TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 GIVING IT ‘UNFORGIVABLE’: HIS ALL IN COVID-19 PAGES 6-7, 13 • Kiwis’ failed flight bids ‘soul-destroying’ RACIST CANCER • Call for haste in vaccinating border workers PAGE 14 BATTLE • 13 more positive tests on fishing boat ABUSE PAGE 5 • Outbreaks intensify in Sydney, Fiji CONDEMNED ‘Total opposition’ Hapu calls for end to East Coast barge proposal by Alice Angeloni AN East Cape hapu will hikoi in continued protest against a coastal barging operation proposed for their isolated town. Te Whanau a Hinerupe say the marine ecology is already in “crisis” and a proposal to build a barging facility at the mouth of the Karakatuwhero River will send it beyond a state of repair. Whanau say they are not just tangata whenua (people of the land) but also tangata moana (people of the ocean), and they must be the voice for that which cannot speak for itself. About 30 people attended a hui at Hinerupe Marae in Te Araroa on Sunday and voted to “reaffirm” Te Whanau a Hinerupe’s stance of “total opposition” to a barging facility on the East Coast between Potikirua and Whangaokeno. VOICE FOR THAT WHICH CANNOT SPEAK: They called for an end to the barge Te Whanau a Hinerupe reaffirmed their stance against a proposed barging proposal and set down August 14 as a facility on the East Coast at a hui on Sunday. Picture by Alice Angeloni date to hikoi. It follows a decision made at the hui in May. A submission from the trust said Its submission said a barging facility intra-regional and inter-regional of neighbouring hapu Whanau a Kahu it was “well advanced” in the concept would enable logs to be transported connectivity, and promote regional on June 12 to establish a working group development stage, with the potential to to ports in Gisborne or Tauranga by development, the submission said. to address concerns about the barge “move quickly” to be shovel-ready with water, rather than by road. This would At the hui on Sunday, Hal proposal and “determine a pathway approval from the community and the manage pressure on the state highway Hovell, a conservation adviser to Te forward”. council, and with funding support. network, reducing road safety risks from Runanganui o Ngati Porou, said the The concept has been around since The trust owns 240 hectares of fewer truck trips and reducing negative impact of the proposed barge on the at least 2015 but Te Rimu Trust put a land next to and encompassing the environmental impacts. Te Araroa environment would be barging proposal to Gisborne District Karakatuwhero River on the rohe of Coastal shipping would provide “insurmountable”. Council’s regional transport committee hapu Te Whanau a Kahu. additional transport resilience, improve CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ‘INSURMOUNTABLE’ IMPACT: A view of Karakatuwhero River on which a barging facility is proposed. Opponents say it poses ‘insurmountable’ environmental risks. Picture by Alice Angeloni GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-4 Business ............11 Television ...........18 Racing ................23 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Classifieds ... 20-21 Sport ............ 24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National...6-10, 16-17 World............ 13-15 Picture page .....22 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, July 13, 2021 by Murray Robertson Cold welcome for THE arrival of a cold snap has coincided with the start of the lamb crop across the region and it will be a challenging time for “earlies”. Small numbers of lambs have arrived on ‘earlies’ arrivals the lower country around the district and that rate will steadily increase in the next few weeks. The main lambing “drop” happens from mid-August and into September. AgFirst consultant Peter Andrew said the cold weather would make it tough for the new arrivals. “This time of year for lambing is what we call ‘the earlies”, and those ewes have started delivering. “This is the time when ewes that were mated from February 20 onwards begin to give birth,” Mr Andrew said. “These ewes are mated early for storm risk, drought management and marketing reasons. “Most farmers factor in that they need to breed sheep and manage them so they will be able to lamb in wet and cold conditions “The current cold weather will provide some threat to the survival rate of the new arrivals but it should not be that significant.” Mr Andrew said feed-wise the region has been pretty well off, with good grass growth through the late autumn and so far into winter. “It varies but generally there is plenty for most of the new mums to eat, which is critical for both milk and lamb survival. “At the top of the coast and in some places inland, feed is really short, which will mean lighter animals, and the situation has not been helped with rainfall dumps damaging floodgates and tracks.”. Mr Andrew said scanning had not been anything out of the ordinary. “Some farmers have held their scanning levels but a lot have dropped, and that’s especially so up the Coast north of Tolaga Bay. “It is a bit of a shame as in September farmers are going to be receiving $10 a WINTER LAMBS: Sylvie Ladd, 9, and brother Thom Ladd, 4½, feed hungry lambs they have called Molly and Winter at their kilogram for lamb, probably a record. farm at Knight Road, Patutahi. The lambs are among the “earlies” in the district’s lamb crop, the main “drop” happening from “A 22kg lamb will be worth $220 so we mid-August and into September. Picture by Liam Clayton need every lamb that we can get.” ‘Insurmountable’ risks to environment FROM PAGE 1 of “ecological crisis”. “If anyone is going to represent their said about 70 people attended the June “We’re not actually dealing with huge interests in this, it should be us.” 12 hui and expressed views both for and Mr Hovell, a former Department of amounts of abundance. European Fanworm and sea squirts against the barge proposal. Conservation ranger who has lived his “We have not got a hell of a lot to had been found in ports at Gisborne and “There were concerns raised about how 69 years in Te Araroa, listed many fish sacrifice. We actually need to be looking at Tauranga, she said. the barging facility might impact upon species in the Karakatuwhero River in projects that improve the wellbeing of our “Those get into your reefs and food the environment and the local ecology which populations had “crashed”. marine ecology, not sacrifice more of it.” systems and you’re in big trouble. There’s and how those might be mitigated,” he But when asked if he would be a Ms Ngata said the proposal posed no getting them out.” said. member of the working group, Hovell two “insurmountable” risks to the Te Rimu Trust chairman Richard These included concerns about the conceded. marine environment — noise pollution Clarke said the concept of using the sea impact on the wetlands, biosecurity “I said ‘OK, I’ll be a part of your group, and bioinvasion—- and also risked the as a means of transporting goods had issues, noise, methyl bromide, increased at least I’ll be informed with what’s going surrounding wetland environment. been around for years. traffic flow, stormwater discharge, forest on and I’ll be in a position to answer “Our creatures out there don’t have a “It’s not new,” he said. slash, along with what the proposed questions that need to be answered’. voice for this kind of process. Whanau at the hui said they had been management structure would look like “But I did say ‘if I don’t like what you’re “For me when I think about what it is fighting the process for about six years. and whether it would be a multi-use doing, I’ll be out of there’.” to be a kaitiaki (guardian), what is it to It made headlines last year when then facility. Environmental researcher and tangata be a mokopuna of this coastline, what is it Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones “It was generally accepted with no whenua Tina Ngata declined to be on to be a tangata moana, not just a tangata announced $45 million had been set aside disagreement by the hui that a working the working group, saying mitigating whenua, it means that we respect and for the project. group be formed to address those or lessening the environmental impacts honour their relationships to us and our According to minutes from the Whanau concerns and determine a pathway wasn’t good enough when it was in a state relationships to them. a Kahu hui, chairman Kingston Cooper forward.” LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • Silver Fern Farms hand out their 2021 Plate home-delivered to Pasture awards, along with their youth scholarships. • Debbie Bidlake from Federated Farmers calls for practical and fair rules over signifi cant natural areas on farms. • The weekly AgriHQ report for the week beginning July 12 and a last chance at a book giveaway. 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