 4:15 Counting Cars PG 4:30 A Young Doctor’s Notebook 4:40 Chuck MVS 5am People’s Cookbook 5:35 The Simpsons PG

SKY SPORT 2 Drama. A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing, or dead, for 40 years by a young female computer hacker. Michael Nygvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Froling.

SUNDAY Midnight Te Kaea 3 2 12:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6:30 Mythbusters PG 7:30 Mythbusters PG 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Man v Fish With Matt Watson PG 10:30 Deadliest Catch PG 11:30 Off The Hook – Extreme Catches PG Noon Off The Hook – Extreme Catches PG 12:30 River Monsters – Untold Stories PG 1:30 Mythbusters PG 2:30 Auction Kings PG 3pm Auction Hunters PG 3:30 American Guns M 4:30 Sons Of Guns M 5:30 Dirty Jobs Down Under PG 6:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 7:30 Deadliest Catch – The Bait PG 8:30 Deadliest Catch PG 9:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 10:30 Forbidden M 11:30 Bullet Points PG SUNDAY 12:30 American Guns M 1:30 Man v Wild PG 2:30 Beyond Survival With Les Stroud PG 3:30 Beyond Survival With Les Stroud PG 4:30 Beyond Survival With Les Stroud PG 5:30 Mythbusters PG

This Town

7:30pm on TV One

SKY MOVIES 7am One Angry Juror PG 2010 Drama. Jessica Capshaw. 8:30 Certain Prey MC 2011 Crime. Mark Harmon, Lola Glaugini. 10am Sky Special – The Hobbit World Premiere PG 2012 10:30 John Carter MV 2012 Action. 12:40 Fun Size MLS 2012 Comedy. 2:10 The Artist M 2011 Romantic Comedy. 3:50 Paranormal Activity 3 ML 2011 Horror. 5:15 Ghost Rider – Spirit Of Vengeance MVL 2011 Action Fantasy. 6:50 The Double MV 2011 Crime. 8:30 Crazy Stupid Love MLS 2011 Comedy. 10:30 Alex Cross MVS 2012 Action.

SUNDAY

12:10 The Dictator 16LS 2012 Comedy. 1:35 Biography – Cameron Diaz PG 2011 Documentary. 2:25 Paranormal Activity 3 ML 2011 Horror. 3:50 The Dictator 16LS 2012 Comedy. 5:15 The Artist M 2011 Romantic Comedy.

7am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Manawatu v Northland. From FMG Stadium in Palmerston North. 9am Rugby – International (Replay) Argentina v All Blacks. 11am L Baseball – MLB Atlanta Braves v LA Dodgers – Fry's Planet Word Game Two. From Turner Field, 6:00pm on Prime Atlanta. 2:30 L Baseball – MLB MOVIES GREATS Oakland A’s v Detroit Tigers – Game 8:10 Speed MV 1994 Action. Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, One. From O.co Coliseum, Oakland. Dennis Hopper. 6pm Rugby League – NRL 10:05 The Blues Brothers MVL 1980 Comedy. John Belushi, Dan (Highlights) Preliminary Final One – Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher, James Brown, Rabbitohs v Sea Eagles. Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles. 6:30 NRL Footy Show (Replay) 12:15 Backdraft PGL 1991 Thriller. 9:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Rebecca de Mornay. Preliminary Final One – 2:30 The Peacemaker MVL 1997 Rabbitohs v Sea Eagles. Action Thriller. Nicole Kidman, George Clooney. 11:30 Cricket – Champions 4:30 A Few Good Men PGL 1992 League Twenty20 (Highlights) Drama. Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise. Semi-final One – Rajasthan Royals v 6:45 Down With Love MS 2003 Romantic Comedy. Chennai Super Kings. 8:30 The Sixth Sense From Sawai Mansingh Stadium in MV 1999 Thriller. Jaipur, India. 10:20 Remember Me MVLS 2010 Drama. SUNDAY

SUNDAY

12:15 Face/Off 18V 1997 Action. 2:30 Biography – George Clooney PG 2011 Documentary. 3:20 The Peacemaker MVL 1997 Action Thriller. 5:25 A Few Good Men PGL 1992 Drama.

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

5Oct13

12:30 Boxing – Bradley v Marquez 24/7 1am L Golf – Presidents Cup Day Three. From Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013 TV ONE

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6am Rural Delivery 3 0 6:25 Do Or Die PGR 0 7:10 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 10am Marae Investigates 0 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Christchurch – From The Streets 0 Noon Football – English Premier League Manchester City v Everton from Etihad Stadium. 2pm The Best Of River Monsters 0 3pm Undercover Boss Australia 3 0 4pm The Zoo 3 0 4:30 Animal Rescue 0 5pm Our World – Survival Tales From The Wild 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 New Zealand’s Got Talent With judges Rachel Hunter, Jason Kerrison and Cris Judd. 0 9pm A Place to Call Home AO 0 10pm Miranda PGR 3 When a handsome man leaves his wallet in the shop, Miranda and Stevie think it could be a sign, especially when they discover he is called Robert Husband. 0 10:40 Offspring AO 3 0 11:40 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 12:50 Beat Squad PGR 3 0 1:15 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:15 Gardens Of The World 3:25 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Carter Can 6:30 Christ Embassy 7am My Dream Home 8am People’s Cookbook 9am Days Of Our Lives Omnibus PGR Noon Natural World 1pm Belfast Zoo 1:30 Guide To The Good Life 2pm Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever The ultimate guide to America’s National Parks. 2:30 Being Erica PGR 3:30 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 4pm Cheese Slices 4:30 Ainsley’s Barbeque Bible 5pm Grand Tours Of Scotland 5:30 From Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means PG 6:30 N2K PGR 7pm Travel Wild 7:30 Britain’s Lost Routes With Griff Rhys Jones 8:30 M Hattie AO 2011 Drama. A bittersweet true-life drama about a very English love triangle. Ruth Jones, Robert Bathurst, Aidan Turner. 10:30 Cheese Slices 11pm Ainsley’s Barbeque Bible 11:30 Saturday Cookbook

MONDAY

12:30 N2K PGR 1am Britain’s Lost Routes With Griff Rhys Jones 2am Travel Wild 2:30 M Hattie AO 2011 Drama. Ruth Jones, Robert Bathurst, Aidan Turner. 4:30 Ainsley’s Barbeque Bible 5am Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 5:30 Grand Tours Of Scotland

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6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 30 6:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 7am What Now? Adam, Gem, Ronnie, Camilla, Toby, and Layla present three hours of laughter, fun, games, prizes, and cartoons. 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR Bella plays mediator; Evan’s drive pays off; Murray and Wendy take some time out. 0 Noon M Lovestruck – The Musical PGR 2013 Romantic Musical. Chelsea Kane, Drew Seeley, Sara Paxton. 1:50 Mad PGR 3 0 2pm New Zealand’s Got Talent 30 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 0 6pm Hart Of Dixie PGR 3 0 7pm The Middle 3 0 7:30 M Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 PGR 2011 Adventure. The battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson. 0 10:05 The Walking Dead AO 3 0

Midnight M Resident Evil – Extinction AO 2007 Action. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter. 0 1:50 Supernatural – The Animation AO 0 2:35 Infomercials 3:10 20/20 3 0 4am It Is Written 3 4:30 Anderson Live PGR 5:30 Infomercials

TV THREE 6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 3 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 3 9am Think Tank 9:30 Three60 10am The Nation 11am The Best Of Campbell Live 11:55 The Block New Zealand Omnibus 0 3pm Motorsport – DTM Championship 3:45 Motorsport – MotoGP 4:30 Motorsport – US Formula Drift Championship 5pm Wild Life At The Zoo 3 0 5:30 Big Angry Fish PGR 6pm 3 News 7pm M Gulliver’s Travels PGR 2010 Comedy. A bigtalking mailroom clerk, after he is mistakenly assigned a travel piece on the Bermuda Triangle, washes ashore on the island of Lilliput, home to a very tiny people. Jack Black, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt. 0 8:50 M How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days AO 3 2003 Romantic Comedy. Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson. 0

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 3 7am Rocko’s Modern Life 3 7:25 Invader Zim 3 7:50 All Grown Up 3 8:15 Scaredy Squirrel 3 8:40 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 8:50 Tree Fu Tom 3 9:10 Tickety Toc 3 9:20 Dora The Explorer 3 9:45 Moe 3 9:50 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm Sabrina – The Teenage Witch PGR 3 0 6:30 N Rules Of Engagement PGR Liz moves in with Jeff and Audrey, but soon wears out her welcome. 7pm Raising Hope PGR 7:30 Top Chef Masters The contestants must put on a Japanese-style culinary show in front of fellow chefs, judges and critics. 8:30 The Biggest Loser Australia PGR 10:25 The League AO 3 10:55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

11:20 Touch AO 11:50 Infomercials 12:15 Winter Games Highlights 3 1:25 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Religious Programming 10:35 Sport Box 1:30 Rugby – Heartland Championship The weekend’s action as the provinces compete in divisions two and three for the Meads and Lochore Cups. 2:25 Rugby – International (Delayed) South Africa v New Zealand. 4:30 Rugby Highlights Highlights from the week’s Rugby action. 5:30 Prime News 6pm Millionaire – Hot Seat 6:25 Outnumbered There is a lot to discuss at Ben’s parents’ evening, including muggers and reenactments of the Great Plague; Mum suspects Jake is hiding something; Karen decides which religion to follow. 7pm Storage Wars 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 8:35 River Cottage Australia PGR With a broken water tank, Paul is faced with a water shortage. Can he tap into the old spring on the property? Will it be enough to save the farm? 9:40 Crimes That Shook Britain PGR 10:45 Killing Time AO 3 11:45 Rugby League – NRL (Delayed) Grand Final – Roosters v Sea Eagles. From ANZ Stadium in Sydney. 1:35 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 8am Football – UK Super League Final – Teams TBA. 10am Korero Mai 3 2 2pm Ka TV 3 2:30 Outback Café (Starting Today) 3 3pm The Native Diet (Starting Today) 3 3:30 Football – UK Super League 3 Final – Teams TBA. 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 7pm Te Kaea 3 2

THE BOX 6am 24 Marathon MVLS 9:20 The Unit MV 10:15 Modern Family PGL 10:40 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes. 12:45 Ax Men ML 1:40 Pawn Stars PG 2:05 Billy The Exterminator PGL 2:30 Counting Cars PG 2:55 Raw MC 5:45 WWE Main Event MC 6:45 SmackDown! MC 8:30 Criminal Intent MV A man who tries to play God with organ transplants takes his mission too far, with deadly results. 9:30 Criminal Intent MV 10:30 Numb3rs MV 11:30 WWE Main Event MC

MONDAY

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 Criminal Intent MV 3am Criminal Intent MV 3:50 Girls Gone Wild 18S 4:20 Numb3rs MV 5:10 Modern Family PGL 5:35 Pawn Stars PG

6:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Bay of Plenty v Waikato. 7am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) North Harbour v Otago. 7:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Wellington v Auckland. 8am Rugby – International (Highlights) 8:30 Heartland Rugby 9:30 Rugby – International (Replay) 11:30 L Rugby – International Argentina v Australia. From Estadio Gigante de Arroyito in Rosario, Argentina. 2pm Rugby – International (Highlights) 2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Canterbury v Counties Manukau. From AMI Stadium in Christchurch. 4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Taranaki v Tasman. 6:30 Rugby – ITM Cup Week 7pm Rugby – International (Highlights) Argentina v Australia. 7:30 Rugby – International (Replay) South Africa v New Zealand. 9:30 Fox Sports News 10:30 L Motorsport – Superbike World Championship Race one and the Supersport from Magny Cours. 1:35 Sky Sport – What’s On 2am L Motorsport – Superbike World Championship Race two from Magny Cours. 4am Golf – Presidents Cup (Highlights) 5am L Golf – Presidents Cup

SKY SPORT 2 7:30 My Country Song Show that presents emerging songwriters and singers from smalltown New Zealand. 8:30 Dying For A Smoke 9:30 M The Conspirator PGR 2010 Historical Drama. Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson. 11:30 Te Kaea 3 2 Midnight Closedown

DISCOVERY 6:30 Mythbusters PG 7:30 Mythbusters PG 8:30 Bullet Points PG 9:30 Strip The City PG 10:30 Car v Wild PG 11:30 Dirty Jobs Down Under PG 12:30 Extreme Drug Smuggling M 1:30 Auction Hunters PG 3pm Magic Of Science PG 7:30 Guns – The Men Who Made Them M 8:30 Sons Of Guns M 9:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 10:30 Auction Kings PG 11pm Auction Hunters PG 11:30 Dirty Jobs Down Under PG

MONDAY

12:30 American Guns M 1:30 River Monsters – Untold Stories PG 2:30 Off The Hook – Extreme Catches PG 3am Off The Hook – Extreme Catches PG 3:30 Dirty Jobs PG 4:30 Beyond Survival With Les Stroud PG 5:30 Time Warp PG

Miranda

10:00pm on TV One

SKY MOVIES

Gulliver's Travels 7:00pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS

6:55 Ghost Rider – Spirit Of Vengeance MVL 2011 Action Fantasy. Nicolas Cage, Ciaran Hinds. 8:30 The Double MV 2011 Crime. Richard Gere, Topher Grace. 10:10 Alex Cross MVS 2012 Action. Tyler Perry, Edward Burns. 11:50 Crazy Stupid Love MLS 2011 Comedy. Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling. 1:50 Foster PGL 2011 Drama. Toni Collette, Ioan Gruffudd. 3:20 Abduction MVL 2011 Action Thriller. Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins. 5:05 Friends With Kids MLS 2011 Comedy. Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt. 6:55 Katy Perry – Part Of Me PGL 2012 Documentary. 8:30 The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey MV 2012 Adventure. Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman. 11:20 Project X 18LS 2012 Comedy. Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper.

7:45 Down With Love MS 2003 Romantic Comedy. Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor. 9:30 The Sixth Sense MV 1999 Thriller. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette. 11:20 Remember Me MVLS 2010 Drama. Robert Pattinson, Emilie De Raven, Pierce Brosnan. 1:15 Keeping The Faith MS 2000 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman. 3:25 Saving Private Ryan 16V 1998 Drama. Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns. 6:10 The Rock 16VL 1996 Action. Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Nicolas Cage. 8:30 Jerry Maguire MLS 1996 Drama. Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding jr. 10:50 Superman Returns MV 2006 Action.

12:50 Apollo 18 16V 2011 Horror. 2:20 Foster PGL 2011 Drama. 3:50 Project X 18LS 2012 Comedy. 5:20 Abduction MVL 2011 Action Thriller.

1:20 Keeping The Faith MS 2000 Comedy. 3:25 The Rock 16VL 1996 Action. 5:40 Jerry Maguire MLS 1996 Drama.

MONDAY

6Oct13

11am Golf – European PGA Tour (Highlights) Seve Trophy – Day Three. From Saint-Nom-La-Breteche. Noon Sky Sport 365 12:30 Boxing – Bradley v Marquez 24/7 1pm Motorsport – FIA World Rally Championship (Highlights) Rally France – Day Two. From Strasbourg, France. 1:30 Sunday Footy Show A review and preview of all the weekend NRL league games. 3:30 L Rugby League – NSW Cup Grand Final – Cronulla Sharks v Windsor Wolves. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 5:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Grand Final – Panthers U20 v Warriors U20. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 8pm Best Of 40/20 8:30 L Rugby League – NRL Grand Final – Roosters v Sea Eagles. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

MONDAY

Midnight L Motorcycling – British Superbikes Championship Silverstone – Round 11. 1am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Canterbury v Counties Manukau. 1:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Taranaki v Tasman. 2am Motorsport – FIA Formula One Championship (Highlights) Korean Grand Prix. 2:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Grand Final – Roosters v Sea Eagles. 3am Rugby – International (Highlights) Argentina v Australia. 3:30 L Motorcycling – British Superbikes Championship Silverstone – Round 11.

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DAVEY – Nicholas and Julia (nee Lake) are delighted to announce the safe arrival of Harry William Davey on September 23, 2013, at 10:10am weighing 7lb 10oz. A little brother for Isobel Sophie Davey.

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Wind km/h less than 30 fine

HORNE, Julie Ann (previously Nolan) – Jun 16, 1955 - Oct 06, 2012. Quietly thought of everyday, missed much more than words can say. Love always, Lisa, Dan and Brodie, Billy, Janene, Hayley, Madeline and Liam, Deb, Pete and Isabel and Tania and Jack.

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BISHOP - WRIGHT – James and Angela, along with their parents Karen and David, Sharyn and Cyril are delighted to announce their engagement on September 28, 2013 in Dunedin.

30 to 59 fog

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

Canterbury Plains

FZL: 2800m

TOMORROW

FZL: Lowering to 2400m

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TUESDAY

Rain spreading to most places and snow lowering to 1000 metres. Southeasterlies.

Rain with cold southerlies.

TUESDAY

Snow with cold southeasterlies.

WEDNESDAY

Snow clearing and southeasterlies dying away.

Rain clearing. Southerlies dying away.

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10:36 4:46 10:55 5:08 11:21 5:29 11:40 5:54 12:08 6:16 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Good fishing Rise 6:43 am Set 8:01 pm

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Rise 7:15 am Set 9:09 pm

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Nelson

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fine

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mainly fine

Timaru

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 12:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 4:00 am, yesterday 380.5 Nth Ashburton at 12:00 pm, yesterday

19.3

Sth Ashburton at 9:15 am, yesterday

13.5

Rangitata Klondyke at 12:00 pm, yesterday

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Mainly fine with variable high cloud, but rain at times near the divide. Wind at 1000m: NW 40 km/h. Wind at 2000m: NW 60 km/h.

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TODAY

SMITH - KELLY – Roger and Karen Smith are thrilled and delighted to TOMORROW announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah to Fine with northwesterlies. Russell Kelly, son of Robert MONDAY and Marion Kelly U.K.

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Mainly fine with high cloud. However, patchy morning rain in the south and isolated afternoon showers in the north. Wind at 1000m: NW breezes. Wind at 2000m: NW 40 km/h.

Low cloud or fog retreating to the coast during the morning and fine spells increasing. A few spots of early light rain possible in the south. Light winds.

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rain

Saturday, 5 October 2013

A weak ridge lies over the North Island on Sunday, while a disturbed northwest flow covers the South Island. A trough followed by a southerly change moves north over the South Island on Monday, while a low develops on the trough over the Tasman Sea. The low is likely to move onto the North Island on Tuesday.

mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

Rain and cold southerlies developing.

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SIM – Matthew & Nicola (nee Doig) are proud to announce the safe arrival of James Macgregor Sim, born on September 26, 2013, weighing 7lb 15oz. Many thanks to Anna Campbell, and the staff at Christchurch Womens and Ashburton Maternity.

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TUESDAY: Rain with cold southerlies. MAX

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ACROSS 1. Leaving work cold and turning the key on the driver’s side (8,3) 9. The French back acknowledgement of applause where funny bone’s concerned (5) 10. Float-car in need of modification, in part (10) 11. Gold – that is, Latin – college (5) 12. Public performer giving painter beginning of exhibition (7) 14. Of which Isle might one supply an operator? (3) 15. A rude fiddle played with fever? (4) 16. Polar feature of pack-ice worried the king less (6) 17. Looks down his nose, does he? Cobblers – he’s one! (4) 21. Get on to being off the main branch? (4) 22. He comes from the North of France to a British public school (6) 23. Get one out, out – but admit the section-leader (4) 26. Iris lost one at first, returning as a schoolmaster (3) 27. It commemorates late entry in the pit a philosopher revealed (7) 29. To lift the Gunners is beginning of experiment (5) 30. Referee shortly needs her to sing about being a revivifier (10) 31. Plants Act One after

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CRYPTIC Across 1. Commandment 8. Epigrams 9. Isle 10. Shade 13. Eyot 16. Term 17. Swan 18. Vies 20. Steps 24. Tour 25. Redolent 26. Summer-house Down 2. Ovid 3. March 4. Named 5. Exile 6. Sensitivity 7. Pertinacity 11. Aries 12. Evoke 14. Yawl 15. Free 19. Scrim 21. Their 22. Photo 23. Less QUICK Across 7. Extraordinary 8. Bump into 9. Uses 10. Agenda 12. Outage 14. Gag 15. Adjoin 17. Yellow 19. Deaf 21. Starship 23. Sanctimonious Down 1. Expunged 2. Drop in 3. Horn 4. Ideology 5. Insult 6. Free 11. Agnostic 13. Glorious 16. Office 18. Lose it 20. Exam 22. Ahoy

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beginning of Concerto (5) 32. Not being hidebound for nothing simple, too! (4-3-4) DOWN 2. He has long sentence in journal, if erudite enough (5) 3. Takes boot to pastry dish to get it going (4-5) 4. An upturn one was ahead of and got pinned down (6) 5. No time to change the National Theatre? Then don’t rub it in! (8) 6. Almost dropped on a criminal (5) 7. Declining to be up with an old crooner (6) 8. Men turn the TV low, but it might take a year (11) 12. Patricians are to carry Acis out

Terry’s hot deal! SUDOKU

QUICK 1. Fate (10) 7. Female relative (5) 8. Secrecy (7) 10. Detour (8) 11. Smile (4) 13. Gruesome (6) 15. Very busy (6) 17. Uncertain (colloq) (4) 18. Undesirables (8) 21. Item of clothing (7) 22. Similar (5) 23. Children (10)

DOWN 1. Beg (5) 2. Vote down (8) 3. Bug (6) 4. Level (4) 5. Perpetrator (7) 6. Fascinating (10) 9. Manacled (10) 12. Identical (8) 14. Conflagration (7) 16. Pause (6) 19. Pseudonym (5) 20. Skinny (4)

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(11) 13. Rank it’s up to the Queen to provide (4) 18. Scorch one will get rid of to be polished (9) 19. First-class motorcar changes one’s life at a shot? (3-5) 20. Old colonnade to find in South Africa (4) 24. Change to a tapering riding-whip (6) 25. Taxonomic groups show army leader to be curtailed (6) 26. Dismisses the very upset of cross-stroke in a letter (5) 28. Cries, ‘Calling Mr So-andso!’ – bound to be booked! (5)

YOUR STARS by Forecasters

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Falling in your relationship sector this weekend’s New Moon brings a chance to draw a new line in the sand and make a commitment to the future. TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) The weekend’s New Moon in your work sector is a chance to embrace new opportunities and new beginnings, with a chance for a fresh start. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) While you may struggle at times to find a balance between work and play, the weekend’s New Moon in a playful part of your chart should help. CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) With things becoming busier on the work front from next week, the weekend is an opportunity to catch up with family or any housekeeping. LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) This weekend’s New Moon will give your communications and ideas a fresh broom to work with, making this a good time for a fresh start. VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) Right now it’s about choosing to believe in yourself, aware that it’s what you believe you deserve that you’re more likely to attract. LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Weekend or not there’s a need to keep your money hat on, with a chance to define your income expectations and work with a smart head for money. SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) With Mercury spending his first weekend in your sign and Venus her last you have a chance to put heart and mind on the same page. SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) The scene is set for a lazy weekend, where you’re able to let your imagination wander and get lost in your daydreams, guilt free. CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) An important weekend for putting heart and mind on the same page. Career matters needs to be balanced with the social forces in play. AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Use any downtime over the weekend to step back and with heart and mind on the same page, consider your options. PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20) With Mercury spending his first weekend in an adventurous part of your chart and Venus her last, this is also a time for going off script.

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