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THE Labour Party’s announcement of a public holiday to celebrate Matariki if it is re-elected has been welcomed in Tairawhiti. Athena Emmerson-Kapa, the Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa project manager for the 2020 Matariki celebrations held in July, is right behind it. “Having a national Matariki public holiday is a great idea, this would give our country and the region of Gisborne Tairawhiti the chance to celebrate our Maori New Year which is unique to all of us in Aotearoa,” Ms Emmerson-Kapa said. “Matariki celebrations gives us a space to celebrate us as people, looking forward to the coming year and encouraging growth as Te reo a region. “We can create positive activities for all members of the community.” This move would mean New Zealand would have 12 public holidays and it would break up the winter period. The last public holiday introduced was Waitangi Day nearly 50 years ago. mission See story on page 9 One million Maori language speakers by the year 2040

NEW Zealanders will set a record schools and kohanga — choosing to attendees — for its own Maori they want to see a future where te this Maori Language Week as more join us for a moment to celebrate te Language Moment. reo is a normal part of their family, than 200,000 people have already reo,” said Professor Higgins. “To safeguard te reo we want one community and country.” signed up to celebrate te reo as part “Friends and whanau overseas are million Maori language speakers A Colmar Brunton poll of the country’s first virtual Maori also joining us.” by 2040 but we commissioned in 2019 revealed eight Language Moment on Monday, The Maori want to start in in 10 New Zealanders see te reo as September 14 at midday. Language While te reo Maori remains 2020, even if only part of their national identity. “We weren’t going to let Covid-19 Moment Te Wa an‘ endangered language, for a moment,” “While te reo Maori remains an stop us from bringing people together Tuku Reo Maori the support for it is strong. Professor Higgins endangered language, the support for to celebrate te reo so instead of is part of the said. “Those it is strong,” said Professor Higgins. cancelling events, we went hard and Maori Language We are intent on helping 200,000 people “We are intent on helping to turn decided to bring more people together Commission’s plan turn those supporters into who have already those supporters into speakers than ever before,” Maori language to get one million speakers signed up on our A Maori language hub – www. commissioner Professor Rawinia people speaking, —Maori language commissioner website tuku. reomaori.co.nz – was also launched Higgins said. singing and ’ reomaori.co.nz/ this week. At its heart is an online “We are humbled and excited to see celebrating te reo Professor Rawinia Higgins are sharing why events calendar where people people from across Aotearoa — from at the same time. they are joining us can upload and download events our smallest towns to our largest The commission will host a Zui and what they will be doing. happening online, on land and cities, multinational companies, cafes, mano — a Zoom meeting with 1000 “People’s reasons for joining reveal overseas.

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WALK THIS WAY: Riverside track Siteworx Civil general manager Blair Judd, Gisborne District Council transformed by Journeys capital manager Darren Cox, Gisborne Cycle and Walkway recycled asphalt Trust spokeswoman Gillian Ward and Mitre10 Gisborne WALKERS and cyclists “I congratulate the district owner Geoff Taylor should find their riverside council and Mitre 10 for coming check out the experience smoother going together to complete works like upgraded track after the patch behind Mitre10 this, especially using recycled behind Mitre10. was given a temporary upgrade materials.” Picture by using recycled asphalt road Mitre 10 owner Geoff Paul Rickard surfaces. Taylor worked with Mrs Ward The asphalt was removed and council capital manager during recent city road Darren Cox to find a temporary upgrades funded by the solution until plans were Provincial Growth Fund. confirmed for the Taruheru Once asphalt road surfaces Cycleway. are removed they can be Local company Siteworx Civil screened and processed into Ltd completed the work on the reusable materials suitable for path. paths, trails, unsealed roads “It’s been a great little project and carparks. to be a part of and we’ve seen Gillian Ward, of Gisborne an increase in pedestrians and Cycle and Walkway Trust, said cyclists using the path,” Mr the work had made a significant Taylor said. difference. “We’ve just completed more The path was much more plantings and we’re looking accessible for pedestrians and forward to seeing the path cyclists. being incorporated into the “During Level 4 lockdown the Alzheimers Memory Walk later path was well used by people this year,” Mr Taylor said. riding bikes, running and Similar works with recycled walking. millings have been completed “The path had really at Te Poho-o-Rawiri and Te Kuri deteriorated during the winter a Tuatai maraes and unsealed months but with the upgrade roads, including riverside and it’s now suitable in all weather. lake roads. Supergrans overwhelmed at large donation

by Sophie Rishworth The community take care of us and we are well supported by the town and the country. It’s lovely IN one of the biggest donations they have had to be able to give back.” to date, boxes of brand new clothes arrived at Global Velocity’s Paul Anderson said it was Supergrans Tairawhiti yesterday leaving them pretty rewarding knowing the clothes were going “extremely overwhelmed”. where they would be appreciated. The boxes were full of hundreds of items The company supplies a number of stores, including jackets, fleece tops, raincoats, shorts, including Hunting and Fishing, and also makes the and hats, in all sizes. school uniforms for Ilminster Intermediate. Manufacturing company Global Velocity “Julie from the Gisborne store reached out and Group made the donation. North Island sales asked if we had anything lying around, probably representative Paul Anderson said he was pretty not expecting the scale of what we had. It’s about chuffed to see the work the Supergrans team were four or five years’ build up of leftover stock, that doing in Tairawhiti. just goes into a pile. Worth thousands of dollars, the clothing will be “It was a great time for a spring clean. We were distributed among families who are struggling. really chuffed to see the work these ladies are Hunting and Fishing store manager Julie doing in Gisborne,” said Paul, who drove the boxes Dowsing, who organised the gift, said after many of clothes through yesterday. years in retail an idea had popped into her head. Supergrans manager Linda Coulston said this She was watching a television show on poverty morning they had done an inventory of what was in in New Zealand when she thought about stock left the boxes and were, “extremely overwhelmed with over at the end of each year. She thought it was the donation”. worth a try to ask supplier Global Velocity if they “We have a lot of ideas of how we will distribute had any discontinued lines lying around. this large donation to families in need.” ONE OUT OF THE BOX: A large donation of brand new clothing to Supergrans A well-timed call to the right person, who had Linda said more and more businesses were Tairawhiti yesterday will be well-received by famlies who are struggling in this region. just been wondering what to do with that leftover coming forward to them with socially-conscious From left are Hunting and Fishing store manager Julie Dowsing, SuperGrans field stock, and it was boxed up and driven to Gisborne. initiatives. co-ordinator Erina Torrey, Global Velocity North Island sales representative Paul It was a pretty lucky phone call and a good “That’s really awesome. It is wonderful to see Anderson, and Supergans manager Linda Coulston. Picture by Paul Rickard score, said Julie. this kind of support and we thank Julie and the “It’s about giving back to the community. Hunting and Fishing crew for thinking of us.” LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND • Regenerative Agriculture Gisborne Herald research by B+LNZ gets a home-delivered $390,000 boost from the Ministry of Primary Industries • Dr Jacqueline Rowarth talks about why innovation in farming needs fresh thinking • The weekly AgriHQ report for the week beginning September 7 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: Jack Malcolm/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, September 8, 2020 NEWS 3

HEAVY ARTILLERY: A 6-pounder AT gun foreground, trench mortar 50cal Browning heavy machine gun and a jeep were among the hardware displayed by the local branch of the New Zealand Military Vehicle Club at Reads Quay and Heipipi Endeavour Park on Sunday. Left, a World War 2 Indian motorcycle and Dodge weapons carrier with Unimog and Landrover behind. New Zealand members are welcome and you do not have to own a military vehicle. Pictures by Rob Beale Blast from our military past MILITARY history came cancelled many out-of-town WW2 to the 1980s,” Mr Beale camp-outs and off-road all- alive at the weekend, with events, so it was good to said. wheel drive events. replica machine guns fired in put on a display for locals. “A big attraction for young “We support the telling of Gisborne city centre. The group support RSA and old was seeing and our history, with so many On Sunday, the local commemorations in Gisborne hearing the replica machine local people serving in the military vehicle club displayed and Wairoa each year, and guns firing over the river. New Zealand armed forces in some of its hardware at have run major events at These use LPG to simulate war and peace, in Northern the Gisborne Gas Guzzlers Mahia and in Gisborne.” the ‘rat-a-tat’ sound of real Hemisphere wars, in the breakfast in Reads Quay and The display included guns. Pacific and at home in New on Heipipi Endeavour Park. equipment from various eras, “The local group collect Zealand. “There were motorcycles, including a World War 1 and display the vehicles and The preparations for a jeeps and trucks, with Minenwerfer German trench gear at rallies, air shows and threatened Japanese invasion artillery, machine guns and mortar and a World War 2 commemorative events. in 1942, including the concrete military gear on show,” New British 6-pounder anti-tank “New members are welcome gun emplacements in town REPLICA: The business end of a Vickers Zealand Military Vehicle Club gun used by the New Zealand and you don’t need to own and on Titirangi/Kaiti Hill, .303 medium machine gun with pup tents president Rob Beale said. Army after the war. a military vehicle. We are a show that the war may have behind. Picture by Rob Beale “Covid restrictions have “The vehicles range from family-based club and enjoy come to us.” Second round of Enrol now to get your EasyVote card MORE than 400,000 voters, including Eleven percent of eligible voters, at the start of July to 89 percent, with resilience funding about 7000 in East Coast, have less or 428,000 people, have yet to enrol the biggest increase among those than a week left to enrol in time to and these people need to act now, she aged 18 to 29 — up from 67 to 72 receive an EasyVote card for the says. percent. General Election and referendums. The change in election date to People can enrol or update their will be over $300k Having an EasyVote card is more October 17 means writ day — when the details online at vote.nz using their convenient for voters because it allows electoral rolls close for printing — has New Zealand driver licence, New SPORT Gisborne Tairawhiti is allocation figure was determined. staff to find their name on the electoral moved to September 13, making this Zealand passport or RealMe verified on track to distribute more than “But at this stage we expect to roll and issue their voting papers the new deadline for anyone wanting identity. $300,000 to sports clubs and distribute more than $300,000. faster. an EasyVote card. They can also enrol or update their organisations in the district under “The response to the Community “It makes voting easier, as well People can still enrol after details by filling in an enrolment form the second round of Community Resilience funding, designed as cutting queuing times – a crucial September, 13 including on election available online at vote.nz, by calling Resilience funding. to help sports club through the consideration in these COVID-19 times” day, but they won’t receive an 0800 36 76 56, texting their name “We’ve had more than 50 Covid situation, shows just how says Electoral Commission national EasyVote card. and address to 3676, or at any voting applications from our clubs and significantly many clubs have manager of enrolment and community Ms Bohte says enrolments have place when these open from Saturday, organisations,” said Sports Gisborne struggled through the Covid period engagement Mandy Bohté. risen from 87 percent of eligible voters October 3. Tairawhiti’s Debbie Hutchings. when it comes to meeting their fixed “They flooded in before the and operating costs. application period closed last “We’re just glad we can be Friday.” of support during what’s been It would be a few days before they a difficult time for our sporting Name suppression granted had all been processed and a final sector.” Cossie Club takes on to man on firearm charges A YOUNG Gisborne man, a fine or sentence of community and would negatively impact his described in court as a high work, Ms Tunstall said. reputation, as his record would board Level 2 advice achiever, has been granted Judge Bolstad granted Ms no longer be blemish-free and he continued interim name Tunstall’s application for continued could be perceived as being unable GISBORNE Cosmopolitan Club enable club members to have social suppression in relation to gun suppression until the conclusion of to make good decisions or hold has had what president Paul Cooper games of pool, snooker, darts, offences. the case. positions of trust. called a positive meeting to discuss indoor bowls and Texas Holdem He has also been granted a final Ms Tunstall said the main Ms Tunstall said as per the how the club can improve its Level 2 poker. adjournment ahead of entering grounds for the application was legal requirement for the order, procedures. “We will be creating some pleas. extreme hardship to her client, the risk of those consequences The Cossie was advised last non-alcohol areas to allow those The man, in his 20s, appeared whose mental health would likely was more than trivial and week by police on the Covid-19 activities to happen. However, we before Judge Turitea Bolstad in further suffer if his name was would have flow-on effects guidelines. As a result, it shut down won’t be running any competitions.” Gisborne District Court. He is published. The application was to any form of rehabilitation its pool, snooker and darts activities Mr Cooper said the club had charged with firing a gun near a supported by an affidavit from a and future opportunities with at the weekend. always wanted to be compliant with dwelling and presenting a gun. Gisborne GP. employer agencies or in the wider Club management met with police the Covid guidelines. Counsel Holly Tunstall described Her client was a high achiever, community. licensing Sergeant Isaac Ngatai “Now we are more comfortable the offences as low-end, with heavily involved in the community During proceedings the man yesterday to discuss the situation. with what’s required.” maximum penalties of three and employed by a reputable became upset and emotional in “Our meeting with him went very Sgt Ngatai has spoken to all months imprisonment. company, Ms Tunstall said. the dock. Judge Bolstad invited well,” Mr Cooper said. “He gave us licensed premises operators in the Were it not for the issue of name The court process was his parents, who were present, to some good advice, which we really city in regards to Level 2 guidelines suppression these charges would overwhelming for him and stand alongside him as support. appreciate. We feel we can now for pool and darts. normally be heard by a community had already taken a toll on his The case will be called again put in place some procedures that “The licence holders at all magistrate, Ms Tunstall said. mental health, affecting his sleep later this month for entry of will allow us to resume our sports premises should be aware now of If convicted, her client, who has and causing him anxiety and pleas. Ms Tunstall told the court activities and still adhere to the the guidelines,” Sgt Ngatai said. no previous criminal history, would depression, for which he had that due to her upcoming work Covid Level 2 guidelines, albeit on a “For police it’s been about be a good candidate for a discharge sought medical assistance. commitments out of town, the file limited basis.” engaging with and educating without conviction. Otherwise, the Publication of his name would would now be handled by counsel Mr Cooper said procedures would licensed premises operators.” offending would likely result in exacerbate that mental distress Doug Rishworth. 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 FAMILY NOTICES In Memoriam September 18 open day at Toihoukura JULIE ANE Bereavements ROBINSON 3rd March 1977 - EIT Maori visual arts school, a Te Toi o Nga Rangi/ Bachelor of Maori This year, the school is also offering, for FAMILY OF 8th September 2019 Toihoukura, is holding an open day on Visual Arts. the first time, the Te Kupenga Te Toi o KENNETH FRANCIS Friday, September 18. Te Toi o Nga Rangi students will be Nga Rangi scholarship. HOLSCHIER The life given by nature Held over two hours in the morning, introduced to a range of art disciplines, The scholarship is open to Year 13 (21.9.1931 - 15.8.20) was short. However, the the open day is an opportunity to visit with a view to specialisation in year two students. Any Year 13 student enrolled memory of your life the school’s studio spaces and meet tutors and fine-tuning in year three. A huge thank you to all with us is eternally in school can submit one art work in any who showed love and fixed, at times we think and students. Toihoukura also offers a Te Hono ki Toi medium. During an exhibition of the support for Nancy and perhaps they are not Among its programmes, Toihoukura (Poutiri-a-rangi)/ Bachelor of Professional submitted works, two of the artists will the family after the stars in the sky, but offers a fees-free, Level 4 certificate Creative Practice (Honours) course, the be awarded a scholarship. passing of our beloved rather openings in course. Te Ara Pourewa/ Graduate Diploma For more information, email EIT Ken. Words cannot Heaven where their Successful completion of this one in Heritage and Museum Studies, and Toihoukura at [email protected], visit express the gratitude for love pours through and year, full-time programme gives the Te Hono ki Toi (Poutiriao)/ Master of Toihoukura in Cobden Street, or call 869 the wonderful cards, shines down to let us certificated student the option to pursue Professional Creative Practice. 047. letters, flowers and know they are happy. thoughts that were We’ve learnt sometimes given during this you have to let go of difficult time. what you thought life would be like, and learn to find joy in the story Milestone LAC meeting PLEASE you are left to actually HAVE FAMILY live; knowing that in by Murray Robertson NOTICES another time, in a happier place, we’ll THE Tairawhiti Fire and Emergency NZ IN BY 9AM meet again. Local Advisory Committee (LAC) met for DAY OF Miss you heaps Ju. the first time in what was described as “a significant milestone”. PUBLICATION Love forever, LACs were created around the country Mum and Dad to provide independent advice from a local perspective to the Fire and Emergency NZ board to help with emergency planning. They will work closely with a wide range Forty-five of people, including the local Fire and Emergency management team. Tairawhiti LAC chairwoman Molly Pardoe said the committee’s first face-to-face heaps and meeting was a tangible step forward for the committee and Fire and Emergency. “Having the Tairawhiti Local Advisory Committee meet and come together with counting in local leaders and the National LAC team of Fire and Emergency was a brilliant experience — especially with it being hosted beach burns on Hauiti marae (Tolaga Bay). “We discussed what risks, needs and by Murray Robertson issues there might be in Tairawhiti, and also talked over who we can engage with in the THE big debris burns on the Tolaga community to help form our advice.” Bay beach front have just about reached They were all looking forward to learning the halfway mark, with around 45 of the and hearing more from tangata whenua heaps incinerated. (people of the land) and working with Fire Fire crews lit a couple more fires and Emergency NZ. yesterday but stopped lighting any more Fire and Emergency Tairawhiti area when the wind went onshore. manager Charlie Turei said it was exciting “We’ve put the burning operation to be part of the first meeting. on hold for now until we get another “Fire and Emergency is committed to southerly come through,” said Tolaga Bay ensuring we are planning for and meeting chief fire officer and principal rural fire the needs of our communities,” he said. officer Ray Dever. “That’s why this meeting is an exciting In Tolaga Bay, southerly winds blow milestone for us. offshore and that keeps smoke from the “With the establishment of the Tairawhiti fires away from the township. LAC, the local community now has a strong “The job’s been pretty good so far. We’ve voice that can provide our board with advice been lucky with the weather. that will ultimately allow us to better serve “We are still on track to burn all the our communities. debris heaps by the end of the month.” LOCAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: The newly-formed Tairawhiti Local Advisory “Wider LAC community engagement is Mr Dever said they had received no Committee members are, front (from left): Donette Kupenga, Louise Bennett expected to begin in early 2021.” complaints to date about smoke from the (deputy chair), Molly Pardoe (chair) and Alice Kibble. Middle: Kereama Katu, Ray LACs have been created in Northland, operation. Dever, Lucy Chamberlain, Charlie Turei, Te Rangi Collis, Maui Tangohou and Piki Tairawhiti, Hawke’s Bay, the Chatham “We want to keep it that way.” Thomas. Back: David Guard and Dean Latus. Picture supplied Islands, West Coast, Marlborough and Otago. Uncle accused of sex offences at marae TWO siblings have told a jury their Clarke put it to the complainants they The complainants differed in their sleep in another part of the room. his other sister who was sleeping two uncle committed sexual offences were lying — his client did not touch evidence as to when the function was Mr Clarke asked the girl why — if mattresses along. against them as he lay beside them in a either of them. — the boy saying it was near the end of she was concerned about her brother The boy said he felt too frozen and communal sleeping space on a marae. Mr Clarke also pointed to the alcohol the year, the girl saying it was mid-year. — had she did not taken him with her scared and did not know what to do. One of the complainants — a girl aged their mother allowed them to drink The girl said there were several other to get help? Was it because nothing He did not say anything to his aunt 16 at the time — said when her uncle that night. Mr Clarke suggested it had people already asleep on mattresses happened and she had no reason to be as he feared she might not believe him. began touching her indecently that affected their memory. His client said either side of the wharenui when she worried? They had all trusted their uncle. night, she thought she put a stop to it the pair were still up when he went went to bed at about 11.30pm. The girl became upset and said she The boy said he tried to tell his family by asking her 12-year-old brother to lie to bed - neither was on the mattress She felt her uncle come up behind her, was worried but did not want to make the next day while they were all in the in between them. beside him. fondle her stomach and breasts, and try a scene. same room but he was not sure his But instead her uncle turned his The siblings, despite their ages, had to unbutton her pants. Although she did The boy said he knew it was his uncle parents heard. attention to the boy, sexually violating each had their own box of 12 bottled not see his face, she knew it was him on the mattress beside his - he checked He began by saying his uncle touched him while she went to get an adult from pre-mix vodka drinks, the jury heard. and that was confirmed when his wife under the blanket to see who it was. He him but one of his siblings laughed, another building. The complainants maintained their later removed him. was eight out of 10 certain and it was which “triggered” him, so he did not tell The accused, 35, can’t be name due allegations were true. She could not remember if her brother confirmed when his aunt later took the them the full story. to the automatic suppression of details The girl said she drank her alcohol came into the sleeping area about that man away. He wanted support from his family but that applies for the complainants. over five hours and after having a meal. time or she went to get him, but she The boy said his uncle touched him after that reaction, questioned whether He went on trial in Gisborne District She was drunk but not so much so that asked him to lie down between her and on the stomach and penis then, while he would get it. Court yesterday. she did not know where her bed was. the uncle, thinking it would stop any his sister was gone from the room, put Neither did he want to risk his parents In relation to the boy, the man has The boy said he stopped drinking further assault. a hand over his mouth while sexually — if they did believe him — perhaps pleaded not guilty to two counts of about two hours before going to bed. Instead her uncle touched her brother, violating him with his finger and penis. getting violent towards his uncle. sexual violation by unlawful sexual Mr Clarke suggested his client had who looked like he was about to cry. It was painful and he tried to bite his Since the incident he suffered anal connection and two counts of indecent not been drinking but the complainants Rather than wake anyone around uncle’s hand. bleeding. Two doctors put it down to assault on a person aged under 16. said otherwise. them, she went to get help from her When he heard his sister arriving back constipation and a haemorrhoid but He has pleaded not guilty to two The alleged offending happened at a uncle’s wife, who was still up in another with their aunt, he elbowed his uncle he believed it was more due to the counts of indecent assault in relation family function on a marae near Wairoa building. to stop. offending. to the girl. during 2017 but was not disclosed until When they arrived back, her aunt took Mr Clarke put it to the boy he could The trial is expected to finish today. In cross-examination counsel Alistair early 2018. the uncle (who was fully clothed) to have rolled away, or stood up, or woken Judge Warren Cathcart is presiding. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 HEALTH 5 Potato/kumara toast a healthy new trend

A WORLDWIDE gourmet trend has hit New Zealand shores and may be the answer to shedding lockdown kilos. Many people joked during the original Covid-19 lockdown that they exercised twice as much, but still put on weight. With summer only a few months away, swapping your usual bread for kumara or potato slices when making toast for breakfast is a great place to start. An easy treat to replicate at home, this “healthy toast” can be topped with delicious spring produce such as avocado, mushrooms and fresh herbs for a nutritious start to the day. “Breakfast is one of the most important meals because it sets up your metabolism and good eating habits for the rest of the day,” said 5+ A Day Charitable Trust general manager Paula Dudley. “Eating lots of bread or toasting English muffins and crumpets for breakfast won’t give you the sustained energy your body needs.” Using kumara or potato slices as a base for your toast instead of bread is a satisfying option and will encourage you to eat fresh produce as toppings, rather than sweet toppings such as honey or jam. The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation recommend people eat three or more servings of vegetables and at least two servings of fruit every day — several of which can be ticked off first thing in the morning with this ingenious idea. Kumara or potato toast is a great way to reduce gluten in your diet, which can cause bloating and digestive issues for some people. MAKING THEIR CASE: Gisborne primary healthcare nurses and reception/administration staff Simply cut kumara or potato lengthwise into were not deterred by cold weather as they took their case for pay parity to the public during their one-day slices (slim enough to fit inside the toaster) and strike. They gathered at the Gladstone Road and Customhouse Street intersection during the nationwide cook them for four to 10 minutes depending on strike.“We are aware that we will probably receive some public scrutiny for our strike during this second wave of the toaster’s heat settings and the thickness of the Covid-19. We’ve been in this battle for over nine months since our previous employment agreement expired in vegetable toast. November,” said one of the nurses. “The importance of our work needs to be recognised, particularly as we are Once slices are golden and cooked through, you the front line of this pandemic — protecting the public and protecting our peers in the hospital.” can get creative and have fun experimenting with Picture by Paul Rickard different combinations of fresh spring produce. Tairawhiti joins bowel screening programme

THE National Bowel Screening Programme Hauora Tairawhiti becomes the 11th health “The home-testing kit is designed to pick up (NBSP) will soon be available in Tairawhiti and it is board to join the screening programme and tiny traces of blood in a bowel motion and to imperative that the whole community participates. the first to use a custom-built IT system that catch cancers before they become advanced and NBSP clinical director Dr Susan Parry said will manage and monitor a person’s screening more difficult to treat.” An important message it was particularly important that members of journey from start to finish. New Zealand has one of the highest rates of Tairawhiti’s large Maori population take up the Over the next two years around 9500 people bowel cancer in the world and, at 1200 deaths from Three Rivers Medical invitation. in Tairawhiti, aged 60 to 74, will be invited to a year, it is the second most common cause of To maintain social distancing, we are “Maori often have the worst outcomes when it complete a home-testing kit that can detect cancer death. mainly using telephone consultations in comes to bowel cancer so catching it early is key. bowel cancer at the stage when it can often be Dr Parry says the disease typically affects older the irst instance. All doctor and nurse “I know there has been particularly good successfully treated. people. consults are now by appointment only. engagement with the district’s Maori health It is expected that NBSP will be implemented “These are parents and grandparents who are providers and that will be ongoing. nationwide by the end of 2021. at a stage in their lives where they are enjoying You can ring and book your appointments “This programme is a significant health Since it began just over three years ago, the more free time and performing an important role as usual, and then a GP or nurse will intervention that will benefit the people of programme has screened around 260,000 people supporting whanau. call you back at the agreed time. Normal Tairawhiti in so many ways. and detected nearly 688 cancers, as well as “It is tragic to lose these people before their weekday and weekend charges apply for “I urge anyone who gets a letter of invitation in removing hundreds of pre-cancerous polyps. time to an entirely preventable disease.” phone consultations and prescriptions. the mail, followed by a test kit, not to think twice. Dr Parry said many people are totally unaware Dr Parry said communities in Tairawhiti will “Just do the test and send it back. It could save they have bowel cancer. benefit greatly from the introduction of bowel Most services including nurse your life.” “That is why screening is so important. screening. services, cervical screening, childhood immunisations and cardiovascular disease risk assessment checks have resumed but by appointment only. Unsung heroes of Covid-19 recovery Our revised opening hours are weekdays 9am-8pm and weekends 9am-1pm then EXPERT cardio-respiratory in the intensive care unit,” says Ms Rhodes says people recovering 2pm-6pm. We appreciate your patience physiotherapists are playing a vital, but Physiotherapy New Zealand (PNZ) from Covid-19 may find themselves during this time. often unacknowledged, role in providing Cardio-Respiratory Special Interest more breathless than usual and have a skilled hospital care for New Zealanders Group secretary Sarah Rhodes. persistent cough. Services available: who have Covid-19 — and with their Ms Rhodes says these experts’ As PNZ celebrates World Physiotherapy Doctors, Practice Nurses, Pharmacy, ongoing recovery. extensive knowledge of respiratory Day it is calling on the Government, Radiology, Healthy Steps Podiatry, Today is World Physiotherapy Day anatomy and pathology ensures New health boards and primary health Gains@Geneva Healthcare Services, and this year’s theme highlights Zealanders who have contracted the virus organisations to cut surgery wait times, Peter Stiven General Surgeon, MoleMap, physiotherapy’s vital role in Covid-19 receive the best care while the patient is reduce costs and achieve health outcomes Gisborne Ear Clear, Gisborne Counselling recovery. on a ventilator, or being weaned off it. by enabling greater use of physiotherapy & Psychological Services Cardio-respiratory physiotherapists “Cardio-respiratory physiotherapists across the primary health sector. work in hospital Emergency also provide essential rehabilitation for “We believe the Government needs Three Rivers Medical Departments, ICU, acute and post-Covid-19 patients, once they are to invest a small proportion of the Vote Weekdays 9am-8pm. Weekends and Public rehabilitation wards. discharged from hospital, to manage Health funding allocated in the budget They are involved in the acute care of ongoing breathing dysfunction, muscle for primary-care physiotherapy. Holidays 9am-1pm then 2pm-6pm. patients admitted to hospital with Covid- weakness, cardiovascular compromise “In the short term, that would enable 75 Customhouse Street 19 symptoms and help with breathing and fatigue.” physios to help clear the Covid-19 (white building opposite The Warehouse) and rehabilitation. In the community and outpatient backlog. 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The NZ Herald understands that part As both major parties were announcing new of Labour’s plan is aimed at reducing the election policies, the Ministry of Health advised hundreds of millions of dollars paid in that there were four new cases of Covid-19 such fees every year. yesterday. Two were in the community and two in The policy launch today follows a managed isolation. frenetic day for political parties as the In a statement from the Ministry of Health, election campaign kicked off yesterday, officials said both community cases yesterday with National revealing plans to combat were linked to the Auckland cluster. That cluster methamphetamine and NZ First leader now has 161 people linked to it. Winston Peters touting for votes at Otago Of the new community cases, one was a close University. contact of an existing confirmed case linked to the Ardern is in Tauranga today to unveil cluster, and the other was a confirmed case linked the party’s small business policy. It is to the Mt Roskill evangelical church sub-cluster. understood it will include regulating Both were already in isolation. merchant servicing fees, a move that is With the four additional cases yesterday, the expected to be welcomed by the retail total number of active cases in New Zealand is 118 sector which has long been calling for — 41 are imported cases at managed isolation and change. quarantine (MIQ) facilities, and 77 are community Businesses are charged fees for the cases. use of contactless debit and credit card Since August 11, the ministry’s contact tracing transactions, including mobile wallets team has identified 3224 close contacts of cases, and payWave, but there is no such fee BUSY DAY: Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern in Rotorua yesterday at the start of of which 3199 have been contacted and are self- for using an eftpos card by inserting or the 2020 election campaign. isolating. Officials are in the process of contacting swiping. NZ Herald picture the rest. The contactless payment fees have Both of yesterday’s new imported cases, a boy been an area of contention in New and businesses began to call for them to consultancy Covec, the fees will likely under 4 and a woman in her 20s, arrived from India Zealand, which has much higher payment be reduced. cost businesses $556 million by the end on August 23, the 16th and 17th persons on an Air fees than Australia or the UK, and costs Auckland bar owner Mike Howie from of the year. Without intervention, that India flight on that day to test positive for Covid- businesses here hundreds of millions of Freida Margolis in Grey Lynn told RNZ would rise to $711m by 2025, Covec’s 19. The ministry said the latest positive cases were dollars annually. in August those fees were costing him numbers show. close contacts of previous confirmed cases. Retail NZ general manager for public thousands of dollars during what was Retail New Zealand has been To date all cases have been detected in affairs Greg Harford said because already a difficult time. questioning why these fees are so high managed isolation and quarantine facilities. retailers tend to incorporate their bank He said many businesses were doing it and is calling for regulation to see them Meanwhile, four people are in hospital with charges into their overall pricing, there tough in the CBD and needed a break or reduced. Covid-19.Three are in a stable condition, but one is is effectively an “inequitable wealth they might go under. In its 2019 Payments Survey, it pointed in intensive care at Waikato Hospital. transfer from less well-off Kiwis to better- “It’s just too tough for some of these out that these fees are unregulated in This comes as the number of Covid tests in off New Zealanders”. businesses. We’re lucky at the moment, New Zealand, which means they are New Zealand nears the 820,000 mark. Just under “High fee levels are costing the whole but if this goes on any longer, again we higher than in other countries. 4000 were completed yesterday. economy,” he said. have to start the same old, ‘Where can we For example, contactless payment The uptake of the Covid-19 tracer app continues Today’s announcement would be get a break?’ fees in New Zealand are 1.1 percent per to increase. There are now 2,139,000 registered welcome news to many small businesses “For example, are the banks going transaction for a debit card. users and 359,393 posters have been created. The across the country which have been to do anything for us this time? At the But that figure is 0.6 percent in app has recorded 43,433,462 poster scans, and struggling in the wake of Covid-19, moment, they said they were giving us Australia and 0.3 percent in the UK. 2,477,964 manual diary entries. Harford said. free payWave (during lockdown). My The gap is also wide when it comes to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Several months ago, at the height of bank fees have quadrupled when they contactless credit card payments — in entourage of MPs, staff and security wore masks the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand, turned my payWave on. New Zealand, it’s a 1.5 percent for part of the time they were in the Rotorua debit card payWave fees were slashed to “I’m now in the thousands from the fee compared to 0.8 percent and 0.6 region. zero to encourage contactless payment. bank fees, rather than the hundreds.” percent in Australia and the UK Along her campaign stops, Ardern has focused But the fees were reintroduced in July According to numbers from economic respectively. on the rebuilding of the tourism sector. National takes aim at meth menace

by Shannon Johnstone, that wastewater testing showed job has this in it. It is not solely Hawke’s Bay Today meth accounted for more than people involved in the transport half of New Zealand’s detected industry or journalism or politics HASTINGS — National drugs, and caused up to $1 billion or anything like that. It is right Party leader Judith Collins a year in social harm. through society.” waltzed into Hawke’s Bay “What the numbers hide is Bridges said there must also be yesterday determined to put the individual tragedy and the a strong response from law and methamphetamine harm back on tragedies of those who fall victim order agencies to disrupt meth the political agenda. to meth, the families ripped apart imports. Relegated to something of a by meth and the “We will side issue in a year dominated victims who suffer build capacity by Covid-19 lockdown and the the consequences of What the numbers to interdict the associated economic freefall, violent attacks. We hide‘ is the individual international Collins claimed the Government cannot continue to tragedy and the crime cartels had put controlling the drug in say it is too hard to that are bringing the “too-hard basket”, at huge do anything about tragedies of those this problem to social cost. it.” who fall victim to our shores. Good She announced an uncosted Collins, meth. intelligence and party policy which would tackle flanked by health international supplies coming into prisons, spokesman Shane ’ co-operation will be target organised crime networks, Reti, justice a priority . . .” increase drug dogs at airports spokesman Simon Bridges, National’s plan would also and establish a $50 million Tukituki MP Lawrence Yule and increase police and health contestable fund for reduction Napier candidate Katie Nimon, funding to identify new drugs programmes. It would also use a said Labour had “very quietly” and bad batches sooner, introduce health response modelled on the rescinded National’s 2017 plan to more drug dogs at airports and DRUG POLICY: National Party leader Judith Collins in Napier Matrix programme implemented deal with meth when it came into ports, aiming to reduce meth use yesterday. Tuki Tuki MP Lawrence Yule, left, along with health in the 1990s in the United States office, and what it had created in Corrections facilities. spokesman Shane Reti, justic spokesman Simon Bridges and to tackle its cocaine epidemic. was a “piecemeal approach”. It would also target domestic Napier candidate Katie Nimon accompanied Collins. Labour Collins told media following her “This is a drug that affects organised-crime networks with had “quietly” rescinded National’s meth plan, Collins said. campaign gathering at the Napier every strata of society. Every extra focus and resourcing from Hawke’s Bay Today picture War Memorial Conference Centre profession, every trade, every police. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 17 Covid cases Luxury houses, cars feature in gang trial from one flight by Chelsea Boyle, money.” NZ Herald Some people connected to the Several children among infected passengers on Air India plane case had gone to lengths to try to AUCKLAND — The president stop the police intercepting their by Lynley Ward, NZ Herald cases on the flight, tested positive at the of the New Zealand chapter of the communications, the court heard. Auckland Jet Park quarantine facility. Comancheros Motorcycle Club, “This case is full of secrets and A STAGGERING 17 people who The weekend saw two more cases a media personality and three pretending,” Johnstone said. travelled from India to Auckland last linked to the flight. others are on trial, denying a slew The court heard lawyer Andrew month on a single flight have now tested Another child linked to a previously of serious offending that includes Simpson was used to set up trusts positive for Covid-19. identified case tested positive on money laundering. for Naufahu and others. The Air India flight from Delhi that Saturday and a man in his 20s who had Gang head Pasilika Naufahu As money was split from the touched down in New Zealand on August been staying in an Auckland isolation and others were arrested last year Pasilika Naufahu lawyer’s account into these trusts 23 has seen men, women and children facility tested positive on Sunday. in a high-profile police raid that it would end up “mixed up” and become infected over the past fortnight The Ministry of Health said he was followed a covert investigation “churned around” in a bid to gain after travelling on the 20-hour flight. a close contact of an existing confirmed dubbed Operation Nova. the appearance of legitimacy, Johnstone The Ministry of Health revealed last case and tested positive following routine Crown prosecutor David Johnstone said said. The Crown prosecutor is expected to month that the first group of seven sick testing around day 12 of his stay. He is Naufahu had arrived in the country from continue his opening address today. passengers were detected during the now in quarantine. Australia in early 2016. Naufahu faces charges of conspiracy to routine day-three testing in managed Yesterday two additional cases were From that point he went about establishing import a Class A drug into New Zealand and isolation. added to the tally. Both were detected his chapter, appointing associates of his to conspiring to supply a Class B drug, as well On August 28, seven passengers — through testing in managed isolation and have official roles such as vice-president and as three charges of money laundering. The three men in their 30s, a woman in her quarantine facilities. secretary — “that sort of thing”. charges of money laundering relate to the 60s, a woman in her 20s and two children The first was a boy and the second a Naufahu, his fellow Comancheros, their purchase of a Ford Ranger, a Bentley and — had all tested positive for Covid-19. woman in her 20s. Both arrived from partners and families then commenced a a Jacon SG3 Trailer concrete pump, which Health officials confirmed they all India on August 23. lifestyle of enjoying the material benefits together add up to more than $212,700. arrived on August 23 on the same Air They were each a close contact of that flowed from a whole series of criminal Wiwini Himi Hakaraia, an accountant, faces India flight from Delhi, and tested separate previously reported confirmed offences, he said. a charge of participating in an organised positive around day three of their stay in cases. “The success of the group, until the police criminal group, two charges of possession managed isolation. India had recorded more than 90,000 intervened, brought a whole range of things of a class A drug for supply, as well as three The next day a woman in her 70s and new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours with it — brand new Range Rover after brand charges of money laundering. a man in his 30s who were staying at the leading to yesterday, taking its total new Range Rover.” Connor Clausen is charged with conspiring Grand Millennium in Auckland, and who above that of Brazil. That meant India Properties including a $1.3 million to supply the Class B drug pseudoephedrine. travelled on the same August 23 flight had the second-largest number of Bucklands Beach house, ostentatious A media personality, who has name from India, tested positive. confirmed cases in the world, 4,204,613. motorcycles and trips out on the harbour on a suppression, faces a charge of participating Then on September 1, when 14 people As of yesterday, it had reported 71,642 luxury launch, Johnstone added. in an organised criminal group and two tested positive to Covid, a woman in her deaths, the third-highest death toll in the That $1.3m home was bought under the charges of money laundering. 20s and another in her 30s, who were in world. name of Naufahu’s 7-year-old son as the The last defendant, who also has name managed isolation and who arrived from In New Zealand, there are now 118 purchaser, he said. suppression, faces one charge of money India on the same flight, were both found active cases. Of those, 41 are imported “Another thing the success of the group laundering by depositing more than $292,000 to have the infection. cases in quarantine facilities. A further brought with it was a problem. in cash into various bank accounts. Three days later on September 4, two 77 are community cases. “The problem of course was how to hide The jury trial is expected to last four weeks children aged under 9, and who were There are now 1425 cases of Covid-19 the crimes that were generating all this and is presided over by Justice Graham Lang. family members of previously identified in New Zealand. Fine of $60,000 possible for man facing dieback charges

AUCKLAND — The first person first caught entering a closed track on charged with breaching kauri dieback May 14, 2019, when he was spotted by restrictions was caught on an infrared kauri dieback compliance officer Vanda bush camera walking on a closed track, Karolczak at Greenwoods Corner, off a court has heard. Scenic Rd in Titirangi. Robert Armitstead, in his 60s, Karolczak said Armitstead was appeared in Waitakere District Court also captured twice on video, once by yesterday for a judge-alone trial before a motion-activated camera that uses Judge Lisa Tremewan. It is the first infrared to take footage at night, and prosecution of its kind and is being once from a camera at the Arataki described as a precedent-setting case. Visitor Centre. Auckland Council alleges that If convicted, Armitstead could be fined Armitstead entered closed Waitakere up to $60,000. In May 2018, Auckland Ranges Regional Park tracks three Council closed high-risk tracks in the times over the course of five months in Waitakere Ranges Regional Park to the 2019. public to protect forested areas from the He yesterday pleaded guilty to one further spread of kauri dieback disease. charge of breaching track closure People entering those tracks could be restrictions, but denies two other prosecuted under the council bylaw. charges laid under the council’s Public The Waitakere Ranges Regional Park Safety and Nuisance Bylaw. has become a hotspot for the tree-killing The court heard Armitstead was dieback disease. — NZ Herald SEPTEMBER SPECIALS

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TARANAKI — Truckers are finding “For $878 million, the Government could shock absorbers torn from trailers and have already installed median barriers, steering joints failing more often and roadside fencing and roundabouts on all blame the worsening state of highways. or most of the 160km of highway between By some measures the country’s Auckland and Whangarei.” highways are deteriorating, prompting The Office of the Auditor-General a call from driver lobbyists for the (OAG) noted that some people it spoke to, Government to urgently tap into Covid-19 including staff from the agency, suppliers, funds. councils, and road user groups, said they Bone-weary John Hickman of Taranaki believed parts of the network were getting is backing the billion-dollar call to make worse, or about to get worse. highways better. “Maintenance bills (are) “Spending less (than depreciation) going through the roof year on year,” the indicates some risk to the agency’s long- veteran operator said. term ability to maintain the condition of His business, JD Hickman, keeps 85 state highways,” the OAG said. trucks on the road but when he recently “The agency is aware of this risk, stumbled over a bundle of tie-rod ends, and has highlighted that additional which can wear out due to constant use on investment in the network will be bumpy roads, in the workshop, he thought, required as part of developing the next “Hell, I didn’t realise how bad it was Government Policy Statement on Land getting”. Transport.” “It’s just the roughness of the ride — the The agency’s general manager of potholes, the digouts,” Hickman said. “You transport services, Brett Gliddon, said a create a judder bar at every repair if you TOUGH DRIVING: Trucker John Hickman describes State Highway 3 as a “shocker”. finite budget meant continuously making like. Just affects all the steering joints, Picture supplied via RNZ trade-offs. tears the shock absorbers off our trailers A Road Transport Forum analysis — you’ve got to see it to believe it. but that it also had undershot the rate of roads will become a lot less safe than they of NZTA figures, highlighted the “And of course the customers’ goods in highway depreciation for a decade. are today.” “unparalleled increases” in heavy vehicles the back get a good milkshake . . . so it’s The Road Transport Forum representing The condition of roads ranked as the on the roads. not good for them either.” truckers prefers to point to other figures. second most vexing problem for drivers in Since 2010, the maximum truck size Regular services keep his trucks on Its own survey shows a 55 percent rise in AA surveys, he said. has increased from 44 tonnes to about 63 the highway safely but can do nothing truckers’ maintenance costs nationwide Their solution is to outlay $300m in tonnes under special permits. to address the aching backs he and his in five years while a national pavement each of the next three years, on top of the “The level of adoption by commercial drivers have at the end of the week. survey by NZTA showed road rutting more than $500m current maintenance heavy vehicle owners exceeded forecasts “You know at the end of the week, worsening in that time by up to a third spend. rendering initial predictions of impact as you’ve done a week’s work, that’s for sure. and the rate of seal failure doubling. Transport Minister Phil Twyford obsolete,” the analysis said. “State Highway 3 is a shocker, from The forum has joined five other lobby said the Government agreed there had Most of the truck growth had been Waverley north to New Plymouth it’s just groups to demand a realignment of been underinvestment for a decade since 2014, which the analysis said was terrible, Third World pandemic road spending. prior to 2017 so had increased highway illustrated by the number of heavy vehicle stuff. “Instead of putting maintenance spending on average by 36 kilometres travelled rising from 1.6 billion “Some of the bridge The Government agreed money into so-called percent. to 2.5b in 2020, a 56 percent increase. abutments you drive shovel-ready projects If re-elected, it would up that another It noted from the national highway over those and it’s just that there had been when they’re not shovel- 17 percent, he said. pavement (surface and road foundation) an horrendous bang as underinvestment for a ready in the sense that “Our record investments in rail will help survey: you go through it.” decade prior to 2017 so they’re not going to be take pressure off our roads by moving Average seal life remaining reduced The Transport Agency had increased highway able to start until they more freight to rail. It’s going to take by half due to heavy use and limited defends its record, saying are consented, until more than a few years to undo a decade of maintenance, or “sweating the asset”. it has been exceeding its maintenance spending. there’s a labour force in neglect,” Twyford said. Four out of five measures of roughness performance targets for place to deliver them, The Government has put $600m to and rutting have got worse by, on average, road conditions. which could be years, cover Covid-19 impacts on the National 14 percent It did a record amount that actually fixing the Land Transport Fund this year. A more than doubling to almost 5 of maintenance last year and had left no dilapidated condition of New Zealand The Transport Agency is responding to percent of the percentage pavement that money earmarked for maintenance since roads on some major state highways high crash rates on some highways, such requires treatment due to low levels of 2018 unspent, it said, adding, however, around the country would be a really good as SH5 Napier to Taupo and SH6 from skid resistance that an expanding road network and more investment,” forum spokesperson Nick Nelson to Blenheim, by moving to reduce John Hickman, from up in his truck cab traffic mean there must be trade-offs, plus Leggett said. the speed limit, not address the design or on the highway from Auckland back home, storms have hit roads hard recently. The AA has also signed a letter to the maintenance. questions if roads are being built properly The agency had improved its way of transport and finance ministers calling for Another lobbyist, Clive Matthew- to begin with. contracting out repairs seven years ago catch-up funding. Wilson, argued that trying to cut speed “The new highways — the Wellington and this ensured “that the right work is “We have seen an increase in allocated was misguided, when studies show fitting one, the Waikato Expressway — we’ve just done in the right place, and at the right funds in the last couple of years,” AA median barriers and roadside fencing come up that this morning and there’s time”. spokesperson Mike Noon said. could cut death and serious injury by 90 potholes, digouts, repairs already and this It told the Office of the Auditor General “But it doesn’t offset the huge percent. is a new highway. (OAG) that before this change to Network underinvestment over the past decade. The focus on new “luxury” roads was “It’s not built to the heavier standard. Outcomes Contracts, it was in fact over- “And what this means is that our also wrongheaded, he said. The left-hand lane is rough as guts where investing “by renewing state highways too road network condition is actually “One tiny section — the Puhoi to the heavy traffic travels, the right-hand early”. deteriorating. And if we don’t act and do Warkworth highway . . . is going to cost lane is not as bad — that tells me there’s The OAG concluded both that the more soon, then the actual final bill to upwards of $878 million,” he said in a not enough substructure when they build agency’s spending was “well targeted”, fix these roads will be a lot more and the press release. them.” — RNZ

A STEP CLOSER TO REALITY: The long-delayed Erebus crash memorial is a step closer with a heritage watchdog allowing work to go ahead at an Auckland H park and archaeological site. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage wants to build the air crash memorial in Parnell’s Dove-Myer Robinson Park, in the face of some local opposition. It already has resource consent. It then applied to Heritage New Zealand to be allowed to build in the park, which marks a former residence of Sir John Logan Campbell. Heritage NZ approved it, noting the site has been damaged Showroom, 456 Gladstone Road 26285-14 in the past, but may still possess important archaeological and heritage landscape P: 06 867 2508 values. Picture supplied via RNZ The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 9

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Winston Peters having a cigarette while on the campaign trail at Otago University’s smoke-free campus in Dunedin. STARRY SKY: Picture supplied Astrophoto of Matariki star cluster. File picture NZ First leader snapped smoking Matariki day off floated in no-smoking zone by Nikki Preston, NZ Herald

DUNEDIN — NZ First leader Winston New holiday will cost businesses $219m a year: EMA Peters was snapped taking a sneaky smoko break on Otago University’s Dunedin campus by Simon Collins, NZ Herald leave from five days to 10 days a year — Rapira, who gathered 35,000 signatures yesterday, breaking its no-smoking rules. would add to the costs of all businesses. on a petition in July to make Matariki The video of the deputy PM taking a WELLINGTON — A public holiday for He said any new holiday should replace a public holiday, said she started the cheeky puff in front of a no-smoking sign Matariki will cost employers about $200 an existing holiday, rather than being petition because of a need to raise along with two other men is circulating on million a year — but the signs are that added on top. awareness of Maori knowledge as a social media with the tagline, “Apparently the Labour Party proposal will be broadly “By all means have Matariki, it’s means of honouring the treaty. smokefree policy only applies to some.” popular. probably more relevant than Labour “On a more personal note, my Mum All three men in the video are smoking in The proposal, announced by Prime Day and Queen’s Birthday and all the and Dad are both Maori and grew up not the alley between the Robertson Library and Minister Jacinda Ardern as a pledge for regional provincial holidays,” he said. knowing what Matariki was,” she said. the Owheo Building near Union St East just next month’s election, was supported by Heather du Plessis-Allan hosts a four- “When I discussed that with them I after 1pm. 63 percent of New Zealanders in a poll way political programme every Monday felt really sad, and I wanted to contribute The post has resulted in a mix of opinions, by UMR Research in July, with only 29 from 4pm to 5pm. Barry Soper, Trish to a future in which their grandchildren with some supporting Peters saying he has percent opposed. Sherson & Chris Carter co-host this — my children — will grow up knowing already said smokefree NZ would never work NZ Principals Federation president rapid-fire highly opinionated show. what Matariki is all about, so that to and that people shouldn’t be dictated to. Perry Rush said most schools already Ardern said New Zealand had fewer them it will be just normal.” But others were outraged at his “arrogant” celebrate Matariki and making it a public holidays than other members Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief disregard for the rules. public holiday would be “bringing the of the Organisation for Economic executive Chris Roberts also welcomed The person who took the video country into line with what is already Cooperation and Development (OECD). the decision, noting that Kiwi travel commented online that Peters’ security happening”. Last year NZ workers worked an spending jumps 200 to 300 percent on noticed him filming them and says “It’s a part of the maturing of us as a average of 1779 hours a year, or 34.2 any long weekend. something to Peters before they all walk off. nation,” he said. hours a week averaged over all 52 weeks “We recognise that there are some costs They also appear to hide their cigarettes “I think there is a strong view in of the year. for employers, but in terms of the overall from view. education that we want to be growing That was exactly the same as in the economic activity it generates we see it as According to Otago University’s website, young people to respect the cultural United States, but higher than in 26 a net positive,” he said. the campus has been smokefree since 2014. significance of both Maori and Pakeha. of the other 36 OECD countries, which The Green Party, which has supported A university spokesman said Peters was “In that sense we know that Matariki ranged from 2137 hours a year in Mexico a Matariki public holiday since at least at the Dunedin campus to take part in Vote is important to Maori, and increasingly down to just 1380 hours in Denmark. The 2014, welcomed Labour’s endorsement. 2020 — a question and answer session run it’s important to Pakeha citizens as part OECD average was 1726 hours, or 33.2 But the idea was slammed by Act, NZ by students in the Department of Politics. of a growing recognition that we need to hours a week. First and National. National’s finance Staff were not aware of the breach so did be responsible to te Tititi o Waitangi.” Reducing New Zealand’s hours by eight spokesman Paul Goldsmith said Ardern not speak with Peters about it. Employers and Manufacturers’ hours a year to 1771 hours a year would “has shown zero empathy for the tens However, the spokesperson said it Association (EMA) head of advocacy Alan still leave Kiwis working more than in 25 of thousands of New Zealanders who promoted a healthy environment for all staff McDonald said an extra day off would of the other 36 OECD nations. are struggling right now to keep their and students which included a smoke-free cost employers 0.3 percent of the national Council of Trade Unions president businesses afloat and employ Kiwis”. environment. wage bill of $73 billion — or $219 million Richard Wagstaff said New Zealand “New Zealand is in the biggest The policy prohibits anyone from smoking a year. had a “long hours of work culture” and economic crisis in a generation and on any University of Otago Campus and He said that in itself “is not going to an extra public holiday would help to Labour’s answer to this is another public this applies to anyone on its campuses for break any business”. But the cumulative develop a more balanced lifestyle. holiday,” he said. any reason including University of Otago effect of the extra public holiday — “And culturally it feels right. It’s a “More and more New Zealanders want employees, students, visitors, contractors, coming on top of extended paid parental coming of age for New Zealand to do to celebrate Matariki, but if it is to take volunteers and research participants. leave, a new provision for domestic this,” he said. the form of a public holiday it should Peters has been approached for comment. violence leave and calls for extending sick ActionStation director Laura O’Connell replace an existing one.” Study records one of highest rat densities on mainland

FIORDLAND — Researchers are utilising a “One of the hardest parts of this study is “This is one of the first studies to estimate the “But it’s not clear whether that’s because rats kind of tag-and-release programme on rats in letting the rats go,” she said. density of rats in South Island forests,” Manaaki can’t handle cold temperatures, or because there Fiordland to estimate their numbers and improve But in order to get a true idea of pest density, Whenua researcher John Innes said. is typically less food, especially in winter, for rats conservation efforts. the team needed to use live-capture traps and “Normally, ecologists obtain relative measures in cold, high elevation forests.” The Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research-run release the rats to live another day. of rat abundance or activity. While this It was hoped by feeding rats at high elevations study, at Lake Alabaster in remote Fiordland, is The researchers hoped it would is useful and reasonably easy to do, they could determine whether it was the cold showing some of the highest densities of rats all be worth it in the end with we often don’t actually know how alone or food supply which caused that. ever recorded on New Zealand’s mainland. the study informing a five-year those estimates relate to the “We’re still monitoring the population but it Researchers have live-captured 912 rats, research programme titled number of rats that occupy an seems that food helped sustain the rats through which are microchipped and tagged before being ‘More Birds in the Bush’, area.” the autumn. When we reached winter, though, released, so they can later determine how many funded by the Ministry of The phenomenal 17 rats the fed rats declined as much as the rats we rats live in the area by measuring the proportion Business, Innovation, and per hectare measured after didn’t feed. This suggests that another factor — of marked and unmarked rodents. Employment’s Endeavour last year’s beech seed mast perhaps temperature or predation by stoats — is Following last year’s “mega mast” beech fund. were some of the highest ever limiting rats,” Dr Carpenter said. seeding, rat numbers exploded. A key aim of the programme measured on New Zealand’s The research could inform the implications of Since the study began 14 months ago, rats had was to develop a kind of mainland, and showed the climate change on rat numbers. been live-captured in cage traps at the site. “weather forecast about rats”, incredible ability of rats to “This is a really relevant question, because The researchers gave each rat a unique ID by where conservation managers multiply rapidly following beech if it’s temperature that normally limits rats from inserting a microchip under the rat’s skin - like would be able to predict what rats seeding. living up high, and not food, we might expect the type used for pet dogs - and placed a metal would do based on the climate and forest at At high elevation researchers were even to see high elevation forests supporting more tag in their ear. The rat is then released. their site, allowing more effective rat control and feeding rats to see what part food supply plays rats as the climate warms,” Manaaki Whenua It went against conservation norms, and had leading to more birds in the bush. in the pests surviving colder temperatures. researcher Dr Adrian Monks said. proved difficult for researchers, study lead Dr Jo The study, run in conjunction with the “Rats are generally less common in cold, “This could have devastating consequences Carpenter, a postdoctoral researcher at Manaaki Department of Conservation, was one of the first high altitude forests across New Zealand than in for some of our birds, which currently use these Whenua, said. of its kind. warm, lowland forests,” Dr Carpenter said. environments as refuge from pests.” — RNZ 10 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Mataura toxic Bullied during training waste dispute Recruit firefighter sustains serious burns goes to court ROTORUA — A former professional MATAURA — A dispute over firefighter recruit received serious burns responsibility for 8500 tonnes of toxic and blistering to both hands during a waste in Southland is heading to live fire training exercise because the court. trainer failed to identify that his gloves The Environmental Defence Society were too small. is this morning seeking a ruling from The accident occurred in February the Environment Court over who has last year at Fire and Emergency New ultimate responsibility for removing Zealand’ (FENZ) National Training the ouvea premix from Mataura’s Centre in Rotorua. disused papermill. An official investigation into the A byproduct of the aluminium accident found 56 other burn injuries smelter at Tiwai Point, it releases have been sustained in a five-year deadly ammonia gas when mixed period, partly due to a lack of a clear, with water. written safety briefing to be delivered The waste has been threatened by ahead of the highly risky live fire flooding and fire this year, sparking exercise. fears among locals. This contrasts with FENZ figures The Environmental Defence Society released to Nine to Noon under the has said Rio Tinto — as the smelter’s Official Information Act showing just 29 owner — should have responsibility recruits have sustained burn injuries for cleaning it up in a timely manner. during training in the last five years — LACK OF SAFETY BRIEFING: An official investigation found 56 other burn injuries New Zealand Aluminium Smelters which FENZ says were mostly minor and have been sustained in a five-year period, partly due to a lack of a clear, written contracted Taha Asia Pacific to deal treated with basic first aid. safety briefing to be delivered ahead of the highly risky live fire exercise. RNZ picture with the waste products of Tiwai The former recruit said in his intake of Point’s aluminium production. 24, half sustained burns, three of them Training Centre were unaware of the fire behaviour and then learn to safely Taha moved more than 10,000 serious, but none were reported for fear correct emergency medical support policy. apply the techniques they are taught tonnes of ouvea premix and other of not passing the course. The National Training Centre did in real — but controlled — situations. dross into the papermill without “If you miss a half a day or a day of not report the accident to National This takes place in custom-built resource consent six years ago. this intensive course you put yourself Headquarters, nor did it have a written structures and is closely monitored and The society’s executive director, behind the eight-ball and you’re made safety briefing for the highly risky live administered by Fire and Emergency’s Gary Taylor, told Nine to Noon aware of that from the start of the fire exercise. specialist instructors,” FENZ said. yesterday he wanted it gone before course.” The report said the lack of an Culture of bullying the end of the year. “All of the parties He said the accident happened in appropriately trained safety, health The former recruit also spoke of involved — the Crown, the district a live container fire exercise, where and wellbeing representative for a culture of bullying and sexual council and the company — agreed temperatures could get up to 600 to 700 the operational staff at the National harassment from trainers to trainees at to a funding formula by which the degrees Celsius. Training Centre “led to basic and the National Training Centre. material would be removed from that “We were doing the exercise, this was fundamental safety requirements, “There was a lot of sexual stuff. There site over time,” Taylor said. the second time I had done it. We went in initiatives, training and reporting lines were very limited female recruits on the “That was a good start. The and I could feel the heat in the container to be inadequate”. course. There was one in particular. You’d problem with it is that it’s over time was really really high. I mentioned it on The former recruit said he returned be climbing up ladders and . . . there’d be and we believe that material needs to a number of occasions to the trainer that to the course with his burnt hands and comments made about sexual positions be removed forthwith and certainly was with me, but he kept on pushing me was told he had to complete several and stuff like that.” before Christmas.” to continue. The more I continued, the assessments in order to pass. He said he He also described an incident where New Zealand Aluminium Smelters more I felt the heat, to the point it was asked a trainer if he ought to try to get a recruit stubbed out a cigarette on a and Rio Tinto have regularly like I was trying to walk through a pane his medical certificate altered to declare female recruit’s leg. reaffirmed their March 2018 of very sharp glass — just unbearable him fit to do so. “But such is the environment that commitment to the $4 million plan pain. “I said to him are you guys telling me you keep stum about everything. You alongside local authorities and the “It got to the point where I couldn’t to go and change my medical certificate? say nothing. You don’t put a single foot government to move the waste from even hold the hose. I was in mortal He looked at me and shrugged his wrong, you don’t say anything to upset Mataura and other sites around danger shoulders. He turned around and said to the training centre staff.” Southland over six years. . . . my whole body was starting to shut me, ‘You need to do whatever you need to The man said trainers had derogatory Taylor said today’s mediation down.” do to get through this course’.” nicknames for all the recruits but no marked the start of a legal process The recruit said he kept going because FENZ said each year 100 career one would speak out because they were to determine if there was a practical he was afraid he would be kicked off the recruits and 200 volunteer recruits fearful of not making it through the way to get the dross out of Mataura course. attended training courses at the National course. After his burns healed, he wanted faster. “I didn’t have a choice. If I’d put that Training Centre. to return to complete the firefighter “Not only is it a risk to public hose down I would have failed the course It said it took the health, safety and training but the training centre made it health but I’m very concerned too there and then.” wellbeing of all its people seriously. too difficult for him, he said. about the continuing community The accident report found the trainer In response to the accident, FENZ said After nearly a year on full pay and anxiety about it. It’s a stressful time failed to identify both that the recruit it had implemented a uniform dressing attempts to get him to resign he was anyway in New Zealand without this was wearing the wrong type of gloves chart that showed personnel how to fit dismissed for getting his medical on top of everything for the people in and that they were two sizes too small. PPE correctly and safely, and qualified clearance changed, he said. Mataura,” Taylor said. The report said the injured recruit trainers carry out glove sizing to ensure The man said the culture within Local councils and the Ministry for initially was left to go to the first aid that recruits have correct fitting gloves. the National Training Centre was a the Environment will also join today’s room alone to dress his wounds, and “Live fire training provides the recruits contributor to the wider culture within mediation. — RNZ that many of the staff at the National with the opportunity to experience real FENZ. — RNZ Woman going blind as treatment delayed by Emma Russell, NZ Herald published for privacy reasons — was away on The macula provides the sharp, central vision now understands that she should have carried holiday when the floater suddenly appeared in needed for reading, driving, and seeing fine out further investigations, given the results of the AUCKLAND — A woman who could not see her right eye. detail. A macular hole can cause blurred and visual acuity test. She accepts that by not doing out of her right eye suffered a two-month delay Floaters are spots in a person’s vision which distorted central vision. so, her actions fell short of best practice.” to get treatment after an optometrist failed to are often harmless but can sometimes be a Her usual optometrist wrote a letter to the Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner investigate a “floater” in her right eye. symptom of a developing eye condition or surgeon saying: “It is extremely disappointing Kevin Allan criticised the optometrist, saying An eye surgeon who helped advocate for the underlying health issue. that the optometrist she (Mrs A) saw (while on she should have taken further diagnostic steps woman said it was likely the delay in treatment She contacted her usual optometrist, after the holiday) didn’t action any further investigation to investigate the cause of the woman’s reduced worsened her sight. floater was still there five days later, who told her for the fact that the vision on the right eye got so vision. “If I hadn’t bothered to get another check not to wait until she returned from holiday and bad.” “As a result (of the failure to investigate), done by my own optometrist, and been fortunate advised she get it checked immediately. In a clinic letter, the surgeon said that the the cause of (the woman’s) symptoms were enough to have (health) insurance so I was She was seen by an optometrist in the area macular hole had closed, but that as a result of not identified, and surgery to address her able to proceed with my fast-tracked surgery, where she was holidaying who although he the delay in having it treated, “it may be that that degenerating sight was delayed,” Allan said. another patient in my position may have been left undertook several tests showing “significant delay is what’s causing the poor sight”. Allan was also critical of the fact that with severely impaired sight,” the woman said reduced vision”, did not document all He noted “a bit of a cataract” and suggested the optometrist did not fully document her in a Health and Disability Commission report assessment findings and instead ticked a box that cataract surgery might need to be done assessment findings or method of examination. published yesterday. reporting no change in her vision. “sooner rather than later” to try to improve the He recommended that the optometrist An HDC investigation found the optometrist Two months later, the woman went to her woman’s vision. undertake a documentation audit to confirm that in breach of the Code of Health and Disability usual optometrist when she was still unable to The optometrist at fault’s lawyer said in the all clinical assessments have been documented Services Consumers’ Rights for the failure see objects in the middle of her right eye. report: “She is disappointed and regretful that fully, and provide a written apology to the woman. and has been ordered to audit all his clinical It was there she was diagnosed with a macular she missed this (full thickness macular hole) Allan also recommended that the Optometrists assessments to ensure they were documented hole caused by the floater and made an urgent diagnosis. Since the complaint was made, she and Dispensing Opticians Board of New Zealand correctly. referral to see a ophthalmologist (a surgical eye has spent significant time reflecting on the case, consider whether a review of the optometrist’s The woman — who’s name is not being specialist). both personally and with her colleagues, and competence is warranted. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 BUSINESS 11 Port of Tauranga chief calls time after 15 years NEW by Andrea Fox, NZ Herald DIRECTION: shares through regional council entity major landside operational change to Port of Quayside Holdings. handle the anticipated big increase in TAURANGA — Port of Tauranga chief Tauranga chief The highlight of Cairns’ time as chief cargo, and the securing of long-term executive Mark Cairns will retire in June executive is considered to be the port’s key play customer contracts to drive container next year. Mark Cairns to become the only New Zealand port volumes, the first big ship tied up at He will be succeeded by the listed is retiring next able to accommodate the biggest cargo Tauranga. The strategy paid off. In the company’s chief operating officer, June, and ships. This was via a six-year, $350m 2019 financial year the port company Leonard Sampson. wants to turn capital expansion programme intended cracked $100 million profit for the first Cairns, 58, will step aside after more his hand to to cement its future as the country’s time. than 15 years heading New Zealand’s governance premier freight gateway and hub and Napier-born Cairns, who has a civil largest port, during which time its roles. feeder port. engineering degree with first-class market capitalisation increased more In 2018, he told the Herald the honours and master of management than seven times, by $4.4 billion, to Bay of Plenty analysis had been gruelling. and business studies degrees, is a $5.1b today. Times picture “For a company of our size with former CEO at Toll Owens and at Owens Chairman David Pilkington said a $2.5 billion market cap at the time, Cargo. under Cairns’ leadership, the company to embark on a $350 million capital “The time feels right to hand over to had grown from a regional bulk export the port handled 12.6 million tonnes of was appointed chief operating officer expansion programme was a big the next generation to continue the Port port to New Zealand’s international cargo and 438,214 containers a year. In a year ago after six years as the port’s commercial risk. of Tauranga’s success into the future,” cargo hub and one of its most the year to June this year, those tallies commercial manager. Previously he was “We had to back ourselves to attract he said. successful listed companies. had swelled to 24.8m tonnes of cargo general manager sales at KiwiRail. that cargo. It was a lot of money and the “Port of Tauranga is in excellent During his time in the job the average and 1.25m containers. Pilkington said the company’s board put a lot of commercial tension shape. I’m incredibly proud of our compounding total shareholder return He said the next stage of his career success had delivered wide-ranging around it.” people and the positive outcomes we had been 19 percent per year. would be in governance. benefits to the region. Ratepayers own In 2016, after dredging to deepen and have achieved for our customers and When Cairns became chief in 2005, Chief executive-designate Sampson just over half of Port of Tauranga’s widen the port’s shipping channels, our community.” Monetary policy Preparing for huge ‘not to blame’

by Liam Dann, NZ Herald inflation.” In times of economic rise in insolvencies WELLINGTON — It is crisis, he said, it was wrong to lay the blame for household income, not soaring asset prices and household net worth that rising social inequality was the more pressing Fall-out from Covid-19 expected to eclipse GFC on monetary policy, says issue. “Have I got an Reserve Bank Governor income? Have I got a job?” Adrian Orr. he said. by Kate MacNamara, NZ Herald enterprises) which are vulnerable to a downturn. Orr, who directly “This is where monetary Often owners have made personal guarantees and used addressed the issue policy is stimulating the WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s bankruptcy service personal assets as security for debt or leases. There’s of asset bubbles and economy; actively pumping is braced for a quadrupling of personal insolvencies also an awful lot of mortgage debt that’s been deferred inequality in a speech cash in to do our best to due to both the economic fallout from and the policy (special provisions by the Reserve Bank allow banks to last week, told the Herald keep employment at the response to Covid-19. offer their customers loan deferrals until March, 2021).” it was important for the highest possible level.” The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Government support for jobs, including three RBNZ to think about “the Orr said recent policy Employment modelled a peak of new personal iterations of the wage subsidy — the third remains open intended and unintended moves by the US Federal insolvencies of between 2800 and 3200 in the final to new applicants — is likely chief among measures that consequences” of policy. Reserve to allow more quarter of 2020. Cases in the same quarter last year have delayed an unemployment spike. “We don’t shy away from focus on employment were reached 800. Keaton Pronk, licensed insolvency practitioner at the fact that one of the in line with the RBNZ’s The projections show three back-to-back quarters of McDonald Vague, said the IRD, as a creditor, was also a mechanisms of monetary thinking. “We don’t have insolvencies three or four times higher than pre-crisis key trigger for insolvency and, “although they won’t tell policy is that it will hold unemployment as a target. levels. A decline is then expected, though the model you this, they never push as hard in an election year”. up asset prices, but it is We say we will do our best anticipates case numbers may stay elevated for years. “You can add to that the greater discretionary only one variable. Many to contribute to maximum Budget documents show the Government has set leniency they seem to be applying because of Covid-19.” other things can drive sustainable employment,” aside $10 million to help manage the surge. The Pronk also noted that courts remain backlogged due asset prices. he said. coming wave of insolvencies is likely to eclipse those to lockdowns, “that’s having an effect as well”. “If we are feeling “I wish we did have the of the Global Financial Crisis; in 2010 new personal MBIE used a forecast model to produce the insolvency wealthier, we have a tools that could make sure insolvencies peaked at 1800 per quarter (up from about figures. higher propensity to unemployment was forever 700 pre-crisis). Predicting the wave’s timing, however, It used May economic projections from the Reserve consume and invest.” low or zero. We don’t. has been difficult. An MBIE spokesperson said the Bank and Treasury, as well as the experience of the But it was a “partial All we do is make sure forecast model was useful for planning and funding GFC. The ministry is updating the work using more analysis” to simply say the financial market is purposes but it was “not possible to predict with any recent projections; the result is expected in October. monetary policy was working in a manner that precision” the timing of any jump in insolvencies, “or Readying for the surge, the Government has allowing “the haves to achieves that outcome.” the likely maximum numbers of personal insolvencies”. apportioned an extra $10m over four years for MBIE’s have more” while the rest The Fed’s new policy Indeed, the number of insolvency cases in this quarter is Insolvency and Trustee Service (also known as the were missing out. allows a more flexible tracking well below those the model generated. Industry Official Assignee). The funds are spread from the “That is utterly wrong,” attitude to inflation with players say various factors likely are delaying the spike, current fiscal year through 2023/24 and intended to he said. the goal of supporting which they expect next year. provide for extra staff and case-specific costs. “The critical thing for higher employment. John Fisk, a specialist in restructuring and partner Before the additional appropriation of $2m this year, monetary policy is to do “What they’re saying at PwC New Zealand, said he expected personal the insolvency unit’s budget was $16.7m. The extra our best to ensure low and is they’re not going to insolvencies to follow a similar trajectory to corporate funds are drawn from the Government’s $50 billion stable inflation, because jump at the shadows of insolvencies. He anticipates a dramatic increase, but Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund. those on fixed incomes, employment or rising neither has begun to rise despite the current recession. The MBIE spokesperson said it had not done whether on benefits or not, inflation,” Orr said. “My sense is that it won’t come until 2021. The modelling on how Covid would affect corporate are the most impacted by Monetary policy goals important factors on the personal side are the insolvencies. Funding for the administration of insolvent inflation. They pay the were just a means to an unemployment rate and when that starts to pick up, corporations is largely derived from the businesses biggest social cost for high end, he said. and the health of SMEs (small and medium-sized themselves.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY & Paykel Healthcare was up 5c to $34.30 after than 15 years in the role. Cairns has overseen having a late fall on total trade worth $7.18m, considerable growth in the port business, with and a2 Milk edged ahead 3c to $18.30 on trade total cargo increasing from 12.6m tonnes in WELLINGTON — Network operator Chorus Hamilton Hindin Greene, said with more worth $13.8m. Mainfreight gained 15c to $47.25 2005 to 24.8m tonnes in the last financial year, sustained its climb to all-time highs during people working from home, internet traffic and fishing company Sanford was up 7c to and TEUs (20-foot container units) from 438,214 a quiet and steady day on the New Zealand had increased 30-40 percent. “Chorus has $5.82. to 1.25m last year. Port of Tauranga’s share price sharemarket. had a good run in the last 12 months and it’s Energy companies Mercury and Meridian slipped 6c to $7.31. The S&P/NZX50 Index gained 35.14 points to continuing its march onwards.” were also ahead 2.5c to $4.97 and 6c to $5.25 Embattled Tourism Holdings is selling 1000 11,859.45 on light volume of 72.14 million shares Online travel provider Serko was the day’s big respectively. Recovery stocks, clothing retailer motorhomes to the value of more than $70m worth $125.48. There were 76 gainers and 51 mover after news it would join the S&P/NZX 50 Hallenstein Glasson Holdings gained 14c or 3.23 to pay off debt and it has established a pop-up decliners over the whole market. Index on September 21, replacing New Zealand percent to $4.48; and cinema software company rentals branch near Auckland airport following Chorus, which has built 70 percent of the Refining Company. Serko’s share price surged Vista Group gained 7c or 3.85 percent to $1.89, the fire at its Mangere facility. Tourism Holdings’ country’s fibre optic network for ultra-fast 33c or 8.40percent to $4.26. having climbed more than 30 percent in August. share price slipped 2c to $2.14. broadband, climbed 30c or 3.61 percent to $8.60. Sky Network Television had an earnings Fast-food operator Restaurant Brands was SMW Group (formerly Aorere Resources) Chorus started the year at $6.30 and has risen upgrade from Macquarie Bank and its share down 24c to $12.06 and manuka honey producer moved 42c or 35.59 percent to $1.60 on just more than 30 percent, reaching a high of $8.67 price rose 8c or 5.76 percent to 14.7c. Sky TV Comvita fell 8c or 2.44 percent to $3.20. three trades worth $3000. “It’s a very small stock on August 26. provides its latest financial result on Thursday. Port of Tauranga chief executive Mark Cairns that is tightly held and it doesn’t take much to Jeremy Sullivan, investment adviser with Market heavyweights had flat days. Fisher announced he would retire next June after more push them around,” said Sullivan. — NZ Herald 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 EDITORIAL Saving te reo: More wanting to learn Do not forget by Te Ururoa Flavell, Te showed a near 26 percent increase in Maori o te reo Maori to Mahuru in 2017 so both of our Wananga o Aotearoa te speakers (to 185,955). kaupapa could align. taiurungi/chief executive This reflects what we’re seeing, with more The growth of Mahuru Maori and the increasing climate change people wanting to learn te reo Maori with us and numbers of people wanting to learn the language In an election that is IT was the American writer our packed classrooms throughout the country. gives us great hope for the future of te reo Maori. understandably going to be Mark Twain who famously Te Wananga o Aotearoa teaches 66 percent of There is so much to do. dominated by the Covid-19 declared: “The reports of my all te reo Maori classes throughout the motu, from I recently attended a tangi for a well-known pandemic, it would be unfortunate if death are greatly exaggerated.” certificate to degree level. pakeke (elder) in my area of the Bay of Plenty a message from the Climate Change He was responding after his We have more than 5800 equivalent fulltime and was taken aback when a number of his adult obituary was mistakenly published. tauira (students) studying te reo Maori, but we’re children said it was their first time on the marae. Commissions went unheeded. So it is with te reo Maori. still overwhelmed by the demand from New They told the people of their marae they all felt The Commission has released a Earlier this year, a paper in the Journal of the Zealanders wanting to learn te reo rangatira. very stressed and anxious in bringing their dad position statement ahead of the Royal Society Interface predicted at least the Our data shows an increasing trend in demand to the marae, but over the length of his tangi, they election in which it says the need demise — or more likely the extinction — of te reo for te reo Maori classes over recent years, and had learnt of the warmth of the people and the for climate action to achieve our Maori. even the Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped this occasion. vision of a thriving, climate-resilient, Its findings were partly based on current momentum. The downside was that they were disappointed low-emissions future is widely learning rates of te reo Maori. It said that efforts We’re working with our communities and in having missed all of the tributes to their dad, understood. to stop the rot should focus on producing more thousands of te reo Maori practitioners and therefore were none the wiser about his “Ahead of the 2020 elections we te reo Maori teachers and more Maori learning the throughout the country as our te reo Maori contributions across so many spheres. expect to see all political parties language. initiative Mahuru Maori starts on September 1. The tragedy is that it is often death that sparks propose ways to support this.” But as New Zealand’s largest provider of te reo Mahuru Maori first started in 2014 when that understanding of the importance of one’s This would include smart and Maori classes, our experience at Te Wananga o our kaimahi Paraone Gloyne challenged language in coming to grips with one’s culture. credible policy that focuses on Aotearoa — particularly in recent times — shows himself to speak te reo Maori regardless of his From our perspective, the long-term outlook for climate change by encouraging low that while there’s evidence to show an earlier circumstances and his audiences during Mahuru te reo Maori is far brighter than gloomy, and we’re emissions practices, technologies decline in te reo Maori speakers, this looks to (September). determined to play our part in ensuring its future and infrastructure that are adaptive have halted. It is our koha, our contribution to the is one that prospers and continues to grow. and resilient. The data from our censuses in 2006 and 2013 revitalisation of te reo Maori and has been If you want to play a part in this kaupapa, I The Commission is welcoming any showed a worrying fall in te reo Maori speakers recognised by Te Taura Whiri i te reo Maori (the encourage you to register to participate in Mahuru commitments by the Government, (from 157,113 to 148,395), but the 2018 census Maori Language Commission), who shifted Te Wiki Maori at www.mahurumaori.com political parties, local government and the private sector. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS To achieve this the Commission has six principles which it says should be used when making decisions on economic recovery that Much appreciated work Horrible death will also keep New Zealand on track Re: War medals never received, Company had to mount two high court Re: Man’s their source of to achieve our climate mitigation September 7, story legal challenges to Government in and adaption goals. carelessness dairy products? Good work David. I hope the whanau tandem with other veterans support . . . September 4, That is what These are considering how of those whom you helped or their Iwi groups before beneficial major changes investments can deliver long- letter a dairy farming Komiti Maori give you a koha as an to repeal the Veterans Support Act were family told me. term climate benefits, bringing acknowledgement of your advocacy on introduced. Were those I also know forward transformational climate behalf of 134 whanau of C Company Our forefathers were short changed cows destined cows to be loving, change investments, preparing our soldiers who didn’t receive their medals. and unjustly treated when they came to be part of a intelligent and workforce for the jobs, working in Many of these hoea (soldiers) also home, something we of the Vietnam war dairy herd so sentient beings. partnership, maintaining incentives didn’t receive their full pensionable cohort know all to well. that China can Those poor cows. to reduce emissions and adapt to war service entitlements and medi- During peacetime the price of provide dairy What a horrible climate change and changing how to care support as well as access to a citizenship and what it cost Maori to be products for their death! measure the sources of economic rehabilitation loan or a surviving spouse’s treated as equals still leaves a lot to be population and recovery to include progress toward benefit for widows. desired. “Lest we don’t forget”. bypass NZ as LARA MEYER an inclusive, low-emissions and Tairawhiti Vietnam veterans many climate-resilient future. of whom are the descendants of C WALLY TE UA The Commission was established last year to provide independent evidence-based advice to the Tarring with a wide brush Government. Under the Paris Thank you so much agreement New Zealand agreed to Re: Damaging trust, causing harm — September 1 column some tolerance for racism? Re: ‘Complete control’ you every success. Finally reduce greenhouse gas emissions I personally have zero emerging here, September 05, some real Kiwi sense of the by 30 percent below the 2005 levels and comment trail. Tarring with a super wide tolerance. opinion piece problem. by the year 2030. Last week NIWA I didn’t say all anti vaxxers Thank you. Wishing WILL BONNE, Wairarapa announced that New Zealand just brush here. Plenty of people who support Billy Te Kahika are racist or ‘thick’ as Billy had its warmest winter on record. has made it sound. I said Getting the political parties to do not support Trump, are not neo-Nazis, are not racists and that antivaxxers have aligned agree on climate control responses are very well educated. with a far right political party in an election year is, realistically, What a nonsensical Opinion with white supremacist roots. Gear up to stand going to be impossible. Already piece! I would not want to align we have seen a dispute over the So called Anti vaxxers myself with anyone who held Government’s freshwater regulations are in fact pro choice and those values. Re: Elect on merit, not wishing to stand for office which National Party leader Judith self-responsibility. Educate I believe that education race, September 01, letter believe that they are not Collins got her spokesman to say yourself Ms Aimee Milne. is needed around systemic The treatise is about able to represent all their would be gone by lunchtime, a racism (I’m learning) the separate wards for Maori community fairly, regardless statement later ameliorated to say ALEXIA DAVID, Kaeo discourse around that. to vote in — not about of ethnicity, then they they would be reviewed and the Immunisation has saved institutional racism at should not be holding their worst parts taken out. If you’re aligned with countless lives so needs tertiary institutions. positions or gearing up to The best option for the Climate racist people making an promotion, not vilification. The real point is — stand. 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Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, backed his fast-tracked vaccine but Joe vaccine could win approval in October, Although the higher cases can partly be said she “would not trust his word” Biden’s vice presidential candidate has instead of November or December. attributed to more testing, it’s clear there’s been on getting the vaccine. “I would trust told the public she would not trust his Fauci added that he’s “pretty sure” an uptick in the past few weeks as lockdown the word of public health experts and word. AP picture a vaccine would not be approved for restrictions have been eased. In some places, scientists, but not Donald Trump,” Harris Americans unless it was both safe and local outbreaks in Britain have been so severe said. that she would not trust a coronavirus effective. that many lockdown restrictions have been Democratic presidential candidate Joe vaccine if one were ready at the end Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the reimposed. Biden amplified Harris’ comments after of the year because “there’s very little Food and Drug Administration, has British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the he was asked if he would get a vaccine that we can trust that comes out of said the agency would not cut corners situation was “concerning” but denied that the for Covid-19. Biden said he’d take a Donald Trump’s mouth.” She argued that as it evaluates vaccines, but would Government had lost control over the spread of vaccine “tomorrow” but would want to scientists would be “muzzled” because aim to expedite its work. He told the the virus. He said those under 25 accounted for a see what the scientists have to say. Trump is focused on getting re-elected. Financial Times last week that it might large number of the new infections and appealed Biden said Trump has said “so many Trump dismissed her comments as be “appropriate” to approve a vaccine to them to keep social distancing to protect things that aren’t true, I’m worried if we “reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric” designed before clinical trials were complete if the vulnerable loved ones. do have a really good vaccine, people are to detract from the effort to quickly benefits outweighed the risks. Britain’s Conservative government also going to be reluctant to take it. So he’s ready a vaccine for a disease that has White House press secretary Kayleigh said on Monday that travellers returning from undermining public confidence”. killed nearly 190,000 Americans and McEnany, meanwhile, has given seven Greek islands will have to quarantine Still, the former vice president said, “If infected more than six million others, assurances that Trump “will not in any for 14 days on their return to England I could get a vaccine tomorrow I’d do it, if according to a count by Johns Hopkins way sacrifice safety” when it comes to a beginning early Wednesday. Lesbos, Serifos, it would cost me the election I’d do it. We University. vaccine. Tinos and Zakynthos have been added to the need a vaccine and we need it now.” Trump insisted he hasn’t said a And executives of five top UK quarantine list. The other Greek islands The back-and-forth over a coronavirus vaccine could be ready before November, pharmaceutical companies pledged that and the mainland remain free of quarantine vaccine played out as three of the although he said so repeatedly and as no Covid-19 vaccines or treatments will requirements. candidates fanned out across the country recently as Friday. be approved, even for emergency use, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the on Labor Day, the traditional start of The President then proceeded to say without proof they are safe and effective. changes are part of a new targeted risk approach the two-month sprint to the election. what he had just denied ever saying. Three Covid-19 vaccines are to quarantine requirements to guard against Harris and Vice President Mike Pence “What I said is by the end of the year, undergoing final-stage, or Phase 3, importing coronavirus cases. campaigned in Wisconsin and Biden but I think it could even be sooner than clinical trials in the US. Each study is Britain has Europe’s worst death toll from the went to Pennsylvania. Trump added that,” he said about a vaccine. “It could enrolling about 30,000 people who will virus, recording more than 41,500 deaths within the news conference to a schedule that be during the month of October, actually get two shots, three weeks apart, and 28 days of testing positive. originally was blank. could be before November.” then will be monitored for coronavirus The actual toll is believed to be far higher as Harris, a California Democrat, said in Under a programme Trump calls infections and side effects for anywhere the Government tally does not include those who a CNN interview broadcast on Sunday “Operation Warp Speed,” the goal is to from a week to two years. — AP died without having been tested. — AP India’s cases overtake Brazil

NEW DELHI — India’s increasing Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the coronavirus caseload made the Asian nation’s most populous state. But giant the world’s second-worst-hit infections are also returning to areas that country behind the United States had managed to slow the spread of the on Monday, as its efforts to head off virus, offsetting marginal gains. economic disaster from the pandemic Initially hit hard by the virus, New gain urgency. Delhi had seemed to turn the tide The 90,802 cases added in the past 24 through its aggressive screening for hours pushed India’s total past Brazil patients. with more than 4.2 million cases. India But after reopening steadily, the state is now behind only the United States, has reported a recent surge in cases and where more than 6.2 million people fatalities. The reopening of the metro is have been infected, according to Johns expected to further worsen the situation, Hopkins University. experts fear. India’s Health Ministry on Monday also The recent surge in cases also reported 1016 new deaths for a total of highlights the risks of India’s strategy 71,642, the third-highest national toll. on relying too heavily on rapid tests that The world’s second-most populous screen for antigens or viral proteins. country with 1.4 billion people, India has These tests are cheap, yield results in been recording the world’s largest daily minutes and have allowed India to test increases in coronavirus cases for almost over a million people a day. a month. But they are also less precise and Despite over two million new cases in likely to miss infected people, said Dr the past month and the virus spreading Gagandeep Kang, an infectious diseases through the country’s smaller towns expert of Christian Medical College at and villages, the Indian government has COVID CASES SURGE: India’s coronavirus cases are now the second-highest in the Vellore in southern India. continued relaxing restrictions to try to world and only behind the United States. AP picture India also says its recovery rate is 77.3 resuscitate the economy. percent and that the fatality rate has On Monday, the Delhi Metro, which city’s bars will reopen on Wednesday. money and fearing starvation, poured declined to around 1.72 percent. serves India’s sprawling capital, New The reopenings come after India’s out of cities and headed back to villages. But the economic crisis means that Delhi, and adjoining areas, resumed economy shrank faster than any other The unprecedented migration not only people in India, especially the poor who operations after remaining shuttered for major nation’s, nearly 24 percent in the hollowed out India’s economy but also were inordinately impacted by the harsh more than five months. The commuters last quarter. spread the virus to the far reaches of the lockdown, have to go out and work. They were scarce and stations deserted. Only India’s economic pain dates to the country. are also less likely to have access to good asymptomatic people were allowed to demonetisation of the nation’s currency Now, as cases surge, most of the healthcare. board the trains, with masks, social in 2016 and a hasty roll-out of a goods country, except in high-risk areas, has The virus has already deepened distancing and temperature checks and services tax the next year. But already opened up, with authorities misery in the country’s vast hinterlands mandatory. the strict virus lockdown that started saying they have little choice. and poorer states, where surges have Security personnel used metal on March 24 further exacerbated the “While lives are important, livelihoods crippled the underfunded healthcare detectors attached to rods to ensure economic woes. are equally important,” Rajesh Bhushan, system and stretched resources. social distancing during frisking at the When Prime Minister Narendra the top official of India’s federal health S.P. Kalantri, a public health specialist, stations, and commuters were allowed to Modi ordered everyone in the country ministry, said at a news briefing last said India’s poor face a “desperate choice” enter only after sanitising their hands. to stay indoors, the whole economy week. between “an immediate death versus a New Delhi’s streets have already shut down within four hours. Millions Almost 60 percent of India’s virus death that could come any time”. returned to their normal bustle, and lost their jobs instantly and tens of cases are now coming from the states of “The disease is already there in the people are again flocking to markets. The thousands of migrant workers, out of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, villages,” he said. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 WORLD 15 Typhoon Haishen batters South Korea BRIEFS Prince Harry repays money SEOUL — A powerful typhoon falling into a roadside ditch while southeastern town of Uljin. LONDON — Prince Harry has repaid 2.4 million damaged buildings, flooded roads and evacuating from a coastal town as At least five people were hurt, pounds in British taxpayers’ money that was knocked out power to thousands of Haishen lashed southwestern Japan including one in Busan who sustained used to renovate the home in Windsor intended homes in South Korea on Monday after over the weekend with strong winds light injuries after a car flipped over for him and his wife Meghan before they gave battering islands in southern Japan, and rain. Japan’s Fire and Disaster in strong winds, the Ministry of the up royal duties and moved to California. killing one person and injuring dozens Management Agency said at least 38 Interior and Safety said. A spokesman for the couple said that Harry of others, before weakening as it passed other people were injured, five of them At least 110 homes were destroyed or had made a contribution to the Sovereign North Korea. seriously. Schools and department flooded, while cars struggled to navigate Grant, the public money that goes to the royal The Korea Meteorological stores were closed in Hiroshima and flooded roads in Ulsan and other family. He said the contribution “fully covered Administration downgraded Typhoon other cities in the country’s southwest. coastal cities such as Busan, Sokcho the necessary renovation costs of Frogmore Haishen to a tropical storm on Monday Damage caused by the typhoon was and Gangneung. Emergency workers Cottage”, near the Queen’s Windsor Castle night as it made landfall near the less than feared because it took a path scrambled to clean up toppled trees and home, west of London. North Korean coastal city of Hamhung. farther from the coast and weakened damaged traffic signs, buildings, port He said Frogmore Cottage will remain the During its period as a typhoon, Haishen more quickly than expected, officials facilities and other structures. home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex when packed maximum winds of about 130 said. The storm also destroyed or sank they visit the UK. kilometres per hour as it barrelled In South Korea, at least two people around 80 fishing boats, and caused Royal accounts for 2019 show that 2.4 million through South Korea’s southern and were missing — one after getting swept generating turbines at two nuclear pounds was spent renovating the house, eastern regions in the morning. away by water in a drainage channel at reactors in the southeastern city of including structural work, rewiring and new Japanese disaster management a limestone mine in the eastern town Gyeongju to automatically stop. No flooring. Harry and Meghan agreed to pay back officials in Kagoshima said a woman of Samcheok and the other while trying leakage of radioactive materials was the money and start paying rent as part of in her 70s died of a head injury after to cross a small river on a tractor in the detected. — AP the plans drawn up when they quit as senior working royals in March. They recently bought a house in Santa Barbara, California and last week announced a deal with Netflix to produce a range of films and series for the streaming service. — AP Teen arrested after shooting LONDON — British police arrested a 15-year- old boy in eastern England after another 15-year-old was shot and critically injured on Monday on his way to school. FIRE ZONE: Suffolk Constabulary said officers were called California has set a in just after 8.40am on Monday to reports of a record with 800,000 shooting in the small town of Kesgrave and that hectares burned the victim sustained “serious injuries”. so far this year. Police said the boy was airlifted to Firefighters struggled Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, 95 to corral several kilometres away and was in critical condition. dangerous blazes Police said they arrested a teenage boy a few ahead of dry, hot miles away about two hours later on suspicion winds predicted to of attempted murder. Assistant Chief Constable raise fire danger to Rob Jones said the shooting was “an isolated critical levels in the incident and there is no wider threat to the local coming days. community”. AP picture Kesgrave High School said in a tweet that the victim was heading to school at the time and that students in school “will be kept safe in liaison with the police”. Britain has strict gun laws and teens in the country are much more likely to have knives than guns. — AP

French police ‘Worst is yet to come’ launch probe over 153 horse California fires rage during record-breaking heatwave mutilations SHAVER LAKE — Wildfires have burned Firefighters working in steep terrain saved the at least 10 structures after burning 41.44 square more than 800,000 hectares in California this tiny town of Shaver Lake from flames that roared kilometres and prompting evacuations near the PARIS — French investigators year, setting a state record even as crews down hillsides toward a marina. About 30 houses remote community of Alpine. have made numerous arrests since battled dozens of growing blazes in sweltering were destroyed in the remote hamlet of Big Creek. Daytime temperatures in fire zones neared or a macabre series of attacks left temperatures yesterday that strained the electrical “About half the private homes in town burned exceeded triple digits. Downtown Los Angeles scores of horses mutilated or killed grid and threatened power outages for millions. down,” resident Toby Wait said. “Words cannot reached 44 degrees on Sunday and a record- this year and have opened more The most striking thing about the record is even begin to describe the devastation of this shattering high of 49.4 degrees was recorded than 150 investigations into such how early it was set, with the most dangerous community. And it is a very close-knit community.” in the nearby Woodland Hills neighbourhood cases, the interior minister said on part of the year ahead, said Lynne Tolmachoff, An elementary school, church, library, historic of the San Fernando Valley. It was the highest Monday. spokeswoman for the California Department of general store and a major hydroelectric plant temperature ever recorded in Los Angeles County, Interior Minister Gerald Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. were spared in the community of about 200 according to the National Weather Service. Darmanin announced the start “It’s a little unnerving because September and residents, Wait told the Fresno Bee. Meanwhile, downtown San Francisco set a of night patrols by gendarmes to October are historically our worst months for Sheriff’s deputies went door to door to make record for the day with a high of 37.7 degrees reassure horse owners and to try fires,” she said. “It’s usually hot, and the fuels sure residents were complying with orders on Sunday, smashing the previous mark by 5 to nab attackers. He said police really dry out. And we see more of our wind to leave. Officials hoped to keep the fire from degrees. have opened 153 investigations on events. So the worst is yet to come.” pushing west, possibly toward Yosemite National The exceptionally hot temperatures were the horse attacks, about 30 of them The previous high was 793,184 hectares burned Park. driving the highest power use of the year, and concerning deaths or “extremely in 2018. Cal Fire began tracking the numbers in The blaze dubbed the Creek Fire has charred transmission losses because of wildfires have violent injuries”. There are no 1987. more than 295 square kilometres of timber after cut into supplies. The California Independent known breakthroughs. Firefighters struggled to corral several breaking out on Friday. The 850 firefighters on the System Operator that manages the state’s power He warned owners against dangerous blazes ahead of dry, hot winds scene had yet to get any containment. grid warned that up to three million people could taking justice into their own predicted to raise fire danger to critical levels On Saturday, rescuers in military helicopters lose power if the residents didn’t curtail their hands. in the coming days. Evacuation orders were airlifted 207 people to safety after flames trapped electricity usage. None have yet to occur. “The drama within the drama expanded to more mountain communities as the them in a wooded camping area northeast of Pacific Gas & Electric, the state’s largest would be an owner wanting to take largest blaze churned through the Sierra National Fresno. utility serving customers in Central and Northern vengeance,” he said. Forest. In Southern California, crews scrambled to California, warned customers that it might cut The minister spoke after visiting Debra Rios wasn’t home when the order douse several fires that roared to life in searing power because of the increased fire danger. Some the owner of a horse who was a came to evacuate her hometown of Auberry, just temperatures, including one that closed mountain of the state’s largest and deadliest fires in recent victim of the mysterious attacks in northeast of Fresno. Sheriff’s deputies went to her roads in Angeles National Forest. years have been sparked by downed power lines the Oise region, north of Paris. ranch property to pick up her 92-year-old mother, Cal Fire said a blaze in San Bernardino County and other utility equipment. Knives have been used to slash Shirley MacLean. They reunited at an evacuation called the El Dorado Fire started on Saturday Cal Fire said 14,800 firefighters were battling the horses and, in some cases, centre. morning and was caused by a smoke-generating 23 major fires in the state. California has seen 900 mutilate them, with organs “I hope like heck the fire doesn’t reach my little pyrotechnic device used by a couple to reveal wildfires since August 15, many of them started sometimes removed. A horse’s ranch,” Rios said. “It’s not looking good right now. their baby’s gender. by an intense series of thousands of lightning face was disfigured in one case It’s an awfully big fire.” A fire in the Angeles National Forest forced the strikes. and blood was drained in another. Mountain roads were filled with cars and trucks evacuation of Mount Wilson Observatory. There have been eight fire deaths and more Often a right ear is cut off like a leaving the town of about 2300 people. In eastern San Diego County, a fire destroyed than 3300 structures destroyed. — AP trophy. — AP 16 KIDS PAGE The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 COOL RUNNINGS k id zonly

Central School students, from left, Ruby Carr, Lucie Moylan, Isabelle McGhee, Sarah Edwards-Biddle and Sophie Phelps in the school’s cross-country race at Waiteata Park last week. Covid-19 restrictions meant students had to walk to the park in groups and race at separate times. Normally parents could watch from “the grandstand” but this year a video was created and shared to the school’s Facebook page. The races ranged in distance from 2.1 to 2.4 kilometres and all students aged between 7 and 11 years took part, about 234 in total. The school enlisted the assistance of intermediate and high school students to act as “hares and tortoises”. They ensured the children followed the correct course and encouraged them to give their best and complete the run even when it became challenging. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell SUDOKU Enter numbers into the squares so that every row, every column and every 3x2 box contains all the numbers from 1 to 6

699399 LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 WORLD 17 Judge rejects bid to delay Assange Poisoned Putin foe extradition hearing LONDON — A British judge on Monday rejected a request by lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to delay his extradition hearing until next wakes from coma year to give his lawyers more time to respond to US allegations that he conspired with hackers to obtain classified information. BERLIN — Poisoned Russian White House press secretary Kayleigh The adjournment request came on the first opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s McEnany said that the poisoning was day of a London court hearing where Assange is condition has improved, allowing “completely reprehensible” and that the fighting American prosecutors’ attempt to send doctors to take him out of an induced US was “working with our allies and him to the US to stand trial on spying charges. coma, the German hospital treating the international community to hold US prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old him said on Monday. those in Russia accountable”. Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic On Monday, British Foreign charges over WikiLeaks’ publication of secret US of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary Dominic Raab summoned military documents a decade ago. The charges was flown to Germany last month Russia’s ambassador to register his carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. after falling ill on August 20 on a “deep concern about the poisoning”, he Assange’s lawyers say the prosecution is a domestic flight in Russia. German said on Twitter. politically motivated abuse of power that will stifle chemical weapons experts say tests “It’s completely unacceptable that press freedom and put journalists around the show the 44-year-old was poisoned with a banned chemical weapon has been world at risk. a Soviet-era nerve agent, prompting used and Russia must hold a full, The US Justice Department expanded its case the German government last week to transparent investigation,” Raab said, against Assange in a new indictment announced demand that Russia investigate the while greeting the news that Navalny in June, although it did not introduce new charges. case. had been taken out of the medically- But Assange attorney Mark Summers said it was “The patient has been removed induced coma. Alexei Navalny “an impossible task” for the legal team to deal from his medically-induced coma Russia has denied that the Kremlin with the new allegations in time for Monday’s court and is being weaned off mechanical was involved in poisoning Navalny and hearing, especially since they had only “limited ventilation,” Berlin’s Charite hospital accused Germany of failing to provide the end of the year,” he said. access” to the imprisoned Assange. said in a statement. “He is responding evidence about the poisoning that it German diplomats rejected the He said District Judge Vanessa Baraitser should to verbal stimuli. It remains too early requested in late August. Russian suggestion that Berlin was to excise the new American claims, which he said to gauge the potential long-term German Foreign Minister Heiko blame for any delay in investigating were sprung on the defence “out of the blue”. effects of his severe Maas said on Sunday the case, noting that Navalny was first The judge rejected the request, saying the poisoning.” that the Russian treated for suspected poisoning in the defence had declined an earlier opportunity in It added that the Russia has denied that reaction could Siberian city of Omsk on August 20. August to postpone the hearing. The defence then decision to publicly determine whether “All evidence, witnesses, traces and asked for the case to be adjourned until January. release details of his the Kremlin was involved Germany changes its so forth are in the place where the Baraitser refused, saying Assange’s lawyers had condition was made in poisoning Navalny. long-standing backing crime was committed, presumably “ample time” before Monday to express their in consultation with for the Nord Stream somewhere in Siberia,” said German concerns. Navalny’s wife. 2 pipeline, which Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Assange, who has spent 16 months in a British Navalny had been will bring Russian Burger. prison, sat in the dock at the Old Bailey criminal in an induced coma in the Berlin gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea, The co-leader of Germany’s court and formally refused the US extradition hospital since he was flown to Germany bypassing Ukraine. opposition Green party, Robert Habeck, demand. Assange, who lawyers say has suffered on August 22 for treatment. “The chancellor also believes that called on the Government to take a physical and mental ill-health because of his News of his gradual recovery it’s wrong to rule anything out,” stronger stance and “bury” the pipeline ordeal, wore a suit and tie and spoke clearly to came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert told project. confirm his name and date of birth. Merkel’s office indicated that she reporters on Monday. The project “divides Europe, it American authorities allege that Assange might be willing to rethink the fate of Previously, Merkel had insisted on is economically nonsensical and conspired with US army intelligence analyst a controversial German-Russian gas “decoupling” the Navalny case from the oversized, and it is wrong in security Chelsea Manning to hack into a Pentagon pipeline project — a sign of Berlin’s pipeline project that is opposed by the policy terms”, Habeck said. Completing computer and release hundreds of thousands of growing frustration over Moscow’s US and favoured by Russia. it “would mean that Russia can do secret diplomatic cables and military files on the stonewalling about the Navalny case. In August, three US Republican what it wants. This signal must not be wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. German authorities said last week senators threatened sanctions against sent”. The new June indictment accuses Assange that tests showed “proof without the operator of a German Baltic Sea Mikhail Ulyanov, the Russian envoy of recruiting hackers at conferences in Europe doubt” that Navalny was poisoned port for its role as a staging post for to international organisations in and Asia, recruiting a teenager to hack into the with a chemical nerve agent from the ships involved in building Nord Stream Vienna, voiced suspicions about the computer of a former WikiLeaks associate and Novichok group. British authorities 2. timing of demands to link the pipeline conspiring with members of hacking groups identified the Soviet-era Novichok as Seibert cautioned that it was with the Navalny case. known as LulzSec and Anonymous. the poison used on former Russian spy premature to expect Moscow to “Suspicious coincidence of Navalny US prosecutors say the evidence underscores Sergei Skripal and his daughter in respond to the request for help with case and the final stage of Nord Stream Assange’s efforts to procure and release England in 2018. the Navalny probe within a few days, 2 construction, which some states classified information, allegations that form the Many countries joined Germany in but made it clear that Berlin wants desperately want to be closed. I am basis of criminal charges. Assange’s lawyers, calling for a full investigation after the answers soon. not fond of conspiracy theories but it however, argue that he is a journalist entitled to revelation, with British Prime Minister “I can’t express a clear, time-limited is obvious that the tragic events with First Amendment protection and say the leaked Boris Johnson last week calling the expectation, except that we are Navalny are very timely and helpful for documents exposed US military wrongdoing. — AP use of a chemical weapon “outrageous”. certainly not talking about months or opponents of NS2,” he tweeted. — AP Saudi court issues final verdicts in Khashoggi killing

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A to Turkey to meet Khashoggi inside the JUSTICE FOR Saudi court issued final verdicts on consulate for his appointment on October FAMILY: A Saudi Monday in the case of slain Washington 2, 2018 to pick up documents that would Arabian court has Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal allow him to marry his Turkish fiance, jailed eight people Khashoggi after his son, who still resides who waited outside. The team included a for between seven in the kingdom, announced pardons that forensic doctor, intelligence and security and 20 years for spared five of the convicted individuals officers, and individuals who worked the 2018 murder from execution. directly for the crown prince’s office, of Saudi journalist While the trial draws to its conclusion according to Agnes Callamard, who Jamal Khashoggi, in Saudi Arabia, the case continues to investigated the killing for the United state media cast a shadow over the international Nations. reported, four standing of Crown Prince Mohammed Turkish officials allege Khashoggi was months after his bin Salman, whose associates have been killed and then dismembered with a bone family forgave his sanctioned by the US and the UK for saw inside the consulate. His body has killers and enabled their alleged involvement in the brutal not been found. death sentences to killing, which took place inside the Saudi Turkey apparently had the consulate be set aside. Consulate in Istanbul. bugged and shared audio of the killing AP picture The Riyadh Criminal Court’s final with the CIA, among others. verdicts were announced by Saudi Western intelligence agencies, as well Arabia’s state television, which aired few as the US Congress, have said the crown Salman, and remains popular among officials nor anyone suspected of ordering details about the eight Saudi nationals prince bears ultimate responsibility for Saudi youth at home. He also maintains the killing has been found guilty. The and did not name them. The court the killing and that an operation of this the support of President Donald Trump, independence of the Riyadh Criminal ordered a maximum sentence of 20 years magnitude could not have happened who has defended US-Saudi ties in the Court has also been questioned. in prison for the five. Another individual without his knowledge. face of the international outcry over the A small number of diplomats, including received a 10-year sentence, and two The 35-year-old prince denies any slaying. from Turkey, as well as members of others were ordered to serve seven years knowledge of the operation and has Saudi Arabia’s trial of the suspects has Khashoggi’s family, were allowed to in prison. condemned the killing. He continues been widely criticised by rights groups attend the initial trial. Independent A team of 15 Saudi agents had flown to have the support of his father, King and observers, who note that no senior media and the public were barred. — AP 18 TELEVISION The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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WAIKATO — A they were in a large Waikato man who car and in a farm court accidentally drove over a yard area with uneven toddler “numerous” times surfaces. in his driveway says he “I suppose it is entirely didn’t realise he’d hit feasible that any bumps something until noticing you felt may have been the last “bump”. put down to dips or Michael Angus Murray bumps in the road or wiped tears from his small pieces of equipment eyes in the dock at the or material that may Hamilton District Court have been left out on the yesterday as he was farm yard”. Picture supplied by NZDF sentenced on a charge of TRAGIC DEATH: Lilah Brooks was fatally struck by He said he believed careless driving causing a vehicle being driven by family which was doing a their submission mainly the death of 1-year-old three-point-turn on December 8, last year. File picture due to how close the Lilah Brooks. family were, despite Kiwis want more The court was read an given to Lilah. car before they began Murray not being a abridged version of what She said the driveway the three-point turn. biological grandfather, he happened that day after itself was made of sand, However, video footage had been close with the support for military Murray’s lawyer, Marie was not even and had of the incident showed a grandchildren. McLeod, successfully many bumps and there 10-second period when McLeod noted her argued to suppress the were often toys or even Lilah was visible in one client’s driving history and families: survey five-page summary pieces of wood around. of the side mirrors but and submitted he detailing what happened “They just simply wasn’t seen. receive a 12 month WELLINGTON — A survey shows most New but also how many times didn’t feel anything until Lilah walked around disqualification but Zealanders believe this country should do more to she was run over. that last bump, as soon the back of the car as she suggested that support its military, veterans and their families. Judge Johnathan Down as they felt something Murray began to reverse. community detention The poll was assessing views on whether to have a agreed to the request, they stopped. It’s just The judge said Lilah wasn’t warranted in the formal agreement, or kawenata, between those who as well as a request to a tragedy because it is appeared to react and circumstances. serve in the Defence Force and the Government and suppress the amount of accepted that when they tried to walk to the side Judge Down noted that people of New Zealand. reparation paid to the first knocked Lilah over, of the car but was hit by both Murray and Brooks Between March and June an online survey was family which he described there was a really narrow the rear side of the car. now have to live with conducted with 6,152 people, 776 were questioned by as “substantial”. gap in time where, if Mr “You reversed the what happened for the phone and eight focus groups were held around the Lilah died after being Murray had been looking vehicle and it struck rest of their lives. country with 47 people taking part struck “numerous” times in that particular mirror, her and she went under Taking that into In the online-survey 92 percent agreed or strongly by Murray’s vehicle as he may well have seen the car and sufficient to account, he also gave agreed that New Zealand has a moral obligation to he completed a three- her. It’s 10 seconds of time say that there were a Murray “significant” support its service people and their whanau. point-turn to get out of that she was apparently number of manoeuvres discounts for his Thirty-seven percent considered that this country the driveway they shared in the line of sight of his to complete the three- early guilty plea and values its service people. with her parents about right-hand mirror. point turn, each of which, remorse as well as “very Eighty-nine percent thought service people and 2.45pm on December 8 “It’s the worst thing continued to cause injury significant” reparation their whanau should receive more recognition and last year. that could happen and to Lilah. to the family “which will support. Despite Lilah being hit they’ve lost someone that “I have no difficulty help secure the family’s Veterans Minister Ron Mark said a kawenata could several times, McLeod they dearly love.” accepting that you and future”. provide additional recognition for the service the submitted that her The judge described Joy didn’t feel anything However, it was military has given the country, as well as support for client’s culpability was the case as “tragic” in until the last manoeuvre still serious enough to their well-being and that of their families. low, however that was which there were no as you started to pull warrant sentences of both He said it was heartening to see the support people one of the issues the winners and told those out of the main driveway community detention and have for the military. judge told her he was present that no matter of and that you stopped community work. Support in a kawenata could include mental and “struggling with”. sentence would bring her immediately after you felt Murray was sentenced physical health support, transition to civilian life, McLeod explained back. that bump.” to community detention assistance in housing and education and financial that as soon as they Brooks was in the The judge said at “first for three months, 100 support. felt something, Lilah’s passenger seat and blush” it could be hard to hours community work Recommendations will go to the Government after grandmother, Joy Brooks, the pair discussed imagine how they didn’t and disqualified from the election. — RNZ got out of the car and whether there were any notice first hitting Lilah. driving for 15 months. first aid was immediately children around the However, he accepted — NZ Herald Cannabis referendum raises questions over its medicinal use

AUCKLAND — Those involved much larger demand for them is leaning towards voting no to in the cannabis business in New through the general patient the referendum. Zealand say one of the biggest community,” Manning said. He said legalisation would areas of confusion ahead of the “I think when these products cause harm to communities, not upcoming referendum is the become common place medicines necessarily because of cannabis legality, or not, of medicinal like other medicines in New itself, but because of the impacts cannabis. Zealand, that’s probably going of smoking. Both a doctor specialising in to become a larger driver for “I can see the arguments on prescribing medicinal marijuana Pharmac funding.” both sides. I hear the arguments and a medicinal cannabis Manning said his company will from the Drug Foundation, and producer say both sides of run a number of trials over the they’ve got some really valid the debate are fudging their next few years, and will submit arguments on the side of to messages. that data to Pharmac. support it,” Dr Hotu said. To be clear, medicinal use is But he said the cost of “But as a GP, the thing that’s already permitted, but there is unapproved cannabis medicines most important to me is safety. only one approved drug on the will drop before that, because Safety for my patients and safety market. they are starting to be made for the communities of New The rest are ‘unapproved’ here. Zealand. drugs that can be prescribed He supports the referendum, “If you look at the evidence by a doctor, but have not gone DOUBT LINGERS: According to Dr Hotu, the confused messages because he thinks it will reduce of what’s happened in Canada, through the medical testing around medicinal use are a reflection of the way cannabis has been overall harm. we’re going to have more people Medsafe deems appropriate. perceived over a long time. File picture “Prohibition has been an abject smoking and I don’t think that’s One of those doctors is Mark failure. really the way that we want to Hotu, a GP at Green Doctors in use are a reflection of the way run those clinical trials is Helius “It hasn’t stopped the go.” Ponsonby. cannabis has been perceived over Therapeutics. availability of cannabis in New Pharmac’s director of “Even someone like myself who a long time. Its chief executive, Paul Zealand, and it hasn’t slowed operations, Lisa Williams, works with medicinal cannabis Cannabis based drugs have Manning, said they have its consumption as hundreds of said Pharmac will consider 24/7, 365 days a year, it’s even been the subject of only a few dedicated $10 million to drug thousands of New Zealanders funding any medicinal cannabis confusing for me,” he said. quality studies to determine trials. use cannabis every day and products that are cleared and “I’m not surprised that the their effectiveness. “To be honest I think the main they’re breaking the law. recommended for use. average person in New Zealand Dr Hotu said that will change driver for funding for cannabis “The current system, in my But to date, only one medicinal is also confused as well.” in coming years, as the stigma medicines will be clinical data view, hasn’t worked.” cannabis product has been Dr Hotu said the confused around cannabis lifts. to prove how these products are Dr Hotu said he is sitting on approved, and it is not funded by messages around medicinal One company which hopes to safe and how they work and a the fence at the moment, but he Pharmac. — RNZ 22 CLUB RUGBY FINAL The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020

LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED: The Waikohu bench head towards their teammates as the fulltime whistle is blown, signalling their victory in the final of Poverty Bay premier club rugby’s Lee Bros Shield. Among them were (from left) Jarryd Broughton, Kupu Lloyd and KC Wilson. Pictures by Paul Rickard These and other photos are available for sale at The Gisborne Herald or online — photo-sales.gisborneherald.co.nz

TO THE VICTORS, THE SPOILS: GT Shearing Waikohu captain Geoff Pari holds Poverty Bay premier club rugby’s pinnacle trophy — the Lee Bros Shield — presented by Kevin Lee, representing the five brothers who donated the rimu trophy in 1946. Waikohu defeated East Coast Farm Vets 27-20 in the Civil Project Solutions 2020 final at Rugby Park on Saturday. It was Waikohu’s second premier crown. They first won it in 2018.

TRADEMARK REEVES: Waikohu fullback Ethine Reeves on a typically powerful run, leaving one YMP defender eating grass and another holding on for dear life as assistant referee Royce Maynard follows the play closely.

ONE-ARM DEFENCE: YMP second five Louis Devery thrusts out an arm in an attempt to stop Waikohu first five-eighth Kelvin Smith.

TIT FOR TAT: Right, YMP fullback Andrew Tauatevalu responds to Waikohu scoring first in the second half with a five-pointer of his own in Saturday’s premier club rugby final. Left, Tane McGuire tries to push off YMP centurion Mike Kemp.

CAPTAIN’S RUN: YMP skipper Shayde Skudder is tackled by Tane McGuire. Skudder had to CLOSING endure the bitter THE DOOR: taste of defeat twice Waikohu flanker over the weekend. Kupu Lloyd A talented golfer, spots a gap but Skudder followed it is about to be his team’s 27-20 quickly closed premier club rugby by the defence final defeat with of winger Enty a loss to Hukanui Junior Masun Brown in the and flanker senior men’s club Mike Kemp. championship final at Patutahi Golf Club on Sunday. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 RACING 23

Matamata races at Matamata Wednesday Jetbet 2 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10 Selections 3 3s000 Leaf (4) 59 63 S O’Malley (a3) 5 7392 Hola Senorita (11) 56.5 52 S Collett 9 3 Vincere (6) 56.5 51 C Grylls EMERGENCIES: SCRATCHED Race 1: TARWYN, PEERLESS WARRIOR, HIT THE ROAD JACK 4 1454s Koolascuz (10) 58.5 62 S Weatherley 6 82s64 Dundrum (2) 56.5 51 M Kareem (a3) 10 4 Grease Lightning (13) 56.5 50 15 — Show Bird 5 5s015 Prestigious Lad (8) 58.5 62 7 966s3 Sesto (3) 56.5 51 M Cameron Kersley Ramsamy 16 009s0 Supagili (7) 55 55 Race 2: MAGDALA, PRESTIGIOUS LAD, SYMBIO 6 5s541 Touch The Clouds (15) 58.5 62 8 5663 Sussex (14) 56.5 51 11 4s766 Sizzler (3) 56.5 45 S Weatherley Race 3: LIMENTIS, BOUFFANT, TELEKINETIC A Goindasamy (a2) 9 s83s0 Iridessa (12) 56.5 50 S McKay 12 Lennon (7) 56 45 M Cameron 9 Transport Mechanical Waharoa 4.39 Race 4: LORD PAINTON, LIGHT BROCADE, IRIDESSA 7 7s235 Magdala (17) 58 65 C Burdan (a2) 10 6s0 Full Of Promise (5) 56.5 46 C Lammas 13 8s Travelling Kate (4) 54 45 S Collett $10,000, maiden, 1200m Race 5: NO LIMITS, ESCUDO, BETTE DAVIS EYES 8 s90s0 Sacred Delight (16) 58 65 T Thornton 11 78 Jack The Lass (13) 56.5 45 L Innes Race 6: GITCHE GUMEE, MAKZABEEL, VINCERE 9 9s701 React (3) 57.5 64 T Newman (a3) 12 22 Lord Painton (7) 56 54 C Grylls 7 The Clothier Family 3.29 1 22 The Villain (4) 58.5 54 L Satherley Race 7: SIRACUSA, GALLARDO, RISING RENOWN 10 857s4 Noble Star (7) 57.5 60 C Grylls 13 Iverson (4) 56 45 L Satherley 2 80s03 Major Billy Lister (2) 58.5 50 J Waddell $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 3 I’m Capable (5) 58.5 47 T Thornton Race 8: KAMAKAZE, FIRST ROCK, SAINT CROIX 11 s0005 Its A Kinda Magic (1) 56.5 62 14 — Jolene SCRATCHED T Yanagida (a1) EMERGENCIES: 1 749s0 Sagunto (16) 60 65 4 7 Tickle Me Almo (14) 58.5 45 Race 9: CHOPPER REED, CORNFLOWER BLUE, ARYA STARK 2 570s6 Wheao (9) 60 65 R Simpson C Burdan (a2) Race 10: RISING ROAD, CAN’T FIND ONE, WIND CHIMES 12 4s710 Letz’av Bubbles (14) 56.5 62 D Johnson 15 067s Glorious Siren (6) 56.5 45 SCRATCHED 13 7s440 Midnite Invasion (12) 56 61 C Lammas A Goindasamy (a2) 3 — Malik 5 236s Arya Stark (9) 56.5 52 T Yanagida (a1) 14 — Selenelion SCRATCHED 16 — Tearanita SCRATCHED 4 220s5 Iago (5) 58.5 62 6 250s6 Happiness Forever (6) 56.5 51 EMERGENCIES: 17 — Pango SCRATCHED 5 0s217 Rising Renown (3) 58.5 62 A Calder A Goindasamy (a2) 15 7s670 Tinder Hit (6) 56.5 58 M Kareem (a3) 6 2s019 Because (2) 58 61 A Goindasamy (a2) 7 0s43 Marley (7) 56.5 51 T Newman (a3) 1 RBC Racing 11.55 16 000s0 Nigella Jazz (13) 54.5 58 5 Gcm Feeds Ltd 2.17 7 90950 Bluetwentytwo (10) 58 61 8 s876s Showcat (3) 56.5 47 S Weatherley 17 9s806 Dudewithattitude (11) 55 55 M Hashizume (a3) 9 7 Duby (10) 56.5 46 C Grylls $10,000, maiden, 1600m $10,000, maiden 3yo, 1200m 18 88s07 Fly To The Moon (5) 54 55 8 4s5s3 Siracusa (11) 57.5 64 D Johnson 10 69s6 Reliable Lady (1) 56.5 46 S Spratt 1 42s04 Peerless Warrior (13) 58.5 53 1 — Anduin SCRATCHED 9 81s62 Gallardo (6) 57 63 L Innes 11 008s0 Mi Sky (11) 56.5 45 A Calder A Goindasamy (a2) 3 Matamata Veterinary Serv. 1.07 2 Master Khan (11) 57.5 47 S McKay 10 69s24 Felix Faure (7) 57 59 C Lammas 12 2 Chopper Reed (12) 56 54 S Collett 3 5 No Limits (9) 57.5 47 D Johnson 11 831s9 Matter Of Fact (14) 56.5 62 C Grylls 13 Nozi Cyclone (8) 56 45 M Cameron 2 03 Keeping Lucky (11) 58.5 51 L Satherley $10,000, maiden, 1400m 3 8s83 Ribzz (18) 58.5 51 S Collett 4 58s Ember Attack (7) 57.5 46 A Calder 12 610s0 Snowdeel (8) 56.5 62 M Cameron 14 2s Cornflower Blue (13) 54 52 D Johnson 4 6730s Cautious Approach (17) 58.5 50 L Innes 1 — Ripper Of A Dream SCRATCHED 5 Great Commission (3) 57.5 45 13 61s00 Jutanugarn (15) 55.5 60 S Weatherley 5 46s4 Hit The Road Jack (8) 58.5 50 2 60s25 Sailor Jerry (10) 58.5 52 C Grylls A Goindasamy (a2) 14 0s000 Falkirk Lass (1) 55 59 S Spratt 10 Waharoa Industrial Park 5.13 S O’Malley (a3) 3 s6238 Uncle Terry (11) 58.5 52 J Waddell 6 629s Escudo (13) 55.5 52 T Yanagida (a1) EMERGENCIES: $10,000, maiden, 2000m 6 638s4 Tarwyn (15) 58.5 50 4 0260s The Green Dragon (3) 58.5 50 7 445 Rubyshowoff (4) 55.5 50 T Thornton 15 — Tinder Hit SCRATCHED 5 — Papenhuyzen SCRATCHED 8 446s Targhee (6) 55.5 50 C Lammas 16 000s0 Nigella Jazz (13) 54.5 58 1 s3323 Charred (15) 58.5 54 T Thornton 7 0 Who Dat Dare (9) 58.5 46 2 68s43 Piggy Malone (19) 58.5 53 O Helagi (a4) 6 068s7 Dawnting (6) 58.5 45 S McKay 9 40s La Tardigrada (1) 55.5 49 L Innes 17 9s806 Dudewithattitude (12) 55 55 M Hashizume (a3) 3 s6352 Wind Chimes (17) 58.5 53 C Lammas 7 9s0 Pochesti (9) 58.5 45 Kersley Ramsamy 10 — Vitesse Bo SCRATCHED 18 88s07 Fly To The Moon (4) 54 55 8 07 Karamello Koala (14) 58.5 45 4 2 Can’t Find One (4) 58.5 52 J Riddell T Thornton 8 66s42 Limentis (4) 56.5 52 D Johnson 11 6s Baby Cheeses (5) 55.5 46 9 7634s Lady Gwendolyn (12) 56.5 51 12 6 Bette Davis Eyes (8) 55.5 46 C Grylls 8 The Robert Bruce Clothier Mem. 4.04 5 4s575 Gingee (14) 58.5 52 T Newman (a3) 9 7s723 El Nymph (2) 56.5 53 T Yanagida (a1) 6 9s43 A’nood Dude (7) 58.5 51 D Johnson 10 02 Cuba (7) 56.5 52 S Weatherley A Goindasamy (a2) 13 8 Moana (2) 55.5 45 S Weatherley $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1200m 10 577s4 Bouffant (1) 56.5 50 S Weatherley 14 Spirit Of Baz (10) 55.5 45 M Cameron 7 57983 Cassio (16) 58.5 51 D Danis (a2) 11 256s0 Shocking Penny (10) 56.5 51 S McKay 1 0s892 Saint Croix (6) 60 65 M Hashizume (a3) 8 7s396 Camping (10) 58.5 49 Richard Oliver 12 94 Sweet Lilly (5) 56.5 50 C Grylls 11 4 Misconduct (14) 56.5 50 C Burdan (a2) EMERGENCIES: 2 1 Kamakaze (8) 59 63 S Collett 9 5s378 You Are So Vain (13) 58.5 49 13 655s0 Gracies Gold (6) 56.5 46 S Spratt 12 6858s Savappiel (7) 56.5 46 S Spratt 15 — Le Chamossaire SCRATCHED 3 0s00s Silver Sasanof (13) 58.5 62 M Cameron 14 0 Miss Primitivo (16) 56.5 45 13 0s Our Modena (2) 56.5 45 M Cameron 16 2s Cornflower Blue (12) 55.5 52 O Helagi (a4) 10 487 Mr Ghibson (12) 58.5 48 S Collett EMERGENCIES: 14 28s6 Telekinetic (8) 54 50 S Collett 17 — Travelling Kate SCRATCHED 4 738s0 Caithness Kid (14) 58 61 T Yanagida (a1) 11 0s6 De Silver Lining (9) 58.5 46 15 790s8 Vanilla Chinchilla (3) 56.5 45 EMERGENCIES: 5 s3030 Don Draper (3) 57.5 60 D Johnson S O’Malley (a3) 16 507s0 Nizona (12) 56.5 45 15 — Glorious Siren SCRATCHED 6 Waharoa Transport Co 2.52 12 06 Solid Contact (8) 58.5 46 M Kareem (a3) 17 — Pineapple Lump SCRATCHED 16 80s07 Tearanita (5) 56.5 45 L Satherley 6 s9653 Fleurgundy (15) 57.5 60 $10,000, maiden, 1200m 7 7s955 Just Raj (11) 57.5 60 S Spratt 13 0s290 Ima Wonder (20) 56.5 50 L Satherley 18 08s00 Istina (4) 56.5 45 C Lammas 17 8s6s0 Pango (13) 58.5 45 T Thornton 8 5075s First Rock (4) 57 63 L Satherley 14 854 Rising Road (2) 56.5 50 S Spratt 19 490s0 Why Wonder (1) 56.5 45 1 3 Makzabeel (8) 58.5 51 L Innes 20 — Pochesti SCRATCHED 4 Christmas At The Races - 23/12 1.42 2 7040s Sam’s Song (11) 58.5 49 L Satherley 9 1 Ocean Belle (1) 57 63 S Weatherley EMERGENCIES: 3 6 Afitusi (1) 58.5 46 T Newman (a3) 10 35s91 Tangodanzer (12) 56.5 62 15 0s096 Meant To Be (3) 58.5 45 2 The Clothier Farm 12.32 $10,000, maiden, 1400m 4 20s00 Extersea (5) 58.5 45 A Goindasamy (a2) A Goindasamy (a2) 16 877s0 Stratius (11) 58.5 45 1 47 Foxsquillion (8) 58.5 49 D Johnson 5 0s900 Flying Oarsman (10) 58.5 45 S Spratt 11 19s67 Blindspott (5) 56 61 C Grylls 17 7s434 Curious George (1) 58.5 45 C Grylls $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 2 6 Lofty (10) 58.5 46 C Burdan (a2) 6 The Boogeyman (12) 58.5 45 A Calder 12 s4073 Nuclear Fusion (9) 56 61 C Lammas 18 9F0s8 Beau Archers Rose (6) 58.5 45 1 80s66 Symbio (2) 59.5 64 M Hashizume (a3) 3 00s Makaraka (9) 58.5 45 S Weatherley 7 32s22 Gitche Gumee (9) 56.5 54 D Johnson 13 68s00 Roc Cha (10) 55.5 60 Brandon May 19 6s088 Hardout (18) 58.5 45 2 95s82 Checkers (9) 59 63 J Riddell 4 3s42 Light Brocade (1) 56.5 53 A Calder 8 226s8 Show The Love (2) 56.5 52 E McCall (a3) 14 46s77 Porshabelle (2) 55 59 T Thornton 20 70s70 Tee Bone Brown (5) 58.5 45

Wanganui greys at Hatrick Wednesday Jetbet 3 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10 Selections EMERGENCIES: 4 Adept Accountants 12.57 4 78848 Homebush Captain nwtd John McInerney 7 34578 Idol Ziggy 17.67 Marcie Flipp Race 1: ALLEGRO GEMMA, AL’S WITCH, KIOSK 9 74688 Kay Tuesso nwtd Sue Gommans 5 1 Rhodes Worthy 18.29 Maree Gowan 8 87241 Three Of Hearts 18.36 Bill Hodgson 10 25688 Citizen Zagreb nwtd John McInerney $1450, C1, 305m 6 51878 Opawa Tai nwtd Nathan Udy EMERGENCIES: Race 2: FIRECRACKER, JACK MARJEN, ARIANA SUNSET 1 64223 Big Time Juda nwtd Lisa Cole 7 31641 Porcelain Panda 18.09 Lana Pearce 9 47542 Idol Duke 17.63 Marcie Flipp Race 3: WIFI SOPHIE, TELLTALE SIGNS, MY EMMETT 2 Aon CPF Insurance 12.22 2 13 Butter Churn 18.10 Glen Hodgson 8 65781 Hardcore Kylie 18.28 Agent & Williams 10 74667 Collect A Dream 17.81 Marcie Flipp Race 4: PAVING WAY, BUTTER CHURN, BIG TIME JUDA $1365, C0, 305m 3 61314 Paving Way 18.03 Lana Pearce EMERGENCIES: Race 5: JILLIBY JAC, POPPY ROCKET, TEKKI JIM 4 6s677 Homebush Maree nwtd Sue Gommans 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 9 See You Friday 2.25 1 54s45 Ariana Sunset nwtd Pauline Blanche Race 6: TRUTH HURTS, RHODES WORTHY, 5 23325 Yasawa Lights 18.07 Angela Turnwald 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 2 63338 Jack Marjen nwtd Marcie Flipp $1685, C2, 305m ALLEGRO LINCOLN 6 33745 Hypothetical 18.13 Melissa Olden 3 37262 Firecracker nwtd Agent & Williams 7 67387 Summer Glee 17.66 John McInerney 7 Accell Canine Therapy” 1.50 1 22134 Webber Come 17.83 John McInerney Race 7: UNO ELEVEN, ALAMEIN GRAEME, COCKNEY RIP OFF 4 7F4 Tui Tonight nwtd Lana Pearce 8 88178 Oma Rapeti 18.42 Carol Morris 2 25164 Hashtag Blessed 17.81 Nathan Udy Race 8: ALLEGRO KYLE, THREE OF HEARTS, IDOL DUKE 5 84626 Goldstar Malone nwtd Sue Gommans $1450, C1, 305m EMERGENCIES: 3 33465 Choice Sister 17.99 Carol Morris Race 9: WEBBER COME, BORN QUICK, SAHARA PIPPA 6 67673 Diller nwtd John McInerney 1 67874 Big Time Queen 17.90 Lisa Cole 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 4 56361 Born Quick 17.65 Marcie Flipp Race 10: SPEED MACHINE, JILLIBY SOPHIA, 7 8 Hardcore Patches nwtd Agent & Williams 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 2 25774 Hurricane Al 17.85 Carol Morris 5 66415 Sahara Pippa 17.96 Marcie Flipp PENNY MOWHAWK 8 Zamah nwtd Deb Edlin 3 32464 Uno Eleven 17.75 Nathan Udy 6 24387 Homebush Mandy 17.95 Sue Gommans EMERGENCIES: 4 76886 Homebush Showoff nwtd John McInerney 5 racingtips.co.nz 1.15 7 61733 Born Fab 17.78 Stephen Maher 9 77577 Idol Abby nwtd Marcie Flipp 5 85346 Alamein Graeme 18.03 Kettlewell & Phillips 8 45631 Funzalo 17.61 Bill Hodgson 10 886 Shot Of Class nwtd Carol Morris $2505, C1, 520m 6 53527 Cockney Rip Off 17.72 Melissa Olden EMERGENCIES: 1 38386 Opawa June 30.49 Angela Turnwald 7 68764 Impressive Gift nwtd Sue Gommans 3 Laser Plumbing 12.40 2 56426 Tuff Knight 30.37 Bernie Mitchell 8 55687 Not Shackley 17.73 Jim Black 9 77182 Punch On Ruby 17.78 John McInerney 10 17376 Sahara Dream 17.91 Marcie Flipp $1365, C0, 305m 3 2s411 Jilliby Jac nwtd Lisa Cole EMERGENCIES: 1 Welcome To Hatrick 12.05 4 37633 Poppy Rocket nwtd M S Clark 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 10 First Security 2.41 1 43F82 Wifi Sophie nwtd G & S Fredrickson 5 64664 Big Time Tommey 30.81 Lisa Cole 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams $1365, C0, 305m 2 83 Unwritten Law nwtd Carol Morris 6 18Ps1 Tekki Jim nwtd G & S Fredrickson $2505, C1, 520m 3 74524 Telltale Signs nwtd Melissa Olden 1 Gotcha Murphy nwtd Kellie Gommans 7 28668 Big Time Ricky nwtd Agent & Williams 8 Wanganui Toyota 2.06 1 66726 Oh Miss Jordie nwtd M S Clark 4 43457 My Emmett nwtd Marcie Flipp 8 85117 Takakawe 30.91 Ivan Cox 2 8 Hardcore Lisa nwtd Agent & Williams 5 Endless Style nwtd J & D Bell $1685, C2, 305m 2 46888 Homebush Surgeon nwtd Sue Gommans 3 5 Alamein Sam nwtd Kettlewell & Phillips 6 57756 Big Time Goldie nwtd Wendy Kite 6 Hatrick Dash 1.32 1 25174 Allegro Kyle 17.76 D P Symes 3 56888 Black Mags nwtd Sammy Stone 4 535 Kiosk nwtd J & D Bell 7 46284 Big Time Boots nwtd Lisa Cole 2 41678 Punch On Scooby 18.22 John McInerney 4 63358 Mainline Lil 31.21 Bill Hodgson 5 77422 Al’s Witch nwtd Lana Pearce 8 56866 Hardcore Brute nwtd Agent & Williams $1450, C1, 305m 3 43324 Barbarossa Boy 17.74 Brian Goldsack 5 56575 Penny Mowhawk nwtd David Denbee 6 48527 Ahuroa Whizz nwtd Robert Murray EMERGENCIES: 1 45228 Thrilling Ivy 18.10 Sue Gommans 4 37428 Arthur’s Crown 17.76 Richard Waite 6 12225 Speed Machine nwtd Lisa Cole 7 23837 Idol Andy nwtd Marcie Flipp 9 77577 Idol Abby nwtd Marcie Flipp 2 22123 Truth Hurts 18.25 Carol Morris 5 67252 So Severe 17.71 Carol Morris 7 22s12 Jilliby Sophia 30.69 Lisa Cole 8 32356 Allegro Gemma nwtd Lisa Cole 10 78568 Garrera nwtd Sue Gommans 3 51634 Allegro Lincoln 17.92 Lisa Cole 6 61775 Checkpoint 17.95 Marcie Flipp 8 73678 Tuff Temptress nwtd Bernie Mitchell

Extra Wanganui greys at Hatrick Wednesday Jetbet 9 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4 T. 2-3-4 Q. 1-2-3-4 Selections 1 Palamountains Nutrition 3.01 2 See You Friday 3.21 3 Kernow Construction 3.42 4 Book Your Function @ Hatrick 3.57 Race 1: SMALL BOY, IDOL JAN, WIFI SAPPHIRE $1450, C1, 305m $1450, C1, 305m $1450, C1, 305m $1450, C1, 305m Race 2: BIG TIME TATUM, PARADOX PRINCE, ELUSIVE ALIBI 1 35775 Boot Camp Tiara 17.91 Lana Pearce 1 74265 Elusive Alibi 17.89 Richard Waite 1 78687 Tiddy Cash nwtd John McInerney 1 68537 Always Dizzy 18.07 John McInerney Race 3: CHIC IN TIME, CLANSMAN DOUGLAS, 2 16734 Hardcore Jet 17.97 Agent & Williams 2 52385 Paradox Prince 18.13 Bill Hodgson 2 64726 Rapid Renegade 18.10 Richard Waite 2 66448 Xanthe Jewel 17.99 Pauline Blanche RAPID RENEGADE 3 56633 Idol Jan 17.80 Marcie Flipp 3 57666 Watch Marjen 18.20 Marcie Flipp 3 73856 Bigtime On Track 17.68 Fred Kite 3 35347 Shamrock Green 17.85 Brian Goldsack Race 4: HOMEBUSH SUSAN, I’LL BE LOYAL, 4 22855 Bigtime Coco 17.72 Nathan Udy 4 46483 Zara Daiken 17.93 Nathan Udy 4 57586 Double Change nwtd Sue Gommans 4 16547 Idol Wilson 18.13 Marcie Flipp SHAMROCK GREEN 5 57677 Impressive Mood nwtd Sue Gommans 5 42372 Big Time Tatum 17.86 Agent & Williams 5 33887 Elsa Blueblood 17.97 John McInerney 5 57852 Sideline Sally 17.89 John McInerney 6 56386 Wifi Sapphire 18.01 G & S Fredrickson 6 83844 Bigtime Hannah 17.80 Sue Gommans 6 52662 Clansman Douglas 18.16 Brian Goldsack 6 53514 Homebush Susan 17.99 Sue Gommans 7 16685 Homebush Jozie 18.03 John McInerney 7 62887 Cool Wolf 17.86 Diane Donlon 7 33318 Chic In Time nwtd Glen Hodgson 7 64457 Go Blue 17.96 Nathan Udy 8 85676 Leslie Albert 18.06 Brian Goldsack 8 76645 Trajan nwtd John McInerney 8 35877 Zara Fab 18.03 Nathan Udy 8 75671 I’ll Be Loyal 18.05 Bill Hodgson EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 9 27787 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 10 27787 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams

New South Wales races at Canterbury Wednesday Jetbet 11 TAB doubles 3-4, 6-7 Trebles 2-3-4, 5-6-7 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6-7 Selections 6 4s324 Zarzou (9) 54.5 95 J Collett 3 58220 Baanone tw (7) 60 94 J Collett 2 2222s Al Mah Haha cn (12) 60.5 90 K Jennings 13 11808 Spokesman cwn (13) 57.5 90 SCRATCHED Race 1: CANADIAN SPICE, CADENABBIA, LET ME THINK 7 04s38 Dizzy Dawn (10) 54 90 Ms K O’Hara 4 74462 Guise cw (3) 59 97 K Mc Evoy 3 — Plonka J Mc Donald 8 47 Duke Of Buckingham (4) 54 91 J Ford 5 40s73 Relucent wn (2) 59 93 J Mc Donald 4 310s1 Plaquette tdn (13) 59 100 J Mc Donald 14 140s3 Olympic Legend w (4) 57 93 K Mc Evoy Race 2: HOT SPRING GOLD, ARGENTEUS, KENNEDY CHOICE 9 35334 Principatus (6) 54 89 Q Yong (a3) 6 03165 Czechoslovakia w (9) 55.5 86 5 1121s Asudem w (7) 58.5 87 A Bullock 15 70357 Noble Joey w (12) 56.5 88 Ms K O’Hara Race 3: RELUCENT, GUISE, HOME GROUND 10 423s8 Wild Irish (3) 54 91 B Ryan (a2) L Magorrian 6 s17s3 Axe w (4) 58 99 J Parr Race 4: ACHIEVER, KNOWITALL JACK, LOVE SHACK BABY 7 63535 So Wicked w (8) 54 91 T Berry 7 14662 Hulk dwb (10) 57.5 90 K Mc Evoy 7 Sky Racing Active 6.55 Race 5: PLAQUETTE, MISSION RIVER, AXE 2 Casino Prince @ Vinery Hcp 4.00 8 33316 Duchess Of Windsor w (5) 54 92 8 03s43 Liberty Sun cn (3) 57.5 89 Ms L Day (a3) $50,000, 3yo & up F&M Benchmark 72, Race 6: BIG PARADE, PLONKA, TESTIFIER $50,000, 3yo Maiden, 1250m Ms A Collett 9 1855s Texas Forever c (11) 56.5 93 N Rawiller 1200m Race 7: ALISON OF TUFFY, EMANATE, SANCY 9 79704 Chief Kidder w (4) 54 88 Ms R Murray 10 1s6Ps Taken Everything d (5) 55.5 76 T Berry 1 86s52 Argenteus b (2) 58.5 98 N Rawiller 11 88s31 Mission River (6) 55 94 T Clark 1 1360s Enchanted Heart w (8) 62 95 2 2 Astero (5) 58.5 94 G Schofield 4 Bowermans Furniture 5.10 12 6645s Paquirri d (2) 55 93 R Bayliss Ms L Day (a3) 3 Private Cheetah (4) 58.5 87 T Clark 13 84990 Jachell Alliance (8) 54 75 G Schofield 2 5s32s Avon River (7) 60 95 J Mc Donald 4 5 Kennedy Choice (3) 57.5 94 J Parr $50,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 72, 1550m 3 21s11 Gold Bracelet w (10) 59 96 B Ryan (a2) 5 6s4 Kobestar (9) 57.5 92 R Bayliss 1 099s2 Love Shack Baby cdw (7) 62.5 96 6 Ranvet Handicap 6.20 4 656s7 Kawaikini tdw (16) 59 90 5 16s91 Eve’s Miss dw (3) 58.5 93 J Ford 6 2 Provide (12) 57 100 Ms K O’Hara B Ryan (a2) $50,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 72, 1250m 7 Artic (13) 56.5 89 T Berry 2 46532 Knowitall Jack tcw (3) 61 100 6 3116s Alchermes dw (2) 57.5 91 S Clipperton 8 Pretty Good (1) 56.5 90 J Mc Donald Ms L Day (a3) 1 142s4 Big Parade dwb (1) 62 100 J Parr 7 29s86 Alison Of Tuffy dw (14) 57.5 94 9 5s543 Hot Spring Gold (8) 56 94 J Collett 3 58220 Baanone cw (9) 60 97 J Parr 2 06557 Top Striker w (7) 62 87 K S Latham 10 6 Delaware (6) 55.5 91 M Bell 4 12s54 Oksal (1) 57.5 96 T Clark Chris C Williams (a2) 8 s08s9 Ballistica d (6) 57 88 K Mc Evoy 11 8 Initiation (7) 55.5 87 K Mc Evoy 5 545s5 Coco Baci (8) 57 97 N Rawiller 3 94626 Got Unders w (8) 61.5 91 9 5s652 Chazelles dw (15) 57 92 12 7 Mandalong Superb (11) 55.5 88 6 14241 Gentleman Max w (4) 56 92 J Ford J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 10 618s3 Dubai Star tn (9) 57 95 T Clark 4 — Perigord SCRATCHED 11 s65s7 Instant Attraction d (11) 57 100 1 TAB Handicap 3.25 A Banks 7 431s8 Achiever w (2) 55.5 90 J Mc Donald 13 0 She’s Justified (10) 55.5 87 K S Latham 8 3s211 Rathvilly Miss w (5) 55.5 97 K S Latham 5 1s95s Testifier dwn (15) 61 90 B Ryan (a2) N Rawiller $50,000, 3yo & up Maiden, 1550m 9 70713 O’Driscoll dw (6) 54 96 G Buckley 6 01229 Hit The Target w (2) 60 89 G Buckley 12 34s93 Super Longlea w (1) 57 98 3 Hyland Race Colours 4.35 7 413s4 Plonka (5) 60 90 T Clark J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 1 2s Skagerak (8) 59 88 N Rawiller 5 Frosted @ Darley 5.45 8 18216 Wander twn (6) 59.5 94 Ms L Day (a3) 13 13s72 Emanate w (13) 56.5 98 Ms R King 2 2 Cadenabbia (2) 56.5 100 J Mc Donald $50,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 72, 1900m 9 5053s Foreign Territory w (10) 59 89 Ms R King 14 153s6 Rock My Wand dw (4) 56.5 97 J Collett 3 s34s0 Tornac (7) 56 86 T Berry 1 45234 Home Ground b (6) 61.5 98 N Rawiller $50,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 72, 1100m 10 — Asudem SCRATCHED 15 s076s Sancy (12) 55.5 91 T Berry 4 24632 Let Me Think (5) 55.5 91 R Bayliss 2 41521 Monsieur Sisu tcw (1) 61.5 100 1 2s148 Perigord cdwn (9) 61.5 93 11 7s221 Zell d (9) 58.5 94 C Reith EMERGENCY: 5 6s432 Canadian Spice (1) 54.5 92 K Mc Evoy Ms L Day (a3) J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 12 65s06 Savoury tcwn (3) 58 91 N Rawiller 16 12s54 Oksal (5) 59.5 95 24 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Patience as Tour riders endure testing day CYCLING WAITING: the two-metre distance required by Slovenia’s Primoz organisers as they cheered their favourite LA ROCHELLE, France — It was a Roglic outside the riders. rest day like no other for the Tour de doping control Although test results are not expected France bunch. facility after the to be unveiled before Tuesday, teams After nine nervous and exhausting ninth stage of the will soon find out whether the virus has stages that took the peloton from the Tour de France contaminated the race bubble. Riviera to the Pyrenees via a short cycling race over “It would really be a shame to see a journey in the Alps, riders would have 153km. Monday rider excluded from the Tour de France normally taken some time off on Monday was a rest day, because he has been cheered on by not with their friends and families. normally spent with attentive enough fans,” Cofidis team But this year is different. friends and family manager Cedric Vasseur said. In addition to their recovery routine, but this year riders The next round of testing could indeed the 166 remaining riders stayed in stayed in their throw the race into turmoil. Anyone their own “bubble” with a Damocles own bubble and who tests positive will have to leave the sword hanging over their head as they underwent Covid- race and any team with more than two underwent coronavirus tests that will 19 tests. AP picture positive tests — either rider or staff — decide whether they can keep on racing. within seven days will be thrown out. “It’s disturbing, but we need to be To avoid false positive results patient,” said French rider Warren point — more than 30,000 people in away from fans and sponsors usually that could rule healthy riders out of Barguil, sitting alongside his Arkea- France have died after contracting the omnipresent during the three weeks of contention, Tour organisers have said Samsic team leader Nairo Quintana coronavirus, making the country one of the popular event. they will try to perform a re-test and during a video conference. “We’ll see our the hardest-hit in Europe — the Tour After four staff members of the Belgian a blood analysis as quickly as possible. families in Paris on September 20.” has been salvaged by pushing it back team Lotto-Soudal were sent home They have set up a mobile coronavirus Even with the video filter separating from its traditional July date to the end following abnormal coronavirus tests on lab that can produce results in two hours. them from reporters, both riders kept of summer. The price paid for the race to the eve of the Tour, the race has been Following Sunday’s final stage in their face masks on as they answered be run is a heavy sanitary protocol which run without any further Covid-19-related the Pyrenees, where Primoz Roglic of questions. includes mandatory Covid-19 testing for incidents. Slovenia seized the race leader’s yellow Tour de France organisers said about riders and teams’ staff members on rest But keeping the social distancing with jersey, the 22 Tour teams have travelled 650 tests would be performed. Some took days. the roadside crowds in place has not been by bus to the western Charente region. place on Sunday, with the majority of All were tested before the Tour started an easy task. During Saturday’s first The race resumes later today. Roglic riders being tested Monday. in Nice and have since lived in the race stage in the Pyrenees mountains, many leads defending champion Egan Bernal Under threat of cancellation at some quarantine, making sure they stayed spectators without masks did not respect by 21 seconds. — AP THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Wednesday, September 9, 2020

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Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 SPORT 25 Ian Kirkpatrick’s record put straight SPORTS BRIEFS RUGBY respectively. 123-year history to have captained both Poverty Bay fans will know that islands, the South in 1969 and the North Fans allowed at French Open ALL Blacks coach Ian Foster has Kirkpatrick played for Canterbury in in 1972 and ’73. PARIS — Spectators will be allowed at the attributed a North Island-South Island 1967, 1968 and 1969 before returning Foster’s mistake was understandable — French Open this month despite the growing record to All Black great Ian Kirkpatrick to Poverty Bay for the remainder of his it was printed in the match programme, number of coronavirus cases in the country, — but it was the wrong record. career. which can be read on allblacks.com. organisers said on today. Speaking On Sky TV after announcing (Players’ island eligibility in that era The programme says Kirkpatrick and They unveiled health protocols for the clay- the All Blacks squad, Foster said was based on which provincial union they fellow All Black great Fergie McCormick court grand slam, which will take place at Roland the legendary Colin Meads and Ian played for at the time.) represented the South Island 10 times. Garros in western Paris from Sept 27 after being Kirkpatrick were the most capped players Kirkpatrick’s inter-island record is McCormick did play 10 times for the postponed from its May start. for the North Island and South Island that he is the only player in the fixture’s South Island, from 1960 to 1969. “Since the international circuit restarted, Roland Garros will be the first tournament with the privilege of hosting an audience,” French Tennis Federation president Bernard Giudicelli said. In accordance with the latest government guidelines capping attendance to 5000 people in regions such as Paris, the federation has scaled down its plans. Wearing a mask on site will be $22.4M PAYDAY mandatory, while all accredited people at the tournament will have to pass virus tests to be admitted in the Roland Garros bubble.— AP Johnson win’s golf’s biggest prize A Grade basketball results GISBORNE women’s club basketball, A Grade, by Doug Ferguson, AP YMCA Ngati Porou 40 (Te Oriwa Tuipulotu-Collier 12, Jayda Waititi-Leach 11) Manu Tu (Ishtar ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson hit his stride at Mackey-Huriwai 10, Melissa Mackey-Huriwai 8). just the right time and it paid off in a big way. Quarter scores: Q1, NP 8-3; Q2, 21-15; Q3, 28-22 Johnson finally won the FedEx Cup on Monday Lytton High School def Gisborne Girls’ High by by holding his nerve, hitting just enough fairways default. and making a few key putts when his lead began Stretch Marks def Dem Air Ballers by default. to shrink. He tapped in for birdie on the last hole B Grade games deferred. for a 2-under 68, giving him a three-shot victory over Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele in the Super 8 rugby results Tour Championship. Johnson won the US$15 million (NZ$22.4m) SUPER 8 secondary schools rugby: In Hamilton, prize, the biggest in golf. Equally important was Hamilton Boys’ High first 15 80 Gisborne Boys’ getting his named etched on that silver FedEx High first 15 5 (Sione Mafileo try. Player of the Day Cup trophy alongside some of the best from his Sione Mafileo). HT: 41-0. generation, starting with Tiger Woods and most Hamilton BHS second 15 103 Gisborne Boys’ recently Rory McIlroy. High second 15 5 (Freedom Lemaua try. Player of “This is a tough golf course. No lead is safe,” the Day Uetaha Wanoa). Johnson said. “The guys gave me a good fight Barella goal sinks Dutch today.” He became the first No. 1 seed at the Tour A DOMINANT Italy performance propelled the Championship to win the FedEx Cup since Tiger past the Netherlands 1-0 and to the top of their Woods in 2009. Nations League football group today. Johnson was staked to a five-shot lead at Nicolo Barella headed in the only goal shortly 19-under par — 9 under on his own score and before halftime as Italy wasted chances. But the starting the tournament at 10 under as the No. 1 display will go a long way to helping the Azzurri put the disappointment of drawing against seed in the FedEx Cup. PAY-OFF: Dustin Johnson holds up the FedEx Cup trophy after winning the Tour Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-1 last Friday behind them. He finished at 21 under. Championship golf tournament on Monday at Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. AP picture Schauffele, who tends to bring his best to big The win sent Italy to the top of League A Group 1 as Poland beat Bosnia 2-1 in the group’s moments, and Thomas each got within three Jon Rahm, the No. 2 seed, closed with a 66 to a five-shot lead to par at East Lake. It was other match. Italy have a point more than the shots on the front nine. They both closed to to finish fourth and earn US$3 million. Scottie never easy. Netherlands and Poland, and three more than within two shots deep on the back nine at East Scheffler, who a year ago was getting ready to Johnson made an 18-foot birdie early that Bosnia. — AP Lake. start his rookie year, had a 66-65 finish and was was important because Schauffele kept hitting it Johnson gave the lightest fist pump — that’s fifth for a US$2.5 million payoff. close. Johnson had consecutive birdies through Ennor sidelined for months big emotion for him — when he holed a 20-foot And so wrapped up the strangest season on the par-5 sixth and his lead remained at five. par putt on the 13th hole that kept his lead at the PGA Tour, which doesn’t feel like the end But he went well right off the tee at No. 7 and WELLINGTON — The All Blacks have suffered three. He made nothing but pars on the back nine at all except for the US$15 million awarded to had to pitch back to the fairway. He three-putted an injury blow only two days after naming their until the outcome was no longer in doubt. Johnson, US$14 million now andUS $1 million from 55 feet on the fringe at No. 8 and dropped first squad of the season and still without a Thomas made bogey from a wild tee shot deferred. another shot. The lead kept shrinking. Johnson confirmed match in sight. to the right on the 17th. Schauffele also had to The new season starts next week. Two majors rolled his long birdie putt on the par-3 ninth Crusaders centre Braydon Ennor suffered scramble on the 17th, escaping with par after a are still to be played. some 7 feet by, and he made the par putt coming a ruptured knee ligament during Saturday’s tee shot into the bunker. And on the par-5 18th, Golf was shut down for three months and back to keep his lead at 3. North versus South match, a prelude to the Johnson unleashed a drive that started left along when it restarted, Johnson was No. 111 in the No putt was bigger than the 13th, when his announcement of coach Ian Foster’s 35-man the pine trees and faded gently toward the middle FedEx Cup. lead was down to two shots over Schauffele. squad, and may be sidelined for nine months. of the fairway. He won the Travelers Championship and a Johnson went from left rough to right of the Ennor made his New Zealand debut against That set up a birdie from the front bunker, a month later began a stretch that brought him to green and chipped weakly to 20 feet. He drilled Argentina last year and was one of four centres in hug with brother Austin, his caddie, and a trophy the prize he desperately wanted. the par putt, restored the lead to three and was Foster’s squad. Foster said he would not name a he long wanted. In four straight tournaments against the best on his way. replacement until a test schedule for the season Schauffele had the lowest score over 72 holes fields, he had the 54-hole lead three times and “It’s a very tough trophy to win,” Johnson said. has been confirmed. —AP at 15-under 265, but without a victory this year, was tied in the other. He converted one into an “I controlled my own destiny but I still had to go Dropped after Covid breaches he started at No. 14 in the FedEx Cup, spotting 11-shot win. He lost to a 65 by Collin Morikawa at out and play well. I had a lot of great players right the world’s No. 1 player seven shots. the PGA Championship and to a 65-foot putt by behind me. It got close at the end. I knew it was ENGLAND football players Phil Foden and Schauffele and Thomas tied for second, each Rahm at the BMW Championship. going to come down the stretch and I’d have to Mason Greenwood were fined by Icelandic earning US$4.5 million. He badly wanted the last one, and even staked hit some golf shots.” authorities and dropped from the squad on today for breaching coronavirus rules in Reykjavik after making their international debuts. Social media video was published purporting Pandemic disrupts tournament play to show the players meeting women from outside the team bubble after the 1-0 victory against SCHOOL SPORT Keelan to take out the doubles title, while accommodation booked, they travelled Iceland in the Nations League on Saturday. brothers Matthew and Dylan Foster came anyway and took part in a Hawke’s Bay The 20-year-old Foden and 18-year-old THE secondary school winter third. tournament alongside local teams and Greenwood, who were both fined 250,000 tournament was held last week with Gisborne Boys’ High School also had other school sides who had travelled Icelandic króna (NZ$2700) by authorities, were Gisborne schools competing across the teams travel to a Super 8 tournament, into the district. sent back to England and will miss tomorrow’s North Island. devised in response to the uncertainty of The Gisborne Girls’ High first 11 match against Denmark. — AP Gisborne Boys’ High School, Gisborne the winter sports tournament. placed fifth-equal while their second 11, a Girls’ High and Lytton High all sent Their badminton team finished combined team with a handful of players No Buttler for dead rubber teams, while Campion College didn’t take seventh, the first 11 hockey side finished from Lytton and Te Kura Kaupapa Maori LONDON — Jos Buttler will miss England’s part due to safety concerns. eighth, and both senior and junior first o Nga Uri a Maui, came 14th. final twenty20 against Australia on Tuesday after The only Gisborne Boys’ High team to 11 football teams were seventh. The Lytton High’s netball team also requesting time off to be with his family. travel to a scheduled winter tournament senior and junior basketball teams placed travelled to play local teams from Buttler has been inside the team bubble for the was an indoor bowls team who put in a eighth in their competitions, the u15 Hawke’s Bay in a hastily-organised last 10 weeks because he featured in all six test great performance. rugby team were eighth and the u14 tournament after their official one was matches — against the West Indies and Pakistan Matthew Foster won the under-18 team fourth. cancelled. — before joining up with the T20 squad. national title but was knocked out in the Covid-19 resulted in a revised schedule They played five times over the week Buttler’s match-winning 77 not out on Sunday secondary school champs in the round of that was still up in the air as teams and won three games. gave England an unassailable 2-0 lead in the eight by schoolmate and cousin Nathan prepared to travel. They defeated Ahuriri, Taradale series against Australia. Trowell, who came third. The Gisborne Girls’ High School and Napier Girls’ High (2) and lost to Buttler is set to return ahead of the three-match Trowell, who was named the player of hockey teams’ tournament in Woodford House and Hastings Girls’ one-day international series against Australia, the tournament, teamed up with Akuhata Hawke’s Bay was cancelled but, with High. which starts on Friday. — AP 26 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 ‘Controlled’ opening needed

PANDEMIC RESPONSE teams to New Zealand. That is pivotal to a sustainable model commercially long just look at the NRL. There are 200 the finances of Netball New Zealand. term. players playing every weekend and LEADING sports administrators “International markets are worth over “Like the NRL we need to be bigger, Covid hasn’t hit. It is not that hard to say professional sport will be in huge $100 million from a rugby, cricket and we need to be broader and appeal be honest. Create the bubbles, get the trouble if the Government doesn’t open netball perspective. That money not to a greater range of sponsors and international teams here and control borders in a controlled manner and allow coming into New Zealand and the flow- broadcasters. We can put the band-aid on those people. And they are willing to be international teams into the country. on impact on jobs – not just the player for one more year and deliver something controlled in those environments in order Blues chairman Don Mackinnon, salaries, but the jobs of everyone working the crowds and fans still love, but beyond to play international sport. Warriors chief executive Cameron George in sport - is significant.” that we would be quite nervous.” “The AFL has just done it, moving 400 and NZ Netball Players Association If the borders were to remain closed, All on the panel agreed central people to Queensland, the blueprint is executive manager Steph Bond told the George underlined that the very future of government has a critical role to play in out there, it is not that hard.” The Future Of Auckland Sport that the the Warriors is put at risk. allowing international sport to take place. The panel and pre-recorded interviews foundations of professional sports were “We are having to take the long-term “We have to innovate with Covid and with Karl Budge (ASB Tennis Classic), being shaken by Covid and support was view that we will be based in Australia the first step in that for the big sports Iain Laxon (Auckland Cricket) and needed to ensure franchises survive. again next year unless something is getting international teams to New Regan Wood (Auckland Tuatara) also Mackinnon, also a New Zealand Cricket dramatic happens over the next couple of Zealand,” Bond said. “That will set up the considered the question of stadiums in board member, made it clear that a way months,” he said. financial long term for rugby, cricket and New Zealand’s largest city and asked for must be found to open New Zealand’s “That translates into commercial netball. If we can get those teams to New strong leadership and decision making borders to international competition. challenges. Obviously our fan base Zealand that will be significant. from the politicians and power-brokers in “I don’t think people appreciate that is here, and our first priority is to be “Our sports are based on international that conversation. international sport in New Zealand is on here and play in front of them. But the contracts. India basically props up “It is a work in progress,” George a knife-edge,” Mackinnon said. circumstances outside of our control may cricket, [so] we need to get them here. We said. “We have good people leading the “If rugby, cricket and netball, in not allow that to happen. That means really need support from the Government conversation and plenty of strategies particular, can’t get international sport we lose out on membership and our to get teams here.” promoted but like everything, improve played in the final quarter of this year, commercial partners start to review their George said the impact of not having it. We all need to be part of it and while the impact will flow right into the positions and so on. From a Warriors an international flavour is massive: I don’t have the answers, I just hope we domestic game. We will be falling off a perspective, if we are not in New Zealand, “The Government needs to get very get there sooner rather than later and cliff. It is a nerve-racking time.” that will have some major impacts on us sensible about what sport does for the that there is some accountability with the Bond was singing off the same for sure.” country and the impact it can have in decision making and we get it done.” hymn sheet from a netball perspective, Mackinnon says Super Rugby Aotearoa the immediate and long-term future, for Mackinnon acknowledged the underlining the risk that all professional was a great competition, but it is a band- inspiring generations to come.” conundrum in resolving the stadium sport is facing without international aid solution and the revamped domestic George went on to put the ball firmly debate when rate payer money is competition. model can’t last forever. in the hands of the Government to lead involved, but he desperately wants to get “We are lucky that our competition “Next year will bring more uncertainty the way. powerbrokers together to make informed is domestic, we are not relying on and if there are more lockdowns the “Anything is possible from a competition decisions. international teams turning up for our impact is huge,” he said. “Super Rugby point of view, we all need to be creative “There is a real sense that other domestic competition,” Bond said. “But in its Aotearoa bubble will survive for but until the Government looks at the cities around the world are going past from a national perspective with the one more year if it is domestic. But it is border situation no one will bother. us at a great rate of knots, and that is Silver Ferns, absolutely we need to get not sustainable in the long-term; it is not “They don’t have to re-invent anything, frustrating.” — NZ Herald Williams battles to another win

TENNIS by Howard Fendrich, AP point, then pushing a forehand out. NEW YORK — Her breathing But as is so often the case, loud enough to hear in an empty when the outcome was hanging Arthur Ashe Stadium, her third- in the balance in the third set deficit a point from growing set, which Sakkari led 2-0 to 3-1 against someone who beat but couldn’t quite get to 3-1, her less than two weeks earlier, Williams was better down the Serena Williams scrambled to stretch, when it mattered the extend a 13-stroke exchange most. until her opponent netted a “I have to be deadly honest: I forehand. wasn’t brave enough in the third “Keep fighting!” Williams set. I kind of like, not choked, exhorted herself. but didn’t (convert) my chances,” Locked in a tough fourth- Sakkari said. “And if you don’t round match Monday, and get your chances with a good without the benefit of a pro- Serena against you, it’s done.” American audience, Williams This was a rematch from Aug. provided her own encouragement 25, when Williams faded after along the way to coming back building a lead and lost in three and beating 15th-seeded Maria sets to Sakkari at the Western Sakkari of Greece 6-3, 6-7 (6), & Southern Open, a hard-court 6-3, reaching the quarterfinals in tournament usually held in Ohio a 12th consecutive appearance but moved to the U.S. Open site at Flushing Meadows. as part of a two-tournament “I feel like I’m pretty vocal “controlled environment” without with or without a crowd. ... I’m spectators amid the coronavirus super passionate. This is my job. pandemic. This is what I wake up to do. “Of course I thought about (the This is what I train to do, 365 loss), but ever so little, because days of the year,” said Williams, it’s a completely different match, AT A STRETCH: Serena Williams, of the United States, returns a shot during the US Open tennis who moved a step closer to a completely different scenario, championships in New York. AP picture record-tying 24th grand slam completely different moment,” title. Williams said. less than three weeks, will face Thiem, a three-time major She lost in the final in both “Yeah, I’m always going to In the earlier one, Williams’ unseeded Tsvetana Pironkova runner-up, now meets first-time 2018 and 2019, part of a stretch bring that fire and that passion,” legs were cramping by the end, for a semifinal berth. Slam quarterfinalist Alex de in which she has been to the she continued, “and that ‘Serena’ and she blamed herself for that Playing in her first Minaur, a 21-year-old Australian title match at four of the past to the court.” situation, memorably declaring: tournament in more than three who eliminated Vasek Pospisil seven grand slam tournaments, When the match ended, after “I put myself in a bad situation. years after taking time off to 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-2. falling just short of getting that Williams collected six of the last It’s like dating a guy that you have a child, the 32-year-old With the 30-year-old Pospisil elusive 24th, which would tie seven games, she turned and know sucks.” Pironkova advanced with a 6-4, gone, this will be the first U.S. her with Margaret Court for the yelled toward her husband, who Asked about that line Monday, 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Alize Open since 2010 without at least most in tennis history. stood at his front-row seat and Williams joked: “Thank God, I Cornet. one male quarterfinalist who is Unlike Court’s, all of Williams’ yelled right back. got rid of that guy. Never want In men’s action, where Novak beyond his 20s. major championships have come How tight was this contest? to see him again. He was the Djokovic’s default on Sunday Williams first won the title in in the professional era. Sakkari produced more aces worst.” left zero past Grand Slam New York all the way back in “I always compete,” Williams than Williams, 13-12, and more That setback made the champions in the bracket, No. 2 1999 as a teenager and now has said when asked what about total winners, 35-30. American 3-2 since tennis seed Dominic Thiem moved into six trophies from here. In her her work in this tournament Williams was two points from returned from its COVID-19 the quarterfinals by claiming a most recent 11 trips to Flushing has pleased her the most so victory at 6-all in the second-set hiatus, all three-setters. And close first set and then running Meadows, Williams has four far. tiebreaker, but faltered there, since? She is 4-0 at the U.S. away with a 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-1 championships, three runner- “But competing and having a sending a backhand return long Open. win against No. 15 Felix Auger- up finishes and three semifinal good attitude, I think, is what to give Sakkari her fifth set Williams, who turns 39 in Aliassime. losses. I’m most satisfied about.” The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, September 8, 2020 SPORT 27 Rocks on rocks at ‘gnarly’ off-road course

MOTORSPORT by Andy the inaugural the NZ Extreme Off-Road McGechan, BikesportNZ.com Championship series in 2018, while Wainuiomata’s Jake Whitaker was top THE New Zealand Extreme Off-Road dog in this series last year, and these Championship series kicks into life this two will almost certainly be among the coming weekend and it’s perhaps the title contenders again this time around. ideal challenge for those who like a little Other leading riders such as extra fizz or spark in their lives. Canterbury brothers Angus and This year’s third annual edition of Hamish Macdonald, Whanganui’s Seth the four-round Yamaha-sponsored Reardon, New Plymouth’s Tony Parker, hard enduro competition kicks off at Rotorua’s Bradley Lauder, Manawatu’s Moonshine, off Bulls Run Road, near Paul Whibley, Tokoroa’s Sean Clarke, Porirua on Sunday, September 13, with Hamilton’s Phil Singleton, Helensville’s round two to follow in the Taungatara Tom Buxton, Tokoroa’s Jake Wightman, Forest, not far from Whangamata, just Oamaru’s Bradley Simpson and Napier’s two weeks later on September 26. Mackenzie Wiig, to name a few, could A two-dayer in Hawke’s Bay will push also be expected to threaten for the riders to breaking point at round three main trophy this year. on October 31 and November 1, with Motorcycling New Zealand enduro the competition again wrapping up with commissioner Justin Stevenson said the another double-header weekend, at the course for this weekend had been “well- Nut Buster hard enduro at Oxford, near prepared” and was “looking great”. Christchurch, on November 14-15. “It will be very gnarly and challenging,” Only the bold, brave and superbly he said. “We have added rocks to what talented should expect to win an event is already rocky land. There are tree as tough as this, but that should not roots, river beds and steep up-hills and deter any accomplished dirt bike rider down-hills for the riders to deal with, so from giving it a crack. it’s pretty snotty terrain. If it rains it will Only three of the four rounds of the be particularly interesting. NZ Extreme Off-road Championship are “With COVID-19 pandemic restrictions to be counted, with riders discarding in place, we will be observing social ROUGH GOING: Jake Whitaker, winner of last season’s New Zealand Extreme Off-Road Championship, their one worst score from the three distancing during sign-on and in the pit is expected to be among the contenders again this year. Picture by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com North Island rounds, while riders area. We have extensive management hoping to win the series outright should plans in place to avoid large gatherings. Construction, Silver-bullet and Kiwi Rider Round 1: September 13, Moonshine Round 3: October 31-November 1, obviously factor in a trip to the Nut The 2020 Yamaha NZ Extreme Off- magazine. Extreme, Bulls Run Rd, Porirua. Over The Top, Hawke’s Bay. Buster final round in the South Island. Road Championships are supported by The 2020 NZ Extreme Off-Road Round 2: September 26, Taungatara Round 4: November 14-15, Nut Cambridge’s Dylan Yearbury won Mitas tyres, Macaulay Metals, Best Build Championship calendar: Forest, Whangamata. Buster, Oxford, Christchurch. Start your journey to success eit.ac.nz | 0800 22 55 348 Fit study around your work, home and whanau - achieve a qualiication in only a few months. 30782-01 8 Sep, 2020 MIDNIGHT TONIGHT GISBORNE TIDE MOVEMENT M E WEATHER FOR TOMORROW T Wednesday Thursday R Sep 9 Sep 10 SE S am 369noon 369pm am 369noon 369pm Tauranga 3 16 0.5 Hicks Bay 3 16 Te Puke 35 22

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A FAMILY AFFAIR: The Tamatea whanau featured in the victorious YMP Bumbles Senior One team on Saturday. Player- coach Ron Tamatea played wherever he was needed in the forward pack and he was supported by three of his sons — Kahu, Willis and Genesis — as well as other family members. Above, the Tamatea whanau celebrate the YMP win. They are, back (from left): Kimberlee Tamatea (Willis’s daughter), Tuhakia Stewart (partner of Ron’s daughter Reremoana), Reremoana Bartlett-Tamatea, Kahu Tamatea, Ron Tamatea, Willis Tamatea, Jhayde Pohatu (Ron’s nephew), Lee Ana Tamatea (team manager and Ron’s daughter), Genesis Bartlett- Tamatea. Kneeling: Te Rangiora Bartlett- Tamatea (Ron’s son), Hinemaioha Walker (Tuhakia’s niece), Capria Tamatea (Willis’s daughter), Waiti Tamatea (co-captain and Ron’s nephew), Jean Burkhardt (Lee Ana’s CUP PRESENTATION: YMP Bumbles co-captain Waiti SENIOR ONE CHAMPIONS: YMP Bumbles celebrate their partner, holding their daughter Bella-Rose Tamatea accepts the Lew Patterson Cup from Gary Senior One title victory. Tamatea). Pictures by Paul Rickard Patterson, representing the Patterson family. Bumbles celebrate in style RUGBY by Jack Malcolm position but couldn’t find wins when it up the pressure. They hit the line strong and hard and mattered against the top teams. YMP were down to 13 men at one tackled with venom. The YMP Bumbles had won the Senior Ngatapa struggled this season, getting stage, due to two players being yellow- Ngatapa had their moments but One division going into Saturday’s game, only one win to their name against carded, one for repeated offsides and the were quickly shut down by the covering but that didn’t hold them back. Pirates, who also mustered only a single other for a shoulder charge. defence of YMP. Playing as a curtain-raiser to the victory. They still kept the Ngatapa team under It was a family affair for YMP, premier finals, the Bumbles toyed with YMP had the goal of going out there pressure and, to add insult to injury, with several families having multiple the Ngatapa team, winning 56-12 in Civil and having fun this season, and it paid scored with two men in the sin bin. generations on the field. Project Solutions Senior One rugby. off with only one loss on their record. The Ngatapa team kept their heads Player-coach Ron Tamatea said it was The pandemic-affected season meant They took that mentality into Saturday, held high, but it was primarily one-way an awesome occasion, getting to hoist the Senior One teams would have no finals making sure they didn’t celebrate their traffic as YMP piled on the points. Lew Patterson Cup with his sons Kahu, football, and with YMP winning the top- win until after the season was finished. A second-half try to Ngatapa was their Willis and Genesis. of-the-table clash against Tapuae 22-15 Ngatapa looked like they might have only real highlight after their hot start. “Today is all about whanau . . . it’s last weekend they had already sealed the some fight, scoring the second try of the YMP were faster to the breakdown, a tribute to all these up-and-coming title. game to stay even on the scoreboard, but winning back a lot of ball with their loose players and the families who have Athletic secured a stable mid-table their momentum stalled and YMP kept forwards’ speed. supported us.”