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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PAGE 9 $10M FOR EAST CAPE ROAD FRANCE UNDER REFERENDUM ATTACK PAGE 3 RESULTS OUT TODAY PAGE 13 MOTU-VATED: Volunteer Jordan Tibble was more than happy to bring recently hatched kiwi DUE IN WELCOME chick Kahurangi to its fern-lined burrow at the Motu Kiwi Kohanga at Whinray Scenic Reserve. SEE STORY PAGE 2 LITTLE KIWI Picture supplied HOME PORT Arrival of navy ship in Gisborne prompts discussion by Alice Angeloni THE ARRIVAL of a naval ship which will call Gisborne home has been welcomed by many councillors and probed by some. Gisborne district councillors had been “set before us”, and discussed the charter to the “we should all be wonderfully city which would be handed to grateful for being chosen”, but the commanding officer and questioned entering a “space” crew of HMNZS Manawanui where the community did not when it sails into the harbour take part in decisions. between November 23 and 30. “There will be some people Deputy Mayor Josh who will be so in love with this Wharehinga said he was . but there will be others grateful that Gisborne had who will be thinking of the been chosen to be the home for war, the death, the loss. Manawanui, with his family “I just want them to be having had a long history aware that some things of service, while Councillor we take on board because Sandra Faulkner said it was of our central government a chance to celebrate the ship relationship.” and welcome the crew into the Cr Pat Seymour said they community. needed to recognise they were However, Councillor picking something up which Meredith Akuhata-Brown had been “bestowed” on them. noted the context of the “Many of the crew are meeting, having just discussed tangata whenua, many come policies about community to this region and we should engagement, and fostering look at it in a positive light. Maori participation, while the It’s an opportunity that has report about the charter said been provided to us, it was no engagement with tangata signed off ages ago, it’s just whenua or the community was taken a while for the ship to required. come,” she said. “It’s quite a significant thing Cr Kerry Worsnop said to have this huge ship come to it was “almost entirely port,” Ms Akuhata-Brown said. ceremonial”. She acknowledged that it CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Television ...........18 Racing .......... 22-23 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Literature ..........19 Sport ............ 24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National 6-10,16-17 World............ 13-15 Classifieds ... 20-21 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, October 30, 2020 ON A SILK AND A PRAYER by Mark Peters meant to perform with they through the Royal Academy had to work with silks less of Dance and taught at a A SPECIAL award for than 4.5m long. The young dance studio in Masterton. “epic drops”, the name for competitors — the youngest Now back in Gisborne, Zwart the aerial artist’s plummet in the championships — were has returned to the Nadine while spinning at speed in not fazed though. Antoinette School of Dance, an unravelling length of silk, “They have been doing but as a teacher, and runs her went to 16-year-old Lani Crick aerial silk acrobatics for a own contemporary and jazz at the inaugural New Zealand good three years now,” says dance school On Pointe Dance Aerial Youth Championships Zwart. Company. She coaches the on Saturday. “When they learn a drop aerial silk acrobatics classes Coached by aerial silk they’re initially cautious but at the Gisborne Gymnastics acrobatics teacher, Anita these are advanced girls and Club. Zwart, Lani was presented they have a lot of trust in As experienced as she is with the judges special award themselves. They know how in the art, she admits to a award for her skill in the to hold themselves in the air. moment of trepidation before youth aerial silks division. They know the mechanics of flying through the air. Eight-year-old Pippa a drop.” “Every single time I do a Keyworth took out first place Taught ballet, jazz and drop there is a moment of in the championships’ junior contemporary dance as a ‘am-I-going-to-let-go-now’,” she aerial silks division, while child at Nadine Antoinette says. second place went to Moana School of Dance, Zwart later “I have a fear of heights but Holden-Judd. studied physiotherapy at the there’s something different When the Gisborne University of Otago where about working with silks. aerial artists arrived at the she also took some dance I’m more comfortable doing competition in Nelson they papers. After graduating aerial silks than walking on found that instead of the she completed a certificate something like a swing bridge. six metre silks they were in ballet teaching studies “I enjoy the spectacle.” AERIAL SKILLS: Eight-year-old Pippa Keyworth (left) came first in the inaugural New Zealand Aerial Youth Championships’ junior aerial silks division on Saturday while second place went to nine-year-old Moana Holden-Judd (right). A judges’ special award for “epic drops” went to 16 year old Lani Crick (centre). Picture supplied Kiwi chick Kahurangi ‘very happy with new whare’ THE first brown kiwi chick for was built and planted by the predators — pigs, stoats, cats this season arrived back at Motu community in 2006 and now and ferrets. The Whinray Kiwi on Monday and was placed in contains a native forest full of Trust works with the Kiwis For a burrow within the Motu Kiwi worms, crickets, spiders and Kiwi Trust and the Department Kohanga. weta which young kiwi thrive of Conservation to control pests Based at the Motu township, on. over an 1800 hectare area to the kohanga has been active Kiwi chicks stay within this protect about 30 pairs of kiwi. since 2006 in helping to halt the protected site for about three “The trust has a number decline of brown kiwi numbers months until they reach one of adult kiwi radio-tagged at in the Gisborne-East Coast kilogram in weight, when Motu and each year first clutch area. they are released back into eggs are removed and taken to The kiwi chick was hatched the Whinray Reserve, says Rainbow and Fairy Springs for at Rainbow and Fairy Springs Ecoworks NZ manager and incubation,” Mr Sawyer said. in Rotorua, and taxied to Motu Whinray trustee, Steve Sawyer. “The whole process means the by volunteers Ranell Nikora “As they mature they will chicks have a 95 percent chance and Jordan Tibble who named move further afield which of hatching and making it to the 361 gram new arrival is generally north into the adult size. Kahurangi. Raukumara Forest Park. “Most kiwi chicks outside of “The coolest road trip ever!” “This is one of the reasons trapped areas have a less than enthused Ms Tibble on her why the protection of 5 percent chance of making it Facebook page. Raukumara Forest is so to adulthood. Eighteen out of “We went and picked up WELCOME TO THE KOHANGA: Ecoworks NZ manager and important. It protects one of every 20 chicks are killed by ‘gruffalo’, now renamed Whinray Trustee, Steve Sawyer, shows off kiwi chick Kahurangi, the our rare taonga species which stoats each year.” Kahurangi, from Rainbow most recent addition to the Motu Kiwi Kohanga at Whinray Scenic are migrating north into A second kiwi chick is due Springs early this morning, Reserve. Picture supplied Raukumara.” back to Motu this weekend, strapped him in his car seat Thousands of kiwi eggs and while another two eggs are due beautiful enclosure to fatten up way but was very happy with and drove back to Motu so chicks are killed in the New to hatch over the next three before being released into the his new whare.” he could be released into his Zealand bush each year due to weeks. wild. He squealed the whole The Motu Kiwi Kohanga LOOKING AHEAD Get your TOMORROW FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • EIT Tairawhiti primary industries home-delivered students are making their mark on Papatu Station. SHARING • Price details and comment from today’s weekly sheep sale at the Matawhero STORY saleyards. • Part two of the regular series by Brett TO HELP Loffl er on the history of dog trialling here in Tairawhiti and around New Zealand. OTHERS TOMORROW 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 • Friday, October 30, 2020 NEWS 3 $10m to repair East Cape Road FINISHING WORK: The extra funding will allow the continuation of rock works completed on East Cape Road earlier this year, as well as a number of other critical repairs. by Andrew Ashton “We’re about to have our road sealed and to completed by the end of the next financial year. new recruits in sustained employment. receive this announcement for further funding is Over $4m of repairs have been completed “To complete this volume of repairs to our A FURTHER $10m of Provincial Growth Fund fantastic. in the past 18 months on East Cape Road and network, our local contractors have scaled up, investment has been approved for repairs to East “This work makes the road so much safer for works are about to begin to seal an 8km stretch bought new equipment, taken on new people and Cape Road, near Te Araroa.