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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 SHE SHED SUPPORT SELL-OUT MOUNTS FOR DAVIS NEW COVID STRAIN AS DEPUTY PM IDENTIFIED PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 8 LIVID LANDSCAPE: Artist John Walsh’s painting, When decisions are made from afar, is a direct response to the forestry industry’s devastating impact on the ecology of the East Coast. SEE STORY PAGE 4 Image courtesy of John Walsh and Page Galleries. Picture by Ryan McCauley Multiple injuries from unprovoked JAIL FOR attack by drunk farmer in a fury HELLBENT on attacking a fellow farmer, who socialised in the same group, was a Gisborne man drove for 40 minutes in a fit involved in a situation with a woman. of rage fuelled by vodka, prescription drugs Morrison asked directions to the man’s and cannabis, to get to him, Gisborne District house from his neighbours and told them Court was told. they would “find out later” why he wanted to David Bruce Morrison, 47, was jailed know. The neighbours phoned ahead to warn yesterday for four years and one month, and the victim Morrison, seemingly drunk, was VIOLENT, given a three-strike warning for intentionally on his way. The victim went to his gateway to causing grievous bodily harm to the victim meet him. in an unprovoked incident about 9pm on Morrison immediately launched a vicious, October 11, 2018. prolonged, assault on the man, ultimately He pleaded guilty to the charge and an rendering him unconscious. It was extreme associated one of unlawfully possessing a violence, for which the victim subsequently firearm. spent 11 days in hospital, including in Judge Turitea Bolstad also ordered intensive care. VICIOUS Morrison’s offer of a $5000 emotional harm His teeth, nose, several ribs and two payment. vertebrae were broken. He had a collapsed The court was told even after crashing his and bruised lung, bodily bruising, and facial car on the way then having trouble finding cuts that needed stitches. the victim’s house, Morrison’s vigilante Morrison somehow got the man to his front resolve to attack the young married man was doorstep, propping him up like a trophy, then relentless. yelling out identifying himself. A month earlier, he had heard the man, ATTACK CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-4 Business ............11 Television ...........18 Racing ................23 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Classifieds ... 19-20 Sport.............24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ..... 6-10,17 World............ 13-15 Picture pages21-22 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, October 20, 2020 She Shed sells out 36 artists on this year’s tour by Sophie Rishworth “RIDICULOUSLY fast” is how organisers described the sale of tickets for this year’s She Shed tour. She Shed committee member Margaret Hansen said the first 800 tickets released “went in days”, so 200 more tickets were released, “and they’ve just gone”. “We had an enormous response, unprecedented,” she said. “We ask people who had tickets held for them to come and get them please.” This year’s ticket-holders will be identified by wristbands. There are 10 locations, around Wainui and Makorori Beach, involving 36 women artists selling their work, with food and beverages available at four of the locations. The 1000 ticket-holders make their own way between each location. “It is a great day out and a good chance to do a bit of Christmas shopping and support local artists,” said event founder Cheryl Scott. There will be pottery, jewellery, mosaics, bags, SHE SHEDS BY THE SEA SHORE: Vicki Blank in her She Shed, which is also her tiny home, with bags she created from painting, fabric art and more. upcycled sails for her business Seaglass Bags. Vicki is one of 36 women artists who will be showcasing their businesses The event has a pay-it-forward approach, with at the 2020 She Shed tour, which sold out in record time this year — just days. Vicki will bring her She Shed with her to all proceeds from ticket sales going to Hospice the event, which is held over 10 locations around the beach suburbs of Makorori and Wainui. Vicki got the idea to make Tairawhiti, and a $500 scholarship for a female senior bags out of used sails while travelling the world and realising she needed a water-resistant bag to protect her phone and art student who will study at a tertiary level. camera. A sailor herself, Vicki has created the bags in a variety of sizes — large beach bags, laptop bags, even pouch The She Shed tour is on Sunday, November 15, bags for your phone and wallet. She is wearing a hat and jewellery from Bird of Prey Jewellery designer Amanda May, who from 9am to 5pm. will also be one of the artists at this year’s event. Picture by Paul Rickard Cobham nurturing papatuanuku by Matai O’Connor to know how to grow their own School’s charter which was taken kai, harvest it, prepare it for eating, directly from tamariki and whanau, Ms COBHAM School has repurposed provide for others, maintain and Holmes said. its old school playground to be a sustain it.” “The maara kai will bring our maara kai (vegetable garden). They are focusing on the “garden to community together as we all take This had been on their to-do list for plate” theme. some ownership and responsibility. over a year, Cobham School principal “We are providing and encouraging “As well as all of this, it’s just great Gina Holmes said. skills for life.” fun to be nurturing papatuanuku “We consulted with whanau and The maara kai promotes ako (earth),” Ms Holmes said. tamariki in November last year and (learning), oranga (wellbeing) and All plants, worm soil, and labour one thing that came through quite tuhono (connected) which are was donated by the Riverland Fruit strongly was the need for our tamariki strategic goals written into the Company. REPURPOSE: Cobham School student Steven Tatafu waters plants in the repurposed playground vege garden. MAARA KAI: Beatrice Paton from Riverland helping Cobham students (from left) Kendel Wanoa, Tony Wanoa and Patricia Heta plant vegetables in the school’s new garden. Pictures by Paul Rickard LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • The Spring Show was a great one home-delivered for the Cook family from Amberly Farms — full results in the stock competitions • Likewise full results in the Tux sheep dog trials at the Show • The weekly AgriHQ report for the week beginning October 19. THE GUIDE TOMORROW THURSDAY The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, October 20, 2020 NEWS 3 ‘He stood laughing with blood on his hands’ A WOMAN has likened her brother’s picked and you know the outcome before attacker, farmer David Bruce Morrison, to a you attack and prey on the harmless,” she worrying dog, preying on sheep. said. In a victim statement read in Gisborne No one wants a worrying dog in the District Court at Morrison’s sentencing community around their family, she said. yesterday, the woman said Morrison should Her brother had lost everything he’d have been at home making memories with worked so hard to achieve and had not been his children instead of driving 40 minutes to able to work due to his injuries for the past make nightmares for her brother’s family. two years — all because Morrison thought he Supposedly a great husband, an amazing would play judge and jury that night. community member, and father of the year, The repercussions of his attack on her Morrison was no role model for anyone. He brother had brought shame on Morrison’s was a bully whose violence needed to stop, family and continued to impact her family, the she said. woman said. After the attack, he had stood laughing Her brother’s children lost their father with her brother’s blood on his hands. that night. She had watched him suffer It was not the first time he had offended depression, anxiety and sleeplessness. All 13 that way the woman said, alluding to a 2017 of their family had needed to play a huge role incident in which Morrison assaulted a farm in his healing. worker he accused of peeping at his wife. But they were told they might never see People gave Morrison a chance after their brother return to his former fun-loving that but here he was right back asking for self. He was no longer that person who used forgiveness, promising he was a changed to make friends wherever he went and fill a man, she said. room with laughter. “How many times do you give a dog a She hoped in prison Morrison would come chance? You simply don’t and as a farmer to understand the fear her brother now felt you know that best,” the woman said. every time he walked down the street or was “You’re cunning and all your victims are at home on his own, the woman said. ‘Just snapped’ after bad day FROM PAGE 1 year starting point, putting the The man’s wife and the couple’s offending just short of the top band in 10-year-old son went outside to find the tariff case.

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