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ROAD BECAME A RIVER: State Highway 35 was swamped by a flash flood yesterday morning after heavy rain pelted the township of Tokomaru Bay. The community was cut off for most of the day. Drivers are urged to travel with caution on the Coast roads today and more rain is forecast from tomorrow. FLASH Picture supplied FLOOD Around 20 families evacuated in Tokomaru Bay. Hatea a Rangi School flooded, closed, with around 30 students at home today. SH35 closed by Potaka because of slip. Peak rainfall at Ruatoria 55.5mm in the hour between 7am and 8am. Waikura Valley, top of East Cape, SEE recorded 207mm in 24 hours. PAGES Civil Defence coordination post is at 2-3 Tokomaru Bay Sports Club rooms.

DESTRUCTION: In yesterday’s deluge more than 60mm of rain was recorded at one location between 7am and 8am. MP Kiri Allan is pictured (centre) inspecting a washout on Kopuaroa Rd, Waipiro Bay, where a car slipped off the road. Ms Allan is pictured with Tokomaru Bay policeman Constable Toa Saulala (left) and Radio New Zealand Maori news director, and Ms Allan’s partner, Mani Dunlop. Picture by Kuipo Tupouniua Saulala

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Roads washed out, families evacuated in East Coast downpour

ISOLATED: Some residents in Kopuaroa Road, Waipiro Bay have been cut off after a part of the road near the junction of SH35 and Kopuaroa Road was washed away. Picture supplied

HIGH RIVERS: The heavy rainfall on Saturday caused the Kopuaroa streams to DAMAGE DONE: Minister for Emergency Management and East Coast overflow on to roads and caused parts of the road to wash out. MP Kiri Allan visited Tokomaru Bay and Waipiro Bay with Tokomaru Bay Picture supplied Constable Toa Saulala to assess the damage. Picture supplied

WATERLOGGED: Ruatoria’s Waiomatatini Road. Picture supplied The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 NEWS 3 CLEAN-UP AFTER

SCHOOL FLOODED: Hatea a Rangi School is closed today after water flooded into every classroom, leaving around 30 students learning from DELUGE home today. Principal Karla Kohatu said they were waiting for the insurance assessor to evaluate the damage but she hoped to have some classrooms open by the end of the week. Picture supplied

THE East Coast community was out He said the land around his home was in force today to clean up after torrential “munted” too. rain yesterday morning left the coastal One hour, 60mm of rain His carport was under four feet of township of Tokomaru Bay underwater. water, which also wiped out the family’s Flooding and slash mobilised washing machine, fridges and freezers throughout the district caused damage THE heaviest rainfall in years dumped on a The rain drove in from the north and north- they had out there. to roads. Streams and rivers spilled over small strip of the East Coast yesterday, delivering east, and the amount of water pouring out of the Husband and wife Jack and Waitangi their banks and caused flooding. a torrential deluge of over two inches of rain in hills saw some rivers rise rapidly. Chambers live down the road from the At 8.30 yesterday morning, Tokomaru one hour at one location. North of Tolaga Bay the Hikuwai River at Herberts on Tewehi Road. Bay’s Victor Herbert was still in his Peak rainfall hit from Ruatoria down to Willowflat shot up to a peak of 9.8 metres, around “We evacuated ourselves around pyjamas but knew he had to get his Tokomaru Bay between 7am and 8am yesterday 11am to midday. 8.30am because we could see the danger family out of their home. Putting on morning. The highest the Hikuwai River has reached in of the water rising. Our house was his gumboots he piggy-backed his three Te Puia Springs recorded a total of 154.5 recent years was 11.95m in 2008. completely surrounded by water, and at children to safety as flood water lapped millimetres in the 24 hours up to midnight last Rain totals around the rest of the district that time it was still raining.” at their front and back door on Tewehi night. ranged from 100mm down to 30mm, tapering off Mr Chambers, 76, said he and his wife, Road. Leaving their three cats inside the It also recorded the biggest hourly rainfall of towards the south. 66, were able to return home two hours family sheltered at Tokomaru Bay Sports all the district council rain gauges — a whopping Even so, Te Arai River near Manutuke rose to later after the rain had stopped and the Club Rooms where his wife Karina works. 60mm in the hour between 7am and 8am almost 7.5m around 2pm yesterday afternoon. water receded. The club rooms have become the Civil yesterday morning. — RH “It was four inches away from coming Defence (CD) coordination point for the The Waikura Valley at the top of East Cape inside. community. recorded the biggest rainfall total of all - 207mm ■ The Metservice this morning issued a heavy “I’m happy the rain has stopped and Some homes were wiped out by flood in 24 hours and 303.5mm in the week ending at rain warning for south of Gisborne. we’re home but there are others who waters coming inside, and in places silt midnight yesterday. From 6pm today through to 10am Tuesday can’t get back to their homes yet. two to three feet deep was left as the The Oweka River gauge near Hick’s Bay was expect 80-110mm of rain to accumulate south of “It’s been an ongoing thing and no one water receded. a close second with 194.8mm in the 24 hours to Muriwai and in the hills of the Wairoa District. wants to take responsibility for it. One resident on Arthur St lost her two midnight, and 297mm for the week. “Heavy rain may cause streams and rivers to “Every time it rains, the roads people caravans, and her container house to Ruatoria was also hit by the downpour, with rise rapidly,” the forecasters said. blame it on the council, and the council Waiotu Stream. 160mm in the 24 hours and a peak of 55.5mm in “Surface flooding and slips are also possible blame it on the roads people. “All three are in the sea,” said CD and the hour between 7am and 8am. and driving conditions may be hazardous.” “We’re trying to find a solution here but Gisborne District Council (GDC) northern no one wants to listen.” area liaison officer Lillian Ward. In a Facebook post, Kiri Allan said There had been a huge response form there was a fair bit of damage to homes the wider community to help, she said. Bill Burdett, and councillor Pat Seymour all the blessings. No lives were lost.” down Arthur Street with families having “A big mihi to all the support we was expected after lunch. Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Nga Taonga to be relocated until their houses could be have received through Tairawhiti, we “Around 20 people had to evacuate and Tuturu Ki Tokomaru, a school near the cleaned and assessed. appreciate it. It keeps us going.” three whanau are still unable to get back main bridge, reported little to no damage “There are a few families without road The heavy rain peaked between 7am into their homes,” Ms Ward said. but they had instructed students to stay access down off Kopuraroa and McIlroy and 8am yesterday. Hatea a Rangi School, near the Four home for the day. roads,” she said. “This morning we sent out seven crews Square Tokomaru Bay store, was flooded “We’re lucky at this point not to have A part of Kopuaroa Road between the of 10 people each who will start to assist and closed today. any flood damage,” a staff member Kopuaroa and SH35 junction has washed and help get rid of silt,” Ms Ward said Principal Karla Kohatu said they were reported. out which has cut off residents. today. coordinating a clean-up of the school so “The river did come very close, right up “Pretty gutted to see the damage “Our elderly are making cups of tea for students could eventually get back to the flood banks but so far there seems to caused to Hatea a Rangi School. Was the volunteers.” class. be no damage.” awesome to see so many folk out helping Ms Ward said many whanau were “We are still waiting for the assessor Anyone who wants to help can head their neighbours out and people checking being held up by insurance assessors who to evaluate the damage. While we would to Tokomaru Bay Sports Clubrooms on on each other. had yet to assess the damage. like to have our Tuakana classroom and Mangahauini Road where helpers are “Keep safe whanau, and keep looking “Kiritapu Allan is up here this morning Teina classroom operational by the end of being coordinated. out for each other,” Ms Allan said. with us. She stayed the night last night.” the week we still have a few matters to However, caution is advised on the road Te Araroa resident Ripeka Irwin said The Minister for Emergency work through,” she said. due to slips. there was heavy rain and a lot of surface Management and East Coast MP “Our tamariki are able to learn from State Highway 35 by Potaka is still water on the roads over the weekend. Kiri Allan is only two weeks out from home with the support of their whanau. closed due to a slip. The Karakatuwhero River came up finishing chemotherapy for stage three Once our wifi connection is sorted we will By 10.30 yesterday morning surface extremely high, she said. cervical cancer. be rolling work their way.” flooding had started to recede. “Today it’s fine. The sun is out, most of She met with Tokomaru Bay Constable However, many whanau had to clean Mr Herbert said his family would be the water is gone, the rivers are still high Toa Saulala to check out the damage in their own homes from flooding first. out of their home for at least a week. and roaring but I think we’re all relieved Tokomaru and Waipiro bays. “A few of our tamariki have already “Our sewage system and sump are that the rain has held off because if it Ms Ward said they had also been started to collect rubbish on their beach. absolutely munted. We can’t use the had gone on another day it could have visited by Gisborne District councillor So proud of our whanau. So grateful for toilets or showers or anything like that.” been a repeat (Cyclone) Bola,” Irwin said. Sun starts climbing higher in our sky from today

TODAY is the shortest day of the year in the tomorrow on, the Sun will appear a little higher its travels along the horizon. The same thing passage of time and the seasons, and was the Southern Hemisphere. each day in the northern sky. happens half a year with the Summer solstice, start of the first of the sciences — astronomy. The exact timing and duration of the shortest Far easier to observe is the Sun’s position at when the Sun again reverses direction. It was also the start of using the heavens for day depends on where a location is on the sunrise and sunset — especially for those who Archaeology has revealed that humans began direction finding and navigation. Earth’s sphere and the angle of sight to the have a clear view to a flat horizon. Today the acquiring knowledge of the movement of the In days gone by, the days of the solstices Sun. The time is also affected by the Earth Sun appears at its furthest point south along Sun, Moon and stars thousands of years ago. and other celestial events were exceedingly rotating on a tilt, and its annual orbit around the the western horizon, then will start inching back Stone circles have been found in remote important. Everywhere they were marked with Sun. northwards along the horizon. desert locations, and there are the standing ceremony, feasting, remembering the ancestors, For Gisborne, the shortest day — or winter This is why today is known as the solstice — stones of Britain and Europe. and taking stock of the present and future. For solstice — is June 21 at precisely 3.32pm. from the Latin words for Sun and to stop or be Many of these constructions feature markers many humble folk these were days when, for a For those who notice the position or height stationary. which indicate solar rising and setting points moment, they could take a brief rest from their of the Sun in the sky, today is when the Sun Since ancient times people noticed that the such as the solstices and equinoxes. hard lives of toil — the predecessors of today’s reaches its lowest point at midday. From Sun appeared to stop and take a rest from This enabled early people to mark the more numerous holidays. — RH 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths POLLOCK, Joan Deaths Mary (nèe Talley). — Joan passed away, surrounded by family, on BRUCE, Catherine 19 June 2021, at the age Patricia (Pat). — of 77. Treasured mother Passed peacefully, on and mother-in-law of Sunday 20th June 2021, Richie and Leanna, and SHUKRAN: at Kiri Te Kanawa. Nick and Sheryl. Nana Reuben Gordon Cherished wife of the Joan to Livi, Belles, late Ken. Loved mother (left) staves off Elliott, Angus and Ben. Saturday’s wintery and mother-in-law of Former companion of Jan and Mark Guppy, weather with Paul. Much loved sister a lamb palau and Warwick and Karen and sister-in-law of Bruce. Loved Nana to as served by Peter and Judy, Nicholas Mohammed Hanf. Devlyn, Chanel, Luke, and Carol, Michael and Hayden, Kendal and Lorraine. Shukran is an Sasha, and Nana B to The service to Arabic word for her great-grandchildren. celebrate Joan’s life will thank you. Loved sister to Marie be held on Wednesday Picture by MacIntosh and the late the 23rd of June at 1pm Liam Clayton Pauline Morris. at St. Andrew’s Church, Thank you to all the High Street, Motueka. staff at Kiri Te Kanawa In lieu of flowers, who cared for Pat donations can be made during her stay. to Jack Inglis Hospital. Funeral details later. Golden Bay Funeral - Evans Funeral Directors Services Ltd FDANZ www.evansfuneral.co.nz www.gbmfs.co.nz Man burned in Warmed up by inter-continental food SATURDAY’S icy temperatures Members of the Gisborne Tairawhiti 2pm at the inaugural Food Gala on gas heater fire might have been a long way from those Muslim Association served home- Saturday, as part of a fundraiser for a A MAN was taken to Gisborne Hospital of many of the countries represented cooked cuisine from Pakistan, India, Muslim community centre. with burns last night after a portable gas in dishes created for the Food Gala but Bangladesh, Turkey, Middle East, The food was served under the heater caught fire in a flat at a property there was plenty there to warm up on. Fiji and New Zealand from midday to verandah of the Rose Room. in Rutene Road. Fire and Emergency NZ were called to the property just after 8pm. “The fire started at the back of the gas heater at the gas connection,” a senior firefighter said. “The occupant of the flat had put out Our police most likely the fire by the time we got there. “It caused only superficial damage to the flat, but the occupant sustained some burns and was transported to hospital for treatment by St John ambulance.” The 39-year-old man was admitted to to charge drug users hospital and this morning was reported to be in a stable condition. The senior firefighter said how the fire Eastern police charge 38pc, against 18pc nationally started was being investigated. GISBORNE and Hawke’s Bay people driver of harm in our community. determine the law, not an individual are more likely to be charged for drug “In every situation police weigh up officer.” Seven melia trees offences than elsewhere in New Zealand, what type of intervention is most likely to Justice Minister Andrew Little told The according to a Government review of the prevent future harm.” Herald the data was “interesting”. Misuse of Drugs Act changes. Insp Aberahama said police use “The exercise of police discretion under will be removed The regional differences were revealed discretion for people found with cannabis this legislation is under review by both GISBORNE District Council has approved the as the Government reviews changes and other drugs under Section 7 offences the Ministry of Health and the Police, removal of seven melia trees in the CBD that to the Act to ensure police discretion of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. and I am awaiting that review. I expect are causing safety hazards for pedestrians, with for charging drug users is applied “Supported resolutions, like health it to explain the reason for regional replanting planned for next winter. consistently across the country. referrals, provide an opportunity to break difference.” The trees near the corner of Palmerston Road The Act was changed in 2019 to clarify the cycle of behaviour, without over- The review is expected in August. and Grey Street drop small bead-like seeds on whether or not police should prosecute penalising someone for small quantities For the four months after the election the footpath and create a skidding effect when for drug use, and that they should not if of illicit drugs. only 10 percent of those nationwide pedestrians walk over them. a therapeutic approach would be more “The process we apply holds an facing cannabis use/possession charges as Following consultation with nearby business beneficial to the public interest. offender to account, deters their most serious offence owners and neighbours, GDC’s Operations The NZ Herald has tracked police future offending and were actually charged. Committee approved a report recommending the use of that discretion following the reduces the number of We continue to For methamphetamine, law change, and it showed police were people entering the justice tree removals last month. focus‘ on (drug use) the proportion charged was GDC had received numerous complaints over becoming less inclined to charge people system. 54 percent. the past five years about the trees, due to people for drug use/possession as their most “However, every incidence as a driver of harm Police in the Eastern falling or having near misses from slipping on serious offence. of offending is dealt with in our community district were again most New police data released to the NZ on a case-by-case basis, and likely to charge people for the seeds. — Inspector Sam’ The tree roots have also lifted the pavement Herald under the Official Information Act there is always going to be cannabis use/possession which has created further tripping hazards and reveals how police, by region, use their a place for punitive (court) Aberahama (21 percent), as well as caused the kerbing to collapse. discretion when they come across people action if we deem that methamphetamine use/ GDC’s Street Trees and Gardens Plan informs with or using drugs. necessary.” possession (68 percent). decision-making around instances where The Herald reported that in the four Insp Aberahama said the flow of According to the latest drug-testing tree removal is required. Wherever possible, months after the election last year, police referrals for people found with illicit wastewater results — for the first quarter GDC aims to preserve street tree assets for charged fewer than one in five people, or drugs in this region was encouraging. of 2020 — the most per-capita use of environmental and amenity value. 18 percent. “We will continue to work to embed the methamphetamine was in Northland, Aborists will begin tree removal in the next The rest were given either a warning or intent of the 2019 amendments to the followed by Eastern district and Bay of week, followed by stump and root removal and an alternative measure, such as a Youth Misuse of Drugs Act and reduce harm in Plenty. footpath repairs in August. Aid referral, family group conference, our communities.” The Labour Party’s election manifesto New tree pits for the replacement trees will be alternative action plan, community Drug Foundation executive director included a promise to expand Northland’s incorporated into the footpath repairs, ahead of justice panel, or no further action. Sarah Helm told the NZ Herald the much-lauded Te Ara Oranga meth harm- tree replanting next winter. But the rate of people actually charged regional differences amounted to a reduction programme to regions like the GDC proposes to replant ornamental pear was more than double that for the “postcode lottery, which depends on the East Coast and Bay of Plenty — though trees on Palmerston Road, and a smaller species Eastern police district (38 percent), which district commander’s interpretation of the no funding has been allocated for this. of pohutukawa on Grey Street. covers Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti. law and the arresting officer’s possible Sarah Helm said it was disappointing This region was followed by Auckland biases”. to see people continuing to be charged for City (30 percent), Bay of Plenty (25 The foundation has been pushing for P use/possession, despite the ability for FESTIVAL SCREENING percent), Canterbury (24 percent), and decriminalisation of drug use, and she police to provide a health referral. Northland (22 percent). said leaving it up to police was not fair on “It may seem counter-intuitive because THE screening of the Two Minutes of Good Tairawhiti police commander Inspector them. we have been taught that banning use is Stuff film festival starts at 6pm on Thursday, June Sam Aberahama said police in this “They’re being asked to assess whether the best way to prevent drug harm, but 24 at Tairawhiti Museum. region were well aware that drug use in a person would benefit from a health decades have proven that theory to be Unfortunately this information was missing Tairawhiti was higher than in other parts intervention, and whether such an very wrong. from the end of an article in the National Volunteer of the country. intervention would be in the ‘public “It drives the problem underground, Week feature in Saturday’s paper. “We continue to focus on this as a interest’. It is the role of Parliament to preventing people from getting help.” The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 NEWS 5

PLANTING DAY: Property owner Charles Rau, Matai School students Jack Bellingham 10 and James Redpath 10, with Motu Catchment project manager FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Matawai School principal Nick Adams with students Rylee Lilian Harley. All pictures by Liam Clayton Geary 12 and Hayley De La Haye 12. Native plantings breathe life into Motu oxbow by Matai O’Connor (guardians) of that area. area and there are plans for more plantings and meanders and eventually joins up at the The Raus are among a number of farmers predator trap monitoring,” she said. narrowest point to create a lake. AROUND 200 native trees and plants found a who are part of the Motu Catchment project. Farmers in the area were keen to help Mr Rau said he hoped the planting would new home in an oxbow area on the Motu River Twenty farms in the catchment are involved. improve the environment, Ms Harley said. become an annual event. in Matawai, as part of the Motu Catchment The trees were paid for through the Ministry Mr Rau said they did this all voluntarily. He and his wife Jabe are working with the project. for Primary Industries erosion control funding “None of it on our farm is required by school to raise seedlings so that each year Motu Catchment project manager Lilian programme. legislation. We did it all for environmental group can have a similar experience. Harley organised with one of the farm owners “The plants will help with erosion, increase reasons.” “We are continuing to plant riparian Charles and Jane Rau to plant the area. biodiversity, and improve the water quality of About 40 people turned out to help with the areas on our farm which borders the school Matawai School students were involved to the Motu catchment,” Ms Harley said. planting. and other farms in the district,” Mr Rau help with the planting as they will be kaitiaki “The students will be able to look after the An oxbow is an area created when a river said.

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PLANTING: The oxbow area that has been planted with around 200 native trees and plants. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 ‘We are the phoenix COMEBACK KING? that will rise from the ashes’: Peters Winston Peters gives first interview since election defeat AUCKLAND — New Zealand First’s leader, WELLINGTON — New Winston Peters, has broken his silence, Zealand First leader Winston confirming his political comeback. Peters has given his first He was speaking at the party’s annual one-on-one interview this general meeting (AGM) in Auckland morning since New Zealand yesterday afternoon, which was his first First’s disappointing 2020 public speech since failing to return to election defeat. Parliament after last year’s election. He told Mike Hosking that Apart from the odd appearance, Peters it would be up to the party had kept out of the public eye since New to decide if he would be the Zealand First failed to be re-elected — leader at the next election. picking up just 2.6 percent of the party vote. “God willing, if I’m fit and Peters told the crowd of about 100 motivated . . . ,” Peters added. yesterday that his party was coming back Asked if he was fit and and remained loyal to New Zealand. motivated, he replied, “yes “So many critics and scribes have tried, Mike, I am”. and continue to write our obituary. But we Peters said Labour at the are here today, as always, steadfast and moment had certain policies resolved to put New Zealand first.” “you simply cannot explain”. Peters also criticised the Government’s “I have never seen such bad management of the Covid-19 vaccine roll- (policies).” out, te reo usage, the Green and National Asked about criticism from parties, and the media. people saying he made the “We are a phoenix that will again arise wrong choice by siding with as the public wake up to the inexactitude of Labour to form the 2017 this Government — and a hapless National coalition government, he said Party.” he had no other choice. Referencing former prime minister John “I say to them: ‘I know Key’s drive to change the New Zealand flag, you’re probably a ranting Peters said people were now being asked to National party supporter, but ‘WE’RE BACK’: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters made a fiery speech at the party’s change the name of the country to Aotearoa. you look at the sex maniacs annual general meeting yesterday. RNZ picture by Katie Scotcher “It comes from a haughty autocracy that and the mess that they’re in says ‘we know best’, which is why you are now and tell me, what option “breath-taking economic thousands of New Zealanders that the quintessential being told to change your country’s name did I have?’ illiteracy” in its electric are coming to understand New Zealand First voter to Aotearoa — without any reference to you “Come on, talk to anyone . . . vehicle (EV) ‘feebate’ scheme, why we were essential — is this kind of right-wing, or to the cost of remarketing the name of a you’ve seen one after the other and for pushing through and now (they are starting reactionary, racist bigot. nation known worldwide,” he said. (leader) go, can you please tell infrastructure — such as to understand) why we are “That’s just not the kind of “Why for example has the NZTA (NZ me what option I had if that Auckland’s $785 million missed.” sentiment that has attracted Transport Agency) become Waka Kotahi, was what I had cycle bridge — He also attacked the media, them to this party.” and when was the last time a Government to go with? without doing who some party members He said people usually initiative used an English name that, heaven And I was Handbrakes are a the proper called “the enemy” as they gravitate to the party for forbid, way over 90 percent of the population a guy who critical‘ component costings first. entered the party’s AGM “positive” reasons, but the might understand?” was with the “This (He conference room yesterday 2020 campaign was very A “name-change cult” had suddenly National Party in a very unsafe Puapua) report afternoon. negative, highlighting the appeared among our “democratic masters”, before a lot of vehicle is a recipe “We are coming back party as the handbrake on Peters told the audience. those people —Winston’ Peters for Maori because we believe we can,” Labour rather than what NZ “I mean, who signed off on this plan to were even separatism. Peters said simply. First had achieved. change New Zealand’s name? Who was born”. They knew He then ended his speech by He said the challenge for asked? More broadly, when were you asked While in it and that’s imploring members to chant the party to rise like it did in to approve that?,” he said, pointing to the coalition with Labour, Peters why they suppressed it until “we are coming back” loud 2011, having failed to return audience. “This is straight out of John Key’s said proposals did come after the election . . . it was a enough to be heard on Queen to Parliament in 2008, would flag-change playbook.” forward but NZ First made gesture of ingratitude and bad Street, and then concluded the be even harder in 2023. The Covid-19 disruption was Labour’s it as “clear as daylight” that faith. conference and avoided the “There’s this perception that “Global Financial Crisis”, he said. those policies could not work. “Growing in our country media. Winston is maybe ‘too old’ or He criticised the vaccine roll-out, saying “Some (policies), you could now is a ‘cancel culture’, Party member Craig ‘past it’. it was not fast enough, and he said future say, were ‘nutty’.” where anyone who asks Sinclair, who in 2017 held “I don’t think that’s true taxpayers would pay well into this decade Peters said he did not accept legitimate questions is aloft the “SHE’S A PRETTY or very accurate, but that’s for the debt currently being racked up. the criticism that he was the belittled as a ‘colonialist’, a COMMUNIST” referring the perception they are up He described the health system as “handbrake” that prevented ‘racist’, a ‘bigot’, a ‘chauvinist’, to Jacinda Ardern, walked against. “decrepit”, the country’s economic any advancement for the past or worse still, not the ‘new through the conference room “I think he can and should performance as “inferior”, and said the coalition government. wokage’.” with a “Bring Back Winnie” lead the party in 2023. He is Government had promised so much “Handbrakes are a critical NZ First was part of last placard. the only viable leader for the on mental health, but so little had been component in a very unsafe term’s coalition government, Afterwards, Shane Jones party. achieved. vehicle.” but they failed to return to said he believed Peters “If anyone can do it (come “New Zealand is not making enough Peters said he “most Parliament after only winning would lead the party back to back), it’s Winston.” to spend enough on critical social certainly had” been enjoying 2.6 percent of the vote last Parliament in 2023. Asked about Shane Jones or infrastructure. himself since losing the year. He said the election result Fletcher Tabuteau as possible “We’ve lost our ‘Rich Nation’ status. election. Party members at the last year was like Steve leaders, van Veen said they “And we have lost so much of our social He said he got back to conference told The New Hansen after a bad All Blacks’ were very competent but cohesion while our leadership boasts of how business, “making money — Zealand Herald that there game, saying it was one bad “they’re not Winston”. well we’re doing.” like everyone else”. was too much focus on the result that should be “flushed He said the ongoing court He was not challenging the prime Peters had given no hint of negative and the policies down the toilet and moved on case involving the New minister’s good intentions and her crisis any intention to retire, and that the party had been a from”. Zealand First Foundation, leadership, saying in Government “we (NZ instead declared his party “handbrake” on, and not Earlier, which rocked First) backed it”. would be back in 2023. enough on what it had Julian Paul was the party’s “But on countless occasions, we Peters used his speech at achieved. confirmed as NZ First was part of campaign last challenged that they (Labour) had few plans the party’s annual general Peters did not traverse the the new party year, might still on delivery.” meeting (AGM) in Auckland party’s review into what went president, and last term’s coaltion play a hand Peters also criticised KiwiBuild and the yesterday to slam a multitude wrong last year in his speech, party members government, but in the party’s new, electric vehicle ‘feebate’ scheme, before of parties and policies, but said there was a growing at the AGM they failed to return fortunes in highlighting his party’s success in the last including those of Labour, sentiment among the public were optimistic 2023. term, including “turning around” the “run- National, the Greens, as well that the Government needed about the to Parliament after “It’s certainly down” KiwiRail and NZ Defence Force, and as the general use of the word NZ First. party’s chances only winning 2.6 problematic. investing in the provinces. “Aotearoa” instead of “New “How many working-class in 2023, percent of the vote It is a kind of In the 28 years since New Zealand First Zealand” in Government men and women, regardless of insisting that an albatross formed, it had been “stigmatised and reports, the Auckland cycle their ethnic background, are Peters should last year. around the neck marginalised”, Peters said. bridge, Auckland’s light rail, going to be able to afford your lead the charge. (of the party). The party had been needed over the last the “slow” vaccine roll-out and EV alternative?” he asked of Josh Van “And a lot will three decades, and it was needed now, he the “Ngati Woke”. the Government’s new feebate Veen, a member depend on that told the crowd. It was his first major scheme, which his party and former researcher for (court case)ultimately. “We are coming back,” he said. appearance since NZ First blocked last term. Peters, said the failure of the “But they can counter it, I’m “We are coming back because we believe failed to return to Parliament “What will happen to the 2020 campaign came down to sure. we can. We are coming back.” last year. old EV batteries? Can you see a combination of factors. “It will all come back to the Julian Paul was elected as the party’s new Peters accused Labour of the Greens running now? “The main factor was that vision and the values (of the president, and four of the six elected board bad-faith politics last term, “We were pilloried for being New Zealand First was out New Zealand First party), and members are women. by “deliberately” suppressing the handbrake, but since the of touch with its voter base. having something positive to — RNZ the He Puapua report, for last election, hundreds of There was a perception offer.” — NZ Herald The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 7 NAPIER HOME INVASION Medical alarm used to alert authorities

by Gianina Schwanecke, remained in a stable condition this Hawke’s Bay Today morning, a District Health Board spokesperson confirmed. NAPIER — St John ambulance staff Police tape surrounded the elderly turned up at a Napier house yesterday pair’s unit yesterday afternoon. thinking they were being Police were called to a medical event, now appealing for only to wander into the The victims were information about the scene of an attack on an assault, saying they elderly pair in their own both transported would like to hear from home. to Hawke’s Bay residents and anyone A woman aged in her Hospital, where else who was in the 90s and her son — a they remained in a general area of Nelson man in his 70s — were Park and Kennedy Road IMPASSIONED PLEA: Mike King returned his New Zealand Order of Merit medal seriously injured in an stable condition this prior to and around this in an emotional plea to the Government on the steps of Parliament last week. He assault in the woman’s time yesterday morning, morning. believes the work to fix New Zealand’s ‘broken’ mental health system does not appear Kennedy Road home and may have noticed to have even started. Picture supplied yesterday morning. anything untoward. A St John Anyone who had any spokesperson confirmed to the Hawke’s information was being asked to contact Bay Today that paramedics were police on 105, quoting job number ‘Dear PM, the work has not alerted to the assault by a medical P046918973. alarm activation at about 7.46am. Information could also be passed on The victims were both transported anonymously via Crimestoppers by even started’ — Mike King to Hawke’s Bay Hospital where they calling 0800 555 111. AUCKLAND — Renowned mental right, we know what we are doing’.” health advocate, Mike King, says the He noted how in the story he was work fixing New Zealand’s “broken” quoting, Ardern also said “there is a lot mental health system does not appear to of work left for us to do as a nation, and have even started. that includes supporting people who are He has spoken out in response to Prime struggling with mental health issues”. Counteracting Minister Jacinda Ardern’s comment last “Seriously?,” he replied. week that the decision for him to return “Work we should do as a nation? his New Zealand Order of Merit medal “What do you think we have been was his to make. doing? In a post on Facebook over the “What do you think happens when misinformation weekend, King said he was sorry that he you throw people dying for help into had missed Ardern at Parliament last the street or, worse still, don’t let them week when he had returned his medal, indoors in the first place? Doctors who peddle conspiracies ‘could lose jobs’ “but I understand that with Field Days, “We support them because you won’t, so selling electric vehicles and cycle bridges please stop inferring we are not doing our by Hamish Cardwell, RNZ choose to do something that to New Zealanders, you have had a very bit, please, and tell (the Director-General is really detrimental to their busy week”. Dr Ashley) Bloomfield to start doing his.” WELLINGTON — The health. “I note, however, you did King earlier said how he Medical Council is warning “What worries me the most have a chance to comment had been full of optimism that doctors spreading is the poorer people — the in the media about me.” when Ardern announced misinformation about the people who are at higher risk. He was referring to There is a lot $1.9 billion of mental health Covid-19 pandemic and the “If those people are getting the comment the prime of‘ work left for us funding three years ago. vaccination roll-out face losing this . . . misinformation, then minister had made about to do as a nation, Now, however, all King their jobs. it is potentially putting their standing by the decision felt was let down because Medical Council chairperson, lives in jeopardy.” to give King the honour, and that includes nothing appeared to have Dr Curtis Walker, said a Kate Hannah, who but saying that she had supporting people changed. small number of doctors were researches misinformation at never suggested the work who are struggling “There was such a peddling conspiracies. the University of Auckland, to improve mental health euphoric feeling in the “It’s questioning the severity said anyone could be sucked in services had been finished. with mental health air — full of optimism and of Covid-19 — it’s questioning AFP file picture — including highly-educated “There is a lot of work issues hope and I believed with the safety of the vaccination people, such as doctors. left for us to do as a —Prime’ Minister all my heart things were and it’s questioning whether the whole Most of the misinformation originated nation, and that includes Jacinda Ardern about to change . . . (I thing is a conspiracy theory. from overseas — with people here supporting people who are thought) ‘finally we have a “You know, you name it, this is what’s adapting it to target particular struggling with mental Government who care’. being put out there.” demographics, she said. health issues. “Three years on, and I The council had received 13 complaints “And, in doing so, it targets people’s “But this is ultimately Mike’s decision feel like we have let everybody down.” about medical staff from the public this lived experiences of things like racism and I respect that,” Ardern said. He wanted the Ministry of Health to year, although that included instances in the health system or racism more In response, King said he had never fund Gumboot Friday — a programme of multiple complaints about the same broadly . . . or, say, women’s experiences of handed his medal back “because I King believed was more cost-effective doctor. the health system where they may have thought ‘work to improve mental health and of a higher quality than the ministry It was reported last month that dozens had experiences of previously not being services was finished’.” equivalent. of heath professionals, including general listened to.” “I handed it back because, in the eyes “I am simply staggered that a resource practitioners, had signed an open letter Ways to spot misinformation included if of New Zealanders who are being refused that New Zealanders deem worthy of to the Government opposing the Pfizer someone was trying to sell you something; desperately-needed help for their loved funding is being ignored by the Ministry vaccine. someone was asking for donations; or if ones, it seems nothing has been started. of Health,” King said in an article Dr Walker said an independent the information was presented to elicit an “And I too stand by my decision. The New Zealand Herald earlier this body was investigating to decide if emotional reaction. “People are dying, prime minister, and month. charges should be laid with the Health “If it’s written in a way that makes all your people are saying is ‘she’ll be — The New Zealand Herald Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. you feel upset, scared, nervous or fearful, Doctors had a professional duty to you know that that’s not normally how provide advice based on evidence, he said. we convey good-quality public health “There is a mountain of evidence out information. there about how effective and safe the “Good-quality public health information Covid-19 vaccine is. should provide you with information and “And we’ve already seen what happens make you feel reassured and calm, and with the alternative (unvaccinated also make you feel that you can then populations) . . . where millions have make good decisions.” died.” Other red flags included asking for Dr Walker said doctors were personal information or to sign up particularly respected members of the to receive regular updates — ways community, and their opinions about to separate you from your current health carried extra weight. community or sources of information, Ms If they are found to be spreading Hannah said. misinformation, they could potentially Covid-19 conspiracies could act as face losing their jobs and losing their as a gateway, exposing people to online right to practise medicine. communities espousing far-right ideology, Royal College of General Practitioners misogyny, racism and transphobia, she president, Dr Samantha Murton, added. said while people could choose not ■ People with concerns about their to get vaccinated, there were serious doctor can contact the Medical Council; consequences if the virus breached the and general Covid-19 misinformation or borders. “If those vulnerable people are scams can be viewed online at: https:// being given misinformation, they may www.cert.govt.nz 40563-01 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021

TORNADO WREAKS HAVOC: The tornado ripped through this block of flats in Fitzroy Street in AFTERMATH: Parts of South Auckland are facing a massive clean- Papatoetoe. Picture supplied up after Saturday’s tornado. NZ Herald picture GONE IN 30 SECONDS Friends pays tribute to Clean-up continues after tornado tears through homes devoted father by Katie Todd, RNZ AUCKLAND — The father AUCKLAND — Contractors will be out of two killed by in force again today in Papatoetoe, where the tornado in the ripple effects of a quick, devastating South Auckland and deadly tornado on Saturday morning is being are still being felt. remembered So far 62 houses have been deemed as a “beautiful uninhabitable. soul” and About 32 people remained out of their a “humble, homes in emergency accommodation in caring” man by motels overnight, while crews are still his family and trying to restore power to homes on friends. Janesh Prasad Freyberg Avenue. Janesh The roof on Roy Roger’s family home on Prasad died as a tornado ripped Ballance Avenue is ripped up and windows through the Ports of Auckland shipping are shattered — but he chose to sleep container yard on Saturday morning. among the damage the past two nights, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said he fearing it would be looted if he left. understood Prasad was a contractor He was struggling to comprehend how and not a Ports of Auckland employee. quickly the havoc played out on Saturday “It is really sad and our thoughts morning at about 8.30. are with all of those that worked with “The windows were shaking so I went and were family to and friends of the to check the front door and the door just person that was killed.” flew open . . . it nearly came off the hinges. A givealittle page has been set up by So I ran to my friends and got them to MAJOR DAMAGE: Vector personnel repair damaged power lines on Fitzroy Street as a friend of Prasad with all funds to go get under the table. I thought it was an residents deal with the aftermath of Saturday’s tornado. NZ Herald picture to his wife, Mala, and their daughters, earthquake,” he said. Ashley, 13 and Jesh, 10. “Within the span of 30 seconds it was threw parts of Julie Wharton’s carport into the garage at the back. So (it was) that bad “Friends and family are preparing for already gone. I opened the door and saw her son’s bedroom. that stuff was flying around.” the funeral and supporting Mala. the devastation.” He escaped harm by lying flat on the He was also helping remove ragged “We need some help from the New The area around Roger’s home is dotted floor. bits of wood from a neighbouring house Zealand community to assist Mala and with bright tarpaulins patching up most However, Wharton considered her belonging to Rosetta Fale. the two children financially. houses, while mounds of twisted metal, household fortunate in terms of the clean- She explained it was her shattered fence. “Your donation will be a great help roof tiles, branches and guttering can be up. “The cool thing about this community is to the family, allowing them to maintain found outside homes. “Down the road you can see right into everyone has helped, everywhere, whether as normal a life as possible,” friend Reg There are shattered windows, toppled one ladies lounge. So we are pretty lucky you lived in the street or not,” she said. Prasad wrote. chimneys, power lines strewn across the that we got away with losing a few bits of Volunteers were also walking up and As of this morning, more than footpath, and cars squashed flat. wood here and there,” she said. down the street in hi-vis jackets, including $38,000 had been donated. Rogers said the repair work ahead was Yesterday evening the street was a Daljit Singh from the Supreme Sikh Friends have also been paying more than he initially thought. hive of activity as contractors used cherry Society. tribute to Janesh Prasad on social “It is . . . a lot more long term. We can pickers to rebuild power lines, which they The society had delivered 1000 food media. clean all this up now, but with holes in hope will be up and running in the next parcels from its centre in Takanini to the One wrote, “Janesh Kaka was a very the roof and with the rain — because it’s day or so. most affected streets. hard-working, humble, caring and very winter it is just going to carry on building Auckland Council building inspectors “We have about 50 volunteers now, helpful person and was a very good up with droplets inside — so we’re going to were assessing houses, with 240 checked covering all these streets, to provide them neighbour for which he will be greatly have to fix that.” so far. with fresh milk, bread and hot food. We’re missed. When RNZ visited yesterday, the Rogers Neighbours have been helping each knocking on each door and helping them.” “He was a person who was known to were taking furniture and belongings out other sweep up their yards and board up Auckland Emergency Management said manage his time very wisely”. of the house as they waited for power to be broken windows, while contractors have its teams will continue helping with the Another friend posted funeral details restored. been trucking out debris and mulching clean-up today, along with 15 Red Cross which will see Prasad farewelled on “We have got a massive freezer in the tree branches. volunteers. Wednesday at 1pm at the Auckland back so a lot of that food is going to go to Resident Warrick Right plucked bits of People who need help with Indian Funeral Home in Wiri. waste if we don’t get it out and donate it timber from his roof, from a house several accommodation, insurance or financial Prasad was on a working visa, as soon as possible,” he said. doors down. assistance can visit the Civil Defence working as a mechanic and repairing a On Freyberg Avenue, which runs “Four-by-two, about a metre-long, sharp Welfare Hub at Allan Brewster Leisure forklift when the incident happened, the parallel to Ballance Avenue, the tornado as a spear . . . and there’s one in the roof of Centre from 9am. friend wrote. — NZ Herald The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 9 ACC biases shown in BRIEFS Toy gun prompts AOS callout DUNEDIN — A child playing with a toy gun sparked an armed police call out at the weekend. At 3pm on Saturday a motorist contacted Dunedin police after seeing what looked like a agency’s own analysis gun being waved from a car window in Andersons Bay Road, Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said. by Anusha Bradley, RNZ File picture Police, including armed officers, stopped the car in John Wilson Ocean Drive, where they WELLINGTON — discovered a child had been playing with a toy New Zealand’s Crown gun. — Otago Daily Times entity responsible for administering the country’s Trio overdose outside SkyCity no-fault accidental injury AUCKLAND — Three people have been compensation scheme — the hospitalised after a suspected overdose outside Accident Compensation SkyCity hotel and casino in central Auckland. Corporation (ACC) — is Police and multiple ambulances responded to biased against women, Maori the incident around 8.30am. and Pasifika, a new analysis A police officer said three people — two shows. females and one male — had been transported Women are less likely to hospital after ingesting or inhaling some sort to make ACC claims, more ‘NOT SURPRISED’: ACC of substance. “We think they have ingested or likely to be declined when Minister, Carmel Sepuloni, smoked something and OD’ed and they have they do, and receive far less asked for advice on what gone to hospital to hopefully come round. compensation than men, the could be done to reduce the “My guess is it would be some sort of synthetic figures show. inequalities that were found in cannabinoid,” the officer said. Over the past five years, it the analysis. Picture supplied The patients had been found directly outside has become even harder for SkyCity’s main entrance. They would now women — especially Maori and minorities were also more and were more likely to have domestic violence. undergo toxicology tests at hospital to confirm and Pasifika women — to get likely to face bias from health poorer long-term outcomes as “Language barriers, cost, what substance they had taken. an ACC claim accepted. professionals who filed claims a result, the briefing papers institutional racism — all Kai Laidler, a staff member at United Coffee The decline rate for women on their behalf. revealed. those things can be quite Nation on Federal Street, said a woman buying has increased from 2.2 to 2.6 “Research has found that Despite making up 16 daunting if you’re someone her morning coffee “just ditched it” about 9am percent. women, indigenous people percent of the population, who is already in a vulnerable after seeing someone being dragged outside the In comparison, the decline and people of colour are all Maori only made up 12 position.” shop. “She went outside and people were helping rate for men only increased more likely to be seen as percent of new lodged claims someone and then four ambulances came and from 1.9 to 2.1 percent. exaggerating, malingering or and 15 percent of weekly Minister rules out overhaul cops came. Another customer came in 20 minutes If women did get cover drug-seeking when accessing compensation costs. later and said they’d had a seizure.” and were entitled to weekly healthcare,” the briefing said. Wahine Maori were less ACC Minister Carmel A man sitting near SkyCity asking for spare compensation payments, they It was not known whether, likely than tane Maori to Sepuloni said the data change said he understood the trio had been received a little over half the or to what extent, these receive weekly compensation. “certainly shows” there was a smoking synthetic drugs. rate that men received. factors influenced claim The poor claim rates problem. “I wasn’t surprised “They just passed out. It wasn’t good. They were Despite women, who lodgements rates for women were likely to be “shaped by by it at all. In fact, I think incoherent, put it that way.” — NZ Herald make up just over half in New Zealand. societal, system and scheme many New Zealanders Abandoned trolley crackdown the population, accessing Men were more likely to factors” including “racism”, the wouldn’t be surprised by it.” healthcare more often than have physical jobs, participate briefing papers stated. However, she ruled out a CHRISTCHURCH — Supermarkets in Otautahi, men, men filed 4 percent more in sports, work in less safe In 2017, ACC launched a complete overhaul of ACC Christchurch are on notice to do a better job of claims than women. conditions and had higher new strategy, Whaia Te Tika, legislation or instigating ACC collecting abandoned trolleys. The inequities were laid rates of “hazardous alcohol to reduce inequalities for cover for mental injuries A community board in the city’s east had asked out in a series of briefings, use” than women. Maori. suffered by women in the council staff to look at options for getting trolleys obtained by RNZ under the The types of injuries women But in the three months to workplace. off the streets. Official Information Act, from were more likely to experience December 2020, Maori still “That’s not something that’s Councillor Yani Johanson said supermarkets ACC to its minister, Carmel in the workplace were less had a claim-lodgement rate on the table at the moment.” needed to look at microchipping them so they Sepuloni, after the corporation likely to be covered. 19 percent lower than the However, she had asked could do a better job of gathering them up, or analysed claims data between This included a lack of national average. for advice on policy options bring in locking mechanisms so they could not be June 2015 and July 2020. cover for cumulative stressors Other documents released and what “could be done taken out of carparks. — NZ Herald Green Party ACC present in ‘caring professions’ to RNZ showed Maori made operationally” to reduce Stolen dogs safe but injured spokesperson, Jan Logie, who dominated by women such up just 8.5 percent of ACC inequalities for women, Maori has campaigned for successive as nursing and teaching, the employees, which was almost and Pasifika. ALEXANDRA — Two dogs that were stolen from governments to address paper said. half the percentage of Maori Addressing the inequities their locked kennels have been found safe but inequalities in the scheme, Otago University law employed in the public sector. around birth injuries could be with signs of mistreatment. said the biases lecturer, Dawn Low-claim and acceptance the first issue on the cards. The dogs were taken from Hazlett Street, Clyde were inevitable Duncan, who rates for Pasifika were “I’ve asked MBIE for policy on June 8. because the I wasn’t suprised highlighted also likely to be “shaped by advice on that, and whether Arlo, a 19-month-old purebred male bluenose Accident by‘ it at all. In fact, these inequities racism,” ACC’s briefing papers or not, further down the track, Staffordshire was stolen, along with his buddy Compensation I think many New in a study said. we may be able to include that Wolf, a 13-year-old black huntaway/beardie cross. Act, developed published last Despite making up 8 as something that ACC would Wolf was found in a ditch on the side of the road in the 1970s, Zealanders wouldn’t year, said ACC percent of the population, cover.” on June 13 with injuries which indicated he had “just had not be surprised by it legislation Pasifika accounted for only 6 She also wanted to find been mistreated, but was now at home recovering, a police spokesperson said. kept up” with —ACC Minister,’ needed percent of claims lodged and 5 out why fewer women filed changes in overhauling percent of costs. sport and work-related injury Arlo was found last Thursday on the side of society. Carmel Sepuloni — to reflect “a Pasifika females accounted claims, and why women had Springvale Road. “It was more principle- for only 39 percent of Pasifika a harder time getting an ACC “We think this is an awful situation. A person developed at a based system claims lodged, and 28 percent claim accepted than men. who steals a dog and mistreats it is a heartless time where it was mostly men that deals with more complex of Pasifika costs. But the minister would not criminal,” Prevention Sergeant Derek Ealson of going out to work, and doing health problems”. Injured Pasifika returned commit to any changes for the Alexandra police said. particular types of work.” However, simply updating to work faster than any other moment. “We don’t know exactly what has happened to As a result, there was a some of the cover tests that group, but that could be “I don’t want to over- the dogs, however, the owner is very pleased to “very strong bias” in favour of determined whether a claim because they had no choice promise and over-commit at have them back.” — NZ Herald working men, she said. was approved would also as lower-income households this stage. “At the moment, women, reduce inequities, she said. might not be able to afford “We are in the early phases Live animal export protest Maori and Pasifika are “Those types of cover have to live on ACC’s 80 percent of looking at this information NAPIER — Animal rights activists say the ban bearing the burden of that become narrower and some weekly-wage compensation and determining where we on live exports won’t come quickly enough. failure. of them are quite out of date. rate. might go with it.” A group gathered yesterday at Port Ahuriri “The outcomes are clearly Some of them reflect medical It had also become harder ACC declined to be in Napier to call for an immediate ban on the sexist, and racist. Why thinking that’s now 50 years for Pasifika people to get interviewed, but in a practice. somebody thought you could old.” claims accepted over the past statement, its chief customer Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has get cover for spraining a Expanding the scheme five years. The only time officer, Emma Powell, said put a ban on such exports that will only be in muscle on a sports field, but would cost more, she said. claim-acceptance rates rose more work was needed to place in two years. Chief executive of animal not a birth-related injury? “But I think if we are serious was between 2013 and 2017, understand the inequities welfare advocacy Safe, Deborah Ashton, says the It’s pretty hard to think about equality . . . we do when ACC employed Pasifika highlighted in the new data. protesters will protest every time a live export that there’s not some sexism need to simply accept a wider kaimahi within its cultural “We also know that ship comes into the port. — Hawke’s Bay Today involved in that decision- number of claims, and it will services team. differences in experience and making process.” be more expensive.” The University of access are likely to arise from Two killed in motorway crash Urgent change was needed Auckland’s co-head of Maori a broad range of societal, AUCKLAND — Two people are dead and three to reduce inequality within Maori claims rate low and Pacific Studies, Jemaima institutional, community and are in hospital with serious injuries after a crash the ACC system, she said, Tiatia-Seath, said this showed individual factors. on Auckland’s Southern Motorway yesterday starting with birth injuries. Maori were more likely the need for ACC to provide “We don’t have conclusive morning. The scheme’s definition of to experience severe injury, culturally-safe services, information on this possible Emergency services were called to the crash “injury” favoured the types of but “less likely to be referred especially as women were inequality yet, so we are near Highbrook Drive at 3.34am. Police said it injuries suffered by men, the for certain treatment less likely to seek healthcare taking the time to fully occurred between the Highbrook Drive off-ramp ACC briefing said, but women interventions than non-Maori” or help for sexual abuse and explore this issue.” and on-ramp. — NZ Herald 10 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 Soaring space industry Ten people arrested after AUCKLAND — In the last few weeks New Zealand has signed a space treaty over Moon exploration and resources, a fatal stabbing Canterbury spit has been announced as BOOMING a rocket launch base and Rocket Lab has BUSINESS: BLENHEIM — At least one person has been tasked with designing two photon The Kiwi Space been killed following multiple stabbings in spacecraft for a 2024 scientific mission to Radar — the central Blenheim near a popular bar early Mars. first commercial on Sunday morning. Headline news, but there’s plenty more radar in the Police are appealing for anyone who happening in the space industry in this world to track filmed the incident to upload their footage to country. More than most people realise. space debris help them ascertain exactly what happened. Former NASA space engineer Eric smaller than Police rushed to the scene outside Club Dahlstrom is working in New Zealand 10cm — opened Envy on Market Street just after 3am and to help connect people in the industry in Naseby in found one person dead and two seriously globally — he is an international space Central Otago in injured. consultant. 2019. A homicide investigation, dubbed When he arrived here four years ago Picture supplied Operation Alaia, is under way. he and his wife started a directory of the It is unclear what sparked the attack and companies and projects in the industry whether it is connected to the bar or any of here. Eventually they listed 240 of them, its patrons. but it wasn’t easy to do. Air New Zealand has a partnership with population, geographic isolation, clear Police said they were still working to “Coming from California I just didn’t NASA to collect data feeding into global dark skies and good internet, Dahlstrom ascertain how the incident unfolded — and realise how hard it would be to get climate science models. says New Zealand has what he calls “the where it began to play out. people in New Zealand to admit to doing Satellite data collection will help power of small”. A man who was in the nightclub said amazing things,” he said. vintners check their grapes, the defence “When we talk to our friends around members of a gang had been initimidating “New Zealand has a lot of capability force police our territorial waters, and the world, everybody knows about New and eyeballing people in the lead-up to the and a lot of hidden talent involved in predict solar storms that could take out Zealand. It’s held up as a real model for stabbings. space.” our electricity grid. how to get a lot of activity going,” he says. Just before midday yesterday police The industry here is worth RNZ’s The Detail looks at what makes Astronomer Ian Griffin, who is the asked for anyone with footage of the night $1.75 billion according to a Deloitte New Zealand appealing to international director of the Otago Museum, says the — anything they thought was related to the report commissioned by the Ministry of partnerships and high-tech space science new industries are bringing real economic attack — to pass it on. Business, Innovation and Employment work. benefits and can only grow. “It is not the normal thing that happens — those figures relate to 2018 and 2019 The South Island in particular is dotted “This isn’t a space where we are just on a night out in Blenheim,” a person who and it’s only been growing since then. It with space businesses, which has one importing people, it is a space where had been at the bar told The New Zealand employs about 5000 people and another astronomer saying it’s now a bit like Cape Kiwis are really active and typical Kiwi Herald and Newstalk ZB 7000 in support services. Canaveral. ingenuity is paying off in spades. “There was a large presence of The 240 space-related companies paint Except Dahlstrom says it’s better than “These start-ups are starting up all motorcycle gang members . . . I heard they a broad brush. They range from dark that. over the place. Access to space is getting were Rebels. skies tourism to satellite data collection, “You don’t realise how much trouble easier and cheaper, and that means “I left there about 2.55am and they launching payloads and a re-usable space there is launching from Florida with business opportunities are growing and were closing up, I’m not really sure what plane to take satellites into orbit — from all the aircraft flying into Miami, they I think anywhere there are business happened but heard a scuffle broke out and Oamaru. have to be shut down for hours for every opportunities, there are Kiwis who are knives came out and people got stabbed. There’s a giant space radar in Naseby launch. And so here without much traffic trying to make a buck. And that’s a really The witness said the nightclub was tracking satellite debris, a world-first to the east and south, Rocket Lab has good thing because these are high-tech, “usually fine” and there was not much of a passenger transport trial of a self-flying, plenty of opportunities to launch.” high-paying jobs that speak well to the gang presence in Blenheim. — NZ Herald all-electric air taxi in Canterbury, and As well as lack of aircraft traffic, low future of our country.” — RNZ “We are Adopt us today... looking for our forever Baloo Barney Benson Male Black Domestic Short Hair Male White & Black Domestic Short Hair Male Grey & White Domestic Short Hair homes”— Meow, woof

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WELLINGTON — The number of other disasters like the Christchurch score against the World Health foreign exchange people seeking workplace counselling for earthquakes. The sting is really in the Organisation’s wellbeing measurement stress, anxiety and burnout has soared in tail,’’ Robinson said. tool. It showed 26 percent of the cash services the wake of Covid-19, experts say. Statistics show that there was initially population — or about one million people Mental Health Foundation chief a general improvement in mental health — were in the “dangerously low” range. by Tamsyn Parker, NZ Herald executive Shaun Robinson said there had during the lockdowns because there was “That indicates they would be been a significant increase in the number a shared sense of purpose. struggling with their mental health. We AUCKLAND — The decision by banks of people experiencing distress after the However, this upward trend declined stand behind these findings.’’ to ditch cheques has been widely arrival of Covid-19 and this was also as people realised things would not be He also said the last detailed survey broadcast — to the ire of older customers being felt in the workplace. returning to the way things were before done by the Ministry of Health was 15 — but it seems banks are also quietly As a result, mental distress was now the pandemic. This prompted feelings of years old. phasing out another service. the biggest health issue in New Zealand, grief and loss, Robinson said. Workplaces took mental health From next month ASB will join ANZ, in his view. The foundation carried out a survey seriously and genuinely wanted to BNZ and Kiwibank in stopping buying “There is no doubt there is distress in in December and repeated it again in support their teams, Robinson said. and selling foreign exchange cash while the workplace . . . it is consistent with February. The research was a wellbeing — NZ Herald Westpac continues to offer the service but only to its own customers. Kiwis with foreign currency sitting around in cash at home will now have to use a foreign exchange service rather Branch closures resume than going into their bank. A retired Aucklander contacted The New Zealand Herald about the issue by Hamish Rutherford, NZ Herald Waihi, Waipukurau and Gisborne as when a friend of his told him about well as several metropolitan branches. the difficulties in exchanging some US WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s A spokeswoman pointed out that the dollars into New Zealand dollars. banks resumed a moratorium on bank closures had been flagged publicly before “He went to pretty much every bank closures after the industry stared down Robertson’s letter was sent. and none of them wanted to know and pressure from Finance Minister Grant More than a month after Robertson’s none of them would change it. The only Robertson to open banking “hubs” in letter was sent, Jurkovich responded with one that would change it was the ASB provinces across the country. an outline of what the banks were doing bank and they were reluctant unless he In April the New Zealand Bankers’ to support customers, but declined to had an account with them. Association (NZBA) announced that the open more banking hubs. “I thought this is a bit mickey duck.” four major Australian banks — ANZ, “We would like to keep the trial limited The retiree said he decided he had ASB, BNZ and Westpac — along with to the existing sites to ensure we receive better go and change the US$1800 he had TSB and state-owned Kiwibank, would a full year’s picture of customer usage,” sitting around at home as he was unlikely cease the closure of regional bank Jurkovich wrote. “Rest assured a lot of to be travelling to America anytime soon. branches until the end of the year. work is being done in the background.” Twenty minutes and two bank tellers The pledge was originally made in late NZBA chief executive Roger Beaumont later he managed to get the money 2019 when the six banks promised to said Covid-19 had a significant impact changed over at the ASB’s Botany cease closures until the end of the trial of on how customers used bank branches, branch. regional banking “hubs” in 2020, but was the banking hubs and the commitments But they would only do it after asking quietly abandoned after Covid-19 caused Finance Minister Grant Robertson made by the six participating banks if he had an account with the bank, the delays to the trials. “none of which could have been foreseen man said. Eventually, the hub trials began A week later, Robertson wrote to NZBA when the trial was announced”. The bank staffer also told him that in November 2020 in Twizel, chairman Steve Jurkovich (the chief The trial aims to test demand for basic from July 2 it would stop offering a cash Martinborough, Stoke and Opunake. executive of Kiwibank) warning that banking services in small communities foreign exchange altogether. Operating around a “smart ATM”, the Government was unhappy with the where branches have closed. The industry “I thought crikey there is going to be a the hubs allow customers of any of the closures. was “acutely aware” of the impact of hell of a lot of people around with surplus participating banks to make deposits “My colleagues and I are concerned branch closures. cash in the drawer who are going to get and withdrawals. While staff are able to about the impact of bank branch closures “We want to see the trial through caught out with this.” assist with other transactions on tablets on businesses and individuals who rely before making any significant changes ASB executive general manager for and phones, they cannot directly assist on a reasonably accessible physical like adding further hubs. Installing a hub Retail Banking Craig Sims said Covid-19 with products. branch for their day-to-day banking requires quite a bit of work, including has had a significant impact on customer But when it announced the delayed services because they are unable to the tech build, physical fit-out, and demand for foreign exchange services start to the trial, NZBA confirmed that access or use alternative (such as online) negotiations with venue owners. It’s not over the past year and a half. from the start of this year, regional services,” Robertson wrote. something you can do overnight.” “We are continuing to provide closures would resume. “Bank closures are now regularly Robertson said the Government was international services including accepting Bank branch closures resumed with occurring and this means that some “working closely with the industry on the foreign exchange cheques, foreign the announcement by BNZ that it would of the public confidence that we hoped future of banking services, including the cash accounts and international money close 38 branches, prompting South would be engineered by the trial (of the trial hubs”. transfers, however, from July 2, 2021, ASB Wairarapa mayor Alex Beijen to petition hubs) has not eventuated.” He would encourage the banks “to will no longer buy or sell foreign cash Robertson, calling for a formal inquiry Robertson invited the banks to consider provide services across New Zealand in-branch.” into the impact of branch closures. bringing forward the opening of further and to ensure vulnerable customers are He said customers still had a range of Beijen’s council is based in a town with regional hubs before the trial was supported”. other alternatives such as withdrawing one of the hubs — Martinborough — but completed, suggesting areas which cover Documents released under the cash from ATMs overseas, using their he played down its usefulness. the bulk of New Zealand’s land mass. Official Information Act revealed how debit or credit cards for payments, or “The ‘hub’ is merely a super ATM and “Particular areas that may benefit few transactions are now being done in buying and selling foreign currency via does not address the social harm and from such consideration include areas branches, and even at ATMs, compared external specialist providers. problems to rural communities that of remote coastline (such as Northland, with five years ago. And it is not alone in making changes. result from the closing of branches that Coromandel, and the East and West Materials provided to Robertson by In April BNZ stopped offering to buy or support rural and provincial communities Coasts) and heartland areas (such as Kiwibank showed that in 2016, out of sell foreign cash. and economies,” Beijen wrote on March South Wairarapa/Southern Hawke’s Bay, every 1000 transactions, 65 were done A spokesman for the bank said its 3, according to documents released under parts of Taranaki/King Country, and in branches and 20 at ATMs. By 2021, focus over the last year had been to give the Official Information Act. Otago/Southland).” only five in every 1000 transactions took customers more flexibility in doing their The letter was supported by 33 other A fortnight later, Kiwibank confirmed place in a branch, with a further three at foreign currency exchanges. mayors from the Far North to Southland. it was closing branches in Balclutha, ATMs. Mercury to buy Trustpower’s retail business for $441m

TAURANGA — Mercury NZ Ltd will which is centred on delivering the right of Trustpower’s retail offering was the acquisition. buy Trustpower’s retail business for $441 product mix and value for customers. underpinned by a skilled and motivated The transaction is conditional million once it meets several conditions “Mercury and Trustpower are two team, with about 500 staff focused on on Mercury obtaining Commerce including Commerce Commission highly complementary organisations and retail, based in Tauranga and Oamaru. Commission clearance for the purchase approval. this agreement would see the best of both “We see a huge amount of talent and of Trustpower’s retail business. Mercury The two businesses have entered being brought together for our customers,” capability across both organisations, each will be working with the Commerce into a binding agreement which is he said. with a strong focus on delivering the best Commission to progress the application as also conditional on the restructure of “We know customers value the possible outcomes for customers. We are efficiently as possible once filed. Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust convenience and ease of bundled services excited for how we can continue to build The transaction is also conditional on (TECT) and Trustpower shareholder in their home and Trustpower has deep on this together. the proposed TECT restructure being approval. expertise in bundling products in a way “Customers will continue to enjoy all completed and shareholder approval. Trustpower’s retail business sells that people clearly appreciate. We see this the great services and support they have Local retail customers will remain electricity, gas, fixed and wireless adding material value to our customers today with Trustpower and with Mercury beneficiaries of the trust following any broadband and mobile phone services to and Mercury. and we are looking forward to unlocking sale. about 231,000 customers nationwide. “Bringing together the retail businesses even more benefits and products for them The timing for regulatory approvals Combined, the businesses would have of Mercury and Trustpower will also over time.” depends on several factors, including about 780,000 connections across both give us the scale to make meaningful The two businesses will not be fully the current workload of the regulator. energy and telco services. investment in the underlying IT systems, integrated until their IT systems allow for Mercury anticipates these conditions will In a statement, Mercury chief executive driving greater innovation for our an improved customer experience. be fulfilled and the transaction will be Vince Hawksworth said the acquisition customers.” Mercury has secured a commitment for complete by the end of the year. would accelerate Mercury’s retail strategy, Hawksworth said the strength a new bank facility sufficient to finance — Bay of Plenty Times 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 EDITORIAL Reshuffle in top risks GDC faces Turning the corner WHAT’S ON IN COUNCIL So, it should surprise no one that environment where cost pressures are THIS WEEK amidst the council’s Audit and Risk continually escalating as “shovel ready towards summer by Kerry Worsnop agenda this week, a report on Strategic projects” and a frenetic construction Risks and Risk Appetite notes that the sector compete for resources; and risk A burst of stormy weather WE live in uncertain top five contenders have undergone a No.5 recognises the critical nature including a tornado in South times, and not only reshuffle, with the “Impact of externally- of successfully delivering “Capital Auckland and flash flooding on the because the world is driven change on council and the projects”, especially given that a number East Coast brought an end to a transforming in pandemic- community” featuring for the first time, of these projects are being delivered week that included some equally related ways. For the at No.3. simultaneously across flood protection, bleak news on several fronts. first time in many years, New Zealand At the top of the “risk” list, People wastewater treatment system upgrades The freak tornado which took the has broken free of any tethers it might and Capability has been highlighted and the Olympic pool redevelopment. have had to traditional economic theory as an area under increasing pressure While it is clear that some risks are life of an Auckland father of two was and joined a growing number of nations in an environment where every council more easily managed than others, it is the worst development, but there prepared to gamble on the fact that nationwide is competing for qualified worth reminding ourselves that the risks were other concerns here in New money need not be tied to productivity or staff to draft the raft of imminent new the council faces often mirror the risks Zealand. “things”. plan changes and operationalise the we collectively face as a community. Perhaps the worst of those was In fact, the enthusiasm for “flushing” many new rules and standards being Anyone employing people will recognise news that the defence of the newly-minted money through flagging introduced at a national level. These the importance of having and retaining America’s Cup looks like being held economies in order to reinvigorate them challenges come over and above the the right people; anyone managing elsewhere. has become so prolific that it is hard need to retain and attract great people an organisation will be faced with the Team New Zealand boss Grant to imagine why anyone ever thought in order to deliver better services to our challenge of ensuring that it delivers Dalton told the Royal New Zealand austerity was such a great strategy in community on a day-to-day basis. on its strategy; and no one anywhere is the first place. No one yet understands “Being able to deliver on council’s immune from the combined influences Yacht Club last Tuesday night that where this money-go-round will lead strategy” remains a high priority of legislative reform and uncharted negotiations with the Government the world, or what it will mean for the risk, close to the top — at No.2; government spending. and Auckland council were unlikely next generation, however given that No.3 (mentioned above) being the The future may well be uncertain, but to result in a home defence when this monetary mirage is currently being “External influences on council and understanding your risks and having a the deadline expired this Thursday. superimposed over a political landscape the community”. Risk No.4 “Financial” robust strategy can make a big difference Losing the opportunity to host the undergoing astonishingly broad change reflects the increasing challenges of to any outcome — whether in council, in defence would be a blow to both — the word risk cannot help but make an operating within a funding envelope business or everyday life. It pays to have the country and the Government. appearance. which relies heavily on rates in an a plan. There is still hope, however, that something might be possible before LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS the site of the defence is confirmed by September 17. Looking forward to Anxious looks will be cast across Great news Dealing with the Tasman where the Covid-19 cluster in Bondi has grown to six Re: Revolution in wood decision in civil case and New Zealanders who visited processing, June 18 story. horses still Re: Steven Wallace civil pressure from Wellington NZ Best news for the forest Re: Mad cows . . . June 19 case. Police Association members Westfield Bondi Junction are urged industry and country with the to get tested. Meanwhile Victoria is letter. As another of your who tried to pass a remit closing of so many sawmills. Sorry Bruce, too busy correspondents infers, it that would bar any ex-police just emerging from a lockdown. We have an acute shortage of burying last week’s horses. But perhaps the saddest sight of may well be the NZ Police members who gave evidence domestic timber and housing. Being the civic minded Association wielding power in favour of the Wallace family, the week was Mike King in tears as Might even need an upgraded chap you are fond of in political circles which is from being allowed to enter he returned his NZ Order of Merit railway system. Go Go Go mentioning, how about you responsible for our justice any police canteen in the medal because not enough was Gisborne. rid the community of these system apparently going quiet Wellington Police District. being done in combatting mental M. HINDMARSH supposedly wild animals on the results of the Steven The remit failed. health problems. Rangitikei yourself. Unfortunately, now Wallace civil case which was Let us hope that any fear The Government announced that the horses are gone, you heard a relatively short time of pressure from the police its plan for rolling out the Covid will probably have to round ago. association will not cower our vaccination programme, which will them up in the Mustang. To my mind it was politicians and our justice be one of its key measures for ‘You just Try not to scratch it in the pressure from the NZPA that system, and that the High process. success over the three-year term. influenced the politicians and Court will quickly render and don’t like CLIVE BIBBY the justice system in general release a credible decision Overseas, heading the black list when the original criminal based on the evidence heard in as it so often does was the Middle charges against a policeman the recent civil case. East where barely a month since a what I say’ were heard in relation to this truce ended an outbreak of rocket matter. There was certainly DENNIS PENNEFATHER attacks between Israel and Hamas, Re: Most agree, so share What right your solutions — June 17. fighting erupted again — this time Ditto. On several with the Israelis responding to the occasions I have asked Bob to call time? launch of incendiary balloons from what he thinks we here Palestinian territory. on the East Coast should Re: Calling time on Grease an awesome Prospects for a lowering of be doing to halt climate Turihaua North, June 19 tensions in the Middle East are not change. I am still waiting story. for a constructive and Who gives them the right to show — take a bow helped by the fact hardliners have call time on Turihaua north taken control in two of the major purposeful response. I attended the opening congratulate the cast, or anywhere else for that night of Grease with a crew and the director for a players, Israel and Iran. Iranian matter? They are not God. conservative politician and jurist G.R. WEBB couple of friends — the polished performance. Take How can council call time on singing and dancing was a bow, you all so deserve Ibrahim Raisi joined Israel’s Naftali Wrong Gordon, I’ve answered something that has been there just brilliant. We aren’t a every credit for an awesome Bennett in a pairing that will not you often — it’s just that you for millions of years? big city but the amount show. Wishing you well for help a volatile situation. Raisi won don’t like what I say. Be honest Think about it before you of talent we have here is the rest of the shows. 62 percent of the vote but more with yourself. come gunning for me. totally outstanding. than 40 percent of Iranians did not BOB HUGHES I would like to KAREN MORROW vote, a record low for the country. PETER JONES Brazil reached a grim figure of [email protected] 500,000 deaths from Covid-19. 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The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 WORLD 13 ‘Our patience is running out’ World powers must ‘wake up’ on Iran nuclear deal: Bennett JERUSALEM — Israel’s new Prime Iran insists its nuclear programme is Minister Naftali Bennett opened his intended for peaceful purposes. first Cabinet meeting on Sunday by Earlier this month, Israel’s outgoing slamming Iran’s newly-elected president CABINET Mossad intelligence chief signalled that and calling on world powers to “wake up” MEETING: Israel was behind a string of recent to the perils of returning to a nuclear Israeli Prime attacks targeting the country’s nuclear agreement with Tehran. Minister Naftali programme. Later in the day, Bennett warned Bennett, centre, Bennett heads a broad coalition of Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers that Israel chairs the first parties ranging from hard-line Jewish would not tolerate even minor attacks weekly cabinet nationalists to liberal factions and a from the territory in the wake of last meeting of the small Islamist party. His government was month’s 11-day war, saying “our patience new government sworn in last week, sending Benjamin is running out”. in Jerusalem on Netanyahu to the opposition after a Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief, Sunday. record 12 years as prime minister. Ebrahim Raisi, was elected Saturday AP picture Later on Sunday, at a memorial with 62 percent of the vote amid ceremony for Israelis killed in the 2014 historically low turnout. He is sanctioned Gaza war, Bennett warned Hamas that by the US in part over his involvement Israel “will not tolerate violence, we will in the mass execution of thousands not tolerate a drizzle.” of political prisoners in 1988, at the He appeared to be referring to end of the Iran-Iraq war. Raisi has not European intermediaries. Talks resumed negotiations because Iran’s supreme incendiary balloons launched from Gaza commented specifically on the event. on Sunday, the first round since the leader wants the deal restored. in recent days that have set fields ablaze At the Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, election that put hard-liners firmly in “The person who makes the decision inside Israel. Last week, Israel launched Bennett said Iran’s Supreme Leader control across Iran’s government. about whether Iran will go back into the airstrikes on two occasions in response to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had chosen the Israel was staunchly opposed to the Iran nuclear deal, will assume its nuclear the balloons sent by activists mobilised “hangman of Tehran” to be the country’s landmark nuclear deal and welcomed obligations under international law, is not by Hamas. next president, a man “infamous among then-President Donald Trump’s decision the president of Iran, it is the supreme Last month’s Gaza war was halted by Iranians and across the world for leading to unilaterally withdraw the US from leader of Iran, and that person did not an informal ceasefire. Egyptian mediators the death committees that executed it. Since then, the agreement has change from before the election,” Sullivan have met with Israeli and Hamas officials thousands of innocent Iranian citizens unraveled, with Iran abandoning all said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” in recent weeks to try and shore it up, throughout the years.” its limitations on enrichment after the Bennett said Raisi’s election was “the but there has been no apparent progress Raisi’s ascendancy comes at a sensitive Trump administration restored crippling last chance for the world powers to on Hamas’ main demand, the lifting of an time for the region, as Iran and world economic sanctions. Tehran is currently wake up before returning to the nuclear Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed on the powers ramp up efforts to resurrect enriching uranium at its highest levels agreement and to understand who they’re territory when it seized power from rival Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal, ever, though still short of weapons-grade doing business with. These guys are Palestinian forces in 2007. which granted Iran sanctions relief levels. murderers, mass murderers.” Israel says the blockade is needed to in exchange for curbs on its nuclear Although the White House has yet to Israel, which is believed to have its keep Hamas from importing military programme. weigh in on Iran’s election, President own undeclared nuclear arsenal, has resources, while the Palestinians and For weeks, Iranian and American Joe Biden’s national security adviser, long opposed arch-enemy Iran’s nuclear human rights groups view it as collective diplomats have been negotiating a Jake Sullivan, said on Sunday that the programme and has vowed to prevent punishment of the territory’s more than 2 return to the accord in Vienna through outcome was unlikely to affect nuclear Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. million Palestinian residents. — AP Australia’s first locally-made US triples pledge Covid-19 vaccine set for trial with 2.5m Moderna MELBOURNE — Australia is who is leading the research team might call “whole spike vaccines”, within months of clinical trials for a behind the new mRNA candidate, said which prompted the body to build Covid-19 mRNA vaccine developed in mRNA technology’s advantages were antibodies for the whole spike of doses sent to Taiwan Melbourne. that it was simpler to engineer and the virus. “The problem with that is Victoria’s Acting Premier James easy to adapt than protein vaccines. that you’re sort of raising antibodies TAIPEI — The US sent 2.5 The US donation also Merlino announced on Sunday his The federal government is keen to against other parts of the protein, million doses of the Moderna signals its support for Taiwan government had allocated AU$5 get Australia’s capacity to manufacture which isn’t necessarily a problem Covid-19 vaccine to Taiwan in the face of growing pressure million from a AU$50m mRNA research mRNA vaccines up and running, so if the only vaccine is the only virus on Sunday, tripling an earlier from China, which claims the fund to help the Monash Institute of Australia can have the technological circulating is Wuhan (strain),” he said. pledge in a donation with both self-governing island off its Pharmaceutical Sciences manufacture ability to make its own Pfizer and But variants that have emerged public health and geopolitical east coast as its territory. doses of its mRNA vaccine candidate Moderna vaccines, which currently contain mutations at what’s referred meaning. The US does not have for trials. needs to be imported. to as the “receptor-binding domain”, The shipment arrived on formal diplomatic ties with “This is an incredibly important, Australia only can manufacture the which Professor Pouton said a China Airlines cargo plane Taiwan under what is known incredibly exciting step that we are AstraZeneca vaccine domestically, but accounted for roughly 10 percent of that had left Memphis the as the one-China policy, but is making in our nation,” Merlino said. under Australia’s current guidelines, it the overall mass of the coronavirus previous day. legally bound by its own laws “This will get us on a pathway to is recommended that vaccine only be spike protein. Health Minister Chen Shih- to ensure that Taiwan can local manufacturing given to those aged The new vaccine candidate is aimed chung and Brent Christensen, defend itself. capability.” 60 and older. at presenting solely the receptor- the top US official in Taiwan, “These vaccines are proof Merlino said Professor Pouton The question of binding domain to the immune system. were among those who of America’s commitment to the investment in what Covid-19 mRNA “The advantage of that is that it welcomed the plane on the Taiwan,” said Christensen, sovereign capability said the vaccine vaccine Australia should lead to neutralising antibodies tarmac at the airport outside the director of the American to produce mRNA under development might make with that which bind directly to the receptor- of the capital, Taipei. Institute in Taiwan, the de vaccines was was a “variant capability is not yet binding domain, which is what we’re Chen said that America facto US Embassy. particularly important resolved. really trying to achieve with an was showing its friendship as “Taiwan is a family member because the virus vaccine”, modelled Professor Pouton antibody response,” Pouton said. Taiwan faces its most severe to the world’s democratic would remain for from the Beta strain. said if commercial He said his team believed this outbreak. countries.” some time and there agreements were approach was likely to produce a “When I saw these vaccines The US promised 750,000 could be the need for struck with Pfizer better kind of booster shot for future coming down the plane, I was vaccine doses for Taiwan yearly booster vaccines in the years or Moderna, it was possible Australia variants, which could be given to really touched,” he said over earlier this month, sending ahead. could start manufacturing those those already vaccinated against the the noise inside a building Senator Tammy Duckworth The vaccines developed by Moderna vaccines at CSL. Or, if trials for the original strain. where the boxes of vaccines, and two of her Senate and Pfizer which is available in Monash-developed vaccine go well The team is also in the early stages some with US flags on them, colleagues to the island aboard Australia are types of messenger RNA and pass through all the other hurdles, of testing an mRNA vaccine candidate had been brought on wheeled a military transport plane or mRNA vaccine. it may be that the first mRNA vaccine modelled on the Kappa variant. dollies. to make the announcement. The mRNA vaccines use a manufactured in Australia is designed Professor Pouton said the trials Taiwan, which had been Taiwan has ordered 5.05 genetic code called RNA to spark in the country, too. should start in October or November relatively unscathed by the million doses directly from the production of the coronavirus’s Professor Pouton said the vaccine and would run until all the data was virus, has been caught off Moderna but so far received specific spike protein. under development was a “variant collected for a year. guard by a surge in new only 390,000, including a Once the mRNA enters the body’s vaccine”, modelled from the Beta “But we’ll get an early indication of cases since May and is now second shipment that arrived cells, the cells use the instructions strain, which was first detected in safety and the responses, the serum scrambling to get vaccines. on Friday. contained in the RNA to make the South Africa. Existing vaccines have responses, from individual patients, The Covid-19 death toll on Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing- spike protein. Immune cells then been modelled on the original version fairly early on in the trial,” Pouton said. the island of 24 million people wen said the US had decided recognise the spike protein as foreign of the virus first detected in Wuhan. About 150 people will be involved has jumped to 549, from only to increase the donation and begin building an immune Professor Pouton said the second in the clinical trial, with preliminary about a dozen prior to the through efforts on both sides response against it. key difference was that existing results expected to be available in the outbreak. over the past two weeks. — AP Monash University’s Colin Pouton, approved vaccines were what you first half of 2022. — ABC via RNZ 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 Queen all smiles at Royal Ascot LONDON — Queen because of the coronavirus mix of horses, extravagant Elizabeth was smiling pandemic. Her return came headwear, fancy dress, broadly as she attended two months after the death champagne and strawberries the final day of the Ascot of her husband, Prince with cream. races on Saturday, where Philip, at 99. Protesters from BEAMING QUEEN: environmental protesters Dressed in a mint-green environmental group Queen Elizabeth urged the monarch to press outfit and matching hat, the Extinction Rebellion smiles, during day politicians to act faster queen was applauded by the unfurled a banner reading five of of the Royal against climate change. crowd as she arrived to cheer “Racing to Extinction” at the Ascot horserace The 95-year-old Queen, on four horses she owns that racecourse on Saturday. The meeting, at Ascot a keen racing fan and were racing on Saturday. group said four women glued Racecourse, in racehorse owner, has She smiled broadly as she themselves to their banner Ascot, England on attended Ascot almost every inspected one of her horses, and chained themselves Saturday. AP picture year of her seven-decade Reach for the Moon, after it to the fence in a protest reign. She was absent last finished a close second. intended to be seen by the year, when the event was The annual racing meeting queen. She was not nearby held without spectators west of London is a heady at the time. — AP

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s sole of Bushehr. It went online in 2011 with Bushehr is fuelled by uranium produced nuclear power plant has undergone help from Russia. Iran is required to send in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by School collapse kills five an unexplained temporary emergency spent fuel rods from the reactor back the United Nations’ International Atomic PARIS — A school undergoing construction shutdown, state TV to Russia as a nuclear Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA did work collapsed in the Belgian city of Antwerp, reported on Sunday. nonproliferation measure. not immediately respond to request for killing five workers and injuring nine others, An official from Official says temporary Earlier on Sunday, comment on the reported shutdown. according to local authorities. state electric company shutdown for repairs Tavanir released a Construction on Bushehr, on the coast An investigation is under way into the cause of Tavanir, Gholamali statement saying that of the northern reaches of the Persian the accident. Rakhshanimehr, said started on Saturday the nuclear plant was Gulf, began under Iran’s shah in the mid- Firefighters and rescue dogs laboured through on a talk show that the and could last up to being repaired, without 1970s. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the night after Friday’s accident to pull out Bushehr plant shutdown four days, possibly offering further details. the plant was repeatedly targeted in the the victims one by one, while the construction began on Saturday and It said the repair work Iran-Iraq war. Russia later completed causing power outages. company cleared rubble and worked to secure would last “for three to would take until Friday. construction of the facility. the site, according to a running account on four days.” In March, nuclear The plant, which sits near active fault Twitter by the Antwerp fire service. — AP Without elaborating, official Mahmoud Jafari lines and was built to withstand powerful he said that this could result in power said the plant could stop working since quakes, has been periodically shaken by Crash kills 10 in Alabama outages. This is the first time Iran has Iran cannot procure parts and equipment temblors. There have been no significant ALABAMA — Ten people — including nine reported an emergency shutdown of the for it from Russia due to banking earthquakes reported in the area in children — have been killed in a crash involving plant, located in the southern port city sanctions imposed by the US in 2018. recent days. — AP 18 vehicles in the storm-hit US state of Alabama on Saturday. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock has said Spacewalking astronauts instal new solar panel the children’s ages ranged from nine months to 17 years old. He said the vehicles were likely to have hydroplaned on the wet roads and lost CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida— paid off, and the final step — the control. Spacewalking astronauts equipped actual unfurling — went off without Tropical Depression Claudette has caused the International Space Station with a hitch. flash flooding and tornadoes, destroying dozens the first in a series of powerful new This new solar wing — with of homes in Alabama. solar panels Sunday, overcoming five more to come — will give the Garlock said a father and nine-month- suit problems and other obstacles ageing station a much needed old girl died in one of the cars. The other with muscle and persistence. electrical boost, as demand for eight victims were in a bus belonging to the It took two spacewalks for French experiments and space tourists Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, a foster home astronaut Thomas Pesquet and grows. for abandoned, neglected or abused girls. The NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough NASA originally allotted two youngest was four years old. — BBC to instal and unfurl the panel to its spacewalks for the job — one for full 19 metres in length. each solar panel being installed. But Brothers set record The solar wing unrolled like a managers added a third spacewalk, SAN FRANCISCO — Two brothers from San red carpet once the final set of given all the earlier problems. Francisco say they have set a record for the bolts was released, relying solely Pesquet and Kimbrough will go longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite on pent-up energy. The slow but back out on Friday to complete National Park and California, the San Francisco steady extension took 10 minutes, work on the second panel delivered Chronicle reported. with station cameras providing live OPERATION SUCCESSFUL: In this image taken from NASA by Space X earlier this month. Earlier this month, they and a group of TV views. video, a solar panel is unfolded at the International Space This first pair will augment the friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, “It is beautiful,” Pesquet called Station on Sunday. Picture supplied by NASA via AP space station’s oldest solar wings, 853-metre-long line from Taft Point west across a out. “Well done, both of you,” which are degrading after 20 years series of gulleys that plunge 488 metres. Mission Control replied once the unrolling the high-tech solar panel. — and the station’s old solar panels of continuous operation. Moises and Daniel Monterrubio, brothers who operation was complete. “That was “Remember: You are butterflies were no longer soaking up sunlight SpaceX will deliver two more are training to be rope-access technicians, had great to see.” with biceps today,” astronaut Megan and generating power — before pairs over the next year. been thinking about crossing that void for a year. As the 6 1/2-hour spacewalk McArthur radioed from inside. making the final power connections. Although smaller than the “Every time we’d go out there, we’d think concluded, Kimbrough, who has After pushing and tugging, the Otherwise, they could be shocked. originals, the new solar panels about that line,” Moises Monterrubio, 26, told the three children, wished “Happy spacewalkers managed to unfold While awaiting darkness, the supplied by Boeing can generate Chronicle. Father’s Day” to all the flight and align the solar panel so both camera-and-light assembly on considerably more power. “It was pretty intense and dangerous. But we controller dads. “Thanks for halves were now end to end, Kimbrough’s helmet came loose, The space station needs this made it happen,” Monterrubio(s) said. working with us on a Sunday.” resembling a roll of paper towels. even though he’d switched to a re-energising if NASA hopes to The longest line walked in Yosemite had been a The astronauts started Sunday’s Their shout of “Woo-hoo!” was met different suit to avoid the trouble he keep the space station running the 291-metre extending from Taft Point to an anchor spacewalk picking up where they with applause in Mission Control. encountered last time. Pesquet did rest of this decade, with private east. The new line was almost three times that left off Wednesday, when a string The two had to wait until they his best to secure it with wire ties, guests paying millions of dollars to length. — AP of problems prevented them from were back on the night side of Earth as the minutes ticked by. His effort come aboard. — AP ‘Get out Bolsonaro, genocidal’ Brazilians protest against president as Covid deaths top 500,000 RIO DE JANEIRO — Anti-government polls. protesters took to the streets in more In Sao Paulo, protesters dropped red than a score of cities across Brazil on balloons as a tribute to the victims of the Saturday as the nation’s confirmed death virus toll from Covid-19 soared past half a Bolsonaro’s supporters have taken million — a tragedy many critics blame more often to the streets over the past on President Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to month, in large part because many agree minimise the disease. with his dismissal of restrictions meant Thousands gathered in downtown Rio to stifle the coronavirus and anger that de Janeiro waving flags with slogans lockdown measures have hurt businesses. such as “Get out Bolsonaro. Government Critics say such messages, as well of hunger and unemployment.” as Bolsonaro’s promotion of disproven “Brazil is experiencing a great setback. treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, The country was an exemplary country have contributed to the soaring death toll for vaccination in the world. We have and a sluggish vaccine campaign that has widely recognised institutions, but today fully inoculated less than 12 percent of we are in a sad situation “, said Isabela the population. Gouljor, a 20-year-old student who joined The country of some 213 million the protest in Rio. people is registering nearly 100,000 new Other marchers hoisted posters infections and 2000 deaths a day. reading: “500 thousand deaths. It’s his “For the leftists, putting their followers fault,” alluding to Bolsonaro. in the streets is a way of wearing Similar marches took place in at least Bolsonaro down for the election,” said 22 or Brazil’s 26 states, as well as in Leandro Consentino, a political science the Federal District, Brasilia. They were professor at Insper, a university in Sao promoted by left-wing opposition parties Paulo. PROTESTS DECRY BRAZIL POLICIES: A woman holds a sign with a message who have been heartened by Bolsonaro’s “But at the same, time they are that reads in Portuguese; “500,000, government of death” during a protest against declining poll ratings with next year’s contradicting themselves and losing Brazilian President’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and economic policies presidential race looming. the discourse of maintaining health which they say, harm the interests of the poor and working class, in Brazil. AP picture “Get out Bolsonaro, genocidal,” yelled care, because they are causing the same Rio demonstrators, some of them wearing agglomerations as Bolsonaro.” although his allies and foes differ a message of strength to those who T-shirts or masks with the image of Saturday’s marches came a week after dramatically on the size of that event. are investigating the actions of his former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula Bolsonaro led a massive motorcycle “Bolsonaro needs to show that he government in Congress,” Consentino da Silva — who leads Bolsonaro in some parade of supporters in Sao Paulo, maintains significant support to give said. — AP 16 TELEVISION The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 MONDAY—TUESDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 RACING 19 Auckland Cup winner ready to commence spring preparation AUCKLAND — Trainer Bill Pomare is eagerly Billy or “Ollie” as he is affectionately known gets and the whole Pomare family, having a runner in Pomare admits he is a little bit of a fish out of awaiting a visit from the local farrier this week fitted with new shoes and returns to stable life the Melbourne Cup would be a dream come true water when it comes to getting a horse ready for as the signal his stable star and family favourite after nearly three months in the paddock. and one that Pomare is hoping he can achieve. a race like the Melbourne Cup so will be relying Ocean Billy is ready to take the first step on the “He’s done really well and I’m looking forward “I definitely want to go to the Melbourne Cup on advice from several sources throughout Ollie’s road to a potentially life-changing event later this to the farrier putting some shoes on him and as it is probably the last chance I will ever have to campaign year. getting him back to the stable,” Pomare said. have a runner in the race,” he said. “I will be speaking to the Victorian handicapper Pomare put aside the Gr.1 Auckland Cup “He’s put on a fair bit of weight, although he “No matter what the situation is regarding his to get a gauge on where we would sit in the (3200m) winner in late March and has been has been running around and doing a bit of pre- qualification for the race, I think he has earned the handicap and qualifying status and then working mulling over a spring campaign that could lead training on his own accord. right to have a shot at making it happen. the programme back from there. him all the way to the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) “He’s such a clean-winded horse that it won’t “I know for me and my family it would be the “Ideally I would like to give him two races in at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November. take much to get him going again.” ultimate result regardless of how he performed on New Zealand and then head to Australia. That plan commences next week when Ocean For the affable 72-year-old Pomare, wife Suzi the day.” — NZ Racing Desk Chrictchurch greys at Addington Tuesday Jetbet 3 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 Happy Birthday Stephen Hurd 12.30 8 48427 Sea Spray Bert 17.47 Barry Freeman 5 54267 Iylah Jewel 17.61 Craig Roberts 2 48645 Macadoodle 30.35 J & D Fahey Race 1: CLAWS IN CREED, KING KOBE, CLAWS IN GAGA EMERGENCIES: 6 44467 Memoir 17.26 Dylan Voyce 3 112 It’s A Babe 30.29 J & D Fahey $1745, C1/2, 295m 9 s8845 Golden Kiwi 17.80 John McMillan 7 44366 Mulberry Sox 17.28 Ken Cassidy Race 2: HILTON JONESY, GORILLA’S SMILE, BELFAST DEMO 4 175 Goldstar Rio 31.20 Riley Evans 1 17354 Gorilla’s Smile 17.46 Allan Joyce 10 44785 Goldstar Dawson 17.44 Riley Evans 8 7311 Girl Vienna 17.57 Rosemary Blackburn Race 3: OPAWA PIP, ADOBE JUNIOR, FRANK 5 76686 Miss Cairo nwtd John McInerney 2 77644 Belfast Demo 17.31 Hart & Taylor EMERGENCIES: Race 4: JOYFUL TEARS, MITCHAM HAMISH, 6 21332 Goldstar Devon 30.65 Riley Evans 3 31553 Opa’s Joy 17.33 Ray Casey 5 Active Electrical Christchurch 1.23 9 s8845 Golden Kiwi 17.80 John McMillan 7 32131 Nalaya Bale 30.42 Craig Roberts GOLDSTAR WILLA 4 12253 Goldstar Royal 17.47 Riley Evans $2565, C1, 520m 10 86875 Goldstar Rebel 17.22 Riley Evans 8 45872 Dyna Varsity 30.11 Craig Roberts Race 5: JAGETTI BALE, DUBLIN EXPRESS, USAIN BALE 5 24575 Goldstar Aria 17.29 Riley Evans Race 6: TAIERI TERRA, AMURI EARLY, BILLY BUDD 6 62872 Zola Black 17.41 Craig Roberts 1 2713 Goldstar Butters 30.85 Riley Evans 8 Happy Birthday Janine McCook 2.19 11 Sandridge Hotel Dash 3.16 Race 7: GIRL VIENNA, MEMOIR, HOMEBUSH CHLOE 7 26234 Know Farewell 17.37 Garry Cleeve 2 53433 Dublin Express 30.22 J & D Fahey 3 57833 Usain Bale 30.48 Craig Roberts $4680, C1/2, distance, 645m $2095, C3, 295m Race 8: IT’S A BLAZE, STUDENT LOAN, OPAWA LUCY 8 25541 Hilton Jonesy 17.42 Bruce Dann EMERGENCIES: 4 42252 Making News 30.46 Bruce Dann 1 32136 Student Loan 38.15 J & D Fahey 1 41877 Homebush Poppy 17.45 John McInerney Race 9: GOLDSTAR DARWIN, YANIRA BALE, 9 s8845 Golden Kiwi 17.80 John McMillan 5 46647 Goldstar Alaska 30.43 Riley Evans 2 12121 It’s A Blaze nwtd J & D Fahey 2 s2626 Culvie Dole 17.48 Hart & Taylor GOING GORILLAS 10 44785 Goldstar Dawson 17.44 Riley Evans 6 7836s Jagetti Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 3 24256 Troublesome Kev 37.88 Janine McCook 3 25616 Calm Inferno 17.16 Bruce Dann Race 10: IT’S A BABE, NALAYA BALE, GOLDSTAR DEVON 7 35568 Adobe Flame 30.87 Matt Roberts 4 34423 Opawa Lucy nwtd J & D Fahey Race 11: TAIERI FINN, CULVIE DOLE, EZRA BLUEBLOOD 3 Hart Family Greyhound Racing 12.48 8 32511 Goldstar Ange 30.83 Riley Evans 5 33125 Goldstar Tudor 38.35 Riley Evans 4 15865 Amuri Liv 17.16 John McInerney Race 12: BYE BYE PUNTER, KNOW CRIME, TREMONTI $3450, C0, 520m 6 71448 Hairpin Trigger nwtd J & D Fahey 5 21185 Know Charisma 17.19 Garry Cleeve 6 Anglers Arms Tavern Dash 1.40 7 64521 Diamond Crusade nwtd Malcolm Grant 6 35421 Taieri Finn 17.38 Ray Casey 1 56881 Barbara’s Angel nwtd John McInerney 7 32312 Ezra Blueblood 17.19 John McInerney $1510, C1, 295m 8 45226 Mr Blackjack 37.92 J & D Fahey 2 84645 Goldstar Smiles nwtd Riley Evans 8 48115 Penny Jane 17.30 Hart & Taylor 3 3343 Goldstar Charm nwtd Riley Evans 1 23124 Amuri Early 17.55 John McInerney 9 Kolorful Kanvas Sprint 2.39 EMERGENCIES: 4 Opawa Pip nwtd Robin Wales 2 44242 Taieri Terra 17.31 Ray Casey 5 22432 Adobe Junior nwtd Matt Roberts $1745, C1/2, 295m 9 42346 Button It 17.31 Janine McCook 3 25483 Pascale Jewel 17.66 Mitchell & Smith 10 17176 Impressive High 17.45 John McInerney 6 6 Carlos Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts 4 68563 Mustard Custard 17.80 Allan Joyce 1 24518 Goldstar Slater 17.51 Riley Evans 7 85322 Frank nwtd John McInerney 5 33527 Goldstar Lorenzo 17.65 Riley Evans 2 17851 Going Gorillas 17.34 Allan Joyce 8 56644 Goldstar Vargas nwtd Riley Evans 12 Livamol Sprint 3.32 6 57877 Homebush Bomber 17.26 John McInerney 3 73241 Yanira Bale 17.33 Riley Evans EMERGENCIES: 7 44245 Billy Budd 17.51 Alan Botherway 4 62553 Opa’s Mate 17.41 Ray Casey $2095, C3, 295m 1 The Fitz Sports Bar Sprint 12.13 9 Opawa Albert nwtd Robin Wales $1425, C0, 295m 10 47465 Snippet Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts 8 63878 Sea Spray Ash 17.37 Barry Freeman 5 17884 Spice Spice Baby 17.32 Ashley Bradshaw 1 24134 Know Crime 17.49 Garry Cleeve EMERGENCIES: 6 82521 Goldstar Darwin 17.55 Riley Evans 2 74131 Bye Bye Punter 17.53 Robin Wales 1 Claws In Creed nwtd Matt Roberts 4 kiwikiwihounds.co.nz Adoption 1.05 9 s8845 Golden Kiwi 17.80 John McMillan 7 67174 Punch On Buzz 17.28 John McInerney 3 31278 Angry Pete 17.35 John McInerney 2 7 Rosa Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts 10 16758 Wizard Willie 17.69 Hart & Taylor 8 56532 Mulberry Brit 17.42 Ken Cassidy 4 85578 Culvie Ness 17.22 Hart & Taylor 3 66667 Goldstar Justice nwtd Riley Evans $1510, C1, 295m EMERGENCIES: 5 15257 Alexia 17.40 Hart & Taylor 4 772 Goldstar Monroe nwtd Riley Evans 1 65626 Jingili Jill 17.37 Mitchell & Smith 7 Garrard’s Horse & Hound 1.57 9 s8845 Golden Kiwi 17.80 John McMillan 5 7674 Beauden John nwtd Daniel Roberts 6 42364 Know Ratio 17.29 Garry Cleeve 2 57636 Culvie Pub 17.62 Hart & Taylor $1510, C1, 295m 10 44785 Goldstar Dawson 17.44 Riley Evans 6 Claws In Gaga nwtd Matt Roberts 3 74521 Joyful Tears 17.49 Daniel Roberts 7 32513 Starr Blueblood 17.23 John McInerney 7 47645 Milan nwtd Rosemary Blackburn 4 35243 Mitcham Hamish 17.38 John McInerney 1 63356 Goldstar Farryn 17.47 Riley Evans 10 Amber Cleaning Services 2.57 8 11443 Tremonti 17.28 Bruce Dann 8 King Kobe nwtd Daniel Lane 5 81754 Fear All Pounamu 17.62 Michael Butler 2 23578 Marakesh Max 17.47 John McInerney EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCY: 6 55424 Goldstar Willa 17.39 Riley Evans 3 14663 Just Stagger 17.48 John McInerney $2565, C1, 520m 9 42346 Button It 17.31 Janine McCook 9 46768 My Merit nwtd Allan Joyce 7 514 Homebush Jet nwtd John McInerney 4 51 Homebush Chloe 17.64 John McInerney 1 47462 Goldstar Vale 30.55 Riley Evans 10 17176 Impressive High 17.45 John McInerney

New South Wales races at Hawkesbury Tuesday TAB doubles 3-4, 6-7 Trebles 2-3-4, 5-6-7 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6-7 Selections 2 Blacktown Workers Club 3.25 8 692 Starstruck Barbie (10) 56.5 90 5 3456s Tight Ropes (2) 57 92 T Clark 10 3s736 High Academy h (11) 56 92 Ms R King Race 1: HIGGINS, LAW PARTY, TEXCEL Ms J Taylor 6 2667s Fox Fighter (3) 56.5 92 S Clipperton 11 27s66 Tormund h (10) 55 86 J Innes Jnr $35,000, Class 1, 1600m 9 Seda (5) 56 84 Ms R King 7 Hadouken (13) 56.5 93 K Jennings 12 1067s Dragon’s Shadow twh (5) 55 83 Race 2: SUPREMO, LIGHT UP MY WORLD, THAILAND 1 5s102 Supremo b (7) 61 91 J Bowman 10 0s97 Tympanist (1) 56 92 T Schiller (a2) 8 Monster Bisque (8) 56.5 94 J Innes Jnr S Guymer Race 3: ARMOUR FORCE, SEDA, VYNER 2 s921s Sacramento Joe t (6) 59 96 J Collett 9 5s Revivalist (4) 56.5 98 A Adkins Race 4: SNIPER LEGEND, PENDING, ARMANI BLAZE 4 Lander Toyota Prov & Ctry 4.40 3 5s351 Edge Of Darkness w (8) 58 100 10 2 Distantness (11) 55 100 R Bayliss 7 Royal Richmond Hotel 6.25 Race 5: AMUNGEE, CHALKLEY, LAKE KASTORIA T Schiller (a2) $35,000, Maiden, 1100m EMERGENCIES: $35,000, Benchmark 64, 1800m Race 6: TAGS, LAKE TAI, ART OF EXCELLENCE 11 35s Zattastar (9) 57 90 4 31 Remus w (2) 57.5 95 S Guymer 1 3 Pending h (7) 59 100 Ms R King 1 s7447 Controlthewitness w (1) 61.5 89 Race 7: BOB, KARMAZONE, TISANE 12 94 Sizzle Chic (14) 55 95 5 68761 Turnaround Time w (3) 57.5 96 2 76 Questar h (1) 58.5 85 G Buckley Ms L Day (a1.5) G Buckley 3 2s Sniper Legend h (5) 57 95 J Collett 13 8s7 Dee’s Delight (6) 57 86 14 6267 A Land Of h (12) 57 88 2 s4450 Man Of Sinn (7) 59 93 J Bowman 6 5s621 Light Up My World dw (1) 57 97 T Clark 4 749s Armani Blaze (2) 56 83 Ms J Taylor 3 s0935 Karmazone wh (14) 58.5 88 A B Collett 7 5s734 Thailand w (5) 56.5 99 Ms R King 5 7 Playful (8) 56 86 S Clipperton 6 XXXX Gold Handicap 5.50 4 28151 Telfer dw (3) 58 97 8 s4231 Awesome Choice w (4) 55 96 6 330 Charlemagne (10) 55.5 91 A B Collett 5 04142 Hendo’s Magic wh (12) 57.5 88 S Clipperton 7 6267 A Land Of h (3) 55 88 T Clark $35,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 64, 1300m Ms W Costin 8 89856 Bella Days (4) 55 85 Ms N Burrells (a3) 1 411s1 Tags dw (4) 60.5 98 N Heywood 6 47202 Bob cwb (8) 57 100 S Clipperton 1 HRC Motel Plate 2.50 3 Independent Liquor Group 4.05 9 s77s3 Electrifying Lady (9) 55 82 2 2050s Deadly Impact (6) 60 85 B Spriggs 7 88s64 Crown Affair w (15) 56.5 88 B Ryan (a) $35,000, 3yo & up Maiden SW, 1400m Ms E Meredith (a3) 3 8s456 Lord Zoulander tw (8) 60 100 8 07914 De Valera twn (6) 56.5 88 J Collett $35,000, 2yo Maiden, 1400m 10 94 Lady Lucilla h (6) 55 90 T Schiller (a2) 1 Across (6) 59 90 Ms R King D Gibbons (a3) 9 00193 My Girl Ruby dh (2) 56 92 G Buckley 1 42 Armour Force b (6) 58 98 R Bayliss 2 063 Bye Bye Charlie h (3) 59 92 T Clark 5 Pink Finss Charity Plate 5.15 4 44s08 Gironde dw (7) 59 90 Ms W Costin 10 53s89 Tisane (13) 56 89 Ms R King 3 0s774 Gorshin (5) 59 91 P Romeo 2 Gigantic (7) 58 80 A Adkins 5 32103 Lake Tai (2) 59 97 B Lerena 11 30052 Lunar Rain w (10) 55 87 T Schiller (a2) 4 32 Higgins (1) 59 100 A B Collett 3 Loch Eagle (3) 58 83 J Collett $35,000, Maiden SW, 1100m 6 s6336 Mercury d (1) 57 90 S Clipperton 12 95914 Eden Vale w (9) 55 91 J Ford 5 26s5 Law Party b (4) 59 100 J Parr 4 Not A Single Bid (2) 58 83 J Bowman 1 6252 Chalkley (5) 59 99 J Ford 7 1321s Command King dw (3) 56.5 90 J Bowman 13 8s847 Happy Hustler wh (11) 55 86 J Penza 6 238s3 Texcel (2) 59 96 J Bowman 5 4 On Bail (8) 58 100 S Clipperton 2 2227s Amungee (1) 57 99 Ms R King 8 7888s Pauldron w (9) 56.5 87 K Jennings 14 27s85 The Towers h (5) 55 84 P Scorse (a3) 7 340s2 Twice On Sunday (7) 57 97 6 Vyner (4) 58 83 J Parr 3 Lake Kastoria (10) 57 92 J Collett 9 7s144 Art Of Excellence w (12) 56 93 15 95888 Dynamic Dynasty dwh (4) 55 79 H Van Der Hoven 7 8 Island Press (9) 57.5 86 T Clark 4 3345s Latin Lyric b (7) 57 99 Ms K O’Hara Ms K O’Hara B Spriggs

Victoria races at Pakenham Synthetic Tuesday TAB doubles 3-4, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Selections 2 R&C Asphalt Plate 3.30 EMERGENCY: 8 810s8 Hard Squeeze w (9) 61 98 M Allen 6 0326s One For Rocky w (16) 62 86 L Riordan Race 1: BRAZEN BULLY, FREE WILMA, 13 0s908 Starmania (13) 57 83 9 17s80 Alarah d (4) 60 90 M Dee 7 70243 Rhode Scholar (12) 62 94 $23,000, Maiden SW, 1200m 10 30s03 Lobster Noodles dw (14) 60 100 E Brown T Stockdale (a) DIAMONDSANDJEWELS 1 36s7 Barringer (12) 59.5 89 B Mertens 4 Momentum Gaming Plate 4.30 11 22723 All Tiara d (10) 59.5 95 B Mertens 8 145s7 Two Shots dw (4) 62 93 J Maskiell Race 2: TESSNEEM, GALAXY RULER, REYNAIRE 2 65365 Bishop Rock (1) 59.5 93 M Allen $23,000, Maiden SW, 1600m EMERGENCIES: 9 447s5 Iskra tdw (11) 61.5 95 E Brown Race 3: MISS KEELER, COVENT GARDEN, SABAKU 12 s6840 Villager dbn (5) 61.5 95 B Park 10 46802 Unchain My Bike dw (6) 61.5 96 3 3265s Uranium (3) 59.5 93 B Melham 1 0 Bench Press (10) 59.5 94 M Allen Race 4: CADDY, ZA’EX, CAMERATA 13 37223 El Chaparro dbn (13) 60 93 B Mertens 4 228s6 Making Headway (10) 57.5 90 A Lynch 2 346s8 Honour Of Clare (4) 59.5 95 Race 5: EL CHAPARRO, BIG DARRYL, A FIGHTING FURY 14 18s07 Foot Foot d (15) 57 89 11 s334s Justjules (3) 60.5 84 B Park 5 023s3 Ol’ Dollor b (9) 57.5 89 J Mott Ms A Kelly (a1.5) Race 6: NAMA DUDE, MANHATTAN STING, THE SPANIARD 15 10s08 Timely Manner d (11) 61.5 94 J Mott 12 85732 Jolie’s Choice (1) 59 93 J Hill 6 2 Tessneem (15) 57.5 100 D Thornton 3 6 It’s Never Enuff (3) 59.5 95 Race 7: BLOOD SWEAT TEARS, RHODE SCHOLAR, ISKRA 7 4 Barclay’s Bank (8) 57 96 C Rawiller (a) 6 Watch Live On Sportsbet 5.30 EMERGENCIES: Race 8: SUBRUNNER, HELL OF A BOY, TOORAK WARRIOR Ms A Kelly (a1.5) 4 s3573 Keep Ya Distance (15) 59.5 100 13 4s98s Vain Tiger w (9) 61 88 M Dee 8 4 Galaxy Ruler (11) 57 91 M Dee D Thornton $22,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 58, 2200m 14 s7467 Feeling Good w (10) 58.5 93 J Mott 9 Martini Crusader (4) 57 92 B Allen 5 56s53 Shock Zone (16) 59.5 97 J Hill 1 67172 Dubawi Prince w (1) 64 95 15 72587 We Want Frankie d (7) 59.5 88 A Lynch 10 73 Reynaire (14) 57 94 M Zahra 6 s937s Za’ex (7) 59.5 99 M Zahra J Richards (a2) 16 54505 Orakai (2) 57 91 T Stockdale (a) 11 35 Billiethefillie (16) 55 95 T Stockdale (a) 7 24569 Always Definite (1) 57.5 95 A Lynch 2 1s960 All Fairy Prince dw (9) 63 95 M Allen 8 Sportsbet Bet With Mates 6.30 12 Pokrifki (2) 55 95 J Richards (a2) 8 554 Caddy (11) 57.5 99 J Mott 3 s5137 The Spaniard w (10) 62.5 100 J Allen EMERGENCIES: 9 s57s4 Camerata (9) 57.5 97 4 96531 Manhattan Sting c (4) 62 98 B Mertens $22,000, Benchmark 58, 1200m 13 4s60 Mercer (17) 59.5 94 J Noonan 10 76646 Iris West (14) 57.5 98 C Newitt 5 83472 Nama Dude w (13) 61.5 95 1 82828 Subrunner (15) 64.5 92 Ms K Quilty (a3) 14 7 Get On The Gas (13) 57 92 M Zahra 11 0 My Man Godfrey (8) 57 95 W Price (a) Ms A Kelly (a1.5) 2 35368 Toorak Warrior tdwn (6) 64.5 96 15 7s Future Charm (5) 57.5 86 B Allen EMERGENCIES: 6 15644 Wineglass Bay (6) 60.5 95 J Maskiell Ms A Kelly (a1.5) 16 0s0 Power Crunch (7) 57 92 J Benbow 12 0s Thoughtful Lad b (5) 59.5 98 M Dee 7 5s409 Able Warrior d (3) 60 88 Ms J Da Rose 3 5731s Hell Of A Boy (14) 64 90 17 5566s Only Guessing b (6) 57.5 77 13 80 Warsash (6) 59.5 90 B Higgins 8 0s826 Sublime Diva dw (12) 60 98 P Moloney Ms C Gaudray (a2) Ms A Bryan (a2) 1 John Duff & Co Plate 3.00 14 560 Never More Poysed (12) 59.5 97 9 42843 Irish Shotgun (5) 59.5 96 4 312s6 Invincible Bay d (10) 64 93 3 Schweppes Plate 4.00 C Robertson 10 7s976 Tyrannto (8) 59 92 L Riordan J Richards (a2) $23,000, Maiden SW, 1000m 15 577 Our Marli Jay (17) 57.5 98 11 8s693 Dangerous Spin tcwn (11) 58 93 R Tan 5 s3991 Hilverston cd (2) 63.5 98 B Melham 1 s255s Brazen Bully b (3) 59.5 99 B Melham $23,000, 3yo Fillies Maiden SW, 1400m T Stockdale (a) 12 27736 Jacin Talee t (2) 56 93 T Stockdale (a) 6 31064 Kashiwa dn (12) 63.5 89 C Robertson 2 6s Headquarters (5) 59.5 92 H Grace 1 Affo Double Shot (2) 57 91 16 0s98 Miss Hendrix (2) 57.5 96 EMERGENCY: 7 50662 Scorpius w (17) 63.5 99 J Mott 13 s090s Hampz (7) 54 86 Ms C Gaudray (a2) 3 s9800 Rewardus (2) 59.5 92 Ms A Bryan (a2) 17 96995 Doctor Rick (13) 59.5 98 8 460s3 La Zola d (3) 62 99 E Brown Ms M Lawrence (a3) 2 83s9s Covent Garden (3) 57 91 M Zahra 5 Duffy Simon & Co 5.00 7 Spendthrift Australia 6.00 9 72s14 Sinead dn (1) 62 98 B Prebble 4 2s46 Diamondsandjewels (10) 57.5 96 3 Danzillo (6) 57 91 Ms C Gaudray (a2) 10 5s142 Paparazzi Queen (11) 61.5 100 B Allen B Allen 4 05 Dulcima (7) 57 96 M Dee $22,000, Benchmark 58, 1600m $22,000, Benchmark 58, 1400m 11 34s05 Savalona (9) 61.5 96 J Allen 5 25s26 Free Wilma b (7) 57.5 99 J Hill 5 070s Estrella (4) 57 91 1 07s66 A Fighting Fury tn (2) 63 92 1 0s433 Blood Sweat Tears wb (13) 64 100 12 1s00s She’s ‘n’ Effort c (4) 61.5 97 M Dee 6 588s2 Gertanie (8) 57.5 100 A Lynch 6 58s0 Flaming Victory (11) 57 77 C Rawiller (a) L McNeil (a2) J Richards (a2) EMERGENCIES: 7 Rathkeale (9) 57.5 95 W Gordon 7 362 Gorgonado (8) 57 93 B Higgins 2 s5622 Big Darryl db (6) 62.5 97 J Richards (a2) 2 — Bill The Bee SCRATCHED 13 38s93 Unicorny wn (5) 61.5 96 T Stockdale (a) 8 9s727 Write To Rossa (1) 57.5 97 C Newitt 8 3s55 Hellion Of Cluster (10) 57 95 J Mott 3 26s79 Montalbano d (1) 62 93 J Hill 3 16264 Full Of Theories tc (5) 63.5 92 14 139s9 Mnemba w (13) 61 88 E Brown 9 Duty Dynasty (12) 57 95 M Zahra 9 890s0 Ivunka (5) 57 89 C Newitt 4 97651 Xingyun cw (7) 62 98 C Robertson M Cartwright (a) 15 90s26 Troubleshot tcdw (16) 62.5 95 M Allen 10 Ebony King (4) 57 95 M Dee 10 4 Miss Keeler (1) 57 96 T Stockdale (a) 5 9s699 Lesmurdie n (3) 61.5 98 J Maskiell 4 69473 Robe De Fete tdn (14) 63 93 16 6s531 Halvoya t (7) 60 96 11 Side Bet (11) 57 98 J Noonan 11 5s65 Princess Violet (9) 57 93 J Noonan 6 15334 Manning Road dwn (12) 61.5 92 B Allen Ms A Kelly (a1.5) 17 074s6 No New Tricks tw (8) 62 95 12 0s Camporeale (6) 55 95 J Bowditch 12 32s22 Sabaku b (12) 57 100 B Allen 7 05219 Fantome Lady cn (8) 61 98 Ms J Da Rose 5 s38s6 Foxgossip dw (8) 62.5 95 P Moloney 18 30s53 Curious Heart wn (18) 60 93 B Park

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. 20 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 Red Bull run rampant Hamilton second, Mercedes’ strategy found wanting MOTORSPORT by Philip Duncan, PA Hamilton’s race engineer Peter Bonnington told Hamilton after seeing Verstappen assume the lead. LE CASTELLET — Max Verstappen has roared Hamilton kept Verstappen on his toes, moving past world champion Lewis Hamilton on the to within half-a-second of him but failing to make a penultimate lap to win the French Grand Prix real impression. and strengthen his lead in the Formula One With 21 laps to go, Verstappen came in for championship race. a second change of tyres. It was a bold call by Verstappen stopped one more time than his Red Bull, and one that would win them the race. JUMBO CROSSWORD SOLUTION rival in Sunday’s race after Red Bull rolled the Mercedes knew Verstappen would retake the lead 1495 tactical dice and outfoxed their Mercedes rivals. if they brought Hamilton in, so kept the Briton and ACROSS: 1 Suite, 4 Tilt at windmills, 14 Drain, 15 Mimic, 16 Ridiculous Indeed, Hamilton will be left questioning a Bottas out in the hope they would be able to get 17 19 20 21 22 25 27 series of strategy calls by his team after he led the to the flag. Lance, Elf, Outlook, Diversion, Envied, Bandstand, opening exchanges of the race. Verstappen overhauled an 18-second deficit Desire, 28 Peddle, 33 Formulated, 35 All, 36 Combat, 37 Avid, 39 Era, Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez in 20 laps. He passed Bottas with nine to go 41 Gaining, 42 Asylum, 43 Candidate, 44 Merge, 45 Greatest, 50 Ra, 51 also fought his way past Bottas to take third place, and, with three laps remaining, was just 1.5 secs Immodest, 55 Spine, 58 Portfolio, 59 Atomic, 60 Stirrup, 61 Eel, 63 Dock, with the Finn fourth, McLaren’s Lando Norris fifth behind Hamilton. and Daniel Ricciardo sixth. On the following lap he made his move at the 64 Devoid, 65 Irk, 66 Consonants, 68 Seesaw, 69 Triple, 71 Associate, Verstappen, who crossed the line 2.9 seconds chicane. 76 Factor, 77 Tolerable, 79 Pannier, 81 Due, 84 Disco, 85 Indistinct, 86 clear of Hamilton, has extended his championship “When we made the call to do a two-stop lead to 12 points. strategy, it paid off,” said Verstappen following his Musty, 87 Eerie, 88 Wish you were here, 89 Askew. The PuzzleCompany

DOWN: 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 © Hamilton led the first 19 of 53 laps. Verstappen third win of the season. “We had to work hard for it Unique, Trill, Iris, Tuition, Toupee, Irons, Despots, carried too much speed into the opening corner but it was very rewarding. 10 Idle, 11 Lining, 12 Faded, 13 Sniffle, 14 Devised, 18 Condolence, 23 and fell off the track allowing Hamilton to assume “The whole race we were fighting each other State, 24 Grimace, 26 Ammonia, 27 Dilemma, 29 Deviate, 30 Hot air, 31 the lead. so it is going to be like this for the rest of the Walls, 32 Magnum, 34 Dusk, 36 Carry, 38 Dwelt, 40 Lino, 45 Gaped, 46 Verstappen rejoined the track to keep Bottas season.” behind and that is how the order remained until Hamilton said: “I am not sure how we lost the Earache, 47 Tofu, 48 Seller, 49 Fired, 50 Realise, 52 Methodical, 53 the opening round of stops. position today. We didn’t know how strong that Dormant, 54 Stunts, 55 Sojourn, 56 Books, 57 Zinc, 62 Union, 67 Bar Mercedes kept Hamilton out for an additional (undercut) was going to be.” code, 68 Studied, 70 Proviso, 72 Selfish, 73 Bonsai, 74 Hawser, 75 lap, and Verstappen took advantage of his fresh Following the chequered flag, Mercedes’ chief 76 78 80 82 83 rubber to move ahead. strategist James Vowles apologised to Hamilton, Beetle, Ferry, Endow, Nouns, Moth, Scar. JUMBOCROSSWORD Copyright “I’m not sure what happened there, mate,” saying over the radio: “That one’s on us.” THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Tuesday, June 22, 2021 SUDOKU CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Donald Faison, 47; Cyndi Lauper, 68; Graham Greene, 69; Meryl Streep, 72. Happy Birthday: Expand your mind, check out the possibilities and explore how you can SUDOKU is a logic puzzle made use your skills in new ways that will bring in extra cash and make you feel up of 81 squares on a 9x9 grid. passionate about your long-term plans. 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It’s a good time to start new projects. 24 Polish; 25 Golf balls; 26 Bowl; 22. Built (7) 18. Wide awake (5) THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals. 27 Ballerina. TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. 23. Well-known (5) 19. So be it (4) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 SPORT 21 Magic touches earn the points FOOTBALL by John Gillies player-coach Venema called on his players came close to scoring but Higham cleared PACIFIC PREMIERSHIP to go up a gear. off the line. TWO passages of play with a touch of Within the first five minutes of the second Higham and Mal Scammell were P W D L F A GD Pts magic kept Gisborne United at the top of half, the Port Hill goalkeeper came out to “awesome” in the middle of defence for Gisborne Utd 10 9 1 0 32 6 26 28 football’s Pacific Premiership on Saturday. pick up a ball that had been played in from United, Venema said. Maycenvale 11 9 0 2 37 15 22 27 Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United’s midfield to the left-hand side of the Corey Adams shone in his attacking Napier City Rov 11 8 1 2 29 13 16 25 United beat reigning champions Port Hill penalty area. midfield role and Josh Harris was lively out Port Hill United 10 5 0 5 19 15 4 15 2-0 in Napier, thanks to goals from Corey In trying to get a counter-attack going on the left. Taradale 10 4 0 6 18 21 -3 12 Adams and Kieran Venema. quickly, the ’keeper mis-hit his kick. Venema said he was pleased that when Napier Marist 11 2 2 7 11 35 -24 8 About 30 minutes in, Adams controlled a Venema, in the holding midfield position, United went 2-0 up they continued trying to Havelock NW 11 1 1 9 17 37 -20 4 cutback pass from leftback Malcolm Marfell, moved on to the ball from halfway, trapped play constructive football. West Rangers 10 1 1 8 17 38 -21 4 beat two players in the penalty area and it around the edge of the centre-circle and “We kept the ball for quite long periods,” On Saturday, United play City Rovers then curled a right-footed shot in at the struck it with the right-boot laces from 35 he said. at Harry Barker Reserve, then they play bottom right corner. metres. It went in at the top right corner. “I was really impressed, because the Taradale away on July 3, Maycenvale in It had started with a throw-in midway That wasn’t the first time Venema had ground was muddy.” Gisborne on July 10 and Western Rangers in the United half and progressed up the scored such a goal. The competition is entering its final in Gisborne on July 17. field with a passing move that included Playing for Team Gisborne a few years stages. The game against United on July 10 will centreback Kieran Higham, central ago, he scored in similar circumstances United’s closest rivals, Maycenvale and be Maycenvale’s last league game of the midfielder Dane Thompson, Marfell and against Maycenvale. Napier City Rovers Seconds, also won at season. This Saturday they are away to Adams before Marfell got to the byline and Ten minutes after Saturday’s goal, the weekend, but United — by beating Port Western Rangers and on July 3, home to cut the ball back. Venema came off for Sam Royston, who Hill — have reduced the title race from four Napier Marist Seconds. Until then, United had enjoyed the better made an impact on the right wing, several runners to three. After this weekend, City Rovers Seconds of the contest but had been unable to times getting to the byline and crossing. Gisborne United have a game in hand on will be at home to Port Hill on July 3 capitalise on their dominance. Port Hill came back at United, pressing Maycenvale and City Rovers but arguably and away to Havelock North Wanderers With his side one up at halftime, United until the end. Ten minutes from time they the toughest run-in. Seconds on July 10. Berrettini follows SPORTS BRIEFS Becker at Queen’s Italy ‘reserves’ Super veterans’ badminton RESULTS of super veterans’ badminton played TENNIS Minaur, who’d battled hard in in Gisborne on Saturday — yesterday’s semifinal but went Hawke’s Bay defeated Eastland 6-3; Bay of LONDON — Matteo down in straight sets. Plenty (2) def Hawke’s Bay 6-3; Oroua def Berrettini has become the first The key for Norrie was to do defeat Wales Auckland (2) 5-4; Oroua def Eastland 5-4; Bay of debutant to win the prestigious the business with his own serve Plenty def Auckland (2) 6-3. Queen’s Club Championship and then hope to eke out a FOOTBALL by Andrew Dampf, AP 1935 to ’39 with a team that had since Boris Becker in 1985 chance or two on Berrettini’s, or just won a second consecutive World Super 8 rugby results and will hope to keep following strike in the tiebreak. ROME — Coach Roberto Mancini Cup. SUPER 8 Schools Rugby, Gisborne Boys’ High the path of the German tennis So it was a huge setback has been saying for weeks that all It’s been a remarkable turnaround School v Rotorua Boys’ High School — great who went on to win when two double-faults gifted 26 members of his Italy squad are for this Italy squad, who failed to First 15s: GBHS 0 RBHS 36. Wimbledon that year. Berrettini a break early in the starters — and after the way they qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Second 15s: GBHS 10 RBHS 39. Berrettini ended Cameron opening set, which he went beat Wales 1-0 despite making eight On a warm and humid evening, Under-15s: GBHS 14 RBHS 15. Norrie’s bid to become only on to take with yet another changes to his starting line-up at Italy controlled from the start and Under-14s: GBHS 10 RBHS 12. the second Briton after Andy unreturnable serve. the European Championship, it’s Andrea Belotti and Federico Chiesa Murray to win at Queen’s since Norrie saved two break hard to argue with him. both came close to scoring before Ngati Porou East Coast rugby the Second World War — but points before moving 5-4 A victory for Mancini’s second- Pessina put the Azzurri ahead. NGATI POROU East Coast club rugby, Week 5, it was harder than many ahead in the second and had stringers today extended Italy’s Verratti earned a foul that set up Round 2 for the Jury Harrison Memorial Cup — expected for the top seed who a glimpse of an opening at 6-5, unbeaten streak to 30 matches — a free-kick on the right flank and Week 5: Tokomaru Bay United 8 Hikurangi 35, eventually prevailed 6-4 6-7 15-30 on the Berrettini serve, matching a national record — after then whipped in a low cross that Ruatoria City 21 Tokararangi 14, Tihirau Victory (5-7) 6-3 today. but it was quickly snuffed out. Matteo Pessina’s goal late in the Pessina flicked into the far corner Club 29 Hicks Bay 5. Berrettini, the first Italian to However, in the tiebreak the first half, when he redirected a free- with his back to the goal. Bye: Uawa. claim the Queen’s title, said: plan worked to perfection, Norrie kick neatly from Marco Verratti, Atalanta’s Pessina was a late “It’s been an unbelievable week nicking the mini-break, racking proved enough to seal victory. call-up to Italy’s squad following Basketball draw and to think of Boris Becker’s up three set points and taking Wales defender Ethan Ampadu an injury to Stefano Sensi, earning GISBORNE Basketball Association club name and my name together the third on serve when Berrettini was sent off with a questionable the spot by scoring his first two competition draw — TODAY, women, YMCA — is crazy. floated a backhand long. straight red card at the Stadio goals for the national team in a 5.30pm: Gisborne GHS v SE Systems. “I have been watching the Two more break points were Olimpico for stepping on Federico Championship warm-up against San 6.30pm: Masters v Turanga Health. tournament since I was a kid fended off by Norrie at 2-3 Bernardeschi 10 minutes into the Marino. 7.30pm: Ritana Toa v Manu Toa. and this is a dream come true in the decider but in his next second half. Minutes after his goal, Pessina 8.30pm: Ngati Porou v Turanga. to win it.” service game he blew a 40-0 Italy, who won their opening two had another chance but poked the Men, boys’ secondary schools division, John Berrettini was the destroyer lead, netting limply to hand matches 3-0, finished Group A with ball just wide. McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre, Gisborne of British hopes in west Berrettini the chance to serve a perfect nine points, while Wales The best chance of the half for Boys’ High School — London, having already for the championship. will also progress, having finished Wales came with a header from 5.30pm: Lytton HS v GBHS Senior B. accounted for Murray and Berrettini had won his second on four points. Chris Gunter that narrowly missed 6.30pm: GBHS Junior A v GBHS Junior B. Dan Evans with his booming previous 45 service games this Chasing only their second the top corner. 7.30pm: Campion Cougars v Campion Juniors. serves which regularly touched week, and he made it 46 — to European title, Italy will play the Italy continued to pour forward TOMORROW, men, premier grade, YMCA — 140mph. love — as he landed his fifth second-placed team from Group C at after the break and Bernardeschi 5.30pm: Green Up v GBHS Senior A. He’d also knocked out ATP title and the biggest of his Wembley next Saturday, while Wales banged a free kick off the post. 6.30pm: SE Systems v Massive Marauders. Australian No.1 Alex de career. — PA will play the second-placed team By the final whistle, Italy had 7.30pm: Raiders v City Lights. from Group B in Amsterdam. no starters from their opening two Men, B Grade, John McFarlane Memorial Sports US OPEN GOLF: Spain’s Jon Rahm had the The Azzurri, who have now matches left on the field, with even Centre, Gisborne Boys’ High School — clubhouse lead at 6-under while South Africa’s won 11 straight games without goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma 5.30pm: Hustlers v Gizzy Gilas. Louis Oosthuizen was still on the course at conceding, won 30 straight under replaced by Salvatore Sirigu in the 6.30pm: Hawaiiki Hou v Old Surfers. 5-under as The Gisborne Herald went to print. coaching great Vittorio Pozzo from closing minutes. 7.30pm: The Shed v The Bibs. Fireworks expected as second round starts BASKETBALL by Ben O’Brien-Leaf play our brand of ball.” GBHS with needed height at both ends of the court. Rongomai Smith scored 16 points in Systems’ An in-form Lights can spread the floor, lay an Ahead of the clash with Green Up, Daley Riri said: eight-point loss to City Lights last Tuesday. He hit EVERYBODY now knows the lay of the land. even-money bet on a perimeter shot falling from “Our first priority is to be focused from the start and a three-point shot, made a three-point play, scored And six weeks into the Gisborne Basketball either corner or wherever Muncaster may be: his play faster than we did in Week 2.” in the low post and attacked the rim. He and Reg Association club season, the second meeting of teammates, Ryan Walters and Carl Riini, are likewise Wilson (19pts), Russell (16) and Noble (13) led Namana, among others, did everything humanly men’s premier teams at the YMCA tomorrow night good for 20 points when inspired. the GBHS scorers in a 73-70 win to Green Up on possible for their team at the defensive end. should produce fireworks. The Raiders have been blessed in the past month May 18 but Boys’ High trailed 5-20, 23-43, 47-68, They are not men to follow up a hard-fought Green Up and Gisborne Boys’ High School will tip with the hugely successful return to basketball of never ran against an older team with only one loss with less effort, and they will be focused on at 5.30pm, mountain ranges pile in at 6.30pm with former big man Dale Hailey, whose 20 points in substitute and allowed Tyrese Tuwairua-Brown’s tomorrow’s game. Marauders skipper Adam Harford SE Systems versus The Massive Marauders and Week 5 saw the Willie Brown-led outfit home 48-44 gutsy, determined team to hit six of the nine three- was superb for 24 points, the biggest individual score the 7.30pm clash between Raiders and City Lights against GBHS. pointers they scored, unguarded. for his team this season. He was most skilful around should be something special. Brown indicated this morning that both he and Holden Wilson was magnificent for 27 points in the hoop, scoring three consecutive field goals to start City Lights championship-winning captain Scott legendary springheels Jason Tuapawa had niggles, Green Up’s cause. Such a shooter must be guarded. the third period and four straight to finish the game. Muncaster knows, after his crew’s 62-54 win against but would most likely play tomorrow night. SE Systems versus The Massive Marauders could Harford said: “We want to play at our pace while defending men’s A Grade champions Systems last GBHS dug deep in Week 5: marksman Weighn be a grind. moving the ball and defending the perimeter. Above week, that they have their basketball legs. Wilson hit two long jumpshots in his 17-point haul, In the early 2000s, clashes between the behemoth all, we want to enjoy the game.” “We played the Raiders in Game 2 on opening and Luka Russell and Rikki Noble put up six points Wairoa Wizards and the more rugged participants His opposite, SES veteran Adrian Sparks, alluded night, so we were rusty then, but have five games apiece. But Gisborne Boys’ High missed Seb Wilson the locals put on court had a comic element (SES to the close-quarters stoush to come: “First up, we under our belts now,” said Muncaster. with a back injury. He regularly scores in double- and the Marauders come close in terms of size), but have to survive the barrage inside. Then, we’ll see if “We’re starting to find our groove, so the aim is to figures and he, Russell and William Collier provide tomorrow night’s bump-fest will likely lack slapstick. we can get some shooting form going.” 22 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 Powerful display lifts NZ hopes in WTC Jamieson hails teammates after magnificent 22 overs of swing bowling CRICKET Latham (30) was the first man out, caught Boult (2-47) wrapped up the innings by Virat Kohli off Ravichandran Ashwin when Ravindra Jadeja (15) gloved a leg SOUTHAMPTON — New Zealand have (1-20). side catch to diving wicketkeeper BJ reached 101-2 at stumps to trail India by Conway, who scored 200 on debut Watling as the sun briefly came out after 116 runs in the World Test Championship against England earlier this month at Lord’s, inclement weather had disrupted the final after Kyle Jamieson put the Black Caps had scored 54 before falling to Mohammed inaugural final. in command, grabbing a five-wicket haul in Shami’s catch off Ishant Sharma (1-19). After the first day’s play was washed an exceptional display of swing bowling. New Zealand captain Kane Williamson (12 out due to rain and only 64.4 overs Tom Latham and Devon Conway had not out) and Ross Taylor (0 not out) are at were possible on the second day, a wet guided New Zealand to 70-0 on the third the crease. outfield caused a 30-minute delay on the day at the Rose Bowl but were both “When the play restarts we’ll have a slight third morning. dismissed before bad light ended the edge on them because both of the batsmen Kohli couldn’t add to his overnight evening session early on Sunday. are relatively new at the crease,” said India score as Jamieson consistently batter Shubman Gill. challenged the India skipper with full- That seems optimistic, especially after pitched deliveries, before trapping India earlier succumbed to an all-out pace him leg before wicket with late seam attack for 217 after movement. resuming the day on 146- Kohli went for a 3. I’ve just been able to television referral, but Jamieson (5-31) struck the replays clearly at the start of each of go‘ about my business, suggested the ball the first two sessions as learn off these guys and I would have gone on India lost their last seven guess just ride their coat- to hit the leg stump. wickets for 68 runs before Pant, known for his getting bowled out 30 tails a little bit aggressive batting, WINNING minutes after lunch. —Kyle’ Jamieson struggled to negotiate The 2.03-metre (6ft 8in) the seam and swing fast bowler landed the key before playing a NUMBERS wickets of Kohli (44) and Rishabh Pant (4) reckless drive off Jamieson, offering a during a six-over opening spell with the old straightforward catch in the slips. DRAW No. 2074 ball. 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40618-01 of pressure.” were calling in people who were sick to help with In Senior One rugby, Wairoa Athletic beat The Gisborne Herald does not make any assurances as to the accuracy Waikohu tried to keep the pace of the game cover. Ngatapa 47-5, Tapuae beat YMP Bumbles 48-0, of this information. Please check your tickets at a Lotto shop. quick, but HSOB did a good job of slowing it Considering the adversity the team faced and Pirates beat Waikohu 55-7. The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 21, 2021 SPORT 23 Lower seeds shine in premier grade NETBALL by Murray Robertson also worked well. off the opposition to pull ahead “Throughout the game, both convincingly,” Beale said. THE lower seeds in Gisborne teams had crucial intercepts, but “At the start of the fourth quarter, premier-grade netball gave a good the scoreline remained close, with Waikohu (3) scored six goals account of themselves at the YMCA the students just pulling ahead in before Horouta netted one and on Saturday, with two games that the dying minutes.” it was Horouta up by just one, at could have gone either way. In the other match, Horouta Gold 41-40. The games were so close that and Claydens Waikohu (3) had a “Horouta slowly pulled away both losing teams earned a bonus right royal ding-dong battle. again in the dying minutes of a point. Horouta ran out 52-47 winners in very competitive game.” Gillies Electrical Gisborne Girls’ a hard-fought game. Other results — High School Senior A came back The quarter scores show Premier Reserve: YMP Masters 35 big-time against Wairoa’s Tapuae to Waikohu up 15-7 after 15 minutes, Ritana Snr A 30, Horouta Taimana 31 take the lion’s share of the points. but the Gold team got into their Tatapouri Sportsfit 26, Crosscutters Old The students won the game play after that and things changed. Girls Whangara 28 Farmlands Ngatapa 22. 56-53 after Tapuae had led 15-9 At halftime, Horouta led 25-21, A Grade: YMP (2) 41 Pharmacy 53 at the 15-minute mark, 29-25 then at three-quartertime, 41-34. Campion Snr A 25, FarmCare High School at halftime and 41-39 at three- “Waikohu (3) started the game Old Girls 22 Taiki 18, Waikohu (2) 35 quartertime. well,” Beale said. McLeods Concrete HSOG 34. “Tapuae started well and looked “Their attackers drove speedily A Reserve: Steve Craill Builder confident with a six-goal lead on to the goal circle, working Ngatapa 40 NZHL Thistle Storm 33, they had set up early on,” netball the ball in to their shooters and Tatapouri Sportsfit (2) 29 GGHS Jnr A 22, commentator Sherrill Beale said. finishing the quarter eight goals Whalis 42 GGHS Snr B 20. “However, Girls’ High were more ahead.” First Grade: Gisborne Glass Ngatapa settled in the second quarter. From Then Horouta had a strong 29 GGHS Korihi 23, Wahine Hauora then on, they pressured Tapuae second quarter, where their HSOG 28 Tyre General Ngatapa 16. into little errors. attackers did the same — driving First Reserve: Waikohu (4) 33 Kotahi “The students worked together to on to the goal circle and delivering Aroha 20. hunt the ball through the midcourt. good passes to their shooters. Second Grade: OBM Red Social They created some turnovers and “At the other end, their defenders 27 GGHS TSA 8, XLR8 27 ALH Thistle outscored Tapuae to be down by were tighter on defence and created Phoenix 15. only four at halftime. some turnovers, which helped the “Both teams’ shooters worked team pull back the deficit and lead THREE HANDS ON THE BALL: hard all game, moving around the by four at the break.” Gisborne Girls’ High School’s goal circle intelligently and giving In that second quarter, Horouta Lily Hawea (left) gathers the ball their feeders options. outscored Waikohu (3) by 18 points under pressure from wing defence “The high lob in to goal shoot to 6. Georgina Tipuna, of Tapuae. Girls’ Kassie Owen, for Girls’ High, and “Both teams had their High won the match 56-53. to Hope Kaihe-Tahuri, for Tapuae, opportunities but could not shake Picture by Paul Rickard

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FULL STEAM AHEAD: YMP flanker Fawn White makes a break during the premier-grade rugby game against Ngatapa on Saturday. YMP won 31-27. Picture by Paul Rickard YMP win with late surge

RUGBY by Jack Malcolm weekend and, to a large extent, they succeeded. “There were 19 penalties against us . . . we scrum under pressure early, Waikohu were able They scored early and were able to shut down weren’t allowed to play to our strengths.” to open the scoring through fullback Kelvin TWO tries with less than eight minutes on the the dangerous YMP backline for much of the He said he would attend the referees’ meeting Smith when they capitalised on a mistake at the clock had YMP fans jumping for joy as their team game. this evening to express his views, and a letter back of an uncharacteristically retreating HSOB snatched victory from Ngatapa. Ngatapa coach Stephen Hickey has talked had been submitted to the Poverty Bay Rugby scrum. The 31-27 win for East Coast Farm Vets YMP throughout the season about lapses in Football Union. Smith had a fantastic game. His 34 points was a bitter pill to swallow for Larsawn Ngatapa, concentration costing his team, and Saturday Ngatapa turned up to play and he didn’t want included two tries. He kicked well from the tee, who had led from the opening five minutes. was a prime example. to take anything away from their performance, with 88 percent accuracy, and succeeded with Adding to their misery was the fact that They should have been able to close out the which he said was admirable. several tough conversions from both corners. the final try, to reserve blindside flanker Seth game with the lead they had built, but they did YMP received two yellow cards and conceded Waikohu wouldn’t have been happy with their Lundon, was an intercept, after Larsawn Ngatapa not make the right decisions when it counted. a penalty try on Saturday. first-half performance, which was lacklustre. were put under pressure at the back by a grubber Despite this, they will take confidence from Leach said he was proud of how his team HSOB struggled to protect their ball at the kick from winger Aaron McLelland. the game, knowing they can compete with the responded to adversity. breakdown, and Waikohu were able to earn Ngatapa had been in control of the game. competition’s top teams going into the playoffs in “I’m happy our forwards showed a lot of turnovers at key moments to halt any momentum They used their big front row to good effect up two weeks. resilience and discipline to get us through that that was building. the middle of the park and created long sets of Hickey said his players were disappointed to game.” Waikohu slowly chipped away at the phases. let the game slip through their fingers, but they undermanned HSOB, who started to fade.HSOB YMP had been under all sorts of pressure. were looking at the positives. WAIKOHU made a convincing statement with had named only 17 players on their teamsheet. Their only respite came when they were able to “It was a great game of rugby. Both teams just just one week of regular-season rugby left by The majority of the tries were scored in the counter-attack to good effect. took it to each other. beating High School Old Boys 54-0 at the Oval on final quarter as pressure and exhaustion told on Ngatapa’s defence held diligently when YMP “We created a couple of good tries . . . and Saturday. the HSOB players. were able to build some attacking opportunities, we just have to keep trolleying along and keep It wasn’t all smooth sailing for GT Shearing The HSOB scrum performed well early, but with the majority of their tries scored from line rolling up the hill.” Waikohu, who were put under pressure in the with the introduction of prop Jarryd Broughton breaks from outside the red zone. He wanted to thank YMP for attending their first half by Contract Consultants HSOB. At for Waikohu, they started to lose control at the Both teams played with passion, with heavy aftermatch function and celebrating hooker Ihaia halftime Waikohu led by only 12 points. set-piece. contact throughout. Kerr’s 50th game in green and white. HSOB had moments where they were battering Although HSOB haven’t recorded a The set pieces for both teams were efficient, “The camaraderie over rugby was brilliant; on the try-line, but Waikohu’s defence was too competition point so far this season, they could with few mistakes at lineout, and no clear that’s what the game’s all about.” strong. take a lot of positives out of the game. advantage to either side at scrum time. YMP will have to go back to the drawing board After an early yellow card to winger Bavai They gave Waikohu a run for their money, In front of an enthusiastic home crowd, this week to work out how they can improve. Seremaia after Waikohu were repeatedly although the scoreline doesn’t reflect it, and had Ngatapa looked as if they would run away with They won’t want to be drop-kicking penalised, HSOB looked as if they would be able moments where they looked good. the game before the late YMP surge. conversions when it is elimination rugby and the to mount some pressure on their opponents. Waikohu looked dangerous when they had the YMP had come into the game strong favourites pressure is on. But Waikohu barely felt the effect of playing ball, but they weren’t able to hold on to it. The as the top team on the Civil Project Solutions YMP head coach Brian Leach said he was with 14 men. They were able to insulate their greasy surface made for a stop-start game with a leaderboard. disappointed with what he saw as inconsistent flanks with quick line speed to break down the lot of handling errors as both teams struggled to Ngatapa had wanted to ride the momentum refereeing that hampered their attacking HSOB attack. maintain possession. of their win against High School Old Boys last opportunities. Despite being a man down and with their CONTINUED ON PAGE 22