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NEWS 22 Ashburton Courier, August 11, 2022 www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz Heartland success for Mid Canterbury Mid Canterbury has comeaway with success at the inaugural Heartland Women's 10s Rugby Festival. Theend of the festival,which included teams NorthOtago, South Canterbury, Mid Canterbury withplayers from Prebbletonand acombined West Coast/Buller team, was played at Fairlielast weekend. Mid Canterbury took winning honours withthe mostpoints on the table following adraw againstSouth Canterbury in the finalgame. MidCanterbury Rugby Union women’s development officer Kirsty Arps said the festivals had showed somegreat women’s rugby andshe was happy it startedits journey in Mid Canterbury. ‘‘The women looked to be really enjoying themselves and showingsome wonderful talent,’’ she said. ‘‘Wehad quite afew supporters whichwas really great to see.’’ Thefestival event was held across three days of play in three locations; Hinds, Methven andFairlie. Thefirst weekendofthe festival atHinds was justafun weekend with acoupleoffun warm up games andtackle and scrum clinics. However, itwas more competitive at Methven and Fairlie, with gamescounting towardsthe end of festival trophy. Mid Canterbury’s unbeaten success at Methven was challenged at Fairlieduring playwhich experienced four seasons in one day. ‘‘The games at Fairliewere played in all weather sun, wind, rain, mud and then snow on thedrive home,’’ Kirsty said. There areplans to hold the event again next year,and each timethe five unionsplay the trophywill be up forgrabs. Photos: Mid Canterbury players tackling the opposition during play in the Heartland Women's 10s Festival at Fairlie; and insert: Kirsty Arps and Mid Canterbury/Prebbleton coach Kev Scovell. PHOTOS GRAHAM SHAW More health workers for Rangitata electorate As Iwrite this it’s snowing throughout the district, especially in our rural areas. Many of you will be busy ensuring stock are well fed and have shelter, many will have children home from school. Take care out there and keep warm! SAVE $10 Move and Sleep Well EARN 54 REWARD POINTS Magnesium Zone 60s now$53.99 was$63.99 This winter, as we face the worst flu season in living memory, and with the Covid19 pandemic putting pressure on health systems right across the world, we know we need to do more to ensure New Zealanders have ahealth system that works for everyone, no matter who you are or where you live. As agovernment, we’re working hard to make this a reality –and we’re taking the next steps in our plan by boosting the health workforce. Since taking office in 2017, we’ve made building our health workforce apriority. There are now thousands more doctors SAVE $15 EARN 65 REWARD POINTS Muscle Zone 90s now$64.99 was$79.99 and nurses working for Health New Zealand than when we came into government. We are training more nurses than ever, and we’ve changed immigration rules to make New Zealand one of the easiest places in the world for health workers to come to. We’ve just announced a number of initiatives taking advantage of this that will boost the health workforce and ease pressure on the health system. For example, we’re making it easier and cheaper for international health workers to get professional qualifications recognised in New Zealand, so Fighting Seasonal Lows EARN 39 REWARD POINTS FREE GIFT Free Lighthouse Vitamin D3 1000IU 60s worth$19.99 when youbuy OliveLeaf Plus 60s for$38.99 2494493 they can get to work sooner. We’re providing up to $10,000 to support overseas nurses with registration costs, and covering international doctors’ salaries during induction courses and training internships. We’re also focused on our homegrown workforce. To attract more skilled workers back to health, New Zealand nurses who are no longer practising but want to return to the profession can get financial support to reregister. We’re providing up to $5000 through the Return to Nursing Support Fund to help them through the process and back to work. National orchestra in city The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will perform a selectionofthe most exciting and beautiful works of the baroqueera in Christchurch this month. The performance of Extravaganza will beat The James Hay Theatre on August 26 andfeatures works by 17th Centurybaroque masters Marc Antoine Charpentier, Pietro Locatelliand JeanBaptiste Lully,groundbreaking composer Claude Bablon and romanticera violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. DirectedbyNZSO concertmasterVesaMatti Leppä nenand featuring NZSO assistant concertmaster and firstviolinist YukaEguch it will also be performed in Wellington, Invercargill, Dunedin, Oamaru, Nelson and Blenheim. We’re also training more doctors, nurses and radiographers, and encouraging Covid19 workers like vaccination support workers and contact tracers to consider moving into ahealth career. Initiatives like these just weren’t possible under the old bureaucratic structure which had 20 different DHBs all doing their own thing. There isn’t a quick fix, but together, these measures will ensure we have more nurses, doctors and midwives here in Rangitata to look after us and our families when we need it the most. “I am thrilledto be playing two solocaprices by Paganini in the upcoming Extravaganza concert tour,’’ Yuka Eguchi says. ‘‘I am sure audiences will enjoy thesynergy between Locatelli and Paganini.” Locatelli is considered one of the first virtuoso violinists, who extended what the instrument could do. Theperformance highlights Locatelli’s technical flair with two short pieces of music, known as caprices, from hisArt of the Violin. Inspired by Locatelli, the great 18thand 19th Century violinist Paganini wrote 24 Caprices for SoloViolin. Theconcertopens witha groundbreakingpiece by Claude Bablon, andperformed by NZSO Section Principal Timpani Laurence Reese.
www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz An impact on young farmers James Hurst is not the ‘‘quietwee guy in the back’’ anymore. The formerAorangi Regional Young Farmers chairman,covering from Hinds to FiveForks,found his passion andconfidence through the Young Farmers network, andhas moved his way through theranks of theorganisationregionallyand nationally. Mr Hurst’s contribution has been recognised, receiving anational leadershipaward at the recent New ZealandYoung Farmers National Awards, in Whangarei. Growing up on his family farm, Invernia,a2700habeef, sheep and dairyfarm at Awamoko, Mr Hurst was exposed to the industry fromayoung age. Seven yearsago, when he was livingand workinginOmarama, he decided to join the Upper Waitaki YoungFarmers Club. Itwas an opportunity to get off the farm andmeet other likeminded young people in Omarama. ‘‘Obviously when Ifirst joined Iwas just the quiet wee guy in the back who didn’ttalk to anyone,’’ Mr Hurst said. After his firstyear, theclub was struggling for numbers—with just three members left —and hedecided to puthis hand up as chairman to drive it forward. He helped boost membership numberstoabout 20 —and there are now about 30 people involved. He then moved back to Invernia, andbecame second in chargeonthe farm, to his father, Russell,and joined Five Forks Young Farmers. It did not takelongfor Mr Hurst to put his hand up to help at aregional level, and in 2019 he became chairman of the Aorangi Regional Young Farmers. At the time, the nine clubs in the Aorangi region were ‘‘struggling’’for numbersand had no contingency plans. When Mr Hurst took over, he put in succession plans to help strengthen theclubs and region, build membership numbers andintroduce more training opportunities. He even introduced five vice chairpersons belowhim to ensure whenhemoved on there were several people able to take over. ‘‘Everyone sort of laughedatthe time, butitworked,’’ he said. When he startedasthe regional chairman, there were 154 members across the nineclubs, which had increasedto187 when he stood down last year. The number of clubs reduced to seven. ‘‘Which sounds bad when you’ve lost clubs but we didn’t lose any members because there (were) James Hurst has received the leadership award at the New Zealand Young Farmers Norwood National Awards. PHOTO: KAYLA HODGE neighbouring clubs so we actually increased in numbers.’’ Through hisregionalrole, being on theNew Zealand Young Farmers committee came‘‘part andparcel’’. From2019 to 2021heservedonthe committee and waschairman of the tournament subcommittee. While he had always beena natural leader, being involvedinthe national committeeallowed himto develop his skills further, takingpart in courses and witnessingother people’s leadershipstyles. ‘‘When we wereupatthe grand final there was alot of people coming up to me sort of saying that they’d got leadershipideas from me,’’ he said. ‘‘When IstartedIwas doing the same[from] otherpeople. ‘‘What Isaid when Idid thespeech is just howlucky we areinthe rural industry to havesomany leadership opportunities.’’ YoungFarmershad helped him connect withother likeminded farmers across the country and meet the industry’s‘‘future leaders’’,he said. Wanting to see YoungFarmers continue to head in the right direction, Mr Hurstinitiated a mentor programme forthe organisation and had taken on the role of regional mentorthisyear. Aorangi is the pilot regionfor the mentor programme,withthree other mentors who he was yettomeet. ‘‘When Iwas clubchair we had funding that hadterritory managers, paidstaff on the ground and wedon’t have that fundingany more so we lost that sort of help. ‘‘It’s more sort of getting thathelp in clubs,the adviceand knowledge of the historysortofthing.’’ Young Farmers helpedset him up for the next phaseofhis career.He was recently appointedNorth Otago FederatedFarmersmeat andwool vicechairman. ‘‘I waslookingfor the next step.’’ For aman who is busy enoughon thefarm,his Young Farmers and leadershipwork has become almost an escape. ‘‘It’s moremyhobby instead of playingsportsoranything—it’s a community sortofthing.’’ Obviously when Ifirst joined I was justthe quiet weeguy in the back whodidn’t talktoanyone. ~Central Rural Life NEWS Ashburton Courier, August 11, 2022 GrantRounds 2022/2023 Closing Dates 23 Calf welfare fine ACanterbury calf rearing farmer hasbeen disqualifiedfrom owning calves, fined $50,000for animal welfare andNAIT offences. John Yi Jiang(62) has been disqualified from owning calvesand fined $26,000 following thedeathofalargenumber of calves he was raising. He was also was fined $24,000 forNAIT offencesonthreecharges under the National Identification andTracing Act 2012 during sentencing in theChristchurch District Court last month on two charges. He pleaded guilty to under theAnimal Welfare Actafter asuccessfulprosecutionby Ministry for Primary Industries.He wasalso orderedto pay vet costs of $5523.The disqualification is for two years andincludes calvesunder the age of six months. MPI regional manageranimal welfare and NAIT complianceMurray Pridham said the calveswerebeing raised in sheds with poor ventilation, suffering from heat stress and dehydration, along withshowingsigns of disease andscouring. Nineteencalves had to be euthanised during MPI’s firstvisit. Operational Costs (programme or event) Up to $15,000 Friday, 8th April 2022 Friday, 9thSeptember2022 Capital Projects Up to $20,000 Friday, 15th July 2022 Friday, 3rdFebruary2023 Major Grants Round Over $20,000 (Phone to discuss priorto applying) Friday, 27th May2022 Friday, 7th October2022 Seeour websitefor further information and to makeanonlineapplication. www.comtrust.org.nz To discuss anyapplications Phone: 03 687 7360 or 0800 672 287 Email: crm@comtrust.org.nz 2462442 Electric tanker out ASouth Islandfarmer has played ahand in Fonterra’s move to electronic vehicles with its first electric milk tankernow on the road. The MilkE tankerwas named by Fonterra supplierStephen Todd, of Murchison, and is partof the coop’s work to move towards amore sustainable fleet. Chief operating officerFraser Whineray said they were constantly looking at how to decrease emissions from farms, processing sites and throughout the transportnetwork. He said alot of creative thinking and Kiwi ingenuity had brought the tanker to life at the Morrinsville workshop. Changes to the battery configuration will be followedby trials to improve the efficiency of collecting milk, reduce safety concerns andlowerthe amount of work needed to customise a tanker. Abattery swapsystem is being installed at the Waitoa site where the tankerwill be basedtotrial how this could workwith afleet and minimise downtime from battery charging. Mr Whineray saidhaving the tankeroperating at the site was fitting as it hadNew Zealand’s largest fleet of electric milk trucks 100 years ago. “It’s beengreat to see the team turn challenges intoopportunities so in addition to trialling MilkE’s onroad ability, we’re also trialling anew electric pump, hose configuration and cabinetry,” he said. Fonterrareceived some funding from government’s Low Emissions Transport Fund for theproject. DO YOUNEEDAN INSECTSCREEN OR SECURITYSOLUTION? Murray will be coming to Ashburtonon Thursday 18 th August. Please contact theoffice to book afreemeasure and quote forthese or forany other products in theHomePlusrange. AWNINGS&BLINDS BALUSTRADES FENCING &GATES LOUVRE ROOFS SHOWERS INSECT& SECURITYSCREENS 88 Gasson St,Sydenham |03379 3740 |www.homeplus.co.nz
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