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Thursday, June 24, 2021 TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 COVID-19 PAGES 6-7, 11, 13 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • MINISTER DENIES COVID RESPONSE SLOW FIRE IN OLD PAGES 23-26 • WELLINGTON WAKES TO LEVEL 2 • BREAKTHROUGH IN ANTIBODY TEST POLICE STATION • FIJI OFFICIALS CONFIRM FOUR DEATHS PAGE 2 INSIDE TODAY ON TOP OF THE WORLD: A jubilant New Zealand cricket team led by Kane Williamson celebrate victory in the final of the ICC World Test Championship at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton, England, this morning. Kiwi fans who stayed up all night to watch the last day of the final against India got to enjoy their team complete an eight-wicket triumph to become test cricket’s first official world champions. Chasing 139 for victory after dismissing India for 170 in their second innings, Williamson finished unbeaten on 52 while veteran Ross Taylor was 47 not out and hit the winning runs with 7.1 overs of the day to spare. New Zealand bowler Kyle Jamieson was named man of the match but to a man the team contributed to what is being hailed as the country’s greatest cricketing feat. STORY ON BACK PAGE AP picture NOWHERE TO GO Impending motel closure has emergency housing families searching for homes by Sophie Rishworth meant weekly rents were the highest Mr Faulkner said rents had stabilised “I was lucky enough to get into Home Rental Services owner Graham but finding a three-bedroom home for less emergency housing and we have been at THE Colonial Motel on Gladstone Faulkner had seen in his 20 years in the than $500 a week at the moment would The Colonial since March.” Road has had to give notice to emergency industry. meant something was wrong with it. But about a month ago there were housing tenants staying in its 12 units. His website has one listing, Trade Me Ms Cross had applied for rental complaints about the state of the hotel The manager, who did not wish to be has only one rental listing for Gisborne, properties for herself and her children and Work and Income did an inspection. named, said the motel would be cleared and other real estate agents spoken to since they moved here last June after she “Because it is not up to health by the end of June for renovations. have waiting lists for tenants so long separated from the children’s father and standards they want to move everyone Around 25 people have been staying they don’t even advertise rentals. her partner of 19 years. out,” Ms Cross said. at the motel, which had been used as Mr Faulkner said up to 30 families “I did not realise what the rental The motel owner confirmed all 12 units emergency housing paid for by Work and applied for each rental listed. situation was here. I have never been in of the motel were being renovated and Income. “There’s potentially three or four times this situation before. I haven’t been able people had been asked to move out while Leisa Cross, 33, has been living at the more than that looking but most people, to find anything to rent.” this happened. Colonial Motel since March, with four of especially those in emergency housing, They lived in a tent on her Ms Cross said she and another family her five children. have given up,” he said. grandfather’s backyard until March this had been unable to find anywhere to go. They have until next week to be out. “Eighteen months ago rentals were year when they got rained out, so she But the scarcity of rentals in Gisborne $100 a week less or even more.” contacted Work and Income. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds ... 18-19 Racing ................27 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........22 Sport ............ 28-32 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .. 6-7, 20-21 World............ 13-15 The Guide ... 23-26 Weather .............31 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, June 24, 2021 FIRE IN OLD POLICE STATION Appears to have started in mattress by Murray Robertson One room was extensively fire-damaged while the other was considerably smoke- FIRE broke out yesterday afternoon on the damaged. top floor of the former Gisborne central police The section of the city around the building station building in which homeless people was locked down by police, with traffic control have been living. put in place to keep the scene clear until the However, no one was found when firefighters situation was under control. entered the Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust-owned Specialist fire investigator Derek Goodwin building on the corner of Peel Street and and police were called. Childers Road. “It’s clear there was some sort of heat source Fire and Emergency NZ received multiple introduced in one of the rooms,” Mr Goodwin 111 calls when people in nearby buildings and said. passing by saw smoke and flames at around “The building has not had electricity and 1.20pm. other utilities connected for years. A passing police patrol also called in the fire. “We’re not sure if the fire was started FENZ sent four fire appliances to the scene. deliberately, though,” Mr Goodwin said. The fire involved two rooms at the southern “It could have been one of the homeless corner of the upper storey of the building people living there cooking, or burning facing Peel Street. something to keep warm, or smoking. “When we arrived there were flames coming “The fire appears to have started in a it was saddened one of the trust’s properties, had gone into redeveloping the site over the out the windows in those rooms,” Station mattress in the worst-affected room. due to be refurbished this year, was damaged last 12 months and the fire was disappointing. Officer Chris Grimson said. “The fire crews did a really good job in by fire. “At this stage we don’t know the exact cause “We lobbed water through the windows stopping it the way they did.” The former police station was part of the of the fire but we are thankful that no one initially to subdue the fire until the Bronto Police at the scene said their staff were commercial redress package in the iwi’s Treaty appears to have been hurt. appliance arrived to get to work with its aerial called to move on the people living in the settlement. Redevelopment of the building was “It’s too early to know what impact the fire monitor.” building on a number of occasions. due to start later this year. will have on our development plans, she said. SO Grimson said after about five minutes “But they just move back in again. Trust chair Moera Brown said a lot of work “Unauthorised access to the building has firefighters were able to enter the building. “There are other places for them to go to but been an ongoing problem and a great deal of “We didn’t know if there was anyone inside they choose to move back into the old police effort and resource has gone into making the so we searched the whole place, including the station. building safe and trying to keep it secure.” outbuildings, and found no one.” “The trustees, Rongowhakaata, have been Homeless people have been living in the down to have a look at the building and they building. will be securing it again.” “It took us about 15 to 20 minutes to knock Police say they would like to hear from the fire back,” SO Grimson said. anyone who sees homeless people in the It was contained to the two rooms where it building. started. In a statement, Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust said ACTION STATIONS: Some sort of heat source ignited a fire on the top storey of the former Gisborne central police station in Peel Street yesterday afternoon. Homeless people had been living there and investigators believe they may have had something to do with it. Pictures by Liam Clayton LOOKING AHEAD Vicki Coley SPORTS Sells Real Estate • Chance for Waikohu to regain top spot in premier club rugby when they take on Ngatapa while HSOB and OBM face off in the other clash. • Cracker of a premier grade netball game expected when High School Old Girls take on YMP. • Pacifi c Premiership football league leaders Gisborne United host Napier City Rovers. Central Fed League contenders Thistle away to FOCUS ON THE LAND Whanganui Athletic TOMORROW SATURDAY Vicki Coley Residential Sales Consultant The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 For a free no obligation appraisal call me. Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies P 021 641 997 E [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz 32806-02 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, June 24, 2021 NEWS 3 Wellington travellers should adopt Level 2 settings GISBORNE people who were in Wellington over the weekend should be wearing masks and following Covid Level 2 precautions, says Hauora Tairawhiti medical officer of health Dr Osman Mansoor. Wellington is now at Covid-19 Alert Level 2 after an infectious person from Australia was in the capital over the weekend. Because the man used the Covid tracer app to scan where they were going, 14 locations and times of interest have been identified. These include restaurants, bars, shops and Te Papa where people may have MOVING TO WHERE?: Leisa Cross, mum of five, packs up a friend’s car with her family’s possessions.
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