Nupepa o Te Tairawhiti THE GISBORNE HERALD RĀHINA, MAHURU 9, 2019 I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 HOME-DELIVERED $1.70, RETAIL $2.00 TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI RATU, MAHURU 15, 2020 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 MINISTER $720K NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO GRANT TO OR AOTEAROA? SUPERGRANS COAST PORT TAIRAWHITI CALL FOR NAME CHANGE PAGE 2 CRITICS PAGE 4 PAGE 9 FOREST management company PF Uawa River. Olsen has been fined $198,000 for poor The company was the holder of four harvesting practices that contributed to consents authorising the usual work the devastation caused by forestry waste associated with forest harvesting, and at Tolaga Bay in June, 2018. none of which allowed discharge of The company was sentenced by forest waste to water or to land where it FINED Environment Court Judge Brian Dwyer could enter water. in Gisborne yesterday. Tolaga Bay was hard hit by the first of It pleaded guilty earlier this year — a two storms in the region in June, 2018. day ahead of a scheduled judge alone Heavy rain caused severe flooding in trial — to a Resource Management Act the nearby Tupuae catchment on June charge that between June, 2017, and 3 and 4 and the mobilisation of a huge June, 2018, it discharged contaminant, volume of sediment and wood debris namely sediment and forestry waste, on from the area’s plantation forests. $198,000 to land at Paroa Forest in circumstances An estimated 47,000m3 of woody where it could (and did) enter water. debris smothered Tolaga Bay beach, The offence is punishable by a fine of with significant but unknown quantities up to $600,000. of woody debris deposited elsewhere in All but 10 percent of the fine will go to the Uawa catchment. Gisborne District Council. UNCouncilHE officersAR who inspectedDOFS Paroa AVINGS! Paroa Forest is an 1800-hectare Forest later that month identified plantation forest to the west of Tolaga numerous shortcomings in forest FOR RMA Bay, owned by Permanent Forests management practice. Limited, and one of thousands of forests According to an agreed summary of across New Zealand managed by PF facts, the majority of damage caused by Olsen. sediment and forestry debris at Paroa Terrain is steep and prone to severe Forest was the consequence of collapse erosion. of soft erodIble soils rather than skid The Tapuae and Waipurupuru site collapse which gives rise to this BREACH streams flow through it. These andHEARING other charge against the company. tributaries flow from the forest into CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 SLASH: The sheer volume and large diameters of waste logs left on this skid site and mobilised by the heavy rainfall is apparent. This material is typical of wood that made its way on to the beach at Tolaga Bay via tributary streams of the Uawa River, which were inundated by waste from various forest company harvesting operations within the catchment area. It is not possible to determine how much each company contributed but PF Olsen’s load was accepted as likely to be minor. Nonetheless that did not minimise the offending, Judge Brian Dwyer said in the Environment Court in Gisborne yesterday before fining PF Olsen $198,000. The key point under the Resource Management Act was that it had the potential to contribute to the significant adverse effect on Tolaga Bay, Judge Dwyer said. 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The students carried banners with “We will always remember those messages such as “My Culture is my who championed te reo when it was Living” and “Let Your Reo Fly”. socially and politically unacceptable to do so,” said Lytton High School teacher Mikaere McBeth. “Te reo Maori is the language of New Zealand but we need to do our part to normalise it as our everyday spoken language. “It is up to us to keep our language WAIATA: Members of Gisborne District Council’s waiata group Nga Manu Tioriori safe for our future generations,” she perform waiata for the Maori Language Moment at midday yesterday. From left are Rose said. Lee, Coralie Campbell-Whitehead, Zandria Taare, Tyson Kingi and Michelle Kupenga. Picture by Paul Rickard Instead of joining the annual hikoi with the wider community, they decided to march within their kura bubble around the school grounds. Maori Language Moment OVER one million people signed up and performed a waiata. took part in yesterday’s Maori Language Moment as part of Te Wiki o te reo Maori. Even though it was only a moment, People who signed up on the tuku te reo speaking te reo Maori can be spoken Maori website committed to doing something whenever and wherever you want . in te reo Maori at midday — whether that be ■ Make “kia ora” your first choice of greeting to saying “kia ora” to someone, performing a everyone you speak to. karakia before their lunch, singing a waiata, ■ Prepare your whanau, friends or workplace anything to promote the language. to speak te reo Maori for the hour. Gisborne District Council’s staff waiata ■ Open your news bulletin with te reo Maori. group Nga Manu Tioriori performed in the ■ Host a “korero kai” for lunch where you only courtyard area at the HB Williams Memorial speak in te reo Maori. Library. ■ Start lunch off with a karakia for kai. EIT Tairawhiti had a crossword competition ■ Order your coffee in te reo Maori. for which every answer was in te reo Maori. ■ Set a “reo Maori only” zone within your Lytton High School held a march and workplace or home. Cape port process to roll on Government sees genuine role for ‘blue highway’: Jones by Andrew Ashton with industry, work with investors, work had still to be seen by most people. “Our Government sees a genuine role with our Government. He had been in contact with businesses for ‘the blue highway’ and Tairawhiti can’t A PROPOSAL to build a coastal port “We made a conscious decision to try in the region, which had voiced support, he access ‘the blue highway’ in the absence of on the East Cape could still go ahead to restore the fortunes of the Tairawhiti said. He had also been contacted by people a barging facility. if “cooler heads” prevail, Infrastructure through the Provincial Growth Fund in Bay of Plenty and Te Whanau Apanui “The roading highway is never going Minister Shane Jones says. the Deputy Mayor may be afraid of areas wanting the $45 million redirected to attract enough money to elevate it to a Mr Jones revealed at the weekend the some barking from protesters but this to projects there. level that is enjoyed by other parts of New Government had agreed in principle to is deadly-serious, long-term economic “Before that decision is made let’s Zealand — that’s just the harsh truth. provide $45 million for the project, with development. go through a process, and more sober “The blue highway is an affordable and Te Araroa and Hicks Bay two of several “My advice to him and the council is minds can dwell upon where the balance credible alternative. It presents less of a possible locations on the East Coast. don’t be afraid if sometimes you get barked is between economic development for a threat to the physical environment, human However, that idea brought strong at or indeed suffer a few verbal wounds.” parched area of New Zealand and the health and to climate emissions. opposition from residents and failed It was inevitable “hard decisions” would firebrand voices. It’s a very bad look for “Sadly, before that outcome can be to gain support from Gisborne District be needed to turn around the region’s the Deputy Mayor, given this Government enjoyed, we have to reduce the verbal Council, with Deputy Mayor Josh fortunes, he said. has worked so hard with Gisborne District emissions coming from the Deputy Mayor Wharehinga labelling Mr Jones a “knob” “The announcement was made on Council to address significant cases of and the turehu (fairy people) north of on his personal Facebook page. Saturday so it’s now important that the development deficit.” Ruatoria.” Despite that, Mr Jones told The industry, the landowners and more sober A statutory process would continue Mr Jones also pointed out in the case Gisborne Herald a process would roll on. minds turn their attention to this.” and could be called and dealt with in of Wharekahika/Hicks Bay, the area had “My message to the Tairawhiti is work Mr Jones added the details of the project Wellington, said Mr Jones formerly been the site of a freezing works.