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FIRST AID RISING COURSE VIOLENCE WHAT A PROVES A SCORE! IN THE NZ/AUSSIES TO HOST LIFE-SAVER WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CLASSROOM BACK PAGE PAGE 3 PAGE 8 100 years of Wilencote

THANKS FOR COMING: Peter and Susie Humphreys and their Wilencote Polled Herefords stud at Ngatapa had plenty to smile about yesterday when they celebrated 100 years as a stud with clients and friends. Wilencote is one of only four studs in New Zealand to reach that milestone. The sale produced a total clearance and a healthy average across the 30 young bulls sold. STORIES ON PAGES 3 AND 5 Picture by Paul Rickard

by Murray Robertson could give him a ride to a Kaiti address. “The visitor has very little A FRENCH tourist was stabbed and comprehension of the English language punched in his car on Monday night by a but he eventually agreed to give the man man he had given a lift to. a ride.” The ensuing struggle resulted in Det Sgt Beattie said once in the car the tourist’s car leaving the road and the tourist was given instructions on TOURIST crashing into a house in Ranfurly Street. which way to go. The circumstances of the crash came “They ended up driving to Midway out as part of a police investigation into Beach and eventually finished up driving the incident. to numerous locations in the Kaiti area. The grey Nissan X-Trail caused “The tourist was instructed to stop at significant damage to part of the house. several addresses in the Kaiti area but “Our inquiries have established that was then advised by the local male that the car was being driven by a 32-year-old he needed to go a different address. ATTACKED French national, who had been visiting “Eventually the tourist took the man Gisborne at the time,” said Detective to an address in Kaiti where he thought Sergeant Wayne Beattie. he was going to drop the man off,” “The Frenchman has been touring Det Sgt Beattie said. Stabbed and punched New Zealand, living in his vehicle and “Once they had stopped at the side of picking up casual work to fund his trip.” the road the offender produced a pair of Det Sgt Beattie said at about 8.30pm scissors and threatened the tourist. on Monday the tourist was parked “He demanded the tourist get out so before crashing car into outside Jetts gym on Gladstone Road that he could take the vehicle. when he was approached by a man he “All the tourist’s possessions were in described as a fair-skinned Maori, who that vehicle so he refused to comply.” Ranfurly Street house was on a skateboard. “That person asked the tourist if he CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ...... 10 Television ...... 15 Literature ...... 20 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ...... 11 Racing ...... 16 Sport ...... 21-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ...... 6-9 World...... 12-14 Classifieds .. 17-19 Weather ...... 23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020

GIZZY KIDS’ VIDS: Gisborne Intermediate students have taken part in a video competition that featured on current affairs programme Seven Sharp. Entrants had to create a 60-second video talking up their town. Some of the students involved were (from left) Siera Blumfield (holding iPad), Caitlyn Murphy, Estella Chambers, Estella Hepburn-Van Zyr, Chanelle Anderson, Sarah Brownlie and Elenor Walsh. Front: Romie Roseman and Perle Rasby. The winners will be announced on the programme tonight. Picture by Liam Clayton Winning incentive for promoting Tairawhiti tourism by Kim Parkinson If a Gis Int entry takes out the top prize, the Sarah Brownlie, said she liked how competitive to learn about time management. The students students are hoping Trust Tairawhiti will help it was with the groups trying to keep their ideas had to present a proposal and book time to go BUDDING creatives from Gisborne subsidise the cost of taking all the winning team to themselves so they had a point of difference. and film their videos. Intermediate have been busy writing, filming members and some parents or teachers to the Caitlyn Murphy’s team video used music by It was also a chance for them to become and editing promotional videos to show off South Island. Six60 and it can be viewed on the Gisborne i-Site proficient at using new editing software, the tourism potential of Gisborne for TV One’s One of the students, Elenor Walsh, said she Facebook page. WeVideo, the school bought during lockdown. current affairs programme Seven Sharp. loved being able to visit all the locations while It features shots of Gisborne beaches and “It’s heartening watching our learners become The year 7 and 8 students have submitted making the video. Grays Bush and a segment on feeding stingrays creators rather than consumers,” he said. their videos and are waiting in anticipation for “I enjoyed learning how to use the Wi editing at Dive Tatapouri. “Using the WeVideo editing software has the announcement of the winners on tonight’s app to make cool videos,” said Siera Blumfield. The groups were encouraged to be as enabled the kids to take full ownership of programme. Romie Roseman said she liked discovering professional as possible and the resulting videos their production. From their initial proposal, The winners will receive a West Coast getaway new things about Gisborne while doing the video speak for themselves. throughout the editing, accrediting supporters, to package for a family of four. project. Teacher Barry Huhu said part of the task was the final product, has been awesome.” Kelly’s Live Shave raises $5222 for LBCNZ

RAISING over $5000 for Leukaemia and hair off in the online Shave for a Cure Live Twenty-five people across New Zealand income. Blood Cancer New Zealand is amazing, Shave event. went bald for LBCNZ and raised a total of The money raised from Live Shave says Tairawhiti nurse Kelly Norris. “My initial goal when signing up for $43,000. will go towards emotional and practical Kelly is an oncology clinical nurse Shave for a Cure was to raise $1000 in the Shave Live is part of the iconic Shave support for patients, as well as education, specialist, which means she works directly three weeks prior to the event,” she said. for a Cure fundraising event by LBCNZ. advocacy and investment in research. with patients and whanau affected by “So to raise over $5k is amazing. The Covid-19 environment forced the If you are interested in participating blood cancers in Gisborne. “I’m very grateful to everyone who cancellation of their usual fundraising in next year’s shave, go to shaveforacure. Kelly raised $5,222.44 by shaving her donated.” events, creating a gaping hole in their co.nz. LOOKING AHEAD Get your TOMORROw FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • Bull Week in Tairawhiti a multi- million dollar success yet again. home-delivered • Prices and comment from today’s weekly sheep sale at Matawhero. A DOG’S • Gathering planned to discuss the drought for Waingake, Muriwai, Waerenga-a-Kuri, Tahunga, Pehiri, Wharekopae, Rere and LIFE Ngatapa. TOMORROw The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 NEWS 3

LIFE-SAVER: Fred Wilencote (left) put his new first aid qualifications to immediate use on century Tuesday night, saving the life of a long- time friend. Load Out Solutions owner Guy bull sale Allan is providing some of the training for the Tairawhiti Economic Support ‘brilliant’ Package Redeployment Programme. FROM PAGE 1 Photo by The Black by Murray Robertson Balloon

A century of breeding quality Hereford cattle was celebrated in style with a “brilliant” on-farm sale at Wilencote Polled Herefords at Ngatapa yesterday afternoon. Peter and Susie Humphreys put up 30 rising two-year-old bulls and sold the lot for a very good $9983 average. The top price paid was $16,000 for two of the bulls. Life-saving skills put to the test George Humphreys founded the stud in 1920 at Waipaoa. His son Fred took over the operation in 1923 and shifted it to the FRED never thought he would be putting his into my birthday suit and warm him up.” what happened. current property. newly-earned first aid qualification to use so He called the other searchers and after “There is still a lot going through my mind,” Peter and Susie Humphreys took over soon . . . nor did he think it would save the life warming the man up, got him up on to a horse he says. “I just never thought I would be in that the operation of the stud 25 years ago. of a close family friend. for a 45-minute ride to where the 4x4 vehicle situation. This whole course is really outside my The President of the New Zealand Fred is a new recruit to the Tairawhiti could meet them. Then it was an hour-and-a- comfort zone but I am starting to find my way.” Hereford Breeders Association Colin Economic Support Package Redeployment half trip to the main road and the same again to Before joining the redeployment programme, Corney was on hand to present them with Programme and as part of his wheels, tracks Gisborne Hospital where they arrived at around which aims to assist local workers affected by a ‘Certificate of Recognition’, marking the and rollers course with Load Out Solutions, he 6am. The man was admitted to hospital and the impacts of the Covid-19 virus, Fred worked 100 years. completed the first aid qualification on Monday kept in for observation until Wednesday evening as a bin maker at a pack house. “Today’s special occasion is a testament and Tuesday. when he was discharged. “I was just on my couch when I heard about to the Hereford breed and to the As he was leaving the course on Tuesday His family have said he’s not allowed back on this course and jumped at it.” Humphreys family,” Mr Corney said. he got a call from a good mate who asked him a horse for some time. But it wasn’t without a few reservations. “The association celebrates with you.” to help find his father who had failed to return When Fred turned up at his course on “I have a fear of big machinery,” admits Fred. Wilencote is one of only four Hereford from being out on the farm. Wednesday morning, he made a beeline for But with a brother who is a digger specialist studs in New Zealand to have achieved Fred — who asked only that his first name Load Out Solutions owner Guy Allan. urging him on, he stepped up. that milestone. be used – knew the property well, having “I shook his hand so many times to thank “I am slowly getting more confidence driving Long time auctioneer Bruce Orr said in spent much of his growing up there. The man him for doing the first aid course otherwise I them though. The qualifications I am gaining an opening speech the day was a special they were searching for was in his late 60s just wouldn’t have had the skills to put to use. It through this programme mean a lot — it means one. and someone Fred considered a stepfather. As all came out like clockwork.” I have something under my belt that lets me go “The stud is well-respected across the the five were heading out just before 6pm, the Guy, a volunteer fireman for 18-plus years, and find another job.” country. horse the man had been riding turned up at the was hugely impressed with the efforts of his Load Out Solutions are contracted through “It’s great to see so many of your homestead. charge. the Truck and Heavy Machine Operator Training clients and friends here today to help you “We were all very worried,” said Fred. “I “Fred is a very quiet chap and in the Trust by the Ministry of Social Development to celebrate.” was particularly worried about him given the beginning wasn’t even sure he wanted to be deliver courses for the programme. Mr Orr said afterwards the sale was “a temperature, weather and time of day.” here. He’s just not one for the spotlight. For The $23.755m Redeployment Programme lovely way to celebrate the 100 years”. As it turned out, it was Fred who found him. him to perform like he did is so impressive. is funded through the Ministry of Business, It was described afterwards by one He and the horse had tumbled 5-6m off a track. I know what he stepped into and am just so Innovation and Employment, administered by Angus stud breeder as “a brilliant way to “He was still in the creek when I found him impressed.” the Provincial Development Unit and overseen end Bull Week”. and very cold so my first thought was to get Fred is still working to come to terms with by Gisborne District Council. “They were a very well-presented, honest line of cattle,” Mr Orr said. Auctioneer Neville Clark said it was a “wonderful” way to mark a century. “To celebrate 100 years with a 100 percent clearance, and close to a $10,000 average was fantastic. Ownership switch for “The better bulls made good money and there was something for everyone.” Studmaster Peter Humphreys said he and wife Susie were “rapt” with the level of support. “It’s nice to get 100 gone now, and get new airport terminal the bulls away, but it’s also about the people who come to support you. by Andrew Ashton below the year to date budget with an “The original terminal has been rebuilt. “Susie and I are more than happy with unfavourable variance of $163,000. In accounting terms, that means the old our average this year. It was a strong sale GISBORNE District Council has One reason for this was the impact of part of the building doesn’t have any for us.” written off $2.2 million, following accounting adjustments ($2.2m) for the accounting value. So as it has no value, demolition of part of Gisborne Airport’s valuation movement of interest rate we ‘dispose’ or write off what we had Sale details: Mangatoitoi Station $12,000, $16,000; old terminal building. swaps and the disposal of the airport recognised in our books.” Poututu Station $12,000, $13,000, $9000, $15,500, The Government is investing $5.5 terminal building. Ownership of the new terminal $16,000, $9000, $9500; Arakihi Station $10,500; Sunworth million from the Provincial Growth GDC chief financial officer Pauline switched to Gisborne Airport Limited, Ltd $8000; Papuni Station $10,500, $10,000; JB and PM Fund, with the balance of the terminal Foreman said the $2.2m related to two a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastland Byrne Partnership $14,500; Totangi Farm Ltd $6000, $8000; project’s $12.5m coming from Eastland items — accounting recognition of market Group Ltd. Bill Fisher $9000; Koraha Partnership $8000; I and M Diack Community Trust and Eastland Group value of financial instruments (such as “The original airport terminal was $8000, $11,500; McNeil Farming Ltd $6000; Te Runanga o to rebuild the old airport terminal, which SWAPs), and accounting loss of disposal owned by the council but GAL has rebuilt Turanganui a Kiwa $7000; Waitangi Terrace Station $9000, was owned by GDC. for a terminal building. and replaced the original terminal. The $10,000; McGregor Hills Ltd $13,000; Pukemata Station A Chief Executive’s Report this week “It does not relate to any cash rebuilt asset will remain as belonging to Ltd $8500; DM and CR Coop Partnership $8500; Eastland Country Livestock $8000; Avondale Farming $8000; EJ revealed that for the May 2020 year-to- payments made to anyone. It was just an GAL but after 30 years the terminal will Gordon Livestock $5500. date the council’s net surplus was slightly accounting recognition. revert to the council.” Police seeking information to identify attacker FROM PAGE 1 side of the home in Ranfurly Street.” “Witnesses describe the offender as surgery to repair a laceration across the Det Sgt Beattie said the offender having a limp as he ran off, possibly as a corner of his eye. A struggle ensued, which resulted in managed to get out of the vehicle and result of being injured in the crash. “His working holiday plans have now the tourist being stabbed several times ran off down the road, leaving the tourist “He did not appear to be wearing a been put in jeopardy because he no with the scissors and punched multiple trapped in his car. seatbelt at the time of the crash and he longer has a vehicle and as a result of his times to the head. “Witnesses at the scene saw the hit the windscreen,” said Det Sgt Beattie. injuries, he is unable to work. “In an effort to escape, the tourist offender run off down Cambridge The tourist was admitted to hospital “We are still trying to identify accelerated down the road, trying to drive Terrace.” after the crash and required surgery to the offender,” Det Sgt Beattie said. and defend himself at the same time. He was described as a fair-skinned his arm and hand in an effort to repair Information can be provided to him “The vehicle accelerated to a speed of male Maori, about 182 centimetres tall, nerve and tendon damage. at Gisborne police, or by using the about 70kmh before it crashed into the with short brown hair and clean shaven. “He has also had to have specialist Crimestoppers number 0800 555 111. 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020

FAMILY NOTICES In Memoriam

Deaths BULL, Gina Passed away 1 year ago today, 26th June 2019. EVANS, Clara Mary (Mary). — On 24 June Highly respected wife 2020, peacefully, at of John, and dearly Leighton House, in her loved mother of Bernie, 96th year. Loved sister mother-in-law of of George (dec), Rhoda Angela. Much loved Kelling (dec), Pearl Nana of Marcus Braybrook, and Ray and Tessa. (dec). Treasured Aunty A true friend to many of Faye, Ruth (dec), people she reached out Russell, Christine, to in her life. Raewyn, Beverley, Lynette and Tracy. Precious memories are Dearly loved Greatest treasured forever. Aunty to her great and great-great-nieces and nephews. Memorial A private family service is being held. Services - Evans Funeral Services Ltd FDANZ JACK KURU www.evansfuneral.co.nz SATURDAY 27.6.2020 In Memoriam 10am Seating To be held at: KATHLEEN LEILUA The Vines Estate Gisborne 26.6.2015 Non-alcoholic event Five years ago you left us sister. Love and All friends and family miss you heaps. welcome Your sister Mattie, Tu, Maria, Mutu, Moss, Thomas, and whanau

TEAM EFFORT: Jammies 4 June organiser Cassandra Blumfield and baby Brax Beckett, SuperGrans field coordinator Erina Torrey and Rapid Relief Team member Wes Judd with the last load of PJs and warm clothing ready to go out to House saved people who need them. This year SuperGrans and Rapid Relief Team got behind the annual pyjama drive to make sure it after washing could deliver warm PJs to Gisborne children who needed them. Picture by Liam Clayton machine Knitting plus PJs equals cosy nights KEEPING kids toasty warm this heartfelt thanks.” These services are Tuhono whanau, winter was the aim and once again SuperGrans received and sorted all Te Aka Ora, Turanga Health, caught fire Jammies 4 June has come through the donations. Local businesses got SuperGrans, Barnardos, Planet with the goods, collecting more than behind the charity too, and donated Sunshine, Gisborne Hospital Maternity by Murray Robertson 300 pairs of pyjamas this year despite PJs for children in need. Ward and schools and childcare centres the disruption of Covid-19 restrictions. “We also received a huge amount including Te Whare Whai Hua, Waiapu SMOKE alarms and quick work by SuperGrans stepped up to help and of beautiful knitting and other warm Kids, Kaiti, Cobham and Elgin School. the residents stopped a potential serious were a fantastic support, said organiser items of clothing and nearly all of the “Our community members and local house fire in its track yesterday at a Haig Cassandra Blumfield. items have been distributed to services businesses have shown such generosity, Street home in Elgin, when a washing “We couldn’t have done it without working with tamariki around the it really shows what amazing people machine caught fire. them and I want to pass on my Gisborne region,” Ms Blumfield said. we have in Tairawhiti.” Fire and Emergency NZ were called to the property at about 11.30am. “The people who were in the house at the time were alerted by smoke alarms, and contained the fire with water until Napier-Wairoa log trains back on track in spring we arrived,” a senior firefighter said. “It was fortunate they had working KIWIRAIL expects to start moving logs on the hub freight movement from Wairoa and that there five days a week,” said Mr Moyle. “KiwiRail has smoke alarms in the house. Early Napier-Wairoa line in spring, says chief operating had been 12 trains (six return trips) since the not increased its freight rate for logs at the Wairoa detection made the difference.” officer Todd Moyle. line reopened at the end of January and before hub since it opened for log trains earlier this year.” The fire crews used a CO2 extinguisher The forestry sector had had a strong recovery logging operations were shut down because of The Wairoa-to-Napier rail link resumed to put out what was left of the fire. as Covid restrictions eased, said Mr Moyle. Covid-19 in China. transporting log freight in January after the “There was some fire damage to the There was a significant “wall of wood” to be “We anticipate restarting moving logs on the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund invested laundry area and the washing machine moved from the Wairoa region once the scheduled Napier-Wairoa line, with 65,000 tonnes twice a $6.2 million to reopen the mothballed rail line, was a write-off, but the rest of the house harvest began in spring. week (the equivalent of 88 truck trips between which was closed after significant storm damage was OK.” Mr Moyle was responding to a query about log Napier and Wairoa), building to 220,000 tonnes in 2012. — Wairoa Star Witticisms, performances delight in Wilde classic

REVIEW by Mark Peters alter egos named Ernest to win the hearts of audience to the back of their seats before Boyce sweet and exquisitely polite Cecily on the Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. slipped seamlessly back into her role as the other hand embodied the aesthetic of director AGONISING over how to develop his routines, They all have magnificently witty lines that gracious but commanding bastion of upper class Dinna Myer’s doll-house-like set design. Cecily stand-up comedian Jim Carrey had an epiphany. underline their shallowness, but the characters in society. As Lady Bracknell says, “We live in an might well be one of the “flimsy ostentation of People want to be taken away from their cares. the play are more about style than substance and age of surfaces”. Victorian paper dolls” Myers took as inspiration He then got deep into the crazy stuff and his the actors play style for all it’s worth. Stevens’ Siata brings something of Lady Bracknell’s for the play otherwise known as A Trivial career took off. superciliousness underlines this with apparent fibre to her otherwise girlish character, and Comedy for Serious People. Except for a very With its Victorian society sensibilities pricked effortlessness. Duncan’s Moncreiff, on the other balanced Gwendolen’s self-interest with gushy funny, saccharine exchange with Gwendolen, with every incisive word, Oscar Wilde’s play, hand, is flamboyant, loud and amoral and fills affection for Jack, largely because she believed Cecily’s sweetness will make your fillings ache. The Importance of Being Earnest, is a long way the stage with his wit and unashamed duplicity. his name was Ernest. Both Jack and Algernon Ostensibly trivial, the wit in Wilde’s play is from Carrey’s wild comedy but Evolution Theatre The two actors are well matched but when assume the name for their own ends. Absurdity is nevertheless razor sharp. Company’s production is just the ticket for Duncan is seated, and not so physically busy, key to the plot — naturally Gwendolen and Cecily Dave Henderson, as ever, brings a uniquely leaving behind pandemic concerns and the onset his loucheness is more sharply defined and the are both enchanted by the name Ernest. eccentric colour to his pastor character, Doctor of winter. language is free to do its work which is to make Heidi Rice as the puritanical but near lusty Chasuble and clearly relishes the stage, while As actor Andrew Stevens says, “Theatre is one the audience laugh, and laugh we do. Miss Prism and the delicate English rose, Cecily, Susan Partington and Beatrice Grant’s stage of those places where we come together to forget Elizabeth Boyce is also superb in her role as played by Danielle Hegarty, take the stage in presence lifts their performances above merely the world. We share an experience like no other.” the indomitable Lady Bracknell, and mother of act two. Both actors grew in confidence as the unflappable but observant servants. Superb in his role in this production, Stevens Jack’s object of affection, the modern Victorian scene unfolded in the production’s preview Special mention also needs to go Marie somehow manages to bring a toothy, chinless young lady, Gwendolen (Danielle Siata). The performance. Their characters and delivery Murphy’s stylish and varied costuming for the but comic mien to his immaculately dressed matriarch convincingly compensates for her sharpened and the scene gathered momentum. chattering classes, the perennial Chris Hudson’s character, Jack Worthing. Along with Liam ignorance with high-flying pronouncements Despite her character’s initial Quaker-like props and the Julie McPhail-led scene changes Duncan’s witty, devil-may-care effete character Boyce delivers with comically frightening aplomb. demeanour, Rice developed Miss Prism as a that fit smoothly into the nature of the production Algernon Moncrieff, the two bachelors create A sharply-spoken order to Gwendolen pinned the hilariously expressive game-changer. Hegarty’s — as you will see for yourself. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 NEWS 5

CURIOUS BIRDS: There are 82 tuturuatu/shore plovers on Waikawa/Portland Island. They make up one third of the world’s population of this unique shore bird, known for its curiosity. Volunteers like Jerrica Larby (left), Peter Lo and Kay Clapperton have been instrumental in the success of a Department of Conservation effort to increase the population of tuturuatu/shore plovers through a breeding programme on Waikawa. Peter has been volunteering there for seven years. DoC pictures

Volunteers playing vital role in Saving the tuturuatu success of Waikawa programme

WAIKAWA’S tuturuatu/shore total population of tuturuatu in the some nice real estate to start a Week, so I’d like to send out a territories. Then they bob their plover population has grown to 24 world. family when the breeding season particular thanks to them.” heads up and down as if to say, breeding pairs this year, passing the “Tuturuatu are very susceptible to kicks off in August or September.” Peter Lo has been volunteering ‘who are you?’” halfway mark to reaching its former predation because they nest on the A key factor to this success is on Waikawa for seven years. Waikawa has 12 regular population peak. ground, are small and very territorial the dedication of conservation “For me, islands — especially volunteers. Tuturuatu/shore plover were and curious,” said Helen Jonas, volunteers, whose work includes those that are wildlife reserves — A 10-year plan for tuturuatu/shore introduced to Waikawa (Portland a Department of Conservation monitoring birds and servicing are very special places,” he said. plover is being developed, which Island) off Mahia Peninsula in 1999. biodiversity ranger and lead for traplines. “It’s partly their isolation but includes the translocation of new By 2012, there were 37 breeding tuturuatu work on the island. “Volunteers have contributed mainly because of the endangered birds to Waikawa if required and pairs but a rat incursion decimated “The priority work on Waikawa around 450 hours to the project animals they provide a home for. swapping eggs with other tuturuatu the population to just four pairs is biosecurity — ensuring nothing in this season alone, said ranger “I enjoy being able to make a populations to keep the species from 10 individuals. bad has got to the island that could Jonas. “I couldn’t complete all the small contribution towards the genetically healthy. Since then, translocation, close devastate the birds like we’ve seen work without their help. conservation efforts of DoC. More information about monitoring and rigorous predator in the past. “It’s great to be a part of the buzz “My favourite thing about volunteering for DoC can be found control have resulted in the “We’re up four breeding pairs volunteers get from being on such shore plovers is their appealing on the doc.govt.nz website. Go to population steadily increasing. from last year and we have one a special place and coming face personality. “Volunteer” under the “Get Involved” There are now 82 of these ‘honeymoon couple’, who are in the to face with such rare and special “They must be virtually unique section at the top of the home critically threatened birds on the early phases of their relationship. birds. among wild birds by running page or doc.govt.nz/get-involved/ island, making up 33 percent of the “They’ve secured themselves “This week is National Volunteer towards people who enter their volunteer Mokairau sale a sellout, ‘credit to the family’ by Murray Robertson They had a top price of $10,000, a bull bought invested in are starting to come through now. “We got a sale result, and that’s the main by the Faulkner family from Wairakaia Station at “The bulls presented yesterday were a credit thing. MOKAIRAU Herefords at Whangara achieved Muriwai. to the family.” “To sell them all was very pleasing. a total clearance in their rising two-year-old The sale average was $6537. Studmaster Peter Reeves said they really “We’re always happy to get the result,” Mr bull sale on-farm yesterday, a sale that drew the “The bulls came through a very challenging appreciated the number of people who came to Reeves said. biggest crowd the stud has ever had. season very well and were the best lineup I support them. “It was also good that we escaped the worst of The stud put up 30 young bulls for sale, sold have seen at Mokairau for many years,” said “It was a huge crowd, the biggest we’ve ever the weather. 27 at auction, and the other three in the pens auctioneer Chris Hurlstone from PGG Wrightson. had, and we thank everyone who attended - “We had water for Africa lying around when afterwards. “The genetics that Peter and his family have buyers and supporters alike. the heavy rain came in the afternoon.” SALE DETAILS WE WILL COME TO YOU . . . Nuhiti Station $5500, $6000; Wairakaia Station QUALITY $8000, $10,000; Paringahau Station PAINT $6000, $6000, $6500, $6500, $6500; Treble COLOUR B Trust $5000; Monowai Station ADVICE $8000: R and J Utting $7000, $7000; AND Arowhana Station $7000, $6500, $6000, WALLPAPER GISBORNE $6500; Te Aroha Locally COLOR Farming $6000; SHOP FIND OF TH Te Aroha Farming T E owned R $6500; R Langlands A $7500; D W Roberts P and US GISBORNE $6000; J Thomas COMMUNITY SELL OUT SALE: The Reeves family from Mokairau Herefords $5000; Hikutai Farms operated 2 291 PALMERSTON RD 8 at Whangara were happy with the total clearance in their on-farm $8500; Iwinui Station 9 SINCE 1 sale yesterday morning. Lot 25 (above) sold for their top price of $5000, $6000, $7000, 32662-01 P. 06 868 4656 $10,000 in front of the biggest crowd the stud has attracted to its Amberly Farms Ltd annual sale. Picture by Paul Rickard $5000. WINTER HOURS: Monday-Friday 7.30-5.00pm, Saturday 9.00-1.00pm 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020

Stand back Govt’s ‘put tourism and‘ watch, National up, and see what’s going to on the back burner’ happen. —Winston’ Peters QUEENSTOWN — Queenstown disconnection somewhere, I know businesses are questioning why . . . that the government is checking Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis has in what’s happening here, but it Labour down been absent for so long from the definitely would be good to see their struggling resort town. actual support — this is a crisis — WELLINGTON — A new political poll last night Thousands of people have sought we feel like we need the support.” has Labour with enough support to govern alone welfare after the district’s main The government announced its despite a 9 percentage point swing from Labour to earner — tourism — ground to a $400 million Tourism Recovery Fund National. halt. last month along with an extension In the first 1 News Colmar Brunton poll since Todd Davis and Prime Minister Jacinda to the wage subsidy scheme. Muller took over as National leader, his party has Ardern will spend the day in the So far, some big names have risen to 38 percent support, still well behind Labour hard-hit district, which has been received a portion of the funding on 50 percent. welcomed by many businesses, but including AJ Hackett Bungy, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was also down 9 others say that the minister should Discover Waitomo and Whale Watch percentage points in the preferred PM stakes, but have been on the ground months Kaikoura. on 54 percent, was still far higher than Muller on 13 ago. Yeo wants to see more support percent. Fergburger Group general for small to medium-sized Muller told One News he was working hard and manager Stephen Bradley hopes the businesses, and a helping hand to focusing on the September 19 election, while Ardern tourism minister comes prepared lower rents while many try to get said she remained focused and a lot can change to open the government’s cheque back on their feet. between now and the election. book. KJet Queenstown director Shaun Those polled were asked about Muller’s So far none of their 130 staff have Kelly said tourism does not seem to performance so far; 36 percent approved, 27 percent been made redundant, but Bradley be a priority for this government. disapproved, while the rest were still making up said they will not be able to hold off “I think they’ve actually put their mind. The Greens are up 1 percentage point cuts for much longer. tourism on the back burner, the fact to 6 percent, just above the threshold to return to “The fear comes August that they’ve given New Zealand Rail Parliament without an electorate seat. September, and in particular $1.2 billion last month and tourism Act is on 3 percent and would have four MPs if October November, if we don’t get $400 million — they’re seriously leader David Seymour won Epsom. the bubble open that is crunch time out of touch with the reality of what New Zealand First has dropped to 2 percent and and businesses will go under. So I tourism brings to New Zealand.” would be out of Parliament unless Shane Jones won don’t think anyone’s really thinking He fears a transtasman bubble the Northland seat. The Maori Party and the New that far ahead, but that is the reality, may be months away. Conservatives are both on 1 percent. there is still a long road ahead “The government’s got to work For preferred PM, Judith Collins and Winston criticised as affecting fair trial rights. And National when you’re 85 percent reliant, your really hard with this quarantining, Peters also featured, both on 2 percent. has slammed the Government over the failure to test business, on overseas tourists and I believe they’ve dropped the ball Peters told One News its poll was rubbish. “Stand people in managed isolation, including calling for they’re not coming.” on it, they should have had the back and watch, and see what’s going to happen.” Health Minister David Clark to be sacked. He wants the tourism minister to infrastructure in place and ready to Forty one percent were optimistic about the The previous 1 News Colmar Brunton poll added front up with financial support for go before any expats come back. So economic outlook, while 45 percent were pessimistic. momentum to Muller’s challenge for the National businesses and to give immigrant that’s going to slow down the trans- The poll was taken from June 20 to 24, after the Party leadership, which he won last month. workers more security. Tasman and the international market failure to test people in managed isolation came to That poll was taken just after New Zealand had “We should have been visited coming into New Zealand.” light and the government announced new criteria for moved to Alert Level 2 and had National on 29 a lot more, you know the bounce- Base Backpackers Queenstown critical workers from overseas to enter New Zealand. percent — the lowest number in 15 years. back, we can’t make decisions general manager Marvin Freeman New Zealand First has also been in the headlines Former party leader Simon Bridges was on 5 about our business, we can’t plan, said without the bubble the town will for pushing the Auckland light rail decision beyond percent in the preferred PM stakes, well behind there’s been no information, there’s be in dire straits. the election, holding up a previous agreement to ease Ardern on 63 percent. Labour was on 59 percent, been no consultation, there’s been “Yeah it’s going to reshape the Covid-related commercial rent pains, and stalling more than enough to govern on its own. no walking down the street to see town, we’re going to have to adjust the progress of rape trial reforms that have been — NZ Herald us and talk to our people, so very into a very different environment, so surprised we haven’t seen more — it definitely would concern people but I guess glad that they’re here and it does concern myself.” now.” Adrian Januszkiewicz who is Treasury warning over $70 billion scheme Ziptrek Ecotours executive the director of the Canyon Swing, director Trent Yeo said it has been a Adventure Group and Fox Glacier WELLINGTON — Hundreds of outcomes of the Reserve Bank’s role easing programme) and therefore about tough couple of months. Guiding said while he has been background documents relating to in New Zealand’s economic recovery. the gains or losses likely to be charged “It’s kind of like being a free diver impressed with some of the the Government’s response to the The paper noted that the central bank against the indemnity,” the paper said. and no one told you you needed to government policies, he has not Covid-19 pandemic have been released has already reduced the official cash “It is plausible that the (quantitative hold your breath, we’ve kind of gone been as happy with the tourism this morning. The “document dump” rate (OCR) to 0.25 percent — and had easing programme) will return a net into hibernation and come out the minister. includes new information on measures no intention to go any lower. Instead, gain. However, there are significant other side, one of the things is to “There’s been a surprising at the border, the wage subsidy and the to help stimulate the economy, the downside risks.” That downside risks keep morale and the team together absence I guess in terms of feet health response. The Treasury warned Reserve Bank would buy tens of billions was the loss of billions of dollars. and that’s been always difficult. on the ground, and so in terms of Finance Minister Grant Robertson about of dollars’ worth of central and local “The Bank’s best estimate of large but “But we’ve gone from a fully building trust and relationships the “significant downside risks” of the Government bonds. plausible interest rate losses arising formed summer business to with the industry I think it’s really Reserve Bank’s historic $70 billion In total, the Reserve Bank bought $70 from the programme is a net loss of probably less than 10 percent of our important that he’s here and that he money printing programme. billion worth of bonds. But the Treasury $2.3 billion.” The Treasury also warned business upon opening on Level 2.” fronts and that he talks to people This included a bill to the taxpayers’ advised Robertson that the scheme that the programme could also add Yeo said it is important for the and understands what’s going on.” of more than $2 billion. A paper from could be problematic. “a few billion dollars” more to the tourism minister to be on the ground The tourism minister is expected the Treasury, dated May 6 and released “There is significant uncertainty Government’s expected $200 billion debt to see the damage. to make an announcement this today, detailed the options and potential about the returns on (the quantitative pool. — NZ Herald “Maybe there’s a bit of afternoon. — RNZ Māori culture for beginners

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32861-01 The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Changing travel trends mean more Covid-19 cases in NZ AUCKLAND — Kiwis should get used to seeing Brazil, India and the US. In the US, meanwhile, case numbers have risen for your OE, and there are still lots of Kiwis over many more reported cases of Covid-19, scientists The researchers had particularly tracked a to 2.35 million, with rates rising fast in California, there. “While we are still at risk of infections say, on the back of more travel from countries recent jump in the number of people coming Texas and Florida, and officials warning coming from the UK, it’s now much more global. hard hit with large outbreaks. to New Zealand from the US and India. between 130,000 and 150,000 Americans We’re seeing Covid-19 rising in places like South But they add there’s no cause for alarm, so On Wednesday, India reported will have died of Covid-19 by mid- America and obviously India — so it’s becoming long as travellers are being properly tested and nearly 16,000 new cases, bringing July. much harder to say there is a single country that quarantined. its official tally to more than Over the March and April is causing us problems, as it’s now much more Researchers at Te Punaha Matatini now 456,000 — a figure only behind period when the country was in widespread.” modelling the picture say around 12 new cases the US, Brazil and Russia — lockdown, the rate of positive Hendy said we should be wary of any could be expected each week in New Zealand, although the real count was likely cases among arrivals was about discrimination toward travellers from any although this figure could vary depending on higher. four per 1000 — although these countries — and stressed that the risk of a local arrival numbers. “The data out of India is not were largely from countries with outbreak was low as long as strict quarantine and That was partly down to the rising volume of brilliant — but the consensus is that low rates of infection, such as testing stayed in place. “I think we’ve just got to travellers — climbing from 1000 per week in mid- rates have been rapidly increasing Australia and Pacific Island nations. get used to the fact that we are in it for the long May, to more than 2500 in the past week — but over the past month or so,” said Professor More recently, many of the new cases haul — and this is something that’s going to be also the acceleration of the pandemic around the Michael Plank, of the University of Canterbury’s detected at the border had stemmed from the going on for quite a long time,” he said. world. School of Mathematics and Statistics. UK, Te Punaha Matatini director and University of “We were probably kidding ourselves with While Covid-19 was now having less of an “So that’s one area where we could say the Auckland physicist Shaun Hendy said. that string of zeroes — and the fact that we are impact in many places, including much of Europe, pandemic is accelerating, and that could be a “That partly reflects that a lot of people have detecting these cases at the border is a good it had stepped up in others — notably Mexico, driver in numbers (in New Zealand).” family members there, it’s a classic place to go thing.” — NZ Herald Clark’s remark revives Minimum wage Bloomfield-mania COMMENT by Audrey Young, isolation were not occurring. Twice hikes slash value NZ Herald Cabinet was told they had been happening but they weren’t. It is easy to cast Ashley Bloomfield Bloomfield apologised to the as the victim in the Government’s Government and took responsibility response to Covid. as public service ethics require of of education: study The Newshub video of his him. quivering lip and hang-dog look as That is exactly what David Clark Health Minister David Clark talked said yesterday: “The director general WELLINGTON — Higher the same period, from $10.50 in more than those who left with about recent testing failures has has accepted protocol wasn’t minimum wages have made 1997 to $16.50 in 2018 expressed UE ($281,300) and well ahead of revived the Ashley Bloomfield being followed; he has accepted it less worthwhile to get an in 2018 dollars. those with degrees ($233,800). defence society. responsibility for that and has set education, a new study says. The latest study, one of a However, the annual incomes There is no question he is a nice about putting it right.” The Ministry of Education series which the ministry has of those with degrees overtook guy, with integrity, sincerity, empathy It is not an equal relationship. The study shows that your future published, confirms that the the trades workers in 2016, and his mannerly approach gave Ashley Bloomfield defence society income will still be higher if financial advantage of tertiary seven years after leaving school people comfort during the worst times does not have a leg to stand on. you get a degree — but the education in New Zealand is one and four years after most of Covid. Nor, however, would the David relative advantage of a degree is of the lowest in the 37-nation completed their degrees. But he is not a victim. The Clark defence society, were it to exist. shrinking. Organisation for Economic “Based on existing data and infatuation of the public with the Clark was negligent in not keeping This is partly because of Cooperation and Development labour market conditions, it director general of health because of greater watch on the officials. His educational inflation — a lot (OECD). might take 12 years for the those personal attributes has blinded failing was not just in believing his more people are getting degrees, “New Zealanders with a cumulative earnings of a school- many to his clear failings. Journalists officials, it was not knowing what so the relative advantage of diploma or higher earn around leaver choosing to do a degree to were pilloried for doing their jobs and questions to ask. getting one over someone else is 32 percent more than their overtake those of their peers who asking sound questions. Ministers have to be able to tell the reducing. But it also reflects big counterparts with only an upper did a level 4 certificate instead,” The infatuation with Bloomfield difference between knowing what is increases in the minimum wage, secondary education, whereas the study says. masked failings during the Covid happening and thinking they know which have lifted the incomes this difference is 56 percent The financial advantage of a crisis, particularly over the supply and what is happening. of people with no qualifications across the OECD,” it says. degree varied widely by subject. use of personal protective equipment, Managed isolation minister Megan faster than average wages, so However, the financial Predictably, by 2016, young testing criteria, and presentation of Woods is getting daily updates of incomes have become more advantages of tertiary education medical graduates earned the results. arrivals and departures and day-three equal. in New Zealand are similar highest incomes averaging But timing matters. As Winston testing and day-12 testing. It is what After adjusting for inflation, to Australia and the Nordic $118,000. Average earnings in Peters alluded to in Question Time Clark should have been getting. In median hourly incomes have countries and “suggest that New other fields included $65,000 for today, errors are expected in a crisis, the absence of it, Clark should have increased by about 15 percent Zealand has a narrower spread both law and computer science, lessons are learned and they are asked for it. in real terms from 1998 to 2018 of incomes relative to the OECD $64,000 for accounting, $63,000 fixed. Some errors are understandable What Clark said about Bloomfield for workers aged 25 to 34 with average”. The latest study finds for mechanical engineering, and forgivable. was not wrong. It was hypocritical for no qualifications, compared that the 2018 average incomes of $52,000 for teaching, $46,000 for After the crisis however, some a minister who has not admitted his with real increases of 10 New Zealanders who left school graphics and design and $42,000 blunders are not excusable. own failings on the testing debacle. percent for workers with school in 2009 and were working in NZ for performing arts. The average There are some who refuse to But it was no surprise from a qualifications and only 8 percent in 2018 were: for all bachelor’s graduates was accept Bloomfield was responsible minister who did not know what is for workers with degrees. After allowing for the years $55,000. for the major failure that only came to appropriate and what is not. “This is likely to reflect that students took out of the Overall, one in three people light after two women were released Both are decent people. Neither progressive increases in the workforce to study, those with with degrees earned less than early from managed isolation and are the villains in the stark way social national minimum wage,” the level 4 trades certificates the median income of people then tested positive. media defines the world. study says. actually earned more with only school qualifications. It was only then that it was revealed They are both lucky the failings After adjusting for inflation, cumulatively over the nine years On average, women still earn the day three and day 12 tests were discovered early and did not the adult minimum wage jumped to 2018 than any other group - a less than men at every level of Bloomfield had promised had been lead to a new outbreak of community by 57 percent in real terms in cumulative $286,600, slightly qualifications. — NZ Herald occurring for people in managed transmission. Kiri Allan List MP living in East Coast

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021 563 506 (Whakatane) /KiriAllanLabourMP 32963-01 Authorised by Kiri Allan, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 Kicked, hit, slapped and bitten Quarter of primary school teachers feel unsafe in classroom: survey by John Gerritsen, RNZ experience disruptions, but there “It’s clear that the resources were no decile-based differences in schools are not being matched WELLINGTON — Rising for feeling unsafe. to the need that we’re seeing violence in primary schools has The survey, which runs every through the school gates, so this reached the point where one-in- three years, found that children’s needs to be resolved quickly.” four teachers feel unsafe in their wellbeing and mental health Auckland Primary Principals’ own classroom — double the was one of the top problems for Association president Heath figure from three years earlier, a primary school principals. McNeil said principals were national survey shows. The results were based on reporting more problems with The Council for Educational survey responses from 145 five-year olds now. Research (NZCER) study found principals, 620 teachers, 126 “There has been a growing 24 percent of primary school school trustees, and 395 parents awareness of the self-regulation teachers reported sometimes in 2019. The NZCER said that skills that some of the children feeling unsafe in their the response rate was the lowest are coming in with — or the lack classrooms last year, up from 12 since the surveys began in 1989, of that self-regulation,” he said. percent in 2016, while 1 percent and the maximum margin of “That often manifests in often felt unsafe, the same figure error for principals’ responses kicking, scratching and biting as in 2016. was 8.1 percent and 3.9 percent behaviours.” In addition, 23 percent felt for teachers’ responses. These sorts of behaviours have unsafe in their The president been increasing, Mr McNeil said. school grounds of the Educational pupils so that they could develop “We’re seeing the effect of that He also said the increase in occasionally last Mr Rush said the Institute, Liam good relationships and avoid trauma and crisis in classrooms teachers feeling unsafe was year, up from 11 Rutherford, said misbehaviour. and we do not have sufficient likely to be due, in part, to the percent in 2016, problem appeared the survey results Principals’ Federation resources to deal with it,” Mr rules that restricted physical and 2 percent to be caused by reinforced reports president Perry Rush said he Rush said. intervention when children frequently felt an increase in the from the union’s was currently visiting hundreds “We’re seeing young people misbehaved. unsafe, up from 1 members about of principals throughout who are exhibiting behaviours “There’s a lack of control percent. number of children violence from their the country, and they had that are violent, we’re seeing over the situation, so there’s The report coming from violent pupils. been telling him that severe young people melt down in sort of anxiety particularly if said 25 percent homes. “We’re getting behaviour was their biggest classrooms, we’re seeing young the child has a history of these of teachers often the entire concern. people that are disrupting other sorts of incidents. As a teacher experienced spectrum — all Mr Rush said the problem students around them and, in you’re conscious of what could serious disruption the way from appeared to be caused by an some instances, we’re seeing develop and sometimes you’re from children in their classroom, students using bad language increase in the number of teachers and other students who hamstrung by the legislation.” up from 17 percent in 2016, most and defiance through to teachers children coming from violent are being hurt — physically hurt The survey found 90 percent teachers (77 percent) dealt with being kicked, hit, slapped and homes. — and, of course, emotionally of principals enjoyed their jobs, at least one incident of extreme bitten. “We have significant harmed by these disruptive but they were more tired and behaviour last year, and most “These are the realities for a challenges in this modern age actions in classrooms.” stressed than in previous years. (69 percent) wanted more help to large proportion of our teachers.” with young people who are Mr Rush said schools needed It said 59 percent reported manage such behaviour. Mr Rutherford added that experiencing crisis or trauma trained counsellors and others high or extremely high stress It said teachers in lower-decile teachers needed to be able to in their lives, for a range of who could help children deal levels, up from 47 percent in schools were more likely to spend more time with their different reasons. with trauma in their lives. 2016 and 37 percent in 2010. PRINTED PENS – SPECIAL GP questions the new Promote your business criteria for Covid test with custom logo pens by Amy Williams, RNZ for only those deemed high-risk. The Director General of Health Dr Ashley JOHN & CO PLUMBING 123 ABC STREET - GISBORNE AUCKLAND — There is concern raising the Bloomfield said an increase in the number of bar to get a Covid-19 test has come too early, as people getting Covid-19 tests was due in part CLEO PEN - Code 107060 winter ills surge and recent border lapses play to the emergence of common winter ills and it Retractable plastic and metal ball pen with a sot touch grip on people’s minds. would be important for wide testing to continue and shiny chrome trim Yesterday was the first day in which the to rule out community transmission. 11 Colours available Ministry of Health no longer required people Fiona Bolden — chairperson for the Rural with any cold or flu-like symptoms to get a GP Network — said the narrowing of criteria for 500 pens for $0.77 each +GST swab — unless they were deemed at high risk mandatory testing was expected to lessen GPs’ 1000 pens for $0.71 each +GST or connected to travel or to the workloads. border. Until now, GPs have had Anyone with sniffles could Dr Coffee said it to swab every patient with a JOHN & CO PLUMBING still get a test, however, if their sniffle. 123 ABC STREET - GISBORNE was important for doctor recommended it. “We’ve had the surge of The change in mandatory- anyone with cold or winter colds and flus that ARIA PEN - Code 106162 testing criteria for Covid-19 flu-like symptoms normally come along at this Retractable aluminium ball pen with a matt anodised barrel has surprised some, including to stay at home and time of year as well, and and shiny chrome accents. It has a black reill with 800 metres Christchurch GP Dermot what that has meant is that of writing ink and the barrell laser engraves to an oxidised white colour. Coffee, who said mandatory to seek advice from there has been more work for 9 Colours available testing should have been kept their family doctor GPs to do around managing 500 pens for $1.67 each +GST up over winter. “The problem about getting tested respiratory illnesses, which with Covid is that it can mimic has involved us having to 1000 pens for $1.58 each +GST these illnesses as it can be for Covid-19. swab more people.” very mild.” Dr Bolden said the change He said testing is the in criteria would also benefit JOHN & CO PLUMBING only sure way to detect the coronavirus from some patients. “Some cases have been quite 123 ABC STREET - GISBORNE common winter illnesses. annoyed at the thought of having to be tested “An abundance of caution is needed. We’ve when they’ve got what they see as just being DAYTONA PEN - Code 104330 gone from Level 4 to Level 1 over the past four a sniffle. It takes a lot of the pressure off us 9 Colours available to five weeks and it’s just too early for this. now when we don’t feel that we have to do that 500 pens for $2.35 each +GST “We were feeling confident two weeks ago, anymore . . . we just need to offer it to them.” 1000 pens for $2.26 each +GST but the border issue has completely changed The ministry released its guidance to the overall feeling.” health professionals about the new criteria on More than 10,000 people were tested for Wednesday night. Many more options available to choose from! Covid-19 on Wednesday, compared with 9000 However, Dr Coffee said there was no clear Contact Lynda today to discuss your needs on the day before, bringing the total tested so far information about what the changes meant for to just over 368,000 as of yesterday. those who were working on the front line and 06 869 0047 or [email protected] It was busy at the St Lukes drive-in clinic in seeing the now lower-risk patients. Auckland yesterday, where people waited more He said it was important anyone with cold or than an hour to get tested. flu symptoms stays home and to seek advice Many had cold symptoms and preferred to be from their family doctor about getting tested for 32251-05 62 Peel Street • 06 869 0040 tested, despite the change in criteria requiring it Covid-19. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 9 Desperate for clarity over visas by Gill Bonnett, RNZ Iain Lees-Galloway, said back then he wanted to review how it WELLINGTON — Families operated. who were on the cusp of gaining He said the Government was residence when coronavirus now taking its time to work struck are in despair that they through the new residence policy. may lose their immigration “Residency is an important dream at the final hurdle. policy — it’s not something that Skilled workers have lost jobs should be rushed,” he said. or been on reduced hours, and “The main thing is that the visas of one family who had residency applications continue been in the country for more to be processed as per the last than a decade expired while they residency planning range, so on were out of the country. that issue, nothing has changed. Meanwhile, the Government But I am advised that processing said it was now unlikely to has been affected by Covid-19 — announce its new residence as you would expect.” policy before the election. His spokesperson said a About 39,000 people and their decision had been expected families are waiting for news before September’s election, but on their residence applications that was now unlikely. — 32,000 of them as skilled In a statement, Immigration migrants. New Zealand (INZ) rejected the Some of the applications not suggestion there had been a yet allocated to an immigration failure of service by INZ. officer for assessment date as far “INZ’s role as a regulator is to back as December 2018. STUCK OFFSHORE: Diego and Carolina Rodriguez and their daughters, Sophia and Olivia, are process applications in line with stranded in Colombia after living in New Zealand for 11 years. Picture supplied the NZRP planning range set by the government of the day,” said Diego Rodriguez and Nicola Hogg, general manager of his wife, Carolina, are on with reduced hours. hardship, our main income problems instead of wedding border and visa operations. concerned their path to “I’m really worried that the comes from my salary, which was dresses. “The Government is currently company can’t really survive over stopped when my visa expired on Immigration adviser Erin working through the new NZRP. residence may have been the next few months, so I don’t April 9.” Goodhue said people were getting In the meantime, INZ will spirited away because know where my future will be — They are worried their 11 no information on what would continue to process applications of an ill-timed trip to see even in the best-case scenario, years of work in New Zealand happen if they lost their jobs. at the same volume and with my company could be doing well, could count for nothing, as they “Given the circumstances, it the same level of resourcing the family in Colombia. but my visa could end in May struggle to get back through would be kind of immigration previous NZRP allowed for.” next year. the border to their farm near to allow a bit of leeway and to All applicants had to meet “If I can’t get residency by Ashburton in time for calving. allow those people to find new immigration requirements for Jessie Le, from Vietnam, then, I don’t know if I will be Another woman, who works in jobs within a certain timeframe, residence at the time their applied in April last year, when able to apply for a new visa with IT and asked not to be named, but there’s just been no application was decided, she said. the expected waiting time for a the company or look for a job — applied for residency in April last announcement made.” “When processing residence decision was six to eight months. it’s all unknown and everything year, when the expected waiting The backlog was causing stress applications, if not already She is worried that by the time is just a mess.” time was about seven months. even for those who felt their jobs provided, INZ will often request her application is assessed, her Diego Rodriguez and his wife, “They told me it would take were stable. further or updated information job as a marketing specialist Carolina, are concerned their six months for the case officer “If you recognise that there is from individuals to ensure a could have fallen victim to the path to residence may have allocation,” she said. a failure, where is the plan to decision is being made based on coronavirus downturn. been spirited away because of “That didn’t happen. I called improve things and get things the latest information available. “Personally, I feel that the an ill-timed trip to see family in them after eight months. They moving? “INZ also engages with the Government is doing this just Colombia. then said it would take one year. “I think that is what is applicant if there are concerns because they don’t want to They arrived in New Zealand “So I called them after a year, creating a lot of anxiety and with the application (for example, proceed with our applications, so in 2009 and their daughters, and now they’re saying ‘we don’t people are thinking ‘how can we job loss, the job doesn’t meet they just let us wait forever and Sophia and Olivia, were born in know when it will happen’.” have such a huge backlog and immigration requirements, etc) maybe, you know, some of us will Christchurch. She says it is a “money-making not have any intent to fix it?’ and provides the applicant with give up. “Last October, we had trick” to charge $3500 to apply “There is a lot of anxiety the opportunity to comment “Because, the way they do it the opportunity to apply for for a residency visa, then more among the migrant community before a decision on the right now . . . they just (seem residency through a unique than $400 when temporary visas that immigration are going to application is made. to) pick ‘priority’ applications, category — the ‘Work to expire in the meantime. do what they did back in 2012 “Over the last year, demand such as people who earn a Residence South Island “Why? Why the hell am I and just wipe the slate clean for the SMC and Residence huge amount of money or have Contribution pathway’,” said Mr paying all this extra money just essentially and start again. Then from Work sub-stream has risen registered occupations. Rodriguez, an assistant farm because they didn’t process it in all those applications would just significantly and the number “So, I’m just waiting . . . manager. time? I just feel that it’s a big be wiped out. of on-hand applications has It’s like a ‘non-future’ for me “It is a policy that recognises scam. Taking money from us “I don’t know whether that’s a increased considerably. This has right now because I can’t plan long and strong work connections while we are just waiting — it’s reality or a possibility but that resulted in longer decision times anything like getting married or in the South Island. just telling us to go back home in is the fear — that while these for applicants. settling down. I was thinking of “So I am in a tricky and a different way.” people are waiting, any number “It is the responsibility of the running my own small business, vulnerable situation. The last She and her partner were due of things can happen to them.” individual to ensure they remain but now I can’t do anything.” three months have been really to get married this spring, but The residence programme lawfully in New Zealand while When coronavirus came along, stressful and difficult. This she said she now found herself (NZRP) expired in December their residence application is her company agreed to keep her situation has put us in economic Googling her mental health and the immigration minister, being decided.” Increased dolphin protection plan ‘kick in guts’ say commercial fishers by Conan Young, RNZ “As a mammal, they can travel a lot funded cameras on trawlers in from the top of the island all the way And while Nash now had the ability faster than that. For some reason, they areas where Hector’s dolphins down to New Plymouth. to close the fishery if one more Maui CHRISTCHURCH — Commercial occasionally get caught on a trawl net. lived, something Mr Stark said was Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash said dolphin died in a net, Ms Slooten said fishers say the plan to protect some We are unable to ascertain the reason unnecessary. the economic cost fell on 25 operators even one more death could send that of the rarest dolphins in the world was why that is.” “I have no particular issue with and stood at between $30 million to population into an uncontrollable tail another kick in the guts for a sector After very little activity during cameras apart from the fact that I $70m, but that compensation would be spin towards extinction. already down for the count due to lockdown, his business was now think they’re a giant waste of money available. “And, in the threat-management Covid-19. struggling with reduced demand for and resources. At the end of the “We will work very closely with plan, clearly there’s a trade off being Released on Wednesday, the fish, and he said his business did not day, they’re just trying to prove that the affected communities. I mean, made and it looks like a lot more plan expanded the area where Maui need further restrictions placed on it. fishermen are criminals, when clearly obviously, because it’s a small attention is being paid to the economic dolphins were free from the threat of But after a 10-month wait to see we’re not.” industry, we know exactly who the cost of these protection measures than the fishers’ net, but kicked the can what was in the plan, he was still none But while uncertainty remained players are. to the benefits to the dolphins.” down the road on other measures to the wiser. for this operation, others had been “Fisheries New Zealand has been If New Zealand was not careful, its safeguard Hector’s dolphins. Wednesday’s announcement came delivered clarity. making phone calls to support these seafood industry could end up on a Andrew Stark, who runs four fishing with promises of more consultation on Bans on set nets, which were the fishers and that support will be black list like the one the United States trawlers off the Canterbury coast, measures involving Mr Stark’s trawlers. biggest threat to both species, had ongoing.” had for fish caught in waters that were said the industry’s submission to “Business requires stability, clarity been expanded to the top of the South Dolphin expert Liz Slooten said the home to the nearly-extinct Vaquita the Department of Conservation and and certainty. So, when you go through Island and along large parts of the plan did not go nearly far enough, dolphin, she said. MPI, ahead of Wednesday’s decision, an extensive consultation period, East Coast of the South Island. given the perilous position of both With only 19 left after years of included research showing the number which closed in September last year — On the West Coast of the North species of dolphin. She disputed the inaction on set nets, Ms Slooten said of nationally vulnerable Hector’s and we’re now near the end of June — Island, home to the remaining 63 sector’s claim that the Hector’s dolphin said it was probably too late for this dolphins was actually increasing. it’s a bitter pill to swallow really.” Maui dolphins, the set-net ban population was increasing, noting their species. She was urging authorities “We trawl at a known speed of two One of the ideas requiring further now stretched from Northland to numbers were only a third of what they here not to make the same mistake to three knots. consultation was placing taxpayer- Wellington, while trawling was banned were 50 years ago. with our dolphins. 10 BUSINESS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 Investors remain upbeat despite virus uncertainty

WELLINGTON — Rob Everett said there investors, although he interest rates are and are Nearly half of those Volatile financial markets were likely a couple of noted the level of distrust likely to be for some time, surveyed had made and slumping share reasons why confidence in markets did increase, and governments are some sort of investment prices caused by the had held up. “The survey and more than half of pumping money in and over the past year, pandemic do not seem was done after the those whose confidence keeping market high.” ranging from making to have dented investor markets bounced back had waned cited the “But I would anticipate, or considering new confidence to any degree, towards their pre-Covid coronavirus as the reason. unless we’re all very investments, through to according to a survey by levels, and also New He said it was possible wrong about the economic signing up for KiwiSaver, the Financial Markets Zealand looked pretty that sentiment would impacts of Covid-19, that while buying shares or Authority (FMA), but a good compared to the rest turn sour as strongly the gap between where buying into managed dose of reality might be of the world in terms of rebounding markets faced markets are and where investment funds were on the way. Covid so I think there up to the pandemic’s the global economy is the most favoured assets. The annual survey, was possibly a bit more economic consequences. going to be will narrow,” Awareness of the taken during the optimism around at that “There’s a number he said. FMA’s job as regulator lockdown, showed 66 time.” of features keeping The survey also showed was marginally higher percent of respondents Everett said it might the markets at what about 82 percent had at 37 percent, with more were confident in the be that messages of many call artificial some form of investment, than 68 percent confident markets — fractionally reassurance and action highs, there’s the lack with KiwiSaver the most in effective regulation of higher than last year. taken by various agencies of anywhere else to put widely-held investment, the country’s financial FMA chief executive also helped to calm money given where ahead of term deposits. markets. — RNZ Wall Street rally could help local sentiment

WELLINGTON — The local investments into venture capital and above economists’ expectations for any further phases to open Texas as from the so-called trans-Tasman travel stock market may recoup some of similar funds. a 10.3 percent increase, according to the state responded to the recent bubble might come under renewed yesterday’s losses after Wall Street The banks would also be able to MarketWatch. increase in positive Covid-19 cases pressure. turned positive despite ongoing avoid setting aside cash for derivative “The rebound in manufacturing and hospitalisations. The New Zealand dollar remained worries about the rising number of trades between different units of and other key parts of the economy “This temporary pause will help our in a tight range, trading at 64.34 US Covid-19 cases. the same firm, potentially freeing up suggests the US may have already state corral the spread until we can cents at 8am versus 64.17 cents at The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 Index billions of dollars in capital for the exited what could turn out to be the safely enter the next phase of opening 5pm yesterday. fell 1.2 percent yesterday. industry. shortest and deepest recession in our state for business,” he said in a ANZ Bank remained bearish on the US stocks were helped when US The Dow Jones Industrial Average American history,” it said. statement. kiwi after the central bank’s monetary banking regulators eased two rules was up 1.3 percent at 8am, while both Overhanging the stock market rally, New Zealand investors were also policy statement this week. covering large banks. the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 had however, were ongoing concerns keeping a close eye on Australia, The bank held rates at 0.25 percent According to CNBC, Federal gained 1.1 percent. about the resurgence of Covid-19 in which was seeing a new outbreak, but kept the door open to further Deposit Insurance Commission Overnight data also helped several parts of the US. particularly in the state of Victoria. measures, including foreign asset officials said the move would allow sentiment, with orders for US durable Texas governor Greg Abbott Stocks with exposure to Australia purchases. banks to more easily make large goods surging 15.8 percent in May, announced the state would “pause” and stocks that might have benefitted — BusinessDesk Northland fears impact of potential Marsden Point downsize by Andrew McRae, RNZ number of well-paid workers would Marsden Point was a significant import terminal would mean reducing a piece of kit elsewhere in the world, likely leave the region. contributor to the local economy and the size of the business. that is ten times the size and obviously NORTHLAND — Northland is Northland Chamber of Commerce cutbacks would be felt deeply. “It’s a different operation, absolutely. has much lower unit costs.’’ nervously awaiting a decision on chief executive Steve Smith said any “Any reduction in that business A lot of the facilities we have today About 30 percent of transport fuel is whether the Marsden Point Refinery reduction at the refinery would have a has an impact on our overall GDP we would continue to use but there already imported into New Zealand as will be downsized to become a fuel devastating effect on the region. for the district, and obviously for the are other facilities that we would not refined and ready to go straight into a import terminal only. “Because of the sheer volume of nation, so any reduction in that is not continue to use.’’ vehicle. Refining NZ, which whanau that are welcomed.’’ The three big petrol companies, Gull gets most of its fuel this way owns the plant, said it supported by people Refining NZ said Marsden Point was Mobil, Z Energy and BP, are the major and has done so for over 20 years. was one option it was The company working there, it is a not paying its way and the business shareholders in Refining NZ and also Gull’s general manager Dave Bodger seriously considering said it was trying huge concern.’’ model needed to change. its biggest customers. said it allowed them to pick and as it redefined itself to simplify its Smith said turning However, its chief executive, Z Energy said turning Marsden choose where they got their fuel, and in the wake of lower it into just a fuel Naomi James, said it was premature Point into an import terminal was the for a good price. fuel prices and cheap operations to keep importing terminal to conclude that replacing refining best outcome for the refinery and the “You need fuel to New Zealand supply from Asia, the business viable. was the last thing oil with imported refined fuel would country. specification, you want certain which has reduced the region wanted or happen. Chief executive Mike Bennetts said characteristics, you want a good refining margins. needed. “At this stage, what we are saying is the refinery was at a disadvantage due supply chain, there are all sorts of The company said “If you are only that we are going to move into detailed to its small size. things (to consider), but there is more it was trying to simplify its operations operating a tank farm, which is planning to simplify the refinery to “It’s a long, long way from markets choice than just through one refinery in order to keep the business viable. affectively what that option is, I can’t make it as competitive as we can to and it’s competing against refineries that you may have an interest in in The refinery, which was opened in imagine that the levels of employment extend operations into 2021, and in that are larger and frankly have lower ramping the revenue on as well.’’ 1964, employs about 400 people as would remain anywhere near where parallel with that exploring that as a operating costs, particularly around The final decision on the future look well as many contractors. they are now.’’ future option.’’ energy and labour, so it’s really, really of the refinery would be made later If the plant was downsized, a Whangarei Mayor Sheryl Mai said She said turning the plant into a hard for something to compete against this year.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY 6000 staff, in a plan to cut costs by A$15 billion of between $17.5m and $19m, excluding over three years. Australia’s national carrier impairments of its Togo exit, in the year ending is also raising up to A$1.9bn to strengthen its June 30. WELLINGTON — New Zealand shares joined domestically, with the Australian state of Victoria balance sheet. Refining NZ decreased 2.6 percent to 76 a global sell-off as fears the Covid-19 pandemic recording 33 new cases, its biggest increase in Air NZ dropped 7.9 percent, to $1.29, and was cents, after saying it planned to simplify its had a new lease of life weighed on the outlook more than two months. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 the day’s most traded stock, with 7.6 million operations and focus on supplying fuel into for company earnings. Index was down 2.2 percent in late trading. shares changing hands. New Zealand’s national Northland and Auckland. It was also weighing Air New Zealand dropped as transtasman “Increasing cases on the international carrier had already laid off 4000 staff and up a staged transition to an import terminal, rival Qantas Airways announced a major scene have given rise to fears of an increase planned to keep shrinking its workforce while it something shareholder Z Energy was in favour restructuring. in lockdowns and future lockdowns, and that hoped to rebuild towards profitability by 2022. of. Z shares fell 1.4 percent, to $2.75. The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell 155.05 points to doesn’t help businesses one little bit,” said Williamson said the moves by Qantas were Spark New Zealand fell 3.3 percent, to $4.42, 11,124.36. Within the index, 40 stocks declined, Grant Williamson, a director at Hamilton Hindin not unexpected given the issues facing aviation. F&P Healthcare declined 0.5 percent, to $30.91, nine rose and one was unchanged. Turnover Greene. The dual-listed lenders were also off the and a2 Milk was up 0.2 percent, at $19.43. was $184.7 million, of which Fisher & Paykel Companies with exposure to Australia led the pace, with Australia & New Zealand Banking Skellerup Holdings posted the day’s biggest Healthcare accounted for $55.4m. market lower, with Kathmandu Holdings down Group down 3.7 percent, at $19.60, and Westpac increase, up 2.4 percent, at $2.17, after saying Stock markets across Asia followed Wall 8.1 percent at $1.14, Fletcher Building falling 7.1 Banking Corp falling 3.6 percent to $18.75. it expected to report an annual profit of more Street lower as the growing number of new percent to $3.56 and Heartland Group declining Tourism Holdings fell 3.7 percent, to $1.85. than $28m in the 12 months ending June 30. Covid cases had investors on edge that the 2.4 percent to $1.23. After trading closed, the campervan rental The rubber goods maker said customer demand global economic pain would be longer than they Ryman Healthcare, which has properties in operator said it did not need to raise new equity was recovering, and that it had repaid the NZ had been expecting, keeping a lid on company Melbourne, dropped 3.2 percent to $12.96. after reaching an agreement with its lenders Government’s wage subsidy after its sales earnings. Qantas unveiled its response to the situation for debt funding of up to $225m. The company decline was not as severe as had been feared. Those concerns were becoming more acute in Australia, announcing plans to lay off at least said it expected to report an underlying profit — BusinessDesk The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 OPINION 11 EDITORIAL On affiliation to NZ Sport Fishing Council Shot of confidence Re: Majority want membership change for all the affiliated clubs in NZ to preserve the such like. Since the GTSFC’s inception, at fishing club, June 25 story. fishery for all recreational fisher people and their and as part of its constitution, it is $70,000 is simply too much money, descendants. The affiliation fee also includes stipulated that it shall be affiliated to the for National, Muller probably going to the inflated wages of the NZSFC Year Book, New Zealand and World NZ Sport Fishing Council — which is a After an uninspiring start as people in the national body. The easy Record Game Fishes and NZSFC and IGFA rules good thing. National Party leader, Todd Muller thing would be to pull out and then see and angling regulations. To do so it pays the council a fee of what the national body does, as it seems If people are not prepared to pay this affiliation $11.00 per member. This is collected has debuted in two political polls not to want to reduce the fees paid. fee, perhaps they should look at joining another as part of the membership fee; $11 per now at 13 percent backing as Why should the club split and have all club! Dave, perhaps this is you. annum, 22c per week. Very minimal preferred prime minister — and in the extra admin that would go with that? HILTON WEBB in a big picture, considering the the One News Colmar Brunton poll Most of us are only interested in fishing Life member NZSFC and GTSFC representation it gets. out last night, has seen his party’s the local events anyway. It is the obligation of the club to advise fortunes rise nine points to 38 DAVE A little misleading and disappointing. its members of this and it is not about percent support. As president of the NZ Angling and how many times anyone fishes, it is The rolling of Simon Bridges a day Hey Dave, where do you get the $70,000 from? Casting Assoc and a member of the about the rules of belonging to this club. after the last poll in this series had The club has only ever paid $55,000 less GST NZ Sport Fishing Council, I have been Likewise, it is not about the big cheque, it National on just 29 percent seems (2019) and the affiliation fee of $11 is added to watching this with interest. is about passing on the $11 collected from the club subscription, $9 to NZSFC and $2 to Some facts. This issue surrounds the each member. to have helped put the party back the Marine Research Foundation and passed Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club into contention, less than three on to the NZSFC, the national body working Incorporated, not the Citizens Club or JIM YEOMAN, Hawke’s Bay months out from the election. The new leadership team, their MPs and the party’s supporters will gain LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS confidence from this lift in fortunes. Of course, with the latest We are a connected part Colmar polling having taken Symptom of deeper issues place amid rolling news coverage Re: Let’s be open, candid — and family violence makes of our homeless whanau and commentary on the border June 25 letter. the placement of these blunders that put the nation’s Placement or replacement models somewhat small in Re: A roof and a bed help responsible for keeping them pandemic sacrifices at risk, Muller of the Endeavour models comparison. Rick find his feet, June 24 in that space. and his team have benefited from isn’t really the problem Finding an agreeable story. What I have learned over disillusionment with the Government that needs to be addressed. solution to their placement The true heroes are our the past four months is that for those who had rallied around it It’s a symptom of deeper thereof or not shouldn’t let us shelter whanau who have they are there to show us how more difficult problems forget the real Elephant in the chosen to stay. we are failing. and admired the Prime Minister’s encompassing our society. room — the reconstruction of Every day I wonder to Our guys are simply the handling of the health crisis. Inequity, unemployment, our society for the good of all. myself how we, as people who best. They have accepted us as In that regard, Muller and his homelessness, race relations, have so much, ever walked we are and we have accepted party have been gifted much of drug and alcohol abuse, PJ REED past them and continue to them as they are. It took so this bounce in support. To take it walk past them. How did they little, something we take for further they now need to clearly become so invisible to us? granted every day — a meal, articulate their vision for the When we see ourselves a warm bed, a roof over their country’s economic recovery, keep Whinging won’t help . . . as a connected part of our head and aroha. making hits on the Government and Is anyone else as fed up as I Now it’s all a case of let’s tear homeless whanau, we can We are whanau now, not a am with National Party negativity? down Dr Bloomfield, the Prime then understand that we did shelter. have the new leader out connecting not put them there, but we are LIZZ CRAWFORD successfully with communities. All this fuss about some mistakes Minister and the Minister of Health. Labour has fallen back to 50 made over Kiwis returning home Are we meant to believe that percent from a stratospheric 59 and not always being as carefully National would just naturally have checked as they should be. People done it all better? percent a little over a month ago; make mistakes — get over it! I doubt it very much and am sick Jacinda Ardern’s rating as preferred National couldn’t criticise the and tired of their whinging. If they On ‘history being erased’ PM has also slid nine points, to a Government during the Covid- keep this up until the elections Re: Every book rewritten Please treat people with still highly impressive 54 percent. 19 lockdown because it was so they will be beaten even more . . . June 13 letter. kindness. Empathy and love are With voters focused on the major obvious they were doing a superb thoroughly, and a good thing too. Thanks Patrick, a great the only things that dignify us as parties, there is limited oxygen for job in controlling the situation. The article of what is happening humans and keep society sane. New Zealand First and Winston whole world knew that. L. MILLER here in the US. It’s so hard If you really don’t want history Peters — whose attempts to create to believe this is happening to be erased, please educate some with characteristic bombast right before our eyes, and yourself on what you weren’t and belligerence of late appear to About making your case no one is saying or doing taught in school and open your have backfired; NZ First was on just anything about it. heart to see other points of view. Re: Unite against Labour about writing an argument at school, 1.8 percent support in this poll. Riots are the voice of the . . . June 24 letter. here are some basic guidelines. TIM WILSON, Ohio unheard. If silent protests have Heading in the other direction is Unite with Labour, not 1. Make your point (which you failed to prove the point to those National’s one friend in Parliament, against. Put yourself in their have done). If you want to talk about who won’t listen, more extreme David Seymour and his ACT Party. At shoes. 2. Provide your reasons for history being erased, you measures must be taken to 3.1 percent as in this poll, securing Sorry, not you Reg Hart. making that point. Nail your colours cannot ignore the centuries genuinely be heard. the Epsom seat again would mean You’re too childish to to the mast. (Text to Self.) of oppression that countless also bringing in three extra MPs. understand. 3. Provide recent examples, minorities were subjected to ANNIE GREENMAN, Canada The centre right is still a long way BERNIE KAA quotes, stats etc to demonstrate under these “historical heroes”. from having the numbers to form your position. No one wants to erase the Perfect words, Patrick! a government, but it is back to Hi Reg, what an interesting 4. Reiterate your point, including history, but acknowledge the Unfortunately, it’s the new your opinion. Try to tie your point within striking distance and there comment. I invite you to explain pain that these statues create reality we must endure and what makes you say so. back to wider events beyond NZ or by glorifying people who traded struggle against. Hopefully is everything to play for now as the It is much easier for people your community. (If you can, that’s slaves and treated people so people will wake up from parties and candidates finalise their to judge the veracity of your called Text to World.) poorly. History is always told by this at some point . . . pitches to the nation. opinion and advice if you back up If you can do that, great. the side of the victor and gives a No party has had majority support statements with objective evidence, Otherwise you sound uninformed. very biased perspective on how NICHOLAS CAMPOS to govern alone in the MMP era, data, and perhaps even alternatives. things went down. São Paulo, Brazil and with Labour back on 50 percent In case you missed the lessons LARA MEYER now the performance of the Green Party — on 6 percent in this poll [email protected] — is critical. The odds are still very ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. much in favour of a Labour-Green ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. government for the next term, but ■ Always include full name and contact details. they have narrowed. ■ 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 • Friday, June 26, 2020 Covid-19 resurgence in Europe alarms WHO

LONDON — Europe has seen an Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Geneva. increase in weekly cases of Covid-19 for German Health Minister Jens Spahn the first time in months as restrictions said his country planned to give more are eased, the World Health Organisation than 500 million euros ($873m) in money says. and equipment to the agency this year. Accelerated transmission has led to a He stressed that global pandemics “very significant resurgence” in 11 places needed a global co-ordinated response, including Armenia, Sweden, Moldova and adding: “Isolated national answers to North Macedonia, said the organisation’s international problems are doomed to regional director Dr Hans Henri Kluge. fail.” His warnings about the risk of France’s health minister, Olivier Veran, resurgence had become reality, he said. promised 50m euros ($87m) in direct If left unchecked, he warned health funding for the WHO and another 90m systems would be “pushed to the brink”. euros ($157) for its research centre in More than 2.6 million cases of Covid- Lyon. 19, and 195,000 deaths, have been “I truly believe the world needs, more reported in the organisation’s European than ever, a multilateral organisation. region, which covers 54 countries and I believe the world cannot get rid of seven territories across Europe, the partners,” he said. Middle East and Central Asia. European leaders have been keen to Almost 20,000 new cases and more show public support to the WHO after than 700 new deaths are being recorded the US called the agency a “puppet of daily. China” and said it would cut funding and MANY MIGRANTS HAVE NOT HEARD OF COVID-19: “For weeks I have spoken about the A half-year into the most leave. risk of resurgence as countries adjust momentous pandemic in decades, it’s hard to imagine that anyone, anywhere hasn’t The US’s top public health agency on measures,” Dr Kluge told a virtual news heard of the coronavirus, but hundreds of migrants arriving in Somalia are proving Thursday revamped its list of which conference on Thursday. some people are still unaware of Covid-19. Ethiopian migrants receive informational Americans are at higher risk for severe “In several countries across Europe materials informing them how to protect themselves against the coronavirus, in Covid-19, adding pregnant women and this risk has now become a reality; 30 Bosaso, Somalia. International Organization for Migration - Somalia via AP removing age alone as a factor. countries have seen increases in new The Centres for Disease Control and cumulative cases over the past two Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, and of countries over the summer. Prevention also changed the list of weeks. Kosovo. “But we have indeed to prepare for the underlying conditions that make someone “In 11 of these countries, accelerated Dr Kluge said countries such as fall, when Covid-19 may meet seasonal more susceptible to suffering and death. transmission has led to very significant Poland, Germany, Spain and Israel influenza, pneumonia, other diseases as Sickle cell disease joined the list, for resurgence that if left unchecked will had responded quickly to dangerous well, because ultimately the virus is still example. And the threshold for risky push health systems to the brink once outbreaks associated with schools, coal actively circulating in our communities levels of obesity was lowered. again.” mines, and food production settings, and and there is no effective treatment, no The changes didn’t include adding race The 11 countries and territories were brought them under control through effective vaccine, yet.” as a risk factor for serious illness, despite later identified by the World Health rapid interventions. In a separate development on accumulating evidence that black people, Organisation as Armenia, Albania, Despite warning about resurgences, he Thursday, Germany and France pledged Hispanics and Native Americans have Sweden, Ukraine, Moldova, North said the WHO anticipated the situation their support to the WHO after holding higher rates of infection, hospitalisation Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, would calm down further in the majority talks with its director general, Dr Tedros and death. — BBC\AP Families sue meat plant over outbreak

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The prompting several to temporarily message to other companies. families of three workers who close. Thousands of workers have The lawsuit names the died after contracting the become infected and several company as well as Chairman coronavirus in an Iowa meat dozen have died. John H. Tyson, chief executive plant outbreak sued Tyson The largest union representing Noel White, spokeswoman Foods and its top executives on meatpacking workers said Liz Croston, and several Thursday, saying the company on Thursday that more than other executives and plant knowingly put employees at risk 14,000 employees at unionised supervisors. Its claims include and lied to keep them on the job. plants have been infected with gross negligence and fraudulent The lawsuit alleges that Tyson coronavirus and 65 have died. misrepresentation. officials were aware the virus Meat companies including John H. Tyson asserted in a was spreading at the Waterloo Smithfield Foods and JBS USA newspaper ad in April that the pork processing plant by late and retailers such as Amazon “food supply chain is breaking” March or early April, but kept and Walmart have been sued due to plant closures and that information from employees by the families of workers who warned that customers would and the public. died from coronavirus. But see meat shortages at grocery As the outbreak grew, the the lawsuit filed on Thursday stores. company failed to implement against Tyson may be the first The lawsuit claims those safety measures, allowed some involving multiple victims at one warnings were exaggerated sick and exposed employees to workplace during the pandemic, and notes that Tyson’s pork remain on the production line, according to news reports. LAWSUIT: The lawsuit alleges that Tyson officials were aware the exports to China, including and falsely assured workers and Last week, Iowa Governor Kim virus was spreading at the Waterloo pork processing plant by late some from the Waterloo plant, the public that the plant was Reynolds signed a bill into law March or early April, but kept that information from employees and increased significantly that safe, the suit alleges. shielding businesses and health the public. AP picture month. “Tyson intended by these care providers from legal claims The lawsuit makes an false representations to deceive from people exposed to the virus, workers have died after pork facility and can process explosive claim that Tyson has workers in the Waterloo facility retroactive to January 1. But the contracting the virus, which around 20,000 hogs a day. denied previously: that the . . . and to induce them to law has exceptions for injuries infected more than 1000 of Iowa’s Occupational Safety company allowed workers and continue working despite the that result in hospitalisation the plant’s 2800 workers and and Health Administration subcontractors from another uncontrolled Covid-19 outbreak and death, and appears unlikely has devastated the broader inspected the plant on April 20 Iowa plant that had closed due at the plant and the health to block the case from moving community. in response to complaints, and to a coronavirus outbreak to risks associated with working,” forward. With illnesses mounting, said earlier this month it found begin working in Waterloo in according to the lawsuit, which The lawsuit seeks damages for Tyson refused calls from local no violations. The plant closed April. was filed in Black Hawk County the estates of employees Sedika leaders to close the plant for two days after the inspection Plant supervisors told District Court. Buljic, 58, who died on April 18; several days and lobbied the before reopening with new safety employees that their sick Tyson representatives didn’t Reberiano Garcia, 60, who died governor to keep it open, the suit measures in early May. coworkers had the flu and immediately return an email on April 23; and Jose Ayala, alleges. The county sheriff who In addition to damages for warned them not to discuss seeking comment on Thursday. Jr, 44, who died on May 25. visited the plant on April 10, has pain and suffering and loss coronavirus at work, the suit They have repeatedly said that Waterloo attorneys Tom Frerichs said he was shaken by seeing of income, the lawsuit seeks alleges. safety was their top priority. and John Rausch and the Spence workers in crowded conditions punitive damages to punish One man who vomited while Meatpacking plants have been Law Firm in Wyoming are without face coverings and Tyson for an “incorrigible, on the production line was hot spots for coronavirus because representing the families. pressed Tyson to close. wilful and wanton disregard for allowed to keep working, it of their crowded conditions, At least two other Waterloo The plant is Tyson’s largest workplace safety” and to send a claims. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 WORLD 13

SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS: Pakistan’s state-run airline announced Thursday, June 25, 2020, it will ground 150 pilots on charges they obtained their pilot licenses by having others take exams for them. Abdullah Hafeez, a spokesman for PIA, said the decision comes after a probe into last month’s Pakistan International Airlines crash that killed 97 people in the city of Karachi. In this May 22, 2020 file photo, volunteers look for survivors of a Pakistan International Airlines plane that crashed in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan. AP picture Cheating pilots grounded

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s state-run was seeking more information. examinations themselves to get the In presenting preliminary findings of airline said on Thursday it will ground The move by PIA to ground the pilots required certificates, which were issued the probe to parliament on Wednesday, 150 pilots, accusing them of obtaining comes a day after the country’s aviation by the civil aviation authority. Khan said the pilot, before making his licenses by having others take exams for minister, Ghulam Sarqar Khan, said 262 But officials familiar with the process first failed landing attempt, did not pay them, an accusation that followed a probe out of 860 Pakistani pilots had “fake” involved in issuing pilot’s licenses said attention to warnings from the air control into last month’s crash that killed 97 licenses. He made the revelation while an unspecified number of people who tower when he was told the plane was people in Karachi. presenting preliminary findings of a had the skills to fly a plane, but lacked too high to land. However, he said the Abdullah Hafeez, a spokesman for probe to parliament into the May 22 technical knowledge had in the past pilot and co-pilot were medically fit and Pakistan International Airlines, did not Airbus A320 crash. bribed qualified persons to take exams qualified to fly. give additional details about the alleged The announcement stunned lawmakers for them. They didn’t elaborate. The crash took place when the plane cheating, but said a process to fire the present in the National Assembly and The officials, who spoke on condition attempted to land a second time. pilots had been initiated. shocked family members of passengers of anonymity because they were not At that point, air traffic control told the “We will make it sure that such who died last month when Flight PK8303 authorised to discuss the matter, said pilot three times that the plane unqualified pilots never fly aircraft went down after departing from the Pakistan International Airlines learned was too low to land but he refused to again,” he told The Associated Press. He eastern city of Lahore, crashing in a about the scandal two years ago and fired listen, saying he would manage, Khan said the safety of passengers was the congested residential area in Karachi. at least four pilots at the time said. airline’s top priority. The crash killed 97 people, including all on accusations of falsifying exams to The minister added that, for its Alarmed over the situation, the the crew members. There were only two obtain a license from the civil aviation part, air traffic control did not inform International Air Transport Association survivors on board and a girl died on the authority. the pilots about damage caused to the said it was following reports from ground. Hafeez said notices were being issued engines after the plane’s first failed Pakistan “regarding fake pilot licenses, Neither Khan nor Hafeez released to all those pilots who he believed had landing attempt. which are concerning and represent a additional details about the alleged tainted licenses. “The engines of the plane were serious lapse in the licensing and safety methods used by the pilots to wrongfully Shortly after the May 22 crash, damaged when they scraped the runway oversight by the aviation regulator”. obtain licenses to fly commercial planes. Pakistan announced it would investigate but the air traffic control did not inform The global airline organisation said it Khan said only that they did not take the incident and share its findings. the pilot,” he said. — AP Close shark encounter

SOUTH AFRICA — A 14-year-old drone pilot says he feared for the worst as he filmed a Key points: “huge” white pointer swim underneath surfers in South Africa’s Western Cape region. ■■ Plettenberg Bay in South Africa is Zach Berman, an aspiring wildlife drone a popular break for surfers along photographer, said he was monitoring shark the scenic Western Cape activity with his father at Plettenberg Bay when the shark drifted into view. ■■ It is also frequented by sharks “At first, I was struggling to comprehend what which are attracted by seal I was seeing,” he said. colonies that inhabit nearby “It began to make its way towards the surfers islands and I feared for the worst. I really didn’t know what was going to happen.” ■■ The photographer was shocked to Other observers attempted to alert the surfers see surfers re-enter the water not to the shark’s presence, but it was initially long after the incident unseen as it drifted just beneath the surface. While steadying his drone above the shark, surfers returned to the water shortly after Zach said he felt a sense of relief when the the incident, a situation he put down to the surfers — aided and alerted by a paddler on a jet frequency in which white sharks were spotted at ski — became aware of it and beat a hasty retreat Plettenberg Bay. towards shore. “We get a lot of sharks along this beach as “When everyone was safely on the beach, I there is a seal colony not far away,” Zach said. showed them the footage and they just could not “Given drones are really only a new addition CLOSE ENCOUNTER: The shark swam below surfers for several minutes before believe what they were seeing,” he said. to wildlife photography, this type of activity could being spotted. (Supplied: Zachary Berman) Zachary said to his surprise, “one or two” have been happening for years.” — Agencies 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 Outcry over Breonna’s death

LOUISVILLE — An outcry has collective bargaining agreement reverberated for weeks online and with police required a process to at demonstrations nationwide be followed before an officer could throughout the US: arrest the be fired. police officers who killed Breonna Police announced on Tuesday Taylor. (local time) that Brett Hankison However, three months after had been fired for violating rules plainclothes detectives serving on the use of deadly force. a warrant busted into her Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Louisville, Kentucky, apartment Mattingly were still employed and shot the 26-year-old Black but were on administrative woman to death, only one of the reassignment while the case was three officers who opened fire has being investigated. lost his job. No one was facing The narcotics detectives had a criminal charges. search warrant to enter Taylor’s Calls for action against the home, one of several “no knock” officers had increased during warrants issued by a judge in a a national reckoning over drug investigation. racism and police brutality No drugs were found at Taylor’s following George Floyd’s death in home. No-knock warrants, Minneapolis. Officials there were typically used in drug cases over prosecuting four officers involved, concerns a suspect could destroy including bringing a murder evidence if police announce their charge against the officer who arrival, were now banned in a pressed a knee into Floyd’s neck new Louisville law named for on May 25. Taylor. That left people, from A termination letter said protesters to celebrities, Hankison, who was white, wondering why justice had not IMPATIENCE GROWS FOR ARRESTS IN BREONNA TAYLOR’S DEATH: Attorney Benjamin Crump violated procedures by showing yet been served in Taylor’s case. speaks to a gathering on the steps at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, on Thursday. The rally “extreme indifference to the value “It’s definitely taking too long, was to demand justice for Breonna Taylor following her shooting by officers of the Louisville Metro of human life” when he “wantonly it’s definitely frustrating,” said Police Department on March 13, 2020. AP picture and blindly” shot 10 rounds into Kirstia Drury, 32, who joined Taylor’s apartment. street protests in Louisville after who drove up from Atlanta to join Christopher 2X, a long-time so much attention from the FBI The letter, written by the acting Taylor’s death. the Louisville protests in early anti-violence activist in Louisville, and the US justice department. police chief in starkly personal “If someone even so much as June. said the resources put into the He often spoke with Taylor’s terms, also said Hankison shot a police dog, they would’ve “We’re going into July, and investigation by local, state and mother, Tamika Palmer, who was violated rules against using already been convicted and half there’s been no justice served.” federal officials had reassured calling for the three officers to be deadly force. way to prison.” Attorney General Daniel him, and he urged protesters not fired and charged in the killing. Taylor was shot eight times. Taylor’s death on March 13 Cameron, whose office was to get too frustrated with the “She’s frustrated, she feels grief Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, has attracted attention from reviewing the investigation by wait. He was executive director of and pain from the loss of her opened fire when police burst in, celebrities such as Lizzo, Jada Louisville police, declined to offer the advocacy group Christopher daughter,” 2X said. shooting Mattingly. Walker was Pinkett Smith and Beyonce. a timetable. 2X Game Changers and had often “But I constantly remind her of charged with attempted murder Beyonce wrote an open letter last “An investigation of this served as a conduit between the how this system works.” of a police officer, but prosecutors week urging Kentucky’s attorney magnitude, when done correctly, Black community and Louisville The officers were entitled to later dropped that charge. general to move swiftly. requires time and patience,” officials during conflicts. due process, and if investigators Walker told police he had heard Millions have signed an online Cameron, Kentucky’s first Black “I think the game changer is believed they should be charged, knocking but that he did not petition demanding justice for attorney general, said last week. the federal intervention here,” he it took time to build a case that know who was coming into the Taylor. The FBI was also investigating said, adding he had never in two would hold up in court. home and fired in self-defence. “They murdered that girl in her the officers’ actions and exploring decades seen a racially-charged Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer Mattingly was shot in the thigh own house,” said Ashley Kidwell, potential civil rights violations. police shooting in Louisville get said state laws and the city’s and recovered. — AP Disney changing Dixie Chicks change Splash Mountain name to The Chicks NASHVILLE— Grammy- ORLANDO — Amid calls to winning country group The change the Splash Mountain Dixie Chicks have dropped the theme park ride over its ties Punter wins word Dixie from their name, to Song of the South, the now going by The Chicks. 1946 movie many view as The band’s social media racist, Disney officials said on $6.8 million accounts and website were Thursday it was recasting the changed on Thursday to refer ride based on The Princess lottery scratch to the new name for the band, and the Frog, a 2009 Disney which is made up of Martie film with an African American Maguire, Natalie Maines and female lead. card, again Emily Strayer. The band also Changes to the ride will recognised that the name was be made both at Disneyland follow the contours of the MICHIGAN — How does he do it? already in use by a band in that features videos and images in California and the Magic animated movie, The Princess For the second time, a southeastern New Zealand. from the recent Black Lives Kingdom at Walt Disney World and the Frog, in which actress Michigan man has won a $US4 million “A sincere and heartfelt Matter rallies. in Florida, the company said Anika Noni Rose voices the lottery game, officials said this week. thank you goes out to The Lady A received criticism in a post. role of a 1920s aspiring chef Mark Clark of South Rockwood Chicks of NZ for their gracious with their name switch after Disney said the changes had in New Orleans who kisses a scratched a ticket with a coin that was gesture in allowing us to share a Black singer revealed she’d been in the works since last prince that has been turned given to him by his late father about 10 their name. We are honoured been performing as Lady A for year, but the announcement into a frog and becomes one years ago. They often fished together to co-exist together in the years. comes as companies across herself. after Clark won a different $4 million world with these exceptionally The Chicks are the best the US are renaming racially With racist stereotypes and instant game in 2017. talented sisters,” the band said. selling female group in charged, decades-old brands Old South tropes, Song of the “You don’t think you’ll win millions The move follows a decision America with more than 33 amid worldwide protests for South is a mix of live action, once, and you definitely never think it by country group Lady million albums sold in the racial justice after the police cartoons and music featuring would happen twice,” Clark, 50, said in Antebellum to change to Lady United States, according to the custody death of George Floyd an old black plantation a statement released by the Michigan A after acknowledging the Recording Industry Association in Minnesota last month. labourer named Uncle Remus Lottery. word’s association to slavery. of America. Formed originally “The new concept is who enchants a white city boy “It’s hard to put into words exactly A statement on The Chicks’ in Texas as a bluegrass group, inclusive – one that all of our with fables of talking animals. what I am feeling. . . . I can’t help but website said: “We want to meet the band hit commercial fame guests can connect with and Groups including the think maybe that lucky coin helped me this moment.” with their breakthrough album be inspired by, and it speaks NAACP protested the film’s win this.” The term Dixie refers to Wide Open Spaces. The band to the diversity of the millions initial release. The film isn’t Clark chose a lump sum of about $2.5 Southern US states, especially has won 13 Grammys. They of people who visit our parks available to the millions of million instead of taking $4 million in those that belonged to the waere shunned by country each year,” Disney said. subscribers of the company’s payments over time. Confederacy. The Chicks, who radio over an incident in 2003 Splash Mountain first new Disney Plus streaming “I’ve had a lot of ups and a lot of are releasing their first new when lead singer Maines opened as a log-flume ride at service, and it hasn’t been downs in my life, but everything is album in 14 years next month, criticized then-President Disneyland in the late 1980s. released in theatres in pretty amazing right now,” Clark said. also released a new video for George W. Bush because of the The revamped ride will decades. — AP — AP their new song, March March Iraq War. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 TELEVISION 15 FRIDAY—SATURDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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Saturday PG Wolf 16V 2019 Action. 5.40 Legends Of The Wild PG KEY 0 3 (HLS) (RPL) (DLY) 16 18 Closed captions; Repeat; Highlights; Replay; Delayed; Approved for persons 16 years or over; Approved for persons 18 years or over; 26Jun20 Compiled by C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. 16 RACING The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020

Canterbury races at Riccarton Park Saturday Jetbet 6 TAB D. 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 T. 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11 Q. 2-3-4-5, 8-9-10-11 PL6 6-11 Selections 11 Miss Tycoon Rose (6) 55 45 22 7820s Granite Ridge (13) 55 59 7 Barneswood Farm 2.00 8 1341s Hunua Hank (1) 55 67 K Williams Race 1: MATUKI, JUST A PROMISS, CHARLIE BROWN W Papier (a4) 23 0389s Super Girl (4) 55 58 9 4671s O’Guy (8) 55 67 D Prastiyou 12 Nippy The Hippy (14) 55 45 K Williams $15,000, rating 93 handicap, 1200m 10 1s47s I Got A Rock (7) 55 66 L Allpress Race 2: SHOWGEM, DECISIVE, PURPLE RAIN 13 Purple Rain (11) 55 45 T Moseley 5 Christchurch Casino 12.50 1 0820s Irish Excuse (14) 63 93 R Mudhoo (a2) 11 4150s Quaintrelle (2) 55 66 W Papier (a4) Race 3: PAINT ME RED, JUST A GIRL, WATCHMAKER 14 Showmana (2) 55 45 S Wynne $15,000, maiden 2yo&up, 1200m 2 6655s Shaara (12) 59 85 R Beeharry (a3) 12 3224s Augustace (11) 55 65 J Fawcett (a1) Race 4: DARCI MAC, BLACK LABEL, SORCERESS 15 Zambezi Zipper (8) 55 45 3 7s26s Dynamic (2) 58.5 84 T Moseley 13 4s22s City Slicker (4) 55 65 S J Macnab (a2) 1 0739s Razor (9) 59.5 50 K Williams Race 5: AYAPPAN, THE CATS PYJAMAS, SOMBRA DEAMOR S J Macnab (a2) 4 2597s Raise You Ten (3) 58.5 84 14 7s23s Fire Show (18) 55 65 T Comignaghi 2 540s Ayappan (7) 59.5 49 BB Hong (a3) Race 6: SANCTIFY, PAPAGENA, ELLE MAKFI C Campbell (a1) EMERGENCIES: 3 Lancaster Park (8) 59.5 47 3 Hygain/mitavite 11.40 5 6511s Nowhere Man (4) 56.5 80 15 3398s Whiskey In The Jar (12) 55 65 Race 7: EMILY MARGARET, DYNAMIC, ISHINKTAATLEDO Kersley Ramsamy $15,000, maiden 2yo&up, 1000m K Chowdhoory (a2) 16 9247s Queen Jetsun (17) 55 64 Race 8: VAN DIAMOND, NEWMARKET, BLAIR FLIGHT 4 The Cats Pyjamas (4) 59.5 47 6 6200s Emily Margaret (9) 55 80 (a3) 17 6720s Jin Lu (3) 55 64 Race 9: CITY SLICKER, FIRE SHOW, FRANKIE THE FOX 1 243s Paint Me Red (6) 59.5 53 L Allpress S J Macnab (a2) 7 3024s Ishinktaatledo (13) 55 77 B Murray 18 0401s Queen Sweep (10) 55 64 Race 10: WHO DARES WINS, TRANSCENDENT, NOMEN LUDI 2 649s Blue (8) 59.5 49 Kersley Ramsamy 5 7s Jack Knows Best (12) 59.5 46 8 3336s Upperhand (11) 55 77 K Asano (a1) 3 6547s Van Halen (13) 59.5 49 C Barnes T Moseley Race 11: PRECIOUS PERCY, REDESDALE, NATHAN DETROIT 9 1085s Bluey’s Chance (10) 55 73 A Balloo 10 Valachi Downs 3.45 4 8s Goose Bay (11) 59.5 47 Y Y Chew (a4) 6 Gogo Mr Joe (2) 59.5 45 J Laking 10 7147s Meara Mary (5) 55 73 T Jonker 5 s950s Mio Padre (10) 59.5 46 J Laking 7 4240s Highland Lady (11) 57.5 53 L Allpress $15,000, rating 100 handicap, 1600m 11 4s70s Carson River (15) 55 72 W Papier (a4) 6 s355s Elle Cee (18) 57.5 53 R Beeharry (a3) 8 4025s Global Star (20) 57.5 52 R Beeharry (a3) 1 1747s Who Dares Wins (13) 63 100 S Wynne 1 Riccarton Park Function Centre 10.40 12 6069s Dreaming Easy (8) 55 72 L Hemi 7 3273s Just A Girl (9) 57.5 53 J Fawcett (a1) 9 s982s Sombra Deamor (6) 57.5 52 2 0s22s Nomen Ludi (5) 57 88 T Moseley 13 6266s Scarfi (1) 55 71 L Allpress $15,000, maiden, 1400m 8 9330s Ophelia Rose (7) 57.5 53 R Mudhoo (a2) T Comignaghi 3 3524s Riviera Rock (2) 55 81 B Murray 14 3124s Final Savings (7) 55 70 K Mudhoo 9 5s34s Glorious Missile (12) 57.5 51 S Wynne 10 s020s Sunny Lady (14) 57.5 51 R Cuneen 4 7870s Shakti (14) 55 81 K Mudhoo 1 26s Charlie Brown (15) 59.5 51 J Laking 10 5788s Take A Risk (1) 57.5 50 T Comignaghi 15 1s32s Whale Song (6) 55 69 S Wynne 2 6s03s Keep Quiet (21) 59.5 51 R Cuneen 11 4s74s Shelby Devine (19) 57.5 50 L Hemi 5 2028s Albut Me (6) 55 80 (a3) 11 0s00s Quella Ragazza (16) 57.5 48 G Jogoo 12 5570s Jojo Roxx (1) 57.5 49 S Wynne 6 5200s Shezatoucha (4) 55 80 T Comignaghi 3 7774s Tricky Mickey (8) 59.5 50 B Murray 12 0s Tacit Approval (4) 57.5 46 C Johnson 8 Janet Francis 2.35 4 6846s Dough Boy (2) 59.5 49 T Moseley 13 3400s Te Mokopuna (10) 57.5 49 G Jogoo 7 07s3s Orepuki Lad (12) 55 78 K Williams 13 37s Watchmaker (5) 56.5 51 K Asano (a1) 14 00s Gotchalookin (18) 57.5 47 $15,000, rating 63 handicap, 1400m 8 4836s Londonderry Air (1) 55 76 C Barnes 5 8932s Last Letter (4) 57.5 53 A Balloo 14 3s Impecunious (19) 54 51 J Fawcett (a1) 1 4551s Coup Dreamwood (14) 59 63 9 3668s Pamir (8) 55 75 K Kwo (a2) 6 5524s Matuki (5) 57.5 52 L Allpress K Chowdhoory (a2) SCRATCHED 15 6650s Glory Chance (17) 57.5 46 K Asano (a1) K Chowdhoory (a2) 10 s776s Shantav (3) 55 71 S J Macnab (a2) 7 — Rockwithme 15 No Rigmarole (2) 54 47 L Hemi EMERGENCIES: 2 2126s Effervescent (12) 59 63 B Murray 11 1189s Montserrat (15) 55 69 C Campbell (a1) 8 0803s Aquattack (7) 57.5 51 EMERGENCIES: 16 — Rimarchevole SCRATCHED 3 2576s Repo Sun (7) 59 63 R Beeharry (a3) 12 8456s Tuilana (16) 55 69 J Fawcett (a1) K Chowdhoory (a2) 16 7s69s Kneazle (14) 57.5 46 17 — Ovation SCRATCHED 13 1221s Delacroix (9) 55 68 C Johnson 9 9028s Highly Polished (3) 57.5 51 K Asano (a1) 17 Rock Sensation (17) 59.5 45 4 3571s Blair Flight (10) 58.5 62 J Laking 18 Jolly Rodger (13) 59.5 45 14 1012s Transcendent (10) 55 68 L Allpress 10 9053s Just A Promiss (1) 57.5 51 18 6686s Heartoheart (15) 57.5 45 5 3505s Apellido (17) 58 61 K Asano (a1) J Fawcett (a1) 19 00s6s Louvres (20) 59.5 45 19 9s Are There (15) 59.5 45 6 4800s Smiling Assassin (15) 58 61 T Moseley 15 5120s Baby Menaka (11) 55 64 K Asano (a1) 11 6420s Miss Oaks (13) 57.5 51 K Williams 20 Zambezi Zipper (3) 54 45 20 8s Not Even ‘Ow (5) 59.5 45 7 9366s Monkey Shoulder (11) 57.5 60 16 0401s Queen Sweep (7) 55 64 R Mudhoo (a2) 12 0730s Magical Mystery (6) 57.5 50 C Barnes 21 0s Imperial Girl (3) 57.5 45 R Mudhoo (a2) C Johnson 13 8375s Wondering (11) 57.5 50 S J Macnab (a2) 4 Jack Thompson 12.15 22 — Total SCRATCHED 8 1600s Oceans Away (6) 57.5 60 C Barnes 11 Racecourse Hotel 4.16 14 s640s Jolly Zam (18) 57.5 49 Y Y Chew (a4) 23 86P7s Ready To Roar (16) 57.5 45 9 s502s Ruby Marie (13) 57 63 K Mudhoo $15,000, rating 84 handicap, 1000m $15,000, rating 62 handicap, 1600m EMERGENCIES: 10 7s03s Youvebeenlitup (2) 57 59 G Jogoo 1 2480s Darci Mac (3) 63 84 BB Hong (a3) 6 NZB Insurance Pearl Series 1.25 11 5616s Gee Tee Eleanor (5) 56.5 62 1 61s7s Hillersden (18) 63 62 J Laking 15 5048s Yannick (12) 59.5 49 C Johnson 2 0431s My Cashier (14) 63 62 K Williams 16 8s50s The Saintly One (16) 59.5 49 2 8142s Saber (10) 63 84 K Chowdhoory (a2) R Mudhoo (a2) $15,000, rating 67 handicap, 1200m 3 2s03s Nathan Detroit (10) 63 62 C Barnes 17 0490s Donnatina (17) 57.5 48 3 s125s Turncoat (19) 62 82 W Papier (a4) 12 14s9s Newmarket (3) 56.5 62 L Allpress 1 3366s Tryfan (13) 60.5 66 K Kwo (a2) 4 7095s Letsbringiton (7) 62 60 C Johnson 18 4s00s Youneverknow (9) 57.5 48 4 0191s Black Label (11) 59 80 K Williams 13 9s99s Wanderin Over (4) 55 59 K Kwo (a2) 2 6253s Mediterranean Star (9) 60 65 B Murray 5 9942s Precious Percy (5) 62 60 19 Southern Ocean (19) 59.5 47 5 1525s Miss Brahmos (16) 56.5 75 L Allpress 14 s000s Reliable Glow (9) 55 58 W Papier (a4) 3 s311s Elle Makfi (8) 59 67 K Chowdhoory (a2) K Chowdhoory (a2) 20 05s Glacier Point (20) 59.5 47 6 6s22s Nakyama (8) 55 72 (a3) EMERGENCIES: 4 4120s Gloss (16) 59 67 L Allpress 6 3420s Stop Making Sense (9) 61 62 A Balloo 21 8800s Brother Will (10) 59.5 47 7 0s25s Jessie Janet (6) 55 68 L Callaway 15 5404s Lincoln Zephyr (16) 55.5 56 5 50s1s Leighton Warrior (1) 58.5 62 S Wynne 7 6056s Jildi Jildi (13) 60 60 L Allpress 22 0758s Reliably Perky (14) 57.5 46 8 1921s Miss Ricky Bobby (14) 55 68 S Wynne 16 8687s Top Ofthe Straight (8) 55 55 9 5549s Fortune Patch (7) 55 67 C Barnes 6 6100s Macron (5) 58 61 T Moseley 17 8886s Van Diamond (1) 55 55 8 1s09s Rumour Has It (4) 60 60 K Asano (a1) 2 Angus Meats 11.10 10 1624s Sorceress (23) 55 67 K Asano (a1) 7 9426s Expressive (6) 57.5 64 S J Macnab (a2) 9 8037s Shock And Awe (11) 59.5 59 11 4648s Middagurd (21) 55 65 R Mudhoo (a2) 8 3316s Our Girl Gilly (15) 57 63 W Papier (a4) R Beeharry (a3) $15,000, maiden 2&3yo, 800m 9 Coupland’s Bakeries 3.10 12 1253s Celine (12) 55 64 T Comignaghi 9 2614s Llovizna (18) 56.5 62 C Johnson 10 8479s Prediction (16) 59.5 55 R Mudhoo (a2) $15,000, rating 85 handicap, 1400m 1 40s He’s Gangster (13) 58.5 49 J Laking 13 2244s Arnage (15) 55 63 L Hemi 10 5747s Sanctify (12) 56.5 62 K Asano (a1) 11 5606s Redesdale (3) 59.5 55 J Fawcett (a1) 2 Tank (12) 58.5 45 Kersley Ramsamy 14 0351s Swiss Eire (20) 55 63 T Moseley 11 1450s Known To Flirt (4) 56 61 R Mudhoo (a2) 1 1360s Tomm Jones (14) 63 85 R Beeharry (a3) 12 31s0s Tai Ho (19) 59.5 55 S Wynne 3 5s In Heaven (1) 57 47 K Chowdhoory (a2) 15 0s10s Firmament (9) 55 62 T Jonker 12 s383s Papagena (3) 56 61 (a3) 2 3113s Frankie The Fox (9) 58 75 13 7550s Mamba (1) 58.5 57 R Cuneen 4 5709s Bella Eve (10) 56.5 47 L Callaway EMERGENCIES: 13 90s7s Pure Class (14) 56 61 A Balloo R Mudhoo (a2) 14 2347s Five Princes (6) 58.5 53 G Jogoo 5 0759s Button (15) 56.5 46 J Fawcett (a1) 16 1450s Rocket Ship (5) 55 62 14 0048s Faux Pas (7) 55.5 60 J Fawcett (a1) 3 63s8s Lord Beaver (6) 57.5 74 BB Hong (a3) 15 6759s Hey Mickey (15) 55.5 47 T Comignaghi 6 Irish Hi (4) 56.5 45 T Jonker 17 5236s Admiral Rous (22) 55 61 15 s560s Whitney (10) 55 58 G Jogoo 4 3s51s Our Teddy Boy (15) 57.5 74 16 7784s Figeameout (2) 55 50 T Moseley 7 Lady Canto (5) 56.5 45 K Asano (a1) 18 39s9s Linedanceking (2) 55 61 EMERGENCIES: C Campbell (a1) EMERGENCIES: 8 4s Popcorn Kate (9) 55 50 B Murray 19 s198s Tap ‘n’ Go (18) 55 60 16 7460s Devil’s Staircase (2) 55 57 5 3056s Savapak (16) 55.5 70 B Murray 17 8666s June Rose (17) 55 45 9 Decisive (7) 55 47 T Comignaghi 20 1s80s Spring Blossom (1) 55 60 17 s677s Takeitlikeaman (17) 55 55 6 3223s Pinup Coup (5) 55 72 K Chowdhoory (a2) 18 6960s Star Wars Princess (8) 55 45 10 Showgem (3) 55 47 L Allpress 21 7340s Alonzo (17) 55 60 18 7008s Iffida (11) 55 55 7 1031s Are You Cereal (13) 55 67 L Hemi 19 0s97s Eisenhower (12) 55 45

Invercargill harness at Invercargill Saturday Jetbet 7 TAB D. 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 T. 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11 Q. 2-3-4-5, 8-9-10-11 PL6 6-11 5 77807 Absolut Russian (Fr) 5 Samantha Ottley 4 s1s57 Midnight Party (Fr) 4 Nathan Williamson Selections 2 Transport Ser. Nightcaps 12.30 4 Otautau Four Square Pace 1.20 SCRATCHED Race 1: TO RI CAITLIN, STAR RULER, JIMMY RICHTER 6 39234 Franco Huntington (Fr) 6 John Morrison 5 — Dark Rage $8000, up to mr47. mobile, 2200m $7500, r45-r47. mobile, 2200m 7 07738 My Georgie Boy (Fr) 7 Peter Hunter 6 8s099 Ohoka Bandit (Fr) 5 Sarah O’Reilly Race 2: SOUTHERN BELLE, WECANDREAM, RIN TIN TIN 1 0s030 Finn The Belligerent (Fr) 1 1 76030 Duke Of Dundee (Fr) 1 Tristan Larsen 8 355s1 Matrika (Fr) 8 Sarah O’Reilly 7 70s13 Call Me Keith (Fr) 6 Peter Hunter Race 3: SPRINGBANK MASON, DAY DREAMIN, Nathan Williamson 2 100s4 It’s Me (Fr) 2 Samantha Ottley 9 78246 Rakabeach (Fr) 21 Blair Orange 8 37531 Lucys Delight (Fr) 7 Brendon McLellan SACRED MOUNTAIN 2 0s347 Southern Belle (Fr) 2 Matthew Williamson 3 9s454 Iwanadancewitsumbody (Fr) 3 10 35869 I’m Watching You (Fr) 22 9 41624 Forsure (Fr) 21 Kirk Larsen Race 4: THE RED ROBBER, DUKE OF DUNDEE, I 3 sPs00 Scrittore (Fr) 3 Andrew Armour Matthew Williamson Matthew Williamson 10 26s46 Chuckles (Fr) 22 Ellie Barron 11 91860 My Mate Ben (Fr) 23 Samantha Ottley WANADANCEWITSUMBODY 4 868s2 Schnitzel Von Krumm (Fr) 4 Peter Hunter 4 97078 Shot In The Dark (Fr) 4 John Morrison 12 69s51 Cruisin Reuben (Fr) 24 Blair Orange Race 5: AFTERBURNER, HORSE OF COURSE, TWEEDLEDEE 5 080s0 Mr Jingles (Fr) 5 Tim Robertson 5 00550 Magnetic Watch (Fr) 5 Brent Barclay 7 [email protected] Trot 2.40 Race 6: IVANA LEGACY, MELTON MAFIA, MY GEORGIE BOY 6 55525 Racing Minister (Fr) 6 John Morrison 6 s0976 Tetrick (Fr) 6 Brendon McLellan $10,000, 3yo+ r57-r80. mobile, 2200m 10 Beach Road Holiday Park 4.00 7 58730 Miss Ivy (Fr) 7 Ellie Barron 7 — Archman SCRATCHED Race 7: CRACKER HILL, HUMBLE LADD, CRUSHER COLLINS 1 91564 Zoned Scarlett (Fr) 1 Blair Orange $9000, 3yo+ r54-r63. mobile, 2200m Race 8: SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS, NOTA BENE DENARIO, 8 s0734 Wecandream (Fr) 8 Samantha Ottley 8 7582s Coolhand Easton (Fr) 7 Brad Williamson 2 02047 Only One Way (Fr) 2 Matthew Williamson 9 80s06 Vin Scully (Fr) 21 Nathan Williamson 1 88s84 Rake (Fr) 1 Brad Williamson BORN TO BOOGIE 9 770s3 Rockngoodtime (Fr) 21 Mark Hurrell 3 68573 Nottingham K Two (Fr) 3 Ellie Barron 10 300s5 The Red Robber (Fr) 22 Blair Orange 2 4s787 Superstar Legend (Fr) 2 Samantha Ottley Race 9: CHUCKLES, AMERICAN EYRETIME, FORSURE 10 0s006 Kiwi Jewel (Fr) 22 Brent Barclay 4 42342 Crusher Collins (Fr) 4 Craig Ferguson 11 79897 Bub’s VC (Fr) 23 Rory McIlwrick 11 18600 Opawa Mach (Fr) 23 Sarah O’Reilly 5 8s905 King Cassidy (Fr) 5 John Morrison 3 01820 Altimeter (Fr) 3 Brent Barclay Race 10: AMORE LANCOME, WOLF WEST, SEE YA WRITE 4 638s0 Matthew Eyre (Fr) 4 Sarah O’Reilly 12 30s03 Rin Tin Tin (Fr) 24 Brad Williamson 12 467s6 Square Dealer (Fr) U1 Ellie Barron 6 04135 Humble Ladd (Fr) 6 Nathan Williamson Race 11: JAWBREAKER(AUS), LONGUEVAL, WHO’S SMOKIN 13 00s68 Alacrity Lass (Fr) 25 Alister Kyle 13 0s007 Maahes (Fr) U2 Kirstin Barclay 5 34122 Wolf West (Fr) 5 Matthew Williamson 7 13112 Cracker Hill (Fr) 7 Brad Williamson 6 02785 Ideal Draw (Fr) 6 Nathan Williamson 14 8PPs7 Lord Of The Dance (Fr) U1 Blair Orange 5 Peninsular Beachfront Resort Trot 1.45 8 D697s Gershwin (Fr) U1 Jeremy Douglas 7 24341 See Ya Write (Fr) 7 Blair Orange 8 53434 Amore Lancome (Fr) 8 Kirstin Barclay 3 Vet South Equine Trot 12.55 $8000, 3yo+ r48-r54. mobile, 2200m 8 Call Craig @ Harcourts Hcp 3.05 9 6s234 The Maroon Marauder (Fr) 21 $10,000, non-winners 2yo+. mobile, 2200m 1 08921 Windsor (Fr) 1 Blair Orange $9500, 3yo+ r60+ discretionary handicap Kerryn Tomlinson 1 7 Jasmine Jaccka (Fr) 1 Brent Barclay 2 30sP0 The Peaky Blinder (Fr) 2 Brad Williamson stand, 2700m 10 77s95 Voodoo Prince (Fr) 22 John Morrison 2 64345 Brandy And Dry (Fr) 2 Tristan Larsen 3 76860 Cuddly Trouble (Fr) 3 Craig Ferguson 1 10060 Rocknroll King (Fr) 1 Samantha Ottley 11 Cruickshank Pryde Pace 4.32 3 82 Day Dreamin (Fr) 3 Brad Williamson 4 69057 Miss Jessica (Fr) 4 Tim Robertson 2 1197s Mistacullect (Fr) 2 Craig Ferguson 4 83090 Robo Trouble (Fr) 4 Allan Beck 5 D0006 Tolkien (Fr) 5 Kirk Larsen 3 22262 Nota Bene Denario (Fr) 3 Brent Barclay $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ mr47 to mr50. 5 4 Sacred Mountain (Fr) 5 Blair Orange 6 5s932 Horse Of Course (Fr) 6 4 9s000 Maidonthebeach (Fr) 4 Kirk Larsen mobile, 2200m 1 Craig At Harcourts Pace 12.05 6 56306 The Power Broker (Fr) 6 Kieran McNaught Matthew Williamson 5 2144s Triple VC (Fr) 5 Sheree Tomlinson 1 Shadzee (Fr) 1 Rory McIlwrick $7000, r40-r44,r45 w/c. mobile, 2200m 7 Springbank Mason (Fr) 7 7 106 Afterburner (Fr) 7 Brent Barclay 6 8s039 Betterthanbrie (Fr) 6 Kirstin Barclay 2 28225 Longueval (Fr) 2 Brad Williamson 8 4s01s Ruby Seddon (Fr) 8 Nathan Williamson 7 076s8 Whata Razzle Dazzle (Fr) U1 3 730 La La Land (Fr) 3 Brent Shirley 1 70079 Man I’m Good (Fr) 1 Alister Kyle Matthew Williamson 8 97s07 Evermore (Fr) 8 Samantha Ottley 9 87200 Davey Mac (Fr) 21 Phil Williamson Brad Williamson 4 4570 Sweet Annie (Fr) 4 John Morrison 2 1089s Last Harah (Fr) 2 John Morrison 10 55764 Tweedledee (Fr) 22 Samantha Ottley 8 74227 Born To Boogie (10) 1 Nathan Williamson 5 Lynryd Skynryd (Fr) 5 Sheree Tomlinson 3 8s320 Jimmy Richter (Fr) 3 Nathan Williamson 9 760s0 Mainland Pat (Fr) 21 Andrew Armour 10 230 Top Pocket Chance (Fr) 22 Craig Buchan 11 7380s Sunny Valley (Fr) 23 Bronson Munro 9 15014 Stinger Lindenny (10) 2 Blair Orange 6 Thoroughly Dance (Fr) 6 Samantha Ottley 4 258s2 Star Ruler (Fr) 4 Matthew Williamson 12 58614 Rydgemont Milly (Fr) U1 John Morrison 7 s4692 Wattlebank Lass (Fr) 7 Peter Hunter 11 53 Jannah Jaccka (Fr) 23 Nathan Williamson 10 P121s Spirit Of St Louis (20) 1 5 s0622 To Ri Caitlin (Fr) 5 Mark Hurrell Matthew Williamson 8 75s23 Arco (Fr) 8 Ellie Barron 6 s7885 Ellnbac (Fr) 6 Brendon McLellan 12 07s88 Jay Bee And Lou (Em1) (Fr) 24 6 Franco Santino 2.13 9 6s202 Jawbreaker(aus) (Fr) 21 Blair Orange 7 008s9 Lady’s Lass (Fr) 7 Tim Robertson Rebecca Heads $7500, 3yo+ r48-r51. mobile, 2200m 9 Forklifts NZ Pace 3.37 10 730s4 Dream Of Glory (Fr) 22 Brent Barclay 8 75s53 Tad Lincoln (Fr) 8 Rory McIlwrick 13 4400s South Park (Fr) 25 Peter Hunter 11 63 Savvy Bromac (Fr) 23 Matthew Williamson $8500, 3yo+ r52-r53,r54 w/c. mobile, 2200m 9 7695s Bettors Atom (Fr) 21 Craig Ferguson 14 0P84s It’s Summertime (Fr) 26 Jeremy Douglas 1 00270 Ideal Glacier (Fr) 1 Ellie Barron 12 34 Who’s Smokin (Fr) 24 Chris Butt 10 20690 Kagee VC (Fr) 22 Brad Williamson 15 99s70 Kiwi Heir (Fr) U1 Rory McIlwrick 2 70s23 Jacks N Jazz (Fr) 2 Brad Williamson 1 51005 Buck (Fr) 1 Brent Shirley 13 8s0 Flight Crew (Fr) 25 Nathan Williamson 11 00s43 Fatherdantherodeoman (Fr) 23 16 6s590 Andover The Keys (Em2) (Fr) U2 3 6s022 Ivana Legacy (Fr) 3 Andrew Armour 2 32213 American Eyretime (Fr) 2 Brent Barclay 14 5 My Feelgood Romance (Fr) 26 Brent Barclay Kirk Larsen 4 73615 Melton Mafia (Fr) 4 Gordon Lee 3 8452s Toby O’Gara (Fr) 3 John Morrison Kirstin Barclay

Southland greys at Invercargill Saturday Jetbet 3 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4 T. 2-3-4 Q. 1-2-3-4 Selections 1 Southland & Otago Photo Finish 11.00 2 southlandgreyhounds.co.nz 11.16 3 Added Energy Stakes 11.32 4 Find Us On Twitter@sgrcinfo 11.48 Race 1: MY GIRL SOFIA, TIDES END, GALIFIANAKIS $1800, SPECA, 390m $1450, INV, 390m $2860, SPECA, 457m $2860, C1/5, 390m Race 2: TIDAL TAPESTRY, JUST OLIVE, VIGNON 1 88s63 Dream Stone Jade 22.83 Sandra Keen 1 s1532 Tidal Tapestry 22.94 John Allen 1 88s56 Melting World nwtd John Guthrie 1 77376 Rocky Vincitore nwtd D J MacMillan Race 3: PEPPER CHIMES, VOLCANIC WHISPER, 2 55443 Galifianakis nwtd Bronwyn Eade 2 211 Just Olive 22.73 M P Hamilton 2 65475 Miss Nina 26.42 Brett Conner 2 s6267 Magic Jean Lass nwtd Chris Healey SILOUETTE JET 3 s3665 Pukeko Magic nwtd Barry Healey 3 82755 Southern Angel 22.85 Roy Hamilton 3 Vacant Box Three - n & a 3 Vacant Box Three - n & a Race 4: TEE AN’ CEE, CHASING FAME, GOLDSTAR TROOPER 4 43545 My Girl Sofia 22.84 Barry Healey 4 5321 Trev’s Rocket 22.94 Brett Conner 4 11111 Pepper Chimes 26.00 John Allen 4 45213 Chasing Fame 22.37 Sandra Keen 5 23258 C’mon Benny Boy 22.89 John Guthrie 5 2114 Vignon 23.00 John Allen 5 32684 Dusty’s Ink nwtd Barry Healey 5 47742 Goldstar Trooper 22.25 M P Hamilton 6 sF556 Three Gold Stars nwtd Chris Healey 6 83126 Pretty Keen 22.98 Sandra Keen 6 Vacant Box Six - n & a 6 Vacant Box Six - n & a 7 74432 Tides End nwtd John Allen 7 62223 Bartholomew Cub 23.24 Bronwyn Eade 7 32222 Volcanic Whisper nwtd John Allen 7 11121 Tee An’ Cee 22.49 Brett Conner 8 86544 Astro Tipple 22.67 D J MacMillan 8 11637 Brut Magic 22.83 Chris Healey 8 14343 Silouette Jet 26.41 John Allen 8 s4634 Magic Jess Lass 22.62 Chris Healey 17 CLASSIFIEDS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020

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For more information or to make a booking please contact your usual advertising representative or Jane Smith on 869 0617 20 LITERATURE The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 Moshfegh offers eccentric murder mystery DEATH IN HER HANDS is her dead body.” But there is no body. of writing. by Ottessa Moshfegh Even so, she will spend the rest of the Yet other passages are lovely, filled published by Penguin Press book trying to solve the mystery of its with lyrical descriptions of the natural disappearance. world and dead-on observations of rural, “Sometimes I felt that my mind was just To do so, she must first imagine the small-town life, including the ubiquitous a soft cloud of air around me, taking in corpse. Then, figure out how it got there. radio preachers and single-pump gas whatever flew in, spinning it around, and Soon, she’s imagining an entire cast of stations selling coffee, bait and ice. then delivering it back out into the ether.” characters including Magda, her killer For better or worse, we spend a and the author of the note, unless the lot of time inside Vesta’s head as she ark doesn’t even begin to latter two were the same — which she ruminates about her own unhappy life, describe Ottessa Moshfegh’s quickly concludes they were not. from her strict upbringing to her boring latest novel, Death in Her Of course, murder isn’t the point clerical job and calamitous marriage to a DHands. Try horrifying, macabre, here. Moshfegh, the acclaimed author distant, controlling spouse. fashionably self-referential and of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, has Vesta is a misanthrope and a snob, exceptionally well-written — a book, created in Vesta another psychologically with a special disdain for fat people, as the publisher’s blurb says, that asks fragile narrator in the process of coming particularly the other women in the local us to consider how the stories we tell undone. grocery store: “big as cows, whose thick ourselves both reflect the truth and keep Vesta likes to think of herself as “just ankles seemed about to snap as they us blind to it. a little old lady, peacefully waiting out tottered up and down the aisles with Plus, it’s got a great dog. the rest of my life” — readers soon their huge shopping carts filled with The novel begins with the narrator, realise she’s anything but. junk food.” Vesta Gul, finding a note while she is out As Vesta forces herself to imagine If you’re a fan of gothic fiction, Death walking her dog in the woods. It says, what might have happened, the writing in Her Hands might just be your cup “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever has a tendency to become forced as of tea. If not, come for the dread — and know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here well — perfunctory, writing for the sake stay for the dog. — AP

Brutally honest Holocaust memoir

FRANCI’S WAR First, she watched as her by using her sewing and electrical by Franci Rabinek Epstein parents, middle-class members of skills. published by Penguin Books the German-speaking community Further useful testimony from an in Prague, were brutally separated unspeakably terrifying era. — AP ranci’s War is a Holocaust from her at Terezín to be sent to memoir by a secular the Nazi death camps. Life in the Czechoslovakian Jew who barracks of Terezín was fraught Fwas 22 when she was but bearable, and Franci keenly rounded up with her family to be observes the hierarchy of survival, deported to Terezín in 1942 — where the well-connected enjoyed only the first step of her wartime benefits not available to all, and “a misery. whole new standard of behaviour Epstein (1920-1989) wrote this evolved, much of it self-sacrificing brief, striking memoir in the mid- and noble, but also frequently 1970s, largely for the benefit of selfish and amoral.” her children. Her daughter, Helen Married hastily to a young man Epstein (The Long Half-Lives from home who was able to help of Love and Trauma), a writer them survive by his canny trading who struggled her entire life to instincts, until he was caught and grasp her mother’s awful wartime disappeared, Franci was herded experiences and her own trauma into the cattle cars for transport to as the child of Holocaust survivors, Auschwitz in May 1944. could not face returning to it until There, her cousin made her recently. aware of what was burning in the Here, she does a fine job of chimneys; she “became conscious clarifying some of the detail and of a peculiar odour in the air, like characters. A youthful zest for life burning hair or bones.” From then comes through despite Franci’s on, the author refers to herself by many travails. She demonstrates her camp tattoo number, A-4116, a fierce determination to adapt and she chronicles how she Identical twins and prevail amid the harshest endured the brutal conditions and conditions. disease at several women’s camps veer apart in Hazards of digital connection moving novel FOLLOWERS THIN GIRLS California, a closed town populated by Megan Angelo by Diana Clarke published by HarperCollins with government-selected celebrities devoted entirely to the production of published by HarperCollins ow far will our addiction to a reality show watched by everyone screens and our obsession who does not live there. ark, poignant and gripping, Diana Clarke’s Thin Girls is with social media go? And “Is it me or does Mar have sure to be unlike anything else you have read. Hhow much will we pay for kinda chubby armpits,” asks one Identical twins Rose and Lily Winters are deeply it? of Marlow’s more than 12 million Dconnected, but in high school their relationship begins The bill is large indeed in Angelo’s followers, watching her stretch to grow complicated. first novel. before getting out of bed in the Rose’s desperation to be cool leads her down a dangerous In alternating narratives morning. path of extreme dieting. Meanwhile, as if to compensate for beginning in 2015 and 2051, she Both the 2015 and 2051 plots Rose’s weight loss, Lily begins eating and eating and eating. creates two chilling versions of revolve around a mysterious Both girls struggle with body and mental health issues well celebrity culture in techno-hell. It all event called the Spill, which into adulthood. starts with a post on a website called feels somewhat less original and When we meet them, Rose is living in an anorexia Lady-ish written by staff blogger interesting than the build-up to its rehabilitation facility and Lily has found herself in an abusive Orla Cadden. reveal. relationship, addicted to a new and dangerous fad diet, and in “Sooo What Does The World’s Most However, the joy of the complete denial that anything in her life needs to change. Expensive Brow Gel Actually Do? details continues all the way Alternating between flashbacks and the present day, Thin One Instagram It Girl Finds Out” to a denouement in Atlantis Girls is a captivating story of the Winters twins’ road to is the first of a series of pieces Orla (formerly Atlantic City), where the recovery as they work to help each other through issues of concocts (down to scrubbing the relationships we have begun to body image, love, identity and sexuality. writing off a tube of Maybelline for suspect between the characters of Clarke succeeds at creating a story that feels wholly unique the photo shoot) to boost the profile the two plotlines are untangled and while at the same time wholly relatable for young women who of a wannabe Kardashian type — confirmed. endure so many of the challenges Rose and Lily face. actually her roommate, Floss, whose Endless clever details and With the book’s shadowy tone, Clarke has fashioned a world drive to be famous in the absence of course of the novel. suspenseful plotting make this that feels almost dystopian, yet its power lies in the fact that any talent or notable quality runs In the 2051 plot, we meet Marlow, speculative-fiction debut an addictive Rose and Lily’s experiences are all too common and all too over everything in sight for the a young wife in Constellation, treat. — AP real. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 SPORT 21 Liverpool claim title as City crash FOOTBALL Manchester United. Kenny Dalglish, who won three LONDON — Liverpool were crowned league titles as Liverpool manager, told Premier League champions on Thursday, BT Sport: “I think back then if you’d ending a 30-year wait for English soccer’s have said it would take 30 years you’d top prize, as Chelsea beat Manchester have been arrested and sectioned, but City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge. sometimes things happen. The Reds won the title with seven “The last two years since (manager) matches remaining — a record — as the Jurgen (Klopp) came in, it has been very, result left them with an unassailable very positive all the way. 23-point lead over City. “He’s been fantastic and he epitomises Liverpool were last champions of everything that Liverpool stands for. He England when they won the old First respects everyone at the club. DivisionSomething title in your in house 1989-90. Stitched (4) “It takes a fantastic dressing room to watchedIn a forremarkable entertainment (10) leagueFewer campaign, (4) win things. You don’t win anything with JuergenFinger jewellery Klopp’s (5) men wonWhere 28 Fijians of their live (4) 31 division, it takes solidarity, and Liverpool fixtures.A snow house (5) A young female (4) from top to bottom have been together.” TheyOne of acan car’s break pedals (11) City’s Premier League City’s title defence ended when recordHumorous of 100 (5) points for Firsta campaign meal of the day if (9) Christian Pulisic and Willian grabbed they go on to win five of their remaining Chelsea, who are chasing a Champions seven matches. Grass colour (5) house (5) A huge person (5) league spot, a turbulent victory in west The Reds’ title success is the 19th London. in theGlasses club’s with dark history, lenses movingSleep themin this (3) one Kevin De Bruyne whipped in a (10) Not any (4) behind the English record held by wonderful, equalising free-kick for City, CHAMPIONS AGAIN: Liverpool supporters celebrate as they gather outside The centre of an egg (4) but Willian coolly converted a penalty 17. Too (4) Anfield Stadium after their side clinched the English Premier League title, following once Fernandinho was sent off for Manchester City’s loss to Chelsea on Wednesday evening. It has been 30 years since 18. These are on your feet (4) junior crossword solutions handball on a video assistant referee Liverpool last won English soccer’s top prize. AP photo Previous solution check. from Monday’s 5-0 defeat to City with from European qualification places, after Across: 1. Saucer, 3. Mars, 7. Cats, 8. Stream, 10. Addicts, Earlier, Arsenal moved up to ninth 13. Annoyed, 16. Vanish, 17. Spot, 18. Saws, 19. Comedy. after a goalkeeping error contributed to a a 1-0 win against relegation candidates their third away win of the season. Down: 1. Sick, 2. Untidy, 4. Apes, 5. Summer, 6. Station, 9. Pianist, 2-0 victory at Southampton. Watford. — DPA 11. Knives, 12. People, 14. Snow, 15. Stay. At Turf Moor, Burnley bounced back Arsenal now have 43 points, six away SEE ALSO PAGE 22 THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Saturday, June 27, 2020

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Gentleman’s FIVE STARS: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold. Adieu; 7 Erne; 10 Past belief; 12 26. Leading performer gentleman (5) FOUR STARS: You can pretty much do as you please. It’s a good time to start new projects. Appetite; 15 Printer; 16 Sooner; (4) 23. Grave (4) THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals. 18 Acorn; 19 Heap. TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. 27. Impediment (9) 24. Grain store (4) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. 22 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 After pandemic comes the rain FOOTBALL by John Gillies Batarrita in the middle of the defence, Blair said. IF it’s not the pandemic, it’s the Emerson Araya would be at rightback, weather. Football struggles to get a break with Mark Baple in goal. this season. After being unavailable for Thistle’s Gisborne’s Pacific Premiership teams, last game, against Taradale, Ashley United and Thistle, had their derby McMillan would come back into the side postponed last week and their training in central midfield, alongside skipper disrupted this week. Nick Land, with Sam Patterson on the Last night it was not clear whether right and Brandon Josling on the left. persistent rain would keep them off the That would leave Tomek Frooms and field for the second weekend in a row. Davie Ure to fill the two forward roles. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle are “I don’t like changing much when scheduled to play Napier Marist seconds things appear to be working,” Blair said. at Park Island in Napier tomorrow, while The substitutes would be 19-year-old Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne Englishman Charlie Morris, 17-year-old United are down to play Maycenvale in a Lytton High School student Travis White home game at Harry Barker Reserve. and 16-year-old Campion College student With “significant” rain forecast for Andre Riley, with two more if Gisborne Hawke’s Bay late yesterday afternoon, games were postponed. grounds in Napier and Hastings were Blair said it seemed Napier Marist had closed for training to preserve pitches for experienced a bit of a reshuffle. The first the weekend. team, playing in the Central Federation Until last night, the Gisborne home League, had lost players to university, so page on the Central Football website some of the Pacific Premiership side had carried last week’s notice advising of the LINED UP: Thistle’s Sam Patterson prepares to strike as a Taradale defender closes moved up to fill the gaps. closure of all grounds that weekend. in. Patterson has impressed on the right flank this year. Picture by Paul Rickard “They always have a good structure, Gisborne District Council staff were they’re coached very well, and they have expected to make a call today concerning Aside from that, the pandemic, long good workout,” Blair said. a good youth programme,” Blair said. the coming weekend, but the prospects gaps between games and disruption The decision on whether games in “Former Gisborne City defender of any sport being played on council- to training made for a “strange year”, Gisborne went ahead would affect the Henare Green plays for them. They have controlled grounds in the district look Adams said. strength of the squad he took away. a couple of older players to give them a doubtful. Thistle coach Garrett Blair said “If they pull the pin here, we’d take a little bit of experience.” As at last night, the council website his side had been able to train in the couple of extra players to Napier,” Blair Marist have had two losses from two advised that all council-controlled Gisborne Girls’ High School gymnasium said. games, although Blair has heard they grounds were closed for training or play, on Tuesday and last night. Leftback Kuba Jerabek was still feeling gave their opponents “a bit of grief” in due to waterlogged conditions. On Tuesday, a fitness instructor took the effects of a rib injury so would be the first half of each match. A heavy rain warning was effective the players for a “pretty intensive” rested. For his own players, Blair wants a good until midday today. physical session before they finished with “We’ll shift Daniel Venema from start so that his table-topping team build United coach Corey Adams said the wet futsal (indoor five-a-side) games. Last centreback to leftback and bring in their confidence to set themselves up for weather meant his team hadn’t trained night they did a lot of possession work in our Argentinian centreback/defensive a strong performance. this week. small-sided games. midfielder Ema Martos.” He wants his players to focus on what An extra week without a game would “They weren’t typical training sessions Martos’s tackling, passing and reading they can control to achieve their goals. be good for vice-captain Josh Harris’s in preparing for the weekend, but it was of the game were impressive, and he “We don’t want to have to rely on other recovery from a groin injury. great that we could get together for a should fit in well alongside Ander results.” Liverpool league champions FOOTBALL just so proud of what we’ve achieved.” Towering centreback Virgil van Dijk LIVERPOOL — Liverpool ended a said it had been an unbelievable season. 30-year wait for the English league title Young fullback Trent Alexander-Arnold after second-placed Manchester City lost just said: “Championsss!!” 2-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge today. Supporters celebrated outside Anfield Jurgen Klopp’s men won their first Stadium, while former playing greats and English Premier League title in record managers, as well as celebrity fans such time with seven matches to go. as LeBron James, tweeted joyfully. Jordan Henderson said he had been Former Liverpool striker Ian Rush reluctant to celebrate prematurely. posted on Twitter: “The best feeling!! @ “I didn’t want to talk about it until this LFC see u guys tomorrow.” moment so it’s amazing to finally get over Former Reds manager Rafa Benitez the line,” the Liverpool skipper said. tweeted: “Congratulations to @LFC, after “I’m so happy for all the boys, the fans, 30 years, the dream comes true! Very happy the whole club, the city. for all the Reds! You’ll never walk alone “I’m just a little bit overwhelmed right #YNWA #Champions #Liverpool.” — PA now, it’s just an amazing feeling and I’m SEE ALSO PAGE 21 Keen to keep winning NETBALL by Murray Robertson accurately,” Beale said. “I am expecting them to start strongly tomorrow.” HIGH School Old Girls and Whangara Old Girls Beale said Waikohu let last week’s game slip away will be keen to continue their winning ways when in the second half. premier grade netball hits the Victoria Domain courts “They will need to maintain consistency for the full again tomorrow. game if they want to take this win.” The three top-seeded teams came through with The match of the day looms large at 12 midday wins on the opening day of the season last Saturday. when Ritana Senior A play Gisborne Girls’ High YMP Sunshine Brewing have the bye this week, School Senior A. Taste One HSOG take on Horouta Gold in “Both teams had a loss last week against our two Pak’nSave premier competition at 10am tomorrow. top seeds,” Beale said. “The defending champions HSOG played “Both teams have retained a good number of last some good netball last week, and showed good year’s players and, at times, last week displayed understanding between players,” netball commentator some good connections through the court.” Sherrill Beale said. Beale said Ritana pushed Whangara all the way. “Horouta Gold were competitive with YMP last “The students were even leading at halftime, and week until halftime, but were then pressured into in their end lost by five goals. making errors, and YMP pulled away. “On the other hand, Girls’ High made a nervous “Horouta will need a team effort for the full game if start last week, but once they had calmed their they want to stop HSOG tomorrow.” nerves they let the ball flow. At 11am, Whangara Old Girls meet Claydens “I am expecting this to be a close contest. Waikohu. All senior teams will also be on the courts from “Whangara were made to work against Ritana 9am through to 12.50pm. Senior A last week, but looked more settled in the Beale said there were some close games last second half when their connections worked more week, so she expected more of the same. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 26, 2020 SPORT 23 Champs out to lift their game RUGBY by Ben O’Brien-Leaf chosen as the Gisborne Glass Pick the Score match, POVERTY Bay coach and referee development “In Super Rugby Aotearoa, even the the total having jackpotted to $200 after no one picked WEEK 1 was mouth-watering. Week 2 looks even manager Miah Nikora is asking players, coaching professionals are adapting. Coaches and players Waikohu’s 24-10 win against YMP last weekend. juicier. staff and rugby supporters to be patient with here must be patient while our refs adapt,” he The Oval and Barry Park are the current venues for referees as they get used to new rules. said. WAIKOHU’S match with Pirates could bring new Civil Project Solutions premier club rugby tomorrow, “With the push from World Rugby and New “Although they aim for consistency, it takes meaning to the term “physicality”. with all three games kicking off at 2.45pm. Zealand Rugby, our local referees are working time and coaches need to be aware that they’re As expected, Buccaneers captain and No.8 Will On Oval 1, Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates host GT hard to get their heads around changes at the not going to get week-in, week-out consistency Bolingford hit the ground running last weekend. Shearing Waikohu, Oval 2 features Larsawn Ngatapa breakdown and implementing them correctly,” until our less-experienced referees are used to Club rugby has been the proving ground for against Contract Consultants HSOB while Enterprise said Nikora. the interpretations.” many fine back-row forwards in the last five years Cars OBM face East Coast Farm Vets YMP at Barry — Bolingford, Lynden Manuel of Ngatapa and Park. 2019 Poverty Bay Player of the Year Adrian Wyrill of Defending champions OBM are determined to raise YMP head coach Brian Leach has great raw spoke of the impact of their bench in their Week 1 win Waikohu to name a few. their game a notch from the three point-loss to HSOB material with which to work. over Pirates. T Tomorrow Bolingford and Co must bring fetcher last Saturday. Niko Lauti, who last year played centre for the he score was 5-all at halftime and 8-all at the three- Wyrill, hooker Tapu Dixon, anchor Toru Noanoa and “We expect a hard physical encounter up front, with Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15, is making a quarter mark before Ngatapa ran in late tries for a powerful No.8 Tristan Rutene down at the first attempt. no quarter to be given, while looking at how much time successful transition to No.8. 32-8 win. If they can, then Waikohu coach and halfback Ra we spend with the ball in hand playing rugby at YMP’s Forwards coach Colin Skudder has been impressed Experience could be key tomorrow and HSOB have Broughton may at least be pressed for time. end of the ground,” said OBM head coach Trevor with Lauti’s improvement. the epitome of that in captain and No.8 Tamanui Hill, a If Waikohu are allowed to run straight, they are Crosby. “Niko’s still learning the role but he’s big, strong, fast player who has focus and skill and inspires his troops. near-impossible to contain. “We’re trying to improve our accuracy in set phases, and has a huge work-rate,” said Skudder. “He asked Whatever was said before their clash with OBM, Pirates head coach Willie Waitoa knows that but decision-making and continuity.” if he could have a go as a loose forward this year, so HSOB had a glint in their eye and tackled ferociously. has belief and confidence in his side. Crosby is taking a step-by-step approach but needs we’re giving him a crack while Jesse Kapene is playing They hit every opposition ball-carrier hard from the “Willie Bolingford is a great leader who’s grown in captain/lock Jacob Cook and the likes of hooker Ethan openside flanker.” get-go but that came at a price. leaps and bounds, our fullback Rico Walters is fearless Brett, No.8 Rikki Terekia and openside flanker Nicolas Tomorrow will be OBM and YMP’s first meeting “It’s taken most of the week for these boys to get and Jayden Akurangi is an up-and-coming young lock,” Carrizo to lead in the forward exchanges. since the grand final last year when OBM inflicted a over that game,” said head coach Danny Boyle. said Waitoa. In the backs, Crosby will be looking for first five- record-breaking 65-5 defeat on the black and whites to “We have three injured players who won’t take the “I think Jayden has the potential to be a great eighth Jake Holmes — OBM’s Most Valuable Player claim their first championship in 15 years. field tomorrow. Our resilience is going to be tested. blindside flanker. He loves to tackle and he has good, on Tiny White Opening Day — and vice-captain/ “It doesn’t get any easier against Ngatapa — natural aggression.” fullback Scott McKinley to direct OBM around the park. NGATAPA don’t ask for much, nor do they need they’ll be determined. We’ll just have to deal with the Waikohu proved last Saturday they can tussle If OBM get the space to work in tomorrow, they can much. situation.” with the best in the wet but captain Geoff Pari was produce more than the two superb tries Carrizo and Within the confines of Patutahi Hall due to last HSOB loosehead prop James Jenkins has moved nonetheless upfront about his team’s performance. left-wing Hunter Tangira posted last week. night’s awful weather, head coach Steve Hickey’s men to hooker for the injured Matekairoa McGuire, while “YMP gave us a lesson at set-pieces so we want to YMP skipper and rake Shayde Skudder is wary of got things done. Russell Burns is at No.1 and giant Myles Muir-Tawa, work hard in that area against another very physical the bulk and heft of the OBM pack. “The boys did a walk-through, practised a few line- who was brilliant against OBM, the anchor. team in Pirates,” said hooker Pari, who will come off “We’re fit but they’re strong. We have to do it at outs, threw a few passes. You’ve always got things Scott Tallott is the starting halfback and his the reserves bench tomorrow. scrum-time,” said Skudder. “It’s a challenge, as is , to work on. The big thing is to be consistent in your combination with first-five Baxter Mackay will be one of “They can be difficult to stop in broken play. 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FOOTBALL by Ian McCullough, AAP It scored 4.1 out of five and bettered FIFA, well it won’t be with the new FIFA Chris Nikou said the successful bid was the South Americans, who scored 2.9, and I am very proud of that.” an enormous opportunity to grow football LONDON — FIFA president Gianni in every criteria — stadiums, team Australian Prime Minister Scott in the region. Infantino believes Australia and New and referee facilities, accommodation, Morrison and New Zealand counterpart “FIFA today has made not one, but two Zealand are the perfect hosts to deliver International Broadcast Centre (IBC), Jacinda Ardern said it would be largest countries very happy,” Nikou said. the greatest ever Women’s World Cup. competition-related event sites and and best Women’s World Cup ever. “We know there is a lot of work to be The transtasman bid received 22 of commercial. “This is a huge positive for the done. the 35 valid votes from the FIFA Council Infantino said the report, which in footballing and sporting industries on “But our pledge to the FIFA family today to pip Colombia for the showpiece the past has been no guarantee of a both sides of the Tasman as we recover is that no stone will be left unturned to event, which will take place in July and successful bid, was too good for him to and rebuild from Covid-19,” they said in a produce the best World Cup and grow the August in 2023. not award his vote to — despite the nine- joint statement. women’s game globally and in the Asia- It will take place across 12 cities in strong UEFA contingent voting in favour “As sporting nations we have had a Pacific region.” Australia and New Zealand, with the of Colombia. long history of producing some of the best New Zealand Football Federation opening match to be played at Eden Park “It was a difficult decision for me,” he female footballers in the world and this president Johanna Wood promised the in Auckland and the final in Sydney. said. tournament will further inspire our next two nations would work together to “There will 32 countries, unlike in “I love Colombia and I am sure they generation and provide the platform for deliver a tournament to remember. France where we had 24, which means would have been able to organise a them to compete on the world stage.” “We’ve always said with this bid, that when you qualify for this event it is the fantastic tournament. Australia and New Zealand joined it is as one and making history and biggest boost ever for women’s football,” “But at the end of the day we have to forces to submit a joint bid last December. creating opportunities,” she said. Infantino said. analyse and look at the bids. Matches will be held in 12 cities with “Chris mentioned when he spoke to “We welcome that and I am sure we “FIFA in the past has been accused Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, council that this is a gift we have been will have the best World Cup ever, in of not giving enough attention to the Adelaide, Newcastle and Launceston to given and we add to that by saying we Australia and New Zealand.” technical evaluation reports. be the Australian hosts. have been given a treasure. The Australia and New Zealand bid “But we have to show that these Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton “We will look after the treasure and outscored the Colombia bid emphatically reports mean something or we are going and Dunedin will host the New Zealand make women’s football even more front in the evaluation report that was to have to stop organising biddings. fixtures alongside Auckland. and centre and we will do that as a submitted to the council members. “If that was not the case with the old Football Federation Australia chairman team.” Returning Waituhi have the honour of opening game HOCKEY by Murray Robertson fitness levels,” Scragg said. “The Girls’ High side should be handy — HOCKEY hits the turf for the first time they generally are good teams, and they this delayed season at Harry Barker would be favoured to win.” Reserve tonight, and the honour of the In the 3pm match, GMC Gold will play opening game belongs to returning Waituhi GMC Kowhai. and YMP in the women’s competition. “That will be good club rivalry to start the Waituhi come back into the competition season for those two teams,” Scragg said. for the first time on the new turf, and the “Credit to GMC for fronting three teams in first time in at least five years. the women’s grade. “It’s such an exciting time for everyone “You would have to back Kowhai in that in the game to finally be able to get out on match. Both sides have a lot of young the turf and play,” hockey commentator Tony players who will make their women’s Scragg said. competition debuts tomorrow, so it’s exciting “I think the YMP women will want to start times for them.” the season strong tonight, and they will The senior men get final use of the turf offer no fairytale start to the season for the this weekend. At 4.30pm tomorrow, YMP (2) women from Waituhi.” play YMP (1). Scragg said it was good to have Waituhi “That’s a bit of a trial game for the club; back in the competition. who knows who’s going to front for which “You will have a turf full of excited team,” Scragg said. Waituhi players out there tonight, and their “It could be a really good game.” supporters around them.” The final match of the weekend, at 6pm, The opening game starts at 6.30pm. pits Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits against The Saturday programme begins at 12 Gisborne Boys’ High School. midday tomorrow with the women’s match “That’s the men’s game of the day, between Ngatapa and GMC Green. certainly,” Scragg said. “That will be a good battle between the “Boys’ High have had a couple of training defending champions, GMC Green, and a sessions, with a few new combinations. Ngatapa team who show plenty of promise,” Coach Hanoa Morete will want nothing less Scragg said. than a solid performance and a victory from “Green will try to get out to an early lead. his boys.” It might be hard for Ngatapa to counteract Secondary school hockey starts on their strike power. But the Ngatapa girls Monday with three games. CONTESTED BALL: Brooke Willock, of Gisborne Girls’ High School, comes away have looked good in training.” At 4pm GBHS Red play GBHS Black, at with the ball as Laura Matthews, of Paikea, gives chase in Gisborne women’s hockey At 1.30pm Amber Dental Gisborne Girls’ 5pm Campion College (1) take on Lytton last year. The season gets under way at Harry Barker Reserve tonight, and Girls’ High High School take on Paikea. High School and at 6pm Gisborne Girls’ and Paikea meet tomorrow in their first game. Picture by Paul Rickard “That will be a good test of Paikea’s High (2) play Campion College (2).