TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20

LEVEL 2, DAY 1: ‘AMAZING’ SUPPORT FOR People flocked back to places like The Warehouse (left), which LIVE MUSIC VENUES was able to reopen in Alert Level PAGE 2 2 yesterday. The carpark was full and there were long queues at times over the day. The city centre resembled Boxing Day with large numbers of shoppers out in force. The change of level also means playgrounds are now open. Enjoying a spin at the Botanical Gardens, below, are Keylaine Scheirber, 9, and Ciahn Ebbett- Couper, 3. Pictures by Liam Clayton BUDGET 2020 WHAT’S IN IT FOR US

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PAGES 2, 4, 5, 10, 13-14, 16, 22, 24 $33.5m and counting In firing line over wastewater plant upgrade budget blowout by Aaron van Delden council will need to apply for an extension. WHAT BLEW THE BUDGET? Councillor Meredith Akuhata-Brown THOSE managing Gisborne city’s said wastewater improvements needed to wastewater treatment plant upgrade Additional costs identified in the preliminary design include — be prioritised. “Most of our community . . . faced a grilling yesterday from district ■ Filters required for clarification: $3.5m. simply want to see no more tutae (faeces) councillors seeking answers over the ■ Increased provisional and general costs: $3m. in the bay and rivers,” she said. “It’s a very project’s multimillion-dollar budget ■ More UV equipment for disinfection: $1.5m. basic ask.” blowout. ■ Shifting the project site to a vacant lot adjacent to (rather than attached to) the main treatment Deputy mayor Josh Wharehinga said In an exhaustive plant on Banks Street: $1.5m. the budget blowout was a reason in itself two-hour debate, ■ Enclosing dewatering equipment to minimise odour: $1.3m. for the council to get a move on with the councillors wanted ■ Increased allowance for cost overruns: $1m. upgrade. to know how the ■ Disposal facility for septic tank waste: $0.8m. “That’s why pies no longer cost 50 cents estimated project cost ■ Work to enable wastewater to be recycled for treatment processes: $0.5m. . . . everything increases with time.” had jumped by more There are no guarantees that even than $9 million from Refinements to the design, including a more condensed layout, helped pare back the increase to $9.1m. $33.5m will be enough. a budget of $24.4m With the new budget still based on a based on a 2016 preliminary design, Gisborne District concept design. Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher But in the end they unanimously agreed for our city — we must have it,” councillor The additional treatment is a resource Swann said the project could end up to incorporate the larger budget of $33.5m Amber Dunn said. consent requirement with a December costing 15 to 20 percent more. in the council’s upcoming 2021-31 Long The plant’s upgrade will mean the city’s 2020 deadline. Term Plan. wastewater is clarified and disinfected The upgrade is not due to be CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 “This is critical, essential infrastructure before being pumped out to sea. commissioned until March 2022 so the

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WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: An arts crowdfunding platform has launched a Save Our Venues initiative to help ensure live music venues — SAVING the Dome Bar and Smash Palace — are able to continue to host acts such as Gisborne heavy rock band Uni-Fi (pictured). OUR File picture VENUES

‘Amazing’ support gives lifeline to Smash, Dome by Mark Peters support for the venue. endlessly grateful and one day I’ll put on hole Covid-19 put us in and puts us on a “Since then we’ve had many messages a great big party for Gisborne.” firmer footing,” says Mr Monteith. WITHIN 24 hours of launching its Save of support. I knew we had the support Smash Palace’s Daryl Monteith said he “This is a huge lifeline and comments Our Venues campaign the Dome Bar but I didn’t know it was as huge as it has and co-owner Kerry Donovan had seen and feedback we have had about how reached its first target towards ensuring been.” the campaign was going well for Auckland much Smash means to people are really it can continue to host live acts. Many small venues face a similar live music venues Whammy Bar and The gratifying.” Along with Smash Palace, the Dome struggle to continue after lockdown but Wine Cellar but felt a bit weird about Bar is one of Gisborne’s two main live venues are where New Zealand artists asking for money. music venues whose chances of survival forge support for their talent, says “Then the campaign committee ■ TO make a donation, and to help ensure live post-lockdown have been given a boost Shanks. approached us and said ‘would you like acts continue to grow and perform at the Dome through a Save Our Venues initiative. “These venues are run on shoestring your venue to be part of this?’” Bar and Smash Palace, go to www.boosted.org. Driven by a team of musicians and budgets by locals who are passionate Smash Palace was nominated by nz/profile/5eaf4a9eda204c002348bacb or supporters, the Boosted Live arts about bringing culture to the small Christchurch venue Blue Smoke. bit.ly/2X01VZ1, scroll down the page for the “we crowdfunding platform initiative, Save corners of the universe, while fostering Nominees were required to nominate love the Dome” and “we love Smash” icons, Our Venues, aims to inspire nationwide the next music generation of stars. another venue so Mr Monteith and Ms then scroll down each of those pages to the red support of New Zealand’s musical culture “Without venues bands have nowhere Donovan nominated the Dome Bar. “donate” button. The deadline for both venues to by encouraging people to support their to play. That has put things into focus. Like the Dome, Smash Palace reached reach their stretch goal of $20,000 is May 30. venues. Bands and venues have to work together. its target amount within a couple of days By this morning, Smash Palace had reached “It was amazing,” Dome Bar owner “We’re struggling but now we can and has created a stretch target. $11,200 towards its stretch target while the Dome Sally Shanks said of people’s financial function in a limited capacity. We’re “The funding helps us climb out of the Bar had reached $14,339.

LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • The ‘Resilient Farmer’ Doug Avery talks about moving forward from a home-delivered crisis like Covid-19. WRAPPING • Sheep sales resumed at the AROUND OUR Matawhero saleyards today with about 1600 head on offer. COMMUNITY IN • Alliance has distributed $4.5 million in loyalty payments to A CRISIS its shareholders. TOMORROw TOMORROw 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: Grant Miller/John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 NEWS 3 Kai food parcels feeding thousands

THERE is an impressive distribution around Tairawhiti,” said collaboration going on between Toitu Mr Tamati. Tairawhiti, Gisborne District Council’s “I am hugely proud of our team Emergency Coordination Centre and who have all worked long and hard 16 iwi, hapu and community hubs to make sure everything was ready to get kai (food) parcels out to 1450 to go.” households across the rohe. The ECC will continue to help iwi The Toitu Tairawhiti effort is partners, agencies and community the brainchild of communications groups over the coming weeks. operations lead Amohaere The Toitu Tairawhiti combined Houkamau, who says the packs have effort comes on the back of Civil been customised for Tairawhiti iwi Defence Emergency Management and will continue to be rolled out staff having delivered essential until the end of winter. household items to more than The 1450 households will receive 2000 pakeke (elderly), parents and packs designed to feed a family of children from all over the district who four, meaning food for nearly 6000 have been referred by agencies or people. called the council’s 0800 number for One-hundred-and-forty-six pallets assistance. were delivered to the Showgrounds These packs are provided by the Event Centre, where they were National Emergency Management unpacked and split into four rohe Centre. zones — Whangara, Uawa, Waiapu Feedback to ECC about the kai and Matakaoa; Waipiro, Te Puia and parcels delivered during the Covid-19 Ruatoria; Muriwai, Turanga west and pandemic response has been hugely Rongowhakaata; and Kaiti. positive, with many saying the items The ECC team worked late into the they received in their packs were night on Tuesday to ensure the first well thought out and provided much- deliveries were set to head out at needed relief for them and whanau. 5am on Wednesday. The latest kai packs will be ECC response manager Wiremu distributed over the weekend. Tamati says it has been a team effort. Anyone who may need assistance TEAM EFFORT: ECC’s logistics manager Phil Nickerson (left) and response manager Wiremu “There were plenty of things that or would like to refer those who are Tamati with a small part of the food consignment being sorted and sent out to thousands around had to line up to ensure the food vulnerable can contact the council on the region as part of a collaborative initiative. Mr Tamati says it has been a team effort of which was organised in readiness for 0800 653 800. he is “hugely proud”. Picture by Diana Dobson/The Black Balloon

Major benefits for Maori, BUDGET 2020 iwi housing, tourism by Andrew Ashton and Matai O’Connor thanks to Tairawhiti Technology Trust receiving $400,000 in Budget 2020 for THE future of Tairawhiti’s Maori a new regional digital hub from the by Murray Robertson Andrew Hoggard said they were wary about communities, iwi housing initiatives Provincial Growth Fund,” she said. the long-term plan for the primary industry’s and Gisborne’s tourism industry have The $900 million-plus targeted Maori GISBORNE-Wairoa Federated Farmers contribution to New Zealand’s economic been pointed to as those expected to spend of Budget 2020 focuses on housing, president Charlie Reynolds has welcomed parts recovery. benefit from yesterday’s Budget 2020 health, jobs and education. of the Budget but not all of it. “Farmers will be pleased with announcements announcement. “Key areas where inequities and Mr Reynolds said though it was nice to see of a $1.1 billion environmental jobs spend and The Government announced it will inequalities for our people have gone farming receiving something positive out of a specific mention of control of pests such as invest over $900 million in response neglected for years,” Ms Whaitiri said. budget for once “it looks like farmers are still on wallabies and wilding pines. Also positive is the to Covid-19 to support whanau, “This unprecedented investment shows their own again with the nationwide drought and increased support for biodiversity on private land tamariki and all Maori to help rebuild the power of having all seven Maori seats feed supply dwindling”. through agencies like QEII and Landcare Trust. communities. firmly at the table of government, as part “The lack of cash and planning for water “But as with so many aspects of the Budget “We know that the effects of of a 13-strong Labour Maori caucus that storage shows that wetlands are more important announcements, the devil will be in the detail.” Covid-19 have impacted on Maori and can highlight the need in these areas to this Government than rural families’ health and Mr Hoggard said the Budget did include $500 today’s announcement is about working and, more importantly, be heard.” mental wellbeing.” million in initiatives that would ensure primary with our people and our many providers “Finally, Maori need to keep in mind Out of the $1.6 billion dollars for trade training, industries get supported. to restart and repair our communities,” that this isn’t an and/or situation. agriculture receives $19.3 million or 1.2 percent. “We look forward to seeing more detail on that. Minister of Maori Development Nanaia “Our people benefit from the targeted “Of this some cash is for familiarisation We appreciate it appears we’ve been listened to Mahuta said yesterday. spend and the Budget’s wider initiatives, courses — in other words, groups coming on to on many of the areas for potential work we’ve Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri such as the 8000 more public houses, your farm to see if they like it or not. raised with the Government.” said she was already engaging with iwi expansion to the wage subsidy scheme, “There will be cash for work training but what The Budget’s investment of another $3 billion leaders and Maori ministers to ensure and heavy investment in trades and this training is like and who are the trainers are in infrastructure was also a big spend but the Gisborne’s future was vastly improved by apprenticeships training.” yet to be seen.” decisions on where the money will go were yet to this “incredible” targeted investment in Trust Tairawhiti tourism general Mr Reynolds said his biggest concern was be made, he said. supporting our whanau. manager Adam Hughes welcomed the there still seemed to be a complete lack of “We would hope enhanced rural connectivity, “From Horouta Whanau Ora inclusion of a tourism recovery package. understanding around the amount of red tape money for water storage and road maintenance to kohanga reo like Te Putake “Trust Tairawhiti welcomes the and bureaucracy that holds back all sectors of are prime candidates for that investment, as both Whakatupuranga and Te Whakaruruhau, Government’s targeted $400 million agriculture. will help drive primary sector production and some implications of today’s funding tourism recovery package and the Federated Farmers national vice-president competitiveness.” boosts are obvious,” Ms Whaitiri said extension of the wage subsidy scheme yesterday. announced. “However, I see strong potential for “This support will help guide the “There is a long road ahead of hard people with disabilities and $4.4m to pay the increased funding to our Maori and visitor and hospitality industry across work and tough decisions across the for in-between travel costs for disability iwi housing initiative, and $200 million Aotearoa through the Covid-19 crisis. sector, but this next round of support and carers, on top of existing funding. Maori Employment Package to really “In Tairawhiti, the Budget package the promise of future support provides a “The disability sector has been disrupt the status quo for our people and will support local tourism and hospitality strong pathway forward. underfunded by about 15 percent for improve lives, too,” she said. businesses immediately with the “This package, along with Trust many years so the announcement that The Government is still finalising the extension of the wage subsidy. Tairawhiti support, will give our local they plan to spend $1706.6 million is regional breakdown of the targeted Maori “In the coming weeks and months the industries an opportunity to survive now a very welcome relief,” CCS Disability spend. package will deliver support through a while adapting to the new normal, the Action midland region general manager “As Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP, I will be national domestic marketing campaign new future and the new opportunities to Colene Herbert said. advocating hard to ensure Te Tairawhiti and targeted Maori tourism support. come.” “What this means for the disabled gets its share of the pie, if not one or two The marketing campaign is being led by Disabled people of Tairawhiti will people of Tairawhiti is that disability slices more,” Ms Whaitiri said. Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) and Trust benefit from yesterday’s announcement providers will be able to stay afloat and “I am confident local families will Tairawhiti will be working in partnership that $1.7 billion will be invested into the continue to provide services without really step forward under Budget 2020’s with TNZ to ensure our region benefits. disability sector, each year. worrying about how we are going to pay suite of initiatives, especially Maori. “Meanwhile, the $10 million fund Yesterday’s Budget announcement for it. “Covid-19 also showed the wellbeing for NZ Maori Tourism will support included an additional $833 million “This is $107.3 million more than they of our local families and economy is the critical Maori tourism sector. This to take pressure off disability support estimated they would spent last year. dependent on our online connectivity. aligns with our region’s growing visitor services and ensure access, $12 million “While it is welcome, it is also very long “Gisborne will soon be better connected, experiences and future direction. to assess innovations that empower overdue.” 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths McNAMARA, Gloria. Air NZ flights start on Monday Deaths — Died 12th May 2020, at Gisborne LEACH, Rewi Hospital. (Stuart). — Loving Funeral service to be GISBORNE airport will reopen to husband of Angela. held at Taruheru Air New Zealand flights on Monday but Father of Juanita and Cemetery at a later date. subject to strict guidelines laid down by Dudley, Raewyn and All inquiries ph 022 417 1937. the Government under Covid-19 Alert Chad, Brian Jnr and Level 2. Jess and Renata. Airports around the country will Cherished Papa to all In Memoriam his moko. operate “a new kind of normal” for safe Rewi is lying in state flying as domestic travel and general TEESDALE, aviation expands under Alert Level 2. at his family home until Ryan Peter his final journey to “It’s great to see flights and other forms Wahakino Urupa, 3.7.1983 - 15.5.2010 of travel starting again, reconnecting Whangara, on Monday To us he was someone Tairawhiti to the rest of New Zealand,” 18th May, 2020. Due to special. Someone set said Matt Todd, chief executive of airport the restrictions of apart. His memory will operator Eastland Group. Covid-19, only 50 live forever, engraved “While the number of flights will be persons are permitted to within our hearts. significantly reduced for now, this is an attend the service. His important step and we hope to see more service will be live- Love and miss you flights gradually added to the schedule as mate. streamed for whanau demand increases. and friends nationally Mum, Dad, Holly, “As well as enabling people to fly on and internationally. Mitchell, Kelsey, business once again, or visit family and Updates will follow. Delia, and families friends after a long time apart, this will also provide a boost to our local tourism industry.” Deaths Deaths Mayor Rehette Stoltz said it was good news for the region. “We are excited to see Air New READY FOR TAKE-OFF: Gisborne Airport reopens on Monday with Air New Zealand Zealand’s first flights at Level 2 back into flights to and from Auckland and Wellington. Sunair will resume direct flights to Gisborne on Monday. Tauranga and Hamilton on May 25. Private charter flights will also be available from “We look forward to settling back into Air Gisborne and Air Napier. File picture our ‘new normal’. I know that our hotels, shops and tourist operators will be All visitors must use the main carpark. services they use and who they come in looking forward to welcoming visitors to The temporary overflow area will be contact with during the journey. our piece of paradise.” closed. NZ Airport Association chief executive Air New Zealand will be operating Only passengers and staff can enter Kevin Ward said airports with general flights to and from Auckland and the terminal. aviation activities such as flight schools, Wellington from Monday, May 18. Any passenger requiring special engineering services, aero club flying and JACK KURU Sunair will resume direct flights to assistance should talk to other related businesses Tauranga and Hamilton from May 25. the staff member at the have also put in place A LEGEND HAS FALLEN Private charter flights will also be front door. The emphasis is Covid-19 policies and My sweetie has gone to be with the Lord, available from Air Gisborne and Air Travellers must be processes and are working on Tuesday the 12th of May 2020. He ran Napier. farewelled outside the on‘ keeping travellers, with their commercial the race to win and now he has obtained In line with new guidance from terminal. staff and our tenants to meet new the greatest reward. government agencies, airports around The café will be open health requirements. New Zealand have additional measures to serve passengers and community safe “Travellers can Te Moananui Turoa Kuru (Jack) is a in place to help travellers adhere to staff only. —Matt’ Todd expect to see a lot of legend who leaves behind a legacy of Covid-19 requirements. The seating inside the reminders to allow some hard work, faithfulness and generational These include physical distancing in terminal, as well as the extra space between blessing. terminals and high standards of hygiene check-in and baggage claim areas, will themselves and other travellers they We rejoice as he joins the great cloud of and cleaning. be reconfigured to comply with physical don’t know. New signs, floor markers and witnesses. “The emphasis is on keeping travellers, distancing requirements. information announcements reflecting A champion in the NZ forestry industry staff and our community safe,” said Mr Each airline is following strict protocols the Government’s official advice are now and a pioneer of roading development Todd. around hygiene and physical distancing in place at terminals across the country,” techniques in the East Coast region. At Gisborne Airport the terminal will on flights. he said. Forever loved by his wife Susan, his be open to passengers an hour before Government guidelines require “This will help passengers do the right children Rachelle and Matt, Ricky and their flight departs. travellers to keep records of what travel thing.” Leanne, Hine and Terry, Arana and Runa, and Matthew and Sarn. Jack also lives on through his 16 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be a memorial to celebrate Jack’s life. Land purchase snag Date to be announced. Thefts delay over cycleway fears opening of by Aaron van Delden completed in 1969, needs to be widened But for the eastern stopbank, which from 1.5m to 4m and raised in some protects the city side of the floodplain TWO sections of the places by 1 to 2m. and therefore more residents plus critical playcentre eastern Waipaoa River Another section of the eastern facilities such as the airport and hospital, stopbank will remain on stopbank, at the river mouth, is on Maori the council has sought full ownership. private land after failed land that was part of a recent Treaty The reason for this, as outlined in THIEVES stole large pieces of plastic sheeting bids by Gisborne District settlement. the staff report, is that with private from shade sails at the Kaiti Playcentre in Rutene Council to buy them. In a report, council staff said the ownership, there is a greater risk of a Road — a theft that has upset and mystified Council staff said the trustees of the land were not willing stopbank failure due to “questionable” those associated with the centre. owners of one of the to alienate any part of it practices such as The sails covered an area where children sections, near Ormond, were refusing through a sale, although overstocking or installing played and rode their bikes. to willingly sell their land over security they supported the Since June 2017, pipes through the stopbank “It must have happened during Alert Level and privacy concerns should a cycle trail stopbank project and a the council has without council oversight. 3 because the sails were still intact at the end be installed on top of the redeveloped potential cycle path. Since June 2017, the of Level 4,” said Gisborne Playcentre support stopbank. At a meeting on May 14, bought 16 sections council has bought 16 person Mary-Jane Dixon. The project to upgrade 64 kilometres district councillors chose of stopbank sections of stopbank land “The thieves cut the see-through plastic of stopbank between Te Karaka and the to forgo the compulsory land at a cost of at a cost of $1,648,768. sheets off the sails and I cannot understand why river mouth got under way in February purchase of both sections It is also negotiating a someone would do it.” 2019 and is being done in 5-to-8km of land and rely on $1,648,768. $84,700 land purchase. It is hoped insurance will cover the cost of sections each summer. the council’s statutory Once that deal is settled, repairs. When the upgrade is completed in powers under the Soil the council will own all “In the meantime, until we get the sails 2031 at a cost of up to $35 million, the Conservation and Rivers Control Act eastern stopbank land, except for the two repaired or replaced, reopening the centre under stopbank on both sides of the river will 1941. sections whose owners do not want to Level 2 will be delayed. protect the Waipaoa floodplain, including The act is deemed an adequate control sell. “Understandably, the parents of the children Gisborne city, from a 100-year flood until mechanism for much of the western If the council pursued compulsory who attend the centre are quite upset about 2090, accounting for climate change and stopbank, giving the council the right purchases under the Public Works Act what’s happened.” a predicted 0.67-metre sea level rise. to access private land to carry out 1981, objections could be heard in the Police have been notified. For this, the original stopbank, maintenance and improvements. Environment Court. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 NEWS 5 Time to open up Gisborne welcomes Level 2

Pharmacies allow DIFFERENT TIMES: The scene in Gladstone Road yesterday morning as businesses opened their doors to customers eager to be out and about on day one of Covid-19 Level 2. Below, the same view, taken in the middle of the lockdown. more customers Pictures by Paul Rickard

by Wynsley Wrigley depend on the size of the store. His pharmacy may allow five SHOPPING in pharmacies or six customers in the store, is now much easier, but Alert including three sitting at well- Level 2 gives an opportunity for spaced seats as they wait for the public to support all local prescriptions. businesses. Social distancing remains “That is the key to our and hand sanitiser would be community,” said Gisborne available. pharmacy spokesman Sean Ideally staff rather than Shivnan. customers would handle Pharmacies remained open products and all pharmacies did as an essential business under deliveries. Levels 4 and 3. People who felt unwell should “But it’s great to see other remain at home. businesses open and trading,” Mr Mr Shivnan said pharmacies Shivnan saaid. preferred payments to be made The public was adjusting to by paywave as a first choice, or the “new normal”. eftpos. “The majority of the public They were now accepting cash, understand there is a standard but staff would use sanitiser if of behaviour that has to be they had to handle cash. adhered to. Mr Shivnan said flu vaccines, “There’s been a good uptake of now available to everyone the new normal.” aged 13 plus, were available at Mr Shivnan said customers Bramwells Pharmacy, Gordon’s Tauawhi centre preparing no longer had to enter singly, Pharmacy, Pharmacy 53 and his but each pharmacy’s permitted own pharmacy. number of customers allowed Vaccines have been give out in to shop simultaneously would record numbers this year. for face-to-face support by Mark Peters “Because our team has been working from home it’s been easier for us to follow up families by phone and LOCKED down and working from home, Tauawhi other ways. During lockdown we increased our support Ring first say dentists Men’s Centre phone volunteers’ contact with people role but I don’t think we’re alone in that.” involved with family violence increased over the past Although the team understands the spike in family few weeks. violence during the lockdown was not as high as had DENTISTS are back at work emergency work. Centre co-ordinator Tim Marshall said their work had been expected, it had the potential to increase when the but they advise patients to ring Mr Arness said bookings increased indirectly, “partly through our relationship nation moved into pandemic response alert level 2, Mr for an appointment first. were now open, but there would with the police team Whangaia Nga Pa Harakeke”. Marshall said. Tim Arness, New Zealand always be vacancies for people Whangaia Nga Pa Harakeke is a police- sponsored “Now it’s been a few weeks, some of those stresses Dental Association,Gisborne who found themselves in acute initiative in which police and local iwi work in and pressures have built over that time. In Level 2 we branch president, said it was pain. partnership to reduce family harm. can start seeing people face-to-face again but in a way fantastic for dentists to back in New Zealand Dental “With redeployment in other areas during the that keeps people safe. operation, but with precautions Association president Katie lockdown we understand that their team have been “It’s a tricky space to navigate.” to ensure safety for patients and Ayers said triage questions stretched,” Mr Marshall said. Mr Marshall is unsure if any of the Government staff. would still be asked over the “We have done a bit more to support their needs funding of an extra $202 million aimed at strengthening Those precautions include phone as during Alert Level 3. because they are down in numbers. We’ve had the odd family and sexual violence services over the next four social distancing and the “Our members are delighted case come directly to us but the increase has been years, will go Tauawhi’s way directly. availability of sanitiser. to be back at work to assist more through our relationship with the police as we “The bulk of the funding announced is targeted at Before the move to Alert Level thousands of Kiwis every | follow up with support of families they have connected victim support and a much smaller amount to support 2, dentists were only open for day.” with. for perpetrators of family violence.” Cost could increase Beach ‘hoons’ issue raised FROM PAGE 1 the tendering process, providing the most accurate estimate of the project’s cost, Mr by Wynsley Wrigley her. She asked if the matter Nedine Thatcher Swann said “This is not like a roading construction Macdonald said. could be included in a camping freedom camping was a project where you know exactly how With councillors endorsing the “HOONS” speeding along review issues and options national issue. The Department much it’s going to cost — where there’s a increased budget yesterday, the the district’s beaches have paper, which will be presented of Conservation had previously high degree of certainty and low degree wastewater upgrade project team will be raised the ire of Gisborne to the Sustainable Tairawhiti raised the issue of vehicles on of risk,” Ms Thatcher Swann said. able to progress contracts to purchase district councillor Pat Seymour Committee. beaches. Beca engineer Garry Macdonald, a several pieces of equipment for the plant and her constituents. Mrs Seymour said some The matter required a “bylaw member of the project team, said the upgrade, including the clarifier and UV Mrs Seymour brought up the freedom campers drove their approach” and the council $33.5m budget was a middle ground but lamps for disinfection. issue at yesterday’s council four-wheel bikes safely as they would have to look at the costs may increase due to the exchange The equipment is expected to cost $5.25 meeting, saying concerns took their gear down to the practicalities of the matter. rate and a potential post-Covid boom that million all up, although the initial outlay about Anaura Bay, where beach. Any changes to the freedom could drive up the price of materials and will be for a 5 to 10 percent deposit to threatened birds were nesting, “There are others who hoon camping bylaw are expected to construction. lock in prices and ensure the items are Pouawa Beach and Makorori along the beach.” be in place in time for the 2020- A final design for the upgrade is due manufactured in time for the upgrade to Beach, had been raised with Council chief executive 2021 peak camping season. by October and will be priced up ahead of be completed by March 2022. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 ‘Once-in-a-generation Budget’ by Craig McCulloch, RNZ

WELLINGTON — A $50 $50b recovery package billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020’s “once-in- a-generation Budget” as the by Charlie Dreaver, RNZ ■ Funding includes a $200m country braces for the economic Maori employment package carnage promised by Covid-19. WELLINGTON — The Government ■ $400m increase to Maori The plan lays out the first has unveiled a $50 billion recovery education $15.9 billion of investment package as part of the Budget. including an extension of the Some $13.9 billion of the fund has Housing wage subsidy scheme to the already been spent including on the hardest hit businesses, free wage subsidy scheme. ■ $56m increase to the trades training, and a state Another $15.9 billion worth of government’s insulation and heating house building programme. initiatives was revealed by Finance programme Almost $14 billion has already Minister Grant Robertson yesterday, ■ 8000 new public and been allocated to previously- on the immediate response transitional homes, to be delivered announced initiatives, leaving to kickstart the economy and by Kainga Ora, community housing about $20 billion unspent. $20.2 billion put aside for future providers and transitional housing The hefty price tag promises investment. providers to blow out debt to 53.6 percent ■ Kainga Ora is anticipated to of Gross Domestic Product A breakdown of where the borrow an additional $5 billion to (GDP) by 2023 and will leave money is going: fund its proportion of the houses the country in deficit for years to come. Extension of school lunch Finance Minister Grant Business support programme Robertson says the pandemic is DELIVERING THE BUDGET: From left, Deputy PM Winston Peters, a “one-in-100-year event”, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Finance Minister Grant Robertson An eight week extension to ■ $220.6m to be spent on demands record spending. and Green Party co-leader James Shaw head to the House to the wage subsidy scheme for expanding the free school lunch “It is a once in a generation present the 2020 Budget yesterday. RNZ picture by Dom Thomas businesses who have suffered a 50 programme. Budget. It is bold because the percent reduction in turnover the ■ An additional 200,000 children task we face is monumental,” he reach $4.6 billion. creating almost 11,000 jobs in 30 days prior to their application will get a free lunch and is estimated said. the environment sector from pest compared to last year, costing up to to create an extra 2000 jobs And Treasury’s forecasts Support for business control to wetland restoration. $3.2 billion show just how tough that task $400m Tourism sector relief Other measures could be, with unemployment The 12-week wage subsidy Training and Education package predicted to more than double, scheme — set to expire in June Targeted sector support totalling ■ An extra $833m to go towards surging to a peak 9.8 percent by — will be extended by another Trades training for critical $41.4m is being spent across three disability support services September of this year. eight weeks for the worst-hit courses — such as building, years in construction, digital and ■ An extra $3 billion has been put “This is the rainy day we have businesses. construction and agriculture — agritech sectors aside to fund infrastructure projects, been preparing for — now we From June 10, firms which will be made free for all ages on top of the $12 billion dollars must weather the global storm,” can prove that their revenue has over the next two years to help Trades training support already announced Robertson said. halved over the previous 30 days retrain people who have lost ■ $1 billion is being invested compared to the year before will their jobs. ■ $1.6 billon Trades and to improve transport, including Housing and Infrastructure be eligible. About $1.6 billion has been Apprenticeships Training Package $667 million for rail infrastructure The payment remains at $585 set aside for the entire Trades ■ $400m in Ministry of Social including tracks and new wagons The Government has per full-time worker and will and Apprenticeships Training Development Employment Support and locomotives and $400 million to committed to rolling out a home be paid to employers in a lump Package which will also help ■ $121m for He Putama replace Interislander ferries building programme to build sum. workplaces retain their trainees. Rangatahi ■ $55.6m of aid spending for 8000 new state houses over the Up to $3.2 billion has been set $276m of the fund will go ■ $19.3m to place 10,000 people Pacific Island nations next four to five years. aside for the extension. towards setting up Workforce in primary sector jobs ■ $1.77 billion boost for Defence Kainga Ora will borrow an A $150m short-term loan Development Councils and Skills ■ $280m for postal services, estimated $5 billion to pay for scheme will also be rolled Leadership Groups to monitor $1.1 billion environmental made up of $130m from the the bulk of the houses and the out to incentivise businesses the job market around the jobs package Budget and $150m from the Covid- Budget sets aside another $570m to continue research and country and plan for recovery. Response and Recovery fund in rent support. development programmes which ■ The package is predicted to ■ $6.3 billion is being invested in The homes will include about might otherwise be shut down. Welfare create almost 11,000 new jobs health 6000 public houses and 2000 NZ Trade and Enterprise is ■ Nearly $1 billion to support transitional homes. set for a $216m boost to increase The Budget is notably absent $900 million to support Maori education services. The Budget also commits the number of exporters it can of “helicopter cash” initiatives or an addition $3 billion to fund support. further significant increases in “shovel-ready” infrastructure The Budget acknowledges welfare payments. A $36m fund has also to cover 90 percent of the costs of projects, on top of the $12 billion Covid-19’s particular toll on the In March, the Government been established to support insulation or heating retrofit for spend-up announced earlier this tourism sector with no end in boosted most benefits by $25 community groups which low-income households. year. sight for the country’s border a week. The 2020 Budget also support Maori, Pacific, refugee The $56m investment is Ministers have already closure. increases the rates of foster-care and migrant communities. expected to cover an extra 9000 received nearly 2000 applications An injection of $400m will allowance and orphan’s benefit Tertiary students will also be houses. for funding and will soon decide fund a domestic tourism by the same amount. able to apply for support from The Government is also which projects to push ahead campaign and support Almost $80m has been a $20m hardship fund to help spending $220m over two years with after receiving advice from businesses to plan their next committed to social services, them get through the next few to grow its current school lunch officials. steps. of which $32m will go towards months. scheme from 8000 students to Investment in rail has also A separate $1.1 billion package foodbanks and other community The “Warmer Kiwi Homes” about 200,000 by the middle of been bumped up $1.2 billion to has been set up with the aim of food services. scheme has also been expanded next year. ‘Tsunami of debt will cripple future generations’: Bridges by Derek Cheng, NZ Herald it back. That’s very serious.” by 2024 would be felt for generations. a wallaby infestation caused by the He said New Zealanders deserved But Bridges was Bridges added that $400 million Government’s ban on semi-automatic WELLINGTON — National Party to have more clarity about the $50 also welcoming the for tourism, which employed 400,000 firearms. leader Simon Bridges is warning that billion Covid-19 recovery fund, the Government’s extension people directly or indirectly, seemed at The message to parents of children the “tsunami” of debt in Budget 2020 centrepiece of Budget 2020. odds with $1.2 billion for rail. getting free lunches in schools was will have to be repaid, either in higher “There’s over $25 billion that the to the wage subsidy “That doesn’t seem to me to be that they did not need to provide their taxes or by future generations. Minister of Finance can’t even say how scheme. getting priorities right.” kids with lunches, he said. But he is also welcoming the he would spend right now.” Act leader David Seymour said in “They’re the children who are going Government’s extension to the wage Grant Robertson said there was his Budget speech in the House there to grow up in a New Zealand with triple subsidy scheme. about $20 billion unallocated so far, what we’ve seen is this big sum they was a lack of detail in the spending, the public debt — $140 billion (by “It’s well-intentioned, but overall it’s and that may end up being targeted may spend on whatever they like in the also citing the $400m for tourism. 2024), borrowed by the Government in a heck of a lot of spending,” he said. towards the most vulnerable. election campaign.” “The press release I would estimate their name in this Budget.” “All of that additional spend National’s finance spokesman Paul Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said is $1m a letter. There is so little detail.” NZ First leader Winston Peters, will result in more debt. That debt Goldsmith said there was nothing work was still being done to see how He called the $1.1 billion meanwhile, used his Budget speech to will result, I think under a Labour specific in Budget 2020 about easing to help ease the commercial rent pain. environment fund the “Barry Crump tell Bridges to “get a haircut and get a Government, in more tax, and if not, commercial rents for businesses, and Goldsmith said some debt was fund” that would see some people real job”. He said the “new normal” in then a legacy for our children and small businesses in particular. understandable in the extraordinary planting pine trees, others pulling a Covid world was about focusing on grandchildren where they have to pay “They haven’t seen that. Instead times, but $140 billion of forecast debt down wilding pines, and others culling New Zealand. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Social welfare Budget biggest spending groups say current benefits package in NZ’s history ‘not sufficient Wage subsidy may be extended a third time to survive on’ WELLINGTON — The Government is being WELLINGTON — The warned that many more families will fall into wage subsidy scheme may poverty if it doesn’t boost support for people be extended a third time as losing their jobs because of Covid-19. the Government strives to Beneficiary advocates and groups working keep unemployment below 10 with the country’s poorest said it was percent following the ravages disappointing yesterday’s Budget did not of the Covid crisis. include further increases to benefits or reform Finance Minister Grant of the welfare system. Robertson said today Treasury is forecasting unemployment to hit Treasury had painted three 10 percent by September, and the number of scenarios for unemployment people on the main unemployment benefit to — including coming down to 8 double. percent by the end of the year Prior to the pandemic, the Government — but “I want to see it even appeared to be tracking towards achieving its lower”. child poverty reduction targets. “We have to make sure But child poverty is now also expected to it stays below 10,” he told rise — with material hardship rates expected to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking. rise sharply. The unemployment rate for Council of Christian Social Services the March quarter was 4.2 executive officer Trevor McGlinchey said more percent — but that was before needed to be done to stop people falling into the full impact of Covid-19. hardship. One of Treasury’s scenarios “Families are suffering now,” he said. has it rising to 9.8 percent, “There will be a wave of people coming before coming back. off those (wage) subsidies and going on to The Government yesterday unemployment benefits and the benefits are unveiled an unprecedented ‘REBUILDING TOGETHER’: Finance Minister Grant Robertson with copies of his Budget 2020 just not sufficient to survive on. $50 billion rescue and recovery on Parliament steps in Wellington. New Zealand Herald picture by Mark Mitchell “There is going to be a very strong response Budget in a bid to save tens of to that, I think, from people who start to thousands of jobs, as Covid-19 experience that level of poverty, often for the continues to wreak havoc on Government debt is forecast partnership with housing But Ardern said Covid- first time.” the world’s economy. to double to $200b and there providers. 19 was the “rainy day” the If the Government does not do more to As part of the Budget, the will be deficits in the tens of However, given Covid-19- Government had been saving support those on the lowest incomes, by wage subsidy scheme has billions of dollars for years to related spending was the for. raising benefits and lifting the minimum wage, been extended for a second come. Government’s priority, some “To say that a rainy day McGlinchey said child poverty “will most time — a further eight weeks And, according to Treasury, previously-announced policies demands of us that we shelter definitely blow out”. to businesses who have lost unemployment is expected were put on ice. and protect New Zealand to The Child Poverty Action Group, the at least 50 percent of their to reach a whisker under 10 For example, the expansion weather the storm,” she said. Salvation Army, Lifewise and Auckland revenue. percent by September. of the fees-free tertiary “Rather than argue about Action Against Poverty have also expressed Asked by Hosking whether But Ardern was at pains to education scheme appears to who gets to hold the umbrella, disappointment in the Budget’s failure to the scheme might be extended point out the Government was have been shelved — when I hope the Opposition steps address benefit levels. a third time, Robertson said: sparing no expense when it asked about the future of the away from business as usual, Back in March, as part of the Government’s “We are going to be flexible. comes to saving as many jobs policy Ardern refused to be and votes for this Budget and initial response to Covid-19, benefits were We will keep making sure it’s as it could. drawn. the jobs it will create.” increased by $25 a week and the winter energy fit for purpose.” She promised Although National did payment was doubled for this year. He said the Government unemployment would fall back Big-ticket items of the budget not move the traditional “no However, the organisations said that did not would be keeping an eye on to 4.2 percent in two years’ include: confidence” vote in the Budget, go far enough and benefits were too low for specific sectors, including time – roughly the level it is Bridges confirmed his party families to cover their essential costs like rent, tourism and hospitality. at now. ■ A $3.2 billion extension of would vote against it. bills and food. “We are now targeting The Budget, as she told the wage subsidy scheme He was also worried about They hoped some of the $20 billion the this to industries that are the House, was “relentlessly the upcoming Government Government has not yet allocated will be used struggling to get out and focused on jobs”. ■ A $1.2 billion railway deficits — averaging $28b a to remedy this. trade.” In fact, she said it would package year over the next two years Liz Davies, general manager of SociaLink in While the tourism sector save almost 140,000 jobs — reaching as high as $30b the Western Bay of Plenty told Morning Report has been critical of the across the country and prevent ■ A $3 billion infrastructure next year. there was significant poverty in the region and Budget, Robertson said details the runaway unemployment investment package The Government is not it was often overlooked because it was thought announced yesterday were which would have otherwise expected to return to surplus of as a prosperous area. only an initial contribution. occurred, as a result of the ■ A $1.6 billion trades and until at least 2028. It was 1700 short on the number of social Government would now be pandemic. training scheme “I’m disappointed because houses it needed and social services had seen working with industry on And at the centre of her I don’t see a plan for jobs and a sharp drop in funding from gaming trusts future support packages and Government’s plan is an ■ A $220 million expansion growth,” he said in the House. and donations, since the Covid-19 crisis began. reimagination of the sector. eight-week extension of the of the school lunches initiative He pointed out that there Mariameno Kapi-Kingi of Te Runanga o Meanwhile, he described wage subsidy scheme, first was a lack of detail in some of Whaingaroa said the numbers in the Budget the relationship with China announced in March. ■ A $400 million targeted the announcements, such as were “bedazzling” but for the 8000 projected as “very robust” following The Government poured an tourism support fund the $400m earmarked for the new state houses it mentions, it was hard to concerns it might retaliate additional $3.2 billion into the tourism sector. know what it would mean for her region, Tai over comments made by scheme yesterday, taking the ■ A $830 million disability “Spending money is the Tokerau. Deputy Prime Minister fund’s total to $14 billion. support package. easy part but Grant Robertson She hoped it meant more housing for the Winston Peters, who wants From June 10, businesses doesn’t even know today how area but those hoping to build on Maori land in Taiwan to be represented which have suffered, or are Finance Minister Grant he would spend it all. Much is Northland still faced “a mire” of regulations to at the World Health expecting to suffer, a 50 Robertson described unallocated and it all needs to make it a reality. Organisation. percent loss of revenue, will yesterday’s Budget as “the be paid back.” While Finance Minister Grant Robertson “The relationship with be eligible for the scheme’s most significant financial The $50 billion is over four had referred to the Covid-19 pandemic as “an China is strong. Export extension. commitment by a New years — $16 billion announced opportunity” to build back better, Kapi-Kingi numbers for China are holding And there are a number of Zealand Government in yesterday and $14b announced said not enough detail had been provided. up much better than other other multi-billion dollar job modern history”. before the Budget. “That’s for us to decide if it’s an opportunity countries,” said Robertson. creation and saving schemes However, National leader The remaining $20 billion is and I did not get that.” Yesterday’s Budget is included in the Budget, as well Simon Bridges was critical of yet to be allocated. Scott Figenshow, CEO of Community the single biggest spending as a massive push for training a number of areas within the The Government has Housing Aotearoa, said the Budget was a great package in New Zealand’s and re-training. Budget, notably the expected signalled that a funding start but would deliver only about half of what history. There was $221m to bolster increase in Government debt. package for arts and sports was needed. Although Prime Minister the free lunches in schools Treasury forecasts show by will be unveiled in the coming Delivering more permanent, affordable Jacinda Ardern is confident programme and an additional 2024, the Government would days and more money for New housing was vital, he said. her “rebuilding Budget” will $1.2 billion for New Zealand’s have borrowed close to $200 Zealand’s media sector will Davies said some good things had come out prevent major economic railways. billion – that’s up from the also be announced soon. But a of the way people worked together during the carnage in New Zealand, And the Government current $90 billion already number of stakeholders have lockdown, and she hoped Budget funds could she admits there is still pain revealed it would borrow $5 owed. That figure was $65 already begun lobbying the be spent strategically to strengthen the social ahead. billion in the next four to billion just two months ago. Government to use that yet- sector and work with their whanau and other “It will be significant and it five years to build 8000 state This is, according to Bridges, to-be-announced $20b to save communities to greatest effect. will be painful.” and transitional houses in a “tsunami of debt”. their sectors. — NZ Herald — Radio New Zealand 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 Cell phone towers Budget funding not good go up in flames amid 5G-related enough: tourism leaders conspiracy threats QUEENSTOWN — Tourism got a $400 million funding by Ben Leahy, NZ Herald boost in Budget 2020, but industry leaders say it is not AUCKLAND — Two more Auckland enough to keep them afloat cell phone towers have gone up and does not provide a clear in flames overnight in suspicious plan. circumstances. The Tourism Recovery There has been a series of arson package includes funding for attacks on phone towers in recent a domestic tourism campaign, weeks, including a fire at a Spark a programme to advise tower in Mangere on Tuesday. businesses on their futures, The latest fires took place in and funding to identify and Otahuhu and Favona overnight, acting protect strategic tourism Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers attractions. said. The wage subsidy has “At around 2.38am, a police been extended for eight more unit spotted smoke on Todd Place, weeks, and a task force is Otahuhu, and on further inspection being established to come up the cell tower has been located on fire. with ideas for future tourism “Police were also called to another in New Zealand. incident on Savill Drive, Favona, at However, tourism industry around 3.44am.” leaders are asking if the He said police were investigating initiatives are enough to make the fires. up for the country’s border “Scene examinations have been being closed indefinitely. conducted at both sites and we are Tourist hotspot Queenstown treating these as suspicious.” has been reeling from TOURISM ONCE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO NZ ECONOMY: Above, tourists cycle the Alps One of the wildest conspiracy thousands of job losses, 2 Ocean cycle trail in Canterbury in 2016. Tourism New Zealand promotional file picture theories to emerge on social with more than 5500 people media recently has been that the requesting welfare in the area “I think at best they’re industry is feeling a complete something like Kaikoura introduction of 5G wireless technology since late March. claiming $1.6 billion in and utter lack of support.” whale watch. It brings tourists had caused the Covid-19 outbreak. “I’m devastated, contribution to the economy. However, Tourism Minister to Kaikoura and if it wasn’t Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was absolutely devastated, and “Tourism — $17 billion Kelvin Davis told Checkpoint there, then it would have a asked about it in early April and said underwhelmed,” Pan Pacific contribution to the economy — the Government had moved huge impact, flow-on effect to it was totally false. Travel managing director Matt gets $400 million. quickly to provide economic the rest of the area and we’d “I almost hesitate to even speak to Brady told Checkpoint. “And most of that will be relief, which the tourism have more job losses.” it on this platform. It is just not true,” “We were very clear on what spent on a task force telling sector has been eligible for. Active Adventures chief she said. we needed. The borders have the sector how they actually “We listened to what they executive Wendy van The Director-General of Health been closed to international pivot themselves to get into had to say. Their number one Lieshout said the $400m Dr Ashley Bloomfield also raised visitors for potentially a very, domestic or trans-Tasman. concern was the extension tourism package was “a little eyebrows at the suggestion. very long time. We needed That’s like telling the kiwifruit of the wage subsidy scheme. bit lacking for those of us Anti-5G protesters have been linked certainty, and we were saying industry to start pivoting into We’ve listened to that, we’ve who already have pivoted to at least two cell-tower attacks if you extend the wage subsidy growing broccoli. There’s no extended the wage subsidy and made a change in our recently. to cover the core staff for comparison.” scheme for eight more weeks. businesses.” This included the destruction of a the duration of the closure, “We have to be honest that Her customers have been new 4G cell tower in the Far North we would have probably we can’t tie workers to jobs 100 percent international, so last month, just before it was due to applauded that. We’ve Tourism industry that will not be there in the the business is very quickly be switched on, and an arson attack been given an eight-week leaders are asking if the future . . . We won’t have the moving to attract New on a cell site in Manurewa — whose extension.” initiatives are enough. same tourism industry that Zealanders and Australians, protagonists posted a video of their Budget Day has come too we had previously, but we will if the trans-Tasman border efforts on Facebook. late for many tourism and have the bones of it, and we opens. Telecommunications companies were accommodation providers, who will come out stronger on the Her business has been said to be privately fuming about the without certainty about what other side.” running for 23 years. repeated threats made against towers. help was coming have made For most of the inbound He said it is “way too soon” “We have been profitable Geoff Thorn, head of the staff redundant, he said. travel industry, the domestic to be making predictions about and we do have reserves, Telecommunications Forum, which He would like to have seen tourism campaign will not when international borders that’s why we’ve been able to represents the major telcos, told the the wage subsidy covering mean anything, Brady said. will reopen. retain our staff to date. NZ Herald in early April: “We know tourism staff for the length of “We have no confidence The $400m fund included “Our job is to bring people that damage to mobile networks in New Zealand’s border closure. in the current Minister of a plan to protect “strategic to New Zealand, to enjoy other countries has been linked to “We’re being told we’ve Tourism. We’ve got a Prime tourism assets”. Davis said the entire country. We have groups opposed to 5G.” got this wonderful $400 Minister who is covered by they were businesses that brought hundreds of millions After Tuesday’s attack on a tower in million package. I note with the global press, we’re going have positive spinoff effects to of export dollars — income, Mangere, a Spark spokeswoman said interest recently racing, who into recovery mode. Here’s a community or region. taxpayer money — into New the telecommunication company was somehow managed to be given a brilliant opportunity for “If we don’t support those Zealand over the last 23 years. in close contact with police. a bit of a lifeline before the our PM to step up, take over strategic tourism assets “If people like us don’t exist, “We think that acts of vandalism announcement of the Budget, the role and lead from the then what they’ll have is an who is going to bring those against critical infrastructure like have been given $72 million. front, because right now the effect to other regions. Take people (to NZ)?” — RNZ cell towers is outrageous, particularly during a pandemic — a time when connectivity is more important than ever,” she said. Royal reconnects with victims of Chch mosque attacks “Spark has been working with police about threats made to some of our by Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald conversation, the group He finished the call Ardern said yesterday that the cell sites, as well as some instances of spoke about grief and by reflecting on the 2019 Christchurch Call, an initiative set arson. CHRISTCHURCH — Prince William healing, as well as the attacks and saying: “I’m up after the attacks that brought “Generally, damage has been fairly has dialled in Down Under to check continuing effects that really proud of all of you, governments and tech companies negligible, but this is the second event on Christchurch’s Muslim community March 15 has had on the whole community together in Paris with a single goal which has caused an outage in the a year after the mosque shootings, their community. They and the New Zealand to eliminate terrorist and violent surrounding area.” which claimed 51 lives. also talked to the Duke Government for how extremist content online, has made In the UK, there have been about The Duke of Cambridge used about Covid-19 and you have all dealt with significant progress. 80 incidents of cell-tower arson or Zoom to speak to the imams of how they have adapted such an atrocity. You are On its first anniversary of the vandalism since the start of the Masjid Al Noor and Linwood Islamic to continue supporting a role model for how Christchurch Call to Action, Ardern outbreak. Centre, along with prominent Muslim their community something so tragic and French President Emmanuel Vodafone UK chief executive Nick Association of Canterbury members during New Zealand’s The Duke can be negotiated with Macron as the founding leaders Jeffery described attacks on 5G towers and local MP Dr Megan Woods, last lockdown. of Cambridge, the utmost grace and reaffirmed their commitment to the as a “matter of national security”, night. Currently Muslim Prince William dignity.” move and commended supporters’ and said police and counter-terrorism Gamal Fouda, imam of Masjid Al communities around Zoom image via The man behind the efforts so far. “If an attack like we authorities were investigating the Noor, told the NZ Herald that he had the world are observing Kensington Palace March 15, 2019, terror saw on March 15 last year happened attacks, which Mr Jeffery labelled the been expecting the call all week. Ramadan, which this attack pleaded guilty again, we have an international work of “deluded conspiracy theorists”. The Duke said he was year began on April 23 on the first day of New network of governments and tech Police said their inquiries in last reconnecting with the people he met and will end on May 23. Zealand’s nationwide Alert Level 4 companies ready to mobilise and night’s attacks in South Auckland during his visit to Christchurch in the Prince William spoke with the lockdown and is in custody awaiting work against the forces that boosted were ongoing and they were treating weeks after the terror attack. community after iftar — the evening to be sentenced. the viral spread of content from the matters seriously. During the 40-minute meal that breaks the fast. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Jacinda Christchurch . . . ” The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 BUSINESS 9 BUDGET but What’s 2020 ‘Rolling maul on steroids’ up ... Robertson’s $50b plan sets Labour up for election Spending COMMENT by Fran O’Sullivan, on the so-called “shovel-ready” Up by about $50b, NZ Herald infrastructure projects which including measures will get a nudge. already announced andthosetocome. GRANT Robertson’s Budget Economic pessimists will Includes $3.2b to Borrowing is a “rolling maul on steroids” Finance Minister point to the explosion in extendwagesubsidy scheme, $1.6bfor Govt debt rising from which does a superb job in Grant Robertson red ink. Net Crown debt is $58b in 2019tosome arresting the extent of the in the House projected to explode to $200.8b trades andtraining, $400msupportfund $200bby 2024. Covid-19 economic carnage to delivering Budget (53.6 percent of GDP by June fortourism,$150m Forecast 2020-21 date, and (at the same time) 2020. 30, 2024). But the debt is forR&D support, and bond programmeis niftily sets up Labour for the NZ Herald picture sustainable at today’s interest funding for 8000 nowset at $60b vs newstate-owned $10b expected in September 19 election. rates and well below that of homes. December.Inthe Robertson unashamedly many economies in percentage following year,bond borrowed the rugby analogy terms. programmehas been lited to $40b,then from Sir Bill English who The Treasury economic $35b in June 2023 described initiatives in his 10 for eight weeks for firms temporary visas who headed forecasts seem somewhat year and$30b to 2009 post-GFC Budget as whose revenue has fallen by 50 home and tourism is not heroic with unemployment Infrastructure June 2024. a “rolling maul”. It was percent in a preceding month. expected to resurge to previous to peak at 9.8 percent by &transport deliberate. This will give comfort to heights even with the return of September and be back to Initial$3b contingency The rugby-mad Robertson sectors like retail which are domestic flights. current levels of 4.2 percent packagefor infrastruc- Redink ture, with speciic knew the concept would be expecting revenue to remain The major packages to create in 2022. The Government projects yettobe Deicitballoons to immediately obvious to New down by around at least jobs in the environmental has to face the risk a vaccine decided, on topof$12b $9.6b this year and Zealand’s sporting public. 30 percent even as New and farming sectors are a will not be found to end the allocated in January. $10bnext year. Robertson holds the dual Zealanders return to their worthwhile investment and pandemic, as a World Health And $1.2bforrail, Forecast to track about athirdofitfor back towards portfolios of finance and sport workplace under Level 2. will mop up some excess Organisation official cautioned inter-islandferries. surplus by 2028. so you can expect much more If revenues slump to 50 unemployment provided people yesterday. If so, the $55 million in this vein from him and percent, the extension will give migrate to where the new jobs this Budget votes for contact likewise with Jacinda Ardern firms time to decide whether are. tracing may well be a line item Taxrevenue and her “team of five million” they do have a business left if There is an element of pure for years to come. Core Crownrevenue sloganeering over the Covid-19 consumer confidence fails to tribalism to the Budget as you This Budget marks the expected to fall from Growth 30.8%ofGDP in health threat. return within the eight-week would expect from a Labour 40th I have covered. Sir Roger Last year’sBudget 2018-19 to 28.8% Robertson ruled out company period and people keep their minister. But Robertson will Douglas’ radical budgets in the by 2021-22. forecast 3% GDP tax cuts to incentivise business wallets closed. It is a stop-gap be cautious about paying out mid-80s changed the economic growth for2020. (and confirmed any other solution at best. too much more of the residual landscape; Ruth Richardson’s This year’sexpects Jobs theeconomyto taxation response would be up Robertson has leveraged $20.2b left from the Covid harsh “mother of all budgets” shrink by 4.6% in to the elected parties after the the crisis to migrate to a new Fund ahead of the September cut spending to arrest a fiscal Unemployment 2020,andtokeep election). Instead, the focus is “Future of Work” paradigm. 19 election lest he is open crisis and Sir Michael Cullen forecast to peak at shrinking until 9.8%.By2022, June 2022, though on direct business assistance. Intriguingly, the dynamic shifts to charges of being a fiscal and Sir Bill English faced huge Treasury forecasts, growth is forecast to The centrepiece of have not sprung from the spendthrift. But he does expect challenges dealing with the thatwill fall to 4.2%. soar from then. Robertson’s third Budget is impact of AI and robotics on it to be spent over a four-year GFC and earthquakes. the $50 billion Covid Response industries — as he predicted period. Robertson’s third Budget is and Recovery Fund which in his own seminal commission Sports and arts (and media) unprecedented in its size. But was formalised by Cabinet on — but from the impact of a are sectors which can expect for the rolling maul to survive April 6. Much is already spent, pandemic on immigration and assistance in weeks ahead in political terms, the players starting with the $12.1b initial tourism. and even ‘helicopter cash’ must pass the ball nicely. That ...& wage subsidy scheme which The farming sector has payments for people in need. is the challenge as the election will be extended from June lost thousands of workers on down There will also be more detail nears. Herald graphic Focus on jobs welcomed, but unions look for moreon

WELLINGTON — Business groups to help keep 1.7 million Kiwis in jobs said businesses would welcome the additional support. — particularly to high growth firms; have welcomed the Government’s through the lockdown and subsequent extension of the wage subsidy. He said the wage subsidy extension free trades training; increased focus on supporting jobs but union restrictions. “It will be quite some time for would most help tourism, bricks and health spending; the investment in representatives say it could have gone From June 10, businesses that have, businesses to return to normal and mortar retail and hospitality businesses environment jobs as well as increased further. or expect to, suffer a 50 percent hit to we need to recognise that. Just although tourism could need a further focus on research and development is The Budget includes $3.2 billion for revenue will be eligible for an extension because businesses can open, does extension. great, it would have been good to have an eight-week extension of the wage to the subsidy, which will be open to not mean they will be at full capacity Of the $50 billion spending package seen greater emphasis on a general subsidy scheme, as well as $1.6 billion applications for a 12-week period and for quite some time to come, based on $20b remained unallocated. pathway to higher value, higher wage for trades and training. paid as an eight-week lump sum at the demand, social-distancing and general “Bernacchi said the worst of the employment for the economy as a Kirk Hope, chief executive of same rates as the existing scheme. behaviours of consumers.” economic shock was still to come and whole.” Business New Zealand, said extending Kirk said expanding the subsidy Watson said only time would tell it was prudent for the Government to “This Budget has delivered a the wage scheme was appropriate. to include research and development if the eight-week extension would be hold the $20b in reserve for now given massive boost and is good for working “Supporting the wages of employees start-ups and pre-revenue R&D start enough to keep them going. She said the uncertainty and the potential for a people, but given the scale of the has been a successful strategy in ups that are recognised by Callaghan the 50 percent revenue drop criteria second wave of the virus. challenge we face, it could have the Government’s Covid response so Innovation was a smart way of was “about right”. But Andrea Black, an economist at gone even further. We look forward far, and it is good to see this strategy boosting new and innovative firms that Bruce Bernacchi, KPMG head the Council of Trade Unions, said while to the Government’s future plans and continue.” would aid New Zealand’s growth in the of financial services, said the the Government was heading down direction for the rest of the Covid The Government’s existing 12-week medium term. announcements gave a very strong the right path it needed to go further, Response and Recovery Fund so that wage subsidy ends next month, Leeann Watson, chief executive of signal to business that the Government faster. the quality of life can be improved for having already paid out $10.7 billion the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce was there to protect jobs and provide “While the targeted wage subsidy all working Kiwis.” — NZ Herald

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY 0.3 percent higher to $6.23 and Genesis Energy Fletcher Building posted the day’s biggest rose 0.2 percent to $2.82. Sky Network Television gain, rising 5.9 percent to $3.39. Trethewey said continued to slip backwards after a rally earlier Fletcher was experiencing a recovery rally after WELLINGTON — New Zealand shares fell as a “The recovery rally we saw in April has in the week, falling 2.8 percent to 35 cents. being sold off yesterday when it was dropped warning of slow economic recovery from the US moderated with people like Jerome Powell out Synlait Milk declined 2.8 percent to $7.02, but from the New Zealand MCSI index. Federal Reserve prompted a global retreat from there warning of the risks to the future,” Milford on a light volume of just 27,000 shares. The MCSI index tracks the eight largest equity markets. Asset Management portfolio manager, Sam Z Energy dropped 1.3 percent to $3.00 drifting stocks, but was cut down to seven yesterday, The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell 0.4 percent to Trethewey, said. closer to its capital raising offer price of $2.90. causing many investors to reallocate their 10,745.16. Within the index, 27 stocks fell, 18 The New Zealand government yesterday The company plans to raise up to a further $60 holdings. rose and were five unchanged. Turnover was revealed a budget with a $50 billion Covid-19 million through a share purchase plan at $2.90 Pushpay rose 4.6 percent to $6.85, taking its $148 million. recovery fund to soften, but not prevent, the or less. gain since the start of the year to 71 percent. Overnight, investors heeded US Fed chair coming recession. Trethewey said the capital raise would have The outbreak accelerated a shift towards Jerome Powell’s warning of an “extended Trethewey said spending announced in the soaked up many of the available buyers and digital giving in cash orientated US society, by period” of weak economic growth, triggering budget takes some time to be implemented and would tend to put downward pressure on a church-goers who found online giving to be the a correction in markets pricing in a swifter flow through to companies listed on the NZX, share price. only way to donate money with stay-at-home recovery. so rarely has a bearing on daily share price Tourism Holdings fell 1.9 percent to $1.59 orders in place. Wall Street tumbled following the webcast movements. with investors finding no encouragement in the Freightways has increased its banking speech, the S&P 500 down 1.8 percent and the Instead, with offshore ownership making up $400 million earmarked to support the tourism facilities by $50 million to ensure the firm can Dow Jones Industrial Average down 2.2 percent. half of the free-floating market, global sentiment industry in the budget. cope with the weaker economy. Groupwide, total Asian markets followed the negative lead, was driving price action today, Trethewey said. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group revenue dropped by an average of 32 percent in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropping 1.1 percent, Mercury NZ led the market lower, falling declined 1.1 percent to $16.40 and Westpac April but had improved during that time both in Shanghai’s Composite falling 0.5 percent and 4.5 percent to $4.70. Meridian Energy fell 2.7 Banking Corp slipped 1.5 percent to $16.14, terms of volume and type of activity. Its rose 3.6 Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declining 1.1 percent. percent to $4.71, while Contact Energy edged although both on light volumes. percent to $6.89. — BusinessDesk 10 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 EDITORIAL On Trump news, virus ‘hoax’ and Fox News Re: Time Gwynne Dyer quit? May 7 coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. Hi again Tim, Covid costs to run letter and responses. They’re politicising it . . . . They tried the Perhaps 90 percent of the press coverage of Lara, are you so keen to join the hate- impeachment hoax . . . . And this is their new Trump is negative because 90 percent of what he on for years . . . fest that you willingly swallow any lie? In hoax. But you know, we did something that’s says and does is nonsensical. fact, like the heads of a hydra, you even been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people (cases of In my opinion, and I am entitled to it, he is Finance Minister Grant Robertson mass produce the BS more and more. You coronavirus infection) in this massive country. unreliable, untruthful, faithless, feckless and yesterday delivered a one-in-100- are a good little storm trooper aren’t you. And because of the fact that we went early, we seemingly pretty stupid. year “Rebuilding Together” Budget Yes, I am partly outraged at went early, we could have had a lot more than He can’t string a sentence, promotes with a $50 billion Covid-19 response mainstream media turning into bald- that.” conspiracy theories and seems to tweet rubbish and recovery fund as its centrepiece faced liars and propagandists, but also In fact, there were a lot more than 15 cases when he should be working. — focused on economic recovery bored with the laziness and obviousness in the US by that day. CDC’s National Centre for Every time he opens his mouth to speak, I and investing in jobs — that keeps of their non-stop prattle. Clue: over 90 Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases director am shocked at how silly he sounds. This is the $20.2bn in reserve, to be allocated percent of the press coverage of Trump Nancy Messonnier confirmed 62 confirmed cases chosen leader of America and his election speaks is negative — doesn’t that one fact make of novel coronavirus in the US by February 28. to the stupidity of those who voted him in. Did as the needs from coronavirus you stop and think? It bloody well should That number was made up of 44 people who you know that most voters choose someone who fallout become clearer. do. Come on Lara, wake that brain of were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, is only slightly more intelligent than themselves? This vast vault of dry powder yours up! Please provide at least one link three people repatriated from China — and 15 US That tells me a lot about his “base”. is the most controversial Budget to your claim of Mr T “virus is a hoax” cases. He has surrounded himself with people item, potentially leaving wide scope claim to help your case. MARK PETERS seemingly as shady as he is. for the Government to burnish its TIM STEWART He lacks empathy, even despite the shockingly credentials heading into an election It sounds like you watch Fox News Tim. awful tidal wave of illness and death sweeping in September. Robertson will have As narcissistic and bombastic as Trump is, The thing I like about Gwynne Dyer’s over America. to be cautious on the optics of new he did not say coronavirus was a hoax, even as articles is he cuts through the fake The sideshow of General Flynn and who did much as we’d like to believe it. news and conspiracy theories we get what to whom, the politics of distraction, is not Covid-related spending this year, What he said at the February 28 campaign bombarded with and writes a logical and appropriate at this time. and has said he expects the extra rally in South Carolina, and expressed as badly evidence-backed article. If Trump is the saint some people consider $20bn to be spent over four years. as ever, was the Democrats were politicising I also notice he doesn’t let politics him to be, let’s see him get on with the job of Covid relief initiatives announced coronavirus. The hoax comment was off the back dictate his opinion, but exposes leadership, not blowing up Twitter with childish in the Budget include extending of the impeachment trial in which Trump had incompetents whoever they are. insults. the wage subsidy for businesses called the charges a hoax. Fox News attacks the Democrats, CNN You can like him all you want, I see a very suffering a more-than 50 percent Here is what he said at that press briefing. The attacks the Republicans — Gwynne foolish, old, racist misogynist. I haven’t seen him decline in revenue, investing more full quote can be found on YouTube footage and Dyer steps back and says “look at these do or say anything to change my mind yet. Still in infrastructure and offering free online fact-checker Snopes. morons!” waiting . . . trades training, for additional “Now the Democrats are politicising the ANDREW DAVIS, Hamilton LARA MEYER spending of $15.9bn on top of the $26bn of Covid support already LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS announced; total funding for Covid relief now comes to $62.1bn. Truck flyover instead Just how much more we are Whanau at Re: Bridge cost could double, take logging trucks to the log spending as a nation than we earn Very kind May 14 story. yard off SH35 and decongest is outlined in Treasury forecasts of Many thanks to the kind Rather than build 1000-year the petrol station corner. This a $28.3bn deficit this financial year, urupa, marae person who left a lovely old walkway to ?, the community is a matter of community photo of our house by the would be better served by a safety. $29.6bn in 2020/21 and $27.2bn in flyover from Hirini Street to DAREN COULSTON 2021/22, before falling to $16.5bn was closed front door during Level 4. then a $4.9bn deficit in 2023/24. The writing on the back says Re: Stick to the rules police it was taken in 1906, and it’s Net core Crown debt is forecast tell gathering at tangi on amazing how little the house to rise from $58bn to $201bn by Coast, April 18 story. has changed in 114 years. I Gentleman and a leader mid-2024, or 53.6 percent of GDP, False news! can’t help but wonder if it Re: More tributes for Henry A very good friend who looked and only get back to 42 percent of There was no tangi at the was taken by well-known Maxwell, May 13 story. after me at school. Thanks my GDP by 2034. With both National marae! The marae was closed photographic identity of the Taku hoa kura haere atu ra. mate for all the good times and Labour governments having and remains closed. time, William Crawford. Henry was a gentleman, had and for being a mate. prudently kept Crown debt in a The whanau were at the Let us know if you would the shiniest shoes, was always E kore e mitimiti a tatau 5-25 percent range since the late urupa (cemetery) only, burying like it back . . . otherwise it neat in his appearance and a aroha mohou me te aroha nui their loved one. will be framed. Thank you great leader at GBHS. Yes, a ki a Christine me to whanau. 1990s, these figures show just The police arrived after how significant the Covid crisis and again. great all-rounder in all that he observing the family (yes, B. & J. WHEELER did – and he led by example. MENG FOON response is — easily eclipsing the several vehicles) taking the costs of responding to the Global tupapaku from the family Financial Crisis and the Christchurch home to the urupa. and Kaikoura earthquakes. WHANAU Tough not being able to entertain friends On the jobs impact and recovery For the past seven years I have feel that surely I will in no way be a new songs and now have a front, Treasury sees unemployment had the pleasure and privilege of danger. I live alone sharing my home repertoire of over 900 (roll on 1000), peaking at 9.8 percent in September entertaining at all our rest homes with my cat, and I miss visitations and it’s such a shame that I cannot then falling back to current levels of Yes, reinvest plus a variety of other organisations more than most will understand. share some of the ballads, lyrics about 4.2 percent by 2022. Re: Diversified, May 14 such as the Blind Foundation, This is probably the only and serenades with the people I Obviously there are big unknowns response. Senior Citizens, the Sherwood Club thing that I can give back to my love. in all this, and that is why the Dave, that’s what I and other facilities. I have also community. I cannot wait for each While I appreciate that the unorthodox decision to set aside am saying — use these busked to raise money for groups engagement to come around and I rest homes are a most risky $20bn of uncommitted funding investment returns to fix up and organisations. This is not a task, have no less than 12-14 bookings environment, I think the current these stuff-ups. Don’t pile it it is an absolute pleasure. each month. The fact that I cannot performances of our local makes sense. Robertson has also back on to the rates. It is now seven weeks since I presently visit my many beloved institutions is a credit to all staff said taxation responses to our new Like you say, if they make have been able to entertain my friends is, honestly, driving me to and management. I am also in that deficit reality will be up to elected sound investments that earn friends and I wonder when the distraction. My greatest concern is “elderly” category but would do parties after September. good returns, that can help limitations thrust upon me by that when I go back, some of my anything to continue on my venture. The Budget included an “initial fund priorities here. Covid-19 will end. friends will no longer be around. I miss my friends so much. allocation” of $3bn for the “shovel- When I entertain, I sit no closer I have spent the past six weeks ready” infrastructure projects put REX HOLDSWORTH than 15 feet from my audiences and of lockdown learning some amazing MIKE MULROONEY forward around the country (2000 of them), with announcements in [email protected]

“coming weeks and months” set ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. to deliver the biggest Budget bang ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. — or fizzle — for this region and in ■ Always include full name and contact details. particular our council. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 11 Playing it safe at Alert Level 2

We are now at Alert Level 2. This lifts many restrictions, but means we all now have more responsibility too. It’s up to all of us to ‘play it safe’ so we can stop the virus from spreading again.

Keep track of where you go Allow extra time Health services use contact tracing to reach Allowing extra time for your journeys is people quickly when there is a risk they have very important. been exposed to a case of COVID-19. This helps More people will be travelling again, and more stop any further spread. cars will be on the road. Public transport has reduced capacity To help them do this efectively you should keep track of the three as people try to keep their distance, so stay calm and be kind. Ws: Where you went, When you went there, and Who you met. If you can, try to take public transport at of-peak times, and make Socialise small a note of the service you were on and where you were sitting. You can now socialise with up to 10 friends and As we all work together to ‘make the space’ around us, there may whānau. All groups should be 10 people or less, be queues at places where you didn’t need to queue before – whether you’re catching up at home, or out including public places like libraries. Remember to remain patient. and about. Plan ahead as much as possible and allow extra time if you can. Make the space Thanks for playing it safe New Zealand Keep a 2-metre distance from anyone you don’t know in public or in retail stores including Now is the time to inish the job we’ve started. If we all play our part, supermarkets. Keeping people separated in we’ll lower our chances of spreading the virus again. this way helps stop any new transmission.

You should also keep a 1-metre distance from other groups when you’re in an environment where further controls are in place – such as work, or a café or cinema. Further controls might include contact recording, limits to the numbers of people allowed on the premises, and other public health measures.

Find out more at Covid19.govt.nz 12 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 Senate intelligence chief steps down amid FBI probe

WASHINGTON — Republican Senator The Justice to make the financial decisions. Richard Burr temporarily stepped aside Department Burr was not the only lawmaker as chairman of the Senate Intelligence declined to whose stock sales around the same time Committee on Thursday after the comment. made headlines. FBI served a search warrant for his Burr’s Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, cellphone as part of an investigation attorney did a new senator from Georgia up for into a well-timed sale of stocks tied to not respond re-election this year, sold hundreds of the coronavirus pandemic. to phone thousands of dollars worth of stock in Senate Majority Leader Mitch and email late January and February, as senators McConnell announced the move, saying messages began to get briefings on the virus, Fishermen found after he and Burr had agreed that it was in but said in according to records. She subsequently the committee’s best interests. As he a statement said that she would liquidate her ducked into a Senate Republican lunch, last month Richard Burr stock portfolio and move the money to 42-day ocean drift Burr told reporters at the Capitol that he that the law is investment funds after coming under thought it was “the right thing to do”. clear that any scrutiny for the transactions. MICRONESIA — Two of three Marshall Islands “This is a distraction to the hard work senator can participate in stock market Senators did receive a closed-door fishermen lost at sea since April 2 washed into a tiny of the committee and the members, and trading based on public information “as briefing on the virus on January 24, atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, weak but I think that the security of the country Senator Burr did”. The attorney, Alice which was public knowledge. A separate alive after a 42-day drift on the open ocean. is too important to have a distraction,” Fisher, had said that Burr welcomed briefing was held February 12 by the The small outboard engine boat washed up at Burr said. a review of the stock sales, “which Senate Health, Education, Labor and Namoluk, the smallest atoll in Micronesia, on Thursday Burr, from North Carolina, said he will establish that his actions were Pensions Committee, of which Burr is a morning. would serve out the remainder of his appropriate”. member. It’s unclear if he attended either Details about their health and their 1600km drift term, which ends in 2023. He is not Burr has denied wrongdoing but has session. were not immediately available from the isolated atoll. running for re-election. also requested an ethics review of the He was first elected to the Senate in “They were skinny and weak as you would expect FBI officials showed up at Burr’s stock sales. His decision on Thursday 2004 and chaired the Senate Intelligence after 40 days at sea,” said Marshall Islands Health home with the warrant on Wednesday, appeared to surprise some members of Committee as the panel conducted its Secretary Jack Niedenthal, after he was advised by a two people familiar with the the committee, where Burr has been a own investigation into Russian election FSM government public health official that the two investigation said, marking a significant popular chairman and has often worked interference in the 2016 presidential men had been found. escalation into the Justice Department’s on a bipartisan basis. election. The committee recently issued Three men left Ebeye Island on a fishing trip on investigation into whether Burr exploited “Oh, wow,” said Senator Susan a report supporting the intelligence April 2, developed engine trouble and drifted out of advance information when he unloaded Collins, R-Maine, upon learning that community’s conclusion that Russia had Kwajalein’s lagoon during a period of high winds and as much as $1.7 million in stocks in the Burr had temporarily stepped aside. “I interfered on Trump’s behalf. rough seas. days before the coronavirus caused don’t know what to say. I truly didn’t It is unclear who will take Burr’s A search by the US Army, Coast Guard and Marshall markets to plummet. The people spoke know about it. He’s been an excellent place. The next several Republican Islands Sea Patrol came up empty. on condition of anonymity because chairman of the committee.” members in seniority are already The two are Godfrey Capelle and Thomas Benjamin, they were not authorised to discuss an Texas Senator John Cornyn, another chairmen of other committees, although according to a preliminary report received from Chuuk. ongoing investigation. Republican on the intelligence panel, they could choose to switch. The third man who went with Capelle and Benjamin The search warrant was served on a said he respects Burr’s decision, adding Next in seniority is Idaho Senator was Junior Joram, 32, reported the Marshall Islands lawyer for Burr, and FBI agents went to that “he’s entitled to a presumption of James Risch, who told reporters on Journal when the men were initially lost at sea in the senator’s home in the Washington innocence just like anybody else”. Thursday that he didn’t know if he would early April. area to retrieve the cellphone, a senior Senate records show that Burr and keep his current perch as chairman of They were in a 6-metre outboard engine boat with a Justice Department official said. The his wife sold between roughly $600,000 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee single 40hp engine. decision to obtain the warrant, which and $1.7 million in more than 30 or move to the intelligence panel. No details were available about what happened must be authorised by a judge, was transactions in late January and mid- Following him is Florida Senator to Joram except that he was not with Capelle and approved at the highest levels of the February, just before the market began Marco Rubio, who heads the Senate Benjamin when Namoluk islanders found them on department, the official said. to nosedive and government health Small Business Committee. He said Thursday morning. Trump, speaking to reporters at officials began to sound alarms about that he wasn’t aware that Burr was A request from the island reportedly went to the the White House before travelling to the virus. Several of the stocks were in stepping aside and that the decision FSM national sea patrol vessel to pick up the men and Pennsylvania on Thursday, said he companies that own hotels. on who takes over the panel was up to bring them to Weno, the capital of Chuuk, for medical was unaware that Burr was leaving his Burr has acknowledged selling the McConnell. attention and onward repatriation to the Marshall intelligence post. stocks because of the coronavirus but Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Islands. — RNZ “I know nothing about it — never said he relied “solely on public news Aging Committee, is third in line. discussed it with anybody,” Trump said. reports”, specifically CNBC’s daily The Los Angeles Times first reported “That’s too bad.” health and science reporting out of Asia, the search warrant. — AP ‘Darkest winter’ if virus rebounds Former health official says US is ‘unprepared’ for second wave

WASHINGTON — Despite White Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., asked if he House claims, the US still lacks a should be concerned that Americans will comprehensive battle plan against the have problems getting access to a vaccine coronavirus in critical areas including when it’s available, Bright responded, masks, testing, treatments and vaccines, “Absolutely, Sir.” whistleblower Rick Bright warned on Bright, a career official, alleges he Thursday in testimony before a House was removed as head of the Biomedical committee. “Our window of opportunity is Advanced Research and Development closing,” he declared. Authority after repeatedly warning The nation could face “the darkest higher-ups the virus outbreak was going winter in modern history” if the virus to be worse than the public was being led rebounds, the Government vaccine to believe. scientist told lawmakers. Bright’s He said the breaking point came appearance came after his ouster last when he opposed a White House month as head of a Health and Human directive to allow widespread access Services biodefence agency, an action to hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug he alleges was retaliation by the Trump that Trump was touting as an effective administration. treatment. “We still need a comprehensive plan, The FDA has recently warned against and everyone across the Government and ‘WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IS CLOSING’: Rick Bright has testified to Congress its use for Covid-19, except in limited everyone in America needs to know what that the threat of a coronavirus rebound is real, and without a plan, the US will circumstances. But at the White House that plan is, and what role they play,” he struggle. AP picture on Thursday, the president was still told the House Energy and Commerce bullish. “We’ve had tremendous response Committee. “There are critical steps At the White House, President Donald export to the world, including medicines”. to the hydroxy,” Trump said. “So, a lot of that we need to do to prepare . . . we Trump said Bright looked like an “angry, Bright spoke in measured tones and people have sworn by it, and we’ll see.” do not have enough personal protective disgruntled employee”, and Bright’s rarely raised his voice during five hours Nearly 85,000 people have died from equipment to manage our healthcare boss, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, said, of questioning. Covid-19 in the US, representing more workers . . . we still do not have the “Everything he is complaining about was Asked by Representative Joe Kennedy, than one-fourth of global deaths and the supply chains ramped up for the drugs achieved.” D-Mass., if administration officials have world’s highest toll, according to figures and vaccines, and we still don’t have Trump said that the US is ramping up prepared the country for the “moment compiled by Johns Hopkins University. plans in place for how we distribute those production of Covid-related items and we are in” and the months ahead, Bright Worldwide more than 4.4 million have drugs and vaccines. We still do not have a that “my goal is to produce everything responded: “I think we have a lot of work been infected and about 300,000 have comprehensive testing strategy.” America needs for ourselves and then to do to be prepared.” died. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 WORLD 13 One in four US France resists idea of workers claiming jobless benefits US getting vaccine first WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits jumped by PARIS — French pharmaceutical almost 3 million last week as virus shutdowns group Sanofi promised on Thursday continue to weigh on the US economy. that it would make its Covid-19 The filings brought the total number of new vaccine, when ready, available in all jobless claims since the middle of March to more countries, hours after the company’s than 36 million. CEO said the United States will get That amounts to nearly a quarter of the first access. American workforce. Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson’s comments The weekly figures have been falling since that a vaccine would go first to the US the end of March but remain massive by historic prompted an angry reaction from the standards, eclipsing the prior record of 700,000. French government. “Today’s unemployment claims continue “Equal access for all to the vaccine is their epic ascent on a cumulative weekly basis; not negotiable,” French Prime Minister not since the Great Depression has the US job Edouard Philippe said in a tweet. market been in such a sorry state,” said French President Emmanuel Macron Richard Flynn, UK managing director at Charles was described by his office as also being Schwab. “upset” by Hudson’s comments. The head of America’s central bank warned Macron is pushing for vaccines to this week that the economic recovery is likely to be considered a “common good” for be slower than initially hoped. humanity that must not be subject to In April, employers cut more than 20 million market pressures. jobs, sending the unemployment rate to 14.7 Philippe said he spoke to Serge percent and erasing nearly a decade of job Weinberg, chairman of the Sanofi gains. board, about the vaccine and received BACKTRACK: French pharmaceutical group Sanofi assured that it will make While the losses have fallen hardest on “all the necessary assurances” that it its Covid-19 vaccine, when ready, available in all countries, hours after the minority and low-income households, they have would be distributed in France. company’s CEO said the United States will get first access. AP picture touched every part of the economy. There will be a follow-up meeting However, economists said they believe with Sanofi officials at Macron’s office to make it easier to get a vaccine to universal.” hiring will start to pick up as more states ease next week. market. Sanofi said its cooperation with US restrictions on activity. Hudson told the Bloomberg news The president of Sanofi France, agency BARDA allows the company “to The increase in the number of people agency that the US government has Olivier Bogillot, told broadcaster initiate production as early as possible”. receiving unemployment benefits in the week the right to the largest pre-order of an France Info that the US is accelerating Sanofi pushed for “similar measures” ended May 9 was “relatively modest”, noted eventual Covid-19 vaccine “because it’s regulatory requirements to develop and from the EU. Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital invested in taking the risk”. produce a vaccine. “We are having very constructive Economics. But Sanofi then walked back Commission health spokesman conversations with the EU institutions “With most states only beginning to ease their from that position in a statement on Stefan De Keersmaecker said the and the French and German lockdowns over the last 10 days, we expect a Thursday that said “we have always EU’s executive arm is “fully engaged government among others,” it said. much bigger swing in hiring versus firing over been committed in these unprecedented to . . . advance research on promising Dozens of vaccine candidates in the next couple of weeks, which suggests the circumstances to make our vaccine vaccines”. earlier stages of development are unemployment rate will begin to drop back,” he accessible to everyone.” “The vaccine against Covid-19 should being pursued around the world, yet a said. — BBC At the same time, Sanofi also be a global public good,” he said. vaccine is likely to be a year or more appealed for the European Union “Its access should be equitable and away. — AP Protect yourself, your sta & your family. 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INFECTIONS SLOWING: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the lifting of a state of emergency, two weeks ahead of schedule in most of the country except for eight high-risk areas. AP picture Particle Respirator Japan eases state of emergency KN95 FFP2 White TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister and the economy. $8.90 each Shinzo Abe announced on Thursday “Today is a new beginning for our the lifting of a coronavirus state of daily lives — a new normal,” Abe said. $159 box of 20 emergency ahead of schedule in most of He warned of a possible resurgence of the country except for eight high-risk infections and urged people to adopt “new areas. lifestyles” and continue social-distancing Abe lifted the measure in 39 of the measures such as working from home country’s 47 prefectures. It remains and avoiding out-of-town trips. Free delivery within city limits or contactless in effect in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Abe said the world economy is “facing Hokkaido and four other prefectures. a once-in-a-century crisis”, and pledged pickup from the shop and you can pay online. Abe declared a month-long state of to compile another economic package to emergency on April 7 in Tokyo and help businesses. six other urban prefectures and later His government approved a $240 extended it to the whole country through billion extra budget last month to to May 31. partially fund a stimulus package worth He said experts will meet next week to $1.1 trillion. , rne s O decide if the measure can be lifted in the The state of emergency gives local bo nl is y remaining areas and pledged to bring the leaders the legal basis to request social- G coronavirus outbreak under control by distancing measures but does not impose LOCALLY 62 Peel Street • 06 869 0040 the end of May. penalties. OWNED With signs of infections slowing, Abe Japan has more than 16,000 confirmed S p ta ho [email protected] www.OPD.co.nz is seeking to balance disease prevention cases, including about 680 deaths. — AP tioner y S 32251-03 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 Can cats spread Covid-19?

MADISON, Wisconsin — Cats can Last month, two domestic cats in Landmark year for spread the new coronavirus to other different parts of New York state tested cats without any of them ever having positive for the coronavirus after mild symptoms, a lab experiment suggests. respiratory illnesses. Scientists who led the work say it They were thought to have picked shows the need for more research into it up from people in their homes or nature hit by virus whether the virus can spread from neighbourhoods. people to cats to people again. Some tigers and lions at the Bronx The pandemic has disrupted CONSERVING Health experts have downplayed that Zoo also have tested positive for the conservation work and funding, BIODIVERSITY: possibility. The American Veterinary virus, as have a small number of other with potential repercussions New goals to Medical Association said in a new animals around the world. for years to come, according to protect the statement that just because an animal Those cases and the new lab conservation groups. natural world are can be deliberately infected in a lab experiment show “there is a public health But we can seize the due to be agreed “does not mean that it will easily be need to recognise and further investigate opportunity to push for stronger in October. Many infected with that same virus under the potential chain of human-cat-human action to protect the natural nature reserves natural conditions.” transmission,” the authors world, say Dr Diogo Veríssimo are suffering Anyone concerned wrote. Guidelines from the and Dr Nisha Owen from financial trouble about that risk should US Centres for Disease campaign group On The Edge due to the spread use “common sense Control and Prevention Conservation. of Covid-19. hygiene,” said say that based on the The pandemic struck in what AP picture virus expert Peter limited information was meant to be a landmark Halfmann. Don’t kiss available so year for biodiversity. New goals conservation work is a growing It comes in what was your pets and keep far, the risk of for protecting the natural world concern, particularly for lesser- set to be a “Super Year for surfaces clean to pets spreading are due to be agreed in October. known endangered species, such Biodiversity”, as coined by the cut the chances of coronavirus While lockdown has been as pangolins, which already UN, culminating in a global picking up any virus to people “is linked to a number of positive receive a “smaller slice of the biodiversity conference in an animal might considered to be environmental changes, cake”. October, where new goals for shed, he said. low.” including wildlife reclaiming “It is not just the case that tackling biodiversity over the He and colleagues The veterinary urban spaces, we know very organisations in far flung next decade were due to be at the University of medicine group says, little about how large areas places are feeling difficulties,” drawn up. Wisconsin School of “there is no evidence of the world that host vast said Dr Veríssimo, who is also Though the timetable Veterinary Medicine led the to suggest that animals, quantities of biodiversity have a scientist at the University of has changed, this is a key lab experiment and published including pets, that may be been faring, said Dr Owen. Oxford. “It is also right here in opportunity for world leaders to results on Wednesday in the New incidentally infected by humans are “There’s reports coming in of the UK where environmental set strong goals and highlight England Journal of Medicine. Federal playing a role in the spread of the Covid- illegal activities happening on charities are being gravely that biodiversity is integral to grants paid for the work. 19.” It stressed that person-to-person the ground that are not being affected by all the changes that human health and wellbeing, Researchers took coronavirus from a transmission was driving the global patrolled for or monitored or Covid-19 is producing.” and the planet that we live on, human patient and infected three cats pandemic. counted because of the effects The Wildlife and Countryside said Dr Owen. with it. Each cat was then housed with However, the group noted that many of coronavirus lockdown or Link, a coalition of more than Dr Veríssimo added, “This another cat that was free of infection. diseases spread between pets and reduced staff or reduced funds,” 50 environment and wildlife pandemic had its biological Within five days, coronavirus was found people, so hygiene is always important: she said. groups in England, recently source in a wild animal. It’s in all three of the newly exposed animals. Wash your hands before and after “We’re not going to know warned in a report that UK about our relationship with None of the six cats ever showed any touching pets, and keep your pet and its the scale of what that impact environment charities are nature, and how we have now symptoms. food and water bowls clean. may have been on wildlife and facing a dramatic loss of income, put animals in contexts and “There was no sneezing, no coughing, Halfmann, whose two cats sleep near biodiversity until we’re able to which will have an impact on situations where these types they never had a high body temperature him, said the worry may be greater for systematically assess that, and their ability to care for our of diseases are more likely to or lost any weight,” Halfmann said. “If animal shelters, where one infected that’s probably not going to be land, protect wildlife and tackle not only cross species within a pet owner looked at them . . . they animal could pass the virus to many until we come out of lockdown.” climate change and nature’s wildlife but also cross to wouldn’t have noticed anything.” others. — AP Loss of funding for decline for years to come. humans.” — BBC 133 Junior7x7 7x7 SNAKES & SudokuA crossword for beginners A crossword for beginners ST RY Fill in the LADDERS puzzle so each EN EO 3x2 square and each line Puzzle One and column Can you solve the six-letter words? FI VE contains the Connect the letter pairs in the ladder numbers 1-6 on the left with the correct pairs in SW ER LY the ladder on the right, with middle letters ER. We have solved one to OV CE start you off. BUILDAWORD 133 CH GY Puzzle Two Use the coloured letters to make two fi ve-letter words on N the snake’s back. 023 We have given the fi rst O AcrossACROSS N C 2. These animals are kept as pets (4) letter of the red word 1. Sit on this when riding a horse (6) and the green word. 5.4. AHigher clock tellsthan the (5) ___ (4) 5. See the _____ if you have toothache T 7. Sit at these at school (5) E (7) The Puzzle Company © © The Puzzle Company 8.6. ‘KeepOpposite to the of left’ wide is a (6)___ of the road (4) R Down7. Black and white mixed together 2. makesGirl’s item ___ (4)of clothing (5) How many words of three or more letters can you make from these blocks? You may use each 3. You might have an ______for letter only once. Plurals are OK but no words DOWN being late to school (6) starting with a capital letter are allowed. There is 4.1. AGrow sour-tasting lowers liquid here used (6) for pickling at least one word that uses all ive letters. 6. onionsYour grandparents (7) are _____ than 2. 100 years is a ____ (7) Good 11 Very Good 13 Excellent 15+ you (5) Solution 132: act, acts, aft, cast, cat, cats, fact, 3. A wild plant with prickly leaves (7) facTS, fast, fat, fats, sac, sat, scat. MAGIC SQUARE Enter numbers so that every row, column and corner-to-corner diagonal adds up to 30

SUDOKU MAZE NOSES, CLOVE. 1. Saddle, 5. Above, 7. Desks, 8. Narrow. Desks, 8. Narrow. 7. Saddle, 5. Above, 1. 2. Dress, 3. Excuse, 4. Garden, 6. Older. 4. Garden, 2. Dress, 3. Excuse, BUILD A WORD note, not, nor, Net, one, ore, rent, ten, rote, roe, roe, ton, TENOR, toe, tore, TONER, tone, torn. MAGIC SQUARE Across: Across: Down: 33 7X7 SNAKES & LADDERS OVERLY, SWERVE, FIERCE, ENERGY, STEREO, CHERRY. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 15 Brain training - keeping your mind active SIMON SHUKER’S CODE-CRACKER WORDFIT Each number in the grid represents a diferent letter of the alphabet. Can you find all the words into the grid? Enter the letter or letters given in the control grid into the main grid, We’ve given one to get you star ted. then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you get the letters, ill in other squares with 3 LETTERS PEP IDLE the same number in the main grid and control grid. 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NICE WAY Kiwi kids rewarded for backyard TO BEGIN LEVEL 2: New Zealand triathlon efforts during lockdown recorded no new cases or deaths AUCKLAND — The Weet-Bix Kids better stick to the tradition for a third Thousands of Kiwi kids of providing them with a successive will receive medals for TRYathlon series medal,” said Sanitarium day completing backyard was one of the many spokesman Peter Davis. yesterday. triathlons, after their races sporting events that “The TRYathlon events File picture were cancelled during the have always been a place coronavirus lockdown. fell victim to the where families come The annual Weet-Bix Covid-19 lockdown. together and these DIY Kids TRYathlon series triathlons have shown was one of many sporting that if you have a great events that fell victim to attitude, you can achieve Three in a row the Covid-19 lockdown, efforts, along with their whatever you set out to. with races at Palmerston ingenuity. “We are so impressed NZ records another day of no new Covid-19 cases North, Hibiscus Coast, Some completed the with the motivation of New Plymouth and Bay of swim in bathtubs or these children, but also AUCKLAND — New Zealand has recorded no now retrospectively applying that new criteria. Islands called off. splashed buckets of water the wonderful support that new cases or deaths from coronavirus for the “We had previously closed four clusters as However, almost 3000 over themselves as they their parents have given third successive day, the Ministry of Health has they met our definition of two full transmission entrants still carried out swam on the ground. them too.” revealed. periods (the equivalent of 28 days) since their their swimming/cycling/ “We were blown away Organisers may now While there was no Covid-19 briefing from last case was notified,” a press release read. running journeys within by their ability to adapt include a ‘virtual’ category Parliament yesterday due to the Budget “In the meantime, we have received and their bubbles. to the situation and take in future editions of the announcement, updated figures on the accepted advice that we will use an improved Many of them provided the initiative for their own series, now entering its ministry’s website showed the total number definition of a closed cluster. video evidence of their event, and thought we’d 29th year. — Newshub. of cases remains at 1497. Of these, 1147 are “This is that there should be two full confirmed and 350 probable. transmission periods since the last case The death toll from the virus remains at 21. completed their isolation period. Nine more people have recovered from the “We are now using that definition. It’s coronavirus in New Zealand, taking the total important to note that there has been no new number of recoveries to 1411 — 94 percent of disease activity in these clusters.” all cases. Under the updated definition, the Ministry There were still two people receiving hospital- of Health said it was unlikely that any clusters level care for Covid-19, one of which was in would close in the month of May. Auckland Hospital and the other at Middlemore. From a public health point of view, the Neither were in intensive care. Ministry of Health said the change makes it The figures followed the processing of 6568 easier for public health unit staff to retain tests on Wednesday, bringing the total number appropriate health measures like isolation while of tests completed to date to 209,613. they continue to learn all they can from the There are still 16 significant clusters — and different clusters. while four of these were previously defined as From the point of view of the public, however, closed, that had now changed. the ministry said it would mean “only minor The Ministry of Health received new advice changes to the information on our website”. on how it should define a cluster closure, and is — Newshub. Uncertain future for National Aquarium

NAPIER — The fate of the National and getting corporate sponsors to foot Aquarium in Napier hangs in the operational costs in this environment balance after the Government would be close to impossible. declined to fund an extra $500,000 “I don’t know if, in a business-as- towards a business case for a usual environment, Napier ratepayers multimillion dollar revamp of the would have been prepared to stump facility. up millions of dollars to build this, Napier City Council expanded the and millions of dollars a year to keep project last year after it came to light it running.” that a much bigger aquarium was While the concept of a new needed, as the current facility was no aquarium would have been good for longer fit for purpose due to animal Napier and Hawke’s Bay “the reality Mental health survey shows welfare concerns. is that it would have The Provincial cost us a significant Growth Fund had Napier City Council amount of money that Kiwis stressed but resilient already contributed expanded the in this environment we half of the $700,000 can’t afford”, Nash said. cost of the business project last year All capital projects by Eleisha Foon, RNZ with more than 30 percent experiencing high case for the original after it came to light would be revisited in levels of anxiety and/or depression. proposal, but has that a much bigger the coming months to HAMILTON — A Covid-19 mental health “In spite of this challenging situation, refused a request from “assess their viability survey suggests New Zealanders are feeling participants described using mostly the council for an aquarium was and benefits” to the city, stressed but have the strength to overcome positive, effective coping strategies. additional $500,000 needed. a Napier City Council the challenges ahead. “They have connected with whanau and towards a new $1.45 spokesperson said. Psychologists from the University of friends, engaged in new and old hobbies million business case. “Nothing can be Waikato launched an online survey in April and activities, and exercised, often with a The council had certain now that asking more than 1000 New Zealanders walk around the neighbourhood.” hoped to secure between $15m to Covid-19 has changed the economic about their thoughts and feelings during the About 60 percent of people reported $35m from the PGF towards the landscape. lockdown and pandemic. financial impact, and 14 percent were $77.5m cost of the new aquarium, “The existing National Aquarium University of Waikato senior lecturer seriously affected. with Napier ratepayers contributing of NZ has a range of challenges in Dr Carrie Barber said that three-quarters She said the survey also showed the $10m and the rest coming from its current state. The ongoing budget of people did not consider themselves importance of the media in staying informed corporate sponsorship. required for the National Aquarium to vulnerable to the virus; however, they were with quality information. However, that idea appears dead in address these issues requires careful concerned about the health of others and “Most people said they rely on New the water as the council indicated it consideration and management to the financial impact of the pandemic. Zealand-based online news sources and would not be making another funding ensure we can meet and maintain “Through this initial restrictive phase of Government websites for information, and bid from the PGF. minimum standards for animal New Zealand’s response to the coronavirus many listed the daily news briefings as a Napier MP Stuart Nash said the welfare and health and safety. pandemic, we would describe our positive source of coping and support. plan was always going to be a hard “We understand the aquarium is participants as stressed but resilient,” she “They were overwhelmingly positive sell to Napier ratepayers given the a much-loved facility by many local said. about the amount and quality of information high cost of running the facility, which residents and any future decisions Many people said they had dramatically available to them.” would be borne by the council. would be subject to a special changed their lifestyle — particularly with Many answers also focused on being “This was going to cost Napier consultative procedure with our work, transport and family life. grateful to live in New Zealand, and echoed ratepayers $2m to $4m a year to run, community.” — RNZ Most people were worried, especially the values of being kind and protecting the about infecting others or losing loved ones, vulnerable members of the community. 17 CLASSIFIEDS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020

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Applications for grants close 30 June www.thefirewoodguy. 2020 nz or ph Len, 021 053 5157. 18 LITERATURE The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 Family portrait of depth and empathy REFRESHINGLY HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD believed should best be repressed. by Robert Kolker Insisting that they were raising a DIFFERENT published by Quercus Publishing model family, the Galvins refused to acknowledge problems, such as violent YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER ne family’s history reveals the fights among the older brothers, which by Sarah Hogle mystery of schizophrenia. the parents dismissed as merely published by Little, Brown Book Group In a riveting and disquieting roughhousing. narrative, Kolker, author of Lost The eldest, Donald, was the first to aomi Westfield and her perfect fiance, OGirls: An Unsolved American Mystery, exhibit signs of schizophrenia, with Nicholas Rose, are just a few short interweaves a biography of the Galvin bizarre behaviour that repeatedly months away from walking down the family with a chronicle of medicine’s landed him in mental hospitals; soon, Naisle. But there’s one big flaw in their treatment of, and research into, five brothers followed, all with the seemingly idyllic relationship: She hates him. schizophrenia. same diagnosis, manifested somewhat Naomi is an underachiever who works at Don and Mimi Galvin had 12 children differently, including sibling sexual a local junk store that’s on its last legs. She — 10 boys and two girls — born between abuse. isn’t close to her family, her only friends are 1945 and 1965. Religious beliefs — both Meanwhile, Mimi pretended everything her ragtag bunch of co-workers, and she is so parents were Catholic — were not the was normal — until she could not run down by her fiance’s overbearing mother only reason for their fecundity. hide the family’s suffering. With each that she has all but checked out of her own life. Mimi seemed to crave the distinction diagnosis, “she became more of a prisoner But when she discovers that Nicholas is just of “being known as a mother who could — confined by secrets, paralysed by the as tired of her as she is of him, Naomi decides easily accomplish such a thing.” In power that the stigma of mental illness to wage war in the form of petty pranks, mind addition, Kolker speculates, the children held over her”. games, and general sabotage to get Nicholas to may have assuaged an abiding feeling of Kolker deftly follows the psychiatric, call off the wedding. abandonment, including by a husband chemical, and biological theories Nicholas, the upstanding dentist who more focused on his career than his proposed to explain schizophrenia and atmosphere, and the family’s festering nevertheless cowers in the shadow of his family. the various treatments foisted upon the secrets. By the 1980s, the Galvins became mother’s expectations, responds by buying a Mimi was a perfectionist who brothers. subjects of researchers investigating house in the woods, convinced the move would controlled every aspect of the children’s Most poignantly, he portrays the a genetic basis for the illness; those save their relationship, but Naomi is dubious. lives: chores, enriching after-school impact on the unafflicted children of the extensive medical records inform this Naomi is so utterly convinced of Nicholas’ activities, and feelings, which she brothers’ illness, an oppressive emotional compelling tale. — AP hatred and lack of interest (despite all evidence to the contrary) and responds so cruelly based on her convictions that it is difficult to understand why Nicholas would want to marry her at all. A tragic tale for the times Although self-centered Naomi eventually realises that she has been ignoring the realities THE GLASS HOTEL where, as general artistic career, kick- of her relationship, it’s a revelation that arrives by Emily St. John Mandel manager Raphael started by using his far too late — all the romance in this overlong published by HarperCollins says to a prospective sister’s videos without rom-com is relegated to the last few pages. employee, “there’s a permission; and Walter, There are glimmers of meaningful ow does one follow up sense of being outside who never leaves the discussions about mental illnesses like anxiety a National Book Award of time and space”. hotel, working as the and depersonalisation, but they never go past nominee? With something An ephemeral quality property’s caretaker for the surface level, a lost opportunity to elevate completely different, of course. permeates the novel. a decade after it closes. the text. — AP EmilyH St. John Mandel’s new novel is Many of the characters There are no heroes more grounded in reality and smaller are haunted and most here and only a in scope than Station Eleven, which of the story is told in couple of characters imagined a theatre troupe travelling flashbacks to various who inspire much across America 15 years after a times in Vincent’s life. sympathy, but the mysterious flu killed most of the world’s As Mandel writes in unique structure keeps population. (That book is being talked the mind of Vincent: “It you turning the pages. about again because of the coronavirus is possible to leave so At times, you’ll find pandemic.) much out of any given yourself flipping back The Glass Hotel tells the story of story.” to a chapter heading to Vincent, a young woman whose fate we The thrill of find out if what you’re know from the first sentence — “Begin The Glass Hotel is reading happened at the end: plummeting down the side that the pieces do in 1999 or 2004, but of the ship . . . ” — but it’s the title that eventually connect, it’s a thrill when the inspires the novel’s central theme. from Vancouver to the puzzle pieces start to fit The Glass Hotel is a more descriptive glittering skyscrapers of New York. together. Or, as Paul expresses near the name for The Hotel Caiette, an isolated Characters are introduced at different end: “The smallness of the world never establishment on the northern end times and collide throughout the novel ceases to amaze me.” of Vancouver Island. Vincent moves to complete a portrait of Vincent’s The final chapter is haunting, taking there with her mother as a teenager, life and sketch their own stories readers full circle to those words spoken wandering the woods and eventually too. There’s Jonathan, an investor by Raphael about time and space working as the hotel bartender. who Vincent seduces and lives with ceasing to exist. The clientele pay top dollar to stay as a trophy wife back in New York; It’s a sense readers will enjoy as well in this remote and luxurious place, “a Vincent’s brother, Paul, whose journey when they lose themselves in Mandel’s glass-and-cedar palace at twilight”, takes him from heroin addiction to an novel. — AP Spirit of generosity shines in new novel

LOU GEHRIG: THE LOST MEMOIR And the pieces — all reproduced Ever since he played, the narrative by Alan D. Gaff in this book — mesh with the polite, on Gehrig mostly follows his baseball published by Simon & Schuster reserved, determined and humble son of achievements and his consecutive games German immigrants superbly painted record that stood for half a century — n the pre-television and internet in Jonathan Eig’s definitive Gehrig one of the most iconic feats in all of era, it’s hard to imagine the wattage biography, The Luckiest Man. sports. a star player such as Lou Gehrig Imagine essays today by a sports Gaff astutely crafts a biography created or the emotion generated superstar absent of any revelations to accompany Gehrig’s columns and Iby his famous 1939 farewell speech at to shock and ignite social media. focuses on details that parallel Gehrig’s Yankee Stadium. Gehrig, however, finds goodness in all generosity of spirit. Decades later, as the Baltimore his teammates and competitors, even Perhaps most movingly, Gaff revisits Orioles’ Cal Ripken closed in on the perhaps the roughest player ever — Ty the Yankee great’s post-baseball career. consecutive games record Gehrig had Cobb. Despite the ravages of ALS, Gehrig held since Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS remains an “orphan” disease, worked for the parole board, counselling took him out of the lineup, the ghost not afflicting enough people to draw young men who had taken a wrong turn of Gehrig visited that 1995 season, significant research attention and in life. “Even when he could barely sit in reminding us again of the man of funding as does cancer, for example. his office chair, he came to work every uncommon decency and grace and a body Now most commonly referred to as Lou day,” Gaff writes of Gehrig. built to drive baseballs out of stadiums. Gehrig’s Disease, it relentlessly punishes Hundreds of those young men filed Early in his career, Gehrig was its victims, robbing them of their muscle past Gehrig’s coffin the day after he died. persuaded to write a series of newspaper coordination and their ability to speak One of Gehrig’s last visitors was Ed essays about baseball life. How much as their neuro-muscular systems break Barrow, Yankees’ general manager from editing took place is unclear, but Gehrig down. 1921 to 1927. Gaff reports that by then, was a student at Columbia University Someday ALS will be conquered and Gehrig could not walk, dress or feed when the Yankees took note of his that will revive debate about how much himself. Yet as Barrow left, Gehrig said: baseball skills. So presumably, Gehrig longer Gehrig might have played. He “I’ll beat it, boss.” could string together some coherent was just 37 when he died, and he was What would you expect from a man thoughts. showing symptoms four years earlier. who never gave up? — AP The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 TELEVISION 19 FRIDAY—SATURDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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New South Wales races at Rosehill Saturday Jetbet 11 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 12 70026 Tower Road w (11) 54 96 Ms R King 10 Karauna (7) 55.5 88 G Schofield 6 736s8 Sambro wh (7) 55 90 T Clark 6 s5338 Bangkok tdw (4) 56 91 Ms R King Race 1: LEG WORK, LUNA MIA, SHAMUSU SHO 13 s2702 Nashian w (8) 54 96 R Dolan (a1.5) 11 4 Cross The Rubicon (6) 55.5 90 G Boss 7 0s80s My Nordic Hero twh (6) 54.5 84 G Boss 7 52064 Delectation Girl w (10) 56 91 J Bowman 14 76146 Rent A Rock w (6) 54 99 G Schofield 8 8s98s Special Missile tdwh (1) 54 92 Race 2: HARPO MARX, FANCIFUL TOFF, LA GRISA 8 20s97 Moss Trip dwn (5) 56 92 T Clark 15 67332 Radiant Choice tb (14) 54 94 B Spriggs 4 Inglis Guineas 3.20 S Clipperton 9 07s83 Dyslexic t (9) 55.5 93 J Innes Jnr Race 3: NEWSREADER, MACROURA, MARBOOSHA 16 21s25 Without Risk wb (7) 54 97 T Clark $200,000, 3yo Restricted Listed SW, 1400m 9 32s57 Eleven Eleven w (4) 54 100 T Berry 10 380s0 Ready To Prophet (14) 54 86 Race 4: MASKED CRUSADER, DAWN PASSAGE, 17 84s48 Lord Desanimaux (15) 54 94 J Collett 10 s1092 Trumbull w (9) 54 93 J Collett 1 6s281 Dawn Passage tc (4) 56.5 100 A Hyeronimus BANDERSNATCH 18 68s05 Maui Princess (16) 54 90 11 s5029 Sir Bacchus twn (3) 53 90 R Dolan (a) A Hyeronimus 11 3561s Sure Knee dwhn (11) 54 93 G Schofield Race 5: LASHES, BROKEN ARROWS, AKASAKI 2 Segenhoe Stud Handicap 2.10 2 33762 True Detective tbh (1) 56.5 91 7 Coolmore Denise’s Joy Stks 5.15 12 0431s Romani Girl wh (16) 54 89 B Avdulla Race 6: SPECIAL MISSILE, GRAFF, ELEVEN ELEVEN J Mc Donald 13 82s25 Improvement dwn (13) 54 94 Race 7: WAYUPINTHESKY, FITUESE, AQUITAINE $100,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 78, 2400m 3 121s4 Bandersnatch tdwbh (3) 56.5 88 $112,000, 3yo Fillies Quality Listed, 1100m 14 9s008 Nicci’s Gold tcdw (17) 54 90 J Collett Race 8: DYSLEXIC, DELECTATION GIRL, AMANGIRI 1 22231 Costello twh (2) 60.5 100 N Rawiller B Avdulla 1 55s22 Wayupinthesky dw (1) 58 90 B Avdulla 15 277s6 Strome cdw (12) 54 93 Race 9: VILLAMI, DIRTY WORK, PROPHET’S THUMB 2 3s662 Fanciful Toff dw (14) 60 95 J Bowman 4 51s11 Masked Crusader wh (6) 56.5 96 T Berry 2 — Blazing Miss SCRATCHED J Van Overmeire (a) 3 s6029 Humbolt Current c (8) 59.5 89 5 21s81 Rocha Clock d (5) 54.5 88 G Boss 3 1312s Enfleurage tdwn (11) 55 88 J Bowman 16 518s4 Into The Abyss dw (2) 53 94 R Dolan (a) J Mc Donald 6 — Baroda SCRATCHED 4 1123s Aquitaine cd (12) 54.5 87 K Mc Evoy EMERGENCIES: 4 91429 Kaapfever dw (6) 59 95 R Dolan (a1.5) 7 441 Air To Air (7) 54.5 77 J Collett 5 117s1 Fituese dwn (3) 54.5 100 Ms R King 17 22107 Asharani dw (15) 54 90 5 30608 Shock Alert t (12) 58.5 93 A Hyeronimus 6 16136 Iconic Star w (7) 54 96 J Collett 18 9s141 Oakfield Missile tdw (7) 54 96 6 25933 Monsieur Sisu wb (5) 56 94 J Collett 5 Vinery Stud Handicap 3.55 7 s2130 Intrepidacious dwn (6) 54 88 S Clipperton 7 41167 Loves To Rock w (13) 54 92 $100,000, Benchmark 78, 1100m S Clipperton 19 12s16 Tricky Gal dw (1) 54 96 SCRATCHED J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 1 3809s Akasaki dw (3) 62 92 J Bowman 8 — Zac Attack 20 s4062 So Taken wh (3) 54 92 8 s7960 Re Edit wh (15) 54 93 S Clipperton 2 6s74s Ljungberg wn (4) 60 95 S Clipperton 9 31841 Satin Socks w (8) 54 91 T Clark 9 s9563 Terwilliker dw (7) 54 91 T Berry 3 1140s Lashes cdw (2) 59.5 93 K Mc Evoy 10 111s3 Military Magic bn (13) 54 87 9 Arrowfield Ortensia Stakes 6.35 10 7s436 Harpo Marx dwb (9) 54 97 T Clark 4 06s01 Golden Tycoon (7) 59.5 95 J Mc Donald $112,000, Quality Listed, 1100m 11 s8082 He Runs Away h (3) 54 89 B Avdulla J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 11 17s10 Bring The Ransom w (14) 54 89 12 1s425 La Grisa tb (10) 53 92 G Boss 5 1255s Broken Arrows d (8) 59 90 T Berry G Schofield 1 s389s Bon Amis cw (2) 59 97 J Bowman 13 s6514 Wild Impact w (11) 52.5 94 Ms R King 6 300s4 After All That dw (10) 58 86 J Collett 12 153s1 Sally’s Day dwh (2) 54 86 T Berry 2 1s087 Soothing cdw (10) 58.5 97 J Mc Donald 1 TAB Highway Handicap 1.35 14 74s81 Curata Princess dw (4) 52 92 B Spriggs 7 — Burning Crown SCRATCHED 13 20s0s Bella Rosa w (17) 53 80 G Boss 3 3s162 Villami cdwbh (3) 57 100 T Clark EMERGENCY: 8 61015 Snowzone dw (6) 56.5 90 B Avdulla 14 5223s Switched d (16) 53 84 4 s1053 God Of Thunder cwh (7) 57 99 B Avdulla $67,500, 3yo & up Class 3, 1500m 15 32135 Lord Tropicana w (1) 54 89 9 112s2 Adelong db (5) 55 98 J Mc Donald EMERGENCIES: 5 3s189 Handle The Truth twn (8) 57 96 1 26357 Luna Mia (4) 59.5 96 N Rawiller 10 12s22 L’cosmo (9) 54 98 T Clark 15 99s11 Monetizing w (10) 53 85 J Innes Jnr N Rawiller 2 17424 Hemmerle w (12) 58.5 99 T Berry 3 Yarraman Park Woodlands Stks 2.45 11 89s00 Ragged Rascal d (12) 54 89 16 — Hyannis Port SCRATCHED 6 79235 Spending To Win cdw (6) 56.5 96 3 23335 Perfect Pitch t (9) 57.5 100 J Bowman $112,000, 2yo Fillies Quality Listed, 1100m R Dolan (a1.5) 17 66611 Mouse Almighty w (15) 54 80 K Mc Evoy 12 647s8 Oneness w (1) 54 89 G Schofield 18 12s22 L’cosmo (4) 54 89 4 — Black Wand SCRATCHED 1 11 Macroura w (1) 58 98 J Mc Donald 7 0800s Jonker d (14) 55.5 94 G Boss 5 s5s31 Laughing Or Crying dw (10) 56 97 2 1s07 Sancy c (2) 57.5 90 T Berry 6 TAB Luskin Star Stakes 4.35 8 Emirates Pk Dark Jewel Classic 5.55 8 4300s Noble Boy tw (5) 55.5 96 J Collett J Van Overmeire (a1.5) 3 3s11 Zeftabrook dw (4) 57.5 94 J Bowman 9 30s82 Prophet’s Thumb db (12) 54 99 6 4s411 Shamusu Sho w (17) 56 95 J Mc Donald 4 11 Marboosha dw (11) 57 95 Ms R King $112,000, Quality Listed, 1300m $160,000, F&M Quality Group 3, 1400m S Clipperton 7 26112 Cyborg w (18) 55.5 94 S Clipperton 5 25s21 Mrs Maisel dw (3) 57 93 R Dolan (a) 1 440s4 Graff tdw (5) 59 97 K Mc Evoy 1 6s391 Amangiri twh (8) 59 100 T Berry 10 6397s In Good Time dw (11) 54 91 R Dolan (a) 8 24931 Banjo’s Voice d (1) 55 98 G Boss 6 9s1 Bellevue Star (10) 56.5 100 T Clark 2 80s99 Brave Song n (10) 57.5 90 J Mc Donald 2 11s30 Teleplay dw (18) 59 95 N Rawiller 11 5s015 Star Boy dw (4) 54 99 G Schofield 9 2211 Shelby Sixtysix w (2) 55 98 B Avdulla 7 4s1 Panna Cotta dw (9) 56.5 97 S Clipperton 3 210s1 Ranier tw (8) 56.5 96 J Bowman 3 82624 Miss Fabulass d (19) 58 90 K Mc Evoy 12 54811 Dirty Work dwh (1) 54 100 T Berry 10 29s11 Leg Work w (13) 54.5 97 K Mc Evoy 8 3 Newsreader (5) 56 98 B Avdulla 4 09s64 Lanciato td (11) 55.5 96 Ms R King 4 64501 Sweet Scandal twh (6) 57.5 96 G Boss 13 — Golden Tycoon SCRATCHED 11 93540 Fusca w (5) 54 96 9 1s Superbellaa h (8) 56 88 N Rawiller 5 9s0s0 Tato Key h (2) 55.5 79 B Avdulla 5 74284 Irithea cdw (20) 57 98 J Parr 14 368s8 Albumin tcdwh (13) 53 97 J Innes Jnr

Victoria races at Flemington Saturday Jetbet 12 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 2 AAMI Next Generation Sprint 2.20 4 86s34 Reserve Street db (13) 61.5 91 3 20334 Skelm (4) 58.5 92 B Melham 3 5s390 Rox The Castle cdwn (14) 59.5 88 Race 1: LOOLWAH, O’ SO HAZY, MRS O’MALLEY Ms J Eaton (a2) 4 71243 Good Idea wn (8) 58.5 92 B Thompson J Martin $100,000, 2yo SW+P, 1000m 5 0s721 Salorsci w (5) 60 91 L King (a2) 5 60116 Jack Regan w (12) 58.5 91 4 s55s0 Violate c (11) 59.5 83 J Winks Race 2: CHROME ANGEL, BETTER KICK, MISS BOSETTI 1 2 Nantucket h (4) 58 100 J Bowditch 6 46s01 Secret Vega wn (1) 59.5 94 J Bowditch T Stockdale (a) 5 242s1 A Shin Rook tdw (18) 59 92 M Zahra Race 3: NOVEMBER DREAMING, LIBRATE, TOP PINS 2 52s Ultimate Man (7) 58 83 J McNeil 7 49s12 Duke Of Plumpton dwb (11) 58.5 95 6 1s783 Norway h (3) 58 97 D Dunn 6 9237s Sully dwb (12) 59 82 R Bayliss Race 4: ORLEANS ROCK, SIKORSKY, DUKE OF PLUMPTON 3 Better Kick h (9) 58 83 D Oliver W Egan 7 13111 Too Close The Sun wn (2) 58 100 7 6570s Plein Ciel dh (13) 58.5 86 W Egan Race 5: ALL OVER BOSANOVA, KING OF HASTINGS, 4 Crystal Chief h (10) 58 82 D Stackhouse 8 8s922 Main Stage tdw (7) 58.5 96 D Bates 8 35556 Blaze Forth dwn (9) 57.5 91 D Dunn MALIBU STYLE 5 Sandhill (5) 58 84 C Newitt T Stockdale (a2) 8 6s497 Surrey Thunder wh (10) 58 93 L Nolen 9 s6535 Sircconi cdw (1) 57.5 90 R Mc Leod Race 6: KING OF LEOGRANCE, DARK ALLEY, 6 Yulong Command (8) 58 84 M Zahra 9 34s62 Sikorsky d (10) 58.5 97 D Oliver 9 21141 Dark Alley w (6) 58 93 C Williams 10 s6640 Manolo Blahniq cdw (2) 56.5 90 TOO CLOSE THE SUN 7 101 Chrome Angel dwh (11) 57 98 Ms J Kah 10 s1212 Diplomatic Measure wbh (6) 57.5 92 10 s7542 Sopressa wb (7) 56.5 95 J McNeil J Noonan Race 7: RUPTURE, STARCASTER, SCHABAU 8 40s15 Divine Caprice dw (2) 56 97 L Nolen L German (a3) 11 1s414 Super Girl w (9) 56.5 92 W Egan 11 s2125 Sirius Suspect twh (4) 56.5 99 B Rawiller Race 8: ICONOCLASM, SIRIUS SUSPECT, MANOLO BLAHNIQ 9 6s Miss Bosetti h (6) 56 85 R Bayliss 11 54292 Villa Sarchi tb (8) 57.5 93 B Mertens 12 s0751 Oceanex tw (1) 56 99 M Zahra 12 2s401 More Than Exceed w (7) 56 100 10 Kotys h (1) 56 87 C Williams 12 23661 Ammoudi Bay w (16) 56.5 96 C Williams Race 9: BEEHUNTER, BROADWAYANDFOURTH, FINAL MAN M Poy (a1.5) 11 Pentangili h (3) 56 88 D Dunn 13 s6331 Orleans Rock dw (3) 56.5 100 B Melham 7 Lexus Trophy 5.30 13 77s78 Music Bay w (10) 56 93 L Nolen 14 194s6 Ridgewood Drive th (14) 56.5 90 D Bates $108,000, 3yo & up, 2000m 14 75s29 Vassilator cw (20) 56 91 C Williams 3 G.H.Mumm Mile 2.55 EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: $108,000, 3yo Fillies Benchmark 78, 1600m 15 24s39 Paremuus Boy dwn (15) 56 89 D Yendall 1 45s02 Carzoff cdwh (8) 62 96 L German (a3) 15 708s0 Tarquin tw (15) 56 74 F W Kersley 16 0s022 Adversary d (2) 56 91 J Childs 2 8s810 Kentucky Breeze tdwh (12) 61 95 1 38512 Florent d (8) 60.5 92 H Grace (a3) 16 236s5 Heptagon dw (5) 56 96 M Dee Ms J Kah 17 3416s Danon Roman h (19) 56 83 M Zahra 2 16385 Flandersrain d (13) 58.5 92 F W Kersley 5 Furphy Dash 4.10 3 08s06 Kaonic twh (16) 59 90 M Zahra 3 2s113 Top Pins wn (4) 58 94 T Stockdale (a2) 18 1850s Biometric dwh (17) 56 87 D Stackhouse 4 21s11 Rupture td (3) 59 98 J Childs 4 11s5 Merited (5) 57.5 90 M Dee $100,000, Open, 1000m 19 03000 Cadogan d (16) 56 87 B Melham 5 9s433 Super Titus dw (9) 59 94 L Nolen 5 79s19 Charleise (9) 57 99 M Zahra 1 7s793 Malibu Style tcdw (10) 62 89 20 63614 The Master Speed dwn (6) 56 87 6 0s093 Mahamedeis cdwn (10) 58 91 R Mc Leod 6 3s217 November Dreaming dwbhn (7) 57 94 T Nugent (a2) C Williams 2 s37s0 Eduardo dw (3) 61.5 92 H Grace (a3) 7 7795s Alfarris tdwh (7) 57 92 C Williams 9 TAB Trophy 6.45 1 Vale Darby McCarthy OAM 1.45 7 s1469 Oriental Lily whn (14) 57 96 B Mertens 3 30s04 Milwaukee twhn (7) 59.5 92 L German (a3) 8 81P4s Killarney Kid cdw (4) 56.5 86 $108,000, 3yo, 1400m 8 s4251 Librate dw (12) 56.5 100 D Oliver 4 33001 Prezado cdwh (6) 59 100 Ms J Kah Ms T Hope (a2) $100,000, F&M Benchmark 84, 1200m 9 20s50 Masculino tcdw (1) 56.5 100 D Oliver 1 12111 Final Man wn (9) 62 100 T Stockdale (a2) 9 37347 Don’ttelltheboss w (11) 56 94 B Prebble 5 100s0 From Within dwh (11) 57.5 90 C Williams 2 8s484 Broadwayandfourth (14) 59 96 1 — Mystery Love SCRATCHED 10 2s110 Edinburgh dwh (3) 56 91 L Nolen 6 s1348 Wagner dw (5) 56.5 95 T Stockdale (a2) 10 33383 Fidelia tw (11) 56 92 C Newitt 11 s111s Schabau tcd (5) 56 90 D Bates B Melham 2 2s103 Gododdin dwh (5) 60 100 B Rawiller 11 00s61 Fiorente’s Girl dh (2) 56 90 D Stackhouse 7 5440s All Over Bosanova dw (9) 56 91 J Childs 12 946s4 Valac wn (14) 56 92 T Nugent (a2) 3 51672 Beehunter d (2) 58.5 94 D Oliver 3 85553 Queen Annabel dwn (4) 59.5 94 12 7s71 Delightful Hustler n (10) 56 88 L Nolen 8 32348 Causeway Girl tdw (4) 56 89 D Oliver 13 36s95 Chapada h (6) 56 92 D Stackhouse 4 10021 Orienzel dwn (5) 58.5 95 M Walker L King (a2) 13 1s043 Sandsation wbn (1) 56 95 J McNeil 9 2515s King Of Hastings tdwhn (8) 56 91 14 232s0 Berisha tw (15) 56 87 B Mertens 5 1s925 Regardsmaree dw (8) 57.5 93 R Bayliss 4 9s401 Lankan Star n (2) 58.5 95 D Stackhouse 14 s2321 Thee One dwhn (6) 56 93 W Egan M Poy (a1.5) EMERGENCIES: 6 0s104 Stand To Attention wh (7) 57 96 D Dunn 5 55s21 Atlantica dw (11) 57.5 99 R Bayliss EMERGENCY: 10 9s66s Ray’s Dream dw (2) 56 89 D Stackhouse SCRATCHED 15 1s1s0 Dadoozdart dwbh (13) 56 93 D Dunn 7 — Smoke Bomb 6 s272s O’ So Hazy dw (1) 56.5 94 C Newitt 15 73615 Chloe’s Day dn (15) 56 86 B Park 11 s4325 Sam’s Image dbn (1) 56 88 M Zahra 16 64s18 Starcaster dwb (2) 56 98 J McNeil 8 6s182 Talented h (1) 56 93 B Mertens 7 7s988 Cath’s Village dwn (7) 56 95 B Mertens 4 Kennedy Mile 3.30 6 The Andrew Ramsden 4.50 9 s2534 Debt’n’deficit wh (12) 56 99 Ms J Kah 8 2s411 Jamaican Hurry cd (9) 56 99 M Dee 8 Seppelt Wines Handicap 6.10 10 65621 Pill Box w (10) 56 91 C Newitt 9 s2524 Mrs O’Malley dwn (6) 56 96 $60,000, Benchmark 78, 1600m $320,000, 3, 4 & 5yo Listed WFA, 2800m 11 s2352 Defiant Dancer (6) 56 94 L Nolen L German (a3) 1 s6159 Black Sail dw (9) 62.5 90 T Nugent (a2) 1 81712 Runaway cwbh (11) 58.5 90 B Rawiller $100,000, Open, 1400m 12 1 Eluding dwh (4) 56 88 M Zahra 10 2145s Loolwah wh (8) 56 94 D Oliver 2 1113s Tavirun w (12) 62.5 93 M Aitken (a2) 2 9s211 King Of Leogrance twh (5) 58.5 92 1 40s02 Achernar Star d (8) 62 95 L German (a3) 13 7s128 Hot Reward (11) 56 88 M Poy (a1.5) 11 30125 Journeygirl dwn (3) 56 92 T Nugent (a2) 3 0218s Creedence dhn (4) 62 89 M Poy (a1.5) D Oliver 2 4s023 Iconoclasm tcdhn (3) 59.5 94 D Oliver 14 25173 Rebel Racer hn (3) 56 94 C Williams

Queensland races at Gold Coast Saturday Jetbet 14 TAB doubles 1-2, 4-5, 8-9 Trebles 3-4-5, 7-8-9 Quaddie 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 18 74128 Ocean Waves cdw (2) 60 93 4 XXXX Dry Handicap 3.04 6 TAB Ken Russell Mem. Classic 4.19 6 10s42 Ruuca dwbhn (7) 57 92 B Stewart Race 1: FISTICUFFS, LADY APPLETON, STYLISH SAGA 19 4s143 Decisive Heart cdwh (10) 56.5 92 7 23s11 Scathing dw (6) 57 95 J Huxtable (a) R Fradd $35,000, F&M Benchmark 72, 1400m $125,000, 2yo Group 3 SW, 1200m 8 1112 Command’n’conquer b (10) 57 92 Race 2: QUALITY SEEKER, ROMAKASH, LE JUGE 20 71636 Hekansplit dw (8) 60 91 N Day 1 4s214 Amicitia d (3) 60.5 100 J Byrne 1 414s1 Wisdom Of Water tch (2) 57 100 R Fradd J Orman Race 3: HE’S IMPOSING, PROMETHEUS, YABA DABL DOYA 21 92161 Swan Island wn (13) 56 90 2 595s7 Barefoot tcw (9) 60 96 N Fazackerley (a3) 2 20s44 Kavak (11) 57 86 J Huxtable (a) 9 — Fisticuffs SCRATCHED Race 4: ZOULOU DANCER, MERLIN’S MAGIC, SHE ZA BOSS 22 6s174 She Za Boss db (15) 58 88 3 55135 Lashoni (15) 59 99 B Nothdurft (a) 3 311 Spokesman whn (4) 57 92 M Mc Gillivray 10 2753s Exhilarates tcdw (15) 55 98 R Fradd Race 5: THINE IS THE POWER, YEAHNAH, SOXAGON 4 37236 Tziporah th (6) 58 100 R Fradd 4 51 Saffiano h (5) 57 86 R Maloney 11 — Niedorp SCRATCHED Race 6: SAFFIANO, MINJEE, WISDOM OF WATER 2 Heineken Handicap 1.54 5 — Nordic Show SCRATCHED 5 43s2 Tick Tock Boom b (6) 57 81 J Bayliss 12 11131 Baroda ch (13) 55 94 A Mallyon Race 7: KINGS FULL, CALIBRATION, MILK MAN $65,000, Open, 2200m 6 80060 Shijin cwh (16) 57.5 98 6 61s Bangers And Mayo d (10) 57 77 J Orman 13 70s15 Zac Attack tdwh (5) 55 93 B Nothdurft (a) Race 8: COMMAND’N’CONQUER, SCATHING, BARODA Ms M Wishart (a3) 7 51 Superare d (9) 57 82 B Stewart 14 92161 Swan Island wn (16) 55 84 1 20433 Le Juge wh (4) 60 96 M Cahill Race 9: NIEDORP, KRONE, LOVE YOU LUCY 7 162s8 Special Thing d (2) 57.5 94 C Bayliss (a2) 8 5 Fox Terrier (1) 57 76 N Keal (a) 15 1s12 Ready Babe n (17) 55 90 2 52516 Mawaany Machine cwh (2) 59.5 96 8 33367 Seles wh (14) 57 98 R Maloney 9 Daring Man h (3) 57 82 L R Dittman 16 4s241 Elegant Grace dh (12) 55 87 L V Cassidy C Bayliss (a2) 9 79s07 Round Mountain Gem tdw (10) 56.5 95 10 331 Neutron t (12) 57 85 J Guthmann-Chester EMERGENCY: 3 33s94 Fighting Teo cw (8) 58.5 95 J Murphy (a2) 11 311 Minjee d (7) 55 95 M Cahill 17 1 Final Declaration th (3) 57 86 A Thompson (a2) 10 6s174 She Za Boss b (5) 56.5 96 M Mc Gillivray 12 2 Always On Show h (8) 55 83 A Mallyon J Guthmann-Chester 4 57s50 Saunter Boy wh (7) 58.5 91 A Mallyon 11 20s98 Lope For Joya dw (1) 56 99 5 56721 Lota Creek Gold th (6) 58 93 M R Du Plessis 7 James Squire Handicap 4.59 9 Attwood Marshall Silk Stocking 6.19 Ms B Ainsworth 12 516s1 Merlin’s Magic ch (12) 56 98 A Mallyon $50,000, Class 6, 1800m $85,000, F&M Quality Listed, 1200m 6 78512 Mongolian Wolf cwbh (3) 57 97 R Fradd 13 86451 Zoulou Dancer tdwh (8) 56 98 M Hellyer 7 18865 Akage twh (5) 55 90 A Spinks 14 24321 Iconista (11) 55 99 J Huxtable (a2) 1 04243 Gresham wh (13) 62 93 N Keal (a2) 1 442s5 Multaja dw (6) 58 100 R Fradd 8 71152 Quality Seeker d (1) 55 100 15 83051 Flaunt n (7) 55 95 S Galloway 2 1s554 Oink w (2) 62 94 J Murphy (a2) 2 4s080 Fiesta dwh (1) 57.5 93 M Cahill M Mc Gillivray 16 5s423 Got My Thrills wn (13) 55 93 J Bayliss 3 12344 Raqeeq hn (3) 58.5 98 R Maloney 3 72458 River Racer cdw (19) 57.5 90 1 Darby McCarthy Plate 1.19 9 16741 Romakash tcdwn (9) 55 92 L V Cassidy EMERGENCY: 4 6s932 Milk Man wb (12) 58 100 M Mc Gillivray M Mc Gillivray 17 34800 Golden Lily dh (4) 55 95 5 s3321 Kings Full cwn (1) 57 98 4 s8376 Resin dw (10) 56 95 L V Cassidy $35,000, Class 3 SW, 1200m 3 Bundaberg Rum Handicap 2.29 J Guthmann-Chester 5 71705 Manaya tcdh (21) 55.5 88 B Stewart 1 12s41 Desert Knight tdh (5) 60 94 L R Dittman 5 We Are Gold Coast Plate 3.39 6 69s07 Endless Days tw (14) 55.5 94 M Hellyer $35,000, C,H&G’s Benchmark 72, 1400m 6 0s350 Grey Shadow dw (18) 55 90 J Orman 2 s4132 Heritage Sash cdh (3) 60 100 N Keal (a2) $50,000, Class 6 SW, 1200m 7 66371 Calibration hn (10) 55 94 A Mallyon 7 — Pennino SCRATCHED SCRATCHED 8 86s87 Brains w (8) 55 97 A Thompson (a2) 3 98824 Oriental Runner dwh (1) 60 95 1 — Scathing SCRATCHED 8 83s9s Krone dw (11) 54 94 J Byrne 2 16442 Glen Ord tdw (11) 60 95 C Taylor 1 — Valario 9 9s427 Light Up The Room tw (7) 55 98 R Maloney 2 4220s Right Or Wrong dw (12) 58.5 89 9 8387s Star Reflection tdwh (17) 54 89 4 728s3 Pure Pulse tw (6) 60 94 3 0s00s Prometheus d (1) 60 85 B Stewart B Nothdurft (a) R Wiggins R Maloney 10 37982 High Power w (11) 55 94 R Fradd 5 3s124 Fisticuffs dbh (12) 59.5 98 4 1s441 Pay With Cash tch (12) 59.5 95 3 — Love You Lucy SCRATCHED 10 2331s Frangipani Moon dw (9) 54 89 J Bayliss 6 — Plenty SCRATCHED L R Dittman 11 0s609 Blue Comet tdwh (9) 55 95 J Bayliss 11 116s2 Jen Rules dw (15) 54 90 D Smith 4 11158 Winter Passage tdw (6) 58 87 12 36019 Certain Doubt dwn (6) 55 93 7 113s4 Stylish Saga db (20) 58.5 92 5 828s0 Stardome whn (8) 59.5 93 N Keal (a2) 5 26s12 Maslow tdhn (1) 57 95 J Byrne 12 21096 Ice Frost c (12) 54 90 A Spinks 8 — Dream Big SCRATCHED 6 0s791 Yaba Dabl Doya tcdw (9) 58 91 G Colless 13 9s767 Ipso Nem Felek (5) 55 90 S Cormack 13 1s262 Love You Lucy tn (14) 54 88 6 45124 Mountbatten tdw (9) 57 87 J Orman 14 10s65 Joy’s Reward dn (4) 55 92 J Byrne 9 — Ruuca SCRATCHED 7 340s1 He’s Imposing w (3) 57 96 7 232s1 Soxagon cdw (3) 57 100 B Stewart M R Du Plessis 10 113 Sea Raider cwh (11) 58 94 G Colless J Huxtable (a2) 8 0s935 Carry On Ringo dh (10) 56.5 86 8 Brandons DC Guineas 5.39 14 24s11 Niedorp dw (16) 54 94 B Nothdurft (a) 11 22s1 All To Do w (4) 56.5 91 J Bayliss 8 6414s El Chaparro bn (6) 55.5 88 J Murphy (a2) J Guthmann-Chester 15 16554 Clockwise cdwn (7) 54 89 N Evans 12 — Final Declaration SCRATCHED 9 98006 Sir Magic tw (10) 55.5 87 9 7200s Nordic Show twh (7) 56.5 74 $125,000, 3yo Group 3 SW, 1200m 16 7s333 Tardis cdwhn (3) 54 87 Ms S Thornton (a) 13 110s3 Lady Appleton t (18) 56 94 M Cahill Ms M Wishart (a3) N Fazackerley (a3) 1 48111 The Odyssey cdw (14) 57 99 EMERGENCIES: 14 s411s Purroni d (9) 56 92 J Byrne 10 22233 Staying Black wn (13) 55.5 93 J Orman 10 — Tardis SCRATCHED Ms S Thornton (a) 17 33811 Thine Is The Power cw (2) 54 92 15 — Ready Babe SCRATCHED 11 17s63 The Golden Hind dwb (7) 55.5 97 11 14s75 The Pines dwhn (8) 56.5 91 R Fradd 2 214s1 Hightail dw (8) 57 100 R Maloney 18 14s75 The Pines dwhn (5) 54 91 16 — Write The Rules SCRATCHED B Thornton 12 33811 Thine Is The Power cw (11) 55 94 3 32314 Stampe cdb (1) 57 99 S Cormack 19 22528 Intrinsic wh (13) 54 87 EMERGENCIES: 12 514 The Chosen One tbh (5) 55 93 M Cahill A Mallyon 4 17s8s Bellevue Hill w (2) 57 82 M Cahill 20 70s15 Zac Attack tdwh (4) 54 89 17 — King Of The Desert SCRATCHED 13 26007 Sidetrip tcwh (2) 55 86 S Galloway 13 s0401 Yeahnah dwn (4) 55 87 J Bayliss 5 50s22 Garibaldi (4) 57 98 J Byrne 21 01755 Bold Arial d (8) 54 86

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 • Friday, May 15, 2020 SPORT 21 Head puts case for Adelaide Fewer big boats expected Oval to be test-match hub for 2020 Sydney to Hobart CRICKET by Rob Forsaith, AAP Head believes his home ground is one of few that SAILING by Adrian Warren, AAP “I guess the down side is going to be the could handle the on-field issues associated with prospect of international entries other than SYDNEY — The Adelaide Oval is perfectly consecutive tests. SYDNEY — Organisers of the Sydney New Zealand being very slim,” Billingham equipped to be Cricket Australia’s safety net and “It’d be nice to stay at home for the whole to Hobart are resigned to a small overseas said. ensure a lucrative series against India is staged this summer,” the South Australia (SA) skipper said. contingent for this year’s race and fewer “We are aware of several international summer, according to test vice-captain Travis Head. “Adelaide Oval is such a good ground. It’s unique. of the dominant line-honours-chasing entries that were coming who have Hope is growing that Virat Kohli’s team will not If it comes down to that, I know it will definitely supermaxis. postponed and they will come down the only arrive for a much-anticipated test series but play be able to cope and withstand back-to-back test The Australian ocean racing sailing following year. additional ODIs that would boost CA’s revenue. matches. schedule for this year has already been “We have a lot of international crew Nonetheless, uncertainty clouds the schedule. The “We’ve had instances where there’ll be A-League affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with members come in as well as international level of Covid-19 restrictions that will be required at games, rugby league or concerts going on. Houghy the Sydney to Noumea race postponed boats, so that will have an impact this the end of this year is a mystery. (curator Damian Hough) has been able to prepare a and the Sydney to Gold Coast event year.” AnSouth eight-legged Australian creature Cricket (6) AssociationExchange (4)(SACA) Shield wicket and drop it in the middle of the square, rescheduled from July to October. The 75th edition of the race last year chairmanUnlock (4) Andrew Sinclair and Breathechief executive in (6) Keith on the day of the game or two days out from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia attracted five supermaxis, but there will be BradshawA throbbing have pain been (4) pitching AAdelaide cat’s feet Oval’s(4) game. commodore Paul Billingham was confident fewer in 2020 and beyond, according to credentialsLess fast (6) as a biosecurity bubbleThe opposite to CA. of wide (6) “And you wouldn’t even notice as a player.” the Sydney to Hobart would proceed Billingham, with 2019 line-honours winner TheWent construction red from of an on-siteA part hotel of clothes means for India your Josh Hazlewood has already suggested Adelaide as usual on Boxing Day, but said a final Comanche not expected to defend the couldembarrassment fly into Adelaide (7) and servearms (7)their quarantine is comfortably the best pitch in Australia and the ideal decision wouldn’t have to be made before title. periodTry (7)at the ground. A holder for cigarette ash oval if CA decides a test-cricket bubble is required for October at the earliest. “I think the Hobart race will be changing AdelaideDo over again Oval (6) could also (7)hypothetically host all or part of the series. “We are planning for Hobart as usual, the in the coming years,” Billingham said. multipleNot in matches, danger (4) given the likelyFuel absence for a car (6)of crowds The absence of AFL games at the venue has hit Notice of Race comes out in two or three “We’ve had the period of the supermaxis, andOverdue potential (4) challenges of interstateSays something travel, a (6) ploy the SACA’s bottom line, partly prompting a wave of weeks,” Billingham told AAP. they are still around but we may not get thatDay’s would end reduce (6) broadcasters’Pimple costs. (4) redundancies and stalling the search for a new men’s “Obviously the big impact on Hobart five together again in our lifetime, with 15. A compass direction (4) coach. would be if for some reason the Tasmanian Comanche and Black Jack both going to junior crossword solutions “It is disappointing,” Head said. border was still closed; that and this social- Europe.” “I’ve had a lot of mates in SA hurt by that . . . the distancing interpretation would be an There will be at least one innovation for Previous solution people who work inside SACA are at times way more issue. this year’s race. Across: 1. Toothache, 6. Risky, 7. Attic, 9. Cost, 10. Person, important than what we are.” “But we can’t see on the current ‘We have got the two-handed division 12. Eighth, 14. Yell, 17. Shoot, 18. Notes, 19. Repeating. trajectory of what’s happening any Down: Head, who has kept busy doing running sessions coming in,” Billingham said. 2. Oasis, 3. Toys, 4. Amazed, 5. Hates, 6. Rockets, with Alex Carey, will start official SA pre-season complications for running the Hobart race “That’s been happening in Europe and 8. Candles, 11. Statue, 13. Glove, 15. Eaten, 16. Knot. training this month. as planned. adds an extra degree of interest.” THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Saturday, May 16, 2020

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Mimic (3) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. 22 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 Harry Kane to sponsor Orient shirts to honour good causes FOOTBALL Haven House Children’s Hospice’s discussed with the England logo and the third kit donated to captain Harry Kane and his LONDON — England soccer mental health charity Mind. team at CK66, we all decided captain Harry Kane has bought Kane, who scored five goals that we wanted this to be the shirt sponsorship to League in 18 games for east London unique. Two Leyton Orient’s 2020/21 kit. side Orient, said: “I was born “We wanted to say thank you The Tottenham striker, who and brought up only at a couple for the exceptional hard work enjoyed his first taste of senior of miles from the stadium and and dedication of the frontline football on loan at Orient in I am really happy to have the heroes during this pandemic and 2011, has taken the front-of-shirt opportunity to give back to also bring attention to the other sponsorship for Orient’s three the club that gave me my first charities out there who have all kits following approval from the professional start. been suffering financial loss due Premier League, English Football “This also gives me a platform to the pandemic. League and Football Association. to be able to say a big thank you “Thank you, Harry, for your Kane has donated the to the many frontline heroes and amazing support and generosity sponsorship to three causes, charities out there who provide — you are a true role model for with the home shirt donning care and support during these the modern game.” a thank-you message to the challenging times.” Orient will give 10 percent frontline heroes of the coronavirus Orient chief executive Danny of all shirt sales back to Kane’s pandemic, the away shirt showing Macklin added: “When we nominated charities. — PA HARRY KANE: Honouring good causes. AP picture Players’ families set to enter Queensland hubs Referees dig AFL by Shayne Hope, AAP Shuey, a father of one, said last night. “I don’t see why not. The AFL have MELBOURNE — AFL players are been reasonable throughout the whole poised to celebrate a big win, with process. their toes in immediate family members set to join “So if we have to go away, I think that’s them in Queensland team hubs ahead of looking likely, which is a good thing.” RUGBY LEAGUE by Matt Encarnacion The PRLMO says that under the terms the 2020 season restart next month. The cost of players taking families into and Pamela Whaley, AAP of the four-year agreement, which began in Players being kept away from their Queensland hubs will be funded by the 2019, the governing body must persist with families for long periods of time was a AFL, which will not put a limit on the SYDNEY — ARL Commission chairman the two-referee system. major sticking point when the AFL put number of players clubs send. Peter V’landys has slammed the referees In a letter sent to the ARL Commission a “worst-case” hub scenario to the AFL It remains to be seen if the clubs from union after the governing body made a the union presented reasons why any rule Players’ Association (AFLPA) last month. Western Australia and South Australia will complaint with the Fair Work Commission change required more consultation. But the easing of some state be housed together or in separate hubs. over the NRL’s new one-referee system. They included duty of care to players and government coronavirus restrictions since Despite the temporary relocation The situation threatens to turn ugly just match officials, best interests of fans and then means that only four clubs — West presenting another hurdle to West Coast two weeks out from the start of the revised sponsors, and potential errors in calculation Coast, Fremantle, Adelaide and Port in their premiership hunt, Shuey said the season. of financial savings. Adelaide — will be required to enter hubs Eagles were prepared to do what they Professional Rugby League Match Cost saving has been a reason given by in order to restart the season. had to for the sake of the competition. Officials (PRLMO) yesterday claimed V’landys to move back to one referee, while In a deal struck between the AFL and “As a playing group, we owe a lot to the the league had no right to change the he also says it has the backing of fans. AFLPA, players from those clubs should game,” he said. officiating model under the current The NRL points to a survey conducted learn today that their families are also “No one is bigger than the game and enterprise agreement. in 2019, where fans were asked what welcome in those hubs. this is our opportunity to give back to the They have engaged the services of rule innovation they would like to see to “I think the AFL will probably come to game and get it back on its feet and get Harmers Workplace Lawyers with the make the game more unpredictable and the party on that,” Eagles captain Luke the competition going again.” goal of finding a resolution before the entertaining. competition resumes on May 28, but won’t Around 18,000 people responded, and rule out strike action. V’landys says the second highest response V’landys has launched a passionate behind changes to scrums was reverting to defence of the decision, saying PRLMO one referee. chairman Silvio Del Vecchio is not helping AAP has requested a copy of the survey referees. results. “It’s totally ludicrous and I don’t think his Del Vecchio calculated that even if the confrontational and misleading approach is NRL terminated all eight of its casual helping his association,” V’landys said. whistleblowers, the savings amounts to less “We’ve done nothing wrong. All the 21 than $300,000 a year. referees that are full-time will be kept.” “We’ve done the maths. When you Del Vecchio told AAP they were confident average it out over the course of the of getting the NRL to overturn Wednesday’s remaining games of the year, it equates to decision and go back to using two on-field $20 per minute of each game.” he said. referees. “It’s just peanuts. It’s unnecessary.” Cartwright avoids the flu shot on medical grounds RUGBY LEAGUE by Murray Wenzel, AAP It was a viewpoint shared by wife Shanelle, who questioned on social media BRISBANE — Bryce Cartwright yesterday afternoon why Cartwright’s has avoided the flu shot and a club NRL colleagues weren’t supporting him. ban thanks to an 11th-hour medical While it clears every Queensland-based exemption from the Queensland NRL player to train and play in the state, government. it is understood six NRL players have The Gold Coast NRL player and declined the flu shot on non-medical teammate Brian Kelly had been given grounds. until yesterday to agree to take the shot Canberra trio Josh Papalii, Joe Tapine that would enable them to train and play, and Sia Soliola, Manly’s Dylan Walker in line with state government policy. and Addin Fonua-Blake and Canterbury’s Kelly was vaccinated yesterday but Sione Katoa are the others who would Cartwright, whose wife and children are be able to train and play in New South not, held firm. Wales and ACT, but not Queensland. The club confirmed last night he had The NRL is scheduled to restart on lodged medical documentation to seek May 28, more than two months after it an exemption that was granted by chief was suspended due to the coronavirus medical officer Jeannette Young. pandemic. Cartwright was reportedly facing a Yesterday, Brisbane coach Anthony $450,000 salary hit if he was stood down Seibold said it would be unfair and that by the club for refusing the shot on non- the NRL would be “kidding themselves” medical grounds. to cave in to the minority and make the The avenue is at odds with his previously three Queensland clubs travel for “home” stated moral opposition to the vaccine. games in NSW. The Gisborne Herald • Friday, May 15, 2020 SPORT 23 Ricciardo fills vacancy left by Sainz

MOTORSPORT Leclerc is contracted to Ferrari Brown said. by Jerome Pugmire, AP until the end of 2024 and, with “He is a real team player and Vettel gone, is now the team’s we wish him well for his future.” PARIS — Carlos Sainz Jr No.1 driver. Ricciardo will drive alongside will drive for Formula One team Despite not having a world 20-year-old British driver Lando Ferrari next season and Daniel champion behind the wheel — Norris next season. Ricciardo will replace the Spaniard like Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, “Signing Daniel is another step at McLaren. or Fernando Alonso before them forward in our long-term plan The 25-year-old Sainz Jr will — Ferrari hope a younger driver and will bring an exciting new join Ferrari on a two-year deal pairing has a galvanising effect. dimension to the team, alongside starting next year, the Italian team “We’ve embarked on a new Lando,” Brown said. said in a statement yesterday, cycle with the aim of getting back “This is good news for our team, shortly after McLaren announced to the top in Formula 1,” Ferrari partners and, of course, our fans.” Ricciardo’s arrival from Renault. team principal Mattia Binotto said. Despite his lack of experience, “I am very happy that I will be “It will be a long journey, not Norris has shown a cool head driving for Ferrari in 2021 and I’m without its difficulties, especially under pressure on race day. excited about my future with the given the current financial and Renault have not yet said who team,” Sainz Jr said. regulatory situation. will replace Ricciardo next year. “I still have an important year “A driver pairing with the talent The 30-year-old Australian had ahead with McLaren Racing and personality of Charles and a difficult time last season, his first and I’m really looking forward to Carlos, the youngest in the past with the French manufacturer after going racing again with them this 50 years of the Scuderia, will be making a surprise move from Red season.” the best possible combination to Bull. He managed only one fourth- The first 10 races of the season help us.” place finish and placed a lowly have either been postponed or Both drivers will be hungry: ninth in the standings. cancelled amid the coronavirus Leclerc to challenge for the world But Ricciardo showed strong pandemic. title, Sainz Jr to show he can form during his stint with Red Sainz Jr, the son of two-time compete alongside him. Bull, winning seven races and world rally champion Carlos Sainz Jr drove consistently well consistently securing podium Sainz, will replace Sebastian last season, securing the first finishes. Vettel. The four-time F1 champion podium finish of his career and Among those touted to replace is leaving Ferrari at the end of his helping McLaren finish fourth in Ricciardo are Nico Hulkenberg, contract. the constructors’ championship. who lost his Renault seat this year TEAM CHANGES: In this March file photo, Spanish driver Carlos Vettel struggled at times to “I also want to pay tribute to to Esteban Ocon, Alonso, and Sainz Jr arrives at the track for the Australian Formula One Grand compete against Charles Leclerc, Carlos for the excellent job he Vettel. Prix in Melbourne. Ferrari have signed Sainz Jr for a two-year deal even though Leclerc was only in has been doing for McLaren in Although Alonso is 38 years old, starting in 2021. Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo will move from his first season with Ferrari and helping our performance recovery the Spanish driver won his two Renault to take the place left vacant by Sainz at McLaren. his second in F1. The 22-year-old plan,” McLaren chief executive Zak world titles with Renault. AP picture Start your journey to success eit.ac.nz | 0800 22 55 348 Fit study around your work, home and whanau - achieve a qualiication in only a few months. 30782-04 15 May, 2020 MIDNIGHT TONIGHT GISBORNE TIDE MOVEMENT M E WEATHER FOR TOMORROW T Saturday Sunday R May 16 May 17 SE S am 369noon 369pm am 369noon 369pm Tauranga 3 20 Hicks Bay 3 1 18 Te Puke 35 22

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BAROMETRIC PRESSURE Sydney showers 13 20 For the latest weather info including Weather Warnings visit At 9am 15 May (hPa) 1023.4 Tokyo drizzle 15 22 metservice.com At 9am 15 May (inches) 30.22 Toronto cloudy 10 18 FOOTBALL MOTORSPORT INSIDE Cricket, sailing ... 21 Rugby league ..... 22 SPORT Motorsport ...... 23 Friday, May 15, 2020 Kane buys Orient shirt rights to Sainz goes to Ferrari, Ricciardo honour good causes PAGE 22 to McLaren PAGE 23 ‘Kissing ball’ out of order in South American game FOOTBALL by Tales Azzoni, AP There is no date set for when the refuse to be tested won’t be allowed to or give away their shirts or any piece tournament will restart, and it may not compete. Clubs that don’t co-operate can of their uniform to opposing players, BUENOS AIRES — There will be no be until September as South American be fined. teammates or any other person”. more kissing the ball for good luck in nations continue to struggle to contain Among the additions to the regulations The traditional exchange of pennants South American football. the virus. is the prohibition for “players and between team captains before matches Also, forget about exchanging jerseys The Copa Libertadores and the second- officials to kiss the ball before, during also won’t be allowed. — and even spitting or blowing noses on tier Copa Sudamericana were suspended and after the match”. The Copa Libertadores — the South the field. in March. They also won’t be allowed to spit or American equivalent of the Champions The governing body of football in the The South American Football blow their noses while on the field or on League — was suspended early in its region has released a series of specific Confederation has approved several the benches. group stage. The Copa Sudamericana had regulations amid the coronavirus changes to its regulations to adapt to the Their body temperatures will be stopped after its first phase. pandemic to protect everyone’s health pandemic, adding the requirement to test checked before the matches, and everyone The first round of World Cup qualifying when the Copa Libertadores — the players and others involved in matches. on the bench will be required to wear could not be completed because of the continent’s biggest club competition — It will create a “medical registry” to masks at all times. pandemic. It is also expected to start eventually resumes. keep track of results, and those who Players will be “prohibited to exchange some time in September. Three added to the fold

CRICKET No.3 for Wellington and likely will challenge Henry Nicholls for WELLINGTON — South a place in the New Zealand top African-born batsman Devon order. Conway has been included on “Devon’s form with the bat New Zealand Cricket’s list of across all three formats these contracted players for the 2020- past two seasons made him 21 season three months before impossible to ignore and he’s becoming eligible to play for the going to be a great option to add Black Caps. to the batting mix,” Larsen said. The 28-year-old “Kyle’s performances against Johannesburg-born player, now India were nothing short of playing for Wellington province, outstanding and at 25 years of was the leading scorer in New age he’s got a big future. Zealand domestic cricket last “We see Ajaz as the season across all the formats, incumbent test spinner at scoring more than 1800 runs. present and he’ll be looking to Conway moved to New stamp his mark on that spot Zealand from South Africa in after some strong efforts with 2017 and becomes eligible for the ball in the subcontinent.” international selection in August. In compiling the list, the He is one of three newcomers selectors rank players from 1 on the contracts list announced to 20 on the likelihood of them today by New Zealand coach featuring in international matches Gary Stead and selector Gavin in the coming season, with tests Larsen. carrying a higher weighting Tall fast bowler Kyle than one-day or Twenty20 Jamieson, who made an internationals. Players on the outstanding start to his list receive retainers of between international career in test and $243,000 for the top-ranked white-ball matches last season, player to $103,000 for No.20. and spinner Ajaz Patel are the Captain Kyle Williamson other newly contracted players. usually takes the No.1 ranking. Leg-spinner Todd Astle, who has retired from test cricket, New Zealand contracted hard-hitting white-ball batsman players: Tom Blundell, Trent Colin Munro and test opener Boult, Devon Conway, Colin de Jeet Raval are the players Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, omitted from last season’s list. Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Raval’s omission follows his Jamieson, Tom Latham, Henry spectacular loss of form last Nicholls, Jimmy Neesham, Ajaz season. Tom Blundell has since Patel, Mitchell Santner, Ish taken over Raval’s place at the Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, IN THE FOLD: Tall fast bowler Kyle Jamieson is one of three newly contracted cricketers announced today top of the order. Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane by New Zealand coach Gary Stead and selector Gavin Larsen. The others are batsman Devon Conway and Left-hander Conway bats at Williamson, Will Young. — AP spin bowler Ajaz Patel. AP picture Ivanisevic backs Kyrgios to win grand slam glory TENNIS by Darren Walton, AAP that was the first time he’d felt at peace but friends — and they helped each other that is impossible to prove. on court, having struggled to control his a lot.” “But there is no sense to talk about his SYDNEY — Tennis enigma Goran emotions during a truly turbulent career. Almost 20 years on and now part of talent because he is one of the biggest Ivanisevic wants the naughty Nick Kyrgios “I was able to separate these two Novak Djokovic’s coaching team after talents. He is the guy who can win grand to reconcile with the outrageously gifted things: good Goran and bad Goran and guiding countryman Marin Cilic to 2014 US slams. He can beat anybody any day. Nick Kyrgios to ensure he becomes a grand they were helping each other for the first Open glory, Ivanisevic sees a lot of himself “He is, for me, the best server in the slam champion. time,” Ivanisevic told the Australian Open in Kyrgios. game. He can do whatever with the ball.” Ivanisevic remains the only player in YouTube. And he believes the new and improved But, as Ivanisevic says, Kyrgios “has his history to win Wimbledon as a wildcard, “Usually they were against each other Kyrgios showed enough during his cool demons”. having famously harnessed the talents and they created a lot of bad losses, a lot run to the Australian Open fourth round “He is getting better and better and he of “good Goran with bad Goran” for his of stupid losses. to suggest the 25-year-old is also on the will honestly regret one day if he’s kind of historic march to the 2001 title. “I lost so many matches especially way to parlaying his enviable potential into not able to change. Because the guy’s so Three-times a Wimbledon runner-up against big players — Pete (Sampras), grand slam spoils. talented, to not be able to win a grand slam before breaking through with a titanic Andre (Agassi), Jim (Courier) — tight “He has some issues deep down — he would be a shame for tennis. victory over Pat Rafter, Ivanisevic was matches but they always waited for me to is the worst for himself and I know how he “Hopefully he can change and do it ranked a lowly 125th in the world when he make some stupid, crazy mistakes. feels,” Ivanisevic said. because deep down he’s a good guy and finally prevailed at The All England Club. “But in that two weeks they (good Goran “He is fighting with 100 people, tennis needs Nick Kyrgios and Nick Kyrgios Tellingly, the Croatian hot-head said and bad Goran) were friends — enemies sometimes he wants to prove something needs tennis.”