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FLOWN THE COOP

Kermit the parrot has taken off on a spontaneous adventure several times in his Gisborne life, but this time he’s flown the coop for good. A regular sight on the shoulder of bird lover Jason Davy, people- loving Kermit has headed to a farm near Auckland to live. While sad to see his gregarious mate leave, Jason is happy that Kermit has gone to a place with plenty of space to go “flyabout”. More on the adventure-seeking parrot on page 2 Picture by Paul Rickard

‘We are going to the community. We are not going to turn people away’

by Wynsley Wrigley Te Puia Springs Hospital patients manager Sandi French said the Coast will be among those immunised. Hauora Tairawhiti process was to THE region’s Covid-19 Ms Ngarimu said people who invite groups of people to complete vaccination programme will were at a distance from health a consent form and return it. “stretch outside the national services would not be distant from “Those who return the form are guidance” set by the Government the vaccination programme. contacted and given a time to be and rural residents will not be Vaccinations would start on vaccinated. disadvantaged, Hauora Tairawhiti the Coast and “inland to the “Employers will follow up to vaccine board chairwoman Kim Ngarimu west”, said Ms Ngarimu, who was make sure all their staff have the says. speaking at the launch of Toitu opportunity to be vaccinated. The vaccination of front-line Tairawhiti’s Covid vaccination iwi “After our healthcare workforce health workers started “in earnest” communications this morning. is vaccinated, our vaccination on Monday, a board spokeswoman “We are going to vaccinate the teams will concentrate on told The Gisborne Herald this community. We are not going to vulnerable people, including roll-out morning. turn people away.” the elderly, rest home residents The vaccination centre is If someone brought their nana and those with long-term health operating six days a week, “we won’t say ‘go away, come back conditions. including one late night. in a month’,” she said. “Vaccinations will be given at the Border workers, whose “We are going to the community. Vaccination Centre and for those vaccination programme started on We start on the Coast on Monday.” who can’t come to the centre in the starts February 27, and health workers Hauora Tairawhiti had also community.” have been getting immunised at extended the vaccine priority Vaccinations for vulnerable one common site, which the health programme from front-line health people are expected to start in May. board did not wish to name. workers to all health workers Hauora Tairawhiti had given But the first mobile vaccination because it was efficient to operate 779 Covid-19 vaccinations up to station starts operating at Te Puia in that manner. Wednesday, including 253 people Monday Springs Hospital on Monday. Covid-19 vaccination programme receiving their second dose. GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ...... 9 Classifieds ... 25-27 The Guide ... 19-22 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ...... 10 Television ...... 23 Sport ...... 28-32 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .. 6-8,15,18 World...... 11-14 Racing ...... 24 Weather ...... 31 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 GIS-NEY ON ICE

by Mark Peters “There were adults on the ice kids about sustainability — last night — lots of adult men. how to grow and make their GLIDING, sliding, slipping They had a ball. It’s fun for all own food,” Mrs Reynolds said. and possibly the odd flip, ages.” “We need the shed so they lutz, or axel jump graced the Based at the school until can be there for extended ice skate rink at Te Wharau Sunday, the ice skating lengths of time in all weathers. School last night. adventure is fun for all and a “We’re trying some thing a Kids and adults alike have fundraiser for the school. bit different for a fundraiser.” been loving their time on the The school’s parent/ Ice skating at Te Wharau Ice Skate Tour’s artificial ice teacher group, Tautoko, is School is open to the public surface, says Te Wharau School raising money for an on-site today and tomorrow from 3pm librarian and fundraising team garden shed large enough to to 6pm, with a disco each night member Rachel Reynolds. accommodate work benches, from 6pm to 8pm. “The kids are having a ball. gardening implements and a On Saturday and Sunday, Yesterday was fully booked teaching area. the ice rink is open from by our students and Cobham “We want to build a big shed 10am to 4pm ,with a disco on School during the day and by and revamp the vegetable Saturday night from 6pm to the public last night. gardens so we can teach the 8pm.

ALL AGES: From grown men to little kids, ice skating at Te Wharau School is for everyone as seen, left, in Pride Maumau’s concentration as she helps grinning sister Wynta snowplough across the rink.

HAPPY AS: GRACE ON Rapihana Kawha- ICE: Maia Popata is all grins Tahuri, right, is a as he relinquishes picture of calm the plastic chair as she glides balancing-aid for a past a fallen prop-free skate. comrade on the Ice Skate Tour’s Pictures by artificial rink. Rebecca Grunwell People-loving parrot spreads his wings

FROM PAGE 1 But while he will miss his chirpy help track him down. “I thought he was gone, I mean, kids as well. He’s a very social bird.” by Jack Marshall mate, Jason has not been left alone. Jason is grateful to the Payne that was the end of him.” Students drew Kermit while on his On Saturday he heads to Rotorua to family, Ian from the pet shop and A couple of hours later Te Wharau perch and some of those pictures IT was goodbye to a popular pick up an African grey parrot and he members of the community for schoolteacher Maiko Lewis-Whaanga grace the wall at Jason’s home. feathered friend this week as Kermit continues to hand-raise lorikeets. helping rescue Kermit on numerous and her son found a friendly green Jason is a self-confessed ornophile the parrot flew the Gisborne coop. Jason says the new parrot suits occasions. parrot near the museum and put a (bird lover). Normally garnering attention on him better because Kermit’s breed — He recalls one time when someone post on Facebook looking for the “Birds are my life. I’d be a sad, the shoulder of Jason Davy on his Eclectus — is a very social one, which climbed on to a Gladstone Road owner. lonely individual without them.” walks through town, the adventure- has caused him a few headaches. rooftop in an effort to help capture After returning Kermit to Jason, Having Kermit with him during loving Kermit has headed to greener “His mentality is that if I don’t take Kermit. Maiko got to take Kermit to her lockdown last year was the “difference pastures to live with a friend of him somewhere, he will take himself,” His most recent wandering turned school now and again as part of her between me being alright and going Jason’s on a five-hectare farm near Jason said. into a positive for one school. mindfulness classes. nuts”. Auckland. That gregarious nature has been “I was going over the Peel Street “They loved him, he just sat there “He’s very gentle, very intuitive “He likes being in a family an issue as Kermit has made a habit Bridge from here to town and a gust on a little perch,” Maiko said. . . . very good at picking whether environment. He loves people,” Jason of going “flyabout”, with Jason of wind took him and blew him into “He’s such a gentle-natured parrot. people are sad or not. He’s cheered said. having to call in reinforcements to the river,” Jason said. I think Kermit enjoyed being with the up so many people I’ve lost count.”

LOOKING AHEAD Vicki Coley SPORTS Sells Real Estate

• Ngatapa start their premier club rugby season against OBM while YMP meet Waikohu • Waikohu and YMP face doubleheaders in premier grade netball • Thistle are on the road in Central Federation League football while United host Havelock North in the Pacifi c Premiership • All golfi ng roads lead to Te Puia Springs this FOCUS ON THE LAND weekend for the 2021 East Coast men’s open TOMORROW SATURDAY Vicki Coley Residential Sales Consultant The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 For a free no obligation appraisal call me. Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies P 021 641 997 E [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz 32806-02 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 NEWS 3 Still seats on the SHARING INFORMATION: Associate Minister of bus for Health (Maori Health) Peeni Henare (right) with Te Runanganui PB Cup at o Ngati Porou chair Selwyn Parata (left) and Mayor Rehette Hastings Stoltz at Te Tini o Porou this morning. Mr Henare was in course Gisborne to talk about the Covid-19 vaccine roll out. RACE fans need to hurry, Pictures by Paul Rickard but there is still time to get on the bus for the Poverty Bay Cup in Hastings on Saturday. The $50,000 Vintech Poverty Bay Cup, raced over 2500 metres, is race 6 on the card at Hawke’s Bay Racing and starts at 3.23pm with 12 runners. The Poverty Bay Cup is immediately followed by the $75,000 Hawke’s Bay Cup. Tackling vaccine myths Poverty Bay Turf Club president Rod Young questions and that’s why we have experts on said the meeting had by Matai O’Connor hand to answer those,” Mr Henare said. good numbers with 115 A health worker and a port worker who have nominations. “VACCINE anxiety” is being tackled head on both been vaccinated, together with Hauora The weather was expected with Associate Minister of Health (Maori health) Tairawhiti medical officer of health Dr Osman to be good and provide for “a Peeni Henare embarking on a speaking tour to Mansoor and DHB chair Kim Ngarimu, joined nice day” of racing”. dispel myths and misunderstandings. Mr Henare to share their views on the Pfizer Poverty Bay Turf Club As part of a visit to provide information vaccine and why they believe people should get members will gain free and answer questions from people about the vaccinated. They were also available to answer entry to the members stand Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, Mr Henare spoke this questions about the vaccine and vaccination in Hastings while the morning at a breakfast hosted by the Tairawhiti programme. Gisborne public, on the bus, Iwi collective, Toitu Tairawhiti at Te Tini o Porou Mr Henare was off to Ruatoria after the will get free entry into the in Kaiti. breakfast to meet people from remote areas of racecourse. “The Prime Minister made it clear to me that Tairawhiti at Uepohatu Marae. Mr Young said he was we needed to test the mood of our whanau in “Anyone is welcome to this event, haramai, hoping for good public regard to the Covid vaccine,” Mr Henare said. it’s an open invitation for everyone to have a support as the club adjusts “This set me on a course of visiting whanau chat about the vaccine,” he said. to dramatic restructuring around the country and I have found myself in “I appreciate I can’t get everywhere today by the Racing Industry Te Tairawhiti today. but the people I have met this morning and Transition Agency which has Mr Henare said face to face contact was the will meet in Ruatoria will be able to spread the reduced the number of race best way to engage with people who might not messages I have shared,” Mr Henare said. courses in the country. read press releases or have access to social Toitu Tairawhiti have worked with their Seats on the bus can media accounts and the internet. communications teams, Turanga Health and be booked on info@ “The response to this has been Ngati Porou Hauora and Radio Ngati Porou experiencegisborne.co.nz or overwhelmingly positive. Anti-vax isn’t what and Turanga FM to develop a Tairawhiti on 021 210 3153. I have encountered while going around the iwi and communities Covid vaccination The bus leaves Makaraka country. Today there is more vaccine anxiety communications plan, to support and ANSWERING QUESTIONS: Associate Racecourse at 8.30am and — things around the where and when of the encourage people to make informed decisions Minister of Health (Maori Health) Peeni returns to Gisborne later on vaccine roll-out. and to make the right decision to receive the Henare speaking at the Toitu Tairawhiti the same day. “There have been some medical efficacy Covid vaccination. breakfast this morning. Race 1 starts at 12.30pm. Feared meth user was going for a gun

TWO Wairoa constables feared a patrol that stopped at the lagoon, a police Landing on his feet in waist-deep The officer in charge of the case said man was reaching for a gun when he drug expert, and a detective in charge of water, he said something to the effect no fingerprints or DNA were sent for refused to get out of a vehicle and kept the case. he would be better off dead. Alarmed by analysis — he considered any samples rummaging around at his feet, Gisborne The three constables told the court they the comment, especially as Paul was still from the belt bag would have been too District Court heard yesterday. stopped at the lagoon when they saw the handcuffed, the constable shifted her deteriorated by water. But the man was reaching for a bag of vehicle, as they knew its owner in the focus to getting him out alive. In an opening statement outlining methamphetamine (16.3 grams), which driver’s seat had bail conditions to be at She hid the bag under a bush and told defence issues in the case, counsel Vicky he threw into the Whakamahi Lagoon a home. him she had not found it, which seemed Thorpe said Paul accepted he possessed few metres from where he and associates He wound down the window letting out to bring him some relief. She persuaded the meth in the way the law says — he were parked when the police patrol a large plume of odourless vapour. him to help find a safe place for them knew what was in the bag and had stopped about 5am on August 21, last Suspecting it was from meth, two of both to climb out of the water. shared control over it — but his control of year. the officers decided to search for drugs She said there was a terrifying moment it was only for the brief time in which he Yesterday at the outset of a jury trial, while one of them arrested the driver for in which they both lost their footing and tried to get rid of it in the river. He was Julian Jason Paul, 38, pleaded guilty to breaching bail and took him to the patrol afterward she noticed Paul was holding a never in possession of it for supply. attempting to pervert the course of justice car. wallet. He was in the wrong place at the wrong by attempting to dispose of the meth, but A woman in the front passenger seat Back at the station, she and the other time. Paul was in the vehicle because he maintained his not guilty plea to a charge complied when told to get out of the ute constables were finally able to search the was hoping to buy some meth for personal of possessing it for supply. but Paul, who was in the back, refused vehicle in which they found another bag use from one of the other occupants. They Opening the Crown case, prosecutor and kept rummaging around in the in the footwell under Paul’s seat. were perhaps going to have a smoke Cameron Stuart said evidence of five footwell. Inspecting the belt bag, they together first but unfortunately were Crown witnesses would sufficiently prove It was too dark to see what Paul was found two plastic bags containing sprung by police due to the police interest the essential elements of the charge — reaching for. The constables feared it methamphetamine — one with 14.6 in the driver. that the substance was meth (it had been might be a gun. grams (half an ounce) of the drug, the In cross-examination, Ms Thorpe had scientifically tested), that Paul was in As they moved to a safer position, Paul other with 1.7 grams. the drug expert confirm the pipe, scales, possession or shared possession of it, and got out with a belt bag he threw into the In the wallet there was cash totalling and small snaplock bags were equally the amount involved was more than five lagoon. $2155, mostly in $50 and $20 notes. indicative of a meth user as they were of grams. He was then content to be handcuffed Among the contents of the other bag a meth dealer. Paul was guilty unless he could prove and sat down on the ground as directed. was a meth pipe, small snaplock bags Ms Thorpe had the detective in charge on the balance of probabilities it was But when he realised one of the and electronic scales — items the drug of the case confirm police did not follow more likely than not, his possession of the constables had spotted the bag with her detective said in evidence were also up Paul’s explanation at least some of the meth was not for the purpose of supply. torch and had slid down a muddy bank to indicative of drug dealing, albeit the money in his wallet was from chopping The witnesses were all police officers — retrieve it, he got up and jumped about amount of meth and cash found were the firewood, and did not send the meth pipe three constables on duty together in the five metres down into the lagoon near her. strongest indicators. for analysis. 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021

FAMILY NOTICES In Memoriam

KAA, Geneva’s grieving family seeking support Deaths Wiremu Mangai 11.8.1934 to 15.4.2019 SMITH, Tracey Lee. GENEVA Tamihana’s whanau is given months to live but lasted only — (26.6.75 - 12.4.21). Kua rua tau ke to grieving after her death at just 24. days. Loved Daughter of wehenga atu inaianei, Her partner Justin Mehana, six They were due to celebrate their Marilyn. Loved Mother engari kia matou te siblings and her parents Dawn Biddle birthday together but that last hurrah of Quintalla, Traquettta, whanau kei konei tonu and Joe Thompson/Tamihana are never happened. Ashantay, Tahneisa, koe, natemea kei te devastated following her death after “The loss has shattered us all and if Kaysha-Lee and whaka-positive fighting a rare form of cancer for 18 it’s taught us anything, it’s to see the Shakaylah. Cherished tonu-ngia e te whanau months. positive in everything that isn’t, and partner of Cyrus. nga ahuatanga katoa ahakoa te aha. Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a to be grateful for the life we are given, Adored family member cancer that forms in soft tissue, because life is too short for anything and friend to all who Miss you heaps Papa. knew her. specifically skeletal muscle tissue or less.” Tracey will lay at 67 Arohanui sometimes hollow organs such as the The whanau describe Geneva as a Paraone Road. na te whanau bladder or uterus. outgoing, healthy and hard working Funeral will be held RMS can occur at any age, but it tomboy, who always enjoyed life Friday 16th, 11am, most often affects children. regardless of the difficulties she faced. Paraone Road, followed The whanau has started a gofundme “Geneva had the most charitable by a private cremation fundraiser (www.gofundme.com/f/ heart, and proudly carried her ceremony. In-Loving-Memory-of-Geneva- authentic East Coast vibe with her Tamihana) and will gratefully receive everywhere she’d go. any community assistance for funeral- “She was an inspiration to all during Fire training exercise related expenses, grief counselling, lost this ordeal and fought the disease to FIREFIGHTERS trained at a property in of income and other expenses at this the very end.” GONE TOO SOON: The late Geneva Ormond Road again this morning, at a house set difficult time. Geneva was born at Te Puia Springs Tamihana shows her “authentic East to be demolished. The amount raised stands at $350. and lived on the Coast, Gisborne and Coast vibe”. Her whanau have started They used it to practise search and rescue Cousin Mahe Pofele said Geneva was in Auckland. a gofundme page. Picture supplied techniques. Police have also used the house over the past week. Wairoa ratepayers GISBORNE DISTRICT COURT These people appeared before injury and had no suitable address at Judge Turitea Bolstad in Gisborne which to serve an EM-sentence. District Court. The assault involved two punches to the victim’s head; the wilful damage RIRIPETI Linda Samuels, 22, was was of a cellphone for which Hokianga facing 10pc sting sentenced predominantly for driving had since arranged a replacement. charges to three months community The judge noted Hokianga had detention (with a daily curfew of 8pm – previous relevant convictions — one in by Angela Thomas, Wairoa Star relate to legislative change and just be moved to future budgets, 6am) and six months supervision. 2011 for assault and one in 2017 for compliance requirements that he said. Mandatory alcohol-interlock licensing wilful damage. SIGNIFICANT rate rises are we must adhere to. Mr Jones said the only time provisions were also imposed. ahead for Wairoa ratepayers “Our goal remains to make a business should borrow Samuels pleaded guilty to the STRUGGLING after the death of over the next four years after Wairoa the best it can be both money is if they are building charges — refusing a request for his mother and the loss of his job, a Wairoa District Council adopted now and for generations to infrastructure that will last a a blood specimen, driving while man suddenly embarked on a spate of its new financial strategy at come.” long time or the business has unlicenced, wilful trespass (on offending, the change in his behaviour an extraordinary meeting on Councillor Melissa Kaimoana significant growth. Pak‘nSave), and two breaches of bail. Tuesday. said the approach to the Long Mayor Craig Little questioned shocking those close to him, the court Judge Bolstad said while Samuels’ was told. The financial strategy outlines Term Plan (LTP) had been one Mr Borg on the rates rises previous convictions were mostly limited Wairoa District Council’s of the most honest council had exceeding the cost of inflation. Hayden Jared Wanoa, 36, pleaded to driving offences, she was starting to guilty to three charges of driving while direction for the next decade. made. Mr Borg said the real increase rack up several of them. She needed Councillors prioritised looking disqualified (all third or subsequent “I am proud of how we in costs far exceeded the rate to be mindful sentences would only get after future generations within have approached this and I of inflation. In a recent tender offences), dangerous driving, failing to the budgets. understand that the next four process for roading projects, harsher if she similarly reoffended. stop, receiving (a toolbox), cultivating This year’s average rates years will be challenging but it only two tenders were received. cannabis, and a breach of bail. increase is expected to be will help smooth out the long These exceeded council’s A MAN drove while intoxicated for He was sentenced to three months around 10 percent, followed by term future.” estimates by 40 percent, the 12th time after being told that day community detention and nine months an estimated average 8 percent Councillor Chaans Tumataroa- equating to a $2 million increase, Oranga Tamariki were removing his supervision. in the second and third years Clarke agreed on the plan he said. child from his care, counsel Leighvi He was disqualified from driving for and an average 9 percent in and pointed out the amount “The Wairoa experience is Maynard told the court. 18 months. the fourth. Thereafter, rates of time and commitment put never going to be the Auckland Lindsay John Robinson, 53, fencer, Counsel Leighvi Maynard conceded increases are projected to fall into displaying the LTP to the experience,” he said. pleaded guilty to drink-driving (excess the offending was inherently serious to below an average 5 percent community. “The cost of doing everything breath-alcohol level of 650 micrograms) but noted it happened within the space threshold. Councils had been known increases at a certain rate due to for a third or subsequent time, a charge of just a few months when Wanoa Mayor Craig Little said the to change the rates threshold our small population, remoteness of threatening to do grievous bodily was struggling with personal issues, next four years would be hard to suit their expected rates and large land area. We don’t harm and two breaches of bail. including the death of his mother and but there was light at the end of have easy access to the market.” Judge Bolstad imposed 150 hours the tunnel. loss of his employment, which left him FAR committee chair, community work and nine months “Previously we have listened Tell us what matters councillor Jeremy Harker, without a sense of purpose. to the community and kept rates to‘ you so you can be agreed, saying the budget supervision. Wanoa’s downward spiral was Mr Maynard said the threat (via text regrettably made worse by his use of affordable and as low as possible a part of planning for remained prudent while keeping because we had reserves to the level of service the same. messages) was to Robinson’s then- alcohol and other drugs, Mr Maynard achieve that. We no longer have Wairoa’s future. You “Keeping the same level of partner, who he believed was exposing said. that luxury and have to re-set may have ideas that we service is the theme that has their child to unsafe people. Wanoa’s long-term partner was our trajectory to ensure we are haven’t thought of and we come through our engagement Mr Maynard conceded Robinson had shocked by the sudden change in his in a position to look after future with the community. an extensive criminal history for drink behaviour, Mr Maynard said. generations. welcome your input “If the community now want to driving but his most recent previous Judge Bolstad noted comments in “Our strategy, which will be —Craig’ Little reduce that level of service then was in 2012, which seemed to support reports before the court that showed communicated via our Long- they will need to let us know,” he his explanation for this offence. the offending had also impacted the Term Plan 2021-31, will focus said. Judge Bolstad noted Robinson had couple’s son, who had never previously on delivering a similar level Consultation on the LTP will not been in court for any matter since experienced police visiting their house. of service to what is presently increases, said Philip Jones, run during the month of May. that previous conviction. She accepted Judge Bolstad accepted the receiving delivered as well as serving debt independent consultant to the Mr Little said it was the circumstances behind the offending and cultivation charges were relatively and replenishing reserves. council’s finance audit and risk important to hear from the and took them into account. low-level. The cannabis was eight “We have been very clear (FAR) committee. community during this process. around the huge cost increases, plants, which police accepted were for “It is good that the threshold “Tell us what matters to you so SHAMROCK Teariki Noa Hokianga well above inflation, particularly remains the target,” he said. you can be a part of planning for Wanoa’s personal use. in the Three Waters and roading “Fix what we need to do Wairoa’s future. You may have pleaded guilty to assault on a person in She set a sentence starting point of spaces. Historically the council now to future-proof the next ideas that we haven’t thought of a family relationship, and wilful damage. 10 months start for the driving matters, has absorbed these increased generations.” and we welcome your input. He was sentenced to 12 months uplifting it to 12 months for the other costs by using its reserves, While borrowing was an option “Consultation will include intensive supervision. offences. borrowing, not rating for all to reduce the rates increases, community meetings and a Judge Bolstad said the sentence was A full 25 percent discount was given depreciation, selling assets and it was not the preferred option, chance to make submissions. We the only realistic alternative to others for Wanoa’s guilty pleas and a further deferring some expenditure. said Gary Borg, the council’s invite your participation as we that might normally have been imposed 10% for his remorse and willingness to “However, to achieve financial group manager finance and face the challenges and build our — community work or an electronically address his offending behaviours. sustainability we need to be corporate support. community’s future together.” monitored option. It was appropriate to convert the rating to recover these ever- The debt would need to be A online tool will be available She accepted Hokianga could not sentence to a community based one, increasing costs, many of which serviced and the pressure would to ratepayers to calculate their do community work due to a shoulder the judge said. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 NEWS 5

by Murray Robertson up from the previous best of in the yard and on the berth 300,000 tonnes set in March is working hard to be efficient EASTLAND Port broke 2019. and safe,” he said. records for the cargo exported The result was achieved “Thank you to ISO, the and carted into the port despite 62 hours of weather port team, the truckies and Monthly port last month with the biggest delays. everyone in the supply chain monthly tallies ever recorded March saw two squash for playing their part. It’s at the port. ships and 12 logging ships go a result that we can all be The port finished its through the port. very proud of, as it helps to financial year on a high, “This is a remarkable underpin a thriving Tairawhiti record broken achieving record cart-in and achievement, particularly in economy. shipping volumes for the a year that started with huge “Forward bookings are month. uncertainty due to Covid,” said looking good, but as the In March the port shipped Eastland Group chief operating number of ships out in the bay 337,698 tonnes of wood, a new officer Andrew Gaddum. shows, we need to be able to record, beating the previous “Cart-in continues to be very berth two 185-200 metre long top monthly mark of 322,000 strong, which helped us rocket vessels at once.” tonnes, set in November 2019. past the weighbridge record. Stage 1 of the twin berth The cart-in total of 341,673 “Daily totals rarely fell below project will start in a few tonnes of logs trucked into 14,000 tonnes over the course months, with the rebuild of the port was another record, of last month, and everyone Wharf 7 and the slipway.

LAST ONE IN BEST MONTH: The logger Dry Beam Neo was the last ship to load cargo here in the record month of March. She sailed on the morning of April 1 to load further cargo in Tauranga. Picture supplied

Forum to bring veterans and services together

VETERANS’ Affairs is running a opportunity to attend seminars and getting the support they need for “We hope that this event will help us health and wellbeing forum for veterans take home tools to support independent independent daily living.” connect to veterans and their whanau and their whanau in Gisborne on April daily living. Veterans’ Affairs invites veterans to living in the Tairawhiti/East Coast 29. Head of Veterans’ Affairs the forum to learn more about their region.” In partnership with Ranfurly Bernadine Mackenzie said bringing entitlements and other support that Any New Zealand veteran Veterans’ Trust, Veterans’ Affairs together Veterans’ Affairs and other might be available to them. interested in attending can go to is bringing together agencies and organisations in one place was a great The focus is on supporting the www.veteransaffairs.mil.nz for more organisations that support vets, way for veterans to get information veterans in ways that suits them best, information, or by calling 0800 483 including the Gisborne RSA, to offer face-to-face. Ms Mackenzie said. 8372. information about support and services “We know that there’s value in sitting “We’re keen to encourage all those The forum will be held on Thursday in a “one-stop shop” for veterans and down with our veterans and talking to who served and who have Qualifying April 29 from 10am to 2pm at the their whanau of all ages. them about what they need,” she said. Service to register with us so they can Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club. Veterans will also have the “It helps us to make sure that they’re access their entitlements.

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Brenton Tarrant had sought telephone conference and was in Survivors of the mosque Tarrant is serving a sentence of appeal dismissed a judicial review, which Justice chambers, meaning any arguments shootings and relatives of the life imprisonment without parole, Geoffrey Venning was prepared to or submissions made cannot be victims were informed of the the only person in New Zealand DUNEDIN — The former doctor hear in the High Court at Auckland reported. hearing yesterday. history to ever receive the sentence. convicted of murdering a Dunedin this morning. However, Justice Venning will The hearing had no bearing on — NZ Herald teenager has died in prison. Venod Skantha died in custody yesterday — the same day his appeal against his conviction was dismissed. Police were alerted to a sudden Vaccination breakdown death at Otago Corrections Facility just before 4pm. The death is not being treated as suspicious and has been referred to the Coroner. Prison director Lyndal Miles said staff had made “every effort” to save One million jabs by June the man but were unsuccessful. An investigation by the WELLINGTON — More than one achievable and the rate that people were independent Corrections million New Zealanders are expected being vaccinated was just getting faster Inspectorate would also be carried to be vaccinated by the end of June, and faster. out, Miles said. according to the Ministry of Health’s “We can’t apply how many we have Yesterday Skantha learned his bid newly released plan. done over the last couple of weeks to how to overturn his murder conviction It comes after the Government refused many we can get done in the next couple had failed when the Court of Appeal to share its progress numbers on the of months because each week we have took the rare step of stating it was Ministry of Health website following got an increasing number of vaccinators satisfied the evidence in the case multiple requests from The New Zealand and our systems are expanding, such as proved the doctor’s guilt beyond Herald and criticism of messy handling the number of sites we have available.” reasonable doubt. of public health data. In order for every New Zealander to be In a 44-page decision roundly Today, the plan reveals a breakdown vaccinated by the end of the year, it will Harris said. dismissing the appeal, the court of the number of people who have so far mean that about one million people will To date, 135,000 New Zealanders have upheld Skantha’s convictions for been vaccinated at each District Health need the jab each month. been vaccinated across the country. murdering 16-year-old Amber-Rose Board along with a weekly target of the Petousis-Harris said again that was The most common demographic to Rush in 2018, and for threatening to number expected to be vaccinated by the doable. receive the vaccination so far are those kill four people to secure the silence end of June. “Last year with the flu vaccine roll-out, between the age of 30 and 39. More than of a witness. By June 30, the Ministry of Health 1.7 million people were vaccinated in six 21,000 in that age bracket have had their Skantha was jailed for life with expects at least 1,161,952 New or eight weeks so I think we have got first jab and more than 6000 have had a minimum non-parole period of 19 Zealanders should have received their this.” both. years for murdering Amber-Rose in first jab. She said it was a matter of getting More than 60,000 females have Dunedin on February 3, 2018. Almost half of those (497,991 people) our systems and processes working well received at least one dose of the Covid-19 “It is not necessary that we form will be from the Auckland metro region, because that’s what has been slowing us vaccine and more than 41,000 males. our own view of Mr Skantha’s guilt which accounts for about 26 percent of its down. Despite having a bigger population but we have done so. population. It’s crucial that the ministry releases than six other regions, Taranaki DHB “We are satisfied that the evidence Auckland University vaccines expert the number of vaccinators that are is planned to have the lowest coverage proved his guilt beyond reasonable Dr Helen Petousis-Harris told The available in each region and that we can with only 7 percent of its population doubt,” the court said. — NZ Herald New Zealand Herald that target was be assured we have enough, Petousis- vaccinated by June 30. — NZ Herald GET READY FOR WINTER Armed police storm luxury hotel Providing protection AUCKLAND — Armed police hotel under police guard. against complications descended on Auckland’s Viaduct this There were no reported injuries of the common cold morning after a dramatic firearms but armed police were called in as a incident near a luxury hotel and reports precaution. for up to 3 months. of gunfire. Police were making inquiries to Up to 20 police officer carrying guns establish exactly what had happened, ONLY were seen storming the Sofitel Auckland which were ongoing, said a police Viaduct Harbour lobby. spokesperson. A member of the public reported No further information was available $14.99 hearing gunfire outside the hotel. at the time of going to print. Staff inside the hotel were understood St John confirmed they were notified GET YOURS NOW! to be taking cover as the incident of an incident in central Auckland at unfolded, while others were sheltering 9.08am. Gloves and hand sanitiser during the emergency lockdown. “One ambulance and one rapid available for sale in good quantities. 33471-13 Another witness told Stuff of dramatic response unit responded to the scene but scenes with up to 20 officers carrying have not been required,” a spokeswoman Ballance Street Village guns storming the hotel lobby. said. 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WELLINGTON — Covid-19 Response Minister detailed information. At the end of the investigation into the had been under way regardless of the current Chris Hipkins says he will not be putting the 4500 “Regardless of how robust you design the situation, decisions would be made about any situation, Hipkins said this morning. workers in managed isolation facilities under system you need people to act according to the sanctions that should be applied to the person The Government had been “data matching” to suspicion due to the actions of a border security rules . . . you rely on people or their employer, Hipkins identify which MIQ workers had been tested for guard who according to the Prime Minister “was doing the right thing and said. the coronavirus. lying” about getting tested for the coronavirus. the vast majority of people Regardless of how robust But the Government is “Of those who have had the data match, more The guard is Case B in the most recent cluster, are doing the right thing. ‘ introducing new rules for than 90 percent have been tested within the and was last tested five months ago — despite a “Ultimately we have four you design the system testing data regardless. required timeframe. Of that extra 10 percent, requirement to be tested fortnightly. and a half thousand people you need people to act At a media briefing around 87 percent of them have been tested a “Border workers don’t wear ankle bracelets,” working at our managed according to the rules yesterday, Hipkins day or two late . . . that leaves only a handful of Hipkins told RNZ’s Morning Report. isolation facilities. These ’ announced it would be people they have done the data matching for who “Ultimately, we rely on employers to tell us are people who are working —Chris Hipkins mandatory to report haven’t been tested. when people worked and to verify when they hard, they are honest, they testing data to the National “One of the things they have to work through have been tested to make sure they are being are doing the right thing. Register from April 27, with the employers is if there is a reason for that tested in the appropriate cycle. People go on I’m not going to put all of them under suspicion which would make it easier to gather and check — for example, did the person not work their shift holiday. People miss shifts. People move into because at this point, one person appears to not border testing information is up to date and or is there some other factor at play here?” different roles. That sort of thing happens, have been doing the thing they should have been accurate. That “handful of people” equated to about 60 and only the employers are going to have that doing.” That work — “largely for data reporting” — border workers. — RNZ

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AUCKLAND — The world’s largest Pacific dance festival got under way in Auckland yesterday after two years of BACK AFTER disruptions. TWO-YEAR Covid-19 caused the DISRUPTION: cancellation of Polyfest last Secondary DUG 70M TRENCH TO ‘FIX’ ISSUE: year, while 2019’s festival school The councillor’s trench on Pages was cut short by the horrific students Road, in Christchurch. Picture supplied Christchurch terror attack. perform a Polyfest is the annual Maori powhiri at and Pasifika cultural highlight the start of Councillor fined for for Auckland secondary schools the popular and it started with a flag Polyfest event digging trench to raising of Pasifika and Mana in Auckland Whenua colours, before a yesterday. fix huge puddle powhiri to then welcome guests NZ Labour Party and performers. Facebook CHRISTCHURCH — A Christchurch City Polyfest director Seiuli Terri picture councillor has been fined $300 after digging a Leo-Mauu said they were trench to solve a street’s flooding problem that really excited to have the numbers attending. for the best and we know that were still important.” had gone unfixed for 10 years. festival under way after last “The Ministry for Pacific it will be great.” Without them, mused Mr Councillors Phil Mauger and James Daniels year’s Covid-19 cancellation. Peoples, who are the sponsor Minister for Pacific Peoples, Sio, ties would be lost to the hired a digger and Mauger dug the 70-metre “There’s still a lot of for our Tautalaga — our Aupito William Sio, said it was land, seas and environment, trench on Pages Road. However, the council uncertainty and a lot of anxiety speeches, have provided us exciting to be back at Polyfest putting Pacific identity at risk. had to then spend nearly $10,000 plugging his out there but, at the same with some challenging topics. after a challenging time and For festival director Ms Leo- trench due to safety concerns. An investigation time, those anxieties have So, he said it would be a sobering period for young Mauu, carrying over last year’s was launched into their actions, and the kind of been overcome by the interesting to see what the Pasifika. theme from the cancelled event council’s regulatory compliance unit fined Cr resilience of these kids and the kids have to say through their Numbers had approached was important. Mauger $300. the community that attend this performances and Tautalaga. 100,000 in previous years, with “The theme is just so The councillor, who owns Mauger’s event,” said Seiuli. Her Tonga-stage counterpart, 10,000 performers from 60 relevant this year — it’s all Contracting Ltd, which carries out earthmoving “Everyone wants (Polyfest) to James Cook High School’s Fane schools. about healing the body, mind, and construction, must also take on other red- happen but we were wanting Fusipongi Ketu’u, said it was Mr Sio said Polyfest was spirit and soul. We’re still zone maintenance work at no cost to council. to do it safely (in order to) get exciting and super busy. founded on helping Maori and coming out of a Covid climate Cr Mauger told Newstalk ZB that he might those kids back on that stage.” “Today we’re starting with Pacific cultures survive and and it’s just so relevant today.” not have gone about fixing the issue the right A deputy principal at our speech competition and thrive. “More than 60 percent Ms Leo-Mauu and festival way, but he had felt he needed to do something Mangere College, Mele we’re holding that on the of our Pacific population are chair, Robert Solomone, about it. He said the “puddle” had been the size Galenu’u Ah Sam was one of Samoan stage because the New Zealand-born, but they said they could not have of 10 football fields, and it had been a problem the Samoa-stage co-ordinators Cook Islands is using our themselves told me in 2018 got Polyfest 2021 over the for a whole decade. and said numbers had taken a Tongan stage today and that despite them being New line without the ongoing A council spokeswoman said a detailed site bit of a hit this year due to the tomorrow,” she said. Zealand-born and despite commitment from sponsors, inspection report has yet to be received for coronavirus, but he also said “It’s a different feeling them not being well versed in schools and students. landfill material. She was unable to say if the there was still much to look altogether after (a hiatus of) their Pacific languages, their Polyfest runs until its biggest telecommunication cables were live. forward to despite the lower two years, but we are hoping languages and their cultures day — Saturday. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 BUSINESS 9 OCR holds at NZ missing out on up to record low of 0.25 percent $24bn in global demand WELLINGTON — The Reserve Bank has held AUCKLAND — A report by an the official cash economics consultancy firm has found up rate (OCR) at to $24 billion worth of untapped global a record low demand for New Zealand products. 0.25 percent, Infometrics’ analysis of some key and reaffirmed exports, found there is plenty of room for easy monetary growth in wine, seafood and aquaculture, policies to wood products and logs, as well as food support the products, and identified new markets for economy through some of those products. the pandemic. Adrian Orr “For example, with something like It said the logs, where we send a lot of those across economy slowed over summer, but had to China and are obviously very highly continued to improve, and still faced an exposed to that demand in the Chinese uncertain and uneven outlook. market and how that might change “Economic uncertainty remains over time, looking for opportunities for elevated and divergences in economic diversification and trying to identify growth both within and between other markets where we may be able countries are significant,” the Monetary to build the resilience in terms of the Policy Committee (MPC) said in a export sector,” said the report’s author statement. and Infometrics chief forecaster Gareth “Short-term data continues to be Kiernan. highly variable as a result of the The report focused on the export economic impacts of Covid-19.” strengths of the Nelson, Marlborough industries’ current earnings. meet that demand, and what capacity It said the central bank was still short and Tasman areas, although the findings There was also room for growth in constraints may be in the way. of reaching its targets of sustainable relate to products on a national basis. dairy product exports, but in niche The report warned New Zealand must employment and inflation around 2 Wine had $5.3 billion of additional consumer areas such as ice cream. avoid finding itself in Australia’s position, percent. export potential, Kiernan said. “Some of the potential markets that at the mercy of China’s imposition of “Meeting these requirements will “The opportunities for growth there are were coming through there were the tariffs on some of its exports. necessitate considerable time and still very much in what we think is the likes of Saudi Arabia or Indonesia and “Suddenly, they are a lot less patience. The committee agreed that established markets, the US and the UK Malaysia, where there is potential to competitive because of those tariffs and it was prepared to lower the OCR if for example were two that came through grow those export markets. they’re having to try to scramble to find required.” quite strongly. “The numbers aren’t necessarily huge other markets for their products. It reaffirmed the $100 billion bond “Although we do seem to export a fairly but in terms of what we currently do in “New Zealand is in a similar boat, not buying programme, which aims to keep high proportion of our wine to those the ice cream space, there is potential as heavily exposed, but certainly across interest rates low, and the funding markets, we’re still not saturating them for growth there as long as we can meet some of those export products like logs, for lending programme (FLP) which at this stage.” the sort of requirements in terms of halal there is a heavy exposure to China.” offers low-interest finance to banks Wood products had the potential to production,” Kiernan said. Kiernan said good returns from for on-lending to businesses and grow by $4 billion, and seafood and He said the report highlighted the China might work in the near term, but households. aquaculture by $3.2 billion. Growth potential demand for main exports, but exporters needed to consider medium However, it said stronger inflation of that kind would quadruple those did not consider whether producers could term risks. — Radio NZ pressures that had been recorded in business surveys were being driven in part by temporary factors such as supply chain disruptions and higher oil Harts scoop up ice cream brand stable prices, which they would discount. As part of its new instructions from the Government, the MPC said it had by Aimee Shaw, NZ Herald 2015. It will add an looked at the effect of its policies on the additional 350 staff housing market, and accepted they were Fast moving consumer goods business to Walter & Wild. a factor driving house prices higher. Walter & Wild has acquired Emerald “This is a major “Other factors are also influencing Foods Group for an undisclosed amount. acquisition for house prices including the impact of The business, jointly owned by rich our business and low global interest rates on all asset listers Graeme and Harry Hart, will an avenue into prices, constrained housing supply and bring premium ice cream brands New an attractive infrastructure, land use regulations, Zealand Natural, Killinchy Gold, Zilch growth sector tax policies and the broader recovery in and Chateau, along with the licence to of the FMCG, aggregate demand.” operate the Movenpick brand in New foodservice and It repeated the RBNZ’s long-held Zealand, into the fold alongside Walter retail markets,” view that monetary policy is targeted at & Wild’s portfolio of supermarket brands Harry Hart Hart said. “It inflation and employment. Hubbard’s, Gregg’s, Aunt Betty’s, I Love is a good news strong commercial relationships with our Financial markets were little moved Food, Hansells and Alfa One. story, bringing a New Zealand-founded suppliers.” by the statement. ASB chief economist Walter & Wild founder and owner business with well-loved brands back into Emerald Foods was estimated to have Nick Tuffley said the central bank had Harry Hart said the acquisition was New Zealand ownership.” generated between $60-$80 million in stuck to the expected script. significant for the business, which was Isi Tupou, chief operating officer of annual revenue, according to a report by “We continue to expect the RBNZ will founded through the acquisition of Walter & Wild, said the acquisition Coriolis in 2018. remain on hold until August 2022, with Hubbard Foods, Hansells Food Group, was “a highly positive result for both Companies Office records show the the balance of probabilities tilted to a Greggs and I Love Food. businesses”. ultimate owners of Walter & Wild are later start than that.” The acquisition will return New “As always, we are committed to Harry Hart and his father Graeme. Harry Some economists are forecasting the Zealand-founded Emerald Foods Group providing high-quality products at high Hart owns 33 percent of the company, OCR will stay on hold through to 2025. to New Zealand ownership after it was service levels for all customers and while Graeme owns the remaining 67 — NZ Herald sold to a Hong Kong-based entity in distribution channels, while maintaining percent majority stake.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY Contact was up 24c or 3.26 percent to $7.61 on from Purdue University suggested that a2 trade worth $28.4m, and Meridian increased 26c milk may cause fewer symptoms of lactose or 4.49 percent to $6.05 on trade worth $30.6m. intolerance. WELLINGTON — The New Zealand programmes running through to June next year. Solly said the market was becoming Arvida rose 6c or 3.53 percent to $1.76 sharemarket had a late surge after trading Shane Solly, portfolio manager with baffled by “the wrong-way trades” as the two following a report outlining the growth flatly for most of the day as the Reserve Bank Harbour Asset Management, said the bank iShares Global Clean Energy exchange-traded opportunities in the aged-care sector; but signalled business-as-usual in its monetary was continuing to hold the line by keeping its funds complete their selling and rebalance Ryman Healthcare fell 14c to $14.86. policy. monetary policy very stimulatory and there was their weightings in Contact and Meridian by Pushpay Holdings rebounded 5c or The S&P/NZX 50 Index closed 0.75 percent little response from the market. tomorrow. 2.59 percent to $1.98 after being told by a broker ahead at 12,751.38, after moving from an “The bank is taking a wait-and-see approach, “Their prices are going up and they should be that it didn’t make the most of its opportunities intraday low of 12,656.42. and there are a few challenges ahead, such as going the other way,” he said. “We will see how in the United States last year. There were 85 gainers and 55 decliners what will happen to the housing market and things go over the next two days.” Manuka honey producer Comvita fell 7c or over the whole market on steady volume of what will be the impact of the transtasman travel Synlait Milk rose 13c or 3.8 percent to 2.10 percent to $3.26 a day after upgrading its 56.15 million share transactions worth bubble,” said Solly. $3.55; Infratil increased 11.5c to $7.01; Scott full-year operating earnings forecast. $193.13 million. The bank said it would look at current Technology climbed another 10c or 4 percent Software-as-a-service firm Geo was subject The Reserve Bank maintained its “loose and inflation pressures, with these largely being to $2.60; Argosy Property was up 6c or to a price inquiry from the NZX’s NZ RegCo easy” policy, as expected, with no changes to driven by temporary factors, including supply 3.53 percent to $1.51; and Vista Group picked up and it said it was complying with continuous the 0.25 percent official cash rate, the funding chain disruptions and high oil prices. 9c or 3.95 percent to $2.37. disclosure obligations. Geo’s share price rose for lending scheme and the $100 billion cap on Of more concern to the market was the A2 Milk continued to recover, rising 6c to 1.2c or 10.26 percent to 12.9c, an increase of large-scale asset purchases — the latter two continuing rise in the leading energy stocks. $8.95. A new North America scientific study 27.5 percent since March 24. — NZ Herald 10 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 EDITORIAL The ‘crater’ effect of rent controls A complex effort by Julian Wood breeding the normalisation of corruption. Either way around the controls. Additional “pool way you lose. cleaning”, “lawnmowing” fees or service charges lacking direction WITH the median weekly Rent controls do create some winners. appear. At its worst, an off-record cash economy rent in the Wellington region Incumbent renters are protected from high rents emerges. This might lead to further enforcement The Ministry of Health and the climbing to $600 in February, and price increases over time. For these lucky or regulation changes, which leads to an Government have known for several and rents skyrocketing similarly few there can be an ongoing financial windfall. escalation of new avoidance mechanisms. All this around the country, it is not months, since Pfizer was first to But this windfall has a dark side. Studies have undermines transparency and breeds corruption. surprising that rent control shown that this can “lock” renters into houses If we really want to help the housing situation signal a successful phase three trial has been proposed as a way that are bigger than they need when life and in New Zealand, instead of arguing for rent for its Covid-19 vaccine on November to protect vulnerable renters from rapacious family circumstances change, as moving to a controls, we should actively work to increase 9, that they had to prepare for the landlords. It’s such a shame then that this simple smaller, newer place would mean a new, more the supply of housing, which means supporting country’s biggest ever immunisation and easy “fix” is also a very bad solution. expensive lease. This is wasteful. proposals for more dense housing in historically campaign in 2021. The reality is that rent controls work against It also turns out that for everyone else (aside leafy, open suburbs. Some students might They also knew this was a strong good long-term housing solutions. Indeed, as the from the lucky few above) rent controls make consider studying in alternative but comparable possibility long before that, and that Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck famously them worse off. Lower rents mean that there are universities where rents are much lower. As Stuff a successful vaccination campaign summarised: “In many cases rent control appears fewer incentives to build new houses in rent- recently reported “the average weekly rent for a was the key to getting us through to be the most efficient technique presently controlled areas. Developers also face restricted flat bedroom in Ilam (in Christchurch), $143, is known to destroy a city — except for bombing.” the restrictions and the economic finance options when it comes to rebuilding almost half what Wellington students pay.” The reasons behind the quote are varied or renewal. Fear that the rent control areas will The costs and risks associated with rent and human costs of the pandemic. but boil down to the fact that rent controls spread over time means that fewer houses are controls, however, should give us pause when It has become increasingly clear (setting a maximum rental price for a property built in adjacent areas. Overall a smaller, poorer considering their use. Overall, what appears as in recent weeks that they have or even a maximum price increase for rental quality and more expensive housing stock a simple solution to high rents ends up making not prepared adequately — from accommodation) end up lowering the quality emerges. everyone worse off. keeping the public in the dark about and supply of housing available, and eventually The alternative, once rent controls have been ■ Julian Wood is a senior researcher at vaccination targets, and primary create rent-controlled ghettos. The alternative introduced, is for a grey market to develop. Auckland-based, conservative-oriented think tank healthcare providers in the dark is that a quasi-illegal housing market develops; Landlords and prospective tenants find their the Maxim Institute. about their role, to only just seeking the urgent employment of key staff LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND ONLINE COMMENTS for the roll-out. Pay rate that Obviously there was an urgent focus on procuring vaccines at On the carbon footprint of humans the end of last year, and what was reflects work achieved probably rates an equal Re: Leave them a habitable rise versus 0.45 percent 3.8bn tonnes. So while the global planet, April 14 column. CO rise? Sounds to me like population has risen 395 percent first alongside the communications Re: Fruit harvested, work 2 for the unemployed — April Could we at least try to humans have been doing from about 2bn to 7.9bn, our around a successful first ever 13 letter. get our maths right? A rise a fantastic job of limiting emissions are up 13,160 percent — nationwide lockdown, that stopped And the other half of the in CO2 levels from 307 parts emissions. This means, and the carbon footprint per human the coronavirus in its tracks in New minimum wage? Kept by the per million to 420 parts per according to your figures, that is more than 3.3 times higher. The Zealand, as the Government’s best growers, I presume. million is not a rise of more modern humans have a carbon discrepancy between emission response to the pandemic. Maybe the growers should than 1 percent a year. Roughly, footprint less than one-sixth rises and atmospheric CO2 levels The pivot to potentially using only pay the full minimum wage to from my head, it is a total rise the size of previous humans. is largely explained by the fact our the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the beneficiaries who are keen of about 40 percent, which oceans are soaking up vast amounts the programme has also proved a to go to work. translates to a yearly average CRAIG BAULD of CO2, and suffering for it. good one as this new type of mRNA Stop looking for cheap of about 0.45 percent. Humans have been emitting Furthermore, since you less per person since 1990. Total vaccine has the highest efficacy, labour. Pay a salary that Footnote from Ed: Humans reflects the work that needs were born in 1932, Bob, the have done a terrible job of limiting greenhouse gas emissions then and no safety issues have emerged to be undertaken and maybe human population has risen emissions since 1930, Craig. Today were around 35bn tonnes and the with hundreds of millions of doses more people would take up the from about 2 billion to about the world’s total greenhouse gas global poulation was 5.3bn people. now administered globally. opportunity. 7.5 billion, a rate of nearly 3 emissions are around 50bn tonnes So since 1990 global emissions have The uncertain timeline of percent per year. of carbon dioxide-equivalents each risen 40 percent while the global vaccine arrivals will have been a JOHN ADAMS Three percent population year, while in 1930 it was about population has risen 49 percent. complicating factor for planning the roll-out . . . but they knew it was coming, and the Government surely Opposing views on ‘rail reality’ Cognitive bias, also knew from multiple reviews that it had to triple-verify all information Re: It’s a rebuild, not your own wharf and give it points south is a classic coming to it from the Ministry of repairs — March 30 letter. to another. example of what should not be specialist areas Health around systems that were Thank you Merv, the If Bob and Ruby want to happening. vital to our pandemic response. facts are that the Gisborne see a choo-choo train, drive World governments have Re: Rebuke for vaccine post, April 9 to Wairoa line has been to Auckland and get on already expressed their urgent article. Here in Tairawhiti some will be disused, left to rot and slide the Auckland-Wellington concerns regarding fossil-fuel Let’s not be too hard on Meredith. questioning why all healthcare staff, downhill caused by erosion, train — have a real holiday, emissions and are currently We all suffer from a cognitive bias including back-office workers, have sleepers left rotting and because your dream of promulgating processes to called the Dunning-Kreuger effect: the opportunity to get vaccinated misaligned, huge drop-outs Gizzy to Wairoa is, sorry, further reduce those issues. “People are typically overly optimistic now before our Covid-vulnerable which would cost $millions not a reality. Hydrogen and electric-powered when evaluating the quality of populations, from next month. to repair, bridges to be vehicles are the way forward and their performance on social and A couple of explanations would replaced to come up to 2021 KEN OVENDEN in the case of KiwiRail it will be intellectual tasks. In particular, poor be that they are the easiest to standards, no loading yard electrification of the rail network. performers grossly overestimate their start getting vaccines into, and that except for Wairoa. Here we go again, MG and all The Government needs to performances.” our elderly can now get their flu And Gisborne, economic? his anti-rail attitude. wrest back control of KiwiRail What should concern us is the Trucks still have to bring One has to remember what from the current (truck favouring competence of our elected policymakers vaccine — available to them from logs out of the forests, as this is all about is the future and and background) CEO and walk in specialised areas, especially in yesterday — and have the two-week there are no rail branch climate change. the talk. technical subjects like infectious separation required before getting lines to Gizzy. Why then The Government has stated The Gisborne line lying disease. I wonder what other health their Covid-19 vaccine. double-handle, when you its climate change policies, one unused is in itself a national policies could be impacted by decision- While that second point makes have the logs on-site ready being fossil-fuel reduction. disgrace. makers who lack expertise? sense, your editor notes that an to load. More important, Countless exhaust-belching enquiry to Hauora Tairawhiti late last do not take the trade from trucks leaving Gisborne for CLIVE E. RIVERS, Whanganui DOUG SMITH month over the flu vaccine roll-out [email protected] was met with the response that they didn’t have much information yet — ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. and where is the campaign to get flu ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. vaccines into our elderly who want ■ Always include full name and contact details. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. them as fast as possible? ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 WORLD 11 Talks of attrition unwelcome Vienna offers not worth looking at: Iran’s supreme leader

DUBAI — Iran’s supreme leader on Saudi Arabia, a regional rival to Iran, Wednesday dismissed initial offers at similarly issued a statement, saying talks in Vienna to save Tehran’s tattered enriching at that level “could not be nuclear deal as “not worth looking at,” considered a programme intended for attempting to pressure world powers after peaceful purposes.” It called on Iran to an attack on the country’s main nuclear “avoid escalation”. enrichment site. Iran insists its nuclear programme The comments by Ayatollah Ali is peaceful, although the West and the Khamenei, who has final say on all International Atomic Energy Agency matters of state in the Islamic Republic, (IAEA) says Tehran had an organised came after a day that saw Iran’s military nuclear programme up until the president similarly ratchet up pressure end of 2003. over the accord. European powers An annual US intelligence report meanwhile, warned Tehran its actions released on Tuesday maintained the were “particularly regrettable” and American assessment that “Iran is not “dangerous.” currently undertaking the key nuclear The talks have already been thrown weapons-development activities that we into disarray by a weekend attack on judge would be necessary to produce a Iran’s main Natanz nuclear enrichment nuclear device.” site suspected to have been carried out by Iran previously had said it could use Israel. Tehran retaliated by announcing uranium enriched up to 60 percent for it would enrich uranium up to 60 percent nuclear-powered ships. However, the — higher than it ever has before but still Islamic Republic currently has no such lower than weapons-grade levels of 90 ships in its navy. percent. Iran had been enriching up to 20 “The offers they provide are usually DISMISSING OFFERS: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wearing a protective percent — even that was a short technical arrogant and humiliating (and) are face mask, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday. Khamenei said that the step to weapons-grade levels. The deal not worth looking at,” the 81-year-old offers being made at the Vienna talks over his country’s tattered nuclear deal “are not limited Iran’s enrichment to 3.76 percent. Khamenei said in an address marking worth looking at.” Picture supplied by Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP Iran’s envoy to the IAEA, Kazem the first day of the holy Muslim fasting Gharibabadi, posted a letter online month of Ramadan in Iran. behind the Natanz attack and threatened Late on Wednesday, the European addressed to IAEA Director-General He also criticised the US and warned to retaliate. Union said formal negotiations would Rafael Grossi warning against “any time could be running out. In Jerusalem at a Memorial Day resume on Thursday in Vienna. adventurism by (the) Israeli regime” “The talks shouldn’t become talks of commemoration, Israeli Prime Minister Rouhani in his comments on targeting Iranian nuclear sites. attrition,” Khamenei said. “They shouldn’t Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to Wednesday insisted Iran is still hoping “The most-recent cowardly act of be in a way that parties drag on and reference Iran. that the Vienna talks lead to a negotiated nuclear terrorism will only strengthen prolong the talks. This is harmful to the “We must never remain apathetic to the settlement over its programme — and our determination to march forward and country.” threats of war and extermination of those the accompanying lifting of punishing to replace all (damaged) centrifuges with Speaking to his Cabinet, an who seek to eliminate us,” he said. Israel sanctions. even more advanced and sophisticated impassioned Iranian has not claimed the Khamenei also said he believed in his machines,” Gharibabadi wrote. President Hassan attack, though it negotiators, but kept up the pressure on IAEA inspectors visited Natanz on Rouhani said the You wanted to make our rarely does in its the West in his remarks. Wednesday on their first trip since the first-generation IR-1 ongoing shadow war “They must do what we say first, and sabotage and found Iran preparing centrifuges that were hands‘ empty during the talks against Tehran. when we are assured that it’s done, then an above-ground area for the higher damaged in Sunday’s but our hands are full — 60 The talks in Vienna we will do what is we are required to do,” enrichment, the agency said. attack would be percent enrichment is an are aimed at finding he said. Iran has “almost completed replaced by advanced a way for the United France, Germany and the UK — all preparations to start producing (uranium IR-6 centrifuges that answer to your evilness. States to re-enter parties to the nuclear deal, only hours gas) enriched up to 60 percent,” the IAEA enrich uranium much — Hassan Rouhani’ Tehran’s nuclear earlier issued a joint statement on said in a later statement. faster. agreement with world Wednesday expressing their “grave “Iran informed the agency that the “You wanted to powers and have Iran concern” over Iran’s decision to increase necessary pipework was being finalised make our hands comply again with its enrichment. and that feeding of (uranium gas) empty during the talks but our hands are limits. “This is a serious development since the enriched up to 5 percent into a cascade full,” Rouhani said. The accord, which former President production of highly enriched uranium of IR-6 centrifuges would start soon Rouhani added: “60 percent enrichment Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew constitutes an important step in the thereafter.” is an answer to your evilness. . . . We the US from in 2018, prevented Iran production of a nuclear weapon,” the The weekend attack at Natanz was cut off both of your hands, one with IR-6 from stockpiling enough high-enriched countries said. “Iran has no credible initially described only as a blackout in centrifuges and another one with 60 uranium to be able to pursue a nuclear civilian need for enrichment at this level.” the electrical grid feeding above-ground percent.” weapon in exchange for the lifting of China and Russia also took part in the workshops and underground enrichment Rouhani also accused Israel of being economic sanctions. deal. halls — but later Iranian officials began Queen returns to royal duties Coastguard search for survivors after death of Prince Philip from Louisiana capsized ship

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has returned Squadron sailing club on the Isle of Wight off PORT FOURCHON — The he said: “We are hopeful. We can’t do to royal duties, four days after the death of her England’s south coast. Prince Philip was a Royal Coastguard searched for 12 people this work if you’re not optimistic, if husband, Prince Philip, as preparations stepped Navy veteran and keen sailor. missing off the coast of Louisiana on you’re not hopeful.” up on Wednesday for his ceremonial funeral on His funeral will take place on Saturday at Wednesday after finding one person Lafourche Parish President Archie the weekend. Windsor Castle, with attendance limited to 30 dead and pulling six survivors from Chaisson III said time is critical in The 94-year-old British monarch attended a because of coronavirus restrictions. rough seas when their commercial vessel the rescue effort because more rough retirement ceremony for a senior royal official Although it is a scaled-down service because capsized in hurricane-force winds. weather was in the forecast. on Tuesday, according to the Court Circular, the of the pandemic, hundreds of servicemen and Coastguard Capt. Will Watson said “The hope is that we can bring the official record of royal engagements. women from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, winds were 130 to 145kmh and seas other 12 home alive,” Chaisson said. The royal family is observing two weeks of Army and Royal Air Force will take part in the were 2.1 to 2.7 metres when the Seacor Marion Cuyler, the fiancee of crane mourning for Philip, who died last Friday at funeral procession, and Philip’s coffin will Power lift vessel overturned. operator Chaz Morales, was waiting the age of 99. The palace has said members of be borne to St. George’s Chapel at the castle “That’s challenging under any with wives and family of other missing the royal family will “undertake engagements on a specially adapted Land Rover, which he circumstance,” Watson said. workers at a fire station near a landing appropriate to the circumstances” during the designed himself. “We don’t know the degree to which site where helicopters were coming and mourning period. Military personnel rehearsed for the event on that contributed to what happened, going. She said she talked to her fiancee Princess Eugenie, Philip’s granddaughter, paid Wednesday at Army Training Centre Pirbright, but we do know those are challenging before he left on Tuesday. tribute to her “dearest Grandpa” and promised to near London. One of four Royal Marines buglers conditions to be out in the maritime “He said that they were jacking down look after “Granny”. who will play “The Last Post” at the service said environment.” and they were about to head out, and The queen attended a ceremony at Windsor it was an “honour and privilege” to perform the The bulky vessel with three long legs I’m like, ‘The weather’s too bad. You Castle for Lord Chamberlain Earl Peel, who has role. it can lower to the sea floor to become need to come home.’ And he’s like, ‘I retired as the royal household’s most senior “It’s incredibly important. We feel nervous,” an offshore platform flipped over on wish I could.’” official. He oversaw arrangements for the funeral said Sgt. Bugler Jamie Ritchie. Tuesday afternoon miles south of Port The relationship of all on board to of Prince Philip, also known as the Duke of “We feel the pressure, but we’re channeling Fourchon, a major base for the US oil ship owner Seacor Marine was not Edinburgh, until handing over to his successor that and we’re using that and we’re going to and gas industry. immediately clear. The ship, which days before the duke’s death. deliver an outstanding performance.” One worker was found dead on the can work in up to 59 metres of water, The queen and Philip’s daughter, Princess Since Philip’s death his four children have all surface of the water, Watson said at a can carry a crew of 12, two “special Anne, made a public appearance on Wednesday, paid tribute to him, as have grandsons Prince news conference on Wednesday. Asked personnel” and 36 passengers, according visiting young sailors at the Royal Yacht William and Prince Harry. — AP about the prospects of the missing crew, to the company website. — AP 12 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 Floyd died of a heart problem says expert

MINNEAPOLIS — George Floyd died enlarged heart, his high blood pressure, PAYING TRIBUTE: of a sudden heart rhythm disturbance as his drug use, the stress of his restraint, Visitors browse a result of his heart disease, a forensic the vehicle exhaust, and a tumour or a memorial to pathologist testified for the defence on growth in his lower abdomen that can George Floyd as Wednesday at former Officer Derek sometimes play a role in high blood a new addition Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting pressure by releasing “fight-or-flight” commemorating experts who said Floyd succumbed to hormones. Daunte Wright is a lack of oxygen from the way he was Fowler said all of those factors could displayed outside pinned down. have acted together to cause Floyd’s heart Cup Foods on Dr. David Fowler, a former Maryland to work harder, suffer an arrhythmia, or Wednesday in chief medical examiner and now a abnormal rhythm, and suddenly stop. Minneapolis. member of a consulting firm, said the Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell launched an AP picture fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s aggressive cross-examination, attacking system, and possible carbon monoxide Fowler’s findings down the line. He got Blackwell also noted that the squad car showed that his airway was still open. He poisoning from auto exhaust, were Fowler to acknowledge that even someone was a gas-electric hybrid, that Fowler had also testified that Chauvin’s knee was not contributing factors in the 46-year-old who dies from being deprived of oxygen no data on how much carbon monoxide applied with enough pressure to cause any Black man’s death last May. ultimately dies of an arrhythmia. was actually released, and that the expert bruises or scrapes on Floyd’s neck or back. “All of those combined to cause Mr. He also got Fowler to admit that he witness didn’t even know if the engine And he said that Floyd did not complain Floyd’s death,” he said on the second day didn’t take the weight of Chauvin’s was running at the time. of vision changes or other symptoms of the defence case. gear into account when he analysed The prosecutor also got Fowler to agree consistent with hypoxia, or insufficient Fowler also testified that he the pressure on Floyd’s body. Further, that it would take four minutes to cause oxygen to the brain, and that he was would classify the manner of death Blackwell all but accused Fowler of irreversible brain damage if the brain is coherent until shortly before he suddenly “undetermined,” rather than homicide jumping to conclusions and suggesting to starved of oxygen, and that insufficient stopped moving. “The bottom line is, as the county’s chief medical examiner the jury that Floyd had a white pill in his oxygen can cause the heart to stop. moving air in and out, and speaking and ruled. He said Floyd’s death had too many mouth in the video of his arrest. Fowler “And if a person dies as a result of low making noise is very good evidence that conflicting factors, some of which could denied saying that. oxygen, that person is also going to die the airway was not closed,” Fowler said. be ruled homicide and some that could be Blackwell also attacked Fowler’s ultimately of a fatal arrhythmia, right?” Chauvin, 45, is charged with murder considered accidental. testimony about carbon monoxide, which Blackwell asked. and manslaughter in Floyd’s death Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson is trying displaces oxygen in the bloodstream of Fowler responded: “Correct. Every after his arrest on suspicion of passing to prove that the 19-year Minneapolis people who breathe it in. one of us in this room will have a fatal a counterfeit $20 at a neighbourhood police veteran did what he was trained Under questioning by the defence, arrhythmia at some point.” Fowler further market. The video of Floyd gasping that to do and that Floyd died because of his Fowler said carbon monoxide could have agreed that Floyd should have been given he couldn’t breathe as bystanders yelled illegal drug use and underlying health contributed to oxygen depletion in Floyd, immediate attention when he went into at Chauvin to get off him triggered problems. noting that he was facing the tailpipe cardiac arrest because there still was a worldwide protests, violence and a furious Prosecutors say Floyd died because the end of a squad car. But Floyd’s blood was chance to save him at that point. examination of racism and policing in white officer’s knee was pressed against never tested for carbon monoxide. A number of medical experts called by the US. The defence hasn’t said whether Floyd’s neck or neck area for 9½ minutes “You haven’t seen any data or test prosecutors have said Floyd died from a Chauvin will take the stand. as he lay pinned to the pavement on his results that showed Mr. Floyd had a single lack of oxygen because the way he was Earlier on Wednesday, Judge Peter stomach, his hands cuffed behind him and injury from carbon monoxide. Is that restrained restricted his breathing. Cahill turned down a defence request his face jammed against the ground. true?” Blackwell asked. But Fowler said that Chauvin’s knee on to acquit Chauvin, rejecting claims that Fowler listed a multitude of potential “That is correct, because it was never Floyd was “nowhere close to his airway” prosecutors failed to prove Chauvin’s factors: Floyd’s narrowed arteries, his sent,” Fowler said. and that Floyd’s speaking and groaning actions killed Floyd. — AP Former officer faces charges over killing of Black motorist BROOKLYN CENTRE — A white police officer “justice must prevail” after Wright’s death. who shot dead a Black motorist in Minnesota “A badge should never be a shield to has been charged with second-degree accountability,” he tweeted. manslaughter, prosecutors say. On Tuesday night, bottles and other projectiles Officer Kim Potter has been arrested and will were thrown at the Brooklyn Centre police be held in custody. headquarters and officers responded by firing Quarter Potter says she shot Daunte Wright tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets. accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun Earlier on Tuesday the families of Wright and instead of her Taser. Floyd came together to demand an end to the Marathon Responding to the charges, the Wright killing of unarmed Black Americans by police. OR 5.6KM I SUNDAY, APRIL 18 family’s lawyer Ben Crump said the killing was “The world is traumatised watching another an “intentional, deliberate, and unlawful use of African-American man being slain,” Floyd’s force”. brother Philonise Floyd said. Both Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon have On Monday, Police Chief Gannon said the quit the Brooklyn Centre force. The killing has shooting of Wright — who had a one-year-old sparked three nights of clashes between police son — appeared to be an “accidental discharge” and protesters. after Potter mistook her service pistol for a stun It happened in a suburb of Minneapolis, a gun. city already on edge amid the trial of a white But the families have rejected the explanation. ex-police officer accused of murdering African Wright’s aunt Naisha said: “I watched that American George Floyd. video like everybody else watched that video. Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension That woman held that gun in front of her a long (BCA) said Potter had been arrested on damn time.” Wednesday morning at the BCA in St Paul and Daunte Wright was pulled over for an expired would be booked into Hennepin County Jail on tag on his car licence plate. Family members and probable cause second-degree manslaughter. advocates say he was racially profiled. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 Bodycam footage showed Wright fleeing years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Prosecutors from officers after they told him he was being must show that Potter was “culpably negligent” arrested for an outstanding warrant. and took an “unreasonable risk” in her actions, As Wright re-enters his car, officer Potter is Reuters reported. heard shouting “Taser” several times before In a statement, Crump said “no conviction can firing a shot. give the Wright family their loved one back”. Wright’s mother Katie told reporters her son “A 26-year veteran of the force knows the had called her after he was pulled over and that difference between a taser and a firearm. Kim she had offered to give insurance details to Potter executed Daunte for what amounts to police over the phone. no more than a minor traffic infraction and a She said she heard police order him to get out misdemeanour warrant,” he said. of the vehicle. There was a scuffling sound and After the charge against Potter was an officer told him to hang up the phone. announced, Brooklyn Centre Mayor Mike Elliott When she was eventually able to call back, tweeted: “Daunte Wright like many other black his girlfriend answered and told her he had been and brown members of our community should shot. Proudly be alive and at home with his family today.” “She pointed the phone toward the supporting

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A Malayan truck driver was sentenced to “Even though justice has now tiger cub named Indrah was also 22 years in prison yesterday for been served in relation to the born in December at a zoo in Tulsa, hitting and killing four police actual collision, no amount of Oklahoma. Raising the two subspecies officers on an Australian freeway. punishment can replace the loss together will help them develop after Mohinder Singh was drug- of our loved ones and the missing their mothers would not care for them, effected and sleep-deprived place at our tables that will be felt zoo officials said. Amur tigers, also when his truck veered into an by us for the rest of our lives,” said known as Siberian tigers, are found in emergency stopping lane of Andrew Prestney, father of Joshua the far east of Russia and northeast Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway Prestney, one of the four officers. China and are considered endangered. where three policemen and a “We are consoled by the fact Malayan tigers are found in the policewoman were standing after that our four will not be forgotten Malaysian peninsula and are critically stopping a speeding car on April as we continue to carry them in endangered. 22 last year. our hearts,” he told reporters. Picture supplied by Cleveland The four died at the scene. The driver of the speeding Metroparks Zoo via AP Singh, 48, pleaded guilty in the Porche that the officers had Victoria state Supreme Court last stopped, Richard Pusey, will be year to four counts of culpable sentenced in the Victoria County driving causing death, three Court on April 28 after pleading charges of drug trafficking and guilty to several charges. ‘It was a disaster’ one of possessing illicit drugs. Pusey used his phone to video Justice Paul Coghlan sentenced the officers as they died and was Singh to 22 years in prison, described by his sentencing judge, backdated to the day of the Trevor Wraight, last month as accident when he was taken into “probably the most hated man in Niger elementary school fire kills 20 children custody. Australia.” He must serve at least 18½ The truck missed hitting Pusey NIAMEY, Niger — A fire to the building itself. Destroyed already destroyed the classrooms years before he can apply for because at the time he was fuelled by high winds swept classroom furniture lay scattered by the time firefighters arrived at parole. urinating at the side of the road. through an elementary school on in ash on Wednesday. the scene. Coghlan said the crash had But the truck destroyed his car the outskirts of Niger’s capital, “It was a disaster,” said The cause of the fire was “shocked the public conscience.” and a police car. killing 20 children, hospital Oumarou Gounssa, the director under investigation and it was The judge described footage of the Witnesses at the scene urged officials said on Wednesday. of the school. “Never in Niger not immediately known where it crash scene as “chilling.” Pusey to help, but he shrugged The pupils — between have we seen a fire like that in a started. However, teachers and “The grief of those close to them off, saying “they’re dead.” the ages of 7 and 13 — were school, and it was during school parents said on Wednesday that the victims is profound and life- He pleaded guilty to outraging attending class at the time the hours. We are truly sorry about the deaths highlight the dangers changing,” Coghlan told the court. public decency, speeding and blaze erupted around 4pm on the loss of lives.” of temporary classrooms set up “Such grief is heightened by the reckless conduct. Tuesday. Authorities said the Parents were still waiting for outside. Straw huts are often sudden and unnecessary nature of He also admitted possessing fire spread quickly through the their children’s remains to be used to make room for students the deaths.” ecstasy, after returning positive school grounds, where some 2000 returned, Elh Abass Souley, whose in overcrowded schools. It was the largest loss of tests for both ecstasy and students attend classes. two sons died in the fire, said. The “It is important that from here police lives in a single event marijuana at the time he was Straw huts that housed some of inferno spread so quickly that one the authorities stop the classes in in Victoria. Singh had taken pulled over. He faces a potential the school’s classrooms outdoors mourning father, who identified straw huts,” the National Union methamphetamine and other drugs maximum sentence of five years in were completely burned, while himself only by his first name, of Teachers of Niger said in a before the crash and witnesses prison. — AP there was significant damage Abdoulaye, said the fire had statement. — AP

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KINGSTOWN — Leaders of volcano- some shelters need food and water, wracked St Vincent said on Tuesday and he thanked neighbouring nations that water is running short as heavy for shipments of items including cots, ash contaminates supplies, and they respiratory masks and water bottles and estimated that the eastern Caribbean tanks. In addition, the World Bank has island will need hundreds of millions of disbursed $20 million to the government dollars to recover from the eruption of La of St Vincent as part of an interest-free Soufriere. catastrophe financing programme. Between 16,000 to 20,000 people Adam Billing, a retired police officer have been evacuated from the island’s who lived and tended to his crops on land northern region, where the erupting near the volcano, said he had more than volcano is located, with more than 3 acres of plantains, tannias, yams and 3000 of them staying at more than 80 a variety of fruits and estimates he lost government shelters. more than $9000 worth of crops. Dozens of people stood in lines for “Everything that (means) livelihood is water or to retrieve money sent by gone. Everything,” said Billing, who was friends and family abroad. Among those evacuated. “We have to look at the next standing in one crowd was retired police couple of months as it’s not going to be a officer Paul Smart. quick fix from the government.” “The volcano caught us with our pants The volcano, which had seen a low-level down, and it’s very devastating,” he said. eruption since December, experienced “No water, lots of dust in our home. We the first of several major explosions on thank God we are alive, but we need Friday morning, and volcanologists say more help at this moment.” activity could continue for weeks. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said Another explosion was reported on in a press conference on local station DEVASTATING SITUATION: Ash rises into the air as La Soufriere volcano erupts on Tuesday morning, sending another NBC Radio that St Vincent will need the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Falling ash and pyroclastic flows have massive plume of ash into the air. It came hundreds of millions of dollars to recover destroyed crops and contaminated water reservoirs. AP picture on the anniversary of the 1979 eruption, from the eruption but did not give any the last one produced by the volcano until details. urged them to evacuate. “The windward (eastern) coast is our Friday morning. A previous eruption in He added that no casualties have been Falling ash and pyroclastic flows have biggest challenge today,” he said during 1902 killed some 1600 people. reported since the first big blast from the destroyed crops and contaminated water the press conference outlining efforts “It’s still a pretty dangerous volcano,” volcano early on Friday. “We have to try reservoirs. Garth Saunders, minister of to deploy water trucks. “What we are said Richard Robertson with the to keep that record,” he said. Gonsalves the island’s water and sewer authority, providing is a finite amount. We will run University of the West Indies’ Seismic said some people have refused to leave noting that some communities have not out at some point.” Research Centre. “It can still cause communities closest to the volcano and yet received water. The prime minister said people in serious damage.” — AP

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by Ella Stewart, RNZ were in the spaces who were coming space for the south Asian community. back to Prayas — like myself — were “Prayas is important because we AUCKLAND — A new show not being reflected in those stories make the room to tell those south written during one of the Auckland and it was just that simple. Asian stories. And over the recent lockdowns explores familiar “The local flavour was missing.” past we’ve also started collaborating relationships, gender norms and As the plays were written during with other groups who sit in the intergenerational conflict, bringing a lockdown, Ms Chatterjee said it margins of New Zealand society. I love south Asian stories to the stage. brought about common themes. the idea of the margins being brought First World Problems 3.0 is showing “The four-scripted works — well, into the centre of the book . . .” for two weeks at the Basement theatre all but one because that’s the Many of the cast members were in Tamaki Makaurau. disrupter — are about memory, about not formally trained or professional It has been produced by Prayas reflection.” actors. Theatre — New Zealand’s largest “And you can imagine everybody Sananda Chatterjee said there south Asian theatre collective. sitting there in lockdown, doing was a lot of room for learning and Prayas Theatre has been bringing nothing, hanging out on Zoom and development. south Asian shows to New Zealand just having so much time and space. “This is what First World Problems for 16 years; however, this time south For some people, it was fine. Like, I is about — we are in training and Asian-Kiwis have been enlisted to tell just baked and I watched TV . . . there’s development going on for their stories. “But for others, their creative everybody. We have internships going First World Problems 3.0 is four, minds went to dark places.” in the production side of things.” newly-scripted, bite-sized plays and “A lot of our writers are also Actor Jehangir Homavazir spent ‘LOCAL FLAVOUR WAS MISSING’: Prayas theatre director and two new short devised works. migrants . . . their families are in far- the past three years studying acting curator, Sananda Chatterjee, said local stories and voices were This is the third iteration of the flung places, such as India, which at Toi Whakaari and this was his first much-needed. Picture supplied by Auckland Theatre Company play, which had two sold-out seasons we haven’t been able to go to (due to project since graduating last year. He in 2018 and 2019. the pandemic). There’s all that kind said the cast of the show was like a in that environment and seeing how enough cultural performing arts Director and curator Sananda of (emotional) stuff, so when you sit family. we’re getting these stories out more representation and showing what Chatterjee said the local voices and there with all that kind of thing on “I think my favourite part is being and more into the world.” usually goes on in Indian culture, so stories were much needed. your mind, but you’re also not able surrounded in a community of other Actor and founding member we wanted to bring quality work to “We were only telling stories that to do a lot, I assume that that’s why brown faces, with brown people Sudeepta Vyas said this show and the New Zealand and share it with a wider were written elsewhere and not the scripts have veered towards a backing you as well, because the work that Prayas does was incredibly audience and that’s why we perform covering the aspect that was home- (similar) sort of stylistic content.” writers are also all South Asian and important for their community. only in English — so we can reach grown, more and more of us who She said it was all about making Pacific artists, so it’s wonderful being “We just felt there wasn’t every single person in this country.”

Drunk driver Unlawful checkpoints six times over the legal limit Police admit illegal gathering of information DANNEVIRKE — A man escaped a jail sentence when he appeared for sentence in Dannevirke District Court by Hamish Cardwell and Jordan Bond, RNZ on a drink-driving charge. Matthew Ronald Whiteside, 47, was WHANGAREI — Police in Northland charged with driving with a breath- have admitted that for years they have alcohol level of 1835, more than six been unlawfully using road blocks to times the legal limit of 250mcg of gather intelligence. alcohol per litre of breath, on High The police watchdog has found the police Street, Dannevirke on January 4. illegally detained a woman and breached Counsel Alan Cressey said he didn’t her privacy by photographing her and her think he had ever seen such a high partner at a checkpoint in Northland in reading. 2019. He said Whiteside had driven to the In November 2019, police set up BP petrol station to pump up a flat checkpoints near a “fight night” event in tyre. Ruakaka they knew would be attended by Whiteside was stopped by police at a large number of gang members. 8.55pm. The Independent Police Conduct “You were stopped because of Authority said officers checked IDs, the manner of your driving. It goes warrants and registrations, and breath- without saying that you were highly tested people. intoxicated,” Judge Lance Rowe said. Those they suspected were attending “There would have been people the fight event, or were in gangs or were going about their business at the time associates — including the woman referred of day. It’s a miracle you didn’t kill to in the IPCA report who is not a gang someone.” member — were asked to pull over and Judge Rowe noted Whiteside had they and their vehicles were photographed. IPCA FINDINGS: Photographs taken by Northland police at a road checkpoint in 2019 three previous convictions but said The IPCA said police used the legitimate have been ruled unlawful by the Independent Police Conduct Authority. RNZ picture the last was in 1996. checks allowed under the Transport Act “Clearly you have some issues as a “pretext for intelligence gathering”, He said while the police have said sorry productive. going on.” which was “disingenuous” and unlawful”. to the woman, they have not apologised to “Where (police) make it clear that they He said one of his roles as a judge It said the woman was illegally detained the others whose photos were taken. associate a bunch of people in a community was to keep the community safe. and her privacy breached. The woman said she believed the police or in an area with the actions of some, “With a breath-alcohol level that Northland Police District Commander thought it could get away this type of that does very little to build trust and high a judge would be entitled to Tony Hill said the tactic has been used for action because Maori in Northland were understanding between the community impose a term of imprisonment to years. used to being treated this way by officers. and police — the kind of trust and sense of keep the community safe.” He said the officers were acting with the In his finding, IPCA judge Colin Doherty safety that police need to have to be able to Judge Rowe sentenced Whiteside best of intentions. acknowledged they never would have do their job properly.” to three months’ community detention, “They thought they were doing the right known about the practice if she had not An RNZ investigation has revealed imposing a 7pm to 7am curfew, and 12 thing and they had no perception that complained. officers are approaching young Maori months’ intensive supervision. what they were doing was unlawful. Criminologist Juan Tauri said it beggars who had done nothing wrong and Whiteside was ordered to undertake “But the consequences to us is that we belief the top brass did not know it was photographing them, collecting their drug and alcohol treatment in a have made sure that we are not doing unlawful. personal details and sending it to a residential facility if necessary, but he it (any more), and that any photographs “Ignorance of the law is no excuse and national database. told the judge he had already done so. taken from this event have been destroyed. that should apply for the police. It led police to conduct a nationwide He was disqualified from driving for “We are going back through to check if “They should know if what they are internal probe into the way it gets, uses 28 days and ordered to apply for an any others (had been taken unlawfully doing is legal or not, before they do it. and stores pictures of young people and interlock licence. The interlock device in previous checkpoints) . . . we will be “And they do not have the excuse that adults — and a separate review into how would immobilise his vehicle if it destroying those as well.” most of us have . . . because we don’t live it collects, stores and manages information detected alcohol. Hill said he believed New Zealanders and work (with) the law as they do every generally. Judge Rowe said Whiteside would wanted the police to tackle gangs. day. The IPCA and Privacy Commissioner be disqualified until he applied for the “I actually think the public would expect “They have even less excuse not to be are also reviewing the police practices of interlock which would stay in place for us, not to break the law, but to go out and upholding our rights as citizens.” photographing people. 12 months. He would then be able to to make sure that we are very conscious of He said he believed this type of practice Judge Doherty said the Northland apply for a zero alcohol licence which who is associating with known organised was happening nationwide. findings would be fed into this wider would remain for three years. crimes groups and doing something about Criminal justice reform advocacy group review. “This needs to be the last time you the damage that organised crime groups JustSpeak’s director Tania Sawicki-Mead The findings of the IPCA and Privacy appear in court.” — Hawke’s Bay Today do in society.” said this type of policing is counter- Commissioner are expected in September. 16 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 17 THIS SUNDAY Quarter Marathon OR 5.6KM I SUNDAY, APRIL 18 I 9.30AM Enter now to win amazing spot prizes

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Huringa Pai #964MoveWhanauHeart 18 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 Eight gannets Roading rage: frustration shot dead at Muriwai Beach as key projects flounder AUCKLAND — An investigation has been launched after eight gannets were shot dead at the gannet colony by Phil Pennington, RNZ at Muriwai Beach, on Auckland’s west coast. WELLINGTON — A half-a- The dead takapu were discovered billion-dollar pothole in road last month after Auckland emerged funding has been patched over from its Alert Level 3 lockdown. but key projects remain in Auckland Council principal ranger jeopardy. of regional parks, Stephen Bell, Money is especially scarce for said testing and x-rays showed the State Highway improvements, gannets were shot with pellets, — public transport infrastructure most likely from an air rifle. and the Government’s flagship Some were shot multiple times, he safety strategy Road to Zero. said. This has come at a crucial The Department of Conservation time when the country’s (DoC) and police were investigating. transport plans for the next CCTV footage from the area in the three years are being drawn Transport Minister Michael days leading up to the discovery was up, and as Waka Kotahi NZ Wood. RNZ picture by Dan Cook being provided to the investigation Transport Agency (NZTA) tries teams, Mr Bell said. to find new revenue sources However, that is, in part, just “Volunteers from within the amid a funding review. playing catch-up from recent community have spent countless Western Bay of Plenty mayor underspending: by 3 percent hours protecting the birds from Garry Webber spent Tuesday and 7 percent, respectively, introduced predators and we never morning in a meeting of the on highway and local road would have seen the need to protect Western Bay of Plenty’s roading maintenance in 2019-20, them from people,” he said. committee. He emerged newly accompanied by a 30 percent Like all native wildlife, gannets are doused in exasperation. underspend on cycling and protected under the Wildlife Act. “Our frustrations are at walking, with many projects The maximum penalty for killing bursting point,” he said. suffering from Covid disruption MONEY’S TOO TIGHT TO MENTION: The Wellington region’s protected wildlife is up to two years in “We just keep on getting among other things. major road and commuter rail links are concentrated along prison, or a fine of up to $100,000. kicked to the back of the queue. Things had looked worse two transport corridors, State Highway 1 to the west, and State Anyone with information was being And this is regardless of which still in February, when NZTA Highway 2 to the east. However, on the road network a number of urged to contact police. — RNZ political party has been in play.” warned councils it faced “a very pinch points, including Ngauranga Gorge interchange, and a lack of Katikati has fought for 30 difficult situation”, and would alternative routes limit the capacity and resilience of the network, years for a bypass to get big start the three-year period particularly at peak times. Above, the SH1 and SH2 Ngauranga Hospital overload trucks off the main road that $250m in the red. Interchange. RNZ file picture by Dom Thomas does dangerous double duty as It also faced a $500m hole by Belinda Feek, NZ Herald the State Highway link to the when just trying to meet bare- Port of Tauranga. minimum demands. In the national transport of NZTA’s finances had been AUCKLAND — Patients are being “Like all things, that will go Local Government New programme for the past three patchy. forced to wait for help in the back of into the concrete mixer, and Zealand responded to that with years (2018-21), project targets But the agency told RNZ ambulances at several emergency I wouldn’t be at all surprised a policy note, telling councils were regularly missed, with, it had been “advising for departments (EDs) at the country’s if it comes out the back end, that maintenance and public ironically, budgets regularly over a year that there are biggest hospitals as demand ‘Sorry, hear your frustrations. transport faced an “acute being underspent — sometimes significant funding constraints skyrockets. But there is no money’,” Mayor funding crunch”. because a road-builder could not for the 2021-24 National Land The waits are affecting patients Webber said. It said it had been raising the be found. Transport Programme”. who require medical assistance upon “It’s almost a charade. Every alert since mid-2020 about the Nelson is caught in a stop- NZTA is aiming to increase arrival at Auckland City, Middlemore three years we have to go pressures building on councils start dance trying to sort out total transport investment 15 and Christchurch hospitals. through this process of doing to meet their share of the three- its nightmare of tangled roads percent, including the $7bn of St John said the “average” wait a hell of a lot of, you know, year-plan costs (typically 50 around the port. Covid-19 projects. time was between 30 and 45 minutes executive and councillor time percent on local roads). “We’re getting a bit tired of It has been looking for on Monday night. working out what our priorities The $500m hole now appears our issues always being the can months for new sources of However, there have been reports are. to have been plugged, from that gets kicked down the road,” revenue, with help from that some patients have had to wait “And as I said this morning, NZTA revenues rising to $13.5 Mayor Rachel Reese said. the Transport Ministry and up to two hours. the 2004 document, the 2007 billion from $13bn. “We have a very narrow Treasury. The pressure on EDs has been felt document, nothing’s changed.” “And the forecasts may State Highway route around Mr Crosby said the funding all year, and St John was concerned These meetings are taking continue to improve,” an upbeat our waterfront that carries mechanism was fundamentally that pressure was only likely to place throughout the country, Transport Minister, Michael the bulk of heavy transport broken. For example, he pointed increase as winter approaches. as council regional transport Wood, said. to the port and from the port. to the reliance on taxes on fossil “St John Ambulance was in committees work on regional “Overall, transport It’s a dangerous place to cycle fuels, when motorists were extremely high demand all day land transport plans to add to investment today is at record and walk. It’s an incredibly being told to go electric. in Auckland and Christchurch on NZTA’s national plan. levels. However, there will unpleasant place to do those “We’re still hearing from Monday, and that demand surged for But they are working under always be more projects than it things.” mayors up and down the staff on the night shift — from 6pm an even darker cloud than is possible to fund,” he said. They carried out a decade of country, who are absolutely to 6am,” St John general manager of usual. The “record high” of $21bn is planning with NZTA, but the frustrated with the whole ambulance operations, Stu Cockburn, The Transport Agency, its bolstered by $7bn of Covid-19 agency has advised the project, national transport funding said. revenues hit by Covid-19, has rescue money which is focused including a Rocks Road walking system.” Extra Government funding last warned there was “very limited on a few select transport and cycling path, is running How priorities were set was year meant St John could create new funding” and “very little room”. projects, mostly in Auckland significantly behind time. a problem, as was just finding roles for Extended Care Paramedics Ninety percent of revenue and Wellington, although “We need to move to the next contractors, Mr Crosby said. (ECPs) — experienced staff who until 2024 was already including a new stretch of State stage,” Mayor Reese said. Road funding was prone to could support patients with urgent, committed to existing projects, Highway south of Katikati. Mayor Reese is calling on the political influence, too, he added. unscheduled primary healthcare or just to keep the wheels The South Island councils are Government to put more money “It’s a confusing system.” needs in their own home, thereby turning. suffering from FOMO — the towards roading in the Budget The national system would saving the need for an ambulance or “This leaves very little room fear of missing out — as they, next month. insist on rigorous criteria, then hospital admission. for project-related spend above mostly, are forced to compete for “Our local road network is “suddenly a handout will arrive” Last year, St John trained 20 ECPs the bottom of the activity the regular fund away from the actually carrying much of the with different thresholds. to work in some of the bigger cities. class for State Highway Covid billions. load of the State Highway “This has been going on for 20 However, patients were still Improvements, Road to Zero, “Certainly looking at North because it’s so compromised. years by various governments, obviously sent on to hospital if Public Transport Infrastructure, Island roads, they do look in “What we want is for Waka and many of them are political their condition was deemed serious Rail and Coastal Shipping,” a better state generally than Kotahi to make a sound decisions . . . you have two sets enough, or they were referred to their NZTA told councils. ours do,” Tasman deputy mayor investment in their network.” of criteria operating at the same GP. Planning could be a road Stuart Bryant said. Councils have until June to time. It needs to be sorted — Mr Cockburn said the pressure to nowhere; as Stuart Crosby, He chairs the South Island’s submit their plans, with NZTA and sorted quickly.” not only on their staff but on their head of Local Government New overarching regional transport telling them it was “critical” However, the signals about resources too was usually at its peak Zealand, puts it: “We know, at committee. that they sharpen their pencils. the funding mechanism of in winter. this point in time, that many “This is more frustration However, at the same time, NZTA are confused. However, that peak had already projects will not get over the coming to us from NZTA. the agency told RNZ that, on NZTA said it had almost started now, which was a real line. Particularly in the State “Obviously, they’re not getting average, the signs were that completed a review ordered by concern in terms of what may yet Highway area — in the growth the funding from Government, councils were asking for a fifth the former Transport Minister occur this winter. areas in particular.” or they haven’t been,” Mr more money than they got in Phil Twyford, who said in 2019 “We are working with our District NZTA is expecting more will Bryant said. the last three-year period — it must find a new model. Health Boards and health colleagues be spent on highway and local “No one really wants more with some asking for up to 70 The agency in its statement to develop plans to better manage road maintenance, and on public of the same. Everyone’s got percent more. to RNZ gave nothing away, such these periods of excessive demand transport services — as opposed projects that they’ve been Mr Crosby said as whether motorists might see — on a system that is currently under to infrastructure. waiting on for some time now.” communication about the state fees and charges rise. pressure.” Arts & Entertainment Thursday, April 15, 2021

CINEMATIC JAZZSCAPES: The musicians might be pictured here in squares but the Carnivorous Plant Society’s exciting, FEEEEEEEDatmospheric music is well outside the box. Picture supplied ME

by Mark Peters cadences and nostalgic vocal UK-based band The Julie Dolphin roots in classical piano and AC/DC harmonies, an ironic pedestrian was chosen as Radiohead’s guitar solos. “I USE the words ‘world rhythm with pizzicato before it opening act in The Bends tour. CPS’s Tour Of Oblivion, which psychedelic’ — but I change that changes direction again invokes Back in New Zealand and with brings the band to Gisborne quite a lot,” says Carnivorous Plant the frothiness and fast-talking The Bads and Brett, he performed this month, is a celebration of Society frontman Finn Scholes of flippancy of a 1960s rom-com set with artists such as Tim Finn, the launch of The Plants, an EP the genre-eating band’s sound. in Rome, say. El Perro no Puede Rodriguez, The Exponents and dedicated to the continent of South “We have a lot of material and Entrar on the other hand could Tami Neilson. America. these (the band’s musicians) aren’t be a nightclub version of Mexican Top session drummer and Stories told in live performance the original members so our music music played by highly polished percussionist for much of his are echoed visually by Scholes’ can take different directions. musicians. professional career in Melbourne; hand-drawn, naive-styled, surrealist “It’s exciting.” In fact, CPS is all about highly now drummer, congas, vibraphone cartoons with a whiff of cartoonist The filmic soundscapes and polished musicians. and marimba player for CPS, Leunig’s existentialism. Along with lush orchestral pop Carnivorous “I feel like we’re the best in the Michael Barker played with top the band’s distinctive sound they Plant Society (CPS) produces from country,” says Scholes. artists Tim Finn, Neil Finn and the promise “dystopian futures, alien an arsenal of instruments that Scholes has played trumpet, John Butler Trio. On return to New empires and trans-dimensional includes marimba, vibraphone, keyboards and vibraphone Zealand he formed Swamp Thing. travel will unfold and your mind is congas and brass, lends itself professionally for the past 15 years Multi-instrumentalist Sean guaranteed to melt”. not only to “world psychedelic” and has performed with acts such Martin-Buss, who has performed but invokes something of 1950s as Tiny Ruins, Hopetoun Brown, with groups such as Scuba Diva, ■ Carnivorous Plant Society, and 60s movie soundtrack jazz. Lawrence Arabia, Neil Finn, The The Beths, Hans Pucket, Dead Smash Palace, Friday April Or cinematic jazzscapes, as one Rodger Fox Big Band and the Little Penny, Blackbird Ensemble, 23, 8pm. Tickets $20 from reviewer has described the band’s Auckland Chamber Orchestra. and Creme Jean, specialises in eventfinda. CPS is brought sound. Guitarist Brett Adams started his improvisational/experimental music to Gisborne by Arts On Certainly a song like The Baby, music career with pop sensations as well as jazz and old fashioned Tour NZ InCahoots with which opens with vibraphone The Mockers. His co-created, rock ‘n’ roll, but owes it all to his Smash Palace. 20 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021

Minerva, Ovid called you

“goddess of a thousand works”.

Medicine, arts, handicraft and poetry.

But, I ask, is Metis, your strange

weaponising mother still around?

Something tells she might be.

Did she have a hand in forging GOOD FIT: With a degree in theatre arts, her own theatre, and years on the US’s Entertainment Service and Technology Association board, Evolution a vibroblade, a new weapon Theatre Company managing director Dinna Myers is now administrator for Drama NZ. Drama NZ is the national subject association for drama teachers in New that I, in this poem, choose Zealand. Members include primary, secondary and tertiary teachers. “I have a lot of experience with association work,” says Myers. “My role is to manage comms to put in your hands? Not that and help set up meetings and conferences.” After recently passing a Level 3, Entertainment Technology New Zealand certificate programme for theatre operators, I want to set you to old wars, Myers received an ETNZ newsletter with an advertisement that sought a Drama NZ administrator. “The job description was the story of my life,” says Myers. “It feels or new ladies. Let us be done like a right fit.” File picture with that and with wisdom,

better things to do. I beg of

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS you a great deed. Wave that

THE set for Evolution Theatre’s vibroblade as sisters in arms production of Steel Magnolias awaits its WEAPONS actors — and its audiences — who can to the new pestilence. In the enjoy the Elizabeth Boyce-directed show from tonight. OF THE service of medicine for all-kind. UNI-FI released their long-awaited We would welcome it as yet music video for Parasite this week. View it via shortcut tinyurl.com/hmxatw26. On FUTURE your greatest battle. Saturday the rockers play support to Tool Tribute band, The Grudge at Smash Palace. by Benita H. Kape FOR a night of non-stop, Queen anthems But rather, keep you both like We Will Rock You, Radio Ga Ga, and Bohemian Rhapsody, not to mention the a steady hand as vaccinations spectacle of lighting effects and dazzling costumes, don’t miss out on getting go on. This is our future tickets to tribute show It’s a Kinda Magic, which hits the War Memorial Theatre stage AT THE SALON: The set for Evolution and beyond. Thursday next week. Theatre’s production of Steel Magnolias. Autumn crafts fair ArtsGuide VISUAL ARTS

raft is a broad contemporary and unique ■ Oil painting workshop with Roger church, art historian artworks — stained glass Shanks CDamian Skinner works, individually Bring paints and canvas or board and lunch. once told The Guide. handcut artworks, acrylic Lysnar House, Saturday April 10, 9.30am. “There is amateur craft, paintings, custom-order Cost $40. To ensure a place on the course craft people made in pencil portraits, handmade contact Kath Mclaughlin at mikecat52@ wartime such as rag rugs cards, framed gmail.com or call 867 5366. and chairs made from native bird photographs/ fruit boxes; stuff men do in prints which their sheds, what we did in are also available on cards. ■ Manu Tukutuku woodwork at school.” “. . . A wide choice of work Toihoukura, Maia Gallery. Opens April 14. At the professional end of by jewellers who create the craft spectrum is pottery, pieces with unique beads, jewellery, and glassware — polymer clay, silvers and ■ Liminal Space and chances are there will mixed metals. For green An installation by Cyndy McKenzie. be a bit of both at Arts & gifts you can find kawakawa Tairawhiti Museum until April 26. Crafts Gisborne’s autumn balms, citronella candles, crafts fair on Sunday. beeswax products and even More than 16 members some local honey. ■ Hoea! Gallery and artisans will exhibit a “With Mother’s Day Contemporary artworks, 67 Gladstone Road. wide range of handmade coming up in early May, this creations that includes could be a great opportunity pottery, wearable arts, to start looking for special ■ Passport Collection – VHoy Creative quilted, hand-dyed and gifts.” Vee Hoy’s photographic exploration of knitted items, batik dresses, diversity in identification. Tairawhiti cardigans, pants, merino ■ Autumn Crafts Fair, Museum until April 25. scarves, wooden wares and Poverty Bay Bowling Club, woodturning, writes Karen Sunday, 9.30am-2pm. Pinn. Free admission. EFTPOS ■ Works Flight Path – Nova Avni “There will also be some will be available. Woven art collection based on traditional raranga techniques, mixed with wild Israeli ARTS AND CRAFTS: A handcrafted doll will be among organic weaving. Tairawhiti Museum until items at Arts & Crafts Gisborne’s autumn crafts fair on May 9. Sunday. Picture supplied The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 21 ThisWeek

NOCTURNES: Internationally celebrated ■ The Grudge and The Devils concert pianist, chamber musician, and Rejects: Tool & Rob Zombie educator, Dr Jian Liu performs nocturnes, Tributes plus Uni-Fi written by a range of composers, in Gisborne this month. Picture supplied Smash Palace, Saturday, 8.30pm. $20 cash-only door sales.

■ Cosmopolitan Club Hypnotist show, Wednesday, April 21. $10 per ticket, available from the club office. 13 years+.

COMING UP

■ Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic Immerse yourself in the spectacle, grandeur and energy of the world’s greatest rock band with Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic, celebrating the legacy of Queen and Freddie Mercury. War Showtime Entertainment presents Memorial Theatre. Thursday, April 22, Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic 8pm. Tickets from i-SITE or ticketek. Thursday, April 22nd, 8.00pm

■ Carnivorous Plant Society Smash Palace. Friday, April 23, 8pm. Tickets $20 from eventfinda.co.nz

■ Nocturnes Performed by Victoria University head of piano, Dr Jian Liu. Tiromoana, 41 The Boss: Bruce Springsteen Winifred Street, April 24 at 2.30pm. Tickets $25, students $10. For Tribute Show reservations, phone 868 6443 or email Saturday, May 1st, 7.30pm tiromoanasummerconcerts@gisborne. net.nz

■ The Boss - Bruce Springsteen tribute show Nine-piece ensemble rocks out the hits and masterpieces of the Boss. War Memorial Theatre Saturday, May 1, 7.30pm. Tickets from i-SITE or ticketek. The NZ String Quartet, 4 Suits & a Soprano ■ Fiesta Latina Sunday, May 2nd, 8.00pm Dome Bar, Saturday May 1, 9pm. BrazilBeat spin Latin beats. Tickets: presales $10 cash from Aviary, $15 cash door sales. The stillness of the night ■ Sunday concert series Sixteen-year-old piano virtuoso by Mark Peters Dr Jian Liu — concert pianist, Ashani Waidyatillake performs works JUST ANNOUNCED by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and n the stillness of night, our senses chamber musician, and educator. Showcase Entertainment presents Franck. Tairawhiti Museum, Sunday, are opened up to mystery and May 9, 2-4pm. Entry $10 adults, $5 Ibeauty, writes pianist Dr Jian Liu BORN in China and educated in China Floyd Live in notes for his programme composed of and the USA, Liu is an internationally Friends of the Museum, and free for Saturday May 22nd, 7.30pm students (with ID) and children. nocturnes. celebrated concert pianist whose artistry Selections include works by has taken him to some of the world’s composers such as Irish pianist John most prestigious concert halls. Among ■ The Chills — Scatterbrain album Field, American pianist and conductor them are Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, release tour Samuel Barber, Polish composer and and Steinway Hall in New York. He has The Dome, May 9, 7pm. Tickets, virtuoso pianist Frederic Chopin, also featured as a soloist with orchestras earlybird $32+bf, $40+bf. and New Zealand composer Gillian such as the Symphony Orchestra of Whitehead. National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine, Liu, who performs in Gisborne China National Symphony Orchestra, THEATRE this month, describes nocturnes as Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, New “intimate, dreamy, wistful, mysterious, Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and Yale ■ Steel Magnolias melancholic, nostalgic, and sensual”. Philharmonia. Dancing for Life Education While the term “nocturne” had been Dr Liu is now programme director of Evolution Theatre Company, 79 Saturday, May 29th, 7pm Disraeli St. April 15 – 25 7.30pm, used prior to the 19th century, the classical performance and head of piano genre of the dreamy nocturne for piano studies at the New Zealand School of Sunday matinees 4pm. Tickets, adults Centrestage presents $30, seniors and u/17 $26 from solo was a romantic invention, writes Music in Wellington. Gisborne i-SITE, trybooking.com, Liu. Grease The Musical “Unlike many nineteenth-century or at the theatre 45 minutes prior to June 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, showtime. genres defined by form, the nocturne right hand playing a clear, vocally- was defined by character, evoking inspired melody, and the left hand 7.30pm moods and feelings of night time. playing an arpeggiated, undulating June 19th & 26th, 2pm & 7.30pm ■ Fearless Fridays Improv Comedy “The reputed inventor of the nocturne accompaniment more instrumental June 20th, 3pm Club was John Field, an Irish-born composer. in nature), and a fine attention to But it is Frederic Chopin who is held resonance and colour, often achieved Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, Wonderland Glow Show $5 at door. up as the undisputed master of the through widely-spaced registers, says genre. The musical characteristics of Liu. Tuesday & Wednesday the nocturne suited Chopin’s shy and “While some of the nocturnes revel August 10th & August 11th ■ Nunsense sensitive nature. There are several in nocturnal bliss, others explore the 10.00am & 11.30am Musical Theatre Gisborne, 99 Innes 19th-century accounts of the exquisite more mysterious or even sinister sides Street. May 15-22. Tickets from sounds Chopin produced with his of night time.” i-SITE or eventfinda. intimate performing style, and of the imaginative (inner) sounds he induced in the minds of his listeners.” ■ Nocturnes — performed by Dr

Got something going on? Works selected for Liu’s concert Jian Liu. Tiromoana, 41 Winifred 37648-11 Tickets on sale from Gisborne i-SITE Let The Guide know at programme feature some or all Street, Saturday April 24, 2.30pm. qualities of vocally-inspired melody, a Tickets $25, students $10. For [email protected], Accepting bookings for functions, feeling of improvisation, an attention reservations, phone 868 6443 or or telephone 869-0635 to silence and space, a clear separation email tiromoanasummerconcerts@ events, meetings and conferences. of hands and their functions (the gisborne.net.nz Email [email protected] 22 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 FilmGuide

ODEON MULTIPLEX ■ The Father ■ Six Minutes to Midnight Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play father and Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench daughter in this study of a star in film about an English steadfastly independent man finishing school for girls from gradually losing more and influential families of Nazi more of himself to dementia. Germany, and a teacher’s warnings of sinister motives. ■ Two by Two: Overboard! ■ Ascendant Adrift on a flood, two misfit castaways struggle to reunite A young environmentalist an unorthodox family, out- wakes, trapped, kidnapped in run a volcano, and negotiate a the elevator of a super high- peace deal on a creaking Ark. rise building at the mercy of her tormentors. ■ Godzilla vs Kong ■ Tom and Jerry: The Movie Mythic adversaries do battle A WHOLE NEW WORLD: With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, over the fate of the world. bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonise a distant planet. Live-action/computer- AP picture via Lionsgate animated hybrid where the ■ Cousins cat-and-mouse stars of the Three Maori cousins are old theatrical short-film series separated in childhood. One created by William Hanna is placed in an orphanage and Big questions and lofty ambitions and Joseph Barbera get lives out her childhood in another feature-film outing. fear and bewilderment, saved by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer racially diverse, suspiciously Part of that is likely due to ■ Girls Can’t Surf only by her imagination. Her attractive geniuses for this first “the blue” which makes everyone cousins at home never give up The fight by female surfers hoping that she will return. he most surprising thing generation and shoot them off docile and emotion-free, but even to be taken seriously is about Voyagers, a sci-fi into space as young kids with after they stop taking it, the few documented in film that uses ■ Raya and the Last Dragon Tthriller about a group only Colin Farrell’s Richard there characters who get personalities interviews and old footage to A lone warrior must find the of young adults who have been to raise and monitor and counsel are painted with such broad move the story along. tasked with travelling to and them. What could possibly go strokes that there’s nothing to last dragon to stop monsters repopulating a new planet, is that wrong with this terribly hasty hold on to. Only Zac gets a real ■ Voyagers that dragons and humans once it isn’t based on a Young Adult plan? transformation, but there’s also fought and defeated together. book series. Well, it certainly doesn’t no nuance to him. He’s a bad Thirty young men and women DOME CINEMA Writer and director Neil help that a few years into the guy and a potential rapist with on a multi-generational space Burger, who was also behind journey Whitehead’s Zac and no discernable charisma, and it’s mission in search of a new ■ Fanny Lye Deliver’d the Divergent films, apparently Sheridan’s Christopher discover totally unclear why any portion home revert to their most primal state, not knowing In 1657 England, Fanny Lye decided to cut out the Intellectual that they’re all being drugged of the crew would choose to follow transcends her oppressive Property middleman and make to suppress their hormones and him instead of the level-headed whether the real threat they face is what is outside the marriage to discover new his own YA statement. That said, keep everyone semi-robotically Christopher. Also, while the possibilities, but at great it does borrow heavily from quite focused on the mission instead crew is quite racially diverse, 95 spaceship or what they’re becoming inside it. cost. Stars Maxine Peake and a few other sources, with shades of shacking up with their percent of the film is laser focused Charles Dance. of Lord of the Flies, The Giver, crewmates. on four white leads. ■ Nobody Ender’s Game, Euphoria and any When they decide to stop taking It’s the kind of premise that ■ Two by Two: Overboard! number of space madness films. the blue drink that it has been you can imagine would have been Hutch Mansell fails to defend With a cast including Lily- hidden in, Zac turns immediately better served by a limited series himself or his family when Adrift on a flood, two misfit Rose Depp, Tye Sheridan, Fionn into a feral sex predator with an with time to get to know and like two thieves break into his castaways struggle to reunite Whitehead, Chante Adams, obsessive focus on Depp’s Sela. at least some of the characters so suburban home one night. an unorthodox family, out- Archie Madekwe and Quintessa Soon enough, everyone stops that there are some stakes. The aftermath of the incident run a volcano, and negotiate a Swindell, nice-looking production taking “the blue” and after We should be upset by Zac’s soon strikes a match to his peace deal on a creaking Ark. long-simmering rage. design and a fast-moving plot, it’s Richard is hurt in an accident and villainous devolution and torn by ■ The Father a very watchable film. there’s no supervision anymore, who might be the better leader. It also unfortunately suffers the ship devolves into a chaotic We should know more than three ■ Peter Rabbit 2: The Anthony Hopkins and from the same problems as jumble of raging hormones, power of the character’s names and care Runaway Olivia Colman star in father- some of its IP-brethren — it is struggles and paranoia and The when people start dying. Voyagers Peter can’t seem to shake off daughter drama centred on dreadfully serious, fails to make Lord of the Flies parallels really is simply a semi-effective thriller his reputation for mischief. an elderly man who refuses the audience care very much start to take over. with about as much emotional Once he ventures out of the assistance — a decision about anyone involved and feels There’s even a Piggy-like intelligence as its lab-produced, garden Peter finds a world that has him questioning like it’s the first book in a series character and a moment where a hormone-controlled, sequestered where mischief is appreciated, everything around him. when all is said and done. riled-up faction of the crew starts youngsters. but soon his family come to Set in the near future, Voyagers chanting “Kill!” Oh, the crew also bring him home. ■ 48 Hour Film Finals dumps vague information about starts to wonder whether there’s ■ Voyagers, a Lionsgate release, Bookings required. earth’s deteriorating condition an alien aboard, as if there wasn’t has been rated PG-13 by the ■ The Courier and a plan to send a group of already enough to chew on. Motion Picture Association Based-on-fact story of a ■ Cousins people to another planet to start Voyagers has lofty ambitions of America for “violence, British businessman who Three Maori cousins are life anew. and big, cliched questions about some strong sexuality, bloody forms an unlikely partnership separated in childhood, but Since the journey is 86-years- purpose, but one of the main images, a sexual assault and with a Soviet officer to the two still at home never long, it will be the grandchildren problems is that it doesn’t do a brief strong language”. Running provide intelligence to defuse give up hoping that the cousin of the initial explorers. So they great job of establishing its own time: 108 minutes. Two stars the Cuban Missile Crisis. who left will return. genetically engineer a group of characters. out of four. YOUR WEEKDAY RADIO PROGRAMME GUIDE

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Matamata races at Matamata Friday Jetbet 6 TAB Doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Place6 3-8 Selections EMERGENCIES: 6 324s2 Felicienne h (10) 57 54 M McNab 4 487s Highland Whisper (3) 58 49 7 Trac Sports Bar/Fasttrack 3.45 Race 1: ALL BLACK BOURBON, WAIMOKU FALLS, 15 8s412 Oso Savvy d (1) 60 65 7 80s2 Miss Interpret (1) 57 52 T Newman (a2) 16 6251 Contribute h (16) 56.5 63 A Goindasamy (a1) 5 22603 Shibuya Kosaten (7) 56.5 53 S Spratt $16,000, rating 74 benchmark, 1400m MALI STON 17 800s5 Zenntari d (5) 55.5 56 8 54 Picual (2) 57 50 C Grylls 6 408s Misconduct h (14) 56.5 48 T Thornton 1 1143s Thunder tdmh (7) 59 72 E McCall (a3) Race 2: ANOTHER ENTREE, PRIMO STELLA, 9 4 Polly Power (8) 57 50 T Newman (a2) 7 292 Winkle Bay (17) 56 54 S Collett 2 s384s Lilly Thunder dm (1) 58.5 75 ILLUSION OF PARIS 2 13 Group 1’s For Ballymore 12.50 10 5 Payon Time h (15) 57 47 8 0284 Sweet Tui (6) 56 51 S Weatherley T Yanagida (a1) Race 3: FELICIENNE, PICUAL, MISS INTERPRET $10,000, maiden, 1600m 11 6 Cork h (5) 57 46 K Asano (a1) 9 6s348 Taupo Missy (11) 56 50 D Johnson 3 4457s Tommyra mh (13) 58.5 71 Race 4: FELICIENNE, CORINNE, BRIAN LAMONT 12 6 Hovdamer h (14) 57 46 S Collett 10 460s Aurora Dolce h (13) 56 48 K Asano (a1) T Newman (a2) 1 342 Another Entree b (9) 58.5 53 A Calder 11 Tevere h (19) 56 47 Race 5: WINKLE BAY, WEOWNA TIGER, LEGIT 13 7s Queen Of Soul (3) 57 46 S Weatherley 4 13126 Dawn Jessie db (11) 57.5 73 S Collett 2 02494 Like A Boss h (19) 58.5 51 L Satherley 12 Amaterasu h (4) 56 45 J Kamaruddin (a3) Race 6: LOCOMOTION, FONTEYN, SWEET MOLLY MALONE 14 Hot Pinx (9) 57 45 L Satherley 5 8s348 Woodcote Lass mh (8) 57 72 C Grylls 3 6360s Banks Road mh (10) 58.5 50 EMERGENCIES: 13 Jakkalnuts h (12) 56 45 C Grylls Race 7: SECRET AMOUR, WOODCOTE LASS, TOMMYRA 6 145s4 Limentis tdh (12) 56.5 71 A Calder 4 07065 Extersea (7) 58.5 47 15 Karo Amilia (13) 57 45 14 Skipping Stones (9) 56 45 7 2500s Prior Engagement dm (5) 56.5 67 Race 8: KIWIANNA, BECAUSE, LEADERBOARD 5 s5050 Rockwithattitude (1) 58.5 46 J Riddell 16 s0PPs Jakki Sparrow (4) 57.5 45 EMERGENCIES: 6 203s0 Sorrell h (20) 56.5 52 D Danis (a2) 17 — You Stay Classy SCRATCHED 15 Karo Amilia (15) 56 45 A Goindasamy (a1) 7 5855s Zion Hill (5) 56.5 47 T Thornton 18 770s7 Queen Sarabi (17) 57 45 16 It’s Risky (5) 56 45 8 21221 Secret Amour dh (4) 56 70 D Johnson 8 78957 Endean Bay (14) 56.5 46 K Asano (a1) 17 7 Sigiriya h (18) 56.5 45 9 Ps456 Annie’s Song d (2) 55 68 L Satherley 9 Sophun (11) 56.5 45 A Goindasamy (a1) 4 Shannon Lodge - Where It Began 2.00 18 7s Paddy Wagon (1) 56.5 45 10 0s505 Soda tdmh (3) 55 68 S Weatherley 10 3P443 Ezdara (15) 56 60 B Rogerson (a4) 11 s017s Baby Face b (6) 54.5 67 M McNab $10,000, maiden 2&3yo, 1400m 19 80s North Of Havana h (2) 56.5 45 11 52305 Illusion Of Paris h (17) 56 53 D Johnson 20 — Precision Shooter SCRATCHED 12 1100s Two Madison tmh (9) 54.5 67 12 58s42 Jolene (2) 56 52 C Grylls 1 05744 Brian Lamont h (5) 57.5 50 D Danis (a2) K Asano (a1) 13 93035 Primo Stella bh (3) 56 52 S Weatherley 2 7 Paramount Prince (6) 57.5 45 J Riddell 6 NZB Insurance Pearl Series 3.10 13 — On Demand SCRATCHED 14 97005 Heart Of A Lion h (16) 56 47 3 0333 Corinne h (3) 55.5 53 S Weatherley $10,000, rating 65 benchmark fillies and 14 6800s Tunzagutz m (10) 54 64 1 Fasttrack Insurance 12.15 T Yanagida (a1) 4 754s Lambo (13) 55.5 50 D Johnson mares*, 1400m J Kamaruddin (a3) EMERGENCIES: 5 95750 Golden Eagle (8) 55.5 49 L Satherley $15,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 1 — On Demand SCRATCHED EMERGENCY: 15 Whoshe’s Diamond (4) 56.5 45 6 5 Insignia (2) 55.5 47 S McKay 15 — Rose Bowl SCRATCHED 1 86s55 All Black Bourbon m (4) 59 64 M McNab E McCall (a3) 7 555 La Rapide (4) 55.5 47 S Collett 2 36434 Rose Bowl h (7) 59.5 64 D Danis (a2) 2 1 Mali Ston th (12) 58.5 63 S Weatherley 16 7 Bayarmaa h (13) 56 45 8 Candyflip h (10) 55.5 45 K Asano (a1) 3 152s0 Atomic Kitten dmh (10) 59 63 C Grylls 8 MBS Advisors 4.20 3 372s1 Tarwyn d (11) 58.5 62 J Riddell 17 9s060 Witness (6) 58.5 45 S Spratt 9 Madame Le Fay h (12) 55.5 45 M McNab 4 0441 El Fiesta Girl th (12) 58.5 63 4 00100 Happy Remark dm (2) 58 61 T Thornton 18 05007 Billy Bold h (8) 58 45 10 0 Medal O’Rose (1) 55.5 45 T Thornton S Weatherley $11,000, rating 74 benchmark, 2000m 5 48612 Feelin’ Fancy h (10) 57.5 64 19 80s0 Rising Steps (18) 56.5 45 T Newman (a2) 11 770s7 Queen Sarabi (15) 55.5 45 S Spratt 5 6541 Fonteyn td (11) 58.5 63 1 P890s Trisha Lea m (7) 61 80 B Rogerson (a4) 6 52s56 Prosperous mh (14) 57.5 64 C Grylls A Goindasamy (a1) 20 070s Karamello Koala (12) 58.5 45 12 Tarawera h (9) 55.5 45 C Grylls 2 6s325 Leaderboard dbh (3) 59.5 73 T Harris 7 600s7 Wertheimer (9) 57.5 61 6 32221 Locomotion (9) 58.5 62 D Johnson J Kamaruddin (a3) 13 You Stay Classy (14) 55.5 45 A Calder 3 71156 Leitrim Lad d (11) 57 68 T Thornton A Goindasamy (a1) 14 9 Artois (11) 54 45 E McCall (a3) 7 94835 Mannie’s Power tdm (1) 58.5 62 8 0s014 Spirit Of Baz d (15) 56.5 63 K Asano (a1) T Thornton 4 01520 Peerless Warrior (4) 57 68 3 NZB Insurance Pearl Series Race 1.25 EMERGENCY: T Newman (a2) 9 2L483 Waimoku Falls (6) 56.5 63 S Spratt 15 324s2 Felicienne h (7) 55.5 54 8 68s79 El Nymph th (3) 58 61 M McNab 10 75251 Hibernia Sea d (13) 56.5 62 $10,000, maiden f&m, 1400m 9 5018s Elle D’berry m (2) 58 61 A Calder 5 01801 Barney Rubble d (1) 56.5 67 S Collett T Newman (a2) 1 03 Cubic Moon (12) 57.5 51 D Johnson 5 BNZ Michael Coleman 2.35 10 s04s3 Lum Reek (4) 58 61 S McKay 6 33740 Because (2) 56.5 67 A Goindasamy (a1) 11 49401 Savezar (3) 56.5 62 V Colgan 2 6200s Five Schillings (11) 57.5 51 A Calder 11 839s8 Sweet Molly Malone mh (5) 58 61 7 03016 Mighty Connor tdh (8) 56.5 67 12 2s196 Marmellos th (8) 56 61 T Yanagida (a1) 3 4486s Cuba h (16) 57.5 50 S McKay $10,000, maiden, 1200m S Collett 8 24400 Calpurnia m (10) 54.5 67 L Satherley 13 360s4 Savastep dh (17) 55.5 60 S Collett 4 6 Pop ‘n’ Up (6) 57.5 46 S Spratt 1 2523 Weowna Tiger bh (16) 58.5 54 J Fawcett 12 364s9 Turret mh (8) 57 59 T Yanagida (a1) 9 16594 Kiwianna (9) 54.5 67 14 5049s Leica Warrior tdm (7) 55.5 56 5 Ginger Berry (7) 57.5 45 2 Paradigm Shift h (10) 58.5 45 13 0660s Sacred Delight dm (6) 56.5 58 10 41853 Zouluminous h (6) 54.5 67 D Johnson E McCall (a3) J Kamaruddin (a3) 3 53 Legit h (8) 58 51 T Yanagida (a1) J Kamaruddin (a3) 11 800s5 Zenntari (5) 54 56 S Spratt

Auckland harness at Alexandra Park Friday Jetbet 5 TAB Doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Place6 3-8 Selections 3 53362 Kayla Maguire (Fr) 3 W Rich 3 Breckon Farms Pace 7.0 6 5 IRT Trot 8.05 7 Deneece & Murray 9.05 4 9507s Eyecon (Fr) 4 N Munro Race 1: KAYLA MAGUIRE, PRODIGAL PETE, MAURICE $14,500, 3yo+ f&m r60. mobile pace, 2200m $17,500, 3yo+ r58-r86 discretionary handicap $12,000, non-winners 3yo+ stand trot, 2200m Race 2: I SEE FIRE, SAINT MICHEL, LIAISON 5 79895 Play Ball (Fr) 5 B Hadley stand trot, 2700m 6 07909 Natural Fire (Fr) 6 J Brownlee 1 s9440 Cloudy Bay (Fr) 1 B Mangos 1 0448 Sonsofthemerch (Fr) 1 Z Butcher Race 3: SMOKINHOTCHEDDAR, WE HAVE A MACH TWO, 1 27103 Peakz Luck (Fr) 1 J Stormont KERRI MAGUIRE 7 06889 Frankie Jones (Fr) 7 S Wigg 2 7109 Harder Than Diamonds (Fr) 2 A Neal 2 2s344 Constellation (Fr) 2 J Stormont 3 42221 Commander Cathy (Fr) 3 P Ferguson 2 17280 Anditover (Fr) 2 T Macfarlane 3 Cyclone Lebron (Fr) 3 P Ferguson Race 4: MR KAPLAN, DANCE TILL DAWN, MONTANA GLORY 8 P1810 Mighty Monica (Fr) 8 T Hopkins 3 12135 Emma Frost (Fr) 3 A Drake (J) 4 s3185 Cashlodo Flybye (Fr) 4 D Butcher 4 8038 Love And Faith (Fr) 4 M Teaz Race 5: CALL ME TROUBLE, KAY CEE, EMMA FROST 9 93337 Prodigal Pete (Fr) 21 A Beecroft 4 65183 Silver Power (10) 1 B Edwards 5 53267 Smokinhotcheddar (Fr) 5 M McKendry 5 40s22 Queen Of Strathfield (Fr) 5 K Marshall Race 6: ALTA WISEGUY, IDEAL AGENT, CYA ART 10 00463 Maurice (Fr) 22 C Wigg 5 01266 Rain Mist And Muscle (10) 2 T Mitchell 6 50566 Emmber (Fr) 6 M W White 6 66759 Willis Graham (Fr) 6 M McKendry Race 7: QUEEN OF STRATHFIELD, TRIFOLIUM, 6 6D441 Call Me Trouble (10) U1 Z Butcher 2 Majestic Horse Floats Trot 6.35 7 55s52 Kerri Maguire (Fr) 7 B Butcher 7 45402 Kay Cee (20) U1 J Dickie 7 42475 Trifolium (Fr) 7 L Neal CONSTELLATION 8 1s373 We Have A Mach Two (Fr) 8 J Stormont 8 3s340 Sky High Flyer (Fr) 8 D McGowan $14,500, 3yo+ r40-r57 discretionary handicap 8 s8s24 Forget The Price Tag (20) U2 T Herlihy Race 8: FOUR KISSES, ART NOUVEAU, HESASHORETHING 9 54924 Shes No Lady (Fr) 21 Z Butcher 9 40s38 Woodstone (35) U1 P Ferguson 9 90s96 Debbie Lee Galleon (Fr) U1 O Gillies stand trot, 2700m 10 8s0s6 Te Kouka Sun Rise (Fr) U2 M Nicholas 1 60s71 I See Fire (Fr) 1 T Herlihy 4 NZ Sires Stakes Heat 4 7.35 6 Tony Herlihy Pce 8.35 2 90s85 Superfast Ninja (Fr) 2 A Drake (J) $20,000, 2yo fillies. mobile pace, 1700m $17,500, 3yo+ r56-r69. mobile pace, 2200m 8 Hydroflow Pace 9.35 3 39334 Saint Michel (Fr) 3 M W White 1 272 Suntan (Fr) 1 J Dickie 1 84593 Brookies Jaffa (Fr) 1 S Abernethy $12,000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile pace, 4 88227 Liaison (Fr) 4 B Butcher 2 22 Dance Till Dawn (Fr) 2 P Ferguson 2 11523 Cya Art (Fr) 2 D Butcher 2200m 5 33150 Drum N Bass (Fr) 5 S Reid 3 513 Mr Kaplan (Fr) 3 T Herlihy 3 2P7sP Armed Reactor (Fr) 3 P Ferguson 1 24 Hesashorething (Fr) 1 J Abernethy 4 22311 Alta Wiseguy (Fr) 4 B Butcher 6 31960 Who’s Queen (Fr) 6 S Phelan 4 141 Play Philly (Fr) 4 R Close 2 86352 Art Nouveau (Fr) 2 J Dickie 7 00s92 High In The Sky (Fr) 7 T Mitchell 5 62164 Mimi E Coco (Fr) 5 Z Butcher 1 Carnival 23 & 30 April Pace 6.06 5 D2 Miki Montana (Fr) 5 Z Butcher 6 35181 Down The Hatch (Fr) 6 B Mangos 3 78 Laurie’s Delight (Fr) 3 D McGowan 8 66580 Lollieprop (Fr) U1 G Wolfenden 6 Cover Girl (Fr) 6 B Butt 4 52268 Four Kisses (Fr) 4 L Hollis $8000, 4yo+ r52. mobile pace, 2700m 7 61366 Ohoka Achilles (Fr) 7 O Gillies 9 s210P Asteria Lavra (Fr) U2 L Hollis 7 12155 Artisan (Fr) 7 S Phelan 8 23422 American Me (Fr) 8 J Abernethy 5 737s5 Ronda (Fr) 5 N Delany (J) 1 76768 Mr Incredible (Fr) 1 J Kriechbaumer 10 0s718 Gaz Man (Fr) U3 P Ferguson 8 21 Montana Glory (Fr) 8 M McKendry 9 12682 Ideal Agent (Fr) 21 M W White 6 88s83 Joshua Richard (Fr) 6 P Ferguson 2 8939s M T Pockets (Fr) 2 J Darby 11 01593 Ivegotbills (10) 1 N Chilcott 9 4 Lady La Salle (Fr) 21 L Whittaker (J) 10 45441 Tartan Robyn (Fr) 22 M McKendry 7 798s2 Louie The Punter (Fr) 7 Z Butcher

Otago greys at Forbury Park Friday Jetbet 3 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10 Selections EMERGENCIES: 4 Brocklebanks Dry Cleaners 12.41 4 87235 Double Queenie nwtd John McInerney EMERGENCIES: Race 1: CRAB APPLE, STIR FRY, SILKY SKYLAR 9 5887 Homebush Zuka nwtd John McInerney 5 38445 Chicago Head nwtd John McInerney 9 56825 Crystal Cindi nwtd John McInerney $3450, C0, 545m 6 34574 Vignon nwtd John Allen Race 2: NOTORIOUS HEIST, AMURI SMOKE, BASHFUL BUFFY 10 88s88 Homebush Maple nwtd John McInerney 10 47837 Homebush Zack nwtd John McInerney 1 33224 Opawa Neville nwtd Robin Wales 7 58387 Opal Nora 18.61 John McInerney Race 3: HOMEBUSH SAYER, HOMEBUSH JORDIE, 2 Otago Early Quaddie Sprint 12.07 2 77646 Homebush Brave nwtd John McInerney 8 13467 Homebush Macho nwtd John McInerney 9 Dave Robbie Photographer 2.08 CRYSTAL CILLA EMERGENCIES: $1510, C1, 310m 3 45s Jam Packed nwtd J & D Fahey $2565, C1, 545m Race 4: JAM PACKED, MISS CAIRO, CAPTAIN TIM 4 44363 Joyful Tears nwtd Daniel Roberts 9 74562 Mitcham Manering 18.74 John McInerney Race 5: DUBLIN EXPRESS, DYNA VARSITY, OPAWA LYNDSAY 1 74456 Homebush Cool 19.07 John McInerney 5 32224 Captain Tim nwtd Sharon Hindson 10 62868 Gracie Lee 18.82 John McInerney 1 11112 Black Vinyl nwtd J & D Fahey 2 32411 Notorious Heist nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 6 64731 Miss Cairo nwtd John McInerney 2 75752 Beau View Winnie nwtd J M Lane Race 6: ROSE THORN, ELITE BLUEBLOOD, 7 Late Quaddie Meeting #3 1.34 HOMEBUSH HOTSHOT 3 74427 Bashful Buffy 19.19 John McInerney 7 2 Black Mavis nwtd Robin Wales 3 24434 Homebush Barclay nwtd John McInerney 8 73455 Lucky Luciano nwtd Howard Anderton Race 7: JUST STAGGER, HOMEBUSH FURY, DUSTY’S INK 4 52334 Homebush Jewel nwtd John McInerney $1510, C1, 310m 4 75535 Ohoka Megan nwtd Lisa Waretini 5 46632 Impressive Amy nwtd John McInerney EMERGENCY: 5 17333 Tomfoolery nwtd Lisa Waretini Race 8: MISS HONEY, OPAWA STUBBORN, AMURI JOSIE 1 88877 Dusty’s Ink 18.87 Barry Healey 6 64325 Cosmic Marty 18.91 John McInerney 9 56568 Princess Romaine nwtd Sharon Hindson 6 67881 Dark And Dusty nwtd Daniel Roberts Race 9: BLACK VINYL, TOMFOOLERY, BEAU VIEW WINNIE 2 44633 Just Stagger 18.83 John McInerney 7 75864 Amuri Smoke 18.67 John McInerney 7 74346 Uncle Frank nwtd Howard Anderton Race 10: OPAWA COREY, OPAWA STAR, ONESIE 5 St Clair Stakes 12.59 3 67364 Homebush Fury 19.42 John McInerney 8 87825 Homebush Rieko 19.07 John McInerney 4 76247 Miss June nwtd John McInerney 8 36635 Baldrick 33.04 John McInerney EMERGENCIES: $2565, C1, 545m 5 45s46 Dapper Danny nwtd Howard Anderton EMERGENCIES: 9 36787 Homebush Poppy nwtd John McInerney 1 76537 Speedy Lucy nwtd Barry Healey 6 71468 Homebush Zena nwtd John McInerney 9 35754 Claws In Leo nwtd Daniel Roberts 10 17857 Yes Bro 19.26 Brett Conner 2 88728 Ohoka Kate nwtd Lisa Waretini 7 31183 Citizen Zagreb nwtd John McInerney 10 24865 Opawa Mason nwtd Robin Wales 3 73735 Mull Of Kintyre nwtd Sharon Hindson 8 78763 Take A Hint nwtd John McInerney 3 greyhoundsaspets.org.nz 12.24 4 42736 Dyna Varsity nwtd Craig Roberts EMERGENCIES: 10 Brian Bagley Driver Licensing 2.26 $1510, C1, 310m 5 56326 Dublin Express nwtd J & D Fahey 9 84478 Homebush Millie 19.38 John McInerney $2920, C2, 545m 6 47443 Big Tiny nwtd John McInerney 10 28672 Homebush Sugar 19.01 John McInerney 1 Otago Ogrc Maiden Sprint 11.51 1 74371 Homebush Sayer 18.33 John McInerney 7 66155 Adobe Ninja nwtd Daniel Roberts 1 82188 Lightfoot Luna 33.05 Ashley Bradshaw 8 Equinox Bar & Restaurant 1.51 $1425, C0, 310m 2 71876 Nippa Enough 18.87 John McInerney 8 44326 Opawa Lyndsay nwtd Robin Wales 2 14841 Zipping Marlin 33.23 Daniel Roberts 3 82557 Homebush Dream nwtd John McInerney EMERGENCIES: $1745, C2, 310m 3 11115 Opawa Corey nwtd J & D Fahey 1 47357 Impressive Sonic nwtd John McInerney 4 57233 Crystal Cilla nwtd John McInerney 9 74562 Mitcham Manering 34.30 John McInerney 4 73116 Opawa Trump nwtd Robin Wales 2 5F474 Edison nwtd John McInerney 10 55755 Homebush Fudge nwtd John McInerney 1 73322 Opawa Stubborn nwtd John McInerney 5 86458 My Girl Sofia 18.62 Barry Healey 2 36327 Homebush Archie 18.84 John McInerney 5 114s3 Opawa Star nwtd J & D Fahey 3 72253 Stir Fry nwtd Brett Conner 6 35621 Homebush Jordie 18.72 John McInerney 6 St Kilda Veterinary Centre 1.16 3 41536 Sozin’s Symphony 18.56 John McInerney 6 41241 Onesie nwtd Lisa Waretini 4 545 Crab Apple nwtd Lisa Waretini 7 85742 Bound Up nwtd John McInerney 4 5F312 Amuri Josie nwtd John McInerney 7 51254 Nighthawk Fancy nwtd Daniel Roberts 5 48876 Homebush Peppa nwtd John McInerney 8 56582 Sir Clive nwtd Richard Breen $1510, C1, 310m 5 54416 Homebush Fairy nwtd John McInerney 8 64716 Usain Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 6 7674 Beauden John nwtd Daniel Roberts EMERGENCIES: 1 82381 Rose Thorn nwtd Richard Breen 6 773s1 Miss Honey nwtd Robin Wales EMERGENCIES: 7 58868 Homebush Tanya nwtd John McInerney 9 74787 Father Leo 19.54 John McInerney 2 68221 Elite Blueblood 19.59 John McInerney 7 14541 Cupid’s Day 19.01 Richard Breen 9 73888 Opawa Sandridge nwtd Robin Wales 8 28225 Silky Skylar nwtd John McInerney 10 74665 Impressive High nwtd John McInerney 3 15753 Homebush Hotshot 18.48 John McInerney 8 87634 Citizen Aguero 18.99 John McInerney 10 15777 Opawa Lightning nwtd Robin Wales

Extra Otago greys at Forbury Park Friday Jetbet 10 TAB Doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Trebles 2-3-4, 5-6-7 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6-7 Selections 3 21633 Mitcham King 18.72 John McInerney 3 St Kilda Sprint 3.18 8 7716s Opawa Jane nwtd Robin Wales 3 88271 Mitcham Usain 18.69 John McInerney Race 1: HOMEBUSH BOMBER, MITCHAM KING, 4 74534 Homebush Rapper 18.66 John McInerney EMERGENCIES: 4 22417 Sam And Si 18.59 John McInerney 5 72834 Opawa Pink nwtd Robin Wales $2095, C3, 310m 9 73888 Opawa Sandridge nwtd Robin Wales 5 61734 Opawa Bailey 18.76 Robin Wales CRYSTAL CANDY 6 58884 Amuri Liv nwtd John McInerney 1 68111 Homebush Fanta 19.08 John McInerney 10 15777 Opawa Lightning nwtd Robin Wales 6 54183 Homebush Caesar 18.30 John McInerney Race 2: FOXY ROSE, REGAL JOCK, MOANY MALONEY 7 41745 Scardiny 18.80 Richard Breen 2 23833 Regal Valiant nwtd Richard Breen 7 13774 Romeo 18.53 John McInerney Race 3: HOMEBUSH FANTA, MEGA DREAM, 8 54148 Homebush George 19.04 John McInerney 3 53452 Tiggerlong Demon 18.78 Daniel Roberts 5 President’s Sprint 3.54 8 13851 Mitcham Magic 18.57 John McInerney CURVE CRUSHER EMERGENCIES: 4 62444 Fireball Fudge 18.77 Ashley Bradshaw $2450, C4, 310m EMERGENCIES: Race 4: OSTER BALE, HE’S ALI, FOND OF YOU 5 12413 Curve Crusher nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 9 77416 Jackie nwtd Lisa Waretini 1 668s8 Chasing Fame 18.27 Sandra Keen 9 41146 King Toliman 18.50 Daniel Roberts Race 5: BUSTER’S BROTHER, THUNDER HALLOWS, 10 78381 Princely Cash 19.00 John McInerney 6 62326 Kay’s Last nwtd Robin Wales 10 63484 Ever Rested 18.84 Ashley Bradshaw 7 37441 Mega Dream 18.62 Lisa Waretini 2 51581 Buster’s Brother 18.67 Brett Conner AMURI BATMAN 3 13436 Amuri Batman 18.62 John McInerney Race 6: MITCHAM USAIN, HOMEBUSH GAMBLER, ROMEO 2 Peter Sinton Plumbing 3.01 8 33248 Opawa Nip 18.65 Robin Wales 7 Racing Again Friday 23rd April 4.36 EMERGENCIES: 4 74345 Starr Blueblood 18.72 John McInerney Race 7: OPAWA COOPER, MITCHAM RYDER, $2095, C3, 310m 9 78887 Homebush Liam 18.56 John McInerney 5 45643 Double Speed nwtd J M Lane $2450, C4, 310m HOMEBUSH BOOTS 1 87812 Foxy Rose 18.53 Richard Breen 10 31768 Mikil 18.98 D J MacMillan 6 62715 Homebush Ariana nwtd John McInerney 1 15656 Mitcham Ryder 18.58 John McInerney 2 27337 Moany Maloney 18.80 Ashley Bradshaw 7 31137 Thunder Hallows nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 2 28262 Homebush Boots 18.58 John McInerney 3 62251 Regal Jock 18.63 John McInerney 4 South Dunedin Stakes 3.36 8 24783 Homebush Glitch nwtd John McInerney 3 33425 Homebush Stasser 18.61 John McInerney 4 61415 Dragster Dory nwtd Ashley Bradshaw $3385, C2/3, 545m EMERGENCIES: 4 32824 St Andrews 18.75 J M Lane 5 47757 Our Dazzel nwtd Robin Wales 9 32666 Opawa Phil 18.82 Robin Wales 5 72173 Ulyssa Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 1 74757 Oster Bale 32.27 Craig Roberts 10 31556 Punters Bolt nwtd Robin Wales 6 52226 Ezra Blueblood 18.68 John McInerney 2 31352 Punch On Buzz nwtd John McInerney 6 14538 Mr Festus 18.68 Brett Conner 1 Meeting #10 Sprint 2.43 7 36341 Rebel Boom nwtd Daniel Roberts 3 35568 Nighthawk Frenzy nwtd Matt Roberts 6 Forbury Dash 4.11 7 61213 Opawa Cooper 18.79 Robin Wales 8 66764 Opawa Jaws 18.76 Robin Wales 8 81888 Maffra Daisy 18.94 John McInerney $1745, C2, 310m 4 34563 Meatloaf nwtd Sharon Hindson EMERGENCIES: 5 77627 He’s Ali nwtd Craig Roberts $2920, C5, 310m EMERGENCIES: 1 28883 Homebush Bomber 18.49 John McInerney 9 61761 Amuri Mystic 18.88 John McInerney 6 18373 Silouette Jet 33.10 John Allen 1 51171 Homebush Gambler 18.56 John McInerney 9 32666 Opawa Phil 18.82 Robin Wales 2 88731 Crystal Candy 18.84 John McInerney 10 28186 C’mon Benny Boy 18.63 John Guthrie 7 54276 Fond Of You 32.48 Ashley Bradshaw 2 53476 Mitcham Sam 18.66 John McInerney 10 31556 Punters Bolt nwtd Robin Wales

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. 25 CLASSIFIEDS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021

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FOOTBALL by John Gillies got the second five minutes later. unavailable at the weekend, Adams said. “But the guys dug in and in the last 15 minutes In the first 10 minutes of the second half, But 6ft 6in goalkeeper Matt Worthington showed fitness told, the game opened up and we could NIC Somerton and Raul Medina scored two Thistle scored two more goals, the first through he would be an asset, and former Bohemians have pinched it. A draw was a fair result, though.” goals each as Thistle Massive got their Eastern Medina and the second through Somerton. players Caleb Craig on the right wing and Chris He said Maisey competed well and worked hard, League 1 campaign off to a winning start at That fourth goal was well taken, Massive Cockburn at rightback had good games. Beattie was an excellent target man, Oska Smith Childers Road Reserve. player-coach Craig Stirton said. Aaron Graham and Hansen got through the was lively on the right wing and Alex Davies was But Massive had to endure a tense finish as The ball had been switched to the right flank, work in central midfield, and it was a good team at the heart of much of the midfield play. Heavy Equipment United came from 4-1 down where Kane Stirton made ground and played a performance for the first league game of the year. Sharks player-coach Smith said Hooks early in the second half to be pushing hard for an through ball in for Somerton, who met it on the For Thistle Massive, central midfielder Matias worked tirelessly in central midfield and was equaliser in the last 10 minutes. edge of the penalty area, about level with the Pincini was player of the day, Stirton said. well supported by Ian Torrie, who showed his Carpet Court Thistle Massive held on to win near post. 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Thistle led 2-0 at halftime but holding could be out for about eight weeks.” and central midfielder Leo Maisey added a made an impact wide on the left, and John Hill midfielder Ema Martos and leftback Daniel United kept plugging away in the second second from the penalty spot after Travis White got the side ticking with his calm passing game. Venema were needed to stand by for the first half but it was not until 15 minutes from the was judged to have been brought down unfairly. Smith said it was good having Blake team, and the Reserves missed their composure. end that they scored. Central midfielder Ben With the halftime withdrawal of Martos and Mulrooney on the sideline as new first-team United scored first against Massive — a header Hansen belted the ball home from six metres in a Venema, Reserves player-coach Davie Ure had manager, making changes and calling the shots. from just outside the goal area by centreback goalmouth scramble. to rearrange his troops. 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Flaming (5) know you can do, and don't make promises you cannot keep. 2 stars ACROSS: 1 Indeed; 4 Salads; 12. Evict (4,3) 7. Vastly (7) Birthday Baby: 9 Consideration; 10 Epistle; 11 Erase; 12 Again; 14 Crest; 13. By accident (13) 8. Not plentiful (6) You are engaging, intense and resourceful. You are persistent and 18 Reads; 19 Ostrich; 18. Roomy (8) demonstrative. 21 Mathematician; 22 Thrust; 13. Tasteless (7) 19. Notch (4) 23 Jersey. 14. Alloy (7) DOWN: 1 Inches; 2 Dancing 20. Dye (7) STAR RATINGS master; 3 Evict; 5 Amateur; 15. Spoken (6) FIVE STARS: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold. 6 Animal spirits; 7 Sonnet; 8 Beret; 21. Prise (5) FOUR STARS: You can pretty much do as you please. It’s a good time to start new projects. 13 Insteps; 15 Prompt; 16 Total; 22. Mute (4) 16. Convent (7) THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals. 17 Shandy; 20 Twice. TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. 23. Uplifting (8) 17. Reading-desk (7) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 SPORT 29 Big-money Maxwell repaying RCB in full

Ian Chadband different IPL franchise, has begun like a new franchise has been really nice, but partnership with Manish Pandey looked a man inspired for RCB, having already to contribute to two wins has probably set to steer Sunrisers to a comfortable LONDON — Glenn Maxwell cost Royal helped them win their opening match been the most satisfying thing. win, looked frustrated when he holed out Challengers Bangalore over $2.5 million against champions Mumbai Indians with “Having AB (de Villiers) behind you in to Christian at long on off New Zealand in the IPL auction — but the rejuvenated a brisk 39. the order gives you a bit more freedom paceman Kyle Jamieson. Australian allrounder is quickly proving He didn’t hit a single six last season, to play your shots, gives me time to get Left arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed he’s worth every rupee after inspiring but Maxwell has now already clouted five myself in and that’s a very similar role I then took three wickets in the 17th them to a second straight victory. in his first two IPL outings this season play for the Australian team — so that’s over to quite transform the complexion Virat Kohli’s RCB ran out as six- and is only 10 runs short of the 108 runs been great. of the game, with Warner admitting run winners over David Warner’s he tallied in 13 innings in the previous “It’s my fourth IPL team and there’s afterwards: “It’s a very big bitter pill Sunrisers Hyderabad in Wednesday’s edition. obviously a bit of pressure on me for to swallow. Obviously, Maxi batted well, nail-biter, thanks largely to a dazzling He even got the better of his Test me, so to turn up and make my impact but our bowlers did well to restrict 59 off 41 balls from new boy Maxwell — teammate Warner, the captain of the straight away was really key.” them.” remarkably, his first half-century in the Sunrisers who was also in fine form with After Kohli had opened with a breezy Maxwell looks like a man who’s IPL for five years. his 49th 50 in the IPL but who, after 33, Maxwell maintained the impetus enjoying himself again and he couldn’t Maxwell had looked a bit of a busted being out for 54, then saw his side slide of the innings on a tricky wicket, help laughing when it was suggested to flush in last year’s edition in the Middle alarmingly from 1-96 to 9-143 while hitting five fours to go with his trio of him that he hasn’t even had a bowl for East when he was subsequently released chasing down RCB’s 8-149. maximums while de Villiers and fellow RCB yet. by Punjab Kings. Collecting his player of the match Australian Dan Christian were both “The more I don’t bowl and the more I But the 32-year-old, snapped up after award in Chennai, Maxwell was all getting dismissed for one. can contribute with the bat, the happier a bidding war to play for his fourth smiles as he said: “To start like this with Warner, whose 83-run second wicket I’ll be,” he smiled. — AAP Man City make semis but BRIEFS Raring-to-go Inglis still on Wolves’ leash WARRINGTON — Warrington coach Steve Price draw no good for Liverpool says he is having to hold back former Australia international Greg Inglis, whose comeback has LONDON — Manchester City’s dream again been put on hold. of a four-trophy haul is still up for grabs The 34-year-old centre arrived in England at the after they beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in turn of the year to take up a one-year contract Germany to reach the semi-finals of the with the Wolves, but sat out the first two rounds Champions League for the first time in of Super League and watched last Sunday’s six years. Challenge Cup tie at Swinton from the sidelines. But Liverpool’s hopes of joining their Price has confirmed that Inglis, who announced Premier League rivals in the last four his retirement almost two years ago, will also disappeared on Wednesday night after miss Sunday’s game at Hull. a goalless draw in their quarter-final Yet while he will not put a timeline on the second leg against Real Madrid saw superstar’s debut, he insists there has been no the Spanish champions progress 3-1 on hiccup in GI’s fight to regain fitness. aggregate. “He’s training with our squad, doing really well,” Pep Guardiola’s City, who are set to Price said at his weekly press conference. win the league title and are contending “All the players and coaching staff are really in three Cup competitions, were shocked excited, but he won’t be playing this weekend. to go a goal down in the 15th minute “There’s certainly not a problem. We’re very as Jude Bellingham became the second happy with his progression from where he’s come youngest-ever English goalscorer in from. the Champions League. He is also the “He’s certainly not that far away. We have got to second-youngest player to score in a hold him back at times because he wants to do Champions League knockout game at 17 more. years, 289 days. Bojan Krkic was 72 days “I don’t want to speculate (on his debut) but he’s doing everything he can.” PA younger when he scored for Barcelona CRACKER GOAL: Manchester City’s goalkeeper Ederson fails to save a shot by against Schalke in 2008. Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg Katoa should bounce back City responded well and went close soccer match in Germany, yesterday. Jude Bellingham became the youngest-ever MELBOURNE — Warriors coach Nathan Brown to equalising before the break through English goalscorer in the Champions League. AP picture expects boom second-rower Eliesa Katoa to Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden, Riyad bounce back bigger and better after he was Mahrez and Oleksandr Zinchenko. The Reds had to apologise for a window post. Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and dropped from their NRL side to face St George But a 55th-minute penalty from of Real’s team bus being smashed by fans Georginio Wijnaldum also went close, but Illawarra on Sunday. Mahrez, after Emre Can was adjudged to on their arrival to Anfield before starting couldn’t create a similar comeback as two Switching codes from rugby union in 2020, have handled, and a left-foot thunderbolt strongly into their comeback attempt. years ago when they ousted Barcelona Katoa has started in all five of the Warriors on 76 minutes from Foden, who scored Liverpool, the 2019 Champions League 4-0 after losing 3-0 in Spain. matches this year. But Brown felt the 21-year- City’s winner in the first-leg victory, winners, created enough chances in the Juergen Klopp’s last route to a trophy old Tongan could benefit from a stint in reserve rewarded their dominance and secured a opening 45 minutes to have turned the this season has now been shut off and grade, and he will instead run out for the Redcliffe 4-2 aggregate triumph. tie around but they ran out of ideas in his side’s struggling to even make the Dolphins in the Queensland Cup. City, eliminated in the quarters in the second half. Champions League places, sitting three Katoa looked out of sorts in their 13-12 loss to the previous three years, face a mouth- Mohamed Salah hit goalkepper points outside the top four with seven Manly last round, with his runs and run-metres watering semi-final tie with last year’s Thibault Courtois’ outstretched left leg games to go. Reaching the European way down on his debut season. finalists Paris Saint-Germain, who from 10 metres just two minutes in, and semis meanwhile is the latest sign of the Jack Murchie and Josh Curran will start in the knocked out the defending champions the Belgian made another big save from recovery overseen by Zinedine Zidane at second row on Sunday. Bayern Munich on Tuesday, while James Milner’s curling effort. Madrid. Trailing Atletico Madrid by 10 “Eli has only played about 20 rugby league 13-time winners Real Madrid will face Real almost wrapped up the tie when points in January, Zidane’s team are now games in his whole life and to come from rugby another English challenge against Karim Benzema’s deflected effort beat just a point behind and the La Liga title union and do what he did last year was very rare,” Chelsea after seeing off Liverpool. Alisson Becker, but came back off the defence is back on. — AAP Brown said yesterday. — AAP Kudela’s 10-game ban for racist behaviour FOOTBALL fury to the incident, with the Finland international been banned for three matches after being found on Thursday night (local time) — and will also be later alleging he was called a “f*****g monkey”. guilty of assaulting Kudela in the tunnel after the ruled out as the Czechs kick-off their Euro 2020 LONDON — Rangers say Glen Kamara has been Kudela rejected the claims — which were game. campaign. “vindicated” after Slavia Prague defender Ondrej corroborated by Kamara’s teammate Bongani His Rangers teammate Kemar Roofe has been But while Rangers welcomed Kudela’s Kudela was handed a 10-game ban by UEFA after Zungu — as he insisted he had only said: “You given a four-match suspension for the horror punishment, Kamara’s lawyer Anwar said the being found guilty of racist behaviour towards the f****** guy”. tackle on Ondrej Kolar which left the Slavia keeper 10-game ban — which is the minimum sanction Ibrox midfielder. UEFA’s control, ethics and disciplinary body with a fractured skull. for a racist offence — “made a mockery” of UEFA’s But Kamara’s lawyer Aamer Anway has accused (CEDB), however, has now backed Kamara’s Rangers have also been given a 9000 euro fine claims to take racism seriously. European football’s governing of issuing a “token” version of events as it announced Kudela has been for failing to control their players as the match In a statement, he said: “UEFA should have punishment as he insisted Kudela should have found guilty of “racist behaviour”. boiled over. imposed a minimum year-long ban rather than a been kicked out of football for a year. In a statement, Rangers said: “We welcome Kudela had been handed a provisional one- tokenistic 10-match ban. The Czech Republic centre-back is set to miss the suspension imposed on Ondrej Kudela. This match ban over a lesser charge of insulting “There is no other workplace within which such this summer’s Euros after being punished for not only vindicates Glen Kamara’s evidence, but Kamara, and that ban is included within the overall racist behaviour would be tolerated. Sadly UEFA whispering a disgraceful slur into Kamara’s ear underlines the severity of the comment, given the 10-match sanction. once again has made a mockery of their claims during last month’s explosive Europa League clash number of games has been imposed by UEFA.” As it stands, Kudela will miss the remainder of that they want to kick racism out of football. in Glasgow. Rangers have also been sanctioned by Slavia’s Europa League campaign. They play the In a statement, the Czech champions issued an Kamara and his Gers teammates reacted with European football’s governing body. Kamara has second leg of their quarter-final tie against Arsenal apology to Kamara. — PA 30 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021

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Poverty Bay topped the men’s gross with 72. Ellen Ball’s 79 won the women’s FORMER professional Tyler Hodge gross. burned up the Awapuni Links on Poverty Bay’s Marg Colebourne Mahia, Waikohu set pennants pace Saturday . . . but still didn’t play to and Waikohu’s Marg Tuapawa led the handicap. women’s net scoring on 71. MAHIA and Waikohu are joint each, Poverty Bay 12, Tolaga Bay 8, Hornblow def Frank Ball. Hodge, the partner of Hawke’s Bay- Other good rounds came from overall leaders after round 1 of the Patutahi (3 and 4) 4 and Park 0. Patutahi (1) 4 Poverty Bay (1) 8: Poverty Bay No.1 women’s golfer Tessa Poverty Bay’s Jessica, Hayward, Mary Endeavour men’s interclub golf Patutahi have two teams of six in Jared Marsh lost to Tene Goldsmith, McDonald, was in Gisborne for a visit Allan, Ray Brott, John van Helden, Cliff pennants on Saturday. this year’s pennants. George Brown lost to Jon Jenner, Pat and to watch McDonald play football Poole and Dave Hall, Waikohu’s Val Held at Waikohu, the host club Round 2 is at Mahia on April 24. Hokianga def Colin Christie. for her Gisborne United side (they Grace and Ike Ruru and Patutahi’s Paul and Mahia finished the round on 20 Waikohu (1) 12 Patutahi (3) 0: Larry won). Gretton. points apiece. ROUND 1 RESULTS — Green def Matt Stock, Percy Milner def The left-hander had a round at The Bob Grierson Memorial four- Both clubs lost just one of their six Mahia (1) 12 Electrinet Park (1) 0 Brian Wallace, Uma Chambers def Mike Awapuni Links on Saturday with person team stableford was won handicap matches. (Mahia names first): Pete Bremner def de Luze. McDonald, her grandfather Cliff Poole by Pete Stewart, Mark Norman, Phil The Endeavour format is six-man Shannon Toa, Bruce Maher def Dave Te Puia Springs (2) 8 Patutahi (4) and HBPB rep Ellen Ball. Grogan and Brent Colbert with 143 teams who split into threes for each Harrison, Clay Wesche def Paul Wellard. 4: Dick Cook def Ashley Hndmarsh, Ian Hodge, working in Levin after a stint points. round but end up with an overall Patutahi (2) 12 Park (2) 0: Pat Sykes lost to Butch McKenzie, Peter of caddying at the Tara Iti course in Gisborne Eagles Society secretary team result. Molloy def Steve Phillips, Tony Green Harrison def Charlie Taylor. Northland, fired a brilliant 5-under 67. Don McFadyen said the tournament Mahia (1) beat Electrinet Park (1) def Cliff Nepe, Gary Watson def Josh Waikohu (2) 8 Tolaga Bay (2) 4: His round featured six birdies and a made around $4000 — “the best we’ve 12-0 (four points for a win, one for a Taylor. Tipi Ruru def Trent Higgs, Tama Brown back-nine holes of 32. ever done” — and he made special half) while Mahia (2) defeated Poverty Te Puia Springs (1) 8 Tolaga Bay lost to Joe Lincoln, Ike Ruru def Pete The only blemish was a bogey 4 on mention of the fundraising efforts of Bay (2) 8-4. (1) 4: Bill Clark lost to Rongo Pomana, Stevenson. the second hole. fellow Eagle Graeme “Pinky” Eriksen. Waikohu (1) beat Patutahi (3) 12-0 Roly Smith def Tim Adamson, Peter Despite his score, Hodge’s net was All money raised goes to the while Waikohu (2) downed Tolaga Bay Ngarimu def John Hale. Overall points: Mahia 20, Waikohu a modest 74. He plays off a +4.3 at Halberg Sport Disability Foundation to (2) 8-4. Mahia (2) 8 Poverty Bay (2) 4: 20, Te Puia Springs 16, Patutahi (1/2) Gulf Harbour, which converts to +7 at be used locally. Te Puia Springs and Patutahi (1 Wayne Wesche lost to Kit Goldsmith, 16, Poverty Bay 12, Tolaga Bay 8, Poverty Bay. Rosie Spence was on fire in the Viv and 2) ended the day on 16 points Roger Bremner def Peter Hakiwai, Grant Patutahi (3/4) 4, Electrinet Park 0. Patutahi’s Eddie Brown jr bounced Swann Salver net yesterday. Spence back from a couple of defeats at the won the Salver with 92-27-65. Oligoi Jug senior men’s pennants on The Poverty Bay team for the Spence 65. and Loffler’s 18 points was best of the win the Tuesday veterans’ stableford Saturday with one of the rounds of the national teams Hawke’s Bay-Poverty MONDAY — Women’s net: M Lane 77. 9-holers’ on countback. last week. day at the Eagles Golfing Society-run Bay women’s district final at Poverty SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, Gisborne East Coast Veteran Golfers The Park team for the national teams charity tournament on Sunday. Bay on Monday are Marg Colebourne, division 1: J Situ 39, D Jenkins 37. Society chair Jon Jenner said it was “a Hawke’s Bay Poverty Bay women’s Brown jr shot 74-7-67 — the Marg Lane, Birgitt Whyte and Rochelle Division 2: P Goodwin 40, B Allen 37. wonderful day” for the field of 49. district final at Poverty Bay on Monday equal-best net of the day, alongside Taewa. Twos: J Situ, V Richardson, T Hodge. “Many thanks to Pip Griffin for are Pat Johansen, Jean Foot, Tracey Waikohu’s Tama Brown (86-19-67). WEDNESDAY — LGU, silver division: Approach: V Richardson. Ryman Healthcare’s sponsorship Ford and Jo Kerr. Reserves are Mihi Eddie’s round was something of an M Colebourne 86-15-71. THURSDAY (April 8) — Men’s of the event. Pip announced her Marino and Min Vette. amusement park ride. He mixed five Bronze 1: R Spence 92–27-65. stableford, division 1: C Dean 40, W own forthcoming retirement. We SUNDAY — Men’s net: T Pointon 69, R birdies, including a two on the 11th, Bronze 2: Marg Lane 100–29-71. Mortleman 39, G Morley 38, I Murphy 38. look forward to her spending more Grace 72. with four bogeys and a triple bogey 7 9-holers: S Ellwood 34. Division 2: W Thompson 42, P time on the course and a continued Women’s stableford: J Kerr 38, T Ford on the 17th. 9-holers’ putting J Alderson 13. Goodwin 38, B Allen 37, C Christie 37. relationship with KTK. 34. Home-course player Nick Whyte Viv Swann Salver winner (net): R Twos: C Dean 2, V Richardson. Meanwhile, Wayne Carpendale Twos: T Ford, T Pointon. Approach: C Dean. and June MacKinnon are leading the SATURDAY — Women’s net: J Foot Patutahi race for the Veteran Player of the Year 87-17-70. Junior crossword 1659 honours. Twos: J Foot, T Ford, J Kerr. Electrinet Park member Carpendale TUESDAY (April 6) — Veteran men’s 12 345 JOHN Neilson was at his best and has a stableford total of 195 points stableford: D Te Maro 41, R Maxwell 39, it proved victorious in the men’s from six events so far — six ahead of D Craven 36, P Koorey 35, P Nepia 34, E stableford on Sunday. Poverty Bay’s Brian Morrissey with Parkin 34, H Schreiber 34, P Simpson 34, Neilson’s 76-10-66, for 40 points, Nigel Jones (PB) third on 189. P Hogan 34. won the senior division of the men’s Poverty Bay member MacKinnons Twos: C Aramakutu, P Nepia. stableford. sits atop the women’s standings with 6 78Denise Johnston compiled 39 points 112 points from three events, nine Mahia to win the women’s stableford and the ahead of Park’s Carolyn Carpendale — junior men’s honours went to Sai Eder, meaning a husband-wife title double COUNTBACK decided the Ormond who had 37. is a possiblity — with another Park mixed foursomes stableford on SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, senior player, Jean Foot, third on 97. Sunday. Viv Kyle and Grant Hornblow division: J Neilson 40, T Hindmarsh 39, H Those women considering entering claimed the win from Fairlane Wesche 9 10 11 Harris 39, A Nimmo 36. the New Zealand Veteran Golfers and David Waihaki after both pairs Junior division: S Eder 37, R Pardoe Association Nationals at Poverty Bay totalled 39 points. 35, B McKenzie 35, P Summersby 34. in December are out of luck. Well back in third were Lil Morgan Women’s stableford: D Johnston 39, H The women’s field is full and there and Ian Parker and Lee and Anthony Humble 37. are only a handful of spots left in the Steel on 31. Twos: T Hindmarsh. men’s field for the December 6 to 10 SUNDAY — Men’s stableford: D 12 13 14 Jackpot: T Hindmarsh. tournament. Bremner 36, P Bremner 34 from FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole J Te Amo, B Maher, Wade Wesche. stableford, senior division: M Stock 21, J COMING UP: TUESDAY, May 4, THURSDAY (April 8) — Harwood 15 Neilson 20, P Johnston 18, J Blair 18, A Johnny Jackson net, at Electrinet Park, women’s par: L Steel sq, J Thompson Hindmarsh 17. 10am tee-off. sq, J Smythe -1. Junior division: J Tietjen 23, W Bruce 16 17 18 22, D Stevens 20, D Dodgshun 20, C Electrinet Park COMING UP: SATURDAY, Mahia Newman 20. women’s open and Poverty Bay TUESDAY (April 6) — Women’s net A TWO on the seventh hole helped women’s pennants, 10am tee-off, and putts: M Winiata 100-28-72, 32 putts. Terry Pointon to men’s net glory on entries to Renee Hiko 027-371-8682. Sunday. He won with 83-14-69. 19 Veterans Jo Kerr warmed up for the national Tolaga Bay women’s teams Hawke’s Bay-Poverty ROB Fletcher, Marg Colebourne and Bay district final at the Poverty Bay BJ SIDNEY ran away with the net Jenny Loffler topped the podium at course on Monday with victory in the competition on Sunday. Across Down the Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village women’s stableford on Sunday. His 63 was five strokes clear of Tuki mixed veterans’ open tournament on Kerr shot 4-over 77-6-71, for 38 Sweeney and John Hale, with Dan 1. A weekday (8) 1. People aged 13 to 19 (9) Friday. points. Maitai a stroke back on 69. 6. Opposite of west (4) 2. Unhappy and crying (5) Fletcher’s 93-25-68, for 40 points, Jean Foot (7) won the women’s net Rangi Mackey and Trent Higgs had won the men’s section; Colebourne’s on Saturday and Dave Te Maro racked twos and Alvie Hale had the least 7. Noises (6) 3. Office table (4) 87-15-72, for 37, the women’s division; up 41 points, thanks to his 94-27-67, to putts. 9. Six comes __ five (5) 4. Less old (7) 11. Once more (5) 5. Rotten (3) Winning returns by Djokovic, Nadal 12. Rub out (5) 8. Making no sense (9) TENNIS the 11-time champion at the his first match since winning 13. Courageous (5) 10. Simplest to do (7) Country Club, thrashed Federico in Melbourne, the top-ranked 16. A talk given to a group of 14. Worship (5) RETURNING from a long Delbonis 6-1 6-2. Djokovic eased into his clay break, both Novak Djokovic and Nadal and Djokovic took court routine to reach the third people (6) 15. Wear this on a foot (4) Rafael Nadal opened their clay- time off after the Australian round and improve his unbeaten 18. A black dot on a sheet 17. Young dog (3) court seasons with victories at Open, where Djokovic claimed a record this season to 10-0. the Monte Carlo Masters. record-extending ninth title in “It was a very good encounter. music (4) Djokovic produced a clinical February. I thought it was a great first 19. Pull prickles out with these 6-4 6-2 win over up-and-coming Facing a stern test against match, a big challenge for me,” (8) Jannik Sinner before Nadal, the much-touted Sinner in said Djokovic. — AAP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 15, 2021 SPORT 31 Racing keen at dirt track KARTING by Rockin’ Robin Rotax as she won all three races. Lyn Lyle, 69, had a great day, THE racing was keen at Eastland picking up three second placings. Kart Club’s seventh points meeting of Robyn de la Haye got three thirds the season. and Tessa Irvine, three fourths. In the rookies class, wins went to In the Rotax pro class, Shanan Conrad Gooch (2) and Nixon Gooch. Gooch won all three races, Harley Second placings went to Nixon (2) Davies had three seconds, Cole Rosie and Conrad. had two thirds and Roger Moss had one. This is a great learner class, and At one point, the underside of these five-to-eight-year-olds are getting Moss’s kart could be seen as he was faster each meeting. close to tipping it over again. In the young guns class, Brodie In the KT lights, karts were going off Gooch had two wins and a second the track all over the place. Wins went placing. to Jake Callaghan, Spring Thomson Vinzent MacGregor had one win, and, with his new kart, Robert de la and then kart problems put him out for Haye. the day. Seconds went to Spring Thomson Ella Nicholson picked up two (2) and Robert de la Haye, who also seconds and a third, while Logan Irvine had a fourth. had two third placings. Third placings went to De la Haye, Koby Gooch won two races in the Mike Vita and Jake Callaghan. junior KTs. Hayley de la Haye had a At the end of the meeting, 15 karts win and two thirds, Luca Vita had two lined up for a feature race. seconds and Daniel Tamanui had a Rotax driver Shanan Gooch worked second and a third. his way to the front for the win. In the KT heavies, Wayvern Vause Lyn Lyle shocked herself by coming won two races and had a third placing. home second. Luca Vita was third and Buck Rogers grabbed a win, a Spring Thomson, fourth. second and a third — the whole set. This was Gooch’s third feature win Dion Lund had two seconds and a this season. third. There are four meetings to go this In the women’s class, Crystal season — Apil 18 and 26, and May 2 CLOSE CONTEST: Crystal Callaghan (27) leads Lyn Lyle (15) and Tessa Irvine (44) in the women’s class at Callaghan showed some pace in her and 9. Eastland Kart Club’s seventh points meeting. Picture supplied

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SURF LIFESAVING u23 teams won gold in the mass rescue by Jack Malcolm in dramatically tight racing. On Sunday, conditions were much WAIKANAE Surf Living Saving improved, with blue skies, offshore WAIKANAE Club finished second-equal at this wind and clean swell that allowed year’s Surf Rescue New Zealand competitors to catch up on events Championships. missed the previous day. The assembly, Connor Mitchell and Oliver Shivnan tube rescue, single rescue, and the were named along with one other male open teams race were all run in a team in the New Zealand “Black Props” demanding day of racing. IRB high-performance squad — the first Both age-grade teams dominated TEAMS step to competing in next year’s World their divisions, earning three golds and Lifesaving Championships in Italy. a silver and invaluable points for the Their selection capped off an overall tally. excellent weekend for the Kaiaponi The u23 Blue team of Connor Mitchell Farms Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club, (driver), Oliver Shivnan (crew), Silke whose under-23 and u19 men’s teams McNaught (patient) and Harry Allan dominated their divisions in rough (mass patient) missed out on a clean conditions at Northland’s Ruakaka sweep when they finished a close DOMINATE Beach. second in the single rescue. Waikanae were runners-up in the open The u19 team of Harry Allan (driver), women’s division. Travis Mitchell (crew), Hamish Swann Taranaki’s East End Surf Life Saving (patient) and Sam Blackburne (mass Club won the BP Top Club Trophy for the patient) also fell just short of a clean first time in eight years, with 111 points. sweep when they were second in the Waikanae and Sunset Beach clubs tube rescue. were tied for second place with 82 The open women’s team of Britta points each. Carroll (driver), Ana Naden (crew), Emily Connor Mitchell, who is also the Horne (patient) and Oliver Shivnan Waikanae club’s coach, said conditions (mass patient) earned silver in the on the first day demanded the “full set assembly rescue and single rescue, and of IRB operating skills”. bronze in the tube rescue. They were navigating gale-force Mitchell said they performed winds, horizontal rain and a one-to-two- “phenomenally”, proving to themselves metre swell. that they had the “skillset to win races “The 2021 IRB Nationals showed why within their division”. skills, fitness and endurance of IRB He said that while the Waikanae u23 competitors are so important to rescues Gold team of Cole Williams (driver), and Surf Life Saving New Zealand as a Sam Blackburne (crew), Emily Horne whole,” Mitchell said. (patient) and Ana Naden (mass patient) Overall, Waikanae punched well above were unable to obtain a podium place, their weight at the champs, with the they added invaluable club points and ON THE LOOKOUT: Waikanae Blue team members Connor Mitchell (left) and Oliver four crews rivalling the achievements of did “extremely well” for their first year in Shivnan are alert as their IRB rides over a wave in the tube rescue event. other clubs with much larger numbers, the u23 division. Pictures by Jamie Troughton, Dscribe Media Services he said. The open men’s team of Mitchell The weather had shortened (1st driver), Shivnan (1st crewperson), the run-order of events Allan (2nd driver), Travis Mitchell (2nd on Saturday, but crewperson) and Silke McNaught both u19 and (patient) took third place.

COMING IN: The Waikanae Blue team return to shore during the tube rescue event. They are (from left): Silke McNaught, Oliver Shivnan and Connor Mitchell.

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