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FEEDING THOSE IN NEED: EIT Tairawhiti Hub manager Anna Charrington (right) and staff member Michelle Whitley prepare ready-made meals to be distributed to those in need during the Covid-19 crisis. The meals are a collaboration between Anna and her EIT Hub team and SuperGrans Tairawhiti. “I feel I’m one of the very fortunate ones in this world crisis so it feels good to give back,” says Anna. STORY ON PAGE 2 Picture by Paul Rickard Benefit numbers leap ‘I’m afraid this is just the beginning’: Tolley by staff reporters winter ahead will mean they close their these businesses to get a cash refund of our regions, I am proud our economic doors and make their staff redundant. GST up to $100,000 if they have lost over response mirrored that trend, as we A “BLEAK winter” is ahead for many, “There is a real sense of urgency now half of their revenue across two months swiftly injected $113 million into after benefit numbers show at least 445 to step down (in Alert Level) as quickly due to Covid-19 lockdown rules. protecting Tairawhiti jobs ahead of the people here lost their jobs last month. and safely as we can, especially in areas “I have no doubt Gisborne and alert level regulations and nationwide Latest figures from the Ministry of like Tairawhiti. Coast businesses would welcome that initiatives like the $56 million for Maori- Social Development show, as of April 24, “The Government has offered some immediate help and it would save targeted Covid responses, which brought 2744 people in Gisborne were in receipt help. For workers, the wage subsidy has countless jobs. further relief to our people.” of the unemployment benefit. been extremely effective; for businesses, “People need to be able to get back People now needed to focus on This is up from 2299 on March 20, six allowing them to use taxes on their last to work. We are social creatures, and recovering together. days before Alert Level 4 restrictions year’s profits to compensate for losses workplaces and regular social contacts “Shop local, buy Tairawhiti-made first, were introduced. this year, instead of making them wait keep us well and healthy.” and make sure business owners you “I’m afraid this is just the beginning,” for next year, and a small business loan Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri know are not only aware of but taking up East Coast MP Anne Tolley said. scheme are helpful. said a big rise in job seekers was no the support the Government is offering “Over the next few months as we come “But the feedback and pleas I have surprise to those whanau who ‘lived’ the — from our record tax relief options to out of the lockdown, businesses that have had from small businesses is about “disruption of our community becoming our interest-free loans for small business. not been allowed to operate for seven cash assistance now to help with their ground zero” for the economic impacts of weeks will find they just cannot continue. outgoings of rent, rates and stock. coronavirus. Seven weeks without income and a bleak “National announced they would allow “As a Government in touch with CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Decluttered your home during lockdown?... by Kim Parkinson THE Gisborne Habitat for Humanity ReStore charity shop is open and calling for contactless Looking to donate items to a worthy cause?... donations of quality used goods it can sell to raise funds for housing needs. Gisborne ReStore manager Elizabeth Cutts said they had put systems in place to ensure safe drop- offs of items and traceability. People who have decluttered their homes during lockdown and are looking to donate their secondhand items can use the booking system on the Habitat for Humanity website or the Gisborne ReStore Facebook page. Those donating items are required to fill in ReStore it information so goods can be traced if necessary. They will then be given a time when they can take the goods in and all donations will go into quarantine for four days before the Gisborne staff starts sorting. It is important donated goods are clean and sanitised, Ms Cutts says. There is an informative video on the Gisborne store’s Facebook page which shows how to clean and sanitise everything from clothing to books and crockery. All money raised from the sale of donated goods will go to the charity which ensures vital housing support for families. Habitat Auckland chief executive Conrad Lapointe said ReStore earnings were needed to support its home repair, progressive home ownership and rental programmes. “We know that people have been decluttering during the lockdown and would like to donate their household goods and furniture to a charity. But with Covid-19, they may be unsure how to do that safely.” Mr Lapointe said Habitat had taken professional advice and was following strict guidelines for handling and quarantining items. “Our ReStore workers and volunteers have set up the necessary contactless goods drop-off and quarantine systems that will help keep everyone safe. “Our practices are similar to those in place for people picking up retail goods in a contactless way, and with stringent controls inside our buildings. “We’re looking forward to helping people make that connection between decluttering and helping Habitat raise funds for housing needs. “And in turn, our ReStores will be able to help customers access affordable, clean, quality items they need when we can open again for in-store retail. “We have been busy selling goods online at Trade CLEAN UP, DROP OFF: Habitat for Humanity ReStore charity shop manager Elizabeth Cutts and assistant manager Me through the levels but stocks are starting to get Monique Rofe are accepting donations but point out goods must be cleaned first. Picture by Liam Clayton low.” Hub has a need to feed during Covid-19 crisis FROM PAGE 1 and Moroccan chicken with chickpeas who told me the biggest gap with food The ingredients have been in the EIT commercial kitchen for parcels was ready-made meals for people provided by SuperGrans through a EIT TAIRAWHITI Hub has been using SuperGrans Tairawhiti to hand out to living in hotels or places where they do $5000 Community Awareness and the Covid-19 Alert Level time to help people in crisis. not have kitchen facilities.” Preparedness Grant from central feed the community’s most vulnerable. SuperGrans is a not-for-profit trust For Linda, the arrival of the ready- government. Hub manager Anna Charrington and that supports the community through made meals was an emotional moment The grant is part of the $27 million in her team have been making ready-made teaching life skills, mentoring and at an extremely busy time. funding announced by the Government meals to distribute to those in need — advocacy. “With a staff of three, we have been on March 26 to allow essential a generosity that has been gratefully Food and learning how to cook is the run off our feet,” said Linda. social services to keep delivering for received. essence of SuperGrans, which also “When Anna turned up with the meals, communities through Covid-19. With the staff and equipment to supports people by providing bedding, I was overwhelmed with emotion as it EIT Tairawhiti Hub staff are this week prepare meals but no customers clothes and essential household items. will really support our families.” doing some more ready-to-eat or freeze because of the lockdown and Alert “I talked to our manager, Glen Fulcher Linda is grateful for the efforts of the meals, with beef casserole and curried Level situation, Anna got to thinking (Hawke’s Bay-based head of school, EIT staff. sausages on the menu. about how they could help in these hospitality and tourism) and he cleared “The last couple of weeks have been Anna said she was grateful to be able unprecedented times. it quickly so we could get on with it,” hectic. While things have definitely to help. A week later, Anna and EIT Hub staff Anna said. waned since takeaway food outlets “I feel I’m one of the very fortunate members Donna Greene and Michelle “The first person I thought of was reopened, there is still an immense need ones in this world crisis so it feels good Whitley made 130 meals of cottage pie Linda Coulston ( SuperGrans manager), out there. We are still getting referrals.” to give back”.

Get your Water use down but care advised Gisborne Herald by Murray Robertson around 15.5 million litres. restrictions were in effect and have not “At the peak of the summer season formally been lifted. home-delivered THE daily demand for the city’s in February consumption reached over “Those restrictions will be lifted this water supply has dropped since non- 28 million litres and led to restrictions week,” Ms Robertson said. essential industry, businesses, pools, on outdoor water use,” said Gisborne “While daily consumption is around schools, sports grounds and parks were District Council water supply team the normal level for this time of year, closed in response to Covid-19 Alert leader Judith Robertson. with low rainfall and dam storage Level 4. “A decline in the water storage dams in decline, water conservation is still Since the call went out in March for has continued. necessary. people to stay home, the lowest 24 hour “Low rainfall over the past two “People are asked to not waste water usage was Good Friday, recorded at months has meant the dams have at home and at work. 12.3 million litres, followed by Easter not been replenished, but dam levels “Keeping water usage, particularly Monday at 13.8 million litres. remain above the average for this time outdoors, to a minimum helps ensure Those figures compare to the of year.” we have enough water for everyone average daily water consumption of Before the lockdown sprinkler throughout the year.” To nd out more call 869 0620 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 NEWS 3 Coronavirus fallout claims Flight Centre TRAVEL agency the Flight this,” Mr Coombes said when Centre has closed the doors announcing the stand-down to its Gisborne retail office for measure last month. good. “Our people are eligible Flight Centre New Zealand for the Covid-19 Government managing director David Wage Subsidy and we are also Coombes last month said the working hard to find alternative ASX-listed company made the income sources for them while “incredibly difficult decision” they are stood down. to stand down over 300 people, “In making these changes, closing 58 retail stores across we are committed to ensuring the nation. that we do not adversely impact However, Flight Centre our corporate and leisure confirmed the Gisborne store customers,” said Mr Coombes. will not re-open. No further “Our priorities have been to details were available. help our customers rearrange “People are the heart and their future plans and to UNCERTAIN FUTURE: The Poverty Bay A&P Association will meet as soon as possible to discuss soul of our company and we repatriate travellers who have whether to go ahead with the 2020 Poverty Bay A&P Show. File picture are gutted that it has come to been stranded overseas.” Steel and Tube closes Will the Show go on? its depot in Gisborne by Murray Robertson president Rob Telfer this Several thousand attend both EFFORTS to work around which offers a limited range of morning said as soon as the days of the A&P Show. Covid-19 impacts have also led products.” A DECISION is yet to be country dropped to Alert Level “The general feeling is we can to the closure of Steel and Tube’s To avoid double handling and made on whether the annual 2, they would hold a meeting to progress with our planning for product distribution depot in warehousing, a decision has been Poverty Bay A&P Show will go discuss this year’s Spring Show. the Show but we cannot afford Gisborne. made to no longer hold stock ahead. “We will get the whole Show to do it if we run the risk of Steel and Tube distribution in Gisborne. Customer orders Depending on what happens committee together and our past running at a loss because of general manager Marc Hainen will now be delivered directly in regards to the nation’s alert presidents to discuss whether to limitations on the gathering said recent investment in digital to customers from the Napier level, Show organisers will meet proceed or not. size,” said Mr Telfer. capabilities and e-commerce warehouse. as soon as possible to discuss “We hope to be able to do that “My personal view is I’d like options for customers enabled “The same overnight the future of the iconic event. next week.” to see it go ahead as planned the company to optimise the delivery service will remain and The Canterbury A&P Mr Telfer said hopefully the because of the benefit it brings locations where it held stock for customers will benefit from Association decided on Tuesday meeting would come up with a to the whole district. customers. access to a wider range of to cancel its November event, way to stage the event. “But there’s a lot of things “Steel and Tube will retain a products,” said Mr Hainen. citing financial uncertainty and “But the final decision that need to be worked through sales presence in every single “Two roles will be concerns about public health. will really come down to the before that decision can be one of the locations where we disestablished and where In contrast, Hawke’s Bay Government and the health made.” are located and we will still available, redeployment Show organisers have decided authorities when it comes Mr Telfer said at this to try to run their event in to how long Level 2 and the stage the Show had not been be supplying the same quality opportunities will be explored. October. gathering restrictions that come cancelled. products and steel solutions to A third staff member has been “We are absolutely committed with it remain in force.” “Once a decision is made, customers, with improved service appointed as the local sales to putting on an event of some Under Alert Level 2, then our general manager levels across New Zealand. contact. sort,” said Royal Show general gatherings will be restricted Erica McNeil will begin to take “The company has a very small “Local customers have been manager Sally Jackson. to 100 people indoors and 500 bookings for trade space and distribution depot in Gisborne supportive of the move.” Poverty Bay A&P Association people outdoors. continue other preparations.” Lights out at Electric Village

TWO jobs have been lost with the regulatory changes, to new forms of power closure of Electric Village after three generation and an ever-increasing focus years as Tairawhiti’s home of new energy. POWERING on customers. Eastland Group opened Electric Village DOWN: The “We need to make sure we adapt and in 2017, with funding support from Trust Electric Village, develop accordingly. Tairawhiti. opened by “Helping the community understand “The purpose of the Village was to Eastland Group their power bills, home energy efficiency talk to the community and find out their in 2017, has been and new energy technology, and vision for the future, as well as share closed down after maintaining the electric vehicle chargers, information on solar generation, batteries, reaching the end are all projects that Eastland Group will electric bikes and cars and other of its three-year- continue to support around the region.” potentially game-changing developments,” funding period. Electric Village was supported for Eastland Group energy solutions general Two jobs have a three-year-period through a Trust manager Steven Follows said. been lost. Tairawhiti distribution of $300,000. “This was a New Zealand first, so we “Electric Village was a community were venturing into the unknown, but Picture by meeting space, offered energy education, the levels of interest and feedback proved Paul Rickard raised awareness of new and emerging even better than we’d hoped for. technology and energy efficiency, provided “Some of the many highlights included children’s education, and established a establishing a region-wide network of network of electric vehicle chargers across electric vehicle chargers, helping people The decision to close Electric Village the end of its three-year funding. That Tairawhiti,” Trust Tairawhiti community understand their power bills, offering was made as part of a review and reset of meant two staff from the Village were engagement manager Audine Grace- home energy efficiency advice, engaging Eastland Group’s energy sector. made redundant. Kutia said. with students on the possibilities of new “We regularly review our operations to “The other significant changes “These achievements delivered on the energy technology, holding electric vehicle ensure they are structured in the most are at Eastland Network, with the trust’s reasons for supporting Electric test drives right across the region and effective way,” Eastland Group chief reorganisation of some teams and several Village. working alongside all sorts of community executive Matt Todd said. promotions. “Moving forward, the trust remains organisations. “We began a review of our entire energy “Additionally, a handful of new committed to supporting our communities “It’s been a great experience and we’ve sector a number of months ago across positions were identified but this was when it comes to energy efficiency. enjoyed meeting and learning from so Electric Village and Energy Solutions, before the impacts of Covid-19 so while a “Instead of a bricks and mortar model many people along the way. Eastland Network and Eastland couple have been filled, the others are on like Electric Village, we are exploring “The team working in the Village have Generation. This included a thorough hold for now,” Mr Todd said. partnerships with local projects and other done a fantastic job offering hands-on consultation process with staff.” “The energy sector is changing rapidly targeted initiatives, and will consider how energy education. Our thanks to Trust The outcomes included a decision to to keep up with huge transformations in these align with our regional wellbeing Tairawhiti for their support.” close Electric Village, which had reached technology — from electric vehicles and focus.” 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 FAMILY NOTICES Deaths Mahia camping flouters shock iwi CARTER, David Deaths Thomas. — On 5th May 2020, peacefully, by Aaron van Delden people freedom complaints about the checkpoint, people’s rights “defies belief”. SIMPSON, Dawn at Gisborne Hospital. camping in Mahia which Mr Rongo said had The checkpoint in Mahia was Theresa. - Wore out Beloved husband of the THE number of people caught over the weekend, widespread support in Mahia. about community members 28th April 2020 just one late Hawea. Loved flouting Alert Level 3 restrictions at and extra patrols But he was mindful of the looking out for each other, with the month short of her 96th Father to Denise and Mahia over the weekend has come are planned. criticism directed at community lockdown providing a chance to birthday. Wife of Mel Steve, Stephen, Andrew as a shock following the phasing Mr Rongo said checkpoints in general. reset how locals worked together, (dec), (George Melville) and Paku, Mike and out of a community checkpoint. the breaches were National Party leader Simon Mr Rongo said. (Spider). Dearly loved Michelle, Marie and Rongomaiwahine Iwi Trust “shocking” and Bridges called the checkpoints A better community spirit and daughter of Purvis Geoff, Morris and Ivan. co-ordinated a checkpoint on the it was vital the gains of the Level illegal, while lobby group relationship with the police had (dec) and Dorothy (dec) Special Papa to all his peninsula’s main access road at many mokopuna. 4 lockdown were not undone by Hobson’s Pledge set up a petition been positive spin-offs. Spearman, twin sister Black’s Beach during Alert Level 4, rule-breakers, including a group against what it termed “vigilante Other welfare measures of Joyce (dec) Lazarus A private family service will be held at mainly over Easter, and with police seen having a beach party at the roadblocks”. supported by the trust included and loving mother of support. weekend. Police Commissioner Andrew food parcel and firewood deliveries, Stephanie and Theresa Evans Chapel at 1pm on Friday 8 May. The Checkpoint volunteers needed to He told The Gisborne Herald the Coster earlier this week said there as well as health checks. and Neil (dec) Rogers. turn away only a handful of people checkpoint in Mahia was just one of were fewer than 10 checkpoints still Mr Rongo said although the Adored “Meema” of service will be live- grandchildren Kerry and streamed via Evans who were attempting to visit Mahia a number of welfare measures put operating in New Zealand, mostly in elderly had been the focus of initial Trent Harnett, Nick and Funeral Services during the Covid-19 lockdown, said in place to look after the community the provinces, and they would stop welfare efforts, the impacts of Jaz Rogers and Michael website www.evans Moana Rongo, the trust’s chief in the Covid-19 pandemic. altogether under Alert Level 2. Covid-19 on employment meant the and Karen Rogers. Also, funeral.co.nz executive. It operated only under Alert Level The police were monitoring need was swinging. great-grandchildren: - Evans Funeral Recreational and inter-regional 4 and was necessary “because checkpoints to ensure they were The trust would carry on Ben and Tom Harnett, Services Ltd FDANZ travel remains restricted under Alert people were just not heeding what lawful, Mr Coster said. supporting the community as Lilly, Grace, Mason and www.evansfuneral.co.nz Level 3. the police were saying”. Mr Rongo said the argument required, he said. Xavier Rogers, Maddie Despite this, the police caught 21 The trust had not received any that the checkpoints impinged on “We’re here for the long haul.” and MacKenzie Rogers. Much loved friend to many and willing worker in the community, very Affair off, clever artist. We will all miss her smile, sense of humour and kindness. Grateful thanks to the chance loving care provided by the Avenues Care Home. No funeral as per of a Fling Dawn’s instructions. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation or Flirt to Diabetes NZ www. diabetes.org.nz/donate (Note: Donation/ PLEASE Simpson family). HAVE FAMILY THE Gisborne Classic NOTICES Chardonnay group has announced the much- IN BY 9AM anticipated Chardonnay DAY OF Affair this month is PUBLICATION postponed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The second year of the Affair, which starts on International Chardonnay A bad day at the Day, has been rescheduled to May next year. “The word had spread Vodafone office about last year’s inaugural Chardonnay Affair and we THOUSANDS of Vodafone customers on the were heading for a sell-out East Coast are without mobile and fixed line event, with visitors from all phone capability today, after a roading company over the country, so we know cut through a fibre cable. we have a success story, “This morning we were alerted to damage to a and will be back in 2021,” fibre cable near Napier, and teams are on-site,” a said spokeswoman Kirsten company statment said. Searle. “Later in the morning, third party roading “Plans are also being contractors undertaking roadworks near Matamata considered for an interim cut through the same fibre cable,” a company celebration later this year, statement said. if possible — a Chardonnay “These two separate fibre cuts combined have Fling or Flirt.” reduced the ability to reroute traffic in the area Gisborne Classic and have caused a major outage of mobile and Chardonnay is a group of fixed connectivity in the Central and Eastern UNUSUAL VISITORS: A pair of black swans found the waters off Midway beach by artisan winemakers devoted North Island. The Pipe surf break an appealing place for a leisurely paddle this week. Black swans to the renaissance of the “Our tech teams are working urgently to get or kakianau are widely scattered throughout New Zealand with the biggest populations grape variety. customers back online and fix these two separate nearest to Gisborne in Hawke’s Bay and the Bay of Plenty. They usually frequent lakes and “We wanted to create fibre cuts. larger constructed ponds, and also estuaries, which are an important feeding and moulting a series of events that “We apologise to any customers who are habitat. They are not a common sight in Gisborne. Picture by Liam Clayton celebrated our wines and impacted by these incidents outside of our showcased our wonderful control.” unique region.” Need to ‘empower traditional industries, break new ground’

FROM PAGE 1 always get what we’ve always got,” Mrs “burgeoning” entrepreneurial IT sector. since late 2012,” labour market and Tolley said. “In Tairawhiti we are fortunate that household statistics senior manager Sean “My office can help advise on these “We need to empower traditional we have really good leadership across the Broughton said. kaupapa.” industries and break new ground. board. The most significant issue for our “The impact of Covid-19 on the labour “Also manaaki (support, care), “Together we can safeguard local region right now is that we support those market, including unemployment, hours manaaki, manaaki. If you know someone businesses and local jobs for local people regional aspirations and there is a real actually worked and underemployment, who has recently lost their job, check how while growing our economy in new ways clarity of sight around what the rebuild should be clearer in the June 2020 they are doing. Show them they are not that help get Tairawhiti back on its feet. and recovery possibilities are for our quarter.” alone, that this stage is temporary and “The local Maori economy will be a region.” There was a sharp rise in the number collectively we will get through. major player in this and I will be working Nationally, the seasonally adjusted of people receiving Jobseeker benefit “While Kiri Allan (Labour list MP) hard towards delivering this better future unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent support at the end of March and start of and I continue to advocate for our region for our whanau.” in the March 2020 quarter, up from 4.0 April, though this is not the same as the at all levels from within government Gisborne-based Ms Allan said there percent the previous quarter, Statistics official measure of unemployment. — including through the Labour Maori was already a big focus on redeploying NZ said yesterday. Estimates supplied to The Herald by Caucus — with the next alert level workers who had lost jobs to other “Our surveys captured a robust labour Statistics New Zealand show that at the decision due Monday and Budget 2020 industries, and where that was not market in the period before New Zealand end of the March quarter, unemployment three days later, our community won’t possible, to focus on retraining people for went into Covid-19 lockdown. here had actually fallen from 8.3 percent have long to wait to see what is next. other industries. “The unemployment rate has the previous March to 6.3 percent, “Post-Covid-19 is not the time to That could also mean a focus on remained stable at around 4 percent with about 700 fewer people classed as always do what we’ve always done and boosting domestic tourism and a since late 2018, after trending down unemployed. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 NEWS 5 ‘Brilliance and courage’ Labour Party’s Parekura Horomia. She OBITUARY polled second, losing by 1932 votes. She also served one term on the Atareta Poananga Tairawhiti District Health Board, being elected in 2010. Atareta was a prominent spokeswoman TRIBUTES have been paid to on Maori issues from her youth. longtime campaigner for Maori rights She is mentioned in Michael King’s and former Gisborne district councillor The Penguin History of New Zealand, as Atareta Poananga (Ngati Porou, Ngati one of a group he says spoke out more Kauwhata), who died last week. abrasively than their predecessors in Minister of Employment Willie questioning whether the public service Jackson said she left a legacy of courage and local authority structures were the and brilliance, while musician and most appropriate ones to deal with the documentary maker Moana Maniopoto needs of the indigenous people. described her as “very intelligent” and She attracted national attention in regal in her beauty. the mid-1980s with her comments, at Born in Whangarei in 1952, Atareta a conference in Australia on colonial was the daughter of Major Bruce heritage, that the white people who Poananga and his wife Colleen. colonised Australia and New Zealand Her father served with 28 (Maori) were the products of riff-raff and the Battalion during World War 2 and was flotsam and jetsam of Europe. She said later a United Nations peace observer Pakeha should leave the country so Maori in the Middle East and Pakistan. The could have true rangatiratanga. family lived in the Middle East in the After her terms on the council she mid-1960s, mainly in Damascus and ATARETA POANANGA continued to be active in Treaty of LEAD STORY: The front cover of Jerusalem, and Atareta received part of Waitangi claims and was contracted Auckland’s Metro magazine in March her education there. as a laywer to work for a chambers in 1986 featured Atareta Poananga, Her father’s military career extended District Council from 1998 to 2010, Auckland, specialising in this work. pointing readers to a story about Maori over 37 years. representing the former Matakaoa Ward. She was struck in 2012 for falsifying nationalists. She attended Tauranga Girls’ High She had quite an impact on local signatures. School and Takapuna Grammar. government here during her four terms In a tribute posted online, Minister woman.” Atareta Poananga graduated from as a councillor. of Employment Willie Jackson said she She remembered Atareta being vilified Auckland University with a BA in Throughout her time on the council was very sick at that time. It should for her “riff raff” comment. political studies in 1974 and an MA in she was strongly focused on Maori issues, in no way damage her legacy, which “It was at a time when Maori were 1976. leading to frequent clashes with more he said was one of courage, brilliance railing against assimilation. Highly In 1977 she was the first Maori woman conservative councillors. and total commitment to the kaupapa, respected Maori leaders like former MP diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Typical of these clashes was the tinorangitiratanga and the Maori nation. Peter Tapsell and Hirini Moko Mead Affairs. She was dismissed in 1982 but dispute that arose over her travel Mr Jackson said she was one of the came out in support of the sensibilities that dismissal was ruled invalid by the allowance. Although she represented the most beautiful women of her generation behind her comments.” Court of Appeal in 1986. Matakaoa Ward in the northern part of and was blessed with the brains of a top Race Relations Commissioner Meng She was education officer for the the district, she lived in Gisborne and academic professor or lawyer, which she Foon, who was mayor for most of the time Northern Clerical Workers Union where claimed mileage to attend meetings in was. Atareta was on the council, said she was she worked with Willie Jackson and his her ward, which attracted opposition Moana Maniapoto said in a radio a strong advocate for the East Coast and uncle Sid, in a union that was 90 percent from other councillors. interview that Atareta was one of the Maori, and tested council decisions on Pakeha and mainly women. Tau Henare, As the council struggled with Maori first Maori voices in the 1980s. She said many occasions to get the best outcome who also went on to become an MP, was a representation, she was part of a whenua she spoke out at a time when there for Tairawhiti. colleague too. working group and then named on a weren’t many platforms for Maori to Atareta Poananga suffered a stroke She was also a member of the Auckland Maori committee that never actually sat. speak and she spoke very strongly and and had been in hospital for several years Maori Council. She was a member of the Maori Party unequivocally. after being diagnosed with dementia. She graduated with an LLB in 1995. and stood in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti seat in “She was quite courageous, very She is survived by her siblings Lee, Atareta was a member of Gisborne the 2005 general election, losing to the beautiful, very regal. A very intelligent Kim, Kerry and Ian. — by John Jones Taking care of elderly Transfer station staff from Potaka to Nuhaka grateful for patience by Wynsley Wrigley ON THE by Mark Peters roadway.” FRONT LINE: The station has restricted access, which Support worker HOUSE-BOUND elderly residents FAST food outlet workers have recently Abby Maxwell means only two vehicles can unload in the continue to enjoy security, comfort seen queues that stretch down the road but loves working general waste area at any time, with a one- and help from their regular hands-on junk at the other end of the spectrum has with older in, one-out policy. The same applies to the support workers during Level 3 lockdown Tairawhiti kept waste management staff just as busy. greenwaste area. restrictions. residents who Queues were longer than usual after the Customers had generally been in good “We haven’t missed a beat,” says Terri need help with nation moved into Alert Level 3 last week, spirits, patient while waiting in line and Manuel, who is the locality manager independent said Waste Management Gisborne manager compliant with all safety instructions, said with one of the district’s biggest home living. Michael Ayton. Mr Ayton. operators, HealthCare New Zealand Picture Numbers spiked at the weekend due to They were asking customers to continue (HCNZ). supplied more greenwaste customers. to be patient and follow all instructions “Our clients are all aged over 65 and “The increase in waste volumes from reside from Potaka to Nuhaka. when entering the site. the general public at Alert Level 3 was “Do not approach staff or other people, “Our staff have continued to help them HCNZ nurse Wendy Worship attended expected and we had a plan in place with their personal care despite the Hauora Tairawhiti training in the use respect others’ bubbles and move through challenges of Covid-19.” of PPE and has gone on to train her to enforce restricted entry to maintain the site as efficiently as you can. Only one Ms Manuel says the hands-on nature of colleagues. physical distancing, contactless payments person per vehicle. No cash, contactless the work, including showering, dressing, HCNZ support worker Abby Maxwell only and traffic management.” payment only. and helping with exercising, meant the took part in the training and has Commercial customer volumes were also Only mixed glass is to be dropped off to company’s support workers were acutely continued to see around 25 clients a day. increasing, which was a good indication of the recycling drop centre during Level 3. aware of the risks they were putting While in homes, she prepares simple businesses opening up under Level 3, said No extra trucks were brought in to help themselves and their clients at. meals, helps people take baths and Mr Ayton. transport the rubbish to landfill but Waste “But it’s been no trouble to get the ensures they are continuing to take Staff had met the challenge of operating Management is reviewing this as volumes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) we prescribed medication.. safely during the Covid-19 crisis. As an increase. need and to implement the training to go Before entering a person’s bubble, Ms essential service, the team worked through Mr Ayton is proud of his staff and grateful along with its use.” Maxwell asks about their health. Level 4 and quickly adapted to increased to Gisborne District Council for helping Ms Manuel credits Hauora Tairawhiti “They appreciate everything we are hygiene practices, vehicle cleaning and communicate safety procedures. for its ability to quickly supply HCNZ’s six doing. physical distancing. “Finally, thank you to our wonderful nurses, over 100 support workers and a “They are always happy to see you and “We have expanded on these practices at community who have left us kind handful of service coordinators with PPE really love the service.” Level 3 to safely allow customers on site. messages, cakes, drinks and other tokens during the lockdown. Ms Maxwell said it was vital the service As we moved to Level 3 we expected an of appreciation. Many clients received their support from continued during the lockdown. increase in traffic, so we engaged traffic Ngati Porou Hauora staff who had also “With the care of support worker, they “It’s meant a lot to our teams who have management company Pro Traffic to control been working extremely hard during Covid- continued to work during the lockdown, have continued to lead quality lives in vehicles coming into the site from the she said. their bubbles.” 19. Kia ora, Gisborne.” 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 BRIEFS Ashley Bloomfield on Some DHBs face breast cancer screening delays AUCKLAND — Potentially hundreds of women have no idea they have breast cancer because no screening was done under the Level 4 lockdown, gold standard tracing The Breast Cancer Foundation says. The Epidemic Response Committee was yesterday told people will die unless the health system catches up with the backlog of cancer screening. ‘A quick hug’ allowed in Level 2 Adele Gautier from the foundation told Morning Report that Breast Screen Aoteroa screens 22,500 per month. Of those, 130 turn out to have WELLINGTON — New Zealand is still Level 4) and that has continued through breast cancer. on track for a move to Level 2, with no Alert Level 3. “We know that for over the six weeks or so cases of recent community transmission “If we get a similar result today and screening has been shut, that 200 women will and a vast improvement in contact tomorrow, I think that’s a very reassuring have no idea they have breast cancer and have tracing, Director-General of Health Dr picture.” missed out on a mammogram that would have Ashley Bloomfield says. Bloomfield has previously referred found it.” Masks would not be compulsory at to cases since the start of April — Gautier acknowledged that the shutdown was Level 2 and, while physical distancing including in Tauranga, Te Puke, Timaru necessary and believes the Government did the would be more important than ever, and Whanganui — where the source of right thing, but said screening needed to get people should be able to give their friends infection was a mystery. under way immediately. and family a “quick hug”. Some of them remained unresolved Some DHBs had started screening again in the From April 18 to 20, it had taken in terms of pinpointing the index case, past week while others were still catching up 10 days to isolate 80 percent of close but Bloomfield said they were no longer on the backlog of diagnoses they caught before contacts from the first onset of symptoms considered high risk because they hadn’t lockdown, she said. from the source of a Covid-19 chain of infected others. Other DHBs are still a couple weeks away from transmission (the index case). “We may never know where exactly reopening screening. Today that has been halved to five the people got their infection from, but “That is a problem around the country,” she days, and Bloomfield said the Ministry there’s been wide testing around them. said. of Health wanted to shave it to four days “The use of testing of asymptomatic “We need to have a plan in place to make sure in line with a benchmark in the system contacts and close and casual contacts everybody gets their screening at the right level audit by infectious diseases specialist Dr has provided us with reassurance. There’s as fast as possible.” Ayesha Verrall. been no one with transmission, which is While breast screening has the green light “I think that’s very promising,” really what we’re looking for.” under Alert Level 3, Gautier said some clinics Bloomfield said of the improvement. A quick hug with your mates at Level 2 were still working out the logistics of social The latest data published by the Director-General of Health will be allowed. distancing. — Radio NZ Ministry of Health shows: Dr Ashley Bloomfield Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will Winter well and truly on way •฀80฀percent฀of฀close฀contacts฀are฀being฀ outline today what life under Level 2 will isolated within two days of a positive lab cases of higher concern where the source look like, and Bloomfield said the health AUCKLAND — Winter is approaching as New result. of infection was unclear — and they all principles were the same — physical Zealanders woke up to a chilly start today. •฀70฀percent฀of฀people฀are฀being฀tested฀ seemed to have been infected several distancing, hand hygiene, getting tested The biting cold follows a cool night for much within 48 hours of their first symptom. weeks ago. early if there are any symptoms, and of the North Island, which may have had many •฀70฀percent฀of฀test฀results฀are฀ One was a person who flew to Nelson staying home if sick. unearthing the oil heaters and extra blankets. returned within 24 hours of a swab. from the Cook Islands in late March, one “Hugs and handshakes — if you don’t According to WeatherWatch, the island’s average These฀measures฀are฀for฀270฀contacts฀for฀ who had been overseas prior to lockdown know someone, be really rigorous around temperatures plunged by 4C to 8C overnight, 75฀cases฀over฀the฀last฀two฀weeks฀of฀Level฀ was a Ministry for Primary Industries physical distancing. But if it’s close with sheltered, inland areas likely waking to frost. 4฀lockdown฀—฀April฀13฀to฀27. worker at Auckland airport, and one who friends and family, you want to be careful The morning’s cold snap is due to south- Bloomfield had met Verrall at had symptoms more than a month ago of course, but it’s starting to return to west winds across the country, according to the weekend to assess the system’s was in Auckland. normal. MetService meteorologist Angus Hines, but improvements. He said he would publish “Studies suggest these people aren’t “I would imagine it would still be elbow settled and warmer weather is expected to sweep her letter tomorrow — but Verrall was, infectious, but of course you take the bumps and quick hugs.” the country later in the day. “broadly speaking, very comfortable with same precautions,” Bloomfield said. Physical distancing was more Today marks the coldest morning of the week progress”. Targeted testing around the cases, important because people would be for the Northland town of Whangarei, while Cabinet will decide on Monday whether including family and workplaces, had all interacting a lot more with friends as the chilliest regions are currently Waikato and to move down from alert Level 3, and come back negative, he added. well as strangers, he said. Hawke’s Bay. Bloomfield said the most recent data was “We are where we want to be. Even if “We need to maintain real vigilance For Taupo residents, it was a brisk start to the critical before he provided advice. But we think about the (public health) advice around physical distancing, particularly day at just 1C — the lowest temperature sitting the signs were looking good and there from Level 4 to level 3, we wanted to be in situations where it’s not quite as over the rural community of Eastern Rangitaiki, was still no indication of widespread very confident there wasn’t undetected controlled like a work environment or a at -1.1C. community transmission. community transmission. school environment.” Dawn temperature data by MetService shows There remained only three Covid-19 “We were quite confident (at the end of there were plenty of minuses across the upper North Island, with Whangarei sitting at a frigid -6.5C. This was followed by -4.8C at Auckland Airport, -4.7C in Tauranga and -3.4C, -2.8C and -2.1C in Whenuapai, Whitianga and Ardmore, ‘Mass masking should be part of Level 2’ respectively. Things are looking warmer in the South Island, WELLINGTON — New Zealanders Health should front-foot a ‘mass- with lucky Southlanders basking in a “balmy, should wear masks in public indoor masking’ scheme, which would warmer-than-average morning”, according places under Alert Level 2 to stop help to stop any further outbreaks to WeatherWatch. Marlborough, Nelson and the spread of the virus in the early and give people the confidence to Canterbury are in for sunshine and temperatures stages of infection, epidemiologist use services, like public transport. in the high-teens. Michael Baker says. “The problem with this virus is A number of Kiwis took to Twitter on Thursday The details of the restrictions that you may be infected for two to share their feelings about the weather, with at Alert Level 2 were set to be to two-and-a-half days before you one Hamilton woman saying it’s currently “too announced today, ahead of a get symptoms and this appears cold to venture out”. decision due on Monday on when to be the main way the virus is An Auckland man had the right idea, staying the move will actually take place. transmitted. “snug and warm in bed”. But one Auckland Otago University epidemiologist “And it’s not everywhere — it’s woman didn’t have the best start to the day, Professor Michael Baker told basically indoor environments.” tweeting in the early morning: “I appreciate life, Morning Report that New Zealand This was the last risk New but not when it’s super cold and the window in and Taiwan had taken very similar Zealand had not yet managed the toilet is open.” — Newshub. paths in suppressing the virus. and a simple ‘mass-masking’ The only significant difference policy would close off that way of High-impact crash at Te Awa was over the wearing of masks. spreading Covid-19, he said. NAPIER — One person has serious injuries Taiwan has gone for 25 days These could be fabric masks, not after a car and truck collided in a high-impact without a single local case, it has necessarily bought ones: even just crash at Te Awa, Napier. recorded fewer than 500 cases and a scarf, although not quite as good, The serious crash, on State Highway 51 (Marine it had just six deaths from Covid-19 would do the job, he said. transmission of all infectious times for New Zealand. Parade) near the intersection with Ellison Street, after early intervention. “There are a lot of diseases that are spread between “We’re coming out of this really occurred about 11.10am. “They require masks in certain entrepreneurial companies now people. intense lockdown and, in a way, A police spokesperson said the two-vehicle public enclosed places like public producing even quite fashionable “A longer period in Level 3 complacency is a huge potential crash occurred between Edwardes Street and transport in particular,” Prof Baker masks, I have to say.” would allow us to see whether we problem at the moment.” Sale Street. said. In terms of the data, Prof Baker are going to get more cases and Overall, most of the policies Two fire trucks and one ambulance is at the “It’s encouraged but optional in said it would be good to have a outbreaks. have been really good and have scene. Two more were on their way, a St John other places. Many shops would longer period of no cases before There was also a danger that brought down the level of infection. spokeswoman said. One person had serious require wearing masks and some dropping down a level. many people would interpret Level “But it’s highly likely the virus is injuries and was being attended to. schools do, but it’s not universal.” “We’re seeing the effects of 2 as business as usual. (still) circulating, so outbreaks are The New Zealand Transport Agency said the Prof Baker said the Ministry of the lockdown, which suppresses “This is one of the really difficult a possibility.” — RNZ road was closed south of Marine Parade until further notice. — NZ Herald The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Focus on wellbeing vital Bridges, Bloomfield when returning to school AUCKLAND — Education Christchurch, is that we can’t go advisers are urging schools to back as if nothing’s happened. help children avoid mental health We have to have in place things face off via Zoom problems for years to come due to for children in the curriculum the lockdown. to directly address what has Experts from the University happened in the world.” by Jason Walls, NZ Herald outstanding and I will work with of Auckland and consultants The University of Auckland my team to get those responses as Cognition Education said the has developed a website (www. WELLINGTON — National soon as possible. Christchurch earthquakes and teritotoi.org) to help teachers, and Party leader Simon Bridges and “Communications with the Australian bushfires showed it had received more than 70,000 Director-General of Health, Dr public have been absolutely that teachers should resist the page views since going live earlier Ashley Bloomfield, came face-to- fundamental and I made myself temptation to launch straight back this week, he said. face yesterday in a tense Zoom available on almost a daily basis into normal lessons after a major Prof O’Connor said teachers exchange with a frustrated to media because I felt that was event. needed to start by re-establishing Bridges accusing the health an incredibly important part of Their warning came as schools their relationships with their boss of wanting to control the ensuring all New Zealanders prepared to find out today the students. “information flow” to New knew what was going on.” rules that would determine how One way to do this was with Zealanders. Auckland man Bjorn Reymer many of their students would be picture books, he said. Dr Bloomfield was appearing shared his wife’s experience able to return to school at Alert “The picture books that we’re before the Epidemic Response of being told she had had a Level 2. recommending to teachers are Committee (ERC) yesterday, miscarriage, while he was forced It also follows fears that some ones that talk about why you might following emotional testimonies to wait in the hospital’s car park. children are falling behind in their be frightened of something you and tears as members of the “She was given a box of tissues learning during the lockdown, can’t see,” he said. public shared their heartbreaking and left alone,” Mr Reymer told especially if they do not have “You can use fiction to help stories of suffering during ERC chair and National Party MPs. access to a computer, or were children to understand the real lockdown. leader, Simon Bridges The stories came yesterday already at risk of disengaging from world and talk about the deep Dr Bloomfield felt the heat from as the Government began the schooling. things which sit underneath Bridges, the committee chairman, process of deciding whether or not A professor of education at the Covid-19 response, without over the way he had handled the two weeks for your department New Zealand was ready to move the University of Auckland, Peter dwelling on it.” release of information during the to answer written questions,” into Alert Level 2. O’Connor, said teachers were often “If you don’t do that, you see crisis. Bridges said. Cabinet will make that call on told to re-establish their classroom what happened in Christchurch. MPs heard from a new mother, “Why don’t you answer simple Monday. routines and keep children busy to Ten years later, there is a whole who had given birth during Alert health questions to the one But before it does, Dr help them get back to normal after generation of young adolescents Level 4 who was not able to have parliamentary committee on this Bloomfield said more data was disruption. But he said research who live with extraordinary levels her partner with her during a remarkably significant issue? needed. showed that was not a good idea. of anxiety, and it’s because we “traumatic” birth experience. “I’ll be quite frank with you, I He said officials would not “Racing back to catch up is didn’t do that when schools They were also told about a don’t think it’s a resourcing issue. know if it was safe to move to about the worst thing that you can reopened in 2011 in Christchurch. family whose lasting memory “I think it comes down to one Level 2 until the end of this week. do. The research, the evidence, And we run the risk this year of of their son, after a suspected simple thing. You don’t want He told the committee tells us that spending time there repeating that mistake if we don’t suicide, was his body being to answer because you want yesterday that the virus had a and then on children’s wellbeing focus on children’s wellbeing when removed from their home — he to control the information flow two-week incubation period, so pays dividends much later and we go back to school.” was not given a funeral due to the and do this in a time and a two weeks at Level 3 was apt. further down the track in terms A consultant with Cognition lockdown restrictions. way convenient to you and the “We’re looking very carefully at of re-engaging children with Education and a former principal Although Dr Bloomfield did Government,” Bridges said. what other countries are doing,” learning.” of a Christchurch secondary not hear all of the stories of the Dr Bloomfield rejected Bridges’ he said. He said some children would school, Steve Saville, said an people who had submitted to the comments. That was countries that had have seen their parents lose their immediate return to classrooms- committee earlier yesterday, he “Part of my role as a public managed the virus well and those jobs, some would have been as-usual was a bad idea. expressed sympathy for their servant, and I’ve been one for who had not. protected from news about the “All you’re going to do is pile situations when he appeared many years, is to ensure there Dr Bloomfield added that a pandemic, and others would be stress upon the learner, who will before the MPs. is good information and right careful step-down period out of well aware that thousands of feel they’re behind and that will But during the meeting, from the start of this response lockdown was what a lot of other people around the world were be a trigger anxieties to manifest Bridges lashed out at Dr we’ve been very open and successful countries had done. dying from Covid-19. themselves more,” he said. Bloomfield over communications communicating very regularly Going into Level 2 was also Prof O’Connor said teachers “So I do think there has to be from his ministry. with the public. dependent on where cases came would need to acknowledge those a transition time of an action or “Here’s the point, the “However, if there is an issue, from. experiences but without making a actions which can help move from Government suspended the I will personally take that up It would be a red flag if cases big deal of them. the world of almost social isolation OIA (Official Information Act) with the clerk of the committee, started popping up that were not “What’s really important, through to a busy immersion in and we’ve been waiting over with what is the questions still linked to existing clusters. and I think we learnt this from school.” — RNZ New mum tells the ERC about ‘traumatic’ birth experience

WELLINGTON — A new an induction so I lost another “It’s a shame my birthing mother who gave birth during midwife.” process left me feeling so lockdown has described her Ms Burgess was terrified disempowered.” experience as traumatic to the to go to Wellington Hospital New Zealand’s leadership was Epidemic Response Committee because her one support person, just lip service and she’d found it (ERC) yesterday. her partner Cameron, was not hard to find proper guidance, Ms Rebekah Burgess told the able to stay with her. He was Burgess said. committee she was planning removed from the room just The inconsistencies were “a to have a natural birth at after Trinity was born. hard pill to swallow.” home, but her midwife pulled Cameron was distraught, Ms Ms Burgess suggested to the out at 38-and-a-half weeks of Burgess said. ERC that a number of measures pregnancy. “The requirement to be alone needed to be put in place to She tried finding another felt inhumane. Cameron was support pregnant women during midwife in time but was unable denied that precious time to emergencies; to safe guard to. bond as a father.” support, continuity of care, “I told my midwife that under Ms Burgess said she was and implement a consistent no circumstances was I to be provided substandard care at national direction with clear left alone. My biggest fear, even the hospital, and was criticised communication. before the virus hit, was being for not having enough nappies. She said the country’s left alone after birth with a “I would have thought approach contravened the newborn I couldn’t take care of. in a time of a civil defence WHO’s guidelines for care of “I don’t have family support in emergency, women in hospitals pregnant women and patients’ Wellington, so that support was would be provided essentials if TRAUMATISED: New mum Rebekah Burgess talked to members of code of rights, and she wanted absolutely vital.” they weren’t able to bring them. the Epidemic Response Committee (ERC) via livestream yesterday. a holistic approach to birthing Ms Burgess said she felt “I asked for help from the RNZ image taken from NZ Parliament footage instead of a one size fits all vulnerable and unsafe and midwife in the hospital with approach. had no-one to advocate for the feeding and she told me there Personal Protective Equipment blessing and I love her so much.” Ms Burgess, like those who natural birth she wanted. would be no-one to help me (PPE) either, she said. She is still angry and never spoke before her, emotionally “I thought I’d found a new at home and I needed to do it She did not know how many wants to see a midwife or a moved a number of the midwife, but when my waters myself.” times she cried during the hospital again. “The lack of care committee members with her broke in the middle of the She said hospital staff did not 48 hours in hospital, and she in postnatal left me feeling like account, including the chair — night, that midwife told me I seem to have the time to help resented her baby at first, but I had no worth as a mother, Simon Bridges, who reminded needed an induction and she her during the first two days luckily that passed when she left and that I was incapable, those members to contact support said if I didn’t have one, she after her birth. the hospital. feelings are taking longer to services if they were struggling wouldn’t treat me. I didn’t want None of the birthing staff wore “Trinity is an absolute subside,” she said. with the discussion. — RNZ 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 Covid-19 sails off with Petition calls for America’s Cup income resignation Special clearance sought for superyachts of nurses’ by Sharon Brettkelly, Radio NZ union board AUCKLAND — New Zealand is expected to miss AUCKLAND — Former leaders of the New out on about $150 million Zealand Nurses’ Organisation are backing a of income because half the petition to remove its current board. superyachts due to follow the It’s another setback for the union, which America’s Cup next year have has recently seen the resignation of its pulled out. president, vice president and three other More than 100 of the luxury board members. boats were expected to start The trade union’s current most senior arriving at the end of the board member has dismissed the petition as year, but many have cancelled an untimely distraction during the Covid-19 because of Covid-19 border outbreak. It has so far collected more than 750 restrictions and the remainder signatures. need urgent advice on Nano Tunnicliff — one of the petition quarantine rules before they organisers — believed nurses were being will commit to sailing to New kept in the dark about what was happening Zealand. within the board. She was president of the “We believe that maybe organisation from 2009 to 2012. 50 percent have headed Fresh elections were needed to end what back to the Mediterranean appeared to be infighting among board or changed their plans, not members, Tunnicliff said. leaving the US or Europe “It certainly hasn’t been delivering in because of Covid-19 and about SUPERYACHT CANCELLATIONS: Many luxuy boats visits for the America’s Cup have been the best interests of members in terms of 50 percent are waiting for cancelled due to Covid-19 border restrictions. The Team New Zealand base on Auckland’s salaries or safe staffing and improved working advice that they can come to Viaduct Harbour. RNZ picture supplied by Emirates Team New Zealand conditions,” she said. New Zealand,” Peter Busfield, A misconduct investigation into the most the head of the Marine $150m — by getting special Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter It exports $700m worth of recent active president, Grant Brookes, has Industry Association, said. clearance for the remaining 50 is being completed in time for marine gear and boats. led to discontent among members. Superyachts and their to 60 superyachts expected to the superyachts’ arrival at the Industry bosses said the Brookes was investigated over owners were very valuable, he sail here, along with several end of the year. Covid-19 crisis would take inappropriate behaviour and narrowly said. hundred smaller overseas Before Covid-19 hit, the a big chunk of turnover this survived a vote to remove him from office “Its amazing the amount yachts. village — which is pitched as winter, but it should bounce last September. In December, Brookes did of jobs that one superyacht “We need to get to a position a world class facility offering back quickly. lose a vote of confidence. However, the board coming to New Zealand for that special conditions are refits, maintenance and other The head of Whanganui- didn’t take any action against him before he a refit and maintenance will made so that these boats boat services — was expected based Q-West Boat Builders, resigned last month. provide, nearly $3 million can come here, maybe under to generate $40m in marine Myles Fothergill, said some Tunnicliff said the board spent far too long worth of service work, grease level 1 when there’s strict spending and $10m in tourism tourism-related projects on such issues — which were a distraction. and oil change border controls. within three years, creating had been shelved, but other “There shouldn’t be any infighting at all on one of This will be a more than 500 jobs. commercial opportunities had and they shouldn’t be the issue where we’ve these yachts The Marine Industry case in point But its own marketing has come up. got staff members walking away from the is $500,000. where we’ll also been scuppered because He said the government organisation being dissatisfied,” she said. “That’s just Association wants to want special several boat shows around the should be helping develop boat However, the Nurses Organisation’s not money, make sure NZ does provisions for world have been scrapped. building opportunities outside kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku, hit out at the move that means not risk missing out these yachts to “Normally we attend tourism, including Auckland’s to replace the board. There was a democratic jobs and come due to the various boat shows around ageing ferry fleet. process to replace the vacant board positions turnover for on another $150 amount of jobs the world and are able to talk The America’s Cup won’t be starting next month. the marine million. and business to the market, but at this the same next year because Nuku said the fact that three former mechanics that they’ll stage that can’t happen so of Covid-19 restrictions, but presidents had backed the petition did not and the bring to our we’re really into a new type Busfield said the event — and amount to much. She and the board had no florists and food providers, the local communities.” of marketing and selling and the country — would still get intention of quitting. marina providers and all those Orams Marine Village chief communications strategy,” global media coverage. Tunnicliff says reaching the 500 signature people that supply those nice executive Neven Barbour Barbour said. And the Marine Industry mark on Wednesday meant the petition yachts when they visit New said it was too soon to say Before the pandemic, Association is trying to would be given to the Nurses Organisation Zealand.” how much the superyacht the industry was growing boost business with a new chief executive, and the union’s constitution He wanted to make sure cancellations would affect steadily, worth $2.3 billion advertising campaign boasting outlines a process for a special general New Zealand did not risk business. with 8000 jobs including 500 the benefits of boating to meeting. — Radio NZ missing out on another The $100m project at boat building apprenticeships. locals called See NZ by Boat. ‘My industry is gone, my opportunities gone’: cleaner by Glen Scanlon, Radio NZ gone, my opportunities are gone, and I may not is leaving people like her to run down what they have found a job. have. AUCKLAND — A cleaner made redundant “It just doesn’t feel equal that others are She’d love to see the wage subsidy available to because of Covid-19 says her redundancy payout getting $7500 of subsidy for three months people in her situation. means she can’t get a benefit and it will leave her and then, potentially, their redundancy. Where “Yes, I have the luxury of a redundancy, but in worse off in six months time. people like me are having the most taken away six months I am actually worse off. But I have to Mary* was made redundant when lockdown from them and there is nothing to help in the wait until September through no fault of my own. began. meantime.” “We’re (she and mum) trying to work out For eight years she had worked hard at her job Mary has always been careful with her money. where we go from here. We’re both looking at in a cleaning team at an Auckland hotel. She had recently saved every extra penny to getting flatmates in. I am looking for work. I will She knew the writing was on the wall — the help her mum into a new house before Covid-19 do what I need to do, but I’m not going to get the tourists aren’t coming back for a long time. struck. The house is nearly finished, but her mum opportunities I had before.” She doesn’t blame her employer, even though is now also living with her during the lockdown. Work and Income’s Kay Read, group general the business didn’t apply for the wage subsidy. Mary is trying to make her redundancy manager client service delivery, confirmed But now Mary feels like she’s not being treated stretch. She’s put her mortgage on hold and is PLEA FOR FAIRNESS: Mary applied payments received when a person stopped equally. only spending on the basics — food, power and for a job seeker’s benefit, but has been work, such as holiday pay and some severance She applied for a job seeker’s benefit, but has insurance bills — which tally about $570 a week. told she won’t receive anything until her payments, would delay the time when income been told she won’t receive anything until her However, when it runs out she still has the redundancy runs out — that will be in support payments started. It wasn’t a reason to redundancy runs out — that will be in September, bills and no room left to move. September, if she can make the money decline an application for job seeker support. if she can make the money stretch that far. “I can’t cut off my house or car insurance. I stretch that far. File picture She did not respond to questions about For her it’s a double standard the government won’t be able to afford my mortgage. It leaves me whether the rules were under review to allow needs to address for her and many others in the vulnerable. Everything is as tight as it can be. such people access to benefits more quickly nor same situation. “I have never bought things I can’t afford. Even to access the subsidy personally and I can’t get if changes were planned. “There seems to be no understanding that at if I had a little bit extra each week I could stretch a benefit.” the end of the redundancy my industry is still my redundancy out further, but I’m not allowed She doesn’t understand why the government * Mary is not her real name. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 9 ‘There is no forgiveness’ Victim’s sister doubts brutal attack was random by Rob Kidd, Otago Daily Times attack on her brother was not random, as it way, including Nigel.” was painted in court documents — a terse His sharp decline came following an DUNEDIN — Nigel Landreth would exchange on a service-station forecourt operation to replace a piece of skull. have turned 45 this week. followed by a vicious punch. After spending nearly every waking Instead of arranging a raucous An estranged family member of the minute by her brother’s side, Michelle celebration, his sister spent the day sitting victim was suspected of having drug debts Landreth was called to the hospital after silently by his grave, reminiscing about a with the gang and mentioning Nigel his condition plummeted again, only to life cut short. Landreth’s name, she said. miss his death by minutes. It was time, Michelle Landreth decided, The police pursued that lead but could “It was heartbreaking,” she said. to speak about the 14 months of “pure hell” not confirm it was a targeted hit, she said. There was a bitter irony that his demise her brother and the family endured before As Nigel Landreth lay bleeding from came at the hands of a gang member, she he finally succumbed to his injuries. his ears in the aftermath of the punch — said. The victim spent his childhood taking Landreth revealed for the first time that John-Boy Rakete CCTV footage of which was blocked by a sustained beatings from a gang-affiliated she believed there was more to the incident OTD picture by Rob Kidd parked truck — Rakete poured a soft drink family member while trying to protect his that hospitalised him than simply a chance over him and told others not to help him. mother and sister. meeting, as portrayed in court. two months in June last year. The court, at sentencing, heard the Through adulthood, he schooled himself Nigel Landreth died following an attack He came up for parole for the second victim was not expected to recover from his in martial arts, and that protective streak by 26-year-old Mongrel Mob member John- time last month, but the board heard that, vegetative state. endured. Boy Rakete at a Dunedin petrol station on despite completing a rehabilitative course Michelle Landreth said that sparked “He always looked after and looked out July 7, 2018. aimed at addressing his violent tendencies, vitriol from strangers who thought her for the little guy,” Ms Landreth said. “He To the victim’s family, he is a killer. But he was allegedly involved in an assault cruel for keeping her brother alive. couldn’t stand people being bullied or not so in the eyes of the law. while at the Otago Corrections Facility. She stressed, however, she was given no picked on or using scare tactics.” Because Landreth died more than Rakete was declined early release, but options over his treatment and, in any case, She still feared gang retribution for a year and a day from the time of the his sentence ends in September. he had shown strong signs of recovery. speaking out, but told the Otago Daily crime, legislation — which has since been Michelle Landreth was saddened, but not She fondly remembered a gigantic hug Times it was time she told her story. repealed — dictated Rakete could not be surprised by the continuation of violence he gave her only weeks before his death. And if Rakete wanted to meet? charged with murder or manslaughter. behind bars. “The improvements were major and “It’s gone too far for that. I wouldn’t be Instead, he admitted a count of causing “My worry is he will get out and do it to everyone thought he would walk and talk able to sit there and look at the person who grievous bodily harm with reckless someone else,” she said. again,” she said. did that to my brother,” she said. disregard and was jailed for two years and Ms Landreth said she had been told the “So, we all had hope every step of the “There is no forgiveness.” ‘A terrible loss of humanity’ in house of horrors

AUCKLAND — A judge will decide what will now woman,” Justice Brewer said. Today he said he been able to instruct her lawyers and meaningfully happen to a teenage girl who helped kidnap, torture The court heard from three experts who said would “have to make participate in the trial, such as testify if she wished. and murder a young woman at a “house of horrors” those with FASD are known to be more easily led my mind up” as to The Court of Appeal said its decision was after being found unfit to stand trial. into trouble and struggle with decision-making and the teen’s risk-profile, “significantly driven by the nature of the trial itself”. Following a high-profile and at times disturbing insight. but added her risk “Fitness to stand trial cannot be determined solely trial last September in Auckland, Ashley Winter and Dr Valerie McGinn, a paediatric neuropsychologist management appeared on the basis of an assessment of a defendant’s Kerry Te Amo were both found guilty by a jury of and FASD specialist, deemed the teen, who has an dependant “very much deficits,” the decision reads. “Rather, those deficits murdering 17-year-old Dimetrius Pairama. IQ of 64, a low risk of reoffending if in a custodial on environment”. are to be considered in the context of the particular However, a third person was charged after setting. He allowed the teen’s trial the defendant is facing.” Pairama’s body was found by police in a rusty steel “If she was in the community there’s always the lawyer Maria Pecotic The case involved Winter and Te Amo running drum at an abandoned state house in Mangere on a possibility she could do something unpredictable, as and the Crown Solicitor “cut-throat defences” as they blamed each other for cold, rainy night in July 2018. could anyone with FASD,” McGinn said. Dimetrius Pairama at Manukau, Natalie murdering Pairama. She was just 16 at the time and also accused of The court also heard about the teen’s “adverse life was tortured and Walker, the opportunity After kidnapping Pairama, Winter and Te Amo kidnapping and murdering Pairama. experiences”, which included prostitution, substance killed. to file further written tortured her over several hours before eventually But, the now 18-year-old, never saw a jury after abuse, running away from home, and exposure to arguments before giving her the chilling choice of how she wanted to the Court of Appeal ruled her unfit to stand trial. violence. making his decision at a later date. die — be stabbed or hung. The teen was found to suffer from mild intellectual The doctor said the teen, who has been in Oranga The Crown did not call the teen to testify at Winter Pairama’s mother Lena Hetaraka-Pairama has told disability and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder Tamariki care, had also been “institutionalised within and Te Amo’s trial because the Bill Of Rights may not the NZ Herald she believes her daughter, who had (FASD) and has been at the Mason Clinic, a forensic youth justice residences and the Mason Clinic”. If be complied with, the court has previously heard. also spent time in Oranga Tamariki care and also psychiatric services secure unit in Point Chevalier, she was to move to another facility or different form But another teenager, who was at the house on Auckland’s streets, was killed as part of a gang since September. of supervision it would require great care, McGinn of horrors, was called to give evidence as the retaliation. Now, Justice Timothy Brewer is tasked with added. Crown’s key witness. She was given immunity from Crown solicitor at Manukau, Natalie Walker, also making an assessment about what is required for At a hearing in December, Justice Brewer said he prosecution by the Deputy Solicitor-General. said during the trial: “There is no good reason or the teen — who has name suppression — and what was “satisfied on the balance of probabilities that When overruling the High Court and finding explanation for why the defendants did what they did is necessary for public interest and safety. the evidence against (the teen) was that she caused the intellectually disabled teen unfit for trial, the to Dimetrius. Today, a deposition hearing was held in the High the act, that forced the basis of the murder and Court of Appeal did say she could understand the “In that house, on that day, for whatever senseless Court at Auckland. kidnapping”. charges against her, enter pleas, and understand the reason, there was a terrible loss of humanity.” “The reason we are all here is (the teen) took part “The second inquiry the court must make is to consequences. Winter and Te Amo are both due to be sentenced in the torture and protracted hanging of a young how she is to be treated by the state henceforth.” But, the court said the teen would not have at the end of this month. — NZ Herald

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32312-01 10 BUSINESS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 Govt’s $6.25bn Budget 2020 chance loan guarantee better for later to ‘build back better’ lending: banks by Jenny Ruth, BusinessDesk by Pattrick Smellie, BusinessDesk specific measures There are . . . opportunities to to help heavily- WELLINGTON — The Government’s business WELLINGTON — Next Thursday’s impacted sectors, finance guarantee scheme is something most election-year Budget will be the first look‘ at some of our systemic issues: particularly tourism, firms won’t be interested in applying for until outing for the Government’s vision productivity, inequality, ability to move hospitality and further down the track into the recovery from the not only to recover from the massive to that low-carbon economy, the events, both to economic shock of the Covid-19 crisis, according economic shock of the response to Covid- survive and adjust. to the major banks. 19, but to “build back better”. housing market, using the building of However, no New ANZ Bank said the changes the Treasury In an interview ahead of a pre-Budget housing to drive some change Zealand finance had made “would make accessing the business speech today, Finance Minister Grant —Finance Minister’ Grant Robertson minister could avoid finance guarantee scheme easier for some Robertson nominated large-scale home- the need to manage businesses. As a general trend, we’re seeing building, investment to hasten a low- the fact that the businesses explore other options before taking carbon economy, encouragement of small- year shock” that Robertson said the country was “still a on additional debt at this stage,” a spokesperson scale entrepreneurialism and reducing coronavirus pandemic represented. small, open export-economy that is prone said. inequality as opportunities created by the “What we’ve become accustomed to to natural disasters”. The changes include removing the lower disruption to previous norms caused by in New Zealand, the fiscal situation, is “Those conditions have not gone turnover limit of $250,000 a year, opening the the global pandemic. significantly changed and it will be that away so therefore as a Labour Finance scheme to farmers and removing the requirement Robertson talked of a return to a way for some time. In the near term, Minister and as any finance minister, I for a general security agreement for lending “sustainable fiscal position” but did not we’ve got to be undertaking the spending, have to strike that balance,” Robertson above $50,000. nominate a return to New Zealand’s long- investment and the borrowing that goes said. The Government is guaranteeing repayment of standing record for fiscal surpluses as a with that to protect lives and livelihoods. On a more day-to-day level, Robertson 80 percent of the loans, which can be up to three likely outcome over the next decade. believes there will be big changes to some years and which are available to businesses with “I’m still a believer in the fact that ‘MORE SUSTAINABLE’ previously-accepted norms about the way turnover up to $80 million. careful management of our economy is business is done. But ANZ said the relaxation of some of the important,” he told BusinessDesk. “That will take some to get over, but “The tortuous commute that many rules did not change its obligation to lend “We have a number of ways of New Zealand’s strong position going in Wellingtonians and Aucklanders make to responsibly. indicating that, net core Crown debt for gives us some confidence that we will be each others’ cities for meetings, I think “We still have a requirement to lend to example, and our operating balance is an able to return to a more sustainable fiscal you’ll find there won’t be as much of that businesses that will be in a position to repay the important part of that. position — but it will take some time.” and there may be very little of it, actually. loan. This is one tool in the toolbox.” “An extended period of deficits and However, the Budget would also be an “I think there will be a lot more online Both ASB Bank and Bank of New Zealand levels of debt that are significantly in early opportunity to start talking about commerce, online learning, you’re starting said they were committed to implementing the excess of what we’ve seen . . . will be the the Government’s vision of “building back to see some of those socio-cultural shifts scheme and stressed the assistance they had norm for the forecast period” through better” after dealing with the immediate that will drive an economic response.” already provided to business customers. to the middle of the decade, he said, crisis followed by short-term measures to The NZ Bankers Association said its members although there was still huge uncertainty kick-start economic activity. BIG BUSINESS COPING had already lent $7 billion to businesses outside about any forecasts in the current “There are not many times in history of the Government scheme since the national disrupted environment. where the clock gets reset,” he said. One area where the Government had lockdown began on March 26, exceeding the “At an economy-wide level, for not so far had to respond with urgent $6.25 billion value of the guarantee scheme. TOO EARLY FOR TAX POLICY a country like New Zealand, the assistance was for the sector it initially “In our view, the scheme supports longer- opportunities have remained through the described as “large, complex businesses” term lending. Businesses are more likely to be The Government was nowhere near pandemic, particularly for our primary when the initial Level 4 lockdown was confident of applying for loans under the scheme considering tax changes to help pay exports, so there’s an element of the way announced in late March. only once they have formed a clearer view of down the massive increase in public debt the things are about NZ: trust, the lack “The good news is that thus far they their longer-term prospects and needs,” NZBA caused by the response to the Covid-19 of corruption, ease of doing business is are holding up relatively well,” said chief executive Roger Beaumont said. threat, although “eventually we will need also added to now, we hope, by a very Robertson. The Treasury had established Moving from Alert Level 4 to Alert Level 3 last a further conversation about tax,” said successful suppression of this virus. an Economically Significant Businesses week “has made that more possible for some Robertson. “Then there are the opportunities Unit, but outside deeply-stressed sectors businesses,” Beaumont said. With some economists forecasting a to look at some of our systemic issues: such tourism, “there’s not a reason to “The wage subsidy has also cushioned blow-out in net government debt to as productivity, inequality, ability to move deploy that because there are other the immediate effects of Covid-19 for some much as 50 percent of gross domestic to that low-carbon economy, the housing sources of finance”. businesses. Because it was paid upfront, the product, compared with around 19 market, using the building of housing to “At this point, the call on that has not wage subsidy has meant many businesses percent before the global pandemic crisis drive some change.” been great but we stand ready and it have not yet had the need to look for other hit, government revenues were “clearly The future of work, including may be that once people are more certain assistance.” under strain”. encouraging employment through local, about the future, they will start thinking On Monday, Westpac chief executive David “But you should not be expecting a small-scale businesses as an era of about what the future (holds) and what McLean told BusinessDesk much the same, that great deal in that area” in this Budget. globalisation gave way to a more localised financing arrangements they need to some of the Government measures would work Under Budget responsibility rules and regional economic focus, was likely to make.” better than others and that it wasn’t surprising that Labour advocated in part to gain emerge as a major trend, he said. Robertson warned not to expect big the guarantee scheme rules had needed the confidence of sceptical international policy initiatives in too many areas. tweaking. Nevertheless, both ANZ and BNZ each credit rating agencies, the government WOMEN, SECTORS “Not every sector or every issue will said last week they had received about 1000 has committed until now to keeping core be resolved here because we don’t yet applications while Westpac said it had received Crown debt below 25 percent of gross “One of the things we are looking have certainty on the impact and there’s more than 600. domestic product and running budget at closely is the impact on women’s more work to do in some cases. We will The new scheme will provide loans of up to surpluses “over the economic cycle”. employment. A number of the most certainly be giving direction in the $100,000 to firms employing 50 or fewer full- That means Budget deficits are affected industries are disproportionately Budget but it’s really important that it’s time equivalent employees. These loans will be acceptable in times when the economy employers of women.” not seen as the last phase on our recovery interest-free for a year and then carry 3 percent is struggling, such as the “one-in-100 The Budget is expected to contain and rebuild.” interest a year for a maximum of five years.

“That has had two strong days, investors declined 0.5 percent to $5.83. SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY are relieved there are positive signs for the Property stocks continued to lag behind business,” Goodson said. Kathmandu’s share the market. Goodson said investors were WELLINGTON — New Zealand shares share price has risen 36.8 percent year-to-date, price is up 16.8 percent this week, although less concerned about capitalisation rates — the ratio rose, led by Pushpay Holdings, as the mobile against a market down about 8 percent during than half the $2.30 it was at the start of the year. of operating income to property assets — as payments app developer soared to new heights the same period. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare rose 3.6 percent to landlords face an uncertain rental outlook, after signalling it was in for more growth. “The Pushpay result was the highlight of the $28.80, coming back from a decline on Tuesday particularly for retail properties. The S&P/NZX 50 Index advanced 0.8 percent day. It came in at the low end of expectations and joining a rally among healthcare stocks on Kiwi Property Group dropped 2.1 percent to 10,572.84. Within the index 24 stocks rose, but gave very strong forward guidance which the Australian S&P/ASX 200 Index. to 93 cents, Argosy Property fell 1.9 percent 25 fell, and one was unchanged. Turnover was will have excited a number of growth investors,” Tourism Holdings rose 0.7 percent to to $1.04, Goodman Property Trust declined $142.5 million, of which Pushpay accounted for said Matthew Goodson, managing director at $1.36. The Australian and New Zealand 1.3 percent to $2.23, Investore Property fell $20.8 million. Salt Funds Management. governments are investigating ways to reopen 0.6 percent to $1.69 and Property For Industry Pushpay jumped 20.9 percent to a record “It has been a remarkably strong performer, the transtasman border, which many tourism slipped 0.2 percent to $2.23. $5.50 after saying it expects its rapid pace of but there had been questions going in around operators say is vital for their survival. Skellerup Holdings posted the biggest growth to continue, forecasting earnings before how a massive spike in unemployment would Goodson said while the prospect of a decline, down 2.5 percent at $1.92. interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and impact church attendance and donations. But transtasman bubble may be encouraging for Outside the benchmark index, Smiths City foreign exchange movements of between that appears to have been more than offset.” investors, the company’s market went beyond Group fell 1.5 percent to 12.9 cents after US$48 million and US$52 million in the March Pushpay said it was targeting more than 50 New Zealand and Australia. announcing a restructuring that will result in 2021 year. It reported ebitdaf of $25.1 million percent of medium and large churches, a market “They have traditionally relied on long-stay the closure of some stores and job losses. with revenue up 33 percent. which could be worth more than US$1 billion. North American and European markets, and The retailer is anticipating subdued trading The company has been one to benefit from Kathmandu Holdings rose for a second day, they have sizable Australian and US businesses. conditions once stores reopen. the Covid-19 outbreak, as restrictions on up 9.6 percent to 91 cents, continuing to bounce So, it is not just about what rules change when Cancer screening company TruScreen jumped public gatherings have seen more American after highlighting strong online sales and in New Zealand for them,” he said. 14.8 percent to 7 cents after announcing it had churchgoers turn to its digital platform to pay announcing the reopening of Australian stores Air New Zealand increased 0.4 percent to expanded into four new hospitals in China and tithes and make donations to churches. Its on Tuesday. $1.255 and Auckland International Airport will add five more during May. — BusinessDesk The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 OPINION 11 EDITORIAL Project choices not the smartest Exploring origin by Clive Bibby good reason to rule it out altogether. KiwiRail’s Tokomaru Bay and Hicks Bay wharves are more response to the idea of reinstatement backs that important projects than the opening up of the of the pandemic OUR council’s response to view and as a consequence, l’d be surprised if Northern Tairawhiti via Minister Shane Jones’s the Government’s request for a the Government supports it now either. offer to declare it “a special economic zone”. The origin of the Sars-Cov-2 list of “shovel-ready” projects But politicians, being what they are, are Similarly, as popular as it might be in certain virus that causes Covid-19 is still a for potential funding is a poor unlikely to look a gift horse in the mouth and circles, how does the “aquifer replenishment” mystery but there is no evidence in use of the opportunity to fix so we shouldn’t be surprised that this more project take precedence over the need to build the public domain, or been provided some of our “hardy annual” popular choice has priority over other more a much more expensive but more reliable to the World Health Organisation, to regional problems. worthy ones in some quarters. Given the chorus freshwater storage system, while we have a I’m not saying all of the nearly $200 million for reinstatement has reached such deafening government sympathetic to requests to help fund support allegations from the Trump worth of projects put forward should not be on levels, votes become more important than logic these normally “out of reach” developments? administration that it probably the list but, in my humble opinion, the region as for those who have one eye on the electoral Actually, my government contacts suggest it is originated in a laboratory in Wuhan. a whole would benefit much more had we given calendar. We’d probably do the same. possible to do both. Why aren’t we investigating Intelligence sources have told a higher priority to others that have much greater And anyway, it won’t be ratepayers’ money that possibility? the Guardian there is no current capacity to make a real difference. being flushed down the dunny — just an In the meantime, it is disappointing to observe evidence to suggest the virus It is understandable that the council would expensive misuse of taxpayer funds, which that this council appears to be following its leaked from a Chinese research lab, want to see an end to its wastewater issues and happens all the time, especially in election year. recent predecessors by allowing itself to become and reports in Australia suggest a similar community projects that have had a long What is not forgivable is for the council to a pawn in the hands of those who want to “dossier” touted by the White House time in gestation, eg the Olympic Pool upgrade. ignore this opportunity to set in stone projects manipulate our community for their own selfish was compiled from news reports. However, some of the choices are nakedly capable of delivering not only immediate, although reasons. Surely we know where that will lead. political and would probably remain of doubtful temporary, job opportunities, but more importantly This current crisis must be seen as a golden What the scientific evidence value even after completion — the restoration a restructured economy that will provide truck- opportunity to show real leadership. points very strongly to is that the of the Gisborne-Napier railway link is a case loads of permanent ones. In so doing, it would If a dummy like me can work out where the Sars-Cov-2 virus is of natural origin in point. In spite of having spent $600,000 of help us recover from the Covid crisis and defend priorities should be, it shouldn’t be hard for — a coronavirus passed from a government money on a feasibility study, it is against the major threat of climate change. those sitting around the council table to show an bat (and virus samples collected still difficult to find an economic justification Forgive me if l challenge the council to explain even greater capacity for clear thinking. Now’s years ago from the same cave in to repair the link at this time. That is probably how the modern plans for the restoration of the the time to show it. Yunnan linked to the Sars outbreak of 2002-03 include one that shares LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS 96 percent of its genetic sequence Opportunities in wood with Sars-Cov-2) to an intermediary host species where there was a Re: ‘We need to look after home design and construction, Strength at the checkout . . . ourselves’ — Jones, April 29. there have also been more genomic recombination with another To the lovely, strong lady time and felt quite scared and I agree with the need to monumental projects. Some of coronavirus, and this new virus was who served me at Pak’nSave, emotional, leaving you there to better use our timber resource these structures can even be then passed on to humans. I was so taken aback by the serve them. by expanding and improving made with the Maslow CNC The Economist newspaper reports abuse you had to put up with I want to thank you for our wood processing capability, kit costing less than $3000. that viral genomes found in early while serving me. A simple your strength and dedication and I would push that Some of our creative Kiwi Covid-19 patients in China are so request asking the people during this time. For all I further downstream to our artists and designers, like Nick similar it strongly suggests the virus behind me to step back on know you could have been need to expand our capacity Tupara, are already using this jumped from its intermediate host the mark and wait till I was working a long shift, been to use those wood products technology. When you are in to humans only once. Estimates done, for my own personal tired, have family to worry in innovative ways to solve the new GDC building, look up safety, turned into you getting about at home, but you still based on the rate at which genomes another problem — lack of at the precision-cut patterns mocked, laughed at and served me with a smile. Thank warm, dry, affordable housing. in the plywood ceiling. There diverge give the earliest time for told to “hurry up” and “act you. There are some intriguing are similar patterns in the this transfer as early October 2019. professional” by two hooded approaches that use either airport ceiling — though, sadly, If that is right there were almost men. I was speechless at the A GRATEFUL CUSTOMER milled boards, plywood there was poor integration certainly early infections which were or structural insulated with the lighting layout, which not serious, or were not recognised panels (SIPs) to fabricate prevented the design from as odd, before the first official thoughtfully-designed, being implemented. cases were seen in Wuhan at the Time Gwynne Dyer quit? easy to build, precision- It would be great to see this beginning of December. Oh dear, poor old Gwynne Dyer, weird rationale in your head! crafted, affordable and work pushed down into the It is possible such early cases The Herald’s go-to “know it all” Meanwhile throughout the month environmentally-friendly production of base materials were not in Wuhan, and blood really is becoming just another Fake of February, Congress House dwellings using computer using our timber resources, assisted design (CAD) and then out into more creative samples taken late last year from News bore. His idea of good copy is Speaker Pelosi, Senator Schumer, adding to the never-ending and very Governor Cuomo and Mayor De CNC (computer numerical design and construction of patients with pneumonia all around control) cutting. dwellings and other structures China are being tested to see if obvious conspiracy against the man Blasio (all Democrats) actively elected by 63 million Americans downplayed the threat of the virus Although tiny houses have in a contemporary Kiwi style. there is any evidence for the virus to be their President. That election and encouraged citizens to attend been the starting point for having emerged somewhere else. (known as democracy) has been large crowd events such as Chinese this new integrated method of DOUG SMITH We do know there is a connection seriously under attack by those New Year celebrations. Boy isn’t that to the Huanan seafood and live usual suspects of Fake News — rich in irony now! Strange you make animal market in Wuhan. Not all CNN, MSNBC, New York Times and no mention of that. the early reported cases have links Washington Post. We can also add Also, Cuomo sending rest home Inspiring our rangatahi to this market, however 33 of 585 the FBI and DOJ which incredibly residents back from hospitals to Re: Wairoa actor takes Shortland Street — wasn’t swabs of different surfaces around and illegally conspired against Mr spread their virus in the retirement Maori culture to Home and successful but gave him the market were positive for Sars- Trump with their own Fake News facilities — now that really does Away, February 7 story. an eye-opening to what he Cov-2 — all in the area where live — the Russian collusion lie. Their carry guilt! But you’re not interested An amazing story Ethan. needs to do to be successful. perfidy is being exposed right now in that Gwynne? animals were sold. It is possible Our rangatahi need more I will share your story with and with the Durham investigation Your bias and prejudice is inspiring stories like yours him as well — thank you for the virus arrived there via a human closing in, even the Fake News outstanding but after three years of rather than animal host, though. The to show them that if you sharing. organisations will be forced to piling deliberate misrepresentations put the hard yards into your CHERYL TAUMATA market is popular with visitors as report the consequences. upon outright lies about Trump, it is passion, you will succeed. All Wellington (and Mahia) well as locals, and is close to a hub To recap Mr Dyer: You think Trump ultimately psychotic and essentially the best. in China’s high-speed rail network. banning flights from China, the not real journalism. Do you think it I like watching Home Too much cuzzin — go hard! Adding another small piece to the birthplace of the Wuhan Virus, did might be time to quit Mr Dyer? and Away too. Our son has puzzle, a case in France announced not help stop the virus spreading? done a few auditions for LAVINIA PUANAKI yesterday suggests the virus Seriously? You must have some TIM STEWART reached Europe a month earlier than [email protected] thought. The swab of a patient being treated for suspected pneumonia in ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. a hospital near Paris on December ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. 27 has tested positive for Covid-19. ■ Always include full name and contact details. He had not travelled abroad. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. 12 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 GLOBAL BRIEFS Netanyahu may form govt JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may form a new government while BEARING THE BRUNT: under indictment for corruption charges, clearing Women in Brooklyn’s Sunset the way for him and his main rival to join together Park, a neighbourhood with in a controversial power-sharing deal. one of the city’s largest The unanimous decision, released just before Mexican and Hispanic midnight, ended a more than year-long political communities, wear masks stalemate and prevented the country from plunging to help stop the spread of into a fourth consecutive election in just over a coronavirus while waiting in year. Netanyahu and his rival-turned-partner, Benny line to enter a store. A poll Gantz, said they expected their coalition to be found that 61 percent of sworn into office next week. Hispanic Americans said they After battling to three inconclusive elections, have experienced some kind Netanyahu and Gantz announced their of household income loss “emergency” government last month, saying they as a result of the Covid-19 would put aside their rivalry to steer the country outbreak. AP picture through the coronavirus crisis. Over two days this week, the court looked at two questions: whether an indicted politician can be given authority to form a new government, and whether their power-sharing deal — which includes new legislation — was legal. The judges ruled that while the coalition deal presents significant legal difficulties, the court would not interfere in its contents following changes submitted by Netanyahu and Gantz. — AP Coronavirus exposes Closest black hole to earth GERMANY — European astronomers have found the closest black hole to Earth yet, so near that the two stars dancing with it can be seen by the naked eye. America’s racial divide Of course, close is relative on the galactic scale. This black hole is about 1000 light-years away and each light-year is 9.5 trillion kilometres. But Pandemic especially tough on people of colour in terms of the cosmos and even the galaxy, it is in our neighbourhood, said European Southern Observatory astronomer Thomas Rivinius, who led DETROIT — People of colour have director of the left-leaning Economic people of colour are also more likely to the study published on Wednesday in the journal not only been hit harder by the deadly Policy Institute’s programme on race, know someone close to them who has Astronomy & Astrophysics. coronavirus than Americans overall, but ethnicity and the economy. “It’s going been diagnosed with Covid-19. The poll The previous closest black hole is probably about they are also bearing the brunt of the to take much longer for these families found that 12 percent of all Americans three times further, about 3200 light-years, he said. pandemic’s financial impact, according to to recover — if they ever recover say they or a close friend or relative has The discovery of a closer black hole, which is a recent survey from the The Associated economically.” been diagnosed. Among black Americans, in the constellation Telescopium in the Southern Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs The survey, conducted in mid-April, 21 percent say they or someone close to Hemisphere, hints that there are more of these out Research. found that 21 percent of Hispanics have them has been diagnosed. there. Astronomers theorise there are between 100 The financial picture is especially been unable to make a rent or mortgage A separate Associated Press analysis million to 1 billion of these small but dense objects grim for Hispanic Americans, while some payment as a result of the outbreak, of available state and local data shows in the Milky Way. African Americans face the dual burden while 23 percent have been unable to pay that nearly one-third of those who have The trouble is we can’t see them. Nothing, of being disproportionately affected by a credit card bill. That compares with 8 died of Covid-19 are African American, not even light, escapes a black hole’s gravity. the virus itself while also struggling to percent of white Americans in both cases. with black people representing about 14 Usually, scientists can only spot them when they pay bills due to the economic fallout. Black Americans are also slightly more percent of the population in the areas are gobbling up sections of a partner star or The poll found that 61 percent of likely than white Americans to have been covered in the analysis. something else falling into them. Astronomers Hispanic Americans say they have unable to pay a credit card bill, at 15 San Diego resident Cristina Hall, who think most black holes, including this newly experienced some kind of household percent. identifies as Hispanic, said communities discovered one, don’t have anything close enough income loss as a result of the outbreak, While income losses have hit of colour tend to have a cultural history to swallow. So they go undetected. including job losses, unpaid leave, pay Americans across the board, layoffs have of multiple generations of families living Astronomers found this one because of the cuts and fewer scheduled hours. That is been especially concentrated among together. She believes those strong unusual orbit of a star. The new black hole is part compared with 46 percent of Americans lower income and less-educated people. familial ties have put some at risk, as of what used to be a three-star dance in a system overall. Thirty-seven percent of Latinos Twenty-eight percent of Americans has work in jobs, such as those in the called HR6819. The two remaining super-hot stars and 27 percent of black Americans say without college degrees say they have service industry, that require them to aren’t close enough to be sucked in, but the inner they’ve been unable to pay at least one had a layoff in their household, compared interface with the public. star’s orbit is warped. type of bill as a result of the coronavirus with 19 percent of those with degrees. “It’s frustrating,” Hall, 41, said. “All of Using a telescope in Chile, they confirmed that outbreak. Only 17 percent of white Milwaukee resident Tamela Andrews these protests all over the United States there was something about four or five times the Americans said the same. was excited to start her new job a few (to reopen state economies), who do you mass of our sun pulling on the inner star. It could “If our policies do not adequately months ago as an inventory specialist, see? You don’t see people of colour at only be a black hole, they concluded. address these shortfalls and the serving some of the big-box stores in her those protests. It’s a sense of entitlement Outside astronomers said that makes sense. racial disparities in income, wealth, community. She and several others at that they want this economy to open, not “It will motivate additional searches among employment and wages, then we’re going her company were furloughed after the so they can necessarily go back to work bright, relatively nearby stars,” said Ohio State to see the same pattern that we have pandemic began. but so that people of colour can go back University astronomer Todd Thompson. — AP seen historically,” said Valerie Wilson, Along with the financial impact, to work and take care of them.” — AP Royal birthday marked with charity video LONDON — The Duke and Duchess of to pose with their newborn outside the Sussex have released a video of Meghan hospital, a recent tradition in Harry’s reading to their son as they mark Archie’s family, and decided against giving the baby 1st birthday and promote a campaign a royal name. to help children during the coronavirus Archie had an eventful first year. He pandemic. accompanied his parents on a tour of Africa The video shows Meghan sitting with and at the age of 4 months was introduced Archie on her lap and reading one of his to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel favourite books, “Duck! Rabbit!” Peace Prize winner. Archie grabs at the pages and helps to Harry and Meghan shocked many early turn them during the reading. Harry, who this year with an announcement that they filmed the short video, whoops and says intended to quit as senior royals and split “bravo” from behind the camera at the end. their time between Britain and North The three-minute video was posted on America. Wednesday on the Instagram accounts of The couple officially stepped down from Save With Stories and Save the Children royal duties at the end of March, saying UK for a fundraising campaign with they were giving up public funding and the goal of bringing food and learning seeking financial independence. resources to children and families The family went from living in a cottage struggling during the pandemic. on the grounds of Windsor Castle, to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor Vancouver Island in Canada and then on was born on May 6, 2019 at London’s to Los Angeles before lockdown measures Portland Hospital. His parents chose not commenced. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 WORLD 13 Unemployed Thai elephants make the long walk home

BANGKOK — The millions of The situation is critical. London-based where they can live alongside villagers in He and his wife agreed to bring their unemployed in Thailand due to the World Animal Protection said as many sustainable eco-friendly communities. It elephants back to her village because coronavirus include elephants which as 2000 tame elephants are at risk of believes the animals are abused at many they could no longer shoulder the depend on the tourist industry to feed starvation because their owners are high-profile tourist attractions. monthly expenses of close to 200,000 their voracious appetites. unable to feed them. Sadudee Serichevee owns four baht (US$6250) for rental of land and With scant numbers of foreign Since last month, more than 100 of the elephants in Chiang Mai’s Mae Wang facilities, salaries for handlers — known visitors, commercial elephant camps and animals have marched district. He followed the as mahouts — and food. Elephants eat as sanctuaries lack funds for their upkeep from all over Chiang foundation’s approach much as 300 kilograms a day of grass and and have sent more than 100 of the Mai to their homeland Since last month, more in setting up his own vegetables. animals trudging as far as 150 kilometres of Mae Chaem, which than 100 of the animals small Karen Elephant The project is also active in the back to their homes. is dotted with villages Experience park with northeastern province of Surin, famous The Save Elephant Foundation in the where members of the have marched to their elephants brought from for its annual elephant festival. The northern province of Chiang Mai has been Karen ethnic minority homeland. Mae Chaem’s Ban Huay province’s Tha Tum district, home to promoting the elephants’ return to the live and traditionally keep Bong, his wife’s village. hundreds of elephants, welcomed about 40 greener pastures of home. elephants. But his good intentions of them back last month. The foundation supports fundraising Save Elephant’s founder, Saengduean were no match for the coronavirus. “We don’t know when Covid-19 will go appeals to feed animals still housed at Chailert, said the project to bring “At first I thought the situation would away,” said Save Elephant’s Saengduean. tourist parks, but also believes it is good unemployed elephants home was launched be back to normal within a month or “So this is our task, to help feed the for them to return to their natural habitat in response to appeals from their owners. two. At the end of April, I lost all hope,” elephants that were laid off because of the where they can be more self-sufficient. Her group promotes settling elephants Sadudee said. outbreak.” — AP Second wave feared Experts warn of more infections as lockdown eases

WASHINGTON — As Europe and the US loosen their lockdowns against the coronavirus, health experts are expressing growing dread over what they say is an ACTION IN SPACE: Tom Cruise is all-but-certain second wave of deaths and set to team up with Nasa to shoot infections that could force governments to a film on the International Space clamp back down. Station. Picture supplied “We are risking a backslide that will be intolerable,” said Dr Ian Lipkin of Columbia University’s Centre for Infection and Immunity. Tom Cruise Around the world, German authorities began drawing up plans in case of a resurgence of the virus. Experts in Italy to launch urged intensified efforts to identify new victims and trace their contacts. France, which hasn’t yet eased its into space lockdown, has already worked up a “reconfinement plan” in the event of a new LOS ANGELES — Tom Cruise is hoping wave. to blast into the Hollywood record books “There will be a second wave, but the by shooting the first action movie in space. problem is to what extent. Is it a small Nasa is working with Cruise to film wave or a big wave? It is too early to say,” aboard the International Space Station said Olivier Schwartz, head of the virus (ISS). unit at France’s Pasteur Institute. There are no details of the film, but In the US, with about half of the states RESTARTING ECONOMIES: Karl Manke, left, re-opened the doors of his barbershop Deadline — which first reported the story easing their shutdowns to get their in Michigan on Monday in defiance of an executive order mandating salons, — said it would not be a new instalment of economies restarted and cellphone data barbershops and other businesses to stay closed. He has already given nearly 100 Mission: Impossible. showing that people are becoming restless haircuts, and fields more calls than that daily, all while continuing to cut hair. The report also said Cruise, 57, is also and increasingly leaving home, public AP picture working with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which health authorities are worried. will transport two US astronauts to the ISS Many states have not put in place will require aggressive contact tracing This week, the researchers behind a for Nasa later this month. the robust testing that experts believe powered by armies of public health widely cited model from the University Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is necessary to detect and contain new workers hundreds of thousands of people of Washington nearly doubled their wrote on Twitter: “Nasa is excited to work outbreaks. strong, which the US doesn’t yet have. projection of deaths in the US to around with Tom Cruise on a film aboard the Space And many governors have pressed Worldwide, the virus has infected more 134,000 through to early August, in large Station!” ahead before their states met one of than 3.6 million people and killed over part because of the easing of state stay- Musk replied to say the project “should the key benchmarks in the Trump a quarter-million, according to a tally at-home restrictions. Newly confirmed be a lot of fun!” administration’s guidelines for reopening by Johns Hopkins University . . . that infections per day in the US exceed Cruise played an astronaut in the 2013 — a 14-day downward trajectory in new experts agree understates the dimensions 20,000, and deaths per day are running film Oblivion, when he safeguarded Earth’s illnesses and infections. of the disaster because of limited testing, well over 1,000. natural resources from alien invaders. Lipkin is most worried about two things: differences in counting the dead and A century ago, the Spanish flu He also narrated the 2002 Imax the reopening of bars, where people crowd concealment by some governments. epidemic’s second wave was far documentary Space Station 3D. It is not together and lose their inhibitions, and The US has recorded over 70,000 deaths deadlier than its first, in part because known when the star will blast off to the large gatherings such as sporting events, and 1.2 million confirmed infections, while authorities allowed mass gatherings from ISS for real. concerts and plays. Preventing outbreaks Europe has reported over 140,000 dead. Philadelphia to San Francisco. — AP Despite the pandemic, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is due to take Nasa astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS on May 27. The spacecraft can accommodate seven people. We’ve As well as being one of Hollywood’s most popular action heroes, Cruise is got you FLU known as a daredevil who does many of VACCINATIONS his own stunts. 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The exact circumstances of the separate incidents in the last two weeks remain unclear and they are being investigated by police, but they underscore the enormous strains that Russian doctors and nurses have faced during the outbreak. Reports said two of the doctors had protested their working conditions and the third was being blamed after her UNDER PRESSURE: Two doctors Scientist quits colleagues contracted the virus. died and one was seriously injured in AP picture Across Russia, doctors have decried an attempted suicide. But the strain shortages of protective equipment that doctors and nurses have faced and questionable infection control has been underscored. AP picture procedures at dozens of hospitals, UK Govt’s Covid-19 adviser breaks with many saying they have been threatened with dismissal or even anonymous sources. prosecution for going public with their The reports said Nepomnyashchaya lockdown rules to meet girlfriend grievances. had argued against converting a Hundreds of medical workers also ward in her hospital for coronavirus LONDON — Britain’s health secretary said on Scotland’s chief medical officer last month for have gotten infected. patients because of severe shortages Wednesday that national lockdown rules were twice travelling from Edinburgh to her second Dr. Alexander Shulepov, who of protective equipment and trained “for everyone,” after one of the Government’s home. works on an ambulance crew in the personnel, but she failed to sway the key scientific advisers quit for receiving secret As one of the founders of the MRC Centre Voronezh region, 500 kilometres south officials. visits from his girlfriend amid the coronavirus for Global Disease Analysis at Imperial College of Moscow, fell from a second-floor Krasnoyarsk health officials denied pandemic. London, Ferguson’s work has been instrumental window on May 2 at a hospital where such a call took place. Imperial College epidemiologist Neil Ferguson in shaping public health responses to outbreaks he was being treated for Covid-19, Nepomnyashchaya died on May 1 in developed models that predicted hundreds of including swine flu, Ebola and Zika. Ferguson breaking several ribs and fracturing intensive care. thousands would die unless the UK imposed has long advised authorities including the World his skull. On April 24, Dr. Natalya Levedeva drastic restrictions to slow the spread of the Health Organisation and national governments in In a video posted on social media sustained fatal injuries after falling coronavirus. His advice was key in triggering Britain, Europe and the US. by his colleague, Alexander Kosyakin, out of a window in a hospital in Britain’s lockdown in March. Under the rules, On March 16, Ferguson and colleagues both complained about shortages of Moscow, where she was admitted with people are barred from visiting friends and family published a paper suggesting that even with protective gear. suspected Covid-19. that they don’t live with. some social-distancing measures, the UK could In the video, the 37-year-old Levedeva died immediately after the Ferguson quit the Government’s scientific see 250,000 virus-related deaths and the United Shulepov said he was being forced to fall, which health officials said was an advisory panel late on Tuesday after the Daily States a death toll of about 1 million. Ferguson finish his shift despite being diagnosed accident. Some media reports, however, Telegraph newspaper reported that a woman he predicted those figures could more than double with Covid-19. suggested she was distraught after is in a relationship with had crossed London to in both countries in a worst-case scenario. But later, local health officials being accused of failing to protect her visit him at his home. The following day, Prime Minister Boris shared another video of Shulepov on staff from getting infected and had Ferguson said in a statement that he had Johnson advised Britons to work from home, social media in which he retracted his killed herself because of it. “made an error of judgement and took the wrong if possible, and to avoid unnecessary social earlier complaints, saying he was being There is no official data on how course of action.” gatherings. emotional. many Russian health workers have “I deeply regret any undermining of the clear A nationwide lockdown followed on March 23. Kosyakin was accused of spreading died working on the front-lines of messages around the continued need for social- Despite strict restrictions on public activity and false news about the shortages the pandemic and Russia’s Health distancing to control this devastating epidemic,” business, Britain officially has recorded 30,076 after posting the video and is under Ministry did not respond to AP’s he said. deaths among people confirmed to have the investigation. He refused to comment numerous requests for comment. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Ferguson virus, the highest toll in Europe. to The Associated Press. Last week, a group of Russian was “a very eminent and impressive scientist,” The number of hospitalisations and deaths It is unclear what caused Shulepov’s doctors compiled an online Memory but “took the right decision to resign.” reported daily is now falling, and the government fall. Some local media reports said he List of doctors, nurses and other He told Sky News that the social-distancing is preparing to ease the curbs on economic and slipped while trying to climb from his medical personnel who died during the rules “are there for everyone, they are incredibly social life starting next week. Johnson plans to window for a smoke outside, while outbreak. The list currently has 111 important and they are deadly serious. They are set out a road map on Sunday. others suggested it was due to the names. the means by which we have managed to get Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick pressure for airing his complaints in Authorities have decided to reopen control of this virus.” said new measures would focus on giving public. all industrial plants and construction Ferguson has become a well-known figure people “confidence to return to work and to A doctor died from injuries she sites in Moscow starting next week, in Britain, making frequent media appearances return to public spaces and public transport” sustained in an April 25 fall in the city citing a stable rate of new cases. during the outbreak. On March 18, he tweeted while maintaining social-distancing. But the of Krasnoyarsk in western Siberia. President Vladimir Putin said on that he had a fever and cough, symptoms of government said any relaxation would be gradual Dr. Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, acting Wednesday it will be up to officials in Covid-19, and that there was a small risk he had to prevent a second spike in coronavirus cases. head of a hospital, fell from her fifth- other regions to determine whether infected others. “This is not going to be a case of flicking a floor office window right after she had to ease lockdown measures that have Ferguson is the second scientific adviser in switch,” Johnson spokesman James Slack said. a conference call with regional health been in place since the end of March. the UK to quit after failing to follow their own “People will have to prepare for a different type of officials, local media reported, citing — AP

advice. Catherine Calderwood resigned as normal.” — AP ‘

32139-01 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 WORLD 15 Water ‘from thin air’ for Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Georgian- thousands of people. The company has Israeli billionaire believes he has found a also developed a new consumer version solution to the Gaza Strip’s chronic water for home use. crisis. Watergen’s technology was initially Michael Mirilashvili wants to deliver developed for military use in 2009, but hundreds of generators that produce it shifted gears to civilian markets after drinking water out of thin air. His Mirilashvili bought the company in 2017. company, Watergen, sent a machine to Even the billionaire has had to wrestle a Gaza hospital last week in a rare case with Israel’s military bureaucracy, of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in the which tightly controls access to Gaza. Hamas-ruled enclave. Mirilashvili said that it took him over Gaza’s water situation is dire. Since a year to receive permission to transfer the 2007 Hamas takeover of the crowded the first Watergen machine to Gaza. It Palestinian territory, Gaza’s 2 million was delivered to a southern town last people have endured a crippling border December for a separate project. blockade by Israel and Egypt that froze Israel said the blockade is needed virtually all trade and most travel. to prevent Hamas from arming, and it The 13-year-old lockdown, along with closely inspects all incoming cargo to three Israel-Hamas wars, has produced make sure it is not used for military chronic power cuts and damaged Gaza’s purposes. infrastructure, contributing to water After winning swift permission for the contamination. hospital project, Mirilashvili believes the Electricity shortages prevent proper procedure will now get easier and that he sewage treatment, forcing the strip to could deliver enough water generators to spew over 100,000 cubic metres of poorly meet the territory’s daily drinking water treated sewage into the Mediterranean WATER CRISIS: Michael Mirilashvili’s company, Watergen, plans to deliver hundreds needs within a year. The generators can each day, according to UN estimates. of generators that produce drinking water out of thin air to the Gaza Strip. He has cost tens of thousands of dollars apiece. Gaza relies on an aquifer as its main already delivered two of the machines to Gaza in a rare case of Israeli-Palestinian Watergen, which donated the new source of potable water. But over- cooperation in the Hamas-ruled enclave. AP picture machine to the hospital, said it is extraction has allowed sea water to seep prepared to sell additional devices to in, rendering 97 percent of the area’s Most of Gaza’s households buy water the Watergen machine “very important” Gaza at a “substantial discount.” water undrinkable. from private vendors who desalinate for the hospital, she said. COGAT, the Israeli defence body In an interview with The Associated water at small-scale stations. But experts The Watergen device runs on electricity. responsible for Palestinian civilian Press, Mirilashvili said he wants to send warn this water is impure. UNICEF But because of frequent power outages, affairs, said it coordinated the entry of more water generators to Gaza “because estimates two-thirds of this water is the machine will soon be connected to the machine to Gaza. “We will continue they are our neighbours and it’s a great already contaminated by the time it is solar panels. In the winter, the device working around the clock to prevent the pity to look at them suffering from such delivered. can be hooked up to conventional power humanitarian conditions in the Gaza severe water shortages”. The children undergoing cancer supplies. Strip from further deteriorating,” said He spoke days after one of his treatment at the Gaza hospital need Functioning like a dehumidifier, the Colonel Iyad Sarhan, a commander for machines was installed on the roof of the clean food and water because their machine extracts moisture from the air Gaza affairs. Al-Rantisi Medical Centre in Gaza City. immune system has been compromised, and converts it into drinking water. The Watergen has deployed its machines Just a day after delivery, the generator, said Nima Ashour of the Palestine machine sent to the Gaza hospital is a in over 60 countries, both developing a large blue cube roughly the size of a Children’s Relief Fund, a US-based medium-sized model and generates about countries lacking water infrastructure, vending machine, began producing cold, charity that runs the paediatric 800 litres a day. such as India and Uzbekistan, and in clean water for the hospital’s paediatric department. Watergen said its largest generators areas of developed countries suffering cancer ward. The dire shortage of clean water makes can provide clean drinking water to from drought, such as California. — AP

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POSITIONS: And this rapid movement has required Using data from more frequent updates to navigation systems, satellites that have including those that operate the mapping measured the functions in smartphones. evolving shape of A team, led from Leeds University, says the Earth’s magnetic behaviour is explained by the competition of two field over the magnetic “blobs” on the edge of the Earth’s outer past 20 years, Dr core. Livermore and HONOURING Changes in the flow of molten material in the colleagues have planet’s interior have altered the strength of the attempted to FRONT-LINE above regions of negative magnetic flux. model the North “This change in the pattern of flow has Magnetic Pole’s HEROES: Better Place weakened the patch under Canada and ever so wanderings. Forests, the company that built slightly increased the strength of the patch under Picture supplied America’s first conservation memorial Siberia,” explained Dr Phil Livermore. forests, is announcing an initiative to “This is why the North Pole has left its historic support the nation’s fallen front-line position over the Canadian Arctic and crossed heroes in the over the International Date Line. Northern Russia Covid-19 pandemic by offering up is winning the ‘tug of war’, if you like” he told to $1 million worth of protected BBC News. Using data from satellites that have measured “There’s also a timing issue. The jet memorial trees. As the US recognises Earth has three poles at the top of the the evolving shape of Earth’s magnetic field over acceleration occurs in the 2000s, whereas the National Nurses Week (May 6-12), planet. A geographic pole which is where the the past 20 years, Dr Livermore and colleagues pole acceleration begins in the 1990s.” National Police Week (May 10-16) planet’s rotation axis intersects the surface. The have attempted to model the North Magnetic The team’s latest modelling indicates the pole and Emergency Medical Services geomagnetic pole is the location which best fits a Pole’s wanderings. will continue to move towards Russia but will in Week (May 17-23), the company is classic dipole (its position alters little). And then Two years ago when they first presented time begin to slow. At top speed, it’s been making giving memorial trees at no charge there is the North Magnetic, or dip, Pole, which is their ideas at the American Geophysical Union 50-60km a year. “Whether or not it will move back to front-line workers who’ve paid the where field lines are perpendicular to the surface. meeting in Washington DC, they suggested again in the future is anyone’s guess,” the Leeds ultimate sacrifice in the battle against It is this third pole that has been doing all the there might be a connection with a westward- scientist told BBC News. Covid-19 this year. Named “Memorial movement. accelerating jet of molten material in the outer The pole’s recent race across the top of the Trees for Heroes”, this commitment When first identified by explorer James Clark core. But the models were a complex fit and the world prompted the US National Geophysical aims to provide healthcare providers, Ross in the 1830s, it was in Canada’s Nunavut team has now revised its assessment to align Data Centre and the British Geological Survey hospital employees, caregivers and territory. with a different flow regime. to issue an early update to the World Magnetic first responders the legacy they Back then it didn’t wander very far, very fast. “The jet is tied to quite high northern latitudes Model last year. This model is a representation deserve for their sacrifice and to But in the 1990s, it took off, racing to ever higher and the alteration in the flow in the outer of Earth’s magnetic field across the entire globe. help ease financial burden on their latitudes and passing by the geographic pole core that’s responsible for the change in the It is incorporated into all navigation devices, families. AP picture in 2018. The separation was just a few hundred position of the pole is actually further south,” Dr including modern smartphones, to correct for kilometres. Livermore said. any local compass errors. — BBC

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26 MAGIC SQUARE Across: Across: Down 7X7 SNAKES & LADDERS FIERCE, EMERGE, SWERVE, STEREO, CHERRY, ENERGY. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 17 Brain training - keeping your mind active SIMON SHUKER’S CODE-CRACKER WORDFIT Each number in the grid represents a diferent letter of the alphabet. Can you find all the words into the grid? Enter the letter or letters given in the control grid into the main grid, We’ve given one to get you star ted. then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you get the letters, ill in other squares with 3 LETTERS EDAM EASEL the same number in the main grid and control grid. ACT LESS ERODE Check letters of the A to Z list at the bottom as you identify them. 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The global tech giant Forced to close during lockdown, announced yesterday that they face an uncertain future with it would establish its first travel restrictions, no revenue from datacentre region in New international acts and a public Zealand. anxious about gathering in large In a statement, Microsoft groups. said the New Zealand Promoter and booking agent, datacentre region would Reuben Bonner, said the venues be the latest addition to its scraped through at the best of times, global datacentre footprint. but the Covid-19 lockdown had them It has 60 datacentre regions in deep trouble. “A lot of them are worldwide with its Microsoft just hanging by a thread and don’t Azure cloud service, which know if they are going to make it is available in 140-plus through, so it is a scary time. countries. “People have lots of operational “With the development of overheads which are freaky, there’s this new datacentre region, rent and looking after their staff Microsoft aims to fuel new and all those kinds of things,” he growth that will accelerate said. digital-transformation Mr Bonner said post-lockdown, it opportunities across New BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM GLOBAL TECH GIANT: Microsoft said yesterday it would would take time to re-book cancelled Zealand,” the statement said. establish its first datacentre region for cloud services in New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda acts. Punters might also stay away, Ardern said she welcomed the announcement. AFP picture hesitant about being around large groups of people, he said. International services. “This means job In yesterday afternoon’s He is part of the Boosted companies‘ like The company said it would opportunities in the Covid-19 briefing, Ardern said LIVE presents Save Our Venues also continue its investments near-term future for our it was a welcome development campaign, getting people to kick in Microsoft wouldn’t in new solutions that support construction industry and, in and signals to the world and help venues nationwide through be investing here if both New Zealand and the longer term, for our ICT that “New Zealand is open the dark times to come. they didn’t have full Microsoft’s sustainability industry and local innovators. for business and quality It has already raised more goals. This also serves as a investment”. than $150,000 of their $500,000 confidence in the NZ It would also add support signal to the world that New She said it would be subject goal, with the campaign for the economy for educational upskilling Zealand is open for business to usual regulatory process, Wine Cellar and Whammy Bar in —PM’ Jacinda Ardern programmes to increase and quality investment,” he but showed New Zealand Auckland hitting the $50,000 target future employment said. as having a “safe-haven” in just eight hours. opportunities for New “The decision by Microsoft advantage. If the smaller venues did fold, it Microsoft is already used Zealanders, the company said. means that the Government, “International companies would prevent talent from going on by a number of large-scale In a statement yesterday and New Zealand businesses like Microsoft wouldn’t be to bigger things, Mr Bonner said. corporations in New Zealand, afternoon, Digital Services and people, will be able to investing here if they didn’t “If the small venues fall away at including the country’s minister Kris Faafoi said access the scale and security have full confidence in the NZ the bottom, then artists don’t have largest — Fonterra — as the Government’s quick and of Cloud services offered by economy.” places to play, we don’t have places well as telecommunications decisive action in responding a major global provider in Microsoft’s plan is subject to nourish all this exciting talent company Spark, for their to Covid-19 was being ways we haven’t been able to to approval from the Overseas that comes up and then goes on to digital cloud and security recognised globally. before.” Investment Office. — RNZ play at the Powerstation venue and the town halls.” “They give us spaces to play when we are just starting out, and give us Car with baby inside it stolen from petrol station places to experiment with our band mates and try new material . . . and learn how to perform.” WHANGAREI — A horrifying ordeal unfolded located safe and well inside the vehicle,” the who came over here didn’t know what to do. Ziggy Ziya, who co-owns the San in Whangarei yesterday morning when a man spokesperson says. “I was actually in shock, I couldn’t believe it Fran venue in Wellington, said with stole a car — with a baby inside it — from a “Ambulance staff have assessed the baby had happened right next door to our store and the borders closed, the hardest thing petrol station. as a precaution. Her mother is understandably I didn’t know what to believe but I was really would be trying to get by without Luckily, police found the vehicle in nearby shaken by the incident.” upset for the woman with the child.” the revenue from international acts. Kensington a short time later with the baby Hannah Dunn was working at Liquor King Ms Dunn said she hoped the mother was But he was also looking on the safe and well. next to the petrol station when the incident okay. bright side — as a great chance At about 11.35am yesterday, the driver exited happened, saying she was shocked when she “I hope the mother is alright, you know what for bigger New Zealand bands who the car at a petrol station on Maunu Road found out. I mean? It must be pretty intense for her to go did not tour the country often to before a man got in and drove off with the child “We had a customer come over and he told through that situation with the child still being get back out there and perform on still inside, a police spokesperson says. us there was a bit of drama going on at the BP in the car.” stages across the country. Soon afterwards, the police located the car in and we didn’t actually realise it was a male on a Police were continuing to conduct enquiries Singer Holly Fullbrook said it was the Kensington area, where the man had pulled bicycle who had stolen somebody’s car with a in the area to try to locate the offender crucial those small-town venues over and fled on foot. child inside. yesterday afternoon. stayed open, so they could cater to “Thankfully the young baby has been “It was a bit intense for us because the guy — Newshub. an audience starved of live music. “They’re real community spaces,” she said. Jessie Shanks owns and manages the Cassels Blue Smoke venue in Notices sent to fast food outlets over Level 3 breaches Christchurch, and is looking to raise $20,000 through the Save our by Jordan Bond, RNZ 80 fast-food outlets this week, between workers was being the social-distancing requirements Venues campaign. unannounced, to review Covid-19 breached thousands of times a day inside stores.” The campaign had been positive WELLINGTON — Workplace compliance, including McDonald’s, in some fast-food outlets. Under the Health and Safety — and not just as a way to raise regulator WorkSafe has issued KFC, Burger King, Wendy’s, Burger “Of course this is happening at Work Act the companies have money, she said. 11 written notices to fast-food Fuel and Carl’s Jr. inside closed restaurants, so we a legal obligation to keep their If smaller venues started going companies, asking them to ensure The 11 written notices issued don’t see photos in the media,” Mr employees safe, he said. under, it would be harder for bands physical distancing and hygiene were related to inappropriate Hehir said. McDonald’s spokesperson Simon to pull together a profitable tour, requirements under Alert Level 3. physical distancing of staff and “Workers are not allowed to Kenny said “the number one priority which put other venues further in It comes after Unite Union people picking up orders, and other have their phones with them while in reopening our restaurants” was jeopardy. claimed some fast-food restaurants measures not being adhered to, for working and can be threatened staff and customer safety. That realisation had drawn the were breaching the distancing example sanitising eftpos machines. with disciplinary action if they He said stores have acted on small and medium-sized music requirements with every single WorkSafe declined to say which do. Workers have told us they are suggestions for improvements. venues together to support each drive-through order, saying companies had been issued notices. scared of repercussions if they use “Further enhancements to service other, Ms Shanks said. customers were being served by The health and safety concerns their phones to gather evidence. procedures have been implemented “We are becoming basically a employees within two metres and raised must be addressed within a “However, there are cameras in since reopening as we analyse, collective and we can share our without effective barriers between certain time frame, it said. those stores recording 24/7 and listen, learn and act. ideas and our resources and really them. Unite Union national secretary, Unite wants WorkSafe Inspectors Burger King and KFC have been find ways to support each other.” WorkSafe representatives visited Gerard Hehir, said the 1m rule to use them to monitor and enforce contacted for comment. n the first day of the New played like that.” Zealand music month of As the youngest in a family OMay, Gisborne five-piece, of musicians, Tarawa would get Supreme Brother Sound, launched kicked out of the room during their debut single, Motives. The practice but would go to the side soul, funk, R&B sound of the track of the house where he could hear harks back to smooth grooves of them, and play his guitar. It was artists such as Otis Redding, and through this practice that he Diana Ross and The Supremes. developed his own style, he said. “I wrote this song 17 to 18 years “I also listen to a lot of people ago,” said lead guitarist Josh Te who are different.” Kahu. Among those different people “It was about my love for a are American jazz guitarist THIS guitar but I turned the guitar Stanley Jordan, whose technique into the form of a relationship. involves tapping his fingers on the The song is about being shy; the fretboard of the guitar with both acceptance of a relationship, and hands, and American jazz duo, coming out of being shy.” Tuck & Patti. Leaving the song on the back- “Everyone in Supreme Brother burner for close to two decades Sound is on their own spectrum in IS THE was a blessing in disguise, said the age groups too,” says Tarawa. band’s singer Philly Tarawa. “The variety has shone through “Josh’s song was around for 17 in our band. We’re quite diverse.” years, but just now people are After recording Motives, the starting to get back into that kind band had planned to go back to the of music.” studio to record songs for an album The single’s tune and beats, and but the lockdown put those plans SUPREME the band’s name, draws on that on the backburner — for now. golden age of funk/soul/R&B, but Meanwhile, Supreme Brother each member of Supreme Brother Sound is a band with a shared Sound comes from a different vision. Top acts have come out of musical background. other centres, says Te Kahu. Cornz Houkamau was originally Katchafire are from Hamilton, a heavy metal drummer; bass Kora, and LAB, from the Bay of BROTHER guitarist Lawrence Rangi loves Plenty, and Tomorrow’s People are “anything with a groove”, while based in Wellington. The Supreme Tarawa has his roots in vintage Brother Sound brothers feel their reggae and R&B, said Te Kahu. band can make its mark as well. “So we’ve got two rock heads, “I always had this thing in me an old school keyboard player and for a powerhouse band to come out Josh’s guitar feels in the band. I of this region,” said Te Kahu. SOUND tend to lean towards jazz in the “I want the same thing for the vein of George Benson.” East Coast.” MOTIVATED: Made up of Phillip Tarawa (left, with baby Kaharau-Kawakawa Tarawa has always been Tarawa), Josh Te Kahu, Guy Aupouri (third right), Lawrence Rangi, Cornz different when it comes to music, ■ Get down with Gisborne five- Houkamau, and joined by sound audio engineer Evan Pope (centre), said the band’s guitarist. piece Supreme Brother Sound’s Gisborne band Supreme Brother Sound has released its debut single, “I play bass, rhythm and lead single, Motives, on Soundcloud Motives, a song driven by a funk/soul/R&B sound. Picture supplied all in the same motion. I’ve always at https://tinyurl.com/ybh56hx8 20 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 Bitter Cold Night Virus whistleblower tribute marks the start of NZ Music Month by Mark Peters global emergency. Gao Ping had been based in his Gisborne audience heard live for hometown of Chengdu, China, for more the first time last year pianist than three months since the Covid-19 ATony Chen Lin perform Daydream, outbreak. a piano suite Lin had commissioned “On the sixth of February, like most Chinese-New Zealand composer Gao Ping other Chinese people, I was glued to my to write. hand-phone, keeping up with the news PANDEMIC RESPONSE: Coinciding with the launch of New Zealand Music Month Coinciding with the launch on Friday of of Dr Li Wenliang, in Wuhan, who was was a SOUNZ film streamed on YouTube of two New Zealand musicians’ performance NZ Music Month, was the New Zealand struggling for his life,” said the composer in of Chinese-New Zealand composer Gao Ping’s new work, Bitter Cold Night, a tribute premiere of a recording of a new work his video. to Covid-19 whistleblower, Dr Li Wenliang. Picture by Fang Xiang by Gao Ping. A duet for piano and violin, Dr Li Wenliang was one of the first to Ping’s Bitter Cold Night is a tribute to Dr warn people of the virus and one of the Li Wenliang, the whistleblower of first to die of it. journal, writes RNZ concert presenter, Eva number of people used to dance in groups Covid-19 and one of the first victims of the “The news that night kept me awake Radich: “. . . moving but with pauses and every evening. For a long time in the past virus. and very unsettled and very sad; angry hesitation, as if searching for an answer, months, it was deserted, a depressing sight. On December 30, Li Wenliang sent and confused but also inspired in a very the music travels with difficulty . . . long I felt very sorry, although the music from a message to a group of fellow doctors powerful way because to know such a melody . . . restraint, solitary, chilly, and the loudspeakers used to annoy me too. warning them about a possible outbreak person is there is a strength, a comfort, for calm.” “Just the other day, I passed by there of an illness that resembled severe acute us to do something.” The work is in memory of the doctor, said again, and was nearly moved to tears by respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan The next day, he decided to document the Gao Ping. the return of the dancers, rejoicing in their where he worked, reports The Lancet. feeling of that night in sound and began “I am well aware that, during this rhythmic movements, all wearing masks!” “I realised it was out of my control and composing Bitter Cold Night. difficult period, a thousand pieces of music We made a day trip to the countryside, I would probably be punished,” said the “On that same day, the seventh of may not be worth even a single face mask. a beautiful day, and indeed the sun shined doctor when he saw his message had been February, there was a photo online in Perhaps, a time long in the future, when on us.” shared. China, passed around like crazy, and a the music starts to play, some of us will Days later, he was summoned to the very beautiful image of someone writing in remember that extraordinary night of ■ The SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Public Security Bureau in Wuhan and huge Chinese characters on a snow covered February 6, 2020.” Music worked remotely with violinist made to sign a statement in which he was riverbank, the words ‘Farewell to Dr Li Gao Ping said life in Chengdu had been Amalia Hall and pianist Stephen De accused of making false statements that Wenliang,” said Gao Ping. very quiet for three months but in the last Pledge who performed the work in their disturbed the public order. “And it was so beautiful . . . I thought few weeks people started going outside respective homes. Their performance Dr Li Wenliang died seven days after that is exactly what I am doing in music again, but were taking personal protection of Bitter Cold Night can be viewed on the World Health Organisation declared for him.” very seriously, reports Radich. YouTube via this shortcut, https://tinyurl. on January 30 that the coronavirus was a Gao Ping made these notes in his “I live near a plaza where a great com/ycb7suqe

BUSY AS, BRO: Actor Michael Hollis fields a call from Jeff Rangihuna who wants to visit for a heart-felt chat in Cowps Productions’ VF48Hours: Lockdown filmmaking challenge entry. Picture supplied

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by Mark Peters “The central conceit it shares among warning that the competition was on. all types of film is that there will Registrations flooded in over iven New Zealanders were always be a guest who in some shape or those three days and by the time confined to their respective form is not welcome.” registrations closed, a total of 2118 Gbubbles during the Well, yes, given we are in lockdown. teams were registered — a record Covid-19 Alert Level 4 response, Starring Jeff Rangihuna, Michael number. the online VF48Hours: Lockdown Hollis and Suzan Anderson, The Judges were Peter Jackson, Edgar filmmaking challenge’s theme was both Unwanted Guest tells the story of loss, Wright, Ellen Wong, Elijah Wood, apt and particularly challenging. the need to share and a wrong address Cliff Curtis, Chelsea Winstanley, But Gisborne team Cowps within three minutes. Jennifer Ward-Lealand Te Atamira, Productions not only embraced the “Jeff has an old friend who passed Tom Sainsbury, Karyn Rachtman, Rick “unwanted guest” theme, they used it away,” says the film’s editor Ben Kalowski, Mette-Marie Kongsved, for the title of their short film. Cowper. Karyn Kiyoko Kusama, Adam Wingard Along with the theme, also announced “He has a picture of him and wants and Annick Mahnert. on Friday April 17, were other elements to talk about his mate and the picture. The grand champion will be awarded that had to be incorporated into all Jeff wants to hang out with Michael but the top cash prize of $5000, from a total participants’ films. These were an arc Michael wouldn’t let him in. cash prize pool of $10,000. shot, in which the subject is typically “Then Jeff realises he’s at the wrong The top films in VF48Hours: still and the camera tracks around the house — he’s at Suzan’s house and Lockdown, will be screened and subject; the sound effect of an echo, she’s in the shower — and he runs streamed in a one-hour best-of and a photograph. Genres included away.” television special on TV2 tomorrow adventure, horror, whodunnit, science Rangihuna and Anderson sent at 9.30pm. A special repeat screening fiction, and urban fantasy. footage of the action shot on their will be held on Duke TV at 9.30pm on The theme for Cowps Productions’ cellphones inside their respective Saturday.

2538-01 film, The Unwanted Guest, is described bubbles to Cowper who edited the In the lead up to the finals, Spinoff by organisers as a sub-genre that action into a narrative. has been screening a selection of seven tonally could cover a range from broad Teams had one weekend to make films, including some behind the scenes comedy through to a psychological their films without leaving their material and the filmmaking teams thriller. bubbles, and were given only three days behind them. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 21 NZ Music Month’s 20th Banksy anniversary kicks off unveils ow in its 20th year — and its first Nin lockdown — art under this year’s theme for New Zealand Music Month is support local, stream local, lockdown follow local and buy local. “This is a time to feel nonymous England- proud of our musicians and based street artist music industry as we find ABanksy unveiled his new our feet again and make masterpiece on social media as plans for the future,” said he “works from home” during the NZ Music Month’s Rodney Covid-19 pandemic. Fisher. Records. The mysterious artist, who Thirty years — almost Artists are asked to remains unknown to the public, twice as long ago as Supreme submit two original tracks has shared a rare insight into his Brother Sound guitarist (A-side and B-side) and life at home during lockdown as Josh Te Kahu wrote his song some background about he posted a series of photos of his Motives — have passed since themselves and their new artwork on Instagram. a 7-inch vinyl record was submissions. The photos feature Banksy’s pressed in New Zealand. Mike Chunn (Split Enz, bathroom with infamous sketches To mark the moment, Play It Strange), Charlotte of rats getting up to mischief. Holiday Records are Ryan (Radio New Zealand), The artist captioned the post: offering an opportunity for Rodney Fisher (Goodshirt, “My wife hates it when I work an aspiring artist to have New Zealand Music from home.” their music pressed as New Commission) and Jonny The rats can be seen hanging Zealand’s first 7-inch since Vahry (95bFM) will make the on hand-towel holders, squirting 1987. panel of judges. toothpaste, running on toilet MASTERPIECE: Entries are open until The winner will be paper, squirting soap and using The mysterious artist Banksy, who remains Wednesday May 31, and the announced via social media the toilet. unknown to the public, has shared a rare insight into his life at home prize includes recording time channels and to the artist One can even be seen marking during the lockdown. Picture supplied and mixing from Roundhead directly. down the days in lockdown with Studios, vinyl mastering red lipstick in the reflection on house,” one person commented. and “Our Time Will Come”, to from Munki Studios, ■ More information is the mirror. Meanwhile, another person show a message that graffiti will artworks and creative available on Holiday Fans were stoked that added: “We’ll try not to rat you constantly reappear, just like the services from Sunday Best Records’ website at the artist shared his new out.” rodents. and 300 records pressed https://tinyurl.com/ masterpiece. Banksy has painted rats in the The rat imagery was inspired and packaged by Holiday y9okmq9z “Just made your restroom past across England with phrases by French graffiti artist Blek le worth more than your whole such as “Because I’m Worthless” Rat. — NZ Herald

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SHOWTIME: To help keep the Gisborne community theatre flame alive, Evolution Theatre Company is staging a 48-Hour Virtual Play Festival. Registrations for the festival close tonight, and at 7pm, entrants will be given the theme, prop and text that they must work with. Costumes and props must be comprised of items found on team members’ premises. Teams are to be made up of a minimum of four members — two actors, one writer, one director. A fifth member can join to deal with technical challenges. The rules of Alert Level 3 isolation must be adhered to. Teams need to have registered by emailing [email protected] no later than 7pm tonight. The play festival kicks off at 7pm tomorrow and all plays will be performed on Zoom on Sunday 7pm. The mini productions will be recorded by the Evolution Theatre Company for publication on social media. The recordings will be uploaded to the theatre’s YouTube channel which is when voting MATT HEATH begins. The challenge will be judged by popular vote from the online audience who will use a Google form prepared for the event. JEREMY WELLS This event does not replace the full play festival which is scheduled for August. 6AM - 10AM WEEKDAYS

■ For more information, visit the Evolution Theatre Company website at https://tinyurl.com/yd7hojqm 22 CLASSIFIEDS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020

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Christchurch greys at Addington Friday Jetbet 3 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 Amber Cleaning Services 12.17 7 7456 Adobe Girl nwtd Matt Roberts 2 87755 Homebush Finn 17.21 John McInerney 2 66451 Joe Bonanza 30.39 John McInerney Race 1: MISS JUNE, MINE HUNTER, OPAWA NASH 8 855 Angry Jane nwtd Matt Roberts 3 77384 Eternal Debt 17.29 Garry Cleeve 3 43422 Orina Allen 30.44 Craig Roberts $1365, C0, 295m EMERGENCIES: 4 7321s Second Summer 17.46 Alison Lee Race 2: OPAWA STUBBORN, CULVIE NUMB BOY, 4 11324 Viking Mafia 30.44 J & D Fahey 1 Opawa Stubborn nwtd John McInerney 9 85F58 Cancun nwtd Norman Wanhalla 5 54258 Smash Calling 17.34 Malcolm Grant ROCCO JEWEL 5 4677s Know Threat 30.21 Garry Cleeve 2 85822 Culvie Numb Boy nwtd Hart & Taylor 10 888 Lady Sobers nwtd John McInerney 6 11235 Tucker nwtd Daniel Lane 6 67224 Mr Blackjack 30.16 J & D Fahey Race 3: MITCHAM BOULT, SPEEDY BOSS, SMASH SURPRISE 3 2428s Marakesh Max nwtd John McInerney 7 F6138 Impressive High 17.88 John McInerney 7 61165 Goldstar Truman 30.54 S & B Evans Race 4: OPAWA DONAL, GOLDSTAR DARWIN, 5 Christchurch Casino Sprint 1.09 4 3 Rocco Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts 8 44855 Dyna Elliot 17.31 Craig Roberts 8 62765 Goldstar Spook 30.48 S & B Evans OHOKA MEGAN $1685, C2, 295m 5 4624F Cool Hand Lester nwtd Sharon Hindson EMERGENCIES: 6 5 Dorothy Be Good nwtd Bruce Dann 8 Kaisa Earthworks 0272073323 2.04 Race 5: ABSENT, COSMIC JASE, HOMEBUSH BODEN 1 s5266 Would My Friend 17.42 Alison Lee 9 45542 Dyna Monty 29.94 Craig Roberts 7 Honey Lantree nwtd Calum Weir Race 6: MISS ADOBE, OPAWA JADE, ADELPHI 2 64663 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney $1685, C2, 295m 10 16326 Macadoodle 30.55 J & D Fahey Race 7: SECOND SUMMER, TUCKER, REGAL JOCK 8 63465 Mulberry Tip nwtd Ken Cassidy 3 52654 Two Be Frank 17.24 Bruce Dann EMERGENCIES: 1 2323s Ezra Blueblood 17.31 John McInerney Race 8: EZRA BLUEBLOOD, DREAM RUNNER, 4 87133 Homebush Boden 17.44 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Reado 17.24 John McInerney 4 45714 Know Logic 17.21 Garry Cleeve 2 24382 Prince Zulu 17.31 Lisa Waretini $2390, C0, 520m 5 17678 Homebush Zack 17.99 John McInerney 3 86477 Homebush Tesan 17.28 John McInerney 1 8s Opawa Nova nwtd Robin Wales 9 Casswoods For Carpet & Mats 2.20 6 73561 Lakota Tonka 17.52 Heather Cairns 1 The Fitz Sports Bar Sprint 12.01 4 16688 Lakota Kohana nwtd Heather Cairns 2 2762 Miss Adobe nwtd Matt Roberts $1685, C2, 295m 7 F2826 Goldstar Flora 17.42 S & B Evans 5 17171 Gotcha Popeye 17.49 Calum Weir 3 67s Opawa Dawn nwtd Robin Wales 8 45144 Opa’s Joy 17.33 Ray Casey $1365, C0, 295m 6 62585 Homebush Aimee 17.31 John McInerney 4 8 Opawa Rowdy nwtd Robin Wales 1 24632 Opa’s Dream 17.52 Ray Casey 7 26131 Mitcham Boult 17.56 John McInerney 2 75777 Fickle Mistress 17.36 Hart & Taylor 1 65853 Mitcham Queen nwtd John McInerney 5 4435 Adelphi nwtd J M McCook 12 Protexin Sprint 3.14 8 13311 Speedy Boss 17.05 J & D Fahey 6 s5867 Princess Romaine nwtd Sharon Hindson 3 53666 Goldstar Spotty 17.25 S & B Evans 2 36336 Making News nwtd Bruce Dann 4 53553 Pontiac Pat 17.35 John McInerney $1685, C2, 295m 3 62533 Miss June nwtd John McInerney 7 86354 Goldstar Aria nwtd S & B Evans 4 Suck It Up Ltd Stakes 12.52 8 3 Opawa Jade nwtd Robin Wales 5 15433 Elite Blueblood 17.63 John McInerney 1 88636 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S & B Evans 4 35335 Opawa Nash nwtd John Rush 6 62162 Homebush Rehaina nwtd John McInerney 5 25626 Impressive Mood nwtd John McInerney $2390, C0, 520m EMERGENCIES: 2 58723 Sonja 17.28 Daniel Lane 9 85F58 Cancun nwtd Norman Wanhalla 7 12134 Starburst George 17.35 Malcolm Grant 6 42422 Sneaky Snitch nwtd Hart & Taylor 3 13855 Jealous Affair 17.47 Lisa Waretini 1 45F7s Ohoka Megan nwtd Lisa Waretini 10 678s6 Mitcham Treasure nwtd John McInerney 8 5777s Punters Last 17.41 Robin Wales 7 2 Mine Hunter nwtd J M McCook 2 Opawa Donal nwtd Robin Wales 4 68382 Punch On Scooby 17.77 John McInerney 8 42 Fast Angel nwtd Calum Weir 3 4333F Goldstar Darwin nwtd S & B Evans 7 Flair Dash 1.44 10 Shirley Vet Clinic Stakes 2.39 5 44832 Homebush Sayer 17.54 John McInerney EMERGENCIES: 4 64F58 Opawa Rod nwtd Robin Wales 6 82667 Maffra Daisy 17.22 John McInerney $2860, C2, 520m 9 6734 Horse Range nwtd Malcolm Grant 5 6564s Opawa Hannah nwtd Robin Wales $1685, C2, 295m 7 8878F Epic Rose 17.50 J M McCook 10 34447 Slippery Suzie nwtd S & B Evans 6 46s Tom Fox nwtd J M McCook 1 27244 Regal Jock nwtd John McInerney 1 43s63 Opawa Mason 30.29 Robin Wales 8 18131 Penny Jane 17.37 Hart & Taylor

Whanganui greys at Hatrick Raceway Friday Jetbet 9 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 72341 Zara Daiken 17.93 Nathan Udy 5 Accell Canine Therapy 5.18 7 6147F Bees And Birds 17.68 Lisa Cole 2 25835 Bigtime Tank 30.16 Lisa Cole Race 1: LUCY LINGERS, ALLEGRO KYLE, LIFE IS GOOD 3 68361 I’ll Be Loyal 18.05 Bill Hodgson 8 37636 Billy’s Churn 17.95 Glen Hodgson 3 51115 Silent Dismissal 30.31 Angela Turnwald 4 77451 Paris End 17.66 Lisa Cole $2860, C1/2, 520m EMERGENCIES: 4 37564 Big Time Spot 30.82 Lisa Cole Race 2: ZARA DAIKEN, BIG TIME BABY, SUMMER GLEE 5 58232 Summer Glee 17.66 John McInerney 1 56578 Big Time Gina 30.75 Lisa Cole 9 28557 Big Time Flash 17.60 G & S Fredrickson 5 13531 Big Time Anton 30.76 Lisa Cole Race 3: ALLEGRO ELLA, SHADOW GIRL, WATERLOO GIRL 6 41458 Punch On Ruby 17.78 John McInerney 2 51611 Kamada Park 30.34 Angela Turnwald 10 77536 Big Time Dynasty nwtd Lisa Cole 6 16114 Big Time Harley 30.04 Lisa Cole Race 4: BELMONTS, HOMEBUSH JENNIA, ALLEGRO FERN 7 17245 Light Cruiser 17.93 Gail Atwood 3 25111 Nova Willow nwtd Lisa Cole 7 13128 Emgrand Rose nwtd Angela Turnwald Race 5: NOVA WILLOW, KAMADA PARK, CAVATATE 8 11322 Big Time Baby nwtd Lisa Cole 4 72114 Big Time Mac 30.38 Lisa Cole 8 Palamountain’s Sci Nutrition 6.19 8 11132 Big Time Brie 30.18 Lisa Cole Race 6: CHEESEBALL, ALLEGRO WILL, BIG TIME JACKSON EMERGENCIES: 5 64153 Cavatate 30.55 J & D Bell $2860, C5, 305m EMERGENCIES: Race 7: BIGTIME CUTIE, ALLEGRO LEXXI, CRIMINAL JUSTICE 9 7763s Dyna Lenny nwtd Sue Gommans 6 76674 Rowdy Ruby 30.39 Susie Kite 9 64682 Big Time Seth 30.31 Lisa Cole 10 26475 Hashtag Blessed 17.81 Nathan Udy 1 33165 Sir Duggie 17.18 Lisa Cole 10 251Fs Buddy Loaded 30.62 Glen Hodgson Race 8: TROJAN HOARSE, BIG TIME PLUTO, BIGTIME EMJAY 7 72767 Bigtime Benji 30.44 Lisa Cole 2 51511 Trojan Hoarse 17.28 Lisa Cole Race 9: CHEESE AND CHALK, SUB TWENTY THREE, 3 Red Snapper Seafoods 4.44 8 24221 Novo Ollie nwtd Lisa Cole 3 13853 Eye Far 17.62 Marcie Flipp 11 Gary Ross Decorators 7.27 EMERGENCIES: BIGTIME LEO $1685, C2, 305m 4 62418 Bigtime Lizzy 17.61 Lisa Cole $2035, C3, 305m Race 10: SILENT DISMISSAL, BIG TIME BRIE, 9 42232 Cossie Cooper 30.35 Melissa Olden 5 26312 Big Time Pluto 17.53 Lisa Cole 10 12318 Big Time Amber 30.29 Lisa Cole BIG TIME ANTON 1 54653 Waterloo Girl 17.90 Wendy Kite 6 61163 Bigtime Emjay 17.50 G & S Fredrickson 1 34752 Bigtime Banjo 17.52 Lisa Cole 2 285F1 Shadow Girl 17.75 Carol Morris 2 75128 Shamrock Green 17.85 Brian Goldsack Race 11: BIG TIME FAIRY, SHAMROCK GREEN, GIRAFFE CLUB 7 41815 Articulator 17.79 Bill Hodgson 3 33557 Go Ash 17.61 Marcie Flipp 6 Adept Accountants 5.34 8 21128 Big Time Jonie 17.52 Lisa Cole 3 82413 Giraffe Club 17.70 Lisa Cole Race 12: DAPPER RAPPER, BIG TIME KEVIN, 4 78751 Homebush Maxi 17.89 John McInerney $2390, C3/4, 305m EMERGENCIES: 4 73568 Funzalo 17.61 Bill Hodgson ALLEGRO CURTIS 5 12611 Allegro Ella 17.73 Lisa Cole 5 F1334 Big Time May 17.65 P B Briggs 1 41758 Idol Steffie 17.62 Marcie Flipp 9 18337 Big Time Frosty 17.57 Lisa Cole 6 68766 Gray Bale nwtd W Woods 10 14386 Bigtime Bremner 17.48 Lisa Cole 6 51624 Big Time Odette nwtd Lisa Cole 7 83817 Blitzem Gem 17.96 Sue Gommans 2 24734 Cheeseball nwtd Lisa Cole 7 13624 Zipping Luther nwtd J & D Bell 1 Wanganui Toyota 4.09 8 21312 Free Thinker 17.84 Melissa Olden 3 75422 Big Time Chance 17.58 Lisa Cole 9 CPF Insurance 6.44 8 15111 Big Time Fairy nwtd Lisa Cole 4 24672 Big Time Jackson nwtd Lisa Cole $1685, C2, 305m EMERGENCIES: $2860, C5, 305m EMERGENCIES: 9 14358 Final Straw 18.06 Nathan Udy 5 21211 Allegro Will 17.36 Lisa Cole 9 82686 Bigtime Sheer 17.58 Lisa Cole 1 56314 Lucy Lingers 18.02 John McInerney 10 44565 Dyna Diode nwtd Kellie Gommans 6 22571 Mr. Postman 17.71 Nathan Udy 1 38172 Bigtime Ziggy 17.63 Lisa Cole 10 33154 Viking Ash 17.79 Nathan Udy 2 24622 Life Is Good 17.92 Melissa Olden 7 12575 Bigtime Stella 17.42 Lisa Cole 2 35433 Big Time Gwyn 17.59 Lisa Cole 3 25256 Thrilling Ivy 18.10 Sue Gommans 4 First Security 5.02 8 73787 Big Time Tina 17.63 Lisa Cole 3 41171 Sub Twenty Three 17.63 Lisa Cole 12 Guthrie Bowron, Wanganui 7.44 4 23472 Alamein Tane 17.86 Kettlewell & Phillips $1685, C2, 305m EMERGENCIES: 4 12418 Bigtime Leo 17.75 Peter Clark $2035, C3, 305m 5 21212 Allegro Kyle 17.76 Lisa Cole 9 28557 Big Time Flash 17.60 G & S Fredrickson 5 84174 Opawa Flash 17.71 Nathan Udy 6 45516 Vibe nwtd Angela Turnwald 1 F7831 Belmonts 17.71 Lisa Cole 10 2736s Bigtime Luna 17.78 S J Phillips 6 84321 Big Time Maple 18.21 Lisa Cole 1 26463 Big Time Lebron 17.62 Lisa Cole 7 24124 My Pablo 17.92 Nathan Udy 2 4653F Bigtime Roll 17.65 Sue Gommans 7 22156 Cheese And Chalk 17.60 Lisa Cole 2 52534 Barbarossa Boy 17.74 Brian Goldsack 8 78533 Millie Prince 17.72 J & D Bell 3 26262 Homebush Jennia 17.92 John McInerney 7 Aon Insurance 5.53 8 24152 Hip Hop Rapper 17.49 Brian Marsh 3 11852 Allegro Curtis 17.54 Lisa Cole EMERGENCIES: 4 15256 Zara Fab 18.03 Nathan Udy $2390, C3/4, 305m EMERGENCIES: 4 11116 Dapper Rapper 17.88 Brian Marsh 9 3161s Pretty Belinda 17.99 Wendy Kite 5 11421 Allegro Fern 17.77 Lisa Cole 9 26814 Big Time Vegas nwtd Lisa Cole 5 44116 Big Time Trae nwtd Lisa Cole 1 3333F Criminal Justice 17.89 Melissa Olden 10 38628 Homebush Yuri 17.96 John McInerney 6 55325 Dino The Fox 17.74 Kellie Gommans 10 243F7 Toca Madera nwtd Angela Turnwald 6 17112 Big Time Kevin 17.58 Lisa Cole 7 81132 Big Time Harper nwtd Peter Clark 2 48447 Zara Cheebee 17.62 Marcie Flipp 7 24341 Big League Diva 17.70 G & S Fredrickson 2 Laser Plumbing 4.27 8 81848 Alamein Stryda 17.74 Kettlewell & Phillips 3 57363 Bigtime Leads 17.95 Lisa Cole 10 Kernow Construction 7.0 5 8 74771 Token Vikkers 17.75 Nathan Udy EMERGENCIES: 4 21346 Bigtime Cutie 17.74 Lisa Cole EMERGENCIES: $1685, C2, 305m $4030, C4, 520m 9 2223s Boys Get Paid nwtd Angela Turnwald 5 12452 Allegro Lexxi 17.63 Lisa Cole 9 16833 Allegro Lanie 17.80 Lisa Cole 1 14628 Classic Rapper 17.74 Susie Kite 10 48518 Opal Nora 17.74 John McInerney 6 65275 Bigtime Bee 17.52 Lisa Cole 1 52624 Electrical Storm 30.46 Mark Goodier 10 86855 Chilli Ragnar 17.84 Nathan Udy

New South Wales races at Coffs Harbour Friday Jetbet 18 TAB doubles 3-4, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Selections Ms O Pickering (a2) 4 Cooee Screen Prints 4.15 18 06600 Cosmic Energy (13) 59 86 9 63711 Luvyoulongtime d (10) 55.5 94 Race 1: FLYING HONOUR, LAKE PLACID, SUPER ROCKER 5 43s8 In For A Dollar h (5) 58 86 J Grisedale 19 77005 Degrasse w (19) 59 84 R Agnew 10 100s2 Men In Tights (13) 55.5 93 6 Polar Rein (3) 58 88 Ms M Weir (a) $20,000, Benchmark 58, 1600m 20 0s000 Torba (2) 55 81 Ms M Weir (a) Race 2: FUDGINIT, COOL MISSILE, VALLEJO 7 53357 Spirited Belle b (13) 58 87 1 49605 Bluesbro d (5) 62.5 94 Ms E Meredith (a4) 11 s5231 Value Abbey w (5) 55.5 97 S Lisnyy Race 3: TOLERATE, HASHTAG VIKING, GOLDEN BOY Ms J Duggan (a) 2 49s41 Condover Hall dw (4) 60.5 100 6 Mutleys Mail Handicap 5.25 12 1s525 Arcalette b (7) 55 92 A Morgan Race 4: WITHOUT RISK, CONDOVER HALL, MY DESIRE 8 696s6 Stella Ardens (12) 58 88 Ms B Hodder Ms B Stower $20,000, Benchmark 66, 1000m 13 79876 Salty Rain tw (9) 55 94 Ms J Duggan (a) Race 5: SALSA DREAMING, THE TIMEWARP, PHYLAVE 9 76s6 The Polar Express (7) 58 99 3 35609 Good Excuse w (9) 59.5 97 14 54312 Tis Toby w (15) 55 92 Race 6: GOLD RHAPSODY, JULE’S SPIRIT, K Wilson-Taylor (a2) K Wilson-Taylor (a2) 1 9s141 Jule’s Spirit dw (2) 61.5 98 L Rolls EMERGENCIES: 2 0268s Prima Stella w (10) 61.5 90 S Lisnyy AMBITIOUS PRINCE 10 92 Vallejo h (6) 58 98 D Mc Lellan 4 16043 My Desire db (11) 59.5 98 A Bullock 15 14s43 Hurricane Max (4) 55 93 M Paget 11 75 It’s Chime Time (10) 55.5 88 L Rolls 5 21s25 Without Risk wb (1) 59.5 98 J Penza 3 90s11 Gold Rhapsody dw (9) 60.5 99 16 25144 Falandy w (14) 55 87 Race 7: ASTRALIS, LUVYOULONGTIME, TIS TOBY Ms G Mc Donnell (a3) Race 8: VELVET AEROPLANE, DREAMTIME MAGIC, 12 Midnight Waltz (8) 55.5 91 Ms B Stower 6 6s021 Risaldar twh (6) 59 99 Ms B Hodder 17 23404 Delius dw (12) 55 91 Ms C Graham (a) 13 64s0 Prue’s Prophet (9) 55.5 81 Ms J Worley 7 8s591 In Ya Skyrocket w (8) 58.5 96 4 048s3 Lethal Dream dwh (12) 60.5 93 18 35407 Speed With Ease w (16) 55 90 LOLLY DOLLY 14 Sapphire Step (4) 55.5 91 8 05184 Youwaitandsee tdwh (7) 56.5 100 J Grisedale Ms L Kilner (a) J Grisedale 5 5s088 Upper East Side d (4) 60 97 A Bullock 8 #lastraceray Handicap 6.35 9 83447 Bus Ticket w (3) 55.5 99 Ms L Kilner (a) 6 4220s Ambitious Prince wh (1) 59.5 91 $20,000, Benchmark 58, 1200m 1 The Lakes Cafe Plate 2.30 3 Team Thoroughbred NSW 3.40 10 8s906 The Grey Crusader dwn (10) 55 92 D Mc Lellan 1 319s1 Lolly Dolly twh (5) 60 99 R Spokes $20,000, C,H&G’s Maiden SW, 1000m $20,000, Maiden, 1300m Ms J Duggan (a) 7 167s5 Cosmic Ruby dhn (11) 59 90 S Traecey 11 54947 Star Fest tcdwh (2) 55 94 R Spokes 8 9s050 Evict dw (13) 58.5 94 Ms B Hodder 2 0s59s Velvet Aeroplane d (13) 59 93 1 8s Admiral Ash (1) 59 91 J Penza 1 4303s Flying Mojo b (10) 59 97 J Kehoe 9 1487s Big Suzie d (14) 58 100 J Penza K Wilson-Taylor (a2) 2 377s5 Another Option (4) 59 97 Ms B Hodder 2 Rocks The Cove h (9) 58 94 5 Tide Seeker Plate 4.50 10 64817 Mecum d (5) 57 100 Ms C Graham (a) 3 1s238 Dreamtime Magic (7) 58.5 97 A Bullock 3 70s73 Flying Honour (9) 59 99 Q Yong (a1.5) 4 65s09 Mia’s Got Class d (16) 58.5 90 $20,000, Class 1/Maiden SW, 1600m 11 1530s Blevio dh (7) 56 96 Ms B Stower K Wilson-Taylor (a2) 3 2 Tolerate (15) 57 97 J Penza 12 02425 Crackneck w (6) 56 97 Ms L Kilner (a) 4 0s Krakan Cove h (7) 59 86 C Franklin 4 526s2 Hashtag Viking (7) 56.5 100 G Snowden 1 46298 Happy Frank wh (12) 59 93 Q Yong (a1.5) 13 15135 All About Charlie tcdwh (3) 55.5 96 5 76s80 Metre Eater tdw (15) 58 91 J Penza 5 4s Lake Placid h (8) 59 99 S Traecey 5 0s5 Sir Angus h (17) 56.5 94 R Spokes 2 82572 Chargement (6) 57.5 100 Ms M Weir (a) R Spokes 6 70210 Mosh Vain dw (12) 58 94 Ms B Hodder 6 5 Pay The Plumber h (10) 59 93 6 38s6 Yes Kurt (14) 56 91 Ms B Hodder 3 — Ego Dancer SCRATCHED 14 2400s St Hilary wn (8) 55 91 Ms M Weir (a) 7 6612s Dangerous Dan t (9) 57.5 90 L Rolls Ms B Stower 7 0s8s0 Bold Rush h (13) 55 85 S Traecey 4 s6073 Salsa Dreaming (20) 57.5 95 J Penza 8 94s10 Nicconi Lass tw (10) 57.5 100 7 7s060 Sea Route h (11) 59 87 Ms R Murray 8 4s560 Bouquets (6) 55 93 Ms L Kilner (a) 5 85184 Volfoni w (11) 57.5 93 Ms L Kilner (a) 7 Arendarcikas Bros 6.00 Ms C Graham (a) 8 8599s Warburton h (6) 59 96 Q Yong (a1.5) 9 7s88 Clix (5) 55 89 C Franklin 6 1s996 Beyond Desire (7) 57 91 A Morgan $20,000, Class 2, 1400m 9 58644 Our Girl Babs w (1) 57 93 J Kehoe 9 s899s Zip Zap Cop That h (5) 59 100 10 s3534 First Sight h (11) 55 94 M Paget 7 00258 Dashing Savanna (9) 57 89 Ms R Murray 10 67330 Texas Target twh (18) 57 92 J Grisedale 11 0425s Golden Boy (8) 55 100 Ms J Duggan (a) 8 35882 Lady Wahoo h (14) 57 92 R Spokes 1 090s7 Stylish Pattern d (1) 62 93 Ms B Hodder Ms E Atkinson (a2) 10 Latin Dayz h (3) 56.5 97 R Spokes 12 9s084 Nanakorobi Yaoki (1) 55 92 9 47603 Norma’s Joy (8) 57 88 Ms B Stower 2 s5452 A Million Dreams wh (8) 59.5 94 11 1 Borlotti h (14) 56.5 98 11 Super Rocker (2) 56.5 96 G Snowden Ms B Stower 10 42812 The Timewarp wh (3) 57 89 J Grisedale K Wilson-Taylor (a2) 12 69303 Tycoon Anna ch (3) 56 93 D Mc Lellan 13 746s2 Our Girl Wanda (18) 55 95 A Morgan 11 6s898 Contest (18) 56.5 83 Ms C Graham (a) 3 s2261 Astralis tw (17) 59.5 98 A Bullock 13 2438s Splash Of Lime t (17) 55.5 89 2 Cooking Is Not An Option 3.05 14 628 Rich Velvet h (4) 55 93 J Grisedale 12 83s25 Phylave (1) 56.5 95 Ms J Duggan (a) 4 s51s2 Can’t Beat Me (11) 57.5 94 J Grisedale Ms M Weir (a) EMERGENCIES: 5 35142 Lord Magnussen dw (2) 56.5 100 14 25224 Ruby Two Shoes dw (8) 55 93 $20,000, F&M Maiden SW, 1000m 13 03385 Ramrod h (5) 56.5 92 D Mc Lellan 15 0377s Waterside (2) 55 94 14 8901 With Certainty h (4) 55.5 99 Ms B Hodder Ms R Murray EMERGENCIES: 1 Bannockburn Gal (1) 58 87 G Snowden 16 40303 Sunday Special (3) 55 94 15 08s58 Crete (15) 55 91 J Kehoe 6 54712 Supreme Diva wh (3) 56.5 93 R Spokes 15 76014 Budawang dw (4) 56.5 93 2 Cool Missile (2) 58 88 J Penza 17 97s05 It’s Neaux Dream h (16) 55 95 16 063 My Sonny’s Faith (10) 55 92 M Paget 7 27417 Cash Bundle tw (6) 55.5 94 L Rolls 16 5797s Net Effect (6) 56 90 3 95s2 Fudginit (11) 58 100 R Spokes D Mc Lellan EMERGENCIES: 8 42315 Dash For Van dw (18) 55.5 93 17 96884 Elite Dubleo twh (11) 55.5 91 4 5 Hollymede (14) 58 85 18 94980 Queen Of All (12) 55 88 17 60s00 Named After (17) 57 80 Q Yong (a1.5) 18 5430s Mystic Brook h (2) 55 95 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 SPORT 25 Medicos unite to support game CRICKET by Rob Forsaith, AAP of the sport’s financial crisis within the ICC (International during a video call with staff Cricket Council). Everyone SYDNEY — Leading cricket yesterday, although the players’ is sharing information and medicos from around the world union contacted members on collaborating, we’re all working have united to help advance the same day advising cricket’s together,” Kountouris said. biosecurity plans that will allow financial position remained “very “We usually get together every the sport to resume after the positive relative to Australia’s three months but we’ve just health crisis. winter sports”. been meeting more regularly Alex Kountouris has been Kountouris is optimistic that to discuss what is common and involved in the game since 1995, CA might be able to resume learn from each other . . . first as physiotherapist of Sri matches without needing state- discuss how we can best Lanka’s national team before government exemptions that share information and not be returning home to work for have underpinned the road to a duplicating.” Cricket Australia (CA). restart for the NRL and AFL. One obvious in-game issue is The head of sports science The next commitment for shining the ball. for CA, Kountouris said he had Justin Langer’s team is a tour of Some speculate that the never dealt with anything as England in July but the growing ICC could essentially legalise complex as mapping a path out expectation is that it could be ball-tampering whenever play of the Covid-19 pandemic. shifted to September, giving resumes. Kountouris and much- it the best possible chance of Australian Institute of Sport respected sports doctor John proceeding. guidelines dictate that even at Orchard, CA’s chief medical “It’ll depend on the stage of MAKING A CASE: Australia’s Josh Hazlewood appeals for a leg- Level C of activity, when most officer who contributed to the the virus; we’ll be guided by before-wicket decision against India’s Rishabh Pant (right) during a sports are allowed full training recently released AIS framework government and it’s a bit too test in Sydney last year. Leading cricket medicos from around the and competition, that shining a for rebooting sport, have been early to say,” Kountouris told world have united to help develop biosecurity plans to allow the cricket ball with sweat or saliva working overtime to draw up AAP of the scheduled series. sport to resume once the coronavirus emergency is over. AP picture will be outlawed. plans for coming months. “The first part is getting the “From a training perspective The stakes are high. England’s sign-off from government that we’re all going to have the are liaising with government, to start with, we’re going to cricket board has outlined how a we can travel and return; then same stuff. There’s that much counterparts at other Australian say, ‘Don’t do that’,” Kountouris wiped-out 2020 season could cost from a biosecurity perspective, information being shared. sporting organisations, plus said. £380 million. just seeing what they’ve got in “At the moment we want to get cricket medical representatives “But when it comes to playing CA chief Kevin Roberts place and where they’re at. training up. That’s our priority.” from other boards. games, that will be an ICC continued to paint a grim picture “But I’d be very confident Orchard and Kountouris “There’s a sub-committee decision.” THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Friday, May 8, 2020

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Work behind the scenes or read a good book. 26 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 Pool of $15m to Clarke ready to aid bounce-back SPORTS FUNDING grassroots organisations that we know are really hurting,” LOCAL sport and he said. recreation bodies can apply “They deserve all of our oversee return for part of a $15 million support. Community Resilience Fund “Play, active recreation RUGBY by Murray Wenzel, AAP the latest episode Peter Wiggs’s coronavirus epidemic halted the that opens on Monday. and sport are critical to the dramatic exit from the board was season. Sport New Zealand today wellbeing of everyone in BRISBANE — Rob Clarke is detailed in an email exchange Sanzaar is standing firm announced the fund, saying Tairawhiti. They keep us back at Rugby Australia for a with McLean published in The in its long-term ambition of it would provide further short- healthy, allow us to connect good time, not a long time. Australian. a widespread 14-team league term relief for sport and with one another, and As interim chief executive, he Describing himself as “open that includes South Africa and recreation organisations. strengthen our communities.” is promising to deliver a ruthless and transparent”, Clarke said he Argentina. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti This fund wouldn’t solve competition review and to stamp understood the challenges that But Clarke, key in the decision will administer the Tairawhiti all the challenges facing out the “factions and frustrations” came with the job and was ready to remove the Western Force from portion of $211,317. the sport and recreation that have plagued the code. to face them again. the competition, said nothing was The fund closes on June sector, but it would help the Clarke, who has served as chief “I know every one of those off the table as cash-strapped 19, or earlier if the funds run community safely return to executive of both the Rebels and captains personally, worked in Rugby Australia hunted a new out. Eligible organisations the activities they loved and Brumbies, accepted the short-term the game with many of them and broadcast deal. can apply for a maximum of had been missing during the post from executive chairman some of them I would count as “The old adage in business of $1000 for clubs and $40,000 lockdown, Pishief said. Paul McLean last night, almost friends,” Clarke told AAP. never wasting a crisis is apposite for regional bodies. Anyone wanting more two weeks after Raelene Castle “I don’t think they’ll have a for our game now,” he said. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti information on today’s vacated the chair. problem in letting me know what “There is definitely cause for a chief executive Stefan Pishief announcement could go The former Australian Rugby their thoughts are and I’ll have an complete review and looking at said it was “fantastic news” for to the Sport Gisborne Union chief operating officer won’t open ear. those structures through a fresh the region. Tairawhiti website at www. vie for the full-time gig though. “But my approach with lens. “We welcome the sportgisborne.org.nz or could Clarke will oversee the code’s everybody will be, let’s take it “If there’s a better time to do it, opportunity to help many email [email protected]. return to the field — ideally in out of the public domain and I don’t know what it would be.” of our codes, clubs and nz. July — while also addressing communicate constructively Wiggs walked after his push to Rugby Australia’s financial woes around a table and get some become chairman and fast-track and conducting a “complete plans in place, as opposed to just Australian Olympic Committee Cartwright fires back review” of Super Rugby in 2020 highlighting issues, which is easy boss Matt Carroll as chief and beyond. to do. executive alongside him was BRISBANE — Gold Coast rugby the NRL’s biosecurity protocols. But first he must resuscitate “We have to unify our game shut down by his fellow board league star Bryce Cartwright says he Cartwright said he would not be an administration that has taken and the factions and frustrations members. won’t be bullied into getting a flu shot bullied into decisions that could impact hits from outside and within since that go with that just impede The board’s move was supported after Prime Minister Scott Morrison his health and the health of his family. he last worked there three years progress.” in a letter signed by all the state called for a “no jab, no play” approach. “I have never told anyone what they ago. A Super Rugby competition chairs of Australian rugby last Australian Rugby League Commission should or shouldn’t do in regard to In the days before Castle’s without South African and night, except for New South Wales chairman Peter V’landys is to talk with vaccinations,” he said. “I stand for the departure, 11 former Wallaby Argentinian sides has been floated chairman Roger Davis, who had the players’ association to encourage freedom to choose what goes into our captains publicly demanded swift by current and former Australian endorsed Wiggs for the chairman’s players to agree to vaccination after bodies, so to label me an ‘anti-vaxxer’ administrative change, while in players and coaches since the role just 24 hours earlier. Cartwright refused the flu shot that is in is spreading misinformation.” — AAP

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RUGBY ENGLAND’S new forwards 9 10 guru Matt Proudfoot says he is relishing working and learning under head coach Eddie Jones. 11 Many have wilted under the Australian’s famously demanding regime but Proudfoot, the former 12 13 14 15 South African forwards coach, says he is revelling in it. After watching the South 16 African pack demolish England in last year’s Rugby World Cup final, former Wallabies boss 17 18 Jones’s next step was obvious — get the coaching brains behind the Springbok scrum, Proudfoot, to jump ship and head to Twickenham. And having worked under 19 Rassie Erasmus at the World PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES: England head coach Eddie Jones Cup, Proudfoot now faces a walks to his place in the dugout before the Six Nations rugby match different challenge with Jones against Ireland at Twickenham Stadium, London, in February. Forwards but says he is happy to learn coach Matt Proudfoot says Jones pushes every part of the England Across Down under him. team environment to be the best it can be. AP picture 1. 1. “Eddie has tried to pull a whole Young people (8) Applauds (5) lot of different perspectives into improvement of the environment the former prop said while in 7. Without any decoration (5) 2. Take no notice of (6) the English model and tried to and of the players and the way it lockdown back in Cape Town. 8. 3. really make it the best,” Proudfoot relates to training specifically.” “A Joe Marler and a Steven This is needed for The break of day (4) said. Proudfoot, who joined the Kitshoff, a Lood de Jager and swimming (5) 4. Go in (5) “That has required me to grow, England set-up in January, is not a Maro Itoje, tend to be similar 9. Opposite of winners (6) 5. Say you are sorry (9) it requires the players to grow, new to the British rugby scene, types of people, and that’s quite staff members to grow and to having played for Edinburgh and surprised me. 10. Let fall (4) 6. Spinning aeroplane part (9) be outside your comfort zone Glasgow and won four Scotland “But what has been very 12. An animal with horns (4) 11. Medal for third (6) and that has been a very big caps through a grandparental different is the way Eddie difference. qualification. produces his system. Eddie 14. Go on a trip (6) 13. Smell (5) “His preparation is exceptional, He then moved on to coach in wants to build the best rugby 17. Footwear (5) 15. A singer’s instrument (5) how holistically he prepares a South Africa and Japan but said, environment. 18. 16. team. He wants us to continually on his return, how he was struck “He pushes every part of the Sound that is loud or The largest continent (4) improve the way we do things by the similarities. department to be the best they unpleasant (5) so, once we’ve trained, he’ll ask “Wherever you are in the can be, whereas maybe the 19. us how we could improve that world they (forwards) tend to Springbok environment was about The people in Japan (8) session. be the same type of people so really preserving the Springbok “He’s got a thirst for that’s something I’ve enjoyed,” identity.” — AAP

1. Backbone, 6. Lion, 7. Rabbit, 9. Ended, 11. Cargo, 12. Ideas, 13. Fetch, 16. Assist, 18. Fire, 19. Earmuffs. 1. Ballerina, 2. Crowd, 3. Ours, 4. Embrace, 5. Ski, 8. Toothless, 10. Examine, 14. Thief, 15. Star, 17. Sad. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, May 7, 2020 SPORT 27 Self-interest part of the equation FOOTBALL by Rob Harris, AP families until the season is complete, the danger THE PRIZE: The of infections spreading among squads and their English Premier AS so often happens in the English Premier families is present. League trophy is League, self-interest and money could come out on “There’s a certain risk attached to the return to displayed on the pitch top even in the midst of a health crisis. training for all players,” Aston Villa manager Dean at Etihad Stadium in The rush to restart football during the coronavirus Smith told Sky Sports TV. Manchester, England. pandemic has been framed as a national purpose. “We’ve got a player who is asthmatic. We’ve got Steve Parish, the “It would lift the spirits of the nation,” Foreign a player whose mother-in-law is in remission and chairman of Crystal Secretary Dominic Raab said at the daily Downing Palace, says the living with the family. You have to be very careful; Premier League Street coronavirus news conference on Tuesday, certainly the transmission knows no boundaries.” where he deputised for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. could face years of Even if the national lockdown that has been legal challenges if But Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish was in place since March is eased, social distancing this season is not more explicit about the wider motivations when will remain. That is why fans will be banned from completed due to games worth $US1 billion have yet to be televised stadiums for the foreseeable future. Players, the coronavirus this season. however, cannot be separated by two metres in pandemic. AP picture “Yes, it is partly about the money,” Parish said. training, let alone in a match when Premier League “And we should all care about the money.” places are on the line. Yet the Premier League wants to resume by teams can’t play in familiar surroundings. At some point a decision will have to be made In Spain, players and coaches at Eibar are wary June after being suspended since March, even if But if preventing the season from being completed on whether financial obligations outweigh the risk of of going along with La Liga’s push for them to that means the remaining 92 fixtures are contested is an attempt to avoid relegation, it could be at a playing sport during a pandemic where Britain now return to training. in vast empty stadiums. It could be a soulless severe financial cost to the competition overall. has the world’s second-highest known death toll. “We are afraid of starting an activity in experience for players and fans alike. “I genuinely don’t feel people are thinking clearly The Premier League insists it will only restart which we won’t be able to comply with the first Clubs can’t even agree on the venues for games. about the ramifications if we don’t play,” said Parish, when it is “safe and appropriate to do so”, but the recommendation of all health experts — physical Based on advice from place and safety experts, whose Palace side sit comfortably in mid-table. vague aspiration obscures the reality that lives are distancing,” they said in a statement. the league told clubs they wouldn’t be able to play “We would be in a position where fundamentally at risk as long as no Covid-19 vaccine exists. “We are concerned that by doing what we love at home and half of the teams’ regular stadiums we are airlines from August.” Squads have yet to resume group training. When the most we could get infected and infect our family could not be used. It’s not just that stadiums like That is the doomsday scenario — the world’s they do, players, coaches and support staff will members and friends.” those belonging to Brighton and Tottenham have richest football league is left with a deficit it says be subjected to regular Covid-19 testing to prove Disinfecting balls and goalposts won’t prevent been turned into medical facilities, the concern is could exceed £1 billion pounds ($US1.3 billion). they don’t have the virus. Tests aren’t even freely virus transmission through player-to-player contact. fans would still try to congregate outside. The financial ramifications could scare teams available in the rest of England and the protective “For me, it would be crazy for the Premier But the 20 clubs are not all willing to accept the and their squads into accepting any plan to equipment the football medics will need is still League to resume until there is a vaccine to league’s proposals. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that complete the season. Money can only go some subject to shortages. protect you,” West Ham striker Manuel Lanzini told the public opponents to the plan are teams facing way towards paying to mitigate health risks in Fresh doubts about the wisdom of staging Argentine station Radio Continental. relegation — Brighton and West Ham — rather a country where the coronavirus death toll now matches surfaced this week when testing across Fellow Argentine Sergio Aguero, the Manchester than a side like Liverpool on the verge of ending a exceeds 30,000 and is still rising. 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HITTING THE GAP: All Black flanker Ardie Savea goes on attack in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal against Ireland at Tokyo Stadium, Japan, last October. Coach Ian Foster is confident that Savea and Sam Cane will still be key players when they are both in the All Blacks’ starting 15.

TAKING THEM ON: All Black flanker Sam Cane tries to break the Springbok line during a Rugby PUNISHING PLAY: All Black lock and sometime captain Sam Championship test at North Harbour Stadium, Auckland, in September 2017. Coach Ian Foster said Cane’s Whitelock makes a run during a Bledisloe Cup match against leadership style suited the players likely to be coming into the All Blacks. NZ Herald pictures Australia at Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, in August 2017. Why Cane and not Whitelock RUGBY by Liam Napier, NZME Whitelock had a pretty special relationship the World Cup that he was preferred at “Ardie is a massive part of our plans, as with Kieran Read so there was a lot of openside flanker for the ill-fated semifinal is Sam Cane. I’m pretty sure we’ll find a ALL BLACKS coach Ian Foster has synergy there. When we went from one to loss to England, with the All Blacks starting way to get them both playing, and playing confronted the two major questions the other it was almost seamless. Scott Barrett at blindside and Cane coming really well.” following Sam Cane’s appointment as “Sammy proved he could be a great off the bench. Foster is not wedded to appointing a national captain. All Black captain so that wasn’t really the With his captaincy decision, Foster has vice-captain any time soon, saying it was Firstly, why was Cane favoured ahead debate. It was a matter of looking at the effectively committed to starting Cane and not an obvious strategy and that Cane of Sam Whitelock, the veteran lock different styles and the group we think we Savea in the same loose-forward trio. would ultimately shape his leadership perceived by many to be Kieran Read’s heir might have when we put names down on Savea proved his ability at No.8, where group. apparent? paper, and we felt Sam Cane’s style might his speed off the back of the scrum is He also addressed the bizarre timing Secondly, what does Cane’s captaincy be a little bit more conducive for this group. invaluable, while Cane’s confrontational of the announcement, with the July tests mean for world-class loose forward Ardie “In some ways it was a great decision to style is equally suited to the six role. set to be postponed and uncertainty Savea? have as a coach because we had at least Yet it is the seven jersey both prefer. surrounding the All Blacks’ first appearance Foster acknowledged the captaincy two people we were extremely confident in. Height in the lineout and power in contact of the year, which is expected to come decision, the first statement of his new era, Sam has actually been in the leadership will be defining qualities in determining who against the Wallabies. came down to a choice between Whitelock group longer than Sam Whitelock. partners the pair. “While it looks a bit strange because we and Cane. “They’re two great people surrounded by “We’ve shown we can get them both on haven’t got an itinerary yet, it’s not strange Whitelock, with 115 tests to Cane’s 68, others we’re equally confident in. Overall, the park at the same time, which we’re because we’re still doing a lot of planning has superior experience, having featured at Sam Cane is at a point in his career where excited about,” Foster said. behind the scenes about all the different three rugby world cups. Cane is, however, he’s ready to lead, he’s got a great style “Certainly, when you look at form from scenarios, and a strong player input is vital. three years younger at 28. and for us it was a gut feel. He’s ready for last year, both players were good enough The best way to do that is get the pecking In the end it was Cane’s leadership it. He’s had some great mentors in the All to be selected. order sorted and get Sam sorted in his approach — his open, honest, mature, Blacks camp in the past eight years.” “We’ve looked at the versatility of Ardie role so he can maximise the input of his inclusive style — that earned him the nod. The next hot topic is where Cane’s and Sam, so we’ve got some really good teammates. “It definitely wasn’t a one-horse race,” appointment leaves Savea, last year’s All options there. Some of that might be “There’s undoubtedly a lot of pressure on Foster said. Blacks, Super Rugby and overall Kelvin R influenced by who puts their hand up as the everyone and we’re no different from any “Last year was a different group and we Tremain Memorial player of the year, who third loosie. other organisation in this country. had a different captain. When you’re looking then signalled interest in switching to rugby “There’s plenty of room for people to “We know we’re in an industry which is at your captain you look at the whole league. impress in that six-eight role and we’ll look high-cost/high-revenue, so when you take balance of the leadership group. Sammy Savea’s form was so compelling at at the combinations from then on. away the revenue you’ve got problems.” Let’s not wait for the Call ahead or call me new normal. from the Let’s get on with it – gate. Always here to No.1 Hygiene help out aye No.2 Shop Local Johno. 32033-05 Proud sponsor of Phone 867 7135

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