Ashburton Guardian, Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Home tour nets $25k for hospice

$25,000 for the organisation.

Hospice Mid Canterbury’s Christmas Experience home tour fundraising leaders say they’re “totally overcome’’ at raising

The funds predominantly came from selling 230 tickets to Sunday’s home tour, which saw the paying public view six Ashburton houses all decorated with a Christmas theme. The tour also included a visit and viewing of Trott’s Garden and proceeds from stallholders on site.

Organiser Anne Marie Leech had hoped to sell 300 tickets, but

was thrilled at the return and grateful for everyone who bought tickets.

“(We’re) ecstatic with this amount, which goes into the Hospice Mid Canterbury’s coffers for much-needed services to the people of Mid Canterbury,’’ she said.

Leech said every dollar raised was important because the tour’s money-making success was vi-

tal for the future of Hospice Mid Canterbury, which needed at least $200,000 to run its annual operation.

“Every dollar is precious as hospice does not receive any Government funding,’’ she said.

Hospice Mid Canterbury is a vital organisation to the district, having been providing free non-clinical support to individuals and families dealing with

life-limiting illnesses since 2015, Leech said.

The home tour proceeds would go back to paying for the various hospice services from a range of therapies and support offered to individuals and their caregivers.

“The charity, Hospice Mid Canterbury, was the catalyst for people who did purchase tickets,’’ Leech said. “It’s a charity, which resonates with a lot of people.’’

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Magic of Christmas: Charlotte Nelson and Josh Bennett looking at the nativity scene at the chapel at Trott’s Gardens, which was the final destination of the Hospice Mid Canterbury Christmas Experience fundraising home tour on Sunday. The tour raised $25,000 for hospice. Photo: Julie McGrath.

Life-changing news for cystic fibrosis sufferers

The funding of Trikafta, a medication that will bring huge benefits for people with cystic fibrosis, is “life-changing” for Ashburton’s Caitlin Hopkins.

Caitlin, 20, and her parents Jess and Dan, heard the news yesterday, and were initially in shock.

“It came out of the blue for Caitlin. We didn’t expect it,” Jess Hopkins said.

“We were so emotional, and then people started ringing and texting us. We had to assure Caitlin it was happening.”

“We’re told Trikafta will add another 27 years to Caitlin’s life. That’s wonderful. She’s had her struggles and has been very sick at times.”

Caitlin only returned home from Christchurch Hospital last week after suffering from a blood infection and Jess said those times have been difficult.

“It’s been hard on Caitlin when she’s separated from us and her friends,” Jess said.

Ashburton mother, Dominique Ward, whose two-year-old daughter, Georgia, has CF said she won’t have to move overseas to get the medicine.

“It’s the best news we’ve ever had,” she said.

Georgia will qualify for Trikafta in four years’ time. In the meantime, she’ll continue with receive existing treatments to keep her healthy.

“It means she’ll be able to live an almost normal life,” Ward said.

Trikafta works for about 90 per cent of people with cystic fibro-

sis. It increases lung function and weight gain, reduces the burden of treatment, improves the quality of life and extends life expectancy.

Pharmac announced yesterday that it has reached provisional agreement to fund the medicine for people with CF aged six years and over.

It will be available from April 2023.

Chief executive for Cystic Fibrosis New Zealand (CFNZ), Lisa Burns, said the announcement “is a major milestone that will deliver access to a medicine which will prolong the lives of hundreds of Kiwis with CF”.

“Our community no longer needs to leave Aotearoa to access

this medicine, and those who have left already can now come home to be with their families and whanau.”

Since application was made to Pharmac in July 2021, “the last 16 months has been a rollercoaster for our CF community. But this latest news means that there is now light at the end of

this tunnel,” Burns said.

“Trikafta should now be the trailblazer to show how modern medicines like this can be funded in New Zealand.”

She explains Trikafta can give people with CF the equivalent of 27 more years at full health when compared to current supportive treatments.

Malcolm Hopwood

Jess (left) and Caitlin Hopkins are over the moon that the life-changing drug for cystic fibrosis sufferers, Trikafta, will be funded in New Zealand by Pharmac.

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RMA reform could save $149m/year

Jonathan Leask

Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown says it’ll be important to carefully examining the details of the new Resource Management Act (RMA) legislation.

The Government has revealed sweeping changes to the RMA with a plan to scrap the act completely and replace it with three new pieces of legislation.

That would see 100 RMA plans in force around the country reduced to just 15 regional ones, aimed at speeding up the time it takes to gain resource consent for housing and major infrastructure.

It’s also predicted to slash the cost of gaining consent by 19 per cent, or $149 million a year.

“Many parties, from councils to developers and from planners to environmentalists, have become very frustrated with the time, cost, uncertainty and impact on the environment of getting a resource consent under the RMA,” Brown said.

“So, in that light, (the) council

welcomes the review.

“Whether the new regime will solve the problems of the RMA or not, and exactly how council and the community will be impacted is not clear, and in reality, only time will really tell and hopefully the claimed benefits will materialise.”

An Environment Canterbury spokesperson said it was too early to understand the impacts the changes would have on ECan’s work.

“Reform of the RMA is a once-in-a-generation opportunity and we are committed to playing our part in making reform a success.

“There is a lot to like about the new Natural and Built Environments Act and Strategic Planning Act, and we look forward to considering this important legislation in detail over the coming weeks.”

The big guy brings it in

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Compliance cost is ‘bureaucracy gone mad’

BY JONATHAN LEASK

Spending $20,000 to confirm something you are already well aware of is “bureaucracy gone mad”, Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown says.

Audit NZ has advised the Ashburton District Council that any statements made in its annual report concerning drinking water compliance need to be independently validated by a qualified external party.

That means they are facing an estimated $20,000 cost to confirm that none of its schemes at present are bacteriological and protozoal compliant.

“We know we don’t comply. We know that,” Brown said.

“But the auditor wants someone to come in and do a report to tell us that we don’t comply. It will cost us upwards of $20,000, and then we’ll both agree we don’t

comply. It’s a waste of $20,000.”

Chief executive, Hamish Riach, explained that the issue is the independent verification of the testing regime and avoiding the annual report being red-flagged.

“While I agree it’s madness, and we agree that getting the independent assessment just to say we don’t comply feels wasteful, we have taken a view that having a qualified audit report based on our non-compliance of Three Waters is not a particularly desirable place for the council to be,” Riach said.

It is money that would have been better spent towards the planned works to make the schemes compliant, which has been budgeted for, Brown said.

“It’s a priority so that we do comply. We budgeted for it, let’s get it done,” Brown said.

Riach said it was not that simple.

“We simply can’t do everything we want to do with the resources we have available.”

He said Ashburton and councils across the country were struggling with balancing their business as usual and work for the Government reforms.

The council has budgeted $3.2 million for the Ashburton supply and $324,000 in Rakaia to install UV disinfection equipment in the next two years.

Works are also budgeted for Dromore, Fairton, Hinds, Chertsey, and Mayfield.

“Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air”

Neil Brown

Father Christmas arrived in town over the weekend making a much-anticipated stop at Ashburton’s annual Santa parade on Saturday. East Street was lined with excited kids ready to meet their Christmas hero who brought up the rear of the parade which had about 20 floats in it.

Participants ranged from the Ashburton Pipe Band, to a number of clowns handing out lollies and chips to the kids.

Floats came in all shapes and sizes, from a Buzzy Bee, to larger B-double truck and trailers from Talley’s.

“Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air”

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What’s the Guardian doing in Mona Square?

Malcolm Hopwood

Historian Michael Hanrahan is puzzled about what the Ashburton Guardian was doing in Mona Square.

Hanrahan was close to completing a book on relocated buildings throughout Mid Canterbury, when he received a 70-year-old cutting from The Hub, a popular publication from Mid Canterbury Transport.

In it he read about the achievements of bridge builder and relocation expert, Phil Norman, who’d moved many historic buildings in and around Ashburton to new sites.

They included shifting Somerset Hotel from the corner of East and Burnett streets to Tancred Street, Pendarves School to Chertsey, Buchanan’s Mill from Wakanui to West Street and the bottom storey of The Guardian from Burnett to Mona Square.

Hanrahan, a former newspaperman himself, is intrigued at the move 100 years ago and would like to know more. He’s been in touch with Ashburton Museum but would now like the help of Guardian readers.

He’s even prepared to delay his publication in case people have historic information and photos of the shift.

Hanrahan has identified 150 major buildings that have been relocated over the past two centuries and is aware of more but is limiting himself to the ones he’s researched.

“I was intrigued to find out what they were and why and how they were moved,” he said. “Of particular interest was the methods used to transport them and how successful the relocation was.”

He’s also seeking photos of the original Tinwald Scout den on either Bryant Street or Lagmhor Road and Greenstreet School which has now become Green-

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$31k boost for education trust LIFE EDUCATION TRUST

A Christmas windfall has come at the right time for Mid and South Canterbury’s Life Education Trust.

The trust has received $31,390 from Lion Foundation, administered by Braided Rivers Community Trust.

Chairperson of Life Education Trust, Jeff Paul, described the grant as amazing. “Funding like this is something we really depend on,” he said.

“The amount has come at a time when we’re finalising next year’s budget.”

He said the funding will contribute towards the salaries of its two educators and part-time administrator.

“They play a vital role in getting Life Education’s message out to about 8000 chil-

dren who we visit annually,” Paul said.

In all Lion Foundation provided $181,115 to nine Mid Canterbury organisations.

The other eight are Allenton Sports Club ($40,000), Hakatere Youth Sports Club ($36,981), Phoenix Pre-School ($20,664), NZ Deerstalkers Association, Ashburton branch ($16,459), Ashburton Golf Club ($14,390), Waireka Croquet Club ($10,000), Ashburton Cadet Corps ($7356) and Zonta Club of Ashburton ($3875).

In addition Braided Rivers funded $4000 towards Ashburton’s Santa Parade, Stacey Hooper ($1500) to attend national race walking events and CCS ($650) for rental costs.

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intends to complete his book in the new year and then hand it on to the Museum and Historical Society for publication and release.

Above – The former Seafield scout den, a converted 1880s homestead, was relocated in 2006 to a new home on Winterslow Road. It was carted by two traction engines and vintage tractors.

A recent relocation was the Information Centre on the East Street Green. Built in 2005, it was relocated in 2020 to Ashburton Airport.

CROPS 2022 omits to mention soil

BY PAT DEAVOLL

The CROPS 2022 field day held at FAR’s Chertsey Arable Research Site on November 23 missed the mark, according to soil scientist John Baker, pioneer of the low-disturbance, no tillage revolution for farming in New Zealand.

“What bothered me was that emissions reduction in soil wasn’t even discussed at the field day,” Baker said.

“That was absolutely staggering and made me wonder ‘what’s going on with the organisers’ agendas’ that soil could be left out of it.”

It seems as though the Government is fixated on planting pine trees to halt emissions, but nobody on tractable land wants to do this, he said.

“No farmer who grows crops or livestock wants trees. This is the reaction I am getting and I can understand this but what staggers me is that farmers don’t understand the huge amount of emissions that come from cultivating the soil.

“If you cultivate one hectare

of soil you emit about the same amount of carbon equivalents as 1200 cows standing on that hectare belching for a day.”

So everybody is worried about the emissions coming from animals, but no-one is worrying about the soil – it is the biggest emitter, Baker said.

About 20 per cent of all the CO2 in the atmosphere comes

from the world ploughing the soil to feed itself. That’s a heck of a lot!

Baker told field day organisers he wouldn’t come all the way down to Canterbury (from Fielding) for the conference but would submit a written question to the panel. He did this, mentioning that about 9.5 million tonnes of CO2 goes into the atmosphere from one million hectares of

cultivated land reseeded in New Zealand each year – but his question never came up.

“This was very disappointing,” he said, as he was listening to the event online.

Talking to other soil scientists they couldn’t believe that the issue was never brought up, Baker said.

“Regenerative agriculture is

all about getting the soil biology going. Carbon is stored in three places in the world – in the oceans, in the soil and in the animals and plants that grow on the soil.

“If we banned the plough and everyone did low disturbance low tillage – we would mitigate something like 24 per cent of emissions from farming.

“And yet nobody seems to be giving this any traction.”

Baker said he went down to parliament and spent time with James Shaw (when he was in opposition) and told him about the soil issue “but when he got into government as Minister for Climate Change he didn’t want to know.

“This was disheartening.

“So I’m am staggered that if you hold a field day in Canterbury, the heart of ploughing, in mid-November, why soil doesn’t get mentioned?”

Everybody is worried about the emissions coming from animals but not about the soil.

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Good progress in lower Hinds catchment

An Environment Canterbury (ECan) study of water quality in the Hekeao/Hinds catchment shows the impressive work that’s being carried out, says ECan zone delivery lead for Ashburton, Henry Winchester.

“This review is a way to take stock and re-set.

“It’s a way of checking on the work and helping the working party to get on top of things,” he said.

The working group looked at each of the 16 recommendations made in 2016 by the Hinds Drains Working Party (HDWP), to see how many had been followed through on.

The HDWP was formed in 2014 by the Ashburton Water Zone Committee. It was given the job of organising plans for the main water bodies of the Lower Hinds Plains. The committee worked with HDWP members to carry out the recommendations.

In June 2022, on behalf of the HDWP, ECan gave a five-year progress report of the jobs completed. The recently formed Hekeao Hinds Lowlands Catchment Group (HHLCG) was now focused on improving the drains. The group had applied for funding from Ministry for Primary Industry’s (MPI) Freshwater Fund, which helped members to ramp up their activity in the Hinds catchment.

Winchester said’ “We often hear about the problem – but this was a chance to look at the ‘doing’ and it’s impressive. Take the managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for example. This is world-class research that can now be used anywhere in the world.”

He also wanted to highlight the role that the community had played.

“These ideas rely on landowners wanting to give things a go like having weirs in their drains,

and new ways of stock management,” he said.

Local farmer and chair of the HDWP, Craig Fleming, was among those who’d been happy to make changes to his on-farm processes to help the environment.

His long list of work included riparian plantings, fitting a border deflector to prevent fertiliser entering the drains, making plans for winter grazing to protect drains, and making sure irrigation screens met standards for fish protection.

He thought the way in which various groups had come together during the HDWP process had given farmers the go-ahead that their environmental actions were on track.

“We all have an interest in improving water quality. The remedies are tricky and will take time, but I really think farmers want the best for the environment around them,” Fleming said.

New directors step up for Ruralco board

Last month’s Ruralco AGM said goodbye to director and chair, Jessie Chan, and independent director, Brent Wheeler.

Three candidates stood forward for two vacancies on the board -former lawyer and contract milker from Hinds, Kate Beaumont-Smith; accountant and equity partner in a small dry stock farm and calf rearing operation, Rhea Booker; and director and Dunsandel dairy farmer, Tony Coltman.

Booker and Coleman were elected – Coltman for a third term on the board.

New independent director, Helen van Orton, a professional director with 20 years of experience was elected.

The board will appoint the new chair at its next meeting in December.

Ruralco shareholders faced compliance issues, challenging weather patterns, Covid interruptions, on-farm inflation and production costs – all of which created challenges.

“While commodity prices remain high for many agricul-

tural sectors, input costs have put pressure on our farmers and reduced overall margins,” said Chan.

“Fuel and fertiliser costs have been up there, but also price increases because of supply issues and labour shortages from the fallout of Covid-19.

“Weather and compliance continue to make challenges for the farming community and Ruralco.”

Ruralco achieved positive results for 2022 through some increases and through market share and had shown over the financial year that seasonal expenses were under control, said Chan.

The business continued to grow its group turnover, recording $279.1 million compared to $245.3 million last year. Gross profit slightly increased to $12.0 million compared to $10.6 million in the previous year. Group equity at the end of the 2022 financial year was $17.3 million, up from last year’s $16.9 million.

Jessie Chan: This is an exciting time to join Ruralco’s professional and experienced board of directors.

A review of water quality in the Hekeao/Hinds catchment highlights the impressive work that’s being carried out.

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A key moment in media history

Willie Jackson is fast becoming my favourite politician.

Jackson is the Broadcasting Minister, who has kept to his word by putting the heat on tech titans Google and Meta (the parent company of Facebook) to force them to pay a “fair price” to New Zealand media companies, like the Ashburton Guardian, for news content we produce.

It’s content that those internet giants share on their online platforms at no cost and reap near unimaginable wealth and power from it.

Jackson knows that’s just unfair, and it has been for years, so he’s taken it on himself to push for change to keep New Zealand news media organisations sustainable and relevant because he knows how important that is to society and democracy in this country.

Already, there have been some

significant moves, with Google having signed commercial content deals with the likes of BusinessDesk, Radio New Zealand, online site Newsroom and NZME, which owns the New Zealand Herald. The Guardian was also involved in discussions with Google but is now part of a collective of New Zealand media seeking to bargain with those super platforms.

Jackson will tell you that those initials deals are a good start but it’s nowhere near enough for a man who seems to have a particular soft spot to ensure the smaller regional players are looked after in the land-

scape-changing time. And he’s right because the Stuffs, NZMEs and Allied Press corporate organisations already do pretty well, with their obvious advantages in resources and scale.

“It’s also about the Northern Advocates. It’s about the Whanganui Chronicles,’’ Jackson said, rattling off two of many smaller media organisations he is just as focused on supporting.

“We’ve got to give hope to the small guy.’’

That hope gained momentum on Sunday and it should delight Guardian readers and supporters.

Because thanks to Jackson’s work, he has confirmed that the Government has signed off on new legislation that would force the global platforms to show us the money.

That legislation would be modelled on similar laws in Australia and Canada, which would

require Google and Meta to pay for the local news they use, with estimates suggesting $30 million to $50 million could flow back to New Zealand media.

Jackson has labelled the new legislation a “backstop”, which would be enacted if the big internet platforms didn’t voluntarily strike deals with Kiwi media outlets. They’ll have three to six months to do so before the mandatory mediation process would begin.

Looking at what’s happened in Australia and now Canada, it’s highly likely the internet behemoths would be desperate avoid any legal process and would strike up deals with New Zealand media companies before then. Fair deals have only really been struck in countries where there was legislation or the threat of it.

“In Canada, deals are being done everywhere,’’ Jacksons said.

“They’ve just done 150 deals

because they (Google and Facebook) don’t want to go legislation.”

So, that sounds grand, but will it really work? Will fair compensation be dished out because we all understand the power and global influence of Meta and Google?

Well, there is growing optimism it could happen because a precedent was set in Australia last year. Our media friends across the ditch went through the very same process, with reported payments in excess of $A200m being paid to Australia media companies by Google and Meta.

Now it’s New Zealand’s turn in what is a key moment in our media history.

Without that long overdue compensation, some of our local media company colleagues could face a very tough future.

Willie Jackson reckons that won’t happen on his watch.

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Debbie Boon’s love of property and sales has cemented her place in the real estate sector for over a decade. Debbie promotes the Ashburton area as a great place to live, work and play.

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1:30 Hollyoaks PG 0

2pm Coronation Street PG 3 0

3pm Tipping Point 3 0 4pm Te Karere 2 4:30 Barkley Manor PG 3 0 5pm The Chase 3 0 6pm 1 News at 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 The Wheel With Michael McIntyre PG Three contestants hope to win a fortune, with celebrity guidance. 0 8:20 Lotto 8:25 The Wheel With Michael McIntyre PG Continued. 0 8:40 N Swipe, Match, Murder – The Disappearance of Grace Millane 16C The story of the hunt for the killer of British backpacker Grace Millane and how her attacker was brought to justice. 0 9:40 Coronation Street PG 0 10:40 1 News Tonight 0 11:10 Shortland Street PGV 3 0 11:40 F Good Sam PG 0 Thursday 12:35 Under the Dome MV 0 1:20 Te Karere 3 2 1:45 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

2:45 Heroes Reborn MVC 3 0 3:30 N Madam Secretary PG 0 4:15 Bob Hearts Abishola PG 3 0 4:35 Hollyoaks PG 3 0 5am Infomercials

The Block Australia, at 7:30pm

6am AM 3 9am Infomercials 10:30 Gold Rush PG 3 0 11:30 Newshub Live at 11:30am Noon M Christmas

Unwrapped 3 2020 Comedy. A reporter learns the true meaning of Christmas when she investigates a millionaire, who insists that all the gifts in town are from none other than Santa himself. Marco Grazzini, Amber Stevens West. 0

2pm Return to Amish M 0 3pm Top Secret Swimming Holes 0

3:55 Kitchen Crashers 0

4:25 Extreme Couponing PG 3 0 4:55 Gold Rush PG 0 6pm Newshub Live at 6pm 0 7pm The Project 0 7:30 The Block Australia PG The teams are working on plush guest bedrooms; the challenge raises a lot of questions and the chance to nab the gnome. 0

8:35 Love It or List It Australia Anna and Simon believe they bought the worst house in one of Sydney’s best suburbs. 0 9:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 3 Mechanical disasters and a highstakes gamble threaten to derail the entire season for the Dirt Dogs and the Gold Gypsies. 0 10:35 Newshub Late 11:05 Ghosts of Shepherdstown M 0 5:30 AM Early 3

7:20 Doula MLSC 2021

Comedy. Troian Bellisario, Will Greenberg. 9:05 The King’s Man 16VLS 2021 Action.

11:15 Reminiscence MVC 2021 Sci-fi. 1:10 Last Night in Soho 16VLSC 2020 Horror.

Traffic Cops, at 7:30pm

6am Infomercials

8am The Moe Show 3 0

8:10 Pig Goat Banana Cricket PGV 0

8:35 Breadwinners PGV 0

9am Jeopardy 3

10am New Amsterdam MVC 0

11am Bull MC 3 0

Noon Parenthood MC

1pm House MVC 0

2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PG 3

3pm Wheel of Fortune

3:30 Jeopardy

3:55 Football – Fifa World Cup (HLS) Day 17. 0

4:25 The Hui 0

5:30 Prime News

6pm Sky Speed

6:30 The Middle PG 0

7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 Traffic Cops PGVC

PC Tom Strachan chases an uninsured car being driven by a man with a history of violent offences; police get into a standoff with a driver refusing to get out of his car. 0

8:30 Weather Gone Viral PGC 3 0

9:30 Sewer Squad MLC Drain busters Steve and Ivo rush to rescue a woman from a garden that is slowly being submerged in sewage. 0

10:30 Football – Women’s A-League (HLS)

11:35 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PG 12:30 Infomercials

Aussie Salvage Squad, at 9:30pm

6:30 Restaurant – Impossible 7:20 The Pioneer Woman

7:45 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen 8:10 Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cooking Course PG 9:05 Mysteries at the Museum PG 10am American Pickers PG 11am Stone House Revival

11:30 Restored by the Fords Noon Primark – How Do They Really Do It? 1pm Luxury For Less PG 2pm Shipping Wars 2:30 Border Security – Australia PG

3pm Restaurant – Impossible 4pm Rachel Khoo’s Christmas Chocolat!

5pm Mysteries at the Museum PG 6pm American Pickers PG 7pm Shipping Wars PG 7:30 Border Security – Australia PG Officers notice something amiss in a cooking pot coming from India –they discover a false bottom, hiding heroin.

8pm Newshub Live at 8pm

8:30 The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan PG 9:30 Aussie Salvage Squad PG Team Salvage countdown the top 10 toughest, dirtiest and most hardcore salvage missions in their history.

10:30 Shipping Wars PG 11pm Border Security – Australia PG 11:30 Beat Bobby Flay

Midnight Infomercials

6:30 Tamaiti Tu Winter 3

6:40 Purakau 3

6:50 Takaro Tribe 3

7am Darwin and Newts 3

7:10 Tamariki Haka 3

7:20 Te Nutube 3

7:30 Kids Kai Kart 3

7:40 He Rourou 3

7:50 Cube 3

8am Pukana 3 8:30 Oranga Ngakau 3

9:30 Whanau Living 3

10am David Rocco’s Dolce Africa 3 10:30 Toi Te Ora 3

11am Piri’s Tiki Tour PG 3

11:30 Hoiho Riding On PG

Noon Te Ao Tapatahi

12:30 Mura o te Ahi PG 3

1pm Arctic Secrets 3

2pm Toku Reo 3 2

2:30 Ako 3 2

3pm Tamaiti Tu Winter 3

3:10 Purakau 3 3:20 Takaro Tribe 3

3:30 Darwin and Newts 3 3:40 Tamariki Haka 3 3:50 Te Nutube 3

4pm Kids Kai Kart 3 4:10 He Rourou 3 4:20 Cube 3 4:30 Pukana 3 5pm Polyfest 3 5:30 Polyfest

6pm Haka Ngahau a-Rohe – Te Tau Ihu 3 6:30 Te Ao Marama

7pm Amplify 7:30 5 Minutes of Fame PG 8:30 M The Leisure Seeker MLS 2018 Adventure. A married couple go on a remarkable adventure in an old RV, travelling from Boston to the Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West. Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland.

10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke 3 11pm Te Ao Marama 11:30 Closedown

4:30 Shark Tank

5:30 A Place in the Sun –Winter Sun 6:30 Hoarders PG 3 7:30 Dog Rescuers PG Inspector Charlotte Melvin is left reeling from a shocking investigation.

8:30 24 Hours In Emergency MC Glyn has a fractured ankle after a building site accident.

9:30 911 Crisis Center MLC A year after dispatcher Donna Majoros took the 911 call before her mother died, she leans on her best friend Melinda more than ever.

10pm Snapped M A deadly shooting raises questions about an elderly man’s business dealings and his friendship with a much younger woman.

11pm New York Homicide 16VC 3

11:50 The Circus M 3 12:20 Infomercials

3:10 Candyman 16VC 2021 Horror. 4:40 Separation MVLC 2020 Horror. 6:25 Operation Mincemeat ML 2022 Drama.

Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen. 8:30 Venom – Let There Be Carnage MVL 2021 Action.

When a deranged killer also becomes host to an alien symbiote, Eddie Brock and Venom must put aside their differences to stop his reign of terror. Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson.

10:10 Songbird 16V 2020 Thriller. Immune to the Covid23 virus, a courier races across a dystopian landscape to save the woman he loves from an inhumane quarantine camp.

KJ Apa, Sofia Carson.

11:35 Here Today ML 2021 Comedy.

Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish.

Thursday

1:30 The Conjuring 3 – The Devil Made Me Do It 16VC 2021 Horror. 3:20 Gully 18VLSC 2021 Drama. 4:45 Pooka Lives! 16VLSC 2019 Horror.

7:25 Twilight MV 2008 Fantasy. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson. 9:25 Shopping 16VLC 2013 Drama. Kevin Paulo, Julian Dennison, Jacek Koman. 11:05 Gangster Squad 16VLS 2012 Action. Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone. 12:55 Carrie 16VLS 2013 Horror. Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde. 2:35 The Nice Guys 16VLSC 2016 Action Comedy. Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice. 4:35 Wonder PGL 2017 Drama. 6:30 Crazy Stupid Love MLS 2011 Comedy. Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling. 8:30 Everest MC 2015 Adventure. The story of New Zealand’s Rob Hall, who in May 1996, co-lead an expedition to ascend Mount Everest. Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley. 10:35 The Departed 16VL 2006 Crime.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson.

Thursday

1:05 In Time MVLC 2011 Sci-fi. 2:55 Conspiracy Theory MV 1997 Thriller.

5:10 The Blair Witch Project MLC 1999 Thriller.

6am Sky Speed

6:30 Football – Women’s

A-League Adelaide United v Western United. 6:45 Football – Women’s A-League Melbourne Victory v Wellington Phoenix. 7am L Football – Fifa World Cup Portugal v Switzerland. 11am The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Rugby – Gallagher Premiership 1pm Golf – PGA Tour Hero World Challenge Event. 2pm Golf – Asian Tour Indonesian Masters. 3pm Rugby –Gallagher Premiership Bath v Leicester Tigers. 5pm Rugby – Gallagher Premiership 6pm Basketball – NBL NZ Breakers v SE Melbourne.

6:30 Basketball – NBL NZ Breakers v Perth Wildcats. 7pm NBL Slam 7:30 Football – Fifa World Cup Portugal v Switzerland. 9:30 Football – Fifa World Cup Morocco v Spain. 11:30 Rugby –Gallagher Premiership Gloucester v Northampton Saints. Thursday

1:30 Rugby – World Sevens Series 3am Rugby – World Sevens Series 4:30 Rugby – Gallagher Premiership 5:30 NBL Slam

Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 4:20 The Graham Norton Show MLS 5:15 Who Do You Think You Are? PG Clare Balding. 6:20 Qi MLSC 6:55 EastEnders PG 7:25 Qi MLSC 8pm Would I Lie to You? PG Comedy panel show where contestants bluff about their secrets. 8:35 Dragons’ Den PG 9:40 Holby City MC Chloe needs to pluck up the courage to tell Evan she wants a divorce; Hanssen has to choose between work and his personal life. 10:45 Professor T MV 11:40 Midsomer Murders MVC Thursday 1:15 Qi MVSC 1:45 Qi MLSC 2:20 Would I Lie to You? PG 2:50 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:50 Holby City MC 4:55 Dragons’ Den PG

6:05 Man Caves PG 6:30 How Do They Do It? PG 6:55 Mysteries at the Museum PG 7:45 Alaska – The Last Frontier MLC 8:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier MLC 9:25 Fast N’ Loud MLC 10:20 Expedition Unknown 11:15 Mysteries of the Deep PG Shipwreck of Nazi Treasure. 12:10 Man Caves PG Kevin Jonas’s Main Street US Man Cave. 12:35 How Do They Do It? PG 1:05 Naked and Afraid XL MLC Goodbye Cruel Water World. 2:55 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail MLC 3:50 Deadliest Catch MLC 4:45 Alaska – The Last Frontier MLC 5:40 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 6:35 Deadliest Catch MLC 7:30 Deadliest Catch MLC 8:30 Deadliest Catch Special MLC 9:30 Moonshiners MLC 10:30 Impossible Repairs PG 11:25 Naked and Afraid MLC Thursday 12:15 Alaska – The Last Frontier MLC 1:05 Aliens in Alaska PG 1:55 Deadliest Catch MLC 2:45 Naked and Afraid MLC 3:35 Moonshiners MLC 4:25 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail MLC 5:15 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG

Swipe, Match, Murder – The Disappearance of Grace Millane,

6am AM 3 9am Infomercials

10:30 Gold Rush PG 3 0 11:30 Newshub Live at 11:30am

Noon M A Royal Christmas Ball PG 3 2017 Romance. King Charles of Baltamia tracks down his high school sweetheart to be his date for the Christmas ball. She has a 17-year-old daughter, who could be his. Tara Reid, Ingo Rademacher. 0

2pm Cutthroat Kitchen PG 0

3pm Top Secret Swimming Holes 0

3:55 Kitchen Crashers 0

4:25 Extreme Couponing PG 3 0

4:55 Gold Rush PG 0

6pm Newshub Live at 6pm 0

7pm The Project 0

7:30 The Block Australia PG The Blockheads get a fascinating insight into the cultural heritage of the land. 0

8:30 The Graham Norton Show Graham welcomes the biggest stars in the world for conversation, laughs and music. 0

9:30 The Hustle NZ 16 Albert and Kris work hard and play harder, while Harper suffers for his art. 0

10pm Newshub Late 10:30 NCIS – LA M 3 0 11:30 Breaking Amish M 3 0 Friday

12:25 Infomercials 5:30 AM Early 3

6:05 A Mouthful of Air MLC

2021 Drama. Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock.

7:50 Georgetown 16LC 2021 Crime. Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave.

9:30 Psycho Wedding Planner MVLSC 2017 Thriller. Heather Morris, Fiona Vroom.

11am The Many Saints of Newark 16VLSC 2021 Drama. Michael Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Vera Farmiga. 1pm Kimi 16VLSC 2022 Thriller. Zoe Kravitz, Rita Wilson.

8am The Moe Show 3 0

8:10 Pig Goat Banana Cricket PGV 0

8:35 Breadwinners PGV 0

9am Jeopardy 3 10am New Amsterdam MVLC 0 11am Bull MC 3 0

Noon Parenthood MC

1pm House MVC 0

2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PG 3

3pm Wheel of Fortune

3:30 Jeopardy

4pm American Pickers PGC 3 Mike uncovers vintage relics from a time when toys could kill; Danielle breaks a sweat over a trunk of rare concert t-shirts.

5pm Rural Delivery 0

5:30 Prime News

6pm The Middle PG 0

7pm Pawn Stars PG

7:30 N Darcey Bussell’s Wild Coasts of Scotland PGC

Beginning on the Isle of Skye, Darcey tries scallops fresh from the loch, has a crack at step dancing and goes wild swimming. 0

8:30 New Zealand Rugby Awards Recognising New Zealand rugby’s top performers of 2022. 0 10:30 The Crowd Goes Wild PG 11pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PG Midnight Infomercials

6:30 Notting Hill MLS 1999 Comedy. Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe. 8:35 Fight Club 18VL 1999 Thriller. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt. 10:50 Twilight Saga – Eclipse MV 2010 Fantasy. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson.

Motorway Cops – Catching Britain’s Speeders, at 9:30pm

6:30 Tamaiti Tu Winter 3 6:40 ZooMoo 3 6:50 Taki Atu Taki Mai 3 7am Darwin and Newts 3 7:10 Smooth 3 7:20 Te Nutube 3 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 He Rourou 3

7:50 Kainga Whakapaipai 3

8am Polyfest 3 8:30 Oranga Ngakau 3 9:30 Whanau Living 3

10am Off the Grid 3 10:30 Toi

Te Ora 3 11am 5 Minutes of

Fame 3 Noon Te Ao Tapatahi

12:30 M The Leisure Seeker

MLS 2018 Adventure. 2:30 Ako 3

2 3pm Tamaiti Tu Winter 3

3:10 ZooMoo 3 3:20 Taki Atu

PG 11am Stone House Revival 11:30 Restored by the Fords Noon Aussie Salvage Squad PG 1pm The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan PG 2pm Shipping Wars PG 2:30 Border Security – Australia PG 3pm Restaurant –Impossible 4pm Bizzare Foods – Delicious Destinations 4:25 Rick Stein’s Cornwall 5pm Mysteries at the Museum PG 6pm American Pickers PG 7pm Shipping Wars PG 7:30 Border Security – Australia PG 8pm Newshub Live at 8pm 8:30 Ridley M 9:30 Motorway Cops – Catching Britain’s Speeders PG PC Amy Hollis is on the hunt for a drink driver on a late-night wrecking spree.

10:30 Shipping Wars PG 11pm Border Security – Australia PG 11:30 Beat Bobby Flay Midnight Infomercials

Taki Mai 3 3:30 Darwin and Newts 3 3:40 Smooth 3 3:50 Te Nutube 3 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 He Rourou 3 4:20 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 4:30 Whare Takataka 5pm Polyfest 3 5:30 Polyfest 3 6pm Haka Ngahau a-Rohe – Te Tau Ihu 6:30 Te Ao Marama

7pm Eke Panuku IRL 7:30 Nanakia 2.0 PG

The trio takes a trip out to sea on the biggest boat they have ever been on.

8pm Only in Aotearoa PG 3 8:30 Rage Against the Rangatahi PG Rangatahi spill the tea on alcohol awareness and what not to do at a party.

9pm Black Comedy MLC A sketch show by Blackfellas, an ensemble cast of Indigenous writers and performers.

9:30 Redfern Now MLC 10:30 Unsettled PG 11pm Te Ao Marama 11:30 Closedown

The crew scrambles to help Kyle when his ankle injury turns out to be worse than they thought. 9:30 A&E After Dark MLC

At Hull Royal Infirmary, Dr Chris treats a fisherman flown in from sea and Dr Dhruba spots a brain bleed in a patient who was hit by a truck.

10:30 Snapped M While a community searches for a missing businesswoman, police uncover a shocking dispute with a money-hungry relative. 11:30 New York Homicide 16VC 3 12:20 Infomercials

2:30 Dear Evan Hansen MLC 2021 Musical. 4:50 Resident Evil – Welcome to Raccoon City 16VL 2021 Action.

6:35 12 Mighty Orphans M 2021 Drama. Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen. 8:30 The Batman MVLC 2022 Action. When the Riddler begins murdering political figures, Batman is forced to investigate Gotham’s hidden corruption and his own family’s involvement. Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz.

11:25 The Card Counter 16VLSC 2021 Thriller. Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan. Friday

1:20 The Unholy MVLC 2021 Horror. 3am Malignant 18VLC 2022 Horror. 4:50 Campus Caller MVLSC 2017 Thriller.

12:55 Charlie’s Angels – Full Throttle MV 2003 Action. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu. 2:40 The Hunger Games –Mockingjay: Part 1 MV 2014 Adventure. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 4:40 The Hunger Games – Mockingjay: Part 2 MVC 2015 Adventure.

6:55 Sully ML 2016 Drama. Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart. 8:30 Straight Outta Compton 16VLSC 2015 Drama. In 1988, NWA revolutionises pop culture with its honest depiction of life in Southern LA, changing the face of hip-hop. O’Shea Corey 10:55 2012 Kate Friday 12:45 Breaking Dawn: Part 1 2011 2:40 Drama. New Moon

Darcey Bussell’s Wild Coasts of Scotland, at 7:30pm

The Hustle NZ, at 9:30pm

8am

6am AM 3 9am Infomercials 10:30 Gold Rush PG 3 0 11:30 Newshub Live at 11:30am Noon M Cooking Up Christmas PG 3 2020 Family. A woman who gets fired just before Christmas, takes a job with a professional baseball player as a chef for him and his kids. Meagan Holder, Lamman Rucker. 0

2pm Cutthroat Kitchen PG 0

3pm Top Secret Swimming Holes 0

3:55 Kitchen Crashers 0

4:25 Extreme Couponing PG 3 0

4:55 Gold Rush PG 0

6pm Newshub Live at 6pm 0

7pm The Project 0 7:30 M Men in Black – International M 3 2019

Action. Decorated Agent H and determined rookie M face a new alien threat that can take the form of anyone, including MIB agents. Chris Hemsworth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson. 0 9:45 Newshub Late 10:15 Chris Ramsey – Approval Needed 16 3

Comedian Chris Ramsey tackles big issues, small issues, issues that do not exist yet and ones he has invented. 0

11:50 Infomercials

6:20 Blackbird MLC 2019

Moe Show 3

6:30 Restaurant – Impossible 7:20 The Pioneer Woman 7:45 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen 8:10 Rick Stein’s Cornwall 8:45 Mysteries at the Museum PG 9:40 American Pickers PG 10:40 Stone House Revival 11:10 Restored by the Fords 11:40 Motorway Cops – Catching Britain’s Speeders PG 12:40 Ridley M 1:45 Shipping Wars 2:15 Border Security – Australia PG 2:45 Restaurant – Impossible 3:40 The Hairy Bikers Ride Route 66 PG 4:40 Mysteries at the Museum PG One of the biggest spy cases of the Cold War; evidence that may prove the existence of a legendary sea beast.

5:40 American Pickers PG Mike and Frank look through a collection of toys and carnival rides, try to buy an ice-cream sign, a trade stimulator and a thermometer.

6:30 Tamaiti Tu Winter 3 6:40 Purakau 3 6:50 Takaro Tribe 3 7am Darwin and Newts 3 7:10 Tamariki Haka 3 7:20 Te Nutube 3 7:30 Kids Kai Kart 3 7:40 He Rourou 3 7:50 Cube 3

8am Tribe 3 8:30 Oranga Ngakau 3 9:30 Whanau Living 3 10am Lucky Dip 3 10:30 Toi Te Ora 3

11am Rage Against the Rangatahi PG 11:30 Giants 3 Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 12:30 Only in Aotearoa MC 3 1pm The Walkers PG 3 1:30 Toku Reo 3 2 2:30 Ako 3 2 3pm Tamaiti Tu Winter 3 3:10 Purakau 3 3:20 Takaro Tribe 3 3:30 Darwin and Newts 3 3:40 Tamariki Haka 3 3:50 Te Nutube 3 4pm Kids Kai Kart 3 4:10 He Rourou 3 4:20 Cube 3 4:30 Tribe 3

5pm Polyfest 3 5:30 Polyfest 3

6pm Haka Ngahau a-Rohe – Te Tau Ihu 3 6:30 Te Ao Marama

7pm Pacific Island Food Revolution 3 8pm Going Native

10:45 Raw PGV

11:40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PG Saturday 12:40 How to Make It in America 18LSC 1:15 Closedown

1:30 Infomercials

6:40 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? UK 8pm Newshub Live at 8pm 8:30 Celebrity Gogglebox 16 A cast of celebrity households comment on highlights of the week’s television, from the comfort of their own sofas.

A documentary series featuring celebrated humourist and author Drew Hayden Taylor. 8:30 Persons of Interest PG Exploring declassified information about Michael Hyde, who was once closely watched by Australian intelligence.

Caves

6:05 Man

6am Basketball – NBL NZ

6:30 Hoarders PG 3

7:30 M The Vow PGLSC 2012 Romance. After a serious car accident, a woman has severe memory loss and her husband sets out to win her heart back. Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum.

9:40 An Unexpected Killer 16VC 3 When a young woman is found stabbed to death in her boyfriend’s home, detectives uncover a killer who had been above suspicion.

10:40 Snapped M 11:40 New York Homicide 16VC 3 12:30 Infomercials

Drama. Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill. 7:55 The Bad Twin MVLSC 2016 Thriller. Haylie Duff, Grace Van Dien.

9:30 Queenpins ML 2021 Comedy. Kristen Bell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

11:20 Every Breath You Take 16VC 2021 Thriller. Casey Affleck, Sam Claflin. 1:05 The Space Between MLSC 2021 Comedy. Kelsey Grammar, Jackson White.

2:45 A Day to Die 16VLC 2022 Action. Kevin Dillon, Bruce Willis.

4:30 Together Together MLS 2021 Comedy. 6pm SpiderMan – No Way Home MV 2021 Action. Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch.

8:30 King Richard MVL 2021 Drama. Armed with a clear vision and a 78-page plan, Richard Williams is determined to write his daughters, Venus and Serena, into the history books. Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis.

10:55 Stillwater MVLC 2021 Drama. Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin.

Saturday

1:15 Fatale 16VLS 2020 Thriller.

2:55 The Devil Has a Name 16VLSC 2021 Drama.

4:30 Operation Mincemeat ML 2022 Drama.

6:35 Unfaithful 16VS 2002 Drama.

Diane Lane, Richard Gere.

8:35 Something’s Gotta Give MLS 2003 Comedy.

Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves. 10:40 Eat Pray Love ML 2010 Romantic Drama. Julia Roberts.

1pm King Arthur – Legend of the Sword MVL 2017 Adventure. 3:05 American Gangster 16VLSC 2007 Crime.

5:55 Zodiac 16V 2007 Crime.

8:30 The Shallows MLC 2016 Drama Thriller. After the death of her mother, a medical student travels to a secluded beach for a surfing weekend, but a great white shark intrudes. Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada.

9:55 State of Play MVL 2009 Crime. A rising congressman and an investigative journalist are embroiled in a case of seemingly unrelated murders that threaten the nation’s power structures. Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck.

Saturday

Midnight The Three Musketeers MV 2011 Adventure. 1:50 The Green Hornet MVL 2011 Action.

Breakers v Sydney Kings.

8am The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 Cricket – Australia v West Indies Second Test, Day One. 9am New Zealand Rugby Awards 10:30 Basketball – NBL NZ Breakers v Sydney Kings. 11am NBL Overtime 11:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Semifinal – Leinster v Toulouse. Noon Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Semi-final – Racing 92 v La Rochelle. 12:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Final – Leinster v La Rochelle.

2:35 Rugby – Gallagher Premiership Bristol Bears v Leicester Tigers. 4:30 NBL Overtime 5pm New Zealand Rugby Awards 6:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Semi-final – Leinster v Toulouse.

6am Jeopardy! 6:20 Wheel of Fortune 6:40 Pawn Stars PG 7am Pawn Stars PG 7:25 Curb Your Enthusiasm MLS 8am The Middle PG 8:30 The Force MC 9am Chuck MVS 10am Dexter 16VLSC 11am Pawn Stars PG 11:30 Pawn Stars PG 11:55 Jeopardy! 12:20 Wheel of Fortune 12:45 Law and Order – Organized Crime 16VLC 1:35 Strike Back 18VLC 2:30 Chuck MVS 3:20 Storage Wars PGC 3:45 Storage Wars PG 4:10 Jeopardy! 4:35 Wheel of Fortune 5pm Curb Your Enthusiasm MLS 5:35 The Middle PG 6pm Pawn Stars PG 6:30 Pawn Stars PG 7pm The Force MC 7:30 Chuck MVS 8:25 The Hunters Club M 9:30 A1 – Highway Patrol MVLC 10:30 Dexter 16VLSC 11:35 Storage Wars PGC Saturday Midnight Storage Wars PG 12:25 Pawn Stars PG 1:15 The Force MC 1:40 A1 – Highway Patrol MVLC 2:30 The Hunters Club M 3:25 Ax Men ML 4:15 Dexter 16VLSC 5:10 Chuck MVS 6am Would I Lie to You? PG 6:30 Qi PG 7:05 EastEnders PG 7:35 The Bill MVC 8:25 A Touch of Frost MVC 10:15 Father Brown MV 11:05 Doc Martin MSC 11:55 Midsomer Murders MVSC 1:40 The Bill MVC 2:30 New Tricks MVC 3:30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 4:25 The Graham Norton Show MLS 5:25 Who Do You Think You Are? PG Emma Willis. 6:30 Qi MLSC 7:05 Keeping Up Appearances PG 7:40 Hypothetical ML Comedians are posed hypothetical situations and scored on how well they would deal with them. 8:30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 9:25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 10:20 Fawlty Towers PG 11pm Midsomer Murders MVSC Saturday 12:35 Qi MLSC 1:05 Hypothetical ML 1:55 Who Do You Think You

Are? PG 2:55 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 3:40 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 4:30 Fawlty Towers PG 5:05 All Round to Mrs Brown’s MLS

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Saturday, December 10, 2022

6am Te Karere 3 0 6:30 Country

Calendar 3 0 7am Rural

Delivery 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 8:30 Religious Programming 9am Lap of Luxury 3 0 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am F Beat the Chef 3 0 10:40 F

The Wheel Christmas Special PGC 3 0 11:50 Call the Midwife PG 3 0 1:10 Miranda Christmas Special PG 3 0 1:55 The Secrets of Santa’s Christmas Factory 3 0 2:55 10 Years Younger Changed My Life 3 0 3:55 F Secret

Spenders 0 5pm The Chase 3 0 6pm 1 News at 6pm 0 7pm Lingo 0 8pm Lotto 0 8:05 In For a Penny Christmas

Special Stephen Mulhern presents a festive edition of his fun-filled on-thestreet game show. 0

8:45 Joanna Lumley – The Northern Lights Joanna pursues a lifelong dream to track down the beautiful Northern Lights. 0

10:05 The Long Call M Matthew wrestles with the prospect of rebuilding a relationship with his mother and solving the murder case before anyone else gets hurt. 0 11:10 Bloodlands 16L 3 0

Sunday 12:20 F The Split PG 3 0 1:15 Queen Sugar PG 3 0 2:55 Infomercials 0 5:30 Religious Programming

3 0 11:35 Sabrina the Teenage Witch 3 12:05 That Animal Rescue Show 0 12:40 M Sincerely, Yours, Truly 2020 Romance. 0 2:30 The Good Witch PG 0 3:25 Nancy Drew PG 0 4:25 Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway PG 0 6pm N The Amazing Race PG The Amazing Race celebrates travelling one million miles when the 32nd race kicks off from LA. 0 7pm M Dirty Dancing PG 1987 Drama Romance. Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey. 0 9pm M I Feel Pretty MLS 2018 Comedy. After a bad fall, an insecure woman wakes up believing she is the most beautiful woman in the world, and sets out to achieve her wildest dreams.

Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams. 0 11:05 M Underworld Awakening 16V 2012 Action. 0 Sunday 12:45 M The Accountant 16VL 2016 Action. 0 2:55 M Michael PGL 1996 Fantasy Drama. 0 4:45 2 Tunes 5am Infomercials 5:30 Religious Programming

6am Charles Stanley PG 6:30 Infomercials 9:30 Extinct or Alive PG 3 0 10:30 Celebrity Family Feud PG 3 0 11:30 Love Yurts 0

Noon M The Christmas Apprentice PG 3 2016 Comedy. Abigail Hawk, Chevy Chase, David O’Donnell. 0 1:55 The Zoo PG 3 0

3pm Fresh Off the Boat PG 3 0 3:25 Fresh Off the Boat PG 3 0 3:55 The Masked Singer USA PG 3 0 4:55 Family Game Night 0 6pm Newshub Live at 6pm 0

7pm Wild Heroes 0 7:30 Crikey! It’s the Irwins PG Terri checks on Charlie the tiger to see if his tumours were successfully treated; Bindi helps develop a vaccine for Eden the Tasmanian devil. 0

8:30 M Open Water M 2003 Thriller. Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark-infested waters after their tour boat has left. Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis. 0

10:15 M Piranha 3DD 18 2012

Comedy Horror. After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas makes their way into a newly opened waterpark. Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hoff. 0

Sunday

Midnight Infomercials

5am Leading the Way PG 5:30 Charles Stanley PG

6am Infomercials

8am Breadwinners PGV 3 0

8:25 Moe and Friends 3 0

9am Steven Universe PG 0

10am SmackDown PGV 3 0

11am Raw PGV 3 Noon Judge

Judy PG 1pm The Crowd Goes

Wild 3 2:30 Traffic Cops PGVL 3 0

3:30 Truck Night in America

PGL 3 0 4:30 Football – Fifa

World Cup Day 18. 0 5pm Fishy Business PGC 0 5:30 Prime News

6pm Gordita Chronicles PGC 0

6:35 Raised by Refugees PGL 3 0 7:05 N Head of the Class PGC

A group of high school students acclimatise to their new teacher’s slightly unconventional methods. 0 7:40 N American Auto PGV Payne Motors gets a new CEO, whose leadership is slightly offset by her complete lack of car knowledge. 0

8:10 N Grand Crew MC 0 8:40 N The Kings of Napa 16LC The wine business has brought the King family success and acclaim, but the three siblings uncover deceptions that threaten to tear them apart. 0 9:35 Game of Thrones 18VLS 3 0

Sunday

Midnight NXT PGV

1am Infomercials

3:30 Closedown

3:50 L Football – Fifa World Cup Quarter-final – Teams TBC.

6am Infomercials 6:30 Restaurant – Impossible 7:20 The Pioneer Woman 7:50 The Hairy Bikers Ride Route 66 PG 8:40 Mysteries at the Museum PG 9:35 American Pickers PG 10:35 Strip the City PG 11:35 Escape to the Chateau – DIY 12:35 This is My House PG 1:50 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? UK 3:05 Bad Dog! PG 4:05 The Best Thing I Ever Ate PG 5pm Mysteries at the Museum PG 6pm American Pickers PG 7pm It’s Me or the Dog UK PG 7:30 Celebrity Catchphrase World Cup Special PG

A famous trio competes to win cash for their chosen charity by guessing a catchphrase through a series of clues.

8:30 M Awake 16 2021

Action. After a devastating global event wipes out all electronics and eliminates people’s ability to sleep, a former soldier may have found a solution with her daughter. Gina Rodriguez, Ariana Greenblatt. 10:20 Forged in Fire PG

Four smiths must forge together rusty chain mail and high quality steel to produce Knights Templar Crusader daggers.

11:15 Beat Bobby Flay 11:45 It’s Me or the Dog UK PG Staffordshire bull terrier Marley has destroyed furniture, walls and doors. 12:15 Infomercials

6:30 ZooMoo 3

6:40 Purakau 3

6:50 Taki Atu Taki Mai 3

7am Tamariki Haka 3

7:10 Darwin and Newts 3

7:20 Haati Paati 3

7:30 Potae Pai 3

7:40 Cube 3

7:50 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 8am Ariki 3

8:30 Pukana 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10:30 Ako 3

11am Polyfest Baradene College. 11:30 Polyfest 3 Noon Haka Pedia 3

12:30 Haka Life 3

1pm Whakatauki 3

1:30 Karanga – The First Voice 3

2pm Whaikorero PG 3

2:30 Iwi Anthems 3

3pm Persons of Interest PG 3

4pm Moving Out with Kanoa 3 Kanoa meets New Zealanders creating new lives as they relocate around the country.

5pm Going Native

Drew explores the people, ideas and hallowed spaces linked to Aboriginal spirituality.

5:30 Matau 3

6pm Piri’s Tiki Tour PGC 3

6:30 Waiata Nation 3

7pm M Jungle Shuffle 2014 Animated Whanau. Voices of Drake Bel, Jessica DiCicco.

8:40 M Song for Marion ML 2012 Comedy Drama.

When a pensioner honours his dead wife’s love of performing by joining the unconventional choir to which she belonged, it helps him build bridges with his estranged son. Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Eccleston.

10:15 Queer and Here PGC 10:45 Closedown

Glen tackles Jack’s inking; Sketch rids Ben of a silly tattoo; Alice waves her magic wand for Kamila; Jay fixes Matt’s backside-based chat-up line. 8:30 The Real Murders of Atlanta MVC 3

When a tech mogul is found dead in his bedroom, detectives quickly compile a long list of potential suspects.

9:30 M The General’s Daughter M 3 1999 Crime.

When the daughter of a wellrespected army commander is murdered, a detective finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point. John Travolta, Timothy Hutton.

11:50 Snapped MVC 3

Sunday 12:40 Infomercials

5am Top Chef PGL 3

6:35 Dream Horse PGL 2021 Drama. Toni Collette, Damian Lewis. 8:25 Licorice Pizza MLSC 2021 Comedy.

Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman.

10:35 Joe Bell MVLSC 2020 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, Connie Britton. 12:10 Last Night in Soho 16VLSC 2020 Horror. Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy. 2:05 South of Heaven 16VLSC 2021 Action.

Jason Sudeikis, Evangeline Lilly. 4:05 In the Heights PGL 2021 Musical. Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera.

6:25 Downton Abbey – A New Era PGL 2022 Drama. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith.

8:30 Ambulance 16VLSC 2022 Action. When a bank heist goes awry, Will and Danny Sharp hijack an ambulance containing a critically wounded cop and an ace EMT.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya AbdulMatenn II. 10:50 Spiral – From the Book of Saw 18VL 2021 Horror.

Chris Rock, Samuel L Jackson.

Sunday

12:25 Great White 16VLC 2020 Horror.

1:55 Gully 18VLSC 2021 Drama.

3:20 Old MVC 2021 Horror.

5:05 Georgetown 16LC 2021 Crime.

7:30 Daredevil MV 2003 Action Fantasy. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell. 9:15 Charlie’s Angels MV 2000 Action. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu. 10:55 In Time MVLC 2011 Sci-fi. Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried.

12:45 Conspiracy Theory MV 1997 Thriller.

3pm Deepwater Horizon ML 2016 Action.

4:45 Proof of Life MVL 2000 Action. 6:58 The Dark Tower MV 2017 Action. Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba. 8:30 The Social Network ML 2010 Drama.

Story of the evolution of Facebook, and how overnight success changed the lives of the Harvard classmates who created it. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield.

10:30 Troy MV 2004 Action.

Adaptation of Homer’s epic The Iliad, about a combined Greek attack on the city of Troy and the fate of the leading protagonists. Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom.

Sunday

1:10 The Perfect Storm ML 2000 Adventure.

3:20 Traffic 18VLSC 2000 Crime. 5:45 Twilight Saga –New Moon MV 2009 Drama.

MVC

Holby City MC 3:35 Call the Midwife PG

A Touch of Frost MVC

We Hunt Together 16VLSC

Casualty PG 8:30 Midsomer Murders PG A newly discovered novel by a deceased crime-writer is jeopardised when it is stolen and a woman is electrocuted. 10:15 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 11:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG Sunday 12:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 1:15 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 2:15 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:20 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 4:20 Honour MLC 5:10 Honour MLC

Mysteries at the Museum Special PG

Mysteries at the Museum Special PG

6:05 Nature’s Strangest Mysteries – Solved PG 6:30 How Do They Do It? PG 6:55 Deadliest Catch Special MLC 7:45 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 8:35 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 9:25 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 10:20 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 11:15 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 12:10 Deadliest Catch Special MLC 1:05 Deadliest Catch MLC 2pm Hoffman Family Gold MLC 2:55 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail MLC 3:50 Mysteries at Playing bridge is a really great way to engage with others and an excellent way to keep your brain alert Enquiries: Contact Sheryl • email: ashbridgeton@xtra.co.nz • M: 0274 383 739 https://sites.google.com/site/ashbridgenz/

the Museum Special PG Beginners Lessons

6:30 ZooMoo 3 6:40 Purakau 3

6:50 Tamaiti Tu 3

7am Tamariki Haka 3

7:10 Darwin and Newts 3

7:20 Haati Paati 3

7:30 Potae Pai 3

7:40 Cube 3

7:50 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 8am Ariki 3

8:30 Whanau Bake-Off 3

6am Life TV PG 6:30 Leading the Way PG 7am Charles Stanley PG 8am Life TV PG 8:30 Turning Point PG 9am Extreme Couponing PG 0

9:25 The Hui 3 0 10:30 How Do Animals Do That? 3 0

10:55 How Do Animals Do That? 3 0

11:20 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PG 3 0

Noon American Loggers PG 0

1pm Motorsport – Muscle Garage PG

1:30 Motorsport – TA2 Australia

2pm Motorsport – Supercars

3pm Motorsport – ETCR

4pm Motorsport – Monster Jam

5pm Great Barrier Reef with Russell Crowe PG 3 0

6pm Newshub Live at 6pm 0

7pm Australian Ninja Warrior It is grand final two with $200,000 and the title of Australian Ninja Warrior 2022 is up for grabs. 0

6:30 Steven Universe PG 3 0

7:20 Religious Programming

7:50 L Football – Fifa World Cup Quarter-final – Teams TBC.

From Al Bayt Stadium.

10:30 Judge Judy PG

11am NXT PGV 3

Noon Traffic Cops PGVC 3 0

1pm Sewer Squad PGC 3 0

2pm L UFC 282 Prelims

Mixed martial arts is a full contact combat sport – viewer discretion is advised. 4pm Football – Fifa World Cup (HLS) Day 19. 0

4:30 Football – A-League Women (HLS) Canberra United v Wellington Phoenix.

5pm Football – A-League (HLS) Phoenix v Wanderers.

5:30 Prime News

6pm Pawn Stars PGL 3

7pm Storage Wars PGL 3 0

7:30 Helicopter ER MVC

6am Key of David PG 6:30 Through the Bible with Les Feldick PG 7am Leading the Way PG 7:30 Turning Point PG 8am Girl Meets Farm 8:25 The Best Thing I Ever Ate PG 9:15 Mysteries at the Museum PG 10am American Pickers PG 10:45 Strip the City PG 11:30 Beat Bobby Flay

Noon Biggest Little Christmas Showdown

1pm Ridiculous Cakes 1:30 Celebrity Catchphrase World Cup Special PG 2:30 It’s Me or the Dog UK PG

3pm Dr Dee – Alaska Vet PG

9:30 Easy Eats 3

10am He Kakano 3

10:30 Matau Bros Gone Fishing 3

11am Te Ao Marama

11:30 Home Land and Sea 3

Noon Te Ao Tapatahi

12:30 Tagata Pasifika

1pm 5 Minutes of Fame PG 3 2pm Up 2 3

2:30 L Touch – NZ Secondary Schools

From Rotorua International Stadium. 5pm Up 2 3

Piri catches up with Niniwa Roberts.

in the world. 0 8:35 F The Larkins PG It is comeuppance time for the Vicar, Alec Norman and the Jerebohms. 0 9:35 F The Bay 16LC

As Jenn contemplates her future in Morecambe, she realises the clue to solving the case lies closer to home. 0 10:35 Line of Duty MVC 0 11:50 Manifest MV 3 0 12:40 Infomercials

7:30 M Shakespeare in Love MS 3 1998 Romantic Comedy. Will Shakespeare, rising star of the London theatre scene, has writer’s block. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman cures him, and he sets out to find out who she is. Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Martin Clunes, Dame Judi Dench. 0 10:05 999 What’s Your Emergency? MLC 3 11:05 Young, Dumb and Banged Up in the Sun MC 3 Monday Midnight An Unexpected Killer

9pm M Flight 16 2012 Thriller. An airline pilot saves almost all the passengers on his malfunctioning airliner that has crashed, but an investigation reveals something troubling. Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle. 0 11:35 9-1-1 — Lonestar M 3 0

Monday

12:35 Emergency Call USA M 3 1:25 Infomercials 5:30 AM Early 3

6:45 Uncanny Annie 16VLSC

2019 Horror. Adelaide Kane, Dylan Arnold. 8:05 Dear Evan Hansen MLC 2021 Musical.

Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever.

10:24 Songbird 16V 2020

Thriller. KJ Apa, Sofia Carson.

11:47 Blue Bayou MVLC 2020 Drama. 1:40 Scream 16VL 2021 Horror. 3:30 Cry Macho MC 2021 Drama. 5:15 Venom – Let There Be Carnage MVL 2021 Action. 6:50 Those Who Wish Me Dead 16VL 2021 Thriller.

Angelina Jolie, Finn Little.

8:30 See How They Run M 2022 Comedy. In 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smashhit play come to an abrupt halt when a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan.

10:10 Belfast MVL 2021 Drama.

A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe.

11:50 Reminiscence MVC 2021 Sci-fi. Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson.

Monday

1:45 The Many Saints of Newark 16VLSC 2021 Drama.

3:45 Candyman 16VC 2021 Horror. 5:20 French Exit MLS 2021 Comedy.

An elderly motorist has been badly hurt in a pre-Christmas crash; on the North York Moors, a desperate man ferries the medics to the scene of an accident involving his son. 0

8:30 When Big Things Go Wrong MC 3 0

9:30 Game of Thrones 18VLS

Jon Snow is dead; Cersei sees her daughter again; the Night’s Watch stands behind Thorne; Balon Greyjoy entertains other proposals. 0

11:55 SmackDown PGV Monday

12:50 Closedown 1am Infomercials

7:55 Man on a Ledge MVL 2012

Action Crime. Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell.

9:40 Gone Girl 16VLS

2014 Thriller. Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike.

12:05 Superman Returns MV 2006 Action. Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth.

2:35 Robin Hood MVLS 2010 Action. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett.

4:50 I Am Legend MV 2007 Drama. Will Smith, Alice Braga.

6:30 In the Valley of Elah 16VLC 2007 Crime. Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron. 8:30 Gladiator MV 2000

Action. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he goes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen. 11:05 Unfaithful 16VS 2002 Drama. Diane Lane, Richard Gere.

Monday

1:05 The Grudge 16C 2004 Horror. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Bill Pullman, Clea DuVall. 2:35 Secretary 18S 2002 Drama. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal. 4:25 Carrie 16VLS 2013 Horror.

4pm The Big Holiday Food Fight PG 5pm Mysteries at the Museum PG 6pm American Pickers PG 7pm Baggage Battles PG 7:30 The Motorway PG The busiest holiday weekend of the year poses problems; two people are cut free from the wreckage of a high speed crash.

8:30 M The Zookeeper’s Wife M 2017 Drama.

Based on the true story of Antonina and Jan Zabinska, the caretakers of Warsaw Zoo, who, during the Second World War, became heroes to many trying to escape. Jessica Chastain, Daniel Bruhl.

10:55 Forged in Fire PG 11:50 Beat Bobby Flay 12:20 Infomercials

6:10 Rugby – World Sevens Women’s Final. 6:20 Rugby – World Sevens Men’s Final. 6:30 Football – Women’s A-League Canberra United v Wellington Phoenix. 7am L Football – Fifa World Cup Winner Match 51 v Winner Match 52.

11am Cricket – Australia v West Indies Second Test, Day Three. 11:30 Cricket –Pakistan v England Second Test, Day Two. Noon Rugby – World Sevens Day Two.

1:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Gloucester v Bordeaux Begles. 3:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Stade Rochelais v Northampton Saints. 5:50 Golf – PGA Tour QBE Shootout – Second Round. 6:20 Football – A-League Wellington Phoenix v Western Sydney Wanderers. 6:50 L Rugby – World Sevens Day Three. 10pm Rugby – World Sevens 10:15 L Rugby – World Sevens Day Three.

5:30 Te Wananga o Aotearoa National Sprints 2020 3 National waka ama competition from Lake Karapiro.

6:30 Nga Tohu Takaro Maori

The 32nd Annual Maori Sports Awards, from Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia.

8pm Lucky Dip on the Road

Hosts Luke Bird and Marcia Hopa take the family game show on the road.

8:30 M Colossal MLV 2016

Comedy. A woman discovers severe catastrophic events are connected to her mental breakdown.

Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis.

10:20 Rain – The Untold Story Rain has shaped civilizations, provided drinking water and now climate change is changing the patterns of rainfall with deadly effect. 11:40 Closedown

City

PG 10:05 EastEnders PG 10:35 EastEnders PG 11:05 EastEnders PG 11:35 The Jonathan Ross Show ML 12:25 The Graham Norton Show ML 1:20 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 2:10 Midsomer Murders PG 4pm Mallorca Files PG 4:50 Good Karma Hospital MLC 5:45 Heartbeat MVC 6:40 Sister Boniface Mysteries PG 7:35 Doc Martin MC Pauline finds out the Doc is leaving; Bert organizes a baby shower for Louisa; Martin and Edith go to a conference. 8:30 Who Do You Think You Are? PG Naomie Harris. 9:35 Call the Midwife PG 10:40 Call the Midwife PG 11:45 Casualty PG

Monday 12:35 Doc Martin MC 1:25 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 2:25 Call the Midwife PG 3:30 Call the Midwife PG 4:30 Grantchester MVLC 5:15 Grantchester MVC

6:05 Nature’s Strangest Mysteries – Solved PG Critter Culprit. 6:30 How Do They Do It? PG 6:55 Expedition Unknown PG 7:45 Weird Earth PG 8:35 Deadliest Catch MLC 9:25 Aussie Salvage Squad PG 10:20 Mysteries of the Deep PG 11:15 Hoffman Family Gold MLC 12:10 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail MLC 1:05 Moonshiners MLC 2pm Demolition Down Under PG 2:55 Demolition Down Under PG 3:50 Demolition Down Under PG 4:45 Demolition Down Under PG Kong – Skull Island, at 8:40pm Abba – Best Covers Ever, at 7:30pm Game of Thrones, at 9:30pm Australian Ninja Warrior, at 7pm The Zookeeper’s Wife, at 8:30pm New Outdoor Furniture Sultan 2030 Oblong Extension Outdoor Table & Matzo High Back Chairs x 6 $5,393 $4,314 Bali 3-pce Outdoor Suite $3,297 $2,637

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The Costa Concordia – Why She Sank, at 7:30pm

Snapped

When a firebomb attack destroys the home of two sisters, police turn to the neighbourhood for answers. 8:30 An Unexpected Killer MC

When a young mother is found dead in a field after a night out, police scour security video to retrace a suspect’s steps.

9:30 The Real Murders of Atlanta MVC

Up-and-coming rapper Lil’ Phat is executed in broad daylight.

10:30 Snapped M When a young woman falls ill after similar deaths of her father and brother, suspicion turns to family.

11:30 New York Homicide 16VC 3 12:20 Infomercials

My Kitchen Rules, at 7:30pm

The Block Australia, at 7:30pm

6am AM 3 9am Infomercials 10:30 Gold Rush 3 0 11:30 Newshub Live at 11:30am Noon M Christmas at Maple Creek PG 3 2020 Romance. Jeni Ross, Jake Epstein, Erin Eldershaw. 0

2pm Cutthroat Kitchen 0

3pm Top Secret Swimming Holes 0

4pm Kitchen Crashers 0 4:30 Extreme Couponing PG 3 0 5pm Gold Rush PG 0

6pm Newshub Live at 6pm 0

7pm The Project 0

7:30 The Block Australia PG The winner of the $10,000 for the best guest bedroom is announced –find out whether the gnome comes into play. 0

9pm SVU 16

Rollins must revisit an old case when a child sent to juvenile detention is released after his 18th birthday. 0 10pm SVU 16 Garland asks Benson to investigate an unusual domestic violence case when his neighbour is found injured. 0

10:55 Newshub Late 11:25 Married at First Sight USA PG 3 0

Tuesday

12:25 Infomercials 5:30 AM Early 3

7:10 Moonshot MVLSC 2022

Comedy. Cole Sprouse, Zach Braff. 8:55 Juniper MVLC 2021 Drama.

Charlotte Rampling, George Ferrier. 10:30 A Mouthful of Air MLC 2021 Drama. Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock.

12:15 Separation MVLC 2020 Horror. Violet McGraw, Rupert Friend. 2pm Here Today ML 2021 Comedy. Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish.

3:55 Doula MLSC 2021 Comedy. Troian Bellisario, Will Greenberg. 5:40 The Batman MVLC 2022 Action. Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz.

8:30 The 355 MVL 2022 Action. When a top secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents to retrieve it. Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz.

10:35 Operation Mincemeat ML 2022 Drama. Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen.

Tuesday 12:40 Four Good Days MVLSC 2019 Drama. Mila Kunis, Glenn Close.

2:20 Malignant 18VLC 2021 Horror. 4:10 Pregnant and Alone PG 2020 Thriller.

5:35 Crawlers 16VLSC 2019 Horror.

Winning Time – The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, at 10:05pm

8am The Moe Show 3 0

8:10 Pig Goat Banana Cricket

PGV 0

8:35 Breadwinners PGV 0

9am Jeopardy 3

10am New Amsterdam MVC 0 11am Bull MC 3 0

Noon Rugby – World Sevens (RPL)

Cape Town – Day Three.

2:30 Judge Judy PG

3pm Wheel of Fortune 3

3:30 Jeopardy

4pm American Pickers PGC 3

5pm Tagata Pasifika

5:30 Prime News

6pm The Middle PG 0

7pm Pawn Stars PG

7:30 American Pickers PGC 3

In the heartland of beer, Frank is surprised to meet an old friend; the guys secretly prepare a surprise for Danielle.

8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild

9pm 2022 New Zealand Netball Awards

Celebrating excellence at all levels of the sport. 0

10:05 F Winning Time – The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty 16LSC Down two men and with the championship on the line, the outnumbered Lakers look to an unlikely source for inspiration.

11:20 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert PG

Tuesday

12:20 F Ballers 16LC

1am Infomercials

6:05 The Nice Guys 16VLSC 2016 Action Comedy. Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice. 8am Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn –Part 1 MVS 2011 Fantasy.

9:55 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 MV 2012 Fantasy. 11:50 Crazy Stupid Love MLS 2011 Comedy.

1:50 Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice MV 2016 Action. 4:20 Pacific Rim MV 2013 Sci-fi. 6:30 Notting Hill MLS 1999 Comedy. Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe. 8:30 Green Zone MVL 2010 Action. American Army officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding weapons of mass destruction, as the tension increases between the Green Zone and the violent streets of Baghdad. Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear.

10:25 The Theory of Everything M 2014 Biography. Story of the love between renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife Jane. Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones.

Tuesday

12:30 Twilight Saga – Eclipse MV 2010 Fantasy. 2:35 State of Play MVL 2009 Crime.

4:40 The Hangover 16LSC 2009 Comedy.

Paramedics on the Front Line, at 8:30pm

Southern Kitchen

Big Holiday Food Fight

Mysteries at the Museum

American Pickers

Stone House Revival

Restored by the Fords

Location, Location, Location

American Restoration PG

Baggage Battles PG

The Motorway PG 3pm Restaurant – Impossible 4pm Giada Entertains 4:30 Jamie’s Quick and Easy Food 5pm Mysteries at the Museum PG 6pm American Pickers PG 7pm Shipping Wars PG 7:30 Border Security – Australia PG A suspicious package arrives at the mail centre from India; an American surfer is taken ill in customs; an Indonesian family is carrying an unwanted visitor. 8pm Newshub Live at 8pm 8:30 Paramedics on the Front Line PG 9:30 Emergency Rescue – Air, Land and Sea PG 10:30 Shipping Wars PG 11pm Border Security – Australia PG 11:30 Beat Bobby Flay Midnight Infomercials

7:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Castres Olympique v Exeter Chiefs. 9:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Clermont Auvergne v Stormers.

11:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Ospreys v Leicester Tigers. 1:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Castres Olympique v Exeter Chiefs. 3:30 Rugby –Heineken Champions Cup Bulls v Lyon. 5:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup Munster v Toulouse.

7:30 New Zealand Netball Awards 8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9pm Rugby – World Sevens Group Stage and Quarter-finals. 9:15 Rugby – World Sevens Semi-finals and Final. 9:30 Rugby – World Sevens Day Three. 11pm New Zealand Netball Awards

Tuesday

Midnight Netball –ANZ Premiership Grand Final – Pulse v Stars.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 1am Rugby – Super Rugby Pacific Final – Blues v Crusaders. 1:30 Rugby –Heineken Champions Cup

3:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup 5:30 Rugby – Heineken Champions Cup

6:30 Tamaiti Tu 3 6:40 Purakau 3 6:50 E Kori

7am Darwin and Newts 3 7:10 Tamariki Haka 3 7:20 Te Nutube 3 7:30 Kids Kai Kart 3 7:40 He Rourou 3 7:50 Cube 3

8am Pukana 3 8:30 Oranga Ngakau 3 9am Easy Eats 3

9:30 Whanau Living 3 10am Kai Safari 3 10:30 Toi Te Ora 3

11am Off the Grid 3 11:30 Lucky

Dip on the Road 3 Noon Te

Ao Tapatahi 12:30 Celebrity Playlist 3 1pm Heritage Rescue 2pm Toku Reo 3 2

2:30 Ako 3 2 3pm Tamaiti

Tu 3 3:10 Purakau 3 3:20 E Kori 3:30 Darwin and Newts 3 3:40 Tamariki Haka 3 3:50 Te Nutube 3 4pm Kids Kai Kart 3 4:10 He Rourou 3 4:20 Cube 3 4:30 Pukana 3

5pm Polyfest 3 5:30 Polyfest 2021 3

6pm Te Tau Ihu – Haka Ngahau a-Rohe 3

6:30 Te Ao Marama

7pm Te Ngakau Tapatahi 3

7:30 The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana PG Oriori.

With his pake in hand, Tiaki is sure his older brother Tamatea will reunite the tohunga with their chief, allowing him to open the spiritual portal to deliver the heir and true purpose.

8pm Indigenous 100 3

8:30 M Citizens of Boomtown

– The Story of the Boomtown Rats MCL 2020 Documentary. Bob Geldof and the re-formed Boomtown Rats talk about their legendary punk band.

10pm Matangireia 3 10:30 Ki Tua 3

11pm Te Ao Marama 11:30 Closedown

6:05 Man Caves PG K9 Man Cave.

6:30 How Do They Do It? PG Coffee, Bricks, Lava Lamps. 6:55 Mysteries at the Museum PG The Invention of Cellophane, Mt Edgecumbe. 7:45 Alaska – The Last Frontier MLC Buffalo 2 Cowboys 0. 8:35 Hoffman Family Gold MLC The Mother Lode. 9:25 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail MLC Parkers 5million Bet. 10:20 Aussie Salvage Squad PG 11:15 Deadliest Catch Special MLC 12:10 Man Caves PG 12:35 How Do They Do It? PG 1:05 Aliens in Alaska PG 2pm Naked and Afraid MLC 2:55 Deadliest Catch MLC 4:45 Last Outpost MLC 5:40 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Railroad Australia PG 8:30 Aussie Salvage Squad PG 9:30 Alaska Mega Machines PG 10:30 Railroad Alaska PG 11:25 Naked and Afraid MLC Tuesday 12:15 Alaska – The Last Frontier MLC 1:05 Deadliest Catch MLC 2:45 Naked and Afraid MLC 3:35 Moonshiners MLC 4:25 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail MLC 5:15 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under PG

One doesn’t stand as candidate – and will do so if successful (3)

To sail against the wind is something that has point (4)

Go up and hold pint spilled when suddenly taking it (6)

Meanwhile, what is money used as donation-wise? (3,3,7)

The Spanish take a bit of fish like a fairy (5)

Is making its mark, frightening one right inside (8)

Blood’s course one might be able to master (6)

Time to come when Ute fur is ruffled (6)

When surrounding pulpit-top, East spells the end of church (4)

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There’s at least one five-letter word.

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Because you show up when expected and do what you said you would, you gain trust and respect. To you, this is just normal. In the process, you make someone feel safe – a wonderful gift to provide.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): A person who seems to have it all together is struggling in ways you wouldn’t imagine. You don’t have to know what the struggles are to sense that your compassion is needed here.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Theoretical knowledge isn’t going to help much. Wherever possible, apply the answer, try things, put plans in motion and see what happens. Let your ideas dance on the stage of life.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You can exchange much without words and will in fact do it constantly today as you interact with your environment. You’ll send out energy and be able to communicate wordlessly at a great distance.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): There is a treasure inside each person, and if it’s your intention to get to it, you will. People love to show you the best they have. You’ll establish a meaningful connection.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Love really can change everything, heal the hurts and conquer all. It doesn’t always go that way, but it can. Lean into it and believe. Celebrate all that’s right.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You deserve to be rewarded for your hard work. The question is, who is going to do this? If no one is stepping up, that only means you get the pleasure and the honour of rewarding yourself in exactly the way you’d most appreciate.

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Every day

Mt Hutt Memorial Hall

10am, 160 Main Street, Methven. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories.

Ashburton Aviation Musuem 1-3pm, Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

Weekdays

Mid Canterbury Connector

Provides low-cost return trips to Ashburton, Mondays to Fridays, any time between 9am and 4.30pm.

Ashburton Aviation Museum 1-3pm. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

Mondays

Age Concern Ashburton Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 10am.

Ashburton Bridge Club 1.05pm, Bridge Club Rooms, 79 Alford Forest Road.

Ashburton Community Walking Group Mondays and Fridays at 10.30am. Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

Ashburton Pipe Band practice Pipe Band rooms, Every Monday, 7.30pm onwards.

Mid Canterbury Linedancers

Weekly beginner class 1pm-2pm, Easy intermediate & intermediate 2pm-4.30pm at the Tinwald Memorial Hall. Instructor Annette Fyfe.

MSA Dance Section Monday 4.00pm to 6.00pm. All welcome at the MSA Havelock St.

Tuesdays

Ashburton Menz Shed 9am-2pm at 8 William Street.

Age Concern Ashburton Steady as you Go Gentle Falls Prevention Exercises. All levels of ability are welcome. $2 per 1hr session.

Held at Methven All Saints Anglican Church Chapman St at 10.30am.

Rakaia St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Bridge St at 1.00pm.

Hampstead Hakatere Church Rooms, Oxford St at 1.30pm.

MSA Tai Chi Classes at 11am. Cost $3 per session at the MSA on Havelock Street.

Justice of the Peace JP available for all signing services on Tuesdays and Fridays at 12pm-2pm. No appointment necessary. No fee. Community House, 44 Cass St.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club

Competition and social play, all welcome from 1pm at 115 Racecourse Road.

RSA Indoor Bowls

Every Tuesday at 12.45. RSA in the Doris Linton Lounge. $2, followed by a cuppa & chat.

Pickleball Ashburton EA Networks Centre from 5-7pm. Paddles provided.

Mid Canterbury Badminton Club Badminton Club night from 7-9pm. All abilities welcome at EA Networks Centre.

Waireka Croquet  Club

Draw 9.45am GC Handicap Singles. Ist Tuesday in the Month Handicap Singles 19 hoops. Draw 1.15pm. Singles Handicaps -0 5; 6-9; 10-16.

Wednesdays

Ashburton Menz Shed 9am-2pm at 8 William Street.

Ashburton Ladies Friendship Club 9.45am, Sinclair Centre. Speeches, morning tea, every fourth Wednesday of the month.

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Wednesday Walk Group

9.30am. Meet Walnut Avenue on the west side of the Ashburton College Auditorium entrance.

Age Concern Ashburton Steady as you Go Gentle Falls Prevention Exercises. All levels of ability are welcome. $2 per 1hr session.

• Held at Allenton St David’s Church, Allens Rd at 9.30am.

• Held at Ashburton Buffalo Lodge Rooms, Cox St at 10.30am.

• Held at Ashburton Buffalo Lodge Rooms, Cox St at 1.30pm.

• Held at Staveley Community Hall at 2pm.

Pickleball Ashburton

Every Wednesday from 9.30am - 11.30am at EA Networks Centre.

St Stephen’s Anglican Church Holy Communion at 10am on Park Street.

Age Concern Ashburton Programme for the elderly runs Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 10am.

Hip Hop for Seniors

10am-11am at the Ashburton Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street, Ashburton, $5.

Ashburton open coffee mornings All are welcome at the Plunket rooms, 222 Cameron Street. 10.30am - 12 noon.

Thursdays

Ashburton Bridge Club

Every Thursday, 7.05pm, Bridge Club rooms, 79 Alford Forest Road.

Ashburton Menz Shed 9am-2pm at 8 William Street.

Age Concern Ashburton Ladies exercise class at 9.30am at Ashburton Seniors Centre at 206 Cameron Street.

Mid Canterbury Badminton Club 9.30am-11am at EA Networks Sports Centre.

MSA Tai Chi Classes at 11am. Cost $3 per session at the MSA on Havelock Street.

Age Concern Ashburton Steady as you Go Gentle Falls Prevention Exercises. All levels of ability are welcome. $2 per 1hr session.

• Tinwald Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street at 11am.

• Ashburton St Stephen’s Church, Park Street at 1pm.

• Ashburton Buffalo Lodge Rooms, Cox Street at 1pm.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club

From 1.30pm at 115 Racecourse Road.

Fridays

Ashburton Community Walking Group

Walking for about 30-40 minutes on Mondays and Fridays at 10.30am. Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion.

St Stephen’s Anglican Church Seniors Coffee Club, 2nd and 4th of the month at 10.30am, St Stephen’s Parish Centre, Park St.

Ashburton Justice of the Peace JP available for all signing services from 12-2pm. No appointment necessary. No fee. Community House. 44 Cass Street.

Pickleball Ashburton EA Networks Centre from 6-8pm. Paddles provided.

Saturdays

Ashburton Farmers Market

Saturday mornings, 9am-12.30pm, north end West Street car park. Plants, hot and cold food, vegetables.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club Social play from 1.30pm at 115 Racecourse

Road, Ashburton

Ashburton Aviation Museum

Ashburton Airport from 10am - 3pm.

Ashburton Woodworkers Clubrooms at Plains Museum site 1pm-4pm.

Seventh-Day Adventist Church

• 10am, Weekly worship & Bible Study. • 11am, Sabbath singing & Sermon. At Grace Presbyterian Church building, 63 Princes St. Ashburton. All welcome!

Vintage Car Club

86 Maronan Road, Tinwald

The Museum and Parts Shed will be OPEN on Saturdays during the month of November, Time: 10.00am to 12 noon.

Waireka Croquet Club

AC Singles or Doubles. Draw 9.45 and 12.45, GC Draw 1.15 pm Doubles. New players welcome, mallets available.

Sundays

Ashburton Anglican Parish Sunday - St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Park St, 10 am. Holy Communion Sunday - St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Thomson St. 10 am. Holy Communion, 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 10am Morning Worship. Service led by Rev. Eric Mattock. All welcome. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

Grace Presbyterian Church 10am at 63 Princes Street.

Hakatere Presbyterian Parish Morning Worship at 10am, Rev. Johanna Warren.

• 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 65 Oxford Street 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month at 127 Thomson Street Tinwald Pickleball Ashburton Sunday is organised competition day at EA Networks Stadium from 5-7pm. Prior registration through our facebook page is required. Some courts are available for social play.

Every Monday and Saturday

Allenton Assn Croquet Club Venue Allenton Sports Club. Monday, Saturday. Start every week Monday September 19 until March 27 2023. Starting time 1.15pm.

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

Methven Croquet Club

We play croquet every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 1.30pm at the Methven Domain. All welcome to come along.

Every Tuesday and Friday

Methven Museum

60 Main St. Open Tuesday and Friday 2-4pm Does Dalgetys or Wright, Stephenson & Co or Pyne Gould Guinness ring a bell? Our current display is Farm Supplier Stores of Methven & districts (history since the early 1900s). Come in and learn how the stores evolved and fill out your name if you worked at any of them. Admission is free but donations are welcome.

Every Thursday and Saturday

Ashburton Toy Library

Open every Thursday and Saturday from 9.30am-12.30pm, plus every alternate Tuesday 3.30pm-5pm at 106 Victoria Street.

Every Wednesday, Saturday Allenton Golf Croquet Club Wednesdays & Saturdays. Start every week from Wednesday September 21 2022 until March 29 2023, starting time 9.45am.

Last Sunday of every month

Nor’Westers Muso’s Club

All are welcome, as is any style of music. 2pm - 6pm at Feeneys Lounge, Devon Tavern.

First Sunday of every month

Methven Market

At Methven Resort, from 9am to 1pm.

Third Monday of every month

The Ashburton Electronic Organ & Keyboard Club meets on the third Monday of every month (except December/January) at Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street at 7.30pm

Second Fri of every month

In Colour, art and craft club

Bring along your art and craft projects to share with others over morning tea once a month. 10.30am - 12 noon.

Second and fourth Friday of every month

St Stephen’s Anglican Church

Seniors Coffee Club 10.30am on Park Street.

Monthly

Ashburton Embroiderers’ Guild

Meet Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street

first Saturday of the month 10.30am-3.30pm, second Thursday of the month 1pm-3.30pm, third Tuesday of the month -9pm, and the fourth Thursday of the month 10.30am3.30pm.

November events

Plains Railway Precincts Christmas Celebration

Sunday December 11 from 11am-4pm. Ja1260 will the haul the Christmas Train, Market Stalls, Kids Santa Hunt, Popup Playground, Ashburton Silver Band play from 11.30am12.30pm, Santa visits at 2pm & more! Hot Food & Coffee available. Located in the Tinwald Domain, 62 Maronan Rd, Ashburton. St David’s Union Church

Tuesday December 6, 9.30am. St David’s Union Church. Walking Group meets outside church. 48 Allens Road.

Wednesday December 7, 6.00am. St David’s Union Church. Women’s Circuit Training. 48 Allens Road, Ashburton.

Wednesday December 7, 9.30am. St David’s Union Church. Steady As You Go. 48 Allens Road.

Wednesday December 7, 11.30am. St David’s Union Church. Midweek Service, Communion & Lunch. 48 Allens Road.

Thursday December 8, 10.00am. St David’s Union Church. Fit Kidz for preschoolers & caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

Friday December 9, 6.00am. St David’s Union Church. Women’s Circuit Training. 48 Allens Road.

Waireka Croquet Club

Philip Street. Tuesdays, Waireka Croquet Club GC Draw 9.45am and 1.15 Singles.

St Andrews Presbyterian Church 10am Morning Worship. Commemorating St Andrew’s Day and Remembrance Day. Service led by Rev. Eric Mattock. All welcome. Sinclair Centre. Park Street.

Snaparazzi

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The Santa parade on Saturday didn’t disappoint, with bright sunshine helping set the scene down East Street.

The Ashburton CBD was a great place to be on Friday night, as crowds turned out to celebrate the official lighting up of the town’s giant Christmas tree.

Daniel Alvey was there to catch the action, as family groups enjoyed live music, dance performances and lots of kids activities.

Snaparazzi highlight

■ Bridge

Ashburton Bridge Club

Monday Evening November 28, Duplicate: N/S 1st John F Rickard & Bruce Leighton, 2nd Joyce Johnson & Mervyn Jones, 3rd Anne Gilbert & Cath King. E/W 1st Shirley Durry & Andrea LambieShaw, 2nd =Margaret & John Rickard and Amanda Evans & Karen Chettleburg, 3rd Marilyn Cross & Rachel Holdaway.

Tuesday Evening November 29, Duplicate: 1st Trish Downward & Kate White, 2nd Alan Wright & Eric Parr, 3rd Lois Rose & Audrey Rooney, 4th Jim Rooney & Bev Turton, 5th David Sewell & John McDonald, 6th Wendy Parr & Leigh Wackrow.

Wednesday Afternoon November 30, Duplicate: N/S 1st Bev Macaulay & Ian Doel, 2nd Judith Edmond & Rosemary McLaughlin, 3rd Margaret & John Shearer. E/W 1st Paul & Pauline Fergus, 2nd Rewa Kyle & Trish Downward, 3rd Mary Buckland & Trish Small.

Thursday December 1, Kops Trophy: N/S 1st Leigh Wackrow & Mike Holdaway, 2nd Val Palmer & Alan Wright, 3rd Jan de Jong & Judith Edmond. E/W 1st Rewa Kyle & Mary Buckland, 2nd Audrey & Jim Rooney, 3rd Trish & Maurice Small.

■ Croquet

Waireka Croquet Club

Advanced Grade: Singles: Reece McCorkindale 5 v Graeme Simpson 7; Bill Allnutt 6 v Oscar Barid-Gosling 7; David Galvin 7 v Kevin McGlinchy 5; Colin Lamb 4 v Joan Simpson 7; Bill Allnutt 5 v Graeme Simpson 7; Reece McCorkindale 7 v Oscar Baird-Gosling 4; Colin Lamb 4 v Kevin McGlinchy 7; David Galvin 7 v Joan Simpson 6; Doubles: Reece McCorkindale 7 v Graeme Simpson and Oscar Baird-Gosling 4; David Galvin and Colin Lamb 5 v Joan Simpson and Kevin McGlinchy 7; Total games won: Waireka 4 v Aorangi 6; Total hoops won: Waireka 57, Aorangi 61.

Intermediate Grade: Waireka Red v West End: Singles: Audrey Leath 7 v Colleen Woods 1; Colin Lamb 7 v Shirley Abraham 5; Gail Benseman 6 v Donna Cockburn 8; Eva Kircher 7 v Don Evans 5; Audrey Leath 7 v Shirley Abraham 3; Colin Lamb 5 v Colleen Woods 7; Gail Benseman 7 v Don Evans 4; Eva Kircher 7 v Donna Cockburn 6; Doubles: Audrey Leath and Colin Lamb 7 v Colleen Woods and Shirley Abraham 5; Gail Benseman and Eva Kircher 4 v Donna Cockburn and Don Evans 7; Total games won: Waireka Red 7 v West End 3; Total hoops won: Waireka Red 64 v West End 50.

Waireka White v Awamoa Gardens: Pauline Scott 3 v Mary Kingam 7; John Davis 5 v Eric Scott 7; Sue Whyte 4 v Pat Gunn 7; Joyce Davis 3 v Mary Bear7; Pauline Scott 4 v Eic Scott 7; John Davis 1 v Mary Kingam 7; Sue Whyte 7 v Mary Bear 3; Joyce Davis 7 v Pat Gunn 6; Doubles: Pauline Scott and John Davis 3 v Mary Kingham and Eric Scott 7; Sue Whyte and Joyce Davis 4 v Pat Gunn and Mary Bear 7; Total games won: Awamoa Gardens 8 v Waireka White 2; Total hoops won: Awamoa Gardens 65 v Waireka White 41.

Primary Grade:

Waireka Red v Mt Hutt College Methven: Singles: Judith Smith 7 v Steff Furndorfler 6; Heather Kaye 5 v Elsie Dwyer 7; Janice Allen 7 v Lauren Campbell 3; Kathryne Lee 7 v Will Murphy 4; Judith Smith 7 v Elsie Dwyer 1; Heather Kaye 5 v Steff Furndorfler 7; Kathryne Lee 7 v Lauren Campbell 0; Janice Allen 7 v Will Murphy 4; Doubles: Judith Smith and Heather Kaye 7 v Steff Furndorfer 4; Kathryne Lee and Janice Allen 7 v Lauren Campbell and Will Murphy 2; Total games won: Waireka Red 8 v Mt Hutt College Methven 2; Total hoops won: Waireka Red 66 v Mt Hutt College Methven 38.

■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club

Wednesday, November 31

Competition: Par Round - Sega Golf Winner over the Field: Grant Smith +5, 2nd Chris Lovelock +5, 3rd Ray Lambert +3.

Other good nett scores were: Brian Fauth +3, Royce Jamieson +3, John Duncan +3, Murray Moorhead +2, Neil MacDonald +2, Kevin Smith +2, John MacArthur +1, Phil Crozier 0 & Tufuga Sa 0. Two’s: Chris Lovelock, Perter Walker & Tufuga Sa, Phat Duck Closest to the pin: Hole 14#: Tufuga Sa. McKay & Donaldson E-Bike: Closest to the Pin Hole 8#: Ivan Blain.

Midlands Seeds Social Teams

Friday, December 2

Top Team: Trying 95.5 - David Gleeson, Nathan Meadows, Kelvin Woods, Chis

SPORTS DRAWS

Ashburton MSA Bowling Club

attack. First National D3: The Misfits v Once Were Hawkies, Hurst Automotive D4: S & Giggles v Once Were Winners.

Mid Canterbury Softball Association

Pevy, Women: Blondinis 91.5. Men: Ruralco Rascals 94.5, Stroke of Luck 94, Course Rejects 91, Hole n Nones 87. Mixed: Lake Hood Hooligans 88, Gabites Swingers 86.5. Top lady: Laura Doody 35, Top man: Logan Ford 34. Nearest Pins: Columbus Coffee – Malcolm Stoddart, Mac & Maggies – Blair Snowball, Paul May Motor –Rod Smith, Chevalier Farm Ltd – Chris Spittal, Karen McRae Property Brokers Longest Putt: Shane Beaven, Murray Young Property Brokers Longest Putt: Matt Young, Twos: Leslie Meager, Kevin Woods, Martin Amos, Vicki Moore.

Saturday, December 3 Competition: 3 Stooges Mystery Combined Stableford.

Radius Care Winners over the field: Richard McKernan & James McFarlane 78pts, 2nd Matt Young & John Power 77pts, 3rd Kevin McStay & Dave Hampton 76pts.

Other good scores: Eric Parr & Royce Jamieson 76pts, Guildford Lane & Hilary Lovett 75pts, Brendon Davidson & Rob McMillan 73pts, Tonee Hurley & Grieg Sparrow 72pts & Al Jopson & John Ramsay 70pts. Two’s: Matt Tait, James McFarlane, Tufuga Sa & Jordan Bird.

Nearest The Pins: Hole 4# 3 stooges (Brown Bombers) Jordan Bird, Hole 8#.

Value Plus: Matt Tait, Hole 12#: South Island Seed and Processing Co: Sue Hastie, Hole 14#: Ashburton Mitre 10: Dylan Stoddart, Hole 6# 2nd Shot: Hamish Niles Shout! Paul Greer, Hole 9#: Ton’s Thai: Dave Hampton. Birdie Jackpot: No #2 Grieg Sparrow, Nett Eagle Jackpot: No #5 Grieg Sparrow.

Saturday 9 Hole Competition - Harvey Bakehouse Winner: 1st: Wendy Hopwood 20pts, 2nd: Dan Lysaght 17pts, 3rd: Peter Wright 17pts, 4th: Hughie Murchie 17pts, 5th: Richard Hansen 17pts.

Tinwald Golf Club

Twilight - Thursday December 1st

Leading scores in Thursday’s twilight stroke -6 Robin Simms 33, Brock Peddie, Brian Rouse, Adam Lowe 35. 7-10 Graeme Mills, Andy Rattray 32, Sam Whiting, Michael Thomas, Pete Marshall, Brent Green 35 c/b. 11Plus Will Hintz 32, Stan Stringer, Hamish Finnie 34, Nathan Frew, Roger Bruce 35 c/b. Women 0-14 Emily Wilson 39 c/b. 15 plus Villaine Hastie 31, Cynthia Bonnington 35. Nearest the pin; #6 Tony Sheppard. #12 Bernie Doyle. Two’s; Kevin Chamberlain, Toby White. Hokonui Hacker; Margaret Pawsey net 53.

Saturday December 3

Leading scores in the Christmas stableford played on Saturday. Men; Johnny Moore 43, Steve Mealings, Phil Bloomfield 41, Michael Thomas, Jim Lattimore 40, Alan Anderson, Kerry Whiting 39, Alex Roa 38, Lindsay Jackson 37 c/b. Women; Villane Hastie 38, Barb Harris, Maxine Whiting 37, Sue Gutsell 35 c/b.

Nearest the Pin: Tinwald Liquorland #2 Dave Allan. Gluyas Ford #6 Wayne Mellish. The Fine Lion #12 Elvis Kelsall. Ace Automotive #16 Jeff Naish. Twos; Dave Allan, Wayne Mellish, Nick Wilson, Elvis Kelsall, Andrew Barrie, Jeff Naish. Net Eagles; #12 Not struck.

■ Shooting

Ashburton District Rifle Club

Ashburton District Rifle Club, 4 December 300 yards. at The Butts. TR, John Snowden 50.5, 49.6, 99.11, Martin Fleming 49.5, 49.6, 98.11, + 50.5, John Miller 48.5, 46.3, 94.8, Mark Alexander 54.1, 53.2, 107.3, Kevin Hooper 45.2, 43.4, 88.6, John Fleming 47.2, Bri-

an Hawksby 41.0.

FO, Murray Cook 60.7, 60.4, 120.11, Archie Maginness 52.1, 55.4, 107.5.

FTR, Coby Snowden 53.0, 56.2, 109.2, Mark Alexander 54.1, 53.2, 107.3, Brian Greystone 54.2.

FPR, Mark Alexander George Cuthbert 51.1, 54.2, 105.3, Mark Alexander 51.2, 53.0, 104.2.

■ Softball Hampstead Slow Pitch

Friday December 2 Devon Tavern Hampstead Slow-Pitch

The Misfits 6-1 Hakatere Hitters, Marines & Angels 26-4 Once Were Winners, S & Giggles 15-9 Retyred, Laser Attack 3016 Once Were Hawkies. Points Tables: Hampstead Slow-Pitch: 21 Marines & Angels, 19 S & Giggles, 18 Retyred, 15 Laser Attack, 13 The Misfits, 12 Hakatere Hitters, 9 Once Were Hawkies, 8 Once Were Winners.

Mid Canterbury Softball Association

Saturday December 3 - Mid Canterbury Softball Association:

Little League U.13’s: Fairfield 22-6 Regent Cinema Hampstead Braves, Ashburton Subway Hampstead Avengers 13-4 Rakaia Dairy Services Demons Blue-J’s.

Senior Mixed: Devon Tavern Hampstead Heat 18-7 Devon Tavern Hampstead Phoenix, Rakaia Dairy Services Demons Rebels 6-4 Fairfield All Sorts.

Points Tables: Little League U13’s: 16 Fairfield, 12 Ashburton Subway Hampstead Avengers, 5 Regent Cinema Hampstead Braves, 4 Rakaia Dairy Services Demons Blue-J’s.

Senior Mixed: 25 Rakaia Dairy Services Demons Rebels, 24 Devon Tavern Hampstead Heat, 10 Fairfield All Sorts, 0 Devon Tavern Hampstead Phoenix.

■ Squash

Celtic Squash Club

Team Robbies Speedy Exhaust lost to Team EuroAgri 9-10: Andy Bryant lost to Wouter Myburgh 1-3, Rob Giles beat James McCloy 3-2, Amy Muckle lost to Heather Bowker 1-3, Sarah Forbes lost to Rebecca Hurley 1-2, Chrissie Stratford beat Chantee McCloy 3-0.

Team McKain Quality Construction drew with Team Mastercraft Kitchens 6-6: Nick Marshall lost to Billy Nolan 1-2, Nick McKain lost to Barry De Sitter 0-3, Hayden Robinson beat Harry Oldham 2-1, Chrissie Stratford beat Louise Smith 3-0.

Team Kirsty Clay Property Brokers bt Team Alps Continuous Spouting 107: Ben Kruger beat Paul Cousins 3-0, Craig Donaldson lost to Phil Andrew 1-3, Kirsty Clay drew with Amy Muckle 2-2, Lucas Raphold lost to Andre De Beer 1-2, Harry Trott beat John Hamilton 3-0.

Team RMF Silva lost to Team Pat Summerfield Electrical 7-10: Kyle Hurren lost to Chris Thompson 0-3, Kade Cummings lost to Shane Muckle 1-2, Matt Cassineri beat Patrick Sandrey 3-1, Nicky Dryland beat Craig Henshilwood 3-1, Nicole Herbison lost to Ashley Ritchie 0-3.

Team J&N Hedgecutting lost to Team McCrea Paint & Decorators 7-8: Nathan Forbes lost to Kade Cummings 0-3, Blair Horrell beat Donna Brown 2-0, Emily Proffit lost to Allain Smith 0-3, Alex Forbes drew with Neil Thompson 2-2, Hollie Morgan beat Neil Thakar 3-0.

■ Softball

Hampstead Slow Pitch

- Devon Tavern Hampstead Slow-Pitch: 6.30pm Start: Devon Tavern D1: Marines & Angels v Hakatere Hitters. Laser Electrical D2: Retyred v Laser

Saturday, December 10 - Mid Canterbury Softball Association: Little League U13s: 10.30am. D1: Fairfield v Ashburton Subway Hampstead Avengers (Plate: Phoenix Base: Heat). 10.30am. D4: Regent Cinema Hampstead Braves v Rakaia Dairy Services Demons Blue-J’s (Plate: Rebels Base: All Sorts).

Senior Mixed: 1.00pm. D4: Devon Tavern Hampstead Heat v Fairfield All Sorts. (Plate: Rebels Base: Phoenix). 3.00pm. D4: Devon Tavern Hampstead Phoenix v Rakaia Dairy Services Demons Rebels (Plate: Heat Base: All Sorts).

There’s been no shortage of action out on the Brandon Links over the past week.

Competition is really starting to heat up in Mid Canterbury Softball’s Senior Mixed competition, with only one point splitting the top two teams.

Bailey back in style

the first women home cup that bears the name of her father, Chris Ward.

Tony McManus continued his great patch of form with a solid fourth place.

Cole Harris and Rob Campfes rounded out the top six.

O’Donnell had to work hard for his win, pushed too the line in a sprint finish with fellow back marker Kyle Gray.

O’Donnell recorded the fastest time of the day, riding the course in 82.49.

Kristine Marriott produced a top shelf effort to secure third place and also lift

Riders also had to content with warm summer conditions that caused tar on a stretch of the road to melt, to a point that close to half the field was unable to complete the race due to a build-up of tar on the wheels.

The juniors contested a 20km hand-

icap event. Leah Reid continued her great run of strong results with another top ride to take the victory and major spoils.

Isabel Wall was game in her charge to the line to secure second place. Zac Brookland claimed third place and also recorded fastest time honours, riding the distance in 36.07.

Next week the club will contest one of its blue ribbon events, the Club Championships around the Wakanui Beach block.

White Ferns in control

The White Ferns have taken an unassailable 2-nil lead in the T20 cricket series against Bangladesh after beating the visitors by 37 runs in Dunedin.

The White Ferns set Bangladesh a target of 149 in the second T20 cricket international.

Bangladesh were much more competitive in the field after the thrashing they received in the first match.

The White Ferns lost early wickets but Wellington team-mates Maddy Green and Amelia Kerr then put on a 77-run partnership.

That got the home side to a respectable 148 for 4 from their 20 overs.

Bangladesh couldn’t score quickly enough and three run outs hurt them big time.

Bangladesh finished 111 for 8.

Wellington’s Rebbeca Burns got her international debut at the age of 28 after being called into the squad yesterday to cover injury to White Ferns batter Brooke Halliday.

The third T20 match is on Wednesday in Queenstown.

O’Reilly taking red-hot form across the Tasman

career, seven of them on the grass track surfaces.

Sarah O’Reilly is taking good form and good fortune across the Tasman with her this week.

Harness racing’s hot-shot young gun left for Australia yesterday as she embarks on a title defence of her Australasian Young Driver’s Crown won three years ago – having not been able to defend it for the past two years because of Covid.

And, as she has done season, O’Reilly departed for Australia on a high after a big weekend.

It began at Wingatui on Friday where she picked up a driving double, including one for her bosses Brent and Tim White with Kohli Trouble early in the day.

She then landed a second later on the programme with Fast Whispering.

Saturday saw O’Reilly, who is certain to win the New Zealand junior drivers’ premiership, grab feature race success when one of her old favourites, Buckskin, delivered in style in the Akaroa Cup.

The duo have now won eight races together during the sixyear-old son of American Ideal’s

Stalking the speed on Saturday, they found clear air at the top of the straight and burst through to win lifting the gelding’s stake earnings to above $70,000 in the process.

By Sunday, O’Reilly had shifted the goalposts from the green grass tracks to Harness Grand Prix day at Addington, and while she didn’t salute, she did make it into the money in one of the Group Ones, finishing third with the Paul Nairn-trained Tectonic.

With 65 wins on the board, O’Reilly is now 26 wins clear on the junior drivers premiership.

“I think I can relax a bit now,” she said on Friday.

“I was a bit worried about the ones behind me catching me for a while there, but the lead looks pretty good.”

With that title in the bag, she can now dig in and defend her other notable title in Australia across five days this week.

She’s one of a group of Australasia’s best young driving talents competing in the series alongside two other New Zealand drivers.

The championships begin today at Melton, where O’Reilly has two drives who both look like each way chances.

“A lot of it comes down to the

barrier draw, but it will be good to be over there competing again after a few years away from the championships, and to be able to drive at some different venues.”

After racing tonight, the com-

petition heads to Ballarat for another two heats tomorrow night then Maryborough on Thursday, Bendigo on Friday and then the final heat is held as part of Inter Dominion Grand Final night on Saturday night back at Melton.

Matt Markham

Champion Mid Canterbury harness racing driver Sarah O’Reilly is off to Australia to defend her Australasian Young Driver’s Crown.

Former Tinwald Cycling Club member and now UCI Continental rider Bailey O’Donnell led home the field in Tinwald Cycling Club’s, McIntosh Group, 60km handicap event around the Blackbridge block on Sunday.

Bailey O’Donnell in action on the bike.

Amelia Kerr top-scored for the White Ferns

Young tennis stars shine on court

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The next wave of local tennis stars put their efforts out on the court at the weekend during the Mid Canterbury Junior Age Group Championships.

A strong field of players lined up across both days of competition to garner some experience of playing tournament tennis and, while some familiar names shone up in the age groups, there were new names for the future coming to the fore in the lower age groups which is an exciting development for the proud Mid Canterbury Tennis scene.

Out on the Braided Rivers Community Trust Tennis Centre courts, play began on Saturday morning and ran until Sunday afternoon with a high-level of tennis played across the weekend’s matches.

For players aged under nine, right up to the under 16 and under 18 age group, there was a little bit of something for everyone.

Two singles events were held for the girls with the 10 and under singles taken out by Sophie Bartlett ahead of Isla Adam while in the 12 and under category, Annalise King emerged victorious over Christine van Rooyen.

Van Rooyen turned the tables on King in the doubles though, combining with Hazel Montgomery to take out the title over King and Imogen Turney.

In the boys’ action, a very competitive 9 and under boys category in the singles where 12 players lined up saw the No.1 seed, Damon Yan take honours ahead of Beau Kirwan.

Five players entered the 10 and under boys grade with Lennox Parsons living up to his No.1 billing to win over Raymond Yan.

Arlo Parsons was victorious in the 12 and under boys singles ahead of Digby Porter, and Ashton Cromie continued his good form to win the 12 and under singles title from Jamie King.

Caleb Kelly justified his No.1 seed in the 16/18 boys’ singles, winning from Jonty Porter.

In the doubles, Spencer Hampton and Beau Kirwan won the 9 and under title from Braxton Mills and Toby Ross, Brax Gordon and Raymond Yan claimed the 10 and under from Isla Adam and Lennox Parsons.

Arlo Parsons made it a double for the weekend in the 12 and under boys’ doubles, combining with Digby Porter who he beat in the singles final to take the win from Ethan Mitchell and Toby Smith.

The 14 and under boys’ doubles also saw the top two singles players combined, with Cromie and Jamie King winning from Isaac Adam and Murphy Porter.

In the senior doubles for the 16/18 category, Kelly and Jonty Porter, who were also the top two in the singles, claimed victory over Brendon McCrea and Riley Wall.

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Matt Markham

The Braided Rivers Community Trust Tennis Centre was alive with action over the weekend as the Mid Canterbury Junior Age Group Championships were held. Daniel Alvey popped along to capture some of the action.

– Jamie King.

– Mack Dwyer.

– Murphy Porter.

Above – Toby Smith.

– Isaac Adam.

Hazel Montgomery winds up for another big serve.

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TINTER.

DEATHS

de WYS, Margaret Mary –On December 4, 2022, peacefully at Essie Summers Retirement Village, Christchurch. In her 96th year. Beloved wife of the late Tjerne. Much loved mother and mother-in-law of John and Judith, the late Nick, and Hilda, Marianne and Chris, Chris, Paul and Sue, the late David, and Jill, and Tim and Mae. Loving Nana of Karen, Justin, Andrew, Roberta, Blair, Christine, Steven, Michael, Alistair, Ashley, Cameron, Jesse, Daniel, Ben, and Kate and loving great-Nana of her 27 great grandchildren and one greatgreat grandchild. No flowers by request please. Messages to the de Wys family, PO Box 472, Ashburton. A service for Margaret will be held at Lamb and Hayward’s AvonPark Chapel, Kerrs Road, Christchurch on WEDNESDAY, December 7, commencing at 10.30am, followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery at 2pm.

DEATHS

On December 2, 2022, peacefully at Coldstream Lifecare, Ashburton, aged 85 years. Loved son of the late Thomas and Hazel. Loved brother and brother-in-law of the late Avis, and Des Thomas, and a loved uncle. Very dear friend of Sue. Messages to the Muir family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A special thank you to the staff of Coldstream Lifecare and the Moore Street Medical Centre for their loving care of Tom. A service to celebrate Tom’s life will be held in Our Chapel, cnr East & Cox Streets, Ashburton on THURSDAY, December 8, commencing at 2pm, followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

DEATHS

PONGA, Jack Te Awe –On December 4, 2022, surrounded by his loving family, aged 80 years. Now pain free. Dearly loved husband of Mere. Much loved father and father-in-law of Maraina and Brian Poff, Jackie and Andrew West, Rebecca and Johnny Childs, Atiamuri, the late Hendrix, and Margie and Dean. Loved Papa and Koro Papa of his moko and moko moko. Message to the Ponga family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Jack will be at home until Thursday the 8th.

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NEILSON, John Phillip –

On December 5, 2022, passed away peacefully at Coldstream Lifecare, Ashburton, aged 66 years.

Dearly loved son of the late John and Val. Much loved brother and brother-in-law of Jim and Kathy, twin sister Lesley, and Marie. A much loved uncle and great-uncle of all his nieces and nephews. Messages to the Neilson family, PO Box 472, Ashburton. In lieu of flowers donations to the Cancer Society would be appreciated and may be made online at bit.ly/jpneilson0512. A Memorial service to celebrate John’s life will be held in Our Chapel, cnr East & Cox Streets, Ashburton on MONDAY, December 12, commencing at 2pm.

ROONEY, John Matthew –On December 4, 2022, peacefully at home, Ashburton, aged 74 years. Dearly loved husband of Margaret. Much loved father and father-in-law of Paula, Patrick and Donna, and Anna, and beloved Grandad of Mac, Jonty, Leah, and Ted. A much loved brother, brother-in-law and Uncle. Messages to the Rooney family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A Requiem Mass to celebrate John’s life will be held at the Church of the Holy Name, Sealy Street, Ashburton, on FRIDAY, December 9, commencing at 11am, followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium. Recitation of the Rosary will be held at the Church on Thursday, December 8, at 5pm.

Tuesday

Mountain weather hazard: Wind.

Becoming cloudy with showers.

Wind at 1000m: W gale 65 km/h easing, turning SE 30 km/h in the afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: W 60 km/h easing.

Freezing level: Lowering to 2400m.

A narrow ridge covers the North Island during the day. Meanwhile a band of fronts move up the South Island, followed by another ridge. The ridge pulls away from New Zealand on Wednesday, as a low and associated fronts spread over the North Island from the northwest. The low tracks across the whole country through Thursday. A front from another low over the Tasman Sea reaches the country later in the day on Friday.

Wednesday

Mountain weather hazards: None issued.

Mostly cloudy with scattered rain, mainly about the ranges.

Wind at 1000m: Light, then NE 35 km/h from afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: Light, then NE 45 km/h from afternoon.

15.3 7.9 –

E 28 1:54pm

15.4 9.8 6.5 13.0 0.0 10.7 30.7

3:34pm L 9:20am 9:36pm

E 43 2:29pm

3:59am 4:17pm 10:07am 10:20pm

3:55am 4:13pm 10:09am 10:25pm

3:43am 4:01pm 9:51am 10:04pm

17.0 8.0 4.0 10.6 0.0 13.8 32.0

E 30 2:51pm Sun

4:44am 4:59pm 10:52am 11:05pm

4:42am 4:58pm 10:57am 11:12pm

4:28am 4:43pm 10:36am 10:49pm

5:43am 9:06pm 5:42am 9:07pm 5:42am 9:08pm 7:09pm 4:19am 8:17pm 4:46am 9:22pm 5:18am

13.6 11.7 –23.2 0.6 ––SUN PROTECTION ALERT Data provided by NIWA PROTECTION REQUIRED Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap – 9:05 5:40 ampm

MUIR, Thomas William (Tom) –

FinalWhistle

calling time on a week of sport

Young guns shine on court

The future stars of local tennis put themselves to the test on the weekend when they took to the courts for the Mid Canterbury Junior Age Group Tennis Championship. Results and pics: P22