TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 20-21, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.70 SLAIN OFFICER NAMED MORE RAIN EXPECTED INSIDE TODAY PAGE 6 PAGE 4 Laughing labrador . and friend When photographer Zara Staples offered to photograph people in their driveways during the lockdown, a lot of people brought their pets. See story page 5 ‘I’m here to listen’ KIWIRAIL by Wynsley Wrigley and there was also commitment from iwi. Some trucking firms, who Mr Miller said were KIWIRAIL boss Greg Miller says there is more struggling to find drivers, had said they would business support for the reinstatement of the reduce their fleet if rail was reintroduced. Gisborne-Wairoa line than he realised. Mr Miller said many ports in New Zealand saw The chief executive has been in Gisborne for rail as a partner, not as a threat. the past two days inspecting the line and meeting “Many ports buy services from us. They see us CHIEF with stakeholders. as an extension of their business. Many inhabit He met with rail advocates, businesses, our sites to extend their supply capability. trucking firms, iwi, Gisborne District Council, “Rail is a complementary business.” and Port Eastland. Rail extended the catchment area of a port “I am here to listen and understand the company. stakeholders’ views, and there are many Any port with a surge issue, could benefit from stakeholders,” he said. rail to shift logs to another port, he said. Much interest had been expressed by business IN TOWN CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 HEREFORD BULL SALE THURSDAY 25TH JUNE - 10.30AM 3005 WHANGARA RD, GISBORNE 31 TOP QUALITY BULLS www.mokairau.co.nz 32472-01 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Opinion ........ 11-12 Farming ........ 23-25 Television ...W9-11 Births & Deaths ...4 World............ 13-15 Business ...... 26-27 Sport ............ 29-32 TOMORROW National .... 6-10, 22 Classifieds ... 18-21 Racing ................28 Weather .............31 977 1175467004 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, June 20, 2020 by Kim Parkinson pieces of music on marimbas (percussion instrument), using A GROUP of students chosen the Orff Schulwerk or as it is for their performing arts abilities more commonly known, the Orff PERFORMING ARTS and high literacy levels have Approach. come together for their second Mrs Hall is trained in The face-to-face rehearsal at Orff Schulwerk — a way of Aurora kids take their talents to the stage Gisborne’s Unity Theatre. teaching music that explores The children were selected the relationship between music, from 11 Gisborne city and rural movement and speech. schools to be part of the Aurora Developed by German Drama programme for gifted composer Carl Orff and students. colleague Gunild Keetman Under the guidance of during the 1920s, the Orff specialist music teacher Michelle Approach, through exploration, Hall, they crafted a performance improvisation and creation, based on the works of Maori uses a student’s own language poet Hone Tuwhare and other and understanding as a starting New Zealand inspired-poetry. point for music-making and The performance is performance. accompanied with music and Mrs Hall is a member of the movement. Orff Association of New Zealand Matawai School student and uses it in many areas of Isabelle Redpath said she was curriculum. excited to be there and was New Zealand Gifted Awareness enjoying working with the group. Week is held in June and the Lilla Hain, from Waerenga-o- theme this year is “Wellbeing — Kuri School, said she had been a no limits approach”. chosen for the group because “We felt that dramatic she liked speaking in front of performance was an excellent people and was a good reader. fit for supporting the emotional The performance, called wellbeing of our promising Manaakitia Papatuanuku young thespians,” said The (Perform Me a Poem), comprises Aurora Education Foundation four poems which the students director Sunny Bush. interpreted and put to music. “Aurora is here in Gisborne They also wrote their own as a launchpad to promote words for the interpretations, accelerated learning, strong based on a structure given by personal development and Mrs Hall. resilient wellbeing.” Two provocative Hone Tuwhare poems on environmental ■ The Gisborne Aurora group sustainability were the platform will present their show on for the integrated performance. Wednesday. July 1 at Unity POWERFUL PERCUSSION: Zoe Newman and Elijah Wright play percussion in the Aurora Drama group — Zoe The students also perform two Theatre in Ormond Road. on a two-tone wood block and Elijah on a djembe drum. Pictures by Rebecca Grunwell PERFORMING POETRY: Izzy Hopkins plays the xylophone in the Aurora Drama group’s upcoming MAKING MUSIC: Lilla Hain and Liahone Noanoa concentrate on getting the notes right as they practise the performance Manaakitia Papatuanuku based on New main piece by Maria Kapa on their xylophones. Zealand-inspired poetry with an environmental theme. Rail line ‘about rebuild, not repair’ Get your Gisborne Herald FROM PAGE 1 to being transported north, rather than Crown capital below”. south. In other words, the Government home-delivered Mr Miller acknowledged increased Mr Miller did not think BERL’s $13m of provided capital expenditure for rail interest in resurrecting the line than in annual maintenance a year would cover it. infrastructure, and KiwiRail had to the past, but he remained unconvinced The original rail corridor was built in operate commercially from that point by the BERL feasibility study, which the 1900s, not the 1930s. Long periods with good use of taxpayer funds and good he believed underestimated the costs of closure had resulted in no capital returns. involved in reinstating the line at $23 expenditure and the line degrading very The coalition Government had provided million. quickly. over $4.5 billion for rail tracks, ships, The Gisborne-Wairoa line “is not about He had looked at the tracks, tunnels terminals, locomotives, wagons and repair, it’s (about) rebuild”. and the subsidence issues. The technology. Capital expenditure outlined in the engineering required was more akin to the KiwiRail had to determine investment BERL feasibility report was too low, rebuilding of the line at Kaikoura. capital on the 3000km of tracks, maintenance was too low and revenue was Mr Miller said rail in New Zealand thousands of bridges and hundreds of “a bit out” with some of the trade referred was a case of “economic above track, and tunnels. To nd out more call 869 0620 The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, June 20, 2020 NEWS 3 Bull Week set to bring millions into region by Murray Robertson lineup. Studmaster Dean McHardy and his sales season,” said auctioneer Neville Clark Muriwai, then down to Kenhardt Angus at team have put up 40 this year. from Carrfields Livestock. Nuhaka and Turiroa Angus near Wairoa. MORE than 400 young Angus bulls will There will be great interest in how their “There will be a bull for everyone and they East Coast Angus Bull Week draws buyers change hands next week across the three sale performs with more bulls on offer. will be value for money — better value than in and supporters from all over New Zealand days of East Coast Angus Bull Week, and all Cricklewood from near Wairoa will sell their a lot of other places around the country.” and the word is more may come to Gisborne the signs point to another outstanding sales bulls alongside the Tangihau offering again At midday on Monday, the Combined this year because it’s a great place to come season. this year on-farm at Tangihau. sale at the Matawhero saleyards follows the for a break. The Angus bull sales last year contributed Sales across other parts of the country Tangihau/Cricklewood sale. Three studs will Two of the Hereford studs — Mokairau and more than $4 million to the regional economy. have generated high prices and that trend be represented — Orere Angus and Alpine Wilencote — will sell their R2 bulls on-farm Bull Week starts on Monday morning at should continue here next week, given the Angus from Rere and Waimata Angus. next Thursday morning and afternoon to the Tangihau Angus Stud at Rere, where an high regard cattlemen across the country That afternoon and evening Kaharau finish off the week. Australasian record auction price average for have for durable, consistent and well Angus on Rimunui Station off Riverside Road The opportunity to socialise at Bull Week Angus rising-two-year-old bulls was set last performed Gisborne-East Coast stud stock. will conduct their on-farm event. has been a major element of the event, year of almost $21,000. All reports indicate the stock on sale On Tuesday it is the turn of Turihaua and that will certainly be embraced again, Tangihau also recorded the top Angus through the Tairawhiti studs have come Angus, Lane Bros Whangara Angus and particularly in these post-Covid lockdown price in New Zealand last season, with one of through the season well and look in fantastic Ratanui Angus, inland from Tolaga Bay. times. their bulls sold for $88,000. condition. The focus switches on Wednesday to Bull Week has always been as much about Last year the stud sold all 23 in their “I think it’s going to be a very positive Rangatira Angus on Coventry Station at the people, as it has been about the bulls. Shooting protected SON ATTACKED karearea ‘despicable’ ‘This is something that needs to change’ by Sophie Rishworth A THREATENED PUNCHED, kicked, choked by his own and protected hoodie and whacked with his own shoe, karearea (New 10-year-old Ian Grace-Harvey said he did Zealand falcon) was not defend himself because he did not TEACH KIDS found dying from want to fight.