TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 OPERATION ONE IN A PAGE 5 COASTIE MILLION PAGE 13 NETS DEALER COVID-19 LAB LEAK ON THE BLACK REMEMBERING MARKET PAGE 3 DIANNE SAUNDERS UNLIKELY: WHO HOUSE ABLAZE: A three-bedroom weatherboard home in Stanley Road opposite Boys’ High was gutted by fire last night and the blaze threatened to set houses either side of it alight as well. Firefighters got there in time to stop that from happening. The two men who lived there lost all their household possessions. STORY ON PAGE 3 Picture by Paul Rickard STOLE HER FREEDOM Paralysed in crash caused by brother-in-law under influence of meth A DRIVER whose sister-in-law yesterday. Rore previously The crash happened In her victim impact to prepare as she could not talk was permanently paralysed in pleaded guilty to dangerous after Rore, headed north on statement, she said she never easily due to a breathing tube. a head-on crash he caused by driving and three charges Wharerata Road in good wanted to see Rore again. The other driver, a woman dangerously overtaking a truck of causing injury while driving conditions and on a She was only in his vehicle in her 60s whose identity was on Wharerata Road has been driving under the influence of slight downward slope, tried to because she had agreed to suppressed at her request, sentenced to 12 months home methamphetamine in relation to overtake a truck without enough babysit. suffered numerous injuries detention. each of three women involved in view of the road ahead — a She had survived but he had including rib fractures, serious A minimum mandatory driver the crash on June 4 last year. decision Judge Cathcart said taken away all her freedom. hand injuries, multiple neck disqualification of a year and a Two of the women — Rore’s was “reckless” and “deliberate”. Previously her life was centred fractures. Part of her bowel had day, which would normally have sister-in-law and partner — Both vehicles were extensively on the sea. She loved fishing and to be removed. applied, was extended to three were unauthorised passengers in damaged and everyone in them diving, and worked on deep sea A surgeon later told her it was years. the vehicle he was driving while hospitalised. fishing boats. Now she had spent only the 5-star safety rating of Huriwaka Maitairangi Rore, on a restricted licence. Rore’s sister-in-law suffered months lying on her back, would her late-model vehicle that saved 26, of Wairoa, was sentenced The other victim was the a C5 spinal injury and is never be able to walk and her her from even more dire injuries. by Judge Warren Cathcart driver of the vehicle into which permanently paralysed, now life would never be the same. in Gisborne District Court he crashed. requiring 24-hour care. Her statement was difficult CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds ... 20-22 Racing ................23 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........18 Sport ............ 24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .6-9, 16-17 World............ 13-15 Farming .............19 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, February 10, 2021 POI E: Mereana Walker (right) looks to have Counting a future kapa haka performer in daughter Te Ohomauri while, left, Tiana Moa’s son Kaius down to Houkamau prefers to chew on his poi. The mums and their bubs were enjoying the start of the He Kakano - mission to Little Seeds programme at the H.B. Williams Memorial Library yesterday. the Moon ROCKET Lab is getting ready for its mission to Pictures by Rebecca the moon. Its next mission will deploy a range of Grunwell satellites for commercial and government satellite operators, and place a next-generation Photon spacecraft in orbit to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) later this year. Scheduled to lift-off from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in mid-March, the mission, titled They Go Up So Fast, will be Rocket Lab’s 19th Electron launch overall and second mission of 2021. LITTLE SEEDS The launch will bring the total number of satellites launched by Electron to 104. MARK it on your calendar, grab your bub Seven satellites feature on the mission and head to the H.B. Williams Memorial manifest, including — Library . the He Kakano - Little Seeds ■ An Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky programme has started. via launch services provider Spaceflight Inc The first day of sing-alongs and stories for ■ Two Internet-Of-Things nanosatellites for under-two-year-olds began yesterday with companies Fleet Space and Myriota, procured by little ones enjoying a poi session. Tyvak He Kakano - Little Seeds (previously called ■ A technology demonstration satellite for the Baby Time) is one of the free preschool University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra programmes the library runs during each Space school term for littlies up to the age of two ■ A weather satellite pathfinder technology and their caregivers. demonstration from Care Weather technologies The library also runs Te Pihinga - Little ■ A technology demonstrator for the US Sprouts (previously called Toddler Time) Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command every Thursday at 10.30am for two-to-five (SMDC) through launch integration and year-olds and their caregivers. programme management services provider, The fun programmes involve music and TriSept reading sessions run by Katarina Collier — ■ Rocket Lab’s in-house-designed-and-built the newly-appointed children and young Photon Pathstone spacecraft which will operate adults librarian. on orbit as a risk reduction demonstration to The aim is to grow lifelong readers. build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon. Government announces Protecting taonga $5.7m Marae Ora Fund A NEW fund has been set up to help on marae are already at risk due to low with the creation of archives, small to safeguard at-risk matauranga Maori iwi, hapu and whanau protect taonga numbers of matauranga holders and whare taonga or publications as a way and protect indigenous knowledge from (treasures) on marae. the limited financial resources available to both preserve and provide access to the threat of Covid-19. Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage to support their preservation,” said Ms matauranga and taonga on marae. The Matauranga Maori Marae Ora Carmel Sepuloni yesterday announced the Sepuloni. “Ahikaa marae communities have Fund is being administered by Te Tari opening of the Matauranga Maori Marae “These risks have always been the Taiwhenua/ Department of Internal Ora Fund— a $5.7 million contestable been heightened by the keepers of matauranga Affairs. fund to support Maori with projects that global pandemic. ...this fund is a step Maori and the kaitiaki It is designed to complement other safeguard their matauranga (knowledge) “The Matauranga towards‘ protecting our (guardian) of taonga. funding available to marae such as the and taonga from the ongoing threat of Maori Marae Ora “This fund will support Provincial Growth Fund and the Oranga Covid-19. Fund offers support for country’s matauranga these communities Marae programme jointly administered by “Whakapapa (genealogy) and cultural a range of marae-based and taonga for future directly to continue their Te Tari Taiwhenua and Te Puni Kokiri. identity for tangata whenua are held projects. This includes generations conservation efforts and The Matauranga Maori Marae Ora within marae across the motu (nation),” the development of ’ to grow their capacity Fund was developed in partnership she said. conservation plans for — Minister Carmel Sepuloni to sustain their cultural between Manatu Taonga/Ministry for “Marae also play an integral part in whare and wharenui heritage,” Ms Sepuloni Culture and Heritage, Te Tari Taiwhenua, preserving the cultural vitality of Maori (meeting house) arts, said. Te Puni Kokiri and Heritage New Zealand and Aotearoa as a whole. This identity the establishment of harvest areas for The Matauranga Maori Marae Ora Pouhere Taonga. is unique to the world and this fund is cultural materials such as pa harakeke Fund is part of a wider $20 million Full details about the fund and a step towards protecting our country’s (flax) and totara, and the preservation Matauranga Maori Te Awe Kotuku how to apply are available on the matauranga and taonga for future of taonga such as waka tiwai (canoe), programme announced in December 2020. Te Tari Taiwhenua funding website generations. korowai (cloak) and photographs. It includes 18 diverse initiatives to communitymatters.govt.nz/the- “The matauranga and taonga held “Funding is also available to assist support iwi, hapu and Maori communities matauranga-maori-marae-ora-fund Get your Gisborne Herald • From the “Comps” to shows such as musical Aladdin, opera The Marriage of home-delivered Figaro and The Addams Family, soprano Rosie West is about to embark on the next step in her musical vocation. • Unity Theatre is to hold auditions for NZ satire Revenge of the Amazons, Jean Betts’ comedy based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which the mechanicals comprise a female theatre troupe. Director Michelle Hall explains. TOMORROW PLUS: MUSIC GUIDE • FILM REVIEWS • GUIDE GOSSIP 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 • Wednesday, February 10, 2021 NEWS 3 All household possessions GUTTED BY FIRE lost in Stanley Road blaze by Murray Robertson A STANLEY Road house was gutted by fire last night and the two men who lived there lost all possessions inside.