TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 POOL DONATION FEATURE ITEM FOR The Fletcher FU-24 topdressing plane which stood on poles at the entrance to Gisborne CHOPPER TOUCHING DOWN Airport for over 21 years returned to terra firma yesterday. The plane was in a state of corrosive decay and needed to come down, AUCTION Gisborne Airport manager Murray Bell said. The poles were also removed, ending an AFTER YEARS era of the plane greeting airport visitors. The Fletcher is to be restored by Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society. IN THE AIR STORY ON PAGE 3 Picture by Liam Clayton

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SPORTING and community facilities are “We know the facility will bring together getting $15 million in funding for waka hundreds and probably thousands of storage facilities and skatepark and netball individuals in Tairawhiti who have enjoyed court redevelopments. waka ama over the last 35 years since it was At Trust Tairawhiti’s annual meeting last first introduced to our region and nationally night, chairman John Clarke announced the by Matahi (Greg) Whakataka-Brightwell.” community trust would fund a range of “early Tairawhiti Adventure Trust spokesperson $15m for win’”projects. Haimona Ngata described the funding as a Up to $15m will go towards a pump “game-changer”. track across from Alfred Cox Skate Park, “As we’ve seen at the recent Tokyo resurfacing and development of the Victoria Olympics, the inclusion of skateboarding and Domain netball courts, upgrades at Whakarua BMX freestyle has proven active recreational Park, pool heating at sports can now compete with Ruatoria, Tokomaru Bay, traditional mainstream sports Tolaga Bay and Ilminster We are confident that on a world stage. early win Intermediate School, and a ‘ “As a group of volunteers play zone in Tokomaru Bay. funding these projects and active users, we’re “Over the last 18 months will provide significant committed to the the trust has worked in outcomes for the most development of action and partnership with Gisborne adventure sports. Working District Council and Sport in-need sections of our in partnership with Trust Gisborne Tairawhiti (SGT) to community Tairawhiti will allow us to support the Tairawhiti Sports —Trust’ Tairawhiti deliver world-class facilities projects Facilities Business Case,” said chairman John Clarke that will be enjoyed by Mr Clarke. generations to come.” “This has determined the The projects were identified high priority needs in our as “early wins” in the district community, described as ‘early wins’. council’s business case for a larger community “These codes have been under-resourced facilities strategy, which will ask the Skate park, Victoria despite high participation numbers. We are Government to fund a $100m strategy. confident that funding these projects will The business case states that every dollar provide significant outcomes for the most invested in recreational facilities in Tairawhiti Domain, Whakarua in-need sections of our community.” will bring a social return of $1.91. Joelene Takai, of Mareikura Waka Ama “Considerable time, expertise and Club, said the club was grateful for the engagement with all sporting codes has gone support. into developing this business case,” Mr Clarke Park among recipients “This brings us so much closer to realising said. our club and our sport’s aspirations. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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NEW Zealand’s successful Olympic Games campaign was followed avidly by students at UAWA-LYMPICS Tolaga Bay Area School and Kahukuranui. Classes got right behind the Kiwis’ quest for medals and a couple — Te Kaharoa and Kuraiti — got a taste of competitive action at an Olympics tabloids competition. Activities were themed on a range of Olympic sports including fencing, hockey and equestrian, and the skills required such as balance, speed and accuracy. Teamwork and leadership skills were other important aspect of the competition. The Olympic tabloid event appropriately ended with a trophy and medal ceremony. Over the duration of the Olympic Games, students got to watch New Zealand team members in action, highlighted by their gold medal-winning efforts, which drew plenty of cheers from their fans thousands of kilometres away on the East Coast. GET IN THE HOOP: Lilly Hauiti, right, tries to land a gumboot in a hoop while (from left) Jade-Estelle Wehi-Sidney, Waitai Sidney-Bennier and Kairau Maxwell wait their turn. Pictures by Liam Clayton

ON GUARD: Isabel Parsons thrusts her sabre at opponent Papatuanuku O Te Ariki Moeke while watched by koka Bessie Hauiti.

TEAMWORK: Ison Te Reo (left) gets some help with his hockey-playing efforts from Jahzya Morice Chambers. ‘Connecting communities, improving wellbeing’

FROM PAGE 1 “It’s more than just the DISCUSSIONS for a new pump track pump tracks around the world and has The project is being spearheaded money. What’s really great is the “The trust is proud to support in Gisborne got under way yesterday exclusive rights to the Red Bull UCI by Tairawhiti Adventure Trust, which co-ordination and partnership it and get the ball rolling in these with a design consultation. Pump Track World Championships. is also the driving force behind the between Trust Tairawhiti, the key areas.” The pump track will be designed “We want one track that’s good upgrades to the skatepark. council, central government, SGT led the engagement with to serve skateboarders and bicyclists enough for elite racing and for kids on The trust wants the design process sports organisations and iwi and sports and recreation codes on of all skill types and is planned to be straddle bikes,” he said at the meeting. to be as collaborative as possible to amana whenua in order to land a the business case, with the key located at Alfred Cox Park, behind the Representatives from multiple make a community space everyone can lot of these projects. outcomes being to improve the I-Site. sectors who would use the pump enjoy, trustee Haimona Ngata said. “Things like the netball courts quality of facilities, increase Velo Solutions director Craig Pattle track, such as the BMX club, were in Despite being in the design stage, Mr have been a long time coming. participation and enhance was in town to examine the 2000m3 site attendance for the discussion about Pattle and Mr Ngata were hopeful that Shelters for the waka ama have community wellbeing. and hold the consultation. how the design would best represent ground could be broken on the project been a long time coming. All of “This is a fantastic His company has built over 200 Tairawhiti. as early as the first quarter of 2022. this stuff is absolutely massive.” announcement for Te Tairawhiti,” Mr Wharehinga said the SGT chief executive Stefan Mayor Rehette Stoltz said the the business case project costs, the intent to submit it to funding and the partnerships Pishief said. early win funding would make an up to a maximum of $15m in the central government for funding demonstrated within the “These facilities will be well- instant impact in communities next five to 10 years. consideration. community would also boost loved, heavily utilised and they across the region. The first tranche of early win The trust will continue to the council’s ability to lobby will play an important role in “It’s the start of what projects, which are largely shovel- work with the early win project the Government for its larger connecting our communities and will hopefully be a long and ready, will involve an investment recipients to ensure next step facilities strategy. improving their wellbeing. significant investment period of up to $8m. requirements are completed for “There is still a case to be “We commend the trust for into our region’s sporting The business case for all the funding. made to central government this significant investment that infrastructure.” proposed facilities has been Following the meeting, Deputy but the case being made is very focuses on reducing inequities The trust has agreed in shared with communities Mayor Josh Wharehinga said the strong because we are making it around facility provision.” principle to fund 10 percent of throughout the region, with funding was “absolutely massive”. together.” LOOKING AHEAD FOCUS ON THE LAND Your local garage door supplier • Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers president Toby Williams calls on rural folk to speak up Garage doors THE about the council’s proposed representation Roller doors changes. Sectional doors • Prices and comment from today’s weekly sale at TEEN the Matawhero saleyards — 500 head of sheep Automatic openers and 30 feeder calves on offer. Repairs BRAIN • Farmers should stop apologising for being Free Quotes farmers — Don Fraser this week on The Country 41112-01 TOMORROW TOMORROW 390 Gladstone Road, Gisborne The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Ph 06 867 2410 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies [email protected] email: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 NEWS 3 Downer PLANE SAILING crew’s actions limit fire damage MEMBERS of a road gang saw smoke and raised the alarm in time for firefighters to limit the spread of a house fire in the main street of Ruatoria yesterday. GROUNDED: The removal of the Fletcher The Downer crew saw smoke coming from aircraft from poles at Gisborne Airport the back of the Waiomatatini Road house as went smoothly. It has a new home at they drove by and immediately called 111. Tairawhiti Aviation Museum, where it is to Their actions meant FENZ Ruatoria be restored. Picture by Liam Clayton volunteers got there in time to restrict the fire which broke out at around 10.50am. “The kitchen area at the back of the house THE yellow topdressing plane at the of exhibits, which feature a collection of was fully involved when we arrived,” said entrance to Gisborne Airport has landed in paintings and models by Graeme Mudge, Ruatoria fire officer in charge Monty Manuel. a new home. historical photos and a number of classic “The fire was just starting to spread into The aging aircraft was carefully taken planes. the dining room when we made entry to the down from the poles where it had been “There’s lots to see and do here, house.” displayed for the last 20 years. including a range of activities for children.” It had also started to get into the roof It was winched through the air, loaded The poles, which were specifically space. on to a trailer, then transported to the designed to hold the top dressing plane “We were able to douse the flames pretty nearby Tairawhiti Aviation Museum, where and were donated by the Jex-Blake family, quickly before the fire could spread further.” it will be restored by a team of volunteers. have also been removed. Senior firefighter Manuel said fortunately “This Fletcher FU24 is a reminder of The aircraft’s removal marks the end the doors to the bedrooms and other rooms local agricultural and aviation history,” of a long tradition of aviation craft-based were closed, and that helped stop the fire Gisborne Airport manager Murray Bell landmarks at the airport entrance. spread. said. “After two decades outside in the The entrance was home to a Lockheed “The kitchen area was pretty much totalled elements, it was very corroded and needed Lodestar for 21 years before it was by fire and there was a lot of scorching in the to be moved, so we thought the natural removed and taken to the aviation museum dining room, but otherwise the house was home for it would be the museum.” where it is still undergoing restoration. NEW HOME: Happy to see the topdressing plane OK, thanks to the closed doors.” Gisborne Aviation Preservation That aircraft was removed from its that has greeted Gisborne Airport visitors for They called in specialist fire investigator Society’s Barry Atkinson said they were position near the turn of the millennium. over 21 years going to a new home are (Gisborne Derek Goodwin to investigate the cause. delighted to take delivery of the donated Its restoration is almost completed. Aviation Preservation Society (GAPS) president “Derek ascertained that the fire had been aircraft. The Aviation Museum at Gisborne Duane Hermon, Gisborne Airport operations started by unattended cooking.” “We’ll give the Fletcher a good clean Airport is open to the public on Sundays. manager, Jacob Goodyer, GAPS trust chair Barry Senior firefighter Manuel said the and eventually start work on restoration. Entry is by gold coin. Atkinson and Eastland Group project assistant occupants went out and left a pot of food “It will sit alongside our wide range Matt Schmelz. Picture by Liam Clayton boiling on the stove. “The result could definitely have been a lot worse but for the quick actions of the roading crew. Well done to them. Manutuke volunteer fire brigade member Ray Turner, who works in Ruatoria during the No river mouth location week, assisted the Ruatoria crew. “We were very thankful to have Ray with us as driver and pump operator.” Eastland Group for Coast barge facility by Alice Angeloni River habitat and nearby Te Whare wetlands. KARARAINA NGATAI- chief executive’s A WORKING group assessing the The group could not offer up a new site, MELBOURNE’S WHAKAARO impacts of a proposed East Cape barging but said moving the proposal away from “Te whakatauki (proverb) goes ‘Ara nga wai o port facility says it will not be located at the Karakatuwhero River would ensure Ruawaipu, these are the waters of Ruawaipu’. salary clarified the Karakatuwhero River mouth. any impact on the nearby wetland was Our ancestors Uetaha and Tamakoro returned It comes after years of protest against “minimised”. to reclaim our lands hundreds of years ago under TRUST Tairawhiti’s annual meeting the controversial proposal and ahead of a The lagoon at the Karakatuwhero mana whenua and mana moana following the last night provided an opportunity for protesting hikoi in Te Araroa River mouth supports the highest number murder of our tipuna Tamatearihi at the hands of clarification on perceived wage hikes for tomorrow. of wetland birds in Tairawhiti and the Nga Oho. Eastland Group management. The Te Araroa Barging protected Te Whare Wetlands is “regionally Uetaha and Tamakoro and their brothers were The trust is the sole shareholder of Port Working Party, significant”, according to the district’s brought up with the whakatauaki ‘Ara nga ika kei te Gisborne-based infrastructure and logistics established in June, says resource management plan. ngutuawa o Awatere e kainga ana e te waha kuare’. company Eastland Group. it has “already conceded” Te Whanau a Hinerupe marae trustee This whakatauki was repeated to them by their The trust’s annual report showed the that the facility will not be Kararaina Ngatai-Melbourne said they mother who prepared them to return to reclaim salary bracket for Eastland Group chief located at the mouth of Karakatuwhero still took a strong stance of ‘no’ to a barging their lands and waters in the name of our tipuna River. Ruawaipu. executive Matt Todd had risen from the port facility in the Matakaoa rohe. Representatives of Te Whanau a “We have met as a hapu and have heard They returned and conquered Nga Oho and $680,000 to $689,000 bracket, to the Hinerupe say they will hikoi tomorrow from reliable sources about the impact this here we are today, still the kaitiaki of the waters of $$830,000 to $839,000 bracket. as planned, making known their stance is going to have on our mana whenua and Ruawaipu — kaitiaki of our whenua. However, Eastland Group chair Matanuku of “total opposition” to any port facility mana moana,” she said. It is with this history handed down to us that Mahuika told a crowd of more than 100 between Potikirua and Whangaokeno. “We have a strong history of mana we must continue to be like our tipuna, to stand people that did not represent a pay rise. The proposal has been around since at moana mana whenua. These waters to us for our mana whenua and mana moana and mana “Actually, what has happened is that in least 2015 but landowners Te Rimu Trust are the waters of our ancestor Ruawaipu.” tangata. the 2021 year, we disestablished a short renewed a call for the facility by presenting Mr Cooper said the working group Ka ora tonu Nga wai a Ruawaipu.” term incentive scheme. This meant both the to Gisborne District Council’s regional understood the proposal had faced “a lot of STI payment for the year ending March 31, transport committee in May. vocal opposition”. in a manner that is easily understood so 2020 and a part payment (to close out the Te Whanau a Kahu led a hui on June 12, He felt that those who were not as vocal, as to allow members of the community to scheme) were made in FY2021. attended by about 80 people, where it was or preferred to make their own decisions make an informed decision based on the “So those numbers do not represent a 20 agreed to set up a working party. based on having information to reflect information to be provided.” percent rise in salaries. It’s a consequence The working party agreed to bring in upon, also needed an opportunity to be Mr Cooper said the working party of how the accounts appear in terms of the marine engineering firm Worley NZ Ltd heard. needed time to complete the task they were short-term incentive. and environmental planning and design The working party was actively seeking established to do. “The chief executive did not receive an consultancy Boffa Miskell to assess the input from the community to ensure a wide A hui led by Te Whanau Hinerupe on increase in base remuneration in FY2021. impacts of a barge port facility. spread of opinions was considered. July 11, attended by about 30 people, All things being equal, the reported Working party chairman Kingston “This is such an important decision for confirmed a stance of “total opposition” to Cooper said the change to the proposal remuneration will reduce in the current our small community and any information the barge and called for the process to end came after concerns raised about the provided to the community needs to be immediately. financial year.” potential impact on the Karakatuwhero evidence based, unbiased and presented The hikoi starts at Punaruku at 10am. 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths

RICKARD, Brian Deaths Raymond (Big Bro). — On 12th August MAYNARD, George. 2021 Peacefully at Kiri — On 11th August Te Kanawa after a long 2021 peacefully at battle. Loved husband Gisborne Hospital. of Jill. Loved Dad of Dearly loved father and Diana and Stephen father-in-law of Rogers, and Glen Shianda and Hohepa Rickard. Loved grandad Pukeroa, and James of Steven and Janine, (Jimmy). Loved papa of Daniel and Emily and Shakaya and Jimi. Ben and great-grandad Loved brother of to Ayva. Loved son of Sonny, Kerensa, Peace, Fay and the late Ray Jodyanne, and the late Rickard and brother to Michael. Loved son of Kevin and Sharron and the late George and family. Alice Maynard. A funeral service for George is lying at Brian will be held at Whakato Marae, Evans Chapel, Ormond Manutuke. His funeral Road at 11am on service will be held at Monday, 16th August the marae at 11am on followed by private Saturday, 14th August cremation. followed by interment All donations may be at Taruheru Lawn sent to Stroke Cemetery. Tairawhiti via website www.stroketairawhiti. - Evans Funeral org. or 340 Palmerston Services Ltd FDANZ Road, Gisborne. www.evansfuneral.co.nz - Evans Funeral Deaths Services Ltd FDANZ NEW CITIZENS: Nineteen Gisborne residents became New Zealand citizens at a ceremony at Gisborne District www.evansfuneral.co.nz Council’s chambers this week. Mayor Rehette Stoltz presented certificates of citizenship to Carol Stehlin from Scotland, Sarah Eriksen, Katherine Shanahan, Samantha, Josie and David Baxendale from England, Areesh and Aaron Joseph, Beena BALFOUR, Allan Alexander. - Varghese, Gurjit Singh from India, Bruno Machado from Brazil, Scott Crago from Australia, Faapoi Faapoi from Samoa, Passed Natacha Lee from Hong Kong, Rosita Mala and Ravinesh Singh from Fiji, Phalla Ou from Cambodia, Vincenzo Petrella from away on 11 August 2021, with his beloved Italy and Helena Rasby from France. Picture by Liam Clayton wife Yuk Ching by his side. Dearly loved father to George, Tanya and Ricky, and father- in-law to Richard and Raelene. Loved Papa to Alexander and PLEASE Prices, sales going up Megan, Natasja, Sophia and India; and great- HAVE FAMILY grandfather to Cooper and Theodore. Beloved NOTICES brother to George and IN BY 9AM Gisborne median July house price now $625,000 Nesta, Brian (dec’d) and DAY OF big brother to Catherine by Andrew Ashton of sales by auction, with 53.4 percent in Monday’s Gisborne Herald) to the and Graeme. PUBLICATION of sales (31 properties) sold under the $450,000-plus investment and first-home A celebration of Allan’s GISBORNE’S property market has hammer, up from 47.1 percent (16 properties. life will be held on continued to rise with median prices properties) in 2020. “With reports coming out of Auckland Saturday, 14 August $144,250 up on last year, latest data from That was the highest sales volume for of a cooling in their market, it may be at 10am at Pyes Pa the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows. a July month since 2016. expected that the regions will follow. At Crematorium Chapel, “Gisborne saw a median house price Bayleys Gisborne director Simon present we can’t identify any trend that 403 Pyes Pa Road, of $625,000 in July, up 30 percent on the Bousfield said the median remained would cause any major shift.” Tauranga. same time last year,” REINZ regional steady, still high on previous years but Nationally, residential property across director Neville Falconer said. down on previous months of the year. New Zealand increased by 25.2 percent “Sales volumes have increased in the “There is a limited amount of stock from $659,500 in July 2020 to a record region by 70.6 percent (from 34 to 58) — on the market at present but this isn’t $826,000 in July 2021, the highest for a July month since 2016. unusual for the winter months. Property Brokers Gisborne branch “July saw a 20 percent increase in “September onwards will begin to manager Stefan McNeilly said July the number of properties available to produce our busier spring activity. had continued to show the market was prospective purchasers, with 60 available Buyer activity is still very strong, still rising at a steady rate, with a wide Wainui benefits properties — up from 50 in July 2020. seeing a number of buyers through variety of buyers available. “Similar to last month (June), Gisborne those properties on market and also “It’s a great time to sell. Why? I TO help surf lifesaving clubs be rescue ready, is the only region to experience an some active and strong ‘off-market’ think we are seeing an increase in pre- TSB Bank is again supporting regions with its increase in inventory, now sitting at eight sales through the office, with the team approvals expiring which in turn will annual grants. weeks. utilising their networks to enable create pressure on buyers to find a Wainui Surf Life Saving club has received “Properties are spending less time on transactions for circumstances that home, therefore driving sales volumes. $8000 to support the development of its junior the market with a median of 35 days to require a more immediate sale. The alternative is having to go back to a surf programme. The TSB grant will be used sell, down from 37 in July 2020. Buyers were mostly local, however, lender of choice and in some cases, given to purchase training boards for new members, “First-home buyers have been active the out-of-region presence was strong, the changing parameters for approvals, helping to keep the programme accessible to the in the market this month although not with many buyers purchasing for the some wouldn’t be able to extend. wider community. securing as many properties due to future or investment and not immediate “There is also the fear of missing out, TSB this year issued a total of $100,000 in the time it takes to secure finance and occupancy. which is buy now to avoid paying more grants to surf lifesaving clubs across New complete due diligence. “Properties being sold range from the tomorrow, which reflects a sense of Zealand. “Gisborne continues to see an increase million dollar properties (as reported urgency in our current market.” Burglar photographed student sleeping, stole underwear

A BURGLAR who tried to photograph a woman seven incidents. for supervisory and rehabilitative programmes. held up his phone as if to take a photo or video. sleeping and stole another’s underwear will be The judge allowed discounts totalling 30 According to an agreed summary, the offending Realising the woman in the room was awake, he jailed for any reoffence, a judge in Gisborne percent for Blackbourn’s guilty pleas and happened in the early hours of October 25 last left the building. District Court warned. remorse. She acknowledged Blackbourn had year, after Blackbourn — who lived in Milton — Outside, he headed directly to a similar Former Southland man Rowan Edwin taken the first step to address his offending, as he went to Dunedin for a Halloween party. neighbouring property, this time removing his Blackbourn, 23, appeared for sentence by Judge had done previously, by fronting up to victims. About 4.15am he went to a large, shared shoes and items from his pockets. Carrying Turitea Bolstad on two counts of burglary, He met with three of the women affected by this property occupied by female university students, only his cellphone, he also entered that property transferred from Dunedin on guilty pleas. offending at restorative justice and had penned in a secluded part of a street in north Dunedin. through an unlocked door on its upper level. The judge imposed 10 months home detention apology letters to all 10 of them. The occupants were asleep in their respective Again, he opened a bedroom door. The and told Blackbourn he could not expect that She noted a clinical psychologist’s report, rooms but some of them woke when they heard occupant was out. He switched on a light and leniency from the court again. Any reoffence and which concluded he had a low risk of reoffending. Blackbourn trying to crack the entry code on an looked around the room, photographing the he could expect to be jailed. Given that, it was appropriate to convert the electronic door lock. Others woke after hearing woman’s driver licence and taking a pair of This offending, albeit less serious, bore a end sentence of 20 months imprisonment to home noises as he entered the upper level of the underpants. concerning similarity to that for which he was detention but only if the court could be assured premises through an unlocked sliding door. As he went to leave the property, police turned convicted in 2017, the judge said. Blackbourn had appropriate support — not just As he walked about inside, the concerned up. Blackbourn discarded the underwear and Calculating sentence, she set a starting point that which he was now getting from his partner’s women began messaging each other. lay down on the floor of an outside laundry, of two-and-a-half years imprisonment with an family in Gisborne, but also that he would have He disabled a security light that came on pretending to be drunk. uplift of two months for Blackbourn’s previous appropriate agency support, the judge said. when he walked down some internal stairs to the He told police alcohol had affected his relevant convictions — five for burglary and three A probation officer in court confirmed there residence’s lower level. At the end of a hallway decision-making and he deeply regretted his for making intimate visual recordings arising from was scope within the sentence of home detention there, he pushed open a bedroom door and actions. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 NEWS 5 Pool tops list for chopper auction A POOL package worth will guide the successful $56,000 is the feature item of bidder through the entire Eastland Helicopter Rescue installation process — from Trust’s annual charity auction planning where to install next month. the pool in their backyard to The Bayley’s charity handover.” auction night will be held at The Plowmans said they the Farmers Air Event Centre were passionate about the at Showgrounds Park on Gisborne community and Friday, September 17. wanted to give back by “The donation of the supporting such an essential pool shell, installation and service. pool equipment will make a “Eastland Helicopter sizeable contribution to the Rescue Trust provides a $600,000 required every year critical service that everyone to keep the Trust Tairawhiti benefits from”, Kerryn said. Rescue Helicopter in the “The donation will not only air saving lives,” a chopper support a vital community spokeswoman said. service but add untold “Narellan Pools Gisborne, enjoyment to the auction owned and operated by winner’s lifestyle. Gisborne locals Kerryn “At Narellan Pools, and Dean Plowman, have community is at the centre of generously donated their everything we do,” she said. time to install the successful “Our wish is that this bidder’s new swimming pool donation makes a sizeable POOL DONATION: The annual rescue chopper charity auction next month has had a sizeable addition and filtration, as well as the contribution to the trust’s to the list of items going under the hammer — a swimming pool package donated by Narellan Pools of other equipment required to annual budget and brings Gisborne. The Plowman family, who own Narellan Pools, are pictured with, from left, Peter Scullett-Dean operate and maintain it.” the lucky auction winner’s (rescue helicopter intensive care paramedic), Kelley Waite (base manager/crew), Glenn Wells (Narellan Pools “With extensive experience dream of a new pool to life,” construction manager), Kurt Schierning (chopper pilot), and Joelle Martin (office manager Narellan Pools) in landscape and interior Narellan Pools founder Chris Second from right are Dean and Kerryn Plowman with their three children Ben, William and in front, Sylvie. design, Kerryn and Dean Meyer said. Picture supplied DISTRICT COURT Phone call ‘apology’ ADMITTING he assaulted a someone monitoring his health man with a knife and punched and wellbeing, Ms Rishworth said. him in the face in order to take Reparation for the burglary his vehicle, Kelly Ratapu, 26, (of a sporting goods store) was pleaded guilty to four charges — sought but not ordered. Judge explained to court assault with a weapon, assault Turitea Bolstad said Apirana did (laid under the Crimes Act), not have the means to pay. demanding with menaces and driving while disqualified for a third A 21-year-old man accused of A MAN accused of sexually investigation. He was arrested secrecy needed if all the pair were or subsequent time. possessing multiple objectionable abusing his stepdaughter about two weeks later. talking about was his violence — it The charges relate to an publications and further throughout her childhood has Counsel Scott Jefferson has was already witnessed and well incident on May 16 this year. distributing some, has pleaded explained to a jury remarks he challenged the phone call, saying known about by others. Ratapu appeared in Gisborne guilty. made in a police intercepted it is evidence police obtained The man says bad things District Court via AV-link from Taj Karan Sandhu pleaded phone call that has featured in the unfairly — curbing the normal happened to him when he was a prison remand unit and was guilty to two representative Crown’s case against him. legal requirement to outline the younger to turn him into a further remanded in custody for charges — one that on The call has been a contentious allegations to the man and caution “mongrel”. He says he needs some sentence on November 9. September 12, last year, he part of evidence, its admissibility him. Mr Jefferson says neither did serious help and that he has never possessed five images and unsuccessfully challenged by the the complainant specifically state spoken about things that affected DISCOVERING a shop window defendant’s lawyer ahead of the what it was she was talking about him. 30 videos knowing they were trial, which began Monday in in the conversation. Ms Marshall asked the man if smashed by someone else, a man objectionable; the other for Gisborne District Court. The defendant, who has elected the things that affected him when entered the store and stole items distributing seven videos knowing The defendant, 35, cannot be to give and call evidence, says he he was younger included sexual from it, the court was told. they were objectionable, between named for legal reasons. assumed they were discussing abuse? The man said no, that he He came to police attention March 29, 2018 and September He has pleaded not guilty to his violence and his apologies was talking about being bullied again less than 10 days later 12 last year. eight charges, some representative, throughout the conversation were and being violent. when drink-driving recklessly on Sandhu was further remanded spanning the years 2008 to 2014 for that and for having accused the Ms Marshall put it to him that Childers Road. on bail for sentence on — two counts of sexual violation woman of stealing money from the explanation did not accord with one Counsel Lucy Rishworth said September 14. by unlawful sexual connection, two recent family function. of his comments during the call, Pita Konene Apirana, 20, was counts of doing an indecent act on He says apologies made by her “There’s a few other people in our going through a stressful time and An intimate recording a man a child (aged under 12), and four during the call were for trouble she family like that too. They’re not, had turned to alcohol and drugs was accused of making was counts of doing an indecent act on caused particularly around a recent yeah, well it’s not f**kin’ something to cope. unrecoverable but the case a young person (aged between 12 Oranga Tamariki investigation of you really wanna be speaking He was now suffering the needed to proceed further and 16). their family after a report about about now, is it?” consequences, still in pain from before the court could consider The Crown alleges the offending violence by him. The man’s explanations were an injury he suffered as a result of dismissing the charge, Judge happened at the family’s home, Crown counsel Lara Marshall an effort by him to distance his driving offences. Warren Cathcart said. beginning with the man grooming replayed the call to the jury himself from what was actually Apirana pleaded guilty The case was previously his stepdaughter to perform oral yesterday during cross-examination being spoken about — his sexual to burglary, driving with an adjourned for police to disclose sex on him when she was as young of the man. offending, Ms Marshall said. excess blood alcohol level (180 as six and evolving to include other The tone of the call was He was trying to muddy the the recording to counsel Lucy sexual acts until she left home at important, Ms Marshall said. complainant’s reputation by milligrams), reckless driving, failing Rishworth. 16. It was not consistent with the suggesting apologies she made to stop and a breach of bail. Ms Rishworth said police had The complainant, who now lives defendant’s explanations. Neither were in relation to the missing Judge Turitea Bolstad imposed since advised they were unable elsewhere, reported her allegations were comments the pair made to money or Oranga Tamariki. 15 months intensive supervision to recover the recording. She to police while in Gisborne for a each other. The pair had already texted and disqualified Apirana from submitted the charge should family function last September. The two can be heard crying each other and spoken about those driving for six months. therefore be dismissed. In early November, police throughout the call. The woman things ahead of this recorded Ms Rishworth had advocated But Judge Cathcart said the arranged for her to make an makes several supportive conversation. The woman denied for the sentence, submitting court still needed to assess the intercepted phone call to the man comments such as, “I forgive you taking the money. Apirana — due to his injury — issue of intent, for which a further in which she was to broach for Dad, it’s OK. We’re strong, we got The man claims the alleged would be unsuitable for community hearing was necessary. the first time his alleged sexual this, we got this.” offending simply did not happen work, which might otherwise have A case review hearing was offending. At the outset of the call, the — that the complainant made been imposed. scheduled for September 23. She had otherwise been in complainant asks the man to it up in the hope of getting a She noted Apirana had no The man, who has interim normal, regular contact with him ensure they are talking privately. financial pay out from the Accident previous convictions. name suppression, pleaded not and her family. She says she wants to talk about Compensation Corporation. Although struggling at the time guilty to a charge of making the At the time of the call, the what happened between them and The trial continues today. of the offences, he had better recording and elected a judge- man was unaware of her police asks, “are you sorry for doing it?”. Judge Turitea Bolstad is support and a living situation with alone trial. complaint or that he was under Ms Marshall said there was no presiding. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 Sceptical of home isolation trial

WELLINGTON — Hundreds of workers Ministry of Health will have to sign off on this pilot.” National Party Covid-19 response returning from overseas will soon be able an isolation plan. Sir David Skegg, who guided the spokesperson Chris Bishop said the plan to skip a stint in a MIQ hotel and isolate at “They will not be able to isolate with government’s plan to reopen borders, was light on detail. home instead. family members or others and that’s advised ministers not to let travellers self- “How exactly will it work? How will It is part of the government’s long- key because with Delta we see in-family isolate at home. the trial operate? Who will be selected? awaited plan to re-connect New Zealand to transmission as a significant problem, He pointed to New Zealand’s experience How long will it operate for? How will the the world. so you will not be able at the start of the pandemic: recent effectiveness of it be assessed?” It will start with a to isolate with family returnees did not follow the isolation The government is yet to decide which small scale trial before They will not be able members or people who rules and the measures to ensure they did countries workers will be able to travel becoming an option for to‘ isolate with family have not travelled with largely failed. to. fully-vaccinated New you.” “The kind of home isolation we had Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall Zealanders travelling from members or others Employers would be before just won’t cut the mustard.” said the speed at which the pandemic was medium-risk countries and that’s key because responsible for their staff Ardern assured him the trial will be changing meant it was still too soon to say. next year. with Delta we see during the trial, Ardern vastly different. “There are no guarantees and risk The pilot will run from said. Greens co-leader Marama Davidson is assessments for countries do change October to December and in-family transmission If one of their worried about how isolating at home will overtime, so that will have to be borne will be open only to people as a significant problem employees broke the be managed in practice. in mind both by the government and returning from short work . . . rules, the company would She is sceptical of the motivations behind businesses wishing to take up the scheme.” trips. be named and shamed. the trial, too. Officials would be working closely with The government ’ —Jacinda Ardern “We believe that will “We’ve got concerns that it is being given businesses to ensure they were prepared will soon be asking for bring extra skin in the some concession around quite a narrow for the trial, Verrall said. expressions of interest game, a real focus from economic agenda and we want to know They would also work through any other from businesses which need to send their employers and organisations to make it a that we are absolutely putting public problems that arose, such as the cost of workers overseas. success and to ensure that we don’t have health and safety right at the forefront of monitoring those in isolation and health Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the any wayward behaviour over the course of any of these decisions.” checks. — Radio NZ Stand-alone Covid agency recommended

WELLINGTON — An adviser to the move on’. way that we have a national emergency government for its Covid-19 response “I think it management office that says if there’s an responsibility for dealing with the is now clear incident in Westport, you know, somebody pandemic needs to be handed from the that this will is on the ground to mobilise. Ministry of Health to a stand-alone be with us for “That’s the sort of model, whether agency. many, many it’s a Crown agency or department or Sir Brian Roche told Morning Report years, so the whatever, I’m not sure, is as important as he had advised the government a stand- argument, what is its function and particularly how alone agency was needed and ministers I think, for is it going to deploy resources?” LOSS: Stuart Nash is disappointed would be considering that over coming having a stand Advice to set up a stand-alone agency Season 2 of Lord of the Rings will be produced in the UK. months. alone agency Sir Brian Roche was given at the end of 2020 and it was “That’s been advice that I’ve put to is a very live being “actively pursued again as recently the government and it’s something that one . . . what as two days ago”, Roche said. we’re actively looking at. It was seen as we’re saying That advice comes in the wake of the Lord of the a short-term intervention that you know is it needs to be accountable for our release of the government’s risk-based ‘we (the Ministry of Health) will deal preparedness — all of our planning and plan for re-opening the borders in 2022. Rings production with this Covid stuff and then we’ll oversight of the execution — in the same — Radio NZ for season 2 Police vetting of midwives causes delays moves to UK

WELLINGTON — Independent MacDonald said midwives were WELLINGTON — Economic midwives are being told they cannot being put in an unenviable position. Development Minister Stuart Nash practice or are being forced to “So any claims they put in for is “disappointed” after Amazon work for weeks on end without pay work already completed after the confirmed season 2 of its Lord of the because of delays in getting police time their previous CV Check Rings production will be shifted to the clearances. expired are being rejected and UK. They say they are having to take not being paid . . . so that means The much-hyped first season of the on part-time jobs to make ends meet midwives are doing work that they Lord of the Rings TV show, which was and desert expectant mothers when are not being paid for doing. filmed in New Zealand, will premiere they need them most. “And that’s putting them in a on September 2, 2022 via Amazon’s Midwives working in the very difficult position because they Prime Video streaming service. community are required to get a have a commitment to the women But despite the Government giving Children’s Worker Safety Check done they have in their caseload. They Amazon a more than $100 million every three years. are on call for those women and boost to film the series in New Also known as a CV check — after those women are still going to have Zealand, the US e-commerce giant the Perth-based company that helps babies.” confirmed it will shift production of process them — they usually take a her police clearance is renewed. not even been started. She said that was not good future seasons to the UK. few weeks, but delays of more than She said she had now been She too was granted an extension. enough. “The Government was informed of two months are now not uncommon. told to start the process all over “It took just over seven weeks for In a statement, the Ministry the decision yesterday,” Nash said in A midwife working in the South again. it to be completed and during this of Health said it was aware of a statement on Friday, with a note Island thought she had plenty of “It’s the police vetting . . . there’s time I had no income whatsoever significant delays in the police that he was “disappointed” by the time to get her check done. been bad delays with the police and I still had to be on call 24/7 vetting process. decision. She began the process in April, vetting, and mine for some reason and provide care to clients that It said there was no delay in the “Amazon Studios advised that but her police clearance expired in just hasn’t been completed and were under my care. I was legally processing of CV Check applications post-production work on Season 1 July. I’ve been told to reapply at the end obligated to do that and provide if the documentation was complete will continue in New Zealand till “I was initially given a six week of August. But it will take at least them with 24-hour cover all the time and police vetting was approved. June 2022. However Season 2 will be extension, but I’ve now been told I another month to get that sorted. I wasn’t being paid.” The ministry was encouraging filmed in the UK as part of a strategy can’t get another extension and the So it won’t be until the beginning of She was out of pocket by about independent midwives to start the by the studio to expand its production Ministry of Health have basically October, if I am lucky that I can go $10,000 over the two months her process of renewing their safety space and consolidate its footprint in said without a CV Check I can’t back to work.” clearance was expired which was check well before it expired. the UK,” Nash said. work,” she said. Another midwife working in the now being backpaid. In a statement, police said “I am enormously proud of the “So, I have had to hand over my lower North Island said she applied NZ College of Midwives midwifery its Vetting Service processed New Zealand screen sector. The caseload to my colleagues and I’m for a new clearance in early March. adviser Claire MacDonald said it approximately 600,000 requests Amazon Studios’ decision in no way now trying to find another source of She then learned the hard way it was dealing with up to 10 similar per year for about 13,000 approved reflects the capabilities of our local income, because I’ve just recently had expired. complaints a week. agencies. film industry or the talents of the come off parental leave after having “The first I knew of it was in the “This was a very predicable hump Police said vetting times people who work in it. This is a multi- my second baby and we don’t have beginning of June when I started in demand. The Ministry of Health fluctuated during the year and the national company that has made a any savings.” noticing that I wasn’t getting was aware that it was coming and service usually aimed to process commercial choice. The midwife is a lead maternity paid and some claims were being the police were aware that it was them inside 20 working days. “With Season 1, the New Zealand carer operating independently in the declined. And when I further looked coming. But it was not managing that at screen sector has proven its community. into why this was, I found that my “And as far as we can see the moment. reputation for offering a world-class She contracts to pregnant women CV Check had expired.” capacity has not been increased to “Processing time frames for some workforce, globally competitive and bills the Ministry of Health for She had missed an email warning deal with that increased demand. So requests are currently outside the 20 sound stages and post-production her services. her one form of verified ID was what’s happened is that the police working day service level, primarily facilities, and a safe destination with The extension meant she could missing from her paperwork. vetting is taking longer than it was due to high demand, which is typical outstanding scenery and friendly and work, but she cannot be paid until That meant her police check had up until now.” for this time of year.” — Radio NZ welcoming people.” — Newshub The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Cyclist critical after rail accident by Sahiban Hyde, HBToday diverted on McGrath Street and Te Awa Avenue. NAPIER — A student cycling Police said late yesterday to Hawke’s Bay’s biggest high morning that the crossing and school was critically injured in a therefore the Ellison Street collision with a freight train in entrance and exit on the Napier yesterday. beachfront road would be closed Napier Boys’ High School for most of the day. principal Jarred Williams KiwiRail chief operating confirmed in a message to the officer Todd Moyle said their school community that a student thoughts were with the friends was involved. and family of the cyclist. Police, fire and emergency “Incidents like this are services were called to the extremely upsetting for all those intersection of State Highway involved, and our thoughts are 51 (Marine Parade) and Ellison with the family and friends of Street just before 8.30am. the cyclist,” Moyle said. Williams said the school had “In line with our standard been saddened and shocked by practice our driver and all of the accident. our staff involved will be offered The school was supporting the support from KiwiRail. family of the boy involved, he “The train was a freight said. service travelling from Napier to “Our thoughts are with the Hastings.” family during this difficult This week is KiwiRail and time, and we will continue to Tracksafe NZ’s annual Rail support them in any way we Safety Week, with a particular can. focus on crossings in rural areas “Our students, staff and and provincial centres. the wider school community Hawke’s Bay has in recent have been informed of the times had one of the lowest rail incident. Support from the STUDENT CRITICAL: The scene of the collision between a cyclist and a train on Napier’s Marine accident rates in the country, but school counselling team and Parade yesterday. Hawke’s Bay Today picture there is a high incident rate on the Ministry of Education’s the highway in the road network Emergency Team is in place for for work commuters and school said: “Our thoughts go out to spokesman said soon after the around the intersection. those who may need assistance.” traffic. the young man involved in this incident an ambulance had The Government last year He says the school community The lengthy southbound train collision, his family and his taken one person from the dedicated $2.75 million to will be updated on the had stopped across the crossing, friends. I also acknowledge the scene to Hawke’s Bay Hospital improvements relating to access situation, where and when extending from the engine about efforts of those first on the scene. in Hastings where the student across the highway and the appropriate and the school was 200 metres to south of Ellison “As further details are made remained in a critical condition. crossing, the intersection also assisting authorities in their Street to the rear just a few available, Napier City Council About 4km of the Marine being next to the entrance to a investigations. metres on the city side. will work with KiwiRail and Parade and SH51 stretch freedom camping carpark and a The main rail line from It happened less than a Waka Kotahi NZ Transport from Warren Street to Awatoto bicycle pump track. Hastings to Napier crosses kilometre from Napier Boys’ Agency to fully review this Road was also closed as One crash between a train and Ellison Street, which at that High. incident.” emergency services amassed a light motor vehicle occurred in time of day is also a busy street Napier Mayor Kirsten Wise A St John Ambulance Service at the scene, with traffic being the year ended June. Rumours of lockdown false

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TIMARU — In a packed church in central Timaru yesterday, tears were shed, tributes were read and promises were made to remember the five teenagers killed in last weekend’s crash. Kindness was also shown to the only survivor, the driver of the car, Tyreese Fleming, who remains in hospital. Javarney Wayne Drummond, 15, Niko William Hill, 15, Jack Wallace, 16, Joseff McCarthy, 16, and Andrew Goodger, 15, were all killed on Saturday when the Nissan Bluebird they were passengers in smashed into a concrete power pole. The boys killed in the crash were all friends and had been at the local skatepark together and spent time at a nearby Burger King before getting into Fleming’s car. Some did not wear seatbelts and one was in the boot. When the car slammed into the power pole and tore in half the five boys were killed almost instantly. Police have said speed and alcohol were factors in the crash and their investigation is ongoing. CAPTION: A service was held at Sacred Heart Basilica yesterday to remember the five lives lost in Saturday night’s car crash in The first of the funerals — for Andrew Timaru. — NZ Herald picture Goodger — was held yesterday afternoon. The other boys will be farewelled over the many visibly upset at the loss of their I can do is remind each of us and all of us not in a position to make judgement.” coming days. mates, to be comforted by their faith. of that precious gift that is our lives — He said people should instead be Yesterday morning a mass was held He said it had been “a hard week” that they are not just precious to us, they are thankful that in the boys’ short lives, “they at the Sacred Heart Basilica to honour was “steeped in sadness”. precious to all of those who love us. passed our way”. the boys. It was also a mass for Roncalli “There are no words that can soften the “We are shocked and we feel numbed The investigation into the crash is College, which Jack and Niko attended. grief and the enormity of losing five young by it all. We know what happened but we continuing. Father Mark Walls urged students, lives in such circumstances,” he said. “All don’t know what led up to it — so we are Fleming is in a stable condition. — NZH Buyer tries to stop sale of billionaire’s home by Ben Leahy, NZ Herald ago, with the agent saying QUEENSTOWN — A Queenstown resident has the Covid-19 taken a caveat out against US billionaire Peter pandemic had Thiel’s multimillion-dollar clifftop home in a bid to made it harder stop it being sold to another buyer. for the home’s Brian McGee told the NZ Herald he had taken overseas owner issue with the sale process for the home, which to visit NZ. boasts sweeping views over Lake Wakatipu. McGee said He said he registered the caveat to stop the that led him house being sold until his dispute was resolved. to offer to buy McGee claimed he had been told by an agent the home last verbally his offer to buy the house had been Tuesday for accepted, before the house was sold to another about $6 million. buyer with a higher offer. He claims The real estate agent told the Herald he was told his Peter Thiel he disputed McGee’s version of how sale offer had been negotiations took place. accepted and The agent said he could not discuss the matter he and an agent further because he was bound by confidentiality toasted the sale with a drink. towards his client, the home’s seller. But an offer from another buyer, who flew into Industry regulator the Real Estate Authority Queenstown last weekend to see the home, was said all contracts to buy land in New Zealand later accepted, McGee claimed. must be in writing and that verbal agreements “It is understood that Thiel subsequently DISPUTED SALE: Peter Thiel bought the luxury Queenstown home for $4.8 million could not be enforced. accepted an offer from a third party at a 10 years ago. Thiel bought the property — nicknamed the considerably higher sum.” plasma house — in 2011, having secured New McGee acknowledged he had not received accepted, telling him a prospective buyer had Moffat said it was important agents dealt fairly Zealand citizenship after spending only 12 days confirmation in writing. made a higher offer, it was now a “multi-offer” with all parties, including buyers, and did not in the country. He also said he was contacted on August situation, and inviting him to make a higher offer mislead them. He put it on the market just over a week 7, three days after he claimed his offer was to secure the home. The five-bedroom home was sold to Thiel’s McGee said he refused because he was company, Second Star Ltd, 10 years ago for unhappy with the developments before lodging $4.8m. the caveat. Sitting on an outcrop, it offers stunning views A Land Information NZ spokeswoman said from its lounge and is noticeable around town for the caveat had been “lodged by a purchaser to its gleaming windows fronting the lake. protect their interest in the property”. Another agent reportedly raved about the view Real Estate Authority chief executive Belinda last week, saying he thought it was “the best Moffat could not comment on the specifics of the view I’ve ever seen from a house”. case. But under New Zealand law, all property He said while some homes in Queenstown contracts must be in writing, she said. had doubled in value over the past decade, that It was important to remember selling agents wasn’t necessarily the case with this home and were working for a home’s seller, not its buyer. the vendor expected “a little over $6m for it”. That meant their primary responsibility was to “It comes down to the vendor being realistic, get the best price for the seller, she said. they’re not just trying to make a whole lot of “In a multi-offer situation the licensee needs money out of it.” to be careful when communicating with potential Thiel first visited New Zealand in 1995 when buyers about the status of a verbal offer,” Moffat he was 28. Immigration documents show he first said. applied for an investor visa in March 2003, then “Even if the vendor has said they will accept again in 2005. He was granted citizenship in 2011, the offer, the agent should explain to the buyer despite having spent only 12 days in the country. 291 PALMERSTON RD that a verbal acceptance is not binding, and A venture capitalist, Thiel is reported to have there is always a risk something could change made around US$2.3 billion ($3.27b) from his P. 06 868 4656 before the vendor signs the sale and purchase early investments in Facebook and PayPal. 41537-01 agreement.” — additional reporting Otago Daily Times The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 9 Cannabis buyer took the law into own hands DUNEDIN — A Waring was sentenced Dunedin man who was in December of last year ripped off in a $100 to 15 months’ intensive cannabis deal will spend supervision and 250 the next six months on a hours’ community work. curfew. The day after the Tyler Stephen Coll, bungled armed hold-up, 25, was so aggrieved his Coll was interviewed by dealer 20-year-old Tobias police and he admitted he Waring had not delivered had confronted the dealer with the class-C drug, because he had been CULTURAL MURAL: Kapiti artist Theo Arraj with his latest work on Marine he visited him early on “ripped off”. Parade, Paraparaumu Beach. Picture by Rosalie Willis August 10 last year. He said the implement Outside, the defendant he had given to his mate provided a friend — whom was a toy gun, which he later refused to name he had doused in petrol — with a balaclava and ‘LESSON LEARNED’: Tyler and burned in the bush Mural artist salutes an imitation fire arm and Coll is barred from alcohol around Pine Hill after the they knocked on the door and drug use while serving incident, knowing police of the flat. his sentence. would be after him. When a ranch slider Picture by Rob Kidd Counsel Andrew was opened, they went Dawson said his client Mexican culture with in and Coll demanded his money back was willing to sit down to apologise to as the other man brandished the fake his victim, but the man could not be weapon and yelled at the four occupants contacted. of the house. Coll, who was now managing a farm Waring fetched some cash from his in rural Clydevale, had stressed his stunning new design room and gave it to the defendant. commitment to changing his life’s The transaction, however, was direction. by Rosalie Willis, possible. complicated when a neighbour knocked “It’s a question of whether you’re going Kapiti News This included using chillis imported on the door, concerned about the to walk the talk or you just talk,” Judge from Mexico in their dishes and having commotion. Kevin Phillips said. KAPITI — A stunning design Latino musician Fernando Figueroa, Waring’s girlfriend shouted that there He was sentenced to six months’ has appeared on Marine Parade, playing music on Friday and Saturday was a gun, prompting Coll and his community detention, 180 hours’ Paraparaumu Beach, outside Hola, nights. associate to bolt from the address. community work and nine months’ Kapiti’s newest Mexican restaurant. Researching the culture before he They were chased to their vehicle by supervision. It is the latest artwork by local started his design, Mr Arraj looked members of the flat who threw a knife at As for Waring, it was not the first time mural artist, Theo Arraj. into Dia de los Muertos. the car as it sped away, the court heard. he had found himself in strife over a drug Featuring symbols of Dia de His research included speaking to The registration plate was later deal gone wrong. los Muertos — a Mexican holiday Mr Figueroa about his experiences provided to police. In 2018, he took $400 from a French celebrating the day of the dead — of the Mexican holiday and he even But it was Waring who found himself couple and failed to supply them with bright and colourful flowers surround watched Pixar film Coco — an in trouble first. cannabis, resulting in them taking a portrait of a beautiful, masked skull. animated movie about the day of the When officers arrived at the home, they violent retribution. Spying a large blank wall on the dead. found all the hallmarks of a regular drug As well as the beating, he was south side of the building, Mr Arraj “I also did some research into my dealer: ziplock bags, ground cannabis, sentenced to community detention and approached Ricardo Reis from Hola own whakapapa and found out that cannabis plant, cannabis seeds, electronic intensive supervision. about a mural. I have links to Mesoamerica in my scales and a tick list noting his debtors. — Otago Daily Times They negotiated about the design family history. and then Mr Arraj was given the blank “I did a whole bunch of research and space outside the restaurant as his a few DNA tests and I’m really blessed canvas. to have a really rich, diverse history Blank walls stand out like a beacon which I can draw inspiration from for Dozens of incomplete to the mural artist, who cannot wait to my art.” get to work on them. Mr Arraj completed the mural in “I love to paint murals and I saw just two days, finishing the design on the big wall around the corner and Wednesday. tasks revealed as thought: ‘man, I’d love to paint that’,” “I try to let my art explain itself. he said. “I paint pictures as an expression “We decided to start with the smaller (of myself), but it’s hard to describe wall first to attract people to the (the process I go through and my Transmission Gully restaurant, and it’s a great opportunity interpretation of this design) . . . for me to get more artwork out there, “I’d like people to look at it and get around town.” their own message out of it. Being a Mexican restaurant, Mr Reis “I’ve never painted one like this deadline approaches and his team had been working on before, but I love to paint murals and I making the restaurant as authentic as think I’ve pulled this one off.”

WELLINGTON — A Wellington’s wider city and new report has revealed It is looking district councils needed a long list of jobs that to carry out a range of need to be finished before increasingly likely tests to sign off on the Transmission Gully can be that Transmission completion. opened. Gully cannot be Greater Wellington Therefore, it is looking Regional Council chair, increasingly likely that finished by the Daran Ponter, said he was Transmission Gully cannot already-extended nervous about the project be finished by the already- completion date. meeting its deadline. extended completion date. The consequences of Yesterday, project missing the September managers of the opening date were costly. Transmission Gully construction project The building company would lose a updated the Greater Wellington Regional $7.5m bonus and would also be fined Council on the work that still needed to $250,000 each day the road remained be completed before it was scheduled to closed after September 27 deadline. open — on September 27. Environmental regulation manager of The $1.2 billion highway had 41 the regional council, Shaun Andrewartha, outstanding problems around stormwater said the deadline had been constantly and sediment, for which help from the communicated to the building company. regional council would be needed in order The problem was that the tasks were to finish the project. evolving by the minute, he said. In addition to the remaining work, — RNZ 38377-07 10 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 Spotlight on NZDF’s role in MIQ It ‘reduces the Defence Force’s capability’ to deal with major disasters by Jane Patterson, RNZ the NZDF to make sure New Zealand been assigned to MIQ duties, and was “equipped and ready to respond”, due to its “sensitive and high-profile” WELLINGTON — The Defence said Henare. However, he added that nature, many MIQ facilities required Force’s (NZDF) ability to respond to a the NZDF had made it “clear that there more senior people — ranking from major disaster has been significantly will be challenges should there be a Corporals through to Majors. But compromised, mainly due to its large-scale event”. these were the exact same people who security role at the country’s National’s defence spokesperson, were needed to lead the “raise, train managed-isolation and quarantine Chris Penk, said the overall picture and sustain functions” of the NZDF. (MIQ) facilities. was “quite scary”. The MIQ commitment was likened Top-ranking officials have warned “New Zealand should be very to NZ’s deployment to East Timor in that with more than 1000 troops at concerned about the possibility that 1999, with “similar levels of command, any one time staffing MIQ facilities, if a major event occurs, we simply control and coordination demands” or preparing to go and staff them, the cannot scramble our Defence Force in a May briefing. As the numbers NZDF would not be able to respond to quickly enough; (they are) highly increased, the briefing warned that major disasters at the same scale and professional, well-trained and have it had put pressure across all three speed as they have done in the past. always responded well in the past. services, extending “beyond pure Details about the significant impact “But, at the moment . . . there is numbers of personnel to include a on training, the ready availability of a real shortfall if something was to reduced availability of some ships and personnel and what that meant for happen in the Pacific or further afield aircraft”. any large-scale disaster response that they needed to respond to.” The NZDF could handle “smaller- were contained in briefings obtained The NZDF has been involved in scale response options” but would be by RNZ under the Official Information the Government’s Covid response severely tested by a sustained, major Act. since the very start of the pandemic, disaster — or a cluster of smaller “I am conscious that the NZDF’s setting up the first MIQ facility at emergencies at the same time. ability to respond to a Christchurch- Whangaparaoa early last year and It was working with “partner or Kaikoura-sized earthquake, or a NZDF OCCUPIED WITH MIQ MATTERS: A soldier stands on supporting police at checkpoints. agencies”, such as the Ministry of Pacific event of the size of Tropical guard at the entrance to an Auckland MIQ hotel. The Defence Force Since August 2020, that Foreign Affairs and Trade, Emergency Cyclone Winston in Fiji, will remain has been involved in the Government’s Covid-19 response since the commitment had steadily increased NZ, the National Emergency degraded for the foreseeable future,” start of the pandemic. Picture supplied as more personnel were brought in Management Agency and Department Chief of Defence Force and Air to shore up security and improve of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to Marshal Kevin Short warned Defence with the border restrictions, it was shut down a particular squadron, logistics; at any one time, there were make sure their contingency plans Minister Peeni Henare in June. having an inevitable impact on NZ’s which would generate 100 people to up to 1300 NZDF personnel who were “consider the key reductions in NZDF The ongoing commitment “reduces response options. “If you take 1300 actually assist or tie up a ship . . . so either at the MIQ facilities or preparing response capacity over the next year”. the capability of the NZDF to respond people out of our normal operations it gives us time to actually gather the to go there. The Government acknowledged the to another national or regional then, of course, it’s going to have an forces, as it were, to actually provide As the main contributor to MIQ huge pressure being brought to bear emergency with previously-expected effect on our response options. It’ll whatever response we’re required to.” numbers, the army’s ability to respond as a result of MIQ duties. It agreed not scale or speed”, made worse by the reduce how we respond and. in some Henare admitted it was a “serious” to global or regional events had been to ask for any more personnel and “wider” impacts of the pandemic cases. (it will) have an effect on the concern. “We, as a Government, do compromised, and the “cumulative has been working to actively reduce on training and supply chains, he duration of their response.” initially hold concerns about whether degradation” of sustaining those Defence numbers at the border. advised. The NZDF could deal with smaller or not we would be able to respond numbers had “seen the army lose the Air Marshal Short said the There had also been a “skill fade of scale emergencies, however, and (to a disaster), depending on how big ability to train collectively above the Government were also very aware of core military competencies” with the would still pull out all stops in the it is, but we’ve made it clear right now small teams level”. the impact on individual morale within reduction of usual activities. event of a major disaster, he said. that our number-one priority is Covid.” Making the situation worse was the NZDF and were working to keep Air Marshal Short told RNZ, along “To give you an example, we could The Government would work with the fact that civilian staff had not attrition rates as low as possible. 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That will be the beginning of next year, as part of a risk-based question would-be travellers will be asking pathway system of travelling again. themselves.” GISBORNE MOTORS LTD Ardern described it as a careful and In Rotorua, Te Puia chief executive Tim MID CITY, GREY STREET, GISBORNE PHONE 867 6759 deliberate approach. “Rushing (the border Cossar was not surprised by the border reopening) could see us in the situation many reopening timeframe. “I’m pretty comfortable www.gisbornemotors.co.nz other countries are finding themselves in where that the position is to keep us safe.” — RNZ 40911-03 The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 BUSINESS 11 Second KiwiSaver provider slashes fees BRIEFS Genesis signals solar intent by Tamsyn Parker, NZ Herald reflected a solid performance as it continued to will ensure we continue to enhance further AUCKLAND — Genesis Energy “has signalled renovate its business. value for money for our clients.” its intent” to invest heavily in solar power WELLINGTON — AMP has slashed the In October last year it announced it would AMP is one of the largest KiwiSaver development. fees on 11 of its KiwiSaver funds to a flat 0.79 ditch an active management approach in its providers with around $6.57 billion, putting it Three days after being at the centre of a storm percent of funds under management — the managed funds including KiwiSaver in favour as the fifth largest, according to Morningstar over rolling blackouts, Genesis announced it second major provider to cut its fees in the last of using global index-tracking investment data. But its investment returns have previously was “in active discussions with international month. manager BlackRock. lagged the market. solar developers to finalise a joint venture The financial services provider confirmed The passive index tracking approach is much In May it was also one of five providers to arrangement” which it said could deliver up to the fee change as part of its half year results cheaper for fund managers to use as it relies lose its default provider status which means 500 megawatts of solar capacity over the next five released yesterday. on technology to track an index like the NZX50 from December all members of its default fund years. The New Zealand business — AMP Wealth rather than a stock picking approach which is will be shifted to the newly-appointed default The company, 51 percent owned by the Management — made a net profit after tax of heavily research intensive. providers unless they actively decide to stay Government, said the capacity would be enough $21 million for the six months to June 30 — an An AMP spokesman said the fee changes, with AMP. to generate 750 gigawatt hours, enough to increase of 11 percent on the same prior period. which came into effect on July 12, had been A large factor in deciding who gained power 100,000 homes or 185,000 electric Its assets under management rose 9 percent made as part of a broader transformation of its appointment as a new default provider was fees vehicles a year. — NZ Herald to $13.4 billion, although the company saw investment offer, which also included adopting with the Government aiming to bring the cost of a net cash outflow of $257m during the half a sustainable investment approach across all KiwiSaver down. Vital profit soars compared to net cash inflows of $21m in the AMP named funds and a move to an index Regulator the Financial Markets Authority AUCKLAND — Vital Healthcare’s full-year first half of 2020, a factor it has put down to a management investment approach to deliver also told providers in April they must review reported profit jumped nearly 400 percent due heightened competitive environment. stronger returns. their fees annually and prove they are providing mainly to revaluation gains, while adjusted funds Blair Vernon, chief executive of AMP Wealth “Our transition to this approach with the value for money or face potential regulatory from operations climbed 10.4 percent. Management New Zealand, said the result support of BlackRock Investment Management action. The trust posted net profit of $278.4 million for the 12 months to June 30, up from $58.1 million the year prior. Valuation gains across its portfolio contributed $235.4 million. The trust also paid fees of Median house price reaches new record $29 million to its Canadian manager NorthWest, up from $20.9 million the previous year. — RNZ WELLINGTON — House prices across “House prices have continued to rise In Canterbury, median prices rose by the country continue to rise, with the across the country as every region saw a 24.7 percent year-on-year, to $595,000. Tenant merry-go-round median house price, excluding Auckland, a year-on-year increase from July 2020,” Manawatu/Whanganui increased AUCKLAND — Hundreds of BNZ staff will leave reaching a new record. REINZ chief executive Jen Baird said. 29.7 percent to a record equal $580,000. Auckland’s Quay Park for the bank’s headquarters The Real Estate Institute’s House Price “The last two months have shown early Southland was up 17.3 percent from July at 80 Queen Street next year in a new leasing deal Index, which measures the changing indications that the rate of growth is 2020 to $420,000. by Colliers International. value of property in the market, rose 30.6 starting to ease. However, it is too early The average number of days taken to The latest Auckland office tenant merry-go- percent in the year ended July compared to say whether this is the usual winter sell a property was 31, three days less round follows a Deloitte move announced this with an annual rate of 29.8 in June. easing we would normally see or if the than the same month last year. week that it would vacate the Deloitte Centre. The national median price rose a government’s intervention in the market “July saw an easing in the number That will allow BNZ to expand its presence in seasonally adjusted 2.4 percent from and signalled changes to the OCR are of properties sold across New Zealand, the building which it has occupied since it was June, and up 25.1 percent on July last starting to take effect.” with an 11.7 percent decrease compared finished but where it didn’t have naming rights. year, to $826,000. Auckland reached a record median to July 2020 — although still showing BNZ Quay Park operations, 30 Mahuhu Crescent, The median house price excluding price in July, increasing 27.7 percent strong numbers for a winter month with will shift to the Deloitte Centre, leasing 21,000sqm Auckland increased 23.3 percent year-on-year, to $1,175,000. the number of properties sold in July of floor space in the blue tower on a city block from July last year to a new record of Three other regions also hit record 2021 higher than in 2019, 2018 and between Queen Street, Shortland Street, Jean $687,500. median prices. 2017. — RNZ Batten Place and Fort Street. — NZ Herald Confidence boost for exporters by Kate Gregan, RNZ “The challenge he said. executive Philip Gregan is also in support has been for them The Government’s much awaited of the plan. WELLINGTON — Business leaders to get MIQ spots roadmap is a cautious one. “I think what the Government are praising the Government’s new pilot on their return, From early next year there will be has done around taking a risk-based scheme which will allow vaccinated so we know that three pathways. approach to this is very important and I travelling workers to isolate at home. there will be a Unvaccinated travellers and those from think it is a significant step forward. It Companies and other organisations lot of interest high-risk countries will spend 14 days will give exporters confidence that there wanting to send staff overseas will soon from businesses in managed isolation while those from is light at the end of the tunnel in terms be invited to put people up for selection. who need to get low-risk areas who are vaccinated skip of more open borders,” he said. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said into markets in quarantine altogether. Gregan said it has been difficult for the trial will be very limited, with strict order to service The pilot focuses on the third option — many wine growers to put face-to-face conditions and monitoring. customers, to vaccinated travellers who have been to meetings on the back burner. The companies involved will be publicly understand where medium-risk countries who could either “I think it has been particularly named and the travel must be essential they are at, and to have a shorter stay in MIQ or isolate at hard for our small and medium-sized to maintaining their business. look at what their Kirk Hope home. businesses. Many of our large wineries Health officials will choose the future growth It is still not clear what qualifies will have people based overseas, so that’s successful candidates who will submit a prospects are,” he said. as medium risk and Retail NZ chief meant they have been able to maintain detailed plan of how they intend to keep While the details of the pilot remain a executive Greg Harford said he is eagerly contact in market. Covid-19 out of the community. little thin, Hope said whatever the rules awaiting more information. “For our small and medium-sized It is all part of the Government’s road are, they will be followed closely. “There’s still quite a lot of detail that producers, they don’t have people based map to relaxing border restrictions by the “Business people are highly we need to see, and businesses are going overseas and there are limits as to how first quarter of next year. incentivised to comply with the rules. to need to put a specific plan together to far you can take all those Zoom meetings. BusinessNZ chief executive Kirk Hope If they are going out of the country and help manage that isolation process for Sometimes you do have to do it face-to- thinks many will jump at the chance. they are able to get back with much when the people get back. It is important face. There’s nothing like that personal “There’s a reasonably strong level of lower quarantine requirements, they are that business people can travel overseas connection,” he said. demand from exporters to get into their going to be pretty happy about that, so for specific purposes,” he said. The pilot will run from October to export markets. that’s a significant incentive to comply,” New Zealand Winegrowers chief December.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY percent to $3.24 after revealing steep increases 2021 financial year and rose 6c or 5.36 percent in profit for their 2021 financial years ending to $1.18. Operating earnings were up 57 June. percent to $181m, from $115m in the previous WELLINGTON — Property companies ETF; and 9.1 million units worth $21.8m in NZ Precinct reported a 412 percent increase in corresponding six months, and revenue slipped Precinct and Vital Healthcare produced strong Government Bond ETF. profit from $35.1m in 2020 to $179.9m, thanks to $1.70 billion, from $1.724b. Net profit was annual results, but for the second day running Matt Goodson, managing director of Salts to a portfolio revaluation gain of $282.9m. $146m compared with the previous $203m. the New Zealand sharemarket was driven down Fund Management, said the market was mixed Its revenue was up 31.6 percent to $199.8m Contact Energy told the market it is by a sharp fall in heavyweight Fisher & Paykel and led down by Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, and net asset value settled at $1.52 a share. supplying Genesis with renewable electricity for Healthcare. which has been weak over the past two days. Precinct is paying 2022 dividend of 6.7c a 15 years from 2025. The S&P/NZX 50 Index shed 66.25 points or “The only thing I can connect this with is share. Genesis will take up to 62.5 megawatts (MW) 0.52 percent to 12,681.81, after falling in the the result from an American medical devices Vital Healthcare Property Trust increased its of electricity, representing 41 percent of the afternoon from an intraday high of 12,760.53. company Vapotherm which suggested sales gross profit 352.9 percent to $318.48 on the capacity, from Contact’s new geothermal power There were 62 gainers and 75 decliners, and looking forward were falling away quicker than back of a revaluation gain of $235m. station at Tauhara near Taupo. volumes were again boosted by movements in expected.” Its net property income was up 9.5 percent Genesis is also finalising a joint venture to passive investment funds. Market leader Fisher & Paykel Healthcare to $109.66m and net tangible asset was $2.89 a deliver up to 500 MW of solar capacity, enough A total of 122.41 million shares worth $267.16 declined 90c or 2.83 percent to $30.90 on trade share, an increase of 21.4 percent. to power 100,000 households or 185,000 electric million changed hands, with 31.35 million worth $26.16m, a fall of more than 6 percent in Adjusted funds from operations rose 10.4 vehicles a year - as part of its renewable units worth $41.68 million in Smartshares two days from $32.95. percent from 10.45c a unit to 11.54c, it is paying generation programme. Global Aggregate Bond Exchange Traded Fund Precinct Properties was up 2.5c to $1.68 and an increased 2022 dividend of 9.5c a unit. Genesis was unchanged at $3.39; Contact (ETF); 6.8 million units worth $21m in NZ Bond Vital Healthcare Property Trust rose 6c or 1.89 AMP provided an improved first half of the was down 3c to $8.17. — NZ Herald 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 EDITORIAL World close to devastation Legalise rental scheme Re: In reality, times are good good”: ‘Pathway out of the — August 10 letter. Tell that to the world in My recent suggestion that if necessary. The reality is that early unstable un-ease Housing NZ and WINZ should Once again, benefits accruing to pandemic’ unveiled this year, the Atomic Tell that to the birds and the embark on opening up yearly leases landlords are, lease money up front, Scientists warned the bees on rental properties to provide relief a reasonable but controlled rent for the housing shortage drew little rise compensation factor built into Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern symbolic Doomsday Clock Tell that to the drought- remained at 100 seconds to stricken trees local response. the initial lease itself. has announced the long awaited midnight — meaning the Tell that to the fish still in There was only one or two There is less chance of people “pathway out of the pandemic” and world is dangerously close to the seas responses declaring such a scheme having to be evicted and damaging it will be long and gradual as the devastation. In January 2020 Tell that to widespread to be “illegal” in the likes of The New properties due to frustration at country moves towards reopening the the organisation cited concerns fearful refugees Zealand Herald. being thrown out into the insecurity borders in the first quarter of 2022. over nuclear proliferation and Tell them all nuclear is a If such a scheme as ensuring of the rental market. One surprise in the announcement climate change as factors in protector, please housing security at a far less cost Government should also move is a self-isolation trial for some setting the clock to its most And that in reality, times than the empire building practice to tax or otherwise penalise owners of buying up overpriced homes and of homes left empty to accrue returnees later this year. dire time since the Cold War. are good. That “In reality, times are BOB HUGHES motels is illegal, then a genuine greater capital value in a largely That is the first stage of the “people’s government” should uncontrolled and unstable housing pathway and will be followed by swiftly move to legalise such a market. a new border system comprising scheme through an Order in Council DENNIS PENNEFATHER four levels ranging from vaccinated travellers from low-risk countries, Kiwis in space shocks down to unvaccinated ones from high-risk countries who will still face I was shocked and distressed to they plucked or decently clad? Well written obituary MIQ isolation. read in your paper, that Northrop Come to think of it, perhaps Grumman has launched their there is some merit in sending Re: True to his word Uncle Brian was the The Government was reacting to latest delivery of foodstuffs to the “kiwis” skyward, as there are a few the report this week from a group of and community, August 13 younger brother of my late International Space Station. contributors to your letters page Obituary father Reginald Henry health specialists led by Professor I have no problem with the apples whom I think would we would all like What a wonderful obituary Emerson. Sir David Skegg which warned that a and tomatoes but when it includes to see rocketed off into space. for uncle Brian, Murray Again, thank you. full roll-out of the vaccine would be “kiwis” that is beyond the pale. Robertson. required to start opening up to the Could I ask, were they the Thank you, it was a great PATRICIA BREWSTER world. feathered or the human variety, were BOB BURGESS read. NÉE EMERSON, Sydney Ardern yesterday said vaccinations would be open to all eligible ages LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS from September 1 while the gap between first and second doses will be moved to six weeks. Railway link The Government’s strategy is to Indigenous knowledge has merit use the second half of this year while beyond repair accelerating the rate of vaccinations, Re: All knowledge valuable, has its course, there would be no problem. But leading to home isolation instead of place — August 6 column. one is entitled to ask, what is any view of Re: Railway issues resonate, August In 1970 a new University Bursary creation — fundamentalist Christian or 7 letter by Grant Craig. managed isolation facilities. Biology Prescription was introduced, a Maori — doing in a New Zealand science The new border system will assess As a distant observer there is no significant part of which was devoted course? way you can compare your rail link to people’s risk individually starting to human evolution. In 1981, with the MARTIN HANSON, Nelson from low risk — vaccinated travellers up here. blessing of the Science Inspectorate, a This Gisborne to Wairoa line is from low-risk countries with no teachers’ guide was produced, titled “The You make a really good point Martin. I wonder totally stuffed and just can’t be isolation required. Origin of Man and His Culture”. whether that Maori world view was included as rebuilt. Check out the article on page Medium risk — vaccinated Of the 55 pages, 11 were devoted to a reminder that indigenous knowledge has merit 5 in the same edition, Transport links travellers from medium-risk countries the Genesis account of six-day creation. and sees all life as connected to an extent that risk. — will have modified isolation Adam, Noah’s flood, fossil human Christianity and other monotheistic religions You say $1.2 million saved your requirements. footprints in Cretaceous rocks — they don’t? line. The Berl report on this end said were all there. In the bibliography, It is a fact that while western science has $36m and they were paid $600,000 Those in the high-risk category — Scientific Creationism by Henry Morris unvaccinated travellers from high- indeed provided us with a huge body of useful for it. was among the “highly recommended” knowledge, it has also enabled humanity to KiwiRail CEO Greg Miller said risk countries — will have 14 days in references. MIQ facilities. seriously degrade our environment. $150m and I have said $150m-$200m Since then, creationism seems to have — all for the line to fall back into the Countries will be grouped in order The point I am trying to make above is died a natural death in New Zealand that Matauranga Maori is about far more than river and the sea. of risk, with factors including case school science education. But it seems creationist stories. There is a lot of science and That 1957 slip that was in The numbers, prevalence of variants of to have been resurrected in recently technology evident in Te Ao Maori. European Herald was huge and I am pretty sure concern and confidence in strategies published notes for primary school observers like us will probably be unaware of these next areas along the 2.5km will for managing outbreaks. teachers (www.gw.govt.nz/assets/Get- almost all of it. slip in the next big torrential rain. Ardern also signalled new Involved/TAFWNativeecosystemssection. LARA MEYER There are no long-term benefits PDF) with this rail, the only way is the rail measures may include mandated use After explaining how the “water cycle” of QR codes and mask use at alert bikes. The steam engine will never is driven by the sun, the notes explain If humanity is to survive into the next make it past Coop Road. levels 2 and 3. that in a Maori world view, life began “The ultimate goal is to get century, what will be needed will be a Grant, all the hill country from with the separation of Ranginui (sky Gisborne through to the Kopuawhara to quarantine-free travel for all low-technology, human-scale approach, in father) and Papatuanuku (earth mother). which humans live much closer to nature, Valley where I live has no real guts to vaccinated travellers but we are From them emerged the various atua utilising knowledge far more resembling it. The road through the Whareratas simply not in a position for a full (gods). that of indigenous communities than the is the same. reopen just yet,” she said. On page 24, under “Animals in a modern science and technology that have I believe that the Rail Action Group, The continuing outbreak in catchment – Teacher notes” one reads: brought so much short-term benefit but supported by the GDC, have always Australia where the ACT has now “Tanemahuta and Tangaroa are the long-term threat. misled the people of Gisborne. children of Ranginui and Papatuanuku. If there are any historians in the This rail link doesn’t need people gone into lockdown and cases Tanemahuta is the atua of the forest. soaring in New South Wales, surely future, they will probably consider fossil power or politicians listening, it just He created the plants and animals that fuels and the high-tech science as a needed some common sense years ago. means the end of the travel bubble inhabit the forest (including humans).” for the foreseeable future. Faustian Bargain. If this were part of a social studies MERV GOODLEY The new strategy is not without MARTIN HANSON risk. Covid response minister Chris [email protected] Hipkins has warned that even one case of the Delta variant will see ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. strict lockdowns and there are ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. doubts about how self isolation will ■ Always include full name and contact details. actually work. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 WORLD 13 ‘Multiple fatalities’ in Indian launch Plymouth shooting of observation LONDON — Police in affected. Plymouth have confirmed a “I have spoken to the Chief satellite fails “number of fatalities” in a Constable and offered my full “serious firearms incident”. support. Devon and Cornwall “I urge everyone to remain to reach orbit Police were called to Biddick calm, follow police advice and Drive in the Keyham area allow our emergency services NEW DELHI — An Indian rocket on Thursday evening (local to get on with their jobs.” failed in its attempt on Thursday to put time). Eyewitness Sharron, who a satellite into orbit to provide real- The force said: “There have lives near Biddick Drive and time images used to monitor cyclones been a number of fatalities did not want to give her full and other potential natural disasters. at the scene and several name, said what happened A technical fault occurred in the other casualties are receiving was “horrendous and so sad”. third and final ignition stage shortly treatment.” “Firstly, there was shouting, after the rocket was launched from UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT: This picture shows Geosynchronous Plymouth Moor View MP followed by gunshots — three the space centre in Sriharikota in Satellite Launch Vehicle carrying EOS-03, an Earth Observation Johnny Mercer tweeted it was possibly four to begin with,” southern India, the country’s space satellite, taking off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in “not terror related” and the she said. agency said. Sriharikota, India on Thursday. Picture supplied by ISRO via AP suspect was not on the run. “This was when the shooter The satellite was to be Police declared a critical kicked in the door of a geostationary, meaning it would which would keep it in orbit. It will technologies that are helping incident but said they house and randomly started orbit in sync with the Earth and fall back to Earth sometime soon. solve everyday problems at home, believed it had now been shooting . . . He ran from the remain over a fixed position. It would Tracking will tell that later,” said from forecasting fish migration to contained. house shooting as he ran and provide images of cloud bursts and Pallava Bagla, an outside expert. predicting storms and floods. Officers appealed to the proceeded to shoot at a few thunderstorms and obtain data for This was the fourth failure of 14 The government has set a deadline public not to speculate or people in the linear park up agriculture, forestry and marine rocket launches of a geostationary of 2022 for India’s first manned share pictures of the scene from the drive.” purposes. platform since 2001, the Economic spaceflight. on social media or anywhere Johnny Mercer, one of the The space agency did not disclose Times newspaper said. In 2019, India sent a spacecraft to else. city’s lawmakers, said in a what would happen to the rocket and India has an ambitious space explore water deposits on the far side Home secretary Priti Patel tweet the incident is “not satellite after the ignition failure. programme with decades of research of the moon but couldn’t successfully tweeted, “The incident in terror related, and neither “Since the third stage has not allowing it to develop satellite, land the vessel on the lunar surface. Plymouth is shocking and is the suspect on the run in ignited, it has not attained the velocity communications and remote sensing — AP my thoughts are with those Plymouth.”— BBC/AP Taliban captures Herat, Kandahar US, UK sends troops to Kabul to evacuate embassy staff, nationals

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban with the golden dome of a mosque near captured two major Afghan cities, the the governor’s office visible behind them, country’s second- and third-largest after yelling: “God is great!” The insurgents, Kabul, and a strategic provincial capital cradling their rifles, later gathered at on Thursday, further squeezing the one roundabout for an impromptu speech embattled government just weeks before by a commander. One militant carried a the end of the American military mission rocket-propelled grenade launcher. there. Ghazni provincial council member The seizure of Kandahar and Amanullah Kamrani alleged that the Herat marks the biggest prizes yet provincial governor and police chief for the Taliban, who have taken 12 of made a deal with the Taliban to flee after Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals as surrendering. Taliban video and photos part of a weeklong blitz. purported to show the governor’s convoy The capture of the city of Ghazni, freely passing by insurgents as part of meanwhile, cuts off a crucial highway the deal. linking the Afghan capital with the Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman country’s southern provinces, which Mirwais Stanekzai later said the similarly find themselves under assault governor and his deputies had been as part of an insurgent push some 20 arrested over that alleged deal. The years after US and NATO troops invaded officials could not be immediately reached and ousted the Taliban government. for comment. While Kabul itself isn’t directly under Stanekzai also acknowledged in a video threat yet, the losses and the battles message that parts of Ghanzi had fallen, elsewhere further tighten the grip of a though he insisted government security resurgent Taliban, who are estimated BRUTAL RULE: Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, forces “do exist” in the city. to now hold over two-thirds of the Afghanistan on Thursday. AP picture The loss of Ghazni — which sits along country and are continuing to pressure the Kabul-Kandahar Highway — could government forces in several other few other cities in the coming days if the Taliban fighters broke through the city’s complicate resupply and movement for provincial capitals. Taliban keep up their momentum. defensive lines and later said they were government forces, as well as squeeze the With security rapidly deteriorating, the The onslaught represents a stunning in control. capital from the south. United States planned to send in 3000 collapse of Afghan forces and renews Afghan lawmaker Semin Barekzai Already, the Taliban’s weeklong blitz troops to help evacuate some personnel questions about where the over $830 also acknowledged the city’s fall, saying has seen the militants seize nine other from the US Embassy in Kabul. Pentagon billion spent by the US Defence that some officials there had escaped. provincial capitals around the country. spokesman John Kirby said one Army Department on fighting, training those Witnesses described seeing Taliban Many are in the country’s northeast and two Marine infantry battalions troops, and reconstruction efforts went fighters once-detained at Herat’s prison corner, pressuring Kabul from that will enter Afghanistan within the next — especially as Taliban fighters ride on now freely moving on the streets. direction as well. two days to assist at the Kabul airport American-made Humvees and pickup It wasn’t immediately clear what In southern Afghanistan, the Taliban’s with the partial embassy evacuation. trucks with M-16s slung across their happened to Khan, who earlier had been heartland, heavy fighting continued Separately, Britain said about 600 troops shoulders. described as under attack with his forces in Lashkar Gah, where surrounded would be deployed on a short-term basis Afghan security forces and the at a government building. government forces hoped to hold onto the to support British nationals leaving the government have not responded to In Kandahar, the Taliban seized the capital of Helmand province. country. repeated questions from journalists over governor’s office and other buildings, With the Afghan air power limited and Thousands of Afghans have fled their the days of fighting, instead issuing video witnesses said. The governor and other in disarray, the US Air Force is believed homes amid fears the Taliban will again communiques that downplay the Taliban officials fled the onslaught, catching a to be carrying out strikes. Aviation impose a brutal, repressive government, advance. flight to Kabul, the witnesses added. tracking data suggested US Air Force all but eliminating women’s rights and In Herat, Taliban fighters rushed past They declined to be named publicly as B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets, drones conducting public amputations, stonings the Great Mosque in the historic city the defeat has yet to be acknowledged by and other aircraft were involved in the and executions. Peace talks in Qatar — which dates to 500 BC and was once the government. fighting across the country, according to remain stalled, though diplomats met a spoil of Alexander the Great — and The Taliban had earlier attacked a Australia-based security firm The Cavell throughout the day. seized government buildings. Witnesses prison in Kandahar and freed inmates Group. The latest US military intelligence described hearing sporadic gunfire at one inside, officials said. US Air Force Major Nicole Ferrara, assessment suggests Kabul could come government building while the rest of Earlier on Thursday, the militants a Central Command spokeswoman, under insurgent pressure within 30 the city fell silent under the insurgents’ raised their white flags imprinted with acknowledged that American forces “have days and that, if current trends hold, control. an Islamic proclamation of faith over conducted several airstrikes in defence the Taliban could gain full control of the Herat had been under militant attack the city of Ghazni, just 130 kilometres of our Afghan partners in recent days.” country within a few months. The Afghan for two weeks, with one wave blunted by southwest of Kabul. However, she declined to offer any details government may eventually be forced to the arrival of warlord Ismail Khan and Fighters crowded onto one seized on the attacks or to discuss the Afghan pull back to defend the capital and just a his forces. But on Thursday afternoon, Humvee and drove down a main road, complaints of civilian casualties. — AP 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 Snap lockdown for Australian capital GLOBAL BRIEFS

CANBERRA — The Australian Capital Nurse suspected of jab swap Territory will be plunged into a seven- WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — Authorities day lockdown following confirmation in north Germany have asked more than 8000 of a coronavirus case infectious in the people to get repeat Covid-19 vaccinations community. because a nurse is suspected of having injected From 5pm (local time) yesterday, saline instead of vaccine in many cases. Canberrans are allowed to leave their Police are investigating the nurse’s actions at homes only for essential reasons, a vaccination centre in Friesland, near the North including essential employment, Sea coast. healthcare, essential groceries and Initially just six people were believed to have supplies and up to one hour of outdoor received the harmless salt solution in March and exercise. April. The lockdown follows a case being out Many of those affected were aged over 70 — a and about while infectious. The source of high-risk group in the pandemic. the infection remains unknown. Inspector Peter Beer, quoted by Süddeutsche Covid-19 has also been detected in Zeitung, said the 40-year-old woman had been wastewater. sharing “corona-critical information” on social Masks will be mandatory, general retail media, criticising the Government’s restrictions will shut and hospitality venues will only aimed at curbing the virus’s spread. be able to operate takeaway services. In April the nurse had admitted giving saline “We have said throughout the outbreak to six people to cover up the fact that she had in Greater Sydney that we would act dropped a vaccine vial on the floor. quickly and decisively,” Chief Minister But as the police investigation unfolded it Andrew Barr said. became clear that many more people had been “We have seen that a short and given saline instead of the Pfizer/BioNTech immediate lockdown limits the potential vaccine. spread of the virus, and is the best path PANIC BUYING: Canberrans stocked up yesterday after it was announced ACT Police are not ruling out that a political motive to avoiding longer and more damaging would be going into a snap seven-day lockdown. AAP picture could have prompted the nurse’s action, although lockdowns.” her lawyers have rejected that. — BBC Canberra’s lockdown follows the spread Wednesday announced for the Dubbo, The ACT had remained largely of cases into western and northwest Bogan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Coonamble, untouched by the virus since its last Vaccine sent to Caribbean NSW. Gilgandra, Narromine, Walgett and locally acquired case in July last year. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The US government Stay-at-home orders were on Warren local government areas. — AAP said that it will deliver nearly 837,000 Pfizer vaccines to Caribbean nations as the region with limited resources struggles with a spike in Covid- 19 cases amid anti-vaccine protests. The Bahamas will receive 397,000 doses Lab leak not ruled out followed by Trinidad and Tobago with more than 305,000 doses. Barbados will receive 70,200 doses, while 35,100 are slated for St Vincent and LONDON — When a World Health a fringe theory promoted by the Chinese been more intense,” Ben Embarek said. the Grenadines, 17,550 for Antigua and 11,700 for Organisation-led team travelled to government that the virus may have been Scientists have previously thought St Kitts and Nevis. China earlier this year to investigate the spread via frozen seafood packaging. that because many of the earliest known The announcement was made the same day origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, a top In recent weeks, however, WHO chief human cases at Wuhan’s Huanan market that Dr Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan official said he was worried about safety Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has appeared to have no prior connection American Health Organisation, urged those in the standards at a laboratory close to the acknowledged it was “premature” to rule to each other, the market might have Caribbean to get vaccinated and follow public seafood market where the first human out a possible lab leak as the source of simply been the place where cases were health measures, warning that small islands have cases were detected. Covid-19, saying last month that he was amplified, not where the virus first limited expertise and capacity. — AP The Wuhan branch of the Chinese asking China to be more transparent breached the species barrier. Centre for Disease Control and about the early days of the pandemic. The Danish documentary also featured Army to stop invasive tests Prevention was handling coronaviruses “I was a lab technician myself. I’m an Ben Embarek expressing his worries in JAKARTA, Indonesia — Human rights groups “without potentially having the same immunologist and I have worked in the January about the Wuhan branch of the welcomed Indonesia’s decision to stop abusive level of expertise or safety or who lab and lab accidents happen,” Tedros Chinese CDC, concerns that have never “virginity tests” on female army recruits seven knows”, Peter Ben Embarek said during said. “It’s common.” been publicly disclosed by WHO. years after the World Health Organisation a conference call in January, according In the Danish TV2 documentary, the While numerous experts have declared they had no scientific validity. to footage shown by Danish television WHO’s Ben Embarek is pictured arriving questioned whether there might have Army Chief of Staff General Andika Perkasa channel TV2. in China, inspecting the stalls at the been a lab accident at the Wuhan said the army will no longer subject women to Ben Embarek is a WHO expert on Huanan seafood market in Wuhan and Institute of Virology — where scientists invasive tests in which the inspectors used their disease transmission from animals to examining what he hypothesises might were studying coronaviruses — there fingers to assess whether the hymen was intact. humans and one of the team’s leaders have been living quarters for people who has been less interest in another nearby He said applicants should only be assessed on But months later, when WHO released handled live animals there — raising facility. their ability to take part in physical training. its dense report on its mission to Wuhan, the possibility that the virus may have “What is more concerning to me is the The military would also emphasise whether the UN health agency concluded that jumped from animals to people at the other lab,” Ben Embarek said. “The one they have colour blindness and the condition a leak of the virus from the lab was market. that is next to the market,” he explained, of their spines and hearts to ensure they are “extremely unlikely” to have caused “It would mean that the contact referring to the Wuhan branch of the healthy and will not encounter life-threatening Covid-19. between the human beings and whatever Chinese CDC, located just 500 metres medical issues. — AP The WHO report even lent credence to may have been in the market would have away from the Huanan market. — AP Biden eyes tougher vaccine rules without provoking backlash

WASHINGTON — When the powers to pressure Americans to nomination, disagree and warn pace of vaccinations in the US get vaccinated. of federal overreaching into first began to slow, President He’s held off, for instance, on decisions that should be left to Joe Biden backed incentives like proposals to require vaccinations individuals. million-dollar cash lotteries if for all air travellers or, for that Biden and Governor Ron that’s what it took to get shots matter, the federal work force. DeSantis of Florida, an in arms. But as new coronavirus The result is a precarious epicentre of the latest virus infections soar, he’s testing a balancing act as Biden works to wave, have spent weeks tougher approach. make life more uncomfortable feuding over the proper role In just the past two weeks, for the unvaccinated without of government during a public Biden has forced millions of spurring a backlash in a deeply health crisis. federal workers to attest to polarised country that would There is notable support for their vaccination status or face only undermine his public vaccine mandates. According to onerous new requirements. He health goals. a recent poll from the Kaiser has met with business leaders Vaccine mandates are Family Foundation, 51 percent at the White House to press “the right lever at the right of Americans say the federal them to do the same. time”, said Ben Wakana, the government should recommend Meanwhile, the deputy director of strategic that employers require their administration has taken steps communications and workers to get vaccinated, while toward mandating shots for engagement for the White House 45 percent say it should not. people travelling into the US Covid-19 response, noting the For now, Biden has required from overseas. And the White SAFETY COMES FIRST: US schools are pushing back as some public’s increasing confidence most federal workers to attest House is weighing options to be governors forbid mask mandates. AP picture in the vaccines and adding to their vaccination status more assertive at the state and that it marks a new phase in under potential criminal local level, including potential superintendents, educators, local heroes like you, and I stand with the Government’s campaign penalties, with those who have support for school districts leaders, who are standing up to you all, and America should as to encourage Americans to get not received a dose required imposing rules to prevent spread the governors politicising mask well.” shots. to social-distance, test weekly of the virus over the objection of protection for our kids, thank But even as Biden becomes Many Republicans, for the virus and face other Republican leaders. you,” Biden said on Thursday. more aggressive, he has particularly those eyeing potential restrictions on their “To the mayors, school “Thank God that we have refrained from using all of his the party’s 2024 presidential work. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 WORLD 15 Hamas rocket fire ‘a war crime’

JERUSALEM — A prominent the conflicts, and HRW said both parties international human rights group on have “a long track record of failing to Thursday accused Hamas of committing investigate” alleged violations. war crimes during a recent 11-day The International Criminal Court is conflict with Israel by indiscriminately investigating possible war crimes by Israel firing thousands of rockets toward Israeli and Hamas in Gaza. Goldstein has urged population centres. the ICC to include Palestinian rocket In its report, Human Rights Watch attacks and Israeli airstrikes during also said it had concluded that a misfired the most recent Gaza war in its ongoing rocket launched by Hamas killed seven investigation. “The failure of both Hamas Palestinians when it fell short in the Gaza authorities and the Israeli government Strip. In a separate development, a UN to provide accountability for alleged agency said it had uncovered militant war crimes by their forces highlights tunnels near one of its facilities and that the essential role of the International Hamas had taken over one of its schools, Criminal Court,” Goldstein said. undermining the agency’s neutrality. Israel does not recognise the court’s The New York-based rights group has jurisdiction and says it is capable of repeatedly come under fire by Israel and investigating any possible wrongdoing by its supporters over reports accusing Israel its forces. It says the ICC probe is unfair of war crimes against the Palestinians and politically motivated. Israel blames as well as apartheid and persecution. VIOLATING LAWS: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel in Gaza Hamas for the high civilian casualty But in this report it agreed with most City. Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that the thousands of rockets fired by the count in Gaza, accusing the group of using legal experts — and Israel itself — Palestinian militant group Hamas during the 11-day war with Israel in May “violated civilians as human shields by launching that indiscriminate rocket fire from the laws of war and amount to war crimes”. AP picture attacks and military activity from Palestinian population centres directed residential areas. at Israeli civilian areas is a violation of protests against Israel’s heavy-handed directed toward areas with civilians,” the This week, the UN agency for international law. policing at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque report said. “Launching such rockets to Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said it “Palestinian armed groups during compound and the threatened eviction of attack civilian areas is a war crime.” had discovered “underground structures,” the May fighting flagrantly violated the dozens of Palestinian families from their Human Rights Watch concluded that including tunnels near UN facilities in laws-of-war prohibition on indiscriminate homes by Jewish settlers in a nearby a Hamas rocket fired on May 10 killed Gaza. It said it condemned the existence attacks by launching thousands of neighbourhood. seven people, including two children, in of these tunnels “in the strongest possible unguided rockets towards Israeli cities,” Israel has said it struck over 1000 the Gaza Strip city of Jabaliya. It said the terms” and sent protest letters to Hamas Human Rights Watch acting Middle East targets in the Gaza Strip during the number of Palestinians killed by errant officials. “The agency has also protested and North Africa director Eric Goldstein fighting, while Hamas launched more Hamas fire might be higher. the takeover by the de facto authorities said. than 4300 rockets and mortar rounds The Israeli military has claimed of one of these schools, which undermines It based its conclusions on an at Israel, including barrages directed at another incident on May 10, in which the inviolability and neutrality of UNRWA investigation into Hamas rocket attacks major population centres around Tel Aviv eight Palestinian civilians died in an premises,” it said. that killed 12 civilians in Israel. and Jerusalem. explosion in the northern Gaza town of In Gaza, Hamas issued an angry Last month the group issued a report In all, some 254 people were killed in Beit Hanoun, was the result of a misfired reaction to the HRW report, calling it “an that accused the Israeli military of Gaza, including at least 67 children and Hamas rocket. Human Rights Watch said injustice to our people.” carrying out attacks during the conflict 39 women, according to the Gaza Health in its earlier report that the explosion “The only beneficiary of such a report is that “apparently amount to war crimes” Ministry. Hamas has acknowledged the appeared to have been caused by an the Israeli occupation, because it equated after investigating three Israeli airstrikes deaths of 80 militants, while Israel has Israeli missile. the victim with the real criminal, while that it said killed 62 Palestinian civilians. claimed the number is much higher. The May conflict was the fourth war our Palestinian people are exercising their The group said there were no clear Twelve civilians, including two children, between Israel and Hamas since the legitimate right to resist the occupation,” military targets in the airstrikes and said were killed in Israel, along with one Islamic militant group seized control of it said. Israel had not taken sufficient precautions soldier. “The rockets and mortars that Gaza in 2007, a year after winning the But Goldstein said, “Hamas authorities to avoid civilian casualties. Palestinian armed groups fired lack Palestinian parliamentary elections. should stop trying to justify unlawful The war erupted on May 10 after guidance systems and are prone to misfire, Human Rights Watch, other rights rocket attacks that indiscriminately kill Hamas fired a barrage of rockets toward making them extremely inaccurate and groups and UN officials have accused both and injure civilians by pointing to Israel’s Jerusalem in support of Palestinian thus inherently indiscriminate when sides of committing war crimes in all of violations.” — AP Japan mayor Investigators probe Black Sea oil spill MOSCOW — Russia’s top criminal Russian scientists said on Wednesday after Bolshoy Utrish, 25 kilometres to the west, where investigation agency on Thursday probed an studying satellite images that it actually covered workers urgently put up barriers to protect the apologises for oil spill off the country’s Black Sea coast that nearly 80 square kilometres. mammals. The spill’s oily film was also spotted appeared hugely bigger than initially reported. The Investigative Committee, the country’s in the resort city of Anapa, further west down The spill occurred over the weekend at the oil top criminal investigation agency, said on the coast. biting athlete’s terminal in Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka near the port Thursday it was conducting a probe on charges Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of the of Novorossiysk that belongs to the Caspian of inflicting significant damage to marine Krasnodar region, sought to downplay the Pipeline Consortium, which pumps crude from biological resources. The committee said it impact of the spill, saying that he and other gold medal Kazakhstan. The oil spilled while being pumped performed searches at the Caspian Pipeline officials flew over the area in a helicopter and into the Minerva Symphony tanker, which sails Consortium and inspected the area for damage. saw no trace of it at sea. TOKYO — A Japanese mayor apologised on under the Greek flag. Russian media said traces of oil were spotted “Quick measures were taken to eliminate the Thursday for biting the Olympic gold medal of Authorities initially estimated that the spill along the scenic Black Sea coast, including consequences,” Kondratyev said, according to a softball player who had paid a courtesy visit covered only about 200 square metres, but Abrau-Dyurso and a dolphin aquarium in the Interfax news agency. — AP after Japan beat the United States in the final. Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura had praised pitcher Miu Goto during the visit on August 4, but his eyes were glued to her medal. Helicopter crashes in east Russia, 8 missing He asked her to put it around his neck. Kawamura then pulled down his face mask and MOSCOW — A helicopter carrying tourists bit into it. plunged into a deep volcanic crater lake on the RESCUE “I’m really sorry that I hurt the treasure of Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia early EFFORTS: the gold medallist,” Kawamura told reporters on Thursday, leaving eight people missing and Emergency Thursday. feared dead. personnel The mayor said the medal was undamaged, The Mi-8 helicopter crashed and sank in Kurile work near the though he offered to pay for the cost of a new Lake, which was formed in a volcano caldera site where one. and crater and is located in the Kronotsky a helicopter Goto, however, has accepted the International nature reserve. Another eight people who are carrying tourists Olympic Committee’s offer of a replacement, known to have survived had to swim about 9 crashed at according to Japanese media reports. metres up to the lake’s surface from the sinking Kurile Lake in The medal bite has become a staple of helicopter in water that was 5-6 degrees Celsius, Russia. Olympic photo-ops — but for the winners spokespeople for the reserve said. Picture supplied themselves, not others. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said 13 tourists via AP The scene broadcast on television prompted and three crew members were aboard the thousands of complaints to city hall. Some helicopter when it crashed in deep fog. Rangers Olympians said they treat their medals as in the nature reserve heard the helicopter flying trapped in the sunken helicopter and died. of the lake. treasures and that it was outrageous for low over the lake and then the sound of it hitting One of the survivors, Viktor Strelkin, said The helicopter, manufactured during the Soviet Kawamura to bite one. the surface and immediately rushed in boats he had been asleep on the helicopter when a era 37 years ago, was operated by Vityaz-Aero, “I would cry if that happened to me,” Naohisa to the crash site, reaching it minutes after the stream of water hitting his face woke him. After a local private carrier. Its director said it had Takato, who won gold for Japan in judo, said in helicopter sank. unfastening his safety belt, he was thrown to the recently undergone maintenance and was in a tweet. “I handle my own gold medal so gently Two of the eight survivors were badly injured top of the helicopter, where an air bubble allowed good shape. not to scratch it.” and have been taken to the intensive care unit at him to take a breath before he escaped through a Regional prosecutors were investigating a Yuki Ota, a silver-medal winning fencer, said a local hospital, officials said. broken cockpit window. possible violation of flight safety rules. The area the mayor’s action was disrespectful to athletes Rescue teams rummaged the lake until dark The Emergencies Ministry said that the sunk where the crash occurred can only be reached and was a bad idea for Covid measures. — AP and were set to resume the search this morning, helicopter was found lying at a depth of 137 by helicopters, and fog complicated rescue but officials said the missing people likely got metres, about 700 metres away from the shore efforts. — AP 16 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 Woman accused The top five consumer of selling multitool 47 times in just complaints revealed under two weeks

Gemma Rasmussen from 2. Dodgy ticket resellers MASTERTON — A Masterton woman has Consumer NZ has revealed been arrested after selling a multitool on the the top five complaints that Consumer NZ heard about Facebook marketplace 47 times over a 13-day come their way from the New this issue a lot, as often people period. Zealand public — including did not realise they were Police received a report from a member of winter-specific, suburban purchasing their ticket from a the public who purchased a multitool on the gripes. ticket reseller, Ms Rasmussen marketplace for $95, but then never received said. the item, Wairarapa prevention manager Senior International ticket-selling Sergeant Ian Osland said. 1. Supermarket prices operations were tremendously An investigation into the woman’s bank savvy at search engine statements found payments from 47 people. Everyday low prices, multi- optimisation (SEO) — i.e. “Police were particularly concerned over the buys, loyalty rewards . . . getting on top of the list of number of people who fell victim to the scam Whenever you walk into a search results, and since the and did not report it to police,” Sen Sgt Osland New Zealand supermarket Covid pandemic started, they said. these days, it can seem as if had been targeting Kiwis. People were embarrassed they had been there are deals and specials “Because who can go to deceived, but police would take any report everywhere, but we are still concerts, who can do these ELECTRICAL ITEMS A LET DOWN: Above, a washing seriously, he added. paying too much for our things? Not a lot of people machine breaks down. Consumers feel that electrical products This type of scam was not limited to groceries, Ms Rasmussen says. around the world — apart from are not built to last anymore. File picture multitools but also cellphones, vehicles, New Zealand’s supermarket Kiwis.” electronics and other goods, he said. ‘duopoly’ is what is driving the airline should at least extent inform people about that. The 32-year-old woman was charged and high prices. Red flags: the hardship provision. If “Manufacturers should be was on bail. She would appear in Masterton But if the two supermarkets ■ Is this the official ticket someone doesn’t want to travel responsible for things after District Court on Thursday, August 19, in were competing adequately seller for the event? right now, just give them a they leave the shop floor.” relation to the online offending and also in between themselves, then we ■ Are they using pressure refund.” relation to shoplifting offences. would see prices go down, Ms tactics, such as a clock counting 5. Neighbours’ chimney smoke Police were meanwhile urging people to Rasmussen said. down? 4. Appliances not built to last and noisy heat pumps purchase from legitimate online stores or “The Commerce Commission ■ Are they asking you to pay regulated websites, such as TradeMe. findings have solidified our in NZ dollars — or in another When an electrical product Neighbourhood disputes They recommended taking precautions suspicions that we’re paying currency? breaks down within its were not uncommon, but when buying online, such as the following: simply too much.” warranty period, consumers chimney smoke and noisy heat ■ Insist on meeting to conduct transactions While 74 percent of 3. Airfare refunds often go back to the shop and pumps were top of the list of and examine the item before completing the New Zealanders suspected they can then receive a brand neighbourhood complaints in transaction. supermarket “specials” were There was a huge surge new one. this country during winter. ■ Meet in a public place, and take a friend. not genuine (a Consumer NZ in complaints about airline The problem with that was “If a neighbour’s heat pump ■ Do not go into someone’s house or allow study found), the supermarkets refunds when Covid first hit, that the old one, which was is really noisy, talk to them them into yours, and do not deposit money know shoppers would still go but those complaints had not even that old, ended up in first,” Ms Rasmussen said. into another person’s account. for them, Ms Rasmussen said. dropped off now. However, landfill, Ms Rasmussen said. You could also “gently ■ Learn more about the person you are “I think when you walk into Consumer NZ still did not It was often cheaper for suggest” vibration-absorbing buying from or selling to. the supermarket, you have agree with Air New Zealand businesses to replace rather mats that can absorb some of ■ Ensure friends and family, especially decision fatigue. And how can holding on to people’s money than to repair products. the sound from a heat pump. anyone vulnerable, understand what to do everyday New Zealanders be rather than refunding them. Consumer NZ is working In the worst-case scenario to protect themselves and be the person to reasonably expected to cut “We think Air New Zealand to shift the public focus from though, “you can take these provide that ongoing support and advice. through these greenwashing needs to extend its existing performance and cost to types of complaints to the ■ Trust your instincts — if it seems too campaigns and marketing and hardship policy . . . if people whether a product would last Disputes Tribunal — or your good to be true or sounds like a scam, it advertising — you really have want a refund, we think they and if it was repairable. district council.” probably is. — RNZ to think about it.” should get a refund or the “We want to be able to — RNZ Rare Jean Batten portrait found Aggravated robbery at dairy in Napier foiled after three decades in storage by use of fog cannon AUCKLAND — A The painting portrays rare painting of New Batten just on the NAPIER — A Napier dairy were typically priced at around Zealander Jean Batten cusp of her significant owner scared away a trio of $4000, helping to bring the cost portrays the aviator on South Atlantic flight would-be robbers, one of them down to just $250. the cusp of one of her in November 1935 and armed, by activating a fog Police assessed whether a most significant flights. after her flight from cannon. certain premises was eligible The famed aviator England to Australia in Three people entered the for a fog cannon subsidy, based made record-breaking 1934. dairy on Ellison Street just on the frequency of crime solo flights across the “This is her at 26 after 8pm on Monday night — occurring at that address and world in the 1930s, years old, looking one of whom was armed. in the area, Sen Sgt Saunders and she was called the confident and about to The store owner explained. “Garbo of the Skies” embark on the next two activated the fog Any further or Hine-o-te-Rangi big flights that would cannon and the maintenance (Daughter of the Skies). really make her (a offenders left the Three people costs were the National Bank household name).” premises without entered the dairy responsibility originally bought It was not obvious taking anything, on Ellison Street of the business the portrait in the that Batten was an fleeing in a dark receiving the 1970s and it was aviator in the painting, blue Mazda just after 8pm on device. put into the ANZ something that Demio, which was Monday night — To date, bank archives when Wetherill said made it located a short one of whom was police had the banks merged, unique. time later on armed. distributed 912 Museum of Transport “There’s nothing that Mason Avenue. fog cannons to and Technology indicates anything to Hawke’s Bay at-risk premises (MOTAT’s) library do with aviation in the Area Response nationwide, and and archive manager, background — even in Manager Senior Sergeant had a further 88 remaining. Simon Wetherill, told the clothing that she’s Neale Saunders said the Police along with the RNZ’s Morning Report wearing. It really is situation could have been a lot vendor, Focus Digital Security yesterday. quite a striking portrait worse for the store. Solutions, would make contact “As can happen, it of this confident young Sen Sgt Saunders said there with eligible businesses in due was forgotten about.” women.” were currently 30 fog cannons course. Upon discovery, it Where the painting installed at commercial Members of the public needed to be reframed was held before it PORTRAIT FORGOTTEN ABOUT, UNTIL NOW: premises throughout the with more information about and had “a bit of a came into the hands The rare Jean Batten portrait was found in the Eastern District. Monday night’s attempted clean up”, but it was of National Bank ANZ archives. Picture supplied by ANZ The Aggravated Robbery robbery were asked to contact in remarkably good remained a mystery. Initiative enabled police to Police by calling 105 and quote condition, Mr Wetherill The portrait is on provide subsidies for the the file number 210810/9371. said. display at the Walsh Memorial Library at MOTAT. — RNZ purchase of fog cannons, which – RNZ The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 17 Calls for parents Concern over asbestos to receive ACC payouts if their exposure during jail riot children get hurt by Charlotte Cook, RNZ WAIKERIA — The risk of by Dan Satherley, asbestos inhalation during the Newshub. Waikeria Prison riot earlier this year may never be known AUCKLAND — The head of because the Department of Starship Hospital wants parents Corrections rushed to clean who have to take time off work to equipment before testing it. look after seriously-injured children Corrections confirmed there to be eligible for ACC. was asbestos in the soon-to- A new study by Dr Michael be-demolished building, but Shepherd and colleagues, published said it was satisfied that the in the New Zealand Medical risk of exposure to both staff Journal today, found that the and inmates would have been economic cost of childhood injuries low. each year added up to $400 million However, the union for — much higher than previous prison officers was not estimates. convinced and said it was “For me, it is a really clear sending an uncleaned kit, message that we need to do more used during the peak of the to prevent the serious components riots, to Australia to be tested. of these injuries, and it has a huge Aerial footage of the jail societal impact,” Dr Shepherd told after the riot showed its The AM Show today. charred remains, and the The research focused on a single roofs had caved in, making it year — 2014 — and found over much too dangerous for staff that 12 months, 257,000 kids were and emergency services to seriously hurt, resulting in 345,000 enter. ASBESTOS EXPOSURE A POSSIBILITY FOR COPS, PRISONERS ALIKE: Police officers, ACC claims. Even now, months later, prison guards and prisoners might have been exposed to asbestos during the January riot at Falls made up 40 percent of them, access inside the building’s Waikeria Prison. RNZ file picture by Dan Cook followed by sports injuries (30 perimeter was rarely percent). permitted, especially as it was is this: ‘what was the level of to asbestos poses a negligible decontaminated and was “Animate mechanical forces” — designated a contaminated asbestos that was on the kits risk of disease. now being sent to Sydney for being hurt by other people and site because of the known first?’” “The duration of the testing. animals — made up 12 percent of presence of asbestos. Mr Whitley said the officers event and the subsequent He said the results of that claims, and 7.6 percent of claims That meant both guards who were involved in the riot access of the top jail would testing might prove there were made due to “inanimate and prisoners might have were angry and worried about be considered a short-term was nothing to worry about, mechanical forces” — machinery- been exposed to it during the the risk of exposure. exposure, and the face but the exposure possibility related accidents and explosions. January riot. They were in the thick of masks provided would have should have been ruled The rest of the claims included Following the six days of the smoke for many hours. adequately protected our out much earlier by the vehicle accidents (which made up fire and damage, Corrections “It’s not just breathing it staff.” Department of Corrections. nearly half the 34 childhood deaths was concerned about potential in (that is the concern), our It said testing of the kits National’s Corrections to injury that year), fire and heat, exposure, and asked the members would have been (admittedly after they had spokesperson, Simeon Brown, swallowing objects, water-related officers to have their kits handling their kits. They were been decontaminated) showed said the whole situation was incidents and “other” accidents. cleaned and decontaminated. also eating (while they were no asbestos was present. unacceptable. The researchers said 200 “full Corrections Association handling their kits) because Around 200 inmates were “Corrections has admitted lives in perfect health” were lost president Alan Whitley they were there (at the scene) in the area at the time of that there is certainly to injury that year thanks to said that was a problem — for days on end. the riot and had to be moved asbestos in the building. preventable childhood injuries. because now they had no idea “So, it’s not just about what away from the danger. “And, so, with a fire which Maori kids were 3.4 times more what the levels of exposure they were breathing in, it’s Corrections said they had was ongoing for six days due likely to die from unintentional could have been. about what was on their vests all been told the potential risk to the rioting, it would have injuries than Pakeha. “Instead of getting the and their uniform that they was extremely low and were made absolute perfect sense “I don’t think we know enough equipment tested to get a were touching and then also able to see health services if to actually just test to work about that,” said Dr Shepherd. baseline to see what was on touching food and drink as they had concerns. out what level of exposure or “What is clear is that it is a it, all they have chosen to do well as their faces.” “Given the low (level of) potential level of exposure real problem — it speaks to the is to clean it, (and now they However the Department risk (involved), we did not was to those involved so inequities within our system . . . have) got rid of any evidence of Corrections said expert carry out any testing of that they could get the right “As a society, it speaks to the fact that was on it. advisers told them there was clothing or require medical support if needed.” we have not fulfilled our obligations “They’ve got a couple of a negligible risk of disease for checks.” WorkSafe confirmed to from a Tiriti o Waitangi perspective, articles tested to show that inmates and prison officers. Mr Whitley said he had one RNZ it had also not been and I think we need to do a whole the cleaning worked. But “We have been advised that vest worn during the peak of made aware of any potential lot of work to understand that, to what we’re concerned about short-term, low-level exposure the riot, which had not been exposure. work with Maori to understand that and to prevent that.” The study found that while the direct cost to ACC was $200m, the Beervana aims to delight the beer-curious researchers added another $29m in lost lifetime earnings for those who were killed, and $170m in lost WELLINGTON — A two-day weekend. productivity. celebration of beer is returning But it is not only a festival for Dr Shepherd said that, again, to the capital, on what could end beer enthusiasts — with more than Maori whanau were hardest hit, as up being “the biggest culinary 80 breweries on offer. they were more likely to be working weekend in the country” all year. Mr McArthur said their aim was in jobs with lower amounts of sick As Beervana kicks off, on a also to delight and convert the leave, or in casual work where weekend that overlaps Dine, Burger “beer-curious”. taking time off meant losing their and Cocktail Wellington, punters “This is a place where your ideas incomes altogether. will have their pick of the capital’s of what beer actually is can really Adults who got hurt and had to best offerings in food and drink. be challenged. take time off work could get up to Beervana manager, Ryan “And we also have a lot of cider 80 percent of their incomes paid for McArthur, said their post-2020 and mead . . . there’s some wine as through ACC, and that was topped return would be a milestone year well . . . and the food is of a very up to 100 percent by ACC if they and the biggest festival they had high standard. could work some reduced hours and put on in a long time. “Even if you turned up and you get paid by their employer. “We’ve been aiming to get were still not convinced about beer, “When you are from a whanau Beervana to the central weekend in you’re going to find something and your child breaks their arm August for quite a while,” he said. there for you (that you will enjoy).” CHEERS!: Beervana is falling on Wellington’s biggest and you have to take four days off “If you’re going to come to In its 20th year, Beervana weekend in the culinary calender this year. Picture supplied work, I think you should be paid for Wellington from anywhere in NZ, would also be hosting a number that by ACC — just like if you’re an or if you live in Wellington, it’s the of milestone birthdays, with There would also be some new Mr McArthur said they aimed for adult and you break your arm,” said best weekend for beer, food and Wellington breweries Parrotdog faces at the festival, including the festival to surprise its visitors. Dr Shepherd. drinks.” and Garage Project turning 10, Cowabunga Brewing, who were “We try to make it the premier “At the moment, they are not, and Running across four sessions in Renaissance brewery (Blenheim) coming down from Auckland, and celebration of the brewing industry that creates worse inequities within two days, the beer festival aims to celebrating its 15th anniversary and Derelict Brewing from Christchurch and its creativity, and we also aim our system.” welcome around 16,000 people this Tuatara (Paraparaumu) turning 21. and Kaikoura exhibiting together. for it to be exciting.” — RNZ 18 TELEVISION The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 FRIDAY—SATURDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 LITERATURE 19 Packed full of interesting dinosaur facts MY FIRST BOOK OF DINOSAUR recognise and understand. elephant. One African bush elephant is COMPARISONS An Apatosaurus could whip its tail heavier than three cars. by Sara Hurst faster than the speed of sound, and a The book also gave comparisons of published by Quarto T-rex could crush a car in one bite. the food habits of these creatures. The book also compared three Two thirds of the dinosaurs were was so excited to get this different blocks of time when the herbivores (plant eaters) and one colourfully illustrated book full of dinosaurs lived — Triassic, Jurassic third were carnivores (meat eaters) or dinosaur facts. and Cretaceous. omnivores (plant and meat eaters). I In the beginning of the book These periods were there millions of There were other facts too. there is a pronunciation guide that years ago. But the dinosaurs were not Dinosaurs were expert hunters as helped me read the book and I did lonely, they used to live, nest and hunt they were smart, powerful and had not have to ask my mum too often for in groups. This helped them to survive. sharp teeth and claws. help to read the difficult names of the Some of the dinosaurs were gigantic The book also had a quiz on different dinosaurs. while others were super cute and small pages to keep me going. The book provided many facts from enough to keep as pets. I finished reading the book in two heights and weight to fossils and funny Some of the dinosaurs, like an days and learned a lot about different features. Argentinosaurus, weighed as much as dinosaurs. It was very interesting and There were lots of comparisons in 12 African bush elephants, while some full of information. — Devansh Ladha, the book with things that I could easily were as heavy as one African bush Room 9, St Mary’s School

Exploration of solitude and desire Squeezed by THE SHUT INS teased by his peers. to take its toll. by Katherine Brabon Mai was one of the few The third story published by Allen & Unwin who understood the tells of Hiromi the ‘grief-vice’ young man’s quirks and her life full of “I think that the other side is with us and the two spent a lot restrictions, secrets BREATHE always, settled over our minds like a of time together. and guilt. She is by Joyce Carol Oates coating of desert sand, a sheet of silk.” When Hikaru turned caught between her published by HarperCollins 18, he disappeared. isolated son and a he Shut Ins by Katherine Almost a decade husband who blames oyce Brabon is a masterful piece of later, Mai bumps into her for Hikaru’s Carol poetic prose that follows four Hikaru’s mother in behaviour. Oates’ Tpeople searching for a sense of a bustling subway The final story Jnovel belonging. station and discovers is told from the is a story of The narrator, an Australian woman the young man has perspective of Hikaru love, loss and travelling in Japan at the height of become a recluse, himself. We learn of loneliness summer, is there to explore a concept unable to leave his his struggles to fit in, that opens her Japanese flatmate introduced her to, bedroom and function his briefly-held jobs, with a wife achiragawa, the other side. in the real world. and his retreat into urging, willing, While in Japan she comes across the This is known as a his room and how begging story of Mai Takeda, a newly married hikikomori, a social he copes there. This her dying woman, with who the exploration recluse. insight into his mind husband to of achiragawa begins and ends. The Hikaru’s mother, almost seems like an breathe. novel weaves through Mai and three Hiromi, hires Mai intrusion to someone “Nothing other characters’ stories, each broken to write letters to who is so desperate matters by the narrator’s notes. Characters her son, something to disappear. except: he are connected through lives that are referred to as a ‘rental The Shut Ins is must not die,” the novel begins. “He must drenched in loneliness and restricted by sister’, in the hope that not like any novel I breathe. He must not stop breathing.” expectations. this will encourage him out of his room have read before. It is thought provoking Written after Oates’ husband, Charlie Mai Takeda is married to J, a hard- and back into society. For a time this is but also fascinating and original. And Gross, died in 2019 and dedicated to him, working businessman. Everyone expects an important, almost secret, other life for as we live in this pandemic era, perhaps Breathe is the highly affecting story of a her to be a traditional and devoted wife, her, but she wants something more. the idea of a hikikomori is not so hard to woman facing the unimaginable loss of her to bear J’s children and satisfy his every Meanwhile Sadako, an unhappy understand. spouse. need. Mai shuns these expectations, hostess at a Tokyo bar, is regularly I would recommend this work to Michaela McManus, the younger second instead preferring to continue working visited by Mai’s husband, who sees in her lovers of literary fiction and slow novels wife of distinguished Harvard science and live a life separate from her the submissive wife he desires. Sadako with sparse plot, or anyone looking to historian Gerard McManus, has relocated husband. acts as an escort or “pretend wife” for understand the concept of achiragawa with him from Cambridge, Massachusetts, In her youth, Mai was close to Hikaru, clients, but it doesn’t take long for the and delve into a culture different from to Santa Tierra, New Mexico, where he has a quiet boy who was often ridiculed and awareness of the false role she is playing their own. — TP an eight-month residency at the Institute for Advanced Research. The couple’s temporary home state is strange and beautiful with its “battalions King enters the mind of a hitman of sculpted clouds” and “dark-bruised El Greco skies that drew the eye helplessly upward”. BILLY SUMMERS The passages where Billy writes his its groove. The surreal quality of the place becomes by Stephen King life story are some of the best in the Before that, it’s heavy on inner a mirror of the uncharted path they are published by Hodder & Stoughton book. monologue as Billy thinks through all thrust upon when Gerard develops a cough King is adept at shifting voices, the possible consequences of his actions and falls ill with a mysterious disease. mong the many remarkable from the “dumb self” narrative voice and the motivations of the people around Within weeks of the couple’s arrival in things about Stephen King is Billy uses in his story, to the killer him. New Mexico, Gerard is hospitalised at the that he has yet to whose brain never stops The plot is straightforward and not Santa Tierra Cancer Centre. Arun out of ideas. wondering who’s trying to really very compelling until about the “In room 771,” Michaela reflects, “it is Or put another way: manipulate him. midway point, when Alice Maxwell wonderful to see how oxygen seeps silently He’s very good at finding “Billy saves what he’s enters the story. into the husband’s nostrils through a new ways to explore written, gets up, and A victim of gang rape, she’s dropped translucent plastic tube. Wonderful to see themes that have staggers a little because out of a slowly-rolling car around the husband is alive and breathing. ” interested him his entire his feet feel like they’re midnight outside the apartment where But Gerard’s condition deteriorates career. in another dimension,” Billy is lying low. quickly and soon he is in hospice. Billy Summers tells writes King. Her story reveals a compassionate After her husband dies, the story of the story of the title “He feels like a man side to Billy and flips a switch in the marital love morphs into a tale of horror as character — his past and emerging from a vivid narrative. She gives him a new purpose Michaela is thrust into a hallucinatory world, his present. dream.” as an avenging hitman while serving as squeezed by what she calls the “grief-vice”. A sniper in the Iraq It’s not hard to imagine an eager audience for Billy’s life story. Michaela imagines receiving a voicemail war, now an assassin King himself somewhere The action kicks into a higher gear as on her cellphone that says Gerard did not for hire, Billy displays a in Maine doing the same Billy and Alice head west to tie up loose die, it was all a mistake. “dumb self” to his clients decades ago after bringing ends. Michaela becomes increasingly troubled while inside he’s very a chapter of The Stand to There’s even a cameo from a certain by sculptures of indigenous demon-gods curious and introspective, life. hotel landscaped with animal topiary. It’s in the home the institute loaned them. And having “even ploughed Redemption is the just one of those “King-winks” for fans. a persistent voice, presumably Gerard’s, his way through ‘Infinite novel’s central theme. And those fans will happily ride along continually calls her to join him. Jest”. Billy has always told with Billy and Alice. As the book nears the end, time begins So when he takes one himself he only kills bad For readers who are new to the King tumbling forward in a chaotic manner. last job that requires him to have a long- men who deserve it, but when he starts canon, there are dozens of other books It’s hard to know what is real and what term cover story, he chooses writer. having doubts about his final job, he — most of them are also movies or TV is imagined as the novel rushes toward its In what other profession could he keep distracts himself by writing his life story. shows at this point — with which you’re shocking and ambiguous ending. such weird hours and be responsible to It is when he finds an audience for his better off beginning your Stephen King — Anita Snow, AP no one but his creative muse, right? story that the book really starts to find journey. — Rob Merrill, AP 20 CLASSIFIEDS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021

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Waikato races at Te Rapa Saturday Jetbet 2 TAB Doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Place6 3-8 Selections 2 Svs Starting Gates 12.50 4 36645 New York Jazz (2) 55 78 5 s2582 Megeve (8) 57.5 73 D Johnson 7 77516 Kirra Lad (4) 58.5 62 S Weatherley Race 1: BERGAMO FOX, SWISS KITTY, TREASURE STATE Callum Jones (a3) 6 s2350 Now Is Now (5) 56 70 S Spratt 8 s0231 Pochesti (15) 58.5 62 W Pinn (a2) $10,000, maiden, 1200m 5 4858s Karalino (4) 54.5 81 C Grylls 7 92264 Tammie Wynette (2) 55.5 69 9 s0086 Big Ben (10) 58 61 C L O’Beirne (a2) Race 2: MR RAFIKI, PERFECTIONIST, TU MEKE POTAE 1 2s602 Civil Unrest (7) 58.5 54 J Riddell 6 86252 Divine Dive (6) 54 71 S Collett T Newman (a2) 10 53361 Turret (6) 57 63 T Yanagida (a1) Race 3: AERO DE PARIS, DIVINE DIVE, TAVIS COURT 2 849s3 The Boogeyman (16) 58.5 51 8 06453 Call Me Evie (9) 55 68 W Pinn (a2) 11 7417 Mrs Big (8) 56.5 62 C Dell Race 4: TELEKINETIC, SUPER CENTIE, TAVIROCK E Nicholas (a3) 4 Dunstan Horsefeeds 1.59 9 05341 Bullybrook (4) 55 64 E McCall (a3) 12 s6716 Angelina Lauro (9) 56 61 E Nicholas (a3) Race 5: ANGELICA, MISS DIXIE, SUSSEX 3 3 Tu Meke Potae (12) 58.5 51 $10,000, maiden, 1400m 10 14041 Miss Dixie (3) 54.5 67 C L O’Beirne (a2) 13 076s4 Royce Roca (1) 55.5 60 S Collett Race 6: CRYSTALLIZE, CHEVAL PROMETTEUR, ROSEWOOD 11 50321 Surprize Me (1) 54.5 67 L Hemi 14 0s097 Elle Makfi (12) 55 59 E McCall (a3) 1 230Ls Ulaanbaatar (2) 58.5 53 D Johnson Race 7: RIVER RUN, KIRRA LAD, TICKLE ME ALMO 4 7477s Golden Hue (1) 58.5 48 W Pinn (a2) 12 1s535 Sussex (7) 54.5 67 T Yanagida (a1) EMERGENCIES: 2 98642 Ernie’s Taken (1) 58.5 52 S Spratt 13 Ps626 Pushka (11) 54 57 Callum Jones (a3) SCRATCHED Race 8: TWO MADISON, ENGLISH GAMBLER, DIVINE DUKE 5 Break The Bank (4) 58.5 47 S Spratt 3 942 Tavirock (5) 58.5 52 R Elliot 15 — Nitrate 6 58s55 Perfectionist (3) 56.5 53 4 30 Le Capilla (14) 58.5 50 C Grylls 6 Super Seth @ Waikato Stud Mile 3.08 16 s8504 Mr Bazamour (3) 55 55 7 36552 Bendermerry (15) 56.5 52 5 4 Praetorian (11) 58.5 50 C Barnes 17 77069 Lord Polonius (11) 55 55 M Hashizume (a2) $32,500, open handicap, 1600m 6 07 Lets Not Forget (15) 58.5 45 L Satherley 8 Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate Day 28/8 4.25 8 7s8s Kool Chouxz (2) 56.5 46 D Danis 7 7 Spicey Lad (6) 58.5 45 W Pinn (a2) 1 4411s Beauden (5) 62.5 104 R Elliot 9 22 Mr Rafiki (11) 56 54 S Collett 8 Toogoodtosayno (8) 58.5 45 S Collett 2 s574s Sherwood Forest (1) 57 94 M McNab $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 2100m 10 46 Jimmy Jandal (14) 56 50 9 s2292 Super Centie (4) 56.5 54 S Weatherley 3 53521 Crystallize (7) 56.5 93 (a4) 1 60328 My Gift (13) 62.5 79 E Nicholas (a3) T Yanagida (a1) 10 63325 Telekinetic (9) 56.5 54 M Cameron 4 67631 Rosewood (3) 54 92 Callum Jones (a3) 11 4 Whiskey (9) 56 48 R Elliot 2 01145 Divine Duke (15) 61 76 11 75 Luv Bella Boo (10) 56.5 47 5 04632 Mauna Kea (2) 54 88 D Bradley 3 02713 English Gambler (1) 58.5 71 J Riddell 12 Tighten Your Grip (5) 54 47 D Johnson T Yanagida (a1) 6 11735 Cherry Lane (8) 54 85 W Pinn (a2) 1 Waikato Draught 12.15 13 6 Bella Luce (13) 54 46 4 21167 Akela Belle (10) 58 74 L Hemi 12 06 Paisley (12) 56.5 46 M Hashizume (a2) 7 22s52 Cheval Prometteur (9) 54 85 S Spratt 5 54649 Ali Baba (12) 58 70 S McKay $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1200m 14 — Volare SCRATCHED 13 Dance ‘n’ Sing (13) 56.5 45 8 s0510 Battle Time (6) 54 84 (a3) 6 12414 El Nymph (7) 57.5 73 W Pinn (a2) 1 5214s Lowry (2) 61.5 68 L Satherley EMERGENCIES: E Nicholas (a3) 9 31204 Carpe Diem (4) 54 65 15 Lear Jet (10) 56.5 45 7 0s084 Nasha Riva (9) 57.5 73 D Johnson 2 955s6 Blood Warrior (7) 60 65 V Colgan 14 Hogan (3) 56 45 V Colgan Ashvin Mudhoo (a3) 8 34451 Two Madison (2) 56.5 71 T Yanagida (a1) 3 2133 Swiss Kitty (10) 59.5 64 (a3) 16 07 Line Of Fyre (8) 56.5 45 EMERGENCIES: 17 52769 So Charming (6) 56.5 45 L Satherley 7 Skycity Hamilton Mile 3.45 9 02140 La Casa (11) 56.5 67 S Collett 4 6s21 Bergamo Fox (11) 59 63 E Nicholas (a3) 15 02868 Rising Steps (16) 56.5 45 E McCall (a3) 10 71535 Magdala (16) 56 70 A Calder 18 — Paisley SCRATCHED 16 00s7 Muse (7) 56.5 45 A Calder 5 s4715 Irish Boy (8) 58.5 62 L Innes $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 11 50942 Landgrave (8) 55 64 D Danis 6 10s03 Red Inferno (1) 58 61 T Yanagida (a1) 3 Xmas @ Te Rapa Tickets On Sale 1.27 5 Bcd Group 2.33 1 s2055 River Run (13) 60 65 M McNab 12 s8913 Midnite Invasion (4) 54 64 7 1980s Run For Cover (12) 58 61 S Collett 2 82123 Tickle Me Almo (7) 59.5 64 L Satherley M Hashizume (a2) 8 4212s Marchioness (3) 57.5 64 M McNab $32,500, open handicap, 1200m $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 1400m 3 80s90 Lord Painton (5) 59 63 C Grylls 13 s5566 Maestro Blu (5) 54 62 T Thornton 9 4331 Treasure State (9) 56.5 63 D Johnson 1 13217 Tavis Court (3) 62 92 C L O’Beirne (a2) 1 30283 Hezthewonforus (10) 60.5 75 M McNab 4 5030s Vittachi (14) 59 63 R Elliot 14 46220 Rising Ransom (6) 54 62 E McCall (a3) 10 s1627 Easy Peasy (4) 56.5 62 J Fawcett 2 s2211 Aero De Paris (5) 59.5 87 (a3) 2 15006 Thunder (12) 60 74 O Bosson 5 75431 Flavius (2) 58.5 62 J Riddell EMERGENCIES: 11 93003 Escudo (6) 55 59 S Weatherley 3 98316 Princess Rihanna (1) 58.5 89 3 3s000 Pursued (6) 59.5 73 M Hashizume (a2) 6 15 Go You Good Thing (16) 58.5 62 15 20473 Leicalot (3) 54 58 12 09908 Tin Soldier (5) 55 55 C Dell T Yanagida (a1) 4 8s112 Angelica (13) 57.5 73 M Hashizume (a2) 16 00979 Innamincka (14) 54 55

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(7) 57 83 S D Khetoo (a3) 3 s6045 Lennon (11) 58.5 50 K Chowdhoory (a1) 7 03310 Queen Sweep (6) 56 70 M Gestain (a3) 5 s9244 Chosen Peak (2) 56.5 86 T Taiaroa (a2) $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 2000m 4 049 Galaxy Power (6) 58.5 49 K Mudhoo 8 01323 Deels Done (4) 55.5 65 K Williams 6 5s660 Monza Circuito (6) 54.5 82 L Allpress 1 86075 Oceans Away (6) 60 65 T Taiaroa (a2) 5 47564 Seraphic (10) 58.5 50 B Murray 9 03153 Husk (5) 54.5 63 L Allpress 7 42242 Frankie The Fox (3) 54 77 2 39150 Sutherland (15) 60 65 K Mudhoo 6 0s Burnvue (9) 58.5 47 R Cuneen 10 05211 Nedwin (8) 56.5 67 B Rogerson (a4) R Mudhoo (a1) 3 60068 All The Rage (12) 59.5 64 7 0s Peria’s Legacy (8) 58.5 45 11 9s0s0 Zurafaa (2) 54 57 T Comignaghi 8 — Celine SCRATCHED B Rogerson (a4) R Mudhoo (a1) 6 Racecourse Hotel The Grand National 2.15 9 53114 Louie Louie (1) 54 75 C Johnson 4 89540 Rodolfo (11) 59 63 F Lazet (a4) 8 — Senor Duke SCRATCHED 10 34241 Rock Island Line (5) 54 74 K Asano (a) 5 6230F Mr Fahrenheit (7) 58.5 62 T Moseley 1 Speight’s 0-1 Win Hurdle 11.30 9 4333 Paze The Power (12) 56.5 53 K Kwo $75,000, open stp, 5600m 9 Millennium Hotels & Resorts 4.05 6 54505 Tapdog (10) 58.5 62 C Johnson $20,000, 0-1 win hurdle, 3100m 10 s4646 Tantalee (7) 56.5 52 Z Bholah (a3) 1 97321 Tallyho Twinkletoe (1) 70 98 S Phelan 7 71869 Colour Me Red (3) 58 61 L Callaway 11 9s30 Kochanski (4) 56.5 50 T Comignaghi 2 35232 Shamal (7) 68 90 B Lammas $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m 8 0s137 Echo Bay (8) 58 61 S J Macnab 1 1s094 Kiddo (7) 68.5 70 12 96849 Sheza Pro (3) 56.5 49 T Jonker SCRATCHED 3 46121 Coconut (6) 65 77 J Seivwright 1 97934 Belt Road (21) 60 65 L Allpress 9 46431 Countess Ruby (17) 57.5 64 L Allpress 2 — Son Of Anna Kay 13 Heads Up (5) 56.5 47 G Jogoo 4 s8431 Mandalay (9) 65 73 S Fannin 10 74490 Reliably Perky (13) 57.5 63 K Williams 3 07814 Kaharau (3) 68.5 69 E Farr 14 — Hit The Diff SCRATCHED 2 76796 Hunter Villain (1) 60 65 J Lowry 5 364PP Mr Enthusiastic (8) 65 70 3 26222 The Buffer (9) 60 65 T Moseley 11 43081 Cast In Bronze (2) 57 63 B Murray 4 70545 Suffice To Say (9) 68.5 68 J Seivwright 6 — Pierian Spring SCRATCHED 12 s0242 Raise Your Sights (9) 57 63 K Asano (a) 5 03L23 Bullitt (1) 67 60 N Downs (2) 4 Coupland’s Bakeries 50 Years 1.05 4 05251 Dettifoss (10) 59 63 K Asano (a) 7 6P32L The Rolling Stone (2) 65 59 H McNeill 5 216 King Of The Castle (20) 59 63 13 — Magic Ivan SCRATCHED 6 45254 Gold’nguru (4) 67 52 G Walsh $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 1600m 8 74163 Mrs Twinkletoes (5) 65 57 E Farr 14 02502 Faux Pas (4) 56 61 R Mudhoo (a1) 7 9s02P Redesdale (6) 67 52 S D Khetoo (a3) 1 12170 Full Fury (2) 61 76 9 P4305 Tittletattle (3) 65 57 G Walsh 6 — So Call Me SCRATCHED 15 00458 Aquattack (14) 55.5 60 T Comignaghi 8 06552 Ritesaidzed (2) 67 59 H McNeill 10 52215 Master Courtsman (4) 65 52 M B Gillies 2 12895 So Much Mour (6) 61 75 7 90187 Kapalka (4) 58.5 62 T Comignaghi 16 — Wannabe ‘n’ Paris SCRATCHED 9 s0F71 Remarx (5) 68.5 69 S Phelan EMERGENCIES: 10 15136 Fantasy Flight (8) 65 57 B Rogerson (a4) 7 D Reynolds Electrical Winter Classic 2.50 8 91483 Wild Like (11) 58.5 62 3 61333 Original Gangster (3) 58.5 71 K Williams K Chowdhoory (a1) 17 — Youneverknow SCRATCHED 2 Zilco 12.00 4 36417 St Andre (8) 58.5 71 J Lowry $32,500, open handicap, 1800m 9 s4339 Barrett (16) 58 61 K Williams 18 49550 Its So Easy (5) 55 59 5 12727 Facetime (1) 58 74 K Asano (a) 1 53531 Ritani (6) 60 90 K Asano (a) 10 60732 Meila Rei (12) 57 63 R Mudhoo (a1) 19 40092 Super Tap (18) 55 61 $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 1200m 6 — Way Above SCRATCHED 2 11141 Tappy’s One (9) 60 86 C Johnson 11 57310 Harleen Quinzel (3) 56.5 62 20 96067 Hey Soul Sister (1) 54 57 1 12016 Benaud (3) 61.5 77 W Papier (a3) 7 43124 Sir Beets (9) 57 68 L Allpress 3 01632 Verry Flash (8) 57 82 12 17246 Mistletoe (7) 56.5 62 C Johnson 21 — Nedwin SCRATCHED 2 64849 Goodanya (5) 60 74 K Chowdhoory (a1) 8 9s123 Anjameme (5) 55.5 69 4 44736 Rosie Glow (2) 56.5 81 13 1874 Luna Perfecta (18) 56 61 T Taiaroa (a2) 22 9s02P Redesdale (16) 56 57 3 52228 Desert Magic (2) 59 71 9 15596 Pinhead (10) 55.5 64 R Mudhoo (a1) 5 0s865 Bluey’s Chance (3) 56.5 79 T Jonker 14 52930 Papagena (8) 56 61 (a3) 23 9s0s0 Zurafaa (19) 54 57 4 10231 Tap ‘n’ Go (8) 57.5 69 L Callaway 10 63929 Cannoli (7) 55 68 K Chowdhoory (a1) 6 11727 Take The Deel (1) 55.5 77 T Moseley 15 21643 Regal Girl (14) 56 61 C Campbell 24 — Hit The Diff SCRATCHED

New South Wales races at Kembla Grange Saturday Jetbet 11 TAB doubles 1-2, 5-6, 9-10 Trebles 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Quaddie 3-4-5-6, 7-8-9-10 Place6 5-10 Selections 2 Ranvet Handicap 1.50 5 Midway Handicap 3.35 8 33021 Gemmahra wh (1) 56.5 96 J Parr 9 Bowermans Furniture 6.15 Race 1: DANZADEL, COMMANDO HUNT, PHILIPSBURG 9 s7689 Accountability cw (6) 56.5 93 $130,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 88, 1200m $100,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 72, 1200m J Mc Donald $130,000, 3yo & up F&M Benchmark 78, Race 2: BROKEN ARROWS, ALL TIME LEGEND, BIG PARADE 1400m 1 6131s Big Parade dw (1) 61 96 J Parr 1 9s057 Not Feint Hearted w (12) 61.5 93 10 35222 Bethencourt w (8) 56 99 T Berry Race 3: ZIEGFELD, LAURE ME IN, PANCHO 2 133s2 All Time Legend tdwb (4) 60.5 100 J Mc Donald 11 0s762 Crystal Pegasus dw (9) 56 95 K Mc Evoy 1 96128 Bring The Ransom tdw (3) 60 98 Race 4: MR MOZART, STARMAN, KING OF SPARTA K Mc Evoy 2 345s1 Exceltic dw (9) 60.5 97 T Sherry (a2) 12 43313 Kutayha wbn (12) 56 97 B Avdulla J Bowman Race 5: JUST FIELD, TOCOMAH, EXCELTIC 3 07s6s Mamaragan d (8) 57.5 97 N Rawiller 3 2s425 Ashim wb (10) 59.5 96 J Bowman 13 s0674 Navy Cross w (15) 55 96 R Bayliss 2 10834 Stellar Pauline w (9) 60 98 T Sherry (a2) Race 6: MAYFAIR SPIRIT, KUTAYHA, CRYSTAL PEGASUS 4 s245s Zakat cdw (3) 55.5 100 T Berry 4 1229s Awesome Lad d (7) 59.5 92 N Rawiller 14 22324 Onemore Sapphire w (14) 55 100 3 180s4 Hasstobegood d (11) 59 97 R Bayliss Race 7: OSCAR ZULU, TRUE DETECTIVE, FROSTY ROCKS 5 9328s Animate dw (5) 55 98 B Avdulla 5 61810 Lord Zoulander tcdw (6) 59.5 97 J Collett 4 373s9 Helga dw (4) 58.5 90 J Van Overmeire (a1.5) Race 8: TIGER OF MALAY, PICARONES, REVIVALIST 6 0845s Stolen Jade tcdwn (7) 54.5 98 J Ford B Avdulla 15 62621 Silent Agenda twn (3) 54 95 Ms R King 5 66046 Lucicello w (1) 57.5 95 B Avdulla Race 9: HASSTOBEGOOD, HELGA, STELLAR PAULINE 7 4s333 Broken Arrows d (6) 54 98 T Clark 6 6L229 Just Field w (15) 59 94 J Parr 16 4s423 My Demetra tw (5) 52 97 A Adkins 6 9s257 Steel Diamond tdw (7) 57 98 N Rawiller Race 10: PALE KING, CHARRETERA, ASHMAN 8 — Snitzify SCRATCHED 7 03504 Buckin’ Beauty dwn (2) 58 94 R Bayliss EMERGENCY: 17 324s7 Bellatrix Queen (2) 54 75 J Innes Jnr 7 03052 Rock My Wand w (6) 55 96 J Collett 3 Drinkwise Premier’s Cup Prel. 2.25 8 985s1 Bowery Breeze tcdw (1) 57.5 97 8 140s7 Pensato (8) 54 92 K Mc Evoy Ms K O’Hara 7 The Agency Spring Preview 4.55 9 1s313 Glorious Dream dw (2) 53.5 100 $130,000, 3yo & up, 2000m 9 s4245 Hibiscus Lady w (18) 57 91 Ms L Day Ms E Hennessy (a3) 1 80s9s Young Rascal w (5) 61 88 10 2659s Miss Redoble tdwn (8) 57 92 J Collett $130,000, 3yo & up, 1400m 10 1282s Layla Of Monaco tw (5) 52 87 Ms L Day J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 11 22151 Prince Invincible w (13) 57 98 T Clark 1 s3231 Order Again dw (1) 60 96 T Sherry (a2) 11 33241 Yugosphere cwh (10) 52 94 A Adkins 1 TAB Highway Handicap 1.15 12 14231 Finally Realise w (17) 55 98 Ms R King 2 41952 Laure Me In w (2) 57.5 92 J Collett 2 346s4 Gaulois cw (5) 59.5 92 J Bowman 10 Elite Sand & Soil 6.55 $100,000, 3yo & up Class 3, 1400m 3 s5s42 Ziegfeld w (4) 57.5 100 J Mc Donald 13 24317 Real Key tdwh (16) 55 91 A Adkins 3 370s6 Man Of Peace dw (2) 59.5 90 Ms L Day 14 84874 Lettre D’amour tdw (11) 54 92 4 4100s Fun Fact w (10) 59 81 T Clark $130,000, 3yo & up C,H&G’s Benchmark 78, 1 120s3 Wichita Warrior w (10) 59.5 90 4 84252 Pancho w (7) 54.5 92 B Avdulla 5 4140s Skymax d (1) 54 87 T Sherry (a2) EMERGENCIES: 5 243s1 Frosty Rocks w (7) 55.5 99 J Parr 1400m N Rawiller 15 79s73 Shapur dwh (14) 54.5 91 2 21361 I’m The Business dw (14) 58.5 93 6 s3112 Mubariz wn (6) 53.5 97 T Berry 6 0421s Cepheus d (8) 54 84 J Collett 1 8247s Kiss The Bride twb (2) 62 89 J Parr Ms M Waters (a3) R Bayliss 7 s3914 Criminal Code w (3) 52 96 Ms K O’Hara 7 1126s Mohican Heights dw (4) 54 83 J Ford 2 535s6 Rule The World dw (1) 61.5 99 3 351s2 Philipsburg dw (1) 57.5 100 J Parr 16 21 Tocomah w (5) 54 100 8 53324 True Detective w (9) 53.5 92 T Berry J Bowman 4 1s070 If You Think So dw (2) 57 83 4 Precise Fire Handicap 3.00 17 23638 Young Heart dh (4) 54 92 9 51116 Oscar Zulu dwb (6) 53 100 K Mc Evoy 3 13341 Blondeau dw (14) 61 98 T Sherry (a2) Ms E Hennessy (a3) $130,000, 3 & 4yo Benchmark 72, 1200m 18 1173s River Charge wh (3) 54 91 10 s4889 Military Zone d (3) 52 91 A Adkins 4 57s51 Ashman (4) 60.5 100 N Rawiller 5 — Cuban Royale SCRATCHED 5 65507 Rockarosa dw (13) 57 83 A Adkins 1 813s1 Rustic Steel dw (11) 61 96 T Sherry (a2) 6 79612 Whatsin dw (5) 56.5 91 J Bowman 6 Quayclean Handicap 4.15 8 Darley Up And Coming Stks 5.35 6 8s057 Kordia dwb (9) 59 93 Ms R King 2 6067s Conceited (10) 58.5 93 J Bowman 7 25230 Perfect Pitch w (8) 56 87 Ms L Day $130,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 78, 2000m $160,000, 3yo Quality Group 3, 1300m 7 s8528 Smart Image wn (15) 59 100 B Avdulla 8 3415s Jahbath dwb (12) 55.5 87 J Collett 3 50032 Selburose dwn (6) 57.5 96 B Avdulla 8 217s4 Snitzify dw (3) 58 99 A Adkins 1 4s000 Monreal w (17) 60.5 84 B Griffiths (a3) 9 124s4 Commando Hunt w (4) 55 96 4 2115s Island Bay Boy dw (8) 56 93 J Collett 1 27513 Tiger Of Malay w (1) 61 93 J Mc Donald 9 1s477 Catapult dw (13) 57.5 94 J Collett Ms K O’Hara 5 44s16 King Of Sparta w (2) 55 99 J Mc Donald 2 32126 Zing w (10) 59.5 99 J Bowman 2 53185 Subterranean w (9) 58 95 J Bowman 10 1s18s Pale King tb (5) 57 92 T Berry 10 3s150 Nuremburg Castle w (9) 54.5 94 6 14s Mr Mozart (4) 54 94 T Berry 3 7s673 Cognac dw (16) 58.5 96 3 8s351 Construct t (6) 54 91 A Adkins 11 046s8 Radipole w (8) 57 89 J Ford K Mc Evoy 7 21 Tocomah w (7) 54 100 G Buckley J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 4 5s512 Revivalist w (7) 54 91 T Berry 12 s8527 Charretera n (6) 56 98 R Bayliss 11 11s25 Danzadel dw (6) 54 99 T Berry 8 40s24 Noble Soldier dh (5) 53.5 96 4 5P2s4 Mayfair Spirit dw (13) 58 98 T Clark 5 160s Patton wn (3) 54 90 R Bayliss 13 s1443 Olympic Legend dw (7) 56 94 K Mc Evoy 12 14541 Princess De Roca w (11) 54 90 J Ford Ms M Waters (a3) 5 56847 Oakfield Missile w (11) 57 90 6 134s7 Picarones (2) 53 96 Ms R King 14 22105 Wild Chap wh (11) 53 96 13 64990 Harry And The Duke (3) 54 80 9 1 Starman (1) 53 98 K Mc Evoy T Sherry (a2) 7 s10s5 Coastwatch w (5) 53 100 Ms K O’Hara Ms E Hennessy (a3) T Sherry (a2) 10 — Picarones SCRATCHED 6 s7732 Major Artie wn (7) 57 100 N Rawiller 8 67s1 Brigantine w (8) 53 97 K Mc Evoy 15 s6096 Bluff ‘n’ Bluster tdw (10) 52.5 97 14 942s2 Globalize w (7) 54 91 Ms R King 11 s615s Bacchanalia dwn (3) 52 97 Ms R King 7 0s097 Torrens dw (4) 57 97 J Ford 9 12 Concocted w (4) 53 99 T Clark Ms L Day The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 RACING 23 McKee calls time on successful training career AUCKLAND — Top trainer Stephen McKee has asked my wife Fiona the other day when was the McKee says rather than burn out he will walk Cox Plates, came in Australia and she also won stunned the racing industry by announcing his last time I had been on holiday with her and the away from the industry in any full-time capacity a Hong Kong Mile in 2000, McKee (solo and in shock retirement. kids? next month. partnership) has still trained the winners of just The man who, along with his late father Trevor, “I was floored when she replied ‘four years “It is funny how if a sports person or even under $30 million in stakes in New Zealand from trained one of New Zealand’s greatest horses in ago’. I still love racing and the horses but I don’t a jockey wants to retire it is normal but people 1551 domestic wins. Sunline will close his South Auckland training want to train full-time anymore and I am just not expect horse trainers to keep training until the The McKees were talking with staff and owners operation on September 30, with no plans to finding it is worth it. day they die. I don’t want that so I am making this about the future of the farm and working with return to training. “To make any real money training horses you decision for lifestyle, family and financial reasons.” everyone involved to find the best outcomes for “I am just exhausted,” 58-year-old McKee told either have to sell them or win the biggest races McKee, an immensely popular figure not just in all concerned, both for staff and for the stable The New Zealand Herald. and both those things are getting harder to do.” New Zealand but Australia and further afield, says clients’ racehorses, Fiona McKee said. “I have been up well before dawn, often at 4am, While the economics of horse racing are getting training Sunline was the obvious highlight of his “We have a dedicated and loyal team — some almost every day since I was 14 and I have had tougher — albeit with stakes improvements career, so much of which was spent training with have been with us for 40 years,” she added. “We enough. coming — McKee says for him the numbers no his late father. are so grateful for their years of hard work and “I want to do some other things with my life. I longer added up. Although Sunline’s biggest wins, such as two enthusiasm.” — NZ Herald

Victoria races at Caulfield Saturday Jetbet 12 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 2 Neds Handicap 2.40 4 Mark Mazzaglia Handicap 3.55 12 1575s Silent Command w (15) 56 82 12 4s24 Duchy Of Savoy (10) 56 97 J McNeil Race 1: LUNAR FLARE, BARBIE’S FOX, SO YOU ASSUME W Price (a1.5) 13 1 Asteroidea dw (3) 56 97 B Melham $130,000, Open, 1600m $130,000, 4yo & up Mares, 1100m 13 1111s Mahashakti dwn (7) 54 84 14 1s6 Chimes w (6) 56 95 M Dee Race 2: NO EFFORT, HI STRANGER, DARK DREAM 1 15100 Inverloch tcw (7) 59.5 91 C Newitt 1 62181 Plaquette tcdwn (8) 58 88 D Oliver Ms T Hope (a2) Race 3: DIRTY THOUGHTS, OCULAR, ZESTY BELLE 2 s00s7 Dark Dream wn (1) 58 86 D Stackhouse 2 13s14 Absolute Flirt cdw (4) 57.5 93 D Lane 14 45s45 Evening Glory tdw (1) 54 90 Ms J Kah 8 P.B. Lawrence Stakes 6.35 Race 4: PLAQUETTE, ABSOLUTE FLIRT, AWAPUNI PRINCESS 3 0s00s Rostropovich (5) 58 77 L Nolen 3 23363 Bella Nipotina cw (7) 57 93 15 99s13 Rock In The Park dw (8) 54 97 D Moor $300,000, WFA Group 2, 1400m Race 5: ELEPHANT, JUMBO OZAKI, ROCK IN THE PARK 4 32921 Hi Stranger tdwn (4) 56 100 D Thornton J Richards (a3) Race 6: GENERATION, JIGSAW, GENERAL BEAU 5 25112 No Effort tdwbn (6) 55 98 J Richards (a3) 4 6286s Paul’s Regret dwn (3) 56 90 D Thornton 6 Neds Vain Stakes 5.15 1 1420s Best Of Days tdw (2) 59 90 Ms J Kah 2 167s2 Streets Of Avalon cdn (8) 59 94 Z Spain Race 7: NAJMATY, ARCADED, HERESY 6 1345s Barade d (3) 54 86 D Bates 5 s7275 Propelle twn (2) 55 92 M Cartwright (a2) $200,000, 3yo C&Gs SW+P Group 3, 1100m 7 70610 Ballet Master cwn (2) 54 96 6 12120 Ladies Of London dw (1) 54.5 80 3 6538s Angel Of Truth w (6) 59 90 J McNeil Race 8: NONCONFORMIST, RED CAN MAN, SANSOM 1 s115s General Beau tc (7) 58 91 D Lane 4 0736s Superstorm d (7) 59 88 D Oliver Race 9: LA MEXICANA, AWAY GAME, THE INFERNO T Nugent (a1.5) L Neindorf (a2) 7 53131 Awapuni Princess tdw (6) 54 92 2 1119s Lightsaber (5) 58 87 L Nolen 5 s591s Archedemus dw (9) 59 91 F W Kersley 3 Neds Filter Form 3.15 T Nugent (a1.5) 3 1253s Ingratiating d (8) 57 95 D Oliver 6 s7163 Red Can Man td (10) 59 96 B Melham 4 38s13 Jigsaw cdwb (6) 56 100 B Melham 7 476s1 Sansom tdwn (1) 59 100 B Allen $75,000, Benchmark 78, 1100m 8 470s2 Parlophone wh (5) 54 100 Ms J Kah 5 11s Generation twh (1) 56 93 Ms J Kah 8 3502s Nonconformist twhn (4) 59 89 J Childs 1 1125s Second Slip wb (8) 61 95 Ms J Kah 5 IVE > Print 4.35 6 s36s2 Direct h (2) 56 94 J Bowditch 9 21s00 Do You Reckon dwn (3) 59 78 B Mertens 2 s232s Barthelona cdw (5) 60.5 92 7 14s Mr Mozart d (4) 56 85 J McNeil 10 06041 Sierra Sue dw (5) 57 100 J Allen $130,000, Benchmark 84, 1400m J Richards (a3) 8 15 Cecil Street Lad wb (3) 56 90 L Currie 1 Thank You MRC Members 2.05 3 1D174 High Cost dwn (9) 60.5 89 Ms A Kelly (a3) 1 01s57 Mr Money Bags d (9) 61 87 9 Evergreen Turf Regal Roller Stks 7. 10 $130,000, 3yo & up F&M Benchmark 84, 4 21057 Ocular dw (3) 60 100 B Melham L Neindorf (a2) 7 Beck Probuild Quezette Stks 5.55 $160,000, 4yo & up Listed, 1200m 1700m 5 s6733 Our Wind Spirit dw (6) 58 97 D Bates 2 0s110 Midships wn (14) 60.5 89 $200,000, 3yo Fillies SW+P Group 3, 1100m 6 55073 Pravro cwn (11) 56.5 92 T Nugent (a1.5) Ms M Lloyd (a3) 1 1s39s Crosshaven tdw (11) 60 87 D Stackhouse 1 s3314 Lunar Flare whn (1) 60 91 M Dee 7 63151 Diesel ‘n’ Dust dw (12) 56 96 D Oliver 3 1439s Aussie Nugget tw (4) 60 83 J McNeil 1 1015s Arcaded c (5) 58 100 D Lane 2 1111s The Inferno dn (10) 59 90 D Lane 2 0s341 Barbie’s Fox tw (7) 59 91 L German (a2) 8 119s5 Diamonds Inthe Sky tc (1) 55.5 99 4 22s11 Imperial Lad whn (13) 59 100 2 21s Heresy w (12) 58 94 D Oliver 3 30s31 Away Game dw (7) 58 91 J Allen 3 70993 Influential Girl wn (5) 58 88 W Price (a1.5) Ms A Kelly (a3) 3 4211s Scorched Earth h (14) 57 94 L Currie 4 7799s Outrageous (3) 57.5 85 J McNeil L Neindorf (a2) 9 33s38 Dirty Thoughts dwb (13) 55.5 100 5 14s52 Jumbo Ozaki cdn (5) 59 94 C Williams 4 118s Najmaty cb (7) 57 99 J Allen 5 7314s Gee Gee Secondover dwn (6) 56.5 88 4 46339 Savigne w (6) 57.5 92 C Williams D Moor 6 0s580 Primitivo w (6) 58.5 86 D Stackhouse 5 11s8 Tycoon Humma (1) 57 95 J Mott C Williams 5 93121 So You Assume w (9) 56 100 D Yendall 10 449s0 Divine Mr Tycoon wn (7) 55.5 87 7 5130s Skiddaw t (10) 58.5 83 B Melham 6 116s See You In Spring wn (11) 57 95 D Moor 6 329s0 Brave Song cdn (9) 56 86 L Currie 6 39807 Kiss And Cry wn (3) 55 86 D Lane J Bowditch 8 s7700 Alsvin dwn (11) 58 87 Z Spain 7 21s Gimmie Par c (4) 56 98 Ms J Kah 7 101s2 La Mexicana tcdwn (2) 54 97 Ms J Kah 7 76145 Leale tw (8) 55 92 J Richards (a3) 11 2s126 Rolls dw (2) 55.5 98 C Williams 9 s7351 Wicklow Town cw (3) 58 96 C Newitt 8 1 Libiamo ch (8) 56 98 J Childs 8 4898s Never Again tdwhn (8) 54 83 Z Spain 8 06510 Florent tw (4) 54 89 M Cartwright (a2) 12 3167s Vespertine twh (4) 54 96 M Dee 10 s3540 Ruban Bleu tdwn (12) 57 87 9 168s Hi Hi Hi wn (9) 56 96 C Williams 9 115s4 Zou Dancer w (1) 54 95 D Thornton 9 9s922 Horse For Higher dn (2) 54 91 13 66s28 Zesty Belle db (10) 54 100 J Richards (a3) 10 33s2 Her Empire (13) 56 95 C Newitt 10 s1121 Pintoff cdw (5) 54 100 D Bates W Price (a1.5) M Cartwright (a2) 11 s111s Elephant d (2) 56 91 D Lane 11 13 Sweet Mary wb (2) 56 98 B Prebble 11 6s021 Free To Move dwn (4) 54 93 C Newitt

Queensland races at Eagle Farm Saturday Jetbet 14 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 5 34421 Vienna Empress d (1) 54 95 Ron Stewart 4 Country Music 10-11 Sept Hcp 3.08 3 s7657 Snow Valley tdw (8) 59.5 95 8 Mark Mazzaglia Handicap 5.47 Race 1: SECRET TALES, PRINCESS BOJACK, 6 5s1 Ilikeit Iloveit wn (5) 54 94 M Mc Gillivray Jaden Lloyd (a3) 7 9s33s Snowdrop h (7) 54 90 Jaden Lloyd (a3) $75,000, Open, 1600m 4 56s34 Dusty Tycoon dh (5) 58 100 $75,000, Benchmark 85, 1200m GLORIOUS RUBY 1 121s8 Dissolution tdw (1) 58.5 88 Ms L Kilner (a3) 1 61122 Brad dw (1) 60.5 89 Ms A Patis (a3) Race 2: LEGAL ESPRIT, SACCA, GEMELON BOLT 2 BRC Membership Handicap 1.58 M R Du Plessis 5 58532 Lady Banff dw (11) 58 96 B Nothdurft 2 11s8s Run For Glory dwh (2) 59 93 J Byrne Race 3: OUR FRAULEIN, SAFEEYA, SAMURAI $75,000, 3yo Colts & Geldings, 1000m 2 20s25 Matowi dwn (7) 58 99 L R Dittman 6 8s361 Ready Babe dwn (12) 58 94 B Stewart 3 50s22 Peppi La Few twb (7) 58.5 97 B Stewart Race 4: PROFIT, ZIGALLENE, MATOWI 3 s1703 Profit tdh (3) 58 100 Jaden Lloyd (a3) 7 76s16 Big Bad Bruce dwh (4) 57.5 96 J Byrne 4 443s4 Royal Hale cdwh (3) 58 100 Race 5: TWO SMOKIN BARRELS, ONE FOR BETTY, 1 13s11 Legal Esprit dwn (3) 59 97 Jaden Lloyd (a3) Ms M Wishart (a3) 4 0s900 Prometheus cdw (6) 56.5 87 B Stewart 8 18166 Daring Belle cw (6) 57.5 91 WARP SPEED 5 40514 Sea Raider tcdw (9) 58 97 Ms S Thornton 2 217s Gemelon Bolt dwh (6) 56.5 93 B Stewart 5 s0976 Prioritise dw (5) 55 92 L V Cassidy Ms K Cowan (a3) Race 6: READY BABE, LADY BANFF, JETSKI 6 18331 Zigallene w (4) 54 99 Ms R Palmer 9 27s26 Lashoni tdh (2) 57.5 97 Ms G Cartwright 6 53s55 Ozark d (6) 57.5 83 J Orman 3 s1621 Sacca dw (7) 55 100 J Orman 7 9s037 Valario cdwn (8) 57.5 91 B Nothdurft Race 7: EELLOH, CHAMPAGNE AUNTY, SPANISH POINT 4 1 Mishani Sniper h (5) 54 95 C Caserta 7 90s80 Plitvice tcdwh (2) 54 92 Ms L Kilner (a3) 10 231s7 Cubix dw (10) 57 94 L R Dittman 11 4120s Scottish Mist twh (3) 57 92 8 s5222 Weboughtazou dw (4) 57.5 93 M Cahill Race 8: WEBOUGHTAZOU, BRAD, PEPPI LA FEW 5 15s The Kewess dn (2) 54 89 J Byrne 9 — Genzai The Wolf SCRATCHED Race 9: ULYSSES, AVOWAL, STUTTERING 6 91 Regal Conqueror dh (1) 54 90 M Cahill 5 Sky Racing Handicap 3.47 M R Du Plessis 12 98s03 Representing (1) 54 87 A Spinks 10 s6831 Americana Magic d (5) 55.5 89 7 20s0 Tikka Ready b (4) 54 81 M R Du Plessis $75,000, Benchmark 78, 2400m A Mallyon SCRATCHED 3 Mount Franklin Handicap 2.33 1 21242 Warp Speed twh (6) 59 100 R Fradd 7 Spirit Of Boom Handicap 5.07 11 — Chivargo 2 s0054 One For Betty tw (3) 57 90 M Cahill $75,000, Benchmark 78, 1825m $55,000, Class 3, 1500m 3 31080 Art Attack tdw (8) 56.5 88 9 TAB Venue Mode Handicap 6.27 1 69s52 Samurai c (7) 59 99 Jaden Lloyd (a3) A Thompson (a2) 1 11009 Nyami dw (8) 59 94 J Byrne $75,000, Class 6, 1400m 2 120s9 Indian Dreamer twn (13) 57.5 94 4 35214 Two Smokin Barrels w (10) 56.5 93 2 93241 Spanish Point cw (7) 58.5 96 A Mallyon 1 — Peppi La Few SCRATCHED 3 61463 I Could Do Better dw (5) 58 95 A Mallyon Ron Stewart 2 6s391 Ulysses w (2) 59 98 M Cahill 3 15121 Kudu tw (11) 57 96 J Orman 5 94326 Blacklog w (9) 54.5 93 J Byrne Ron Stewart 3 3s435 Stuttering dwh (7) 58.5 100 4 60s64 Mishani Epic twh (1) 57 97 B Stewart 6 51126 Puckish w (5) 54 98 M R Du Plessis 4 48518 Magic Conqueror wh (4) 58 97 B Stewart Ms L Kilner (a3) 5 522s4 Mosshiki th (4) 57 97 Ms L Kilner (a3) 7 96752 Same Old w (7) 54 89 Ms S Thornton 5 5s0s0 Top Me Up Again twh (2) 57.5 90 4 7247s Kubrick wn (10) 58 88 L R Dittman 6 515s6 Daulat Tai Panaziz tn (6) 56.5 92 8 56056 He’s The Deel w (4) 54 84 L V Cassidy A Spinks 5 2s221 Dreamreacher tcw (13) 56 98 J Orman 1 Racecourse Village Hcp 1.23 Ms S Thornton 9 02108 Powers Lookout w (1) 54 86 T Marshall 6 25656 Relucent wn (3) 56.5 94 L R Dittman 6 87s85 Take Tea cw (1) 55 97 Ms S Thornton 7 104s1 Our Rebel t (12) 55.5 92 C Caserta 7 37235 Whispered w (9) 56.5 98 J Orman SCRATCHED $75,000, 3yo Fillies, 1000m 10 52835 Recall Events n (2) 54 89 Ms L Kilner (a3) 7 — Top Me Up Again 8 42214 Safeeya t (3) 55 99 J Byrne 8 63s21 Champagne Aunty twn (11) 56 100 8 38431 Avowal cdn (12) 54 97 Ms K Cowan (a3) 1 2112s Glorious Ruby h (4) 59 92 9 61s21 Nishikori w (9) 54.5 100 M Cahill 6 XXXX Dry Handicap 4.27 L V Cassidy 9 27409 Ghostly wn (6) 54 89 Ron Stewart Ms L Kilner (a3) 10 35s71 Our Fraulein h (2) 54 94 L V Cassidy 9 10731 Sokudo tcw (6) 56 95 Ms S Thornton SCRATCHED $55,000, Benchmark 72, 1200m 10 — Jetski 2 s3133 Princess Bojack cw (6) 57 100 J Byrne 11 8s415 Short Sara wbn (10) 54 97 10 36421 Eelloh wh (12) 55 97 J Byrne 11 45412 Toujours L’amour whn (8) 54 95 3 611s Secret Tales twh (3) 55 95 Ms S Thornton M R Du Plessis 1 67123 Genzai The Wolf tch (7) 62.5 94 11 77792 Predictable Miss w (1) 54.5 97 Jaden Lloyd (a3) 4 11s She’s Heavenly dwn (2) 54.5 90 12 87951 Calmyourfarm t (8) 54 85 Ms R Palmer Ms M Wishart (a3) Ms L Kilner (a3) 12 27s43 Barney’s Law dw (4) 54 97 T Marshall Ms G Cartwright 13 98347 Biggie (5) 54 88 A Thompson (a2) 2 s2345 Jetski dn (9) 59.5 93 J Orman 12 6s115 Divine Eleven w (10) 54 99 M Cahill 13 32521 Indernile dwn (3) 54 88 N Day

South Australia races at Morphettville Saturday Jetbet 15 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Selections 6 530s1 Self Sufficient cwh (4) 55 94 8 60s Rouge Renarde (10) 56 86 4 1224s Ritratto tw (6) 58.5 81 K H Zechner 8 66s10 Challicum dw (14) 56 92 Ms K Crowther Race 1: KEEP READING, BLERIOT, EXCEED EXPECT Ms K Crowther Ms E Finnegan 5 1125s Second Slip dwb (1) 58.5 82 J Toeroek 9 61532 Turfitt twh (8) 56 98 J Holder 7 30345 Old Time Rock w (1) 54 91 Ms J Eaton 9 s2266 Sabaku h (8) 56 89 T Pannell 6 614s7 One More Jack cdw (3) 58.5 73 J Potter 10 99511 Keysor dwh (11) 55.5 93 Ms S Metcalfe Race 2: PORT VALE, LAKHANI ROSE, ALLEBOOM 8 60852 Akkacan cwh (2) 54 87 K H Zechner 10 0487s Sellix h (1) 56 89 K H Zechner 7 1112s Perfect Route (8) 58.5 76 Ms J Eaton 11 82718 Canidae dw (7) 55 98 Ms S Logan (a2) Race 3: BEAR ARMS, CLEVER MAN, MAHIS ANGEL 11 4s So Say Angel (6) 56 96 J Holder 8 406s1 Wurlies Lastchance dw (7) 56.5 73 12 71s70 Black Cheval d (2) 54 93 Ms C Lions Race 4: SO SAY ANGEL, RAVAGED AWARD, 3 The Junction NJT Series 3.27 12 80s Ultimate Addiction (9) 56 76 G Lo (a3) Ms E Boyd 13 54357 Shy Boy h (6) 54 91 J Maund WHEELS OF COURAGE $54,750, Benchmark 78 Heat, 2500m 13 9s Wheels Of Courage h (14) 56 85 14 s9500 Space Equity (12) 54 84 Ms E Boyd Race 5: CLASSY JOE, CAMPOBASSO, FRANCE’S BOY R Hurdle 7 Grand Syndicates 6.07 EMERGENCY: 1 86611 Mahis Angel tcwn (7) 58.5 100 P Gatt 14 Ravaged Award (5) 54 86 Ms J Eaton Race 6: BEAU ROSSA, DALASAN, BEHEMOTH 2 01375 Muntham Missile tw (8) 55.5 94 $44,750, 4yo & up Benchmark 64, 1200m 15 0s954 Young Lars w (15) 54 91 B Vorster Race 7: NONAME LANE, GO BUNDLE, SPECIALISM D Tourneur 5 Carnival @ Morph. 9/10-6/11 4.47 1 431s3 Angaston whn (2) 62.5 93 G Lo (a3) 9 S Elliott Champagne Lover 7.25 Race 8: TURFITT, BLAH BLAH BLAH, KEYSOR 3 44312 Connermara Rose w (1) 54 90 2 4s114 Clap dwbh (1) 61 95 J Toeroek Race 9: HONEY GO LIGHTLY, SCOTCH ON THE ROCK, Ms S Logan (a2) $54,750, Benchmark 74, 1800m 3 32s12 Noname Lane w (5) 59.5 100 T Pannell $40,250, Benchmark 60, 1100m CHAMPAGNE AFFAIR 4 09151 Bear Arms cw (5) 54 97 Ms E Boyd 1 36343 France’s Boy tw (7) 61.5 97 4 26s52 Picargo td (8) 59.5 96 J B Opperman (a2) 1 61s6 Kong w (1) 60.5 100 J B Opperman (a2) 5 41212 Clever Man dw (12) 54 96 Ms K Crowther Ms S Logan (a2) 5 014 De Thorn wh (4) 59 93 K H Zechner 2 1 Howl w (7) 59.5 82 P Gatt 6 03633 Sasun tw (10) 54 88 Ms E Finnegan 2 75621 Classy Joe tcw (2) 61 95 J Maund 6 2310s Rapid Raiser tcd (7) 59 86 P Gatt 3 367s9 Bludog (2) 59 78 D Tourneur 7 02243 Exalted Ambition w (9) 54 94 3 00572 Darlamax tw (5) 59.5 96 T Pannell 7 s9322 Wotuwant dh (10) 59 92 R Hurdle 4 84761 Champagne Affair wh (8) 59 82 1 Dominant Rebel Raider Ser. 2.17 J B Opperman (a2) 4 27789 Irish Playboy wn (3) 59 93 M Aitken 8 43s28 Harpuna db (11) 58.5 92 Ms J Eaton Ms C Jones 8 68578 Just Rolling dw (11) 54 92 B Vorster 5 s3331 Motell twh (12) 56.5 100 J Holder 9 s7152 Smart Alick dw (12) 58.5 95 Ms S Metcalfe $54,750, 3yo Benchmark 66 Heat, 1200m 5 2116s Lofty Tycoon wh (12) 59 79 Ms E Boyd 9 45564 Turf Man dw (2) 54 85 J Maund 6 27s36 Allusion (4) 55.5 94 B Vorster 10 76s31 Specialism tw (3) 58 99 Ms K Crowther 6 — Love Magic SCRATCHED 1 — He’s Xceptional SCRATCHED 10 62545 Beach God wh (4) 54 84 Ms S Metcalfe 7 37131 Campobasso w (1) 55.5 94 D Caboche 11 s2241 Go Bundle dw (6) 57 94 M Aitken 7 — Magic Phantom SCRATCHED 2 18s Exceed Expect w (2) 59.5 92 P Gatt 11 83643 Ironical w (6) 54 86 Ms C Lions 8 41691 Exalted Fire w (10) 55.5 97 R Hurdle 12 78736 Spirited Match dwh (9) 54 91 8 64335 Rizski tdwh (16) 59 80 Ms J Eaton 3 21 Keep Reading twh (5) 59 97 J Toeroek 12 25809 Sostenido (3) 54 88 Ms S Logan (a2) 9 64653 Star Status th (11) 55 90 Ms K Crowther Ms S Logan (a2) 9 179s1 Scotch On The Rock w (4) 59 88 4 s4155 Bleriot tdw (1) 58.5 98 T Pannell 10 49s59 Unlaced t (6) 54.5 92 Ms J Eaton 4 G.H. Mumm Plate 4.07 8 Furphy Handicap 6.47 J Holder 5 5s371 My Khalifa wh (6) 57 95 J Holder 11 60s61 Lollielucas dwh (9) 54 97 10 s90s1 Beaudacity w (11) 58.5 88 B Vorster 6 26s2 Hanabi h (3) 55.5 100 Ms K Crowther $40,250, 3yo & up Maiden SW, 1050m J B Opperman (a2) $40,250, 0MWSC, 1514m 11 89706 Beeokay tcdw (3) 58.5 88 12 12033 Don’t Dismiss w (13) 54 85 J Potter Ms S Logan (a2) 2 Adelaide Galvanising 2.52 1 6 Belvidere Prince (2) 58 84 M Aitken 13 03853 Littlebitfunny dwh (8) 54 87 Ms S So (a3) 1 027s0 Legenda dw (10) 60 95 T Pannell 2 275s4 Throwaparty h (12) 58 85 2 711s7 Raise An Army d (4) 60 93 S Cahill 12 18s25 Naleigh t (13) 58.5 93 T Pannell $54,750, Benchmark 72, 1050m Ms S Logan (a2) 6 James Squire Spring Stks 5.27 3 7s326 Tibetan dw (1) 60 97 M Aitken 13 7s170 Comrade Bill w (5) 58 81 J Potter 1 1383s Alleboom tdh (3) 60.5 100 G Lo (a3) 3 2s7 Danse De La Lune (4) 56 100 4 69904 Santelmo Fuego w (3) 58 96 R Hurdle 14 25422 Honey Go Lightly t (14) 58 78 D Caboche 2 s167s Lakhani Rose tc (7) 60 92 J B Opperman (a2) $127,250, WFA Group 3, 1200m 5 12221 The Siscos Kid w (9) 58 100 15 3215s Strike The Night dh (6) 58 80 Ms S Logan (a2) 4 6 Disco Tilmorn b (3) 56 84 J Potter 1 1437s Behemoth tcdw (5) 58.5 99 J B Opperman (a2) Ms K Crowther 3 8553s Port Vale tcwh (8) 59.5 93 O Ridge 5 8s6 Killer Blonde h (7) 56 71 Ms K Crowther Ms K Crowther 6 0s066 Constanzia w (5) 57 99 Ms J Eaton 16 256s3 Haneda (9) 56 78 J Toeroek 4 215s5 Viduka t (6) 59 86 D Tourneur 6 Lastar (13) 56 86 B Vorster 2 0733s Dalasan tcdwh (4) 58.5 96 J Holder 7 62143 Blah Blah Blah w (13) 56.5 96 EMERGENCY: 5 s1310 Winning Weather twh (5) 58 98 J Holder 7 842s3 Leanna Belle (11) 56 90 J Toeroek 3 12101 Beau Rossa tcw (2) 58.5 100 T Pannell D Tourneur 17 s9795 Anamnesis dwh (15) 54 75 Ms S So (a3)

Legend: T – Won at track. C – Won at this distance on this course. D – Won at this distance on another course. M – Won in slow or heavy going. B – Beaten favourite at last start. H – Trained on track. N – Won at night. S – Spell of three months. F – Fell. P – Pulled up. L – Lost rider. TV – Featured on Trackside TV. 24 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 Badminton news AFTER the cancellation of the annual tournament because of Covid-19, Badminton Eastland has 51 players entered for its junior badminton tournament to be run at the Badminton Centre this weekend. GOLDEN RIDE: Ineos Play will begin at 1pm tomorrow and continue Grenadier’s Richard from 9.30am on Sunday. Singles and doubles in Carapaz (left), of Ecuador, under-13, u15 and u19 age groups will be played. with Egan Bernal, of Participation in badminton in the area has Colombia, during the increased through the efforts of schools and the introduction ceremony BWF Shuttletime programme introducing children for the Vuelta a Espana. to badminton. The multi-stage cycling Primary interschool, a one-day event at race starts this weekend Kawakawa and Year 7 and 8 interschool in the province of Burgos, competitions held this year were successful, northern Spain. with a fabulous competitive atmosphere and AP picture players having fun. The association junior clubs, Kiwibadminton and Hot Shots, have increased membership this year and volunteers are thanked. Secondary schools are developing badminton programmes and the standard of badminton has improved. Tolaga Bay Area School, Waikirikiri School and Gisborne Intermediate have players in the AIMS Games in Tauranga in September. The association’s aim is to get a racket in the hand of every child in the area, whether it is at Olympic champ Carapaz to ride golden bike home, at school or with clubs. 19. A puzzle with many pieces CYCLING yesterday, ahead of the start of the final He became only the second man to JUNIOR(6) CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS grand tour of the year this weekend in win an Olympic gold for Ecuador after BURGOS, Spain — Olympic road race Burgos. Jefferson Perez in the 20-kilometre walk at Previous solution champion Richard Carapaz will ride the Carapaz, a former winner of the Giro Atlanta in 1996. Across: 1. Telephone, 6. Chair, 7. Lambs, 9. Chew, 10. Verses, 12. Vuelta a Espana on a gold-painted bike to d’Italia, produced a sensational finishing Carapaz will be one of three leaders in Nectar, 14. Blue, 17. Thumb, 18. Laces, 19. Strongest. celebrate his Tokyo victory. burst in the Olympic road race, riding the Ineos team, along with Colombia’s Giro Down: 2. Erase, 3. Ears, 4. Halved, 5. Names, 6. Coconut, 8. His Ineos Grenadiers team unveiled solo to victory at the Fuji Speedway after d’Italia winner Egan Bernal and Britain’s Sisters, 11. Bamboo, 13. Crust, 15. Locks, 16. Flag the new paint job on his Pinarello bike dropping his rivals. Adam Yates. — AAP THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Saturday, August 14, 2021 SUDOKU CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Mila Kunis, 38; Halle Berry, 55; Jackee Harry, 65; Steve Martin, 76. Happy Birthday: Put more thought into any changes you want to make this year. Letting SUDOKU is a logic puzzle made your emotions take over will lead to mistakes that can disrupt your home up of 81 squares on a 9x9 grid. environment. Focus on meaningful relationships, physical fitness, health and To solve the puzzle, each row, using your skills in new and exciting ways. Refuse to let indulgent behavior or over-the-top friends lead you down the wrong path. Your numbers are 4, 17, column and 3x3 grid within the 22, 27, 39, 43, 46. larger grid must end up containing ARIES (March 21-April 19): each number from 1 to 9, and You may want to get the approval of someone you love and respect before each number can only appear you say yes to something or someone. A last-minute change will allow the once in a row, column or box. opportunity to pursue something meaningful. Share your feelings and find out A sudoku grid has a single where you stand. 3 stars unique solution, which can be TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You'll be jumpy when it comes to emotional matters. Stay calm. Be rational reached without using guesswork. and willing to participate in an open discussion. Confidential issues are SOLUTION IN NEXT PUBLICATION. apparent and can cost you if you are too quick to respond. Put peace and love before discord. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Verify all information you receive before you share or participate. 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Seated in a calm SOLUTIONS TO get it home (5) Holding back your feelings won't solve problems. Step up and say what's on Quick Crossword answers way (6) 17. Forfeit between 100 and your mind, and good things will transpire. Commitment and trust will go hand PUZZLE 11,367 23. Not accustomed to 500? Shut up! (6) in hand when dealing with meaningful relationships. Romance will be the key also fit the large grid to someone's heart. 4 stars QUICK mint (6) 20. Grey like a chicken (5) Across: 1 Propagandist; 7 Vital; AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 8 Stoop; 9 Ill; 10 Irregular; Keep emotions in check, and you'll avoid a scene. Indulgent behavior will 11 Oddity; 12 Vanish; QUICK CLUES stand between you and success. Look at the big picture, and mull over how 15 Interfere; 17 Ban; 18 Usage; best to make the most of your day without disrupting meaningful relationships. 19 Argue; 21 Interruption. ACROSS DOWN 2 stars Down: 1 Parsimonious; 2 Act; 1. Alarm (6) 1. Grope (6) 3 Allure; 4 Designate; 5 Spoil; PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): 6 Apprehension; 7 Valid; 4. Lethargy (6) 2. Not important (13) You'll get help if you ask. Pay attention to loved ones, and it will bring you closer together. A kind gesture, a little romance or a compliment will set the 10 Intercede; 13 Imbue; 9. Bad handling (13) 3. Centre (5) 14 Repair; 16 Train; 20 Gap. mood. Luck will lead to an unexpected gain. 5 stars CRYPTIC 10. Ease (7) 5. Aperture (7) Birthday Baby: Across: 1 Riding school; 11. Fatuous (5) 6. Quibbling (13) You are generous, changeable and wise. You are demonstrative and intense. 7 Cider; 8 Amble; 9 Rob; 10 Expositor; 11 Pretty; 12. Essential (5) 7. Bad (6) 12 Combat; 15 Advantage; 14. Repeated (5) 8. Frequent (5) 17 Tie; 18 Extol; 19 Trawl; 21 Presentation. Down: 18. Decree (5) 13. Workman (7) 1 Record player; 2 Nod; 19. Bewitch (7) 15. Spirit (6) STAR RATINGS 3 Scrape; 4 Headstone; 5 Orbit; 21. Interchange (13) 16. Devil (5) FIVE STARS: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold. 6 Secret weapon; 7 Cable; FOUR STARS: You can pretty much do as you please. It’s a good time to start new projects. 10 Entangles; 13 Betel; 22. Add to (6) 17. Niggardly (6) THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals. 14 Martin; 16 Voter; 20 Ada. TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. 23. Sufficiency (6) 20. Cold (5) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 SPORT 25 ‘All out’ for last league game FOOTBALL by John Gillies CENTRAL FED LEAGUE GISBORNE Thistle will be at full P W D L F A GD Pts strength tomorrow for their last league Havelock NW 15 12 1 2 54 16 38 37 game of the season — against the team Palm Nth Marist 15 10 1 4 58 26 32 31 who have already clinched the title. Gisborne Thistle 15 10 0 5 43 31 12 30 Havelock North Wanderers last week Whanganui Ath 15 9 2 4 36 21 15 29 broke free of the chasing teams in Massey Univ 14 8 2 4 37 28 9 26 football’s Central Federation League. North End 15 6 1 8 30 35 -5 19 Napier Marist 15 3 1 11 24 52 -28 10 They beat Levin 2-1 away on Saturday, Levin 15 2 1 12 14 44 -30 7 while the last team still with a chance of New Plym Rngrs 15 2 1 12 15 58 -43 7 catching them, Palmerston North Marist, saw their hopes evaporate with a 3-1 Last weekend’s results: Gisborne Thistle 4 North home loss to Whanganui Athletic. End 3, Palmerston North Marist 1 Whanganui Athletic Wanderers now have the option of a 3, Levin 1 Havelock North Wanderers 2, Napier Marist 4 New Plymouth Rangers 0. Bye: Massey University. two-game playoff against the winners of the Capital Football Premier League for and Massey, and — the following week promotion to the Central League. — a three-goal home victory for Massey Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne over Levin. Thistle would fall behind Thistle coach Garrett Blair says both Whanganui and Massey on goal Wanderers might be tempted to rest difference. players ahead of the playoff games to The best-case scenario would have help them get over injuries or freshen up Thistle beating Havelock North and for the next challenge. Palmerston North Marist losing their “We might see a different Havelock away match to last-placed New Plymouth North team from those we have seen so Rangers. In this event, Thistle would far this year,” Blair said. finish second. And a New Plymouth “They could give younger squad players PENALTY AWARDED: Gisborne Thistle skipper and attacking midfielder Nick Land victory is not beyond the realms of an opportunity and rest some of the more goes to ground against North End in a Central Federation League football game at possibility. Three weeks ago they had a experienced players. Childers Road Reserve last Saturday. North End players are (from left) leftback Joey home win against Whanganui. “But they have good quality and good Thomas and centrebacks Patrick Smither and Crispin Moore. As a result of this A draw for Thistle tomorrow would depth, so our game plan will stay the passage of play, referee Chris Niven awarded a penalty, from which centreback Ander likely leave them third or fourth. same.” Batarrita scored. Batarrita scored again in stoppage time to give Thistle a 4-3 win. Whanganui could overhaul them by Former Thistle midfielder Tomek Monday’s match report incorrectly stated that Alan Zarate was the player adjudged to beating Massey University, but a draw Frooms, who joined Havelock North in have been fouled for the penalty. Picture by Paul Rickard between the two southern teams would June, had been getting regular game keep Thistle in third place. Palmerston time, Blair said. team as a centreback. “I think for us it is about trying to North Marist’s goal difference is 20 “I know he started a couple of games, Blair said he would still look to absorb that pressure and looking to hit better than Thistle’s and that won’t be especially when they were ravaged by play three central defenders and two them on the counter, with speed,” Blair overturned in one game, so a Thistle injuries.” fullbacks, two holding midfielders and said. draw would not bring second place, even Thistle knew how he played so they one more advanced, and two strikers. Thistle could finish the season if Marist lost. could plan accordingly, Blair said. On the two occasions the Jags had anywhere from second to fifth, and they Kick-off against Wanderers tomorrow Meanwhile, everyone in the Thistle played Havelock North this season — might not know their final placing until is at 3pm at Guthrie Park, Havelock first-team squad should be fit and ready once in the Chatham Cup and once in Massey University have played their last North. Any supporters wanting to travel to go. the league — Wanderers had been a big, game, on Saturday, August 21. to the game by bus should make contact Ryan Anderson, who was unavailable physical side who got on top of teams The worst-case scenario would be a through the Gisborne Thistle Facebook last week, would probably be back in the with their physicality. Thistle loss, a draw between Whanganui page, or contact Garrett Blair. Ton-up Rahul gives India an edge CRICKET Still, Rohit and, in particular, Rahul negotiated the new ball in impressive LONDON — KL Rahul scored his sixth fashion and showed good technique and a test century as India responded to being stomach for the fight. put in to bat in challenging conditions at Rohit, who hit four boundaries off one Lord’s by compiling an impressive 276-3 on over by Sam Curran, was on course for Day 1 of the second test against England. his eighth test century when Anderson Having seen fellow opener Rohit got one to nip back off the seam and go Sharma (83) fail to reach three figures through the right-handed opener’s gate to on Thursday, Rahul got there by virtue hit the top of the stumps. of a circumspect and gritty knock to put It was the classy Rohit’s highest test himself on the Honours Board at the home score outside India. of cricket. Twenty-one balls from Anderson later, He reached stumps on 127 not out to Pujara departed when he prodded at an complete a dominant day for India, who outswinger from the 39-year-old paceman lost captain Virat Kohli for 42 late in the and edged it to Jonny Bairstow at third final session. slip. Rahul put on a 126-run partnership Kohli was never completely fluent in with Rohit for the opening wicket and his 103-ball innings featuring three fours, then a stand of 117 with Kohli for the and he went hard with a defensive stroke third wicket. to Robinson, the ball flying to England Jimmy Anderson, England’s enduring captain Joe Root at first slip. record wicket-taker who declared himself By then, Rahul had reached his century fit after complaining of a tight quadriceps CENTURY CELEBRATION: India’s KL Rahul celebrates reaching his century during — his third against England after 199 muscle on Wednesday, removed Rohit the second cricket test against England at Lord’s in London on Thursday. AP picture at Chennai in 2016 and 149 at The Oval and Cheteshwar Pujara (nine) in quick across London in 2018 — with a cut for succession towards the end of the second “We toiled hard today against their Otherwise, though, England failed to four through third man. session and had figures of 2-52 off 20 overs. batters and, to be fair, they played well. So take advantage of winning the toss and India’s players on the team balcony Ollie Robinson (1-47) got the prized to get the wicket of Kohli at the end was choosing to bowl on a day of changing stood to applaud him and Rahul kissed his wicket of Kohli late on a day when the huge and gives us a bit of momentum for weather, which saw morning showers helmet. He went to the close having struck paceman’s nagging line and length the morning,” Robinson said. delay the start of play by 30 minutes before 12 fours, mostly through the offside, and troubled India’s batters, with Robinson “The plan to him was always to bowl a mix of sunny and cloudy conditions that a six in 248 balls, and he’d been joined at hoping it could still be a crucial wicket fourth or fifth stump, back of a length . . . proved extremely helpful for the seam the end of the day by Ajinkya Rahane, who with England now up against it. luckily the plan worked.” bowlers. was unbeaten on one. — AP Raucous crowd present for Celtic’s Europa League win FOOTBALL by Gavin McCafferty, PA through to a playoff against AZ Alkmaar. after they lost their Europa Conference players to hold their heads high despite Three stands at Celtic Park were League third-round qualifier against their 4-2 defeat — and a 5-3 aggregate GLASGOW — David Turnbull hit a full — the main stand capacity is still Rijeka. loss to Turkish side Galatasaray — at double as Ange Postecoglou’s Celtic side limited by Covid protocols — and the sell- A 1-1 draw at Easter Road had given McDiarmid Park. swept to a 3-0 Europa League victory out crowd watched the Bhoys secure a Jack Ross’s side hope of progressing, but Scotland’s domestic double cup over Jablonec in front of a raucous comfortable third consecutive win under a 4-1 defeat in Croatia in the second leg winners had drawn 1-1 with the visitors Parkhead crowd. the former Socceroos boss Postecoglou. today saw the Edinburgh club eliminated in the first leg of their Europa League Turnbull scored either side of halftime Meanwhile. Martin Boyle’s hopes of a 5-2 on aggregate. third qualifying round in Istanbul last today before James Forrest wrapped up European adventure with his Scottish In other action, manager Callum week but the second leg proved just too a 7-2 aggregate victory that sent Celtic Premiership side Hibernian are over Davidson has told his St Johnstone much. 26 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 ABs start asking hard questions Poor finish takes the shine off explosive early start RUGBY by Liam Napier, NZME Wellington, he did that which was positive for him, but we had a desire to keep the TJ Perenara’s surprise inclusion, combinations going.” Dane Coles’ extended absence and the Perenara’s inclusion on the pine ahead underwhelming last quarter in the opening of Chiefs halfback Brad Weber comes Bledisloe Cup victory shines a sharp focus as something of a surprise after he on the All Blacks bench this week. was expected to make his return with Finishing over the top of opponents Wellington following his returning from used to be a major strength of the All Japan. Blacks. From Dublin to Australia and Finlay Christie’s shoulder injury, which South Africa, notable comeback victories will sideline him for four-to-six weeks, were one of many hallmarks of the Steve forced the All Blacks to call up Perenara to Hansen era. the wider squad last week, and Foster has No matter the score or the time now preferred him to deputise for Aaron remaining, opposition teams knew they Smith over Weber for the second Bledisloe were never out of reach, never able to clock at Eden Park. off, such was the fitness levels and impact “First of all, it’s not TJ’s fault he didn’t the All Blacks bench provided. play last week, really,” Foster said. “It was Just as one swallow does not make a a disappointing thing with Finlay’s injury summer, one poor finish in last week’s and the plan was to give him a couple of 33-25 victory does not render this year’s weeks in our environment and hopefully All Blacks side uncapable of evoking a play for Wellington. That part didn’t much more ruthless edge. Yet there is an eventuate but I think it’s just a chance to urgent need to address this area after get him back involved. leading 33-8, only to switch off and concede “That’s more of a straight swap, just three tries in the final 12 minutes. to get TJ back in there and give him an That finish sure took the shine off the opportunity to get back on the park so middle stages of last week’s performance certainly not an indictment on Brad at all where the All Blacks made tactical TOP SCORE: TJ Perenara keeps the ball in play during the Rugby World Cup 2019 and I’m pretty sure that competition will shifts to be far more direct through their pool match against Namibia at Tokyo Stadium. Perenara has been included in the keep going.” forwards and reap the rewards for doing squad for the next round of the Bledisloe Cup. NZ Herald picture All Blacks: Damian McKenzie, Will so. Jordan, Rieko Ioane, David Havili, Sevu Despite Coles being ruled out for four-to- the final quarter. This ultimately quashed flustered. I wouldn’t say it’s an easy fix but Reece, Richie Mo’unga, Aaron Smith, six weeks with another calf issue suffered chances to attack, and mitigated much of there’s certainly a lot of desire to play for Ardie Savea, Dalton Papalii, Akira Ioane, during last week’s warm-up, it’s not as if the impact from the reserves. 80 minutes.” Sam Whitelock (c), Brodie Retallick, Nepo the All Blacks don’t “You’ve got to The All Blacks bench should have a Laulala, Codie Taylor, George Bower. have ample depth at remember the bench more settled feel to it this week after Scott Reserves: Samisoni Taukei’aho, Karl their disposal. Bringing There is an urgent need is not just numbers Barrett and Coles were late withdrawals. Tu’inukuafe, Angus Ta’avao, Scott Barrett, the three Barrett to address this area after 16-23 it’s the XV Foster revealed Coles’ calf would keep Luke Jacobson, TJ Perenara, Beauden brothers — Beauden, players out on the him out for an extended period, and Barrett, Jordie Barrett. Jordie and Scott, who leading 33-8, only to . . . field at that point,” explained why the selectors opted to retain Wallabies: Tom Banks, Andrew returns from illness concede three tries in the All Blacks coach Ian replacement hooker Samisoni Taukei’aho Kellaway, Hunter Paisami, Matt To’omua, Foster said after over Asafo Aumua. — off the bench is a final 12 minutes. Marika Koroibete, Noah Lolesio, Tate situation other test making two positional “It’s actually a different calf strain than McDermott, Rob Valetini, Michael Hooper nations envy. changes to his starting he’s had before. We’re probably looking at (c), Lachlan Swinton, Matt Philip, Darcy One of the main problems last week XV. a four-to-six-week period for that,” Foster Swain, Allan Alaalatoa, Brandon Paenga- was not so much the personnel but the “We had some moments we knocked off said. Amosa, James Slipper. Reserves: Jordan collective ill-discipline that allowed the a little bit; we got seduced by the scoreline “Samisoni has settled in well; done what Uelese, Scott Sio, Taniela Tupou, Lukhan Wallabies to set up camp in the 22 and so that was the major concern. Once we we’ve asked really well. We had a strategy Salakaia-Loto, Harry Wilson, Nic White, forced the All Blacks to defend for much of started to chase our tail, we got a bit with Asafo to send him back and play for Len Ikitau, Reece Hodge. Premier grade netballers brace for make or break

NETBALL by Murray Robertson situation before and really they should be on board to win it. SUDDEN death looms for two of the “I think they will be after what teams involved in the premier grade happened on Wednesday night.” Elimination Semi Finals tomorrrow Horouta on the other hand were rapt morning in the Gisborne YMCA. to be moving another step further in the It promises to be a tall mountain to playoffs. climb for both Horouta Gold and Tapuae No doubt they will also be primed to to advance further in the playoffs. repeat the effort they put out against But for all four teams the season ends a hard-working Gillies Electrical Girls for the losers tomorrow morning. High senior A on Wednesday night. At 9am in the morning Whangara Old At 10.30am Claydens Waikohu 1 take Girls take on Horouta Gold to decide on Tapuae in the other decider. who joins YMP Sunshine Brewery and “It was a win to Waikohu 1 last time F45 High School Old Girls in next these two met, but now add semifinal Wednesday’s Preliminary Finals. pressure and anything can happen,” “We’ve seen wins to Whangara when Beale said. these two teams have met this season,” “Last time it was a closely contested said netball commentator Sherrill Beale. game with both teams playing tight, “Whangara have been playing well player on player defence. and will be disappointed in losing their “I am expecting a similar game semifinal on Wednesday night against tomorrow.” High School Old Girls. Waikohu co-coach Cheryl Te Rito “So Horouta Gold will need to bring believes her girls will go all right. their top game tomorrow morning to get “I think the girls will be fine. As long past them.” as they play their own game.” Whangara coach Ronnie Martin said The fact the loser bows out has added Wednesday night’s close loss was so a bit of extra pressure, she said. frustrating. “But the girls will be up for it. They “We had our chances, we missed some are keen to get past this and try to go all goals we shouldn’t have, made simple the way,” Te Rito said. errors and the girls were disappointed “But we will see. For both teams it’s “The girls want to move on from the about who turns up on the day. loss to HSOG and focus on playing some “Tapuae can be a tricky team. good netball tomorrow morning,” Martin “They are very unpredictable, so we said. will have to be on our game.” “In the main they are all experienced Over at the Victoria Domain courts, players and there’s really no excuses. the seniors start their semifinals, with “They’ve nearly all been in this games being played from 9am to 1pm. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, August 13, 2021 SPORT 27 Latu moves south for decisive career step RUGBY by Jack Malcolm “To be honest, I was kind of nervous and excited playing out on TV (sic). I had to get GISBORNE’S Paula Latu has made his used to it.” National Provincial Championship debut He believed his selection in an NPC club starting from the bench for the Southland was the coaches realising his potential and Stags in a last-minute defeat against he said he’s eager to prove them right. Otago. “I don’t hold back my emotions. It feels Latu moved to Invercargill in amazing.” preparation for pre-season training after As the sixth of 12 children, the Latu receiving a call from the Southland head family relocated to Gisborne when he was coach, Dale MacLeod. 14. His older brother, Penikolo Latu, is He’d previously played club rugby for also a professional rugby player, having MAC in Hawke’s Bay and said it was a started for Tonga on the wing against the good feeling to be noticed by out-of-town All Blacks last month. selectors. “He helped me a lot too. I look up to After returning from a two-year him.” mission to El Salvador for The Church of For now, Latu said his focus is squarely Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Latu on the ITM cup, taking it “step by step”, transitioned to playing prop for the first but he does have dreams for higher time in his life. honours. In his high school playing days, he was a “My dreams, I can see the bigger picture blindside flanker, but the move to the front in my life now, and it all started from row has paid dividends since returning to Gisborne.” New Zealand. He said he wants to be a role model for After years of training hard with the the “young ones trying to get up”, saying BREAKTHROUGH: Paula Latu (pictured in 2014) said his days playing for Gisborne goal of earning his place, he said he’s that people should take every opportunity Boys’ High School were the “best time ever” under one of his favourite coaches, Tom excited to prove himself on the big stage. that’s given to them. “Big Daddy” Cairns. Picture by Paul Rickard Aron Baynes loses contract with Raptors as accident sidelines his season BASKETBALL by Jack Malcolm upcoming season in jeopardy. Spurs in 2013. Olympic bronze medal winning Australian After starting the first 27 games of the A year later the Spurs went on to win an Boomers team at the Tokyo games before GISBORNE-born Aron Baynes has most recent NBA season for Toronto, NBA championship where Baynes played he had to withdraw due to injury. been cut from the Toronto Raptors roster, Baynes only made four starts in the 14 of the 23 playoff games. Despite his tribulations the 6’10 losing his $7.35 million contract. remaining 45 games after struggling to Since 2014, Baynes has been shuffled (208cm) 118kg centre will likely have no The news came days before Baynes find form on both attack and defence. through the Detroit Pistons, the Boston trouble finding a replacement team, with was hospitalised with “severe nerve Baynes, who grew up in Australia after Celtics and the Phoenix Suns before NBA commentators saying his experience damage” in his neck following a freak moving from New Zealand at age three, signing with the Raptors for the 2020 close to the basket will be highly sought locker room accident during the Tokyo went undrafted in the NBA in 2009 before season. after if he would accept a less expensive Olympics that has put his status for the making his debut for the San Antonio More recently, Baynes was a part of the contract.

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BLOCKED PASS: Lytton Old Boys’ Oliver Shivnan (right) tries to block the pass of Alex Hyland, of YMP A, in club hockey on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. YMP will be out to stop LOB from recording three wins in a row against them. File picture by Paul Rickard

HOCKEY by Murray Robertson commentator Tony Scragg said. “This one is do or die — the losers drop seen from them so far.” “Let’s hope it’s a nice close tussle. It out — so both teams will be going their The saving grace for the losing team is QUARTERFINAL time throws up some would not surprise to see these two teams hardest. that they get a second life. juicy prospects for play in the hockey meeting again in the final.” “Ngatapa will go in as favourites after The weekend programme begins at 6pm competition this weekend and the spotlight The match starts at 12.30pm tomorrow previous results, but you cannot write the tonight with a women’s B Grade game falls on four games in particular. on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker students off.” between GMC Kowhai and Te Aowera. The first of them will start the Saturday Reserve. The fourth standout match this weekend “Kowhai are on a winning streak, with 12 programme in style when YMP take on The match that follows should be a is the men’s quarterfinal between Lytton goals against the same team last weekend,” GMC Green. cracking game, too, when Paikea take on Old Boys NZ Fruits and YMP A at 5pm he said. YMP were clear winners when the Waituhi at 2pm. tomorrow. “Let’s see what fight the TA side are able teams met in last weekend’s final round- “It was 2-0 to Paikea when these Twice in a row the Fruits have bettered to put up this time.” robin game in the women’s A Grade. They teams met last weekend. That could be the YMP top side. Then at 7.30pm the Waituhi men take on will want to reinforce that statement with an indicator of another close contest “It’s set to be a big game,” Scragg said. LOB Masters. another strong performance. tomorrow.” “All the pressure goes on the Fruits “That should be a good game, too,” “There will be an air of confidence in The thrills continue at 3.30pm when to make it three from three, and that’s Scragg said. the YMP side but they will be very wary Ngatapa play Amber Dental Gisborne Girls’ something YMP will try very hard to deny “Waituhi have been playing well against of what happened last year, when GMC High School. them. the Masters all year and they will not want Green won the title against the run of play “Ngatapa won well last time,” Scragg “I can see another narrow victory to the to let the result in this game stand in their previously between the two teams,” hockey said. “Tomorrow is another day, though. Fruits if they play the style of hockey we’ve way of making the finals.”