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Vaccine-makers battling a mutating virus Outbreak stretching MIQ to its limits Study shows Importance of wastewater testing Airport security beefed up after breaches ARTS & PAGES 2-3, 6-7, 11-13 ENTERTAINMENT // PAGES 19-22 INSIDE TODAY A poet and she didn’t know it “POETRY is an echo, asking switching lines around. It was real a shadow to dance” . . . and the fun making sense of the jumble shadows certainly danced in the in my head and seeing it come to inaugural Te Tairawhiti Poetry fruition as a poem.” Competition run by The Gisborne The winners of the rangatahi Herald during lockdown. section are Amy Adcock for Come With over 100 poems inspired Back Golden Hypnosis and Sam by the competition theme “Spring”, Mason-Green for 7am. choosing winners proved no easy Helayna won a $100 voucher task but judge Benita Kape took up donated by Warehouse Stationery. the challenge. Amy and Sam won family passes INAUGURAL The winner of the open category for minigolf at Gisborne’s i-Site, WINNER: Helayna is Helayna Ruifrok for her poem courtesy of Trust Tairawhiti, Ruifrok won the Would We Have Noticed? The ultimate prize, however, was open category “I’ve always loved writing,” the coming together of community of the first Te Helayna said. “I’ve had journals my to create beautiful words in a time whole life documenting my travels when the normality of life has been Tairawhiti Poetry and my life as a mum. disrupted by Covid-19. Competition. Spring “This competition sparked the A big thank you to poet Benita was the theme. poet in me that I didn’t know was for judging the competition. It was Picture by there. I really enjoyed the process no easy task choosing favourites Paul Rickard actually, sitting outside with a from the many pages of wonderful pencil and notebook, putting words words sent in. together. “I was constantly rubbing More on the competition words out, adding new ones and in today’s Guide pages BACK IN BUSINESS Takeaway outlets inundated in return to some sort of normal by staff reporters at KFC and one customer posting a photo “The McDonald’s line-up occupied by the contactless regulations under Level of notices on the KFC door saying it had the whole of the Treble Court carpark, 3. But they were happy to be back in HOW long’s the line at McDonald’s? run out of coleslaw and lettuce “due to out into Bright Street and around into business. “It’s McMassive.” lockdown delays”. Palmerston Road,” he said. Bollywood Stars restaurant owner That Facebook exchange summed A man who drove through the city “There were lots of cars waiting at the Baljeet Sandhu said he was excited to up day 1 of a drop to Alert Level 3 in centre at around 7pm said he could not other burger places as well along the main be operating again, even if it is a partial Gisborne as takeaway outlets were believe the line-ups at fast food outlets. street. opening of the business. inundated with customers and other food “It was stunning really. So many people “I also saw dozens of people waiting on “We have made some improvements to and beverage services returned to some taking advantage of the shift to Level 3. the footpath outside the pizza places. how our business operates. We have set sort of normal after the second nationwide “The KFC vehicle queue was right “I wondered what it must have been like up a safe pickup zone at the entrance so lockdown. through the on-site line-up, out on to at other times of the day yesterday. nobody can enter the premises. Queues of cars waiting in line at Cobden Street and around into Gladstone “The staff in those eateries must have “It is a preventive measure to keep our McDonald’s and KFC grew steadily, with Road well past the Enterprise car yard been flat out.” staff safe. social media reports of a two-hour wait towards Carnarvon Street. Some were, their challenge compounded CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Tairāwhiti Representation Review 2021 Initial Proposal Have we got it Right? Te us >> GDC.GOVT.NZ Or write it down on the submission form in the mail and post it back to us. Please allow 2 days before submissions end on September 16 to ensure it gets to us in time. 06 8672049 • 0800 653 800 • [email protected] • www.gdc.govt.nz • GisborneDC 41408-02

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by Murray Robertson IT’S a big week for lambing around the region as the ewes mated around April 9 have their youngsters arrive in the world. AgFirst consultant Peter Andrew said this week and next is when the largest number of ewes deliver their lambs. “This high number of ewes lambing will continue for another week, so we don’t really want a storm just now,” Mr Andrew said. “So, fingers crossed. “So far this winter the weather has been favourable for lambing with mild temperatures and not many big southerly storms,” he said. “Grass growth over winter has been only average considering the favourable weather at times. “Farmers suspect the dry soils at times have been the problem, but farmers should have enough to keep the mums and their new arrivals going into spring. “It is still a positive with spring started and sunshine hours getting longer each day,” Mr Andrew said. “Docking has just started on the early lambing mobs and all is going to plan with good survival being reported.”

HEADS UP: This cutie was distracted momentarily from enjoying some spring growth in a paddock on the corner of Tucker and Hansen roads in Hexton. Picture by Liam Clayton Grieving for loved ones in lockdown by Akula Sharma “During Level 4 there was only one grieving families and friends was to option, to use the services of a funeral acknowledge and be with the sadness in GRIEVING the loss of a loved one in director. these times. lockdown is hard when families don’t “I do let people know though that they “Lockdown can be a lonely time, death have time to be with the deceased, says may want to organise a memorial service is never easy to deal with and lockdown deathcare advocate Annie Meredith. to be held at a later date and I or other makes it that much harder. Covid-19 Alert Level 3 guidelines allow funeral celebrants can guide them with “For some people who are having funerals, tangihanga or burials, but this process.” a memorial service at a later date, are limited to 10 people. This includes Ms Meredith said the main concern in lockdown is a time to plan the service; kaikaranga, kaikorero, members of the the pandemic for people was not having make photo slideshows, create the service clergy or staff who are attending. time to be with their loved one after their sheet. They have more time than usual Annie Meredith is an end-of -life doula demise. and can use this to their advantage. and funeral celebrant. She says grieving “Normally, families can organise all the “A funeral director isn’t needed for families carry an extra burden when they deathcare themselves but with lockdown the memorial service, just someone to cannot have a funeral or tangihanga. this is not the case and people have to help guide it. Or the family may want to “A funeral/tangihanga helps with use the services of a funeral director. do all the memorial service organising grieving and is an important part of “So if a person dies at home and is in themselves. death.” your bubble the family may pause on “There is value in having a memorial Ms Meredith said people wanted making that phone call to the funeral service even if it is a month or so after.” to know their options during these director, because once contact is made uncertain times — what they can and then there won’t be another opportunity can’t do in terms of arranging deathcare. to be with the deceased in Level 4. END-OF-LIFE GUIDANCE: Annie “My role as an end of life doula, “As we move down the levels there will Meredith helps people cope with deathcare advocate is to let people know be an opportunity.” the loss of loved ones. all their options at this time. Ms Meredith said her advice to Picture supplied

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STATE highway works in Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay resumed yesterday after the move to Covid-19 Alert Level 3 for most of . Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency stood down all non-essential state highway maintenance and project work with the move to Alert Level 4, with only essential maintenance and work to ensure security, safety and environmental protection of sites permitted during the lockdown. “The health and safety of our workers and road users remains the top priority for Waka Kotahi and although some work is resuming, Level 3 is not a return to normal,” regional manager infrastructure delivery Lonnie Dalzell said. “We are working closely with our contractors on individual Covid-19 plans for each of our worksites. The plans include standards and guidelines for pre-planning work, documenting the health and safety of staff, maintaining safe physical distancing, cleaning of all plant, tools and vehicles, and quickly and accurately tracing people if they come into contact with someone who tests positive for Covid-19. “Getting back into on-site work will be different for each project and timings will depend on the STATE YOUR BUSINESS: The fixed checkpoint at Okitu has been operating well, thanks to the cooperation of drivers. nature and complexity of worksites,” he said. Traffic volume has increased since the region dropped to Alert Level 3 yesterday and police say they are “pleased” with “Some on-site activity will be able to start back driver behaviour. Picture by Ben Cowper up straight away, while other sites and projects may take some time to be fully operational. “Infrastructure plays a vital role in New Zealand’s economic recovery so it’s important that work continues, but we won’t compromise Checkpoints ‘rolling along well’ on the health and safety of our workers and road users, which is our top priority,” Mr Dalzell said. Maintenance work also resumed across Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay from yesterday. by Murray Robertson “The checkpoints are rolling along the situation. People coming into the “Resuming our critical maintenance work as well and we remain pleased with district from outside continue to be we head into the drier season will help ensure THE police fixed checkpoints at two what we’re encountering,” area police coming here for the right reasons.” we continue to provide a safe, efficient and locations in the region continue and so commander Inspector Sam Aberahama Insp Aberahama said police had yet accessible state highway network over the next does the good behaviour from people said. to catch up with a man who abused and 12 months. moving about in the district. “It is quite noticeable that the shift threatened staff at the Mobile Portside “We’d like to remind people travelling through Fixed checkpoints are operating to Alert Level 3 has generated more service station on Tuesday. our worksites to please be patient and respectful day and night on State Highway 35 at traffic on the roads, and we’re seeing It happened when service station of our workers who are stepping outside of their Okitu at Wainui and the top of East that at the checkpoints. staff pointed out he had to wear a mask bubbles to do vital work to keep everyone safe on Cape, along with mobile checkpoints “Our staff have been stopping plenty to enter the premises. our roads.” covering SH2 south and the road to of vehicles, talking to the drivers, “He continues to evade us but we will Waka Kotahi expects to be able to provide more Lake Waikaremoana. and we continue to be happy with find him.” detail on individual projects over the next week. Better prepared this time Pooja Goel said the drive-through FROM PAGE 1 reopened with a reduced menu and he Show of appreciation for essential workers requested patience from customers. “There is a table for orders to be “Our suppliers are working very hard collected and we encourage people to pay by Avneesh Vincent orders at the doorstep. so we can serve our full range as soon as via eftpos/paywave. For takeaways, the restaurant has set up a possible.” “We will make arrangements to how to BOLLYWOOD Stars is offering a 10 percent spot at the main entrance for safe pickup and “Drive-through has been pretty accept cash safely (sanitisation) but at the discount on all food items for essential eftpos payment. consistent since opening and we are moment we prefer online orders.” workers in Gisborne. All ordered items must be prepaid. trying to serve our customers as fast as Mr Sandhu said mask use was Owner Baljeet Sandhu said they wanted to “While the contactless delivery is for possible.” mandatory for staff and customers, along show their appreciation for those who were everyone, we are giving a treat to the essential “We are operating strictly under Alert with contact tracer scanning. “supporting everyone and working in this workers . . . if they order their favourite curries Level 3 guidelines. The safety of our The business struggled during Level hard time”. we will give them a 10 percent discount on staff and customers is paramount. We 4, however, this year it was only for two “They deserve it.” delivery or pickup. As long as they put a are taking all the necessary measures, weeks which made it easier for him to Mr Sandhu said the restaurant had opened certain code online and tell us that they are including the use of face masks, gloves, cope financially. up partially in Level 3, providing takeaways essential workers they will get the discount.” contact tracing, social distancing, “We had some help from the and deliveries only. The discount is running during Level 3 contactless service and frequent Government with the wage subsidy. Guidelines state that businesses must although it could be extended into Level 2. sanitisation.” Luckily the lockdown was only two weeks provide safe pickup points and contactless Mr Sandhu said the restaurant had a rich Regional economic development agency this time.” service. history of serving the community through Trust Tairawhiti has been working closely Angus Maindonald, one of the owners In the case of home deliveries, Mr Sandhu fundraisers and charities. with affected outlets. of Zephyr Wainui cafe, said Level 4 made said Bollywood staff would be dropping off “We love to pay back the community.” “We’ve ensured regular comms it harder for small businesses to operate have gone out to businesses about the in the regions but he was happy with the Government support available and how Government’s support measures. Nina’s Kitchen owner Nadine very glad to be back open,” AM Espresso to access it, as well as advice and support “The Government has done a good job Weatherley said the second lockdown had manager Holly Reid said. available through the trust and our in providing information to us in terms of been tough. “We weren’t able to open under Level 3 partners,” a trust spokeswoman said. getting access to the wage subsidy. Trust “It was much harder because it was so guidelines last year, so I am very grateful “Unlike last year, businesses are Tairawhiti was very helpful, especially quick and we didn’t have time to prepare to be able to open our doors to the Gizzy familiar with lockdowns and how they the business staff there who gave us on a particularly bad time of the month — locals. work, so the degree of uncertainty and information to access support as fast as close to the 20th.” “Closing our doors for two weeks has unknowns appears much less than last possible.” Ms Weatherley said her initial had a massive effect on us — loss of time. Operating in Level 3 required changes. impression of coming out of lockdown income and wages for our staff — so we “Businesses have made adjustments “We have gone contactless. We had to yesterday was it was quieter than last really appreciate the support of the locals and built resilience since the first find a way to do window orders, to have year. and all our loyal customers. lockdown and this has resulted in space between people. Changes to Level 3 guidelines from last “Our staff are all very excited to be back businesses being better prepared to “It has been a challenge to change how year were welcomed by those providing serving everyone’s go-to coffees and our operate remotely and under raised alert we do things, for sure. We have limited coffee, with click-and-collect coffee on the Gizzy-famous Cronuts. levels.” our operating hours but luckily we have menu this time. “Come and support a small Gizzy been able to support all our staff with the “It definitely has been a struggle business.” For information on operating a wage subsidy.” financially waiting for Level 3 but we are McDonald’s Gisborne franchise owner business in Alert Level 3, see page 10 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021

FAMILY NOTICES In Memoriam RICKARD, Cooper. Recloaking the Whenua event goes virtual Deaths — 21 years Dad. - Love Milton & Mum. LEAF, Georgina REGISTRATIONS are open for share insights across a range of topics Discussions will also cover public (Georgie) Colleen Recloaking the Whenua, an online including the history of local land use, policy that is driving changes in land (neé O’Brien). — event focusing on permanent native biodiversity, financing regeneration use, and how the region can influence We would have forest regeneration across Tairawhiti. and carbon farming. policy development. welcomed all of Mum’s The aim of the event is to share “Anyone taking part will get a better The event was meant to be held at friends and former information about opportunities understanding of existing land use Lawson Field Theatre but has moved colleagues to the 11am for converting land to indigenous within the region, future opportunities to an online streaming format due to funeral service at Evans PLEASE regeneration, as well as risks to and impacts. Covid-19 Alert Level restrictions. Funeral Home HAVE FAMILY farming and forestry in their current “We’re aiming to give people the Recloaking the Whenua will tomorrow, but the Level NOTICES forms. knowledge to support new land- run from 9am to 5pm on Monday, 3 Covid-19 restric- Tairawhiti Economic Action Plan use transitions, research projects September 6. tions mean that we have IN BY 9AM had to limit our (TEAP) programme manager Harley or commercial ventures around To register or for further attendees to 10, who DAY OF Dibble said guest speakers would indigenous restoration.” information, visit www.recloaking.nz have been notified. PUBLICATION Apologies. Fish being delivered to hapori

FORGET McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish, 160 iced bins of fish are being packed and distributed to hapori (communities) in Ngati Porou and Turanganui-a-Kiwa. “The fishing boat is due to land today (and) Thursday morning we will drive up the coast and distribute as we go”, Ngati Porou Holding Company programme manager Brett Johnston (Hinerupe ki Waiapu) said yesterday. Te Whanau a Hunaara, Ngati Kanohi and Ngai Tamanuhiri approved customary fisheries permits so fish could FUN TIMES: Enjoying a laugh are TORO Academy’s Wiremu Wallace (tutor), Nikora Ngaropo (TORO Academy programme be caught to feed whanau. director) Sam Witters (CEO, TORO Studios), Kawana Wallace (tutor) Julz Noanoa (kaitiakitanga) Fe Grimshaw (marketing) and Hapu leaders from Ngati Porou and Barry Soutar (head of TORO Technology). Turanganui-a-Kiwa were organised to be Picture supplied waiting to receive the “catch of the day” and distribute within their respective hapori. “Pakeke (elders) will be the only ones the fish will be delivered to,” said Lillian Te Hau-Ward, one of the hapu leads for Tokomaru Akau. Animation programme “Everyone else will need to pick up their own fish, gut and scale,” she said. Maintaining community safety is paramount and hapu leads ensured Covid-19 Alert Level 3 protocols were applied. heads-up for rangatahi “No contact engagement, so stay in your car, wear a mask and gloves and by Akula Sharma to run the pilot but we are hopeful. industry.” grab one bag from the table and drive “If there is enough interest in Gisborne, TORO Academy, with local and global off,” Ms Te Hau-Ward said. “First in, first A GISBORNE start-up is helping we will have an easier time convincing organisations, has incorporated a te served.” launch a nationwide animation our funders.” ao Maori approach to create a circular It is expected the weekly distributions accelerator programme for Maori. Mr Ngaropo says the programme is economy for rangatahi, whanau, hapu will continue for the next few weeks. TORO Academy is run by Gisborne- designed to get students jobs in the field. and iwi to provide creative technology based digital animation agency TORO “Rather than a ‘normal’ education solutions in animation and production. Studios. we are looking at an angle of business The programme is co-funded by the The academy is looking for 27 Maori that needs people for work, rather than Ministry of Business, Innovation and students aged 16 and over from across just a mechanism of studying. Employment, alongside Callaghan Sheep sale for New Zealand to join the free, scholarship- “We want to get people through the Innovation. based, 16-week programme aimed at course fast and upskilled. “Increasing diversity and creating helping Maori start a career in 3D “We have 24 companies on board to opportunities for Maori is a real priority Daffodil Day animation. take students when they finish the course for us, so we’re highly supportive of this The pilot programme starts in and 10 guaranteed internships. programme,” says Aroha Armstrong, the The Matawhero saleyards will resume October at Te Wananga o Aotearoa Mr Ngaropo says the programme will Maori economy manager at Callaghan the sale of stock tomorrow after two Mangakotukutuku Campus in Glenview, give students the best foundation needed Innovation. weeks off, and the Cancer Society will Waikato. to be successful. “Not only does this accelerator address benefit considerably with the annual TORO Academy kaiako (tutor/teacher) “We have three tutors on the floor talent shortages and increase diversity Daffodil Day sheep sale to be included. and experienced Maori animator Nikora at any given time to assist the 27 in the sector, but it’s also an amazing “We’re hoping to get a couple of Ngaropo says there is a need to grow students. We also have two people in our opportunity for Maori to get started in an hundred head to sell for the great cause,” talent in the animation sector across New team dedicated to pastoral care for the engaging, exciting career in animation.” a senior stock agent said. Zealand — especially the East Coast. students. We have a very high ratio of Internships for the students have Sales can resume under Alert Level “Our home base is in Gisborne,” Mr support for the amount of students. been lined up through the AMO Collab, 3, subject to strict conditions, including Ngaropo says. “We are investing $15,000 for each a collaboration of New Zealand creative compulsory mask wearing, QR code or “I am Ngati Porou myself. I want to student so we expect that whoever signs animation and production companies. manual sign-ins, and no public access to come and raise technical ability on the up really commits to the programme.” “The creative tech and screen industry the saleyards. East Coast. Many of us work in the Not many Maori are skilled in the in Aotearoa is forging ahead and making Vendors are also asked not to attend primary industries and with changing animation tech area, he says. waves on the global stage,” says Rachel unless absolutely necessary and buyer times there is a need for technical When he was training in 2015 you Antony, the chief executive of New numbers will be restricted. upskilling among our communities. could count the number on the fingers of Zealand-based television production Last year’s sale raised more than “Initially the pilot was supposed to one hand. company Greenstone TV. $40,000 for the Cancer Society. be run in Gisborne but to make the “The number of Maori able to move “We are excited to be part of the AMO scholarships more accessible to Maori high up the ladder is still very low, so Collab and the internship programme students from around the country, it will we want to see Maori move to higher for TORO Academy students who show CORRECTION run in Waikato. positions in this sector.” talent and commitment to a career in the “However, we will bring the programme He would love to see Maori students wider screen sector.” A STORY on page 3 of yesterday’s Gisborne back to Gisborne.” from Gisborne sign up. The programme will run from October Herald about Alert Level 3 rules incorrectly Mr Ngaropo says he does not have a set “There is a real need for diversity in 18 to February 25. stated public toilets remain closed. Public toilets time for when the programme will start the animation sector. Applications close on October 8. along main freight routes will be open. in Gisborne due to the funding process. “It is also important to have our Maori For more information go to www. “At this stage we have only got funding people connect with others in the wider torostudios.nz/toroacademy The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 NEWS 5 Gisborne’s ‘colour man’

OBITUARY Errol Burr

GISBORNE patients of colour therapist Errol Burr followed him to New Plymouth in such numbers that he felt compelled to return. It was a measure of the respect and affection in which he was held that friends and patients helped him set up house in Stanley Road in such a way that he could conduct his practice from his home. In all, Errol Burr was Gisborne’s “colour man” for over 40 years. He retired from practice five years ago and died on August 1. He would have been 76 this month. Relatives and friends recall a quiet, gentle man with a dry sense of humour, a love of ham radio and ballroom dancing, and a passion for his calling. Errol John Burr was born in Thames in 1945, the youngest of three children of Arthur John (Jack) and Beatrice May Burr. Jack and May Burr had come from New Plymouth with their eldest child Alvin to run the Tararu Store on the northern outskirts of Thames, and had two more children — Beverley and Errol. When Errol was six and a pupil at Thames North School, the family moved READY TO GO back to New Plymouth after 10 years ON AIR: The teenaged away. Jack Burr joined Newton King Ltd, Errol Burr pictured a stock and station agency that was also with amateur radio a shipping agent and sold wool, dairy products, cars, trucks, real estate and equipment in New groceries through businesses developed or Plymouth in 1963. acquired in centres (including Gisborne) from Hamilton to Wellington. Picture credit: In New Plymouth, Errol attended Swainson’s Studios, Welbourn School, Highlands Intermediate Errol Burr, Radio and New Plymouth Boys’ High School. Operator (1963), Jack Burr was a keen amateur radio collection of Puke Ariki, operator and his son had the same New Plymouth interest. Errol became proficient in Morse code and got his amateur radio operator’s in 1972. They had two children, Marion the colour sample that is being tested by licence while still in his teens. As long and Alastair, and three grandchildren — the therapist, with the electromagnetic as Jack Burr lived, he and Errol had a Jaimee and Sam, and Abigail Grace. field of the patient. A resultant positive or regular Friday morning catch-up on air. In the meantime, word-of-mouth negative indication of each colour under When Errol left school, he became a referrals for colour therapy grew, and in test can decide what combination to use radio inspector with the Post Office. The 1973 Errol resigned from the Post Office in treatment.” inspectors enforced the radio regulations to become a full-time colour therapist, Radiesthesia is akin to dowsing, and and tracked down interference. When operating from the family home in Albert while sceptics might say the existence of anyone complained of interference to Street. such a gift was not backed up by scientific their radio or television signal, it was the The first few years were a struggle, but evidence, believers would point to results. inspectors’ job to find the cause and have many of Errol’s early patients became They felt better. the problem resolved. lifelong friends. Treatments lasted two And to those suspecting a placebo effect, This occupation took Errol to the hours. Patients would sit around a room, Errol Burr would cite cases of infants Musick Memorial Radio Station at reading, knitting, talking and sometimes whose condition and distress were eased Bucklands Beach, , and to sleeping. when they had colour therapy. Wanganui for short spells before he was Charges were low enough to have Dell Buscke said people even asked transferred to Gisborne in the early drifted from memory. One of his patients, him to look at their pets and — unable 1970s. Dell Buscke, said his fees were minimal, to say no (“it wasn’t in his nature”) — By this time, Errol had become and increases were as rare as a royal visit he treated the animals, four-legged or interested in the practice of colour to town. feathered. therapy. Flooding in June 1977 damaged the “Neither was it in his nature to say a DAPPER: Errol Burr wore a suit and tie When her children were poorly, May Albert Street house, prompting a move bad word about anyone,” Dell said. for more than ballroom dancing. Burr would take them to either one of back to New Plymouth. By then, Errol Errol’s daughter Marion Treloar said Picture supplied New Plymouth’s two colour therapists or had built a loyal following and, although her father thought of his practice as a general practitioner, depending on the he was practising on the other side of the complementary — rather than alternative Marion recalled Errol’s love of sailing, malady. North Island, the demand from Gisborne — to conventional medicine. and the trailer yachts he owned when the In his teens, Errol had surgery for people who undertook the arduous road “He would often refer people back to a children were small. Crohn’s disease and had three feet of trip for treatment was such that in 1979 GP (general practitioner), and he would Marion said he also had a hobby of his bowel removed. May took him to a he headed back east. never tell anyone to discontinue taking restoring valve radios and a “fair few” of Rotorua colour therapist for two weeks of In an article Errol put together for the anything a GP had told them to take,” these would be doing service around town. treatment to aid in his recovery. Gisborne Herald Weekend Extra in the Marion said. For almost his whole life, he continued At the end of that period, the therapist 1980s, he described the “diagnostic art”. Pat Neshausen, a patient from 1976 to practise Morse code, and communicate told Errol he could learn to treat himself. “While the ability to diagnose is until Errol’s retirement, said he was a with other amateur radio operators on air. Errol’s sister Beverley, of New definitely a gift, it must be developed, good listener who was sensitive to people. Errol had given up ballroom dancing Plymouth, said her brother’s study of and the techniques are various, with “After your treatment, you would get around the time he started as a full- colour therapy entailed lots of reading some being quite simple and others more better and better as the days progressed,” time colour therapist. In 1998, by now and the ability to put together the complex,” he wrote. “The diagnostic art she said. divorced, he took it up again and was a equipment on which diagnosis and is that of radiesthesia — sensitivity to Her mother, Dorothy West, was Errol’s regular at the Caledonian Society dances treatment relied. radiation. receptionist for years. at St Marks Hall until three years ago. In Gisborne, he pursued this interest “The many dozens of colour “She was over 65 when she started The foxtrot was his favourite. in colour therapy and, by word of mouth, combinations programmed for diagnosis working for him. He always called her Although by nature quiet, he enjoyed people heard about him and asked to be and treatment are derivatives of the basic Westie.” company, and he was a regular at the treated. This he did at first in an informal chakra representations. Shades of one or It was the social interaction — and Cosmopolitan Club on draw nights, when capacity. more colours may be mixed and tuned being part of the enterprise — that she he would have a meal and a glass of fruit He continued to pursue his other to precise frequencies of disease or body found enjoyable. juice with friends. interests — amateur radio and dancing. imbalance. I combine these frequencies of Pat said Errol’s cars — mostly In his final years, Errol was blessed He had been a competitive ballroom colour together with low-frequency radio- European — were kept in immaculate with the company of good friends, loving dancer in New Plymouth, and at the wave transmissions to carry the colour condition. A Fiat 125 and a Citroen came family and capable carers, and he is Gisborne Caledonian Society dance he component to the patient. to mind, although his last car was a remembered with affection by them and met Yvonne Manson, whom he married “Diagnosis involves the polarisation of Mitsubishi, also polished to perfection. those he treated. — by John Gillies 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 MIQ ‘lacks’ air filtration systems Hospitals move patients out of

AUCKLAND — The Covid the pandemic. the shared spaces across our Akld, build more specialist rooms community outbreak is “That number of filters does facilities, primarily corridors stretching the limits of the seem too low from what I know and lifts. But as an added layer AUCKLAND — fighting it hard for another boards have revealed country’s quarantine system, of these hotels.” of protection, work is under Northland is set to leave week,” Blakely said. details of the work that is and the number of rooms Wilson has long-standing way to instal air filtration units Level 4 lockdown tonight, In Auckland, the going on at the same time available with suitable air concerns about the in quarantine rooms across our a senior Government pressure on hospitals from as they treat 32 Covid-19 filtration systems that can repurposing of hotels into facilities.” minister has confirmed — the Covid outbreak has patients between them, withhold the virus. quarantine facilities, and said University of Auckland as Auckland hospitals start forced patients with spinal eight in intensive care. There are now more positive more of the filtration systems aerosol chemist Dr Joel relocating patients to the injuries to be transferred to A DHB spokesperson Delta cases in the community should have been installed. Rindelaub said efforts to add South Island to make way Christchurch, RNZ reports. said the negative-pressure than the Government has Covid-19 Response things like HEPA filters was for Covid cases. Health Minister Andrew rooms were being built at rooms available with top-of-the- Minister said good news. Associate Health Little says the Ministry Middlemore, Auckland City line ventilation systems. the Government’s current “HEPA filters, these high Minister Aupito William of Health and district and North Shore hospitals A public health expert says quarantine options were due efficiency particulate air filters, Sio told TVNZ today it health boards are also in general wards, intensive the government has dropped to fill up in the next 24 hours are pretty much the best thing was looking positive for transferring patients to care units and emergency the ball with the state of its or so. that we can use when we’re Northland to move to other centres. departments. quarantine facilities. But another hotel is joining recircling the air to keep it Level 3 from 11.59pm One example is patients They were adding more Joint head of managed the quarantine queue. clean, so that’s a good sign tonight, joining the rest of with spinal injuries who of the rooms, which prevent isolation and quarantine “We have got an additional to see. New Zealand — south of live just south of the the virus spreading to Brigadier Rose King said there facility that’s being stood up “I’m also glad that they’re Auckland. Bombay Hills, and who other areas because of the were a total of 674 quarantine at the moment that will bring taking an interest in these Professor Tony Blakely, would normally go to increased transmissibility rooms that have air filtration several hundred additional hallways because this is the a Kiwi epidemiologist at Middlemore Hospital, are of Covid, she said. units installed. rooms — that’s the Holiday Inn exact spot where we know that Melbourne University, being sent to Christchurch. The work included While not every person who out by the (Auckland) airport,” aerosol transmission events said he had been looking He says any transfers engineering to create the had been infected would have Hipkins said. have taken place previously at New Zealand’s Covid are being handled carefully ability to have negative their own individual room, the King said installing air here in New Zealand.” numbers “with concern”. to avoid any risk of pressure, and more outbreak was reaching a point filtration units in returnee Wilson cautioned, however, He told Newstalk ZB’s spreading Covid. minor building work to where the number of suitable and now quarantine rooms at for people not to become too Mike Hosking that New Meanwhile, all three of reconfigure spaces. rooms were being stretched. places like the Holiday Inn was reliant on technology such as Zealand and Australia Auckland’s main hospitals There were currently public not part of the original plan HEPA filters to keep them safe. were looking similar on are building more negative 40 negative-pressure health expert Professor Nick with MIQ facilities. He said the Government the vaccination roll-out pressure rooms to keep up rooms across the city, Wilson said that figure was not “The priority remains needed to come up with a new front — but he hoped New with the Delta strain of 17 at Middlemore, 13 at good enough at this point of improving the ventilation of plan for quarantine. — RNZ Zealand would do better. Covid-19. Auckland and 10 at North “I think you should be The city’s district health Shore. — NZ Herald/RNZ Arms race against virus ‘We’ve created the perfect environment for it to mutate’: Baker by Jamie Morton, NZ Herald more cases of reverse zoonosis.” RACE FOR Already observed in rare cases — AUCKLAND — New Zealand could VACCINE: including mink, felines and rodents — this likely see variants more potent than Delta Vaccine makers could involve the virus infecting animals turn up at our borders as the Covid-19 are in an arms and then crossing back into humans. pandemic grinds on — but a leading race with the “It could lead to something really quite epidemiologist says our elimination fast-evolving foreign — and we may end up with little strategy can still hold. virus — and protection from the vaccine.” This week, the Ministry of Health booster shots Because of this threat, vaccine-makers confirmed that a variant that recently against future are locked in an arms race with the emerged in South Africa, labelled C.1.2, variants are a fast-evolving virus — and it’s likely that was detected in a local border case likely possibility. booster shots will be needed to combat in late June. While the World Health AP picture variants as they emerge. Organisation this week said it didn’t As it stood, two doses of the Pfizer/ appear to be spreading yet, scientists have BioNTech vaccine gave 88 percent been watching it closely given it carried Mutations within these variants had variant that emerged as a direct effectiveness against Delta infection and mutations similar to other variants like mostly tended to occur around the virus’ result of anti-viral strategies. Another, 96 percent protection against severe Delta. “spike protein”, which it used to bind unfortunately considered unlikely at least illness. Protecting New Zealand “all of this Otago University epidemiologist to the ACE2 receptor that gave it entry in the short-term, was the virus following makes me think that we shouldn’t give Professor Michael Baker said pop-ups like to human cells. One study into Delta an evolutionary trajectory that made it up on the elimination strategy too quickly C.1.2 highlighted how easily the virus had suggested a separate mutation could less virulent over time. and just say, ‘let’s live with the virus’,” been able to spread, change and create help its ability to fuse with human cells With 217 million infections and some Baker said. new forms of itself. “We’ve created the once it latched on — which then allowed 4.7 million deaths to date, Baker said In a commentary published this week, perfect environment for it to mutate, and it to infect more cells and ultimately Sars-CoV-2 had shown what it was Baker and fellow Otago public health create a whole range of new variants.” overwhelm immune defences. capable of. “And when we put barriers in experts said that sticking with elimination From the moment the parent strain or Scientists have been monitoring another the way of the virus, of course, we create could protect the country from new “wild type” of the Sars-CoV-2 virus began variant, labelled C.37 or Lambda — and selective pressure favouring variants. Like variants, all while keeping death and its global spread, new variants became an so far deemed a “variant of interest”, one influenza, it has those two evolutionary illness rates low and shielding the health inevitability. tier down — that’s been tearing through trajectories of drift and shift — gradually system and our economy. As the virus travelled and replicated, South America. accumulating mutations over time that Contrary to remarks that Delta couldn’t through copying its genome, it sometimes But because Delta spread about twice give it a slight edge.” be quashed, they argued that South made mistakes — or created mutations. as quickly as the parent strain — and That the virus would grow infectious Australia, Queensland, Taiwan, Hong And if a certain mutation provided some thus could infect more people before its and resistant against vaccines was Kong, China and Singapore had already advantage, like more easily invading ancestor had a chance to reach them predictable, he said — but much harder proven Delta outbreaks were controllable cells, then it became more likely that — the variant had become the world’s to forecast was what’s called antigenic — although it demanded “extensive it increased in frequency. Although the dominant strain. While three subtypes shift. “That’s where influenza can come and swiftly” implemented public health coronavirus was evolving at only about AY.1, AY.2 and AY.3, dubbed “Delta Plus”, back as a pandemic because it looks interventions. half the pace of influenza, its travels have grabbed international headlines, like a new virus to our immune system, The ongoing need for public health around the world had enabled it to evolve there’s still no strong evidence these are and suddenly, we’re not immune to controls was also driven home by a new and learn how to better infect hosts. any more of a threat than the original it. We already know this virus does modelling study that found re-opening Nearly two years on from the dawn of variant. recombination events — and it’s likely borders without any measures could lead the pandemic, scientists have identified Baker pointed to a report by the UK that it could recombine with other to more than 11,000 hospitalisations — a large number of variants, four of which Government’s Scientific Advisory Group lineages of Covid-19. and more than 1000 deaths — within a are deemed variants of concern. Those for Emergencies, which set out four “And then, sooner or later, you’re going timeframe of only two years. four are B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta) P.1 scenarios of the virus’ long-term evolution. to get a variant that has all of the worst “High vaccination uptake will (Gamma), and B.1.617.2 (Delta). Scientists have suggested that it may attributes that can be picked up from significantly reduce infections and While Alpha was between 43 and 90 now have passed through enough people other variants. It becomes more infectious, serious complications, but population- percent more transmissible than earlier to select its best variant — but future more vaccine-resistant and potentially level immunity will be limited by the variants, Delta could even be between 30 combinations of mutations could make it more lethal.” lower efficacy of current vaccines against and 100 percent more transmissible than even more deadly and transmissible. Baker said it was also possible the infection and transmission of the Delta Alpha. It’s estimated that, on average, one One was a variant that emerged virus could pick up troublesome elements variant,” the Otago researchers said. person infected with Delta may infect five to cause severe disease in a greater from the other four types of coronavirus Therefore, they added, New Zealand or six others — and the variant also posed proportion of the population — such as circulating as common cold viruses, or should look at strengthening alert levels a higher risk of hospitalisation. “It does previous coronaviruses Sars-CoV and even from the hundreds of coronaviruses to better deal with Delta outbreaks — and seem to be about twice as lethal — and it’s Mers-CoV, which had case fatality rates in the animal world. “Because we’re now also consider other system improvements, putting a higher proportion of people in of around 10 and 35 percent respectively. exposing animal species to the onslaught like better border security and a dedicated hospital.” A second scenario was a drug-resistant on this virus, it’s possible we could see quarantine facility. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Airport security Study confirms value heightened after lockdown breaches AUCKLAND — Security checks have been of wastewater testing beefed up at Auckland Airport after two students were caught breaching lockdown by Jamie Morton, NZ Herald PANDEMIC rules by flying out of the city. TOOLBOX: Some Over recent days, a Victoria University AUCKLAND — A new ESR-led study of the collected student flew from Auckland to Wellington suggests regular wastewater testing for wastewater without an exemption and an Otago University Covid-19 — now being done across the samples at student flew from Auckland to Dunedin. country to guide our Delta outbreak ESR’s Wellington Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins response — could prove a nifty early laboratory. said this was “disappointing”. warning system to pick up future flare- Wastewater-based “These people should not be travelling, ups. epidemiology there will potentially be consequences for Because traces of Sars-Cov-2 can be has played an them, for breaking the rules.” isolated from what we flush down the increasingly He said he would check to see airport toilet — and sometimes survive up to large role in New security was operating as it should. several days after leaving an infected Zealand’s pandemic “They should be being checked even before person’s body — wastewater-based toolbox. they get into the airport terminal. Previous epidemiology has played an increasingly Picture supplied Level 4 restrictions — and I just want to large role in New Zealand’s pandemic check to make sure this has absolutely been toolbox. operating as it has previously — have had In the new study, released online 28 percent and 41 percent, respectively. “The results of the study highlight that people at the door at the airport terminal ahead of peer review, ESR scientists However, when a more realistic if the virus is in the community, then checking why people are entering the spent four months sampling wastewater proportional shedding model was used, there is a strong probability we will pick terminal, before they can even get anywhere from an Auckland population of this increased to 58 percent and 87 it up. near the plane.” approximately 120,000, where cases percent for five and 10 cases, respectively. “We are confident wastewater testing Last night, the Aviation Security Service were known and uniquely all located in a “In other words, when 10 individuals is going to become an even more said it made changes when it realised some single managed isolation and quarantine were actively shedding the virus in a important part of our public health passengers were not following the rules. facility (MIQF). catchment of 100,000 individuals, there efforts.” When Level 4 began, security officers asked The study involved the daily collection was a high likelihood of detecting viral Dr Brent Gilpin, ESR’s water and only for travel documents, such as a boarding of 113 composite wastewater samples RNA in wastewater,” said Dr Joanne waste team manager, added the findings pass or travel itinerary, when people entered from the sewer outside the MIQF, Hewitt, an ESR senior scientist who of the study were being borne out by airports. and from the municipal wastewater co-led the project. the detections uncovered in the recent But changes began on Tuesday morning. treatment plant 5km downstream. “The evidence provided confidence that outbreak. Now, a passenger had to show their boarding Over the period, the virus was detected the detections at the treatment plant “The recent example of detecting pass, an eligibility document and would be in 54 percent of cases at the treatment were associated with increasing Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 in Warkworth, further asked about why they were travelling. plant, compared with 95 percent at the cases.” demonstrates the benefit of the testing of If they did not meet the requirements they facility. ESR chief scientist Dr Brett Cowan wastewater samples. could not enter and if they objected, the police What’s called logistic regression — or said the results reaffirmed the role of A positive detection in the wastewater would be called. the process of modelling the probability wastewater sampling as part of New triggered health officials to specifically If the police were not available they would of a discrete outcome given an input Zealand’s response to Covid-19, along advise people in the area to get tested if be “handed over” to the airport company. variable — was used to estimate the with community testing and genome they had any Covid-19 symptoms, despite The universities explained the details of shedding of the virus into wastewater sequencing. there being no known cases. each case. based on four infectious shedding models. “Wastewater-based epidemiology The research was supported by Police confirmed they had issued two With a total of five and 10 Covid-19 is being used as a critical part of MBIE’s Covid-19 Innovation Acceleration infringement notices to two people who infectious cases per 100,000 population, international public health responses Fund, and was a collaboration between flew out of Auckland with no exemption on the predicated probability of detection at to Covid-19 to monitor infections at the ESR, Watercare and the University of Monday. The infringement fine is $300. — RNZ the treatment plant was estimated to be community level,” Cowan said. Auckland. Call for more ICU nurses

AUCKLAND — Auckland’s hospitals are asking Mitchell said the country’s intensive care units others around the country to send intensive often work together and support each other. But care nurses to help them cope with the Covid there was a limited pool of nurses. outbreak. “There has been a large increase in the The call-out was made on Wednesday after the equipment needed to look after an ICU patient in number of people in ICU in the region reached New Zealand since we have been preparing for an eight — three of them on ventilators. There are 32 outbreak of Covid, but not a similar increase in patients in hospital. trained staff to care for these patients,” she said. The highly specialised nurses provide round- Nurses Organisation spokeswoman Kate the-clock, one-on-one care, and without them Weston told RNZ the outbreak had hit at a time patients cannot be moved into intensive care. when nurses were already under great pressure. It was estimated 30 nurses with ICU training Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said were needed in Auckland to help in the outbreak, Auckland needed support “if we want to avoid with another 30 to help in managed isolation this becoming a potentially bigger outbreak that facilities. then ends up spreading around the rest of the College of Critical Care Nurses chair Tania country”. — RNZ 41910-02 We are open for click-and-collect in Level 3 Call past our drive-through to collect Don’t forget Dad this Sunday

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West Aucklanders have been drying out past — but it hadn’t risen any further for could only hope one of the many objects and cleaning up after the torrential rain a while so he went to bed. They might not flowing through at great speed didn’t overnight Monday. ELIZABETH BINNING have been any wiser had their four-year- hit the posts holding up the front of his caught up with some of those who made old not woken up about an hour later home. it through the storm with stories of because her nightlight had gone out. “There was so much timber coming courage, luck and loss. The power was out, so Steph woke her down through here,” said the Rheingold husband. “It literally went from the end Place resident. “There wasn’t much I ‘We kayaked the kids out at 3am’ of the path at 1.30 to chest deep at 2.30,” could do. I just hoped and prayed a big IT was 3am when Steph and Brendon said Brendon. log didn’t come past and hit the post.” Deacon decided it was time to abandon “We kayaked the kids out at about His property backs on to the Kumeu their home — so they grabbed their 3am,” said Steph. River, which spilled its banks during the young children from their beds and Brendon estimates there is about torrential downpour and rose about 3.5m, paddled to safety on kayaks. $70,000 worth of damage to their cars, flooding his storage area under the house, The couple, who live at the end of tools, fencing and other items outside. electrical circuit board and car. Pinotage Place in Kumeu, were among “We got off so lightly, it’s really just “I was thinking I’m not getting into several residents assessing the damage getting all the electrics and plumbing that water unless I really have to, I didn’t yesterday after the torrential downpour sorted — so we can move back in,” said want to swim in it because of all the which saw many flee their homes in the Steph. “We are really lucky.” sewerage and I was thinking about Covid early hours of Tuesday morning. and what’s been found in the wastewater. Brendon stayed up until about 1.30am ‘There wasn’t much I could do’ “I just sat tight, spoke to people to keep an eye on the rising water — As floodwaters rushed through Daniel (neighbours) and tried to keep everyone which had made it to a front step in the Bott’s backyard, the Kumeu resident chilled and said it would be alright. “Then I snuggled up all night and had front row seats to watch everything Oscar Springford-Miller, aged 14, and zooming down the river.” his sister Beatrice, 11, walk through the FREE DELIVERY SERVICE He estimates he has lost about $10,000 damage in their basement after the flood. worth of items that were in the storage that went through Kumeu causing roads shed and his work vehicle, valued at to be closed and major damage to homes about $7000 but now filled with mud, will and businesses. be written off. NZ Herald picture ‘It was like a river under our house’ because while it had flooded before it had Eleven-year-old Beatrice Springford- never gone near the house. Miller admits she was “pretty nervous” “I looked out our bedroom window when her mum and dad woke her up to and it was flowing like a river under the Please say their section was flooding. house, there wasn’t a lot we could do.” “Mum and dad woke us up about With water surrounding their entire phone us 3.30am and told us there was a giant house they had to stay inside until a flood outside and once we saw it they told friend who lives nearby arrived in a for details of us to pack up a bit of stuff in case we had kayak. our delivery to leave. Miller says he’s lost a few thousand “I was pretty nervous. We kinda figured dollars worth of electrical tools and their 33471-19 service we would be alright, but the power was cars will be written off, but it’s probably out and we had to get our torches. Our the cost of hiring skips, cleaning the Ballance Street Village • Open late 7 days • Phone 867 3038 dog was trying to make us feel better.” section and rebuilding the fence that will Dad Shane Miller said he was shocked cost the most. 41915-01 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 9 ‘Contractors could help extract NZDF interpreters from ’ FREEDOM: The New Zealand evacuation missions to have ended and now the by Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald rescues could be done. Government is looking at other options. NZDF picture “Pay the right amount of money and WELLINGTON — New Zealand could you’ll get anything you want done. enlist private contractors to extract former “There will be enough contacts there to Defence Force interpreters and other pay the right amount of money to, to get at-risk Afghans left behind in Taliban- the right people to a border and across — controlled Afghanistan. quite easily actually.” As the Government considers a “phase Mitchell’s former private security GISBORNE’S ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES two” in the evacuation of people from company worked with the governments of Afghanistan, after the first phase through America, Britain, and Australia, as well as During the lockdown period some Gisborne ‘freedom flights’ out of Kabul ended with the United Nations. terror attacks and total US withdrawal, He said most other governments have business are still operating including the potential for hiring outside been partnering with the private sector for professionals to help has been raised. decades when they don’t have capacity or Former Minister of Defence, National ability to do something themselves. Police, Fire & Emergency, Health Providers, Pharmacies, Supermarkets, Dairies and Service Stations MP Mark Mitchell, has worked 10 years But since raising it with Henare, there in the Middle East, including Iraq, had been “zero engagement or feedback with his own private security and risk from the government”. Kerbside rubbish and recycling collections, Gizzy Bus Services management company which specialised “Time is not on our side,” Mitchell said. in getting people out of conflict zones. With the sudden and dramatic fall The below businesses are available, but please do not visit the On Saturday, Mitchell contacted Defence of Afghanistan into near-total Taliban Minister Peeni Henare directly to offer to dominance, many Afghan nationals were business premises – please make contact via phone or email first work with him on “alternate options” for unable to be evacuated out of the in-flux • Amor Grains • Gisborne Office Products getting the Afghans and other visa and nation before the US and all other Nato AON • Gisborne Taxi passport holders left behind. allies withdrew. • “I said it’s completely non-partisan — no Three emergency mercy missions by • Bensons Auto Clinic • Gizzy Waste politics with this. We’ve all got an interest the RNZAF, plus many more by the • Business Applications • Goodyear Autocare in getting our people out of there as soon Americans and Australians, got more than • C & G Plumbing Ltd • Hallrite Plumbing and Gasfitting as possible,” Mitchell said. 300 New Zealand citizens, residents, and • Cook’s Couriers Ltd “Henare indicated they had to look visa-holders including Afghan nationals at other options, outside their own who had assisted the NZDF, and their • CSL Security • Judds Limited Water capability.” dependants, out of the country in recent • Dive & Gas • Larsen Sawmilling Ltd When approached by the NZ Herald days. • Driving Miss Daisy • M E Jukes this week, Henare denied that the A group of 37 Afghan civilians who • East Coast Farm Vets • Ocean Beach Motor Lodge use of private contractors was under helped the New Zealand Provincial • East Coast Pest and Property • PGG Wrightsons & Fruit Fed consideration. Reconstruction Team (NZPRT) in The Herald understands the outsourcing the Bamiyan Province— including • Eastland Group Supplies wouldn’t necessarily involve sending interpreters, carpenters, electricians, • Eastland Network 24/7 faults line • Power Farming contractors into Afghanistan, but rather mechanics, cleaners, and kitchen workers 0800 206 207 • Simpson Automotive working with a “third party network” of — are part of those left behind. • Eastland Port • Taste One local Afghans on the ground who have They fear deadly Taliban revenge • Eastland Vets • Teal Motor Lodge “real-time intelligence”. attacks for their former associations with Commercial flights into Hamid Karzai foreign forces. • Electrinet Ltd • Terry Taylor Drainage International Airport could again become With the Taliban now controlling Hamid • Evans Funeral • The Tyre General a possibility in the future, but it appears a Karzai International Airport, and all of • Fergus Rural – Agribusiness • Total Parts and Service Ltd long way off just now. the land-locked country’s major border • Forbes Appliances • Vet Ent The most likely options would be crossings into neighbouring countries, • Gillies Electrical 2017 • Wally’s Glass secretly ferrying groups or individuals they don’t know how they can survive. across land borders into other countries “We have been left without any clear • Gisborne Airport • Water 2U Limited — potentially , Tajikistan, or answer,” says one former interpreter who • Gisborne Auto Electrics • Wolter Plumbing Uzbekistan. has been granted a New Zealand visa, but • Gisborne Hiabs Ltd • Zephyr Wainui Although fraught with risk, negotiating couldn’t get out before the airport closed. 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Stopping the spread of COVID-19 requires all businesses to trade in a contactless way. The Delta variant is highly infectious and can spread from people simply walking past each other. So, businesses should take further precautions to operate safely. This includes employees and any visitors and customers wearing face coverings (such as masks), keeping a record of visits and ensuring people keep at least 2-metres physical distance. Working in a contactless way Recording contacts (contact tracing) At Alert Level 3, most businesses need to ensure there is no At Alert Level 3, it’s important we have strong contact tracing contact with customers and 2-metres physical distancing ability. Businesses should keep an updated record of people who needs to be in place. enter their premises. They should ensure that a copy of a QR code Ordering and payment should be contactless – online or over for the business is displayed in a prominent place at or near the the phone where possible. main entrance or offer visitors a way to manually sign in. Most goods should be delivered in a contactless way to the They should record entry and exit times for workers and visitors customer’s doorstep. Where deliveries can’t happen, customers like contractors. This needs to include names, times and phone can receive goods in a contactless pick-up area or drive-through numbers. For example: and face coverings should be worn by staff and customers. • A packhouse should record when staff arrive and leave, and any maintenance staff that visit the site, plus their contact details Unfortunately, if your business involves close physical contact with your customers, it cannot open during Alert Level 3. • A tradie needs to record the date and time they arrive and leave a customer’s home and their customer’s contact details. Putting good hygiene measures in place All businesses must be sure to make, and keep, their contact The hygiene measures we need to put in place for businesses records in a safe and secure way. to operate at Alert Level 3 should all be familiar: • Wash and dry hands frequently – soap and water is preferable Wage subsidy applications to hand sanitiser. Remember to always cough or sneeze into Applications for the initial two-week August 2021 Wage Subsidy your elbow close at 11.59pm Thursday 2 September. Outstanding applications • Stay home if you are sick – this applies to everyone. People with will continue to be processed, even after the initial Wage Subsidy any cold or flu symptoms should contact Healthline or their GP closes for new applications. and be tested for COVID-19 as soon as possible Applications for a second Wage Subsidy open at 9:00am Friday • If an employee has been asked to get a COVID-19 test, they 3 September. This is available for all businesses and self-employed must stay home until they get a negative result. If they cannot people who have or predict at least a 40% decline in their revenue work from home, there may be financial support available so from 31 August to 13 September 2021. they can continue to get paid Thank you small business owners • Clean surfaces – regularly and with a disinfectant Thank you for adapting to the rules and helping us stamp out • Maintain appropriate physical distancing. Make sure employees COVID-19. We appreciate how hard this continues to be. keep 1-metre apart and 2-metres from customers. Also ensure It takes all of us to stop Delta. customers stay 2-metres apart, including when waiting in line to pick up a contactless order. If your business is allowed customers on site and physical distancing is difficult, you may Got questions? Find out more at need to implement a “one-in, one-out” policy. Covid19.govt.nz/level3business Employers and employees should work together to understand how these measures can be implemented well.

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NZ COVID TRACER APP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 BUSINESS 11 Pressure grows on Shortage of building the Govt to offer businesses more materials forecast than wage subsidy by Andrea Fox, Lockdown’s trickle-down effect raises building supply concerns The New Zealand Herald AUCKLAND — The Government’s Covid by Anne Gibson, NZ Herald housing. financial support for small and medium “This an industry already struggling business employers will be “top of the AUCKLAND — New Zealand’s and behind the needs of New Zealanders,” list” for discussion when the country’s biggest housebuilder is worried about Porteous said. chambers of commerce chief executives the lockdown’s effects on the $26 billion A second chief forecast builders and meet economic development minister construction sector and another boss tradespeople outside of Auckland and online on Friday. is predicting that builders outside of Northland might run out of materials in Auckland Chamber of Commerce Auckland could run out of materials and just three days. chief executive Michael Barnett, whose equipment within three days. Julien Leys, chief executive of the NZ petition calling for Government support Grant Porteous of G.J. Gardner Building Industry Federation, said that for employers along with employees had Homes NZ, says he is concerned about Auckland staying on Alert Level 4 for 36,000 signatures today, said he had manufacturers in the building sector the next fortnight while the rest of the invited about 15 chamber bosses on to being unable to continue and the stresses country’s sites became active could spell the Zoom call with Nash, when funding that will place on the sector and the big trouble for the sector because most for business owners would be the priority people working in it at all levels. supplies came from Auckland. subject. He was not immediately concerned “People who are doing construction The petition, which was also circulating for his own business, but he was work that is allowed to be done under in the South Island, was calling for the concerned for the thousands of families Alert Level 3 will run out of materials, Government to extend its Covid financial this industry provided for and for the like wallboards, plaster systems, gutters subsidy offer to small to medium-sized many people who were midway through and downpipes, construction glues and enterprises (SMEs) as well as wage building when the lockdown began, additives for structural concrete,” Leys earners. and who were still living in temporary predicted. The petition closes tomorrow evening accommodation or paying two mortgages, Being unable to open Auckland and will go to finance minister Grant desperate to get into their new homes. warehouses, distribution centres and get Robertson. The lockdown would have also had a the building products out of those places Barnett said he had been assured by trickle-down effect on housing supplies, could be more serious for the industry Robertson’s office that the idea was being Porteous said. than the Construction Sector Accord and considered and discussed with Inland “Auckland is a critical link in the the Ministry of Business, Innovation Revenue. NZ-wide supply chain for so many and Enterprise (MBIE) had told the “It’s important for the Government to materials and finished products. Government. see beyond the wage subsidy. Businesses “For example, a product like insulation Most building products and materials need help.” was already struggling to keep up with were delivered to Auckland, then He said he had been “frustrated” to hear record levels of demand, such as Pink distributed from there. However, a minister respond “they’re getting the Batts. Why couldn’t they continue to the lockdown meant most Auckland AUCKLAND A CRITICAL LINK IN wage subsidy and the Covid resurgence manufacture to get ahead of immediate warehouses were shut. Only dispatches NZ-WIDE SUPPLY CHAIN: Auckland support payment and now they want and forward supply-demand, along with for limited numbers of essential-service staying at Alert Level 4 for the next more?” other manufacturers? orders were allowed. fortnight while the rest of the nation’s He declined to name the minister who “These are professional, large Reinforcing mesh for residential and sites become active ‘could spell big he had heard say that. organisations, they know how to protect commercial construction, including mesh trouble’ for the construction sector The wage subsidy did not support the their employees and provide a safe work and wire for precast industries, would because most building supplies come employer, he explained. environment, especially in controlled also be in short supply. Of the seven from Auckland. Picture supplied It went straight to the employee and the factory conditions,” Porteous said. reinforcing mesh-manufacturing plants business owner had to pay 80 percent of And he said he believed most people in New Zealand, four were in Auckland Auckland to the rest of the country. the wage to qualify, Barnett said. could not understand the inconsistencies and they provided 95 percent of mesh Leys said he had contacted the “Having to explain that to some of them involved with what was or was not volumes to the North Island. Minister of Building and Construction is frustrating. considered essential. Mesh plants also manufactured drawn . “They have no idea of the pressure “Most people cannot make sense of it wire products used by the country’s She responded: “We are working with (caused by the Covid lockdowns) on all — there are no seemingly sensible concrete-pipe manufacturers. the accord to establish where stocks are businesses and communities.” priorities on what can or can’t be No product distribution in Level 4 held, including outside of Auckland, and Business owners currently in lockdown supplied or done under Alert Levels 4 or would mean little or no manufacturing of what products will be those most critical and dealing with the Covid restrictions still 3. concrete pipes, Leys said. for a residential build. We will act if had to pay rent, rates, power and other “It’s just ridiculous as so many If mesh and steel supplies could not required to release products should that overheads. intelligent commentators, such as a leave Auckland, that would hit house be necessary.” They were doing so out of their own recent article by Nic Mowbray and builds as well as commercial and Leys said that did not reflect the pockets, said Barnett. others, have previously espoused. infrastructure sites. seriousness of the situation. Auckland “We have been asked to pause business Fitness gear can be distributed but “Many building products is the manufacturing and distribution so that Government can implement their building equipment can’t unless it’s an manufacturers and suppliers have powerhouse for New Zealand, he said. elimination strategy for the good of emergency,” Porteous said. requested exemptions and approval “Close Auckland and effectively New Zealand, so a continuation of the “I was able to order fitness gear online to shift products out of Auckland from this will shut the rest of the country’s resurgence package is not a big ask.” and get them supplied to me under Alert MBIE but have either not had any reply building and construction sector.” He said he had been contacted by SME Level 4. And of course, you must be able or have been given a blanket response — The New Zealand Herald sought a list owners as far away as Fiordland, “telling to supply alcohol . . . Yeah, right! All of just “no”. of jobs that were deemed essential and me their stories and how destructive sorts of non-essential products can be “We know that freight providers are able to continue under Level 4. MBIE lockdowns had been to their sectors”. trucked over the Auckland border, but not ready and able to comply with a strict said it could not supply such a list. The petition was launched on Monday at building products to keep up a critical non-contact process and move essential Industry chiefs said that during 11am. By 3.30pm that day it had gathered industry to New Zealander’s welfare, by building products in the same way that a lockdown last year, work on some more than 7000 signatures. the Government supposed own rhetoric New Zealand’s bulk food products are hospital sites was deemed essential and that we must provide more safe, warm distributed from warehouses in south allowed to continue.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY Since the New Zealand lockdown, group weekly The buying came a day after Sanford said profitability still remained ahead of the previous weaker mussel sales was holding back an corresponding period. expected increase in performance over the WELLINGTON — Mainfreight, heading for a $98.52 after reaching an intraday high of $99.78 Shane Solly, portfolio manager with Harbour second half of the financial year. well-earned century, and Sanford, welcoming — so close to becoming the first New Zealand Asset Management, said Mainfreight’s valuation Ngai Tahu has told Sanford it has no current a new substantial shareholder, provided the listed company to reach $100. multiples were not stretched compared with intention to make a takeover offer based on the excitement to an otherwise-lethargic New Mainfreight is now the fourth-largest stock global businesses and it still had more growth present circumstances. Zealand sharemarket. on market capitalisation of $9.92 billion, behind to come. “It’s a 100-year company and reaching Solly said Sanford had gone through some A new addition to the FTSE mid-cap index, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Meridian and $100, if it gets there, is a great achievement for tough times during the Covid pandemic and Mainfreight provided another upbeat trading Auckland International Airport. New Zealand.” Ngai Tahu had taken a meaningful stake in its update and headed towards an historical share The global transport and logistics operator Sanford surged 95c or 21.35 percent to $5.40, business. price of $100. sees no end to its growth. Mainfreight’s revenue hitting an intraday high of $5.51, after South Ngai Tahu would have a long-term outlook The S&P/NZX 50 Index, instead, traded in the past 22 weeks of trading rose 43 percent Island iwi organisation Ngai Tahu Investments and this would work better for Sanford than flat and closed at 13,243.49, up 24.66 points, to $2.22bn and profit before tax increased 83 said it is looking to build a shareholding of 23.6 other substantial shareholders. after having a lunch-time dip and falling to an percent to $142.27m. The Americas and Asia percent, at a share price of $5.50. The local market was dragged down by Fisher intraday low of 13,170.44. divisions had 73 percent and 177 percent Ngai Tahu Holdings Corporation then & Paykel Healthcare, declining 29c to $32.81; There were 76 gainers and 62 decliners increases in revenue respectively. provided a substantial holder notice to the falling 12c to $7.37; a2 Milk across the whole market on steady volume of Mainfreight told the market that the Covid market, saying it has already increased its stake decreasing 9c to $5.94; Synlait shedding 7c 77.32 million share transactions worth $223.78 lockdown restrictions in New Zealand saw to 12.563 percent. This boosted the day’s trading or 2.12 percent to $3.23; and Port of Tauranga million. a lower-than-expected decrease in revenue, with 20.9 million Sanford shares worth $78.5m losing 7c to $7.39. Mainfreight rose $4.52 or 4.81 percent to while Australian trading continued unabated. changing hands. — The New Zealand Herald 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 EDITORIAL A fit-for-reality Covid response Strong support for by Kieran Madden complacency, and ultimately, policy responses defending and justifying past policies, the that miss the target (or neglect to set one). Government needs not only to own up to failures elimination strategy “I WANT to believe.” In May last year, our Prime Minister announced but make plans for when they inevitably happen. These words adorn the that “we are confident we have eliminated When the game changes, they must change their A new poll shows strong support now-iconic poster of a UFO transmission of the virus in New Zealand for minds too. for the country’s Covid elimination displayed above Agent now, but elimination is not a point in time, it For us, wanting to believe is distinct from just strategy, despite it making us a Mulder’s desk in the 1990s is a sustained effort”. This effort was far from taking whatever we hear as truth, too. We need global outlier and the criticisms from sci-fi X-Files. They capture sustained, displaced by a hope — a belief — that to be discerning about the kinds of evidence various pundits overseas and here a human yearning, a desire we could keep Covid out. we draw from — just because it aligns with our lately that it is the wrong approach. for something to hold on to beyond ourselves; The Government celebrated too early, getting beliefs doesn’t mean it’s the real deal. Now more The NZ Herald-Kantar poll of especially in times of uncertainty like in our distracted when a doubling-down was required. than ever. 1000 New Zealanders, conducted Covid-stricken world. They spent money tagged for the Covid Recovery “The truth is out there,” it’s up to us to see it Agent Mulder was sustained by a belief in the and Relief Fund on free school lunches and for what it is. For a Covid response that is fit-for- from August 26-30, found that 46 supernatural. For his partner, Agent Scully, it $4 billion on housing-related infrastructure, reality and long-term success, we must temper percent believe we should continue was her belief in God. What made the show so despite cautions from Treasury. our supernatural belief in the power of the state, to pursue Covid-19 elimination and compelling was how they worked together and More importantly, the vaccination roll-out was and our Government must come to terms with it a further 39 percent supported learned from one another, mediating these beliefs slow-moving with no real goal. The Government as well. elimination until more than 70 in evidence and reason. When there is so much is now playing catch-up on vaccinations; yet We can have an exceptional response, but our percent of the population was fully we want to believe, we must do the same. another lockdown being the only option until we plans must be grounded in the way things are, vaccinated. Only 13 percent of those We want to believe that New Zealand is are all vaccinated. not how we might wish them to be. polled said we would have to “learn exceptional; that we can succeed where We are set for a difficult new, new normal. 2021 to live” with Covid, while 2 percent everyone else is failing. We want to believe that is “the golden year”, says epidemiologist Sir ■ Kieran is the research manager at Maxim were unsure. The poll has a margin the Government knows what they are doing; David Skegg, “when we open the border, things Institute, an Auckland based think-tank whose that politicians and public officials can save us. are going to get tough”. He reckons we’re “going work is oriented towards a conservative of error of 3.1 percent. Our leaders clearly want to believe these things to be at war with this virus for years”. perspective on its issues of primary concern, The NZ Herald reports today that too. But too much of this results in hubris, Rather than spending so much energy which are education, tax and welfare policy. those on higher incomes were more likely to believe that New Zealand LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS should pursue Covid elimination only until more than 70 percent of the ‘High-stakes gamble’ population was fully vaccinated, at Clean up after your mutts! Re: Failed to protect worker, Trust Tairaawhiti-backed 47 percent support compared to 38 Is lockdown a time for verges since lockdown began. January 29 story. initiative before public health percent for outright elimination. dog owners to let their Family lockdown walks Is the company relied on by and safety in a vulnerable Otherwise, overall positions animals roam freely and crap around our locality — Fox, Mr Hope, for the Wood Council, health rohe during a Level 4 on elimination were relatively everywhere? Or perhaps dog Russell, Whittaker, Clifford, in his letter to the editor on lockdown are not blameless consistent across age, gender and owners are walking their pets Ormond — have become a Tuesday defending logging, either. regional demographics. and not bothering to pick up hop-scotch game of dodging the same ISO Ltd which It was a reckless, high- Experts have welcomed the poll’s the do, because there’s no the crap. pleaded guilty to dangerous stakes gamble which must one around to see the deed? Come on, dog owners! Stop work practices causing death now embarrass the PM and result, saying it showed the public in 2018? So how safe is it, Mr her Cabinet. This is worse, was aware of elimination’s benefits, It must be one or both of being so lazy and clean up these based on the noticeable after your mutts! Hope, for the public to put its and potentially much more but pointed out that a 70 percent increase in you-know-what faith in this company? dangerous, than the former vaccination threshold for a change fouling our pavements and ANNOYED RESIDENT In any event, those Minister of Health’s Dunedin in settings was too low. responsible for rushing the bike ride last year. Epidemiologist Professor Michael logs back on to our local Finally, I note Northland Baker said future surveys should roads during Covid Level 4 logging was not given a assess what threshold levels the Was this safe — really? (obviously before any safety similar dispensation. Another public were comfortable with, and Re: Best for region and supported back home to their own bubbles. protocols could be in place) question must be, what is the by leaders, August 31 letter. Was this really a safe option under now need to be investigated difference between that region whether they applied to the total or by WorkSafe. MBIE and the and Gisborne Tairaawhiti? the vaccine-eligible population. Firstly, I would acknowledge that the circumstances? everyone has a right to an opinion. An exemption was granted, but Ministers complicit in the Microbiologist Dr In relation to the forestry restart one wonders why it was applied for decision to put money for the WINSTON MORETON agreed the threshold used in the correspondence, I would make the in the midst of a lockdown — as in survey was too low for starting to following observations. all correspondence relating to this remove public health measures. If you are the CEO of an industry restart, the bottom line comes down “We’re looking at 70 percent council of course you are going to to cost implications. In other words, More on Level 4 truck roll vaccinated in other countries and support those who support your money. Not the health and wellbeing seeing widespread transmission and industry. That’s what you’re paid for. of the community. I’ll bet you all Re: Injured in truck roll at Dein Ferris. rising numbers in hospital.” To say that one in four families are ever so thankful Delta hasn’t Mangatu, August 31 story. ALEXANDER SUTTON Wiles warned that without a are supported by forestry means travelled into our community yet. I do not think uplift of Hawke’s Bay that three out of four aren’t A word for our leaders, look over logs during Level 4 can be vaccine proven to be safe for supported, but are impacted by the your shoulder, you all made this blamed for this. It could Re Irene’s comment children, opening up too early or forestry restart. NZ was in a Level decision on your own. Remember have happened at any on this story (published abandoning elimination would put 4 lockdown, which was in place three out of four families are not lockdown level — just yesterday): them at particular risk. She also because there was a community associated with forestry. unfortunate timing. Nothing to do with cited the dearth of information on outbreak of the Delta variant of The backlog of shipping, lockdown, ridiculous the long-lasting effects of Covid-19 Covid-19 in the country. We were in demurrage and weather events are CHRIS GILL, Napier comment. as a reason to stamp out the virus. that level until it was established always going to be with us. Logs, as JANIE WIREPA Covid Response Minister Chris that it was clear in areas south of has been seen over the years, come The whole purpose of Hipkins said support from nearly Auckland. During this period the and go. lockdown Level 4 is just that. My heartfelt sympathies are port, ISO and forestry associates Challenges to the forestry nine in 10 New Zealanders to All these emergency services with the truck driver and her applied for an exemption. This industry all point in the same that are supposed to keep from family. I for one do not attribute keep Covid out of the country was shows disregard for the health direction. Cost. associating with others, just like any blame to her for doing her a strong endorsement. He was and wellbeing of the community of I would acknowledge all those the total population of NZ, are mahi. I blame the authorities that reluctant to say how many people Tairawhiti. As a result, just on the industries that could have applied forced to mix in the community — put her in harm’s way. would have to be vaccinated to relax wharf side there were some 50-odd for an exemption but didn’t. not to mention taking up hospital elimination-strategy public health workers taken out of their bubble Ka kite. room and man hours. I support WINSTON MORETON measures, saying it was “too early and introduced into another, then DEIN FERRIS to predict precisely where we’ll land” [email protected] — while pointing out that 83 percent of people aged 40 plus (and 79 ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. percent of those aged 30 plus) were ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. either vaccinated with at least one ■ Always include full name and contact details. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. dose or booked for their vaccination. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 WORLD 13 Vaccinations in GLOBAL BRIEFS Five missing after Navy crash spike amid SAN DIEGO — Rescue crews are still searching for five missing sailors a day after a US Navy helicopter crashed in the ocean off Southern supply concerns California near an aircraft carrier, military officials said. NEW DELHI — India has One sailor was rescued shortly after the crash dramatically increased Covid-19 of the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter on Tuesday vaccination rates in its vast rural afternoon and was listed in stable condition at a hinterland, where around 65 percent of hospital in San Diego, according to a statement the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people from the Navy’s Pacific fleet. live. Also injured were five other sailors who were on But supply constraints remain for board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier the world’s largest maker of vaccines where the helicopter was operating on the deck and experts say it is unlikely India will before the crash, the statement said. reach its target of vaccinating all adults The statement did not say how the crash by the end of the year. about 112 kilometres off the coast of San Diego India opened shots for all adults happened, but the fact that sailors aboard the in May. But the campaign faltered in carrier were injured raised questions about villages due to vaccine hesitancy and whether the helicopter or parts of it hit the misinformation. That started changing Abraham Lincoln. — AAP in mid-July and of the nearly 120 VACCINE ACCEPTANCE: Of the nearly 120 million shots administered in the past million shots administered in the past three weeks in India, about 70 percent were in villages. AP picture Gunmen kidnap 73 students three weeks, around 70 percent were in LAGOS — Gunmen have abducted 73 students India’s villages — up from around half one shot. This has left large swathes of constraints, the question of whether in a new school attack in northwestern Nigeria, in the initial weeks of May. people still susceptible to the virus. Indian vaccine makers can scale up just days after three other groups of hostages Although the increased vaccine Several nations, including the US production to meet India’s needs will were freed when large ransom payments were acceptance in rural areas is promising, and Israel, are offering or plan to offer have global implications. reportedly made. the pandemic is far from done in booster shots to people, deepening “Currently in India, there is more Attackers descended upon the Government India. After weeks of steady decline, global vaccine inequity. demand than available supply . . . the Day Secondary School located in the remote the 46,000 new infections reported on India was expected to be a pivotal supply of vaccines currently in use village of Kaya, Zamfara state police spokesman Saturday was its highest in almost two producer of shots to immunise the is lower than the projections made a Mohammed Shehu said on Wednesday. months. world but stopped exports after an few months ago. These situations are A rescue operation was ongoing to free the Only about 11 percent of India’s vast explosion of infections. putting constraints on availability students, he added. population is fully vaccinated. Half of And while India had expected to of vaccines in the country,” said Dr More than 1000 students have been kidnapped all adults and about 35 percent of the get 1.35 billion shots in the final five Chandrakant Lahariya, a vaccine policy from schools in northern Nigeria since December. total population have received at least months of 2021 to resolve its supply expert. — AP The gunmen have demanded large ransom payments from parents, and while most pupils ultimately have been released, some have died or been killed in captivity. Government officials haven’t commented on whether they played any role in the hostage ‘Possible’ US will work releases announced last Friday. — AP Officers charged over death DENVER — Three US police officers and two paramedics have been charged over the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a with Taliban in future chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative two years ago in suburban Denver. The 23-year-old’s death gained widespread attention during last year’s protests against racial WASHINGTON — The top US general would coordinate with the Taliban on injustice and police brutality following the killing has described the Taliban as a “ruthless future action against Islamic State of George Floyd in Minneapolis. group” and says it is unclear whether affiliate IS-K, the group which claimed McClain’s pleading words that were captured on they will change. an attack outside Kabul airport last police body camera video — “I’m just different” General Mark Milley said, however, week that killed as many as 170 people, — have been posted on signs at protests and it was “possible” that the US would including 13 US service personnel. spoken by celebrities who joined those calling coordinate with the Islamist militants on IS-K is the most extreme and violent for the prosecution of the officers who stopped future counter-terrorism operations. of all the jihadist militant groups in McClain as he walked down the street in the city US forces withdrew from Afghanistan Afghanistan. It has major differences of Aurora after a 911 caller reported he looked on Tuesday, ending America’s longest war with the Taliban, accusing them of suspicious. — AP 20 years after launching an invasion to abandoning jihad and the battlefield. oust the Taliban. Austin, meanwhile, said he would “not Separatist icon dies aged 92 The Islamists are now in control and want to make any predictions” on future SRINAGAR, India — Syed Ali Geelani, an icon expected to announce a new government. cooperation. But he added that officials of disputed Kashmir’s resistance against Indian General Milley was speaking alongside would “do everything that we can to rule and a top separatist leader who became the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, in make sure we remain focused on (IS-K), emblem of the region’s defiance against New their first public remarks since the last understand that network, and at the Delhi, has died aged 92. troops left Afghanistan. time of our choosing in the future, hold US Army General Mark Milley Geelani died surrounded by family members at US President Joe Biden has been them accountable for what they have his home in Srinagar, the region’s main city, an widely criticised over the abrupt done”. aide and his relative told The Associated Press. manner of the withdrawal, which led to evacuation mission. In total, the evacuation operation saw Shortly after the news broke, scores of the unexpected collapse of the Afghan Asked about their coordination with more than 123,000 people wishing to flee Kashmiris converged at his home in the security forces the US had trained and the Taliban in getting evacuees to the the Taliban airlifted out of the country. Hyderpora neighbourhood of Srinagar to mourn funded for years. airport, Austin said: “We were working The US estimates that there are the death of Geelani, who lived the final decade The Taliban’s lightning advance with the Taliban on a very narrow set of between 100 and 200 Americans still in of his life mostly under house arrest and suffered sparked off a frenetic effort to evacuate issues, and that was just that — to get as Afghanistan. from various ailments. thousands of foreign nationals and local many people out as we possibly could.” US Under-Secretary of State for Authorities announced a communication Afghans who had been working for them. “In war you do what you must in Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said “all blockade and the restriction of public movement, In the news conference on Wednesday, order to reduce risk to mission and force, possible options” were being looked at a common tactic employed by Indian officials in both General Milley and Secretary not what you necessarily want to do,” to get remaining US citizens and people anticipation of anti-India protests. Austin praised the troops who had General Milley added. who had worked with the US out of the They swiftly deployed heavy contingents of served in Afghanistan and the massive He said it was possible that the US country. — BBC armed police and soldiers across the Kashmir valley to prevent people from participating in Geelani’s funeral. — AP Covid death toll passes 500 in Fiji Texas tightens abortion law DALLAS — A law banning abortion from as SUVA — Eight more people have died these are from the latest outbreak that There have been 46,936 cases during early as six weeks into pregnancy has come into from Covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death began in April 2021. the outbreak that started in April 2021. effect in the US state of Texas. toll past 500. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said Dr Fong said the latest eight deaths It bans abortions after the detection of what The Government also confirmed of the latest cases, 128 are from the were reported for the period August 27 to anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, 290 new cases for the 24 hours to 8am Western Division, 137 from the Central September 1. something medical authorities say is misleading. yesterday. Division and 25 cases are from the As of August 31, 560,336 adults in The law, one of the most restrictive in the That compares with 505 cases and Eastern Division. Fiji have received their first dose of the country, took effect after the Supreme Court did seven deaths in the previous 24-hour He said there are 25 new cases on vaccine and 275,072 getting both jabs. not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion period. Kadavu in the East. This means that 95.9 percent of the providers. Fiji now has 17,124 active cases. There “This means there are now 257 active target population have received at least Doctors and women’s rights groups have were 2306 recoveries. cases of Covid-19 in Kadavu. All these one dose and 47.6 percent are now fully heavily criticised the law. It gives any individual The death toll is at 504, which 502 of individuals have been isolated.” vaccinated in Fiji. — RNZ the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. — AP 14 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021

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HIST S I WH FEEDS ROC FEEDS TEENY PLATEAU SCARF The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 WORLD 15 GLOBAL BRIEFS NSW’s vaccination milestone SYDNEY — A day after reporting the 100th death linked to the state’s spiralling Covid-19 outbreak, NSW is expected to reach a happier milestone — 70 percent first dose Covid-19 vaccination coverage. SUMMER OF As of Tuesday, more than 6.9 million vaccine EXTREMES: doses have been administered in NSW, with A new report 69.3 percent of the population aged 16 and over from the United receiving at least one dose. Nations weather Almost 38 percent are fully vaccinated. agency has The number of people in NSW who have found the world received at least one jab on average has grown is getting several by more than 1 percent each day over the past 7 times more days, meaning the dose that tips the state over weather disasters 70 percent coverage was likely administered on than in the 1970s. Wednesday. AP picture The milestone all but ensures NSW will reach 70 percent full vaccination within a number of weeks, triggering the state’s gradual release from lockdown. — AAP Victoria tightens border MELBOURNE — Victoria is further tightening its border with NSW, with Premier Daniel Andrews indicating it could remain closed until the end of the year. Weather disasters soar As Covid-19 cases rise across both sides of the Murray River, six Victorian and two NSW local government areas will be tossed out of the GENEVA — The number of weather- these negative trends in climate will progress in learning to live with risk and state’s border bubble from 11.59pm on Thursday. related disasters to hit the world has continue for the coming decades.” protecting ourselves. “With over one thousand cases per day, and increased five-fold over the past 50 years, In the 1970s, the world averaged “On the other hand, we are still making a trajectory of exponential growth, the risk that the United Nations weather agency about 711 weather disasters a year, but stupid decisions about where we’re NSW poses to Victoria is bigger than ever,” Chief reports. from 2000 to 2009 that was up to 3536 a putting our infrastructure,” she said. “But Health Officer Brett Sutton said. — AAP But these disasters are killing far year or nearly 10 a day, according to the it’s OK. We’re not losing lives, we’re just fewer people. report, which used data from the Centre losing stuff.” WHO launches pandemic hub In the 1970s and 1980s, they killed for Research on the Epidemiology of Samantha Montano, an emergency BERLIN — The World Health Organisation on an average of about 170 people a Disasters in Belgium. management professor at the Wednesday inaugurated a new “hub” in Berlin day worldwide. In the 2010s, that The average number of yearly disasters Massachusetts Maritime Academy and that aims to help prepare the globe better to dropped to about 40 per day, the World dropped a bit in the 2010s to 3165. author of the book “Disasterology”, said prevent future pandemics. Meteorological Organisation said in the Most death and damage during 50 she worries that death tolls may stop WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom report that looks at more than 11,000 years of weather disasters came from decreasing because of the increase in Ghebreyesus and German Chancellor Angela weather disasters in the past half- storms, flooding and drought. extreme weather from climate change Merkel cut the ribbon to launch the new WHO century. More than 90 percent of the more especially hitting poorer nations. Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The report comes during a disaster- than two million deaths are in what the “The disparity in which countries WHO says Germany is making an initial filled summer in the Northern UN considers developing nations, while have had the resources to dedicate to investment of $100 million in the facility. Hemisphere, including deadly floods nearly 60 percent of the economic damage minimising disaster deaths is of huge The hub is meant to promote more effective in Germany and a heat wave in the occurred in richer countries. concern particularly due to climate data collection, information-sharing and analysis, Mediterranean, and with the United In the 1970s, weather disasters cost change,” she said. leading to better and more coherent decision- States simultaneously struck by powerful about US$175 billion globally, when Hurricane Ida is a good example of making after the patchy global response to Hurricane Ida and an onslaught of adjusted to 2019 dollars, the UN found. heavy damage and what will probably the Covid-19 pandemic. It will be headed by Dr drought-worsened wildfires. That increased to $1.38 trillion for the be less loss of life than past major Chikwe Ihekweazu, currently the director-general “The good news is that we have been period from 2010 to 2019. hurricanes, Cutter said. of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. able to minimise the amount of casualties What’s driving the destruction is that This year, she added, weather disasters The Covid-19 pandemic “has taught the world once we have started having a growing more people are moving into dangerous “seem to be coming every couple weeks”, many painful lessons,” Tedros said. “One of the amount of disasters — heatwaves, areas as climate change is making with Ida, US wildfires and floods in most clear is the need for new, powerful systems flooding events, drought, and intense weather disasters stronger and more Germany, China and Tennessee. and tools for global surveillance to collect, tropical storms like Ida,” Petteri Taalas, frequent, UN disaster and weather The five most expensive weather analyse and disseminate data on outbreaks WMO’s secretary-general, said. officials said. disasters since 1970 were all storms in with the potential to become epidemics and “But the bad news is that the economic Meanwhile, experts said, better the United States, topped by Hurricane pandemics.” losses have been growing very rapidly weather warnings and preparedness are Katrina in 2005. The five deadliest “Viruses move fast but data can move faster,” and this growth is supposed to continue,” lessening the death toll. weather disasters were in Africa and Tedros said. He added that the new centre is one he added. Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Asia — topped by the Ethiopian drought response to recommendations on what can be “We are going to see more climatic and Vulnerability Research Institute at and famine in the mid 1980s and Cyclone done to keep the world safer in the future, “filling extremes because of climate change, and the University of South Carolina, noted Bhola in Bangladesh in 1970. — AP a gap in the world’s defences.” — AP

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CONTACTLESS DELIVERY: A baby fur seal went knocking on a Te Awanga door on Tuesday night and found itself nose to nose with a furry friend in the morning. Bronwyn Trafford, a Te Awanga resident, woke on Wednesday morning to a surprise in the form of a small seal on her doorstep. “My husband heard a scuffle last night and this morning when we pulled the curtain we found it on our doorstep,” she said. “We checked our video surveillance and saw it making its way up to our driveway at 11.30pm before it settled in its sleeping possie for the night in front of our doors.” The Trafford family has a blue-grey Staffy dog, which took a shine to the seal (kekeno) through the glass door. “We have a Staffy and it looks quite similar to the seal, it’s about the same size. This morning our Staffy has had his nose up against the glass looking out at the seal, they’ve been nose to nose against the door” she said. Trafford reported that the seal seems happy in the beachside neighbourhood, having taken up residence in the community for the duration of lockdown.“The seal’s been around for over three weeks in the area, lots of kids have been finding it sitting around or swimming in the lagoon opposite our place,” she said.“We haven’t seen its mum but it doesn’t look in poor condition, it’s been really friendly and everyone’s dogs have been steering clear,” she said. Hawke’s Bay Today picture

Akld libraries Vandals target Scouts go fine-free den with vile racist slurs AUCKLAND — Auckland Libraries CHRISTCHURCH — Scout other cameras operating in has wiped all overdue fines and won’t leaders are hoping police can the reserve will provide some be issuing any in the future, regardless catch vandals who spray- clues as to who was behind the of how late a book is returned or where painted vile hate speech over attack. you live in Tamaki Makaurau. their den during Level 4 It was reported to police All current and historic fines have lockdown. yesterday morning. been automatically wiped. Racist and disturbing tags A police spokeswoman The change applied to anything that have been discovered on the said officers were assessing can physically be borrowed, including white walls of Rolleston’s the initial report, including books, CDs, DVDs, magazines and Scouts den. whether there was “any useful sheet music. It’s understood the CCTV footage available”. Louise LaHatte, from Auckland NO MORE BARRIERS: Auckland Libraries has wiped all overdue fines. vandalism happened over the Two Venturers from Libraries, says the change is permanent Louise LaHatte from Auckland Libraries says the change is permanent weekend and was found on the same Covid-19 bubble and part of the Long Term Plan. and part of the Long Term Plan. RNZ picture Monday morning. volunteered to scrub the “Most people agree that libraries are And it appears the vandals offending paint off the walls very valuable and they are particularly People will still be sent reminder There are at least nine New were on a rampage around while a local builde,r who was valuable for people who don’t have notices once an item is almost due and Zealand libraries which are fine-free the area, with fences, other doing some paintwork on the access to a lot of other resources that LaHatte said after a certain amount of — Carterton, Opotiki, Upper Hutt, buildings and a BMW car den this week anyway, will people have privately,” she told RNZ time it will be considered a lost item Waimakariri, Selwyn, central Hawke’s being spray-painted, while a paint over it. Nights. and a replacement charge will go onto Bay, Rangitikei, Masterton and Nelson. road sign was toppled over and “We need to make sure it’s “So access to reading, what you the person’s account. Once the item LaHatte says people can still connect tagged. gone completely before the can learn and the stories that you can is returned, the replacement charge is to Auckland Libraries online and access Members of the public kids go back there because take heart from to really thrive in your removed. e-books, e-audio books and magazines. came across the Scouts den we certainly don’t want young community should be equally available “Once you owe more than $10 then There’s also movies and vandalism and let local leaders children seeing that sort of to everyone. you’re stopped from borrowing any documentaries to stream and Libby app know. thing,” Burnett said. “Fines are a barrier to that because more physical items.” which has a large collection of e-books. “It’s pretty terrible . . . “I don’t believe it was there are people who just can’t afford The library says the new policy Between 1pm and 6pm, school hopefully they’ll get caught,” targeted at Scouts directly, fines.” doesn’t include inter-library loan students from years 1 to 13 can log in local leader and committee but you don’t know what goes LaHatte said they had heard sad overdue fines for books requested from and ask a librarian their curly questions member Joanna Burnett said. through these people’s minds.” stories of people who stopped visiting libraries outside of Auckland. using Any Questions? Although the vandals appear Police ask that if anyone has the library because they had overdue About 600 libraries around the world During lockdown you can also to have sprayed black paint any information which may fines because they weren’t able to have gone fine-free, including every access Ancestory.com and Find My over CCTV cameras on the help their inquiries, they get in afford to pay for it. library in Ireland. Past from home. — RNZ den itself, Burnett hopes that touch via 105. — NZ Herald Fraudulent withdrawals Disabled woman robbed of $10k by her caregiver

AUCKLAND — Financial institutions teller, who noticed the altered withdrawal improved,” she said. are being urged to do more to assist slip and alerted the police. During the FSCL’s investigation, vulnerable consumers after $10,000 was The charity group laid a complaint the charity argued it was clear the $10,000 stolen from a disabled woman’s with the FSCL, believing the credit union withdrawal slips had been altered, and bank account by her caregiver who used should have done more to prevent the that there should have been a $100 a forged withdrawal slip. fraudulent withdrawals. withdrawal limit on Aesha’s account. The woman, Aesha, who does her FSCL chief executive Susan Taylor The charity added that transfers to the banking with a credit union, receives said extra care needed to be taken by ATM account were not authorised at all. assistance with her finances from a local financial institutions when dealing with The credit union disputed it was charity group. vulnerable consumers. liable, claiming that Aesha signing the For Aesha’s safety, a “two-to-sign” “Vulnerable consumers often require withdrawal slip in front of the teller was process is needed, where a senior a higher level of assistance from the sufficient and that the charity, or Aesha’s employee at the charity would sign financial institutions they deal with family, should have picked up the large a withdrawal slip and Aesha would because they can have greater needs, withdrawals on regular bank statements. counter-sign at the branch in front of a so extra effort and care on the part The FSCL found that although the teller to get her money. of financial institutions will often be charity had not explicitly asked for a However, Aesha’s caregiver altered her necessary,” Taylor said. credit limit to be put on the amount that withdrawal slips before accompanying Taylor added that the development could be withdrawn, the credit union SHAMEFUL ACT: The victim’s caregiver her to the bank. of the Conduct of Financial Institutions had relaxed the “two-to-sign” measure by altered a withdrawal slip to removed The fraudulent transfer slips were used legislative framework in the near future allowing the withdrawal slip to be signed money from the woman’s account at an to transfer $10,000 of Aesha’s money into would likely increase fair conduct by one signatory off-site, a factor that ATM. Picture supplied a separate account, which the caregiver obligations on non-bank deposit takers. contributed to the fraud being able to would later withdraw from an ATM, “This means the obligations on take place. who had not used ATMs previously, had using Aesha’s EFTPOS card. financial institutions in relation to their The disputes service also considered spiked. The case was investigated by dispute treatment of vulnerable consumers are that the credit union’s staff should The FSCL asked the credit union to resolution service Financial Services likely to increase. It may be worthwhile have noticed the obvious altering to the reimburse 40 percent of the amount Complaints Limited (FSCL) after the reviewing policies and procedures now withdrawal slips and that the number stolen, which both parties agreed to. offending had been discovered by a bank to see where services may be able to be of ATM withdrawals, unusual for Aesha — NZ Herald 18 TELEVISION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 THURSDAY—FRIDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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Rick learns the art of 3pm Rugby Club 2pm Unexplained And 2.25 Million Dollar Listing New 2.30 NCIS: New Orleans MV 2pm The Night Clerk Unexplored PG temple cooking and 3.30 TBC York PG 3 3.20 Ax Men ML 16VLSC 2020 Drama. 2.55 Outback Opal Hunters PG 4pm M The Brighton 3.25 Keeping Up With The perfects the knack of 4.10 Jeopardy! 3.30 Bill And Ted Face The 3.50 Gold Rush PG Kardashians PG 3 eating with his hands. Miracle 2019 Sport Drama. 4.35 Wheel Of Fortune Music PGVL 2020 Comedy. 4.45 Homestead Rescue PG 4.25 Love It Or List It 3 5.30 Mysteries At The 5.30 Playmakers: Rugby 5pm Storage Wars PGL 5pm Human Capital 5.40 Gold Rush: White 5.30 Shark Tank PG Museum PGC Stories 5.30 Pawn Stars PG MLS 2020 Drama. Water PG KEY 0 3 (HLS) (RPL) (DLY) 16 18 Closed captions; Repeat; Highlights; Replay; Delayed; Approved for persons 16 years or over; Approved for persons 18 years or over; 2Sep21 Compiled by C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Arts & Entertainment // Thursday, September 2, 2021

BUILDING MADE SOUND: NOise Vacancy is a site-specific sound art project where artists create audio art The creation of sound based on the building they take over. Picture by Phil Yeo Photography c/o Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival by Jack Marshall quiet, bar once a week when tutus fill ceiling. It’s just gorgeous.” sound art project. the building as young dancers point The Public Trust building has “First and foremost it’s an audio nce bustling and full of their toes. more variety of space than last year’s and sound response, where the visual life, stuffed with secret Designed and constructed by local installation, says Lina. comes second,” Lina says. Odocuments and mysteries, firm Burr and Mirfield in 1922, the In 2020, NOise Vacancy took over Strong proposals will use sound the Public Trust building now stands building features decorative pilasters, 64 Lowe Street which oozed a Mad as the key concept from which silent. aka fake columns, topped with formal Men energy. It was as if you had performance, visual art and Until NOise Vacancy has its way. detailing on its facade. stepped into a 1950s advertising installation should be considered NOise Vacancy is bringing “There’s an eclecticness with this agency. to enhance and strengthen the together local artists from different building. It’s got a real grandeur The Public Trust building owner presentation of each project. backgrounds to take over a vacant about it with classical features that and city councillor, Tony Robinson, “In saying that, we want to building with audio art inspired by follow inside with beautiful detailing has been really accommodating, says encourage people that aren’t sound the space. around the ceiling and doors,” says Lina. creators,” says Katy. Fitting with the kaupapa behind Katy Wallace, one of the organisers. “He told us, ‘if you want it, it’s Katy says she is not a sound artist Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival, NOise “In the middle of the mainspace yours’.” herself, but found it inspiring to use Vacancy provides an opportunity for downstairs is this crazy ‘70s infill Which can be a big ask for a noise as a means for creativity. strangers to mingle and make, build with a glass ceiling, a diamond building owner, basically asking, “Can Sound can be pre-recorded, networks and encourage creative window, and horizontal timber walls. I let punters, musicians, artists and performed live, activated remotely, resiliency in Tairawhiti. It’s a real mash-up.” whoever else take over your building be created by movement or require The Public Trust building fits the This year the event is organised in the name of art?” audience participation. group’s Goldilocks requirements. It’s by Nikki O’Connor (Ngati Porou, Te Artists who want to join the project “Last year we had all sorts of not too far away from the city, not too Ati Awa), who is a tertiary educator and fill the vacant space can take people who weren’t what you call big, not too small, evocative and — with a professional background a digital walkthrough and see the sound artists.” most importantly — empty. in art therapy, Katy Wallace, who floorplan via gizzylocal.com/noise- “I found it an interesting way to The Public Trust was an has 25 years of exhibiting in public vacancy-2021, as well as the launch grow a creative response through the independent Crown Entity offering institutions under her belt, and Lina video and proposal form. medium of sound first. It’s a really financial services such as wills and Marsh, of Niuean Maori descent, who Over the next few weeks, the team good stretch for your practice if that’s trust management, which occupied is a seasoned, multi-disciplined artist will release interviews online with not your initial way of working”. the building up until 2005. whose work explores contemporary some of last year’s participants for NOise Vacancy premieres on Since 2005, Family Planning has Pacific stories and themes of identity. an insight into how others have used October 14, from 6pm to 9.45pm, for spent some time on the ground floor. Another special part of the building audio to make art. one night only. Artists have holed up in rooms as are the vaults that hark back to They are calling for artists to take Visit gizzylocal.com/noise- studio spaces and the ephemeral another era, says Lina. the space and make it their own. vacancy-2021 for more info or contact vintage clothing store, Unfinished “I think it’s the space where they “The same as last year, the work the team at [email protected]. Business, has appeared twice in the held all the deeds. There are these will be a response to space.” Proposals should be in by September building. But now 40 Childers Road is beautiful little shelves from floor to NOise Vacancy is a site-specific 13, 5pm. 20 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Te Wheke Sunday October 10th, 7.0 0pm

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Double Bill by Pacifi c Dance Festival Wednesday October 13th, 7.0 0pm

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Presented by Auckland Theatre Co The Haka Party Incident by Katie Wolfe Friday October 15th, 7.30pm

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Black Sea Golden Ladder Troy Kingi & Delaney Davidson Saturday October 16th, 8.00pm

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival The F Word with Tami Neilson Sunday October 17th, 7.0 0pm

Musical Theatre Gisborne presents Annie – The Musical Nov 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 7.30pm Sunday November 7th, 2pm

Showtime Entertainment presents The Bee Gees – Night Fever Sunday November 21st, 7.00pm

A Taste of Ireland presents A Celtic Christmas Tuesday December 14th, 7.30pm

SINGLE RELEASE: Gisborne band Lazy Fifty dropped their latest single last week in the lead up to their album release in November. The single, My Hand, is the second single available from their new album 2021: A LAZY ODYSSEY. My Hand was inspired by the popular Netflix series Peaky Blinders, which the video gives a nod to while also being as Kiwi as they come as it was shot in Tairawhiti. The group recorded at Tim Finn’s Roundhead Studios in Auckland with producer Greg Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Haver who has worked with The Feelers, Opshop, and Troy Kingi. The album, 2021: A LAZY ODYSSEY, is set to be released on La Vie En Rose November 1. Adrian Athy is on vocals and guitar, Ryan Raggett slaps the bass and Ali Sochacki is on the drums. Lazy Fifty were due to go on tour with UNI-FI this month, but have had to postpone the Smash gig until Friday, November 12. Tickets already Friday October 8th, 9.00pm sold are valid for this new date. Picture supplied

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Deva Mahal Saturday October 9th, 8.30pm

Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival Sunday Soul Sessions Te Tairawhiti Poetry results Sunday October 10th & 17th, 6.00pm by Jack Marshall Kape said the questioning title drew She said I Feel You Spring by Wanda Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival her attention, gave the poem energy and Thompson-Keil takes readers with the he results are in and the winners gave it a natural path of progression. poet in her sensing the new season. All That Glitters is Gizzy are . . . all of us! “Why should we notice? That’s our next “She has us working it out as if we are Tuesday October 12th & T I’ve had many thanks from the question,” said Kape. there in the room with her. This poem Wednesday October 13th, 6.00pm poets, their parents and poetry lovers “The poet goes on to show us the many just warmed my heart.” throughout Tairawhiti for giving the ways we might be noticing but which in The second was LOCKY D TWENTY Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival chance to read and write during the our busy lives we so often miss. ONE by Emma, which Kape called Homecoming Queens lockdown. It was a community effort that “She presents her poem as a blessing risk-taking, funny, and enjoyably self- paid dividends. without actually using that word. That’s deprecating. Wednesday October 13th, 8.30pm The biggest prize went to the readers poetic skill. There are some stunning “A unique poem. Is the poet taking the who were treated to new poetry (and lines here, like: piss of poetry? Of course, and she does it Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival some mighty fine work at that) the world because she knows that is what poetry Louis Baker has never seen. Would we have noticed or even can do.” Thursday October 14th, 7.00pm I know, no one wants to hear that. “We understood, In the Rangatahi section there were want answers, Jack. Definitive results the subtleties of change and two prize winners. Te Tair whiti Arts Festival showing the best of the best.” the intricacies of good? Come Back Golden Hypnosis by Amy ā Well I’m sorry reader, poetry doesn’t Adcock wrote a poem that was mature Dragon’s Diva Den work like that. And I refuse to name a “The repetition of that question ‘I and highly commendable, with colour, Thursday October 14th, single winner . . . So I had someone else wonder . . . would we have noticed’, is rhythm and energy, said Kape. Friday October 15th & do it for me. gentle and respectful of the reader’s place And 7am by Sam Mason-Green, a Saturday October 16th, 9.00pm Enter Benita Kape, Te Tairawhiti in the poem, in the world in general. poem Kape said she read several times Poetry Competition’s poet laureate. “Yes, the world has changed and over with the work growing on her with Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival I asked Kape to choose her favourite though this poem is an address to the each read, was also a winner. Anna Coddington & Julia Deans poems from each category. season, it is much more than that. Both have won family passes to Without further ado, here are the prize “Though we may be troubled by the minigolf at the Gisborne i-SITE, thanks Friday October 15th, 6.00pm winners from the Te Tairawhiti Poetry changes in the world of humans, we have to Trust Tairawhiti. Competition. playful tui, the creek, lambs who know Thank you to everyone who submitted, Tickets on sale from Gisborne i-SITE First place winner in the Open none of our cares. or kept their poems to themselves, section, receiving a $100 voucher kindly “A kind conversation with herself and those who encouraged others to write, Accepting bookings for functions, donated from Warehouse Stationery, is us. Beautiful poem.” Warehouse Stationery and Trust events, meetings and conferences. Helayna Ruifrok for WOULD WE HAVE Kape also had two honourable Tairawhiti for the prizes, and, of course, Email [email protected]

39698-10 NOTICED? mentions, to the readers. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 21

to the tail end I’m practising kapa haka. Insides twisted like the poison ivy of winter. I’m learning vine hugs and I’m yearning Body blushed pink battling the A single swallow For the spring. unforgiving frost, does not a spring make and the chill wind There’s a spring The sun has now risen bites cruelly at In my step today Spring has begun, the world has old bones. and I’m out to play. begun Everything A tiny child Has the buzz of fun Flowers are in bloom now, their garners the last daffodil. and the rabbits run. colours steep under the sun’s gaze Her lilliputian foot I’m dancing the kanikani The breath of spring exhales tiny pressing down, That leaves me feeling funny. pollen grains, on nine daisies. I’m spinning Petals frolic in the breeze, and I’m grinning synchronised like dancers, Shared ancestral origins In the spring. long forgotten. The world has begun now the sun Called home by a karakia A Journey Through Spring has arrived, heard only as a faint flutter by Nishar Pink in their tiny hearts. I have been picked up by the golden Let me paint you a picture, grasp, I flutter amongst grains of The unbroken, Let’s go on a journey pollen, maternal line Close your eyes and really try I steep like the petals, linking both to Aotearoa To pick up on the energy My body stained in yellows reds I Feel You Spring and Papatuanuku pinks blues, I radiate by Wanda Thompson-Kiel held only by love. You’re sitting in a field. I grow and bloom and grow again, The fresh smell of spring air fills I have begun now, When I woke up this morning, there was More swallows your lungs. Blinded by a golden light I am frost out on the lawn join the old one, The aroma of blooming flowers washed in honey as the world glows. Just before the sun came up and just before building nests for, consumes you, and takes you back to the dawn a new dawn, a new day, when you were young. The sun has set now a new generation. I felt a special moment — felt the world Back to when nothing else mattered My colours tarnish just hesitate Swallow, Child, But the play that was at hand My petals wilt Pausing for an instant just outside my returned full circle. A freedom without limits I fall from the sky, garden gate The journey home complete Be it dirt, grass or sand but not entirely I sit spun as a spider’s web, There was nothing to witness, nothing Scot free. Time stops, as you take it all in My insides tangled like the poison evident to see Appreciating the moment alone ivy vine hugs, And yet there was a sense of something Both welcome, The wind catches your hair Body blushed pink battling the coming back to me in a sorry world, Now it’s really starting to blow unforgiving frost, fraught with trouble. A sense of something warm and loving, Heralding another gorgeous spring Listen. The spring has washed over me beautiful and real and hope renewed. To the gentle sounds of nature. again, Even though that something is just To the beauty of the world around you, Come back golden hypnosis something I can feel Ake Ake Ake How skilled is our creator? Forever and ever 7 am What I felt so very near was the sweet Hear the birds that sing their song By Sam Mason-Green touch of spring Koanga / Spring Stop, and look, and listen A sense of peace and harmony lay over by Taranga Kent Springtime brings a smell and light The gelid breeze is fading but it’s everything from which every petal will glisten. presence still appears Behold, the vernal equinox The stigma skies fluster my emotions The beauty of spring skies at dawn so Has once more rolled around Not too hot, not too cold, I envision the various colours spring fascinate the eye The earth renews But somewhere in-between. offers It’s great to be awake to see a spring day its vibrant hues Of all four seasons, spring is the watching it bleed in the air. dropping by above the stirring ground time, there’s always more to be seen. I see purple, yellow, blue and green, Maybe this special moment is just Resurgence of abundance So next time you’re out and about overwhelm my dimly lit atmosphere. something in my head The promise of the new From September to November As I crave the bright lights to settle I do not care, I know it’s there — not much Hydrate the earth Take a moment to breathe the air the curiosity contained in my head. more to be said For the coming rebirth And allow yourself to remember; Now, what does spring have to offer Of nature, me and you me, I say to myself And in the early morning with the frost The world around us is ever As I look through Google searching still on the lawn Adorn my nakedness once again changing for the knowledge on the top shelf. That special moment’s all about a spring Restore my cloak of green And that is clear to see, day being born. Bring forth new life But locked down or not, our world is But, I find nothing. In this paradise beautiful, You’re bluffing, I say to Google. The Welcome Swallow up Where Coasties reign supreme! How lucky are we? I typed in, what is spring? by Gypsy Rose It came up with a bloody trampoline! Springing up Rangatahi A solo swallow by HR Jenkin Reality fades back in with a cold flies south, Come Back Golden Hypnosis snippet snapping me out and waking drawn by an unseen force. There’s a spring by Amy Adcock me within. Returning to the land Where the life gift flows The winter has been cold-hearted of her birth. and the heart’s hope grows. I am washed in the melted dew and but the spring has bloomed hope. Everything dried like the clouded breath of a Through the mental health I suffer Her rear feather’s Has a fresh, new chance winters morning from daily splaying and it makes me dance. It feels good to see the petals grow in an impudent signal I’m planning my summer tucker. I sit spun as a spider’s web to a rose. 22 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 Films and TV series to stream this lockdown

s we face another weekend in lockdown, some people may Abe running out of series to stream. Worry not, with an abundance of streaming servers there is sure to be something that you haven’t yet seen. If you’re keen for something to while away the lockdown blues, here are a few options to add to your binge list. Sparking Joy — Netflix

As we enter the third week of lockdown you may have started to notice that your home is crammed full of stuff. In the before-times when you were constantly in and out of your house it was easy to overlook the overstuffed kitchen drawers, ignore the taped-up boxes in the garage, and not worry about your straining wardrobes. But now all that SPARKING JOY: Marie Kondo brings her stuff is staring you in the face each day. joyful tidying tactics to people struggling Chances are it is not sparking joy but is to balance work and home life — and instead stressing you out. shares her own world. Now’s the time to get on top of it and get rid of the needless items. NINE PERFECT STRANGERS: Nine Starting is the hardest part so for people show up at an experimental decluttering inspiration turn to the wellness retreat overseen by Masha new series from world-renowned tidy- (Nicole Kidman), and secrets, lies, and all upperer Marie Kondo as she goes about kinds of drama ensue over their 10-day transforming people’s lives through the stay. power of tidying up. Cruella — Disney+ An American Pickle — Neon This dazzling, visual extravaganza is This delightfully absurd, humorous the origin story of one of Disney’s most modern fable sees Seth Rogen playing fashionable villains, the puppy-hating double duty in both lead roles. Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians. The first is Herschel Greenbaum, a Academy Award winner Emma Stone cantankerous Eastern European Jew who struts and schemes as the well-dressed accidentally falls into a giant pickle vat de Vil, resplendent in trendy, trademark where he is perfectly preserved in brine monochrome fashions as she plots out for 100 years. wicked revenge on those who wrong her. The other is Greenbaum’s great- Lavish and stylish, the prequel grandson Ben, an affable app developer particularly impressed fashion lovers, SUPERMAN & LOIS: Follow the world’s most famous super hero (played by Tyler who takes him in. At first, the distant with one critic calling the movie “visually Hoechlin) and comic books’ most famous journalist (played by Elizabeth Tulloch) relatives get along but Herschel’s old- striking, fashionably astute and all- as they deal with all the stress, pressures, and complexities that come with being school values quickly clash with Ben’s embracingly entertaining”. working parents. Pictures supplied modern takes and after a huge falling out both vow to ruin the other. Superman and Lois — TVNZ OnDemand five seasons to date, based on a series spiritual guru Masha. Reviews for the low-key dramedy have of science-fiction novels about a future Everything about the place looks been mostly positive with Rogen’s dual Yes, there’s about a million movies and where man has spread to colonise Mars unimaginably expensive, which the performances praised. TV shows out there based on superheroes, and the stars, and the conflicts that backgrounds of the nine guests seem to Of the film, one critic noted that while but quietly, the first and greatest of them result. confirm. “it asks its viewers to suspend a lot of all has come back in a terrific new series Packed with space politics and strange Masha “mixes and matches her guests” disbelief, those willing to go along for the which just wrapped up its first season. alien threats, it also features the excellent to get the right mix of traumas, and on ride will find much to entertain them”. This one changes the game by being a Samoan New Zealand actress Frankie this retreat she’s matched a romance story of a 40-something Superman who’s Adams as a kick-arse Martian commando. novelist, a former sports star, a young McCartney 3, 2, 1 - Disney+ married to Lois Lane and has two teenage couple whose lives are falling to bits sons, one of whom is developing powers Nine Perfect Strangers — Amazon Prime after a Lotto win, a divorced single mum, A Beatle and a fan, alone in a room just like good ol’ dad. a wellness retreat junkie, and a family talking about music. Tyler Hoechlin nails the Man of Steel’s Will there ever be a TV series where grieving the loss of a son and brother. If you’re of a certain age or a die-hard core appeal with the best performance as a group of strangers go on a wellness What Masha’s got in store for them over Beatlemaniac, this documentary series the character since the late Christopher retreat and just have a nice, fun, soul- the course of the 10-day retreat is the featuring music producer Rick Rubin and Reeve, and this show balances a lot of replenishing time? Maybe one day, but mystery, but it looks a bit like Outward the legendary Paul McCartney looking heart with some excellent heroic action. Nine Perfect Strangers isn’t it. Bound meets that New Age sweat lodge back at his career is a must-watch. David E Kelley’s adaptation of Liane retreat that ended so badly there was a It’s not a flashy Beatles celebration, The Expanse — Amazon Prime Moriarty’s 2018 novel is a follow-up of podcast series about it (Guru: The Dark but more of a focused, chatty look at sorts to Big Little Lies. Side of Enlightenment). how great music is made that gets deep If you’re sick of 2021 and want to dive The series takes place at a new- Maybe what led these people here isn’t into song-geek heaven and it is utterly into a complex, inventive possible future, age health and wellness resort called the question, it’s how they get out of fascinating. you can’t go wrong with The Expanse’s Tranquillum House, run by mysterious there. — NZ Herald YOUR WEEKDAY RADIO PROGRAMME GUIDE

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Egmont races at Hawera Friday Jetbet 6 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10 Selections 4 — Chanel SCRATCHED 3 80s52 Lord Esperanza (5) 59.5 52 6 Heather D Yaxley Martinez 2.28 5 5510s Fiddyafortnight (7) 57 61 L Hemi Race 1: ESTABLISHMENT, REDGUM, VANGUARD 5 3 Shejengar (8) 56.5 50 E Nicholas (a3) 6 5397s My Father’s Gun (9) 57 57 M Singh 6 4s The Perfect Pink (5) 56.5 50 4 6s3 Kiwi To The Bone (10) 59.5 51 $12,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 7 s6037 Miraculous (4) 56.5 56 B Rogerson (a3) Race 2: MEDAL, THE PERFECT PINK, INVIALO 7 s7655 Invialo (9) 56.5 48 S J Macnab 1 s4213 Mauna Loa (13) 60.5 64 8 8877s A Box Of Tricks (2) 56 59 D Hirini Race 3: KHUFU, SUNTRIBUTE, RUE CLER 8 Belle En Rouge (7) 56.5 47 5 3878s Astradeel (9) 59.5 49 M McNab Callum Jones (a3) 9 s7709 Cheeky Azz (5) 56 55 M K Hudson Race 4: KIWI TO THE BONE, LORD ESPERANZA, 9 Gwithian Bay (2) 56.5 47 M McNab 6 0s95 No Tears (3) 59.5 47 2 s9133 Venato (12) 60.5 64 H Schofer (a1) 10 5s768 Once Bitten (10) 55 45 (a3) BUSYBEINGFABULOUS 10 5 Perfectsister (6) 56.5 47 7 Big Franck (11) 59.5 45 D Hirini 3 16L4 So Call Me (5) 60 63 L Kauri (a4) Race 5: BERRY THE CASH, TSUNAMI, BIG PAPI 11 Kiana Belle (3) 56.5 45 D Hirini 8 Holyell (4) 59.5 45 M K Hudson 4 2451s Lava Rock (4) 59.5 62 S J Macnab 9 Heather D Yaxley Martinez 4.14 Race 6: MAUNA LOA, SO CALL ME, VENATO 9 — Summit Special SCRATCHED 5 s0300 Roc Ya Sox (11) 59.5 62 $12,000, rating 74 benchmark, 1200m 3 Ecolab 12.42 6 00865 Big Ben (10) 58.5 60 C L O’Beirne (a2) Race 7: ALL THAT JAZZ, BAE CORP, HEY HEY HEY 10 9 Target (12) 59.5 45 F Lazet (a4) 1 — Cornflower Blue SCRATCHED Race 8: WAKARI, ICONIC LASS, FIDDYAFORTNIGHT $12,000, maiden, 1200m 11 8280s Swing The Tide (1) 57.5 58 7 s2198 The Bounder (8) 58.5 60 L Hemi 8 s0190 Jugador (7) 58 59 D Hirini 2 32442 Casaquinman (9) 62.5 77 D Turner Race 9: BOLD STAR, SWISS KITTY, LADY KARTEL 1 323 Kingfisher Lad (10) 59.5 54 S J Macnab Ashvin Mudhoo (a3) 9 1080s Wotablast (6) 58 59 B Rogerson (a3) 3 8808s Lady Kartel (6) 61 78 H Schofer (a1) Race 10: BOTTI, OBRIGADO, NITRO TED 2 42424 See The Lion (2) 59.5 54 L Hemi 12 90457 Hermes (8) 57.5 49 M Singh 10 94924 Mi Gracie (3) 57 61 E Nicholas (a3) 4 6114s Beavertown Boy (8) 60.5 73 3 63264 Blue Arrow (9) 59.5 54 13 0 Lesley Heights (2) 57.5 47 11 62645 Fattore Otto (14) 57 57 M Singh C L O’Beirne (a2) 4 My Man’s Back (4) 59.5 45 D Turner C L O’Beirne (a2) SCRATCHED 12 400s3 Canucia (2) 56.5 60 L Allpress 5 6142s Hold The Press (2) 59.5 75 L Allpress 5 0s72 Forever Wondering (11) 57.5 52 14 — Ana D’Or 13 98205 Harry Harrison (1) 56.5 56 F Lazet (a4) 6 1441s Tamahine (11) 58.5 73 T Taiaroa (a2) M K Hudson EMERGENCIES: 14 0s77s Miss Maple (9) 55 56 7 12675 Ucalledit (4) 58.5 69 L Kauri (a4) 6 2L Suntribute (14) 57.5 52 15 0806s Millie Georgia (6) 57.5 45 H Schofer (a1) 8 5681s Regal Reward (7) 58 68 M K Hudson Callum Jones (a3) 16 0099s Billy Easton (7) 59.5 45 J Mudhoo (a4) 7 Zed@grangewilliam Stud 3.04 9 s0611 Ringthebelledarci (3) 58 68 7 7s037 Mi Carol (15) 57.5 50 E Nicholas (a3) 17 — Blue Arrow SCRATCHED Ashvin Mudhoo (a3) 8 76773 Sweet Karma (13) 57.5 50 $12,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 10 211 Bold Star (1) 57.5 67 M McNab 9 76 High Frequency (12) 57.5 46 5 Norwood Farm Machinery 1.49 1 69412 Hey Hey Hey (2) 60.5 64 B Rogerson (a3) 11 21332 Swiss Kitty (5) 56.5 65 1 Taranaki Steelformers 11.40 H Schofer (a1) $12,000, maiden, 1600m 2 7s342 Hooter (9) 60.5 64 12 5411s Champers (13) 56 68 S J Macnab 10 09798 Tennessee Rose (6) 57.5 45 $12,000, maiden, 2100m 1 2 Berry The Cash (3) 59.5 52 C Dell 3 14983 Gobuyit (7) 59.5 62 13 31255 Tumbleweed (12) 56 68 L Hemi B Rogerson (a3) 2 57340 Hardtimes (5) 59.5 50 M K Hudson 4 05146 Mr Fabulous (3) 59 61 L Allpress 14 33113 Thatz Daisy (10) 55.5 67 C Dell 1 0s462 Establishment (6) 59.5 52 S J Macnab 11 6s Khufu (3) 57 54 M McNab 3 00s30 Jakk Irish (15) 59.5 50 5 6448s Khafeef (12) 58.5 60 T Taiaroa (a2) 2 00882 Super Spirit (8) 59.5 52 C Dell 12 — Chanel SCRATCHED 6 9s814 All That Jazz (13) 58 63 H Schofer (a1) 10 Wyndspelle@grangewilliam Oct 9th 4.46 3 60964 Irish Flare (5) 59.5 50 M McNab SCRATCHED 4 75 Big Papi (11) 59.5 47 C L O’Beirne (a) 13 — The Perfect Pink 5 5 Frankenstein (2) 59.5 47 S J Macnab 7 8s561 Roschana (8) 57.5 62 M K Hudson $12,000, rating 74 & jumps benchmark, 2100m 4 00s4 Umutahi Lad (7) 59.5 50 D Turner 14 Rue Cler (7) 55 47 L Allpress 6 8 Regal Shock (6) 59.5 45 D Hirini 8 s8530 Prince Turbo (4) 57.5 58 L Hemi 5 04348 Vanguard (11) 59.5 50 T Taiaroa (a2) EMERGENCIES: 1 s6621 Viktor Vegas (6) 61 74 7 57775 Swift (9) 59.5 45 E Nicholas (a) 9 75260 Smooth Cognac (11) 56.5 60 D Hirini 6 80809 Monitor (4) 59.5 45 F Lazet (a4) 15 63s Medal (5) 57 50 10 6s020 Justastate (6) 56 59 C L O’Beirne (a2) 2 s7018 Obrigado (7) 60.5 73 H Schofer (a1) 8 0953 Cholula (1) 57.5 51 F Lazet (a) 7 s5029 Redgum (1) 57.5 51 16 — Belle En Rouge SCRATCHED SCRATCHED 3 L0332 Aigne (4) 60 72 C L O’Beirne (a2) 9 s5038 Catchouxlater (7) 57.5 50 11 — He’s Ric 8 09795 Fire Dancer (2) 57.5 47 L Allpress 17 — Gwithian Bay SCRATCHED 12 76344 Bae Corp (1) 55.5 58 J Mudhoo (a4) 4 1141L Chief Sequoyah (12) 59.5 71 B Rogerson (a) 9 9s065 Movinonbye (10) 57.5 47 L Kauri (a4) 18 — Hoodlum SCRATCHED 13 03847 Wine N’ Dine (5) 55 57 S J Macnab 5 s0461 Penelope Cruise (13) 59 74 L Allpress 10 69830 Midnight Spark (10) 57.5 50 L Hemi 10 0s0 Becquerel (9) 57.5 45 M Singh 19 Kelsey Be (8) 57.5 45 14 60067 Sybarite (10) 55 56 M Singh 6 5614s Botti (8) 59 70 S J Macnab 11 374 Tsunami (14) 57.5 50 L Allpress 11 887 Spanish Harlem (3) 57.5 45 M K Hudson 20 5s768 Once Bitten (1) 57.5 45 7 5138s Mondorani (9) 59 70 T Taiaroa (a2) 12 6s640 Ode To Joy (12) 57.5 46 8 Derryn@grangewilliam Stud 3.34 8 54366 Nitro Ted (11) 57.5 67 M K Hudson 2 Sandfords Rural Carriers 12.10 4 Garden Edge 1.15 Ashvin Mudhoo (a) 9 70520 Zac Brown (1) 55 61 B Rogerson (a3) 13 90558 Spacek (13) 57.5 46 T Taiaroa (a) $12,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1200m 10 81700 Beaudacea (2) 55 60 Callum Jones (a3) $12,000, maiden 3yo, 1200m $12,000, maiden, 1400m 14 Jakki Jakk (4) 57.5 45 M McNab 1 95932 Atenartin (1) 60 63 C L O’Beirne (a2) 11 143L9 Mesmerize (5) 55 58 D Hirini 1 — Khufu SCRATCHED 1 s5243 Busybeingfabulous (13) 59.5 54 EMERGENCIES: 2 8462s Gameout (3) 58 63 Ashvin Mudhoo (a3) 12 0s034 Razors Edge (3) 55 58 J Mudhoo (a4) 2 63s Medal (4) 58.5 50 L Allpress 15 s5709 Princess Jenni (16) 57.5 45 3 42214 Iconic Lass (6) 58 63 H Schofer (a1) 13 s7112 Dr Hank (10) 55 57 E Nicholas (a3) 3 Hoodlum (1) 58.5 47 L Allpress 2 — Flag Hunter SCRATCHED 16 000s Goldie’s Revenge (8) 57.5 45 4 21s Wakari (8) 57.5 63 L Allpress 14 1s80P Tell Me More (14) 55 56 F Lazet (a4)

Waikato harness at Cambridge Friday Jetbet 5 TAB Doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 Quaddies 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 5 P2064 Sly Punter (Fr) U1 T Mitchell 8 Precious Belle (Fr) 8 D Butcher 6 Betavet Trot 6.01 9 81627 Ideal Tomado (Fr) 21 A Harrison (J) Race 1: BUN IN THE OVEN, FUNNY FACE, STORMS ACOMING 6 08Ps9 Funny Face (Fr) U2 D Ferguson 10 31743 Whooshka (Fr) 22 K Marshall 7 576 Majestic Trio (Fr) U3 K Marshall 4 Blue Do 23 September 5.06 $9000, 3yo+ r42-r57 discretionary handicap 11 23218 Arden Velocity (Fr) 23 P Ferguson Race 2: DOCTOR STEVE, PACING HOPE, stand, 2200m 8 1s67 Lola (Fr) U4 R Paynter $12,000, 2yo+ f&m r60. mobile, 1700m I WON’T BACK DOWN 1 5s262 I Got Music (Fr) 1 R Paynter 8 Dunstan Pace 6.57 Race 3: MARGOT, BARBAROSSA, WATCH AND LEARN 2 Nzmca Parking At Cambridge Raceway 4.06 1 9PP0s Susie Reignmaker (Fr) 1 M W White 2 32731 Jasinova (Fr) 2 L Chin 2 1093s Harder Than Diamonds (Fr) 2 A Neal $12,000, 3yo+ r55-r60,r61-r64 w/c. mobile, Race 4: SKY DELIGHT, OBSESSION, BE MY ROSE $9000, non-winners 2yo+. mobile, 2200m 3 59763 The Last Gamble (Fr) 3 D Moore 2200m Race 5: TONITES DELIGHT, RIVERMAN SAM, PRIVATE EYE 3 5464s Waitforever (Fr) 3 T Mitchell 4 24s57 Miss Slippers (Fr) 4 D Ferguson Race 6: JASINOVA, PHOEBE MAJESTIC, I GOT MUSIC 1 83484 Doctor Steve (Fr) 1 P Ferguson 4 17s Obsession (Fr) 4 D Butcher 5 56632 Leesa Castleton (Fr) 5 P Ferguson 1 81612 Settle Petal (Fr) 1 T Mitchell 2 394s Pacing Hope (Fr) 2 A Harrison (J) 5 50015 Unico Gem (Fr) 5 2 33219 Meetmeinsorrento (Fr) 2 D Ferguson Race 7: ARDEN VELOCITY, CHABLIS, MISS HATHAWAY 6 29724 Safrakova (Fr) 6 S McCaffrey 3 487s6 I Won’t Back Down (Fr) 3 L Whittaker (J) 6 22225 Starry Star (Fr) 6 N Chilcott 7 39473 Manchester’s Eclipse (Fr) U1 T Mitchell 3 32452 Major Jellis (Fr) 3 P Ferguson Race 8: MEETMEINSORRENTO, HOORAY HENRY, 4 80 Mr Wonderful (Fr) 4 D Butcher 7 0s698 Swell Time (Fr) 7 K Marshall 4 23714 Hooray Henry (Fr) 4 D Butcher SETTLE PETAL 8 62481 Phoebe Majestic (Fr) U2 N Chilcott 5 55 Heza Player (Fr) 5 J Robinson 8 86616 Jungle Gem (Fr) 8 A Harrison (J) 9 s3D19 Demolition Man (10) 1 K Marshall 5 44279 I’mallaboutthebase (Fr) 5 K Marshall Race 9: ALANA, CALL ME TROUBLE, MAJESTIC HARRY 6 978 Victor Bravo (Fr) 6 D Ferguson 9 76241 Be My Rose (Fr) 21 P Ferguson 10 57170 Ardee Trouble (10) 2 L Neal 6 61123 Brookies Jaffa (Fr) 6 S McCaffrey 7 Clymenus (Fr) 7 M W White 10 78s41 Sky Delight (Fr) 22 L Whittaker (J) 11 65613 Random Jude (10) 3 G Martin 7 66581 Carse O Fern Tom (Fr) 7 M W White 8 s0883 Mozzarella (Fr) 8 K Marshall 8 86131 Mahia (Fr) 8 A Harrison (J) 5 Ike Unsworth Pace 5.34 7 Black Dog Furniture Pace 6.29 3 Christmas @ The Raceway 4.31 9 Hire A Venue At Cambridge Trot 7.25 $9000, non-winners 2yo+. mobile, 2200m $9000, 3yo+ r40-r53. mobile, 2200m $9000, non-winners 2yo+. mobile, 2200m $15,000, r52-r70 discretionary handicap 1 3 Tonites Delight (Fr) 1 P Ferguson 1 37155 Silver Lady (Fr) 1 L Whittaker (J) stand, 2200m 1 Clubhouse Special This Sunday Trot 3.41 1 Bellviley (Fr) 1 K Marshall 2 400 Major Holiday (Fr) 2 A Harrison (J) 2 94663 Emmi Rose (Fr) 2 S Doody $9000, non-winners 3yo+ stand, 2200m 2 77397 Barbarossa (Fr) 2 L Whittaker (J) 3 73s3 Girls Are Best (Fr) 3 T Mitchell 3 56s52 Miss Hathaway (Fr) 3 D Butcher 1 44352 Majestic Harry (Fr) 1 M Teaz 3 Courage Of Montana (Fr) 3 P Ferguson 4 908s Eagle Dancer (Fr) 4 L Whittaker (J) 4 67s12 Triple Four (Fr) 4 F Schumacher 2 5501s Alana (Fr) U1 L Chin 1 72s72 Storms Acoming (Fr) 1 M W White 4 Bad Medicine (Fr) 4 A Harrison (J) 5 06s20 Riverman Sam (Fr) 5 D Butcher 5 99424 Murphys Reward (Fr) 5 T Mitchell 3 26136 In Sequence (15) U1 T Mitchell 2 53223 Bun In The Oven (Fr) 2 S McCaffrey 5 365 Margot (Fr) 5 R Paynter 6 2228 Private Eye (Fr) 6 N Chilcott 6 41865 Sheza Rose (Fr) 6 D Ferguson 4 33351 Presidential Jewel (25) 1 K Marshall 3 4750s Trifolium (Fr) 3 L Neal 6 385 Watch And Learn (Fr) 6 T Mitchell 7 05143 Wet Flipflops (Fr) 7 D Ferguson 7 7s515 Chablis (Fr) 7 M W White 5 137s6 Call Me Trouble (25) U1 D Butcher 4 5302s Romeo Foxtrot (Fr) 4 P Ferguson 7 9s054 Mhai Tommie (Fr) 7 M W White 8 Aeronaut (Fr) 8 M W White 8 78958 Ticking Over (Fr) 8 S Dickson 6 18294 Phoebe Imperial (25) U2 N Chilcott

NZ Metropolitan harness at Addington Friday Jetbet 8 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12 Selections 2 Storer Motors Pace 4.51 7 41118 Emdeegee (Fr) 7 B Orange 2 12352 Smiffy’s Terror (Fr) 2 B Hope (J) 9 03673 Pure Courage (Fr) 9 R May Race 1: MAGNIFIQUE DIMANCHE, HAROLD SMITH, MEGHAN 8 32231 Sods Law (Fr) 8 J Geddes 3 670Ps Mossman (Fr) 3 S Tomlinson 10 9500s Huckabee (Fr) 10 P Davis $12,500, 3yo+ r45-r55. mobile, 1980m 9 96387 Madeleine Stowe (Fr) 9 P Davis 4 25315 Saginaw (Fr) 4 R Cameron 11 5009s Miss Behavin (Fr) 11 K Butt Race 2: ARTATAC, TIEBREAKER, SERIOUS MOONLITE 1 38643 Invisible Girl (Fr) 1 J Curtin 10 81805 Red Harbour (Fr) U1 R May 5 27344 American Sniper (Fr) 5 J Dunn 12 00507 Ali X (Fr) 12 C Thornley Race 3: ITSAMONEYMAKER, BEACH BALL, BUBBA SCRUB 2 36874 Melody’s Mischief (Fr) 2 B Orange 11 s7128 Puzzled (10) U1 K Newman (J) 6 12132 Franco Hoffman (Fr) 6 S Ottley 13 548s4 Adhika (Fr) 13 J Morrison Race 4: PUZZLED, MATADEROS, SHOW ME THE GRAY 3 04165 El Dorado (Fr) 3 K Newman (J) 12 0191s Mataderos (35) U1 J Dunn 7 17606 Superbass (Fr) 7 T Williams 14 P7752 Full Of Desire (Fr) 14 B Borcoskie Race 5: SOMEKINDAWONDERFUL, ROCKNTOMMY RULZ, 4 6s21P Glenthorne (Fr) 4 T Williams 8 21113 Sugar Me (Fr) 8 B Orange 15 0 Chance Achiever (Fr) 15 S Ottley YOSSI 5 42122 Artatac (Fr) 5 S Ottley 5 Hydroflow Pace 6.21 16 02506 Expressive Love (Fr) 16 B Orange Race 6: KAHRESS, ZEALOUS SPUR, BRYAN BORU 6 000s4 Tiebreaker (Fr) 6 G O’Reilly $15,000, r55+ discretionary handicap stand, 8 Basil Dean Trotting FFA Trot 7.43 Race 7: SUGAR ME, SMIFFY’S TERROR, FRANCO HOFFMAN 7 12423 Sneak A Peek (Fr) 7 S Tomlinson 2600m $22,500, ffa. mobile, 1980m 11 Racing Connect Pace 8.58 Race 8: SUNDEES SON, CHIEF OF STAFF, SPY DA MOMENT 8 00414 No Time Like Now (Fr) 8 R May 1 86257 Rake (Fr) 1 S Ottley $20,000, 3yo+ f&m r53-r70. mobile, 1980m 9 60101 Slip The Hundy (Fr) 9 J Dunn 1 46523 Time In A Bottle (Fr) 1 J Morrison Race 9: A G’S WHITE SOCKS, CLASSIE BRIGADE, DI CAPRIO 2 850s8 Oliver North (Fr) 2 P Davis 2 2236s Vacation Hill (Fr) 2 G O’Reilly 1 22342 Evangalist (Fr) 1 J Dunn 10 60301 Serious Moonlite (Fr) 21 R Close 3 5850s Buckskin (Fr) U1 G O’Reilly Race 10: TERRY’S BROTHER, SOCRATES, EXPRESSIVE LOVE 3 7s111 Spy Da Moment (Fr) 3 K Cox 2 41355 A Guinness Dance (Fr) 2 J Morrison 4 773s3 Yossi (10) 1 J Hay Race 11: SUZIE ROCKS, FOLKLORE, SWEDISH FRANCO 3 Garrards Pace 5.26 4 72535 Woodstone (Fr) 4 T Williams 3 76406 Especial (Fr) 3 S Ottley Race 12: FIRE FOX, LIFE OF ART, SWEET AFFINITY 5 6s657 Hilarious Prince (10) 2 T Williams 5 32111 Chief Of Staff (Fr) 5 J Thomas $12,000, non-winners 2yo+. mobile, 1980m 6 44294 Mogul (10) 3 B Orange 4 5s917 Simply Delicious (Fr) 4 B Orange 6 56032 The Dominator (Fr) 6 C Thornley 5 26s11 Adieu Flirt (Fr) 5 J Hay 1 99445 Lil Ripper (Fr) 1 J Cox 7 0159s The Kaik (10) 4 K Butt 7 4211s Sundees Son (Fr) 7 J Dunn 8 38343 Rockntommy Rulz (10) 5 B Hope (J) 6 26651 Kerri Maguire (Fr) 6 T Williams 2 Itsamoneymaker (Fr) 2 J Dunn 7 51901 Taumata VC (Fr) 7 3 222s Beach Ball (Fr) 3 T Williams 9 43315 Champagneandwine (10) 6 J Morrison 9 Maurice Holmes Vase Ss 8.08 10 19s1s Just Wondering (25) 1 I Lee 8 11654 Boarding Call (Fr) 8 G O’Reilly 4 s5074 Reggie Golightly (Fr) 4 R May $30,000, ffa stand, 2600m 9 65123 Folklore (Fr) 9 J Cox 5 54s68 Talent Agent (Fr) 5 B Orange 11 12221 Somekindawonderful (25) U1 J Dunn 10 31515 Eastwood Isabella (Fr) 21 B Butt 6 6 Maid Of Money (Fr) 6 1 4347s A G’s White Socks (Fr) 1 R May 1 Xcm Sport Trot 4.23 6 Avon City Ford Trot 6.48 11 111s Swedish Franco (Fr) 22 C Thornley 7 9564 Fourth Amendment (Fr) 7 S Tomlinson 2 2245s Classie Brigade (Fr) 2 J Dunn 12 31870 Smokin Annie (Fr) 23 J Curtin $12,000, non-winners 2yo+ stand, 2000m 8 968 Bondi Lustre (Fr) 8 J Curtin $12,500, 3yo+ r40-r60,r61-r65 w/c. mobile, 3 6116s Henry Hubert (Fr) 3 T Williams 4 24433 Warloch (Fr) 4 B Orange 13 12133 Suzie Rocks (Fr) 24 R Close 1 9s9s2 Show The Way (Fr) 1 K Cameron 9 524P Red Right Hand (Fr) 9 C Thornley 1980m 5 652s2 Di Caprio (Fr) 5 S Ottley 2 Taimate Sass (Fr) 2 S Ottley 10 Absolute Dynamite (Fr) 21 S Ottley 1 40277 Tyene (Fr) 1 B Orange 6 13117 Santanna Mach (Fr) 6 C DeFilippi 12 First Direct Taxis Pace 9.23 3 4473s Ilsas Son (Fr) 3 R Anderson 11 23 Bubba Scrub (Fr) 22 R Close 2 66805 Rachmaninov (Fr) 2 T Grant 7 61275 Kruizr (Fr) 7 J Curtin $12,500, w/c. mobile, 1980m 4 77786 Majestic Jag (Em1) (Fr) 4 J Dunn 12 52s Jagara (Fr) 23 K Newman (J) 3 1278s Bryan Boru (Fr) 3 J Dunn 8 1596s Heisenberg (Fr) 8 K Newman (J) 5 09408 Cheeky Monkey (Fr) 5 R May 13 44963 Crystal Daytom (Fr) 24 L O’Reilly 4 45535 Luminosity (Fr) 4 J Curtin 1 — Kowhai Shadow SCRATCHED 9 54631 That Alexander Guy (Fr) U1 R Close 6 429s Toobusy Being Famous (Fr) 6 C Thornley 14 Hikoi Hine (Em1) (Fr) 25 5 3620s Idle Stuartia (Fr) 5 C Thornley 2 s404s Scared Stiff (Fr) 1 T Chmiel 7 3 Magnifique Dimanche (Fr) 7 K Cox 15 09275 Lizzie Richter (Fr) U1 T Chmiel 6 62413 Zealous Spur (Fr) 6 R May 10 Irt. Your Horse. Our Passion. 8.33 3 025s8 Fire Fox (Fr) 2 R May 8 55487 Myshout (Fr) 8 J Cox 4 Pastor Stephen Trot 5.51 7 39s71 Franco Josiah (Fr) 7 J Morrison 4 05s14 Asian Elvis (Fr) 3 9 0s5s8 Rachel Daytom (Fr) 9 G O’Reilly 8 0s422 Kahress (Fr) 8 P Davis $12,000, non-winners 3yo+ stand, 2000m 5 330s5 John James Preston (Fr) 4 10 Harold Smith (Fr) 10 B Orange $15,000, r55+ discretionary handicap stand, 9 12545 Majestic Chick (Fr) 9 T Williams 1 00s45 Eloel (Fr) 1 J Dunn 6 10s Nikol Franco (Fr) 5 C Thornley 11 32 Meghan (Fr) 11 A Lethaby 2600m 10 79964 Phoebe Onyx (Fr) 21 B Butt 2 0s060 White Shark (Fr) 2 G O’Reilly 7 1400s Ned Kelly (Fr) 6 J Dunn 11 0224s Prince Teka (Fr) 22 K Cameron 12 s0672 Ginas Majesty (Fr) 12 I Cameron 3 Terry’s Brother (Fr) 3 R Close 8 3Ps71 Lancewood Louie (Fr) 7 T Williams 1 13054 Show Me The Gray (Fr) 1 R Close 12 41644 Sioux Princess (Fr) U1 S Ottley 13 8s53s Emma Louise (Fr) 13 M Edmonds 2 33467 Zsa Zoe (Fr) 2 S Tomlinson 4 37043 Rocknroll Diva (Fr) 4 G Smith 9 0s222 Tasman Tempest (Fr) 8 S Ottley 14 — Galleons Ambassador SCRATCHED 3 2740s Clyde (Fr) 3 C Thornley 7 Fahey Fence Hire Pace 7.18 5 Westar Molly (Fr) 5 B Hope (J) 10 32s27 Kiwi X Factor (Fr) 21 G Smith 15 0s Rossco Trouble (Fr) 14 S McNally 4 147P5 Bright Glow (Fr) 4 I Cameron 6 3 Socrates (Fr) 6 B Butt 11 78s21 Sweet Affinity (Fr) 22 J Cox 16 2DD6s Mentalist (Fr) U1 L O’Reilly 5 57271 Navara (Fr) 5 J Ford $15,000, 3yo+ r56-r70. mobile, 1980m 7 098s Vintage Gold (Fr) 7 J Versteeg 12 0s099 Stephs Boy (Fr) 23 B Orange 17 00049 Build A Bridge (Fr) U2 J Curtin 6 041s6 Majestic Action (Fr) 6 G Smith 1 1491s Mabalene (Fr) 1 S McNally 8 07572 Rosies Terror (Fr) 8 T Chmiel 13 8s821 Life Of Art (Fr) U1 G O’Reilly 24 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 Medvedev and Rublev advance in US Open TENNIS two years ago, when the German won the first set and pushed his opponent to the NEW YORK — Daniil Medvedev’s bid for limit. an elusive first grand-slam title continued Medvedev, who now meets Pablo Andujar to gain momentum as he brushed aside of Spain, said: “It was a great level from me Dominik Koepfer to reach the third round of — there were a few tight moments in the the US Open. match that I managed to hold well, and I’m The second seed, who was a finalist at really happy to be through in less than two Flushing Meadows in 2019, following up his hours.” first-round thrashing of Richard Gasquet with Another Russian, fifth-seeded Andrey a 6-4 6-1 6-2 triumph inside two hours. Rublev also advanced, in four sets against It was a win far removed from his previous Spain’s Pedro Martinez 7-6 (7-2) 6-7 (5-7) ON A HIGH: Simona Halep returns a shot to Camila Giorgi during their first-round meeting with Koepfer, en route to the final 6-1 6-1. match on Monday. AP picture Swiss Henri Laaksonen, who beat Australia’s John Millman in the opening round, defeated No.16 seed Cristian Garin 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, 6-4. Former No.1 on five-year high In an upset world No.117 Botic Van De Zandschulp beat eighth seed Casper Ruud TENNIS Naomi Osaka went through on 3-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 to reach the third round of a Wednesday as well, but did not need grand slam for the first time. — AP NEW YORK — Simona Halep shrugged to step on court after her second round off her recent injury anguish to advance opponent, Olga Danilovic, withdrew with ON THE BALL: Daniil Medvedev returns to the third round of the US Open for the illness. a shot to Dominik Koepfer during the first time in five years with a straight- That meant Halep’s match was second round of the US Open tennis sets win over Kristina Kucova. switched to Arthur Ashe court. Back on championships, in New York yesterday. A pair of other two-time grand slam the big stage after missing this year’s Second seed Medvedev said he faced a champions, Garbine Muguruza and French Open and Wimbledon with a calf few tight moments in the match and is Victoria Azarenka, also progressed and injury and a series of other concerns the happy to be through. AP picture will meet in the third round. former No.1 took time to settle. — AAP THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Friday, September 3, 2021 SUDOKU CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Rita Volk, 31; Shaun White, 35; Omi, 35; Garrett Hedlund, 37. Happy Birthday: Volunteer work will lift your spirits and connect you to someone who has SUDOKU is a logic puzzle made something to offer. Direct the changes you make into something that adds up of 81 squares on a 9x9 grid. knowledge and skills to your qualifications. The more you do to diversify, the To solve the puzzle, each row, easier it will be to fulfill your dreams. 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Sailor (3) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 SPORT 25 Griezmann moves, Mbappé stays FOOTBALL by Tales Azzoni, AP Kroos and Casemiro. Camavinga, who signed a six-year MADRID — The transfer deadline contract, was in the French squad along ended with Atlético Madrid getting with Mbappé in the Nations League last Antoine Griezmann back and Real Madrid year. failing to seal a deal for Kylian Mbappé, He made his debut for France’s senior settling instead for young midfielder team last September. At 17 years and Eduardo Camavinga, a teammate of 303 days, he became the third-youngest Mbappé in the French national team. player in the history of the national team. Real Madrid couldn’t persuade Paris Barcelona, who earlier in the transfer Saint-Germain to sell their star despite window lost Lionel Messi to PSG because offers that reportedly surpassed 200 of their financial struggles, made more million euros ($NZ335 million). salary cap room by selling youngster Griezmann, meanwhile, returned to Illaix Moriba to Leipzig and sending Atlético on a loan deal from cost-cutting defender Emerson to Tottenham on a Barcelona in negotiations that saw loan. Atlético’s Saul Niguez move to Chelsea Barcelona said the deal for the 18-year- and Sevilla’s Luuk de Jong join the old Moriba was worth 16 million euros Catalan club. ($NZ26.8m) plus variables. The Catalan The 30-year-old Griezmann returns club will keep the right for 10 percent of to Atlético on a one-year loan with any future sale of the player, who made the option for another, renewable by 18 first-team appearances since debuting either club. He played two seasons with last year. Barcelona, where he never quite found Barcelona said Emerson was sold his stride since joining on a fee of 120 STILL A PSG PLAYER, FOR NOW: Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappé (right) takes to Tottenham for 25 million euros million euros ($NZ201m). He had played on Strasbourg’s Adrien Thomasson during a French League One football match at the ($NZ41.8m). five seasons under coach Diego Simeone Parc des Princes stadium in Paris last month. Real Madrid failed to sign Mbappé in Promoted Mallorca, whose president at Atlético. the transfer window but his contract with PSG ends next year. AP picture is former American tennis player Andy Barcelona said Atlético would pay Kohlberg, signed US striker Matthew Griezmann’s wages, and that the deal Real Madrid offered about 160 million Mbappé to their squad. Hoppe on a four-year contract. included an obligatory permanent transfer euros ($NZ268m) for the 22-year-old Mbappé’s contract ends next year and Rayo Vallecano, also back in the first clause for an undisclosed amount. forward but they didn’t think it was he will be able to move to Spain for no fee. division this season, were reported to City rivals Real had a frustrating end enough. Real reportedly increased their Madrid couldn’t secure Mbappé but have struck a deal to sign Radamel to the transfer window as they couldn’t offer again on Tuesday but again without brought in the 18-year-old Camavinga Falcao, the 35-year-old veteran of convince PSG to sell Mbappé. success, meaning they will likely have to from Rennes to freshen a midfield that Colombia’s national team who had been PSG had confirmed last week that wait until the end of the season to add includes veterans Luka Modric, Toni with Galatasaray. Snippets from the world of golf by Doug Ferguson, AP his group at the Memorial. to deprive people who needed the shots Asked specifically if someone could more (the CDC has said there’s no vaccine ATLANTA — Fans who yell “Brooksie!” be removed for calling DeChambeau the shortage). to Bryson DeChambeau might be removed wrong name, Monahan said yes. That became awkward when he from the tournament and have their tickets “The barometer we are all using is the nearly shot 59 on Friday at the BMW or badges confiscated. word ‘respect’,” he said. Championship. That also goes for vulgar or rude “And to me, when you hear ‘Brooksie’ And then he refused to speak even to comments and gestures, or harassment yelled or you hear any expression yelled, is broadcast partners after losing a six-hole of anyone involved with the tournament or that respectful or disrespectful? To me, at playoff to Patrick Cantlay. other disruptive behaviour. this point, it’s disrespectful. And that’s the PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan Left unclear is whether shouting “mashed kind of behaviour that we’re not going to says he has spoken to DeChambeau — he potatoes!” or “light the candle!” is on the list. tolerate.” didn’t reveal the topic — and doesn’t expect It’s all part of the PGA Tour’s updated MONEY TITLE this to last. code of conduct, which was in the works Jon Rahm won the money title, just not “Listen, Bryson is a star. He has before the coronavirus pandemic shut the award. fascinated golf and sport fans around the down golf for three months in the spring That’s because there is no award. world since our return to golf,” Monahan of 2020, and then put in place this year as With his third-place finish in The Northern said. spectators began to return. A campaign Trust and a tie for ninth in the BMW “He’s also a young man who’s growing called “Rep Our Game” was rolled out Championship, Rahm finished the PGA and evolving, not just on the golf course, ahead of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Tour season with $US7,705,933. He beat but off the golf course. I don’t think this This has become timely now because out BMW Championship winner Patrick is the way things are going to be for of incidents involving DeChambeau that Cantlay by $67,128. a long period of time. I’m hopeful that stem from the PGA Championship in May. The Tour Championship no longer has we’ll get back to a steady cadence of He and Brooks Koepka have accelerated a a purse, only the $60 million FedEx Cup communication that he’ll have with the petty feud that began on social media and bonus payout, with $15 million going to the media. has spilled into the gallery, with most of the winner. “But he’s working through some things heckling involving “Brooksie”. And the PGA Tour no longer has the and he’s going to have my and our support It runs deeper, though. PGA Tour Arnold Palmer Award for whoever had QUIET MAN: Bryson DeChambeau as he continues to do so. Commissioner Jay Monahan said golf the most official earnings. That stopped tees off during the final round of the “I think that sometimes, as hard as it is was only one of the sports witnessing in 2019, when the award was given to BMW Championship golf tournament at to contemplate and understand, human aggressive fan behaviour after spectators the rookie of the year. The PGA Tour now Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, beings need some space. And I think that’s had been away from sports for so long focuses only on FedEx Cup points. Maryland. DeChambeau hasn’t said much what’s going on right now.” because of the pandemic. Even so, the title is worth noting because to media lately. AP picture DIVOTS “This is about just a few bad actors, and making money has been a longtime • Seven players who reached the Tour for the record, this isn’t about any one measure of success in golf. Plus, Rahm three weeks. Championship have not won a PGA Tour particular player or one particular incident,” is the first Spaniard to win the PGA Tour Reed announced on Twitter that he was event this season. That includes Olympic Monahan said this week ahead of the money list. It gets so little attention that not headed to Atlanta after a bout with what he gold medallist Xander Schauffele. season-ending Tour Championship. even Rahm was aware. described as bilateral pneumonia. • Seventeen players earned $US5m or “But in some situations it’s apparent that “I didn’t know that I had won the money His odds of winning are not quite as long more this season on the PGA Tour. we have got away from the very civility list and I didn’t know that I’m the first as being at East Lake, as Reed will start • Sara Ingram is returning next year and respect that are hallmarks of our great Spanish player to achieve that, but I’m very the Tour Championship 10 shots behind as Curtis Cup after leading the game.” proud of it,” Rahm said. Patrick Cantlay. But at least he gets one Americans to victory last week in Wales. Monahan said the priority was simply to “It has been a very weird season, with last chance to make an impression before The Curtis Cup in 2022 is set for Merion, create a safe environment. many majors, many players playing very Steve Stricker announces his six captain’s and then Sunningdale in England for 2024. “We’re going to be leaders in this space. well. However, I don’t know if it really picks for the Ryder Cup. • The BMW Championship was the 14th We’re going to show everyone how easy it matters when this week we play for the Reed dropped from No. 22 in the FedEx playoff of the year on the PGA Tour. is to enjoy yourself at an event while also bonus of the FedEx Cup. I think in these Cup standings to No. 26 after missing • The ShopRite LPGA Classic from respecting the athletes in the field of play days of the FedEx Cup, maybe the money the first event, and he narrowly hung on October 1 to 3 will feature the first all- and the fans around you, many of whom list is less important than years before. at No. 30 last week when K.H. Lee took female broadcast team in golf, including are families with young kids who have a “In any case, hopefully I can win FedEx bogey from the 18th fairway at the BMW lead producer Beth Hutter. chance to be lifetime fans of the game Cup and can explain what I feel with that.” Championship. STAT OF THE WEEK themselves. Justin Thomas won the last Arnold SILENT MODE Patrick Cantlay has three PGA Tour “We should expect nothing less from Palmer Award for winning the money title in Bryson DeChambeau has not spoken to victories this season. The runners-up have each other, whether we’re at a golf 2018. Brooks Koepka won the money title the media, outside of PGA Tour broadcast been Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Collin tournament or elsewhere in life.” in 2019, and Thomas won it again — for partners, throughout the FedEx Cup Morikawa and Bryson DeChambeau. Top players typically have local law the third time — in 2020. playoffs. That presumably stems from when FINAL WORD enforcement walking with their groups. REED RETURNS he told reporters at the FedEx St Jude “It’s not a competition of how well you hit DeChambeau pointed towards a few Patrick Reed made it to the Tour Invitational that he hadn’t been vaccinated the ball. It’s a competition of how well you spectators who were escorted away from Championship without having played in against Covid-19 because he didn’t want score.” — Jon Rahm. 26 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 Football Association charges Chelsea

THE English Football FC on Saturday,” read an FA Association have charged Chelsea statement. with two counts of failing to “It is alleged that Chelsea control their players in the drawn FC failed to ensure its players Premier League conducted match at Liverpool. themselves in an Shortly before The club faces two orderly fashion half-time referee on counts of failing to during the 48th Saturday Chelsea minute of the first players protested control players. half, and following after Anthony Taylor the half-time gave a penalty and whistle.” — AAP sent off defender Reece James for a goalline handball. Mo Salah equalised CONTROVERSY: Referee from the penalty spot. The match Anthony Taylor shows subsequently finished 1-1. Chelsea’s Reece James a The Chelsea players were red card during the English incensed by Taylor’s decision as Premier League football the ball had struck the England match between Liverpool international’s thigh first. and Chelsea at Liverpool The FA has given Chelsea until on Saturday. The FC alleges Friday to respond to the charges. that Chelsea failed to ensure “Chelsea FC has been charged their players “conducted with two breaches of FA Rule themselves in an orderly E20.1 following their Premier fashion”. AP picture League fixture against Liverpool Black Caps crumble before ascendant Bangladesh

CRICKET Bangladesh have now bowled both other five. removing openers Mohammad Naim and New Zealand and Australia to their lowest After Tom Latham opted to bat first Liton Das in quick succession. DHAKA — Bangladesh earned its T20 totals within one month. Bangladesh the Kiwis were reduced to 9-4 in just the But experienced made first victory against New Zealand in the dismissed Australia for 62 in the fifth and fourth over. Latham and Henry Nicholls a valuable 25 off 33 balls before debutant Twenty20 format in their 11th attempt final match in August to win the series 4-1. then shared 34 runs for the fifth wicket Rachin Ravidra dismissed him for his with a seven-wicket win on Wednesday to Once again Bangladesh’s spinners and but both perished to big shots against maiden international wicket. open the five-match series. fast bowler played Saifuddin after scoring 18 runs apiece. Mushfiqur Rahim, who returned to the New Zealand were dismissed for their a key role on a slow, low surface, with They were the only batsmen to reach squad after missing the Australia series, joint-lowest score of 60 in 16.5 overs. the latter finishing on 3-13. Fellow pace double figures. and skipper Mahmudullah then drove the Bangladesh then recovered from 7-2 to bowler Saifuddin claimed two wickets Off-spinner Cole McConchie, one of two side to victory. seal the victory with five overs to spare, while spinners Shakib Al Hasan, Nasum Kiwi debutants, and left-arm spinner Azaz The second match is on Friday, also in making 62-3. Ahmed and Mahedi Hasan shared the Patel gave the side a glimmer of hope by Dhaka. — AP

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LONDON — Kimi Raikkonen, the Finnish ‘Iceman’ who won the 2007 6 78Formula One world championship for Ferrari, announced on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the season after a record run in the sport. The 41-year-old is currently racing for the Swiss-based Alfa Romeo team 9 10 11 and his departure opens up a seat, with compatriot Valtteri Bottas strongly tipped to take it if he leaves Mercedes. Raikkonen is the oldest driver on the starting grid and holds the all-time record for most race starts, with 341 from 344 12 13 14 grands prix attended. “This is it,” Raikkonen said in an Instagram post to his 2.4 million followers. HANGING UP HIS GLOVES: Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Raikkonen 15 “This will be my last season in Formula (inset) at a press conference. Main picture: Raikkonnen takes One. This is a decision I made during last a turn during the first practice session before the Formula One winter.” — AAP Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, 16 17 18 last weekend. AP pictures Roglic climbs into red with Vuelta victory CYCLING 19 caught by a chasing group. Roglic’s American LAGOS DE teammate Sepp Kuss COVADONGA — Primoz took second spot and Across Down Roglic, the reigning Vuelta Australian Jack Haig, 1. The letters A to Z (8) 1. Write these on envelopes a Espana champion, has riding for Bahrain 6. taken the leader’s red Victorious, finished fifth Unable to hear (4) (9) jersey with an emphatic in the same time. 7. Stop your bike with these 2. Something growing in a solo win in stage 17. That left Haig two Roglic , of the Jumbo- places higher in fourth (6) flowerpot (5) Visma team, broke away overall, 3min:46secs 9. Chewed up and swallowed 3. A very young child (4) from the pack with Egan behind Roglic. 4. Bernal, 60 kilometres Sydney’s Michael Storer (5) Someone who teaches (7) from the finish. He picked up 10 points to 11. Woolly animals (5) 5. A honey maker (3) dropped the Colombian move into second in the 12. 8. with 7.5km left to go King of the Mountains Yell (5) A month (9) alone up the climb and classification with 13. A surround around a 10. Imaginary line around the claim his third stage 34 points, 17 behind victory, one minute, 35 Romain Bardet. Michael painting (5) earth (7) seconds ahead of the Matthews dropped to fifth 16. Turn on a lamp with a (6) 14. Approximately (5) IN THE RED:l Primoz Roglic after winning the 17th chasers. in the points competition, 18. 15. stage of La Vuelta yesterday. With 7.5 kilometres to Bernal, of Ineos, Roglic overtaking him as Something to tidy hair (4) Large boat (4) go, he dropped Egan Bernal and took the last climb eventually finished the the Slovenian climbed to 19. A newspaper employee (8) 17. False hair (3) of the stage solo. AP picture stage seventh after being second. — AAP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, September 2, 2021 SPORT 27 Team NZ has Dalton’s back

SAILING A decision on whether the regatta will be held overseas will be made on September TEAM New Zealand has hit back after an 17. influential rich-lister claimed he had donors Since the victory, there has been some lined up to fund a New Zealand-hosted controversy. In February, the NZ Herald defence of the next America’s Cup — but revealed the America’s Cup was being only if Grant Dalton stepped down. “shopped around” by Team NZ to overseas This week, Mark Dunphy, chief executive venues due to a lack of public funding and and chairman of Greymouth Petroleum, the looming deadline of September 17 for claimed Team NZ had made “no genuine applications to host the 37th America’s Cup. attempt” to raise the money privately. Dunphy says nothing would make him “The potential donors I have spoken to happier than ETNZ raising its own funds. GRANT DALTON have had no contact from Team NZ, but MARK DUNPHY “But if Grant Dalton and Team NZ don’t I am confident they will assist with the want to do that or can’t do that then I am America’s Cup which once again remains funding of the defence,” he said. money for the team, it’s Dalts. happy to do that,” he said. our sole focus, alongside the treatment of Last night, an anonymous statement “To keep the team afloat over the last “In this context, it seems most donors our people – without them, we would be released on the Team NZ website 18 years he has raised over $500 million are happy to put in funds providing Grant nothing.” responded to Dunphy’s comments about in sponsorship for this team to be able Dalton is not involved. The next America’s Cup event is the head of Team NZ, Grant Dalton, to proudly put New Zealand technology, “That wasn’t my starting position but it is estimated to cost about $200 million to labelling them “mind-boggling”. innovation and sporting talent on a global now. If Grant doesn’t want to or can’t raise host. A Government and Auckland Council “For an assumption to be made that as a stage, so much so that many of the biggest the money, I will do it. The same position offer totalled $31m in cash with various group of people we would simply welcome brands in the world want to associate with applies to Grant’s ongoing involvement with other non-cash items, to be spent by the the departure of someone like Dalts, who us.” the team; if he doesn’t want to manage the council and the Government, increasing the has achieved more and given more than Dunphy had said he met with America’s cup here, I believe there are others who will offer to a face value of $99 million. you could ever imagine to this team, to Cup hosts the Royal New Zealand Yacht do it and can do so just as well or better.” But the NZ Herald understands the offers our country and to other people, is mind- Squadron (RNZYS) and held preliminary Team NZ hit back at these comments, of public money have been withdrawn, and boggling,” the statement said. talks with Team NZ. saying it was “naive” to think that this has been communicated, discussed When pressed by The New Zealand Aaron Young, Commodore of the Royal management of an organisation like ETNZ and agreed with Team NZ. It is believed Herald for an author to the statement, a New Zealand Yacht Squadron, said could be replaced so easily. Team NZ are confident of raising $80m of Team NZ communications staffer said: “It Team NZ and RNZYS had not received a “He is a major driver of the team’s funding on their own, leaving a $120m hole. was written and agreed by a core group of proposal involving private funding mixed performance and right now Mr Dunphy’s However, a Team NZ spokesperson long-term team members and department with Government/Council funding that actions are compromising our performance said they had found all dealings and heads, but furthermore, widely supported would enable AC37 to be staged in New towards winning the 37th America’s Cup,” negotiations with the Government and throughout the team.” Zealand. the statement said. the council to have been conducted in a The Team NZ statement went on to Team NZ swept to victory for the fourth “Mr Dunphy has not shown any professional manner with due respect given say Dunphy publicly undermined the time and wrapped up a 7-3 series win transparency or consultation with the to all parties’ interests. team structure and the “dedication and against Luna Rossa with a 46-second team and has in no way, shape or form, “Given these Covid times, we reiterate commitment” of Dalton. victory in Race 10 of the regatta on offered confidence in a process that would the Government and council offer was “If anyone has proven they can raise Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf in March. allow a successful defence of the 37th completely reasonable.” — NZ Herald

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‘FOUR-PEAT’ ACHIEVED: New Zealand’s (centre) engages in a group hug with Spain’s third-placed Nuria Marques Soto (left) and Hungary’s second-placed Zsofia Konkoly at the end of the women’s 200-metre individual medley SM9 swimming final at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo last night. It was Pascoe’s fourth Paralympic gold medal in this event. Picture by Joel Marklund for OIS via AP Pascoe wins, blacks out

PARALYMPICS her and the medal ceremony was The gap remained steady through Jesse Reynolds and moved while Pascoe received oxygen the backstroke leg, before Pascoe were also in the pool for medal races THERE’S no doubt Sophie Pascoe to recover. extended her lead with an impressive last night. gave her all to win her fourth “I did really leave it all out there breaststroke leg. After a strong start to her 100m straight Paralympic title in the 200m and even left some on the side of the However, things got a little close breaststroke (SB7) final, Howarth individual medley (SM9) in Tokyo pool,” Pascoe said. for comfort on the freestyle as found herself in a battle for second last night, throwing up and blacking “But that is what a fight is all Hungarian Zsofia Konkoly almost and third with the USA’s Jessica out shortly after claiming her 16th about and I really wanted it, I overcame Pascoe’s three-second lead Long and Australia’s Tiffany Thomas medal. wanted to make it a four-peat. It just in the sprint home, only to come up Kane, but was unable to match them Having already become New came down to that last 10 metres just 0.27 seconds short. down the final 25m and ultimately Zealand’s greatest Paralympian with not breathing. That comes down to It was Pascoe’s 11th Paralympics finished fourth. 15 medals before she hit the water the skills that Roly (Crichton) and I gold, her 19th medal (seven silver, In the men’s 200m individual in Tokyo, the Kiwi swimmer has only have been working on for many years one bronze), and her second gold of medley (SM9) final, Reynolds was the kicked on from there. doing this race. the Tokyo campaign. It was a similar seventh-fastest qualifier and finished After joining the elite club of fewer “I can say you have just witnessed finish to Pascoe’s 100m freestyle the final in the same position, while than 40 athletes to have claimed 10 my last ever 200 IM. I will be cutting final, a tight affair after which she Neiufi finished fifth in the women’s gold medals at a Summer Games the events down now so it is nice to admitted she wasn’t sure she had 50m freestyle (S8) final. when she won gold in the 100m finish on a positive and with a gold. won the race when she touched the Earlier, para-cyclist Rory Mead freestyle (S9) event in Tokyo on The mentality in that race was just wall. completed a gruelling men’s H1-2 Tuesday night, she picked up an 11th to fight and dig deep. It came down Pascoe’s wasn’t the only New road race in fifth place, while veteran gold in the 200m individual medley to experience and that is what got Zealand medal yesterday, as sprinter shooter Michael Johnson just missed (SM9) last night. me this gold medal. Danielle Aitchison claimed her out on a chance to add another It completed a famous four-peat – “To come away with the four-peat second of the Paralympic Games, Paralympic medal to his collection. adding to gold medals she had won I’m proud of myself. I’m so lucky picking up bronze in the women’s Johnson, 47, fell agonisingly short in the discipline in Beijing, London to have Matt (Ingram) and Megan 100m (T36) final. After claiming of the top-eight place he needed in and Rio. (Munro) on the side of the pool to get silver in the 200m, Aitchison did well qualifying to book a spot in the final After the race she said that would me medical attention. The fact the to mount a strong finish in the 100m, of the R5 mixed 10m air rifle prone be her final ever 200m individual IPC moved the medal ceremony just holding on for the bronze by just 0.02 SH2, finishing ninth with a score of medley race after she threw up and shows how much respect they have of a second, but missing the silver by 635.2 points. briefly blacked out on the side of the for the athletes.” the same margin. China’s Shi Yiting That left the Kiwi 0.2 of a point pool. Pascoe got a great start off the took out the event, setting a new outside the top eight and meant he Coach Matt Ingram and physio blocks and was ahead by more than world record. came away empty-handed from a Megan Munro were quick to help a second after the butterfly leg. Fellow Kiwis Nikita Howarth, second event in Tokyo. — NZ Herald

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