TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 SCOREBOARD DROP KILLER’S FOR GISBORNE LABYRINTH STRANDED ECONOMY IN BRITAIN: PAGE 3 OF LIES THOUSANDS OF TRUCK DRIVERS WAITING FOR GREEN LIGHT PAGE 6 PAGE 13

CRASH SITE: The scene of truck driver Mike Moore’s accident on State Highway 35 near Tolaga Bay on November 17. Picture by Liam Clayton ‘I CAN’T SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH’

ON THE MEND: Mike Moore continues his recovery after suffering multiple injuries in a truck crash on the Coast. He thanks everyone who played a role in getting him out of the truck and to hospital, and the staff who looked after him and operated on him. “Hats off to everyone. They are doing Searching for mystery rescuer a selfless job and are underappreciated.” Picture by Liam Clayton

by Sophie Rishworth “I really want to see him and speak to him in Mike was also grateful to everyone else involved in person. his rescue. A TRUCK driver who survived a crash on the “He said he was from Waipiro Bay and we needed “The sight of the police officer and the fire brigade Coast highway last month is looking for the man to have a beer when I got out (of hospital). I’d like to was quite a relief — the fact they were so quick. If who first arrived at the scene and have the beer they take him up on that offer.” the accident had happened further up the Coast I talked about. The man, who Mike thinks was also a truck driver, could have bled out.” Mike Moore suffered severe injuries after his used a belt he had worn for 20 years as a tourniquet Mike said miraculously his injuries, although empty log truck caught the edge of State Highway 35 around Mike’s right leg. serious, were not life-threatening. near Tolaga Bay on Tuesday, November 17. It crossed Mike remembers seeing blood squirting from his There was no internal damage or injuries to his the centre line into the path of an oncoming car. shin. other leg, chest or spine. He remembers putting his foot down, aiming for a He lost so much blood he later needed a “Thanks to everyone who was there, especially the bank on the left side of the road and closing his eyes. transfusion at Gisborne Hospital. A doctor told Mike rescue people, the helicopter pilots, the fire brigade Mike lost consciousness from the ensuing impact. he came close to having his lower leg amputated. and police — everyone involved. When he came to, he was hanging upside down in his Mike believes the man’s actions saved his leg. “Without their help it could have been a lot worse. seat belt. “He was very good. He talked to me and kept me They do an amazing job.” “Are you in there? Are you OK?” a voice said. calm. Before the accident, Mike was on his way to pick “The guy who came straight to the truck and “It was such a selfless act. It shows the New up a load of logs from Mata Road, inland from started talking to me, the very first guy, I can’t say Zealand spirit — to help someone you don’t even Tokomaru Bay. thank you enough to him,” said Mike. know.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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MUSICAL POETRY: Amy Hou plays the guzheng — a Chinese stringed instrument — at Treble Court. The modern-day version of the guzheng usually has 21 or more strings CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY: A recent newcomer to Gisborne, Dan Li took and is played with finger picks. Its sound is described as poetic and atmospheric. a taste of Chinese culture to the city centre on Saturday. Santa stepped Western society has mistakenly described it as a Chinese harp. However, there is out of his Treble Court grotto to sit with Mrs Li as she demonstrated the already a Chinese harp, which is known as a konghou. Pictures by Paul Rickard art of calligraphy to Thomas and Maria Wade. Picture by Paul Rickard

‘Someone above was looking out for me that day’

FROM PAGE 1 flew him to Gisborne Hospital where the state of East Coast roads. his Harley Davidson. rods were put through the broken bones “The roads are too tight for trucks and Mike said no. Just past Tolaga Bay, a wheel caught to keep them in place. The next day he too bumpy. New Zealand needs to spend “After you fall off the horse, you hop the edge of SH35 and dragged the rear of was flown to Waikato Hospital where he more money on widening our roads, not back on.” his rig around. underwent extensive surgery. just in this district but all around the But getting behind the wheel of a truck “I over-corrected and slid across the Plates were inserted and casts put on country. There is no room for people to again would depend on how his recovery road. I saw a car coming towards me and both his arms. His ankle was also put in pull over.” went over the next 12 months. saw the driver hit the brakes. a cast and a leg brace was fitted. While the accident was a reality check Mike turned 45 on Sunday and spent “I grabbed the steering wheel, put my He was in Waikato Hospital for three of the dangers that go with his job, it had the day continuing his recuperation and foot down, closed my eyes, headed for the weeks. not inspired a new perspective on life. watching videos. bank and said ‘forgive me Father for I Mike, who has been driving trucks for That had already happened in “I have plenty to go through.” have sinned’. 10 years, rang his boss from hospital to Whakatane eight years ago when he was He will likely be off work for up to a “I had to take evasive action. The last apologise for the roll and subsequent kicked in the face with a steel cap boot year but said he was, “as good as can be”. thing you want to do is hit someone, and damage. after being “jumped by 10 guys”. “I’m just glad to be alive, really. you survive and they don’t.” Log trucks can cost between $300,000 “After that I sat back and thought “All I can say is someone above was He does not remember the impact but and $500,000. about how lucky we are every day. Things looking out for me that day.” when he came to could hear the man “He said: ‘Look mate, don’t worry about like the smell of the grass, the sound and from Waipiro Bay asking if he was OK. it. Trucks can be replaced. You can’t’.” smell of the ocean, the sound of birds ■ If you are the man from Waipiro Bay He wasn’t. Mike suffered two broken Mike had a blood test as part of the — average things in life but they make who helped Mike and would like to take forearms, a broken tibia, fibia and patella accident investigation. There were no you appreciate it. Even just sitting there him up on his offer of a beer, contact in his right left, a broken nose and a drugs involved, he said, and he had yet to listening to water running in a creek.” The Gisborne Herald on 869 0600 for his gouge in his forehead. hear whether charges would be laid. Mike said his father had asked him if phone number, or message us through The Trust Tairawhiti Rescue Helicopter The crash underlined his concern at he would give up truck driving and riding Facebook.

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FORMER First Fresh NZ Limited employee month outside the 24 months threshold at “The actual receipt of reparation payments accounts (it was not suggested those people Katrina Louise Brown has been freed from which the court can consider conversion to rather than mere promises is, as the were involved). prison on home detention but on the basis an electronically-monitored option. judge indicated, an important factor when She would regularly transfer money from she pays $20,000 towards reparation owing. On appeal, however, it was accepted the approaching sentencing.” those other accounts into her own. Gisborne District Court judge Warren sentencing judge made a mathematical error However, the situation had changed, The fraud was first noticed by the Cathcart jailed Brown for 25 months on in calculating guilty plea discount under a Justice Churchman said. company’s bank in October last year. The November 5 after she had previously pleaded new sentencing methodology, and that the Home detention could be considered and extent of it was fully realised when police guilty to 14 charges of dishonestly accessing end result should have been 24 months. was capable of holding Brown accountable investigated. a computer system by which she stole Apart from the correction to the guilty and denouncing even this serious offending. About $39,000 was recovered from one of $147,390 from First Fresh while employed as plea calculation, Justice The payment of a further the accounts and returned to the company. its accounts payable clerk. Churchman upheld the level sum of $20,000 by way of Brown repaid another $40,000 with a bank In a recent High Court appeal decision, of sentence imposed. The payment reparation further reduced cheque at an earlier hearing. Justice Churchman converted the sentence Justice Churchman said the loss to the complainant. Up until this appeal hearing, she was to 12 months home detention and reduced it the greatest factor militating will reduce what If granted home detention, unable to arrange any more repayments, by one month to 11 months for the 40 days against a sentence of home Brown still owes Brown had the prospect of despite having transferred her equity in her Brown served in prison. detention was Brown’s the company to employment from which property to her partner to facilitate raising a The judge said the conversion was on the failure to repay the company, $42,976.61. she would be able to make mortgage for the balance of the outstanding basis $20,000 recently deposited by Brown’s despite her promise to further reparations. fraud debt. family into her solicitor firm’s trust account do so in the restorative That would also be in the A pre-sentence report referred to in the goes towards reparation. justice conference before interests of the complainant. appeal hearing said Brown’s offending was He noted that while supposedly earmarked sentencing and two separate adjournments Brown was previously employed by emotionally driven during “an elongated for that purpose, Brown’s lawyer was unable by the sentening judge to enable her more Oranga Tamariki but was suspended as a lapse of rational thinking”. to confirm he had unequivocal instructions time. result of these charges. Reasons included her desire to fulfil her to use the money to that effect. The sentencing judge had explicitly Finally, it appeared she had genuine dying father’s request for her to remedy the The payment will reduce what Brown still warned at the second adjournment of the rehabilitative prospects and was remorseful, family farm’s financial crisis. owes the company to $42,976.61. likelihood of imprisonment if she did not pay, Justice Churchman said. However, the Crown in its submissions She will also still have to pay $7000 in Justice Churchman said. Brown’s offending happened over 10 against home detention noted there was no emotional harm reparation to the company as He had told her paying the money would in months between November 2018 and 20 evidence Brown actually used the money for previously ordered by the sentencing judge. principle lower the starting point. September 2019, when she regularly made that purpose. Home detention was not an issue for the The sentencing judge’s concern at payments from First Fresh’s account into her Brown applied for bail pending the sentencing judge as the end sentence he Brown’s failure to make the reparation was own account, as well as into a joint account appeal hearing but was refused it by Judge reached of 25 months imprisonment was one understandable, Justice Churchman said. with her partner and to two other bank Cathcart. Economy ranking down Gisborne ninth on Scoreboard topped by Northland by Andrew Ashton IF YOU BUILD IT: The new Gisborne Countdown building is part GISBORNE has dropped of a construction sector that pumped $31 million into the wider several places on a list of regional economy for the September quarter. the nation’s fastest growing Picture by Liam Clayton economies but business is still booming. The latest ASB Bank Regional Economic Scoreboard places the district as the ninth- fastest growing economy in New Zealand for the quarter ending September. Northland has jumped seven places on the last quarter to be ranked No.1, with Bay of Plenty second and Waikato third. Gisborne ranked third for the April to June quarter after a streak of No.1 rankings. ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said the drop was due to the way the scoreboard measured year-on-year changes. “Gisborne’s decline reflects the fact it enjoyed whopping growth on a lot of metrics a year ago. “For example, retail trade growth was lower than in other parts of the country but Gisborne topped the country on that figure last September, and spending was still up big. “Employment numbers also managed a year-on-year lift. “Annual house price growth Naske it would be unrealistic to sectors are generally positive, was also the largest in the The NZ Regional Economic Scoreboard takes the latest quarterly regional expect the region to remain at tourism is boosted from the country for another quarter. statistics and ranks the economic performance of New Zealand’s 16 Regional the top of the list. enforced domestic focus and “Still, there were signs of Council areas. The fastest-growing regions gain the highest ratings, and a “It is not unexpected to there is clearly still plenty of some softening in the data. The good performance by the national economy raises the ratings of all regions. see some fluctuations and confidence and activity in the region had one of the sharpest Ratings are updated every three months, and are based on measures, movement in the ASB scorecard. construction sector, which will falls in confidence in the including employment, construction, retail trade and house prices. “While our rate of economic continue for the foreseeable country.” activity may reduce and two-to-three-year period. Gisborne’s 25 percent annual A 61.8 percent rise in the The scoreboard gave Gisborne our ranking will change, “There is plenty to be positive rise in median house prices was value of the construction a 3-star rating for September it is unlikely we will see a about in Tairawhiti. However, by far New Zealand’s greatest industry was second only to — ratings going from 1 (not) to contraction in the economy with keep an eye on the future increase — well clear of second- Tasman (80 percent), injecting 5 (hot). interest rates as low as they with the growing house price ranked West Coast (11.2) and $31 million into the regional Gisborne Chamber of are. inequality and the lack of Wellington (11.1). economy here. Commerce president Paul “Horticulture and agriculture affordable housing.” 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020

FAMILY NOTICES Bereavements

Deaths JAY BULLIVANT Shona and family wish to sincerely thank O’NEILL, Maud. — relatives, friends and 19.4.36 - 20.12.20. neighbours for their Loved daughter of the words of comfort, late Thomas and cards, flowers, in Catherine O’Neill, and support during our sad much loved sister of loss of Jay. Please Thomas Junior and accept this as our Paschal (dec), all of personal thanks. Eire. After a short battle with cancer, Maud In Memoriam returned home to God whilst listening to the Irish Blessing. KEREKERE, As per her wishes, a Maurice Mahia private cremation was 14.11.1977 - held. 23.12.2000 A celebration of Maud’s life will take 20 years today. place at St Mary’s Star Gone but never of the Sea Church, forgotten. Gisborne. Details to follow. Love always. Correspondence C/- Mum, Dad, Luck, 22/36 Disraeli St, Rose, Craig and moko Gisborne 4010. Monumental Masons PLEASE STONEHAVEN HAVE FAMILY for NOTICES Funerals CRASH SCENE: Emergency services attended when a 4x4 utility vehicle towing a trailer flipped near Mangaoporo Bridge at IN BY 9AM and Stainton Road north of Ruatoria on SH35 on Monday. The 77-year-old woman driving the ute was taken to hospital by the Trust Memorials Tairawhiti rescue chopper in a critical condition, but was reported by the hospital this morning as “stable” and “probably going DAY OF home today”. In a spate of call-outs for emergency services that day, a 20-year-old woman fell off a boat being towed on Tolaga PUBLICATION 601 Nelson Road Bay’s Wharf Road. She remains in a stable condition in hospital. She suffered head injuries. The 62-year-old woman driving Ph 867 1800 the vehicle that left SH35 and went down a bank at the bottom of B5 hill at Whangara was treated and discharged from the Emergency Department on Monday afternoon. Picture supplied BDO staff Bins and bags out early for holiday collections

KERBSIDE rubbish and recycling collections “That means runs as normal on Christmas ensure collection. bring some will continue as normal over Christmas and the Day, Friday, December 25, the Boxing Day “Our teams will be on the road early and with New Year period. holiday on Monday, December 28 , New Year’s less traffic on the road we’re assuming they’ll “Our hard-working teams will be collecting Day on Friday, January 1, and the New Year’s be able to get through the runs more quickly rubbish and recycling on the usual days of Day holiday on Monday, January 4, 2021.” than usual,” he said. “That will also help them Christmas service,” Gisborne District Council solid waste He advised residents to get bins and bags get home earlier to spend their Christmas and manager Phil Nickerson said out the night before or before 7am on the day to New Year’s Day with friends and whanau.” cheer to foundation Development costs

ACCOUNTANTS in Gisborne have made a tax-free show of Christmas giving. BDO Gisborne staff donated $1180 to GDC looking to up contributions by 60pc The Sunrise Foundation to support good by Wynsley Wrigley Gisborne urban area with current were coming from an era of no growth. causes in the region and chief operating growth of 1 to 2 percent per year easing Much work and information was officer Kris Karauria said the donation A 60 PERCENT increase in to 0.5 to 1 percent from 2021 to 2031. required in formulating development was a perfect way for the team to “pay it development contribution costs will “This is significantly faster growth contributions policy. forward”. leave the region “within the ball park” than previously expected.” The council would need “good and “Sunrise has a long-term vision of what other councils charge, Gisborne Population growth would reduce robust information about your networks” of supporting those in need in our district councillors have been told. infrastructure costs per household but and the cost of adding infill housing in community and with the endowment Councillors have approved a draft there would be significant increases in each area. model they operate it means that our development contributions policy to go capital costs to extend infrastructure Gisborne’s infrastructure information donations will go on paying it forward to out for public consultation. networks into green fields (undeveloped was still being “discovered” and that was our community forever.” The contributions are a fee charged property) which would offset the effect of one reason why only a light review had BDO Gisborne partner Kylie Potae said to help offset the cost of infrastructure additional households. been held. each team member chose which fund they — stormwater, wastewater, water, road Covid-19 and delayed census “If you get challenged and you have to would like to support. assets or parks and reserves — in the population data had compressed stand up in court and your information “Sunrise has 44 funds which support area where the development is taking the time for staff to prepare a new isn’t available behind the numbers, you a wide range of charitable causes place. development contributions plan in time get into some trouble.” throughout Tairawhiti-Gisborne, which The draft policy proposes the for the 2021-2031 Long Term Plan. The council had identified greenfield means that each and every person can development contribution cost for The “light review” conducted would costs “quite well because that’s easier”, support a local cause that is dear to a Gisborne urban area Household lead to a more comprehensive review but more information was required them.” Equivalent Unit (HEU) — or average ahead of the 2024-2034 Long Term Plan, about infill costs. Sunrise marketing manager Kerry dwelling — increase from $8731 to said Mr Slupski. Cr Shannon Dowsing said the Taggart said the foundation was thankful $14,572. Andy Cranston was one of several proposed development costs would leave for the donation. If passed, it will come into effect on councillors who called for a differential Gisborne “sitting somewhere squarely in “As with every donation to Sunrise it July 1, 2021. between the development contribution the middle” relative to other councils. will be invested forever, with the interest Senior policy adviser Janic Slupski for infill development and greenfield “We all know we have the lowest being granted back to charities in our said the increase “was not insignificant”. development. affordability or lowest ability to pay, so district every year, forever”. Gisborne would not have the cheapest Infill development did not incur the we would hope we would be at the lower The Sunrise Foundation is one of 18 charges but the proposal “actually same costs as greenfield development end.” independent community foundations compares favourably with other district but could add significantly to the The only plausible way to have a in New Zealand and raises funds from councils”. ratepayer base, he said. development cost differential was to donations and legacies and invests them In his report to councillors, he said Mr Slupski said the matter could prioritise development with lower costs in perpetuity for the long term. growth-related capital projects had led be looked into when more time was to the council in order to have more Income from investments is used to an increase in development charges. available. reasonable charges. to increase endowments in line with “Combined with the increase in Consultant Malcolm Thomas said the He was uncomfortable with a light inflation and protect the funds from forecast household growth, the overall infill/greenfield issue was a debate about review and trying to do a full review future market fluctuations. The surplus revenue from development contributions growth and infrastructure and who was later. investment income is granted to charities, is forecast to increase substantially.” going to pay for it. It would create a burden on organisations and needy causes in The council was forecasting moderate There was a common problem in councillors and staff and increase costs, Tairawhiti. to strong population growth in the provincial New Zealand that regions he said. The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 NEWS 5 NZTA plea to drivers as more visitors expected

STAY safe and plan ahead is the advice from Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, ahead of the Rhythm and Vines festival and an expected TAKE A BREAK: increase in domestic tourists. This fatigue stop NZTA expects highway traffic to be at Manganuku particularly busy from December 28 Bridge in the through to January 1. Waioeka Gorge “It’s been a long and stressful year, last year provided and many people will be looking forward refreshments and to a well-deserved holiday,” said senior information about network and journey manager Helen Tairawhiti for Harris. visitors heading “The roads are expected to be busy this way for R&V. this year as we welcome more domestic Waka Kotahi tourists to Gisborne,” NZTA plans to Some local roads would be closed for have a fatigue Rhythm and Vines, she said, which would stop for this have an impact on the state highway year’s visitors, on network. December 28. “This will all be signposted so motorists File picture should follow the message boards and be patient. As in past years, a fatigue stop will time traffic updates online before heading farmers to check their fences and ensure Harris said. be set up on State Highway 2 through off, leave plenty of time for your journey that stock animals remain safely secured “Our contractors work hard to carry the Waioeka Gorge on December 28, “so and drive to the conditions. so they cannot wander on to the state out important activities on our roads to motorists should be prepared to stop for “Trying to ‘make up lost time’ by highway. keep people safe. They shouldn’t have to police”. speeding and unsafe overtaking puts “Animals on the roads present a major remove empty beer bottles or fast food Ms Harris has urged everyone to do everyone on the road at risk,” she said. safety risk, particularly when traffic is packaging from the side of the highway. their bit to keep the roads safe this “Even when it isn’t the direct cause busier, so farmers must ensure they are “Rubbish can be dangerous for summer. of a crash, speed is often the difference kept off the road.” motorists and the clean-up can put our “There may be some congestion and between someone walking away Waka Kotahi NZTA will also be road workers at risk. delays during busy times, which can be unharmed or being seriously injured or erecting more signs in the coming days to “The clean-up also diverts resource frustrating, but the most important thing killed. remind motorists to dispose of their litter and funding from other important road is that everyone gets to their destination “For everyone’s safety, please slow appropriately. maintenance activities. safely. down.” “Litter on the state highway has been “This is all completely avoidable if “Plan ahead by checking out our real- Ms Harris said the NZTA also reminds an ongoing issue in the region,” Ms everyone cleans up after themselves.” Endangered four of her children Multiple assaults while over limit Jailed for violence to partner and children HE was relieved to hear a man’s two of assault with a weapon, seven and punched in the head and body on A WOMAN driving a carload Two members of the public relationship was over, a judge said as of assault with intent to injure, and numerous occasions. of children at more than called police after seeing her he jailed him for two-and-a-half years 12 of assault on a female. Two girls were struck in the head twice the speed limit and driving at about 120kmh in a on domestic violence charges. The charges relating to the children by the man. swerving uncontrollably across 50kmh speed zone southwest Judge Warren Cathcart sentenced were two of assault on a child and one Judge Cathcart set a sentence Centennial Marine Drive was on Centennial Marine Drive. the man in Gisborne District Court of assaulting a female (a teenaged starting point of four years for the reported to police by members About 70 metres away last week. daughter aged over 18). totality of the domestic violence of the public, Gisborne District from the Junior Cycle Park, He cannot be named due to privacy The man pleaded guilty to one of offending, as submitted by the Crown Court was told. the vehicle swerved on to the laws protecting the identity of the the assaults with a weapon and one and counsel Leighvi Maynard. The woman was seen on wrong side of the road twice complainant — his former partner of the assaults on a female, ahead of There was an adjusted uplift of four December 12, last year, with before the woman regained — and their children, who often trial. months for the breach of protection one hand on the steering wheel control of it. witnessed his violence or suffered it He was also sentenced in relation to order and unrelated police charges. and her head out the driver’s She was seen with one hand themselves. a separately admitted police charge of There were competing arguments window on a section of the on the steering window and The charges arose out of incidents breaching a protection order arising between Crown and counsel as to the road near the Olympic Pools. her head out the driver’s door spanning four years in New Zealand from numerous electronic messages level of discount that should apply When police caught up with window. but there had also been violence and video calls he made to the woman for the guilty plea. Judge Cathcart her, she was parked, reading Two motorists travelling between the couple when they and their children, despite a condition imposed a full 25 percent, noting her children a book, and tried in the opposite direction had previously lived overseas, the judge of the order forbidding him. the immediacy with which the man to blame the offending on their to brake heavily to avoid a noted. In her evidence at trial, the woman pleaded once relieved of the sexual father, court documents state. collision with her vehicle. Even after they finally separated described receiving regular “hidings” allegations. She had also been driving in One of them phoned 111 and there were two further arguments in during a relationship punctuated by He received a further six months breach of her learner licence — followed her. which the man punched and slapped her partner’s regular unannounced reduction for the 12 months he was without a qualified supervisor. She stopped in a carpark the woman. disappearances. on electronically-monitored bail. The woman cannot be opposite the motorhome camp The majority of the charges An agreed summary of facts The judge refused to allow discrete named due to privacy law about a kilometre from where resolved after a jury trial earlier this prepared for sentencing detailed discount for remorse notwithstanding protecting the children’s she was originally noticed. year ended abruptly after the victim’s specific incidents in which she was Mr Maynard’s submissions regarding identities. When police arrived, she evidence on day one. punched, picked up and slammed denials the man made about the She appeared via AV-link was in the driver’s seat reading The man pleaded guilty the to the ground, thrown on to a bed, offending to a pre-sentence report from a prison remand unit a book to her children. following morning to an amended booted in the chin, straddled and writer. during a Crown call over Told of complaints about her Crown schedule from which alleged punched, strangled, spat on and However, the judge accepted Mr fixture, pleading guilty to four driving, she said, “Who the f*** sexual offences were removed. kicked in the torso. Maynard’s submissions that despite charges of failing to protect did that . . . they’re all s*** . . . Judge Cathcart told jurors the She suffered varying injuries — previous convictions, the man could a child aged under 18, drink- you can’t prove it.” deletions were due to evidential dizziness, headaches, black eyes, still qualify for a discrete discount driving (721mcg) for a third or When other officers issues relating to proof. While the swollen lips, lumps and bruising, and for previous good character. He had subsequent time – her third, approached her children, she woman was clear in her evidence in three of the episodes was knocked at times made a positive contribution and dangerous driving. yelled, “Don’t you f***ing talk she did not consent to the alleged unconscious. to the community. A three-month Judge Turitea Bolstad further to my kids” and then screamed offences, there was a reasonable The injuring with intent to injure reduction was given for this factor. remanded her in custody for at the children, “Don’t tell him possibility the man might not have charge involved him kicking her in Judge Cathcart noted there was sentence on March 19. anything . . . tell them it’s your understood that, the judge said. the stomach four times while she a high level of support for the man, A pre-sentence report father . . . tell them it’s your That development in the case also was on her hands and knees on the with the court receiving numerous assessing the suitability father driving.” brought about the resolution of three ground. The blows were so forceful, testimonials. A large group of his of electronically-monitored One of the children told charges in relation to three of the each one lifted her into the air. supporters were at court for his sentencing options was police, “Dad’s not here, he’s couple’s children, one of whom was She was still unable to walk two sentencing. ordered. with the baby at home”. aged 18 at the time of the offending. days later and suffered ongoing pain. The judge said it appeared the A cultural report will be The summary of facts said In total the man was sentenced on Another of the incidents was when man had two faces as such offenders commissioned by defence that the woman told police she 25 Crown-scheduled charges — 22 she was about six months’ pregnant. often did — one he showed in counsel Vicky Thorpe. was not driving the car, she in which his former partner was the The man slammed a car door on her public particularly in the course According to an agreed was a passenger in it, and that complainant and three involving the stomach. of his employment, where he was summary of facts, the children she refused to say who was children. A separate summary of facts for considered a good, reliable and were all aged under 10. The driving, the summary of facts The charges relating to the woman the charges involving the children helpful worker. youngest was a year old. stated. were injuring with intent to injure, detailed a boy being kicked, stomped, But at home he was violent. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 ‘We do not speak his name’ Grace’s murderer convicted for sexual offending against two other women by Sam Hurley, Chelsea Boyle and Anna Leask, NZ Herald AUCKLAND — It was called New Zealand’s worst-kept secret, but after more than two years, Jesse Shane Kempson has finally been named as the man who murdered British backpacker Grace Millane. It was also revealed Kempson faced two other trials this year for sexual violence against two women after the high-profile murder. He was found guilty of all nine charges at both trials, including rape, which he is now appealing. The 28-year-old has also already signalled an appeal to the Supreme Court, which declined a final application for leave to maintain suppression yesterday, in a bid to overturn his murder conviction. After killing Grace on the eve of her 22nd birthday, Kempson became the man with the blurred face on our televisions as his identity had remained suppressed since December 2018 for fair trial reasons. His judge-alone sexual violence trials in October and November were held under a shroud of secrecy in the High Court at Auckland. Ultimately, he was convicted and given IN MEMORY: The public came out to pay tribute to Grace Millane in 2018. NZ Herald picture further prison sentences, which will be served concurrently alongside his life term for murdering Grace, which includes or speak his name,” the Millane family murder trial, which caught the attention a non-parole period of 17 years. said in a statement. of a global audience. Kempson will be 45 years old when he Police laid Kempson’s additional When he met the travelling Grace is first eligible for release in 2037. charges, including rape, sexual violation, on Tinder in December 2018, the lies After Grace’s death, police closed in on threatening to kill and assault, against continued as did his campaign of Kempson as the prime suspect. him in February 2019. misinformation after strangling her As detectives investigated him and But before Kempson’s murder trial to death in his downtown Auckland searched their files, they found an earlier began in November last year, the courts apartment following a night of drinking. complaint by another woman, who had had ruled he would maintain suppression He lied to police in a desperate attempt been in a relationship with him, and a until after all his trials had been to cover his tracks after dumping Grace’s corresponding protection order. determined. body in a shallow grave in the Waitakere “I was Grace’s voice and I will be Last week and a day before the Court Ranges. Grace’s voice,” she would later tell a of Appeal dismissed Kempson’s appeal Kempson’s trial lawyers, Ian Brookie court. of his murder conviction and sentence, a and Ron Mansfield, argued Grace’s death A third woman, a Brit like Grace, hearing was held to determine when he was accidental and occurred during erotic was also interviewed by police about a would finally be named. asphyxiation. The killer has continued to violent Tinder rendezvous she had with Court of Appeal President Justice Kos maintain this claim. Kempson. said “it is time now for His internet history, however, revealed She came forward a dose of reality”. much of what he did at about the time after seeing Kempson’s “This all occurred and after Grace died. He searched for identity publicised by ‘ I was Grace’s voice and more than two years methods of how to dispose of her body, international media I will be Grace’s voice ago. Mr Kempson looked at pornography online, and took Grace Millane as the man accused —Unnamed victim’ has been convicted intimate photos of her naked body. of killing Grace. She at all three trials He also later went on another date instantly recognised and no longer enjoys while Grace’s body remained in his Takanini. him as the man who the presumption of CityLife apartment. Despite Kempson’s suppression order, had raped her in an Auckland motel and innocence. In the ordinary way, there is a He “eroticised” Grace’s death because many people in New Zealand already when presented with a photo ID montage genuine and proper public interest in his of his “morbid sexual interest”, Crown knew his name. — positively identified Kempson. identity being disclosed.” prosecutor Brian Dickey told jurors. There were several breaches before and Both women have permanent name Much about Kempson’s life, however, At the time he murdered Grace, after the murder trial, largely by those on suppression. remains muddied because of his labyrinth Kempson told police he worked in sales social media and in the United Kingdom Detective Inspector Scott Beard, the of lies and embellishments. for consulting firm Liquid Learning. The press. officer in charge of the investigation Those who have known him have told New Zealand Herald has also confirmed One person sitting in the public gallery into Kempson, said police are expecting The New Zealand Herald about fanciful he was born in the Wellington region at his first court appearance brazenly more women to come forward and report claims. in December 1991 and grew up in posted a photo from the hearing on their alleged violence at the hands of the killer Some of Kempson’s more outrageous Wainuiomata and Porirua. Facebook page. now his name has been published. lies included being a manager at an oil Kempson’s parents split when he was The blatant breaches, including Graces’s mother Gillian has also been company, a law graduate, having gang just three and he spent several years by Google in a mass email to Kiwi supporting other women who have come connections, being an orphan, being the living in Australia. users, caught the ire of then-Justice forward, encouraging them to report cousin of an All Black, and even that he The junior softball representative Minister Andrew Little and the Bar what happened to them and get the help was suffering from cancer. returned from Sydney in 2016 for Association, and have led to debate they need. Many of these falsehoods were picked what, he claimed, was to care for a sick about the effectiveness of New Zealand’s “As a family we do not think about him apart during the nearly four-week-long grandmother in the Auckland suburb of suppression laws in the internet age. More victims urged to come forward after killer’s history revealed AUCKLAND — More women are expected at Auckland. nine years ago, said Kempson’s predatory While education is the strong fence at the top to come forward to the police now it has been In both, he was found guilty on all charges, behaviour does not surprise him. of the cliff, director of White Ribbon, Rob McCann revealed Grace Millane’s murderer was a repeat including rape; and the sexual violation; physical, “There was a pattern building with this said there needed to be an accepting justice sex offender. sexual, emotional and financial abuse of an guy, and it often starts out with very low-level system at the bottom, so people were more Since being found guilty of killing the British ex-girlfriend. abuse, and it grows and grows and grows, until, comfortable taking action against their abusers. backpacker, Jessie Kempson has also been “I’ve always thought that if it wasn’t Grace, it unfortunately with Grace, it ended in her murder.” “We know it’s an absolutely degradating convicted of raping one woman and assaulting was going to be someone,” Detective Inspector There’s still not a good recognition of what experience for many women to go through that another multiple times. Scott Beard told RNZ’s Checkpoint, after abusive behaviour is, Longley said. He’s an court system,” McCann said. The two women told the police what Kempson Kempson was sentenced in February to life ambassador for White Ribbon NZ, the campaign “It needs to change, and it’s not because the had done to them after they realised he was the imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period to end violence against women. police aren’t trying, it’s not because the judicial man charged with killing Grace Millane. of 17 years for Millane’s murder. Education is key in helping prevent abuse, rape system isn’t trying, but the whole system needs Following the murder trial last year he went Mark Longley, the father of Emily Longley, who and murder of women, he said, and it’s on men to to change, as it understands these offences.” on to face two further trials at the High Court was killed by her former boyfriend in England recognise ugly behaviour early on, and call it out. — RNZ The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 MediaWorks fined over Roast Busters’ accused keep iwi roadblocks interview names secret by John Weekes, NZ Herald by Charlotte Jones, Local Democracy AUCKLAND — The two men charged Reporter in relation to the so-called Roast Busters scandal have appeared in court. WHAKATANE — MediaWorks has The first to appear, a 24 year-old man, been fined $3000 for promoting negative wore a face mask as he entered the Maori stereotypes when interviewing courtroom. an iwi leader on Te Whanau-a-Apanui’s He is charged with sexual connection Covid-19 roadblocks. with a young person. The Broadcasting Standards Authority Lawyer Ron Mansfield represented him has found an interview by Sean Plunket and sought interim name suppression. with Te Whanau-a-Apanui spokesperson The New Zealand Herald opposed and Opotiki District Councillor Louis interim name suppression but suppression Rapihana breached discrimination and was granted to the man’s next appearance, denigration standards, amplified negative when he will appear before a judge. Maori stereotypes and had the potential The second man appeared in court to cause widespread harm. without a face mask. It has since upheld two complaints He also sought interim name about the interview and fined suppression. MediaWorks in a decision announced this Police made an application for interim week. name suppression as well. Plunket hosts Magic Afternoons, a Like the other accused man, he was also show promoted by MediaWorks as being charged with having sexual connection “the free speech hotline for no-holds with a young person. barred common-sense talk that you Both men were remanded on bail without DISCRIMINATORY INTERVIEW: MediaWorks has copped a $3000 fine after an control”. plea to January 15. interview about iwi roadblocks that ‘breached discrimination and denigration During Alert Level 3, Plunket They appeared in Waitakere District standards, amplified negative Maori stereotypes and had the potential to cause questioned Rapihana on air about the Court before a Deputy Registrar and their widespread harm’. Picture supplied legal basis for the roadblocks Te Whanau- names were left off the public list inside a-Apanui had set the courtroom. up to protect its inflammatory way to provoke discussion Standards Authority is taking the Maori The two men were charged and a people from Covid- of the issues. view quite seriously. It’s quite heartening warrant issued for a third man more than 19 and what the “We consider Mr Plunket’s tone, to see that happening,” he said. seven years after the “Roast Busters” iwi intended to do if dismissiveness, repeated interruptions “To see listeners do take things scandal. anybody refused to of Mr Rapihana and the comments he seriously is just amazing so I take my hat Members of the mostly West Auckland comply. made following the interview were either off to them for making a stand when they group in 2013 allegedly boasted on social During the intended to encourage harmful tropes don’t even know me. That shows how media about having sex with drunk and segment, Plunket and views or reflected ignorance at a much passion they have to ensure things underage girls. called iwi “bullies”, level that is offensive and harmful to are done right.” The saga raised questions about alcohol “rogues” and Maori,” it said. Rapihana and the issue of consent. “highwaymen”, questioned how many iwi “To conclude, said the views It also emerged police did not at first members were on a benefit, and asked the interview, expressed during properly investigate complaints from why, with no context, it didn’t focus on which disparaged We consider Mr Plunket’s the segment were several young women. issues like child abuse. iwi checkpoints tone,‘ dismissiveness, repeated nothing that he The publicity prompted a second The authority found these comments and amounted interruptions . . . were either was not used to investigation, Operation Clover, which “amplified and reflected” casual racism to a persistent, and something identified 110 girls who had social contact against Maori. deliberate, attack intended to encourage harmful Maori had to deal with the so-called Roast Busters. It also found that Plunket’s continued on Maori, by tropes and views or reflected with daily. But in October 2014, police said nobody insistence of the illegality of the making light of the ignorance “You do become would be charged in relation to Operation roadblocks, despite police support, depopulation of numb to it and you Clover. and “ridiculing” of Te Tiriti o Waitangi Aboriginal people —Broadcasting’ Standards Authority just get broader The Independent Police Conduct without giving Rapihana space to respond in Tasmania, shoulders and fight Authority identified failures in how police made the broadcast “more notable for Mr aggravated on,” he said. originally investigated complaints about the Plunket’s behaviour than a contribution the harm generated by the original “As long as there is marama (wisdom, Roast Busters group as far back as 2011. towards informing the public”. comments.” understanding) with what I’m doing Last week, Detective Inspector John Following the interview, Plunket read Rapihana said he did not know the or what I’m talking about then there Sutton said police received a complaint out listeners’ feedback on-air, which two people who complained about the won’t be problem. As long as I’m from an individual earlier this year about further perpetuated racist perspectives. segment to the authority and was straightforward with what I’m talking alleged sexual offending involving three He also responded to a caller unaware there had been complaints until about, I won’t be affected by it.” males in 2013. referencing the depopulation of a week ago, when the authority gave him Rapihana said justice had been served Sutton said a warrant to arrest would be Aboriginal people in Tasmania by saying, warning a decision would be made public. through the decision, and said he would sought for a third man, who currently lives “they wouldn’t have any checkpoint Despite this, he is very pleased with like to see Plunket come to the rohe and overseas. problems there”. the authority’s decision to uphold the meet the people of Te Whanau-a-Apanui. “That person will be arrested if he The authority said although there complaints and is thankful to the two In addition to being fined, MediaWorks returns to New Zealand,” Sutton said last was legitimate public interest in iwi people who made them. must now make a pre-approved week. checkpoints, the broadcast was an “To me, it shows the Broadcasting statement on-air within the next month. Safe Driving & Happy Holidays… We are on holiday from 23rd December until 5th of January...see you in the New Year! 37213-01 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 ‘Let it be known, these tears are not for you’ CHRISTCHURCH — Massey University’s quote sympathise and resonate. were at their peak, and it came to me that he director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield, of the year has been awarded to the daughter of a “This statement was one of the most difficult needed to know, so I stopped reading. I looked saying: “There are no new cases of Covid-19 to man slain in the Christchurch terror attack. things I’ve ever done. I wasn’t sure how I could him in the eye, and I let him know. I let him know report in New Zealand today”, with 22.2 percent Sara Qasem’s father, Abdelfattah Qasem, was speak to and bring justice to so many in my that these tears were mine and my father’s; they of the vote. killed at Al Noor Mosque. Her defiant statement community; to my own dad, Abdul.” weren’t for him. He’d taken enough, he wasn’t Kavan said people would have been in favour to the terrorist during his sentencing, “let it be Qasem was one of more than 90 victims to read going to claim this, too.” of the quote because it was what people wanted known, these tears are not for you”, received a statement in court during the sentencing. She Massey University speech writing specialist Dr to hear, and due to Bloomfield’s likeability. more than a quarter of the vote in the competition. said reading the statement was heart-breaking Heather Kavan said it was an emotional, off-the- “The subtext is that everyone’s sacrifices were Qasem was recalling the smell of her father’s and incredibly empowering. cuff comment. invaluable. cologne as her eyes welled with tears. “When I sensed myself getting increasingly “The scenes are so raw and the emotions “The quote doesn’t need any stylistic niceties In a statement, she said she was stunned her upset, I felt an urgency to race through my words so powerful that the words are better felt than to be one of our best language moments. In fact quote won the competition and was honoured and quickly run off the podium. explained.” it’s Dr Bloomfield’s sincere, unpretentious style her words had a lasting effect for people to “It was in these moments where my emotions Second place for quote of the year went to that adds to its appeal.” — RNZ Queenstown mosque hit by hate attack

QUEENSTOWN — Anti-Islamic posters plastered over the Queenstown Masjid have prompted police action. Six posters depicting offensive images and other hate and sexist material were found around the Queenstown Islamic Centre in Gorge Road Retail Centre. Worshipper Philippe Saint-Pere, who also teaches at the Islamic centre, said the posters were shocking. “It shows how badly people need to understand what Islam is really all about.” He said when the masjid opened two weeks ago, an event was held for non- Muslims to ask questions about the faith, and around 60 people attended. Saint-Pere said while he understood the importance of freedom of expression, that did not mean freedom to slander. Southern district commander Superintendent Paul Basham said police CYCLONE DAMAGE: New Zealand has offered an additional $2 million to assist Fiji in the recovery effort after Cyclone were working with the centre. Yasa hit last week. Picture supplied “Police are taking this matter seriously, as we do all reports of hate speech or behaviour that causes concern to our communities.” Officers carried out door-to-door inquiries yesterday morning. Some posters were still visible on power NZ offers $2m aid to Fiji poles and other areas of the centre carpark. Southern Hospitality employee Ben WELLINGTON — The New Zealand “New Zealand has already supplied priorities. Bootsma said it was horrible to be Government is offering an additional $250,000 worth of essential items to •฀$150,000฀to฀enable฀the฀New฀ confronted by the posters when he arrived $2 million in assistance to Fiji in assist households, including hygiene Zealand High Commission in Suva to at work. response to Cyclone Yasa. kits, immediate survival items and support the provision of essential relief “It was stuff we don’t want to see in this The cyclone resulted in four deaths materials to construct basic shelter,” such as emergency shelter, water and country . . . We need to stop it.” and about 7000 people remain in she said. sanitation, and trauma counselling One of the posters seen at Gorge Road evacuation centres around the country. “These were delivered by Fiji •฀$750,000฀for฀New฀Zealand฀non- was also seen in Stanley Street last week, The new funding will go towards Airways overnight.” government organisations to respond while the same message was written in shelter, water sanitation and other Mahuta said New Zealand extended through their local partners for chalk on a Christchurch mosque two weeks urgent priorities. It brings the total its sympathies to the people of relief and early recovery assistance, ago. amount donated by New Zealand to Fiji affected by the cyclone, and in including activities focused on the Police said at the time it had spoken to a $2.5m. particular to the whanau of the people most vulnerable 36-year-old Christchurch man “in relation Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia who died. •฀$100,000฀to฀the฀International฀ to a number of chalk messages written Mahuta said the extra funding aimed Spending of the $2m will include: Federation of the Red Cross to support on footpaths throughout Christchurch to get support to the Fijian people •฀$750,000฀to฀the฀Government฀of฀ Fiji Red Cross in its relief activities. including Al Noor Mosque, Linwood Mosque where it was most needed. Fiji to meet urgent water and other — RNZ and several police stations”. — Otago Daily Times Ecstasy hidden in lolly bags

QUEENSTOWN — An Irishman who hid more possessing ecstasy for supply and supplying than 2400 ecstasy pills — with an estimated ecstasy. street value of $121,500 — in Skittles and M&M Each carries a maximum penalty of 14 years lolly bags at his Queenstown home, has been imprisonment. convicted on drug-dealing charges. Identical charges against his partner were Keith Singleton, 30, of Arthurs Point, was withdrawn by police at yesterday’s hearing, and The management arrested after Queenstown police executed a Judge Farnan granted her permanent name search warrant at the Bullendale property on suppression. and staff at December 9. Lawyer Michael Walker said the defendant, who In the Queenstown District Court before is on a work visa and employed by an electrical Judge Bernadette Farnan yesterday, prosecuting firm — knew he had made a “grave mistake and is Sergeant Ian Collin said police found 2431 “Pink aware of the consequences of that mistake”. Strawberry” party pills and $3260 in cash during Judge Farnan told Singleton he “may have the search. been somewhat naive”. wish all our clients Most of the pills were in Skittles and M&M “You didn’t appreciate the significance of your lolly bags, found inside a suitcase filled with offending, and the seriousness of it.” a Merry Christmas Singleton’s partner’s clothes. Judge Farnan remanded him on bail for A luggage label with his partner’s name printed sentencing on March 15. Bail conditions include on it was attached to the suitcase’s handle. not to contact his partner, a nightly curfew and The cash, which Singleton admitted was the a ban on entering licensed premises, except for The holidays are fast approaching and it’s a busy time of the year, get your orders proceeds of selling 65 pills, was concealed under supermarkets. 36956-01 in quick to avoid delays and get those jobs ticked off. a set of drawers in his bedroom. The conviction comes a week after Detective Each pill sold for $50, Sergeant Collin said. Senior Sergeant Malcolm Inglis, of Queenstown, Closed from 12 noon Wed 23 December Reopening 8am Monday 11 January 2021 Singleton, who was released on bail following said the resort was New Zealand’s capital for his arrest the next day, admitted charges of ecstasy, also known as MDMA. — NZ Herald The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 9 Christmas in isolation MIQ facilities turn on the festive cheer

by Isaac Davison, NZ Herald

CHRISTCHURCH — Last QUARANTINED: Stacey McLean year, Stacey McLean spent her and Georgia Mahaffie are expat Christmas and New Year’s Eve New Zealanders who will spend with friends in a remote, snow- Christmas Day in managed capped mountain hideaway in isolation. PIcture supplied British Columbia. On Friday, her Christmas will and afternoon tea, champagne be spent alone in a little hotel ham or vegetarian salad for room in Christchurch. She is lunch, roast lamb with truffle making snowflake decorations butter and baby potatoes for out of a lunch bag, and has dinner, and steam pudding and ordered in a mini Christmas tree pavlovas for pudding. and some lights from an online Children will be invited to store. visit a Christmas tree in the “It’s a bit of a contrast,” she lobby to pick up a present. But laughed. — because of isolation rules — The expat New Zealander, they can only do so one child at who lives and works in New a time. York, is one of 5700 people who One of the most difficult will spend Christmas Day in things had been finding someone managed isolation or quarantine. to play Santa. Some of them will still be in “I’m yet to find one,” the their hotel room for New Year’s manager said. “I’m hoping one of Eve. MANAGED CELEBRATIONS: MIQ and hotel staff at Rydges Hotel Rotorua bring a bit of festive cheer the Defence Force boys will step On the day, McLean plans for returnees who are stuck in isolation on Christmas Day. Picture supplied up and chuck a pillow under the to share cheese and wine in a uniform.” video call with friends, including freedom on the other side.” said she “nearly broke the children would be in the hotel on Another hotel planned to another expat Georgia Mahaffie, In many ways, it was a fitting refresh button” for three days December 25. set up a reindeer food station who is in managed isolation in end to a year lived mostly online. trying to secure a spot. “Families are going to be okay. outside for the kids, to feed them Christchurch. “It’s just a day in the course The 32 managed isolation and We just need to keep an eye on the night before Christmas. One Mahaffie, who also works of a lifetime,” McLean said. quarantine facilities around the the ones who are by themselves. will place stockings on hotel in New York, said their more “And we’ve celebrated enough country are going overboard to That is the toughest part.” doors on Christmas morning. subdued Christmas was worth it things online this year anyway create some festive cheer this The hotel planned to cheer And others had arranged for for the reward on the other side — birthdays, everything was year without undermining strict people up with a festive feast local schools to send Christmas — seeing and holding family for virtual.” Covid-19 distancing rules. and activities. It was serving cards. the first time in months. They are grateful to have “We really want to make it a Christmas platter of cured Returnees said they were in “Especially if you’ve been in made it back at all. Competition special,” said a manager at meats and cheese for breakfast, awe of MIQ staff, many of whom the States or the UK — it is a for managed isolation spots in Naumi Auckland Airport, who Christmas mince pies and were giving up Christmas with one-day sacrifice for complete December was intense. Mahaffie said families with around 30 cinnamon cookies for morning their families to look after them.

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By Andrea Fox, NZ Herald CHOKED FREIGHT: Port of by Hamish Rutherford, NZ Herald TAURANGA — Frustrated freight Tauranga wanted chain players caught in the ports 12 extra trains WELLINGTON — Energy Minister Megan congestion shouldn’t look to taxpayer- from KiwiRail — it Woods will examine whether the electricity owned KiwiRail to provide quick answers. got four. The Bay regulator needs new tools after a major Bosses at Port of Tauranga, the of Plenty port investigation found a lack of competition in the country’s biggest port, its main export is the country’s wholesale electricity market led to prices being gateway and a big user of rail, are asking main export higher than they should have been in late 2019. “where have all the trains gone?” gateway. Although the report deliberately stopped short A month ago the port asked for 12 of blaming any company, the complaints that extra trains on the Tauranga-Auckland File picture led to the investigation said the regulator had rail line as it tackled the problem of effectively pointed the finger at Meridian Energy, getting unscheduled import cargoes which spilled more water than necessary at dropped off by ships avoiding Auckland’s Benmore, raising prices for the entire market. choked port back to Auckland. Four have Yesterday the Electricity Authority (EA) been provided. Backlog hits shoppers, chocolate lovers released its final report into a complaint by a This time last year the port was group of small electricity companies, which serviced by 92 trains per week. This by Aimee Shaw, NZ Herald chocolate blocks and mini slabs were temporarily concluded that an undesirable trading situation month that had been reduced to 78. out of stock. (UTS) had occurred in late 2019. In response to Herald questions, AUCKLAND — Kmart is the latest retailer to “It seems 2020’s twists keep coming! Due to It is the first such finding by the regulator in KiwiRail chief operating officer Todd bear the brunt of supply delays, with shelves at supply delays for our ingredients we’re sorry almost a decade and could see it pick apart and Moyle, said the state-owned enterprise a number of its store sitting empty as it waits for to say two of your favourite blocks will be reset pricing in the wholesale electricity market “continues to work with Port of Tauranga stock on container ships stuck in the Waitemata out of stock until late January at the earliest.” during the UTS period. The EA estimated the UTS’ to provide additional services to deal harbour waiting to be unloaded at the Ports of Whittaker’s co-chief operating officer Holly impact on the spot market was $70 million. with the peak import volumes that are Auckland. Whittaker told the Herald it was disappointed to The report blamed a “confluence of factors” currently being experienced”. The Wesfarmers-owned chain has been forced experience the “hiatus in our production of these influencing the electricity market in late 2019 “In addition, we are providing services to put up notices in some of its stores warning popular flavours”. which it said were “unusual and unpredictable”, to other customers to relocate empty shoppers of the delays and limited availability of “This situation reflects the impact of ranging from severe rainfall, operational changes containers and full export containers to stock. Covid-19 on global supply chains generally that and the need for North Island generators to the port. All capacity that can be made “We’re working hard to meet demand,” one is affecting many other Kiwi businesses as well,” conserve fuel before scheduled shutdowns of available is being deployed on this route. notice displayed in Kmart Albany said. Whittaker said. key infrastructure. “The 92-train programme was reduced A number of shelves in Kmart’s Albany and “Fortunately, because we source ingredients But the EA said the market did not respond as in February this year at the request of Sylvia Park stores in Auckland are empty, with locally as much as possible we have not been as expected and the prolonged period of high prices the port.” the retailer running out of children’s toys and affected by these supply issues until now, and no might have threatened confidence in the market. This was before the Covid-19 pandemic some homeware goods ahead of Christmas. other products in Whittaker’s range are affected. “What we didn’t see is a normal market swept the world and uncertainty was The popular retailer is not alone in its supply “We’ll be getting under way with making response — lower electricity spot prices driven rife in the global transport and logistics woes. more Whittaker’s Berry Forest and Berry & by lower offers from those generators spilling industry. Kiwi chocolate manufacturer Whittaker’s is Biscuit as soon as we get the ingredients we’re excess water,” EA chief executive James Asked where the trains had gone and warning that some of its chocolate blocks will be waiting for, and hope to have them back in retail Stevenson-Wallace said in a statement. why they couldn’t be redeployed on the out of stock until the end of January at the latest. outlets across New Zealand from late January.” “There was a lack of competitive pressure East rail trunk line now, KiwiRail said it In a Facebook post, the Porirua-based The backlog has seen ships waiting up to two which meant prices remained relatively high was now in its peak season. company said that due to supply delays for its weeks before unloading as the Ports of Auckland despite an abundant supply of water and no “We are moving meat and dairy ingredients its Berry Forest and Berry & Biscuit struggles to meet demand amid a staff shortage. increased demand during the period. exports, distributing domestic goods “Water was wasted when it could have been around New Zealand and relocating used to generate power.” empty containers for exporters to NZX-listed Tauranga port is in mid- council will disclose the costs of the Yesterday’s report did not apportion blame. A pack. We have made commitments to peak export season while also dealing project. paper will be released in February outlining the these markets and they have set up with imports — many for Christmas Meanwhile, Northland’s Northport, response to the UTS finding, while separately the their supply chains around rail. These shelves — diverted from Auckland. which has a small container facility, EA is investigating whether the trading standards arrangements cannot be reversed without The result is congestion in the upper stepped up to try to help get Christmas expected of wholesale electricity participants consequences to these customers.” North Island freight supply chain, goods from China and North Asia in time were breached. KiwiRail’s response held further though other New Zealand ports are also by accepting its biggest container ship Luke Blincoe, chief executive of Electric Kiwi, bad news for frustrated retailers, feeling the impact of shipping congestion ever. said one of the factors the EA said was behind manufacturers and distributors — attributed to Covid disruption to The ship, which arrived in New the higher than expected prices was the trading affected by shipping congestion, lengthy aviation freight and shipping schedules, Zealand two weeks ago, would not have behaviour of Meridian, which generated most of unloading delays and soaring costs at and unprecedented demand for imports been able to unload at its scheduled its electricity in the lower South Island. “I don’t Auckland’s port, the country’s main from pent-up consumer spending after Auckland port stop until December 22. know who else is responsible for that,” he said. imports gateway. lockdowns and travel restrictions. Most of the 1170 boxes from the Blincoe welcomed the fact the EA had Like Maersk, the world’s biggest Ports of Auckland attributes its Constantinos P had to be trucked from referenced a lack of competition in the South container shipping line, KiwiRail believed particular logjam issues to global south of Whangarei to Auckland because Island, with Genesis describing itself as a “price the freight supply chain challenges would Covid-19 shipping disruption, a hangover no rail infrastructure was in place. taker”. continue until the second quarter of next from previous industrial action at The Christmas truck convoy — which “There’s a really clear indication there that the year. Australian ports and its own shortage of had been estimated to put 800 extra action that’s required is structural. The real fix “Once peak season is over, we will wharf labour. vehicles on that road — put Northport on needs to come with the break-up of Meridian.” be in a position to run more services if But many in the freight sector the radar for more container-ship visits if Blincoe said the EA’s wording appeared required. point to the failure of the port to fully the congestion continues. to be an attempt to not “pollute” its separate “We have more rolling stock on order, implement, after four years, an ambitious KiwiRail said the Northland line was investigation into market behaviour, which could however, these are long lead-time items wharf automation project. This, sector closed between Swanson and Whangarei see Meridian handed a “punitive” fine if expected which are bespoke to KiwiRail’s needs. sources claim, has severely hampered while major work replacing bridges, behaviours were breached. Further wagons will be delivered late in productivity and cost hundreds of improving tunnels and upgrading the rail In a statement, Meridian said it was 2021 but additional locomotives are two millions of dollars. line was under way. disappointed with the finding and would take years away.” Neither the port company nor the The line will reopen in January. time to look at the report’s detail.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY still well-placed to sell its respiratory devices, repaying the Covid wage subsidy of $68m on is a reminder that Covid won’t disappear the back of improved retail trading. overnight, with lockdown in parts of England The group reported first quarter sales WELLINGTON — The leading stocks, in paramount as we go into 2021,” Smith said. and a new community cluster in Sydney. increased 6.3 percent and the trading expansive mood, brought some Christmas cheer One of the biggest dividend payers, Spark, One of the big recipients of the now more- performance in the lead-up to Christmas is to investors and the New Zealand sharemarket was up 11c or 2.37 percent to $4.75, after difficult transtasman travel bubble, Air New ahead of that quarter’s gain. Fellow retailer with impressive gains. drifting from $5 in August to as low as $4.41. In Zealand, fell 5.5c or 3.11 percent to $1.715. Hallenstein Glasson gained 22c or 3.4 percent The dividend-yielding big cap shares drove other dividend stocks, Meridian increased 19c The retirement village operators had a strong to $6.70. the S&P/NZX 50 Index to 12,842.69, up 234.95 or 2.92 percent to $6.70; Mercury gained 29c or day — Ryman Healthcare rising 45c or 3.06 Cancer diagnostic firm Pacific Edge, which points or 1.86 percent — its biggest rise in 10 4.79 percent to $6.35; Trustpower was up 20c or percent to $15.15, Summerset Group Holdings has developed the non-invasive Cxbladder weeks. There were 76 gainers and 62 decliners 2.6 percent to $7.90; and Ebos Group climbed up 54c or 4.74 percent to $11.94, and Oceania test, celebrated its re-rating with a further 9c or over the market on volume of 56.3 million 11c to $28.01. Healthcare gaining 3c to $1.41. 7.89 percent gain to a new high of $1.23. It has shares worth $229.17m. The a2 Milk Company pepped up after some Mainfreight rose $1.15 or 1.85 percent to climbed 780 percent in the past year. Greg Smith, head of research with Fat torrid falls following its earnings downgrade, $63.25, and its chairman Bruce Plested now has Trading in Abano Healthcare Group has Prophets, said the defensive stocks with rising 55c or 5.03 percent to $11.49 on trade a billion dollars of shares in the transport and stopped and the transtasman dental company appealing dividends have come back into play. worth $26.25m. Smith said investors went value logistics operator. His holding of 15.93m shares will be delisted after the takeover by BGH “Interest rates are not going up any time soon hunting on a2 Milk. It has been a slide since it is worth $1.007 billion. Capital and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at — in fact the Reserve Bank has said it will keep hit $21.50 in August. Property for Industry gained 7c or 2.43 $5.20 a share. rates low for some years. Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, the leading percent to $2.43, and AFT Pharmaceuticals was Abano shareholders have been paid out and “There is still some uncertainty involving the local cap stock, had one of its up days, up 17c or 3.75 percent to $4.70. the number of stocks listed on the NZX is now economy, such as how well the Covid-19 vaccine increasing $1.17c or 3.57 percent to $33.92 on The Warehouse Group climbed 18c or 7.06 184. — NZ Herald will work, and dividend yields will remain trade worth $27.4m. Smith said Fisher & Paykel, percent to $2.73 after announcing it was 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 EDITORIAL Alcohol during pregnancy has life-long costs We are writing to wish you and all your readers cause harm to the developing brain and body. If with the justice system. ‘We do not think a safe and relaxing Christmas — and to remind we took the blood alcohol level of a baby in the FASD is not yet funded for support by the everybody that when an unborn child is exposed womb exposed to alcohol, it would be the same Ministry of Health, despite being two and a half about him . . .’ to alcohol in the womb, they are at high-risk of as the blood alcohol level of the mother! times more prevalent than autism, which is developing a serious disability, Fetal Alcohol Lots of things cause disability, but many funded. This is why we need to raise awareness. The lying narcissist who murdered Spectrum Disorder (FASD). people don’t realise that exposure to alcohol in We would like to thank The Gisborne Herald British backpacker Grace Millane Around half of pregnancies in New Zealand the womb is the biggest cause of intellectual for sharing many stories over the past few years on the eve of her 22nd birthday has are unplanned, and alcohol can harm an unborn disability and neurodisability. Over 250,000 New about our efforts to raise awareness about FASD been officially named, and the two baby even in those early times before pregnancy Zealanders suffer from FASD, possibly more, in Tairawhiti. Many readers will see our “Tapu years of secrecy around his identity recognition. as our health system is not yet effective at Whilst Hapu” posters around town now too. Drinking increases at this time of year, but so identifying it. We wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy — continuing long after he was does conception of children. We urge everyone in Those with FASD can struggle with attention, New Year, and a season filled with responsible sentenced to life imprisonment — our community to drink responsibly. But to those memory, communication, cognition, impulsivity drinking and protected encounters! has been explained. who have even the tiniest chance of conceiving and reasoning difficulties. Long-term, people Secrecy in New Zealand, that is — please double-check your contraception or with FASD experience difficulties with TAIRAWHITI FASD WORKING GROUP . . . but only if you didn’t look online choose non-alcoholic drinks. relationships, school and employment, and Sarah Goldsbury, Jo van Wyk, Courtney at overseas reporting that thumbed Science now tells us that even small amounts experience catastrophically-higher rates of Stubbins, Kaniwa Kupenga-Tamarama and a nose at the court suppression of alcohol consumed during pregnancy can suicide, mental health disorders and involvement Danielle Takoko order here, or didn’t come across it on social media, and didn’t receive LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS the Google “what’s trending” email Great letter, totally agree . . . naming the accused shortly after his Re: Eradicating historical letter Mr Kingi, I totally agree first court appearance in early 2019, monuments not the way, with you. Support TLab workers as its algorithms picked up a British December 21 letter. newspaper’s report. A great and well-written ANDREW APPLEBY I had blood tests and other not allowed to go to the media. We can be proud of a justice tests done by staff at the TLab I cannot fathom why other system that bends over backwards at our hospital yesterday lab workers get paid much (today it will be more more, when you compare the to enable a fair trial, as happened We all believe something chemotherapy). They know me expertise at TLab. in this case because the murderer I have no argument with implicitly. In living my life in well and we talked about the This anomaly seems a bit faced two further trials this year for the fact that it is hard for relationship with Him I have article in the paper on strike like how Pharmac is run, sexual violence against two other many people to get their head found a freedom, peace and joy action. with some patients dying women, and was also appealing the around the Christian faith. that I never knew existed. I was so sad to hear these because they can’t afford guilty verdict from his November Stories of Jesus walking on As you all well know, it is beautiful people get such immunotherapy drugs — 2019 murder trial. water, Moses parting the Red not possible for you to come low wages. They do this job when most other developed That appeal became the key Sea, Jonah spending three round to my house and meet because they are good people countries fund them for their reason for continued suppression days in the belly of a whale, God. Not in the physical sense, to start with. They are trained people. once he elected trial by judge-alone the list goes on! as He is spirit. to save lives, and do their jobs So I am calling for help from What is it all about, what is For all you doubters and well. All of us will need them those who are responsible, in the other two cases. They took God trying to do or say? His non-believers out there, I sooner or later — if not, family to care for staff who are place under a shroud of secrecy in message has never changed, simply ask that you consider members will end up there. paramount to our wellbeing October and November, and he was He simply desires that taking a moment to ask Jesus I was told they work for a and extending our lives. found guilty on all nine charges in humanity take a step of faith into your heart and then see private business which only total against him, including rape, and believe in Him. if He exists or not. If you pays what it has to. They are ALAIN JORION sexual violation, threatening to kill Twenty-seven years ago I are genuine with your heart and assault. took that step of faith. Has invitation you are going to get One of his other victims, who had it been easy? No. But I have the very best Christmas gift So pointless been in a noxious relationship with learned that God is incredibly ever! Sharing joy him and was granted a protection faithful and can be trusted RUSSELL TOLLEY Re: Counting down to rodeo time, December 23 story. Re: It’s beginning to look order when she escaped from his I wonder whether any a lot like . . . Dec 21 story. violence and control, said in court Control techniques pervasive animals will die during this Wow so amazing! Thank that “I will be Grace’s voice”. Her entertainment. It seems you for sharing. evidence, which was able to be so pointless and cruel. NORA reported yesterday, was harrowing. at religious, political extremes Agitating and riling animals The other victim’s evidence Re: Look at total, godawful mess predictable pattern starting with the is something many little kids Thanks for sharing this info was eerily like the scenario of Ms — Dec 17 letter. creation of a sense of impending do before parents stop them. with us, we’re going to go on Millane’s murder. Also a Brit, she Jackie Speier, who was working doom, followed by repetition of Time to find alternatives to a family bike ride to see these met the offender on a Tinder date for a California Congressman, falsehoods until they become real, cruelty. homes. and was cajoled to a motel room, was shot five times as they and finally stripping members of LYNN CHARLTON JASON boarded a plane to leave Guyana independent thought. Auckland where she was raped. It was just near Jonestown — a settlement Speier relates this in her book, months before he met Grace Millane established by the Peoples Temple, Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, through the Tinder dating app. a San Francisco-based cult led of Summoning Courage, and Fighting Up to people of Gisborne Last Friday Jesse Kempson lost Jim Jones. She had been part of a Back. his bid to have his murder conviction fact-finding mission to investigate There are many examples where Re: Petition organised from For instance, looking at one overturned at the Court of Appeal. allegations of human rights abuses uncritical, vulnerable people are Hastings . . . December 19 editorial. downside of the proposal, Maori roll He has signalled a second appeal by Jones and his followers. duped into believing in something Jeremy, it’s no secret that there voters may not like being saddled to the Supreme Court, and sought In the aftermath 918 people died that is unreal and possibly is a Hastings PO Box on the Maori with non-Maori carpetbagging continued name suppression by cyanide, with the poison mixed dangerous to themselves or others. ward petition form circulating in former central government because of this and appeals against into a flavoured drink. This included Mainstream religions and your area. It’s also no secret that the politicians standing in the Maori 304 children, some poisoned by political groups (eg MAGA, USA; signatures on the petition forms that ward. That is one unintended his other convictions. their parents. New Zealand Public Party) also are coming in are from Gisborne consequence that has not been As Court of Appeal president The control techniques used use the techniques listed above electors. The debate on the issue debated. Justice Kos said yesterday in ending by the Jonestown leadership but, thankfully, most often their that I have stimulated in Gisborne It’s good to discuss these issues suppression orders, “it is time now are pervasive at the extremes inclination to say stupid things is good for your democracy. If before rushing into it. We’ve got a for a dose of reality”. of religious groups and political is the worst outcome for secular Gisborne wants five Maori ward way to go on this one. Grace’s mother Gillian Millane groups. The presence of a society. councillors, it’s up to the people of encouraged the other victims to charismatic leader is followed by a TONY LEE Gisborne to decide. MIKE BUTLER, Hastings stand up in court and hold their [email protected] abuser to account, and encourages any others to step forward now. ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. As for the man who murdered ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. Grace: “We do not think about him ■ Always include full name and contact details. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. or speak his name.” ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 WORLD 13 UK isolated over new virus strain Trucks stuck at border ahead of Christmas and uncertain Brexit

LONDON — Over 2800 stranded truck “They need to get back to places like drivers hoped to get the green light on Spain to pick up the next consignment of Tuesday to leave Britain and get back raspberries and strawberries, and they home for Christmas as the country need to get back within the next day or found itself increasingly isolated and its so, otherwise we will see disruption,” he trade bottled up, cut off by neighbours said. afraid of a new strain of the coronavirus The virus is blamed for 1.7 million circulating in England. deaths worldwide, including more than More than 630 trucks snaked along a 68,000 in Britain, the second-highest major highway in southeast England near death toll in Europe, behind Italy’s the English Channel ports, while almost 69,000. 2200 others crowded into an unused Over the weekend, Prime Minister airport on Day 2 of an ordeal that began Boris Johnson imposed strict lockdown when dozens of nations banned flights measures in London and neighbouring from the UK and France barred entry to areas amid mounting concerns over its trucks. the new strain. He scrapped a planned The precautions were prompted by a relaxation of rules over Christmas for new variant of the virus that is believed millions of people and banned indoor to be more contagious, though experts mixing of households. Only essential say it does not appear to be more deadly travel will be permitted. or vaccine-resistant. A similar one has Amid questions about whether the emerged in South Africa. vaccines being rolled out now will work On an island nation that relies heavily against the new strain, Ugur Sahin, on its commercial links to the continent, chief executive of BioNTech — the the travel bans stoked fears of food JINGLE HELL: Trucks are parked in Dover, whilst the port remains closed, in Kent, German pharmaceutical company behind shortages over Christmas time. England on Tuesday. Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and the Pfizer-BioNTech shot — said he is At the same time, Britain is witnessing people were left stranded at airports as dozens of countries around the world slapped confident it will be effective, but further an alarming rise in infections, with a tough travel restrictions on the UK. AP picture studies are needed to be sure. record 36,800 reported on Tuesday, and In Switzerland, meanwhile, authorities is facing deep uncertainty over its final about the lack of toilet facilities and food. Discussions continued between Britain are trying to track an estimated 10,000 exit from the EU in less than two weeks. “My family is waiting for me, my and France, with any solution likely to people who have arrived by plane from Despite the looming deadline, the country children, my daughter, my son, my wife,” centre on the testing of drivers for the Britain since December 14, and has has yet to work out its post-Brexit trade said Greg Mazurek of Poland. virus. ordered them to quarantine for 10 days. arrangements with the EU. “It was supposed to be a very quick Given that around 10,000 trucks pass Switzerland was one of the 40-odd “What is so bad to me, is not just this trip, three to four days max. I spent in through Dover every day, accounting for countries to ban flights from Britain over new mutation, but the fact that we have the UK 10 minutes in the gas station and about 20 percent of the country’s trade the new strain. been so bad at dealing with the pandemic, 20 minutes unloading, and now I need to in goods, retailers became increasingly The quarantine order is likely to and it now looks like we’re heading for wait two days here in the port in Dover.” concerned. affect thousands of Britons who may what’s called a perfect storm with the Drivers held out hope the ordeal might Andrew Opie, director of food and have already headed to Swiss ski mutation 70 percent more infectious and end within hours. The prospects seemed sustainability at the British Retail resorts. Unlike many of its neighbours, Brexit all at the same time,” said 73-year- to improve on Tuesday when the EU’s Consortium, warned of potential Switzerland has left most of its slopes old Jim Gibson of London. executive arm recommended a lifting of shortages of fresh vegetables and fruit open, attracting enthusiasts from around “People are really struggling to get the bans. after Christmas if the borders are Europe. their heads round one of these, let alone The European Commission said people not “running pretty much freely” by “Do not leave your room or residence both — and now we’re being told we returning to their home countries should Wednesday (local time). and avoid all contacts,” Switzerland’s may have eaten our last lettuce for three be able to do so provided they test The problem, he explained, is that the public health agency urged vacationing months, too, probably.” negative for the virus or quarantine. It empty trucks sitting in England can’t Britons and South Africans. It warned For the drivers, it has been a grim said that “cargo flows need to continue reach the continent to pick up deliveries they face potential fines of 10,000 Swiss couple of days, with some complaining uninterrupted.” for Britain. francs ($11,250). — AP Scientists urge concern not alarm over mutation Coronavirus DOES it spread more easily? Make people make it very different from previous versions. that the mutations in some of the emerging sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t Q: HOW DOES ONE STRAIN BECOME new strains could hurt the potency of drugs work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new DOMINANT? that supply antibodies to block the virus spreads to strains of the coronavirus, especially the one A: That can happen if one strain is a “founder” from infecting cells. “The studies on antibody now moving through England. Scientists say strain — the first one to take hold and start response are currently under way. We expect there is reason for concern but that the new spreading in an area, or because “super results in the coming days and weeks,” a WHO Antarctica strains should not cause alarm. spreader” events helped it become established. outbreak expert, Maria Van Kerkhove said. “There’s zero evidence that there’s any It also can happen if a mutation gives a Q: WHAT ABOUT VACCINES? increase in severity” of Covid-19 from the new variant an advantage, such as helping it A: Slaoui said the presumption is that current ANTARCTICA — Coronavirus has latest strain, the World Health Organisation’s spread more easily than other strains that are vaccines would still be effective against the reached the Antarctic continent, which had emergencies chief, Dr Michael Ryan said. circulating, as may be the case in Britain. variant, but that scientists are working to confirm so far been free of Covid-19. “We don’t want to overreact,” the US “It’s more contagious than the original strain,” that. The Chilean army has reported 36 cases government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Landrigan said. “The reason it’s becoming the “My expectation is, this will not be a problem,” at its Bernardo O’Higgins research station Anthony Fauci, told CNN. dominant strain in England is because it out- he said. on the Antarctic Peninsula. Worry has been growing since Saturday, when competes the other strains and moves faster and United Kingdom officials have said “they don’t The 36, 26 of whom are military Britain’s Prime Minister said a new strain, or infects more people, so it wins the race.” believe there is impact on the vaccines,” Van personnel and 10 maintenance workers, variant, of the coronavirus seemed to spread Moncef Slaoui, the chief science adviser Kerkhove said. have been evacuated to Chile. more easily than earlier ones and was moving for the US government’s Covid-19 vaccine Vaccines induce broad immune system The news comes just days after Chile’s rapidly through England. Dozens of countries campaign, said scientists are still working to responses besides just prompting the immune navy confirmed three cases on a ship barred flights from the UK, and southern confirm whether the strain in England spreads system to make antibodies to the virus, so they which had taken supplies and personnel to England was placed under strict lockdown more easily. He said it’s also possible that are expected to still work, several scientists said. the research station. measures. “seeding” of hidden cases “happened in the Q: CAN TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS DO This means that Covid cases have now Here are some questions and answers on shadows” before scientists started looking for it. ANY GOOD? been recorded on all seven continents. what’s known about the virus so far. Q: WHAT’S WORRISOME ABOUT IT? A: Landrigan thinks they can. “If the new The Sargento Aldea arrived at the Q: WHERE DID THIS NEW STRAIN A: It has many mutations — nearly two dozen strain is indeed more contagious than the research station on November 27 and sailed COME FROM? — and eight are on the spike protein that the original strain, then it’s very, very sensible back to Chile on December 10. A: New variants have been seen almost since virus uses to attach to and infect cells. The spike to restrict travel,” he said. “It will slow things Three of its crew tested positive upon the virus was first detected in China nearly a is what vaccines and antibody drugs target. down. Any time you can break the chain of their return to the Chilean naval base in year ago. Viruses often mutate, or develop small Dr Ravi Gupta, a virus expert at the University transmission you can slow the virus down.” Talcahuano. Chile’s navy said all of those changes, as they reproduce and move through of Cambridge in England, said modelling CNN quoted Fauci as saying that he was not who had embarked on the trip to the a population — something “that’s natural and studies suggest it may be up to two times more criticising other countries for suspending travel Antarctic had been given PCR tests and all expected,” WHO said in a statement on Monday. infectious than the strain that’s been most to England but that he would not advise the the results had been negative. “Most of the mutations are trivial. It’s the common in England so far. United States to take such a step. The Bernardo O’Higgins research station change of one or two letters in the genetic Q: DOES IT MAKE PEOPLE SICKER Q: WHAT CAN I DO TO REDUCE MY RISK? is one of four permanent bases which Chile alphabet that doesn’t make much difference OR MORE LIKELY TO DIE? A: Follow the advice to wear a mask, wash has in the Antarctic and is operated by in the ability to cause disease,” said Dr Philip A: “There’s no indication that either of those is your hands often, maintain social distance and the army. Chile is the sixth worst-affected Landrigan, a former Centres for Disease Control true, but clearly those are two issues we’ve got avoid crowds, public health experts say. country in Latin America with more than and Prevention scientist who directs a global to watch,” Landrigan said. As more patients get “The bottom line is we need to suppress 585,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. health program at Boston College. infected with the new strain, “they’ll know fairly transmission” of all virus strains that can cause The British Antarctic Survey announced A more concerning situation is when a virus soon if the new strain makes people sicker.” Covid-19, said the WHO’s director-general, Dr in August that it was scaling back its mutates by changing the proteins on its surface Q: WHAT DO THE MUTATIONS MEAN Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. research in the polar south because of to help it escape from drugs or the immune FOR TREATMENTS? “The more we allow it to spread, the more coronavirus. — BBC system, or if it acquires a lot of changes that A: A couple of cases in England raise concern mutations will happen.” — AP 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Violence ‘entrenched’ BRIEFS Car bombing kills at least five KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb tore Child homicide spikes in South Africa, killing 1000 children yearly through a vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least five people, three of CAPE TOWN, South Africa — At night, them doctors, police said. Amanda Zitho worries her little boy The doctors worked at the Puli Charkhi prison, is shivering and cold in his coffin and Kabul’s main penitentiary, and were killed as yearns to take him a blanket. She knows they were on the way to their office in the city’s Wandi’s dead and gone and it’s senseless, Doghabad neighbourhood. but that doesn’t stop the ache. It was not immediately clear if the doctors were Wandi was five when he was killed in targeted in the attack. Their car, a white sedan, April, allegedly strangled with a rope by did not appear to have any markings on it that a Johannesburg neighbour — another indicated that its passengers were medical dead child in a land where there are too workers. The vehicle was almost completely many. destroyed in the blast. According to official figures, around Ferdaws Faramarz, a spokesman for the Kabul 1000 children are murdered every year police chief, said two others were wounded in the in South Africa, nearly three a day. But attack. — AP that statistic, horrific as it is, may be an undercount. Pakistani activist found dead Shanaaz Mathews thinks many more TORONTO — The body of Karima Baloch, a children are victims of homicides that are Pakistani human rights activist, has been found not investigated properly, not prosecuted in Toronto, Canada, where she had been living for or completely missed by authorities. The five years in exile. official figures are “just the tip of the Baloch, 37, a campaigner from the restive region iceberg,” said Mathews, the director of RISING CRIME: Rebecca Mohapi, who’s son Onthatile died last year, puts one of his of Balochistan in western Pakistan, was a vocal the Children’s Institute at the University favourite toys on his grave in Damonsville, South Africa. She believes her son’s death critic of the Pakistani military and state. of Cape Town and probably the country’s wasn’t an accident and that he was murdered. AP picture Toronto police issued an appeal after she went leading expert on child homicides. missing on Sunday and later confirmed that her In a country where more than 50 Fatal child abuse is where the justice children. He’d already violated his parole body had been found. people are murdered every day, children system often fails and cases are “falling once. They also fault police for failing to Police said there were “not believed to be any are not special and are not spared. through the cracks,” Mathews said. act on a tip that might have saved Tazne suspicious circumstances”. “Violence has become entrenched” in There was, she says, the case of a nine- in the hours after her disappearance. In 2016, Baloch was named in the BBC’s annual the psyche of South Africa, Mathews month-old child who had seizures after The case was high profile. The list of 100 inspirational and influential women said. being dropped off at day care. Though Minister of Police spoke at Tazne’s for her work as a campaigner. She left Pakistan “How do we break that cycle?” she rushed to the hospital, the child died. funeral and admitted errors. “We have in 2015, after terrorism charges were levelled asked. Doctors found severe head injuries and failed this child,” he conceded, pointing against her. In 2014, she embarked on a research told the mother to go to the police, but at Tazne’s small white coffin, trimmed She continued to campaign in exile for the project to uncover the real extent of no one followed up. The mother never in gold. South African President Cyril rights of people in Balochistan, both on social those child deaths. She did it by getting reported the death. When investigators Ramaphosa visited the van Wyk home media and in person. And the threats followed forensic pathologists to put the dead tried to revive the case nearly two years and promised meaningful action. her, according to Lateef Johar Baloch, a close bodies of hundreds of newborn babies, later, the baby had long been buried and Nine months later, Tazne’s parents feel friend and fellow activist who also lives in infants, toddlers and teenagers on the evidence was cold. it was all lip service. Toronto. He told the BBC that Baloch had recently examination tables to determine exactly Joan van Niekerk, a child protection “How many children after Tazne received anonymous threats warning someone how they died. expert, recounts numerous cases tainted have already passed away? Have been would send her a “Christmas gift” and “teach her Child death reviews are common in by police ineptitude and corruption. kidnapped? Have been murdered? Still a lesson”. developed countries but had never been “I sometimes go through stages when nothing is happening,” said her mother, Baloch’s sister told the BBC Urdu service on done in South Africa before Mathews’ I am more angry with the system than Carmen van Wyk. Tuesday that her death was “not only a tragedy project. As she feared, the findings were I am with the perpetrators and that’s She sheds no tears. Instead, anger for the family, but also for the Baloch national grim. not good,” she said. She said justice for bubbles inside her and her community. movement”. “She didn’t go abroad because Over a year, the pathologists examined children in South Africa is unacceptably Houses connected with the suspect and she wanted to, but because . . . open activism the corpses of 711 children at two “hard to achieve.” members of his family were set on fire in in Pakistan had become impossible,” Mahganj mortuaries in Cape Town and Durban And failures of justice sometimes lead the wake of Tazne’s killing. Baloch said. — BBC and concluded that more than 15 percent to more deaths. It’s not just on the police to stop the of them died as a result of homicides. The neighbour originally charged abuse, said Marc Hardwick, who was a For context, Britain’s official child death with killing Wandi Zitho was released policeman for 15 years, 10 of them as a review last year found one percent of its and the case provisionally dropped detective in a child protection unit. child deaths were homicides. Mathews’ because the police didn’t deliver enough He recalls one case, from 20 years ago. Louis Vuitton research showed homicide was the evidence, possibly because of a backlog in A six-year-old girl was beaten to death second most common cause of death for analysing forensic evidence, according to by her father because she was watching children in those two precincts. one policeman working the case. Months cartoons and, distracted as any six-year- leather yoga “And the numbers are not going down,” later, the woman was arrested again old would be, wasn’t listening to him. she said. “If anything, they are going up.” and charged with murdering two other When they arrested the father and There are two patterns in South Africa. children. took him away — he was later sentenced mat draws Teenagers are being swallowed up in the Then there was the case of Tazne van to life in prison — the victim’s nine-year- country’s desperately high rate of violent Wyk. Tazne was eight when her body was old cousin approached Hardwick and street crime. But also, large numbers of found in February dumped in a drain said: “I think you stopped my bad dreams complaint young children aged five and under are near a highway nearly two weeks after today.” victims of deadly violence meted out not she disappeared. She had been abducted, Clearly, children in that household BOSTON — A Hindu activist is calling on by an offender with a gun or a knife on a raped and murdered, police said. had been living a nightmare, and the luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a street corner, but by mothers and fathers, Tazne’s parents blame the correctional other adults had remained silent, said yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, relatives and friends, in kitchens and system for paroling the man charged Hardwick: “The reality is that child calling it “hugely insensitive.” living rooms, around dinner tables and in with their daughter’s murder despite abuse is not a topic people want to talk Rajan Zed, president of the Universal front of TVs. a history of violent offenses against about.” — AP Society of Hinduism, said in a statement on Tuesday that the mat is “highly inappropriate” to practicing Hindus, who Russian, Chinese bombers fly joint patrol over Pacific regard cows as sacred symbols of life. The company’s yoga mat, made mostly of MOSCOW — Russian and Beijing amid growing canvas with leather details and a cowhide MILITARY and Chinese bombers flew a tensions in their relations with carrying strap, retails for $2390 online. TIES: joint patrol mission over the A the United States. In an email to AP, Zed called on Louis Western Pacific on Tuesday in Chinese H-6K Until that moment, Russia Vuitton executives to apologise and adhere a show of increasingly close strategic and China had hailed their to its corporate code of conduct, which military ties between Moscow bomber flies “strategic partnership,” but includes commitments to ethical and social and Beijing. during a rejected any talk about the responsibility. The company “should not be The Russian military joint patrol possibility of their forming a in the business of religious appropriation, said that a pair of its Tu-95 mission over military alliance. sacrilege, mocking serious spiritual strategic bombers and four the Western Putin also noted in October practices and ridiculing entire communities,”

Chinese H-6K bombers flew Pacific. that Russia has been sharing he said. Picture by over the Sea of Japan and the highly sensitive military The Universal Society of Hinduism, which Russian East China Sea. technologies with China that is based in Reno, Nevada, has led several Defence The Russian Defence helped significantly bolster its recent campaigns targeting what it considers Ministry Press Ministry said in a statement defence capability. the commercial misuse of sacred symbols. Service via AP that the joint mission was Russia has sought to develop Zed’s organisation is part of an interfaith intended to “develop and stronger ties with China as coalition that’s recently called on Anheuser- deepen the comprehensive The ministry added that the It follows Russian President its relations with the West Busch InBev to rename its Brahma beer Russia-China partnership, patrol flight “wasn’t directed Vladimir Putin’s statement sank to post-Cold War lows line — which shares its name with a Hindu further increase the level of against any third countries.” in October that the idea of a over Moscow’s annexation of god, but isn’t named for the deity, beer giant cooperation between the two Tuesday’s mission was the future Russia-China military Ukraine’s Crimea, accusations says — and also urged nightclubs to stop militaries, expand their ability second such flight since a July alliance can’t be ruled out — a of Russian meddling in the using sacred Buddhist and Hindu imagery for joint action and strengthen 2019 patrol over the same signal of deepening military 2016 US presidential election as decor. — AP strategic stability.” area. cooperation between Moscow and other issues. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 WORLD 15 Giant iceberg breaking up Remnant of A68a four times bigger than Lake Taupo

SOUTH GEORGIA — The giant University, UK. Gerrish calculates the areas of the To put Tuesday’s remnant A68a in iceberg that’s been drifting through “As well as being one of the largest various fragments to be roughly: some context — 2600 sq km is still the South Atlantic looks to have icebergs ever recorded, A68a must •฀A68a฀—฀2600฀sq฀km four times bigger than the size of experienced a major break-up. also be one of the most watched. •฀A68d฀—฀144฀sq฀km Lake Taupo, which covers about 616 Tuesday’s latest satellite imagery “With such a massive recent •฀A68e฀—฀655฀sq฀km sq km. reveals major fissures in the tabular growth in the volume of satellite data •฀A68f฀—฀225฀sq฀km berg known as A68a, with huge and a huge improvement in the speed (Fragments A68b and A68c broke Why A68a has little to do with blocks of ice starting to separate and at which it can be made available, this away a long time ago and are not in climate change move away from each other. capability has been put to good use the immediate vicinity) A68a, which calved from Antarctica in monitoring this huge iceberg on its Although now much reduced in The iceberg came from a part of the in 2017 is 2600 sq km in size and has journey from birth to destruction,” he size, A68a is still imposing and could Antarctic where it is still very cold — been floating off the coast of South told BBC News. yet present a sizeable obstacle to the Larsen C Ice Shelf. This is a mass Georgia island. The US National Ice Centre South Georgia’s foraging marine of floating ice formed by glaciers that Experts have been watching to see operates the naming system for predators. have flowed down off the eastern side if it might ground in shallow water. icebergs. At the moment, all the berg of the Antarctic Peninsula into the Were that to happen — and parts of The bergs get given a prefix letter fragments are entrained in a fast- ocean. the berg still could — it might cause depending on which quadrant of moving stream of water known as On entering the water, the glaciers’ problems for the British Overseas the Antarctic they calve from, plus a the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar buoyant fronts lift up and join Territory’s penguins and seals as number to designate their position Current Front. This is likely to sweep together to make a single protrusion. they go about foraging for fish and in the sequence of big breakaways. the chunks around the island and The calving of bergs at the forward krill. Fragmentations then earn a suffix then throw them north. edge of this shelf is a very natural Although cracks were very letter. Satellites will monitor their behaviour. pronounced on Monday, they hadn’t Just last week, a big piece broke progress as they skirt the shallow The shelf will maintain an by that stage cut right through A68a. from A68a and this was called continental shelf. There are a number equilibrium and the ejection of “Nearly three-and-a-half years A68d. Two of the largest fragments of places where the fragments could bergs is one way it balances the since it calved away from Larsen identified by Sentinel-1 on Tuesday get caught and anchor in place. accumulation of mass from snowfall C Ice Shelf, Iceberg A68a — the have already been named A68e and When A68a first calved from and the input of more ice from the fourth largest on record — is finally A68f. Antarctica, it measured almost 6000 feeding glaciers on land. Larsen beginning to disintegrate,” observed GIS and mapping specialist at sq km — about ten times the size of C calves big icebergs like A68 on Adrian Luckman from Swansea the British Antarctic Survey Laura Lake Taupo. decadal timescales. — BBC

DISMAY: In this undated handout photo, one of the largest recorded icebergs floats near the island of South Georgia, South Atlantic. Picture by Ministry of Defence via AP

US population growth smallest in at least 120 years

MARYLAND — The US population Frey, a senior fellow at The Brooking estimates. grew by the smallest rate in at Institution’s Metropolitan Policy An analysis by Frey shows that it’s least 120 years from 2019 to 2020, Programme. the smallest increase this century and according to figures released on “I think it’s a first glimpse of where smaller than any in the last century Tuesday by the US Census Bureau we may be heading as far as low as well. At the height of the Spanish — a trend that demographers say population growth,” Frey said. “It’s flu, the growth rate from 1918 to 1919 provides a glimpse of the coronavirus telling you that this is having an was 0.49 percent — even with US pandemic’s toll. impact on population.” troops abroad during World War 1. Population growth in the US was The US population grew by 0.35 The estimates released on Tuesday already stagnant over the past several percent from July 2019 to July 2020, were conducted independently of the years due to immigration restrictions an increase of 1.1 million people in a 2020 census, which is a head count of and a dip in fertility, but coronavirus- nation whose estimated population every US resident. related deaths exacerbated that in July was more than 329 million The 2020 census numbers are still lethargic-growth trend, said William residents, according to Census Bureau being crunched. — AP DECLINING TREND: Commuters crowd the Grand Central Terminal in New York in 2018. AP picture 16 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Gynaecological operation in front of ‘masses of people’ breached consent by Phil Pennington, RNZ

AUCKLAND — An Auckland woman is furious her gynaecological operation went ahead in a theatre crowded with people she had not given permission to be there. The woman, who RNZ has agreed not to identify, says North Shore Hospital breached her rights to give informed consent. This comes as the Medical Council is consulting over changing the guidelines to make it clear patients should be asked about trainees being in any surgery, although the Health and Disability Commissioner maintains the law and Code of Rights are very clear as they stand. The woman went in for an operation last year. “As they pushed me into the theatre, all I could see were masses of people. FINANCIAL IMPACT: With international borders closed this summer, tourism operators are left trying to fill a multibillion-dollar “Because this is an environment economic hole. Picture supplied that I’ve been in before, I was a little shocked at how many people were in this theatre.” She counted at least 10. Crunch time for tourism “I didn’t know who they were, I didn’t know why it was necessary for them to be there. I knew that some of them may know me in another context in my life. Loss of visitors leaves operators trying to fill economic hole “I felt invaded.” The patient’s Code of Rights says by Tess Brunton, RNZ we’d have over that time which is heavily going full noise. Everything would just be patients have the right to say no to focused towards summers,” Hughes said. all hands to the pump.” extra people being there. WELLINGTON — Tourism operators Glacier country operators remained Instead, her tours business is “I was never given a chance to even are preparing for their first summer optimistic about summer, particularly operating about 10 percent of the normal speak. You are in a vulnerable position without international visitors in decades January, where they would hopefully be trips it would run over summer with . . . there’s a hustle and bustle going as borders remain closed. able to start working on a buffer when accommodation bookings dropping as low on around you.” New Zealanders have been invaluable fewer visitors start arriving, he said. as 4 percent. You would also have to be confident for keeping the industry afloat with “I think the real crunch will come as we Earlier this month, Cabinet agreed in that speaking up would not be to the the latest MBIE figures showing New go into next winter when people’s savings principle to create a transtasman bubble detriment of the care you got, she Zealanders spent more than $351 million will be at a critical point, and that will in the first quarter of 2021. said. in October compared to last October — be the crunch time for our business this Van Lieshout hoped that would happen Her queries later about who was the biggest increase since coming out of year. sooner rather than later. in the room were brushed off, she lockdown since the Covid-19 pendemic. “But we hope by that point that people “You take what you can get in this claimed. But that can’t make up for the loss of see that light at the end of the tunnel and environment, so we’ve been ready to go “I felt like my privacy was international visitors which has left a have the means to keep going to reach it.” for the Australian market for quite some completely and utterly invaded.” multi-billion dollar economic hole. Active Adventures chief executive time.” The hospital’s health board, Up the road from Franz Josef Glacier Wendy van Lieshout is gearing up for a Scenic Hotel Group operates 17 hotels Waitemata, at this time had a policy on the West Coast, Okarito Kayaks, very different summer — usually close to across the country, including ones on that if trainees were supervised, they which takes its name from the lagoon 100 percent of their inbound visitors are the West Coast, Bay of Islands and at did not need explicit consent. it operates on and local town, had its from the United States. Her company also Auckland Airport. That policy could mean a whole busiest winter ever. operates overseas tours which will start Its managing director Brendan Taylor class looked on, the woman said. Co-owner Barry Hughes hoped that to ramp up in the new year where said 2020 has been a rough year with Her faith in the health system, support would continue this summer. Covid-19 restrictions allow it. Covid-19 hitting hard and then November shaky before, was now in pieces. “Being busier in winter — although “Everyone would be highly stressed flooding taking their successful Napier Student training was necessary, but it’s been great for our morale — doesn’t with 150 trips concurrently running in hotel out of action likely until March. it had to be fully consented, she said. have the same financial impact as being the South Island and North Island. We While he was optimistic about the The Waitemata DHB said it had not busy in summer. We will be perhaps a would have more than 40 guides on the upcoming summer, Taylor said it was received a patient complaint of this little bit busier with New Zealanders this road. hard to tell how busy they’d be as most nature. summer, but not enough to replace the 80 “They would all be getting completely bookings were made only a week in percent loss of international revenue that geared up. The fleet of buses would be advance or when people turned up. Foreign fishing crew meant to isolate on board ships by Conan Young, RNZ changed and they ended up in Christchurch’s this point. at Westport Deep Sea Fishing School. Sudima Hotel, with all costs met by the fishing However, the chart showed that 65 percent The school trumpeted its success rate, saying CHRISTCHURCH — The foreign fishing companies. of the positions on board these vessels only in the past three years, over 80 percent of its crews allowed into the country in October were As it turned out, just over one in every 10 of required six months training at a “maritime graduates had remained in the sector after 12 originally going to skip being placed in isolation the mostly-Russian crew tested positive for the institution”. months of employment. at a hotel and were instead going to be sent virus, which was also taken home by a health Despite saying money was not the issue, As for where new recruits might come from, straight to their boats. worker at the hotel. they did suggest changes to the way people the plan talked about “targeting Limited Service This detail has been revealed in an agreement, The companies said New Zealanders were were paid, talking about “guaranteed fixed Volunteers” with incentives to go fishing for a released under the OIA, between the Government deterred from the remuneration” during the year. The profile of the sector was to be lifted and the fishing industry. industry “not because first year of employment by promoting “the adventure of fishing in the In it the Government agreed to 570 Russian of pay or working The plan envisaged the crew rather than pay being Southern Ocean” with New Zealand’s version of and Ukrainian fishing crew being allowed in, in conditions” but mostly based on the “volume or the reality tv show, The Deadliest Catch. return for the industry coming up with a plan to by the prospect of being taken straight from their value” of fish caught. As well as expos in schools and advertising on encourage more New Zealanders to take up the becoming seasick. charter flight on to the various Included were pre- social media, there was a plan to pitch a feature jobs in the longer term. They pointed to exit boats they would be working on. paid flights for the first on the fishing industry to TVNZ’s Seven Sharp The agreement was signed by Sealord, interviews for those year of employment to programme. Independent, Aurora, Sanford and Maruha. leaving the sector, and from the vessel to Help from the Government to pay for the The plan originally envisaged the crew being where motion sickness their hometown, $200 advertising campaign was also mentioned. taken straight from their charter flight on to the was mentioned by 75 percent of respondents as supermarket vouchers for each successful new The second group of fishing crew were various boats they would be working on. the reason they wanted to get out. recruit, as well as a seafood pack at the end of supposed to be in the country already, but after “These crew will be transported directly to Next came being away from friends and family their trip “to assist with food costs at home”. the high number of Covid cases among the first vessels to commence the required isolation for extended periods while out at sea and then There would also be food packs or vouchers group, the Ministry of Health said further arrivals period on board, and therefore will not place any shift work. once a week for family left at home when a were suspended. additional burden on the Ministry of Health’s They made the point the roles on board person was at sea. RNZ understands planning is under way to isolation facilities.” the foreign chartered vessels were “highly A sum of $200,000 a year was promised for 39 bring in the second group some time in the New Although there is no detail on why, the plan specialised” and provided a chart to back up free scholarships to attend six-week long courses Year. The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 17 Check your FREE TYRE tyres before, SAFETY CHECK you go away

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37242-01 18 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Spy partners’ focus dictated ‘lack of Far Right intelligence’ by Phil Pennington, RNZ However, he added: “GCSB shares our The SIS “possibly correctly, does not intelligence and security priorities with regard it as appropriate or necessary for WELLINGTON — International its partners and, since the March 15, its staff to have a full understanding” of priorities dictated a gaping hole in the 2019 attacks, has emphasised to them the the GCSB’s capability. collection of far-right intelligence reports, importance to New Zealand of countering But without that understanding, the according to the lead communications spy white identity extremism.” SIS’s “ability to maximise contributions agency. The reporting gap existed despite far- from signals intelligence to the counter- The Royal Commission of Inquiry right terror attacks in the West among terrorism effort is constrained”, it said. heard that the Government Security partners countries rising about threefold It added the GCSB’s relationship with Communications Bureau got 7526 in five years by some counts, and even police “is not particularly close”. intelligence reports about terrorism though one partner is the US, where the This model, a “customer-led” one, and and violent fanaticism in a three-month threat from white supremacists had been its shortcomings had not been discussed. period in late 2018-19. acknowledged as ramping up since the The Government has focused on the But not a single one was about right- 2017 Charlottesville car attack. commission’s finding that no public wing extremism. Yet the US has had many of its own agency failed to meet required standards This “was not the result of the GCSB’s problems with lack of focus on domestic Andrew Hampton in counter-terrorism efforts before the own intelligence terrorism, and led the attacks. collection settings”, world in its fixation on almost 500 employees. However, this is preceded by another the bureau’s Director- The bureau gave the Islamic terrorism. Its “mission-critical” internet finding — for a “systemic failure of General Andrew “While international operations were last year gauged by the counter-terrorism effort” across six Hampton told RNZ in Royal Commission the partners do not direct Treasury as five years behind the Five areas, most notably the police, SIS and a statement. message that it thought or dictate that New Eyes partners, the inquiry said. the Department of Prime Minister and “The intelligence counterterrorism was better Zealand agencies The bureau gave the Royal Cabinet (DPMC), which was meant to reporting GCSB pursue particular Commission the message that it thought provide oversight but often did not. receives from its handled by other agencies. leads or ideologies, counterterrorism was better handled by One of the six flaws was “the reality international signals partner reporting and other agencies. that the system did not force or at least intelligence partners partner-supplied leads However, the commission gave the encourage public sector agencies to is what those agencies collect themselves necessarily informed the development GCSB a largely free pass. discuss their individual strategies and based on their own priorities.” of New Zealand threat assessments “It engages in domestic counter- any residual risk they were carrying and These partners had their own legal and affected the allocation of resources, terrorism activity only when tasked by thus identify gaps in the system”. mandates, which might also influence certainly by the counter-terrorism another agency.” The horizon scanning in the DPMC was what intelligence they collected, Hampton agencies,” the commission’s 800-page It concluded the bureau was reliant for inadequate and did not properly consider said. report said. direction from the police or the Security the radicalising role of the internet. He did not respond to RNZ’s question The Royal Commission is revealing, too, Intelligence Service (SIS) and they The GCSB had, by 2019, had five of whether the gap in reporting from other weaknesses at the GCSB. weren’t giving much. years to improve its internet operations overseas on the far-right was continuing. It had just single-figure numbers of This was partly because those two but was struggling, even though “the He replied that intelligence reporting was staff dedicated to counter-terrorism in agencies themselves were not well versed capability was fundamental to the “highly classified and we are unable to the four years before the attacks — as in the GCSB’s unique information — mission of the entire New Zealand provide further details on this”. low as two, as high as seven, out of collecting powers. intelligence community”. Teen drowns trying to save girl WHANGANUI — A teenager round great sportsperson. He drowned after courageously will be sadly missed by many,” trying to rescue a girl who got the post said. into trouble in Waikato River. Logan’s funeral service is Police say the 18-year-old, to be held today at St Mary’s Taihape’s Logan Ken Hughes, Church in Taihape. tried to save the life of a Senior Constable Barry 12-year-old girl from Waikato Shepherd is warning people River last Friday, however, he about the dangers of swimming then himself got into trouble in in the fast-flowing river. the water. His warning comes after a Another person jumped in and second incident earlier in the helped the girl to safety, police week when a group of swimmers say. got into trouble swimming down “Later, in trying conditions, from the Taupo Control Gates several rescuers worked Bridge, also in the Waikato tremendously hard to retrieve River. the 18-year-old from about seven The group split up and it was metres of water,” police said. wrongly thought that one of “CPR was performed for 40 them had got into difficulty. minutes and medical staff did A full-scale search involving all they could to save him, but a helicopter was carried out but he died in hospital. This is due to a miscommunication, the terrible news for the family of person was later discovered at the young man who died,” they home. said. “These incidents also have “The attempted rescue was an a profound impact on the instinctive display of humanity. bystanders in the area, as well We send our condolences to his as the first responders who HEROIC ACTIONS: Taihape’s Logan Ken Hughes (inset) drowned while trying to save a 12-year-old girl relatives.” attend,” Shepherd said. from Waikato River. Pictures supplied Whanganui Rugby Club has “We’re not out to stop anyone paid tribute to Hughes on his from having fun, but we want you confident of getting yourself a beautiful river and a perfect needed to pay attention to the Facebook page. “Logan was a people to pause and consider: if out?” place to cool off this summer, signs posted by the river. promising rugby player and all- you’re getting in the water, are Shepherd said while it was there were dangers and people — NZ Herald Ashburton Work and Income killer loses appeal WELLINGTON — Work and Income double killer himself after having dismissed seven lawyers that there is an imperative need for community might not have approached WINZ or become as Russell John Tully has lost an appeal against his previously. protection and that Tully’s “sense of entitlement is insistent as he did on receiving what he thought conviction and sentence. He was excluded from the courtroom for likely to bring him into conflict with others and he were his entitlements. The Court of Appeal has dismissed Tully’s much of the trial after persistently disrupting is capable of being very dangerous.” The New Zealand Herald reported that challenge in a decision released yesterday proceedings in an attempt to have the trial It said because these characteristics throughout his 2016 trial at the High Court afternoon. aborted. are primarily the product of a personality in Christchurch, it was clear that Tully was Tully is serving life imprisonment with a Tully was found guilty of the murders of Noble disorder, there is no reason for optimism about preoccupied with what he felt was a debilitating minimum non-parole period of 27 years for the and Cleveland, and the attempted murder of case rehabilitation. skin condition — and that he used peroxide to 2014 WINZ slayings. manager Kim Adams. “Mr Tully’s intractable sense of grievance, treat it. Tully was found guilty in 2016 of storming the He was also found guilty on two counts of which is evident in his every dealing with the When one Ashburton WINZ manager first met Ashburton WINZ centre at 9.51am on September unlawful possession of a firearm but acquitted Court, may well preclude treatment.” Tully in July 2014, he told her he had “some sort 1, 2014, and shooting dead receptionist Peggy on charges of attempting to murder Lindy Curtis It said it agreed that Tully does not experience of skin-eating disorder” that he used peroxide to Noble, 67, from point-blank range and shooting and of laying a trap for his pursuers as he fled the remorse. treat. case manager Susan Leigh Cleveland, 55, three scene. “The only possible mitigating factor is his He became annoyed when Winz staff said they times as she pleaded for her life. The Court of Appeal judgement released mental health,” it said. couldn’t help him with cash to buy the bottles of At his trial in February 2016, Tully represented yesterday said it agreed (with the judgement) “We also accept that but for that illness Mr Tully hydrogen peroxide he tipped in his ear. — NZME The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 FOCUS ON THE LAND 19

Chance to take CAPTURE TO SHARE: This is the time of year when Focus part in research on the Land reflects on stand-out images from the A RESEARCHER at the University of last 12 months. Classic Auckland has issued an invitation to farmers pictures are generated interested in participating in a research every year, which sum project. up aspects of rural life Han Htet Ko is researching “A Mixed in the region. If you have Methods Study of Farmers in New Zealand.” a gem or two that you “I am pursuing a Master’s degree in have snapped during the Environmental Management and would like year, please send them people to participate in a short questionnaire to murray.robertson@ as part of my research project. gisborneherald.co.nz “My project aims to explore how social Nine more sleeps until networks facilitate the adaptive capacity we start a new year, and of farming communities to manage climate we can put the rigours variability and extremes. It also aims to of a difficult 2020 behind explore the perceptions of farmers towards us. Roll on 2021. Merry environmental changes, the impacts of Christmas to all from the climate variability and extremes on their Focus on the Land team. livelihoods, and the strategies they use to File picture cope with and adapt to extreme weather events and environmental changes. “The questionnaire also includes how your farming networks support your effort to adapt to changing weather and other environmental conditions, as well as the factors that could enhance your capacity to adapt to these changes. “Your participation in this questionnaire A tough year for many will be completely anonymous, and your identity will not be known to the researchers.” Anyone aged over 16 can complete the by Toby Williams (Gisborne-Wairoa Not only was it far In early November, Malcolm and questionnaire. To participate in the research, Federated Farmers President) more stringent than Caroline Rau held their postponed field head to https://tinyurl.com/yb48rb5m initially proposed, day after winning the Farm of the Year IN A couple of sleeps, when the jolly many parts were competition. red fellow pays us a visit, we will sit impractical and It was very well attended and AgriHQ back and reflect on the year that has inaccurate. the general consensus was that the been. Feds are currently Rau’s had an amazing farm and were For many of us, the past 12 months working with the deserving winners MARKET REPORT have been pretty rough. Ministry for the All of this was right in the middle It started well, with almost record high Environment to of my weaning and shearing so I Week beginning December 21 prices reached for red meat, then our help solve some of am looking forward to a break over little buddy Covid-19 came out to play the issues that have Christmas to recharge my batteries and LAMB and spoiled the party. arisen. hit 2021 running. New Zealand products were selling on a steady Meat prices tumbled and Prime Hopefully, in the Toby Williams Coming up next year we have the level to all markets outside of the UK this week. Minister Jacinda Ardern locked us down New Year we will East Coast Farming Expo in Wairoa, But there is no denying that shipping is getting and the world as we knew it changed. see changes to the most contentious where we are hoping to have Andrew more difficult. Not just in the Chinese ports where For large parts of our region and in parts. Hoggard attend and speak before coming congestion is well documented, but in the US, the the Hawke’s Bay, a dry summer turned At the National Council meeting in to Gisborne for a meet and greet with UK and in Australia. into a very dry autumn and drought was Wellington we took two remits. Federated members. Exporters are finding it challenging to declared. Firstly we wanted the National We will look to have something guarantee shipping times and secure a steady This was compounded by Covid, Council to lobby for increased fire breaks confirmed in the New Year. supply of refrigerated containers. This puts with processing space at a premium and water storage in plantation forests. We are also going to host a NAIT pressure on the Easter chilled-lamb season which and plenty of people stressed with few Secondly we wanted the National (national animal identification and is set to commence in January. options left. Council to lobby for changes to enable tracing) training day and are looking to Some companies are already shipping early Through it all, farmers around the police to confiscate vehicles and have a members’ information day giving production now to avoid issues. There appears country pulled their boots on and did equipment used in stock theft. prospective and current members an to be quite a lot of chilled lamb travelling by air what they do best — looked after each Both of these were passed and will be opportunity to meet our local executive at the moment, but this is likely to be making up other and their livestock — to ensure on the agenda for staff in the New Year to see what we are all about. for shortfalls in EU Christmas retail inventories, we came through the pandemic ready to when they are talking with the relevant With all that to look forward to next rather than making up for shipping issues. feed the nation and people all over the ministries. year, the Gisborne/Wairoa executive world. At a provincial level, the last two would like to thank all members for their BEEF All our primary producers deserve a months have been jam-packed. support over the past year. Total beef exports to China this November were pat on the back and a big thanks. We have had three major submissions I would like to encourage everyone well behind last year’s levels with 14,240 tonnes It is due to our resilience and hard to the Gisborne and Wairoa District to take a moment this festive season to of New Zealand beef shipped to China compared work that our economy is in as good a Councils: think of one thing they are grateful for with 17,740t last November. shape as it is. •฀the฀GDC฀long-term฀plan in this crazy year. This was driven by a lack of strong Chinese The Government too deserves a pat •฀three฀waters฀funding฀proposal Aside from friends and family, I am demand for manufacturing beef over the Chinese on the back for making the decisions •฀Maori฀wards. grateful for the spring rains that we had. New Year (CNY) buying period. that they did when they did. Glancing We also spent time in Wairoa dealing The jolly red fellow has certainly given This November, 3,490t of manufacturing at what is happening in the Northern with proposed rate changes that were set me an early Christmas present and I will beef headed into China compared to 6,810t last Hemisphere shows us how lucky we are. to significantly impact rural ratepayers. enjoy the break knowing my stock will November. Frozen boneless beef cuts were also That brings me around to the year For each of these, I attended hearings be well fed. following a similar trend compared to last year that was at Federated Farmers. with the respective councils to ensure Merry Christmas to all from the (4,940t vs 5,600t). It was a shock to many rural people our member’s voices were heard. Gisborne/Wairoa Federated Farmers. However, export volumes are showing growth and organisations when the Government compared to previous seasons, if we ignore last released the new freshwater and year’s statistics which were inflated by Chinese environmental legislation. protein shortages and speculative buying. WOOL 500 December’s wool sales have not been positive GOAT BUYER in either the North or South Island. The North Island strong wool indicator reduced by 9c/kg clean over the first two sales of the INC month, driven by price decreases over a variety of wool types. Gains which were made in poor and $14,995 GST average-style crossbred fleeces were lost in the second sale of the month when prices reduced by PLUS 5-10 percent. ^ Results were mixed in the third sale of the FREE ROOF month, with no major changes to report. PLUS Overall, the North Island wool market is very ^ flat and new-season lambs wool has not been GLASS FIXED SCREEN well received. The South Island has only had two *Off er ends 30/11/2020 or while last. BUYING ALL GOATS *Offer ends 30/9/20 or while stocks last. Offer only available at participating auctions this month, however, is selling wool at a PolarisOff Dealers. er only Notavailable valid with at anyparticipating other offer. Polaris Excludes Dealers. fleet clients. Not valid^Free withRoof andany Screenother offvalued er. Excludes at $1,740 INC fl eet GST. clients. similar level to the North Island due to significant < price reductions at the start of the month, and the ALL YEAR ROUND Free Roof and Screen valued at $1,740 INC GST. South Island strong wool indicator has reduced Prompt pickup & payment by 37c/kg clean. Due to poor results in the first Experienced musterers can be arranged 0800 220 426 sale, less bales were offered in the second sale Contact Brian Hutchings 022 069 5212 www.mccannics.co.nz

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AUCKLAND — Jenna Mahoney is hoping three morning when El Roseay and Opalescence had “She has come on a lot (since that run). I have “She is a nice progressive filly,” Mahoney said. will be her lucky number on Saturday. drawn barriers one and two respectively, and she never had her better or work so well.” “She has got a heap of ability, she has had two The South Auckland conditioner will be taking believes both fillies are in with a chance from A $1000 purchase off gavelhouse.com, outside draws so hasn’t won, but she goes really three three-year-old fillies to Ellerslie on Boxing those gates. Opalescence has repaid Mahoney’s initial outlay well.” Day where she is hoping she will record her third She was buoyed by Opalescence’s last start tenfold, and she believes there is a lot more in Mahoney will also contest the Gr.2 Jamieson stakes victory as a trainer. heroics, and with an identical draw, on the same store for the daughter of Showcasing. Park Eight Carat Classic (1600m) with Tango Her charge will be led by last start Gr.3 track and distance, Mahoney is hoping she will “I bought her as a weanling,” Mahoney said. Love. Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) victor Opalescence, experience déjà vu this weekend. “She was only cheap off gavelhouse.com but I “She raced really well last time from the back, who will contest the Listed Shaw’s Wire Ropes “Her last start was very pleasing,” Mahoney have had a lot of luck with Showcasing fillies, so so she will definitely get a mile,” Mahoney said. Uncle Remus Stakes (1400m), alongside said. “She has always been hard to beat from a I gave her a chance. “If she can race a bit handier this time, she stablemate El Roseay. decent draw, and she has drawn two again, so we Mahoney is also looking forward to lining up should be a reasonable chance.” Mahoney was over the moon yesterday are hoping for the same result. stablemate El Roseay on Saturday. — NZ Racing Desk

Waikato Bay of Plenty harness at Cambridge Thursday Jetbet 5 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12 Selections 2 85020 Mackali (Fr) 1 A Poutama 5 Agrowquip | John Deere 3.15 2 48266 Safrakova (Fr) 2 L Chin 3 11353 J Bee (Fr) 3 K Marshall Race 1: MARY ROBYN, MOZZARELLA, ROCKNROLL 3 344sP Kristofferson (Fr) 2 J Dickie 3 67016 Isaac H (Fr) U1 Z Butcher 4 01136 Mr Fantastic (Fr) 4 Z Butcher 4 23544 Majestic Harry (Fr) 3 M Teaz $8000, non-winners 3yo+ stand, 2200m ROULETTE 4 10562 The Last Gamble (Fr) U2 D Moore 5 121s7 Italian Lad (Fr) 5 M McKendry 5 s0880 Duchess Of Cambridge (Fr) 4 N Delany (J) 1 4s4 Ultimate Moment (Fr) 1 J Robinson 5 05230 As Free As Air (10) 1 M W White 6 43125 B D Joe (Fr) 6 B Butcher Race 2: CHINSKI, ELEGANT PEAK, KRISTOFFERSON 6 72032 My Royal Roxy (Fr) 5 P Ferguson 2 633 Highview Rockn Roll (Fr) 2 M McKendry 6 52208 Monkey Selfie (10) 2 N Chilcott 7 36421 Ace Strike (Fr) 7 A Poutama Race 3: THE PEACEMAKER, MAC PAUA, LYNTON CREEK 7 99785 Alana (Fr) 6 L Chin 3 Berrylicious Babe (Fr) 3 L Whittaker (J) 7 60671 Fira (10) 3 S Phelan 8 31713 About Turn (Fr) 8 L Whittaker (J) Race 4: SATCHMO, TE AMO, THEE OLD BOMB 8 09798 Skee King (Fr) 7 F Schumacher 4 67639 Haka Pride (Fr) 4 A Pyers 8 84017 Expensive Crumpet (10) 4 D Butcher 9 — Eagle Watch SCRATCHED 9 0766s Liaison (Fr) U1 D Butcher Race 5: HIGHVIEW ROCKN ROLL, STORMS ACOMING, 5 00050 Presidents Topshot (Em1) (Fr) 5 9 31859 Griffins Hall (10) U1 P Ferguson 10 63311 Ohoka Achilles (Fr) 21 10 05569 Rastusburn (Fr) U2 J Dunn 6 Skyzrclearnsunny (Fr) 6 P Ferguson IVEGOTBILLS 10 14034 Grey Stoke (10) U2 B Butcher 11 62925 American Me (Fr) 22 J Abernethy Race 6: RUBY MACH, DIXIE REIGN, NEEDAMARGARITA 11 5145s Chinski (Fr) U3 S McCaffrey 7 35s9 Jasinova (Fr) 7 L Chin 12 P1PP Crazy (Fr) U4 T Hall 11 s09s5 Phoebe Imperial (10) U3 D Ferguson Race 7: MONKEY SELFIE, PEAKZ LUCK, PHOEBE IMPERIAL 8 3s Sky High Flyer (Fr) 8 D McGowan 11 Mark Wambold Mem. Pace 5.56 13 2P015 Elegant Peak (Fr) U5 B Mangos 9 2s4 Storms Acoming (Fr) 9 S McCaffrey 12 54271 Peakz Luck (20) 1 J Stormont Race 8: SHOW ME HEAVEN, EIGHTEEN CARAT, $9000, 3yo+ r54-r58. mobile, 2200m 14 84325 Madeakillin (Fr) U6 N Chilcott 10 Keystone Comet (Fr) 10 T Hall 8 gavelhouse.com Sales 4.39 WEREN’T WATCHING 11 80 Love And Faith (Fr) 11 M Teaz 1 18477 Down The Hatch (Fr) 1 B Butcher Race 9: BOLT FOR BRILLIANCE, MAJESTIC MAN, 3 Happy Birthday Vicky Riley 2.15 12 20207 Demolition Man (Fr) 12 K Marshall $9000, 3yo+ f&m r55. mobile, 1609m 2 06021 Frankie Jones (Fr) 2 A Poutama SUNDEES SON 13 032s8 Ivegotbills (Fr) 13 N Chilcott $9000, r40-r47. mobile, 2200m 1 5s130 Show Me Heaven (Fr) 1 B Butcher 3 s7818 Franco Nandor (Fr) 3 Z Butcher 14 — Flying Scotsman SCRATCHED Race 10: ITALIAN LAD, AMERICAN ME, B D JOE 1 70217 Mac Paua (Fr) 1 M W White 4 58149 Sunset Red (Fr) 4 D Ferguson 15 44357 Cepheus (Fr) U1 J Abernethy 2 82519 Anam Nunu (Fr) 2 Race 11: BANKERS GOLD, DOWN THE HATCH, THE BANKER 2 50986 Clifton Flutter (Fr) 2 J Stormont 5 81000 Betterbebetter (Fr) 5 J Stormont 16 25 Doris Rae (Fr) U2 A Matthews 3 8s621 Eighteen Carat (Fr) 3 J Stormont Race 12: CHASE THE GOLD, ENJOY ME, 3 36664 Fleeting Grin (Fr) 3 P Ferguson 4 280s1 Weren’t Watching (Fr) 4 P Ferguson 6 — Optical Illusion SCRATCHED MEETMEINSORRENTO 4 50282 Onedin Punter (Fr) 4 K Marshall 6 Mitre 10 Cambridge Pace 3.45 5 s7140 Downtown Babe (Fr) 5 A Poutama 7 62561 Ideal Agent (Fr) 6 M W White 5 98554 Cotton Socks (Fr) 5 A Poutama 6 08925 The Blue Beat (Fr) 6 J Abernethy 8 60708 Bodrum Boy (Fr) 7 M McKendry 6 — Chalberg SCRATCHED $8000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m. mobile, 9 32212 The Banker (Fr) 21 D Butcher 1 Planning A Celebration? 1.15 2200m 7 92331 Port Delight (Fr) 7 M W White 7 02401 The Peacemaker (Fr) 6 C Jamieson 8 88770 Sweet Maggie Ryan (Fr) 8 S Abernethy 10 72543 Brookies Jaffa (Fr) 22 P Ferguson 8 90008 Zip Code (Fr) 7 S Abernethy 1 80752 Alta Madeira (Fr) 1 J Abernethy $8000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m. mobile, 2200m 9 64100 Susie Reignmaker (Fr) 21 Z Butcher 11 s3070 Bankers Gold (Fr) 23 L Whittaker (J) 9 70089 Comedy Act (Fr) 21 T Hall 2 Mhai Tommie (Fr) 2 M W White 1 s6864 Mozzarella (Fr) 1 B Mangos 10 94034 Lynton Creek (Fr) 22 T Cameron 3 44265 Ruby Mach (Fr) 3 B Butcher 9 G1 Turf Bar Trot. Flying Mile 5.06 12 Merry Christmas 6.21 2 Letsgodancing (Fr) 2 J Dickie 11 309Ps Itsthefinalcountdown (Fr) 23 4 0s Needamargarita (Fr) 4 B Mangos $9000, 3yo+ r50-r53,r54 w/c. mobile, 2200m 3 04953 Mary Robyn (Fr) 3 A Harrison (J) F Schumacher 5 8 The Missing Sock (Fr) 5 Z Butcher $47,500, Trot (G2), ffa. mobile, 1609m 4 8999 Gypsy (Fr) 4 M W White 6 3626s Dixie Reign (Fr) 6 S Phelan 1 s7753 Bugalugs (Fr) 1 J Stormont 5 38 Themightyserina (Fr) 5 D Butcher 4 C. Lawson Photography 2.45 1 11273 Credit Master (Fr) 1 A Neal 7 09s47 Lena Rivers (Fr) 7 A Poutama 2 48243 Tricky Ric (Fr) 2 J Dickie 2 9s21 Brian Christopher (Fr) 2 D Butcher 6 08796 Bet On Steph (Fr) 6 F Schumacher 8 59382 Sheza Rose (Fr) 8 T Mitchell $8000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile, 2200m 3 11111 Bolt For Brilliance (Fr) 3 T Herlihy 3 1334 Enjoy Me (Fr) 3 B Butcher 7 60647 Betterthanyouthink (Fr) 7 9 6 Lavish Art (Fr) 21 P Ferguson 4 17210 Meetmeinsorrento (Fr) 4 D Ferguson SCRATCHED 1 4 Easy Does It (Fr) 1 J Abernethy 4 03252 Anditover (Fr) 4 D Butcher 8 — Sing To Me 10 Gracelands Rose (Fr) 22 K Marshall 5 31337 New York Minute (Fr) 5 A Harrison (J) 9 Angel Baby (Fr) 21 T Herlihy 2 43s Thee Old Bomb (Fr) 2 M W White 11 4483 Roma Rosa (Fr) 23 S Abernethy 5 51522 Majestic Man (Fr) 5 B Williamson 3 4345 Satchmo (Fr) 3 P Ferguson 6 11511 Sundees Son (Fr) 6 J Dunn 6 12029 Hezashadowplaya (Fr) 6 S Abernethy 10 45 Kiri (Fr) 22 M McKendry 12 42857 Dramatist (Fr) U1 T Cameron 7 124 Hezacrocwatcher (Fr) 7 P Ferguson 11 Rocknroll Roulette (Fr) 23 Z Butcher 4 09s67 Sipowicz (Fr) 4 T Cameron 5 23265 Richmond Tiger (Fr) 5 A Drake (J) 7 Cambridge Homes Trot 4.14 10 Dunstan Horse Feeds Pace 5.31 8 74737 Romanee (Fr) 8 K Marshall 6 Te Amo (Fr) 6 T Herlihy 9 s2621 Jimmy The Irishman (Fr) 21 J Dickie 2 $20 Steak, Chips, & A Drink 1.45 $9000, 3yo+ r59-r67. mobile, 2200m 7 86s72 Harvey Specter (Fr) 7 T Macfarlane $9000, r45-r63 discretionary handicap stand, 10 — Natural Fire SCRATCHED $9000, up-r54 w/c stand, 2200m 8 04445 Suidelike Major (Fr) 8 K Marshall 2200m 1 4s856 Flying Steps (Fr) 1 D Butcher 11 91 Chase The Gold (Fr) 22 Z Butcher 1 — Peannie SCRATCHED 9 9P0 Nelson’s Boy (Fr) U1 F Schumacher 1 s5546 Bro Fawkes S (Fr) 1 T Macfarlane 2 65093 Sarandon (Fr) 2 S Butcher 12 20775 Rough And Ready (Fr) U1 T Mitchell

Waikato greys at Cambridge Thursday 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 2 Farmlands Coprice Heat 2 12.08 3 24134 Call Me Leo 21.11 Thayne Green 8 74651 Grunt 21.18 W & T Steele 7 52532 Sports Mode 20.94 Peter Ferguson Race 1: SOVEREIGN PRIDE, EDDIE HEMI, BORN TASHA 4 65883 Big Time Amie nwtd Lisa Cole EMERGENCIES: 8 27631 Charlow 21.12 R & N O’Regan $1450, C1, heat, 375m 5 Vacant Box Five - 9 23556 Claretown Beau 21.24 R & N O’Regan Race 2: ALLEGRO SKYE, ZIPPING HEWITT, BOBBLE 1 44845 Allegro Skye nwtd R & N O’Regan 6 44125 Big Time Gwyn 21.13 Lisa Cole 10 72666 Tap Out Bill 21.20 Udy & Cottam 9 Farmlands Virkon Stakes 3.00 Race 3: ZIPPING BARTY, BIGTIME TANK, GO FALCON 2 38347 React Respond nwtd R & L Udy 7 22821 Big Time Tina nwtd Lisa Cole $4030, C3/4, 457m Race 4: ZAMAH, BIG TIME GWYN, LIONEL KEEPING 3 261 Zipping Hewitt nwtd Glennis Farrell 8 31132 Big Time Spot nwtd Lisa Cole 7 Garrards Horse & Hound 2.00 Race 5: BIG TIME KAYLEE, THRILLING AMELIA, 4 54566 Bobble nwtd W & T Steele $1685, C2, 375m 1 45372 Thrilling Bruce 25.88 Emma Potts OPAWA GONZO 5 Vacant Box Five - 5 Affordable Pet Accessories 1.00 2 83432 Amaro 25.52 Arch Lawrence 1 12235 Kai Nan 21.43 Glennis Farrell Race 6: BEAU BEAU, NANGAR HURRICANE, 6 75176 Opawa Jade 21.62 W & T Steele $2860, C1/2, 457m 3 63354 Sub Twenty Three nwtd Lisa Cole 2 86641 Just Nia nwtd Marsha Black 4 13332 Go Home Duke 25.99 Peter Ferguson THRILLING HUDSON 7 58236 Jinja Lad 21.72 Raewyn McPhee 8 87162 Hurry Flurry nwtd Udy & Cottam 1 111 Big Time Kaylee nwtd Lisa Cole 3 13741 Ascott 21.77 W & T Steele 5 14435 Alpino 26.01 Arch Lawrence Race 7: KAI NAN, WAITERIMU RIPPER, ASCOTT 2 65432 All Unite nwtd Emma Potts 4 31165 Margaux 21.43 Phil Green 6 82114 Big Time Jimmy 25.86 Lisa Cole Race 8: BIG TIME BRIE, CAPTAIN KEV, TYPICAL 3 Farmlands Coprice Heat 3 12.25 3 12332 Thrilling Amelia nwtd Karen Walsh 5 34761 Mobility Scooter 21.20 Marsha Black 7 35111 Bronski Beat nwtd Lisa Cole 4 64371 Bad Bro Bad nwtd Sean Codlin 6 42741 Waiterimu Ripper 21.28 R & L Udy Race 9: THRILLING BRUCE, BRONSKI BEAT, ALPINO 8 52646 Stefano 25.39 Arch Lawrence $1450, C1, heat, 375m 5 Vacant Box Five - 7 83517 Opawa Roy 21.73 Marsha Black Race 10: BAILEYS NICE, THRILLING STOMP, SAKICHI EMERGENCY: 1 68666 Just William nwtd Raewyn McPhee 6 47424 Opawa Gonzo nwtd Glennis Farrell 8 23424 Quara’s Yoshi nwtd Paul Cleaver 9 11654 Piccolo 25.79 Arch Lawrence 2 85238 Bigtime Tank nwtd R & N O’Regan 7 24236 Big Time Felix nwtd Lisa Cole EMERGENCIES: 3 56542 Flying Huey 21.37 Marsha Black 8 75543 Little Teegs 25.80 Arch Lawrence 9 22147 Paris End 21.68 R & N O’Regan 10 Merry Christmas From Wgrc 3.30 1 Farmlands Coprice Heat 1 11.50 4 24324 My Kirsty nwtd Udy & Cottam 10 16456 Nexus 21.39 Glennis Farrell $1450, C1, heat, 375m 5 78756 Hardcore Kobe nwtd Jim Black 6 Mayhounds Rehoming 1.30 $4735, C5, 457m 6 54345 Go Falcon 21.39 W & T Steele 8 Superior Chunky Dog Rolls 2.30 1 73546 My Snuggles 21.72 Marsha Black $2035, C2/3, 375m 1 56243 Baileys Nice 25.53 Arch Lawrence 7 447s5 Opawa Nemo nwtd W & T Steele $2860, C5, 375m 2 37311 Rivalries nwtd Phil Green 2 52743 Sovereign Pride 21.37 Glennis Farrell 8 2211 Zipping Barty 21.31 Glennis Farrell 1 21562 Beau Beau 21.10 Sam Lozell 3 45213 All Day Long nwtd Robert Roper 2 68718 Platinum Earner 21.19 Robert Roper 1 451s6 Typical 21.25 Shirley Ross 3 34811 Thrilling Stomp 25.80 Emma Potts 4 65547 Eddie Hemi 21.36 W & T Steele 4 Vetora Cambridge Sprint 12.43 3 4s576 Athenais 21.19 Shirley Ross 2 11152 Captain Kev 20.98 W & T Steele 4 47271 Sakichi 25.38 Peter Ferguson 5 17785 Boot Camp Tiara nwtd R & L Udy 4 25124 Jinja Murphy 21.23 W & T Steele 3 22231 He’s All Shine 21.20 Sam Lozell 5 Vacant Box Five - 6 48222 Born Tasha nwtd W & T Steele $2860, C4/5, 375m 5 51352 Thrilling Hudson 21.13 Thayne Green 4 51312 Big Time Izzy 21.27 Lisa Cole 6 78264 Bigtime Bruno nwtd Lisa Cole 7 13244 Thrilling Tucker 21.68 Emma Potts 1 26153 Lionel Keeping 21.34 Sean Codlin 6 58877 Spring Mechanic 21.26 R & L Udy 5 25317 Big Time Brie 21.27 Lisa Cole 7 15242 Big Time Pluto 25.48 Lisa Cole 8 84654 Big Time Dynasty 21.49 R & N O’Regan 2 83213 Zamah nwtd Deb Edlin 7 11s13 Nangar Hurricane nwtd Peter Ferguson 6 66118 Big Time Angel 21.56 Lisa Cole 8 2314F Big Time Frankie nwtd Lisa Cole

New South Wales races at Wagga Thursday Jetbet 17 TAB doubles 3-4, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Selections 7 Hot Trim (8) 55.5 94 5 02223 Tocatchacod dw (10) 58.5 91 2 302s8 Lady Mironton t (8) 59 88 J Kissick 15 51525 Torsiton t (7) 55 90 Ms K Nisbet Race 1: DELACOUR, NOBODY’S PUPPET, EILLOD 8 Third Strike (5) 55.5 94 S Guymer J Richards (a) 3 11s81 Bell’s Innocent tdw (6) 58 100 16 46354 Excitable w (11) 55 91 9 0688s Bordello (3) 55 91 6 12s52 Kaipaki d (13) 58 94 Ms H Ede (a2) Ms W Costin Race 2: HOT TRIM, GALLANT RUN, CARNIVAL MISS EMERGENCIES: 10 899s More To See (6) 55 85 7 7s415 Charming Pat cd (15) 57 92 4 3s201 Forever Newyork tcdwn (5) 58 91 17 7s390 Fantasy Belle w (20) 55 85 Race 3: ONE AYE, MR ZHIVAGO, VINNIE’S GIRL 11 0s99s Stand Your Ground (7) 55 91 B Mc Dougall B Mc Dougall 18 207s6 Soviet d (12) 55 90 Race 4: KAIPAKI, CHARMING PAT, BIG DAY OUT 12 3457s White Emperor (4) 55 91 8 5s134 Tori Marguerite (7) 57 93 N Souquet 5 090s9 Grunderzeit dn (2) 58 88 J Richards (a) 19 449s4 Onsettling Down (1) 55 88 Race 5: SPUNLAGO, ROYAL THUNDER, OBELOS 13 78343 Zelberg (10) 55 92 Ms W Costin 9 354s3 Big Day Out c (2) 56.5 96 J Duffy 6 11s95 Straover tdw (13) 58 96 J Mallyon 20 46s08 Flying Arion (15) 55 89 Race 6: BELL’S INNOCENT, FOREVER NEWYORK, 10 2373s Who’s Shout w (3) 56.5 89 M A Cahill 7 25s57 Thistledo dw (4) 57 94 Ms K Nisbet NOT TOO SURE 3 Happy Retire. D Heywood 4.30 11 13s Propose To Me cb (11) 55 100 8 35s32 Tejori dwb (1) 55 98 8 Stayers Series Ht 7.30 12 s4166 Ruby Factor w (8) 55 95 Race 7: ASWAAT, CERTAIN SHAFT, FARAMONDO $22,000, Maiden SW, 1400m 9 858s4 Scout d (3) 55 88 $22,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 66 , 2000m Race 8: ATHENA’S LAD, SYDNEY BLUE, GLOBAL SANCTION 13 7709s Saturation dw (6) 55 88 A Sweeney 10 75375 Not Too Sure tcw (11) 55 88 B Vale 1 63526 Darcy Ekcels (6) 59 84 N Souquet 14 06383 Eillod d (14) 55 91 1 53966 Footmark tw (12) 62 96 Ms H Ede (a2) 2 04 Mr Zhivago (2) 59 92 11 116s1 This Skilled Cat cdw (9) 55 91 15 449s4 Onsettling Down (4) 55 90 Ms W Costin 2 s8863 Global Sanction wn (11) 61 92 3 07s88 Pillar Of Strength (10) 59 88 M Travers 12 s3987 Delivered cdw (10) 55 88 4 8 Shammos (12) 59 89 5 Ted Ryder Cup 5.40 13 18s25 Sizzleonthebridge cw (12) 55 87 3 16244 Spanish Poet w (3) 60.5 98 N Souquet 1 Kennards Hire Handicap 3.20 Ms A Mc Lucas (a2) Ms E Hennessy (a1.5) 4 11641 Boogie Woogie w (15) 59.5 96 5 30 Arcadia Power (3) 57.5 94 S Miller $32,000, Open, 1600m Ms E Hennessy (a1.5) $22,000, Class 3, 1000m 6 5734 Nic’s Hero (14) 57.5 91 J Duffy 1 09s09 Spanish Steps (10) 63.5 95 7 Thomas Blamey Tavern 6.50 5 s7330 Huntly Castle w (17) 59.5 99 1 4s111 Delacour cd (6) 59.5 91 B Ward 7 4s567 Favourite Things (1) 57 90 M A Cahill Ms E Hennessy (a1.5) $22,000, Benchmark 58, 1400m B Mc Dougall 6 s0846 Lamington Drive (8) 59 97 S Guymer 2 1s023 Zarsnip cw (3) 59 97 J Duffy 8 5 Magic Design (7) 57 91 2 9s984 Spunlago tcdw (1) 63.5 96 1 75062 Landmine tcw (16) 61.5 88 7 41s31 Athena’s Lad (4) 58.5 99 3 4310s Nobody’s Puppet dw (7) 57.5 93 9 89480 Simply Skilful (11) 57 87 B Vale Ms H Williams (a4) 2 37487 We’re Off cd (2) 61.5 91 Ms H Ede (a2) Ms H Ede (a2) 10 5 Unsugared (5) 57 89 S Guymer 3 55s13 Upper House tdw (4) 58.5 98 M A Cahill 3 717s1 Certain Shaft cdw (3) 60 94 M A Cahill Ms K Bell-Pitomac (a) 4 7s444 Bellarina Magic d (4) 55 94 Ms K Nisbet 11 s4536 Zenyasa (8) 57 88 J Richards (a) 4 36405 Howlowcanyougo dw (3) 57 96 4 05097 Dinner Lake d (9) 60 89 8 s7455 Suburbia (2) 58 98 B Ward 5 103s3 Corazon De Oro d (2) 55 100 M Travers 12 Bidgee Elly (15) 55.5 93 Ms K Adams S Guymer Ms A Mc Lucas (a2) 9 72222 Sydney Blue (18) 56 95 6 82580 Never Short (1) 55 91 A Sweeney 13 7s42 One Aye (4) 55.5 100 B Mc Dougall 5 42457 Supreme Polarity cw (5) 57 99 B Ward 5 25s54 Bravado Lass tdw (6) 59.5 90 10 31813 Bouddi tdw (13) 55.5 100 7 06383 Eillod (5) 55 94 14 663 Vinnie’s Girl (9) 55.5 94 6 00s21 Wyangle cw (8) 57 100 J Kissick Ms H Williams (a4) 11 4s008 Willy White Socks tcw (10) 55.5 89 EMERGENCY: 7 17461 Obelos dw (9) 56 96 Ms W Costin 2 The Rural Handicap 3.55 6 50737 Crimson Hoffa c (8) 59.5 89 B Vale 15 0 Nulla Gold (13) 57.5 83 B Ward 8 85223 Mellors dwbn (7) 55 99 B Mc Dougall 7 44s22 Outahand (19) 59.5 97 S Guymer 12 66552 Stilton b (16) 55 94 9 52421 Royal Thunder dwn (2) 55 99 $22,000, Maiden, 1000m 8 9s139 Cathanda dw (4) 59 93 13 87055 River Of Gold cdw (5) 55 92 4 Early Learning Centre 5.05 10 85477 Time Of Glory (6) 55 92 Ms K Nisbet Ms E Hennessy (a1.5) 14 73233 Via Condotti (7) 55 97 A Sweeney 1 Hartzer Park (13) 59 91 M Travers 11 s5164 Universal Thief dw (11) 55 92 $22,000, Class 2, 1200m 9 s1622 Shadow Company (18) 59 88 15 1s835 Mahsinger tw (14) 55 96 J Duffy 2 7 River Reece (9) 58.5 88 S Miller Ms K Bell-Pitomac (a) 3 Fat Albert (12) 57.5 92 1 0856s Zounique (1) 60 97 10 80063 Say Goodbye w (14) 58.5 86 Ms W Costin 16 53924 Manhattan Zip tw (9) 55 91 4 Huxton Creeper (11) 57.5 92 2 166s6 Missile Magic w (5) 59.5 94 B Ward 6 William Farrer Hotel 6.15 11 1s756 Aswaat d (10) 58 100 B Mc Dougall Ms H Williams (a4) Ms A Mc Lucas (a2) 3 21216 Old Harbour (12) 59 94 12 90046 Rugged Roy cd (5) 58 87 J Duffy EMERGENCIES: 5 24s33 Gallant Run b (1) 57 100 Ms K Bell-Pitomac (a) $22,000, Open, 1200m 13 66s52 Faramondo d (13) 57.5 95 J Kissick 17 14446 Barcoo Bill tw (6) 55 94 M Travers 6 Carnival Miss (2) 55.5 94 J Duffy 4 5310s Sebago dw (9) 58.5 92 1 75s19 Caccini dw (7) 61 87 14 8s088 Greyazz (17) 57.5 89 B Vale 18 24564 Shadow Of Mordor (1) 55 92 R Bensley 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. 24 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Tokyo Olympics’ cost jumps 22 percent OLYMPICS by Stephen Wade, AP responsible for all of the costs except for to be rolled out in the spring. Reduced fan newspapers Yomiuri, Mainichi, and Asahi. US$6.7bn in a privately funded operating numbers will affect ticket sales, a major Several regional papers are also sponsors. TOKYO — The official cost of the budget. source of income. “We would like to increase revenue more postponed Tokyo Olympics has increased “The IOC and TOCOG (Tokyo organising Japan has controlled Covid-19 better than expected although it is challenging,” by 22 percent, the local organising committee) want the public budget to than most countries with 3000 deaths Gakuji Ito, the organising committee chief committee said in unveiling its new budget appear as small as possible not only to attributed to the virus. That milestone was financial officer, said. on Tuesday. guard against public criticism, but also to reached on Tuesday. New cases have Ito said insurance coverage might pay In an online news conference, not discourage future candidate cities,” been rising for a month, adding to public out up to US$500m to help cover increased organisers said the Olympics would cost Franz Waldenberger, director of the scepticism about the Olympics. costs. US$15.4 billion to stage. This was up from German Institute for Japanese Studies in In a telephone poll of 1200 people All expenses the organising committee US$12.6bn in last year’s budget. Tokyo, wrote in a recent paper examining published this month by Japanese could not cover would fall to the Tokyo The added US$2.8bn is the cost of Olympic costs. broadcaster NHK, 63 percent said the Metropolitan Government, Ito said. the one-year delay. Expenses come from Waldenberger noted the Tokyo city Olympics should be postponed again or The budget showed the International renegotiating contracts and measures to government and branches of the central cancelled, and 27 percent said the games Olympic Committee was contributing combat the Covid-19 pandemic. government use the Olympics as “a window should be held. The poll was conducted US$1.3bn to cover costs of the games. Its The Olympics are to open on July 23. of opportunity to obtain additional” funding. from December 11 to 13. contribution to Tokyo would not increase, The Paralympics follow on August 24. Organisers in October announced cost The IOC and local organisers have Ito said. Audits by the Japanese government over reductions of US$280 million, cutting said the Olympics will be cancelled if they Ito was asked if he would seek more the last several years, however, show the out frills including hospitality offerings. cannot be held this time. money from the IOC. costs are higher than officially stated and However, no cuts have been made to the Local organisers are trying to recover “No, we are not thinking about it,” he are at least US$25bn. sports programme with a full complement some of the rising costs by coaxing more replied. Tokyo said the Olympics would cost of 11,000 athletes and tens of thousands of revenue from domestic sponsors. About The IOC’s finances are stressed. It about US$7.5bn when the IOC awarded officials, judges, and sponsors expected to 70 sponsors have already contributed a generates 91 percent of its income from the games in 2013. A University of Oxford attend. record US$3.3bn, driven by Dentsu Inc the selling broadcast rights and sponsorships. study this year said Tokyo is the most Muto acknowledged the cost had marketing agent for the Tokyo Olympics. The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics expensive Summer Olympics on record. increased for the opening and closing The Nikkei newspaper reported last has stalled its revenue flow, increasing “The Tokyo Olympics are operating in a ceremonies of the Olympics and week, citing unnamed sources “familiar the importance of staging the Olympics in very tough environment,” Toshiro Muto, the Paralympics. Organisers were expected to with the matter”, that 15 top-tier domestic Tokyo. The Beijing Winter Olympics open chief executive of the organising committee, report a figure later in the week. Japan’s sponsors would add an estimated six months after Tokyo closes, in February said when asked about the record costs. Kyodo news agency, citing sources close US$150m to their contributions. It said 2022. Muto suggested the games should be to the committee, reported the increase is Japan Airlines, ANA airline, and the Tobu The IOC is also under pressure to looked at as an investment rather than a about US$33m. Skytower were considering contributions. support national Olympic committees and cost. Decisions about fans and preventive Nikkei is also a Tokyo Olympic international sports federations, many of Japanese government entities are measures for the pandemic are expected sponsor along with Japan’s other leading which rely heavily on IOC contributions. THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Thursday, December 24, 2020 SUDOKU CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Ryan Seacrest, 46; Stephenie Meyer, 47; Ricky Martin, 49; Diedrich Bader, 54. 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The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 SPORT 25 FIFA target Blatter in criminal complaint FOOTBALL by Graham Dunbar, AP football money was spent refurbishing FIFA said its criminal complaint was general election in 2010. the 1970s office building to also include delivered by hand to canton (state) The museum has made a loss each GENEVA — FIFA has filed a criminal 34 rental apartments. prosecutors in Zurich. year, including $50 million in 2016 that complaint against former president Sepp It was intended to open around Blatter risks investigation at local included one-off costs, FIFA said then in Blatter over the finances of its loss- May 2015, when Blatter won a fifth level while already a suspect in two its financial report. making football museum in Zurich. presidential election, but was delayed criminal proceedings opened by federal The most recent FIFA accounts for FIFA said today it suspected “criminal until after he left office under pressure prosecutors into how he spent FIFA’s 2019 show almost $3.5 million revenue mismanagement by FIFA’s former from American and Swiss investigations money as president. from the FIFA World Football Museum management and companies appointed of international football officials. Those investigations involve FIFA and $6.3 million costs for “investment by them” to work on the museum — Blatter committed FIFA to a rental paying $2 million to former UEFA and expenses”. long seen as a pet project of Blatter’s contract with the building’s owner, president Michel Platini in 2011 and There were 161,700 visitors — a record — in a renovated and rented city centre insurance firm Swiss Life, that requires $1 million to the Trinidad and Tobago — at the Zurich building in 2016. building. paying $360 million through to 2045 at football body — effectively to disgraced In the 2018 accounts, revenue was The FIFA World Football Museum above-market rates, football’s world body former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner almost $4 million against $12 million in opened in 2016 after $US140 million of said. — weeks before the Caribbean islands’ spending. First Serie A loss of the season for Juventus FOOTBALL ROME — Serie A champions Juventus crashed to their first Serie A loss of the season, beaten 3-0 at home by Fiorentina after Juan Cuadrado was sent off after just 18 minutes. Juve could slip 10 points behind leaders AC Milan, who welcome Lazio tomorrow in the Italian top flight’s closing round of 2020. The Bianconeri are seven points off the top with a game in hand against Napoli, who had been handed a default defeat but earlier in the day had their appeal upheld. The ruling meant Napoli are third, ahead of Juve on goal difference before they meet Torino tomorrow. The Neapolitans in early October did not show up for a game in Turin in compliance with coronavirus safety measures. At the Allianz Stadium, Juve fell behind on three minutes as Franck Ribery sent away Dusan Vlahovic for a classy flick ONLY GOAL OF THE GAME: Brentford’s Josh Dasilva scores during the English League Cup football match against Newcastle past Wojciech Szczesny. United at Brentford Community Stadium in London today. Brentford won the game 1-0 to reach the semifinals of the cup for the Cuadrado received a direct red card first time. Picture by Adam Davy/Pool via AP 15 minutes later as his harsh foul on Gaetano Castrovilli was ascertained by video review. After the break Alex Sandro scored an Brentford reach League Cup semifinal own goal in the 76th and former Juve defender Martin Caceres rounded out FOOTBALL by Steve Douglas, AP by Arsenal’s back-up goalkeeper Rúnar volleyed home the winner in the 66th the scoring five minutes later as La Viola Alex Rúnarsson, who fumbled a free-kick minute. moved five points clear of the relegation IF Manchester City’s presence in the attempt by Riyad Mahrez with the score Sergi Canos broke down the left and zone. semifinals of the English League Cup is at 1-1 at the start of the second half and his low cross was met by Dasilva at the • In Spain, Mario Hermoso and Marcos Llorente no real surprise, the same cannot be said saw the ball squirm behind him into the end of a perfectly timed run. scored second-half goals to give Atletico Madrid a about second-tier club Brentford. net. The Championship team went close to 2-0 victory at Real Sociedad to open up a three-point By beating Newcastle 1-0 to take down Further City goals from Phil Foden and a second when Newcastle keeper Karl lead at the top of La Liga. a fourth Premier League opponent so far Aymeric Laporte piled on the agony for Darlow did well to save from Christian In a meeting between the front-runners and the in the competition, Brentford reached the Arsenal and its under-pressure manager Norgaard. sensations of the league this season, Atletico put on semifinals of a major cup competition for Mikel Arteta, whose team have plunged Brentford, who narrowly missed out another dominant performance in defence. the first time in the southwest London to 15th place in the Premier League. on promotion to the Premier League Diego Simeone’s team did not generate much in club’s 131-year history. City are looking to claim an eighth last season, have never before reached attack but took full advantage of their best scoring City’s players, on the other hand, are League Cup title, tying the record of the last four in either of the two major opportunities. regulars at the business end of domestic Liverpool in the competition. English cup competitions. Hermoso headed in a free kick by Yannick competitions and kept alive their bid to The Magpies became the fourth top- The other quarterfinal matches take Carrasco to put the visitors at San Sebastian ahead win the League Cup for a fourth straight flight team eliminated by Brentford in place tomorrow (NZ time), when Everton four minutes after halftime. Llorente put the result season with a 4-1 win at Arsenal today. the southwest London club’s unlikely host Manchester United and Tottenham beyond doubt in the 74th with a powerful strike from The holders were given a helping hand run to the last four after Josh Dasilva are at second-tier Stoke. the edge of the area. — DPA/AP Bradman’s baggy green sells for $450,000 CRICKET by Steve Larkin, AAP year — the world record price for an item “I want as many people to enjoy it as million from investors. of cricket memorabilia. possible. Some of Dunham’s victims sought ADELAIDE — Australian businessman The 1928 Bradman cap price eclipses “I have some exciting plans for the access to Bradman’s cap to help pay off Peter Freedman has bought Sir Donald the $425,000 paid for the Australia’s baggy green that will see it travel the the accountant’s debts. Bradman’s first baggy green cap for great’s 1948 baggy green at a 2003 country and shared with sports fans and Dunham’s estate was bankrupted $A450,000, the second-highest price ever auction. cricketing communities.” with Bradman’s cap auctioned under paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia. “Sir Don Bradman is an Aussie legend, The cap was presented to Bradman instructions from the trustee, Oracle Freedman, the founder of Rode not only as one of our greatest talents before his test debut against England in Insolvency Services. Microphones who this year paid $9 on the sporting field and one of the November 1928 in Brisbane. In June this year, Freedman won an million to win an auction for a guitar most revered athletes of all time, but Bradman gifted the cap to a family auction for the acoustic guitar used by used by Kurt Cobain, plans to tour as an icon of Australian fortitude and friend, Peter Dunham, in 1959. Cobain in Nirvana’s famous unplugged Bradman’s test debut cap around resilience,” Freedman said yesterday. Dunham, who was a neighbour of performance in 1993. Australia. “All too often, memorabilia such as this Bradman in Kensington Gardens in Freedman’s winning $9m bid for the The price for Bradman’s 1928 Australia ends up spending its life on the wall of Adelaide’s inner east, was this year jailed 1959 Martin D18E acoustic guitar is the cap sits behind the $1,007,500 paid at some boardroom or in some basement bar for fraud. Dunham was jailed in May for highest price ever paid at auction for a auction for Shane Warne’s test cap this of a well-heeled sports fanatic. more than eight years for scamming $1.3 guitar. 26 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Around the Greens Club bowls news Pinn and the eventual finalists, despite Gisborne the temperatures. ARTHUR Hawes is full of mischief Tim and Ginny Sherriff lost a life to when he isn’t bowling, and the Barbara Gibson and Ron Robertson, programme he came up with for 15-14, in the last game of the day, having Gisborne Bowling Club’s final day before beaten the Oates pair and then the Pinns Christmas left some bewildered. on an extra end. Everyone in the 12 triples teams So Sunday was winner take all, with playing had to skip, play two or lead. both teams having one life. It’s been a while since some skips The Sherriffs started well, then Gibson have put down jacks and there were a and Robertson came at them, as expected. few nervous junior players on the head However, the Sherriffs dug deep to claim dealing with “know-all” skips still trying a title that had eluded them up until to run the show. then. The younger players came to the fore Thanks must go to greenkeeper Jamey when asked to put a bowl between two Ferris, who turns out beautiful greens jacks half a metre apart. for these occasions, and Bobbie Beattie, There was plenty of fun, followed by a who is in charge of all the other bits and sumptuous meal to end the day. pieces that have to be done during these Two finals were played last weekend. competitions. The held-over women’s singles final Thanks also to the club members between Queenie Takurua and Dayvinia who turn up to watch. Ron Robertson Mills was won by Takurua after she lost wondered why all these people were one of her two lives. arriving. Maybe they were coming to She showed her years of experience in play, he said. Couldn’t believe they were the second game to once again become actually there to see him play! women’s champion. Merry Christmas everyone. Relax and The last final of the year was the junior enjoy the break with family and friends mixed pairs, played in temperatures of until we get back into bowls on January around 30 degrees. 13 with the Alex White Triples and then JUNIOR CHAMPS: Ginny and Tim Sherriff are Gisborne Bowling Club’s junior mixed There was some excellent bowling by the Club Championship Triples on the pairs champions after they beat Barbara Gibson and Ron Robertson in the final. Don and Diane Oates, Karen and Geoff 16th and 17th. — Ginny Picture supplied Pakistan strike back Family time ahead for New test skipper leads from the front Waqar Younis

CRICKET more positive frame of mind. fits and starts. While partnerships were CRICKET Pakistan won the toss in all three created, few endured. The pitch was two- NAPIER — New test captain Mohammad matches, batting first in the first two. A paced and the slower ball or cross-seamer PAKISTAN’S bowling coach Waqar Younis Rizwan showed his leadership quality in a change of tactics yesterday to bowl first on was especially effective against batsmen is set for a family reunion after the country’s bold innings of 89 that steered Pakistan to a tricky pitch proved successful. trying to settle in. cricket board (PCB) granted him leave to a four-wicket win against New Zealand last Rizwan put on 40 for the first wicket with Martin Guptill and Tim Seifert looked fly to see them in Lahore after the first Test night in the third Twenty20 cricket match. Haider Ali (11), then 72 in a match-winning strong in a 40-run partnership for the first against New Zealand. Rizwan will lead Pakistan in the two- partnership with Mohammad Hafeez. wicket but both were out after making starts. Younis, whose family usually live in match test series against New Zealand, Coming off his unbeaten 99 in the second Guptill, again, was unable to build on a Sydney, has been travelling with Pakistan starting on Sunday, in place of Babar T20, Hafeez made 41 from 29 balls with solid beginning, making 19 from 16 balls since they toured England in June. Azam, who is injured. two fours and three sixes. before being caught by Shadab at mid-off The 49-year-old attempted a reunion in In Azam’s absence he also opened When he was out, Hafeez was just 12 from the bowling of Haris Rauf in the fifth New South Wales in September but his the batting in all three T20s, making 17 runs short of equaling Shoaib Malik’s over. father died while Younis was in quarantine in Auckland and 22 in Hamilton before record of 2335 runs for Pakistan in T20s. Captain Kane Williamson, who made an and he flew back to Pakistan for the funeral. achieving a maiden half-century and Pakistan had nervous moments near the unbeaten half-century in the second T20 on “Considering Waqar has not seen his career-best 89 from 59 balls last night. end of the innings, especially when Tim Sunday lasted only four balls before he was family since June, and taking into account Rizwan beat his previous best of 33 not out. Southee dismissed Faheem Ashraf and bowled by Faheem for 1. Williamson tried that our home series against South Africa, With Rizwan’s leadership, Pakistan Shadab Khan with consecutive deliveries to cut a ball that was too close to him and which follows the series against New surpassed New Zealand’s moderate total of with the total at 163. Iftikhar survived the chopped the ball on to his stumps. Zealand, doesn’t finish until February 14, 173-7 with two balls to spare. hat-trick ball and struck the winning runs an Following 57 and an unbeaten 84, Seifert we took a pragmatic view of his request,” Rizwan had batted his team within sight over later. was on 35 and confident, having hit two Pakistan manager Mansoor Rana said. of victory when he was out in the final over “We lost the series but the last match is fours and three sixes, when he pushed “We have allowed him to return home at 171-6. Pakistan still needed three runs very important for the next series,” Rizwan forward too hard at Ashraf and was bowled early so that he can spend additional time to win with four balls left. Iftikhar Ahmed said. by a ball that ducked back through the gate. with his wife and children. settled the issue when he hoisted the fourth “We wanted to create energy in this Devon Conway made 63 to steer the “If he had returned to Lahore with the ball of the last over out of the ground for match so we take momentum into the test. remainder of the innings. New Zealand side after the second test he would have six, lifting Pakistan to 177-6. “It’s a big honour for me to be named were 58-3 in the eighth over when Seifert had only a week to spend with them. New Zealand had already secured the captain of Pakistan. It’s a dream for me and was out and Conway added 51 with Glenn “For all of us, families always come first series but Pakistan’s win at McLean Park I can’t explain my happiness.” Phillips (31) for the fourth wicket to give the and we have in the past made similar sends them into the test series in a much New Zealand’s innings progressed in innings a stronger foundation. — AP exemptions.” — AAP High-quality speedway action to end year THE 2020 speedway year ended with (85K) 1, Zac Ingram (116A) 2, Flynn Fraser Saloons — Race 1: Ethan Cook (76G) Dear (37G) 2, Scott Adams (44G) 3. a high-quality meeting at the Eastland (93R) 3. Race 3: Zac Ingram (116A) 1, 1, Chris Cowling (42M) 2, Daniel Cook TQ Midgets — Race 1: Dylan Group Raceway on Saturday night. Deegan Butcher (98B) 2, Kacy Wade (85K) (77G) 3. Race 2: Ethan Cook (76G) 1, MacGregor (17G) 1, Griffin Law (53G) Results — 3. Ministock 100 Juniors: Zac Ingram Chris Cowling (42M) 2, Daniel Cook (77G) 2, Robert Gomm (24G) 3. Race 2: John Stockcars — Race 1: Brett Loveridge (116A) 1, Deegan Butcher (98B) 2, Kacy 3. Race 3: Ethan Cook (76G) 1, Daniel Taylor (7G) 1, Robert Gomm (24G) 2, (16B) 1, Dion Henderson (544R) 2, Wade (85K) 3. Cook (77G) 2, Chris Cowling (42M) 3. Dylan MacGregor (17G) 3. Race 3: Griffin James Marshall (16H) 3. Race 2: Stacey Ministock Purple Group — Race 1: Streetstocks — Race 1: Cody Gooch Law (53G) 1, John Taylor (7G) 2, Dylan Smith (9B) 1, David Kingsbeer (38G) Asha Penn (55B) 1, Blake Castleton (67K) (6G) 1, Sean Gooch (9G) 2, Shaun Kingi MacGregor (17G) 3. 2, Dion Henderson (544R) 3. Race 3: 2, Zach Hatton (4B) 3. Race 2: Jeremy (75G) 3. Race 2: Sean Gooch (9G) 1, Sidecars —Race 1, Heat 1: Toby and Trevor McArthur (128G) 1, Stacey Smith Browne (18B) 1, Kyle Matthews (113A) 2, Cody Gooch (6G) 2, Sammy Durston Dylan Lardelli (99G) 1, Clive Ireland and (9B) 2, Brett Loveridge (16B) 3. Ashley Kara Flynn (5B) 3. Ministock Green Group (177G) 3. Race 3: Shaun Kingi (75G) 1, Al Chris Symon (56G) 2, Stu Priest and Scott Memorial (sponsored by The Tyre — Race 1: Terence Dorrell (212R) 1, Bailey Howartson (7B) 2, Thomas McEwan (26B) Kerwin Arnaboldi (52G) 3. Heat 2: Toby General): Stacey Smith (9B) 1, Trevor Smith (72B) 2, Max Lowe (55P) 3. Race 3. and Dylan Lardelli (99G) 1, Stu Priest and McArthur (128G) 2, James Marshall (16H) 2: Bailey Smith (72B) 1, Terence Dorrell Production Saloons — Race 1: Lloyd Kerwin Arnaboldi (52G) 2, Clive Ireland and 3. (212R) 2, Liam Danielson (11B) 3. Stuart (34G) 1, Blake Dear (37G) 2, Matt Chris Symon (56G) 3. Race 2, Heat 1: Stu Youth Ministock Junior — Race 1: Zac Ministock 100 Seniors: Terence Dorrell Shultz (46G) 3. Race 2: Lloyd Stuart (34G) Priest and Kerwin Arnaboldi (52G) 1, Toby Ingram (116A) 1, Deegan Butcher (98B) (212R) 1, Bailey Smith (72B) 2, Liam 1, Matt Shultz (46G) 2, Anton McKay (48G) and Dylan Lardelli (99G) 2, Clive Ireland 2, Tui Smiler (75W) 3. Race 2: Kacy Wade Danielson (11B) 3. 3. Race 3: Lloyd Stuart (34G) 1, Blake and Chris Symon (56G) 3. The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 SPORT 27 Season goes full throttle into annual Summercross MOTORSPORT by Andy McGechan Maunganui’s Rhys Carter, Taupo’s Brad Groombridge, Tauranga’s www.BikesportNZ.com Josiah Natzke, Oparau’s James Scott, Mangakino’s Maximus Purvis, Edgecumbe’s Quade Young, Tauranga’s Brodie Connolly, IT’S time for the new motocross season to get twisted full Wairoa’s Tommy Watts and Waitakere’s Ethan Martens. throttle, and that means it’s also time for the big annual Whakatane Rising stars in the sport such as Tauranga’s Madoc Dixon, Summercross. Palmerston North’s Luka Freemantle, New Plymouth’s Logan Hosted by the Bay of Plenty Motorcycle Club at its popular Kerrisk and Rongotea duo Seth Henson and Zac Jillings also add Awakaponga circuit, near Matata, the Honda-sponsored undeniable class to proceedings and any of them could be fancied Summercross event has again attracted a “Who’s Who” of Kiwi to spring a surprise or two. CODY COOPER, of motocross talent. All of these riders add even more depth to the racing and Mt Maunganui, has won the Because the Christmas Day and Boxing Day holidays occur this perhaps make picking a winner almost impossible. Whakatane Summercross season on Friday and Saturday, the seniors, women and veterans Cooper and fellow former Kiwi international Ben Townley put five times and has his will race on Sunday, December 27, and the minis, juniors and their heads together to help John Breingan and the Bay of Plenty eyes on a sixth title. junior women follow the next day, on Monday, December 28. Motorcycle Club team design the track. Pictures by Andy McGechan, The event again acts as a springboard for riders heading into Local heroes and heroines – from Whakatane, Ohope, www.BikesportNZ.com the busy part of the season. It will culminate in the four-round Edgecumbe, Thornton and Kawerau – will, naturally, be out in New Zealand Motocross Championships in January, February and force again this year, including Finn Baker, Miller Spence, Hunter March. Davies, Corey and Chloe Munn, Ashlee and Josh Jennings, Jack TOMMY It will be hard to look much further than Mt Maunganui’s Elliott, Corban Toone, Olly McIlroy, Troy Wilson, Carter Davies, WATTS, of multi-time national MX1 champion Cody Cooper, always a crowd Morgan Purcell, Samuel East, Hadley Gibson, Aydan Hall, Flynn Wairoa, is favourite at this popular post-Christmas blow-out. Spence, Quade Young, James Wilson, Troy Wilson, Andrew one of the He was been the main trophy winner at Summercross on more Savage, Geordie Boon, Jak Purcell, Darren Capill, Charlotte contenders occasions than any other competitor, winning there five times — in Knight, Kaylene Cornes, Sophie Tierney, Brooklyn McGovern and for the 2013, ’15, ’16, ‘17 and ’18 — so, if he wins again this time around, Flynn Watts. Whakatane it will be the former Opotiki man’s sixth outright Summercross win “This event is always a big one,” said Bay of Plenty Motorcycle Summercross, in total. Club spokesman Tony Rees. to be held Cooper was a late withdrawal from racing at Summercross last “The club will be working hard to make sure that people can near Matata year. He decided the injury he had suffered during training two days come along and really enjoy Summercross. on Sunday. earlier was “too uncomfortable” for him to continue beyond the first “The track always gets spruced up quite a bit for Summercross lap of his warm-up at Summercross on the Sunday mormorning.ning. because the calibre of riders here goes up a little bit from the usual The former Opotiki rider is happy to be back to full fitness and club-level events. is ready to reclaim the silverware. Standing in Cooper’s way will be “This is the kick-off to the main part of the season. All the top last year’s Summercross champion, Hamilton rider Kayne Lamont, teams and riders want to be here to see how they might go at the along with dozens of talented stars of the sport, such as Mt nationals.”

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TOURNAMENT WINNERS: The Turanga Touch mixed under-14 team won their division of the Central Touch Provincial Grassroots Tournament in Palmerston North. They are (from left): Quinn Coutts, Hine Walker-Komene, Philburgh Viljoen, Missy Nepe-MacDonald, Impala Waipara, Georgina Moeke, Samara Beattie, Quaydon Chaffey-Kora, Hema Tangira, Khadyn Kahukiwa-Kora, Manaia Keelan-Wyllie, Kahu Leach-Waihi and Cortez Kora. Picture supplied FIRST AND SECOND

TOUCH RUGBY by Jack Malcolm of the tries being scored. more to the games, and the new rules The team decided not to take sped up the game.” GISBORNE’S mixed under-14 it further, as it didn’t adversely He said the next generation had Turanga Touch team were undefeated affect their chances of winning the “unbelievable” levels of skill. Over Turanga winners of their division at the tournament. the u14 team’s five games at the Central Touch Provincial Grassroots The final three games of the tournament, he could recall only two Tournament. tournament, including the playoffs, or three dropped balls. The mixed u12 and u14 teams were one-way traffic. After an 11-0 win The u12s had a more challenging travelled to Palmerston North for the the team advanced to the semifinals, schedule, with a younger team that teams competition. The u12s were second in where they won 10-0 to set up struggled against the larger provinces their division. another meeting with Unit. with their bigger player pools, coach The teams had five games across The team left no room for doubt in Scott Leighton said. two days, and the u14s had four wins their second encounter with Unit and “It was the first tourney for lots of and a draw. secured the tournament title with an them . . . and although it was for u12s, make Their first games during pool play emphatic 7-4 win in the final. all of them are young enough to play were the hardest, coach Evan Mita Mita said he and the team were in the same grade again.” said. confident going into the tournament He said the majority of children in A first-up 4-2 win against Galaxy, after a 10-week training programme. his team were 10 years old, with some their who have clubs around the country, The u14 team had had a lot of as young as nine. They were short was followed by a controversial 5-5 on-field experience, having won the of boys, and often fielded a majority draw against Unit from Palmerston local Senior B division. female team. North. They had also played several The u12s lost in the final to OT Mita said the referees and officials competitive warm-up games against Whanau, in a game that Leighton said mark at had a 5-5 scoreline while they and the u16 Turanga touch team, Mita wasn’t close. their supporters had scored the game said. “As a coach, I’m proud of the kids.” as a win, 6-5. “We worked pretty hard with them, Support from sponsors The The 5-5 scoresheets were and all that hard work paid off.” Warehouse Gisborne, Coxco Farming mistakenly signed off for Turanga by Mita has been coaching touch for & Horticulture Ltd, Turanga Health, tourney someone who wasn’t authorised to over three decades and said he’d Gear Meat, Puawai and Co and Nick do so, which made the result official, seen the game evolve dramatically. Tupara helped the teams get to the although the team had video evidence “It’s so fast now . . . there’s a lot tournament.