Saturday, November 21, 2020 the SKY’S the LIMIT
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21-22, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.70 INSIDE TODAY WAIROA TO NAPIER HAGER: NZ TROOPS COULD ALSO HAVE LOG TRAINS HONOURING ‘GUILTY SECRETS’ GISBORNE’S RESUME AMBITIOUS WOMEN PAGE 3 PAGE 10 UP, UP AND AWAY ... and a giant step for gnome-kind Push for Maori wards ‘Diversity at the table matters’ by Alice Angeloni “It would be an egregious miscarriage of representative justice for those voices EQUITABLE REPRESENTATION is to be spoken over today and to say that having the “hearts and minds of Maori” they are actually well represented in this at the council table, Gisborne councillors system when they say that they are not,” have heard before a vote on whether to Ms Ngata said. establish Maori wards in Tairawhiti. Gisborne district councillors heard Indigenous rights advocate Tina Ngata from 19 submitters about whether the made a submission at a hearing on voting system should be changed to Thursday asking councillors if “distinct establish Maori wards, where only those representation” for Maori mattered, if on the Maori electoral roll vote for the it was being achieved by the council candidates, in time for the 2022 election. and whether non-Maori This followed a could “best determine the consultation period interests” of Maori. We know our which ran from August “Representation matters ‘people intimately. to November in which and diversity at the table the council received 293 matters,” she said. We know what’s responses. Ms Ngata spoke to a really happening in While 68 percent of submission endorsed by the homes and lives submissions said they numerous hapu and marae, would like to see Maori in which she said Maori of people who live wards, those in opposition had the right to distinct in Kaiti cited concerns about representation as the — Ngati’ Oneone chair racism and divisiveness, Treaty partner. with some responders She raised the “elephant Charlotte Gibson likening it to apartheid in the room” — the council’s South Africa and Nazi decision on the Endeavour Germany. models last week. The council received 18 formal “I can say confidently that there was submissions representing more than general discontent and concern from 60 organisations, family trusts, iwi, Maori in Turanga around whether or not hapu, marae and kura, with all but one we were represented in that decision,” Ms of the formal submissions in favour of Ngata said. establishing Maori wards. “Maori across the region, on Ngati Gisborne lawyer Gordon Webb made Porou and across Turanga were very that outlying formal submission and clear with you that we did not want those spoke to it at the hearing. replicas up at all.” “There is existing and adequate While the council’s vote to gift one opportunity for Maori to contribute to Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket blasts off from its Mahia launch pad at 3.20pm model to Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti in Tolaga GDC decision-making processes without yesterday on its 16th mission, which it named Return To Sender. The mission was Bay was widely accepted, a decision the need for special wards,” he said. a success, with 30 small satellites deployed to orbit. The mission also, for the first to gift the other model back to the “There is no evidence that GDC’s time, featured the re-entry, splashdown and recovery of the Electron launch vehicle’s community group which fundraised for decision-making processes have in first stage. Meanwhile, a 150-millimetre, 3D-printed titanium gnome (inset) was its construction was more divisive. recent times been incorrectly made or fitted to the rocket’s kick stage. The Weta Workshop-created gnome caught a ride It means the model might still be made without due consideration for the courtesy of United States gaming billionaire and co-founder of software company erected in the city. Tairawhiti Museum relationship of Maori and their culture Valve, Gabe Newell. It is a replica of the character Gnome Chompski, which features refused to accept the model. and traditions with their ancestral land, in Valve’s video game Half-Life 2. For every person who watched the rocket launch, “That is a clear, immediate example of water, sites, waahi tapu, valued flora and Mr Newell donated a dollar to Starship Children’s Hospital’s paediatric intensive care the failure to truly represent the broadly fauna and other taonga.” unit. MORE ON THE LAUNCH ON PAGE 4 Pictures supplied by Rocket Lab expressed interests of Maori,” she said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ...... 11-12 Classifieds ... 18-25 Television ...W9-11 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............13 Farming ........ 27-29 Sport ............ 32-36 TOMORROW National .... 6-10, 26 World............ 14-17 Racing ................31 Weather .............35 977 1175467004 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, November 21, 2020 THE SKY’S THE LIMIT READY FOR TAKE-OFF: Air force logistics Specialist Nikara Ross with Ilminster Intermediate students Maddie Odey and Lejay Paul inside the cockpit of a plane. Nikara was part of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Operation Tangata Kanorau team who took Ilminster students through their School to Skies programme this week. Picture by Liam Clayton. Wairoa’s Nikara inspiring more diversity in air force by Jack Marshall “That’s the only thing I’ve found difficult in the forces THE Royal New Zealand — pronunciation and all that Air Force touched down stuff — but everyone’s so in Gisborne this week, welcoming,” said Ross. showing off a plane and A key person at the aircraft technology and beginning of her career was a wowing students at Ilminster Maori instructor. Intermediate. “He was just so gobsmacked The Operation Tangata there was a female Maori Kanorau team were in who loved her own culture Gisborne to run their School and he goes ‘I can’t wait for to Skies programme, which more of our ethnicity to come shows kids the possibilities through’.” within the air force. The School to Skies The goal is to get a better programme headed to representation of New Nikara’s home town after Zealand’s population into Gisborne. the air force while also HONING THEIR SKILLS: Ilminster students (from left) Riki “I’m excited,” she said. encouraging students to stick Reedy, James Duncan and Ben Truelock work on a hand skills “Because then I can show to STEM subjects (Science, box with help from aircraft technician Daphne Pringle people that even if you’re from technology, engineering and a low-decile school there are maths) during their schooling diverse backgrounds could their national population other opportunities. so they can try out for the excel. percentages of 16, 8 and 15 “You have a stable income, specialised branches of the “Females are not really respectively. which where I’m from is not military once they finish well-known in the force, and At the start of her journey, the easiest because everyone studying. especially being Maori,” she there was a little turbulence goes to the meatworks, which Wairoa’s Nikara Ross, who said. but things quickly levelled out. is seasonal. works in logistics, shared her Maori make up only 5 “My language (Maori) is not “I like the lifestyle of being TALKING AERONAUTICS: Pilot under experience of being a young percent of the air force, exactly spoken a lot. My name in the military, the discipline training and School to Skies graduate Maori woman entering the Pacifica 2 percent and Asian is Nikara but everyone always and having something new to Carmen Haybittle with an aluminium air force and how Kiwis from 3 percent, compared with calls me Nacara.” do every day.” piece of a plane. Picture by Liam Clayton LOOKING AHEAD Get your ALL THE LATEST NEWS, INCLUDING: Gisborne Herald • The district’s economy continues to bounce back from the home-delivered impacts of Covid-19 • Chasing boundaries and bucks at a charity cricket match • How Gisborne ireighters did in the Sky Tower Stair Chal- lenge • Photos from the Tamararo kapa haka festival and Cancer Society high tea fundraiser • The latest in local, national and international sport MONDAY 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 • Saturday, November 21, 2020 NEWS 3 More space to learn at Wainui, Waikirikiri schools by Jack Marshall STUDENTS at two Gisborne schools will no longer have to deal with cramped buildings and the library and hallway being used as makeshift classrooms. Wainui Beach School and Te Kura Reo Rua o Waikirikiri are gaining two new growth classrooms. Worth $2.5 million, the four buildings give schools much- FIRE AND FISH: needed space for their students to A burn-off of old pine logs learn in a modern environment, on a property on the banks including soundproofing and quality of the Taruheru River at the insulation. end of Stafford Street got The buildings allow children to out of control yesterday and move from workspaces to quiet firefighters were called. Fire and areas if they need time to relax. Emergency NZ sent two crews The buildings are part of the to the scene at around 10.40am. Government’s $164 million upgrade They were there for over an of classrooms around the country to hour, dealing with the fire, meet demand of bulging school rolls. that spread into surrounding “This is awesome because we’ve vegetation.