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PAGE 2 PAGE 14 WORKING COVID 19 PAGES 6,7,11 MYANMAR PROTESTERS IN LA, • VIEWS DIFFER ON MASK-WEARING • CALL FOR BORDER CONTROL OVERHAUL UNDETERRED FROM • WOMAN IN MIQ REFUSES TEST WAINUI • US NEARS DARK MILESTONE FIRE GUTS KAITI UNITS Up to 16 tenants left homeless ALL OUT OK: The tenants in a four-unit block of flats in London Street escaped injury last light when fire broke by Murray Robertson Officer Margaret Middleton-Echave, who led out in one of the downstairs units, spreading to engulf the first-in crew. and gut the unit above. The other two flats were badly TENANTS in a block of units in Kaiti “Shortly after that the two units on the damaged by smoke and heat. Up to 16 people lived were left with little more than the clothes left-hand side of the four-unit building were there. Pictures by Rebecca Grunwell on their backs when fire ripped through two totally involved in fire.” of the units last night. SO Middleton-Echave said they had Fire and Emergency NZ sent four ascertained no one was inside any of the appliances to the property opposite the units by that stage. London St Fish Shop at around 7.35pm. “Everyone got out all right, thank God,” Clouds of black smoke billowed from the she said. blazing building and could be seen from The crews adopted a defensive firefighting many parts of the city. approach initially to protect the two units “As we pulled up outside the fire was on the right-hand side of the building. just starting to break through the building structure in several places,” said Station CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ...... 9 Racing ...... 16 Classifieds ...... 19 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ...... 10 Kids page ...... 17 Sport ...... 20-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ...... 6-8, 15 World...... 11, 13-14 Television ...... 18 Weather ...... 23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 From LA to Wainui Three share a work space to connect with the world by Jack Marshall “Right now we can’t work on the set because a lot of the stages are closed and FOR most of human history, most they have very quiet environments and people’s jobs have tied them to their so you just have to be a little creative.” location. They work on American time but But the advent of the internet that does not make much difference as GONE DIGITAL: Amy Matthew, Darren Maynard and David Strawbridge in their and modern technology has diluted Los Angeles is 21 hours behind New international office at Wainui. Picture by Paul Rickard the connection between place and Zealand. employment. “A large number of the staff working are still in the midst of the pandemic in And then along came a global on the show are in different cities the US. pandemic. following the recording of the show from “They are a little bit jealous but I try Thousands of kilometres from their their computers and I’m able to give not to rub it in when I take calls from usual workplaces, a Wainui-based feedback via a video sharing device if the porch on a sunny Gisborne day.” trio exemplify the new era of remote they’re using Zoom.” Darren’s uncle David says the move to working. But to work online, especially working online has saved him thousands Gisborne-raised Darren Maynard when dealing with a lot of data, high- of kilometres of travel. and American partner Amy Matthew speed internet is needed and not all His work as a consultant involves normally work in the film and TV connections are equal. him visiting such places as Myanmar, industry in Los Angeles, while Darren’s Luckily Gisborne has some of the best Pakistan and Indonesia, helping uncle David Strawbridge travels as a internet in the world. establish libraries for an American consultant all over the world. “Internet at my mum and dad’s is organisation called Room to Read. “I’m lucky to be working on a TV show fibre optic, which got put in a couple of “Normally I would be in Pakistan at the moment called Queen Sugar with years ago and is faster than at my house right now helping to set up a workshop,” Warner Brothers,” says audio engineer in Los Angeles,” says Darren. he said. Darren. It has been the glue that has made his The transition to working on the web His CV suggests skill and experience work almost seamless. has had mixed results because working also has plenty to do with that. It Amy, who also works in the creative with developing countries online has includes such movies as Joker, Birds of industries, came with Darren on a connection challenges. Prey and Clint Eastwood’s The Mule. holiday to Gisborne. He foresees some of his work online Away from the heart of the industry in Once they got here they decided there will carry on into the future but says LA, he has had to improvise with things was not a lot of reason to rush back, she being there in person is important. found in the garage when it has come to said. “One of the things I’ve missed about to making the sound for the show. Amy had been working remotely in LA working in Pakistan is how I can get a “When you’re working remotely you since March of last year so working from feel for the context. don’t have all the resources so you have New Zealand was not much of a change. “I can understand the schools and the to go a little DIY.” Her employer is happy for her to be in teachers and the team I am working IN THE FIELD: Audio engineer and sound “I’ve been doing some chilly bin New Zealand but she tries not to bring with.” creator Darren Maynard catching sound for recording with a water bottle and ice.” it up too much as most of her colleagues “There is a personal touch I miss.” an American television show. Picture supplied Wairoa Expo a one-stop shop for farmers

FARMING smarter is a focus of the 2021 East because of the recent community cases, but we breeding specialist Aimee Charteris, Wools of “They will delve into regenerative agriculture Coast Farming Expo which starts tomorrow in were really lucky to secure farm dog guru Allen NZ chairman James Parsons and New Zealand — myth or moneymaker? Tickets are available Wairoa. Irwin,” Sue says. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef chairman Grant online,” Ms Wilson says. The two-day gathering for sheep and beef The Gisborne-based farmer is held in high Bunting. “The genetics-focused B+LNZ workshop is producers is held annually at Wairoa Showgrounds regard as a trainer and triallist. Mental and physical wellbeing is the focus of expected to be well attended, helping farmers and includes exhibits, outdoor demonstrations “How lucky are we to have such talent available the two luncheons at which Farm Fit NZ’s Kane-O discover genetics fit for individual purpose, and seminars. right here in our own backyard?” Briscoe and Will to Live founder Elle Perriam will including basic principles of assessing genetic Local farmers and some from further afield Ms Wilson and her team have endeavoured to speak. merit and how to use these to find the best will have the chance to check out the exhibits open the Expo to more exhibitors than ever. “Both luncheons are free to attend with a animals to improve their own herd or flock and technology firsthand, listen to world-class “There is something there for everyone — from general admission ticket, but registrations are performance. speakers, and have one-on-one conversations with dog kennels to cloud storage options, solar water required for catering,” Ms Wilson says. “We like to say coming to the Expo is accessing industry innovators and leaders and others who pumps, nutrition experts, genetics, communication Wednesday night’s Bayleys Muster promises the best without the massive roadie to the Waikato can help them in their farming operations. gurus and more. an informative discussion between Federated (Mystery Creek), and when I sit back and look at Expo event manager Sue Wilson has been “It really is a one-stop shop for farmers.” Farmers national president Andrew Hoggard, the list of who we have at the 2021 event, I am keeping a close eye on Covid-19 developments Internationally-recognised speakers for adjunct professor Jacqueline Rowarth, confident everyone will agree with the sentiment.” which brought about one swift change. the 40-minute seminars are serial technology regenerative farmer Greg Hart, Holistic Agriculture “It was unfortunate well-respected dog trainer entrepreneur Melissa Clarke Reynolds, Dairy NZ managing director Robbie Hill and Climate Change ■ For more information and tickets go to www. Lloyd Smith made the call not to travel north board member Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, livestock Commission principal analyst Dr Philip Wiles. eastcoastexpo.co.nz LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • An independent review of the biosecurity response to Mycoplasma home-delivered Bovis has been launched. • Hindmarsh leads the hunt and Utting the head after going back to back at the Te Araroa dog trials. • The AgriHQ report this week points to lower export volumes for lamb and beef in January. THE GUIDE TOMORROw THuRSdAy 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: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To fi nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 NEWS 3

COLD LIGHT OF DAY: The fire- damaged units on London Street AOS deployed this morning. Two of the units were gutted while the other two suffered to firearms smoke and heat damage. Picture by Paul Rickard incident in Te Hapara

ARMED police cordoned off some streets in Te Hapara yesterday morning after a firearm was allegedly presented during a neighbourhood dispute. Police were alerted to the situation at a Churchill Crescent property at around 10am and it was resolved about two hours later when a man was arrested. “We set up cordons in several surrounding streets and deployed members of the Armed Offenders Squad to the area,” a police spokesman said. “Armed officers were sent there to ensure the safety of the community.” A 33-year-old man was arrested in the street at around midday. “He was taken into custody without incident,” the police spokesman said. “There were no shots fired and no one was injured.” The arrested man faces a range of charges. Chance for youth Units ‘uninhabitable’ after fire to ‘make their voice FROM PAGE 1 downstairs portion of the unit on the left- were uninhabitable. heard’ in Tairawhiti hand side of the complex. “That’s the sad thing about it. At a “The fire had started to get into the BUDDING politicians are being sought for The Gisborne Herald understands the time of housing shortage in the city you section of the roof over the right-hand tenants in that unit had gone out not now have as many as 16 people who Gisborne District Council’s youth council. units but a fire wall down the middle of long before the fire started. have nowhere to live and who have not Candidates should be aged 16-24 and want the building effectively saved them,” said “The alarm was raised initially by the got much more than the clothes on their to make a difference in Tairawhiti, a GDC Senior Station Officer Ed Hindmarsh. tenant in the unit above who saw smoke backs.” Facebook statement said. “It took us about an hour to get the fire coming up through the floorboards,” Sgt Specialist fire investigator Derek For those interested in the environment, under control.” Leighton said. Goodwin and police detectives began a local politics, social issues, “the Gisborne Sergeant Scott Leighton from Gisborne “The landlord’s son, who lived in one scene examination this morning in an District Youth Council might be just the chance police made sure everyone in the four of the units, grabbed a garden hose and effort to establish the cause. for them to make their voice heard”, the units was accounted for. tried to slow down the fire in the unit Fire crews were at the scene for five statement said. “There were as many as 16 people where it started, but it took hold.” hours dampening down. “We are kicking off the 2021 Youth Council living in there and thankfully no one was SSO Hindmarsh said the two units A crew from the Manutuke volunteer in March and it’s an awesome way for young injured,” he said. primarily affected by the fire were brigade was called into the city to people to get an eye in, a voice, and sometimes The former Kainga Ora/Housing NZ gutted. provide cover while the city crews went even a start in local government. building has been in private ownership “The other two units were affected by about their work. Aspiring candidates should go to www.gdc. for some years. the dense toxic smoke and heat.” Police mounted a scene guard on the govt.nz/join-the-youth-council/ The blaze started at the rear of the Sergeant Leighton said all four units property overnight. Rescues at Wainui, Kaiti ‘I thought someone’s going to die here’: lifeguard by Murray Robertson ■ THE power and speed of the ocean SURF Life Saving New Zealand Tairawhiti especially when there is a bit of surf. was underlined when an off-duty A TEENAGE boy was “nearly gone” club development officer Sonia Keepa says “Remember the 3R’s for surviving rips — lifeguard was called into action at Kaiti when a surfer rescued him from a with temperatures on the rise again two Raise your hand to alert others you need help; Beach on Sunday night. powerful rip at the northern end of rescues here at the weekend are a timely Relax to conserve your energy; Ride the rip Wainui lifeguard Jess Bridson had just Makorori Beach on Saturday afternoon. reminder to stay within your depth and keep until the current has lessened and you can finished patrol that afternoon and she Riversun Wainui Surf Life Saving children within arm’s reach. safely swim to the side of the rip and make and her partner decided to take their Club member Kelly Ryan had just come “Things happen very quickly in the ocean, your way back to the beach.” little one to Kaiti Beach for a swim. in from having a surf when he saw the Shortly after they arrived and settled boy and another lad in trouble at around down on the sand, Ms Bridson said she 4pm. “He was nearly gone when I got to him. between the two of us we got the boy saw a couple of young children playing in “I’d been surfing in that exact spot for All he could do was lie on my board on back to the beach. the water at waist depth. well over an hour. I was having a beer, his back, he was that exhausted. “We checked him out and kept an eye “Within no more than 20 seconds they actually, and watching the sea when I “He must have laid there for at least on him for a while until he recovered. were swept off their feet by the big surf saw the boys caught in the rip. three minutes before he was ready to “When he felt better we released him and dragged out of their depth,” she said. “The surf was big, up to five feet, and head back to the beach.” into the care of his friends once we were The children were carried about 20 to the rip was really powerful. Mr Ryan said the boy had little energy sure he was OK.” 30 metres off the beach. “The boys were swimming straight out left. Mr Ryan said when there was a big “Their father, fully clothed, raced in into it and I thought someone’s going to “I think if I had not responded when south swell, the rip at the northern end and grabbed one of them and I grabbed die here.” I did and arrived in time he would have of Makorori Beach got really dangerous, the other one.” One of the teenagers managed to get begun to submerge.” and should be permanently signposted. Both children were returned safely to out of the rip and come ashore but his On the way back to the beach a wave Mr Ryan won a Community Service shore. companion was caught in it and dragged knocked both of them off the board. Award at the Tairawhiti surf lifesaving “Their dad seemed quite shocked by about 150 metres offshore. “My daughter Jay, who is 15 and also awards last year for a rescue he did what had happened, and they all left the Mr Ryan, 47, grabbed his standup a Wainui surf club member, had come afterhours at Midway Beach in the beach soon after. paddleboard and went out to him. out to back me up on a paddleboard and summer of 2019-20. “It happened so fast.” 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths

THOMPSON, Dylan Deaths Grant. — 4.12.1989 - PM awards for winners at work 21.2.2021. Tragically DYER, Paul William taken away from us too James. — On February soon, doing what he by Jack Marshall big, Juana said — at school you get to hang 19, 2021, peacefully, loved. Now you can out with friends all day, have all summer off after a courageous ride forever. Miss you TWO Gisborne winners of the Prime school and few responsibilities. battle. Dearly loved Babe. Loved husband Minister’s Vocational Excellence Award are “Then you start work and you have a boss husband of Christina. of Jo Thompson. Son of thriving in their work environment. expecting a lot from you.” Treasured father of Michelle and Mike Thompson, and grand- Charlotte Phillips and Stan Young were None of which seems to have bothered Matthew, and Sarah, both surprised to be named winners of the Charlotte, who says the best part of the and father-in-law of son of Len and Shirley Thompson. Nephew of award at their respective school prizegivings job so far is a constant sense of progress Dylan. Adored Poppa last year. of Theo, and Poppy. Anthony Jeffrey and through her apprenticeship. Loved brother-in-law of Leanne Thompson. The award, launched in 2019, celebrates “I love moving forward with my training Louise and Russell A service for Dylan the achievements of secondary school and my capabilities. It’s a great feeling once Snow. will be held at Evans students enrolled in vocational programmes you get something ticked off,” she said. ‘Forever in our hearts Chapel, Ormond Road, and is aimed at raising the status of “All through school I was that one kid who until we meet again.’ at 2pm on Friday 26th vocational education. didn’t know what I wanted to do. Everyone The funeral service February, followed by At the beginning of last year Charlotte else had some idea and I had no clue. I guess will be held at the Holy private cremation. Phillips approached Beauty Depot owner I never realised it but I was always doing little Trinity Church, Gis- - Evans Funeral Juana Vincent and asked if she could do a beauty things at home. borne, at 11.30am, Services Ltd FDANZ Gateway work placement at the salon. “I spent so much time stressing about Wednesday 24th Feb- www.evansfuneral.co.nz “Charlotte came to us last year through what I was going to do and then as soon as I ruary. Followed by Girls’ High to do work experience one day a got here I fell in love with it.” private cremation. WILSON, Juliet. — week,” Juana said. Stan Young was at Lytton High School - Evans Funeral On 22 February 2021, At first, she was unsure about having but he has started a cadetship with Growing Service Ltd FDANZ peacefully, at Gisborne a student join her team as the job is Future Farmers at Ruakaka Station in www.evansfuneral.co.nz Hospital. Loved wife of Willie. Loved mother of demanding. Tiniroto. David, Manu, Brad, But she took Charlotte on. At the moment his work on the farm leans Larry, and the late “She started off doing work experience but towards general tasks like drenching animals MINTER, Sharon. — then she was so great we hired her as a part- and different odd jobs, with complexity Passed away peacefully Greg. Loved Nanny of all her mokopuna. time receptionist to help us out in the salon, coming as he takes on more responsibility as on Monday 22 February and she’s just blossomed since then.” 2021, at the Wairoa “Absent from the body, the programme progresses. Hospital, surrounded by present with the Lord.” Charlotte had no idea she was going to He says the best part of the job has been her loving family. A service will be held win the Prime Minister’s Vocational Award spending time outdoors and working with at 6pm this evening at last year, with her new employer and school animals. The worst has been blackberry Loved wife of Vic. LOVING WHAT SHE DOES: Evans Chapel. staff secretly submitting the paperwork. Charlotte spraying. Loved mother and Phillips in the workplace doing what mother-in-law of Travis Juliet’s funeral “It was really easy to write, because she’s As with Charlotte the award was a service will be held at only 17, but has maturity well beyond her she does best. surprise. and Shelley, and Picture by Liam Clayton Clinton. Loved Evans Chapel at 11am, years and she’s so eager to learn — she “I knew I was going to win something, but daughter of Ethne on Wednesday 24 stands out,” Juana said. then all the smaller awards were given out Labuschagne. Loved February, followed by Juana then brought up the prospect of an and it was only the top awards left like dux.” member of the Wairoa interment at the apprenticeship and after Charlotte spoke with the plunge. Then his name was read out. Servicemen’s Lawn, congregation of her parents and teachers, she decided to take The transition from school to work life is “It was a great feeling.” Jehovah’s Witnesses. Taruheru Cemetery. A funeral service for - Evans Funeral Sharon will be held at Services Ltd FDANZ the Wairoa Kingdom www.evansfuneral.co.nz Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on WAIMOTU, Wiremu Wednesday 24 February Damien (Nox). — at 11am, followed by a On February 21, 2021, private family crema- peacefully, at home. Teen alleges abuse tion. Loved son of Patricia All messages and and the late Rua. Loved flowers to 64 Lahore partner, brother, uncle, Street, Wairoa 4108. grand-uncle, nephew, and cousin. Pickering Funeral Nox will be lying at Services 24 Glasgow Crescent by uncle during stay Funeral Directors this evening. Wairoa FDANZ His funeral service www.pickeringfd.co.nz will be held at Glasgow A TEENAGER should have been loved last time the man offended against her. In cross-examination, counsel Leighvi Crescent at 11am on and cared for by family members tasked She reported the abuse within a week Maynard put it to the complainant she Thursday 25 February, with looking after her. Instead she was of that incident during an appointment was content in her aunt and uncle’s In Memoriam followed by interment sexually abused, a prosecutor alleged with a counsellor she was already care until she started skipping school at Huria Cemetery, yesterday in Gisborne District Court seeing for other matters. The counsellor and lying about her whereabouts, which DAVIES, John Hiruharama. The abuse was frequent and serious, involved police. forced them to take a stricter approach 23.2.18 - Evans Funeral Crown prosecutor Michael Blaschke told The remaining indecency charges with her. Services Ltd FDANZ a jury. are all representative of multiple times She confirmed there was a time she Dad/Pa, another year www.evansfuneral.co.nz has passed but the A man the girl referred to as an uncle the man allegedly touched her breasts, went missing and police located her with memories remain went on trial yesterday after pleading genitals or bottom — almost on a daily a man more than double her age who she strong. Forever missed, not guilty to sexual violation by rape and basis while she taking a bath or shower, met online. forever loved, nine charges of indecent assault. sometimes while she was getting dressed Mr Maynard put it to her that resulted forever in our hearts. He cannot be named due to in her bedroom, the complainant said in in further disciplinary measures by her Moana, Wally mē automatic suppression that applies for a police evidential DVD interview shown aunt and uncle, including her being mokopuna mā complainants in sexual cases. to the jury yesterday. grounded and her phone being taken The defendant was in his 30s, the Sometimes he had also simulated sex away — things that upset her. complainant 16, when the alleged by rubbing himself against her while The complainant agreed but not with Garden competition back offending is said to have happened about clothed, the complainant said. Mr Maynard’s suggestion it meant three years ago during most of five During the taped interview the she no longer wanted to live with the LAST year’s Lockdown Gardening Competition months that the girl was in her aunt and complainant gave basic descriptions of couple. That was “not necessarily” so, she is back . . . minus the lockdown. uncle’s care. the alleged indecencies. said. The launch of the 2021 competition is timed to His counsel Leighvi Maynard told the When asked to elaborate on the rape Mr Maynard put it to her the incidents coincide with Parks Week, which runs from March jury in an opening statement that while allegation, she cried quietly. Several she recalled as the first and last ones 6 to 14. it was difficult not to feel immediately minutes silence followed before the could not have happened as she was “The competition encourages people to emotional hearing these types of interview was ended. The specialist wrong about herself and the accused engage with the outdoors and get among nature, allegations, there were two sides to this interviewer was unable to raise being alone at those times. Defence and it was so popular last year we decided to run story. any further conversation from the witnesses would confirm it. it again this year,” GDC recreation and amenity Mr Maynard urged jurors to keep an complainant, even on an unrelated topic. The complainant refuted Mr adviser Lindsay Weaver said. open mind until they had heard all the After the DVD was played in evidence, Maynard’s suggestion her aunt was “We’re keen to keep the competition running evidence. the complainant, now 19, was questioned home at the time of the first incident. and have increased the number of categories One of the indecency charges is for a and cross-examined on aspects of it. The complainant said she could not people can enter.” single incident the complainant alleged In response to questions from Mr remember other relatives turning up at Entries must be in by April 15, and can be sent was the man’s first offence against her. Blaschke, she mostly reiterated her that time, as was also claimed by the via email, with photos attached, to parks@gdc. He put his hands down her pants and claims of three years earlier. defence. govt.nz. rubbed her genitals, the complainant However, her answer when asked Asked if she accepted her uncle had “We’re looking for entrants from schools as said. It ended when her stepfather how often the offending in the shower stayed elsewhere the night of the last well this year, and we’re expecting to see some arrived at the house to take her out for happened was different from her alleged incident, the complainant said, more innovative garden ideas, along with photos lunch. previous claim it happened “almost “I’m not sure”. of flowers and vegetables,” Ms Weaver said. Two other indecency charges and daily”. She “sort of” remembered an A workshop with the Women’s Native Tree the rape allegation arise out of a single She now said it had happened “once or arrangement being made by her uncle for Project, which is donating prizes, is planned. incident the complainant alleged was the twice”. someone else to stay that night with her. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 HEALTH 5 Historic mass vaccination plan THIS week in Auckland the biggest FIRST UP: A small group vaccination plan in New Zealand’s of vaccinators were given How many people is the history, to combat Covid-19, began. The and received their first Government hoping to vaccinate? New Zealand Herald’s Emma Russell Covid-19 vaccinations reported on what you need to know last Friday as part of IDEALLY, at least 90 percent of the about the new jab. final preparations before population. the rollout of New Dr Bloomfield has said 70 percent Zealand’s immunisation vaccination would be the minimum When can you get the jab and who programme. needed for herd immunity, depending on is first? factors including vaccine efficacy. However, polling suggests only about BORDER and managed isolation and Ministry of Health picture 70 percent of New Zealanders would be quarantine (MIQ) workers will be the prepared to get vaccinated, and a further first to be vaccinated. 20 percent — the “vaccine hesitant” — It’s expected to take two to three weeks would get a jab if they were very sure it to vaccinate border workers including was safe. cleaners, nurses, security staff, customs The Government has promised and border officials, airline staff, hotel alongside the vaccine rollout will be a workers and all of their household large-scale public education campaign to contacts. say they are between 90 to 95 percent virus that causes Covid-19 and they don’t ensure people are reliably informed. Vaccination of Gisborne border workers effective. change or interact with our DNA in any is due to start from March 1. Director general of health Ashley way. Can the vaccines expire? Healthcare, essential workers and Bloomfield has said that level of They also must comply with those most at risk will follow in the effectiveness not only protected people international standards and local ONCE Covid vaccines are removed second quarter of the year. from severe illness or death but also requirements for quality, safety and from ultra-cold freezers they need to The remaining general public symptomatic illness. efficacy before they can be approved by be used within days or they will expire. vaccinations are expected to begin in the “The ongoing trials and the ongoing Medsafe and used in New Zealand. Transporting the exact number of doses second half of 2021. monitoring of people who have been Although Medsafe is streamlining its needed for frontline workers based in the vaccinated will give us an idea of how assessment processes and prioritising regions will be crucial. Where will you be able to get the long the immunity might last but all the the evaluation of the vaccines over The vaccines must be stored at ultra- vaccine? studies that are being done suggest that other medicines, they’ll still have the low temperatures, and will be kept in especially once people get that second same rigorous level of scrutiny that all nine -80C freezers that can store more FOR front-line workers, vaccinations dose they do have a good response and medicines undergo. than 1.5 million doses in total. will mostly be taking place in their usual immunity does last for at least some New Zealand’s place near the back of Those will be in Auckland and the workplace such as MIQ facilities. months.” the global queue — largely because of South Island. Dr Nikki Turner, director of the our successful response wiping out local The vaccines can be stored for up to Immunisation Advisory Centre, said it How does the jab work? transmission — means regulators have five days in normal cold-chain fridges at is likely the general public would visit a more time to assess. temperatures from 2-8C, and up to two specific vaccination site or clinic which THE Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t contain hours at room temperature prior to use. each health board was working to set up any live viruses. Will there be side effects? They will be administered across the in its region. Instead, a virus that has been country, in areas with borders or MIQ made inactive by special treatment is YES, there are side effects. Some facilities. How many vaccine shots does introduced into the body, allowing the people will have none and a few will feel each person need? immune system to learn how to fight live quite off colour for a day or two. versions of it in the future. These effects are related to an immune THE recommended dose is two jabs, 21 The Oxford-AstraZeneca “viral vector” response and experts say they could be days apart. It’s not yet known if people vaccine works slightly differently, by seen as a positive sign of responding to will need to get a new jab each year. using a virus that has been genetically the vaccine. engineered so that it can’t cause disease By and large, side effects are all fairly Where are the vaccines from? - but carries the instructions for our body minor and don’t last long. Being even a to produce coronavirus proteins to safely little bit sick with Covid lasts far longer. NEW Zealand has pre-purchased four generate an immune response. As the Pfizer vaccine does not vaccines, from firms Pfizer and BioNTech; The Novavax vaccine is a “protein” contain any live virus, people who have Janssen Pharmaceutica; Novavax; and vaccine and uses only harmless compromised immune systems aren’t at AstraZeneca. fragments of the virus shells that mimic risk of a live virus replicating. You cannot The first agreement was for 1.5 million the Covid-19 virus, to safely generate an get Covid from these vaccines. doses from Pfizer and BioNTech. immune response. This is enough vaccines for 750,000 The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is How much will it cost us? people, with each person needing two more sophisticated, and part of a new Are you a visitor to doses about a month apart. generation of shots called mRNA THE Government has announced town and need to see An in-principle agreement has been vaccines. Covid-19 vaccinations will be free and signed with Janssen Pharmaceutica to These teach our cells how to make a voluntary for everyone in the country a doctor? purchase up to five million vaccines — protein, or even just a piece of a protein, regardless of visa status. likely to be a single dose. that triggers an immune response inside At Three Rivers Medical we In December, the Government signed our body. Who can get the vaccine? welcome visitors to town as a further agreement with Novavax That immune response, which produces casual patients. If you or to purchase 10.72 million doses of its antibodies, is what protects us from ANYONE in New Zealand can get a someone in your family falls ill vaccines — enough for two doses for 5.36 getting infected if the real virus enters vaccine as long as they are older than 16. million people — but this isn’t expected our body. That means citizens, residents or needs medical advice while until later this year. The Janssen vaccine, meanwhile, is a and workers on a visa, regardless of its you’re away from home contact The other deal signed in December “recombinant vector vaccine” that uses a status. Three Rivers Medical Gisborne. would secure New Zealand 7.6 million human adenovirus to express the virus The Pfizer vaccine has not been Phone bookings are necessary. doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine spike protein in cells. approved for children and rangatahi — enough for 3.8 million people. under 16 years old because it wasn’t Please note we are still using How do we know the vaccines are trialled in that age group. some phone consultations with How effective are the jabs? safe? The Government said this decision doctors and nurses to maintain could be reconsidered if more information COMPANIES who make the vaccines NONE of these vaccines use the live became available. social distancing. Our open hours during summer are: Monday-Friday 9am-8pm Saturday, Sunday, statutory holidays, urgent service, 9am-1pm then Youngest mums, most babies 2pm-6pm Manage your health, book an appointment in advance and see the doctor of your choice. GISBORNE, along with Northland, has the fertility rate at 1.4 and 1.5 respectively. The 663 births was the second lowest Services available: highest fertility rate in the country at 2.3 births The median age of mothers from these number of Gisborne births in data provided by per woman in 2020, according to statistics areas at the time of giving birth was the Stats NZ dating back to 2007. Doctors, Practice Nurses, Pharmacy, released by Stats NZ. highest in New Zealand, at 31.4 years for both New Zealand’s total fertility rate in 2020 Radiology, Healthy Steps Podiatry, Gisborne also recorded the youngest regions. was down to 1.61 births per woman, its lowest Gains@Geneva Healthcare Services, median age of mothers at the time of birth at As well, regions with large tertiary recorded level, and well below the population Peter Stiven General Surgeon, MoleMap, 28.4 for births during 2017–19. education providers, such as Otago and replacement rate of 2.1. 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WELLINGTON — The advice is reaching them, he said. Covid-19 Response Minister says “We will take a fairly light- the Government had to weigh up handed approach initially two competing strands of advice, because we want to give people before deciding to make masks that opportunity to comply.” mandatory on public transport. Cabinet yesterday discussed After months of urging from making QR code scanning public health experts, masks are mandatory, but the minister said now compulsory on all trains, he wasn’t confident with where buses and planes around the it all shaped up and will seek country, at Alert Levels 1 and 2. further advice. The rules came into force “Compulsion brings a number overnight with some exceptions, of issues with it, including how such as school buses and for do you enforce that and where people with certain medical does the burden lie. conditions. “Does it lie with the individual, Chris Hipkins told Morning does it lie with the business, Report the Government had to what do you do with people who consider whether masks were don’t have phones, who don’t use better as a reactionary approach phones regularly? to an outbreak, or a precaution to “We have got to work through stop potential outbreaks. all of those things.” “We are always looking at Hipkins said he will be looking how we can further reduce risk. at all of the ways to increase the Things that might not have been usage of QR codes. justified or that we might not “Vaccines work and that’s why have been fully confident with we’re doing this,” Hipkins said. REDUCING RISK: After months of pressure from experts, the Government has made masks the basis for doing a couple of The ability to move on from compulsory on public transport around the country, despite being in Alert Level 1. NZ Herald picture months ago, sometimes those the pandemic, he said, rests on things will change.” the effectiveness of vaccines. Public health officials will be The minister said as of have their first dose within the coming through, so Pfizer have It would be highly unlikely working with bus companies and yesterday, about 400 people first two to three weeks of the indicated that they will be that someone would test positive those operating trains and ferries had been vaccinated. All 12,000 campaign kicking off. shipping smaller batches to us for Covid-19 straight after having to make sure the public health border workers were expected to “We are getting more vaccines regularly.” the vaccine, he said. — RNZ Expert calls for border overhaul by Amelia Wade, NZ Herald previously confirmed cases tested started with border workers at the His call was supported by the National positive yesterday, but they were already weekend — is rolled out through the Party at the weekend. AUCKLAND — As Auckland wakes in precautionary quarantine so it was general population from the middle of He pointed to ventilation at the united in Alert Level 1 with the rest of deemed “very low” risk. the year. Pullman Hotel shifting from two hours New Zealand, a leading epidemiologist Eight people have tested positive from Ardern poured cold water over the a day to 24 hours when recent returnees is calling for a total overhaul of the the outbreak, which is considered well- need for purpose-built quarantine later tested positive after leaving the country’s border operation. contained even though its source is still facilities. In the year it would take to facility. Nick Wilson, a professor at the a mystery. get New Zealand’s “team of five million” “What’s it like at the other hotels? University of Otago, wants the Cabinet also decided to continue immunised, evidence could emerge that I think the whole thing is highly Government to build purpose-built mandating mask use on public transport vaccination reduced transmissibility, she problematic and we’re risking the health facilities in military bases away from city and for Uber and taxi drivers nationwide, said. of the team of five million.” centres to prevent further incursions. with exemptions for food services on And that could change what was Wilson is set to meet with the Ministry He called the current border response flights and for required at the of Business, Innovation and Employment “highly problematic”, which was putting children under 12. border. tomorrow and Covid-19 Response the nation at risk. Scientists who Wilson suggested the In the meantime, Minister Chris Hipkins on Thursday and “The failure rate is just so have long called for she said, building a will raise his concerns. unsustainably high, with now 11 border the rule hailed the Government halt all returnees purpose-built facility Hipkins has previously disagreed with failures since last August.” move. except for those with which could hold up Wilson and fellow epidemiologist Michael Wilson even suggested the Government An aerosol chemist legitimate humanitarian needs to 6000 people was Baker calling the outbreaks “border halt all returnees except for those with at the University a “significant ask”, failures” because he said it affected the legitimate humanitarian needs “so we of Auckland, Joel ‘so we have time to get our especially as some morale of workers. have time to get our act together at the Rindelaub said public act together at the border’. incursions were “My request is, really, let’s be a bit border”. transport could be traced to returnees supportive of our border workers. Let’s He said at the very least the “tap a high-risk setting touching the same lift not label their efforts as failures or their should be turned down” until the border because of limited button. successes as ‘down to good luck’. It’s system could be reviewed and its safety ability to socially distance and said “So not always has the facility been the actually down to hard work,” Hipkins assured. “it is a wise move to take a cautious problem, but the virus within it.” said last Wednesday. Wilson’s calls came just before approach”. More than 113,730 people have moved Wilson said refusing to call the Auckland moved back to Alert Level 1 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said through the managed isolation system, outbreaks “border failures” was a “very at midnight, after a week of restrictions she hoped face coverings would “become with 11 outbreaks in the community in clever communications skill”. to contain and trace the Valentine’s Day a part of normal life”. that time. “It’s just so clever, these deflections, cluster. The order will continue to be reviewed Wilson called it “crazy” to have the because people will believe it. People like Another family member of the as the vaccination programme — which managed-isolation facilities in Auckland to blame people — they don’t think about and wants purpose-built facilities in blaming the system when it’s almost military bases where factors such as always a system problem. And it’s just ventilation could be controlled. human nature to blame someone.” FEBRUARY SPECIALS

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DUBLIN, Ireland — A New Zealand- born nun has been caught breaching Covid-19 restrictions in Ireland to attend an exorcism. The Irish Examiner reports Sister Anne Marie was one of a pair of nuns who broke Covid guidelines to attend an exorcism of the Dáil before Christmas. The two Cork-based sisters attended the exorcism in Dublin on December 8 at a time when inter-county travel was banned. A video has appeared online which shows the exorcism and a subsequent Mass in Herbert Park, South Dublin. DEFYING RULES: Australian woman Lucinda Baulch has been staying at the Grand The pair have been fundraising in NUN ON THE RUN: Sister Anne Mercure MIQ facility in Wellington for the past 28 days after refusing to take a recent months after being ordered Marie was one of two nuns who broke Covid-19 test. She is due to be released today. NZ Herald picture to leave their religious retreat. The lockdown restrictions to attend an Examiner reported they had raised exorcism before Christmas. more than $127,000 in crowdfunding. Picture supplied Mother Irene Gibson, of a group called the Carmelite Sisters of the Holy Times in 2019. Woman refuses Face of Jesus, was ordered to vacate “I chose the order because they are the compound at Corran South near devoted to our Lady and reading about the village of Leap in West Cork by the life of St Teresa and praying and next June. discerning the will of God.” That followed a 2019 conviction for Living in a wooden hut, she admitted virus test in MIQ breaching planning regulations in that adjusting to a life of silence and relation to the premises, which she set contemplation was difficult at first. up as a religious retreat in 2016. “We are a silent order but one hour by Katie Harris, NZ Herald taken in MIQ facilities. The Irish Times earlier reported every day, we have recreation and can The children Baulch was travelling Sister Anne Marie, formerly Hannah speak. We pray in common in Latin WELLINGTON — An Australian with all returned negative Covid-19 swab Loeman of Whanganui, professed her but when we pray in private we have a woman who is refusing to take a results, and she didn’t see why, when she vows of obedience, chastity and poverty choice of Latin or English, but we only Covid-19 swab says she will finally leave was only returning to Australia, that she in May 2019 to become a Carmelite attend traditional Latin rite masses,” MIQ in Wellington today — after 28 needed to stay on. 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GOLDEN BAY — A pod marine mammal medics of pilot whales which was and other volunteers were refloated from a remote working to refloat the whales beach at the top of the South at the high tide around 8am. Island has re-stranded in the Rangers and about 50 same area. volunteers started searching More than 40 long-finned for the whales on the coast pilot whales were refloated at first light this morning and on Monday from the base of the pod was found around Farewell Spit in Golden Bay. 7am. A number have died but Farewell Spit has been about 28 of the whales that a frequent site of whale returned to the beach are strandings still alive, the Department of The last mass pilot whale Conservation said. stranding on Farewell Spit A team of about 65 worked was in February 2017 when to keep the mammals cool an estimated 600-700 whales and wet throughout the day were beached. yesterday. About 250 died while the DoC rangers, Project Jonah rest were refloated. — RNZ

MASS STRANDING: Project Jonah, DoC and volunteers were on the scene of the pilot whale stranding at Farewell Spit yesterday. Picture supplied ‘I’m not parting with my kids’ Mum forced to choose between living in a car or splitting family up by Katie Harris, NZ Herald Zealand Herald when she was living in to have children living in emergency my care. I’m not giving up my kids to no her car, the woman was finally offered housing, it was worse to have them one,” the mother said. HAMILTON — A Hamilton woman emergency accommodation, but she’s separated from caregivers. “You are not allowed to split families says she was forced to choose between concerned other women may also find “I don’t think there’s any question at up. You’re taking my kids away and living in a car with four children in themselves in the same situation. all. We have to ask ourselves what’s in putting them in someone else’s care.” her care, or having them split between Before that was granted, in a recording the best interest of the children.” When the mother requested to speak homes. reviewed by the Herald, a Ministry On the face of it, she said, the priority to the manager, the worker told her she The woman, who does not want to of Social Development worker can be should be to maintain the relationship couldn’t pass her on to the manager. be named, was told by officials they heard explaining between the children “That’s not how this works.” could not grant emergency housing for to the woman that and their carer One option the worker said they would the “preference” of keeping everyone when they look for We have to ask ourselves by keeping them consider was paying for them to go to together. emergency housing ‘ together. Wellington to stay with other family “I’m not parting with my kids . . . I’ve they need to make what’s in the best interest of Morrison-Hume members if there was no one nearby. said to them I’m not prepared to give up sure there are no the children suspected that on any Regarding her two boys, the staff my children.” other options for her ’ given day they would member wanted to contact their father Instead of spreading her whanau or her children. —Karen Morrison-Hume hear a variation of to see if the children could stay with between multiple homes with people The worker told the this woman’s story him. The woman replied that the man she’s not close with, the woman stayed woman it was about and said the issue was already staying in a one-bedroom in her car for about 10 days with her putting a roof over their heads and that highlights Aotearoa’s housing crisis. emergency accommodation. children and grandchildren. they could not place people in emergency When asked whether they could In a statement, Ministry for Social During their stint in the car, the housing if they had other places they provide social housing for the woman, Development regional commissioner woman told The New Zealand Herald could go. the worker said they didn’t have a social Te Rehia Papesch told the Herald they they parked up on the side of the road One of the workers told the woman housing place for her, and said the have helped the woman and her whanau and beside beaches. that children often did better when they waiting list for the scheme was about into emergency housing for 14 nights Prior to living in the car, she had been were separated and sent to family, than 15,000. while they support her to find long-term in the same rental for multiple years, they would in a hotel. The worker then said that as long as housing. however, the owner was selling so she Anglican Action chief executive and she had a good rental record, the woman Although Papesch said keeping had to move out. missioner Karen Morrison-Hume told should be able to find somewhere else. families together is a priority, emergency After initially contacting The New the Herald while it may not be desirable “They’re not going, they’re not leaving housing is a last resort.

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PH: 06 869 0617 37512-01 The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 BUSINESS 9 Holidays Act overhaul planned, FRUSTRATING: The Government tried to get including earlier entitlements Tiwai Point aluminium WELLINGTON — Workers will be able to take pay on returning to work, as the payment is smelter to clean leave for sickness or bereavement from their calculated on the previous twelve months. up toxic waste first day in the job under a planned revamp of In his report, taskforce chair Gordon at its Southland the complicated Holidays Act. Anderson said the changes would provide more site but failed. Parents will also be paid at their full rate certainty for both employers and employees. RNZ picture for holidays on returning from parental leave, “The proposals in this report will ensure removing a fish-hook which currently leaves that Government, unions, employers and, most them out of pocket. importantly, employees, can have confidence The changes were recommended by a panel that in the millions of instances each year of union, business and government voices when an employee requests and is granted tasked with resolving the country’s long- leave by their employer, their leave balance and running payroll mess. payment for that leave can and will be correctly In a statement, Workplace Relations Minister calculated.” Michael Wood said he would implement all of The recommendations will also see workers ‘It’s terrible’ the proposals with legislation to be introduced eligible for more leave from as early as day one early next year. on the job, axing the six “The changes put month waiting period. forward by the Holidays For example, workers Environment Minister slams Tiwai Point Act Taskforce will make Workers will be able to will be eligible for it easier to calculate take leave for sickness or one day’s sick leave smelter’s stockpiling of hazardous waste entitlements and pay, bereavement from their from their first day of giving employees and employment, with an BLUFF — The Government tried to get disposal. employers certainty and first day in the job and the additional day per month Tiwai Point aluminium smelter to clean Workers handling it can be exposed to transparency. full rate for holidays will be until the full five days is up toxic waste at its Southland site but fluorides, crystalline silica, fluoride and “Business and paid on return from parental reached. failed. beryllium, according to the International union representatives leave under planned Bereavement leave Environment Minister David Parker aluminium industry guidelines on SCL. reached consensus on and family violence leave admitted this today in slamming New these changes, and we Holidays Act changes. will also be available Zealand Aluminium Smelters, saying WorkSafe to assess smelter’s compliance are delivering on our from day one. he was “incredibly frustrated” at the election commitment to Staff will also be “uncooperative” company. Workplace safety regulator WorkSafe implement them.” allowed to access bereavement leave under RNZ yesterday revealed the smelter said it would be assessing the smelter’s The Government set up the taskforce in more circumstances, such as the deaths of at Bluff has stockpiled 106,000 tonnes of compliance with the Hazardous 2018 after repeated examples of staff being aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and those cyanide-laced hazardous waste less than Substances storage requirements. underpaid due to mistakes calculating holiday in cultural family groups, such as whangai 100 metres from a fast-eroding beach. Its last workplace assessment was pay. relationships. “I think it’s terrible that a major in February 2015, before the new and The committee reported in October 2019, but Employers will also be required to issue corporate . . . have not to date been open stricter Health and Safety at Work laws the Government has only just published the payslips so staff know what their used and as to the state of the site,” Parker told came in in 2016. recommendations, along with its response. remaining leave entitlements are. Morning Report. “This assessment included the storage The taskforce recommended a new Wood said independent payroll experts The Government intervened to get the of SPL on-site and no actionable issues calculation for how much staff should be paid brought in by the task force found the proposed smelter to delay its shutdown until late were identified during this assessment,” while on annual leave. changes were able to be implemented. 2024. Worksafe said. In future, workers will be entitled to “Officials have begun further detailed policy “We tried,” Parker said. The smelter also had to comply when whichever sum is greater: the usual pay had design work on these changes, and will involve “In the end, that was an agreement storing the waste with laws on hazardous they been at work, or an averaged amount a range of payroll experts to make sure we get between the smelter and (power company) substances, and with dangerous goods calculated over either the last 13 or 52 weeks. it right,” Wood said. Meridian, the Government wasn’t transport rules enforced by police. That will also apply for people who’ve “I expect to introduce legislation in early involved. The international SCL guidelines returned from parental leave. Currently, new 2022 and give businesses plenty of time to “They wanted us to get involved in had no legal standing in New Zealand, parents can receive close to nothing in holiday prepare for the changes.” — RNZ respect of (electricity) transmission WorkSafe said. pricing. Invercargill City Council said, when “We said: ‘Well, we might be up for that updating its district plan, that planning if you promise to clean up the site and tell approvals given to the smelter in the Freight costs rising as firms hit with us the state of the site. 1960s gave it “the right to operate “They wouldn’t. So that didn’t advance.” virtually unconstrained by land-use New Zealand Aluminium Smelters has conditions”. shipping container return penalties been approached for a comment. “The reality of this situation is reflected The Government had no power to in the present zoning.” AUCKLAND — Calls are mounting for the detention fees and in most cases these costs intervene directly, so had given $300,000 The city council sought a compromise Government to step in and lobby shipping will be passed onto consumers. to the regional council, which did have the between these rights, and the need to lines over the rising cost of freight. CBAFF was calling on the Ministry of power, under the Resource Management now address the land-use effects of the The Customs Brokers and Freight Transport to lobby the shipping lines to place Act. smelter’s closure. It settled in the new Forwarders Federation (CBAFF) said firms a six month moratorium on detention fees “They’ve got the power of entry onto district plan on encouraging the site’s are being charged “detention fees” for failing until the situation had eased, as it had done the site. So I’ve asked them to go onto the rehabilitation. to return empty shipping containers on time, during last year’s lockdowns. site,” the minister said. despite there being no room for them at “The shipping lines acknowledge these “And I think they need to drill a few Toxic waste in Northland storage facilities. capacity issues will not be resolved for some holes. Typically, freight forwarders hire containers months,” says Dawson. “I’m determined to get to the bottom of And it was not alone, citing Sustainable from shipping companies and are required “So it is only reasonable that they provide it.” Solvents in Northland. to return them or ‘dehire’ them to a storage that same flexibility, when containers simply Parker had put the Rio Tinto majority- “They brought all these solvents onto facility by an agreed time. However, surging can’t be returned on time because there is no owned smelter company on notice, he said. a site, they took the money to clean them consumer demand and delays at ports space at their own contracted depots.” The Environment Ministry said it had up, they pocketed the money. means there is a surplus of containers, with Dawson said meetings with local been engaging with the smelter since last “And then they left behind this toxic no available room for them to be dropped off. representatives from the overseas shipping September on how it would address its waste site, which is a fire risk and we’re “Some shipping lines, irrespective of companies about the fees had stalled and waste situation. having to spend a couple of million dollars a company’s ability to dehire containers, was told a decision would need to come from The tonnes of waste stockpiled by the . . . to clean up the site. I think it’s not are continuing to charge detention for the government. beach at Tiwai Point — the residue of good enough.” businesses keeping their containers longer RNZ approached one of the shipping lines, the lining inside the pots used to make The Whangarei District Council has than they have been contracted for,” CBAFF French company CMA CGM but they declined aluminium, called spent cell liner waste, said it was trying to recover the costs chief executive Rosemarie Dawson said. to comment, saying they were meeting with or SCL, or spent pot liner, SPL — are from the company, for testing and She said in one instance, one of its the Ministry of Transport and CBAFF next officially categorised as “hazardous disposing of 4000 drums of chemicals. members was invoiced more than $8,000 in week. — RNZ waste”, and some has been exported for — RNZ

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Asset Plus rose 1.5c or 4.29 percent to were 54 gainers and 90 decliners across the $10.63 despite producing a steady first half 35c or 8.33 percent to $4.55, and Pacific Edge 36.5c after announcing it has sold its struggling market on strong trading of 50.86 million shares result. Its revenue rose 29 percent to $410.3m, rose 7c or 6.93 percent to $1.08. Eastgate Shopping Centre in Christchurch to a worth $191.55 million. net profit fell 25 percent to $21.96m and it is The travel stocks had a better day on the private investor for $43.5m. The yield on the New Zealand 10-Year paying an interim dividend of 15.5c a share on renewed hope of border reopenings as Covid Property for Industry was down 2c to $2.86 Government Bond rose 13 basis points to 1.65 April 1. cases fall and the vaccine takes hold. Auckland after reporting a 36 percent fall in net profit for percent, and the NZ dollar strengthened during Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, which exports International Airport climbed 12c or 1.78 percent the 2020 financial year. — NZ Herald 10 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 EDITORIAL Globalist oligarchy bent on revenge All at Level 1, with by Patrick Cooper They were globalists in their thinking and their the Rust Belt and record rates of drug addiction commercial relations needed to be structured from the ensuing despair. The arrival of the more mask wearing IN 404 BCE, the without considering the effects they might have Wuhan virus has given Democrat Governors the Peloponnesian War finally drew on the society they lived in. Jobs and factories opportunity to really grind the racist “rubes” and The latest Covid-19 outbreak is to a close with the defeat of were off-shored to China and the good times Trump supporters they hate into the dust through contained and Auckland is back Athens by Sparta. Of the three rolled for them. LeBron James and Tim Cook, their lockdowns. The Democrat Governor of with the rest of the country at Alert options they had as to how CEO of Apple, were raking in huge sums through New York sent sick people to care homes where to treat their defeated enemy, Level 1 as of today, although once the sale of their sneakers and iPhones. Chinese the elderly residents rapidly succumbed to the the Spartans chose to install commercial power forced the removal of Taiwan virus in their thousands. Visionary Republican again the source of the leak into the a quisling government, called the Thirty Tyrants, patches from Tom Cruise’s jacket in the sequel to Governors like Ron DeSantis have kept community, the 11th since August, members of the Athenian elite, who loathed their Top Gun. businesses open and Floridians have been able remains a mystery. own democratic form of government and who Meanwhile, China was flooding the American to lead a relatively normal life. Calls to make the alert level immediately set about taking their revenge on market with their goods (think Amazon). A tidal To keep the lives of ordinary Americans in system more sophisticated — in their rivals, executing some and exiling others. wave of Chinese money washed over education, a constant state of tension and anxiety, Antifa line with growing knowledge of the Academic and writer Lee Smith sees parallels with Stanford University, for example, receiving was unleashed on the cities in the summer to virus that causes Covid-19 and the between this conflict which took place in the a grant of $58 million. A Harvard University create mayhem, loot and destroy buildings. These fact that new, more transmittable Eastern Mediterranean over 2000 years ago and academic whose research had been taxpayer are classic communist tactics to undermine variants are now predominant contemporary America. Substitute China for funded to the tune of $15 million, was fired democracies. Sparta and the Biden administration for the Thirty among cases at the border — have when he failed to declare the $50,000 a month A globalist oligarchy has finally been Tyrants and the picture becomes clearer. China he was receiving from a Chinese Communist established in Washington which is friendly and been rejected by the Government. is fast overtaking the US economically and on Party affiliate for recruiting scientific talent. Think compliant toward its new overlord. It is bent Covid Response Minister Chris its way to soon leading the world. Nobody would tanks and research institutions like the Atlantic on exacting its revenge against its enemies, Hipkins told RNZ this morning that dispute that Biden is well disposed towards Council and the Centre for American Progress Trump’s supporters, and against Trump himself the simplicity of the system was a America’s totalitarian rival in the Far East. How had their snouts in the trough too. The pay-off by appointing a Special Counsel to investigate strength, as the public understood has this situation come about? for China? Stolen intellectual property both from his term in office. it. There was also scope to make Smith pinpoints the exact moment when their penetration of American education and as Does the study of the Peloponnesian War and changes such as the mandating of Wall Street, big tech and the multinational a mandated preliminary to the establishment of its aftermath give us any pointers as to what face masks on public transport at corporations transferred their loyalties from factories in China. the future may hold? The Thirty Tyrants, having Alert Levels 1 and 2. the Republicans to the Democrat Party. It was Globalism has been a disaster for many killed 5 percent of the Athenian population, were at the outset of the Obama administration. This important new step to American workers, with record unemployment in overthrown within the year. mitigate risks has been introduced today nationwide, including for taxi LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS and Uber drivers; with exemptions Dunga Classic for children under 12, people with Make clear certain medical conditions and for Debates won Just don’t running 35yrs food service on flights. Re: C’mon drivers, stay alert Re: Conversations needed, Cabinet yesterday considered Hello, just wanting to clarify the — February 20 letter. February 22 letter. read them situation regarding the claim that I suggest signs should be making QR code scanning Lara, I really like reading your the Makorori Longboard Classic is posted informing drivers who mandatory but decided to seek Re: Try offline, February viewpoints and respect your 19 letter. the oldest longboard contest in the has the right of way. On zebra further advice, as there were a broad knowledge of current topics Some of us enjoy country, as I was in the committee crossings, pedestrians have number of issues to work through. of interest, but I do agree with reading the various that put together Christchurch’s the right of way and vehicles Hipkins said they would be looking Joanne about one or two ongoing exchanges in the opinion North Wai Boardriders Dunga should not continue until the at all ways to increase the use of debates. As far as I’m concerned, section. It seems others Classic in 1986 — the first of now pedestrian has reached the QR codes. you have already won, and I don’t (Joanne in this piece, and 35 annual longboard contests — roadside — or, in the case of Public health experts have said even read these now. Bob in his piece titled just a mere decade before the first Ormond Road-Ballance Street, compulsion should start with D. ARTHUR “Time out”) would deprive Makorori competition. the pedestrian island. the rest of us of the ability mandatory scanning at potential DARRYN CLYNE PJ REED “super-spreader” venues, such as to read and consider bars and nightclubs. Only tapping others’ opinions. There have also been repeated Here is a wildly Bravery and courage? What controversial thought: Assistance invaluable calls to “turn down the tap” of rubbish. You are only tapping If you don’t like reading returnees from high-risk countries, a few words out on a machine contributions from various As a former patient having provides such an invaluable something the Government doesn’t to express your opinion to the authors then simply don’t received excellent care service. want to entertain. Prime Minister Gisborne public, Lara — any half- read them. A revolutionary in Chelsea, I read about JUST WONDERING Jacinda Ardern has also poured cold literate person can and sadly does idea I know, but I’m sure the recent problems with water on the idea of purpose-built do that. Joanne and Bob could give the autoclaves at Hauora Footnote response from Hauora quarantine facilities for up to 6000 Just let other people express it a try? Or as Lara says, Tairawhiti and the assistance Tairawhiti: Hauora Tairawhiti has their diverse opinions and give us start a topic of interest to requested from other DHBs. a long-standing agreement with people outside our main cities, I noted that there was no Chelsea Hospital to assist one labelling it a “significant ask”. all a break. you. JOANNE STEWART NATE comment as to whether another. When Gisborne Hospital The points have already been Chelsea Hospital was able to had problems with its boiler made that such facilities would assist, which would seem to system earlier this month, Chelsea be an insurance policy for future Phone books still in demand have been the obvious first Hospital immediately responded. pandemics, and while expensive choice. Their assistance was invaluable to would cost a lot less than putting Always nice to know that people extra books are printed to meet the Perhaps management would ensure that urgent and emergency Auckland into more lockdowns. like Dave are so competent in anticipated demand. I have depots enlighten the community, surgeries could continue to be dealing with the digital age. Not in the city to provide a pick-up point. particularly as Chelsea carried out locally. Of course, the best mitigation everybody is so efficient. The vast My team and I deliver more for Covid-19 arrived in the country majority of people still have use of than 260,000 phone books all over last week in a first instalment of a phone book. I invite Dave to come the North Island and the story is vaccine vials, and what will become along with us for an hour or two repeated in every area. Phone books Port needs to be enlarged our biggest ever immunisation while we are doing deliveries. Most are not a total waste of resources Re: Push back, Feb 20 letter. add places for the kids to jump programme is under way for border, customers who we meet face to face yet, Dave! Rex, Holland has done it off and for people to fish from managed isolation and quarantine almost always ask for two phone GEORGE MacLACHLAN successfully so why not our at the same time. Our port is workers and their families. books. We are hailed in the street (Contractor for delivery of phone port? Long term it has to be a simply too small. Meanwhile, America today marks for additional copies. Hundreds of books, central North Island) good thing. Maybe they could DAVE 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 — [email protected] something our columnist ignores as the actual cause of constant ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. tension and anxiety in the country, ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. and which a former President ■ Always include full name and contact details. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. mishandled at almost every turn. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 WORLD 11 Over 500,000 and counting US approaches dark milestone of coronavirus deaths BALTIMORE, Maryland — For heart beat its last. He was 36 and weeks after Cindy Pollock began left behind a 3-year-old son. planting tiny flags across her “Today it’s us. And tomorrow yard — one for each of the more it could be anybody,” Nancy than 1800 Idahoans killed by Espinoza said. Covid-19 — the toll was mostly By late last autumn, 54 percent a number. Until two women she of Americans reported knowing had never met rang her doorbell someone who had died of Covid in tears, seeking a place to mourn or had been hospitalised with the husband and father they had it, according to a Pew Research just lost. Centre poll. The grieving was Then Pollock knew her tribute, even more widespread among however heartfelt, would never Black Americans, Hispanics and begin to convey the grief of a other minorities. pandemic that has now claimed Deaths have nearly doubled over 500,000 lives in the US and since then, with the scourge counting. spreading far beyond the “I just wanted to hug them,” Northeast and Northwest she said. “Because that was all I metropolitan areas slammed by could do.” the virus last spring and the Sun After a year that has darkened Belt cities hit hard last summer. doorways across the US, the In some places, the seriousness of pandemic is poised to surpass the threat was slow to sink in. a milestone that once seemed For Anthony Hernandez, whose unimaginable, a reminder of the Emmerson-Bartlett Memorial virus’s reach into all corners of Chapel in Redlands, California, the country and communities of has been overwhelmed handling every size and make-up. HEARTBREAKING: Above, burial of Covid-19 victims, the “It’s very hard for me to Chaplain Kristin Michealsen holds most difficult conversations have imagine an American who doesn’t the hand of a deceased Covid-19 been the ones without answers, know someone who has died patient at Providence Holy Cross as he sought to comfort mothers, or have a family member who Medical Centre in the Mission Hills fathers and children who lost has died,” said Ali Mokdad, a section of Los Angeles. loved ones. professor of health metrics at Right, Cindy Pollock does His chapel, which arranges the University of Washington in maintenance on the construction 25 to 30 services in an ordinary Seattle. “We haven’t really fully flags in her front yard in Boise, month, handled 80 in January. understood how bad it is, how Idaho, to pay respect to the lost He had to explain to some devastating it is, for all of us.” lives. families that they would need to Experts warn that over The US death toll from Covid-19 wait weeks for a burial. 100,000 more deaths are likely has almost topped 500,000. “At one point, every gurney, in the next few months, despite AP pictures every dressing table, every a massive campaign to vaccinate embalming table had somebody people. Meanwhile, the nation’s on it,” he said. trauma continues to accrue in In Boise, Idaho, Pollock started a way unparalleled in recent “In a way, we’re all grieving,” War 2, the Korean War and the masks fuelled the spread. the memorial in her yard last American life, said Donna said Schuurman, who has Vietnam War combined. It is akin The figures alone do not come fall to counter what she saw Schuurman of the Dougy Center counselled the families of those to a 9/11 every day for nearly six close to capturing the heartbreak. as widespread denial of the for Grieving Children & Families killed in terrorist attacks, natural months. “I never once doubted that he threat. When deaths spiked in in Portland, Oregon. disasters and school shootings. The toll, accounting for was not going to make it December, she was planting 25 At other moments of epic In recent weeks, virus deaths one in five deaths reported . . . I so believed in him and to 30 new flags at a time. But loss, like the 9/11 terrorist have fallen from more than worldwide, has far exceeded early my faith,” said Nancy Espinoza, her frustration has been eased attacks, Americans have pulled 4000 reported on some days in projections, which assumed that whose husband, Antonio, was somewhat by those who slow or together to confront crisis and January to an average of fewer federal and state governments hospitalised with Covid-19 last stop to pay respect or to mourn. console survivors. But this time, than 1900 per day. would marshal a comprehensive month. “I think that is part of what the nation is deeply divided. Still, at almost half a million, and sustained response and The couple from Riverside I was wanting, to get people Staggering numbers of families the toll recorded by Johns individual Americans would heed County, California, had been talking,” she said, “Not just like, are dealing with death, serious Hopkins University is already warnings. together since high school. They ‘Look at how many flags are in illness and financial hardship. greater than the population of Instead, a push to reopen the pursued parallel nursing careers the yard today compared to last And many are left to cope in Miami or Kansas City, Missouri. economy last spring and the and started a family. Then, on month’, but trying to help people isolation, unable even to hold It is roughly equal to the number refusal by many to maintain January 25, Nancy was called to who have lost loved ones talk to funerals. of Americans killed in World social-distancing and wear face Antonio’s bedside just before his other people.” — AP Shops, haircuts return in April as UK cautiously lifts lockdown LONDON — Children in England will return allowed to meet one friend or relative for a chat Johnson said vaccines would help Britain put depend on vaccines proving effective at to class and people will be able to meet a friend or picnic outdoors. Three weeks later, people “a wretched year” behind it. lowering hospitalisation and deaths, infection outside for coffee in two weeks’ time, Prime will be able to meet in small groups outdoors for But the Government cautions that the return rates remaining low and no new virus variants Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday sports or relaxation. of the country’s social and economic life will be emerging that throw the plans into disarray. as he laid out a slow easing of one of Europe’s Under the Government plan, shops and slow. Johnson’s Conservative Government was Two UK studies released on Monday showed strictest pandemic lockdowns. hairdressers will reopen April 12. So will pubs accused of reopening the country too quickly that Covid-19 vaccination programmes are But those longing for a haircut, a restaurant and restaurants, though only outdoors. after the first lockdown in the spring and of contributing to a sharp drop in illness and meal or a pint in a pub have almost two months Indoor venues such as theaters and cinemas, rejecting scientific advice before a short “circuit- hospitalisation, boosting hopes that the shots to wait, and people won’t be able to hug loved and indoor seating in bars and restaurants, are breaker” lockdown in the fall. will work as well in the real world as they have in ones that they don’t live with until May at the scheduled to open May 17, and limited crowds It does not want to make the same mistakes carefully controlled studies. earliest. will be able to return to sports stadiums. It is also again, although Johnson is under pressure from Preliminary results from a study in Scotland Johnson said the Government’s plan would the earliest date Britons may be allowed foreign some Conservative lawmakers and business found that the Pfizer vaccine reduced hospital move the country “cautiously but irreversibly” holidays. owners, who argue that restrictions should be admissions by up to 85 percent four weeks after out of lockdown. The final stage of the plan, in which all lifted quickly to revive the battered economy. the first dose, while the AstraZeneca shot cut “We’re setting out on what I hope is a one-way legal limits on social contact are removed The Conservative Government — in normal admissions by up to 94 percent. In England, road to freedom,” he told lawmakers in the House and nightclubs can reopen after 15 months of times an opponent of lavish public spending — preliminary data from a study of health care of Commons. closure, is set for June 21. spent 280 billion pounds ($393 billion) in 2020 to workers showed that the Pfizer vaccine reduced Britain has had Europe’s deadliest coronavirus The Government says the dates could all be deal with the pandemic, including billions paying the risk of catching Covid-19 by 70 percent after outbreak, with more than 120,000 deaths. Faced postponed if infections rise. the salaries of almost 10 million furloughed one dose, a figure that rose to 85 percent after with a dominant virus variant that scientists say The measures being announced apply to workers. the second. Scientists stressed that the results is both more transmissible and more deadly than England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all British Chambers of Commerce Director were preliminary. the original virus, the country has spent much have slightly different lockdowns in place, with General Adam Marshall welcomed the “clarity” Johnson said that even with vaccines, of the winter under a tight lockdown — the third some children returning to class in Scotland and about reopening dates, but said that “the future reopening society would inevitably lead to more since March 2020. Wales on Monday. of thousands of firms and millions of jobs still infections and deaths. Bars, restaurants, gyms, schools, hair salons Hopes for a return to normality rest largely on hangs by a thread.” He said there is “no credible route to a zero- and non-essential shops are closed, people are Britain’s fast-moving inoculation program that Johnson said the Government’s annual Covid Britain, or indeed, a zero-Covid world”. urged not to travel out of their local area and has given more than 17.5 million people, a third budget statement on March 3 would contain new But, he added, “we cannot persist indefinitely foreign holidays are illegal. of the country’s adult population, the first of two measures “to protect jobs and livelihoods across with restrictions that debilitate our economy, That will begin to change, slowly, on March 8, doses of vaccine. The Government aims to give the UK.” our physical and mental wellbeing and the life when children go back to school and people are every adult a shot of vaccine by July 31. 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If takeover three weeks ago. confirmed, it would be the biggest mass More than 1000 protesters gathered arrest since the protests started. near the US Embassy in Yangon despite The general strike was an extension of barriers blocking the way, but left to actions called by the Civil Disobedience avoid a confrontation after 20 military Movement, a loosely organised group that trucks with riot police arrived nearby. has been encouraging civil servants and Protests continued in other parts of the workers at state enterprises to walk off city, including next to Sule Pagoda, a their jobs. Many transport workers and traditional gathering point. white collar workers have responded to Factories, workplaces and shops were the appeal. shuttered across the country on Monday On Saturday, a General Strike in response to the call for a nationwide Committee was formed by more than two strike. The closings extended to the dozen groups to provide a more formal capital, Naypyitaw. structure for the resistance movement The junta had warned against a and launch a “spring revolution.” general strike in a public announcement The ominous signs of potential conflict on Sunday night on state television drew attention outside Myanmar, with broadcaster MRTV. the US reiterating that it stood with the “It is found that the protesters have people of Myanmar, also called Burma. raised their incitement towards riot and Secretary of State Antony Blinken anarchy mob. Protesters are now inciting GROWING UNREST: Anti-coup protesters fill roads as they gather near the Mandalay said on Twitter the US would take firm the people, especially emotional teenagers Railway Station, Myanmar on Monday. AP picture action “against those who perpetrate and youths, to a confrontation path violence against the people of Burma where they will suffer the loss of life,” the the numeric form of Monday’s date. the event of any police action. as they demand the restoration of their onscreen text said in English, replicating “I am joining the 22222 nationwide Reports and photos of protests in at democratically elected government.” the spoken announcement in Burmese. protest as a citizen of the country. We least a dozen cities and towns were “We call on the military to stop The junta’s statement also blamed must join the protest this time without posted on social media. Overhead views, violence, release all those unjustly criminals for past protest violence, fail,” said 42-year-old Zayar, who owns a some shot from drones, showed massive detained, cease attacks on journalists with the result that “the security force bottled water business in the capital. “So crowds in six cities appearing to number and activists, and respect the will of the members had to fire back.” Three I’ve closed down my factory and joined in the tens of thousands. people,” State Department spokesman protesters have been fatally shot. the demonstration.” There were pictures of a particularly Ned Price said on Twitter. Trucks cruised the streets of Yangon on Zin Mi Mi Aung, a 27-year-old colourful event in Taunggyi, the capital On Sunday, crowds in Naypyitaw Sunday night, blaring similar warnings. saleswoman, also joined the strike. of Shan State, where scores of small red attended a funeral for the young woman The protest movement, which seeks to “We don’t want to be governed by the hot-air balloons were set aloft. A bigger who was the first person confirmed to restore power to the elected government regime,” she said, as people marched and one was adorned with a drawing of the have been killed in the protests, while of Aung San Suu Kyi and have her and chanted behind her. “We will fight against three-finger salute adopted by the anti- demonstrators also mourned two other other leaders released from detention, them until we win.” coup movement. The city is famous for its protesters who were shot dead on has embraced non-violence. Thousands of people gathered in the annual hot-air balloon festival. Saturday in Mandalay, the country’s The nationwide strike was dubbed capital’s wide boulevards, many on In Pyinmana, a satellite town of second-biggest city. Large crowds came Five-Twos, for the five number twos in motorbikes to allow swift movement in Naypyitaw, police chased people through out again on Monday in Mandalay. — AP Angry youths rattle Spain in support of jailed rapper BARCELONA, Spain — The allegedly progressive national in Madrid on Saturday chanted imprisonment of a rap artist for government and the Catalan “Where is the change? Where is his music and tweets praising government. the progress?” and “Juan Carlos terrorist violence and insulting “They are attacking us de Borbón, womaniser and thief.” the Spanish monarchy has set off youngsters because we are The debate has caused a powder keg of pent-up rage this showing our anger.” tensions inside Spain’s left-wing week in the southern European For many, including older coalition government. While country. peaceful protesters, Hasel’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez The arrest of Pablo Hasel has case also represents what they and his Socialist Party back brought thousands to the streets perceive as a heavy-handed the parliamentary monarchy for different reasons. reaction by a state whose very Spain has had since the end of Under the banner of freedom structure is in need of deep Francisco Franco’s dictatorship WELL OF FRUSTRATION: Demonstrators march holding a banner of expression, many Spaniards reform. That’s even when, in in the 1970s, their minor partner, reading “you have taught us that being peaceful is useless” strongly object to putting an some of his public remarks, the upstart United We Can party, during a protest condemning the arrest of rap artist Pablo Hasel in artist behind bars for his lyrics especially in messages sent out wants to get rid of the monarchy Barcelona, Spain. AP picture and social media remarks. They on Twitter, Hasel expressed and has supported this week’s are clamouring for Spain’s radical ideas, talked about protests for Hasel despite their council member Albert Batlle told disorders or theft. left-wing government to fulfill attacking politicians and violent turn. Cadena SER radio. Within that splinter group its promise and roll back the defended the now-defunct In the rapper’s home region Some leading pro-secessionist of troublemakers, some are Public Security Law passed Grapo and ETA, two armed of Catalonia, the unrest also politicians have heavily criticised out to do some timely looting. by the previous conservative organisations that killed over comes after years of separatist the handling of the protests by Catalonia’s regional interior administration that was used to 1000 people in Spain. politicians urging citizens to Catalan police, who made more minister, Miquel Sàmper, on prosecute Hasel and other artists. Hasel’s lyrics that strike at ignore or disobey court rulings than 35 arrests on Saturday Sunday told the regional TV3 Hasel’s imprisonment to serve King Felipe VI and his father, unfavourable to their cause. night alone. broadcaster that what was a nine-month sentence has also King Emeritus Juan Carlos I, Although this week’s protests What started out as peaceful, “a protest over freedom of tapped into a well of frustration have connected with a growing are missing widespread calls if angry, protests by thousands expression” had evolved to “acts among Spain’s youths, who have public debate on the future of for Catalonia’s independence in Barcelona and other nearby of pure vandalism.” the highest unemployment rate Spain’s parliamentary monarchy. or flags supporting secession of towns, degenerated into ugly Police point to small groups in the European Union. Four in Unquestioned outside fringe the industrial region, the head incidents come nightfall, caused who bash their way into sporting every 10 eligible workers under circles of the Left until the past of public safety for Barcelona’s by a violent minority bent on goods stores and other shops 25 years old are without a job. decade, the royal house has been town hall said that many of the destroying property and battling while law enforcement officers “I think that what we are plagued by financial scandal most violent offenders were also with police. are engaged by the clashes and experiencing now with the cases that has reached Juan Carlos heavily involved in the 2019 riots The Mossos d’Esquadra police the clearing of barricades of of Pablo Hasel . . . and other himself. Many Spaniards were that followed the imprisonment said on Monday that 61 of the 75 burning trash containers and rappers politically detained by aghast when the former monarch of several separatist leaders. people arrested in the Catalan metal barriers strewn across this regime is a brutal attack left Spain for the United “It is a varied, violent profile capital since protests erupted on streets. Police described what against the freedom of speech,” Arab Emirates amid a court that we already are familiar with February 16 were 25 or younger, they called “pillaging” by “some 26-year-old student Pablo investigation into his alleged because it is very similar to those including 24 minors. Three out people who take advantage of the Castilla said during a protest fiscal improprieties. who played a large role in the of four had Spanish nationality disorder and cover provided by in Barcelona. “The protests are As well as shouting its support incidents of October 2019, so we and 26 of them had previous run- the large number of people”. being brutally repressed by the for Hasel, a crowd that gathered know the type,” Barcelona town ins with authorities for public — AP The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 15 Child poverty decreasing but impacts not shared equally by Keith Ng and Michael Neilson, between July 2018 and March 2019. housing to be a significant factor contributing to NZ Herald This took into account the first year of the child poverty in New Zealand. Government’s $5.5 billion Families Package, This year’s figures come a week after the WELLINGTON — Maori, Pasifika and which came into effect in July 2018. Salvation Army released its annual State of the households with disabled children are more Over the two years since the Government Nation report, which showed in the last year than twice as likely to be experiencing poverty introduced child poverty reduction targets, there were 23,000 more children now living in compared to Pakeha, the latest statistics show. progress has been made across all measures. benefit-dependent households. The new poverty figures show that while the For the 2019/2020 period, about one in Government emergency food grants have Government is on track to meet two out of three seven New Zealand children (167,100) lived in risen three-fold since 2017 and last year totalled of its child poverty reduction targets, those gains households with less than 50 percent of the 1.5 million. The Sallies distributed 113,000 food are being unequally felt. median disposable income before deducting parcels themselves in 2020: nearly twice as many The data released by Statistics NZ today household costs. as the year before. Auckland City Mission, marae show housing costs continuing to have a strong This was slightly down from one in six in the and other agencies that run foodbanks report impact on the number of children living in year to June 2018, but a slight increase from the similar stories. poverty. year to June 2019. The Sallies also reveal that rents have been The annual measure only takes into account Factoring in housing costs, 18.2 percent of rising steadily for years and the fastest growth the nine months to March 2020, and has New Zealand children — 208,400 or about one is in the lowest quartile. That is, since 2015, the surveyed 15,000 families rather than 20,000 as in in five — lived in households with less than 50 Jacinda Ardern poorest quarter of New Zealanders who rent have previous years. percent of the median disposable household faced the largest rent rises. This is because families were asked about income — a reduction from 22.8 percent in June It found they were twice as likely to live in The Families Package, which was funded by their experiences in the 12 months prior to the 2018. households experiencing material hardship cancelling the previous National government’s survey, which was taken between July 2019 and Material hardship affected about one in nine compared to households without. planned tax cuts, will cost $5.53 billion over five March 2020. children in the latest data, compared to about Last year’s Child Poverty report, based on the years. The data deliberately does not include April, one in eight as of June 2018. findings from 2018 to 2019, revealed the number The Government estimates that by 2020/21, May and June because the Ministry of Health However, for Pasifika, one in four children were of people facing material hardship had remained when the package is fully rolled out, some did not want officials undertaking face-to-face in households experiencing material hardship, relatively stagnant. 384,000 families with children will be better off interviews, given the Covid-19 risks. and one in five for Maori. At the time Ardern remained confident the by about $75 a week. It is projected to lift the Given the lag period of the data, the numbers This year’s data also included households with Government would meet its child poverty targets. number of children living out of poverty by only take into account child poverty levels from disabled children for the first time. Last year’s figures also found the cost of 64,000, or about 41 percent, by 2020. Govt not ruling Teacher deregistered out limits on after marrying ex-pupil nitrate fertiliser WELLINGTON — The environment minister says New Zealand will continue by Simon Collins, NZ Herald However, the teacher’s lawyer pointed The former student and her friend said to follow WHO guidelines on nitrate to inconsistencies between the young they went to a movie with the teacher. levels in the water, despite international AUCKLAND — A teacher has been cousin’s initial statement to investigators Her friend said they visited the research finding much lower levels could deregistered after marrying a girl he and what she later told the tribunal, and teacher’s house “at the beach” and “hung still cause cancer. taught at primary school who is 34 years the tribunal found there was insufficient out”. The first study into the country’s younger than him. evidence to prove that the teacher Three photos taken showed the teacher nitrate in drinking water says one in six The Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal has engaged in any serious misconduct while with his arms around his former student people could be drinking water polluted found that the teacher’s behaviour over a his future wife was at his school. and in one case with his hand on the enough to cause colorectal cancer. period of years was “at the most extreme The teacher told the tribunal that he student’s inner thigh. The research, overseen by Victoria and end” of serious misconduct and the only immigrated to New Zealand with his wife The former student’s parents gave Otago Universities, calls for action from appropriate penalty was cancelling his but she later died. He said he had been in evidence that they found out about the horticulture and dairy industries. teaching registration. other relationships since her death. the relationship six months after their The study used overseas research His name has been suppressed because There was disputed evidence about daughter had left college. She was then including a major Danish study that he is now married to his former student when the former student started visiting aged 18. found a link with bowel cancer when and she has adopted his surname, so the teacher at her old primary school. “Student C had told her parents that levels were as low as 0.87mg/L of water. publishing his name would also identify The primary school principal gave she was in (a North Island town) that The current safe level in New Zealand, her. evidence that the former student and a weekend with three of her friends, but she as mandated by the World Health Both the teacher and his former student male friend, also a former student of the had actually spent the weekend with the Organisation was 11mg/L of water. gave evidence that their relationship school, continued to visit their former respondent,” the tribunal said. Earlier in February, Otago University began after the former student turned 16, teacher well beyond the ages when other The former student agreed to meet her senior research fellow Dr Tim Chambers and that she was 20 when they married a former students commonly visited their parents at a cafe in “the town” to discuss said New Zealand should take a few years ago. old teachers. the relationship. She agreed to travel precautionary approach and reduce the The tribunal found that the former overseas, where her brother lived. Her maximum level from 11.3mg/L to 1mg/L. student began visiting the teacher in his parents “set her up with some money and But Environment Minister David Parker role as her former primary school teacher, The tribunal highlighted the a car”. told Morning Report that WHO guidelines and not as an independent adult. 34-year age gap between them However, the teacher followed her were being followed. It highlighted the 34-year age gap overseas and she returned to New He acknowledged the Danish study between them and concluded that the and concluded the teacher Zealand. She stayed with her parents for and said more research needed to be teacher “embarked on a deliberate and ‘embarked on a deliberate about a week and then moved in with the done in Aotearoa. consistent pattern of behaviour in pursuit pattern of behaviour in pursuit of teacher. “I’m sure it wouldn’t be a shortage of of a vulnerable young woman”. Her father said he went to the teacher’s money that would stop research being The teacher taught the girl who is now a vulnerable young woman’. house a month later, took his daughter done but that’s really for the Ministry his wife when she was in Years 7 and 8, out for a walk and tried to drive away of Health, whether they see it to be a when she was aged 11 to 13, at a primary with her. He said the teacher tried to stop priority in light of that Danish study.” school in what was described as a rural He said the former student who later him and there was “a physical altercation” He said with regard to the health “village” in the North Island. married the teacher was “quiet and between them. of rivers, there was already a cap on The girl’s cousin, who was four years withdrawn, lacking in confidence with a The father took his daughter to stay at synthetic nitrogen that could be applied younger, gave evidence that the older limited number of friends”. She needed a friend’s house, but three days later she to land. girl — called “Student C” in the tribunal in-class support. jumped out the window and hitch-hiked Some people were previously applying decision — sometimes stayed behind after The principal talked to the teacher back. 300kg per annum so a reduction to class talking to the teacher, called the about the need to observe “professional The teacher and his former student 190kg was significant but there were “respondent”. boundaries” when the former students eventually married. The former student other measures needed too, he said. “Her evidence is that she saw their visited. described her wedding day and marriage “Industry are bringing forward new hands touching a few times and when she The tribunal found that the sole as “the happiest time of her life”. cultivars that are diuretic that cause walked in there would be an awkward reason the two former students visited “(The teacher) means the world to smaller urine patches, therefore less silence and they would look at her and the teacher was that he had been their me. He treats me with total respect; he nitrates are lost to the waterways shuffle apart,” the tribunal said. teacher and “they thought he was a good supports me in everything that I want to because the grass can take them up.” “She described the conversations she teacher”. The former student addressed do and comforts me when I’m feeling low,” Yesterday Victoria University ecologist overheard between the respondent and him as “Mister” for some years. she said. Mike Joy said cow urine was one of the Student C as “not normal”. She heard The former student said she usually But the tribunal found that the major contributors to increased nitrate them talking about what Student C took a 10-to-15-minute bus ride home relationship was inherently unequal levels. wanted to do when she was older. When from college, did chores and then she and and that the former student was “totally On the back of the Danish study, she walked in, the respondent would her friend visited the teacher. dependent” on the teacher financially, Parker has asked the Health Ministry and sometimes say, ‘Student C, you can go “At a best guess this would have been socially and emotionally. the Director General of Health to “look now.’” close to 4pm at the earliest, many staff “Her role in the relationship is about into it”. The young cousin said that at the end would have left for the day by this point, fulfilling his needs and wants. The power He said Ministry for Primary Industries of the older girls Year 8 year, the teacher leaving the students and the respondent imbalance now that they are married is as was doing research into regenerative gave the older girl money and jewellery that much more vulnerable. This should significant as it has always been,” it said. farming which would be less reliant on and also gave the young cousin $5 and have raised alarm bells very quickly for “His behaviour is about power and fertilisers. — RNZ some earrings. the respondent,” the tribunal said. control, not partnership and reciprocity.” 16 RACING The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Sound reinforces Auckland Cup credentials MATAMATA — The Ballymore stables of Mike “Troy (Harris, jockey) thought he had the from Moroney’s Flemington stable, with the Collett ride. Moroney and Pam Gerard have plenty to look outside horses covered, but didn’t quite see the transtasman conditioners opting for a two-start “There is a Rating 74 2100m race back at forward to over the Auckland Cup Carnival, lightweight (Robusto) come up the inside, and New Zealand campaign this time around. Ellerslie that is worth $50,000 and we will just following the performances of proven stayer he was giving her seven kilos. Troy was really “With the Avondale Cup being a penalty-free look at stepping her through the grades,” Gerard Sound and progressive mare Tia d’Or on happy, said the horse was out on his feet the race into the Auckland Cup it was the best said. Saturday. last bit but it was still a huge run. option for him,” Gerard said. “We will probably put her out for a spell after Eight-year-old entire Sound finished “He got a little bit galloped on in behind but Sound will likely be on a plane to Sydney that and hopefully she will improve again. She second in the Gr.2 Avondale Cup (2400m) he seems to be OK. It was a really good effort. following the Auckland Cup, where races like is a big mare that has taken a bit of time, but behind Robusto, carrying topweight of 59kgs, “He should be in the Auckland Cup for a long the Gr.1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) and the Gr.1 she is from a very good family, being out of a cementing his $3.50 favouritism for the Gr.1 way. He had a good blow and we’ll keep his Sydney Cup (3200m) are possible targets. Zabeel daughter of Giovana. Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) on fitness up. I thought in the birdcage he looked While Sound is a proven staying commodity, “Given the time, she is just getting better March 13. a little bit pretty, but we just have to get him to progressive Tavistock four-year-old Tia d’Or and better. She was quite green when she first “It was only his second run back after Mike the next level.” looks a stayer of the future after winning a started racing and she has taken a long time (Moroney) gave him a race over 1800m in Sound ran well for second in last year’s Rating 65 2100m event at Ellerslie on Saturday but she was always going to be worth the wait.” January at Caulfield,” Gerard said. Auckland Cup on a hit-and-run mission under a controlled front-running Samantha — Racing Desk

Invercargill harness at Invercargill Wednesday Jetbet 7 TAB Doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Trebles 2-3-4, 5-6-7 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6-7 Place6 2-7 Selections 2 Thanks Franco Huntington 3.54 4 07 Zach Lowe (Fr) 4 K Larsen 5 Tich Scannell Looking For Love 5.28 6 21505 Galleons Future (Fr) 6 E Barron (J) Race 1: TEASE MY TARTAN, SUNDAY INVASION, 5 Capitano (Fr) 5 7 22296 Steve (Fr) 7 B Norman $7500, non-winners 3yo+ mr40 to mr44. 6 0s744 Belle’s Boy (Fr) 6 M Williamson $7500, r48-r52,r53 w/c. mobile, 2200m 8 57568 Cuddly Trouble (Fr) 8 J Morrison (J) WHANGAMATA mobile, 2200m 7 08575 Arlo Maguire (Fr) 7 E Barron (J) 1 43081 Fireforefiddle (Fr) 1 P Hunter 9 83s78 Insist The Win (Fr) 9 L Pearson Race 2: THE NAENAE EXPRESS, BATTLE AXE, MARIE LONG 1 64536 The Naenae Express (Fr) 1 R Swain 8 Betyahavtime (Fr) 8 (J) 2 29261 Matrika (Fr) 2 S Ottley 10 73344 Svelt (Fr) 10 M Hurrell (J) Race 3: BELLE’S BOY, MAGNETIC TERROR, ARLO MAGUIRE 2 00948 Heritage (Fr) 2 M Williamson 9 5 Magnetic Terror (Fr) 21 R Swain 3 2685s Dream Of Glory (Fr) 3 B Barclay 11 46P63 Midnight Memories (Fr) 11 A Beck Race 4: HANS IDEAL, HOLY HAVOC, BETTORS HIGHLIGHT 3 700s8 Shezdawon (Fr) 3 10 9 Idealyankeemaid (Fr) 22 4 29958 Stratofortress (Fr) 4 12 48008 Sage Trouble (Fr) 12 R McIlwrick Race 5: FIREFOREFIDDLE, MATRIKA, OMAGGIO 4 9844P Sportscam (Fr) 4 B Barclay 11 0900 Vigilante (Fr) 23 5 6s970 Alexsjoy (Fr) 5 13 0s027 T Bone Rawhide (Fr) U1 C Faithful (J) Race 6: STEVE, GALLEONS FUTURE, SVELT 5 46859 Northview Peg (Fr) 5 S Tomlinson (J) 6 33070 Ripsnorter (Fr) 6 M Hurrell (J) 14 7s900 Ruby Seddon (Fr) U2 Race 7: BETTER GALLEON, JODY DIREEN, 6 50727 Noosa Beach (Fr) 6 E Barron (J) 4 Terry Frisby Is Still Awesome 4.57 7 s4258 Fireball (Fr) 7 C Ferguson 7 0494s Battle Axe (Fr) 7 R McIlwrick HURRICANE BANNER 8 95198 Changearound (Fr) 8 7 Carpet Plus Willy’s Flooring 6.29 8 09850 Franco Jordan (Fr) 8 A Beck $7500, r40-r47. mobile, 2200m 9 04900 Tad Lincoln (Fr) 21 T Robertson 9 00900 Ngaroma (Fr) 21 A Armour 1 s7536 Bettors Highlight (Fr) 1 $8000, r53-r60,r61-r65 w/c. mobile, 2200m 10 0s610 Boarding Call (Fr) 22 M Williamson 1 Craig Heyrick At Harcourts Trot 3.29 10 66727 Marie Long (Fr) 22 M Hurrell (J) 2 06796 I’m Watching You (Fr) 2 1 40752 Better Galleon (Fr) 1 M Hurrell (J) 11 8P162 Omaggio (Fr) U1 E Barron (J) $7500, non-winners stand, 2200m 11 07096 Sly Tricks (Fr) 23 T Robertson 3 00895 Von Art (Fr) 3 S Tomlinson (J) 2 87560 Shillelagh (Fr) 2 12 9P00s Aztec King (Fr) U1 J Morrison (J) 1 54238 Tease My Tartan (Fr) 1 J Morrison (J) 4 61740 Jaffie J (Fr) 4 J Morrison (J) 6 Hanley Formula Trot 5.58 3 12695 Jody Direen (Fr) 3 S Ottley 5 430s6 Fatherdantherodeoman (Fr) 5 B Barclay 4 88978 My Mate Ben (Fr) 4 2 6 Clover Jewel (Fr) 2 M Hurrell (J) 3 Zilco Products Pace 4.32 $7500, r40-r54 stand, 2200m 3 08042 Sunday Invasion (Fr) 3 6 00770 Honour Scroll (Fr) 6 5 07s24 Benio Ben (Fr) 5 B Barclay 4 49095 Bill (Fr) 4 B Norman $7500, non-winners 2yo+ mr45 to mr50. 7 89834 Holy Havoc (Fr) 7 M Williamson 1 50700 The Peaky Blinder (Fr) 1 6 700s9 Whata Razzle Dazzle (Fr) 6 5 34500 Whangamata (Fr) 5 mobile, 2200m 8 9s607 Ideal Glacier (Fr) 8 A Armour 2 00680 Amabede (Fr) 2 S Tomlinson (J) 7 22017 Hurricane Banner (Fr) 7 E Barron (J) 6 80759 The Power Broker (Fr) 6 K McNaught (J) 1 7050 Cannon Of Gold (Fr) 1 9 45417 Hans Ideal (Fr) 21 K Tomlinson (J) 3 03P50 Zoned Scarlett (Fr) 3 S Ottley 8 7s78s Ay Boy (Fr) 8 B McLellan 7 s0009 Birch (Fr) U1 2 086 Pure Art (Fr) 2 S Tomlinson (J) 10 55038 Mighty George (Fr) 22 E Barron (J) 4 92880 Top Pocket Chance (Fr) 4 9 64417 Melton Mafia (Fr) 21 J Campbell (J,Cl) 8 08487 Kiwi Heir (Fr) U2 R McIlwrick 3 07000 Young George (Fr) 3 S Ottley 11 s0090 Lincoln Skipper (Fr) 23 R McIlwrick 5 92170 Jannah Jaccka (Fr) 5 B Barclay 10 48319 Johnny Mac (Fr) 22 T Dewe (J,Cl)

Wanganui greys at Hatrick Wednesday Jetbet 3 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12 Selections 2 Aon CPF Insurance 12.25 EMERGENCY: 8 32565 Goldstar McQueen nwtd Sammy Stone 5 65222 Guru’s Choice 17.76 Agent & Williams Race 1: TIGER CHURN, IDOL REIGN, GOTCHA MAX 9 37884 Dino The Fox 17.74 Kellie Gommans EMERGENCIES: 6 55566 Impressive Mood nwtd Sue Gommans $3450, C0, 520m 9 35777 Double What 17.79 J & D Bell Race 2: ALLEGRO SMOOCH, SWEENEY TODD, 7 57176 Big Time Melody 17.93 Lisa Cole 1 657 Big Time Ari nwtd Lisa Cole 5 Kernow Construction 1.17 10 76877 Homebush Mandy 17.95 Sue Gommans 8 54363 Elle 18.15 John McArthur UNCLE ALBERT 2 44462 Uncle Albert nwtd Mark Goodier $2565, C1, 520m EMERGENCIES: Race 3: BIG TIME REBEL, TRUTH HURTS, WIFI ROBYN 8 Book Your Function @ Hatrick 2.11 3 323 Allegro Smooch nwtd Lisa Cole 1 73173 Big Time Rita 30.68 Lisa Cole 9 35777 Double What 17.79 J & D Bell Race 4: BIGTIME LUNA, OPAWA JODY, BIG TIME JUDA 4 6255 Allegro Ruby nwtd Lisa Cole $2565, C1, 520m 10 77776 Allegro Lincoln 17.92 Agent & Williams Race 5: BIG TIME BRYNN, UNO ME NOW, BIG TIME RITA 2 23142 Big Time Brynn nwtd Lisa Cole 5 75525 Daddy Donny nwtd A J Christiansen 3 34148 Derry Blues 31.31 Peter Clark 1 574s7 Frozen Paradise nwtd M S Clark Race 6: BUTTER CHURN, SO SEVERE, DANNY LANG 6 66344 Sweeney Todd nwtd Mark Goodier 4 67575 Wifi Inga 30.64 G & S Fredrickson 2 66566 Bigtime Ava 30.70 Peter Clark 11 Presidents Dash 3.07 Race 7: OPAWA BUD, BIG TIME NALA, BAILEY AND CREAM 7 47656 Bobby Dazzler nwtd Mark Goodier 5 Vacant Box Five - n & a 3 12273 Big Time Dior nwtd Lisa Cole $1510, C1, 305m Race 8: BIG TIME DIOR, BIGTIME MACI, FROZEN PARADISE 8 483s6 Frosty Paradise nwtd M S Clark 6 211 Uno Me Now nwtd A J Christiansen 4 58677 Rose And Crown 30.32 Mark Goodier 1 83411 Testing Time 17.89 John McArthur Race 9: STRIKE IT RICH, GO BLUE, WIFI SOPHIE 7 27446 Big Time Yonkers nwtd Lisa Cole 5 Vacant Box Five - n & a 2 34655 Bigtime Sam 17.80 G & S Fredrickson Race 10: MY BENTLEY, GURU’S CHOICE, MILO TONIGHT 3 Laser Plumbing 12.42 8 25371 Big Time Hautu nwtd Lisa Cole 6 35873 Bigtime Maci 30.53 Susie Kite 3 87625 Three Of Hearts 18.36 Bill Hodgson Race 11: TESTING TIME, DOTTIE BELL, THREE OF HEARTS $1745, C2, 305m 7 65676 Big Time Kobe 30.63 Lisa Cole 6 First Security 1.35 8 21862 Big Time Ted nwtd Lisa Cole 4 64438 Al’s Witch 18.19 Lana Pearce Race 12: THRILLING MILLIE, MIMI, JOHNY MOWHAWK 1 46247 Clansman Douglas 18.16 Brian Goldsack 5 35725 Impressive Gift nwtd Sue Gommans $1745, C2, 305m 2 42572 Mother’s Touch 17.69 J & D Bell 9 racingtips.co.nz 2.29 6 82683 Opawa Violet nwtd Nathan Udy 1 25285 Gotcha Cooper nwtd Sue Gommans 7 2s536 Sahara Dream 17.91 Marcie Flipp 3 32811 Big Time Rebel 17.54 Lisa Cole $1510, C1, 305m 4 23153 Truth Hurts 17.86 Carol Morris 2 88621 Danny Lang nwtd A J Christiansen 8 87482 Dottie Bell 18.01 Leanne Bell 5 37388 Elite Bubble 18.01 A L Frost 3 331s1 Butter Churn 17.87 Glen Hodgson 1 77s15 Go Blue 17.96 Nathan Udy EMERGENCIES: 6 64554 Ahuroa Princess 17.97 Robert Murray 4 52442 So Severe 17.71 Carol Morris 2 78862 Yarn Sister 17.80 Carol Morris 9 35777 Double What 17.79 J & D Bell 7 72251 Wifi Robyn 17.78 G & S Fredrickson 5 24874 Pliskova nwtd S E Hunt 3 65475 Allegro Vey 17.75 Lisa Cole 10 77776 Allegro Lincoln 17.92 Agent & Williams 8 66178 Idol Ziggy 17.67 Marcie Flipp 6 44178 Bigtime Coco 17.72 Nathan Udy 4 18155 Wifi Sophie 18.01 G & S Fredrickson 7 33332 Alamein Pudly 17.90 D P Symes 5 58314 Strike It Rich 18.42 John McArthur EMERGENCY: 12 See You Friday 3.22 1 Welcome To Hatrick 12.07 8 75251 Opawa Marcie 18.07 Marcie Flipp 6 457F2 Hardcore Jet 17.97 Agent & Williams 9 37884 Dino The Fox 17.74 Kellie Gommans $1425, C0, 305m EMERGENCY: 7 88467 Homebush Maree nwtd Sue Gommans $1510, C1, 305m 1 35427 Idol Reign nwtd Marcie Flipp 4 Adept Accountants 1.00 9 37884 Dino The Fox 17.74 Kellie Gommans 8 85435 Idol Jan 17.80 Marcie Flipp 1 1 Thrilling Millie 17.77 Kellie Gommans EMERGENCIES: 2 588s3 Johny Mowhawk 18.03 David Denbee 2 283 Gotcha Max nwtd Kellie Gommans $1745, C2, 305m 7 Accell Canine Therapy 1.53 3 87848 Hardcore Patches nwtd Agent & Williams 9 35777 Double What 17.79 J & D Bell 3 47254 Rainy River nwtd S E Hunt 4 65446 Kina Magic nwtd A L Frost 1 24134 Opawa Jody 18.03 Marcie Flipp $1510, C1, 305m 10 77776 Allegro Lincoln 17.92 Agent & Williams 4 85728 Chic In Time 17.78 Glen Hodgson 5 26F36 Allegro Moses nwtd Lisa Cole 2 17544 Big Time Beat 17.73 D P Symes 1 114 Big Time Nala 17.74 Lisa Cole 10 Palamountains Nutrition 2.47 5 83486 Idol Steffie 17.62 Marcie Flipp 6 25745 Bluey nwtd John McArthur 3 13778 Hurricane Al 17.85 Carol Morris 2 72648 Hypothetical 18.02 Melissa Olden 6 76836 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 7 44252 Tiger Churn nwtd Glen Hodgson 4 74354 Big Time Juda 17.96 Lisa Cole 3 54777 Leslie Albert 18.06 Brian Goldsack $1510, C1, 305m 7 57444 Opawa Lara nwtd Nathan Udy 8 54274 Waiting Game nwtd Kellie Gommans 5 6638s Justin Lincoln nwtd G Thompson 4 24222 Opawa Bud nwtd Nathan Udy 1 7456s Sahara Pippa 17.96 Marcie Flipp 8 35131 Mimi 17.83 John McArthur EMERGENCIES: 6 s1821 Bigtime Luna 17.78 S J Phillips 5 52652 Bailey And Cream 17.93 J & D Bell 2 24522 Milo Tonight 18.12 Lana Pearce EMERGENCIES: 9 88656 Loudred nwtd J & D Bell 7 2s883 Poppy Rocket 17.96 M S Clark 6 58684 Gotcha Popeye nwtd Kellie Gommans 3 75853 Paradox Prince 18.13 Bill Hodgson 9 35777 Double What 17.79 J & D Bell 10 77775 Hardcore Brute nwtd Agent & Williams 8 3787s Idol Fancy Pants 17.77 Marcie Flipp 7 36676 Big Time Tatum 17.86 Agent & Williams 4 86543 My Bentley 17.85 Nathan Udy 10 76877 Homebush Mandy 17.95 Sue Gommans

Southland greys at Invercargill Wednesday Jetbet 9 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 2 Mark Turner Painter 11.41 5 76734 Usain Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 7 Gore Town & Country Club 1.08 5 74712 Tiggerlong Demon nwtd Daniel Roberts Race 1: MITCHAM DAWN, SCARDINY, MITCHAM GINNY 6 33F26 Notorious Heist nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 6 32811 Penalty Drop 26.08 Daniel Lane $1510, C1, 390m 7 37565 Impressive High 26.91 John McInerney $3385, C3, 457m 7 24333 Gary nwtd Daniel Lane Race 2: M’LADY SADIE, YOUNG ROMEO, DARK AND DUSTY 1 77322 M’lady Sadie nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 8 F4615 Opawa Sandridge nwtd Robin Wales 1 21653 Volcanic Whisper 26.12 John Allen 8 62537 Oster Bale 26.23 Craig Roberts Race 3: MITCHAM IVAN, ADOBE FLINTSTONE, MIKIL 2 33321 Young Romeo 23.20 Richard Breen EMERGENCIES: 2 s3318 Silouette Jet 26.41 John Allen EMERGENCIES: Race 4: NOTORIOUS HEIST, OPAWA SANDRIDGE, 3 66771 Homebush Archie nwtd John McInerney 9 56763 Baldrick nwtd John McInerney 3 31836 Regal Valiant 26.08 Richard Breen 9 28438 Know State 25.89 Garry Cleeve SHERMO BALE 4 22544 Homebush Macho nwtd John McInerney 10 64677 Toby’s Choice 26.50 Brett Conner 4 54243 Opawa Cutie nwtd Robin Wales 10 38666 Opawa Jaws 26.33 Robin Wales Race 5: UPSTART CROW, LIGHTFOOT LUNA, 5 176 Dark And Dusty nwtd Matt Roberts 5 12162 Best Ball nwtd Daniel Lane BARTHOLOMEW CUB 6 22174 Danny Ha Ha nwtd Brett Conner 5 Sgrc NZ Bred Series Final 12.33 6 88284 Trev’s Rocket 26.49 Brett Conner 10 Southland & Otago Photo Finish 2.02 Race 6: OPAWA BAILEY, TUCKER, SONJA 7 82368 Crushington nwtd John McInerney $3005, SPECA, final, 457m 7 7563s Zipping Boston nwtd Craig Roberts $2920, C2, 457m 8 76167 Donalbain nwtd John McInerney 8 42426 Fond Of You 26.52 Ashley Bradshaw Race 7: BEST BALL, ZIPPING BOSTON, FOND OF YOU 1 45631 Mayhem Made nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 1 33728 C’mon Benny Boy 26.42 John Guthrie EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: Race 8: ZIPPING MARLIN, CURVE CRUSHER, AMURI EARLY 2 74551 Bartholomew Cub 26.52 Bronwyn Eade 2 54122 Ovens Angler nwtd Daniel Lane 9 37762 Homebush Roxy nwtd John McInerney 9 18674 Sailor Allen nwtd Craig Roberts Race 9: LEONARD BALE, KNOW KEEPER, SOUTHERN KING 3 13515 Upstart Crow 26.19 Ashley Bradshaw 3 5633F Know Account 26.44 Garry Cleeve 10 55576 Tiggerlong Pat nwtd Daniel Roberts 10 58568 Kiwi Gunn nwtd Daniel Lane Race 10: GRITTY, OVENS ANGLER, THUNDER HALLOWS 4 26726 Know Ego nwtd Garry Cleeve 4 42755 Gritty 26.04 Daniel Lane Race 11: SPICE SPICE BABY, FIREBALL FUDGE, 3 Happy Birthday Jean Anderson 11.59 5 25472 Know Ratio nwtd Garry Cleeve 8 Oreti Beach Run 1.26 5 13354 Know Grizzles 26.42 Garry Cleeve BUSTER’S BROTHER 6 44345 Vignon nwtd John Allen 6 73844 Dyna Xarvel 25.93 Craig Roberts $1510, C1, 390m 7 57432 Lightfoot Luna 26.54 Ashley Bradshaw $2565, C1, 457m 7 74161 Thunder Hallows nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 1 82757 Whitman nwtd John McInerney 8 86443 Tides End nwtd John Allen 1 41256 Kipjo nwtd John Allen 8 63741 Darla Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 2 1 Mitcham Ivan nwtd Ashley Bradshaw EMERGENCIES: 2 11372 Curve Crusher nwtd Ashley Bradshaw EMERGENCIES: 3 75542 Mikil nwtd D J MacMillan 9 85456 Adobe Rubble nwtd Matt Roberts 3 76816 Zipping Marlin nwtd Daniel Roberts 9 16347 Pretty Keen nwtd Sandra Keen 4 82583 Homebush Poppy nwtd John McInerney 10 41256 Kipjo nwtd John Allen 4 85456 Adobe Rubble nwtd Matt Roberts 10 76633 Claws In Leo nwtd Daniel Roberts 5 32122 Adobe Flintstone nwtd Matt Roberts 5 53233 Amuri Early nwtd John McInerney 1 southlandgreyhounds.co.nz 11.23 6 84422 Elite Blueblood 23.10 John McInerney 6 Find Us On Twitter @Sgrcinfo 12.51 6 87555 Bound Up nwtd John McInerney 11 Racing Again 19 March 2.20 $1425, C0, 390m 7 35323 Know Smokey nwtd Garry Cleeve $2920, C4/5, 390m 7 1F576 Amuri Josie nwtd John McInerney $2095, C3, 390m 8 65444 Homebush Cool nwtd John McInerney 8 64553 Know Pick nwtd Garry Cleeve 1 14733 Mitcham Sam nwtd John McInerney 1 63425 Mitcham Ryder nwtd John McInerney 1 3 Mitcham Ginny nwtd Ashley Bradshaw EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: 2 22711 St Andrews 22.39 J M Lane 2 14431 Spice Spice Baby nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 2 2 Mitcham Dawn nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 9 62686 Opawa Stubborn nwtd John McInerney 9 57288 Homebush Dream nwtd John McInerney 3 Sir Clive nwtd Richard Breen 10 66684 Homebush Jordie 22.98 John McInerney 3 42285 Tucker 22.35 Daniel Lane 10 16688 Material Meg nwtd Brett Conner 3 55322 Fireball Fudge 22.67 Ashley Bradshaw 4 4 Stir Fry nwtd Brett Conner 4 56244 Sonja 22.56 Daniel Lane 4 36817 Homebush Liam 22.90 John McInerney 5 Scardiny nwtd Richard Breen 4 Toni@bodyauditsouth 12.16 5 17113 Opawa Bailey 22.21 Robin Wales 9 Added Enery Stakes 1.44 5 14135 Buster’s Brother 22.47 Brett Conner 6 25553 Born Trixie nwtd Robin Wales 6 23781 King Toliman nwtd Daniel Roberts 6 53533 Southern Angel 22.85 Roy Hamilton 7 22468 Homebush Brave nwtd John McInerney $2565, C1, 457m 7 42111 Mr Festus 22.75 Brett Conner $4795, C4/5, 457m 7 47176 Nassor nwtd D J MacMillan 8 Rose Thorn nwtd Richard Breen 1 54364 Big Tiny 27.27 John McInerney 8 31348 Homebush Gambler 23.67 John McInerney 1 66223 Southern King 26.41 Roy Hamilton 8 25268 Nova Rapide 23.19 Ashley Bradshaw EMERGENCIES: 2 47278 Homebush Fonzie nwtd John McInerney EMERGENCIES: 2 21121 Leonard Bale 26.40 Craig Roberts EMERGENCIES: 9 55735 Bree’s Bella nwtd Brett Conner 3 73634 Shermo Bale 26.69 Craig Roberts 9 72236 Hendrix Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 3 77261 Longshanks 26.11 Ashley Bradshaw 9 22874 Big Time Dusty nwtd M P Hamilton 10 34675 Nutty Nuts nwtd Robin Wales 4 54756 Bashful Buffy 26.04 John McInerney 10 75635 Opawa Phil 22.47 Robin Wales 4 52211 Know Keeper 26.10 Garry Cleeve 10 47456 Tee An’ Cee 22.31 Brett Conner

Legend: T – Won at track. C – Won at this distance on this course. D – Won at this distance on another course. M – Won in slow or heavy going. B – Beaten favourite at last start. H – Trained on track. N – Won at night. S – Spell of three months. F – Fell. P – Pulled up. L – Lost rider. TV – Featured on Trackside TV. The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 KIDS PAGE 17

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CYBER-ART: Hazel Mooney and Ayrton Paton are among the children taking part in an eight-week series of workshops to learn new tools and techniques with the vision of “painting” their own utopia at Tonui Collab’s digital art workshops. Aspiring young artists are being given the opportunity to experiment with different techniques and collaborate and learn from their peers before finishing the term with an art exhibition. Picture by Paul Rickard SUDOKU Enter numbers into the squares so that every row, every column and every 3x2 box contains all the numbers from 1 to 6

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JUMBO CROSSWORD SOLUTION 1477 ACROSS: 1 Coach, 4 Take a second look, 14 Suave, 15 Stops, 16 Harbouring, 17 Crest, 19 End, 20 Handgun, 21 Traveller, 22 Felled, 25 Put on show, 27 Saturn, 28 Notion, 33 Balloonist, 35 Tea, 36 Assign, 37 Beer, 39 Rib, 41 Biscuit, 42 Tablet, 43 Consulted, 44 Upset, 45 Bad dream, 50 Up, 51 Tabulate, 55 Scrim, 58 Blackmail, 59 Biased, 60 Allowed, 61 War, 63 Ergo, 64 Sermon, 65 Apt, 66 Skateboard, 68 Caddie, 69 Rescue, 71 Out of date, 76 Seller, 77 Stopwatch, 79 Ostrich, 81 Tot, 84 Nests, 85

Arithmetic, 86 Goods, 87 Egypt, 88 By hook or by crook, 89 Stack. The Puzzle Company DOWN: 2 Outlaw, 3 Cupid, 5 Afar, 6 Embargo, 7 Scurvy, 8 Chill, 9 © Neglect, 10 Lack, 11 Obeyed, 12 Dazed, 13 Deadpan, 14 Stilton, 18

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KARTING by Rockin’ Robin In the rookies’ class, Nixon Gooch won In the KT heavies class, Wayvern each had a second placing, and Spring all three of his races, while his cousin Vause had a great day with two wins Thomson had two thirds. SHANAN Gooch showed why he is one Conrad Gooch had three second placings. and a second placing, while Dion Lund The junior KTs had a new star — of the best dirt karters in Gisborne when In the women’s class, Sharyn Rogers, picked up a win and two thirds, and Buck Hayley de la Haye. She raced really well he won Eastland Kart Club’s end-of- Crystal Callaghan and Aimee Whiteman Rogers had two seconds and a third. to pick up two wins and a third. meeting feature race on Sunday. had wins. The Rotax and proclass drivers raced Koby Gooch had two seconds and a Driving his Rotax, Gooch had to work Tessa Irvine, Callaghan and Whiteman together. Shanan Gooch (two) and Paul third, and also tipped his kart on to its hard to pass young Vinzent MacGregor, had second placings, while Rogers (two) Farmer took the wins. side early in the day. He was not hurt. who came home second, and third-placed and Lyn Lyle had third placings. Farmer also had two seconds, while Luca Vita had a win, a second and a Spring Thomson in his KT100. In the young guns class, Ella Nicholson Harley Davies had one. third. The club’s sixth points meeting of the Brodie Gooch and Vinzent MacGregor Davies also had a third placing, as did Harley Davies was seen twice during season was held in hot conditions at the had wins. Cole Rosie and Shanan Gooch. the day on top of other karts in an action- Aerodrome Road track. Brodie Gooch had two second placings Conor White had two good wins in the packed meeting. Gooch also had two wins and a third and Hamish Worsnop had one. KT lights. He went half the straight with half of placing in the Rotax-proclass combined Ben Adcock, MacGregor and Nicholson Daniel Taylor had a win, a second and his vehicle on another kart — he must be races. had third placings. a third. Toby White and Jake Callaghan saving petrol.

JUNIOR WOMEN: The Gisborne-East Coast team who played Hawke’s Bay junior JUNIOR MEN: The Gisborne-East Coast team who played Hawke’s Bay junior men women are pictured with Don Oates at the back. In the middle are (from left): Lyn are (from left): Arthur Hawes, Vern Withey, Tim Sherriff, Leighton Shanks, Ray Young, Trueman, Kandyce Bevan, Holli Elkington, Diane Oates, Joy McFarlane, Kathryn William Murray, Geoff Pinn, Andrew Ball and Peter Clay. The points were even, 20-all, at Flaugere and Lucy Shanks. Front: Paige Richter, Joan Gledhill and Libby Clay. the end of play but Hawke’s Bay won by virtue of a better differential. Pictures supplied Intercentre teams separated only by differentials BOWLS by Crackerjack This year the centres agreed to include of Poverty Bay; and William Murray, Ray Shanks was the only bowler in the junior players with eight years of playing Young and Leighton Shanks of Kahutia. Gisborne-East Coast junior women’s team GISBORNE-East Coast junior men experience or less. Selector/manager was Arthur Hawes. to win all of her games on the day. and women lost their annual Waitangi The Gisborne-East Coast women’s team In the women’s singles, Richter In the men’s pairs, skip Sherriff and Day intercentre bowls fixture against comprised Diane Oates, Libby Clay and (the youngest player in the team) and third-year bowler and clubmate Pinn played Hawke’s Bay, but the scorers had to go to Joy McFarlane of the Gisborne Bowling Shanks — both of whom have substantial well together. They beat their Hawke’s Bay differentials to separate the teams. Club; Holli Elkington of the Tolaga Bay club; experience in the sport — played some counterparts 25-14. Both teams had 20 points at the end Lucy Shanks and Paige Richter of Kahutia; brilliant bowls. They led comfortably Another great pair to watch in the men’s of play but Hawke’s Bay had the better and Kandyce Bevan, Kathryn Flaugere throughout their games. team were Withey (skip) and Young, who differential and it won them the fixture. and Joan Gledhill (reserve) of Poverty Bay. Shanks won her game 25-16 and Richter played superbly well together to win their This was the second successive year Selector/manager was Lyn Trueman. won hers 25-7, which really helped the game 20-14. Hawke’s Bay had won this fixture. On this The men’s team comprised Tim Sherriff, women’s team differential. These two then Hawkes Bay’s plus-11 differential was occasion it was played on the Wairoa Geoff Pinn and Peter Clay of the Gisborne skipped the women’s teams in fours in the the deciding factor. Gisborne-East Coast’s Bowling Club greens. club; Vern Withey of Wairoa; Andrew Ball second round, again winning both games. differential was minus-11. UK ‘road map’ announced Covid outbreak in France LONDON — Fans will not be able to return large, outdoor, seated venues where crowds to Premier League stadiums and other sporting can be safely distributed, allowing up to 10,000 venues in England until May 17 at the earliest, people or 25 percent of total seated capacity, team grows to 10 players the British government says. whichever is lower. But up to 10,000 spectators could be allowed Pilots will also run to examine how such RUGBY must self-isolate for 10 days. back for the final days of the Premier League events can take place without the need for social The players who tested positive have season and for European Championship games. distancing using other mitigations such as FIVE more France rugby players — been replaced in the 31-man squad The news formed part of Prime Minister Boris testing, the government said. including captain Charles Ollivon — have which is due to return to training on Johnson’s “road map” for the easing of lockdown The road map set out the lifting of restrictions tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the Wednesday, the FFR said. restrictions to limit the spread of coronavirus, in four steps. At each one, the success of the number of infected players to 10. Six Nations officials said over the which was announced on Monday afternoon. vaccine rollout, vaccine efficacy, the presence of The outbreak throws doubt on France’s weekend they were confident the game With the exception of any approved trial variants and infection rates will be Six Nations game against Scotland on against Scotland in Paris would go ahead. events, the news rules out the possibility of measured before deciding whether to take the Sunday but the clash is still expected to At the tournament launch last month fans attending all but the final round of Premier next step. go ahead, unless there is a further surge they said they would seek space in the League games in the 2020-21 season. Johnson said there would be a minimum five- in positive cases. calendar for postponements rather than But it does leave open the possibility of week gap between each step. The French Rugby Federation said on cancellations in the case of Covid-19 spectators returning to events over the summer, In the second part of step one — not before Monday that Ollivon, Cyril Baille, Peato impact. such as Euro 2020, Wimbledon and cricket March 29 — organised outdoor sports can return, Mauvaka, Romain Taofifenua and Brice France lead the standings with two internationals, depending on whether the and outdoor sports facilities such as tennis and Dulin had returned positive tests on wins from two games, ahead of Wales on conditions for easing restrictions have been met basketball courts can reopen. Sunday. Two members of staff are also points difference, as they seek to lift the by May 17. At step two, from April 12 at the earliest, use thought to have contracted the virus. Six Nations title for the first time since Outdoor events will be capped at 50 percent of indoor leisure facilities such as gyms for Five other players along with coach 2010. capacity or 4000, whichever is lower, and for individuals or household groups will be possible. Fabien Galthie and three other staff Such is the depth of the squad that indoor events this will be 50 percent capacity or Alongside the partial reopening of sports members tested positive last week. they should still be able to put out a 1000, whichever is lower. venues at step three, organised indoor adult French government rules issued last strong side in Paris, where they have not The road map includes special provision for sport will be possible. — PA week state that anyone testing positive lost to the Scots for 22 years. — AAP 22 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Three in row against rivals

CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-Leaf Gillies (2 off 23) and 25-run partnership with Fry for the sixth wicket saw the VICTORY over High School Old Boys score advance from 33 to 59 and from 67 by five wickets is like nectar to OBR. to 92. Fry and Page at No.8 put on 33 as The Senior B club cricket competition a pair, the total moving from 92 to 125. leaders made it three wins in a row Fry, 15, has yet to make a 50 in senior against their traditional rivals on club cricket, but he — like Bryant — has Saturday. overcome injury this season to return in Two weeks out from the Hope Cup good form and make an impact. Left-arm semifinals, unbeaten Rawhiti Legal Old speedster Fry took 2-10 off three overs Boys Rugby lead the competition with in the previous weekend’s David and 36 points. Following them are Civil Goliath showdown with OBR. Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps Of the game, Horouta MVP Knight on 27, Bollywood High School Old Boys said: “We had to work to post a total in Presidents and Siteworx Horouta on 18, the second half of our innings and were Campion College on 9 and Gisborne Boys’ on top in the first 10 overs of the Boys’ High School (2) on 0. High innings. Run-rate pressure probably OBR beat HSOB by 27 runs in Round played a part in GBHS losing wickets to 2, the difference in the rematch on Clarrie and Grace Levy.” December 12 was two runs. Dylan Foster knows that his team have On Saturday, three seasoned seam only once this season (against Ngatapa in bowlers played decisive roles in the Round 4) come closer to victory than they outcome. did at the weekend. Presidents wicketkeeper-captain Ollie “We’ve definitely improved,” he said. Needham won the toss on the Harry “The game could have gone either way, Barker Reserve’s smallest ground, the as we restricted Horouta to a score that practice wicket, but were restricted to was chasable. Kelan played a fabulous 149-9 in 30 overs. innings, Lukas was good too, but we need OBR spearhead Lloyd van Zyl (2-22), more than one batsman to make a real the bustling Amit Vyas (1-25) and left- contribution.” armer George Reynolds (1-16) all denied the HSOB batsmen width in their six- VARIETY is the spice of life and the over spells. secret of Ngatapa’s success with the ball. The trio conceded only six boundaries Just as competition leaders OBR have in 18 overs. the slippery van Zyl, skilful left-armer Opener Needham found the fence seven Reynolds and whippy Vyas, the Ngatapa times in his 50 off 67 balls but No.6 Anil FOCUS ON TECHNIQUE: Kelan Bryant practises the pull shot in the nets at Harry Green Caps have youngster Ryan West, a Kumar and Yegan Lanka — 10th man to Barker Reserve. Bryant hit 55 runs off 53 balls for Gisborne Boys’ High School (2) hulking leftie of their own in Will Faulks bat and not out — were Presidents’ next against Horouta on Saturday. Horouta won by 25 runs. File picture by Paul Rickard and off-spinner Grant Walsh, who — best with 16. once upon a time — bowled as good an Although HSOB missed a class score and they tried hard to defend it. off six) and Bekko Page (none for 11 off outswinger as any of the above. strokemaker in Glen Udall — on premier Jacobs said: “Our fielding was of a high three) held The Waka to 32-3 after 10 He still employs it to great effect as a duty — OBR, too, were without their standard. Mana ran out HSOB first-drop overs. wicket-taking delivery, and the Patutahi- regular skipper, the very capable Craig Jeff Chambers for seven. Still, 150 is GBHS captain Dylan Foster took no based team have other weapons besides, Christophers. a tricky target. Chasing, we lost three wickets for 32 runs off six overs but such as captain and sometime seamer At this level, one innings of note, such wickets in the first 10 overs but after bowled his good leg-breaks as well as he Mike Gibson, who made a superb 58 as Needham’s hard-fought knock and Matt Jefferd held a great catch at deep has all season. from No.5 at the expense of HSOB the even, later in the match, the unbeaten mid-wicket to dismiss Matt Henwood, On debut, left-arm orthodox spinner Saturday before their latest win against 41 scored by OBR’s MVP (most valuable Mana stuck to his guns and got us home. Riker Rolls (2-33) bowled six overs. Rolls, Campion College. player), second-drop Mana Taumaunu, is “It was nice also to have two dedicated 13, kept the ball up to the bat while The Caps beat a Campion team no guarantee of success. umpires, in Jason Trowill and James operating around the wicket and is an without their player-coach Mark Naden Taumaunu came out with OBR at 62-3 Raroa, who were very consistent.” excellent prospect. He bowled Taylor and by seven wickets on Harry Barker No.3, after 8.4 overs (game-day captain, No.3 HSOB MVP Needham was happy with Grace Kuil with the second and third Campion skipper Liam Spring having Jannie Jacobs, having fallen for 27), and the effort from HSOB in all three facets balls of the 26th over. won the toss and chosen to bat. shared a great stand of 72 with Matt of play, against a team who have won 12 The willingness of Taylor and Knight Campion, who in previous encounters Henwood (33 from No.5). games straight. to dig in during the course of a 104-run with Ngatapa this season had made 109 HSOB paceman Mahmood Ghaznavi “OBR’s bowlers were economical,” partnership for the third wicket was just and 183, would be disappointed to be all (0-24 off three overs) can startle top-order Needham said. what Horouta needed at the time. out for 59 in 24.2 overs, but that speaks batsmen with his great ability to swing “That was an up-and-down contest. We In the GBHS innings, three bowlers to the quality and depth of the Green the ball, yet left-hander Peter Stewart were in the hunt, but their fourth-wicket shone for The Waka — left-arm orthodox Caps’ bowling attack. opened the batting for OBR and hit him partnership was the winning of it. Mana spinner Clarence Campbell (3-17), seamer Faulks took 4-8 off five overs, MVP for three fours in the second over of the and Matt batted without risk to take the Piumal Madasanka (3-24) and Northern West grabbed 3-6 off four and Walsh 2-6 OBR innings, which cost 15. Two overs game away from us.” Districts under-19 representative Grace off 5.2. later, Ghaznavi’s new-ball partner Billy Levy (2-11). Year 9 student and Campion MVP Stackhouse (1-20 off three overs) went for MEL Knight has good reason to Campbell’s curve and loop and Reuben Swanepoel, who scored 242 runs 16, Jacobs taking heavy toll with three be pleased. Before Saturday’s match Madasanka’s line notwithstanding, Levy (average 121, high score an unbeaten 70, boundaries. between her Horouta crew and Gisborne was Horouta’s best. It was her outswing from No.1) for his Poverty Bay age-group Kumar (1-25) and Lanka (1-29) both Boys’ High School (2), the captain of The and magnificent change of pace that side in January, led Campion’s scorers bowled six overs, while Nathan Quimpo Waka made it known that she wanted flummoxed opener Watts (7) and Lukas with 15, batting at No.8. (1-14 off two) and Matt Jefferd (1-2 off players who hadn’t made runs lately to Fry (18 off 35, seventh man in). Levy Spring faced the first ball of the match one) were the other HSOB wicket-takers. contribute in Round 12. bowled both with a superb slower ball. and made 12 as the college’s only other The Henwood-Taumaunu partnership Her 72 not out off 85 balls from No.3, For Boys’ High, the batting highlight batsman to score in double figures. dealt with the bad ball in muscular and club stalwart and second-drop Greg of the game was MVP Kelan Bryant’s Ngatapa reached 63-3 in 9.4 overs fashion. Nick Armour bowled his first Taylor’s 34 saw Horouta through to a innings of 55 off 53 balls, with six fours, to win the game, Gibson (18no off 13, three overs for only seven runs. That winning score of 154-5. from No.3. It was 14-year-old Bryant’s from No.5) and keeper-craftsman Simon his fourth over, the 22nd, cost 11 is a GBHS reached 129-9 in 30 overs. second half-century this season. He Wilson (5no) batting together when the testament to the watchfulness as much as Knight chose to bat first on a wicket, scored 62 from No.5 against Ngatapa bell tolled. the target-sense of the OBR batsmen: the Harry Barker No.4, that assisted those before Christmas. First-change swing bowler Hamish first three balls of the over were dot-balls, who put the ball on the spot. He is tall, a natural timer of the ball Swann (2-16 off three overs) and Rhys the fifth went for four, the last for six. Swing bowlers Daniel Watts (2-11 off able to clear the rope. His 26-run stand Grogan (1-24 off two), who took the new The HSOB total of 149 was a mid-range five overs), Noah Torrance-Cribb (1-33 for the fourth wicket with No.5 George ball, both showed skill and heart. Contenders return to Champions League action FOOTBALL German side for the same reason on Wednesday from their past four league games but have been Real are waiting on the fitness of striker Karim as Borussia Monchengladach host high-flying boosted by the return of key players, after their Benzema and are definitely without captain Sergio BERLIN — Bayern Munich’s form in the Manchester City while record European champions unavailability due to Covid-19 cases. Ramos, Eden Hazard, Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, Champions League is formidable as they prepare Real Madrid visit Atalanta. January loan acquisition Moussa Dembele made Marcelo, Federico Valverde, Rodrygo Goes and for their round of 16 first-leg clash at Lazio, in stark Despite their recent domestic struggles, Bayern his debut at the weekend, while Mario Hermoso, Alvaro Odriozola. contrast to a recent domestic wobble which has are nearly two years unbeaten in the Champions Joao Felix and Thomas Lemar have all recovered. “It’s not easy but we have to get on with it,” coach opened up the Bundesliga title race. League, winning 16 and drawing once since losing to Chelsea are fifth in the Premier League but Zinedine Zidane, who led Real to the past three of Hansi Flick’s men have taken just one point from Liverpool in the 2019 round of 16 second leg. unbeaten under new coach Thomas Tuchel and their 13 European titles, said. their past two outings before visiting Rome while “I think we go in as favourites but they have to be looking to improve on four consecutive last 16 Atalanta are again in the knockout stage of the at the same time stuttering La Liga leaders Atletico taken seriously with their class forwards,” goalkeeper eliminations. elite competition, reaching the quarter-finals in their Madrid host Chelsea — though in Bucharest due to captain Manuel Neuer said of Lazio. City are in top form as they charge towards the debut last season. coronavirus travel restrictions in Spain. “We know how dangerous Ciro Immobile is.” Premier League title — unbeaten in their past 25 City and Real have their home legs on March 16 Budapest is a home-away-from-home for a Meanwhile, Atletico have picked up just five points games across all competitions, winning 22. with Bayern and Chelsea hosting a day later. — DPA The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, February 23, 2021 SPORT 23 Spithill prepares for ‘All Blacks’

SAILING after racing them in the semifinals. I’ll was really pumped that we could get it “One thing we’ve really worked on a definitely be touching base with Ben done.” lot is composure — just trying to sort of JIMMY Spithill admits Luna Rossa (Ainslie) and Giles (Scott). We’ve got The two-time America’s Cup winner regulate, whether it’s been a good day or have a lot of work to do before being a lot of friends in Ineos Team UK; a also praised the unique culture of the a bad day, we’re just trying to learn as able to compete with Team New Zealand lot of guys who worked with Oracle in team, something he hopes will help them much as we can. in the America’s Cup match — a the last couple of campaigns. We’ll be shock the world against the Kiwis next “I’ve been so impressed with the team daunting task he equates to facing the looking for knowledge and ways to grow month. from where we’ve come from. All Blacks in a Rugby World Cup final. stronger from here from amongst all the “The Italian culture is really amazing. “We’ve developed a fantastic culture in The Luna Rossa co-helmsman challengers.” It’s a really big family type of culture: the team. It’s something now we’ve got was relatively understated in his When asked how he’s going to wind very passionate, very emotional, a lot of to put in to play over this next week or celebrations following the Italian up New Zealanders — as he did when energy and very hard workers. two.” — NZME syndicate’s 7-1 demolition of Ineos Oracle came from behind to beat Team Team UK last Sunday, perhaps looking NZ in 2013 — Spithill laughed it off ahead to the toughest challenge of his and simply spoke about the “privilege” SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: America’s Cup campaign in the shape of of being able to challenge the Kiwis on Emirates Team New Zealand sail their defenders Team New Zealand. home soil. AC75 Te Rehutai, alongside Luna Rossa Spithill was pleased with the progress “I think they seem to do a really good on the Waitemata Harbour on the first made by his team — from middling job of that themselves,” he said. day of practice racing in December. challengers early in the Prada Cup “I’m just really honoured to get a shot The teams face off in the America’s Cup round robin to a near-sweep in the at the best team in the world. To be able match from March 6 to 15. final — but says they’re still behind the to race Team New Zealand on home Emirates Team New Zealand picture defenders. waters, it’s a lot like a rugby player “No doubt going through real racing, getting to go on the rugby field against I think we’ve taken a good step forward. the All Blacks at Eden Park at a Rugby But it’s not enough,” Spithill told NZME. World Cup final. What an incredible “We’ve really got to utilise this time privilege that is.” now before the match to try to bridge Spithill also made sure to pay tribute that gap. Because those guys (Team NZ), to his co-helmsman and partner in in my mind, are ahead at the moment. crime Francesco Bruni, who showed “I think the whole package is very, significantly more emotion after very good. I think we’ve got a great clinching the Prada Cup. package at the bottom end for the wind “I’m so proud of ‘Ceco’ . . . what an conditions, but we need to improve in incredible journey he’s had,” Spithill the middle and upper end of the ranges.” said. To do that, Spithill says he will be “I know that Sicilian blood, that enlisting all the help he can get from his energy has just been bubbling there friends among the fallen challengers. waiting. Man he’s just done an amazing “We spoke to the American guys job. An incredible series he’s raced. I

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AUDACIOUS SHOT: New Zealand’s Devon Conway plays a reverse sweep shot during the first T20 cricket international against Australia, played at Hagley Oval in Christchurch last night. Picture by John Davidson/Photosport via AP Conway mainstay for NZ CRICKET by Dylan Cleaver, NZ Herald superb Ish Sodhi (4-28) accounted for off stump and the wide line when he was At 19-3 after four overs, the game was the dangerous Mitchell Marsh (45) and served up a genuine half-volley right in spiralling out of control for the home side THE longer Devon Conway is held out Ashton Agar (23) in the space of three the four-through-covers slot. and you could have struck a line through of all three formats for New Zealand, balls. A Guptill in any sort of form pumps it if Sams had held his position on the the longer Gary Stead and company are Conway, needing 12 from the final this through the off side, holds the pose boundary and caught a Conway flick that hurting their cause. three balls of the innings to score for a second longer than needed, then landed just over the rope. While that might be an a deserved century, slogged Kane scratches out his guard again. This As it was, Conway found a willing unconventionally sweeping and subjective Richardson for six over cow corner, version of Guptill is a touch late on it, partner in Glenn Phillips (30 off 20). The way to start a match report, it can be worked him to boundary along the skews it straight to Ashton Agar in the pair had put on 184 together against the objectively stated that the 29-year-old ground and then was desperately unlucky gully and walks off with one of those wry West Indies earlier in the T20 season. with 18 first-class centuries and three to miss three figures when he creamed a grins that scream, “What is going on?” This partnership was 110 runs shy of 50s in his first five T20I innings was the ball straight to the cover sweeper. If the under-fire opener was seeking that record, but it was critical to getting levee that stood between the Black Caps In case you were wondering, there was comfort he could reflect on a pleasant the Black Caps back in the match. and a dramatic top-order collapse last no chance he could have returned for two. streak of 69 innings without a duck in A 47-run partnership with James night. His last five professional T20 innings T20Is, stretching back to 2010 when he Neesham (26 off 15) and an unbroken More than that, it was the key have returned 99 not out, 93 not out in was part of a top four all dismissed for stand of 44 with Mitchell Santner (7 off contribution to a comprehensive 53-run the Super Smash final, 91 not out, 69 not ducks by Pakistan’s new-ball attack. 5) off just 19 balls provided New Zealand win. out and 50 – a staggering return in the Tim Seifert, who followed a strong with a total to defend. His 99 not out off 59 balls propelled most fickle of formats. international T20 campaign with some Australia’s reply mirrored that of New New Zealand to 184-5 in the first T20I There was no sense that anything dubious form for Northern Districts, Zealand’s, with quick wickets falling in against Australia at Hagley Oval, a special was in the works after Australia failed to fire also, scratching just a single the power play. match held on the 10th anniversary of won the toss and inserted the hosts. before being bowled by IPL millionaire Captain Aaron Finch was the first the Christchurch earthquake. Martin Guptill did nothing to assuage Jhye Richardson. to go, debutant Josh Philippe quickly It was more than enough after fears that his loss of form has moved A rotten start turned to putrid when followed, as did Matthew Wade and Australia were reduced to 19-4 thanks to from temporary to something more Williamson, whose form cannot be Glenn Maxwell. brilliant new-ball spells by Tim Southee terminal. He watched two deliveries from queried, bottom edged a nothing ball to The visitors needed a Conway; he and Trent Boult, then 99-8 when the Daniel Sams pass harmlessly between be caught behind. wasn’t available.