TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 GENERAL REST HOME PAGE 7 ELECTION OVERWHELMED 100 DAYS ARTS & TO GO ENTERTAINMENT PAGES 20-22 PAGES 3, 6 INSIDE TODAY PEACEFUL PROTEST: District councillor Meredith Akuhata-Brown addresses the large crowd who gathered yesterday to protest against the Endeavour models. Picture by Paul Rickard HAVE YOUR SAY App a channel for feedback on Endeavour models by Mark Peters app is people can contribute interpreted to provide feedback to privately but their data is included the community such comments are TAIRAWHITI residents are anonymously in the analysis. incorporated into the data analysis. clearly not in the same boat over the “Creating a channel for all voices Once the data is analysed Riposte proposed installation of the rebuilt to come through is important, Analytics will submit a report to Endeavour models but a social particularly for sensitive topics that Gisborne District Council about feedback app might help clarify how might be difficult for people to talk how people in Tairawhiti feel about and what the local populace feels about.” the proposed reinstatement of the about them. While the Riposte app can be Endeavour models. A protest yesterday morning used to contribute to a database Mayor Rehette Stoltz and outside the Gisborne District indicating how people in Tairawhiti councillor Meredith Akuhata- Council administration building was feel about reinstallation of the Brown are among those on board prompted by a lack of consultation Endeavour models, it does not with the use of the Riposte app to with iwi about the models of British function as a referendum or voting gauge the community’s response to explorer James Cook’s ship. platform. the Endeavour models, says Mrs The original models were raised “Riposte captures information Hancock. in 1969 as part of the bicentenary about how you feel about the models. “Riposte captures the nuances celebrations of Cook’s landfall in It’s more about experiences and less of this complex situation. It allows New Zealand. about opinions,” says Mrs Hancock. people to have mixed feelings about The Riposte app, built by Gisborne “When you make your post you can it. data analyst Debs Hancock, is put in emoticons, keywords, hashtags “We’ve designed Riposte to be a designed to provide a real-time or brief comments.” safe digital space for people to share barometer of the community’s state Abusive language or hate speech their lived experience, and for that of being, but can be used to ask for can be filtered out by Riposte information to then be used for ANCHORED: One of the two Endeavour models which feedback on particular topics, such Analytics’ machine learning model. positive change within communities.” have caused contention over whether they should as the Endeavour models, says Mrs It is not removed completely but it is The app is free to download and be returned to the Gladstone Road sites of previous Hancock. confined to private comment. quick and easy to use. For more models. Herald file picture “A key difference of the Riposte When the data is analysed and information, go to www.riposte.app GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds .........19 Racing ................24 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 The Guide ... 20-22 Sport ............ 25-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ..... 6-10,18 World....... 13,16-17 Television ...........23 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, June 11, 2020 QUALITY HARVEST NEARLY DONE: Maize is harvested at a block at the Te Karaka end of Lavenham Road. The maize harvest has gone well in the district this season, thanks to favourable weather. Yields have been up and crop quality is high. Herald file picture by Murray Robertson Gisborne areas to harvest next week. We will finish around Glencore Grain completed its harvest last Friday. Wairoa this week. “In the end we harvested about 9000 tonnes, which was up HARVESTING of the region’s grain maize crop is near “It’s been a very good season for us,” he said. “We’ve had on our estimates,” said regional manager Dave Corrin. completion with one company having finished and another great harvest conditions, good yields and good quality. “The yields ranged a bit but most were above average, and having only a week to go. “It would be one of the best all-round years we have had.” the quality of the maize was very good indeed.” Both companies have reported higher yields and good crop Corson Grains’ crop is predominantly used for human He echoed Mr Hyland’s comments about the quality of the quality. consumption in the likes of breakfast cereals and snack harvest season. Corson Grain procurement manager Richard Hyland said foods. “It was an easy season, with the weather conditions on our they would finish their harvest next week. “We expect to have harvested about 20,000 tonnes by the side.” “We’ve still got paddocks of maize in the Tolaga Bay and end of this season.” The Glencore crop is used for stock food. Camping changes to protect dunes by Aaron van Delden by the coming summer. point to damage caused accidentally by saving for campers who want longer stays. During daylight vehicles and pedestrians, and deliberately, The council will also be able to issue A PROPOSAL to scale back summer saving, it operates such as steps cut into dunes for beach fines for rule-breaking, something they camping in the Gisborne district where campgrounds in nine access. cannot currently do for summer camping dune erosion could undermine State locations throughout the Unstable dunes — thanks to camping areas, which are controlled under Highway 35 — and last summer exposed district, while freedom activity, as well as rising sea levels and Camping-Grounds Regulations 1985. human remains — got the stamp of camping is possible coastal erosion — would put at risk the But council staff expect those fines to approval today. year-round. integrity of sections of State Highway 35, generate no more than $20,000 a year The district council’s Sustainable As well as including at Turihaua Point and southern and to peter out as compliance improves. Tairawhiti committee agreed unanimously recommending that Pouawa, they warn. Other proposals include making to proposed changes to freedom and summer camping areas However, summer campgrounds make freedom camping in the region possible summer camping. be managed under the the council up to $55,000 a year through only in a self-contained vehicle or tent The remains were unearthed in dunes freedom camping bylaw, permits that campers need to purchase to with a chemical toilet, except for “one at Pouawa earlier this year and raised council staff have suggested altering the stay at the sites. or two small carparks” in Gisborne city, questions from campers about the area’s boundaries of some of those areas where Under the freedom camping bylaw, where one night’s non-self-contained status as a wahi tapu (sacred place), a erosion is a problem, such as at Turihaua campers will be allowed to stay a camping will be allowed between 7pm and report to councillors said. Point and southern Pouawa. maximum of three nights at each 7am. Gisborne District Council began a They report that camping in these campground for free. Given the Covid-19 disruption, the review of its camping regime earlier this areas is “likely having an impact on the The council is proposing to allow the council plans for changes to summer year and hoped to have changes in place already compromised dune systems” and permit system to continue during daylight camping to take effect from May 2021. LOOKING AHEAD Vicki Coley SPORTS Sells Real Estate • Football: Paciic Premiership teams Gisborne United and Thistle look to continue their winning start to the season. United play Napier Marist away and Thistle play Taradale at home. • Rugby: Super Rugby Aotearoa gets under way this weekend. We preview the action as the national game resumes with crowds allowed. • Rugby league: The NRL is taking its irst tentative steps to allowing crowds into its games, as FOCUS ON THE LAND balloted spectators get to watch. TOMORROw SATuRdAy Vicki Coley Residential Sales Consultant The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 For a free no obligation appraisal call me. Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: John Gillies P 021 641 997 E [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz 32806-01 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, June 11, 2020 NEWS 3 Aspiring MP happy to do the hard yards by Wynsley Wrigley THE great niece of the late Labour Speaker of the House Sir Peter Tapsell — Tania Tapsell — will attempt to retain East Coast for National in AIMING HIGH: this year’s General Election. Rotorua Lakes Anne Tolley, the East Coast MP since 2005, is district councillor standing on the list only. Tania Tapsell Ms Tapsell, a 28-year-old Rotorua Lakes wants to go to district councillor who lives in Maketu near Parliament as the Te Puke, said Gisborne was a beautiful place National Party MP and she and her family would be active and for East Coast working hard in this part of the vast East Coast after this year’s electorate. General Election. “As I come from an East Coast rural Ms Tapsell was in Gisborne background, I feel I can relate to the Gisborne yesterday for a community,” she said while in the city yesterday.