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R eduction will soon be on Maitland’s menu with an almost $100,000 State Government injection into two very different projects.

Minister for the Environment Rob Stokes announced last week that Hunter Councils would receive a $50,595 grant to teach hospitality students about food waste, while Maitland City Council was successful in obtaining $42,500 to fight an invasive weed, the African Olive.

The funding to Hunter Councils will be used to develop a unit that will be taught as part of a Certificate III in Commercial Cookery at the Mait-land, Kurri Kurri and Ourimbah TAFEs.

Students will learn how to reduce food wastage by looking at what they order, how to use supplies effectively and the best ways to deal with waste that does occur.

Mr Stokes said that the program will have both environmental and economic benefits.

“This is about encouraging that age-old virtue of thrift, of reaching our lifestyle aspirations by using less resources,” Mr Stokes said.

“The scale of waste is appalling, this is one of the great ways we can save money, save food and not compromise our lifestyles.

“It will have really powerful impacts, impacts that people might not see but will help to change the culture about the way in which we consume.”

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Liberals heading into risky territory over by-election decision

Full credit to NSW Premier, Mike Baird for showing his face in Newcastle and Charlestown apologising to anyone and everyone he met.

In reality, having the boss walking around shaking hands is probably not going to make a great deal of difference to how the voters in both electorates feel about the Liberal Party.

But at least there has been a visible acknowl-edgement that the public had been let down in a big way after finally being given a chance at the last election to show what they could do for Newcastle and Charlestown after many years of being defeated by Labor.

The thing I don’t agree with is the Liberals’ deci-sion to not contest either of the by-elections to be held in October.

Of course, whoever they threw into the equation would have next to no chance of winning, but at least it would go some way to backing up Mr Baird’s pledge to regain the trust of the people of Newcastle and Charlestown.

Apparently the non-contesting is meant to be seen as “an act of atonement” to the electorate, but I think they are running the risk of the public thinking the Liberal Party has given up on this area and that if they can’t win the seats they won’t bother even trying.

However, Mr Baird said the party may well end up contesting the March state election.

By then, though, the likely by-election winners, Labor’s Tim Crakanthorp (Newcastle) and Jodie

Harrison (Charlestown) will have had several months in the job in which they can build up their profiles and increase their popularity.

Their campaigns will simply have to focus on constantly reminding the electorate of what has transpired in recent times and push the line that the Liberal Party should not be trusted.

Had Liberal candidates been put up for the by-elections, it would have been interesting to see what the final figures would have been.

Just how angry are the voters in these areas? Would the Liberal candidates have finished behind the Greens and some of the independents or is there still a decent level of core support for the party?

It would have given an idea of how much damage has been done to the Government and whether they are a chance of remaining in power come March.

Ms Harrison is quite popular as the Mayor of Lake Macquarie and she would have pulled back a fair bit of the 10.2% margin that Andrew Cornwell built up in Charlestown at the last election in 2011 even if the ICAC dramas hadn’t surfaced.

The Premier’s decision to make all Liberal MPs and candidates sign documents to ensure they understand and abide by laws regarding donations is a good move, but surely it should be common sense for them anyway.

Every cent that comes in over the next few months will have to be scrutinised.

Apparently it is “an act of atonement”

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M embers of the public transport lobby group, Save Our Rail have hit out at the Member for Maitland, Robyn Parker,

over comments she allegedly made to the media claiming that the majority of Hunter residents wanted to see the rail line into Newcastle cut.

Commuters came to Newcastle from as far afield as Stroud, Muswellbrook and even Perth last Wednesday to show their support for retaining the transport link.

Addressing supporters near Newcastle Station, Save Our Rail Maitland president, Kim Cross said Ms Parker had succumb to Government pressure and gone back on her promise to support retaining the line.

“Robyn told me, and the rest of us at Save Our Rail, prior to the election in 2011 that she would do everything always to insist that the rail be kept into Newcastle,” she said.

“Now, she meekly bows to the line that the Cabinet took that the rail line be removed.”

“What do we say about Robyn Parker suggesting that Maitland people support the cutting of the rail line,” she asked.

The group of commuters, brandishing

placards that read “trains not buses” and “don’t cut”, booed and jeered in response to Ms Cross’ question.

Ms Parker denied having ever made the comment and said she had always been against truncating the rail line.

“I’ve always been clear that I didn’t think truncating the rail line was the answer to revitalising Newcastle,” she said.

“I always thought we should explore other options like sinking the line or running light rail from Maitland.”

However, Ms Parker said she supported the Government’s move to cut the rail line “now the decision has been made”.

“I was a member of the Cabinet who made that decision and it was informed by every government department and years of community consultation.”

Save Our Rail president, Joan Dawson said truncating the rail line in December would have negative repercussions for the whole Hunter region.

“I want to make sure people realise that this is not an issue that is just about the inner city of Newcastle,” she said.

“It’s an issue that has ramifications for Newcastle’s future, but it has ramifica-tions for the whole Hunter Valley.”

Labor candidate for Maitland, Jenny Aitchison said the Labor Party was doing all it could to retain the heavy rail line.

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Save Our Rail president, Joan Dawson addresses supporters in Newcastle last week

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T he NSW Premier, Mike Baird, has assured voters in the Hunter that election funding legislation will be reformed before the October

25 by-elections in both Newcastle and Charlestown.

Visiting Newcastle last week, Mr Baird apologised for the actions of disgraced Liberal MPs Andrew Cornwell and Tim Owen, saying he felt “angry, appalled” and “betrayed” by the revelations unearthed at the Independent Commis-sion Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry into prohibited political donations and that the NSW Liberal Party needed to get its house in order.

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“It can be fixed.”Prior to the Premier’s visit to the region

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tion, saying “the temptation for candi-dates to accept dodgy donations remains while the rules create an imperative for each candidate to raise over $150,000 in donations”.

“We need to reduce how much money each candidate can spend and increase the percentage of public funding,” he said.

“The additional cost to tax payers will be small compared to the benefit of a fairer and cleaner electoral system.”

Mr Baird said the party had already undertaken a number of actions in order to reform the way funds are managed within the party, including appointing former NSW Premier, John Fahey to oversee the party’s fundraising and bringing in former Sydney Water boss, Kerry Schott, head up its electoral fund-ing review.

He said more reforms would be announced before Newcastle and Charlestown voters head to the polls on Saturday, October 25.

“The inquiry, ICAC, is continuing,” Mr Baird said.

“When they finish their work we’ll have a very comprehensive response.”

“We’ve taken a range of actions to get our house in order but we must do more - we will do more.”

Mr Baird said he expected the party would be in a position to run candidates by the general election in March 2015.

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Meanwhile, Maitland City Council will be focusing on eradicating the African Olive from Council land.

The fast-growing tree was introduced to Australia from Africa in the mid-1800s as a hedging plant and rootstock, and now threatens native species, as it grows up to 15 metres tall and is spread by birds drop-ping seeds.

“It [African Olive] has a devastating impact on our biodiversity,” Mr Stokes said.

“The nature of weed is that it competes with native species.

“It can take over an area and turn it into a biodiversity desert by taking over an area that would otherwise be used by other plants.

“The more we’re learning about weed treatments is that they have to be constant, they have to be repeated and they have to be quite strategic in their approach.”

Council’s Environmental Projects Coordinator, Stephen McLeod, said that the eradication program follows on from seven other projects conducted over the past eight years.

“It’s a strategic program targeting roadside infestations, public reserves and public school grounds,” he said.

“There’s a lot of infestation on private land, but we’ll just concentrate on the land under our control.”

Mr Stokes also planted a tree in Ministers Park during his visit.

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C harlestown MP, Andrew Cornwell and his wife, Samantha Brookes returned to face the Independent Commission Against Corruption

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Appearing before the Commission last Thursday, a nervous Mr Newell said Dr Cornwell’s father, Brien Cornwell, a long-time friend of the artist, had asked him to donate a painting to help finance Dr Cornwell’s 2011 election campaign.

“He said that his son was standing and he said, have you got a painting at home which you could give to us, I thought for a raffle or an auction or something like that,” he said.

“It was effectively donate a painting to raise some money for the campaign.”

Mr Newell said that within two days of giving his painting to Mr Cornwell, he heard the painting had sold for $10,000.

“I was a little puzzled,” Mr Newell said of the transaction.

Initial evidence from Dr Cornwell and

his wife suggested that Ms Brookes had received the painting as a birthday present from her father-in-law, Brien Cornwell in March 2010 and that after lying unwanted in their garage for a number of months, the piece was, by “dumb luck”, given as a Christmas present to Mr Grugeon, who eventually bought the modest work from Ms Brookes for the inflated sum of $10,200.

According to the couple, the money was allegedly used to pay off a tax bill incurred by Dr Cornwell.

However, Mr Grugeon told the ICAC on August 14 that he “didn’t consider [the painting] a Christmas gift from anyone” and that he had purchased the painting as way of showing “mentorship” and “patronage” to Dr Cornwell during his campaign.

Despite this, Dr Cornwell and his wife appeared confident in their version of events last Thursday and even accused Mr Grugeon of lying to the Commission.

Dr Cornwell rubbished Mr Grugeon’s story as “completely untrue”.

“I think he’s trying to deflect blame towards me,” he said.

“He was the instigator and I was effec-tively the one who was foolish enough to fall for it.”

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the evidence given by Mr Newell that Mr Cornwell had asked him to donate a painting to raffled, which ran from June to November 2010.

“I think what has happened, Commis-sioner, is that my father’s been working in a silo,” Dr Cornwell said.

“[He] has spoken to Mr Newell about that but in the meantime… I had already organised the $2,000 Harvey World Travel voucher as the raffle prize and therefore the painting was no longer required as a fundraiser.”

Ms Brookes also appeared to back away from her initial testimony that she had received the painting as a birthday present when called to give evidence on last Thursday.

“You’d recall in our private hearing that I had initially said to you that I didn’t recall exactly when in 2010 that the artwork was given to me and that it was likely that it may have been my birthday, but it could have been any time throughout 2010 that the painting was given to me,” she said.

Junior counsel assisting ICAC, Greg O’Mahoney put it to Ms Brookes that she had given false evidence to the inquiry.

“Out of fairness to you I want to put it to you that you are covering previous lies with more lies,” he said.

“No, that is absolutely what has

occurred,” Ms Brookes said, standing by her most recent account.

The ICAC inquiry into illegal political donations is continuing this week with Port Stephens MP, Craig Baumann sched-uled to appear on Thursday before Swan-sea MP, Garry Edwards gives evidence on Friday.

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Police investigating an armed robbery at Cessnock last week have released a COMFIT of a man who may be able to assist with inquiries. About 1.30pm on Monday 11 August, a man entered a travel shop on Cooper Street, armed with a handgun.

Police have been told the man threatened a female employee, demanding cash.

The woman handed over cash, before the man assaulted her and fled the scene.

Officers attached to Central Hunter Local Area Command were called and established a crime scene. The woman was uninjured during the incident. As they continue to investigate the incident, detectives have now released a COMFIT (computer-generated image) of a man who they believe may be able to assist with inquiries.

He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, aged in his 30s, about 183cm tall, of medium build, with short dark hair, and with colourful tattoos down both arms.

The man with whom police would like to speak was seen wearing a grey t-shirt and black thongs. Anyone who knows the identity

of the man depicted or has any information about the incident is urged to contact Central Hunter detectives on 02 4991 0199 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

F or Maitland Meals on Wheels volunteers, helping is its own reward.

Kevin Hammonds, Trudy Clack, Noel Davis and Ros Powell have been with the service, coordinated locally by Maitland Community Care Services, for 10 years between them, and will be acknowledged for their dedication along with 78,000 other volunteers today (Wednesday) for National Meals on Wheels Day.

They are part of a team of approxi-mately 50 volunteers working for the service in Maitland, distributing meals to almost 220 clients, as well as provid-ing social interaction and doing welfare checks.

Although the list of benefits to the clients is endless, Ms Clack said that the volunteers get just as much out of it.

“I enjoy the company and what I’m doing,” she said.

“It’s lovely to come here and see everyone’s faces, and you also get to know what’s happening out in the community.”

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T he Rutherford shopping precinct will be a target of an anti-litter campaign, after Maitland City Council received a $28,000 grant

to fund the project.The project is funded out of the State

Government’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative and will see Council undertake a litter reduction project across the city which will include the installation of both general waste and recycling bins and signage, as well as an anti-litter educa-

tion campaign. Rutherford will receive seven metal bins in the shopping area, at a cost of $2500 each, which are expected to be rolled out by October. Member for Maitland, Robyn Parker said that litter reduction is a two-way street.

“We’re reminding people that litter is the most visible thing, but that Council needs to provide bins and signage to encourage people to do the right thing,” Ms Parker said.

“If we can have recycling bins out in shopping centres, parks and reserves, people will by and large do the right thing.”

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Agendas are available from our website or by contacting customer service.For information on development applications please visit our website – maitland.nsw.gov.au

PUBLIC EXHIBITIONSDRAFT WATERFORD COUNTY NORTH PRECINCT PLANPursuant to Sections 56(2)(c) & 57 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, notice is hereby given of the public exhibition of the draft Waterford County North Precinct Plan, being an amendment to the 2011 Citywide Development Control Plan urban release chapter, detailing development guidelines for future urban development of the site.The draft Precinct Plan aims to provide site specific development guidelines in accordance with the Thornton North Area Plan. The draft Precinct Plan includes a series of tables detailing key urban design elements addressing objectives and requirements to be achieved in the development of the precinct.The draft Precinct Plan will be on public exhibition with supporting information from Wednesday, 27 August 2014 until Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at Council’s Customer Service Centre, Administration Building, High Street, Maitland during normal working hours. The draft Precinct Plan will also be placed on exhibition at East Maitland Branch Library and Central Maitland Library and Thornton Branch Library during ordinary library hours over the same period. The draft Waterford County North Precinct Plan will be exhibited on Council’s website maitland.nsw.gov.au during the exhibition period. Exhibition concludes Wednesday, 24 September 2014.In accordance with the Local Government and Planning Legislation Amendment (Political Donations) Act 2008, any person making a written submission after 1 October 2008, either for or against a proposal, must also make a disclosure if the person has made a reportable political donation. If relevant, please include a completed ‘Statement of Political

Interested residents are welcome to attend.Next meeting: 9 | 23 SEPTEMBER – 5.30pm

Donations and Gifts’ form with your submission. This form can be found on Council’s website at maitland.nsw.gov.au or obtained from Council’s Customer Service Counter and all libraries during opening hours.Persons wishing to comment on the Precinct Plan should do so by 4.30pm on Wednesday, 24 September 2014 and should quote Reference No. 103/115.Further enquiries should be directed to Mark Roser on 4934 9848.

KERB, GUTTERING & FOOTPATH – CHARGES POLICY REVIEW Council at its meeting on 12 August 2014, resolved to publicly exhibit the draft policy – Kerb, Guttering & Footpath – Charges Policy.The draft policy will be on public exhibition from Thursday, 28 August 2014 until Thursday, 25 September 2014 at Council’s Administration Building and Council Libraries during normal working hours. It is also available on Council’s website maitland.nsw.gov.auCouncil will accept written submissions received no later than 5.00pm Thursday, 25 September 2014.Further enquiries should be directed to Mr Kevin Stein, Manager Infrastructure Design, on 4934 9808.

PUBLIC NOTICESQUARTERLY RATE INSTALMENT NOW DUERatepayers are reminded, the 1st Quarterly Instalment is due on or before 31 August 2014, payments received after this date will attract daily interest charges at the rate of 8.5% per annum. Customers who have arranged payment by Direct Debit will have their account debited on 29 August 2014.

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NAMING OF PUBLIC ROADSNotice is hereby given that Maitland City Council, in pursuance of section 162 of the Roads Act 1993 and Part 2 of the Roads Regulation 2008, proposes to name the following new roads:

Location Off Riverside Street, Bolwarra

Proposed Name • Vantage Court• Lagoon Avenue

DA Number 13-1430

The common theme for road names in this estate was set by Council’s acceptance of Riverside Street as the name of the access road into Bolwarra Tops Estate. The theme is the natural features and their attributes of this unique residential area.

A period of 14 days from 27 August 2014 is allowed during which persons may lodge with Council written submissions regarding this proposal. Any submissions made should be addressed to the General Manager and detail fully any objection to same.

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T he controversial Nulkaba foot-path project will proceed after another round of political argu-ment and theatrics at last week’s

Council meeting failed to overturn the original 7-6 vote.

Councillors James Ryan (Greens), Bryce Gibson (Liberal) and Ian Olsen (Independ-ent) lodged a rescission motion following the August 6 meeting seeking to have footpath construction based on a needs assessment completed by Council.

The original motion sought to defer a planned footpath construction on Mount View Road, Cessnock in favour of a path on Wine Country Drive from the entrance of the Calvary Retirement Community to Kerlew St, Nulkaba.

The proposed deferral of the Mount View Road work was due to the expected rede-velopment of the former PCYC building which borders the road on one side.

It was felt construction work on the site could damage the new footpath which would result it having to be redone - albeit at the developer’s expense.

However, Cr Ryan said he felt the Nulkaba project had been given priority on a political basis after Labor councillor, Morgan Campbell last year asked Council

to investigate the cost of building a path in response to numerous requests from the community. “This is simply poor govern-ance,” Cr Ryan said. “It is an inefficient way to deliver services.

“The community has no confidence in this Council - it is a special low moment.”

Cr Ryan provided a light moment in the tense discussions when he stood up to show off a shield he brought along which he said was to congratulate the Labor Party on achieving one of their political promises.

Cr Campbell reaffirmed that he had simply made a costing request to Council. “Since then I’ve had absolutely nothing to do with this matter,” he said.

“The only reason for this rescission motion is politics from the Liberals and Greens”.

Cr Olsen, whose Ward takes in both areas under discussion, said that he was not against having a footpath in Nulkaba but was concerned the Mount View Road work would be delayed for several years.

“As far as I’m aware, there hasn’t even been a development application lodged for that site,” he said.

“So it has to wait for that to happen, then a couple of years for construction of the development.”

The rescission motion failed to gain the required support when put to a vote.

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The end of the proposed Nulkaba footpath at Kerlew Street

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These are made by LG and if you have a large collection of video tapes, this would be a great device to convert them onto DVD – just press “Dubbing” button and it’s done. These have a digital tuner built-in so free to air TV can be recorded onto a disk. At a price of $329, they are good value, but demand is diminishing.

Hard drive recorders are the biggest segment in this area. They vary in price depending on size of hard drive. Some have a DVD recorder built in. More commonly they are equipped with a blu-ray player, or in some cases blu-ray recorder. Most will have two tuners. This allows you to record two or three shows at the same time. Most have a USB input, which can be used for playback and in some cases recording onto an USB hard drive. Also most have wireless capabilities so that you can stream content from your computer or other device.

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I consulted with a lady recently who had type 2 diabetes. She was having a lot of trouble getting her blood sugar levels (BSLs) stable. Some days her BSL would fluctuate significantly (one day she was 4.5 (mmol/L) before break-fast, then 8.3 before lunch, then 12.0 before dinner). The next day, her BSLs were much better and stable (5.0 before breakfast, 6.3 before lunch, then 4.9 before dinner).

She didn’t do anything different on the two days, she ate the same food and did the same exercise. Her medication was an insulin injection of the same dose each morning. She could therefore not understand why her BSLs were so different from one day to the next.

The reason for her unstable BSLs ended up being about where she did her insulin injections. If a person with diabetes does their insulin injection in the same place over and over, the insulin causes a build-up of extra fat under the skin at that site (called ‘Lipohypertrophy’). That results in what is commonly referred to as a ‘lump’. Once a lump is present, any insulin that is injected into that site may not be absorbed properly. That causes the insulin to work slower or not as much as usual. Therefore, the person’s BSL will be higher than usual for the hours following that injection. The lady that I consulted with was injecting into lumps some mornings (the days her BSLs were high) but not others (the days her BSLs were within the healthy range).

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“We have been in discussions with HSG for some time about bringing in addi-tional investment in and this process will now be expedited,” Newcastle Jets CEO Robbie Middleby said.

“Until the change of ownership is complete, we will continue to execute our plans in preparation for the 2014/15 season.

“The club has been rebuilt since 2010 and we now have a solid foundation from which to grow.

“We look forward to securing new owners and moving forward with this new chapter.”

The Jets were defeated 4-0 by Brisbane Roar in their opening match of the Townsville Football Cup on Sunday night.

The Jets had an opportunity to open the scoring inside the first minute, with Jeronimo breaking clear down the right flank, before cutting a ball back to the top of the box where Jonny Steele was wait-

ing. The Northern Ireland international’s first time effort looked to be goal bound, only for Roar defender James Donachie to throw himself in front of the ball and block the shot.

Meanwhile, the Bill Turner Cup (boys) and Bill Turner Trophy (girls) 2014 National Finals Series will be held on Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd September at Darling Street Oval, Hamil-ton South.

Hunter Sports High School at Gates-head will be in action in both the boys and girls competitions.

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R elentless pressure saw the Knights slump to a 48-6 loss to the Broncos at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night with the Brisbane players firstly

fighting to keep their finals hopes alive and also looking to impress incoming coach Wayne Bennett.

The Knights were up against it at halftime trailing 14-0 but a try to Korbin Sims almost immediately after the break could have been a catalyst for a stirring fightback.

Unfortunately, that was as far as the visitors got as Ben Barba returned to top form with three tries as part of 34 second-half points from the Broncos.

“Our problem all night, to the point of losing our way totally, was our inability to build pres-sure,” Knights coach, Bennett said.

“We had five or six sets up the other end in the first half and never looked like completing them.

“You can’t play at this level without building pressure and maintaining it.

Knight captain Kurt Gidley said he still felt confident in the side’s ability to get back into

Broncos put the heat on Knights

Knights captain Kurt Gidley was happen with the eff ort despite the lopsided score in Brisbane

Second-half flood of points as Brisbane players audition for incoming coach Wayne Bennett

the match despite being down 14-0.“It wasn’t about effort tonight, it was about

execution,” Gidley said.Newcastle headed into the match

significantly down on experience with Jarrod

Mullen’s corked thigh ruling him out of the match on Saturday morning.

Mullen joined backline stars Darius Boyd, James McManus and Akuila Uate on the side-lines, while forwards Jeremy Smith and Kade

PAUL MONFORTE Snowden were also missing as they began their suspension as part of the Cronulla Sharks ASADA investigation.

Gidley said it had been a difficult period for the former Sharks players.

“It’s been a tough year and that was another chapter in the tough year,” Gidley said. “We were disappointed for those guys and their situation.

“They felt like they had let us down by not being able to finish off the year.”

“But when someone is ruled out with injury or suspension you just got to move on quickly and get your head right for the game.”

The Knights’ NYC team were also defeated by the Broncos, going down 36-16.

The NSW Cup side had a convincing 42-18 win over Manly at No.2 Sports Ground on Sunday afternoon.

Fullback Nathan Ross scored four tries for the Knights.

The Knights will finish off the season with successive home games, beginning with Saturday’s clash with Parramatta at 3pm. All three grades will be in action on the day with NYC against the Eels to commence at 10.40am followed by NSW Cup against the Newtown Jets at 12.40pm.

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