TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PAGE 9 l l AFGHAN FAMILIES Pipiwharauroa PLEAD VACCINE Here-turi-kōkā 2021 Pukapuka: Tekau Mā Waru Panui: Waru FEATURE INSIDE TODAY DRIVE-THROUGH SET UP PAGE 3 FOR HELP e Maraetaha Incorporated, ā, e tautokohia ana hoki e Tāmanuhiri Tutu Trust, rātou ngā māngai o Ngāi INJURED INTāmanuhiri. TRUCK ROLL AT MANGATU mahi moni tēnei e mōhiotia puta noa i te ao mo te whakahoki whenua ki tōna ake āhua. I tukua te kotahi miriona tāra ki te Kaunihera E ai ki te Tumuaki Rangatira o Te whakahokinga o te whenua, te a-Rohe o Te Tairāwhiti mo te Hōtaka The 38-year-old driver of a log truck Kaunihera o Tūranganui a Nedine ngahere, te wai māori, ngā wāhi Whakahokinga i a Waingake ki tōna Thatcher, arā, mā tēnei pūtea e tapu me ngā taonga ki ō rātou ake suffered moderate to serious injuries āhua ake, arā te kaupapa rūmaki whakarewa te hokinga mai a-tikanga, āhua. early yesterday afternoon when the rākau ō mua. I whakataungia tēnei a-taiao o Waingake, hei tiaki hoki i te rig went off the Whatatutu Road kaupapa i Hakihea 2018, a kā puna wai māori mā te whakahoki i te Ko te pūtea tāpiri tēnei ki te $2 whakahokia whitu tekau ōrau o te at Mangatu and rolled into a drain. ngahere ki tōna ake āhua e hanga mahi miriona mā te Hōtaka Mahi Taiao ngahere paina o Pamoa ki ngā rākau Picture supplied ai hoki. ki te Papa Atawhai hei tautoko i te tūturu nō konei. Kaupapa o te Ngahere. Ki tā Bella Hawkins te Kaiwhakahaere He tuatahi tēnei kaupapa ki Aotearoa o Maraetaha Incorporated, nau mai Ā tēnei tau, ka rerekē te tirohanga e tautokohia ana e ngā roopu. Neke ngā huruhuru o te manu. Ki a ia, e tōtika ki te whakakore, ki te atu i te 925,000 ngā rākau tūturu nō ngakaunuitia ana e Maraetaha te whakaiti i ngā matū, ka mātaki i ngā konei ka rūmakihia ki te 400 eka i te āhuatanga ka puta. toru tau e heke mai nei. Kei a rātou ngā whakahaere utu. Tau, toanga atu hoki i te tohu o Te Wahine Tino Kaha Rawa Atu. Ko Lisa Carrington te wahine tino whai hua o Aotearoa i ngā Taumāhekeheke o Te Ao. E toru ana mētara koura i ngā taumāhekeheke Tokyo i te marama Lisa Carrington. He uri nō ngā kāwai kua taha ake, tāpiri atu ki te toru o whakaheke o Tūranganui a-Kiwa ki ngā tau kua mahue ake, tāpiri atu te taha ki tana pāpā, arā a Pat. Ko ki te toru parāihe. Nā te puku mahi, te pāpā o Pat, a Maurice, te teina te heke o te mōtuhi, me te kaha o Eddie me Bill i purei whutupōro tautoko ā tōna whanau me ōna hoa. mo ngā Ōpango. Ko tō rātou pāpā a Karaitiana (Chris) ka whakapapa Tino whakamenemene, whakahīhī ōna Kāre anō kia mutu! Ko te tirohanga ki Rongowhakaata ki te taha o tana mātua a Pat rāua ko Glynis, tōna kuia whakamua ki ngā taumāhekeheke ki māmā Te Rangi Kahiwā. Nā te tipuna a Doreen, ōna tēina, me tana taumau Parihi, ki Wiwi a te tau 2024. Haratau o Lisa a Maurice ka whai pānga ki a Michael Buck. Katahi te wahine toa! anō. A LOG truck driver was taken to Gisborne possiblyTe oneAitanga of herā-Māhaki, legs. Sheki te was marae trapped in the hoki o Tārere. He Pāpuni te māmā I riro i a ia te 2016 Halberg Awards. He iti te kōpura kai te rērere ana Hospital early yesterday afternoon after the rig truck cabo Maurice. by the nature of her injuries.”Ko ia Te Wahine Hākinakima Toa o Te mai i te puhi o te kahika. she was driving rolled on Whatatutu Road at The woman was taken to Gisborne Hospital by Mangatu. ambulance. She was treated in the emergency It happened just hours into the resumption of departmentInside this and month... discharged. log cartage from forestry skid sites to Eastland Her injuries were described by ambulance Port under an Alert Level 4 dispensation. staff as moderate to serious. Firefighters from Whatatutu, Te Karaka and The loaded truck and trailer unit rolled into a Gisborne, St John ambulance officers and police ditch and logs blocked the road for a time. responded to the incident at around 12.15pm. Police have a serious crash inquiry under way. “The 38-year-old woman was stabilised in the Gisborne Hiabs was called in later in the driver’s compartment by ambulance officers and afternoon to recover the damaged rig. then lifted out with the help of firefighters,” Meanwhile, Eastland Port was busy yesterday, Te Karaka chief fire officer Jamie Simpson said. with a queue of trucks lining up to unload over “She had suffered injuries to her hips and the day. by staff reporters be in place. Area police commander Inspector POLICE yesterday shut down a Sam Aberahama visited the hapu-led illegal checkpoint in Te community checkpoint yesterday, Araroa but have agreed to set up two which he said was illegal under the static checkpoints tracking vehicle Covid-19 alert level restrictions. Community movements through Ngati Porou rohe. “There were no issues about The Matakaoa Covid-19 response the shutdown. They accepted and group opened a community checkpoint understood the reasons why,” he said. at the intersection of State Highway During those discussions, police 35 and Pohutu Road at 8am agreed to establish two static yesterday. checkpoints. Police attended, spoke to those “They have wanted static involved and shut it down by 3pm. checkpoints since day dot. We are checkpoint A “compromise” was reached, with going to put them in to have a look police agreeing to establish two static at what the movement looks like and checkpoints in operation from today who’s moving around. — one at Okitu, Wainui, and the other “We did compromise yesterday so at Wharekahika/Hicks Bay. that we can get a better picture.” The Matakaoa Covid-19 response Police would analyse the data to group are pleased the checkpoints understand whether the people they shut down are finally in place and want them to encountered were whanau moving remain under alert levels 3 and 4. around the area, or people coming Police say the checkpoints will be into the area from outside, he said. used to analyse vehicle movements Police, response group reach compromise but cannot indicate how long they will CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-4 Opinion ..............11 Kids page ..........20 Racing ................23 Births & Deaths ...4 World...... 12-13, 17 Television ...........21 Sport ............ 24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .......... 6-10 Business ............18 Classifieds .........22 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, August 31, 2021 MIND BODY SOUL OUTWARD BOUND: Gisborne student Sabine Lapointe highly recommends young people attending an Outward Bound course at Anakiwa in the Marlborough Sounds ‘You learn a lot from putting if they get the chance. Picture supplied yourself out there and stepping out of your comfort zone’ by Avneesh Vincent With two instructors on board to guide them, Sabine and the crew of LEARNING comes from experience teens travelled 80km while carrying out and reflection, says Gisborne teen Sabine various sailing duties. Lapointe after completing her first “There were definitely some challenges Outward Bound course in July. that came with it. We slept two of our The Gisborne Girls’ High School was three nights on the boat, sleeping on the awarded a scholarship to do the “teen benches and on the floor. course”. “Covering such a distance sailing and “I did the three-week course called rowing was physically challenging as Mind Body Soul,” Sabine said. well.” My friends who had been down before The first few days were “hard” because spoke very highly of it, so when I heard they were new as a group so it took some that I would have a chance to go, I felt time to familiarise themselves and adjust excited.” to working together. Outward Bound is a non-profit “Some of them are my best friends now. organisation that has been running When you spend weeks with them doing courses to develop personal and challenging things, you tend to get close. professional skills since 1962. “I learned a lot about leadership and Located in Anakiwa, the courses how we can communicate well and lift are aimed at encouraging individuals others up so that we can all succeed,” she to realise their full potential through said. TEAM BONDING: Gisborne student Sabine Lapointe (front row left) says she has outdoor challenges — where nature is The next adventure was a solo learned a lot about leadership and communicating through an Outward Bound the classroom. camping mission in the bush. course. She was among a group of students from throughout the country who Sabine was joined by 13 students from “We were told one afternoon that we did the Mind Body Soul course. Back row (from left) are Brydhi Stark (instructor), different parts of the country. would be going solo. We all had to hike to Carys Gwynne, Osyris Morgan, Jacob Harrison, Nate Anderson, Araley Rudd, Lexas “None of us knew each other. We were the bush as a group but got dropped off Soolefai, Stephanie Verryt, Michael Tierney, Maia Mariner, Tarris Darling. Front: Sabine complete strangers.” at different spots.” Lapointe, Luke De Jong, Meg Sayers, Ellie Wilcox and Jaime Gallant (instructor). The group were taken to Anakiwa at While not distant from each other’s Picture supplied the head of Queen Charlotte Sound in camping sites, the students had to the Marlborough Sounds.