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Foodbank boost to beat Covid19<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Boosting the coffers of the district’s<br />
foodbanks on the cusp of winter will<br />
help fill aneed in the community,<br />
says Salvation Army’s community<br />
foodbank coordinator Judith<br />
Beaumont.<br />
It’s atime when there is increased<br />
demand on the foodbanks, so an<br />
Unlock ‘n’ Restock campaign being<br />
launched by the team at Property<br />
Brokers <strong>Ashburton</strong> could not come<br />
at abetter time.<br />
Mrs Beaumont said the Salliesrun<br />
foodbank was already quite<br />
active and that was before the<br />
effects of Covid19 and any jobs<br />
losses or increased financial<br />
pressures on families became<br />
known.<br />
‘‘We are just keeping ahead of it.<br />
We’re certainly not out of it yet,’’<br />
she said.<br />
Covid19 has impacted on the<br />
community and organisations such<br />
as the Salvation Army, St Vincent<br />
de Paul and Presbyterian Support<br />
are keen to boost their supplies of<br />
canned goods such as pasta, pasta<br />
sauces, noodles, spaghetti, fish,<br />
tomatoes, soup and fruit as well as<br />
other nonperishable items for<br />
people and families in need of<br />
assistance.<br />
Mrs Beaumont was thankful for<br />
the community spirit of the realtors<br />
and their continued support of the<br />
foodbanks.<br />
‘‘I support their insight, they’re<br />
Property Brokers’ Karen McRae, Rachel Curd and Kirsty Clay with some of the product sought to boost the coffers of the district’s<br />
foodbanks in the Unlock nRestock campaign.<br />
team players,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘We just don’t know what’s<br />
ahead, it’s acase of watch this<br />
space.’’<br />
Property Brokers are no strangers<br />
to helping replenish the community<br />
foodbanks; they are major<br />
supporters of the annual Toot for<br />
Tucker drive, organised by the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> County Lions.<br />
This midyear foodbank boost,<br />
which will run until June 5, is<br />
recognised as acommunity need<br />
and one able to be started quickly to<br />
help the foodbanks and people in<br />
the community.<br />
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Future ABs await whistle<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Rugby mad miniAllBlacksintraining<br />
Jesse, Louie and Flynn<br />
Ross cannot wait for rugby<br />
season to kick off again.<br />
The trio have been playing<br />
club agegroup rugby for<br />
Collegiate and are champing at<br />
the bit to get on the field again.<br />
The grassroots rugby players,<br />
along with other budding sports<br />
stars, are hoping organisers get<br />
the go ahead on Monday to start<br />
planning training sessions for<br />
their latestarting seasons.<br />
Rugby would usually be at<br />
least amonth into the season but<br />
has been put on the backburner<br />
due to Covid19; players can not<br />
resume practise until given<br />
government go ahead around<br />
numbers gathering.<br />
Jesse, 10, who wouldn’t mind<br />
being Beauden Barrett when he<br />
is older, has been playing rugby<br />
since he was five, starting with<br />
rippa rugby and progressing<br />
through to tackle rugby. He is a<br />
forward and will play Under 11<br />
and ahalf this year.<br />
Louie, 8, is able to name at<br />
least half of the latest All Black<br />
XV and was due to start his<br />
second year of tackle in the<br />
Under 9s and Flynn, 7, the most<br />
Ninjalike of the three, will play<br />
his final year of rippa rugby in<br />
Under 7s.<br />
The Ross boys come from a<br />
long line of rugby players; their<br />
grandfather Jock was an All<br />
Black and dad Cam played<br />
provincial rugby and is involved<br />
Cam Ross with rugby-mad sons (from left) Jesse, Flynn and Louie, look forward to the return<br />
of grassroots rugby.<br />
in grassroots rugby as assistant<br />
coach to eldest son Jesse’s team.<br />
Cam said although he and the<br />
boys really enjoyed their rugby,<br />
the past few weeks had been<br />
surprisingly good for the family,<br />
who along with mother Melissa<br />
and sister Marlie, 12, got to<br />
spend more time together.<br />
At this time in any other year,<br />
with the boys playing rugby and<br />
Marlie netball, the family would<br />
be heading in four different ways<br />
on aSaturday.<br />
“It’s been good without the<br />
pressure of being acertain place<br />
at acertain time.”<br />
He said while there was no<br />
rugby to play they were doing<br />
other things as afamily, such as<br />
biking along the bike trail.<br />
However, when grassroots rugby<br />
finally gets the goahead the<br />
boys will be ready.<br />
“We’ll just roll with it.”<br />
The Government is expected<br />
to give an update on Alert Level<br />
2restrictions on Monday. Rugby<br />
and other community sport are<br />
preparing to return in stages.<br />
Old heads to mentor local businesses<br />
By Linda Clarke<br />
Wise,old businessheads in the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Rotary Club are<br />
beingencouragedtobecome<br />
mentors for Mid Canterbury<br />
businesses struggling to survive<br />
Covid19.<br />
Clubmember and <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council economic<br />
development officer Bevan<br />
Rickerbysaid there was awide<br />
variety of expertise and<br />
experienceinthe club that could<br />
help others.<br />
‘‘I suggestedtomembers they<br />
may wanttouse theirexperience<br />
for abusinesswithin the district<br />
that needed asympathetic ear.<br />
Mentoringisall about<br />
sometimes just listening and<br />
getting the business owner back<br />
on track,especially in these<br />
current tryingtimes.’’<br />
Mr Rickerby said two<br />
membershad alreadyexpressed<br />
interest in being mentors.<br />
‘‘As yet, we have not heard<br />
from any who requirethis style<br />
of help but would suggest that as<br />
our PrimeMinister has talked<br />
about the team of five million,<br />
well nowisthe time whenour<br />
team of experienced business<br />
people can helpour Mid<br />
Canterbury team.’’<br />
The idea of mentoringwas<br />
also raised at the first meeting of<br />
council’s economic recovery<br />
advisorygroup.<br />
Mr Rickerby said any help in<br />
the Covid19 recovery period<br />
would be useful.<br />
‘‘I would suggest that<br />
businesses use their own<br />
advisorsfirst off, however there<br />
are other options if they wish to<br />
use them.The reality is that in<br />
these particularly toughtimesall<br />
or any help Iamsurewill be<br />
appreciated by MidCanterbury<br />
businesses.’’<br />
<strong>May</strong>orNeil Brown said the<br />
firstmeeting of the Covid19<br />
recovery response group had<br />
beenpositiveand the sector<br />
representatives all keentoassist<br />
as needs were identified.<br />
The groupwas to meet again<br />
this week.<br />
Last week members heard<br />
thatthere was talk in the local<br />
retail sector of businesses<br />
reducing staff and working<br />
hours. Sometourism operators<br />
wererelyingonmore relief from<br />
government.<br />
Thebuilding industry<br />
reported somejobs had been put<br />
off by customersworriedabout<br />
losingtheir jobs, though overall<br />
the industry did not seem to have<br />
beenhit too hard locally.<br />
Ashortageofstaffwas<br />
reported by one vegetable<br />
processor, though there wasa<br />
question overhow to get<br />
unemployedKiwis to the district<br />
to fill them.<br />
The CanterburyChamberof<br />
Commerce hasalso offered<br />
resourcestolocalbusinesses and<br />
has been contracted by the New<br />
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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 3<br />
Sophieset forbigtime<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Basketballer Sophie Adams has the<br />
world at her feet, but first she wants<br />
to finish Year 13.<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> College student,<br />
named in the reserves of the Under<br />
19 Junior Tall Ferns basketball team,<br />
is weighing up anursing or police<br />
career.<br />
However she could, depending on<br />
opportunities, further her studies<br />
overseas and play college basketball<br />
in countries like Mexico, Canada or<br />
the United States.<br />
It's not something she has to<br />
decide just yet.<br />
Sophie, who stands 1.82m tall,<br />
plays basketball for Under 19<br />
Waitaha (a combined Canterbury/<br />
North Canterbury representative<br />
team), the Under 19 Junior Tall<br />
Ferns and is part of the Mainland<br />
Eagles Basketball Academy, ahigh<br />
performance programme.<br />
Junior Tall Ferns head coach<br />
Hernando Planells describes her as<br />
an assertive forward who loves to<br />
operate from the top of the key and<br />
can attack the basket and rebound.<br />
She was also in the <strong>2020</strong> Alloyfold<br />
Canterbury Wildcats training squad,<br />
since cancelled by Covid19, and of<br />
course, plays for the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
College senior girls’ team.<br />
Atypical week includes school<br />
studies, at least two hours of<br />
basketball training aday and fitness,<br />
not to mention travel to Christchurch<br />
for three different teams and work<br />
commitments at Lushingtons Cafe.<br />
Her training, fitness and wellness<br />
is tracked by Basketball New<br />
Zealand with Zoom calls, Facebook<br />
video posts and apps.<br />
Sophie answers arange of<br />
questions on her training activities as<br />
well as wellness attributes like sleep<br />
patterns, motivation levels and<br />
illness or injury.<br />
There is asupport team inspecting<br />
the data and making sure compliance<br />
is kept above 90 per cent, otherwise<br />
there can be team penalties such as<br />
extra training tasks.<br />
Sophie spent lockdown with her<br />
family; parents Michelle and Lewis<br />
and siblings Hayden, <strong>21</strong>, and Grace,<br />
18, and has now returned to work<br />
and school.<br />
But lockdown at home surprisingly<br />
meant no basketball hoop, instead it<br />
was time focusing on ball handling<br />
skills, strength and conditioning and<br />
fitness, with 5km runs and 30km bike<br />
rides.<br />
She also has alot of study to<br />
prepare for endofyear exams in<br />
English, chemistry, biology and<br />
mathematics.<br />
While Covid19 has stopped most<br />
basketball including the Junior Ferns<br />
Four Nations Tour to China in June,<br />
Sophie says secondary school<br />
basketball had not yet been cancelled<br />
and could still go ahead.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College basketballer and Under 19 Junior Tall Ferns<br />
reserve Sophie Adams.<br />
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People flock to<br />
outdoortracks<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
Mid Cantabrians took<br />
advantage of the great<br />
weather and the first<br />
weekend of increased<br />
freedom under new level 2<br />
restrictions to get out into<br />
the outdoors at the<br />
weekend.<br />
Hikers flocked to<br />
popular walking tracks at<br />
Mt Alford, Mt Somers,<br />
Peak Hill and the Rakaia<br />
Gorge Walkway.<br />
Lake Hood was a<br />
popular spot for waterbased<br />
activities like jetskiing<br />
and waterskiing.<br />
The Mt Hutt Bike Park<br />
drew abike crowd of<br />
mountain bike enthusiasts<br />
and jet boats were out on<br />
the Rakaia River.<br />
Department of<br />
Conservation (DOC)<br />
Geraldine operations<br />
manager Duncan Toogood<br />
said he had received<br />
reports from staff and the<br />
public that local tracks<br />
were busy with visitors<br />
enjoying the beautiful<br />
weather and the<br />
opportunity to reconnect<br />
with nature.<br />
‘‘It’s great to hear<br />
people were still keeping<br />
to their group and<br />
maintaining social<br />
distancing in and around<br />
Woolshed Creek track,<br />
Peel Forest tracks and<br />
various other sites in the<br />
Hakatere/<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Basin,’’ he said.<br />
Alert Level 2meant<br />
more DOC staff were able<br />
to resume field work and<br />
return to offices to deliver<br />
their valuable<br />
conservation work.<br />
DOC facilities were<br />
reopening around the<br />
country, including visitor<br />
centres, huts,<br />
campgrounds and toilets,<br />
with special guidelines for<br />
use, said Mr Toogood.<br />
In the Geraldine<br />
District, DOC rangers<br />
visited campsites and high<br />
use sites last Friday to<br />
prepare them for visitors.<br />
Noticeboards were<br />
installed at road ends and<br />
car parks to remind visitors<br />
about the level 2<br />
restrictions and to<br />
maintain social distancing,<br />
even while exploring the<br />
outdoors.<br />
Huts were restricted to<br />
no more than 10 visitors,<br />
or 50 per cent of bunks,<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> had aweirdly<br />
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weekend, as people took<br />
advantage of winter<br />
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Some hairdressers<br />
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lockdown bangs, while<br />
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main street.<br />
While kids got back to<br />
school this week, adults<br />
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Our business owners<br />
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horrific.<br />
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the world.<br />
We checked our pans when we got home and<br />
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large CorporateAmerica and whatthey continually<br />
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People have been<br />
genuinely pleased to<br />
expand their territory, to<br />
catch up with friends and<br />
whanau. Many are<br />
cautiously keeping their<br />
reunions to the outdoors<br />
and heading to<br />
playgrounds or trails and<br />
bike parks.<br />
Mid Canterbury<br />
industry leaders also seem<br />
to have ahandle on issues<br />
in our patch and are poised<br />
to meet the challenges<br />
ahead the way might not<br />
be clear at the moment,<br />
but one thing is certain.<br />
We will need people to be<br />
open to retraining and<br />
learning new skills, and we<br />
will need to attract<br />
jobseekers who want to<br />
restart their lives in our<br />
great district.<br />
It will be tough, but<br />
there is optimism in the<br />
air.<br />
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Students back for riblets<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
The familiar queues have<br />
returned and favourite foods<br />
like pork riblets and sushi are<br />
back on the menu in the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College canteen.<br />
The canteen reopened on<br />
Monday after anear eightweek<br />
closure.<br />
It was amore relaxed day<br />
than usual on Monday for<br />
canteen manager Kelven<br />
Hastie and longterm staff<br />
member Jo Keen with just Year<br />
9and Year 13 students back.<br />
The rest of the school<br />
returned on Tuesday, as near<br />
normality returned to the<br />
college.<br />
Kelven said there had been a<br />
lot of cleaning prior to the<br />
restart, but it was all systems go<br />
again.<br />
Morning tea break ran from<br />
11am until 11.20am and lunch<br />
for 45 minutes from 1.20pm.<br />
Both times were busy and<br />
over the course of the day some<br />
300 to 400 orders were taken.<br />
The canteen is popular with<br />
students and some staff, he<br />
said.<br />
Nine students are rostered to<br />
lend ahand in the canteen and<br />
paid each term in alump sum<br />
Preparing to reopen the <strong>Ashburton</strong> College canteen were (from left) Kelven Hastie, Year 13<br />
student helpers Lachlan Kingan and Ronan Kenny with Jo Keen.<br />
for their time.<br />
Jo said sushi and pork riblets<br />
were among some of the big<br />
favourites and every day there<br />
were arange of affordable<br />
specials on offer for lunch.<br />
Pita pockets, soup and<br />
noodles were all menu staples.<br />
Hot food was more popular<br />
in the winter and all cold drinks<br />
were sugar free, she said.<br />
Friday was pie day and<br />
students typically snapped up<br />
between 200 and 300 on the<br />
day.<br />
Jo said she loved the<br />
interaction with the students.<br />
‘‘The vast majority are polite<br />
and well behaved and if they’re<br />
not, they go to the back of the<br />
queue.’’<br />
New drug funded for tennis coach<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
Andre Van Rooyen is on cloud<br />
nine after hearing that<br />
pharmaceutical company Pfizer<br />
will fund his cancer treatment<br />
drug.<br />
The former Mid Canterbury<br />
tennis coach was diagnosed with<br />
Stage 4lung cancer in <strong>May</strong> last<br />
year and for the past 11 months<br />
has been using anticancer drug<br />
crizotinib.<br />
The drug costs $10,000 per<br />
month and is not funded.<br />
Mr Van Rooyen said he and<br />
his family was overjoyed when<br />
his oncologist passed on the<br />
news that Pfizer had decided to<br />
fund the drug on compassionate<br />
grounds.<br />
He was so grateful because<br />
the drug was working for him.<br />
‘‘My bloods for the last few<br />
months have been coming back<br />
with some great results and near<br />
normal.<br />
All smiles: Debbie and Andre Van Rooyen.<br />
‘‘I can breathe more easily<br />
again, quite literally, which is just<br />
amazing.’’<br />
Mr Van Rooyen said all his<br />
prayers had been answered with<br />
the news.<br />
He was grateful to the support<br />
of family, friends, the tennis<br />
community and the wider<br />
community, including Rangitata<br />
MP Andrew Falloon.<br />
Community donations<br />
towards treatment had reached<br />
$60,000 and he and his family<br />
had funded $50,000.<br />
‘‘It’s been ajourney of<br />
perseverance over the last 11<br />
months.<br />
‘‘We’ve asked Pfizer on a<br />
number occasions to help fund<br />
the drug and now they’ve agreed<br />
to do it.<br />
‘‘As my oncologist says, if you<br />
don’t ask, you don’t get.’’<br />
He said the news was abig<br />
relief, mentally, physically and<br />
financially, and he was ‘‘on top of<br />
the world.’’<br />
Mr Van Rooyen will take a<br />
newer generation of the drug<br />
that has been helping him beat<br />
his rare form of lung cancer.<br />
Regular updates of his<br />
progress will be passed back to<br />
the drug company.<br />
Court action over building settled<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong>DistrictCouncil<br />
and parties involvedinthe<br />
designand construction of the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> ArtGallery and<br />
Heritage Centre have reached a<br />
confidential settlement over<br />
remedial work on the building.<br />
Council confirmed ongoing<br />
litigation arising fromthe project<br />
has been resolved and council<br />
couldnow complete the<br />
necessary worksrelatingtothe<br />
building and mechanical<br />
services.<br />
It is working with relevant<br />
experts to resolve the<br />
condensationand circulation<br />
problems that haveplaguedthe<br />
building since it openedin2015.<br />
In February thatyear the<br />
groundfloormuseum opened,<br />
but the art gallery did not open<br />
until <strong>May</strong> because of air<br />
conditioningissues.<br />
Climate and temperature<br />
controliskey in preserving<br />
collections in the building.<br />
Issueswith the building<br />
continued and councileventually<br />
tookthe parties involved in the<br />
design and construction to court.<br />
Chief executive Hamish Riach<br />
said council wantedto<br />
acknowledge Bradford Building<br />
Limited, the headcontractoron<br />
the originalconstruction project,<br />
for its response to the litigation.<br />
‘‘The council appreciates that<br />
BradfordBuildingLimitedhas<br />
beeninstrumental in helping<br />
secure aresolution with other<br />
parties involvedinthis<br />
litigation.’’<br />
Council and the local<br />
company will seek to maintain<br />
their establishedworking<br />
relationship for the building, and<br />
others they are jointly involved<br />
with.<br />
Mr Riachsaid both hoped that<br />
residents and visitors to the<br />
districtwould continue to enjoy<br />
the facility.<br />
Council outlined remedial<br />
workinMarch. The southern<br />
exteriorwall was to be painted<br />
and sealedfirst.<br />
Intermittentwater leaks had<br />
occurred in the buildingduring<br />
extremeweather and the air<br />
conditioning system was also not<br />
working as expected.<br />
Arange of issueswas<br />
identifiedbyanindependent<br />
assessor.<br />
Other walls will also be<br />
painted andsealedwhere<br />
necessary and the threeupstairs<br />
bay windows were to be<br />
weatherproofed.<br />
Other works include<br />
inspecting and repairingthe roof<br />
membrane, installingnew<br />
heatingand ventilation<br />
equipment, includingthe<br />
installation of buffertanks.<br />
The building was several<br />
milliondollars over budgetwhen<br />
completed at the end of 2014,<br />
but hasbecome apopularspot.
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Regent Cinema co-owner Donna Favelbehind the counter.<br />
Movies on the comeback<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
Films are back on the big screen at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s Regent Cinema.<br />
The cinema was closed during<br />
lockdown, but reopened under<br />
Alert Level 2for business last week.<br />
Owner David Favelsaid therewas<br />
ashortened programme of films<br />
being offeredand moretime<br />
between sessions, but people could<br />
once againget their cinema fix.<br />
Maximum numbers of 100 were<br />
allowed in the cinema, although, for<br />
now, he was looking to keep that at<br />
50.<br />
Customers received ashort<br />
briefing when they arrived, but most<br />
had agood understanding of what<br />
needed to happen at the venue.<br />
Mr Favelsaid the cinema had<br />
operated under level2for two days<br />
previously. Customers needed to<br />
sign in, sanitiser was providedand<br />
each screening was effectively in its<br />
own bubble.<br />
He said there had been no cinema<br />
revenue for seven weeks, but he had<br />
been happy with the way the<br />
government had supported<br />
businesses.<br />
‘‘It’sbeen anecessary hardship<br />
for the last few weeks and now we’re<br />
looking for numbers and revenue to<br />
startpicking up again.’’<br />
Mr Favel said there would be no<br />
blockbusters released until July, but<br />
smaller movieslike IStill Believe<br />
and For Sama wouldhelpfill the<br />
gap.<br />
Anticipated films like Peter<br />
Rabbit and the next James Bond<br />
movie would not be on the big<br />
screenuntil November.<br />
‘‘I’m hoping there is still going to<br />
be the usual school holidaysinJuly<br />
because that’s our harvest and a<br />
busy couple of weeks for us.’’<br />
Mr Favel encouragedpeople to<br />
‘‘renewtheir love of movies’’ and to<br />
returntowatch them at the Regent.<br />
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Hairdressers flat out<br />
trimming backlog<br />
The queues were long and the<br />
clippers and scissors were flat out at<br />
Belinda Smith’s <strong>Ashburton</strong> barber<br />
shop when new Alert Level 2<br />
restrictions kicked in.<br />
On day one last Thursday, there<br />
was aconstant line of men and boys<br />
keen to get ahaircut at B’s Barber<br />
Shop on Havelock Street.<br />
Ms Smith said it had been one of<br />
the busiest days in her hairdressing<br />
career, which spanned 28 years.<br />
The day had flown by, as had the<br />
next day.<br />
‘‘It’s been like the very busy week<br />
before Christmas, but on abigger<br />
scale even than that.<br />
‘‘We went from doing nothing for<br />
seven weeks to being flat out but it’s<br />
so good to be back,’’ she said.<br />
Customers had been very chatty<br />
and grateful for their overdue<br />
haircuts.<br />
They had also been respectful of<br />
the rules in place, Ms Smith said.<br />
This week had also started with<br />
queues outside and ‘‘no gaps in the<br />
traffic’’.<br />
Other hairdressers around the<br />
district have also been flat out with<br />
customer backlogs.<br />
Marc Auwerda from Mac &<br />
Maggies said he had been flat out<br />
every day since level 2restrictions<br />
had come in.<br />
There was plenty of catch up to be<br />
done and customers were<br />
appreciative.<br />
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One of the really remarkable<br />
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country’s response to Covid19<br />
that I’ve really admired has been<br />
the way everyone has worked<br />
together to get through. We’ve<br />
often heard the reference about<br />
our team of five million, and for<br />
the vast majority it appears we<br />
are doing everything we can to<br />
protect each other, which is<br />
fantastic to see.<br />
Your council too has been<br />
working to provide acohesive<br />
and encompassing recovery<br />
response, and we continue to<br />
adapt as the situation rapidly<br />
evolves to better support our<br />
community.<br />
When the Alert Level 4was<br />
announced two months ago, our<br />
Civil Defence team jumped into<br />
action to provide urgent welfare<br />
support for our most vulnerable<br />
residents. The team is still<br />
operating, with calls from the<br />
community coming in and being<br />
handled as necessary.<br />
Staff have also been assisting<br />
other community initiatives such<br />
as delivering meals on wheels,<br />
grocery and pharmacy shopping<br />
for vulnerable citizens,<br />
telephoning anumber of over70s<br />
across Canterbury to check they<br />
were doing okay, and helping to<br />
keep the Covid19 testing facility<br />
clean at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital.<br />
With economic unease<br />
predicted in the months ahead,<br />
councillors voted to decrease the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council comment<br />
CEO Hamish Riach<br />
proposed rates increase for the<br />
<strong>2020</strong>/<strong>21</strong> year from 4.88 per cent,<br />
to 2.5 per cent to ease that<br />
financial burden. They also<br />
approved anew measure that<br />
allows people experiencing<br />
hardship to avoid alate penalty<br />
fee on their rates bill, even if<br />
they’ve already received this<br />
assistance in the last 24 months.<br />
Importantly, the council has<br />
established aCovid19 Economic<br />
Recovery Advisory Group with<br />
representatives from the diverse<br />
business sectors across the<br />
district. The group is tasked with<br />
sharing information, ideas and<br />
initiatives to support the district<br />
through the pandemic and<br />
transitioning back to astrong and<br />
functioning local economy.<br />
One initiative I’m sure you’ll<br />
have seen is the Mid Canterbury<br />
Open for Business campaign<br />
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developed this campaign to<br />
encourage everyone to shop local<br />
wherever possible for the benefit<br />
of our community.<br />
Hundreds of businesses have<br />
already registered on the free<br />
online business directory, helping<br />
you to learn who is open and what<br />
they’re offering. Let’s continue to<br />
aid our own recovery by backing<br />
our local businesses and helping<br />
them to stay open and provide<br />
jobs.<br />
Key infrastructure projects are<br />
continuing to be progressed that<br />
will futureproof our district and<br />
support growth in the short and<br />
midterm recovery phase. These<br />
include the <strong>Ashburton</strong> CBD<br />
Streetscape Revitalisation,<br />
Rakaia Salmon site upgrades and<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> River Crossing<br />
and Pump Station project.<br />
All of these measures are<br />
designed to address the range of<br />
supports required throughout the<br />
Covid19 pandemic and further<br />
on into our recovery. As the<br />
Prime Minister points out, we are<br />
alarge team all working towards<br />
acommon goal, and your council<br />
is playing its part too to help us<br />
get there.
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 7<br />
Art gallery manager Shirin Khosraviani and assistant Nicole Bourke prepare to hang this black and white film<br />
print and gold foil work called Identification by Jessica Gavin in the The Creators’ Room exhibition.<br />
Topsecondary school artonshow<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Art Gallery reopened its<br />
doors on Monday for the community<br />
to be able to enjoy art again.<br />
Three exhibitions are on display,<br />
including anew one called The<br />
Creators’ Room.<br />
The Creators’ Room is an awards<br />
exhibition featuring art from senior<br />
Canterbury high school students.<br />
From over 2000 entries, the<br />
exhibition showcases the work of the<br />
top 15 visual artists and atotal of 20<br />
works.<br />
Prints of the impressive artworks are<br />
being sold at the gallery, with proceeds<br />
going to the young artists themselves.<br />
The exhibition runs until June 14.<br />
The Zonta <strong>Ashburton</strong> Female Art<br />
Awards exhibition and Melissa<br />
Macleod’s solo exhibition The<br />
Trappings of Ghosts, both of which<br />
opened prior to lockdown, are also on<br />
display until the end of <strong>May</strong>.<br />
Art gallery manager Shirin<br />
Khosraviani said staff were excited to<br />
be open and very happy to be<br />
welcoming back visitors. Visitors<br />
needed to sign in at the ground floor<br />
entrance and stick to physical<br />
distancing rules, but otherwise they<br />
could enjoy their art fix again.<br />
She said not all galleries were<br />
reopening yet, but <strong>Ashburton</strong> was a<br />
smaller region and very lucky to have a<br />
spacious facility.<br />
Ms Khosraviani said the gallery had<br />
stayed connected with the community<br />
during lockdown through its website<br />
and Facebook page.<br />
Copies of artworks from the<br />
gallery’s collection were regularly<br />
featured in local papers to remind<br />
people that art was nearby, and that<br />
these pieces and the collection, in<br />
effect, were owned by the community.<br />
She said the young members of the<br />
gallery’s Jub Jub Club had received art<br />
packs to enable them to continue their<br />
love of art and to keep busy during<br />
lockdown.<br />
Two new exhibitions, both opening<br />
on June 11, will feature the work of<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>raised fine arts graduate<br />
Ben Lysaght and printmaker Anthony<br />
Davies.<br />
Social recovery<br />
now on agenda<br />
The district’s socialrecovery<br />
from Covid19 is in goodhands,<br />
underaSafe Communities<br />
umbrella group whose members<br />
already worktogether to share<br />
skills and information to keep us<br />
safe.<br />
Safe Communities <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
has 27 member groups,from<br />
ACC and Age Concernto<br />
health, educationand<br />
emergency operators.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />
Councillors havedecided they<br />
don’tneed to set up their own<br />
socialrecovery group to mirror<br />
the economic recovery advisory<br />
groupestablished recently.<br />
Council will have deputy<br />
mayorLiz McMillan on the Safe<br />
Communities umbrellagroup, as<br />
well as council’s welcoming<br />
communities advisor and Civil<br />
Defence manager.<br />
Safe Communities,set up<br />
underSafer Mid Canterbury, is<br />
all aboutcommunity safety.The<br />
groupaims to reduce injury and<br />
crimeand buildstrong<br />
communities, by combining its<br />
skills and resources and<br />
responding to specific safety<br />
concerns.<br />
Council chiefexecutive<br />
Hamish Riach said astaff report<br />
on socialrecovery postcovid<br />
pointed out benefits of alocal<br />
grouptoconsider socialissues in<br />
responsetothe pandemic and<br />
impact of the lockdown.<br />
Safe Communities was<br />
already in that space, he said.<br />
Amore formalcouncil plan<br />
could stillfollow though, if<br />
needed.<br />
‘‘We don’tknow the extentof<br />
the needinour districtyet.’’<br />
Mr Riach said the end of the<br />
wage subsidy for some<br />
businessesmight generatemore<br />
welfare needs though<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s agriculturalbased<br />
economy might shield others.<br />
Ms McMillan said other Safe<br />
Communities coordinators<br />
around the country were already<br />
talking about strategic responses<br />
to the impactofCovid19 on<br />
their communities.Each<br />
community was different.<br />
Safe Communities member<br />
groups are:ACC,Age Concern,<br />
Ara Polytechnic, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
College,<strong>Ashburton</strong> Community<br />
Alcohol and Drug Service,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> DistrictCouncil,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Town Watch, CCS<br />
Disability Action, Department<br />
of Corrections, ExperienceMid<br />
Canterbury, Fire and<br />
Emergency,Hakatere Marae,<br />
Mid Canterbury Principals’<br />
Association, Ministers’<br />
Association, Neighbourhood<br />
Support, Oranga Tamariki,<br />
Police, Presbyterian Support,<br />
Rakaia Community Association,<br />
RuralCanterburyPHO, Rural<br />
Support Trust,Rural Women,<br />
Safer <strong>Ashburton</strong>, Sport<br />
Canterbury, St John,Work and<br />
Income/MSD andYMCA.
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Banter back for golfing buddies<br />
Golfing buddies, separated from<br />
their course and each other for the<br />
past eight weeks, made the most of<br />
sunshine and Alert Level 2<br />
restrictions at the weekend to<br />
return to the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Golf Club’s<br />
regular Saturday play.<br />
There were happy greetings and<br />
plenty of banter about grey<br />
whiskers and the unhealthy<br />
consumption of scones since their<br />
last rounds together.<br />
Teeing off at 12pm were Paddy<br />
Bradford, Gaby Jansen, Adrian<br />
Hopwood and Perry Hunt. The<br />
latter three have played golf<br />
together for the past 25 years, and<br />
welcomed Paddy to the fold when<br />
he emigrated from the UK 17 years<br />
ago.<br />
They have enjoyed many rounds<br />
since, as well as annual golfing<br />
holidays to destinations like Napier,<br />
Auckland and Dunedin. Atrip to<br />
Australia in August may yet be<br />
affected by Covid19 if atrans<br />
Tasman bubble is not operational.<br />
They say they missed golf and<br />
each other while the sport was off<br />
the table during Covid19<br />
restrictions.<br />
Paddy, past club captain at the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> club, said he had been<br />
looking forward to getting on the<br />
tee on Saturday.<br />
‘‘I had agreat first drive, then<br />
shanked the second out of bounds<br />
to ruin the first hole.<br />
‘‘Then Ihad agreat drive down<br />
number two and shanked the<br />
second. So after 15 minutes of play,<br />
the first ‘for goodness sake, what<br />
am Idoing here’ comes out.<br />
United again at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Golf Club were (from left) Adrian Hopwood, Gaby Jansen, Paddy<br />
Bradford and Perry Hunt.<br />
‘‘Then after apar on hole<br />
number four, the universe was in<br />
balance and all was great in the<br />
world again.’’<br />
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by ministry<br />
The Government's new Covid19 tracing<br />
app was released this week.<br />
Once signed in, users are able to scan<br />
QR codes at businesses, public buildings<br />
and other organisations to track where<br />
they have been for contracttracing<br />
purposes.<br />
From there, people can see their ‘‘checkin’’<br />
history.<br />
People can also register their contact<br />
information so the National Close Contact<br />
Service can get in touch if it needsto.<br />
Director general of health Ashley<br />
Bloomfield said the app would help<br />
identify, trace and isolate cases and close<br />
contacts to prevent further spread of<br />
Covid19.<br />
As for what happens to people's privacy<br />
and data, the app lets the user control their<br />
information.<br />
‘‘Any information you decidetorecord<br />
with the app will be stored securely on your<br />
phone and deleted automatically after 31<br />
days.<br />
‘‘It's your choice whether you share any<br />
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never for enforcement.<br />
‘‘Like all mobile apps, NZ Covid Tracer<br />
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are developed. In the next release, NZ<br />
Covid Tracer will be able to notify you if<br />
you have been at the same location at the<br />
same time as someonewho has Covid19<br />
and will allow you to send your digital diary<br />
directly to theNational Close Contact<br />
Service.’’<br />
People would also be able to selfreport<br />
any Covid19 symptoms so they couldbe<br />
tested for the virus if appropriate and<br />
complete adaily healthcheckin through<br />
the app if in isolation.<br />
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
Festival off<br />
Mid Canterbury school choirs will<br />
not perform at the longrunning<br />
Heartland Music Festival. The<br />
annual festivalusually features a<br />
dozen or more school choirs as<br />
wellasarepresentative choir and<br />
is held in June.<br />
Recycle right<br />
Hakatere Multi Cultural<br />
Council has been showingpeople<br />
how to recycleand reuse theright<br />
way through webinars onits<br />
Facebook page and YouTube<br />
channel. Thewebinars feature<br />
Lesley Otteyfrom Eco Educate<br />
and offer aclear picture of what<br />
can and can’t be recycled and<br />
reused. As secondwebinar offers<br />
helpful tips on effective<br />
composting and aguidetoworm<br />
farming. Hakatere Multi Cultural<br />
Council has afuture webinar<br />
planned on winterenergy saving<br />
tips and fire safety, andtonight has<br />
aZoommeeting at 6.30pm on<br />
Maori cultural awareness.<br />
School trip<br />
An <strong>Ashburton</strong> Collegescience<br />
trip due to head to Indonesia in<br />
July has been postponed. The trip<br />
was nearly fullypaid up and the<br />
organisationresponsible for<br />
organising had rolled the booking<br />
overfor 12 months, said college<br />
principal Ross Preece.Seven<br />
studentswere scheduled to travel<br />
to Indonesia on atrip led by<br />
conservationresearch<br />
organisationthe Wallacea<br />
Foundation.Volunteers, suchas<br />
the students, join real science<br />
projects and contribute to realworld<br />
research programmes<br />
alongsideacademic researchers.<br />
Frosty starts<br />
Frostywakeups this week have<br />
beencourtesy of apersistent ridge<br />
of highpressure over New<br />
Zealand. The MetService<br />
recorded aminimumtemperature<br />
of 3.1 degrees Celcius at the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Airport on Monday,<br />
one of several frosts during the<br />
week. Meteorologist Tahlia<br />
Crabtreesaid the ridge was<br />
stopping any significant rain<br />
reaching NewZealand. ‘‘It might<br />
be the time to unearth winter<br />
woolliesfor your morning<br />
commute if you haven't already,’’<br />
she said.<br />
Visitor hours<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospitalhas<br />
updatedits visitor policy under<br />
Alert Level 2. Patientsare allowed<br />
one visitoratatime but morethan<br />
one personisable to visit during<br />
the day.One support person per<br />
outpatient is allowed,and one<br />
support personisalso allowed to<br />
accompany someonetothe<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Acute Assessment<br />
Unit. Nurse managers canassess<br />
requests on acasebycase basis<br />
and make exceptions.<br />
Charges laid<br />
Chargesof dangerous driving<br />
causing death,dangerous driving<br />
causing injury and driving without<br />
the appropriate licence have been<br />
laid against a19yearoldman in<br />
relationtoafatalcrash on Summit<br />
RoadinChristchurch last<br />
Novemberthat claimed the lives of<br />
two <strong>Ashburton</strong> sisters.The man is<br />
to appear in the Christchurch<br />
District Court on <strong>May</strong> 28.
Funeral attendance<br />
number rise praised<br />
The Government’s decision to<br />
backtrack on funeral and tangihanga<br />
restrictions has been welcomed by<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>funeral directors.<br />
Jo Metcalffrom Memory Funerals<br />
said the decision to allowupto50<br />
peopleataceremony duringAlertLevel<br />
2was the rightdecision for now.<br />
It was good for client families and<br />
would help with the pain and difficulty<br />
they facedduring thesedifficult times.<br />
Havingupto50people at afuneral<br />
would allowfamilies to have amore<br />
meaningful farewell.<br />
Earlier level 2restrictions allowing<br />
only 10 people hadrightlyresulted in<br />
publiccriticismand pressure to<br />
reconsider, Ms Metcalfsaid.<br />
Maximum numbers also includedthe<br />
attendance of the funeral directorand<br />
the likesofcelebrants, videographers<br />
and others working at the funeral.<br />
Ms Metcalf said funeral directors<br />
would have to obtain dispensation from<br />
the Ministry of Health to allowupto50<br />
peopletoattend services and arange of<br />
defined public health measures had to<br />
be met.<br />
Those measures includedphysical<br />
distancing,contacttracing processes, as<br />
well as no food and drink congregations<br />
afterwards.<br />
Those attending funerals usually<br />
filledinamemorialtribute book and<br />
would now also have to complete a<br />
secondregisterfor contact tracing<br />
purposes.<br />
She expectedthe maximum numbers<br />
allowed at funerals to increasefurther<br />
under level 2.<br />
Ms Metcalf said anumber of her<br />
clients intended holding future<br />
memorial services whenthere was no<br />
Memory Funerals director Jo<br />
Metcalf.<br />
restriction on numbers, but those<br />
services could still be monthsaway.<br />
Paterson’s Funeral Services manager<br />
BarryHayman said lockdown had been<br />
hard on clientfamilies, who had had to<br />
restrict numbers at funerals to meet the<br />
rules.<br />
Part of thegrieving process was<br />
having afittingfarewell that everyone<br />
couldattend.<br />
Funeral directorshad followed the<br />
guidelines put in place, buthealso<br />
welcomed the recent decision to lift<br />
numbers to 50.<br />
Web streaming had been usedat<br />
some of the funerals he had taken,<br />
which had enabled people to be part of<br />
the service remotely.<br />
Mr Hayman said he expected a<br />
numberofmemorialservices to be held<br />
in the future.<br />
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Cafe rules beingfollowed<br />
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place and working at <strong>Ashburton</strong> eatery<br />
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Like cafes around the country, the<br />
venue is following strict rules around<br />
customer numbers, hygiene and physical<br />
distancing.<br />
Somerset Grocer owner Mark<br />
Milmine, who runs the popular cafe and<br />
bar with wife Nicky, said systems were in<br />
place and working.<br />
Customers needed to sign in and<br />
returning customers could also scan in<br />
and out by using their mobile phone.<br />
Staff seated customers and tables<br />
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The cabinet food menu was now<br />
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orders were printed out in the kitchen.<br />
Ascreen had been set up around the<br />
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‘‘It’s great to have some sort of<br />
normality return to the grocer and we<br />
are grateful for the customer support.<br />
‘‘We’re looking forward now and not<br />
back.’’<br />
Mr Milmine said he encouraged the<br />
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DEATHS<br />
BIRD, Lynley June: Passed<br />
away peacefully on 13th<br />
<strong>May</strong> <strong>2020</strong> at <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Hospital, aged 73 years.<br />
Wife of the late Peter.<br />
Loved mother and motherin-law<br />
of Lee and Bryan<br />
Running, Darren and Lisa<br />
Bird. Adored Gram Grams<br />
and grandma of Jordan and<br />
Tayla, Thomas and Amanda,<br />
Zac, Curtis and Alex. Special<br />
LyntoDev and Ashley.<br />
“An extremely brave “Bird”<br />
who fought the fight her way<br />
right till the very end.”<br />
Messages to 14 Aitken<br />
Street <strong>Ashburton</strong> 7700.<br />
Special thanks to Sonia Frew<br />
for all her tireless help and<br />
loving care of Lyn during<br />
her illness. Acelebration of<br />
Lyn’s life will take place ata<br />
laterdate.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
FDANZ<br />
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Birth notices listed<br />
by parents will<br />
continue to be free in<br />
the Family Notices<br />
column. The initial<br />
death notice lodged<br />
by afuneral director<br />
will be listed without<br />
charge. There will<br />
be asmall charge of<br />
$15 for subsequent<br />
notices related to<br />
the same death, up<br />
to a maximum of<br />
35 words and on a<br />
per-line basis after<br />
that. The same low<br />
charges apply to<br />
other family notices,<br />
such as engagements,<br />
acknowledgements,<br />
in memoriam notices<br />
and anniversaries.<br />
Family Notices<br />
DEATHS<br />
CAMPBELL, Tom<br />
(Beagle): Passed away<br />
in <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Dearly<br />
loved father of Jason<br />
and Andrew (Auckland),<br />
Wikitoria (Papakura) and<br />
Whare (Sydney) and their<br />
families in Ruatoria and<br />
Gisborne. His children<br />
want to sincerely thank<br />
his friends for taking care<br />
of him.<br />
Onwards and in thoughts<br />
forever.<br />
CAMPBELL, Sgt. Tom<br />
(Beagle) U759153, RNZIR<br />
LTD: Sadly passed away<br />
at home in <strong>Ashburton</strong> on<br />
5th <strong>May</strong> <strong>2020</strong>. Cremation<br />
has been held. Wewish<br />
to invite his friends along<br />
to the <strong>Ashburton</strong> RSA, this<br />
Saturday 1.30pm to pay<br />
their respects. Tom will<br />
be with us. A great mate<br />
to us all. RIP our friend.<br />
Blackie, Grunter, Swampy,<br />
Helen, Gordie Munro,<br />
Hori and Tomes family<br />
(Southbridge).<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<br />
BIRD, Ted and Pamela:<br />
The Bird family wish to<br />
thank family and friends<br />
for the many expressions<br />
of sympathy, support and<br />
kindness shown to us with<br />
the sad loss of Mum on<br />
the 6th December and<br />
then Dad on Good Friday,<br />
April 10th. Thank you for<br />
the flowers, baking, cards<br />
and donations to the Blind<br />
Foundation and to all those<br />
that travelled distances to<br />
be with us. Special thanks<br />
to Dr Penny Holdaway,<br />
Paterson’s, and the ladies<br />
providing afternoon tea for<br />
Mum’sfarewell,making it so<br />
memorable. Wemiss them<br />
both greatly, but know they<br />
are atpeace and together<br />
again.<br />
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
Money rolls in for hospice ride<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Retired businessman Tony Todd<br />
celebrated his 73rd birthday<br />
yesterday cycling 73km around<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> raising more than<br />
$6800 for Hospice Mid<br />
Canterbury.<br />
He was joined by around 25<br />
cycling friends including cycling<br />
stalwarts Paul Wylie and Kenny<br />
Johnston, cycling newcomer<br />
John Catherwood and many<br />
members of Lions Club of<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Mr Todd was inspired to<br />
organise the charity ride by UK<br />
war veteran Captain Tom Moore<br />
who did 100 laps of his garden<br />
before his 100th birthday and<br />
raising millions of pounds for the<br />
national health service.<br />
The Covid19 pandemic has<br />
made fundraising difficult for the<br />
hospice group so Tony chose a<br />
sponsored ride to raise money.<br />
He received lump sum<br />
donations, or sponsorship per<br />
kilometre; with $6823 pledged,<br />
but there were still donations<br />
being received; the Lions Club<br />
announced they would sponsor<br />
their own riders efforts per<br />
kilometre and donate money to<br />
Kenny Johnston, Paul Wylie, Tony Todd and John Catherwood preparing to cycle 73km in<br />
support of Tony's Hospice Mid Canterbury charity ride.<br />
Tony’s ride.<br />
Tony was grateful to the<br />
people supporting the cause;<br />
those with donations and<br />
pledges, teeshirt sponsorship<br />
from DPI EmbroidMe and to the<br />
cyclists biking alongside him,<br />
including the six or seven riders<br />
doing the full 73km.<br />
Donations in support of<br />
Tony’s 73km ride can still be<br />
made by emailing<br />
manager@hospicemc.nz or<br />
phoning Christine or Lorraine<br />
on 3078387 or 0272278387.<br />
RSA mates ready for catchup and apint<br />
Members of the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
RSA are back in their local,<br />
enjoying time socialising over a<br />
pint or two.<br />
It’s been eight weeks of<br />
lockdown but members, with<br />
social distancing and hand<br />
sanitising in place, have<br />
returned.<br />
RSA <strong>Ashburton</strong> president<br />
Merv Brenton had been<br />
looking forward to the return of<br />
members to the RSA and<br />
having achin wag.<br />
He was on site earlier this<br />
week with afew staff and<br />
committee members preparing<br />
for the return today, giving the<br />
bar agood clean and setting up<br />
asignin table for Covid19<br />
tracing, ahand sanitiser station,<br />
and spacing tables and chairs,<br />
along with floor signage, to<br />
keep people within one metre<br />
social distancing rules.<br />
RSA member Barry Solway,<br />
aretired carpenter, was also<br />
installing perspex sheeting over<br />
RSA <strong>Ashburton</strong> president Merv Brenton, barman James Rae and RSA member, and retired<br />
carpenter Barry Solway prepare the bar service area for reopening.<br />
the bar area for added<br />
protection for bar staff.<br />
Mr Brenton said under the<br />
new rules the bar was limited to<br />
100 people, which included<br />
staff, and the courtesy van was<br />
operating but with limited<br />
numbers on board. There was<br />
also just aonedoor entry<br />
system so people could sign the<br />
contract tracing book set up at<br />
the entrance to the bar.<br />
RSA sections will not meet<br />
until gathering numbers are<br />
increased by government.<br />
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again. The centrepiece is our $50<br />
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Recovery Fund, which will<br />
create jobs, get business moving<br />
and support New Zealanders.<br />
The fund includes atargeted<br />
extension to the wage subsidy to<br />
keep the most affected Kiwis in<br />
work. Right here in Mid<br />
Canterbury this will be especially<br />
welcome as we rebuild and<br />
recover.<br />
Our region, with arural<br />
backbone, is in agood spot for<br />
recovery, but this does not mean<br />
that we don’t need support and<br />
investment. Iamhopeful that we<br />
will see agood chunk of<br />
investment here from Budget<br />
<strong>2020</strong>’s ShovelReady<br />
Infrastructure Programme, and<br />
Labour List MP Jo Luxton<br />
am supporting the proposals that<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
has put forward.<br />
The Budget also includes<br />
initiatives to create new jobs,<br />
train people to have the skills<br />
they need for the jobs we have,<br />
and support people to get into<br />
work. This means we’re investing<br />
in major new infrastructure, and<br />
also in projects like boosting the<br />
apprenticeships scheme to<br />
enable people to upskill and<br />
retrain, and partnering with<br />
industry to fill skills gaps in the<br />
workforce. We are backing our<br />
exporters to take full advantage<br />
of New Zealand’s worldleading<br />
brand and reputation, which will<br />
create jobs and lift wages<br />
The Budget is also about<br />
MP Jo Luxton<br />
taking this chance to address<br />
New Zealand’s longterm<br />
challenges.<br />
If someone’s house gets badly<br />
damaged, they don’t usually<br />
build it back exactly the same.<br />
They rebuild it better.<br />
It’s the same with our<br />
economy. We’re rebuilding it<br />
better.<br />
That’s why we’re building 8000<br />
public houses. This will help the<br />
construction sector get moving<br />
again and get people back into<br />
work, while providing warm, dry<br />
homes for thousands of families.<br />
Now’s the time to create a<br />
New Zealand we’re truly proud<br />
of. Now’s the time to stay safe,<br />
lock in the gains we made in<br />
recent weeks, and recover as a<br />
nation. Now’s the time to build<br />
back better. Now’s the time to<br />
rebuild together.
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 11<br />
Sallies shop back open<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
The Salvation Army Family<br />
Store opensits doors today<br />
after an eightweek closure.<br />
Staff and volunteers have<br />
spent anumber of days<br />
cleaning and preparing for the<br />
reopening.<br />
Salvation Army Major Mike<br />
Allwright said there would be<br />
fewer items on displaythan<br />
usual,more spacingbetween<br />
clothing racks and some items<br />
in temporary storage.<br />
Visitors would need to sign<br />
in, sticktodistancing rules and<br />
use the sanitiser provided.<br />
He said the family storewas<br />
‘‘a great littlehub’’, not just a<br />
clothing shop, but apoint<br />
where people couldcome<br />
together socially.<br />
People had been missing not<br />
been abletovisit the store, he<br />
said.<br />
‘‘On Monday we had 15<br />
people waiting at the front<br />
door and the phone was<br />
ringing hot.<br />
‘‘We’ve taken our time<br />
reopeningbecausewewanted<br />
to get it right and make it asafe<br />
placefor staff, volunteers and<br />
the public.’’<br />
The Salvation Army<br />
Salvation Army Major Mike Allwright.<br />
continuedtobegrateful for<br />
the donations it received in<br />
store, he said, and also for food<br />
and monetary donations that<br />
were givenbecause peoplesaw<br />
the organisation as doing good<br />
work in the community and as<br />
trustworthy.<br />
As acharity, it had taken a<br />
hit throughthe dropinshop<br />
revenue locally, revenue that<br />
helped support the foodbank it<br />
ran.<br />
MajorAllwright said the<br />
Salvation Army had run 100<br />
per cent abovenormal levels<br />
for the food parcels it gave out<br />
and continued to support<br />
people referred by Civil<br />
Defence, including migrants,<br />
as well as regularclients.<br />
He said the current tough<br />
situation would likely get<br />
worse for somepeoplebefore<br />
it got better.<br />
Level 2meant more shops<br />
wereopen, morepeoplewere<br />
impulse buyingand would then<br />
have to face the consequences<br />
of thatovershopping later.<br />
Now was stillanervous time<br />
for anumberofbusinessesand<br />
unlike othertough times, such<br />
as the Christchurch<br />
earthquakes, no knight in<br />
shining armour or hero would<br />
emerge from Covid19.<br />
He said seniors were still<br />
experiencinganelementof<br />
social fear,but overall people<br />
had been sensible and more<br />
generous in theirsocial<br />
interaction overthe past<br />
weeks.<br />
Art show delayed<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong>Society<br />
of Arts(ASA)willnot be<br />
holding itsannual<br />
exhibition in July<br />
becauseofthe Covid19<br />
situation, but its<br />
committeeis<br />
investigatingthe<br />
possibility of hosting it<br />
later in the year.<br />
ASA exhibition coordinatorJen<br />
Dearborn<br />
saidthe society was<br />
checking withsponsors<br />
and lookingatdatesin<br />
Octoberand November<br />
for apossible date.<br />
The annual exhibition<br />
is in its 56thyearand is<br />
the biggest single show at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Art Gallery.<br />
Lastyear’s exhibition<br />
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aweek until July.<br />
From July 1itwill scale up its operation to<br />
five days aweek, including the weekend, if<br />
the weather and conditions allow.<br />
Skifield owner NZSki, which also operates<br />
fields at The Remarkables and Coronet<br />
Peak, has been seeking final clarification on<br />
how it can operate safely under level 2<br />
restrictions and made the announcement<br />
earlier this week.<br />
“At Mt Hutt we tend to get some great<br />
dumps of snow, but that can mean we are<br />
closed because of the weather,’’ said NZSki<br />
chief executive Paul Anderson.<br />
‘‘By planning for the five best weather days<br />
we’ll be able to give our guests more<br />
certainty.<br />
“We do have the capacity to scale up our<br />
operations across all of our mountains if we<br />
see guest numbers that warrant this as the<br />
season progresses.”<br />
In Queenstown, Coronet Peak will open<br />
for the full season, including night skiing, on<br />
June 26.<br />
The Remarkables will open daily for the<br />
duration of the July school holidays and after<br />
that, at this stage, for weekends only.<br />
The ski industry had been working hard to<br />
demonstrate to the government it can<br />
implement safe operating protocols required<br />
in level 2, Mr Anderson said.<br />
Consider Methven, says board chairman<br />
Methven Community Board chairman Dan<br />
McLaughlin is encouraging anyone wanting<br />
to set up or relocate abusinesstoconsider the<br />
Methven area.<br />
Lockdownhas enabled people to reassess<br />
their lives and their business intentions,he<br />
says.<br />
Methvenhas alot to offer and through the<br />
Ignite Changeproject anumber of<br />
promotional platforms likeFacebook and<br />
Instagram (#methvennz) and the methven.<br />
co.nz websitehad already been set up to help<br />
supportbusinessesand to get the word out<br />
about whatwas happeninginMethven.<br />
Mr McLaughlin said anumber of Kiwis had<br />
also returnedhome during the pandemic and<br />
some might be considering starting new<br />
ventures, or continuing businesses theyhad<br />
been involved with elsewhere.<br />
‘‘I’d love to see people cometoMethven<br />
and doing well here.’’<br />
The Ignite Changeproject wasn’tjust about<br />
tourism,although tourismwas important for<br />
Dan McLaughlin.<br />
the localeconomy, Mr McLaughlin said.<br />
While there was acrossover between<br />
tourism and economic development,<br />
feedback from Methven peoplehad shown<br />
the community wanted the town promoted as<br />
an allyear round destination.<br />
Winter tourism was abig boostfor<br />
accommodationand hospitality providers,<br />
and he welcomed Mt Hutt’s opening next<br />
month, but Methvenhad much more to offer<br />
outside of the skifield season.<br />
There was room for more retailers and new<br />
enterprisingbusinesses.<br />
‘‘The town has been flattish during<br />
lockdown, which hasn’t been too surprising,<br />
but with the kids going back to school and<br />
people having more freedom, things are<br />
picking up again.’’<br />
Mr McLaughlin said community board<br />
meetingswould resume soon.<br />
Board members were happy to chat on or<br />
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Eclipse Cross aquiet drive with space<br />
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Bookended in the<br />
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two sidekicks.<br />
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The first step on the<br />
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ladder isn’t cheap with<br />
the $41,690 XLS 2WD<br />
and extra $2k for the<br />
4WD. The latter was the<br />
version provided for this<br />
road test and looks to<br />
offer the best value for<br />
money. At the time of<br />
writing it was an absolute<br />
steal with special pricing<br />
of $34,990. If you prefer a<br />
vehicle with all the luxury<br />
trappings, you will be<br />
instantly drawn to the<br />
VRX costing $45,590 in<br />
2WD form with a$2k<br />
premium for the AWD<br />
variant.<br />
All models are<br />
powered with reasonable<br />
gusto by a112kw 1.5Litre<br />
Direct Injection Turbo<br />
engine. This is asolid<br />
rather than spectacular<br />
performer with ample<br />
thrust provided by a<br />
healthy 254Nm of torque.<br />
Small yet highly<br />
energized turbo petrol’s<br />
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occupying more engine<br />
bays than ever in the<br />
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producing similar power<br />
outputs to some 2.0 litre<br />
naturally aspirated<br />
motors, eclipsing them in<br />
the case of this model, for<br />
fuel economy and<br />
refinement.<br />
What really impresses<br />
with this new Mitsubishi<br />
engine is its smooth<br />
linear power delivery and<br />
low noise levels even<br />
when pressed hard.<br />
There are some<br />
irritations, such as the<br />
occasional flat spot under<br />
full throttle from<br />
standing starts, and a<br />
tailing off in the engine<br />
beyond the 5000rpm<br />
mark. The motor has an<br />
ideal gearchanging<br />
buddy in the form of an<br />
8speed CVT (Constant<br />
Variable Transmission)<br />
system with Sports Mode,<br />
and Step Shift Control<br />
for more direct<br />
acceleration.<br />
By compact urban<br />
SUV standards,<br />
passenger space is better<br />
than most, but it could<br />
have been acontender<br />
for best in class atad<br />
more rear headroom.<br />
There’s plenty to like<br />
about the modern look<br />
and feel of the cabin.<br />
The centre console<br />
blends almost seamlessly<br />
with the dash, while the<br />
controls and instruments<br />
are all within easy reach<br />
or view of the driver.<br />
Mitsubishi’s revised<br />
Smartphone link Display<br />
Audio (SDA) interface is<br />
neatly integrated with the<br />
new Touchpad<br />
Commander function.<br />
Unique to the Eclipse<br />
Cross, it makes it ever so<br />
easy to operate the SDA<br />
via an easytouse<br />
touchpad.<br />
Iwould like to say the<br />
elevated driving position<br />
provided great allround<br />
visibility. Generally it<br />
does, except the rear vista<br />
is poor because of asplit<br />
rear glass tail gate that<br />
gives aless than<br />
panoramic view of<br />
following traffic,<br />
especially in poor<br />
weather conditions.<br />
The Eclipse doesn’t<br />
live in the shadow of its<br />
competitors when it<br />
comes to safety. It’s<br />
equipped with some of<br />
the best safety technology<br />
available in its price<br />
range. Afew highlights<br />
from an extensive list of<br />
standard safety<br />
equipment, is Forward<br />
Collision Mitigation with<br />
windscreenmounted<br />
laser and camera, Lane<br />
Departure Warning and<br />
Auto High Beam. This<br />
system automatically dips<br />
the lights for the driver<br />
when oncoming traffic is<br />
approaching, releasing<br />
them from having to<br />
manually dip them, one<br />
of the most tedious of<br />
night driving tasks.<br />
The AWD system<br />
fitted to the test vehicle<br />
has the flexibility of three<br />
modes: Normal which<br />
delivers the added<br />
security of 4WD traction<br />
in every day driving,<br />
Snow for greater stability<br />
on slippery roads, while<br />
Gravel mode gives<br />
additional traction for<br />
offroading. Exactly how<br />
far you can wander away<br />
from sealed roads, is<br />
dictated by vehicles<br />
modest ground clearance<br />
not its proven AWD<br />
system.<br />
Fully independent<br />
suspension is capable<br />
enough, but there is more<br />
body lean than Iexpected<br />
during brisker driving<br />
over undulating terrain.<br />
AWD delivers that extra<br />
bit of grip when its<br />
needed compared to the<br />
2WD version. Yet<br />
another reason to pay the<br />
modest $2k premium for<br />
AWD, because you never<br />
know when you will need<br />
it with our changeable<br />
roads and weather.<br />
An area where there is<br />
scope for further<br />
improvement is the<br />
steering. This feels to<br />
light and lacking in road<br />
feel, to deliver atop shelf<br />
driving experience to give<br />
the Eclipse agenuine<br />
point of difference over<br />
its competitors. Abit of a<br />
missed opportunity that<br />
could have helped put<br />
this model on the<br />
compact urban SUV map<br />
in this country.<br />
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Build Quality 7, Comfort<br />
7, Space 6, Fuel Economy;<br />
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Crossover Subaru XV sits tall<br />
By Ross Kiddie<br />
There’s no doubt sales in the new<br />
car market will sufferthis year as<br />
the effects of the Covid19<br />
pandemic, the lockdown, and the<br />
associated financialramifications<br />
hit home.<br />
We will certainlysee some<br />
restructuring by the big distributors<br />
and those that are niche market<br />
operatorswill be working with slim<br />
margins.<br />
One company I’m not worried<br />
aboutisSubaru NZ. Its operation<br />
is lean and mean, and those who<br />
work within the brand are smart<br />
operators. Plus, it has awellproven<br />
product lineupthat is fresh<br />
throughout, and all modelsutilise<br />
the symmetrical fourwheeldrive<br />
system which is effectively Subaru’s<br />
trademark.<br />
One of the models Iparticularly<br />
have an affinity with is the XV, a<br />
car whichIencouraged one of my<br />
work colleagues to buy ayear or<br />
two back.<br />
The XV isn’t big but it is big on<br />
styleand performance.Itlandsat<br />
$36,490 in base model (Sport)<br />
form,anextra $5k will get you into<br />
the topgradePremium whichgets<br />
all the cool stuff such as keyless<br />
entryand ignition, leather trim,<br />
heated seats,Apple Car Play and<br />
Android Auto,sat nav and sunroof.<br />
I’d far prefer the entrylevel<br />
model, it stacks up as the most<br />
desirable,itisjust as competent as<br />
the Premium and it doesn’t miss<br />
out on much,iteven gets Subaru’s<br />
clever Eyesight computerguided<br />
safety technologywhich<br />
contributes to an easy Australasian<br />
New Car Assessment Program fivestar<br />
safetyrating.<br />
The XV is described by Subaru<br />
as acrossover vehicle. It’snot your<br />
traditionalsportutilityvehicle, but<br />
more of astation wagon on<br />
steroids, simply because it is<br />
Impreza hatchbackbased.<br />
It has definite crosscountry<br />
potential thankstoground<br />
clearance thatisraised to 220mm;<br />
that being the case, it challenges<br />
the orthodoxSUV, and with<br />
technology such as Xmode<br />
traction systemitisadefiniteoffroad<br />
vehicle. Xmode is acomplex<br />
array of management programs<br />
which enhancecontroland stability<br />
on loosesurfaces, it alsoworks in<br />
conjunction with hilldescent<br />
control. The entire fourwheeldrive<br />
system is there to provide grip<br />
in the trickiest of situations.<br />
That is the essence of the<br />
symmetrical drive system in the<br />
first instance, griponall surfaces is<br />
enhanced, and even in dry<br />
conditions you can feel the benefit<br />
of power to all corners. The<br />
Imprezaasaseries has confident<br />
dry road handling manners, the XV<br />
can be pushed hardinto acorner<br />
and it will respond with much<br />
composure.<br />
Even thoughitsits tall(1.6m) to<br />
providethe ground clearanceI<br />
mentioned earlier, alow centreof<br />
gravity and clever suspension<br />
engineering clamps down on body<br />
movement, the XV’s handling is<br />
quite unrealistic, it’s no<br />
exaggeration to say it is athletic and<br />
nimble.<br />
Under the bonnetsits a<br />
horizontallyopposed engine of<br />
1995cc, it drivesthrough asmooth<br />
continuouslyvariableautomatic<br />
transmission that has asevenstep,<br />
paddleshift function. The engineis<br />
aquadcamshaft unit, and even<br />
though it has been Subaru’s goto<br />
design for many yearsitisvery<br />
much stateoftheart thanks to<br />
continual refinement.<br />
The engineisrated with115kW<br />
of power (6000rpm), and 196Nm of<br />
torque available at 4000rpm.The<br />
way the engine works through CVT<br />
is uninhibited, and it is dynamic in<br />
the respect that it pullshappilyno<br />
matter what point the engine<br />
revolutions are operatingat.<br />
Response to throttle request is<br />
decisive, the power comes in freely<br />
withoutstrain nor much soundin<br />
total. If you listen hard you can<br />
detect the harmonicswhich<br />
accompany the boxer engine<br />
design,but it is well isolatedand far<br />
from intrusive.<br />
The engineisfreerevvingand<br />
responsive, but the beauty of the<br />
flatfour engineisits ability to work<br />
low down, and with the inclusionof<br />
CVT it quickly settles into alow<br />
revving pattern.<br />
Against the stopwatch the XV<br />
will launch to 100km/h from a<br />
standstill in 9.6sec, and will make<br />
120km/h from80km/hin5.8sec.<br />
Theseare satisfactory figureswhich<br />
will give peace of mind, especially<br />
for ahighway overtake.<br />
Subaru claims asevenlitreper<br />
100kmcombined cycle fuel usage<br />
average; development work on the<br />
boxerenginetokeep it fuelfriendlyhas<br />
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certainly showed during my testing<br />
time.<br />
At 100km/hitsips fuelatthe rate<br />
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When Itook the test car backtothe<br />
dealership the averagewas showing<br />
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For <strong>2020</strong>,the XV certainly hasn’t<br />
lost any of its Xfactor,itisa<br />
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and almost aggressive styling. It has<br />
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Rural&Lifestyle<br />
Crop walks, cuppas for rep Nicola<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
An arable seed representative<br />
becomes an extended member of an<br />
arable farming family, says PGG<br />
Wrightson’s Nicola Lee.<br />
‘‘You know the kids and the wives,<br />
their kids go to school with your kids<br />
and they end up becoming like<br />
family.’’<br />
Ms Lee is an arable seed<br />
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It’s arole she enjoys as achance to<br />
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community and walk their fields<br />
offering advice and enjoying acuppa<br />
now and then.<br />
It also offers great work/life<br />
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aspect or the flexibility for raising a<br />
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Harper.<br />
‘‘I am amother, atrader, a<br />
negotiator, acounsellor, abaker, a<br />
friend and then after all that an<br />
agronomist …and that’s all in just a<br />
day.’’<br />
Ms Lee grew up in Leeston on a<br />
small lifestyle block with horses,<br />
which she admits took up much of<br />
her childhood<br />
‘‘Growing up, we spent most<br />
weekends competing at horse shows<br />
all over New Zealand.’’<br />
At 17, she applied to join the New<br />
Zealand Army, but did not get in due<br />
to asthma so opted to study at<br />
Lincoln University where she did a<br />
Bachelor of Agricultural Science.<br />
‘‘Like many of my friends, Ihad no<br />
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school). During my time at Lincoln, I<br />
found apassion for plant science,<br />
and Iwas lucky enough to get ajob<br />
at Kimihia Research Centre which<br />
lead me to where Iamtoday.’’<br />
Through her work at PGW, she<br />
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Atypical work day involves grower<br />
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mean three to 10 farm visits aday,<br />
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what needs to be discussed.<br />
‘‘Farm visits often involve acup of<br />
tea and some home baking (but not<br />
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‘‘I like to go with my farmers to<br />
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The team Iwork with is also what<br />
drives me Ihave areally great boss<br />
and team around me for support.’’<br />
Meeting arable women on farm is<br />
an inspiration.<br />
‘‘They are the absolute backbone<br />
of the industry but also the quiet<br />
achievers.<br />
‘‘They work hard whether it be on<br />
the farm, doing the books, organising<br />
their partners/ husbands,<br />
maintaining the household, or caring<br />
for the children whatever role they<br />
are doing, they are an absolute<br />
inspiration,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘The hardest part of my role<br />
would be when harvest isn’t going<br />
well instead of visiting one farmer<br />
who might be disappointed, you may<br />
end up visiting five farmers who are<br />
all feeling the same and it can be<br />
personally hard for their moods not<br />
to impact me.’’<br />
She said the arable sector faces a<br />
few challenges including Farm<br />
Environmental Plans, government<br />
legislation, managing chemical<br />
resistance and reducing chemical use<br />
and burning, all the while still being<br />
expected to increase yields and feed<br />
the world.<br />
The past few weeks Covid19 has<br />
seen Ms Lee work from home rather<br />
than at the office and she has had to<br />
walk paddocks alone.<br />
She did have plans to attend the<br />
International Herbage Seed<br />
Conference in Serbia next year, but<br />
due to Covid19, it is unknown if it<br />
will happen.<br />
Ms Lee has just bought ahouse<br />
and said weekends involve<br />
renovating and entertaining her<br />
threeyearold.<br />
She also plays social netball and<br />
goes to the gym.<br />
Arable rep Nicola Lee, mother to three-year-old Harper, enjoys work/<br />
life balance. Photo supplied.<br />
‘Stockwater should stay in the <strong>Ashburton</strong> River’<br />
By Linda Clarke<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> district councillor Angus<br />
McKay wants counciltoclose its<br />
stockwatertakesonthe <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Rivertohelp improve flows in the<br />
overallocated river.<br />
He says this would help raise the<br />
minimum flow in the river to its 6<br />
cumec targetand avoidthe need for<br />
council to install expensivefish<br />
screens at the take sites.<br />
Council is slowly closing down<br />
stockwaterraces in the districtand<br />
accessingpiped irrigation networks<br />
and other alternatives to provide<br />
stockwater to those who needit.<br />
Cr McKay saidfish screens were<br />
proposed under council’s longterm<br />
plan at two majorintakesinthe<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> River.<br />
‘‘They are costlytodo. Ithink they<br />
shouldnot be erected.<br />
‘‘I thinkitwould be betterfor the<br />
water to stay in the river.’’<br />
Councillorsdiscussed water issues<br />
with <strong>Ashburton</strong> WaterZone<br />
Committee chair Bill Thomas<br />
recently.<br />
Mr Thomassaid it wouldbenefit<br />
the river if council’s consented<br />
stockwater take stayed in it and did<br />
not end up in an irrigation scheme.<br />
He saiditwas abig targetto<br />
improve mean flowsto6cumecs by<br />
2023.<br />
‘‘Every bit will help.’’<br />
The riveriscurrentlyrunning at<br />
about 9cumecsatState Highway1.It<br />
comes under pressure in the warmer<br />
monthswhen farmers use their<br />
consented takes to irrigate cropsand<br />
grass.<br />
All water takeconsents on the<br />
river are undercurrently under<br />
review,aspart of amajor job by<br />
Environment Canterbury.<br />
Farmers havebeen encouraged to<br />
swap surface water takesfor<br />
groundwater where appropriate or<br />
access more expensive water from<br />
irrigation schemes.<br />
Ten of the 90 or so consents up for<br />
review were granted last December<br />
and 77 are still underreview. Fiftyseven<br />
consentholders havebanded<br />
togetheraspart of the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
River Irrigators Associationtowork<br />
through the complexitiesofthe<br />
review. It is fearedsome will miss out<br />
on wateraltogether.<br />
Ecan has employed afarm advisor<br />
to analyse the economicimpact of<br />
reducing their existing watertakes.<br />
Regional planningmanager<br />
AndrewParrish saidhewas happy<br />
withthe progress beingmade but<br />
somework had not been able to<br />
happen because of Covid19.<br />
‘‘Covid19has affected almost<br />
every aspectofpeople’s lives, but<br />
we’re confident thatitwon’taffect<br />
our abilitytoimplement the<br />
minimum flow regimewithinour<br />
expected timeline.<br />
‘‘Abstractors willbelookingata<br />
number of options for accessing<br />
water. We are offeringsupport to all<br />
consentholders as they decide what<br />
actionsthey will take.’’<br />
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Hospice supports clients<br />
with remote counselling<br />
Hospice Mid Canterbury is<br />
continuing remote counselling<br />
with its clients under Alert Level<br />
2.<br />
No other therapies are<br />
recommencing at this stage,<br />
though some volunteer services<br />
where remote contact is not<br />
possible, like biography writing<br />
and sitting, can happen if physical<br />
distancing and sanitising<br />
requirements are met.<br />
The hospice shop is open<br />
again.<br />
Hospice Awareness Week also<br />
hasn’t quite turned out as<br />
planned, though acouple of<br />
activities are keeping the<br />
organisation in the headlines in<br />
Mid Canterbury. Hospice Mid<br />
Canterbury ambassador Tony<br />
Todd biked 73km on his 73rd<br />
birthday yesterday to raise<br />
donations and sponsorship, and<br />
others have been baking up a<br />
storm in an online cake<br />
decorating contest. It was for<br />
under 15s and adults; the adult<br />
winner Maria Rossetti for her<br />
racethemed birthday cake and<br />
the under 15 winner was Ruby<br />
Bartlett, aged 10, for her Easter<br />
Eggstravaganza.<br />
Both winners received $50<br />
New World vouchers, sponsored<br />
by Winsford Family Trust.<br />
Barbara Redmond is one of<br />
the volunteers on the hospice<br />
fundraising subcommittee and<br />
was been instrumental getting the<br />
retail shop up and running. She<br />
has been married to Barry for 46<br />
years and worked in the family<br />
One of the winning cakes in<br />
the online cake decorating<br />
contest, and, right, Barbara<br />
Redmond.<br />
business at The China Shop for<br />
26 years before retiring four years<br />
ago; her experience was put to<br />
good use after being encouraged<br />
to join the fundraising group by<br />
Rodger Bradford.<br />
Her favourite fundraiser was<br />
the Christmas Experience last<br />
December, which raised $20,000.<br />
Seven local homes, dressed<br />
especially for the festive season,<br />
were opened up to ticketholders<br />
for an exclusive event. She said<br />
the fundraising committee was an<br />
energetic and positive group, and<br />
its members had different<br />
strengths.<br />
‘‘Most people will be touched<br />
by hospice in some way during<br />
their lives whether it be through<br />
friends or family. Iampleased to<br />
be able to help. I'm always<br />
thinking of new ideas for<br />
fundraising and am probably<br />
more creative than practical<br />
sometimes, but enjoy the<br />
challenge it presents and love<br />
seeing ideas followed through.’’<br />
The organisation has had a<br />
positive impact on her life in<br />
return.<br />
‘‘You're never too old to meet<br />
new people and form friendships<br />
along the way. Being involved has<br />
been one of most satisfying things<br />
Ihave done, lots of hard work<br />
sometimes, lots of fun but most<br />
rewarding.’’<br />
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Boost for MAR trial<br />
The Provincial Growth Fund is investing<br />
$950,000 towards completing feasibility<br />
and pilot work on amanaged aquifer<br />
recharge to help protect andimprove<br />
groundwater quality and supply in Mid<br />
Canterbury.<br />
“Work on the Hekeao Hinds<br />
Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR)<br />
Pilot has been progressing for anumber<br />
of years. Provincial Growth Fund<br />
funding will enable the project to<br />
complete its feasibility investigations<br />
and finalise the business case,” regional<br />
economic development minister Shane<br />
Jones said.<br />
There are plans to develop anetwork<br />
of water points or ponds that allow<br />
surface water to filter down into<br />
groundwater. The system has been<br />
developed to meet the needs of the local<br />
community.<br />
The HekeaoHinds Water<br />
Enhancement Trust that runs the pilot is<br />
pleased with the funding. Trustees also<br />
wanted torecognise the community<br />
support thatinitiated the trial and<br />
enabled the partnership with PGF.<br />
The MARtrial is New Zealand’s<br />
largest groundwater rehabilitation<br />
project. Acommunityledproject, it<br />
operates alongside strict planning rules<br />
regarding nutrient leaching from land<br />
use activities. The MAR trialtargets<br />
nutrientsalready in the slowmoving<br />
groundwater system from historical land<br />
use activities, while the planning rules<br />
target improvements in onfarm<br />
practices. Together they provide amultipronged<br />
approach to drive improved<br />
environmental outcomes.<br />
Mr Jonessaid <strong>Ashburton</strong> was one of<br />
the most productive agricultural regions<br />
in New Zealand, with awide variety of<br />
land uses and alarge number of people<br />
employed inthe agriculture sector.<br />
‘‘A managed aquifer recharge will<br />
protectthis existing economic activity<br />
and complement improvements on<br />
farms to significantly reducenutrient<br />
losses to groundwater,” he said.<br />
“Thepilot is evaluating the use of<br />
MAR to enhance groundwater quality<br />
for ecosystem health and safe drinking<br />
water, improving flows tospringfed<br />
streams and rivers and replenishing<br />
declining groundwaterlevels.’’<br />
MARhas been proven to be an<br />
effective watermanagement tool.<br />
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Volunteers on litter trail<br />
Volunteer litter collectors are back out<br />
in<strong>Ashburton</strong> and there’s plenty of<br />
rubbish to pick up.<br />
Volunteers from community group<br />
Litter Free <strong>Ashburton</strong> have been<br />
bagging and recycling other people’s<br />
rubbish fromtthe North Park reserve on<br />
the northern end of <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Volunteer Bev Skates said there was a<br />
lot of fast food packaging,which had<br />
clearly beentossed out of car windows,<br />
beer bottles and general household<br />
rubbish.<br />
‘‘There is just no need to dump it in<br />
public places. All people have to do is<br />
use council rubbish bags and go to the<br />
recycling centre and put things in the<br />
appropriatebins.’’<br />
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And people who are interested in<br />
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support from Federated Farmers,<br />
which includes entry level training to<br />
help atransition to farming.<br />
And there are plenty of jobs in the<br />
district; the farm source website<br />
listed 205 jobs in Canterbury this<br />
week; including at least 46 jobs in the<br />
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Geraldine. They ranged from calf<br />
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DairyNZ’s chief executive Dr Tim<br />
Mackle said it was likely more<br />
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on June 1.<br />
“For people who’re looking for<br />
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Alooming staff shortage in dairying,<br />
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DairyNZ says by the end of<br />
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Planning vital for a<br />
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There are an estimated 5000 dairy<br />
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The information is designed to help<br />
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farmers understand requirements<br />
before and after Covid19.<br />
“Pulling together this package of<br />
userfriendly resources has been a<br />
fantastic collaborative effort with<br />
input from DairyNZ, Federated<br />
Farmers, Fonterra and FMG,” Ms<br />
Muir said.<br />
“We are all working together to<br />
support farmers who are doing<br />
such atremendous job providing<br />
essential dairy nutrition to New<br />
Zealanders and export markets.”<br />
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Due to Covid19, records must<br />
be kept of everyone helping during<br />
the move, to support contact<br />
tracing if someone gets sick.<br />
Everyone involved in moving<br />
day should carry aletter from the<br />
farmer authorising their<br />
involvement. Surfaces that are<br />
frequently touched should be<br />
regularly cleaned with disinfectant<br />
during the move, and the house<br />
and dairy shed need to be<br />
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continue to be profitable.<br />
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per cent of farms), improving<br />
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per cent) and reducing nitrogen<br />
fertiliser use (80 per cent).<br />
‘‘They also reported taking other<br />
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rates, adopting low nitrogen feeds<br />
like fodder beet or plantain, and<br />
using catch crops after winter crop<br />
grazing to harness available nitrogen<br />
for plant growth.’’<br />
The project works with 50 partner<br />
farms to help improve farmer<br />
practices on both partner farms and<br />
other Hinds and Selwyn dairy farms,<br />
through adopting new practices to<br />
reduce nitrogen loss.<br />
Arecent assessment of <strong>21</strong>0 farms<br />
in these catchments found all farms<br />
had changed their practices and the<br />
vast majority were on track to<br />
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In total, 40 per cent of farms<br />
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The project’s focus is on<br />
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and the partner farms also host field<br />
days and discussion groups to share<br />
knowledge with other local farmers,<br />
along with workshops for rural<br />
professionals.<br />
‘‘It’s very exciting to see changes<br />
across so many farms,’’ Ms Serra<br />
said. ‘‘A lot of information sharing is<br />
taking place and there is ahuge<br />
commitment by farmers to make<br />
changes onfarm.’’<br />
Some 69 per cent of farmers<br />
assessed in Selwyn and Hinds had<br />
attended aDairyNZorganised event<br />
which discussed ways to improve<br />
environmental management.<br />
In Selwyn Waihora zone, dairy<br />
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farmers to reduce nitrogen losses by<br />
15 per cent by 2025 and 36 per cent<br />
by 2035.<br />
She says dairy farmers across New<br />
Zealand will benefit from the Selwyn<br />
Hinds project work.<br />
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Farming and an adventurous spirit<br />
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It started with an insight into<br />
dairying and it’s taken her to the<br />
four corners of the world; the<br />
United Kingdom, Canada, Europe,<br />
the United States and Australia,<br />
where she is currently working in a<br />
third season of seeding.<br />
It’s long hours in hot<br />
temperatures but the experience,<br />
like many of her travels, has been<br />
rewarding.<br />
“My first OE (was) over to UK<br />
where Iwanted to work with horses<br />
…Italked my way into my first job<br />
working for an international<br />
showjumper (as agroom caring for<br />
horses) based in North Yorkshire.”<br />
It was an eightmonth stint of<br />
hard work learning to care for<br />
horses, prepare for shows and clean<br />
stalls but it helped with her next<br />
challenge at afox hunter eventing<br />
yard near Doncaster.<br />
The 32yearold grew up with<br />
parents, Norman and Jan, running<br />
atraditional mixed operation of<br />
sheep, beef cattle and cropping at<br />
Lismore, in Mid Canterbury.<br />
“Some of my fondest memories<br />
are behind Dad on the back of the<br />
fourwheeler looking at the stock.<br />
Nowadays my brother (Craig and<br />
his wife Sarah), manage it and it<br />
has morphed into mainly cropping<br />
with afew sheep and growing<br />
winter crops to lease to<br />
neighbouring dairy farmers.”<br />
Heather’s first job off the family<br />
farm started her love affair with<br />
cows. She would work school<br />
holidays for relatives’ relief<br />
milking.”<br />
After finishing Year13 at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College, Heather took a<br />
Heather Clucas drives 500 horsepower Case IH Steiger pivot steer<br />
tractor with aBourgault seed bin.<br />
gap year working fulltime as a<br />
junior on a1000 cow farm; the<br />
following year she went to Lincoln<br />
University to study diplomas in<br />
Agriculture and Farm<br />
Management.<br />
Her travels have included<br />
working for aBritish international<br />
dressage rider, doing “hard yakka”<br />
on acattle station in Kimberley,<br />
Australia and on acropping and<br />
beef cattle property in Alberta,<br />
Canada before being offered ajob<br />
on aneighbouring New Zealand<br />
dairy farm.<br />
She spent two seasons there as<br />
herd manager doing every job on<br />
farm; spraying weeds, treating lame<br />
cows, spreading fertiliser, milking<br />
and shifting irrigation.<br />
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Dairying In the Heart of Canterbury<br />
From Page 24<br />
Adventure called again in the form<br />
of athreemonth European holiday<br />
and her first seeding experience near<br />
Wongan Hills in Western Australia.<br />
“I was pretty green working with<br />
machinery when Ifirst came over<br />
(for seeding) in 2015. Ihave learnt a<br />
lot but Iwill be the first to admit<br />
there still heaps Idon’t know.<br />
Although these days when the<br />
mechanics turn up they also have to<br />
be acomputer technician too (with<br />
all the new technology).”<br />
However afire caused by an<br />
electronic fault on the $700,000<br />
tractor Heather was driving was well<br />
past repair by the time the last flames<br />
died down.<br />
“To this day it was the scariest<br />
thing that has ever happened to me<br />
and instinct took over to get the heck<br />
out!<br />
“I have never seen anything go up<br />
so fast (with) fuel, hydraulic oil all<br />
feeding it.”<br />
Heather says the best things about<br />
farming is dealing with animals,<br />
being outdoors every day and<br />
working in great teams. And also<br />
getting to drive big machinery.<br />
While most of her travelling has<br />
been done alone, she says she is<br />
super lucky to have abunch of<br />
wonderful friends all over the world<br />
and in New Zealand.<br />
“I have joined friends for holidays<br />
and it’s great being able to share<br />
memories with those close to you.<br />
‘‘Life is too short to not enjoy it,<br />
I’m not going to sit around twiddling<br />
my thumbs waiting for Prince<br />
Charming and his noble stead to<br />
appear ifIbump into him on my<br />
journey, super! Legendary blokes<br />
can apply here,” she jokes.<br />
She took up dairying back in New<br />
Zealand starting as acalfrearer and<br />
working up to second in charge.<br />
“The challenge of greater<br />
responsibility was relished, 1050 cows<br />
calving, it was abusy time. Ihad<br />
three staff members to oversee and<br />
delegate daily tasks too. Ilearned a<br />
lot about time management and<br />
being as efficient as possible.”<br />
It led to work as adairy runoff<br />
manager which she has been able to<br />
return to after more travel; asecond<br />
taste of seeding in Australia, work on<br />
amountain ranch as ahorseback<br />
guide on amountain ranch in<br />
Wyoming, United States and then a<br />
horse trainer in Texas.<br />
Heather is now back in Western<br />
Australia for her third bout of<br />
seeding.<br />
“I have been very lucky in my<br />
travels, most jobs I've acquired<br />
through contacts in New Zealand.”<br />
Seeding means working in<br />
temperatures up to 37 degrees<br />
Celsius, but the temperature has<br />
eased to the mid20s which is more<br />
comfortable to work the 12hour<br />
shift.<br />
“While driving you are constantly<br />
on the ball with five or six monitors<br />
(with alarms) and switches that need<br />
constant supervision to make sure<br />
everything is happening as it should.”<br />
“Flies are an issue upyour nose<br />
and into your mouth and eyes. Fly<br />
masks are the best thing since sliced<br />
bread,” she says.<br />
They are different from Covid19<br />
masks.<br />
Heather arrived in Australia in<br />
March, after aquick change in flights<br />
ahead of the borders closing. She<br />
quarantined for two weeks with<br />
colleague Dan and saw only their<br />
boss, who provided food.<br />
The local supermarket remained<br />
open and there were messages<br />
around hygiene and social distancing<br />
but hand soap, cleaning products and<br />
toilet paper have only just started<br />
coming back on the shelves.<br />
“Our regions have police<br />
In a12-hour<br />
work day,<br />
Heather and<br />
her colleague<br />
can seed<br />
between 60 to<br />
120 hectares<br />
depending on<br />
paddock run<br />
lengths and<br />
time spent<br />
turning,<br />
dodging trees,<br />
power poles,<br />
rocks and<br />
dams.<br />
checkpoints on the borders which is<br />
basically preventing us from going<br />
into Perth, but also preventing Perth<br />
coming out here.”<br />
Plans to head to Nashville for the<br />
Country Music Association festival<br />
have been postponed until next year<br />
due to Covid19 so Heather is<br />
weighing up options on where she<br />
may head when the work finishes in<br />
June.<br />
She does want to plant roots<br />
eventually and have her own little<br />
slice of paradise, in New Zealand<br />
close to family.<br />
But career wise she is looking for<br />
diverse ways to be involved in the<br />
agricultural industry and wants<br />
something offering amental<br />
challenge.<br />
“I am very proud to be involved in<br />
farming in NZ but also globally. For<br />
me it started as simply as wanting to<br />
be close with my family and be out<br />
around the farm particularly if<br />
animals were involved.”<br />
She said good morals, awork ethic<br />
and farming skills were engrained<br />
from ayoung age and the loss of her<br />
father when she was 16 proved a<br />
difficult time.<br />
“As afamily we were dealt a<br />
difficult hand when Dad passed<br />
away. You never expect these things<br />
to happen to you but you also never<br />
know what life has in store.”<br />
She says some days the feeling of<br />
loss is still hard even after 16 years<br />
–but is buoyed knowing “he would<br />
be super proud of all three of us and<br />
the journey we have had so far in<br />
life”.<br />
Heather says her mother was a<br />
fantastic role model with acando<br />
attitude.<br />
“I want all young girls to grow up<br />
believing anything is possible to<br />
achieve that you set your mind to.<br />
“Farming generations are evolving<br />
and becoming more and more<br />
progressive with their thinking.<br />
Women have anatural motherly,<br />
caring instinct which is great for<br />
animals especially Ithink and (are)<br />
generally very careful with<br />
machinery.<br />
“Rural women are definitely a<br />
great asset for any farming<br />
operation.”<br />
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The Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme is<br />
making headway, says MPI’s chief science adviser<br />
Dr John Roche.<br />
Dr Roche, reporting to dairy industry body<br />
DairyNZ, said all indicators suggested the<br />
programme was doing very well in the fight against<br />
Mbovis.<br />
It was measured in several ways with one of the<br />
benchmarks the Estimated Dissemination Rate<br />
(EDR) which was sitting below one at 0.4; it was<br />
over two at the start of the outbreak.<br />
‘‘The EDR is the number of herds that become<br />
infected in athreemonth period divided by the<br />
number of herds that were infected in the three<br />
months before that,’’ he said.<br />
‘‘From this number we get avery strong<br />
indication of whether we’re winning the war or not.<br />
If the EDR is greater than one, then the disease is<br />
growing. If it’s below one, we’re shrinking the<br />
disease.’’<br />
Dr Roche was aware of people’s concern when<br />
the number of confirmed cases increased but said<br />
what was important was the discovery of fewer<br />
infected herds, despite looking harder in areas such<br />
as Bulk Tank Milk surveillance and the national<br />
beef survey.<br />
He said the genetic analysis of Mbovis from<br />
confirmed cases still only identified one strain.<br />
‘‘That tells us we’ve only had one incursion. All<br />
infected properties are linked to the single source of<br />
the outbreak. The measures gives us confidence the<br />
disease is not widespread in New Zealand’s cattle<br />
population.’’<br />
Dr Roche felt for farmers affected by the trauma<br />
and stress dealing with the disease as more than<br />
153,500 cattle had been culled, but said seeing first<br />
hand what happens in an Mbovis outbreak overseas<br />
with incurable mastitis and seemingly healthy calves<br />
dying overnight was also not pleasant.<br />
‘‘I wouldn't want New Zealand farmers having to<br />
deal with that into the future.’’<br />
He said the 10year phased programme, started<br />
in 2018, would continue its plan to eradicate Mbovis<br />
from New Zealand, reduce the effects on farmers,<br />
and to leave astronger biosecurity system.<br />
‘‘The current focus is on finding and eliminating<br />
the disease. The delimiting phase is expected to end<br />
in 20<strong>21</strong>. After that, background surveillance testing<br />
will continue for approximately seven years.’’<br />
He said international epidemiology experts<br />
Dr John Roche, MPI chief science adviser<br />
Ausvet recently analysed the surveillance<br />
programme and found that following delimiting, the<br />
surveillance elements had in place building blocks<br />
to give assurance that Mbovis was absent from our<br />
country.<br />
‘‘The programme’s current ELISA and PCR<br />
testing regime is really good for this stage of the<br />
eradication, but it will be further strengthened by<br />
new diagnostics research that we’ve<br />
commissioned.’’<br />
Multiple diagnostic research projects were also in<br />
the pipeline.<br />
Overall up to $30 million had been set aside for<br />
priority science to help accelerate eradication of<br />
Mbovis and prevent another incursion.<br />
‘‘We’re investing that money in areas identified as<br />
priorities by experts, including vets, scientists,<br />
industry and government.’’<br />
The research includes projects to better<br />
understand how the disease spreads under different<br />
New Zealand farming systems, and the social and<br />
economic impacts of the eradication on farmers and<br />
rural communities.<br />
‘‘Being first isn’t always easy. However, Iwant to<br />
assure you that we're confronting the challenge of<br />
being the first country in the world to eradicate<br />
Mycoplasma bovis with the best science and people<br />
–and, we are winning.’’<br />
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Mr Anderson has been with Ministry forPrimary<br />
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Dairying<br />
In the Heart of Canterbury<br />
Iwi farm manager wins<br />
top dairy woman award<br />
Ngai Tahu farm manager AshLeigh<br />
Campbell from Christchurch is this<br />
year’s Fonterra Dairy Woman of the<br />
Year.<br />
Ms Campbell has been the technical<br />
farm manager for the South Island<br />
Maori iwi farming operation for three<br />
years.<br />
She is responsible for assisting with<br />
the management and performance of<br />
eight dairy and dairy support farms that<br />
includes 8000 cows.<br />
After leaving high school the 28yearold<br />
studied commerce and agriculture<br />
and farm management at Lincoln<br />
University and during this time had her<br />
first taste of the Dairy Women’s<br />
Network(DWN), becoming aDWN<br />
Regional Leader and the driving force<br />
behind the DWN Lincoln group, which<br />
has now merged with Selwyn.<br />
She also assists with audit and<br />
compliance, analytical projects and the<br />
implementation and improvement of<br />
sustainable farming practices.<br />
And is chair of the New Zealand<br />
Young Farmers organisation.<br />
Winning the Fonterra Dairy Woman<br />
of the Year award was amazing<br />
recognition of just how far she had come<br />
in the industry, Ms Campbell said.<br />
“The opportunities Fonterra and<br />
Dairy Women’s Network have provided<br />
have given me the confidence to step out<br />
and grow in the industry in 10 short<br />
years.<br />
“I’ve been bold, I’ve been brave and I<br />
hope this journey I’ve been on can<br />
showcase to other young wahine that<br />
anything is achievable.”<br />
DWN Trustee and head judge Alison<br />
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passion for the dairy industry and has<br />
actively sought opportunities to both<br />
contribute and grow in an industry she<br />
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Fonterra chief executive Miles<br />
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“I want to congratulateAshLeigh<br />
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Rural Women NZ, WorkSafe,Dairy<br />
Women’s Network, the Rural Support<br />
Trust,Farm Source, Pamuand LIC, has<br />
partnered with Australian Alex Thomas<br />
to bring The #PlantASeedForSafety<br />
Project across the ditch.<br />
Ms Thomas startedthe projectasa<br />
legacy to her parents, the agricultural<br />
industry and the rural way of life.<br />
“As aparttimecarer for my father<br />
who is now permanently disabled as a<br />
result of his life’s work in agriculture,<br />
The #PlantASeedForSafety Project<br />
was bornfrom the acknowledgement<br />
that no amount of safety paperwork<br />
would have influenced him to make<br />
safer, healthier choices.”<br />
She said ‘‘30 years ago nobody wore<br />
seatbelts, and todaywedoitwithout<br />
even thinking about it. By raising the<br />
voices of ruralwomenand increasing<br />
their confidence in their abilityto<br />
influence change,Ibelieve we can<br />
inspiremore peopletomakesafer,<br />
healthier choices.”<br />
The #PlantASeedForSafety Project<br />
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and partners as well as nurses,doctors,<br />
teachers and even the localbarista;<br />
everypersonliving rurally has an<br />
impact on theircommunity.<br />
Safer Farms general manager Tony<br />
Watson said farm safety was more than<br />
just the safehandlingofchemicals or<br />
animals, or safety on quad bikes or<br />
tractors, it was also abouthaving<br />
strategies to deal with stress and having<br />
the right conversationstoensure the<br />
safetyofchildren,orother more<br />
vulnerable men and womenonthe farm<br />
and in the community.<br />
“If someonehas found abetter,safer<br />
way of doing something on the farm or<br />
in their community, that’s the story the<br />
project aims to tell.”<br />
Agriculture recordsthe second<br />
highest number of deaths in all<br />
industries in New Zealand,with 23<br />
people killed in work related incidents<br />
from April 2019 to March<strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Founderofthe project Alex Thomas<br />
said everybodyknew someone who had<br />
been hurtatworkinrural industries,<br />
but the focusonpaperworkand ‘boxticking’<br />
was detracting from talking<br />
aboutthe sorts of things we do on aday<br />
to day basis that stop people from<br />
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improving water quality<br />
Dairy farmers acrossthe<br />
countryhave mademany<br />
onfarm changes to<br />
improvetheir<br />
environmental<br />
management,says Mid<br />
Canterbury farmer and<br />
chairofthe Dairy<br />
Environment Leaders<br />
Group, Alister Body.<br />
Thegroup is amultisectorgroupformedtobe<br />
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guardiansofthe<br />
SustainableDairy: Water<br />
Accord.<br />
Thereare morethan<br />
11,000 dairyfarmersinthe<br />
national accord.<br />
Mr Bodysaid members<br />
pull on their gumboots<br />
andput in ‘‘many<br />
thousandsofhoursoftime<br />
andmade significant<br />
investment to help<br />
improvewaterquality’’.<br />
‘‘TheWater Accord is<br />
oneofthe factors<br />
contributing to the<br />
measurable improvements<br />
in manywaterways we<br />
have seenoccurrecently.<br />
‘‘As ecosystems take<br />
some timetorespondto<br />
changes on thegroundwe<br />
canexpect to seefurther<br />
improvementstowater<br />
quality as aresult of the<br />
changes made on farms<br />
over the past five years.’’<br />
‘‘Whilewehave made<br />
improvementsina<br />
number of areas, we know<br />
that we still havemore<br />
work to do particularly in<br />
thearea of effluent<br />
management.Whilethe<br />
accordtargets were meta<br />
minorityoffarmers are<br />
letting everyone elsedown<br />
andneedtoimprovetheir<br />
performance.Dairy<br />
companies willcontinueto<br />
work with these farmers to<br />
improvetheireffluent<br />
Alister Body<br />
management practices,’’<br />
he said.<br />
Land,Air, Water<br />
Aotearoa’s (LAWA)<br />
analysisofnationalriver<br />
quality trendsfrom2008<br />
to 2017 showedthat for<br />
eightout of the nine water<br />
quality indicatorsreported<br />
on,more monitoredsites<br />
were improvingthan<br />
degrading.<br />
Mr Body said many<br />
types of activities affected<br />
urban and rural waterways<br />
in New Zealand, anddairy<br />
farmers werecommitted<br />
to playing theirpart in<br />
improvingthe water<br />
quality.<br />
‘‘We all use ourrivers,<br />
andweall wanttoprotect<br />
them for ourfuture.<br />
Although we canbeproud<br />
of what has beenachieved<br />
so far, we allacknowledge<br />
that there is moretobe<br />
done to improve<br />
ecosystem health and<br />
water qualityfor allNew<br />
Zealanders,’’hesaid.<br />
Temuka farmers Andy<br />
Palmerand Sharon Collett<br />
have beenprogressively<br />
developing plantingon<br />
theirfarmover the past<br />
twentyyears. Theyare just<br />
twoofthe thousandsof<br />
farmers who have been<br />
takingaction to improve<br />
water quality.<br />
They haveflourishing<br />
riparian planting stretches<br />
along aboutthree<br />
kilometres of thecreek on<br />
their farm. Nearly4,000<br />
plantshave been<br />
established on the farm,<br />
andthe couple are<br />
continuing to addtothis<br />
every year, with support<br />
from Environment<br />
Canterbury.<br />
Thecouplehavealso<br />
fenced off all the<br />
waterwaysontheir<br />
property, and worked with<br />
their former sharemilkers<br />
whonow own a<br />
neighbouring dairy farm to<br />
plant native species on a<br />
coastal wetlandbordering<br />
their farms.The wetland is<br />
home to Canterbury’s only<br />
known population of the<br />
nativegiant kokopufish.<br />
Mr Palmer was fully<br />
behindthe WaterAccord<br />
which included<br />
environmental<br />
management<br />
requirements thatwere<br />
very much‘business as<br />
usual’for farmers.<br />
‘‘We haveaFarm<br />
Environment Plan now<br />
which covers planting,<br />
fencing,effluent and<br />
nutrientmanagement.<br />
‘‘With theplaninplace<br />
we will continue to take<br />
good care of the<br />
environmentand<br />
waterwaysonour farm<br />
andweare audited on our<br />
progress.’’<br />
Nitrous oxide emissions overstated<br />
New Zealand’s nitrous oxide<br />
emissions have been<br />
overestimated sincerecords<br />
beganin1990,meaning livestock<br />
causes lessnitrous oxidethan<br />
previously estimated.<br />
The new findingwas discovered<br />
by researchers at AgResearch and<br />
Landcare Research and officials<br />
at Ministry forPrimary Industries<br />
working hard to improve the<br />
accuracy of New Zealand’s<br />
national greenhousegas<br />
inventory.<br />
Federated Farmers climate<br />
change spokesperson Andrew<br />
Hoggard saidachieving netzero<br />
nitrousoxide emissions by 2050<br />
willnot be easytodo, but it was a<br />
committed task.<br />
‘‘Thedifficulty in reducing<br />
nitrous oxideisdue to the<br />
emissions beingmainly caused by<br />
theurine oflivestock providing<br />
toomuch nitrogen forthe soilto<br />
absorb. While nitrogenisgoodfor<br />
plant growth, when thereistoo<br />
much nitrogeninone spot, some<br />
willbereleasedinto the airas<br />
nitrous oxide,’’ he said.<br />
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gone out into the marketplace andhuntedsales looking forabusiness to lend money<br />
to. Theyinmymind wereselling moneyasfast as we wereselling land. It seems to be<br />
each bank decided theyneeded apiece of the action but at differenttimes. Over the past<br />
2years things have changed and because of ReserveBank requirements, banksparent<br />
companies (especially the major Australian banks) looking hardattheir returns both<br />
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market) wasinfull swing and valueswereincreasing by the day it wasfull boreahead. My<br />
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This season is looking likeacrackerfor Canterbury Farming as whole, arable yields have<br />
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standards. Dairy prices at$7/kgmsplusare looking strong but has dark clouds on the<br />
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As wecome outofthe Covid19 thing Icannot help but feel that Rural New Zealand still<br />
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it looks to me likeall the above banksare in foraperiod ofbelttightening. The scary<br />
thing about that is, as happenedinthe 80’s downturn, theystart to look wheretheycan<br />
recoup some of their lost ground. Alot of small businesseshavevery little asset backing<br />
apart from thefamily home or some helpfulparents and Idon’t think anybank wants<br />
to be the one that sells up someones family home to regain abusiness loss. Especially<br />
due to Covid19ratherthan poor management. Gettingheadlines in the local paper for<br />
amortgagee sale onafamilyhome really does look bad. So where will the banks go to<br />
try and regain some lost ground. ‘Rural’ is my guess as most farm business’ have at least<br />
40% equity in them of the value of the land and the bank holds the other50% to 60% of<br />
the value. So in rural beforethe bank burns their moneythe farmer has to get through<br />
their 40-50% of the value and if they are doing this and some arenot becauseofpoor<br />
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Copper panelling and acoat of arms on the Murney Main building.<br />
Buildingdetailrevealed<br />
Copper panelling and acoat of arms<br />
have been unveiled on <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s<br />
tallest building.<br />
The Murney Main building on the<br />
high profile corner of East and Burnett<br />
streets is getting closer to completion.<br />
The fourstorey building is built from<br />
concrete slab and sits on anarrow site.<br />
Some tenants have been found for the<br />
building, including building society NBS<br />
on the ground floor, anew restaurant on<br />
the first floor, and building owner the<br />
Murney Trust on the top floor.<br />
Bradfords has been the main<br />
contractor on the project and anumber<br />
of local businesses have also been<br />
involved.<br />
Building work started at the end of<br />
2018 and is expected to be completed<br />
later this year.<br />
Lake Heron water<br />
quality aconcern<br />
Decliningwater quality in the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Lakes, particularly Lake<br />
Heron, is high on aworrylist for the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Water Zone Committee.<br />
Iwi, DOC, local and regional<br />
authoritiesare working together to<br />
investigate the issues and working with<br />
landowners to prioritise action.<br />
Resultsofarestoration and<br />
conservation project to the committee a<br />
year ago started alarm bells ringing,<br />
with concerns about water quality tests<br />
that showed anitrogen increase at some<br />
sites.<br />
Eutrophication was arisk; water<br />
clarity and increased pest fish could also<br />
follow.<br />
Lake health is measured in nitrogen,<br />
phosphorus, aquatic plants, water<br />
quality and other ways.<br />
Work began then with landowners to<br />
reduce the loss of nitrogen and<br />
phosphorus sediment to streams in<br />
vulnerable lakes such as Maori, Heron,<br />
Camp and Clearwater.<br />
Zone committee chair Bill Thomas<br />
said there had beengood buyin by<br />
landowners in the lakesarea, and the<br />
committee was keeping an eye as<br />
investigations and actions progressed.<br />
Good progress had beenmade to<br />
develop aprogramme of work in<br />
relation to the lakes’ water quality and<br />
it was pleasing to see all the farmers in<br />
that catchmentkeen to participate and<br />
add valuableknowledge to the<br />
programme, he said.<br />
Mr Thomaspresented the zone<br />
committee’s annual report to<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District councillors recently,<br />
saying the past year had been busy.<br />
Two vacanciesonthe waterzone<br />
committee will be advertised in<br />
September.<br />
The committee approved$65,000in<br />
the year for biodiversity projects in the<br />
region, covering projects from weed and<br />
predator controltoriparian planting.<br />
Canty Uni offers study<br />
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Called FutureU, theUCinitiative<br />
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FutureU is atargeted responseby<br />
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“We arevery conscious of thehuge<br />
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CROSSWORD<br />
QUICK PUZZLE NO. 8567<br />
ACROSS<br />
6. Rise in value (10)<br />
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11. Wine (4)<br />
12. Pierce (9)<br />
16. Save (5-4)<br />
20. Rear (4)<br />
22. Foreign (5)<br />
23. Declare (4)<br />
24. Mark (4)<br />
25. Surrender (10)<br />
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Plains Rotary<br />
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2. Thrive (7)<br />
3. Small cake(6)<br />
4. Concealed (6)<br />
5. Moor (5)<br />
7. Strand (5)<br />
13. Fuss (3)<br />
14. Friendly (7)<br />
15. Correspond (5)<br />
17. Merry (6)<br />
18. Number (6)<br />
19. Detective (6)<br />
<strong>21</strong>. Tree (5)<br />
CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 8567<br />
ACROSS<br />
6. Say sadly “All gone” and feel better (4,2,4). 8. She’s<br />
got anine Idiscarded (4). 9. Sore from the sun, yet playing<br />
(4). 10. It’scurved, brown and see-through (5). 11.A<br />
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delighted to hear it (5,4). 16. Having actedinagroup, left<br />
(9). 20. Step out of the building (4).22. Send, at the right<br />
time, back (5). 23. From outside, heard the soundofbells<br />
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DELIVERED<br />
$<br />
6.00<br />
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PEASTRAW<br />
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Ian 027 432 0438; Murray 307 0353<br />
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MUSHROOM COMPOST<br />
Nowisthe time to dig in our topqualitymushroom<br />
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3 6 1 8<br />
9 1<br />
5 8 6<br />
4 7<br />
1 5 4 6 2 3<br />
7 4<br />
6 9 5<br />
2 4<br />
9 2 1 6<br />
Solution to previous Sudoku<br />
Howto<br />
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Sudoku!<br />
Fill the grid<br />
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QUICK PUZZLE NO. 8566 -SOLUTIONS<br />
Across -1,Incarceration. 8, Shift. 9, Apricot. 10, Loaded.<br />
11,Glance. 12, Haste. 14, Utter.18, Trench. 20, Little. 23,<br />
Chateau. 24, Onset. 25, Over-sensitive.<br />
Down -1,Insult. 2, China. 3, Retreat. 4, Edam. 5, April.<br />
6, Incense. 7, Nether.13, Average. 15, Tripoli. 16, Stucco.<br />
17, Beetle. 19, Chess. <strong>21</strong>, Tosti. 22, Turn.<br />
CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 8566 -SOLUTIONS<br />
Across -1,Crowded street. 8, LA-deN (rev.). 9, Ma’scara.<br />
10, Enro-L-s. 11, Men-age. 12, A-side. 14, As-hen.<br />
18, P-reci-s. 20, Par-don. 23, Collect. 24, TrA-dE (rev.).<br />
25, Excuse-me dance.<br />
Down -1,Caller.2,Order.3,D-angled. 4, Dumb. 5, Taste<br />
(anag.). 6, Eman-ate. 7, Traced. 13, She-llac. 15, Star-Ted<br />
16, A-pach-E. 17, Ann-ex-e. 19, I’d-eas. <strong>21</strong>, Drawn. 22,<br />
Stem.<br />
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TALK to us today about ways<br />
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<strong>Courier</strong> 308 7664.<br />
PEASTRAW small bales.<br />
Delivered <strong>Ashburton</strong>. $5.50<br />
each; ex paddock $4.50<br />
each. Phone/text 027 434<br />
0442.<br />
PEASTRAW FOR SALE<br />
$3.00 per bale or<br />
$60 per <strong>21</strong> bales<br />
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Clean of weeds,but<br />
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TRADE &SERVICES<br />
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For all your regular or one off lawns and<br />
edges, weed whacking, gardening,<br />
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Phone Kurt 027 332 4549 or Neil 0274 362 900<br />
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ALTERATIONS. Sewing,<br />
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BUILDING and property<br />
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We project manage<br />
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Qualified tradesmen.<br />
Phone Kiwi Building &<br />
Maintenance Ltd. Gary 308<br />
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Cawte 027 418 7955.<br />
CARPET 2You -For all your<br />
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vinyl, re-stretch & repair<br />
and carpet cleaning. Phone<br />
Mike Gill on 027 491 4<strong>21</strong>0.<br />
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Experienced owner/operator.<br />
Phone John Cameron<br />
at Supersucker 027 435<br />
1042 or 308 1677.<br />
CHIMNEY sweep - For a<br />
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Dan McKerrow Chimney<br />
Sweep and Repairs on 0<strong>21</strong><br />
118 7580.<br />
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Camera inspection carried<br />
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Allan 027 209 5026.<br />
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servicing and laser engraving<br />
contact Kelvin, KJB<br />
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Self storage, variety<br />
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CLEARING SALES<br />
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CLEARING SALE<br />
Account:<br />
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RD 8<br />
ASHBURTON 7778<br />
Friday 29th <strong>May</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
Commencing 1pm<br />
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152 1966.<br />
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220 9997.<br />
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farm equipment<br />
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Malcolm 027 475 4241<br />
FLY control and spider<br />
proofing. For all domestic<br />
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needs phone AJ Kerr at<br />
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03 308 8147 or 027 432<br />
5447.<br />
FURNITURE removals -For<br />
all your household removal<br />
needs, call Nudges Furniture<br />
Removals. Phone 027<br />
224 0609.<br />
GARDENING, mowing,<br />
pruning, fertilising, projects<br />
or general spruce ups? Call<br />
Andrew at Spruce Gardens<br />
to get the job done right.<br />
027 765 2899 or 03 307 1693.<br />
sprucegardens@xtra.co.nz<br />
LEGAL work -Phone Peter<br />
Ragg (<strong>Ashburton</strong> Law) for<br />
house sales, purchases<br />
and refinances. Will call at<br />
home evenings for wills,<br />
enduring powers of<br />
attorney. Phone 308 0327.<br />
PAINTER for all your painting<br />
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inside or outside. Professional<br />
friendly service.<br />
Phone Pete 03 308 1672 or<br />
027 200 1619.<br />
PAINTING wallpapering,<br />
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small. Interior, exterior.<br />
Professional, prompt, competitive<br />
service. Phone<br />
Tony Sivier at Paint It <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
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307 7289.<br />
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027 647 1712.<br />
PLASTERING<br />
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Rockcote. Waterproofing.<br />
Texture/Specialist<br />
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The Finishing Company<br />
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mixers, hot water cylinders,<br />
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units, leaking pipes. Call<br />
Pete Young, experienced<br />
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block, glare, heat control,<br />
safety, security, privacy,<br />
frosting films, solar protective<br />
window films. Free<br />
quotes, 20 years local service.<br />
Phone 0800 368 468<br />
now, Bill Breukelaar, www.<br />
tintawindow.co.nz<br />
TV Reception Specialists for<br />
all your digital freeview<br />
installations and repairs,<br />
TV wall mounting, Smart<br />
TV set-up, home theatre<br />
installation. Call John at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> TV &Audio Ltd<br />
03 308 7332 or 027 277<br />
1062.<br />
Windscreens, 152 Wills<br />
Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone<br />
03 308 8485.<br />
SELL<br />
FIREWOOD. Dry willow,<br />
3.6cm trailer load $180,<br />
2.5cm ute load $130. Delivered<br />
within town boundary.<br />
Phone 03 302 5832 or 0<strong>21</strong><br />
<strong>21</strong>5 6556.<br />
METAL, heavy etc. Free<br />
light-grade metal in-yard<br />
dumping 9am-5pm weekdays.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Scrap<br />
Metal Recyclers, 117 Alford<br />
Forest Road (behind<br />
Placemakers). Phone 03<br />
308 8033 or 027 249 6625.<br />
TRADE PERSONAL<br />
MOBILE<br />
AND VIRTUAL<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
SERVICES<br />
Specialising in all things<br />
Admin. Support for small<br />
business, farmers and sole<br />
traders. Bookkeeping and<br />
GST (Xero), managing compliance<br />
such as H&S and audit<br />
process and minute taker.<br />
www.needagirlfriday.com<br />
Ph. 027-201-1316.<br />
WANTED TO BUY<br />
TOOL COLLECTOR: Cash<br />
buyer wanting Woodworking<br />
Tools, Saws, Brass and<br />
Wooden Braces and<br />
Planes, Levels, Metal and<br />
Wooden Vices, Tac<br />
Hammers, Scribes, Hand<br />
Drills, Screw Drivers,<br />
Plumb Bobs, Clamps, Tool<br />
Chests, Oil Tins, also old<br />
Garden Tools, Spades,<br />
Shovels, Pitch Forks,<br />
Wooden Wheel Barrow. —<br />
Ph. 0<strong>21</strong>-441-400.<br />
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SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
PresbyterianSupport<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>/Hakatere<br />
FamilyWorks Team Leader<br />
&Social Worker in Schools<br />
Permanent full –time role<br />
This role has twocomponents,actinghands-on as a<br />
Social Worker in schools and providing supportand<br />
guidance internally asaTeam Leader to the Family<br />
Worksteam.<br />
The Social Worker in Schools role (SWiS) is focused<br />
on supporting children and their family /whanāu<br />
while they are facing complex challenges. The<br />
aim is to enable positive strategies and practical<br />
support for children and parents, who will benefit<br />
from strengths based intervention; to improvetheir<br />
well-being and contribute tolong term positive<br />
outcomes. This role will require collaborative and/<br />
or partnered responses in order to facilitate good<br />
outcomes with our clients.<br />
The Team Leader aspect of the role holds<br />
responsibilitytoworkalongside the Area Manager,<br />
to provide leadership and support to the Mid-<br />
Canterbury Family Works Team. To ensure that<br />
service responses are well coordinated and<br />
integrated. The role will include oversight of group<br />
programmes, student placements, leadership<br />
and administrative supervision of employees and<br />
responsibility for maintaining relevant external<br />
relationships.<br />
Who we are<br />
Presbyterian Support aims to create abetter life<br />
for everyone. Our social services are focused<br />
on whakawhāngatanga and manākitanga<br />
(relationships and hospitality) to help to build<br />
safer, stronger, more connected families and<br />
communities.<br />
To apply, please visit our websiteand download<br />
theapplication form. Your application form,<br />
CV andCoverlettercan then be emailedto<br />
sarah.cawston@psusi.org.nz<br />
Enquiries about the role canbedirected to<br />
SusanHutchinson on susanh@psusi.org.nz<br />
PSUSI Link - https://psuppersouth.org.nz/<br />
job-opportunity-team-leader-social-worker-in-schools<br />
SEEK Link - https://www.seek.co.nz/job/41325697?<br />
Haeremai whānau!<br />
Hurry! Applications close 29th <strong>May</strong> at 5pm<br />
2278106<br />
HEALTH &BEAUTY<br />
URGENT CARE CLINIC<br />
WEEKEND DUTYDOCTORS<br />
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCYPHONE 111<br />
Forall other medicalassistance outside of normal<br />
hours please phone your general practiceteam, 24/7,<br />
to speak withahealth professional who will giveyou<br />
free healthadvice on whattodoorwhere to go if you<br />
need urgentcare.<br />
If youdon’t have aregular general practice, call any<br />
GP team 24/7 forfreetelephone health advice.<br />
All non-residents and visa holders please bring your<br />
passporttoyour surgeryappointment.<br />
New Zealanders’tobring some form of ID.<br />
The<strong>Ashburton</strong>DutyPractice for ...<br />
Saturday23rd<strong>May</strong> is<br />
ThreeRivers Health, 7-11 Allens Road.<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcall your regular GP 24/7.<br />
Sunday24th <strong>May</strong> is<br />
ThreeRivers Health, 7-11 Allens Road.<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcall your regular GP 24/7.<br />
Methven and Rakaia: Formedical attention on the<br />
weekend and public holidays please telephone<br />
MethvenMedical Centre on 03 302 8105<br />
or Rakaia Medical Centre on 03 303 5002.<br />
Details foraccessing the afterhours services will be on the<br />
answer phone.<br />
PHARMACIES<br />
Wises Pharmacy,CountdownComplex,<br />
East Street will be open on ...<br />
Saturday from 9.00am until 1.00pm<br />
Sunday from 10.00am until 1.00pm<br />
At Geraldine: TheGeraldine Pharmacywill be open<br />
normal trading hours during the week,and on<br />
Saturdaymorning from 9.30am to 12.30pm.<br />
Closed Sundays and Public Holidays<br />
Forfree24hour Telephone Health Advice<br />
Phone the healthline on 0800 611 116<br />
Broughttoyouby<br />
CountdownComplex, East Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone: 03 308 6733 Fax: 03 308 6755<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE<br />
ASHBURTON RSA<br />
BISTRO/CATERING LEASE<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> RSA are seeking acaterer to take<br />
over the running of the Restaurant and Catering<br />
forthe Club.<br />
The Bistro isopen Wednesday lunch, Thursday,<br />
Fridayand Saturday evenings,weekly catering for<br />
several groups and numerous private functions<br />
throughout the year.<br />
The kitchen iswell equipped and ready togofor<br />
the successful application to takeover.<br />
Applications closeon 5th June <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
For further detailscontactthe <strong>Ashburton</strong>RSA<br />
on 3087175 or email rsaoffice@xtra.co.nz.<br />
TheCancer Societyoffering<br />
supportfor people<br />
with acancer diagnosis<br />
and their families<br />
CANCER SOCIETY<br />
TheMackenzie Centre,<br />
122 Kermode Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
ContactAnnie on 03 307 7691<br />
2278659<br />
2271224<br />
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MidCanterbury<br />
Sub Centre<br />
Annual General<br />
Meeting<br />
Thursday11thJune<br />
<strong>2020</strong>, 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Bowling Club<br />
All welcome.<br />
2278434<br />
HOSPICE Mid Canterbury.<br />
Dealing with alife limiting<br />
illness? Contact us to see<br />
how we can support you.<br />
Phone 307 8387 or 027 227<br />
8387.<br />
Operations Co-ordinator<br />
Our small privately owned trade-basedbuilding<br />
supplies storeislooking foranoperations coordinator.<br />
The successful candidate will be someone<br />
who has the driveand passiontodeliver great<br />
customerservice whilstgetting the job done.<br />
This role will include co-ordinating stock control,<br />
organising ordersfor deliveryand collection, coordinating<br />
our yard and store staff to achieve set<br />
targets, all whilstjumping in to lendahand in a<br />
variety of other roles as needed.<br />
Anyprior experience in arole similar to this<br />
would be an advantage,aswouldacurrentforklift<br />
licence and somebuilding industryknowledge.<br />
Please submit applications, including acurrentCV,<br />
by Friday 5th June to sally@buildlinkselwyn.co.nz<br />
AGM<br />
is to be held online on<br />
Thursday4th June at 7pm<br />
Email rst.treasurer.midcanterbury@gmail.com<br />
foraninvite.<br />
We will be holding afacetoface<br />
Networking/Information night<br />
lateronin the year.<br />
MEETINGS<br />
2278729<br />
ARE you looking for a<br />
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Jumpingand<br />
Showhunter Group<br />
Tuesday2nd June<br />
7.30pm.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
A&PGrounds<br />
2278777<br />
ARE you struggling to make<br />
ends meet? Need extra<br />
money? Why not sell your<br />
unwanted items in The<br />
<strong>Courier</strong>! Everything helps.<br />
03 308 9516<br />
www.ashburtonchiropractic.co.nz<br />
EQUESTRIAN<br />
EROLDALE<br />
EQUINE RIDING<br />
INSTRUCTION<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
Use the cooler months to<br />
improve your confidence<br />
and training with regular<br />
lessons so you can get out<br />
and about come spring!<br />
Individual or group lessons<br />
available at your home or<br />
selected venues in Mid and<br />
South Canterbury by qualified<br />
NZEF instructor catering<br />
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returning to riding or competitive<br />
teenagers.<br />
Phone Rochelle 027-201-1316<br />
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The <strong>Courier</strong> 308 7664.<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE<br />
DebraCurtin<br />
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Book your appointmentnow.<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE<br />
Requesting information leading to the recovery of<br />
BLUE 1995 SUBARU IMPREZA<br />
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Reg No.MCRAES<br />
Reward of $250 offered forinformation leading to<br />
successfulrecoveryofabove vehicle.<br />
ContactDealer Finance(03) 341-5075<br />
or email admin@dfl.co.nz<br />
2276098<br />
EDUCATIONAL<br />
CJ’S Driving School. Classes<br />
1,2 &4,Endorsements F&<br />
D, Forklift F&OSH, Dangerous<br />
Goods. NZTA<br />
approved course provider.<br />
MITO and Competenz<br />
Assessor. Locally owned.<br />
Phone Christine 027 245<br />
2563.<br />
ACUPRESSURE<br />
CLINIC<br />
Enhances your<br />
body’s own natural<br />
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Pain relief/Speeds recovery<br />
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•Noneedles/safe for all ages<br />
•Good-Health Maintenance<br />
•Affordable/flexible hours<br />
•Home visits on request<br />
Janet Hayes<br />
Ph 308 6951<br />
registered practitioner<br />
2278390<br />
2229804<br />
in <strong>Ashburton</strong> this weekend!<br />
CASH FOR STAMPS, COINS,<br />
GOLD D &COLLECTABLES<br />
Hi there. Welcome to the new normal!<br />
Many of youwould have had achancetocleanout the cupboards<br />
during the lockdown and nowisagreattime to sell your old<br />
collectables and preciousmetal items.<br />
No physical contactrequired.Super-careful appraisal.<br />
My name is Matt Powerand Iown the Stamp&Coin Exchange in<br />
Christchurch. Iwill be available forappointments in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>onSundayforFREEappraisals.<br />
BUYING<br />
Old and New STAMPS, COINS,<br />
and BANKNOTES, Postcards, Militaria and<br />
Collectables, Sovereigns, Scap Gold, Silver,<br />
Platinum, Watches, Old Jewellery and Antiques.<br />
Call meon0800 39 24 26<br />
It’s importantwhen selling thatyou deal with alicensed professional.<br />
Iamalicensed Second Hand Dealer and member of the NZ Stamp Dealers<br />
Association and Numismatic Association. Hear from yousoon!<br />
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