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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PAGE 3 INNOCENT COUNCIL VICTIMS 22 FROM ONE FAMILY TO PAY FOR KILLED ARTS & IN GAZA HEADSTONES ENTERTAINMENT BOMBINGS PAGES 23-26 PAGE 15 INSIDE TODAY Countdown blasts off Mayor Rehette Stoltz and Countdown Gisborne team member Diane Harkess cut the ribbon to officially open Countdown’s new store this morning. Watching proceedings is store manager Jess Stubbs. Mrs Harkess is the longest serving team member with Countdown Gisborne. The supermarket, built near the original Countdown, has 35 percent more space and offers more car parks, which began to be steadily filled following the official opening. Story on page 3 Pictures by Paul Rickard The purchase of TOPP1‘ is key in POWER TO enabling us to deliver on our strategy of 100 megawatts of renewable generation by 2025 — Eastland’ Group chief THE PEOPLE executive Matt Todd Kawerau power plant bought by Eastland Generation for $83m EASTLAND Group’s generation Zealand electricity market. significant developer, owner and operator supply business”. business has bought a Kawerau Eastland Generation already owns two of renewable energy in the New Zealand “It also increases our financial capacity geothermal power station from Ngati plants on the Kawerau geothermal field market. to both diversify our commercial interests Tuwharetoa Geothermal Assets (NTGA) — the 9MW Geothermal Developments “TOPP1 will provide operational and increase the level of support provided for $83 million. Ltd (GDL) and the 25MW Te Ahi O Maui synergies across our three geothermal to our owners.” Eastland Generation will take over geothermal power stations. plants. Importantly, our agreement with Eastland Generation and NTGA say ownership of the 26MW Kawerau TOPP1 Eastland Group chief executive Matt NTGA also gives us further development they share natural alignments in terms on June 30. Todd said it was an important next step options on the Kawerau field.” of their trust ownership structures, The parties have entered into long- in the regional infrastructure company’s NTGA is the largest direct-use steam kaupapa of development and focus on a term geothermal fuel supply agreements growth plans. supplier in the world and is a wholly- transition to a low-carbon future. they say will underpin plant performance “The purchase of TOPP1 is key in owned commercial entity of the Ngati They also said they were committed and provide options to collectively enabling us to deliver on our strategy of Tuwharetoa (Bay of Plenty) Settlement to the sustainable management of the develop new power stations in the future. 100 megawatts of renewable generation Trust (NTST). Kawerau reservoir and championing a The sale also furthers the ambitions by 2025,” he said. NTST chair Karilyn Te Riini said the kaitiakitanga (guardianship) approach to of both for expansion into the renewable “This adds scale to our portfolio transaction “allows the Tuwharetoa operations. energy space and decarbonising the New and means we are becoming a truly group to grow the scale of our steam CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds .........18 Racing ................27 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........22 Sport ............ 28-32 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ...6-10, 20-21 World............ 13-15 The Guide .... 23-26 Weather .............31 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, June 3, 2021 GRADUATION DAY KA MAU TE WEHI: OVER 200 Te Wananga o Aotearoa tauira (students) marched in Gisborne yesterday as part of their graduation day celebrations. They were among the 400 students from the Whirikoka campus eligible to graduate. The ceremony Green light for launches was held at War Memorial Theatre after the match. Te Wananga o Aotearoa Whirikoka campus kaiarataki ako (educational delivery lead) said the day was about celebrating achievements. “It was amazing. Since Covid-19, tauira (students) were ROCKET Lab is back in action and determined it required not able to have a graduation last year. This was about celebrating the successes after receiving authorisation multiple conditions to occur in of the tauira who got through a hard year of studying. Many students had whanau from the Federal Aviation flight. or friends with them to celebrate the achievement. Picture by Liam Clayton Administration (FAA) to resume “We are now piecing together the launches. sequence of events and preparing The approval comes less than corrective actions for a safe and three weeks after Rocket Lab swift return to flight.” experienced an anomaly during its Flight data showed Electron’s Mullooly GHL’s new chair 20th launch from Mahia, resulting first stage performed flawlessly DAVE Mullooly has been appointed the new in the loss of the mission. during the mission and did not “I will work hard to progress the company to chair of Gisborne Holdings Ltd. fulfil our mandate to supply the council with a The company said while the contribute to the flight issue. The local businessman has been on the board non-rates-based income for the district.” FAA confirmed Rocket Lab’s The mission saw Rocket Lab for the past three-and-a-half years. He takes over Andrew Allan, who has been on the board for launch licence remained active, achieve the next major milestone from Rob Telfer, who stepped down the past two-and-a-half years, is the Rocket Lab would continue with an in making Electron a reusable after nearly three years as chair but new deputy chair. internal review into the anomaly. launch vehicle, with the successful remains on the board. Jacqueline Blake and Hayden Swann “With a vehicle with so much ocean splashdown of Electron’s As part of the board’s succession have been on the board for a year. flight history and our heavy first stage as planned. planning and continuity, Mr The independent board is appointed mission assurance and quality Rocket Lab’s recovery team Mullooly has spent two months by Gisborne District Council, which is focus, any anomaly was always retrieved the stage from the ocean working alongside Mr Telfer for a the 100 percent shareholder of GHL. going to be a complex failure for transport back to Rocket Lab’s seamless takeover. Distributions generated by GHL are and this one is turning out to be production complex for analysis “I appreciate the confidence paid to the council to be reinvested an intricate and layered failure and testing to inform future shown by Mayor Rehette Stoltz and back into the local community. analysis,” Rocket Lab founder and recovery missions. the councillors by reappointing me Under the GHL banner are chief executive Peter Beck said. The company intends to conduct for a second term to the board, and DAVE MULLOOLY Tauwhareparae Farms, Gisborne “However, we have successfully its third recovery mission later am truly excited and humbled to be Vehicle Testing, the council’s replicated the failure in testing this year. elected chair,” Mr Mullooly said. commercial property portfolio, Waikanae Beach He also acknowledged the support of the GHL Top 10 Holiday Park and the soon-to-be-opened board, management and staff. Wash’n Go vehicle wash. 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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 Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz PB048224 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, June 3, 2021 NEWS 3 Council to pay for gravestone repairs GISBORNE District Council job the next morning cleaning up has confirmed it will cover the cost the debris, the site was blessed, of repairs or full replacement of and temporary crosses have been headstones where required in the wake positioned at the grave sites affected of the damage caused by a car crash at pending repairs. Taruheru Cemetery last month. “We are working with families On Tuesday, May 11, a car driven directly in this process and hope for by a teenager left Nelson Road and repair and reinstatement work to ploughed through part of the cemetery begin in the coming weeks,” a council near the road. spokesperson said. The vehicle demolished a water “The council will cover the cost of station kiosk near the entrance, repairs or full replacement of the smashed through part of the fence damaged headstones. and damaged or destroyed up to 40 “The driver of the vehicle has headstones in cemetery block 30 from been in touch with the council,” the the 1970s and 80s. spokesperson said. TEMPORARY CROSSES: White crosses with names on mark the graves damaged The 17-year-old male driver escaped “He has expressed his deep remorse when a car left the road and ploughed through an area of Taruheru Cemetery. injury. for the accident and the hurt it caused The district council has confirmed it will be footing the bill for repairs or full Council contractors were on the to affected families.” replacement of the headstones. Picture by Liam Clayton AT a finance and performance meeting last policy would not cover the headstones as they Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher damage to the road down her street after a car week, councillor Meredith Akuhata Brown were “private ownership”, despite being on Swann said graffiti vandalism was an was burned.