TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 MPS’ PAY CUTS UNTIDY YET TO KICK IN KIWI PAGE 6 A PILE of household goods including washing machines, ovens and mattresses was found dumped at the southern end of Makorori Beach on NZ NEEDS TO BE Saturday. The person who found the rubbish took photos and shared it on Facebook ‘COURAGEOUS’ to start a public discussion about PAGE 3 solutions or preventative measures. Rubbish was also dumped at Okitu Reserve carpark some weeks ago. A Gisborne District Council spokesperson said 13 requests for service to deal with rubbish dumping at Makorori had been received in the past 12 months, including two in 2020. NZERS DRAIN KIWISAVER ACCOUNTS PAGE 10 Judge rejects application for discharge DEFUNCT forestry company submisssions were required as practice is a matter of real DNS Forest Products Limited to whether provisions in the importance, he said. FACING has been convicted and faces Companies Act might preclude There were extensive a fine of $124,700 for water the penalties being imposed. plantings on vulnerable pollution caused by poor The court also needed land and forestry operations harvesting practice at its to consider whether under continue on a large scale Makiri Forest, two years ago. the circumstances it might throughout this region, the In Gisborne District Court alternatively impose a judge said. Sentencings for yesterday, Judge Brian conviction and discharge, but offending such as this must FINE FOR Dwyer rejected the company’s that was not his preference, the be set at a level that drives application for a discharge judge said. compliance and deters poor without conviction. DNS was a commercial practice. The judge indicated the forest entity undertaking its DNS admitted a charge fine and a reparation order of core business, which must under the Resource $15,000 for damage also caused be expected to comply with Management Act that to neighbouring Matuku best practice and to pay between June 1, 2017, and FORESTRY Station, but did not impose an appropriate commercial July 10, 2018, it discharged them. penalty when it fails to do so. contaminant — forestry waste Instead the case was The judge has earlier and sediment — on to land in adjourned until July 20. News sentenced other forestry circumstances where it might of the company’s liquidation (in companies in this region — enter water (and did so). May) came at short notice for Juken and Aratu — for similar FAILINGS legal counsels involved. Specific failings. Deterrence for bad CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 You could be eligible for fees-free study*. 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ENROLMENT DAY 0800 22 55 348 | eit.ac.nz | Tairāwhiti Campus | Gisborne Learning Centres: THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 2pm to 6pm Wairoa | Ruatoria | 9am to 3pm 32797-02 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-4 Business ............10 Classifieds .........17 Sport ............ 21-24 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............11 Television ...........19 Weather .............23 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ....... 6-9,16 World............ 12-15 Racing ................20 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Students helping to ‘clothe Papatuanuku’ DIGGING IN: Whangara students Locky Scully, Rico Kahaki, JOINT EFFORT: Te Waikauri Smith, teacher Chris McMaster and Manaaki Totoro from Whangara School Eva Henry and Tennesse Sinton team up to plant some of the get their hands dirty planting a selection of native trees at Whangara Angus. 400 native trees at Whangara Angus — part of an effort to Pictures by Liam Clayton beautify the land around a dam on the farm. A SPECIAL tree planting session at dug holes. to get the community involved and the for each plant, so if there are 1000 Whangara Angus last week made for The trees came from Matawhero children would be able to re-visit the rakau to be planted, there will be 1000 an excellent school trip with Whangara Nursery in Makaraka and included land and see the trees grow over time. karakia. School providing the labour and puriri, kanuka, manuka and cabbage Whangara School is also involved in “This is to teach them to take the the government’s One Billion Trees trees. planting and being kaitiaki of another time to plant, care and be kaitiaki Programme supplying the trees. The students will be back in a few important wetland on Whangara (guardians) as they are helping to The whole school turned out to get months to release the trees, clearing Farms, which is just across the road clothe Papatuanuku (the land). their hands in the dirt as they planted weeds and grass from around each one. from the school. “Our vision is to grow active kaitiaki a selection of 400 native trees around Operations director of Beefgen, Principal Lisa Maniapoto said the and wetlands are an important part a dam at Whangara Angus. Each tree Micheal Lane, applied to the One students got so much out of doing the of our ecosystem so it’s awesome for was blessed, as the students split into Billion Trees Programme for a grant planting. our tamariki to be part of making a small groups to plant them into pre- to buy the trees. He said it was great “A karakia is said by the tamariki difference to the whenua around them.” Emissions inventory shows Tairawhiti on right track by Aaron van Delden The inventory by AECOM the 1,757,949t ruminants. consultants shows in the year to June CO2 Transport is next, responsible A STOCKTAKE of greenhouse 30, 2019, the region emitted 2,138,753 equivalent for 10.9 percent (232,647t) of total gas emissions has found more tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent output of emissions, mostly from diesel and carbon dioxide is removed from the emissions. agriculture. petrol use. atmosphere in Tairawhiti than is But the sequestration of carbon But in terms Emissions linked to production produced here. by the region’s forests meant net of overall and consumption within Tairawhiti, The region’s first emissions emissions were -430,769t — making emissions, the electricity from the national grid and inventory was commissioned by Tairawhiti a carbon sink. farming sector travel that originated or terminated Gisborne District Council and The volume of carbon dioxide is leading the in the district were included in the Trust Tairawhiti and presented to equivalent emissions removed from charge at 82.2 inventory. councillors last week. the atmosphere by sequestration was percent, chiefly AECOM has also undertaken a It will be used to measure how well put at -6,481,992t while 3,912,470t due to enteric stocktake of the council’s emissions the district is doing in mitigating were emitted in the forestry harvest. fermentation, a methane-producing that is due to be presented to climate change. The harvest emissions outweighed digestive process of cattle and other councillors next month. LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • Farming Women Tairawhiti form a new- home-delivered look executive at their wellattended AGM. • New independent research shows the red meat industry’s $12 billion value to New Zealand. • The weekly AgriHQ report for the week beginning June 15. THE GUIDE TOMORROW THURSDAY The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 16, 2020 NEWS 3 Works starts on new hospice home EXCAVATION work has started on the the community and Siteworx Civil have to fund the $3.1m project and is selling site of Hospice Tairawhiti’s new building. started the first phase of the job, with mystery weekend raffle tickets in an Dawson Building Company was excavation work expected to take two effort to continue to fundraise. Tickets awarded the tender for the 750-square- weeks. The full build is expected to be are limited to just 500 and can be bought metre building which will allow Hospice completed by April next year through Hospice Tairawhiti. Tairawhiti to offer more of its services to Hospice Tairawhiti still needs $300,000 Picture by Liam Clayton Boy died after fall ‘Awful’ discussions down sheer on names recalled bank on by Michael Neilson, New Zealand Herald Poverty Bay communities to have, and I think councils had long been and the Government should facilitate A GISBORNE councillor who says she offensive to conversations.” farm was spat at when the district recently went Maori, both Often names were given for completely through a name change says the country for what it arbitrary reasons. by Murray Robertson needs to be “courageous” about addressing represented Gisborne was once Turanganui-a-Kiwa, its colonial past. and for before it was shortened to Turanga, and POLICE have confirmed the Thousands of New Zealand places have ignoring the ultimately named Gisborne, after the-then circumstances around the death been renamed over the past decade and Maori name colonial secretary, and to avoid confusion of a boy on a farm at Whatatutu experts say that number could grow as that came with Tauranga. on Sunday. the country improves its understanding of before it. Ms Akuhata-Brown has also been pushing The 11-year-old died as a history. Conversely, for street names to be changed in Kaiti, result of a fall, not as a result Names changed recently range from many the predominantly Maori suburb where of drowning as reported in last N***** Stream in the South Island in 2016, residents also she grew up, which has a deprivation index night’s Herald.