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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Home-Delivered $1.90, Retail $2.20 TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 Ngati Porou East Coast will challenge Hawke’s Bay for the Ranfurly Shield in the country’s smallest rugby union’s centenary year. It has been confirmed the Sky Blues will take on BRING the Magpies at McLean Park in Napier on Saturday, July 24, dependent on Hawke’s Bay winning their first challenge of 2021 against North Otago. The challenge adds to an already memorable year for the Coast, which officially marks its centenary this holiday weekend, including its traditional Queen’s Birthday local derby against Poverty Bay. The picture below ON THE is of Coast players following their epic National PAGE 2 Provincial Championship second division final against Hawke’s Bay at McLean Park in 2001. CROWDED HOUSE Coast fans filled the ground to watch their beloved side outscore the Magpies five tries to Curtain Bank needs two but lose the final 30-27. It is expected the Shield challenge will attract similarly immense bigger premises SHIELD support. STORY ON PAGE 3 Herald file picture CHINA STRIKES BACK NZ, Australia slammed for ‘gross interference’ PAGES 6-7 PAGE 9 SINKING SHIP $100m offer to Team NZ not enough by Wynsley Wrigley establishment of a voluntary coast care group, increased signage, a public awareness BOLLARDS and a 20-kilometre-an-hour campaign and investigation of vehicle speed limit will be introduced at Makorori exclusion areas through the Tairawhiti Putting the Beach in response to concerns from residents Resource Management Plan review. about speeding vehicles and rapidly The report before councillors said the increasing damage to the dunes. package would be phased in. Councillors, sitting as the operations Initially the bollards and speed limit, some committee, approved the installation of signage and the development of a reserve bollards between State Highway 35 and management plan would “inform other council reserve land at Makorori, and the actions and implementation”. brakes on establishment of a reserve management plan Councillor Pat Seymour suggested finding at a cost if $125,000. external funding to cover that part of the Their decision should please residents beach that was not council-owned. who sent a deputation to talk to the council The recommendation before the council about speed and environmental concerns on would push traffic to other parts of the beach, October 29 and previously held a meeting at which would not be protected by bollards. Makorori Makorori Beach attended by Mayor Rehette Cr Seymour said she had spoken to a Stoltz, Tawhiti-Uawa ward district councillor private landowner and wanted “a package” Pat Seymour and Waka Kotahi New Zealand costed to provide more bollards. Transport Agency. “We don’t want people fenced off from Council staff did not recommend a using the beach. We want defined areas to vehicle-on-the-beach bylaw but instead be controlled and the dunes to continue to be recommended “a package of options” that will protected.” speedsters include the 20kmh speed limit on the beach, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Racing ................15 Classifieds ... 18-19 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........16 Sport ............ 20-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .......... 6-10 World............ 13-14 Farming ..............17 Weather .............23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, June 2, 2021 ‘We desperately need bigger CURTAIN CALL premises or we will have to close’ by Andrew Ashton A GISBORNE volunteer service group fear it could be curtains for their endeavour if they can’t find a bigger home. Gisborne Curtain Bank has been helping to keep homes healthy and warm for more than a decade by providing free curtains to low-income families through public donations. But the operation, run by eight volunteers, has grown so popular it has outgrown its base at an administration room at the New Zealand Red Cross Gisborne Service Centre on Palmerston Road. “It was good to start with but we’ve got more curtains coming in and we have got more well known in Gisborne and up the Coast,” lead volunteer Sharron Hall said. “We’ve just outgrown our premises and when everyone is here we’d like more room to put more sewing machines. “Donations of curtains have increased and referrals from health organisations have increased.” The Curtain Bank last year helped 101 homes by providing 1100 pairs of curtains to people referred to them by health providers or to people with a Community Services Card. “It ramps up greatly in the winter time and the donations ramp up greatly in the spring/summer. “We cover an area from Gisborne all the way up the Coast to Hicks Bay. We desperately need bigger premises or we will have to close.” Volunteer Anne Packer said it was important the Curtain Bank continued. “People are really appreciative and we have a lot of fun but it’s just too crowded now. There is such a need. “I’m here because a couple of years ago this place helped my son with curtains in a flat and my mum always brought me up that you give back if someone is kind to you, and that meant a lot. “I see houses around about with sheets tied MAKE IT SEW: Curtain Bank volunteers (from left) Deirdre Randall, Sharron Hall, Anne Packer and Helen O’Connor are up.” part of a volunteer operation that has increased so much in popularity it has outgrown its premises at the Red Cross To contact the Curtain Bank, phone service centre. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell 027-836-1623. Chance to grow knowledge and nurture Tairawhiti talent by Jack Marshall “We wanted to embrace wisdom from te iwi and are very excited about the directions executive Doug Jones says the programme will ao Maori alongside Western knowledge,” Prof and focus. We are hoping that the internships help enable the best and brightest in the region TWO prestigious scholarships are on offer Gerrard said. are attractive to applicants, irrespective of to contribute back in a meaningful way. in Tairawhiti through the Prime Minister’s Chief “The project was delayed by Covid but we are their specific formal educational background, “It’s about enabling our young and bright Science Adviser, in partnership with a Tairawhiti excited to finally be launching it now.” recognising that talent is nurtured in many people of our region an opportunity to iwi. The programme will be paid for by The Prime different ways.” contribute to the direction of where the region To apply, applicants must be Tairawhiti-based, Minister’s Emerging Priorities fund. There is no specific project they are looking is going. in partnership with a Tairawhiti iwi or be a Up to six months funding is available, with for as long as it supports the region. “For us, it needs to be a Tairawhiti-based candidate with strong family ties to Tairawhiti. pay equivalent to a salary of up to $70,000 “We don’t want to be too prescriptive, project. We want the applicant to have links and Prospective interns must pitch a project a year. The experience of the candidate will because we would like our interns to choose whakapapa links to Tairawhiti,” said Mr Jones. focused on the climate emergency, policy, determine the salary level. the projects themselves. “It might be some of our kids who are science curriculum, taonga, or working with Te Eligibility has no education requirement. “But some examples might be: a project on studying in Auckland or Wellington, and they Papa on a collaborative project. Instead, the selection process will focus on the how matauranga Maori in a local community can come home for the summer.” “The idea for these internships grew from proposed project, connection with local iwi and can enable the sort of long-term holistic Expressions of interest are due by 5pm on conversations about how to mark the Tuia the personal fit of the candidate. thinking we need to adapt to climate change; June 18. Encounters 250 commemorations,” said the “We have been building our intern how we might teach science in schools in a Full applications must be in by 5pm on July PM’s science adviser, Professor Dame Juliet programme and trying to make sure that way that welcomes matauranga Maori, or how 16. Gerrard. we are flexible enough to accommodate the communities can connect with their taonga in More details can be found on the Prime This was about continuing the kaupapa of backgrounds of all our top talent. museums, in Aotearoa or internationally.” Minister’s Chief Science Adviser website: tuia te muka tangata ki uta, translated as “the “This is the first time we have partnered with Tamanuhiri Tutu Poroporo Trust kaihautu/chief www.pmcsa.ac.nz weaving of people together for a shared future”. Get your Gisborne Herald • London has the Chaps Choir, and the Bellow Fellows — and now Gisborne is to home-delivered have its own ensemble of singing men. • Politician Catherine Delahunty and award-winning playwright Sarah Delahunty to perform in Gisborne #UsTwo, a play about six decades of sisterhood across the New Zealand feminist movement. • Second year Toihoukura student Nathaniel Nathan earns an honourable mention in the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Awards. TOMORROW PLUS: MUSIC GUIDE • FILM REVIEWS • GUIDE GOSSIP The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To fi nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Wednesday, June 2, 2021 NEWS 3 Motorcyclist Opportunity to create a first for NZ FROM PAGE 1 significance at the beach.
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