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Ashburton 12-year-old Riley Breen’s (left) over 20 hours a week of tennis training has paid off. He has been selected for the New Zealand junior tennis team to play in Australia and coach Jack Tiller (right) is thrilled and says it is massive for the sport in Mid Canterbury.

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Riley’s NZ call-up ‘massive’ Daryl Holden Riley Breen’s selection in a New Zealand junior tennis team to play in Australia is “massive’’ for the sport in Mid Canterbury.

That’s the call from Breen’s coach Jack Tiller, who also has reason to celebrate because he will captain the New Zealand 13 years and under team in the Australian junior teams’ event on the Gold Coast later this month.

It will be Breen’s first appearance in a New Zealand team and third time lucky for the Ashburton ace. Twice he was denied the opportunity to play for New Zealand in the past year because Covid-19 forced the events to be cancelled.

“In terms of the kids, I think it’s massive (for Mid Canterbury tennis),’’ Tiller said before a coaching session with Breen, 12.

“We’ve now had three (local) boys in New Zealand teams (recently).

“Jake Parsons, Josh Gilbert and now Riley.

It’s huge for us and it’s reward for that hard work they put in.’’

And no one could dispute Breen’s callup to a New Zealand team because he’s the number one ranked 13 and 14-year-old nationally.

The Ashburton Intermediate Year 8 student lives and breathes tennis, training nearly every day and for well over 20 hours a week.

It’s a tough schedule for one so young, but Breen loves it. But on court, it’s his mental toughness that really sets him apart.

Tiller said Breen had a will to win that you seldom saw in juniors his age.

“It clicks in more when he’s losing,’’ he said.

“You see him play matches where you are sitting on the side of the court and you’re going, ‘he’s gone. It’s game over’. But all of a sudden he clicks in and he’s a different kid.

“He has got that will to win and (determination) to leave everything he can out on the court.’’

The pair leave for Brisbane in two weeks and it will be an important moment for Tiller, who’s in his third season as Mid Canterbury Tennis’ head coach.

It will be his first time leading a New Zealand team on tour.

“Having Riley there, that’s a good thing,’’ he said.

“It’s familiar and Riley will tell the other kids how I work.

“But in terms of pressure, they’re just kids playing sport. They’ll go out and do the best they can.

“I’ll just try and make sure they enjoy it.’’

Australia, here we come: Mid Canterbury tennis junior Riley Breen (left) and coach Jack Tiller have been selected to represent New Zealand on the Gold Coast.

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Breast advice: BreastScreen South’s mobile unit receptionist Vicki Ritchie (left) and logistics co-ordinator Rebecca Cumming ready to help Mid Canterbury women in the Ashburton Hospital’s laboratory carpark.

Let us check ya chest Huge demand for breast screening unit Lili Haydon BreastScreen South’s mobile unit has arrived in Ashburton – and its demand is as high as ever.

About 1800 Mid Canterbury women have booked mammo-

gram appointments from now until the end of September at the mobile unit, which is based at the Ashburton Hospital’s laboratory carpark.

“If a woman shows up and needs one, we will do our best to give them an appointment then and there,” mobile logistics co-ordinator Rebecca Cumming said.

The mobile unit, free for women aged 45 to 69, is one of two that travels around the South Island

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The staff consist of a receptionist and mammographer, who take the breast X-rays for specialist doctors to check them for any signs of cancer.

The mobile unit has been coming to Ashburton for 20 years, providing a free mammogram for those that come under the Ministry of Health’s scheme for New

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Bringing characters to life Daniel Alvey Ashburton audiences will be once again be treated to stand-up comedy tomorrow – and the performer can’t wait to do his thing.

He’s Tom Sainsbury, who is excited to be bringing his Snapchat Dude Live tour to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Sunday at 7.30pm.

“Oh Ashburton, I’m so excited about it!

It’s out selling all the other small towns,” Sainsbury said.

Sainsbury is a comedian, actor and writer better known for his hilarious Snapchat impressions of people, including former MPs Paula Bennett and Simon Bridges.

Sunday night’s show in Ashburton would involve many different characters that Sainsbury has created. Some will be

The Snapchat Dude live What: Tom Sainsbury will bring his online characters to life on the stage.

When: Sunday, June 12 7.30pm at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre Tickets: $69 (fees apply) and can be purchased on the event centre’s website.

told by Sainsbury on stage, others to be recreated on the big screen.

“There’s going to be Gingerbread, the ginger cat, and Fiona, the wine reviewer, and also because Simon Bridges has quit politics this will be my own farewell bon voyage to thank Simon Bridges.”

“I’m describing it as my love letter to middle New Zealand.’’

Sunday’s show, and the tour, is another pointer to Sainsbury’s growing popularity,

which started with the Snapchat videos, which he said were never planned to be anything more than something to share with friends.

He utilised the Snapchat filters, which could distort and change faces, shapes or appearances.

“I just got the app on my phone and started sending videos to my friends.

Then my agent suggested to put them on my public page,” Sainsbury said.

Now it’s the much-awaited tour, which was supposed to take place in 2020 before the pandemic intervened.

In the interim, Sainsbury’s been filling his time on television screens with appearances on shows such as Snack Masters and The Unmasked Singer.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed it and it’s been really great to have a job that didn’t require a lot of people getting in a room to enjoy me.”

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Game on at the Ashburton library Lili Haydon A 1970s board game that’s enjoying a resurgence online, inspired Ashburton teenager Hiro Koizumi to set up a local Dungeons & Dragons club at the Ashburton Public Library.

Koizumi has been playing since he was a seven-year-old, having been shown by his parents when it was a board game. Even better, it’s now online.

And, he said, it’s so much more than just a game. “I played it a lot when I was home schooled because it’s great for (learning) maths.”

The game’s popularity has soared thanks to the ongoing successful Netflix streaming programme, Stranger Things, which is based off D&D. The Ashburton College student suggested to library manager Jill Watson that online play sessions would be a great idea and she agreed. The library plans to host D&D sessions every Tuesday from 4pm.

Watson said she hoped people would take up the opportunity to give it a go.

D&D is a very social game and imagination is key, but it also encourages problem solving and promotes writing and storytelling skills.

Hiro Koizumi at the library getting ready to sign in to the online board game Dungeons and Dragons.

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Power of the pen Malcolm Hopwood The Ashburton Writers’ Group wants people’s imagination “to be global” for their annual short story competition.

Entrants must live locally, but convenor, Rae Magson, said they didn’t need to limit their subject matter to “things from home”.

“The subject matter can be about anything they want,” she said. “Any topic is permitted but

WRITE ON What: Ashburton Writers’ Group’s short story competition Categories: 11 years and under (up to 400 words), 12-15 years (up to 500 words) and adults (maximum 1500 words).

Prizes: Rotary Club of Ashburton has granted $1000. Paper Plus is providing vouchers for first, second and third across the three categories.

Entries close: August 26.

Entry forms from: Available from the Ashburton Writers’ Group.

must be original and not published before.”

Magson thinks creative writing was not just important to members of her group, but it was also a vital part of the creative life of Mid Canterbury people.

“We give a chance to writers of all ages to express themselves about a subject of their choice,” she said.

“Many who’ve entered have gone on to contest other writing competitions.”

There are categories for competitors 11 years and under (up to 400 words), 12-15 years (up to 500 words) and adults (maximum length 1500 words).

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College plagued by sickness Lili Haydon Ashburton College is making students learn from home due to a lack of teaching staff.

This is third time the college has had to resort to a roster system, but according to Ashburton College principal Ross Preece this

time it is not just due to Covid.

On Thursday, 16 staff members could not work due to being sick, and yesterday the total had increased to 18.

Year 12 students now have to complete their school work from home on Monday, Year 9 on Tuesday, Year 10 on Wednesday and Year 13 on Thursday.

“It’s a mixture of Covid, staff being household contacts and winter flus and colds. So we are telling staff to stay away,” Preece said.

With around 20 per cent of staff

sick, this has made operating the school timetable more than difficult, and with a full-time reliever teacher heading overseas, this was Preece’s only option. And he can’t see it getting any easier heading into winter.

“Winter is only beginning, so we are trying to pull out all the stops we can,” Preece said.

Preece will assess the situation on Tuesday and make the decision whether to keep to the roster on Thursday.

With the pool of only so many

reliever teachers in Mid Canterbury, Preece thinks other schools will be in the same boat.

But he thinks of himself as lucky as most of his students can be alone at home, unlike primary school-aged children.

Preece’s biggest concern though is making sure his students complete their NCEA workload, as NZQA have said students should not assume they will receive the same treatment as they did last year.

So schools with staffing issues

may have more problems than they can overcome, if there is any interruptions caused by Covid in their community.

As of June 2, 70 per cent of students have had to take time off due to Covid, Preece said, so he is trying his best to limit the time the students will have to stay home for.

Preece has decided for the rest of the term teachers and students must wear masks to ensure teachers can actually teach the students in the classroom.

Knitting Ukraine-NZ bonds Lili Haydon An Ashburton business owner is doing her part to help Ukraine.

The owner of the Crafty Cow knitting shop, Glenda Robinson, has been sending knitting items to the people in war-torn Ukraine.

Since watching coverage of the Ukraine war back in April, Robinson has been on a mission, sending knitted items to those affected.

“It’s disgusting, there’s no need to be doing what he (Putin) is doing,” Robinson said.

She noticed in the footage there was nothing on the displaced

people’s heads, hands or feet, so she knew some knitting was in order.

“You always feel better when you are toasty warm,” Robinson said.

After putting out the call for people to donate their knitting, Robinson now has over 25 people who make regular donations.

The items include scarves, hats, blankets, gloves and teddy bears, and sometimes even quilted blankets.

Robinson’s biggest hurdle though was finding out who she could ship it to, which took a few weeks.

“No one would get back to me . . . Red Cross wouldn’t take it, they only take money,” Robinson said.

And with the world currently entering a post-Covid era, she thought money would be no good,

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especially if there was nothing on the shelves to buy with the money.

Robinson was going to send it to the Ukraine parliament, but that’s when she discovered the White Eagle Club, which is UK-based and sends supplies to Ukraine.

In May, Robinson received a thank you postcard from the White Eagle Club for “all the wonderful goodies”.

So far Robinson has sent six packages, but with each box of knitting goods costing over $200 to ship, some of her suppliers have come on board donating wool, helping to keep costs as low as possible.

In between running her business during the day, Robinson is knitting.

Robinson has donated knitting all over the shop, she just needs some more help paying to send it.

Glenda Robinson, owner of the Crafty Cow knitting shop, stands behind some of the knitted goods which have been kindly donated to her to be sent to Ukraine.

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Cute little Zoe Lovett, from Ashburton, couldn’t believe seeing a photo of herself and mum Hayley on the front page of Thursday’s Guardian.

The Lovetts were our feature story where we highlighted Hayley’s burgeoning photography skills where four times now she’s had photos displayed as a backdrop to the weather during the 1News 6pm bulletin.

Zoe, just four, gets excited when she sees

mum’s photos on the tele. So excited, that she’s now become her mother’s unofficial image spotter, while also taking her own shots with her bright pink camera. “. . . in the mornings, she’ll open the curtains and will say: ‘the sun’s rising, Mum’.

She’s always looking to notice things for me to take photos of,’’ Hayley said.

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Lighting up his community Daniel Alvey

A Methven business owner has been supporting his community by lighting it up.

Owner of Cinema Paradiso, Richard Sheppard has been stringing the town lights up for seven years now, much of it coming out of his own pocket.

Sheppard got the idea from his home town in Essex where they use lights to show off the town at night.

“I do it for the community, I get no benefit out of it. It’s just a hobby for me,” Sheppard said.

The lights get turned on each year at the start of the ski season, which this year will be next Friday.

Sheppard does the lights so the town can be brought to life during the winter months.

Sheppard wanted to thank local electrician, Bruce Dann for giving up many hours of his time to come and set up the lights, also EA Networks which added the wiring to the poles for the lights free of charge.

Sheppard is after any donation or local body funding; he has presented a proposal to council, but has never received any funding.

His daughter, who also owns a business in Methven, started a Givealittle page to help raise funds to purchase new lights and maintain the existing ones and has received good support.

Sheppard’s goal is to bring back an annual turning on of the lights ceremony which fell out of popularity a few years ago.

The ceremony involved a market and other events.

To do this Sheppard needs more funding and would like to see a sponsor come on board, whether it is a business or local council.

Meanwhile, Sheppard will keep on lighting up his town.

Lighting it up: Richard Sheppard, with electrician Bruce Dann who gave up his time to put up the lights.

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Councillor’s consultation comments draw criticism Jonathan Leask There’s disappointment at a councillor’s suggestion that Ashburton’s public consultation process is a waste of time because decisions had already been made.

Councillor John Falloon is understood to have said there was no point in public submissions because the council had already decided on the budget, while he was suffering from a medical condition at a public meeting in April.

When approached about his comments, Falloon said the incident was a personal matter and he didn’t want to comment further.

His comments, which resurfaced during the recent annual plan hearings, have not impressed two former Ashburton councillors – who were not present at the meeting the comments were made.

Selwyn Price, a councillor from 2016-2019, referenced Falloon’s comments while speaking to an annual plan submission on behalf of the Hakatere Multi Cultural Council, but said as he was not present he was unaware of the context of the comments.

Price said a majority of people in the district don’t believe that there is any point taking part in public consultation with the council.

“When you have that kind of comment made in public, it does beg the question whether the annual plan has actually been set and whether this [consultation process] is just a PR ex-

John Falloon ercise,” Price said.

Public consultation is a standard regulatory process where the community’s input on matters affecting them is sought. Its main goals are in improving the efficiency, transparency, and public involvement in large-scale pro-

jects or council policies.

Former mayor Donna Favel said Falloon’s comments suggested that the council was already set in its plans and consultation wouldn’t change that.

Favel voiced her concern to the council on behalf of the Ashburton Citizens Association’s (ACA) submission.

ACA chairwoman, Greer Ricketts, who was also not at the meeting where Falloon made the controversial comments, wrote in the submission it was disappointing to hear that Falloon was alleged to have stated that “budgets are a waste of time and I don’t know why we do them’’ and “there is no point submitting as we’ve already decided on the budget’’.

Favel said she believed that at the time the comments were reprimanded by fellow former councillor John Leadley, before

mayor Neil Brown addressed the comments as not being accurate.

Brown then doubled down on that position during the hearings, which he said were demonstrating the robust process.

Earlier this month, Falloon had earned praise for his innovative approach for the council to consider dipping into cash reserves to slash a huge rates rise by two per cent. His idea was technically not able to be implemented, but the approach underlined his creativity and concern for rate payers in a cost-of-living crisis.

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Illness hammers learning plans Peter Livingstone OUT OF SCHOOL

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he drop in school attendance is having a negative impact, and there is no sign of it getting better. The practice of isolating combined with genuine sickness is changing the learning for many of our students and families.

The issue will remain for the foreseeable future and there is no clear answer as schools and parents battle with conditions imposed upon them and decisions they must make.

One of the biggest impacts is the disruption to the continuity of the learning process. I’m still amazed that a number of adults believe you can catch up on missed work or have work sent home if you are away from school.

This is a belief based on the premise that we deliver a curriculum or that we have a linear series of lessons we work through that can be packaged up and gone over if the student is away. It’s known as a prescribed curriculum and it hasn’t existed in the New Zealand curriculum since 1990.

There are remnants of it found in high schools, but in primary schools we have been tailoring lessons for individuals and classes for a long time. So, if a child misses a week’s worth of reading lessons, they can easily miss crucial conceptual learning.

The teacher then has to alter their programme to somehow accelerate the learning for that one child, while continuing the learning for others. Multiply that by our current absenteeism rate of one student in six away every day this year, and you have major problems piling up.

Teachers are having to make difficult decisions about what learning they will prioritise for their students. If a school decided to spend the rest of the year

If a child misses a week’s worth of reading lessons, they can easily miss crucial conceptual learning. The teacher then has to alter their programme to somehow accelerate the learning for that one child, while continuing the learning for others. trying to catch up on the core subjects of English and Maths, that is all they would do. There would be no extra subjects, no sports days, no productions, museum visits or camps and none of the other awesome learning opportunities that schools provide.

It is no one’s fault children have been kept at home, with this year so far, proving to be the most disrupted due to isolation and student and staff sickness.

We simply cannot make up for the sheer amount of classroom lesson time that has been lost.

It is also proving to be an expensive year. Already budgets for relievers have been broken.

A principals’ facebook page that I glance at every now and then has anecdotal evidence of schools over running their

budgets by tens of thousands of dollars as they do their best to put teachers in front of classrooms.

How much has it cost our parents and employers in sick pay and the number of sick days taken? The majority of parents who have to take a sick day are our mums. Often being the primary caregiver, it is our mums who can’t go to work or have to leave work during the day to pick up a sick child.

I can only imagine the headache this creates for employers when they suddenly lose an employee during the day. At some point all the sick leave will have been taken and then what? Do parents start using their annual leave? Do they end up having to take leave without pay?

Of course, family and friends

can help and they often do. It is common to have grandparents at our school picking up children. But not everyone is fortunate to have that network.

As a school, we have also seen an increase in families getting used to the idea of keeping their kids at home.

This number is small, but compared to three years ago, it has exploded. I’m not actually sure why, but there is a definite number of parents who are stopping their children from going to school.

It might be quite an eye-opener if someone from the Guardian sat down with our local attendance officer and reported on what the year has been like. I am sure his workload has multiplied.

As I said at the start, there is

no answer to what has been a fundamental shift in attendance at schools.

When I look at the daily roll, often I’m reminded of the words from the song at the start of Friends: “It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month Or even your year.”

At some point we will get out of second gear, but it won’t be soon and I doubt it will be this year.

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School. The views expressed in this column are his and do not represent the views of his school, the Ashburton Guardian or the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

Rural health strategy success Jo Luxton

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his Government is committed to ensuring rural New Zealanders will have a real voice in determining the health services provided in our communities as part of the new health system, especially through locality networks and a rural health strategy.

The Labour Party has a strong and vocal rural caucus, which I am proud to chair. As a group, we rallied together and advocated for our rural communities which has resulted in the minister including a rural health strategy to Pae Ora legislation.

Once a specific strategy for women’s health was included

in that legislation, our Labour rural caucus rightly pointed out that there was now a strong and logical case to include a rural strategy as well, because that was the one population group mentioned in the Government policy statement on health that wouldn’t have had their own strategy.

The minister agreed that that is an anomaly and it is the right thing to make sure that rural communities were provided for.

Locality networks will also make substantial differences to health services in rural areas.

Localities are geographic areas for the purposes of planning primary and community health services.

All of New Zealand will be covered by a locality, which will provide a better scale for engaging effectively with local communities to inform planning and delivery of services.

These localities will provide advice to Health New Zealand (HNZ) and the Maori Health Authority (MHA) on the health services needs identified by their communities.

Of the first nine locality networks that we are now in the process of developing, seven of them have substantial rural areas, they will make a difference to health services in rural areas.

People will have a more direct voice to determine how health services are delivered because locality networks are required to consult, engage and capture the input of the communities they represent.

As we know well, rural communities are diverse and require bespoke health solutions to best suit each area.

Our rural communities are facing health workforce shortages and we are seeing this right across Mid Canterbury.

On the whole, our rural

outcomes are poorer than those of our city cousins, and we know that the health needs of our rural women needs to be improved.

We can achieve improvements with tactics, targets and an acknowledgment of the specific challenges facing rural communities.

In other news – my Ashburton office is very close to being open again! I have a new staff member starting later this month and we will have extended office hours, open five days.

Jo Luxton is a Labour MP. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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attle lines have been drawn over the Three Waters Reforms.

The Government is pressing forward with its plans to redefine how three waters infrastructure is operated in New Zealand through centralisation, but a faction of district councils, including Ashburton, are trying to stop it in its tracks.

The Water Services Entities Bill, the first of several pieces of legislation to establish a new system for national water services, has been introduced to Parliament, so the wheels are in motion.

The dissenting councils openly admit the status quo can’t remain but do not agree with the Government’s reform pathway – the ‘one size fits all approach’.

Some groups are calling it an asset grab, others the seizing of neglected infrastructure.

There is division no doubt, but there is agreement on one thing – something drastic has to be done.

Jonathan Leask New Zealand needs between $120 billion and $185 billion spent on water infrastructure – not just drinking water but stormwater and wastewater too – over the next 30 years, to meet standards and provide for future population growth.

Councils know they can’t raise that capital from ratepayers alone and need Government assistance.

What is being proposed is a government takeover, a merger into one big entity, managed by four regional entities.

What that change will mean for the customer may not be visible.

Water will still come out of the tap – depending on the Taumata Arowai decisions it may be chlo-

rinated, the toilet will still flush, and rain will flow into drains.

It’s who they pay for the benefit of that infrastructure, and how much it costs that will change.

The Government says bringing everything under one roof shares the load and will bring costs down, but the opposing view is that that is going to be achieved through borrowing which will need to be paid back at some stage.

For Ashburton the concerns being raised have been that while the charges may not go up, the money will be filtered elsewhere.

The initial work of the reforms will be on compliance and bringing the historically underfunded and underdeveloped areas up to code.

That doesn’t sit well with areas like Ashburton, which still has areas requiring infrastructure investment but has already relied on its ratepayers to invest millions in improving and upgrading its

networks. Opponents suggest their communities will be paying to subsidise upgrades in other areas which haven’t made the same sort of investment.

The government has so far established the new management structure, but how the system will operate is work still to be done.

There is plenty to be ironed out, and the national water regulator, Taumata Arowai, is only just getting into its work of identifying which councils need to do what.

One wrinkle raised at the Ashburton District Council is around storm water infrastructure, specifically who will control kerb and channelling on roads.

While it remains a work in progress, there are all manner of alternative options that have been put forward.

One that makes a lot of sense is to hit pause; a hold on the progress of the Three Waters management reforms until there is a clear picture of the scale of the work

ahead to bring this country up to the required standard, and the most important thing, the costs and where they are located.

From there the reforms can be worked to address a known set of problems, rather than charging ahead with changes without a clear road map of where the investment is most needed.

Like preparing a round patch to fix a leak, only to find out the hole is square.

The fact the Water Services Entities Bill is before Parliament suggests the current Government is intent on proceeding with its July 2024 deadline regardless.

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A thoroughly great read!

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’m reading a fascinating book at the moment, and maybe it’s just a fluke or maybe it’s the universe sending me some signals, but for the past two weeks I have come across some interesting studies that have backed up what I have been discovering in the book.

But to be fair, I’m not the world’s quickest reader, and I’ll possibly come across more of the same before I’m finished the book.

The book is Dr Joel Wallach’s Dead Doctors Don’t Lie. In a nutshell Wallach takes the reader on a life journey that led him, through science, to discover the key to a long and healthy life is vitamins, minerals and fatty acids.

He says we do it with farm animals, think salt licks, etc, but ignore ourselves.

He says you can eat the right foods till the cows come home but the minerals needed for health aren’t in the soil anymore.

He has had an amazing life, hasn’t been to the doctor in over 70 years and even though he’s over 80 still gives hundreds of radio interviews and lectures each year.

As a result of his work, he became known as The Mineral Doctor and the Father of Liquid Mineral Supplementation.

In 1997, Dr Wallach and Dr Ma Lan, MD, MS, founded Ameri-

Phill Hooper OFF THE AIR can Longevity, the network marketing company known today as Youngevity. Within five years the company had an international network of distributors and preferred customers worldwide.

I’ve been taking his supplements for a few months now and before Covid smacked me around, I had more energy than I’ve had in decades, deeper sleeps and my eyesight has improved. Even the age spots on my hands have all but disappeared.

Now for the two studies I have stumbled over that back up his theory.

1. A genetically engineered “super” tomato that may have the power to fight Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cancer has been created by British scientists. The modified fruit is packed with vitamin D – which also boosts bones, teeth, and muscles.

Estimates show more than four in 10 Americans may have a vitamin D deficiency, which can increase their risk of developing a host of illnesses. Now, a team at the John Innes Centre in Norwich has engineered a variety of

tomato that produces more.

2. Traditional Indian medicines can effectively treat type 2 diabetes; a new study finds.

Researchers from the University of Nottingham found that Ayurveda medicines, which are a common tool in South Asia, can help people with the condition maintain their blood sugar levels. These remedies can also help people manage their body weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol, according to the study. Ayurveda is a traditional medical system in practice for thousands of years in many South Asian countries including India and Nepal.

It involves lifestyle changes, including to diet, detoxifying and purifying therapies and medicines which contain plant, animal, or mineral ingredients – either alone or mixed together. Some of the herbs are also ingredients in remedies treating illnesses in Iran, China, and Mexico.

If nothing else, it’s ‘Food for Thought’ eh?

Till next week Hoo Roo Phill Hooper Chewing things over Phill Hooper is the breakfast host of Ashburton’s Hokonui radio station. The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian.

Rushed law reforms and a major U-turn Nicola Grigg SELWYN MP

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ust as Parliament was about to rise for the week recently, Labour confirmed the worst fears of local communities by tabling a Bill to ram through its Three Waters agenda.

Even with most local councils in open revolt, and overwhelming public opposition to these reforms, Labour is unleashing hell on ratepayers, putting its ideology before the wishes of the people and outcomes.

The Water Services Entities Bill, that had its first reading last week, lays out the final plans for the transfer of local assets and the establishment of a complex and unaccountable bureaucracy.

The Government has consistently ignored alternatives that National has proposed such as establishing council controlled organisations or contracting, and have pursued their four mega-entities model.

We here in Canterbury will now get sucked into Entity D – with approximately eight layers of bureaucracy between we the ratepayers, and the governance boards.

Under this model communities will lose their voices, subsidise their neighbours and get worse outcomes.

National has opposed these reforms consistently, and if elected in 2023, we will repeal and replace this broken model.

On the topic of centralisation, the health reforms are close to passing into law – again, despite vocal opposition from the public.

The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill sets

out the framework for Labour’s restructure of the New Zealand health system.

It removes district health boards and replaces those with Health New Zealand and the Maori Health Authority.

National has opposed this law change from the outset as, while we absolutely agree more needs to be done to improve health outcomes for Maori, we do not believe a race-based health system is the answer.

There has, however, been something of a win for residents in towns like Springfield, Sheffield, Darfield, Dunsandel and Leeston.

At the very last minute – and in response to enormous pressure from the National Party – the Government finally acted to include rural communities as a priority population in the legislation.

By including these communities in the legislation, the new health structures would be required by law to deliver equitable levels of service, access to services in proportion to needs, and all parts of the new health system would be held accountable for ensuring that these New Zealanders get the outcomes they deserve.

Rural New Zealand has seen a real

decline in health services in recent years.

Yet, until this week, the Government has doubled-down and insisted that rural communities didn’t need to be included as a key stakeholder in these reforms, despite having much worse health outcomes than urban areas.

I welcome this U-turn from the Government and hope it will ensure rural health services are prioritised and properly funded to service rural towns across Canterbury.

National’s Nicola Grigg grew up in Mt Somers and is currently the Selwyn MP.

12 TRAVEL

Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

REMNANTS OF A along a wild, rugged North Canterbury’s Gore Bay Tourist Drive is a classic Kiwi detour, leading you along storied coastal nooks to geological wizardry and a sky-high place to stay above the clouds.

By Mike Yardley

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azing across the cinematic good looks of Hurunui’s Gore Bay, a shape-shifting spiritual force was seemingly stamping its mark on the coastline.

A humdinger blanket of sea fog was unfurling its ethereal beauty at dawn, as the sun assertively poked its head through the ruffled duvet.

The headland was soon consumed by plumped-up pillows of cloud, while long and slender fingers of mist coiled around the curves of the cliffs, like more delicate, artful phantoms.

It was a spell-binding spectacle to start the day from the pampered surrounds of Cathedral Cliffs Bed & Breakfast.

Standing atop the towering sedimentary rock cliffs at the south end of Gore Bay, this enchanting accommodation experience should top your check-list in these parts.

Hosted by Colin and Lynne Harrison, this charismatic couple took possession of the property over a decade ago and will treat you royally, with a laid-back, charming and easy manner.

Super-boutique, there are two spacious ensuites to choose from, The Queen Suite and The Bedroom Suite, with a sumptuous fully cooked breakfast available too.

I felt like I was on the edge of the world, wrapped in botanical splendour.

As the sun steadily burnt off the lingering morning mist, I gazed down at the deep blue ocean wondering if I had magically transported myself to the Amalfi.

The verdant setting and steepsloped coastal outlook is uncannily similar – complete with citrus trees bursting with fruit.

Crowning the cliffs above Gore Bay and Port Robinson, the property’s 2-hectare garden thrives in its unique and undulating microclimate.

First developed in the mid1990s by the previous owner, Murray Elliot, the garden is a showcase of rhododendrons including rare unnamed varieties that he bred.

Fully protected from southerly and easterly winds, the frost-free microclimate has enabled some plants to reach 7 metres high.

Sprinkled around the garden, roses flower almost all year round, while the perennial beds add to the pageantry.

The array of plant varieties is astonishing, from bulbs, to camellias and graceful magnolias.

Sun-loving and drought tolerant succulents, agaves and proteas are in seventh heaven here.

Flourishing doesn’t even begin to describe the resplendent size

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of their cliff-hugging proteas.

Autumn’s mellow fruitfulness was in full blaze in their extensive orchard – the fruit trees were positively groaning in sublime citrus, apples and avocados.

Cathedral Cliffs B&B is an elevated oasis fit for the gods, a next-level experience on the Gore Bay Tourist Drive – and it won’t break the bank!

Heading up from Christchurch on State Highway 1, I turned off at Domett to commence my romp around the 21km tourist drive circuit. It’s your classic detour.

Before reaching Gore Bay, head down to the Hurunui River Mouth, doted over by trout and salmon fishers.

The views alone are stupendous, as the river winds through the beach to reach the ocean, backdropped with crumbling golden clay cliffs. From here, I struck out on the Manuka Bay track, a 3km-long walk, embracing the coastal elements.

Taking about 90 minutes to knock-off (each way), you’ll encounter a cross-hatch of scenic treats, from the striking Hurunui

Lagoon and lush broadleaf forest to fern-filled gullies and regenerating manuka forest – all backdropped by the big blue ocean.

From the unruffled solitude of Manuka Beach, I then tootled along the coast to size up the remains of Port Robinson.

Named after William Robinson, he was at the forefront of 19th century pastoralists and the self-sufficient pastoral kingdom of Cheviot Hills.

Better known as ‘Ready Money’ because he usually paid in cash, alongside developing his great

estate of Cheviot Hills, he built the Hurunui Bridge and the Port Robinson slipway.

Echoes of his legacy are ever-present in these parts. His incredibly ambitious slipway on such an inhospitable coast enabled ships to anchor in the lee of the headland, while boats carried the wool clip to them, from the slipway.

Today, the remnants of that daring slipway can still be seen, after a gnarly ten-minute walk down the hillside track to the cove.

The main trunk railway line

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4 – The Hurunui Lagoon.

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5 – Eliza Robinson’s summer cottage.

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6 – Drifts of oak leaves at the Cheviot Hills Reserve.

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7 – Beach vibe at Gore Bay.

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from Christchurch finally reached Domett in 1907, rendering the “port” redundant.

Back on the road, I drove down the hill to soak up the simplistic, timeless charm of photogenic Gore Bay. The money shot is undeniably at Cathedral Cliffs lookout, serving up drool-worthy views of this sprawling eroded siltstone and sandstone formation, conjuring the grandeur of a cathedral with its grand assembly gothic-like fluted columns.

It’s a star specimen of bad-

lands-style erosion. When the rain falls, the gravel layer at the top protects the softer sedimentary layers directly below from being eroded and washed away, allowing these vertical rib-like formations to take shape.

It’s a view to take your time over as you marvel over nature’s dramatic artwork.

With a classic Kiwi beach vibe, Gore Bay is renowned for having the most consistent surfing in Canterbury, a very safe swimming beach, and it’s laced with fabulous walks.

At low tide, you can walk to Port Robinson from the beach at Gore Bay. Ready Money built his wife, Eliza Robinson, a summer cottage here in 1867, enabling her to take the sea air when his mates arrived at the homestead for mannish pursuits.

It’s uplifting to see this historic cottage looking so well-maintained.

Complete the circuit by driving around to Cheviot.

I adore the Ready Money Trail, a recently developed walking track

within the wonderful woodlands of Cheviot Hills Reserve.

Great drifts of golden leaf fall are just cracking into life for their seasonal outing, while in spring, the woodlands would make William Wordsworth blush, ablaze with daffodils.

The 50-hectare reserve was originally owned by William Robinson who planted an eclectic range of English, European and Australian trees in the 1860s, most of which are still standing today.

The remains of Robinson’s stables and even the concrete

foundations of his acclaimed 40-room mansion, that burned down in 1936, can be found in the reserve.

The mansion’s original front steps now support a small cricket pavilion, while the manager’s house and the estate’s original bell tower are now in private residence, on Gore Bay Road, close to the reserve.

Follow the 3km-long track around the reserve and get a sense of the back story from the sign-posted historical sites along the way.

14 HERITAGE

Mr and Mrs Lilley, of Mayfield. From the Canterbury Times, October 29, 1913.

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A blurry snapshot of the accused. From the Canterbury Times.

The 1913 Mayfield murder

By Connor Lysaght

An inquest was held on the morning of October 21 with the Coroner V. G. Day at the Ashburton Police Station.

Biddle was placed in the corner of the room during the proceedings. His body language at the inquest was very shifty.

When the hammer was presented, he “looked down and nervously drew the back of his hand across his mouth” and it was also observed that “his hands were moving nervously”.

According to the Guardian, “it was noticeable that Biddle grew more nervous and restless as the inquiry proceeded, shifting uneasily about on his chair”.

In the early hours of Saturday, March 18, 1913, sergeant Emerson of the Ashburton Police was woken up by Police Constable Turner, who had come with an important message from the telephone bureau.

It was 1.45 in the morning when the constable informed the sergeant that W. H. Papps, a storekeeper from Mayfield, had an urgent matter to discuss with him.

Papps passed the phone to a man called John Lilley who reported that he had found his wife laying in a paddock not far from their house.

Rosanna Lilley had been murdered.

Punishment

Grim discovery John Lilley was a contractor, and his business frequently took him away from home. It was said that Mr and Mrs Lilley had always lived very happily together, and that they led a very content life with their four young children: Leonard, 8, Harold, 4, Doris, 3, and Stanley, 1.

Days before the tragedy, he left to go to a job six miles away and he said to a Mayfield resident that “he had never left his wife in a more cheerful frame of mind”.

Police constables Turner and Thompson were sent out to

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Reference: CCL-DW-75011, CCL-StarP-02725A. Mayfield at 4am, to immediately inspect the body which was found less than 250 metres from the Lilley residence.

Twelve officers and detectives from all around Canterbury attended the scene of the crime.

She was lying face-up in the paddock with her clothes disarranged, and with severe bluntforce damage to her head and face.

One of her boots was found five feet away, the other being half-unlaced, and her arms and fingers were positioned at odd angles. Obviously she had experienced a very frightening and fatal encounter. A bloodied blacksmith’s hammer was found just a few metres away.

It did not take long to identify the hammer’s owner, Alfred Biddle, whose blacksmith shop was situated less than a kilometre from the village.

Suspect The police inquired about Bid-

dle’s whereabouts immediately and discovered that his ’smithy was locked up and he had not been seen at the boarding house since Wednesday evening.

Biddle, 29, worked at his trade intermittently and switched to farm labour when things got quiet. He was generally considered “a good average tradesman”.

Sergeant Emerson and two Guardian reporters drove out to Mayfield at 10am. Several locals gave statements to the newspaper reporters.

A man called Robert Montgomery revealed that Biddle had asked him if Mr Lilley was home, at about 9pm on Wednesday, and that Biddle was heading in the direction of the Lilleys’ house that night.

Local farmer William Bennett said that he saw Mrs Lilley at noon on Wednesday, but found that she was not home when he called in again later at 7pm.

Papps, the storekeeper, stat-

ed that an old shepherd called James Rutherford told him that Biddle called in at the residence of a labourer called Kennedy on Thursday evening.

According to the old shepherd, Biddle arrived at this man’s residence “wet through and miserable,” and he did not stay at Kennedy’s long before departing.

Clearly Biddle had displayed an interesting pattern of behaviour during the week leading up to the murder.

Biddle caught After an extensive search of the Mayfield area by police and residents, Biddle was captured by Detectives Fahey and Gibson at Turner’s Creek on Sunday morning. He was found emaciated and exhausted, but nevertheless he was sent to the Ashburton lock-up after being given some stimulants and a quick rest.

Mrs Lilley’s funeral took place at Ruapuna in the afternoon, and was largely attended.

The proceedings were well documented by the Guardian, with the verdict returned being “that the cause of the death of the late Rosanna Lilley was a fractured skull wilfully caused

by Alfred Mortran Biddle”.

He was taken to Lyttelton Gaol on the afternoon of October 21 for medical treatment, and then returned to Ashburton to stand before the Magistrate on October 28. Following a court session, Biddle was sent back to Lyttelton Gaol once more and on November 24 he properly stood trial and was promptly sentenced to death for his crime.

Owing to the dread of the affair, Biddle’s health rapidly declined during this period. It was reported that he had to be supported while walking. Biddle was described as “a physical wreck”.

The gallows were prepared on December 10 and on December 13 at 8am Biddle was hanged.

According to the Press Association his last words were “I thank the Lord. Jesus is my Saviour.”

Biddle’s execution was the first since the Eyreton murderer was sentenced to death 10 years prior and it was only one of seven to have ever been carried out at Lyttelton Gaol.

To finish off this morbid tale I would like to give a huge thanks to Neil Blake for donating his research on the Lilley murder to the Ashburton Museum, which was used to cross-reference facts for this story.

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RAV4 T here’s absolutely no argument that RAV4 Hybrids, since they first arrived in NZ in 2019, have been and continue to be very popular – and this would certainly be even more so if the current supply and wait/delivery times weren’t so long.

Popular, not just because of their economy (Toyota’s hybrids offer carbon reductions of approximately 30 per cent on their petrol counterparts) but achieving this without the driver having concerns about either charging or range anxiety.

Then also, because they are such an easy, seamless change for drivers because they are just like conventional petrol or diesel to get in and drive. Plus, they’re eligible for a Clean Car rebate.

Given this popularity, Toyota NZ, as they continue to electrify their fleet to lower their carbon footprint, have added two more Hybrids to the RAV4 line-up – the now top of the range Adventure and the XSE (which slots in between the GXL and Limited).

So, with driveaway pricing starting at

Toyota RAV4 Driveaway Pricing: Adventure $57,990 and XSE $53,990.

Power System: 2.5-litre petrol/hybrid

131kW @ 5700rpm and 221Nm from 3600rpm-5200rpm. Total Hybrid system output of 163kW.

Transmission: E- CVT auto with ondemand all-wheel-drive.

Quoted Economy: 5.3L/100km.

Safety: 5-star ANCAP – many Safety Sense driver assist/safety systems.

Size: 4610mm.long, 1865mm wide and 1690mm high.

Turning Circle: 11.0 metres Tows: 1500kg - braked.

Warranty: Drive-away pricing includes

all on road costs; WOF, registration, a full tank of fuel, a Toyota Care Service Advantage package, floor mats, and the three years or 100,000 kms warranty.

$46,990 for the GX Hybrid, Toyota reckon there’s one to suit a wide variety of needs, wants and price points.

The XSE is $53,990 and the Adventure $57,990. (Driveaway)

Clean Car Rebates (refund)

Through their fuel efficiency and a CO2 output of 122g/km, the (approximate) rebates are XSE $2387 – Adventure $2335.

Looks The XSE has gloss black bumpers, front grille, wheels, roof, and wheel arch mouldings. Meanwhile the Adventure makes its intentions clear with its purposeful front-end look, cladding, and 19-inch grey wheels.

Both have excellent LED headlights.

Smooth hybrid power For a start, they are the quickest ever RAVs, with possible 0-100kmh times in just under eight seconds, as well as delivering appreciably quick overtaking.

The 2.5-litre petrol engine and hybrid system, complete with two electric motors and NiMH battery (it sits neatly under the back seat and is charged by both the generator and regenerative braking) produces 131kW and 221Nm courtesy of the petrol engine with a further 32kW from the battery/electric motors.

It’s mated to a smooth, very efficient e-CVT. The system always very effectively decides how and when the power

is coming from, including gliding about whenever possible in EV mode. The electric motor on the rear axle joins in under full acceleration or when any slippage is detected.

It’s all very smooth, efficient, and quiet!

The stated combined fuel use figure is 5.3L/100km.

With our variety of adventures, (never in Eco mode) which included cross-country cruising, tracks and about town running, the trip computer read 6.5L/100km, so expect 800-plus km from the 55-litre tank.

Spacious cabin The spacious, well-furnished, larger person-friendly in both the front (heated) and back seats, cabins have easy to figure out, logically placed, quite traditional controls and screens.

The only real hints of the hybrid thereunder being the power/economy/charge dial in place of a rev counter, and the EV mode selection button, so, they’re nicely normal in both appearance and operation. With a large touchscreen for the infotainment system, the Adventure with dedicated Sat-Nav a premium sound system and surround camera, plus leather and a sunroof.

There’s a handy 542 litres of luggage space with easy access for golf gear via powered tailgates in both versions. A fullsize spare wheel sits below.

Handling/ride

RAVs are built on a strong platform, and while there’s 190mm ground clearance, the judicious placing of the mechanicals, rear electric motor, and battery result in a fittingly low centre of gravity.

That certainly shows with the excellent ride comfort, neat handling and predictable behaviour through tighter corners, both on seal and shingle.

Adventures Everything’s nicely tucked away underneath, so together with the clever all-wheel-drive system it’s all go for track/ beach adventures in the selectable Trail mode, which sorts out the very best power delivery for such conditions.

Towing The Hybrids can tow 1500kg, the same as the straight 2.5-litre petrol models.

Safety All RAV have the comprehensive Safety Sense suite including all speed dynamic radar cruise control with autonomous emergency braking, road sign assist, lane tracing assist, blind-spot monitor, rear cross-traffic alert, front and rear parking sensors, seven airbags and five-star ANCAP safety rating.

Finale This new pair of RAV Hybrids once again show just how well the combination of a petrol engine with electrical assistance works. Complete with allwheel drive, they’re versatile, spacious and so nicely set up for a wide variety of tasks, driving conditions, our weather and adventures!

Toyota believes that Hybrid vehicles continue to play a key role as we move towards a low carbon future. With their easy driving nature and ability to absolutely banish all thoughts of range anxiety on the way – I agree!

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Royally-inspired E-Type J aguar Classic showcased a bespoke Jaguar E-type at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant on 5 June 2022.

The one-off renovation features a comprehensive list of enhancements carried out by the expert technicians at Classic Works, and metallic blue paintwork inspired by the Union Jack.

The unique E-type made its debut alongside fifteen iconic Jaguars to feature in the Jubilee Pageant, including a selection of historically important Jaguar E-types and seven convertible Jaguars all carrying famous Dames.

Jaguar Classic creates beautifully crafted E-types by restoring Series 1 models to their original specification.

This bespoke example goes even further, showcasing the full breadth of personalisation available from its state-of-the-art home in Coventry.

The one-off E-type was commissioned by a client with specific requirements.

He wanted a Roadster manufactured in the year he was born. The team at Jaguar Classic set to work and tracked down a

Series 1 E-type that was built just two days after the customer’s date of birth.

Over the following 12 months, the car underwent a complete rebuild. Finished in a unique deep metallic blue inspired by the blue of the Union Jack, the new blue, was exclusively mixed by the paint shop following numerous consultations and sample creations to craft the perfect hue over several months.

The bespoke interior features striking leather upholstery finished in a shade of red inspired by iconic British pillar boxes.

The original 4.2-litre straight-six was replaced by a larger 4.7-litre engine, delivering superior performance. It is married to Jaguar Classic’s specially developed five-speed gearbox.

Uprated suspension ensures the chassis can exploit the performance provided by its powertrain, while wider wheels, tyres, and uprated brakes deliver superior grip and confidence.

A sports exhaust and manifold ensure the E-type’s soundtrack suits its dynamic character.

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FinalWhistle The Guardian’s sports wrap

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calling time on a week of sport

Confrontation United’s Catherine Kuyf and Methven’s Anna Proudman face off in their Thursday night clash at the EA Networks Centre. United took out the contest 33-24, but the scoreline didn’t reflect a titanic battle. FULL STORY P18

Sporting results

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Chasing national glory

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Tanya set for Timaru

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Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

Mt Somers runs into a green juggernaut

By Erin Tasker

Celtic Auric Electrical A continue to be the team to beat in Mid Canterbury Netball’s ACL Premier 1 competition, continuing their unbeaten run in 2022 with a big win over Mt Somers Victory Lime A in the latest round on Thursday night.

Celtic’s speed through court made life difficult for the Mt Somers side, who were playing in just their second game back in the top-flight after earning promotion from ACL Premier 2, and although they stuck with their latest opposition early on the game got away from them as time went on.

Mt Somers had started their return to Premier 1 with a good win over Rylib Southern Lights to begin round two, but they faced a much sterner task in their second game on Thursday, in the form of a Celtic side which topped the table at the end of round one.

Mt Somers were well and truly in the game at just 9-6 down at the end of the first quarter, but Celtic started pulling away and moved out to a 10-goal lead by halftime.

By the end of the 40 minutes there was no doubt about the scoreline, 48-20 to Celtic A. The night’s tightest clash was expected to be between United KFC A and Methven Wareings A, and while the United side took it out 33-24, they had it far from their own way.

Missing Chelsea Corbett for the night, United called upon ex-College shooter Hayley Tallentire for the second week in a row to fill the gap at goal attack, but it was the defence of both sides that dominated the match in the early stages.

At the end of the first 10 min-

utes it was Methven holding a narrow edge 7-6.

Tallentire’s flair started shining through in the second quarter, helping United out to a handy lead for a time, but Methven pegged a couple back before halftime to make it 17-15 in United’s favour at the mid-point.

Methven’s tenacious defence didn’t make life easy for United, but at times they struggled to convert turnovers into points, while United made possession count more often than not and their lead continued to steadily build until the final whistle.

The night’s remaining ACL Premier 1 game was between defending champions Hampstead Ray White A and Rylib Southern Lights, with the defending champs taking it out 32-16.

In ACL Premier 2, College A notched up a confidence-building 44-24 win over Hampstead Ray White B, while Methven EuroAgri B had to see off a late surge

by Allenton A to claim a 34-31 win, and the night’s final game between Rakaia ProShear and Celtic Darryl Phillips Motor Company B went the way of the Rakaia side 35-31.

That means Rakaia are now two wins from two outings in Premier 2 after earning promotion from Premier 3 just over a week ago.

ACL Premier 3 started with what was expected to be a tight match-up between College Y10A and Methven Shearmac, but the Methven side was always in charge, taking it out 44-24.

Hampstead Ray White U18 Development were also dominant, downing United KFC B 53-15, while the night’s last contest saw College B just edge past Methven Humm Engineering in a low scoring affair 18-17.

Methven’s Leanne Clemens looks for a sneaky flick pass in their clash with United on Thursday night.

PHOTO DANIEL ALVEY

SPORTS RESULTS ■■ Bowls

Allenton Bowling Club

Winter Bowls Results On Wednesday June 1 another round of the Kiddey Cup was contested, and results were: 1st Rosemary Bennett, Mike Quinn 3 wins 19 ends 44 points. 2nd Wendy Watson, Murray Anderson 2 wins 16 ends 29 points. 3rd Lindsay Kearns, Peter Whinham 2 wins 15 ends 20 points.

On Saturday June 4, 2 bowl triples was contested and results were as follows: 1st J Argyle, R Ward, G Hurrell 3 wins 20 ends 44 points. 2nd R Bennett, M Quinn, N Atkinson 2 wins 1 draw 18 ends 35 points; 3rd G Dowie, N Sharplin, P Quinn 2 wins 1 draw 16 ends 40 points Upcoming Events – Winter Bowls: Friday June 10 Triples 12.00pm start Saturday June 11, 2-4-2 pairs 12.00 pm start.

Tuesday June 14, Combined Club Rollup names in by 12.45pm for 1.00pm start.

Good bowling everyone.

■■ Bridge

Ashburton Bridge Club

Monday May 30, B &C Ladder: N/S 1st Annie Lee & Averil Leckey, 2nd Anne Gilbert & Ruth Logan, 3rd Karen Chettleburg & Amanda Evans. E/W 1st Bev Blair & David Fisher, 2ndJohn F Rickard & Derek Prebble, 3rd Allison & Chris Lovelock.

Tuesday May 31 A Ladder: 1st Val Palmer & Ian Doel, 2nd Rewa Kyle & Mary Buckland, 3rd Peter Wilson & Alan Wright,

4th Eric & Wendy Parr, 5th Jim & Audrey Rooney, 6th= Mike Holdaway & Leigh Wackrow and Kay Robb & Rosemary McLaughlin.

Wednesday June 1, Valetta Trophy: 1st Mervyn Jones & Johnny Wright, 2nd Rosemary McLaughlin & Judith Edmond, 3rd Rewa Kyle & Trish Downward, 4th Mary Buckland & Trish Small, 5th Jeanette Lovett & Jill Browne, 6th Pat Jordan & Peter Wilson.

Thursday June 2, 2 rds: 1st Mary Buckland & Trish Downward, 2nd Jim Rooney & Eric Parr, 3rd Maryke Blignault & Peter Wilson, 4th Kay Robb & Wendy Parr, 5th Val Palmer & Johnny Wright, 6th Maree Moore & Trish Small.

■■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club

Wednesday 8/6/2022 Competition: Finals President’s Salver + Stableford Round President’s Salver Winner Terry Molly Sega Golf Winner over the Field: Barry Jury 40pts, 2nd Ray Lambert 38pts, 3rd Terry Molloy 38pts.

Other good scores; Ryan Cockburn 38pts, Jeff Williamson 37pts, Bevan Wilson 36pts, Gerard Gallagher 36pts, Murray Wackrow 36pts, Brent MacGregor 35pts, Brian Fauth 34pts & Robert Pawsey 34pts Twos: (not struck). Phat Duck Closest to the pin: Hole 14# Chris Lovelock

Ashburton 9 Holers

Last week’s winners of the Sega Golf

Best Net (also Q3 for Club Champs) were Jenny Matthews (32) followed by Stewart Bennett & Gordon Clinton (33).

Smith & Church Gobblers were scored by Jenny Matthews & Stewart Bennett. The previous week Neil Gibbs also scored a Smith & Church Gobbler.

On June 9, we will play Hotel Ashburton R4 Heather Smith Stableford and on 16th June, Netherby Pharmacy Russian Roulette Stableford.

Ashburton Golf Club

Ladies Golf – Saturday June 4 & Tuesday, June 7 Bermaline Cup (Stableford): Maryann Blair – 44, Kay Fox, Jenny Williams – 38, Lynn Small – 37. Nearest the Pins: No 4 Chevalier Farm Ltd – Kay Fox, No 8 Samantha Rose Flowers – Trish Robertson (Hole in one). No 12 Lynn’s small Salon – Pauline Bell, No 14 Todd’s of Ashburton – Jeanette Montgomery, No 18 2nd Shot – Maryann Blair. Twos: Brenda Fechney – No 8. Trish Robertson - Hole in One – No 8.

Methven Ladies Golf

Wednesday June 8.

LGU Silver Angela Mowbray 87-11-76, Sara Gallagher 90-12-78, Bronze A, Robyn Maw 94-21-73, Sharon Burrell-Smith 100-2575. Bronze B, Bev Isherwood 106-31-75, Wendy Wareing 113-37-76, Heather Santy 104-28-76, 2nd Sarah Maw. 4th Tui’s. Robyn Maw 36, Sharon Burrell-Smith 34, Bev Isherwood 34, Heather Santy 34. Nawab Indian Restaurant Best Nett of the Day:- Robyn Maw 73, Mt

Hutt Lodge Best Nett of the Month: Sandra Marr 69. Nearest the Pins: No 4 Open Methven Foursquare Dennise Hood. No 6 Open & Br B Methven Pharmacy Gayle O’Duffy. No 4 Open Methven Foursquare. No 6 Open and Br B Methven Pharmacy. No 13 Open Methven Travel Gail Limbrick. No 17 Open Primo Robyn Maw. No 14 Silver & Br A Supervalue Sharon Burrell-Smith.

Twos and Nett Eagles Sharon Burrell-Smith. Gail Limbrick. Becky Hood x 3. Sara Gallagher. Ellen Kemp.

Mayfield Golf Club

Tuesday June 7 Ruapuna Rosebowl Singles Matchplay L MacKenzie bt R Keeley 1 up, C Hogan-Wright bt H Rapsey 3/2, A Vessey bt M Read 4/3, J Lake bt L Mulligan 2up, M Cross bt S Hydes 3/1, J Webb bt S Graham 1up on the 19th hole. J Murdoch bt J Schmack 7/5. Lucky Cards: Marilyn Cross, Ruth Keeley.

Val Fleming 2nd shot No 2 Jillian Lake, Sims Bakery no 11 Judy Webb, Ross Brothers no 5 N/S, Memory Funerals no 14 N/S.

Rakaia Ladies Golf

Wednesday June 8 LGU, Bryant Cup, Championship Qualifying, 2nd round putting, 1st round Eclectic Sandra Quinn: 99-23-76, 30 putts. J. Watts Trophy: Sandra Quinn.

9 holers: Stroke and putting, Championship Qualifying, 1st round Eclectic Judy Moore: 53-15-38, 16 putts.

Rakaia Hotel 2nd shot #3 Sandra Quinn.

Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd shot #6 Judy Moore. V. Bell. Nearest the Pin #8 not struck.

Chertsey Spraying 2nd shot #15 Teresa Booker. S. Quinn 2nd shot #17 Sandra Quinn.

Tinwald Golf Club

Ladies Golf, June 7 – Stroke Sue Gutsell 73, Barb Cochrane 76.

9 Hole – Stroke: Denise Morgan 37 c/b.

Nearest the Pin: No 2 (2nd Shot) Murray Young Property Broker; Barb Cochrane, No 6 (2nd Shot) Sims Bakery; Barb Cochrane, No 12 Mac & Maggie; Not Struck, 16 (2nd Shot) Outdoor Adventure; Di Bell, Memory Funeral Longest Putt; Sue Gutsell.

■■ Shooting

Mt Somers Rifle Club

Briar Watson 68, Noah Gerin 81, Peyton Fews 72, Liv Fews 91.3, 89.1, Jess Lill 91.2, Warwick Lill 94.3, Jess Heaven 94.4, Emily Heaven 85, Dave Millichamp 96.1, 96.4, Tim Greer 89.1, 97.2, 96.3, Elliot Stewart 78, Kevin Fews 92, 92.2, Brent frame 95.1, 96.2, Stephen Millichamp 98.8, 96.3.

Mayfield Rifle Club

Brooke Wheeler 81.1, Lillian Snowden 89.1, Peter Quigley 56, John Snowden 99.5, Martyn Wheeler 83.1, Chloe Lovett 78, Caroline Lovett 83.1, Hamish Dalzell 96.6, Carl Nordqvist 96.5, 96.3, Andrew Donaldson 95.3, Martin Fleming 97.4.

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Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

Crunch time for Southern Matt Markham It’s been good, without setting the world on fire – but don’t expect Southern to show up and play like they have over the past fortnight, when they host Glenmark Cheviot in one of two semi-finals in Combined Country Rugby today.

Fans are still playing close attention to their fingernails after a good chew session over the most recent matches for the defending champions, with both their last pool play clash and last week’s quarter-final going their way.

Similarly, co-coach Jon Dampney has placed two impressive markings at either end of the Hinds Domain No. 2 ground over the past two weeks from pacing up and down the dead ball line as he’s watched his side play well under their capabilities.

But the past fortnight counts for nothing today and if Southern are at worst going to get a crack at making it back-to-back titles, they’ll need a complete performance to make it happen.

Glenmark Cheviot have been excellent recently, and wiped Southbridge off the paddock with a dominant performance to advance to today’s clash,

Locals in action Semi-final: Southern v

Glenmark Cheviot – Hinds Domain, 2.45pm Trophy Semi-final: Lincoln v Methven – Lincoln, 2.45pm.

Plate Semi-final: Ashley v Rakaia – Loburn, 2.45pm.

while Southern had to rely on the sure boot of Tom Middleton to get them the win.

The good news is though that Southern can be so, so much better.

With a really strong game day lineup, including some serious firepower off the bench, it’s Southern’s opportunity to get some of their serious nature back in check today.

They’ll need their big players to stand up, and a lot of it will rely on three players who share a last name.

Will Mackenzie, Hamish Mackenzie and Angus McKenzie were all immense last week, and really led from the front and took control of the revival that ultimately led to success.

But if they’re on song it opens up opportunities for others in the team too, with any broken play setting up the nimble-footed Matt McAtamney who will be keen to take every opportunity thrown his way.

Meanwhile, in a situation nowhere near as important in terms of the competition, semi-finals of other slices of silverware will begin after all teams outside of the top eight received a week off over the long weekend.

Methven will be out to avenge their last-minute deadlock with Lincoln in pool play when they square off in the second tier of the competition – the Canterbury Rugby Supporters Trophy, Lincoln scored in the dying minutes of the clash between the two sides over a month ago – a result which may well have cost Methven a shot at the big time in the competition.

With the Watters Cup just around the corner, momentum is critical heading into those local derby matchups, so victories today, and ultimately next week too, would be of huge advantage.

Rakaia are also in action, heading all the way up to Loburn to take on Ashley, who showed they are no pushover in this competition and perhaps, like Methven, were unlucky not to make the top eight.

Southern line-up 1. Bradley Tarbotton 2. Callum Burrell 3. Adam Williamson 4. Scott Martin 5. Eric Duff 6. Maukie Otukolo 7. Hamish Mackenzie 8. Angus Mackenzie 9. Will Mackenzie 10. Will Green 11. Makasiale Kauvanua 12. Thomas Middleton 13. James Hastings 14. Thomas McCormick 15. Matthew McAtamney

James Hastings on the charge for Southern.

PHOTO ANGELA CUSHNIE

Reserves: Guy Latham, Mason Briant, Logan Bonnington, Jake Jarman, Ryan Nicholls, Ben Early, Hugo Monie.

National honours in their sights Lawson, French and Simon Thomas won the triples title when the Matt championships were held in Ashburton in 2018 and Lawson also won Markham the title back in 2006.

Markham will be out to chase back-to-back fours titles after winning the event last year with North A shot at national glory awaits a Island players, Shaun Blackbourn, group of local indoor bowlers who James Sullivan and Emma Ludedeparted Mid Canterbury yesterday man. bound for Porirua, where they’ll be He’ll play pairs with Sullivan and based for the next week. then triples with he Six Ashburton playBlackbourn, ers will take part in the Ashburton will be represented in the singles by and forming another annual New Zealand Michael Lawson, Grant Wilson, Mat Bassett, strong combination.

Indoor Bowls National Bassett will take Championships, which Jeremy Markham and John Lewis in the open his place in comrun over the course of a event and Raewyn Robin in the masters. posite teams over week starting today at the course of the the Te Rauparaha Arena week, but will have in Porirua, north of Weltion on Tuesday, then triples across a serious eye on going deep into the lington.

For some, it’s a case of trying to Wednesday and Thursday and then singles action starting today given some of his recent form on the mats. emulate what they’ve done in the fours on Friday and Saturday.

Lawson and Wilson will combine A number of the players competpast while for others it’s a case of chasing that elusive first New Zea- in the pairs to form a strong com- ing from Mid Canterbury will also bination, then team up with New have a keen ear out late in the week land title.

The tournament begins today Zealand Mat Black, Daniel French of when the South Island team for 2022 with the coveted singles title, where Otago in the triples and then along- is named, with Bassett, Markham a field of 220 players will line up in side his partner, Keri Te Tamaki in and Wilson all in the hunt for selection. the open event and 145 players in the fours. the Masters event.

One of the marquee events of the Right – Grant Wilson will be out chasing a successful week at the New Zealand championship, it’s always hotly con- Indoor Bowls championships which begin in Porirua today. tested as players look to do enough to qualify today before heading back tomorrow for the post-section stage of the event.

Ashburton will be represented in the singles by Michael Lawson, Grant Wilson, Mat Bassett, Jeremy Markham and John Lewis in the open event and Raewyn Robin in the masters.

All will return on Monday for the pairs qualifying before post-sec-

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Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

Guardian racing

Mid Canterbury’s horse and dog racing action

End of the road for Orari The days of harness racing on the grass at the Orari track in South Canterbury are numbered.

It’s been decided that the venue will host two more meetings in November 2022 and in the autumn 2023, before it closes by July 2023.

The decision comes after a Sapere report looking at racing venues. Among its many conclusions was one that Orari does not have a long term future as a racing venue.

It’s the second Sapere report following a similiar review of Otago and Southland.

Harness Racing New Zealand has since agreed with the report’s finding and has met with the Geraldine Trotting Club to discuss the situation.

“We are gutted by the decision,” says Geraldine TC President Mark Weaver, “we are a profitable club with loyal sponsors who I believe is no cost to the industry.”

The Geraldine Trotting Club was formed in 1946.

“Our club are yet to decide our future – racing somewhere else or disbanding our club will be

decided in the coming months but our identity will be gone.”

It’s not the first time the club has faced an uncertain future. In 2020 its only meeting for the year was initially transferred to Methven only for it to get a reprieve.

The club’s last meeting was in April this year.

The Sapere report also found that changes are needed in South Canterbury and North Otago, and that the area cannot sustain two tracks.

Both Timaru and Oamaru are used by the harness and gallops codes.

Clubs in the two areas will make submissions to a Racing New Zealand panel in coming months, to present their case for survival.

The future of the Rangiora Racecourse is also up for debate, though nothing has been finalised.

Several options have been suggested and Harness Racing New Zealand will continue to liaise with the Rangiora Harness Racing Club The Orari Racecourse is facing the end. and others.

M8 NZ Metro harness Tomorrow at Addington Raceway

R1 WOODLANDS STUD MOBILE PACE $8000 1980m 12:18 1 8765 Dismara S Blake Blair Wilmott 2 44403 Dalness Arizona A N Edge 3 89757 Bolzano C P Negus 4 66864 Four Starzzz Shiraz W A Frost 5 0009x Pink Flamingo Run Ben Laughton 6 x090x Itz To The Macs G A Cook 7 5357 Better Fly Sheryl Wigg 8 27564 Happy Place B G White 9 56884 Wolfenstein 10 9x830 Alexy Jo-Ann Buckland-Stevens M R Swain 11 5069 Friendly Eyre Cheree Wigg 12 17815 Glitz And Glam 13 47588 Will He Rock Andrew Fitzgerald R2 IRT. YOUR HORSE. OUR PASSION. MOBILE TROT $9,000 1980m 12:43 1 40x03 Notasbadasilook K A Butt 2 40540 The Fiery Countess Craig D Thornley B N Orange 3 20587 The Royal Gamble T S Trathen 4 Dirty Harry M G Heenan 5 400 Cosmic Angel M P Jones 6 Albizia T M Williams 7 6x Leningrad A L Lethaby 8 5686 Miss Millie G D O’Reilly 9 0000x Matthew Eyre HORNBY LIQUOR CENTRE PACE $9,000 2600m 13:19 1 82 Beaudiene Quick Step R J Butt B N Orange 2 7x656 Yankee Jay T M Williams 3 77 Petrify John Morrison 4 0 Winemeup K A Butt 5 760 Crimson Rock T S Chmiel 6 Rapid Response

7 0x960 Pat Mach M J Williamson H S Clarke 8 86005 Nadira Franco G D O’Reilly 9 47545 On Report J F Curtin 10 Dark Eclipse Ben Hope 11 56255 Westar Lad G D Smith 12 740 Star Magic J R Dunn 13 2 Sports Babe S J Ottley 14 Sonny Vista R D Close 15 900 Diana’s Joy R T May 16 73649 Move It On Over R4 XCM SPORT MOBILE PACE $9,000 1980m 13:47 1 700 Flyaway J R Dunn Sarah O’Reilly 2 4556x Mikis Shineing Star R D Close 3 00x89 Victor Bravo Stephen Boyd 4 77x50 Spark It Up Korbyn Newman 5 4349 Cheekygrin K A Butt 6 84844 All Too Well H S Clarke 7 86005 Nadira Franco B N Orange 8 45649 Leconte 9 65925 Hutasa Craig D Thornley R J Butt 10 0097x Don’t Bring Lulu John Morrison 11 85755 Take A Hike Wilson House 12 78336 Wriggles Rufus S J Ottley 13 90984 Apache Warrior M J Williamson 14 258x6 Twilight Bromac T S Chmiel 15 8620 Lizzie Richter R5 FAHEY FENCE HIRE PACE $9,000 2000m 14:20 1 52890 Charlie’s Ace Gemma Thornley T S Chmiel 2 4x522 Scared Stiff B N Orange 3 1750x Phone Tap Sam Thornley 4 4748x Mark Dunnett 5 25331 Foveaux Gambler Sheree Tomlinson J F Curtin 6 650x5 Styx Sweetie G D Smith 7 x06x6 Proteus

S J Ottley 8 80848 Reformed M J Williamson 9 52120 Atomic Traveller J R Dunn 10 57063 Szybka Lane R D Close 11 0x039 Moody River R T May 12 6x821 Frank Burns John Morrison 13 0070x Hilda Maud R6 SILVERMOON JEWELLERS LADIES’ NIGHT - 8 JULY MOBILE TROT $9,000 2600m 14:46 1 5770 Sunny Son Scott Iremonger B Weaver 2 74929 Tres Magnifique M J Williamson 3 080x4 Mickey Jay T S Chmiel 4 40x00 Flyin Sid Wilson House 5 x8606 Love Is Everywhere Stephen Boyd 6 40x84 Instant Delight S J Ottley 7 32100 Lil Miss Muscles J R Dunn 8 4349 Silverlinings B N Orange 9 7x511 Royal Diedre P J Davis 10 x6410 The Fox Jason Ford 11 66250 Navara R7 MACCA LODGE YOUNG AT HEART HANDICAP PACE $9,000 - 2600m 15:10 1 46780 Boulton Home Sam Thornley K M Cox 2 89994 Kennedy M J Williamson 3 40x94 It’s A Shawthing B N Orange 4 23373 Hidden Desire G D O’Reilly 5 92688 Megarock John Morrison 6 75736 Kingsdown Atom S J Ottley 7 86x59 Mayhem In Malibu Korbyn Newman 8 323x5 Pro Surfer J W Cox 9 44622 Sonic Reign Wilson House 10 12640 Cha Cha B R M Cameron 11 x900x The Black Shadow M S Cations 12 x0650 Deja Blue Sarah O’Reilly 13 x1730 Rake

M6 Timaru gallops

J R Dunn 14 35281 Arizonawildcat R8 PI & GJ KENNARD BLOODSTOCK MBL PACE $9,000 1980m 15:35 1 51337 Rock’n Kiwi G D Smith K G Cameron 2 68266 Gosakhi S J Ottley 3 34640 Greenback Boogie R T May 4 78507 Bettorlini R D Close 5 97269 The Hornet Wilson House 6 012x5 Sharp Lou B N Orange 7 17222 Taliesin B Weaver 8 99808 I’ll Write The Story 9 70790 Honour Scroll Gemma Thornley G D O’Reilly 10 35221 Morrissey J F Curtin 11 45730 Essence Of Easton Sarah O’Reilly 12 51728 Maximilian R M Cameron 13 00x44 King Arthur R9 SPECTATORS BAR TROT $9,000 2000m 16:09 1 x6390 Show The Way K G Cameron R T May 2 37232 Robo Trouble 3 080x7 Bourbon On The Rocks J P Versteeg 4 0860x Shes So Right Kerryn Tomlinson A L Lethaby 5 26301 Racey Krusa C J Markham 6 58654 Dd’s Super Stuart Leonie Newton 7 78864 Merlot G D O’Reilly 8 44870 Sally Lindenny M J Williamson 9 0x996 Wynberg Watch 10 5589 Pat The Monkey emma Thornley S J Ottley 11 27742 Nortie Nortie Wilson House 12 2470x Palisade R J Butt 13 283x6 La Reina Del Sur J R Dunn 14 25322 Prince Ranier J Herbert 15 x0000 Moons Way Sam Thornley 16 69 South Park R10 FIRST DIRECT TAXIS MBL PACE $9000 1980 16:36

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K A Butt M J Williamson J Herbert T S Chmiel R D Close R T May G D O’Reilly Ben Hope S J Ottley John Morrison Sarah O’Reilly Wilson House B N Orange

Matt Markham’s Addington Selections Race 1: Happy Place, Glitz And Glam, It’z To The Macs, Better Fly Race 2: The Royal Gamble, Notasbadasilook, Leningrad, The Fiery Countess Race 3: Sports Babe, Beaudiene Quick Step, Winegum, Move It On Over Race 4: Lizzie Richter, All Too Well, Spark It Up, Mikies Shinening Star Race 5: Styx Sweetie, Scared Stiff, Frank Burns, Proteus Race 6: Royal Deidre, Lil Miss Muscles, Navara, The Fox Race 7: Hidden Desire, Megarock, Kingsdown Atom, Sonice Reign Race 8: Morrisey, King Arthur, Talesin, Rock N Kiwi Race 9: Prince Rainer, DD’s Super Stuart, Nortie Nortie, La Reina Del Sur Race 10: Olive Cook, Off The Edge, He’s Santas Excuse, Heaven On High BEST BET: Hidden Desire (Race 7) VALUE: Styx Sweetie (Race 5)

Tomorrow at Phar Lap Raceway

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K Asano (4) 56.5 Movie Star Beauty’s Secret M Mcnab (18) 56.5 L Callaway (7) 56.5 Pony Express In Vegas 56.5 58.5 Morrie 56.5 Chippewa Jamieson’s Tipple 58.5 56.5 Lipa Mala 56.5 Lightning Ridge

1 40306 Nomen Ludi M Mcnab (9) 60 2 76x55 Dee And Gee M J Taylor (5) (A4) 59.5 3 45155 Vee Twelve S L Wynne (2) 58 Ms K Williams (7) 54.5 4 23450 Miss Tavi 5 19x65 Deels Done K Chowdhoory (3) 54.5 6 51017 Vague L J Allpress (8) 54 R4 Dianne Goodeve Mdn $12,000 1600m 12:55 G A Jogoo (1) 54 7 61489 Ekstrememiss 1 73x5x Telling Tales J D Laking (6) 58.5 8 0x786 Diamond Riviere Rohan Mudhoo (6) 54 2 006x8 Eisenhower Y Atchamah (1) (A4) 58.5 9 8220 Holy Loch T R Moseley (10) 54 R6 NZB Insurance Pearl Series (Bm65) $12,000 1200m K Asano (8) 56.5 3 3x443 Dushku B May (11) 54 10 4030 Jiminy Cricket 4 83572 Tiratore C W Johnson (9) 56.5 14:04 11 65875 Youneverknow S Toolooa (4) (A3) 54 1 17x02 Miss Harley Quinn G A Jogoo (11) 60 R2 Gm Accounting & Consulting Maiden $12,000 5 0340x Sweet Virginia T R Moseley (2) 56.5 271 Fetiche B M Murray (4) 59 R8 Bob Goodeve Memorial (Bm74) $12,000 1200m 1600m 11:47 6 464x0 Trekolure D I Montes De Oca (4) (A1) 56.5 2 15:18 1 x7564 Bad Flamingo Ms K Williams (2) 58.5 7 8756x Heads Up K Mudhoo (11) 56.5 3 10026 Radiant Rosie B May (3) 59 1 38x1x Louie Louie C W Johnson (3) 62 2 x7350 Taramea Lad 58.5 M Mcnab (4) 8 8x9 Andrea M Taylor (7) (A4) 56.5 4 x3506 Tradition Y Atchamah (7) (A4) 59 2 65019 Meara Mary D Montes De Oca (12) (A1) 59.5 L Callaway (1) 58.5 3 9x Perfect Rein G A Jogoo (10) 56.5 5 4721 Castle On The Hill S L Wynne (5) 58.5 9 5x600 Annexception 6 43510 Aunt Cindy K Asano (10) 58 3 14x84 Anduin L J Allpress (14) 58.5 4 83623 Folktale Rohan Mudhoo (5) 56.5 10 0x960 Belle De Val R Mudhoo (5) 56.5 K Chowdhoory (7) 58 5 82 Gabby Diaz R D Beeharry (7) 56.5 11 0x Pimenter B M Murray (3) 56.5 7 120x7 Hello Mary Lou S Toolooa (14) (A3) 57.5 4 667x0 Benaud 8 62093 Zacat C W Johnson (1) 57.5 5 5147x First Rock M Taylor (9) (A4) 55.5 6 x8257 Degreeofinnocence K Asano (8) 56.5 R5 Dunstan Horsefeeds Mdn $12,000 1200m 13:30 9 21008 Just A Girl Taylor (17) (A4) 57 M J 6 x1885 He’s The Man K Asano (10) 55.5 7 55885 Royal Khan B May (9) 56.5 1 96348 Raghallaigh C W Johnson (13) 58.5 R Mudhoo 10 3706x Sweet Fields (16) 57 7 65x9x Dreaming Easy 54.5 8 39070 Deny T Moseley (3) 56.5 2 00x38 Aorangi Assassin T R Moseley (6) 58.5 11 x0650 Gallery Girl (13) 56.5 L J Allpress S Toolooa (1) (A3) 54.5 8 51633 Emanon 56.5 9 8 Indi Nindy 3 77774 Show Us Plenty Y Atchamah (20) (A4) 58.5 12 86330 Lorna Doon M Mcnab (6) 56.5 9 41627 Play The Field Rohan Mudhoo (4) 54.5 10 0x La Traviata G A Jogoo (6) 56.5 S L Wynne (9) 58.5 4 6260x Sport Mode B B Hong (18) 56.5 13 508x0 Scala Sancta 10 420x8 Where’s Wally Ms K Williams (6) 54.5 11 x0096 Nellie Grey L J Allpress (10) 56.5 5 4x9x0 Highland Whisper M J Taylor (1) (A4) 58.5 14 9656 Show Me Champagne K Chowdhoory (8) 56 11 6150x He’s Tunza Grunt W Papier (11) (A3) 54 R3 Garrards & Livamol (Bm74) $12,000 1600m 6 58x7 Highland Fling J D Laking (12) 58.5 15 3660x A Little Vague 56 12 10895 Cause Celebre B May (13) 54 12:21 L J Allpress (14) 58.5 16 83969 Justabelle 55.5 7 Surcharge 13 66574 Selfie K Mudhoo (5) 54 1 x00x6 Owen Patrick S Toolooa (1) (A3) 60 8 The Motivator B B Hong (3) 58.5 17 x5407 Ophelia Rose 55 14 x8900 Sentient Y Atchamah (8) (A4) 54 2 84177 Athene L J Allpress (4) 58.5 C L Carmine (17) 58.5 18 0x967 Lovebug 55 9 Wilkinson 3 1260 Double Prosperity B May (8) 55.5 10 5202 Darci’s Flight K Chowdhoory (2) 56.5 19 x6079 Tennessee Rock 55 R9 Thank You Phar Lap Raceway - Bm74 $12,000 4 45716 Shanghai Express D Montes De Oca (10) (A1) 55 11 9x042 Global Beauty B May (5) 56.5 R7 Dunstan Horsefeeds Waimate Cup $25,000 2200m 1600m 15:53

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Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

Age Concern Ashburton

Elder Abuse is an ongoing issue that presents in many forms throughout New Zealand communities and unfortunately our Ashburton, Mid Canterbury area is no exception.

Age Concern takes the opportunity to raise the public’s appreciation of this problem during World Elder Abuse Awareness week, held annually in MidJune. There is a display in the Arcade for the week 15-22 June providing a wealth of information for people to take away, study and absorb, as well as contact details for advice and support, always in complete confidence.

Referrals to a qualified professional can be arranged through the Age Concern office at 206 Cameron Street, or by phoning 308-6817.

Enquiries for Total Mobility assessment, courtesy drivers and all concerns are welcomed by contacting our office.

Ashburton County Lions

May Meeting – President Sue welcomed members, the Guest Speaker and one visitor, and apologies received from members unable to attend.

A sales table was held at the meeting, with a nice selection of goods for the girls to purchase.

Kathy Harrington-Watt, the Team Leader Refugee Settlement Service Ashburton NZ, gave a very interesting talk on the local refugee families from Afghanistan who are settling into our community.

Currently 35 from 7 families are being assisted by a group of volunteers helping them to navigate their new home, learning the Kiwi culture and language. All are keen to work or go to school. Some of them have lived all their lives in a refugee camp so it is a huge physical and emotional transition for them and need the love and support of our community.

During the month members had assisted with Meals on Wheels and did the catering for the Lions Cabinet meeting which was held in Ashburton. Baking was also given to Presbyterian Support to help families coping with Covid.

Donations had been made to Camp Quality, The McKenzie Group and CanBead.

Several members had enjoyed the regular monthly informal luncheon and a movie night.

To commemorate 35years since the charter of the Ashburton County Lions Club, a plaque was unveiled at the garden at Lake Hood, followed by fellowship and a luncheon to celebrate at the Lake House Restaurant, which was enjoyed by all.

Open the doors and they shall come. Buyers get among the action at the Ashburton Pakeke Lions Charity Market. the Junior Country Rock category at 2021 Gold Guitars at Gore. Molly sang a selection of stirring melodies including the old favourite The Tennessee Waltz and was given heartfelt thanks on behalf of the club by member Graham Smith, who used to teach her. For those who missed the performance, Molly sings monthly at the MSA Ashburton.

The toast to Lions International was given

by Vice President Max Cawte. Max spoke of how each of the seven Lions Clubs in the District are both supporters of their local communities and products of them, reflecting the differing characteristics of the areas they spring from. Evoking the lyrics of Gary Portnoy’s theme for the US show Cheers, Max said that Lions truly is the place ‘where everybody knows your name’. President Roger was pleased to give 3-chevron awards to Stuart Dunlop and Barry Vessey for 35 years long service, and to Lindsey Telfer for 15 years long service.

FVDGE Garth Bateup was pleased to give a Melvin Jones Fellowship Award to Mike Hanham in recognition of 50 years of outstanding service to the community.

Amongst many other accomplishments Mike has served two terms as Club President in 1986-87 and 2010-11.

Outgoing President Roger Paterson read a précis of the President’s Report for 2021-22, a tumultuous year in which we have contended not only with Covid-19 moving into the community, but also flooding and the slumping of the Ashburton Road Bridge.

Although several tea meetings were cancelled for the protection of our members Ashburton Lions continued to support our community throughout, including the distribution of $57,000 to assist sev-

Ashburton Lions

The meeting was held on June 1 at the Hotel Ashburton, and marks the changeover point towards our new President and Board for the coming year. Outgoing President Roger welcomed all to the meeting and read the apologies, including from District Governor Christine Stewart.

A ceremony of remembrance for Lions who passed during this last year is to be held at the Aorangi Funeral Services in Timaru on Sunday June 12 at 10.30am, which will include lunch paid for by the club. Those honoured will include our own Rex Whiting and Peter Gibson and the club has secured two spaces: members who wish to attend please contact ex-President Roger.

Graham Edge was pleased to announce a donation to the Lloyd Morgan Charitable Trust in the name of Peter Gibson in recognition of his long and distinguished service. The Edwin von Tunzelmann Leadership Trophy was awarded to Barney Parsons for his contributions to the club including the very successful playhouse raffle.

Entertainment for the evening was provided by the undeniably talented young Molly Harrison, the 13-year-old winner of

eral organisations that Lions support.

Standing in for the District Governor who sadly could not attend, Graham Edge inducted the incoming President Manny Sim and VP Max Cawte and introduced this year’s Board.

Ashburton Friendship and Entertainment Club

Greetings, fellow members and friends.

Considering we had so many members and friends away for various reasons, including some with long-term illness, we still managed to pull a concert together.

Our concert was a great afternoon. This was our third concert and some clubs have just had their first club day. We had new people in the audience, which is great to see. Our day kicked off with the club orchestra, Lorraine on piano, Shirley on piano accordion, Neil on bass guitar and Robyn on guitar. They sounded just great, playing some old favourites. It always amazes me how a group of people can just get up and play together and sound so good!

The orchestra was followed by Alan Andrews on his keyboard. Alan has the ability to read music and has a good supply of nice music in his repertoire. Very soothing to listen to. Alan was followed

by Neil and Jessie. This lovely couple sing great songs and I enjoy listening to them.

Our club comedian Harold followed, with a poem with a very enthusiastic theme.

Where do you get them from, Harold?

Keep it up.

Robyn is not only our valued treasurer, but a great leader of the Cross St Gang.

They are a great band in their own right, and Smithy’s bass is fantastic. The skiffle group organised by Neil and Robyn was great entertainment.

The stage was packed with people and instruments, and everyone was very enthusiastic. I think everyone enjoyed it, both on and off the stage.

The singalong was our last item, led by Jim Mitchell with John Davies on piano.

My audience gauge Peter Anstey, who is up there as one of the oldest member, said it was a fantastic club day, and he thoroughly enjoyed it.

Our secretary Prue has been in hospital.

We hope you are well and truly on the mend. We will see you when you have recuperated.

Next concert Tuesday June 7, 7.30pm.

Outward trip to Timaru, June 12. Bus departs clubrooms at 11.45am. Names to be confirmed by June 7. List is on noticeboard or contact a committee member. $20 pp for transport. Alan is kindly driving for free. We have a 40-seat bus, so round up a friend or two for an enjoyable Sunday afternoon.

There are a few outstanding subs to be paid. We don’t want to lose you!

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club

Another beautiful long weekend, saw lots of golfers on the Brandon. The frost on Saturday morning made the starts congested all day, and I believe that the match committee will certainly be looking into making the starting a bit

This coming Sunday we are holding the Club Over 70s and Under 70s Competition, which is usually a popular and competitive day to be part of. It had been planned to hold this later in the month, but the date was clashing with the MSA AGM, hence we brought it forward.

We have removed a corner garden on one of the pistes recently which will be shingled, and the seating extended along the back fence. String lines are also being given some attention. Colin and Peter are now looking after the pistes, which should bring some more consistency to the state of the playing area, with the shingle more evenly spread. Along with our driveway signs and flags, we are soon to receive caps with our logo on them which will provide even more promotion for our club.

Oceania Petanque Tournament: NZ is sending a team to this event in Tahitii in September. The team is made up of 4 men and 4 women. Our very own Richard Browne has been selected as the first emergency for the men’s section. Well done, Richard, great effort.

Div 2 Men, Hampstead Lowcliffe Div 2 Men), Allenton/Tinwald Girls v Wakanui Girls Yr 7 Turf b (Tinwald Div 2 Men, Allenton Div 2 Men), Allenton Girls (bye).

SSL Girls Div 1 Wednesday 15 June Ashburton College Girls 1st XI (bye).

Duty Club: Tinwald Kiwi Sticks Friday 17 June 3.45 pm Allenton Yr 5 v Tinwald The Tool Shed Turf b (D Law, K McDonnell) 4.30 pm Wakanui Blue Yr 6 v Tinwald Skip-2-It Turf a (J Muir, K McDonnell) Tinwald Mayfield Transport v Lauriston Turf b (D Law, S French) 5.15 pm Methven Yr 5 v Wakanui Blue Yr 5 Turf a (J Muir, D Law) Tinwald Smith & Sons v Methven Yr 6 Turf b (Hampstead Div 2 Women,

Methven Div 2 Women).

Div 2 Women Friday 17 June 6.15 pm Hampstead v Methven (Tinwald Div 1 Women, Wakanui Div 1 Women Purple) 7.30 pm Tinwald v Wakanui (Methven Div 1 Women, Wakanui Div 1 Women Black).

Connetics SSP Boys Champs Friday 17 June Nga Puna Wai 2 5.10 pm Ashburton College Boys 1st XI v Cashmere High School 1st XI. SSL Boys Div 3 Friday 17 June Nunweek Park 1 6.30 pm Mid Canterbury Combined v Christ’s College Senior XI. Duty Club: Tinwald Mini Sticks Saturday 18 June 10.00 am Allenton Maroon Magic v Allenton Gold

Ashburton Golf Club

Molly Harrison kept the crowd entertained at the recent Ashburton Lions meeting.

smoother on the frosty mornings.

The course was set up long and tough for the third qualifier of the club champs.

Leading the way was Brad Fallaver with an 85 off 17 for a net 68, well done Brad.

Close behind on 69s was Pete Morrison and Lynn Small, with Kenny Clucas a further shot back. Best gross on the day was a very strong 73 from Jeff Hewitt.

Round 4 of qualifying is on July 16th and that is the date when handicaps are set for grades. Whichever grade you play in, on that day will be your grade for the whole of club champs.

The Harvey’s Bakehouse 9-hole winner on Saturday was Jenny Mathews with nett 36 closely followed by Stewey Bennett and Terry O’Reilly on 38.

This Saturday we have a qualifying round for the Presidents Trophy, a stroke round off the white tees with the top 16 players going through to 4 weeks of matchplay golf. When you enter the comp on Saturday please let Matt know if you are available for all 4 weeks of matchplay, and if you are not he can take you out and put someone else in who will be.

On Queens Birthday Monday we had one of our wonderful mixed days, with over 40 players turning up to play for the White Trophy. This has been changed from a Foursome game to a combined stableford this year and the format seemed to be appreciated. Top score of the day and winners of the White trophy were Bev Turton and Brian Nuttall with 73 points, just sneaking Wendy and Eric Parr on 71. Top mens score went to Jordy Bird and Dylan Stoddart also with 71 points.

Well done to everyone, we seem to be having a resurgence in the mixed days turnouts, which is great as the clubhouse seems to bounce a lot more on these days. Please keep supporting them.

See you around the course. Good golfing.

Remember you are most welcome to come and watch competition games, and also to join us in play on any Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday 1pm, at 115 Racecourse Road. Equipment and tuition available.

Ashburton Pakeke Lions

The Ashburton Pakeke Lions Charity Market was held over the weekend of 28 and 29 May. The Lions had been collecting donations in the spring of 2021, but the Charity Market had to be postponed from January because of Covid. As soon as the Covid traffic light turned orange it was all go. The Lions transported the stored goods to the empty Murney building in West St using trucks very generously loaned by A to B Rentals. They started on Tuesday and by Thursday the building was full to the brim. More than 70 trestle tables were moved in and there was a large area set aside for furniture. When the doors opened at 9am Saturday there were more than 200 people queued waiting to enter, and there was a steady stream of customers right through Saturday and Sunday.

A feature of the Pakeke Charitable market is the large amount of help provided by the Lady Members and Lions Ladies Social Members. The ladies look after the china and fine china, the kitchen ware, the bric-a-brac and novelty items, soft furnishings, and paintings. Last but not least they run the cake table and support all those working on the preparation days with an endless supply of scrumptious sandwiches and baking for our morning and afternoon teas. The event could not work without their efforts.

The takings were about $13,500. This will help fund the Pakeke Lions Charitable Trust which helps many local charities and charitable causes.

Ashburton Writers Group

The Annual General Meeting of the Ashburton Writers’ Group was held recently. After the minutes and financial report were read, the President gave her report for the year 31 March 2022.

The election of officers was held and resulted as follows: President Julie Fechney, Vice-President Julie Sergeant, Secretary/Treasurer Rae Magson. The meeting concluded and the monthly meeting was held. The quotation was supplied

by Coby “Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted”. The assignment was “Diary Entering Day 52 on a Deserted Island”. Members wrote of no boats, long holiday, signs of life, global warming, happy birthday, mosquitos, my companion, sunbathing, long hot days and taste of terror.

Details of the Short Story Competition were finalised, closing date to be 26 August 2022.

Members are grateful for the grants received from the Rotary Club of Ashburton and Creative Communities.

The June assignment is “The Uninvited Guest”.

Visitors are welcome, please phone Rae at 308-8927 or go to our Facebook page.

SPORTS DRAWS ■■ Golf

Tinwald Golf Club

Tinwald women’s golf draw 14th June Meeting LGU standfast trophy.

Report 9:30 for meeting and start at 10:00. Starters J. Undy L. Glassey, Cards B. Cochrane, Kitchen S. Vucetich, Roster convenor J. Bruhns.

■■ Hockey

Mid Canterbury Hockey

June 13 to June 19 Div 1 Women, Monday 13 June 6.15 pm Tinwald v Wakanui Purple (C Watson, M

Baker) 7.30 pm Wakanui Black v Methven (M Marshall, A Bennett).

Div 1 Men Tuesday 14 June 6.15 pm Tinwald v Allenton (N Kennard, S Muir) 7.30 pm Wakanui Black v Wakanui White (R Leigh, S Mealings).

Duty Club: Tinwald Kwik Sticks, Wednesday 15 June 4.00 pm Methven Black Boys v Wakanui Boys Black Turf a (E Shapland) Methven Black Girls v Tinwald Engineering Solutions Girls Turf b (L Adam) 5.10 pm Allenton Boys v Tinwald Bonnington Painting Boys Turf a (R Kidd) Wakanui Girls Yr 8 v Methven White Girls Turf b (G Oates), 6.20 pm Methven White Boys v Wakanui Boys Blue Turf a (Wakanui

Sticks Turf a (Coaches) Tinwald Orange v Wakanui Turf b (Coaches) Wakanui Black v Lauriston Turf c (Coaches) Wakanui Blue v Tinwald Black Turf d (Coaches).

Fun Sticks Saturday 18 June Draws made on the day (Coaches).

Snr Men (Canterbury Div 1) Saturday 18 June Mainpower Waimakariri 3.00 pm Mid Canterbury v Robbie’s Riccarton Avon.

Snr Women (Canty Div 1) Draw unknown.

Div 2 Men Sunday 19 June 5.00 pm Allenton v Hampstead Lowcliffe (Allenton Div 1 Men, Wakanui Div 1 Men Black) 6.30 pm Tinwald v Wakanui (Tinwald Div 1 Men, Wakanui Div 1 Men White).

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Puzzles and horoscopes

Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You’ll be most comfortable (and productive!) with as few commitments as possible on a loose schedule. Having to be certain places at certain times will limit the natural flow of your energy.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Your curiosity ignites, and each clue entices you to the next, only to find, after following a dozen or so leads, this is a mystery that only seems to deepen.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Lack of appreciation is a pernicious problem, often overlooked because the erosion of bonds can happen little by little, day by day. Take preventative measures so no one feels taken for granted.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): A behavioural shift makes a problem go away. An attitude adjustment makes the trouble irrelevant. A slight posture change fixes the ailment. Eliminating the symptom can eliminate the disease.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You don’t have to pay for all of your pastimes, and you shouldn’t need to pay another person’s way in exchange for genuine interest and care. An absolutely free endeavour will be a gateway to good fortune.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You have an instinct for understanding group dynamics, which is completely different from the official story. For instance, the leader is often nowhere on the masthead, exerting power behind the scenes.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): The temptation will be to ask, “Do you know what I mean?” or play for a laugh or subtly ask for other signs of acceptance. When validation is no longer a thing you need or want it’s heaped on you.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The task at hand has more layers than are apparent. There are many ways to go about it so to settle on the first one that works would be a shame.

Experiment and sharpen your methods.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Leaning, by definition, makes work for the thing or person being leaned upon. Strength and sturdiness are not to be taken for granted. What’s bearable in the short term may not work long term.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Today’s route won’t be paved. You are the director of your own balance. Rocky paths and high beams provide the opportunity to locate and rely on your centre of gravity.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Worries about the grand scheme kick in. Do these decisions make sense? Is this so me, or am I trying to be something I’m not? Is there a unifying theme?

Yes. You’re the one living, making, doing it.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’re moving ahead, leading with your curiosity, trying not to make assumptions. Mould your expectations into the shape of cupped hands or, better yet, open palms.

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To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

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Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301

Contact GroutPro Brett Muir for a quote and an upfront honest discussion.

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Mobile Mower servicing • Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

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PUBLIC NOTICES

SITUATIONS VACANT

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS WILL BE HELD AT THE CLUB ON SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2022 AT 10AM

Agricultural Service Technician

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To receive and adopt the annual report of the committee for the year ended 31 March 2022.

To receive and adopt the financial accounts 31 March 2020 (audited), 31 March 2021 (audited) and the Management accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022.

To declare the election of club officers.

To consider any notices of motion or remits for which the necessary notice is given.

General business.

Michael Crequer Interim Chairman

SITUATIONS VACANT

Heartland Bank Want to join the Heartland team?

We are looking for a Banking Consultant here in Ashburton A bit about the role: You’ll provide customers with a radically different customer experience – making sure that they are well informed, feeling happy and valued.

Is this you?

You’re a real people person – always keen to help and chat to people. You are resilient and adaptable, great at building relationships with your clients and internal teams, you’ll thrive in our growing and evolving organisation.

If you are looking for: • A competitive salary • The opportunity to grow your career in a stable company • A supportive and fun team environment • Variety and to work with internationally recognised brands • Access to a team of technical product specialists • Branded training …Then you need to talk to us!

Power Farming Ashburton are on the hunt for Service Technicians to grow the team. If you are a qualified Heavy Diesel Mechanic looking for a change and an opportunity to develop your career and skill set then apply online via our website powerfarmingcareers.com or contact Andrew McConnell on 027 8360 635 for a confidential chat.

To apply please head to: powerfarmingcareers.com/Vacancies and use reference number 5942228

Workshop Foreman

If you have a positive attitude and a desire to achieve with a good work ethic, and are looking for: • A market wage aligning with your skills and experience • The opportunity for a great career in a stable company • A supportive and fun team environment • Class 5 licence Then apply online today via our website powerfarmingcareers.com or contact Simon Jackson on 027 5127 205 for a confidential chat.

Power Farming Ashburton are looking for an experienced Workshop Foreman to join the team in a highly rewarding hands on role.

If you are looking for: • A competitive salary • An opportunity to develop your technical skill set and future career • A range of diverse internationally recognised brands of machinery and equipment to work on • Opportunity to Mentor, teach and support • World leading training opportunities …Then you need to talk to us!

Then apply online today via our website powerfarmingcareers.com or contact Andrew McConnell on 027 8360 635 for a confidential chat.

To apply please head to: powerfarmingcareers.com/Vacancies and use reference number 5973992 Applications close 04 July 2022

Ashburton Kindergarten Association

Ashburton Holiday Park and Lodge Managers This 24-month contract will provide the successful contractors the opportunity to manage and grow the operation of the Ashburton Holiday Park and Lodge.

If you have a combination of practical and business skills with a hospitality or tourism background then we’d love to hear from you.

To express interest in this unique opportunity or for more information - go to our website.

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AUCTION SALES CLEARING Sale – Machinery, BW & NE Quantock, 113 Taits Road, Ashburton, Saturday 18th June, 10 am. IH AB110 Newly Restored, 1963 JD 4010, Kuhn GDM 800, JD 24T, 214T, 214T for parts, PZ 4 Rotor Rake + Ted, PZ 210 Mower, JD No 9, JD 39, PTO Atlas Compressor, 4 Ploughs, 2 Triplex Mowers + BMC Engines, Sundries and Parts. Refer to Mayfield Lions Face Book or BW Quantock 3080137.

FOR SALE

Expressions of interest closes on Sunday, 19 June 2022.

FIREWOOD for sale: Dry Oldman Pine $350 for 3.6 m³.

Green Old Man Pine $170 for 3.6 m³. Pine log for sale 25 tonne. Phone Shane James Firewood 0276113334.

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers

Family Wellbeing Service Co-ordinator

The Family Wellbeing Service places volunteer support workers with parents of children aged 0 to 10 years in homes to support parents with practical parenting and household skills with the goal of building self-confidence and self-reliance. We are looking for a non-judgemental, empathetic person with the ability to support vulnerable families in obtaining their goals. This is a well-established service that has been operating in the Ashburton District for 12 years. □ Do you have experience in service co-ordination, client planning and assessment? □ Are you passionate about improving wellbeing and social outcomes for families? □ Are you a skilled communicator with excellent relationship management? □ Do you have excellent organisational and time management skills? □ Do you have experience in volunteer recruitment, support and retention?

There’s no specific pre-requisites for this role, we’re just looking for a person with a great attitude and skills in a similar or related field.

You may not be experienced in all of the above but if you think you have transferable skills we would love to hear from you.

This position is for 25 hours per week and is based in Ashburton We offer a flexible, supportive, family friendly work environment with great working conditions.

To apply for this position please go to the careers section of our website www.safermidcanterbury.org.nz to view the Job Description and download an application form.

Applications close Monday, June 13, 2022.

For further information please contact Ani on 03 308 1395.

Hampstead Kindergarten 44 Cambridge St ALL WELCOME Barbara Kirk Association Manager

TRADES, SERVICES

ASHBURTON Rock ‘n’ Roll Club A.G.M. Sunday 26th June 2022, 5.30 pm.

Venue Americar Hot Rod Club, Maronan Road.

LOCKSMITH/Door repairs.

Keys/Locks, sliding and bifold door roller repairs. Mobile service.

Call Nigel at Doors and More. Ph 027 516 7104

ASH Swim Team, A.G.M. 2 pm, Sunday 10th July at MR Green (Lawn and Garden Armadilo’s. All Welcome. Services) for all your Ride on and Rotary mowing, spraying, fertilising, garden and section tidy ups - Call Pat Prendergast 0274445314 SPECIALISED

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Wet suit 6mm M/L, dive bag, fins and BCD. Tools, sundry furniture. Cash only. Sign out corner of Harrison and Cavendish Streets.

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HIRE GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more. All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire. 588 East Street.

Open Monday-Friday 7.00am – 5.30pm; Saturday 7.30am - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am 12.30pm - Phone 308 8061. www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

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SITUATIONS VACANT PUBLIC NOTICES

To apply please head to: powerfarmingcareers.com/Vacancies and use reference number 5974025 Applications close 02 July 2022

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

Due to the retirement of our current staff member we are now looking to employ a co-ordinator to put their stamp on this valuable and trusted service helping change lives in our community.

…Then you need to talk to us!

Power Farming Ashburton is looking for a Yardman to look after the day to day upkeep and Transport logistics of our new and used machinery stock. This is a varied role which will suit someone from a variety of backgrounds including mechanical, trades , transport and agriculture.

Business Opportunity

GARAGE SALES

Are you an Experienced Service Technician looking to step up or a Workshop Foreman/ Supervisor looking for your next challenge?

Trade in reconditioner - sales support - yard upkeep - Transporter operator - Jack/Jill of all trade's legend! - Tractors and Farm Machinery

FARM house or cottage wanted to rent within a 20 minute drive of Lauriston.

Anything considered. Phone 027 313 1320.

Calling All Agricultural Service Techs!

Apply now via the Heartland Careers website www.heartland.co.nz/ about-us/careers

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Fixed-Term Release Teacher up to 0.6 FTE Ashburton Intermediate is seeking a NZRegistered Teacher to cover classroom release for the remainder of the 2022 school year.

For more information, or to apply, please email Brent Gray, Principal at bgray@ashinter. school.nz Applications close Friday, June 17, 2022.

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Further Processing & Warehouse Assistant Permanent / Full Time We are seeking to appoint a full time, permanent team member to join our Warehouse Department.

Your role will include • Pick, pack and dispatch orders efficiently; domestic/international and web sales.

• Stock taking and inventory control record all adjustments as per criteria given.

• Organise when required packaging and labelling of stock using the labelling machines and correct packaging.

• Continually working to improve controls and systems within the factory and warehouse, working with direct manager in relation to ideas.

• Process all paperwork and freight documents for all orders; domestic, international and web sales.

• Liaise with Administration on accounts with returns and credits.

• Share knowledge and skill base with others and train other staff in your areas.

We • • • • • • • •

are looking for candidates who possess: Previous experience in warehousing Previous experience with exporting documents Good computer skills including excel, with strong attention to detail The ability to ask questions and learn quickly Good English language/literacy skills A can-do attitude, with a good level of physical fitness, as lifting is involved Good reliable timekeeping, and be an honest hardworking team player Flexibility to work both day and evening shifts as required

Smith Seeds Limited is a specialised seed production company, based in Ashburton. We grow many different varieties of seed on multiplication contracts grown by expert farmers, the resultant high-quality seeds are then shipped back to our valued international clients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our company to manage key roles, these are as follows: • • • • •

Please email your application, including your CV, and a covering letter to explain why you’re interested in the position with 2 contactable references to: paul@nzsock.co.nz

Applications Close: 20th June, 2022

Or apply in writing to:

LOGISTICS MANAGER

Paul Sparrow New Zealand Sock Company 8 Kermode Street, Ashburton

ASHBURTON

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Oversee quality assurance within our office and processing plants.

Liaise with management and staff, on all aspects of the business.

Manage our seed cleaning schedules.

Liaise with shipping agents and arrange shipments.

Experience with export documentation would be an advantage but not essential.

Inventory control.

Locate at or nearby Ashburton.

Have permanent residency in New Zealand.

Being a small and dedicated team, we are looking for someone with common sense, who is flexible and willing to help out with any task.

We expect the successful applicant to be committed, enthusiastic, well organised and work without supervision. Whilst we are ideally looking for someone with Seed Industry experience this should not deter people that have the experience and attributes above.

A competitive salary, company vehicle and other incentives are part of the package. If you are looking for an exciting and fulfilling career this could be the position for you, we look forward to hear from you.

Thinking of buying or selling a car?

Book your motoring advertising with our experienced sales team Deadline 2pm prior publication day

All applications will be kept confidential.

For just $10*

Book your birthday greeting, including a photo, for just $10!

Ten words only*

(Under 12 children’s birthday greetings remain FREE)

Looking for a person to join your business?

Applications close on July 1, 2022, please apply with covering letter and CV to: A: The General Manager Smith Seeds Ltd. PO Box 358, Ashburton E: dayle@smithseeds.co.nz W: www.smithseeds.co.nz

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Buying or selling a property?

Call the Guardian today or your real estate 307 7900 advertising requirements.

Please respect any COVID-19 restrictions or requirements

MEDICAL SERVICES

HELPLINE SERVICES COMMUNITY SERVICES

services please phone Methven Medical Centre on 302 8105 or Rakaia Medical Centre on 303 5002 DUTY DOCTORS for details on how to access the For all other medical assistance outside after-hours service each weekend. of normal hours please phone your Pharmacies general practice team, 24/7, to speak with a health professional who will give Wises Pharmacy, Countdown you free health advice on what to do or Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am where to go if you need urgent care.

1pm Sunday.

If you don’t have a regular general practice, call any GP team 24/7 for free Ashburton Rest Homes telephone health advice.

Please contact directly for hours.

Please bring your Community Services Card. All non-New Zealanders should Emergency dentist bring their passport with them, New If you do not have or cannot contact Zealanders should bring some form your regular dentist, please phone 027 of ID. 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours Methven & Rakaia areas 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

For weekend and emergency

Healthline is a free health advice service.

IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

307 7900 for more information

It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The toll-free number to call is 0800 611 116.

Healthline is staffed by registered nurses who are trained to assess health problems and offer advice over the phone. The service is free and confidential.

Alcoholics Anonymous Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault

Crisis Support. Phone 03 364 8791

Victims Support Group

24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846).

Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm, outside of these hours leave a message.

Alcohol Drug Help Line Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Art Gallery

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm.

Ashburton Museum

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm.

Ashburton Public Library

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

EA Networks Centre - Pools

20 River Terrace - phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: Sat and Sun 7am - 7pm. Public holidays 10am - 5pm.

Information Centre

Methven - Saturday and public holidays 10am until 2.30pm. Phone 302 8955 or isite@ midcanterburynz.com

ANIMAL SERVICES Dog, Stock & Noise Control

Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.

Animal Welfare Centre

All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.

Veterinarians

WEEKEND EMERGENCIES Please call your usual vet to be transferred to the emergency vet.

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DEATHS Your opportunity to tell Mid Canterbury of your next event or meeting

Play Planner

Daily Events is a FREE DAILY LISTING of MID CANTERBURY EVENTS to be held in the immediate future by non-commercial organisations. To arrange for events to be published in Daily Events, clip this form, fill in the applicable details and hand in to our LEVEL 3 office on Burnett Street or post to: Ashburton Guardian, P.O. Box 77, Ashburton 7740, 5 (five) working days prior to the first publication.

Previously know as Daily Events, Play Planner is printed in the Tuesday and Thursday editions of The Guardian. Not Saturday.

CONDITIONS: 1. Telephoned information NOT accepted.

2. Forms MUST be signed by an authorised representative of the organisation concerned.

3. A separate form MUST be submitted for each future event and may be lodged with the Guardian as far in advance as desired. For example: A club which meets monthly may submit, say, 12 separate forms simultaneously – one pertaining to each meeting scheduled over the following 12 months.

4. The organisation acknowledges that no responsibility for errors or omissions will be accepted by the Guardian Company.

We Help Save Lives

Please send your event details at least a day in advance so we can add and update accordingly.

Fill out the form below and hand in to our LEVEL 3 office on Burnett Street. Or email details to whatson@theguardian.co.nz.

We help save lives every day through the research and development of improved diagnosis, better prediction and treatment of heart disease in our hospital and community.

BLOCK LETTERS PLEASE Day of event ..........................................

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MAYNE, Brian – Brian originally of Ashburton, died on 06/06/2022, in Christchurch, aged 79 years, whilst doing his shopping, independent to the end.

Many thanks from the family for all the assistance and sensitivity displayed by the staff, and emergency services present. Dearly loved son of the late May and Dick. Cherished brother of the late Colleen Mayne, and Maureen, and the late Owen Batchelor. Much loved and respected Uncle and Great Uncle of the Batchelor family, and treated as family by his faithful friends John and Paula Gilson. Messages to the Mayne family, C/- PO Box 111-01, Christchurch 8443, flowers for Brian may be sent C/- Academy Funerals, 65 Main South Road, Upper Riccarton.

Donations to St John Ambulance would be appreciated and can be made at the service.

“May he rest in peace” A Celebration of Brian’s life will be held in the Academy Funeral Services Chapel, 65 Main South Road, Upper Riccarton, on MONDAY, June 13, at 1pm, followed by refreshments. Brian will be in the chapel for anyone wishing to spend some time with him, from 12 to 12.45pm, prior to the service.

Burial to follow at Avonhead Park Cemetery at 3.30pm.

Please join us for drinks to farewell Brian as requested.

“May the Irish hills caress you May her lakes and rivers bless you May the luck of the Irish enfold you”

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FUNERALS

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PREARRANGE YOUR WISHES FOR PEACE OF MIND

18-22 Moore Street, Ashburton 0800 263 6679 | 027 637 1229 www.memoryfunerals.nz

Ashburton Weather © Copyright Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited 2022

Midnight Saturday

For all your memorial requirements New headstones and designs Renovations, Additional inscriptions, Cleaning and Concrete work Carried out by qualified tradesmen.

620 East Street Ashburton Phone 308 5369 or 0274 357 974 ebcarter@xtra.co.nz NZMMMA Member

Jo Metcalf Saturday: Mainly fine. A brief morning shower possible. Gusty northwesterlies.

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Saturday: Mainly fine. Isolated morning showers.

Gusty northwesterlies.

Sunday: Cloud increasing, scattered rain in the afternoon and evening. Gusty northerlies.

Monday: Fine spells and northwesterlies, then showers from afternoon with a strong southwest change.

A broad unstable west to northwesterly flow, with embedded fronts, affects New Zealand. The broad trough moves east across New Zealand during Sunday and Monday, followed by southwesterlies.

An unsettled west to southwest flow affects the country on Tuesday.

E.B. CARTER LTD

Please note all late death notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours must be emailed to: deathnotices@ theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication.

To place a notice during office hours please contact us on 03 307 7900 for more information.

Any queries please contact 0800 ASHBURTON (0800-274-287)

Around The Region Saturday

Christchurch Darfield Lake Coleridge Methven Rakaia Timaru

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Canterbury owned, locally operated

Patersons Funeral Services and Ashburton Crematorium Ltd Office and Chapel Corner East & Cox Streets, Ashburton

Ph 307 7433

Sunday: Cloud increasing. Rain at times in the afternoon or evening. Gusty northerlies.

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Saturday Mountain weather hazards: Rain, Snow, Thunderstorm, Wind, Wind Chill.

Rain, with heavy falls, clearing in the east in the afternoon. Squally thunder with hail possible about the main divide. Snow lowering to 500m, heavy at times above 700m. Wind at 1000m: W severe gale 90 km/h. Wind at 2000m: W severe gale 120 km/h, easing to severe gale 100 km/h in the evening.

Freezing level: 1200m, lowering to 800m for a while.

Sunday Mountain weather hazards: Rain, Snow, Thunderstorm, Wind, Wind Chill.

Periods of rain, with heavy falls and thunderstorms possible near the divide. Snow to 800m.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to severe gale 100 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to severe gale 120 km/h.

Freezing level: About 1100m.

For the very latest weather information, including Weather Warnings, visit metservice.com

Monday: Fine spells and gusty northwesterlies. Showers with a strong southwest change from afternoon.

Readings to 4pm Friday Temp °C Maximum Minimum Grass min 24hr Rain mm Month to date Wind km/h Strongest gust Sun hrs on Thu Month to date

Ashburton Airport 13.6 3.2 -1.2 0.4 5.0 N 67 1:26am 4.5 36.3

Methven 12.1 4.4 – – – – – – –

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1:32pm 7:50pm 1:21pm 7:38pm

1:53am 8:04am 1:47am 7:54am

2:27pm 8:47pm 2:15pm 8:30pm

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Ashburton Guardian Saturday, June 11, 2022

7–8 JULY

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