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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 WE’RE PAGE 13 ATTACK ON ALL EARS: AMERICA’: SWEETCORN TRUMP HARVEST SUPPORTERS UNDER WAY STORM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CAPITOL PAGE 3 PAGES 23-26 BUILDING FOUR-METRE FALL: A patient pried open the window from one of these first-floor rooms, on the right, at Gisborne Hospital and jumped four metres to the ground. The woman suffered back injuries and broke her ankle in the fall. She dragged herself around 200 metres to the hospital’s emergency department. Picture by Liam Clayton ‘SHE COULD HAVE DIED’ by Sophie Rishworth The woman was flown to Waikato and alone and having to jump to get at every point and turn, and checking Hospital yesterday with back injuries away. regularly on patients . my partner’s GISBORNE Hospital has confirmed and a broken ankle. “I thought she would be under been let down.” an investigation is under way after The woman’s partner spoke to a observation . it could have been Her partner believed hospital staff a woman jumped from a first storey reporter at Stuff.co.nz but was not avoided, it should have been avoided.” knew she was in an erratic state and window in the medical ward, then named. Her partner told Stuff they believed the door to her room should have dragged herself to the emergency Her partner told Stuff they would the woman, who was on steroid been left open. department for treatment. be making a formal complaint to medication, was in a confused state Hauora Tairawhiti clinical care It is about a four-metre drop. Hauora Tairawhiti district health and trying to escape. manager Kate Mather said an The incident is reported to have board. “She could have died,” her partner investigation was under way. happened some time between “It’s going to take me a long time said. “We will be responding to the 11.30pm on Monday night and 3am to get the image of my partner in the “They (the hospital) should be family with the results of our on Tuesday morning. dark, standing on the ledge, scared dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s investigation and actions.” STUDY FOR ENROL NOW! * FREE PROGRAMMES FREE * conditions apply 0800 22 55 348 | eit.ac.nz | 34817-09 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds ... 17-19 The Guide ... 23-26 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........22 Sport ............ 28-32 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National 6-10,20-21 World............ 13-15 Racing ................27 Weather .............31 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, January 7, 2021 JUMPING off the moves they could Tolaga Bay Wharf is one show off, including IT’S ALL of the best ways to cool the “shooting star”, down during warm sunny “staples”, “snappies”, weather, says Uawa local “cannonball”, “bombs” Malik Priestley. and the classic backflip. Malik and five others But their favourite ABOUT were making bombing move was the “hoiho videos with a GoPro (horse) bomb”, which to see who could do apparently makes the biggest splash the biggest and best or perform the most splashes. THE interesting technique The wharf was busy before hitting the water. with tourists, locals and The boys said they fishers trying to catch SPLASH had a few different kai. CHECK THIS OUT: Malik Priestley performs a backflip off the Tolaga Bay Wharf while watched by Akuhata Keefe, Manuel Wehi, Rik Takurua, Billy Priestley and Raniere Rewiti. Pictures by Liam Clayton East Coast road trip ‘the perfect holiday’ by Matai O’Connor East Coast. They have stopped off at each town THE MURRAY family from Tauranga along the way and thoroughly enjoyed say the East Cape is “so beautiful” after the relaxing summer vibes each spot road-tripping around the region in a has provided. motorhome. Steve and Carlene are pastors at Steve, Bayleigh, Xara and Carlene Lifezone Church in Tauranga. Murray started travelling from Last year Carlene, Bayleigh and Xara Tauranga to the East Cape on January did this trip without Steve as he was in 3. India. They got to Tolaga Bay yesterday They decided that since they were all and set up camp at the Tolaga Bay together this festive season they would campgrounds where they took the time do the trip again. to relax, sunbathe and eat some good Steve last came to Gisborne over two old cheese and crackers. decades ago. He always wanted to come They have loved their trip around the back. “This holiday has been perfect,” he THIS IS THE LIFE: Bayleigh (left), Steve, said. Xara and Carlene Murray enjoy a relaxing One of the biggest highlights for the day at the Tolaga Bay campgrounds family was staying by the beach in Te eating cheese and crackers and taking in Kaha and watching the sunsets and the sun while they plan the next stage of sunrises. their road trip around the East Coast. “The water was so nice,” said Picture by Liam Clayton Bayleigh. “It was even a little bit warm.” LOOKING AHEAD Vicki Coley SPORTS Sells Real Estate • Clubbies hit the sand and water at Midway Beach for the Gisborne surf lifesaving championships. • Poverty Bay club cricket’s Walker Shield twenty20 competition gets under way. • A Gisborne teen has been named on the Netball New Zealand Youth Board. FOCUS ON THE LAND 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. P 021 641 997 E [email protected] Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies 32806-02 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, January 7, 2021 NEWS 3 Homeward bound after car crash ordeal by Murray Robertson He was discharged from hospital on THE Bay of Plenty Wednesday of last week. man trapped in his “I was recuperating crashed car for two- at my sister Sue’s place and-a-half days over in King Road after I left the Christmas holiday hospital,” he told The weekend headed home Herald yesterday. today. His sister drove him Gregg Shaw, 67, failed back to Papamoa today. to arrive in Gisborne Mr Shaw said he still from Papamoa on had a “few aches and Christmas Day and was pains”. reported missing. “The chest is still a His car went off the problem. I’m walking road and into a deep but the ribs and ditch just north of sternum are still sore. Otoko Hill on Christmas If I cough, it hurts like morning (Friday). He hell. was trapped inside and “I’ll be seeing a doctor could not be seen from when I get home about the road. a return to work but I Mr Shaw was found don’t expect to be back THANKS AGAIN: Emergency services by pure chance by at work any time soon. extricate Papamoa man Gregg Shaw from searching family “I’m certainly pleased his car after crashing en route to Gisborne members on the Sunday to be going home. It’ll be on Christmas Day. Mr Shaw, who returned afternoon of that long good to see my tabby cat home today, reiterated his gratitude to all weekend. Misty again.” those involved in finding, subsequently Emergency services The crash survivor rescuing and treating him. He was looking extricated him from again thanked his forward to being reunited with his cat his car and he spent family, hospital staff Misty. Rescue picture supplied, New Year in Gisborne and everyone else who Gregg Shaw pic from Herald files Hospital. helped him. HERE WE GO AGAIN: A 10-day window for Rocket Lab’s next launch opens on January 16. Picture supplied Counting down to Rocket Lab’s 18th launch ROCKET Lab’s first Electron launch of the new year will be a dedicated mission for European space technology company OHB Group. This mission, named Another One Leaves the Crust is scheduled for lift-off during a 10-day launch window opening on January 16. Encapsulated inside Electron’s fairing will be a single communication microsatellite that will enable specific frequencies to support future services from orbit. The launch will be Rocket Lab’s 18th Electron mission and was procured for OHB Group through OHB Cosmos International Launch Service GmbH, the launch service division of OHB Group. OHB Cosmos is responsible for launching the spacecraft built by the Group’s satellite manufacturers based in Germany, Sweden, and the Czech Republic. The mission will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula. Following payload deployment, the Kick Stage will perform a de-orbit burn, enabling it to re-enter and burn up faster to avoid becoming space junk. Rocket Lab will not be attempting to recover Electron’s first stage for this LOOKING GOOD: Cedenco has started its sweetcorn harvest and powder production began today. General manager Carla mission. McCulloch and agronomist Lochy Ritchie are pictured among some of the crop this morning. Yields look higher than normal, up “We’re proud to be delivering a speedy by as much as 30 percent for the early crops. Picture by Paul Rickard and streamlined path to orbit for OHB Group on this mission, with launch taking place within six months of contract signing,” said Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck.: “By flying as a dedicated mission on Corn harvest under way Electron, OHB and their mission partners have control over launch timing, orbit, integration schedule, and other mission parameters.” Higher early yields due to ‘ultra super sweet’ variety Another One Leaves the Crust is the first mission in a packed launch manifesto for by Murray Robertson Harvesting has started at Paringahau “The IQF (Individual Quick Freezing) 2021, which includes multiple dedicated Farm at Te Karaka.