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CRUISING BACK TO GISBORNE: Eastland Port has 23 cruise ship visits scheduled for next summer, depending on the reopening of New Zealand borders. The Oosterdam (pictured) was a regular visitor to Gisborne in the early years of cruise ship visits here and she will be back twice in early December and early February next summer if the borders reopen. STORY ON PAGE 3 File picture

A WOMAN who blew the whistle on Enterprises Limited (BEL) by his Matawai farmer John Bracken’s alleged Gisborne accountant, who unwittingly $17.4 million tax scam has given evidence prepared them using bank transactions in his High Court trial at Gisborne. manipulated by Bracken and false GST Ex-lover a She claimed Bracken was her lover, invoices he submitted. that they lived together in Auckland Bracken’s pleas to the charges have when he was regularly there for been deemed not guilty because he his export business and that she refuses to enter any. He says the charges unknowingly helped him with his scam are not his to answer — that as a by surreptitiously producing false beneficiary of a Maori Incorporation, he is invoices. protected under Te Ture Whenua Maori Bracken did not dispute their Act 1993. woman involvement but in cross-examination of Bracken is representing himself but her conveyed a situation in which she has literacy problems, so is being assisted was a woman scorned who squealed to by his wife and a McKenzie Friend the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) because of (someone who attends court in support her unfulfilled romantic designs on him. of a party who does not have legal She was trying to make him “look like representation). a criminal” even though she knew he He has so far largely refused help from was “helping thousands of people in the a court-appointed standby lawyer. scorned: islands”, Bracken said. The “whistleblower” witness yesterday The small public gallery in Gisborne’s described a whirlwind romance with No.2 courtroom was full of Bracken’s Bracken that began in Christchurch family and supporters as the woman gave during August, 2014, when she evidence. interviewed for a job he advertised but It followed two days of evidence from ended up spending all night with him. a tax investigator in charge of the case, The job did not eventuate but they who took the court through volumes of remained in contact and he helped her accused documents — including suspected false move to Auckland. invoices — the Crown relies on to prove She was on a benefit and assisted with its case. his exporting business, making deliveries Bracken, 54, is alleged to have and packing containers with goods for the dishonestly claimed $17.4m in GST Pacific Islands — timber and household refunds over four years up until June, furnishing items from a homeware Whistleblower takes stand 2018, of which $17.1m was paid out. supplier. He faces 39 counts of dishonestly using She did not mention packing honey, a document to make financial gains. milk or water to which some of the false Each charge relates to a separate GST invoices referred. in $17.4m tax fraud trial return filed for his company Bracken CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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by Sophie Rishworth

A PACKED Pilates class led by Te Kura Awhio instructor Maria Larsen last night was so popular some women had to be turned away. The free class was part of events for Well Wahine Week, which continues until Sunday. Te Kura Awhio coordinator Ella Swan said the turnout of 30 women was “awesome” and they all embraced what Well Wahine Week was about. “They were there for health, fitness, to try something new, the social side of meeting different people and getting out of their comfort zones. Everyone really enjoyed the class and those new to Pilates were really surprised how much it worked them out and how effective it was.” Ella said they were looking forward to tonight’s free classes — a box-fit class from 5pm to 5.45pm, followed by a strength and conditioning fitness circuit from 6pm to 6.45pm for all levels and ages. “There’s cool music and everyone goes at their own pace.” Te Kura Awhio is located in the old Army Hall across from the Gisborne District Council administration building. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti active communities adviser Sarah Pocock said there continued to be excellent turnout at all events for Well Wahine Week. “There’s still a strong buzz about the week as a whole. We’ve been really grateful for the amazing support of local businesses who continue to step forward with spot prizes.” For the schedule for the rest of the week, go to the Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti website.

FULL CLASS: The free Tu Wahine Yoga/ Pilates class last night led by instructor Maria Larsen was so popular women had to be turned away. Picture by Paul Rickard ‘He said it was fine’: witness

FROM PAGE 1 sticks at a library or stationery shop. him in after realising he would never I loved you and I didn’t want to hurt you After finding out he was being audited, leave his wife. by ringing them. She took over the role of preparing the Bracken told her to dump the computer He questioned her decision to keep “I put a lot of faith and a lot of trust in invoices from a Takanini woman, who but she refused because she could not producing the invoices after the SFO told you and you abandoned me and told me a Bracken was paying $200 a month. afford to replace it. Police later seized it her it was illegal. The witness said she lot of lies and hurt me very much.” The woman was an ANZ bank teller he and the USB sticks. knew the investigation would take some The witness said Bracken promised to met after managing to talk down a would- The woman said her call to the Serious time and was “scared for her life” — that marry her one day to which he replied: be bank robber, the witness said. Fraud Office during 2017 if she suddenly stopped, “Sounds like a great big fairy tale to me”. She suspected Bracken was intimately was sparked by a friend’s he would be suspicious. He put it to her she had harassed his involved with the woman and did not warning she could get in The SFO advised her wife. The woman denied it. like them having an excuse to meet up trouble for creating the Bracken put it to her to continue. An officer involved in the parallel police — often in motel rooms (a detail Bracken invoices. she was previously on She no longer took investigation under the Criminal Proceeds challenged). She only intended medication which had medication, which was (Recovery) Act also gave evidence From August 2015 to February 2018, to anonymously sound previously prescribed yesterday, specifically about police she routinely produced up to 15 invoices staff out about the law affected her processes for the effects on her searches and seizures of property from for several companies monthly. but ended up naming and she only dobbed of the Christchurch the Brackens’ Matawai farm and house at “At one stage I asked John if it was OK Bracken. him in after realising he earthquake, a previous Ohiwa during September, 2018. — whether I would get into trouble — and Not wanting to alert abusive relationship and He was challenged strongly by Bracken he said it was fine,” the witness said. him, she continued would never leave his medical procedures. as to the legality of those searches. Bracken bought her the computer she producing the false wife. Bracken challenged Bracken claimed that while they used as she did not have one. Her skills invoices until police her as to why she were absent, police unlawfully entered were limited. She did not know how to knocked on her door would fear him. The buildings and uplifted vehicle keys. The cut and paste in Word so she scanned about a year later. woman said anyone who officer denied it. false invoices previously produced by Bracken’s cross-examination of the reported suspected criminal behaviour Bracken also claimed that because his the Takanini woman into an application earlier tax investigator witness had been would naturally be scared of repercussions wife is Maori, they were legally entitled to called Paint, where she could erase the of no real moment, but his questions for from those it affected. have a cultural adviser present during the details then retype whatever information this witness were more intense. “Why didn’t you tell me? It annoys me search. Bracken supplied. Bracken put it to her she was previously that you never said anything,” Bracken The officer said he was unaware of any Living rurally, she had no internet on medication which had affected her said. such legislation. access so printed the invoices from USB thought processes and she only dobbed “Cos we were in a relationship John and Justice Lang is presiding. LOOKING AHEAD Get your SPORTS Gisborne Herald • It’s playoffs time in the DJ Barry Cup club cricket, home-delivered with Boys’ High taking on Horouta and OBR up against HSOB. • Is this the season of the Warriors? Gold Coast are their first opponents as the 2021 NRL kicks off. • The Crusaders host the Chiefs in Super Rugby Aotearoa, followed by the Blues up against the Highlanders at Eden Park. FOCUS ON THE LAND TOMORROw SATuRdAy 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 • Thursday, March 11, 2021 NEWS 3 Greens back

call to suspend ANOTHER VICTIM OF COVID: Miharo launches linked Gallery director Rosie Cruddas (left), with intern to US military Ruby Malcolm, has decided to close THE Green Party has come out in support the gallery just of an open letter to the Government about a year after the Rocket Lab’s operations in New Zealand. financial impact of “I want to stand in support of Mahia Covid on business. locals and peace advocates for speaking However, she sees up about Mahia being used as a launchpad it as an opportunity by the US military,” Green Party spokesman to evolve into for security and intelligence Teanau Tuiono something else. said. “We support the call to suspend the Picture by Liam Clayton granting of licences for space-launch activities on behalf of US military agencies and to reverse the Gunsmoke-J permit which is scheduled to be part of the next Rocket Lab launch.” Police have confirmed they visited Wairoa woman Sonya Smith last Friday following Facebook posts about Rocket Lab. “We did visit an individual in relation to some Facebook posts. They were open and willing to speak with police,” a police spokesperson said. Closing its doors but ‘this “Police’s role is to ensure that all members of our community are safe and feel safe. “Part of this includes engaging with ‘is not the end of Miharo’ community leaders in order to understand their perspectives and what is happening across the rohe to ensure we can provide by Mark Peters the best possible service to our people.” ARTISTS Rosie Cruddas and Cruddas and Clifton won. Ruby Malcolm was taken on as Police would not provide information on TAIRAWHITI artists and supporters Hera Clifton opened Miharo They ran regular “wet an intern. whether another agency had asked them to have enjoyed Miharo Gallery as a hub Gallery in December 2019. paint” evenings at the gallery Cruddas looks forward to visit Ms Smith, what posts were of concern for events and exhibitions but the Taiki E, a group that works in which works artists had focusing on her own art after and who monitored Facebook. impact of the Covid-19 alert responses in a shared space on projects created within one hour were Miharo Gallery closes. MP Tuiono said Rocket Lab’s next launch, has taken its toll. that have a positive impact auctioned off. “The past year has been called “Gunsmoke-J”, would carry a payload Little more than a year after opening, on the community, had given To keep the gallery fresh, awesome, spending time with belonging to the US Army’s Space and the gallery is to close its doors. would-be pop-up shop tenants group and solo exhibitions all these artists, but with two Missile Defence Command (SMDC) and was Gallery director Rosie Cruddas, the opportunity to make their usually ran for no more than kids as well I haven’t had time designed to improve US missile targeting however, sees an opportunity for Miharo pitch for the space. a week. to do my own artwork,” says capabilities during combat. to evolve into something else. Applicants included an Late last year Clifton moved Cruddas. “The Government has a moral “After Covid-19, business has become outline of what they would do on to focus more on her “I want to focus on my responsibility to make sure technologies quite slow and with these levels going with the space. artwork and in December, artist family, my health and my art.” sent into orbit by New Zealand companies up and down, they’ve had an impact on from New Zealand soil do not assist other people’s spending. “I’ve pushed to keep Miharo open and out on to the footpath. and an auction of artwork on April 2 countries’ armies to wage war,” he said. have exhausted my own finances.” One advantage of pop-up events in will be the gallery’s last event. “The launch of a satellite that enables But Miharo is a community and a various venues is they can be held in Swash, Cruddas’s recently-opened weapons of war to more precisely target store is not needed to continue that more spacious venues to accommodate fashion store next door to Miharo, will people does not comply with the principle community, says Cruddas. everyone, says Cruddas. also close but trade will continue in for authorising New Zealand space activity, “The main thing is people love our “Our events have outgrown the online sales, distribution to other stores approved by Cabinet in 2019. events. Lots of people come to them but necessity for a store. They’re always at and pop-up shops when possible. “It states ‘space activities should be the gallery is not sustainable. full capacity. You can’t run an event if Information about upcoming pop-up conducted in a way that does not jeopardise “We’ll close the store and throughout you can’t move. events and new developments will be human safety (including the safety of people the year will be big collaborative events “The events will be the same as we posted on Miharo’s Facebook page and in space)’. in different locations so we don’t have have at the gallery but times 10.” Instagram. “We should only support launches that these overheads sucking up the money.” Miharo Gallery’s upcoming dream- “This is not the end of Miharo,” says have peaceful purposes. Miharo’s auction nights and themed exhibition has been cancelled Cruddas. “Our store is closing but “Enabling the weaponisation of space exhibition openings at the gallery but an exhibition of Thomas Henry the community we’ve created and our will only make us a US military target,” Mr attracted crowds so big, people spilled Bloomfield’s work opens on March 26, events will continue.” Tuiono said CRUISE SHIPS LINING UP Busy summer schedule but many unknowns due to Covid by Murray Robertson the Oosterdam, will go to anchor in again on February 5 and April 3 next visit on February 21 followed by the Le Turanganui-a-Kiwa /Poverty Bay on year. Soleal on March 1. CRUISE ship activity into Gisborne December 5 and again on February 1 Another first-timer, the Viking Orion, is Trust Tairawhiti tourism general will resume with a hiss and a roar next next year. here on December 30, manager Adam Hughes said the long summer if the list of cruise shipping The Explorer Dream and the Europa 2 on list of cruise ships scheduled was an on Eastland Port’s schedule comes to calls on December 18 It’s just too soon yet to January 3. encouraging sign for the future of that fruition. and February 14. tell‘ for sure whether all The Seven Seas type of tourism in the district. New Zealand’s borders remain closed at The National Explorer comes back “But there are just so many unknowns this stage to cruise ship activity. Geographic Orion these visits will actually again on January 7. with international travel,” he said. But as of this morning, 23 cruise visits makes her maiden take place ’ The Norwegian “It’s just too soon yet to tell for sure are on the schedule for next summer if visit here on December — Trust Tairawhiti tourism Spirit is another first- whether all these visits will actually take the border situation changes. 27, then calls again general manager Adam Hughes time visitor and is place.” The rush of visits starts with the on January 12 and scheduled for January Mr Hughes said they were planning Caledonia Star on December 12 and February 18. 30 and February 19 anyway for the visits. that previous caller will come back twice The Coral visits. “It’s a great opportunity and we are more over the season (December 19 and Geographer will call for the first time on Le Laperouse returns on January 31, keeping our cruise infrastructure alive February 13, 2022). December 29. and the much-bigger Regatta is to anchor and ready to go if the visits eventuate.” Another bigger cruise boat to have The Westerdam will make her maiden here on February 16. As of this morning, 15 cruise ship visits called here many times previously, visit to anchor on December 29, then calls The Silver Shadow makes her maiden were scheduled for the 2022-23 summer. 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 In Memoriam Water quality safe at most swimming sites TUAPAWA, Frank and Tai 11.3.2005 by Murray Robertson Bay, Tolaga Bay by the wharf, Anzac Park the water quality is determine the quality at the 14.3.2015 Wainui Beach and Waipiro Bay, listed as “good”. Makarika Stream test site, and My beloved LATEST test results on the the water quality is described as The water at Waikanae Beach by in the Mangahauini River at Mum and Dad. council’s website from LAWA excellent. Grey Street is “fair”. Tokomaru Bay. Always in my (Land, Air, Water Aotearoa) show At Kaiti Beach, Midway Beach, A “poor” rating is given to the Neither is recent data available memories. the most popular swimming Rere Falls and the rockslide, Hamanatua Stream at Okitu and for Pouawa, Turihaua, the Uawa Forever in my sites in the region were safe for Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay at the the Karakatuwhero River at the River at the Tolaga Bay bridge, heart. swimming water quality-wise. surf club end, the Turanganui SH35 bridge, north-west of Te the Waiapu and Waipaoa rivers, Arohanui, Girl At Anaura Bay (north and River at the Gladstone Road Araroa. the Wharekahika and in the xx south), Makorori Beach, Sponge bridge, and the Waimata River at There was no recent data to Wherowhero lagoon. Bird strike cuts power for Hexton

ABOUT 600 residents around the Hexton area had power issues this morning after a bird had an unfortunate encounter with the power lines. THE NEWEST NEW ZEALANDERS: Some customers (Not in order) Brittany Jankowitz, Mauro Negri, Elettra Pasquini, Keala Thompson, Ronan Thompson, experienced Ryan Thompson, Alyssa Thompson, Mary Hope, Pratik Jethwa, Kathleen Labrado, Rodney Jr. Rivera, Sarath Mahabalage, Anuradha intermittent power, with Witharamalage, Malsha Mahabalage, Sophie Ricard, Noa Puech, Lukas Maillet, Abhishek Sharma, Surinderpal Sran, Liukou Miura, appliances turning on Nalutowa Miura, Kileau Miura, Nolwenn Quere, Ieme de Wolf, Paul Naske, Julie Pichereau King and Cuong Tran. Picture by Liam Clayton and off for a number of hours before returning to normal. An Eastland Network ‘An attraction that makes you want to stay’ spokesperson said some tripping and reclosing by Jack Marshall Gisborne for a holiday and ended up said. “It takes about four years of being a of the power system staying longer than intended. One of the new citizens there for resident before you can apply. occurred this morning, GISBORNE welcomed the newest “I had a little seven-month-old on the ceremony was Lytton High School “It makes you definitely feel a lot although the power did New Zealanders at a swearing-in my hip when I did it, so just relax, it’s a teacher Pratik Jethwa. more at home now — and it already not stay off. ceremony on Monday. wonderful step in the right direction.” He had become a citizen last year has been — but it just feels more “Our team located The event was larger than usual due The Mayor said after the ceremony but missed out on the ceremony. official in that sense. the cause – it was a to Covid-19 cancelling last year’s event. that it was lovely to be able to share “It just feels good. It feels great to Asked how he ended up in Gisborne, bird that had flown into Mayor Rehette Stoltz said it was that story with the new citizens do this ceremony. Even though I got Mr Jethwa laughed and said his the line and got caught wonderful to welcome the new citizens, “because I think it helps everyone my certificate last year it feels different students at school often ask the same there, before eventually and shared her own story of when she relax”. to come here and do the oath and thing. falling clear. gained her citizenship. “It’s quite nerve-wracking standing be here with all these people. It feels He said he came here chasing a job “If people ever have She said it was fantastic to be in in front of everyone and reading quite amazing. and he thought he would only be here issues with the power at a position where she could tell new a formal oath.” “I’ve been in Gisborne for about for a couple of years. “But Gisborne their place, please call citizens, “Hey, I’ve been there before”. “We are here to celebrate, have fun eight-and-a-half years now, so it’s has an attraction that makes you want our faults line on 0800 Mayor Stoltz said she came to and enjoy the process,” Mayor Stoltz taken that long. to stay,” Mr Jethwa said. 206 207.” Tairawhiti, HB top the charts

TAIRAWHITI shared top spot with percent national jump. Hawke’s Bay for best regional economic We have worked alongside tourism businesses to put Tairawhiti in “The downturn in forestry early last performance in the December 2020 the‘ best possible position to capitalise on domestic travellers who year followed by the Covid lockdown quarter, figures show. saw an increase in jobseeker numbers, According to new data released by the have been looking to visit new parts of New Zealand however, we have seen more people economic data collection and analysis ’ — Adam Hughes enter into work, increasing from 907 company Infometrics, Tairawhiti in February 2020 to 1359 in February recorded a 3.7 percent rise in activity in 2021, which is encouraging,” says the December 2020 quarter. the top performer over 2020 with a 4.4 percent increase compared with a 5.5 Ministry of Social Development regional Tourism activity in the region was percent rise. percent New Zealand decline which commissioner Annie Aranui. unchanged in 2020, making Tairawhiti House prices continued to rise and underlines the strength of business “The increase has reduced overall the second-best performing region in were up almost 30 percent in the activity in the region,” he says. potential negative impact and reflects tourism after Northland, as national December quarter. Sales volumes were Non-residential consent values the collective impact in people gaining tourism spending fell 16 percent. down 12 percent as nationwide property reached $58m over the last year, the employment. This is a result of the work Trust Tairawhiti general manager pressures continued to build. highest annual total in at least a decade. we have been doing to support local tourism Adam Hughes said the success Residential construction consents Continually rising house prices and a talent into employment,” she said. shown in the quarterly figures was rose in the quarter, but annual building high social housing waitlist highlights Export values through Eastland Port encouraging. activity was down by three percent. the continued need for additional rose 12.7 percent in 2020, ahead of the “We have worked alongside tourism “House building consents climbed to housing in Tairawhiti. 0.6 percent increase on average across businesses to put Tairawhiti in the 35 in the December quarter from 23 Continued construction activity is all seaports. Part of this increase was best possible position to capitalise on in the corresponding period last year,” part of a broader improvement in local due to strong primary sector activity domestic travellers who have been says Trust Tairawhiti general manager economic outcomes, with filled jobs that supported local employment. looking to visit new parts of New commercial Richard Searle. rising 2.9 percent in December 2020, “Eastland Port saw strong log export Zealand. This has sustained some “The heat in the housing market is well above the 0.6 percent national volumes through the December quarter, tourism momentum,” he said. reinforcing the demand for new average. on the back of increasing demand out Local spending activity has also housing. Jobseeker recipient growth has also of China and a buoyant log price,” says been performing well. Marketview card “Non-residential construction been more subdued, rising 24 percent Eastland Port chief operating officer spending data shows Tairawhiti was continued its stellar run with a 67 over the last year compared to a 36 Andrew Gaddum. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 NEWS 5 Bring on East Coast Farming Expo 2022

by Diana Dobson “Kane-O Brisco gave us all some simple messages that cut through the clutter and THE marquees have hardly been packed certainly helped me see some aspects of my away but organisation of the 2022 East Coast life that could do with some investment.” Farming Expo is already well under way. Mrs Wilson said there had been people Event manager Sue Wilson has locked waiting for the gate to open at 9am after in the dates — February 23-24 — lined up travelling for a couple of hours to get to the speakers for the popular event and exhibitors expo. have already signalled their interest. “There was a lot of keenness for the “The feedback from this year has been event and I saw plenty of sales being made fantastic,” Mrs Wilson said of the Wairoa- too. This is what our expo is all about — hosted event. “It seems we hit the right note connection, networking and fitting with what on all levels.” our farmers want to see and hear.” Around 500 people, representing Matt Ericksen, of Ericksen Honda, said fit- thousands of hectares of farmland, attended for-purpose detail had paid dividends. the two-day expo last month. “Having exhibits that were useful and “Plenty said they enjoyed that the trade specific to farmers made it all the more exhibitors were all industry-related and they worthwhile and our sales backed this up,” Mr had some great conversations with farmers.” Ericksen said. The speakers were also well-received. ENERGY AND VISION: Will to Live co-founder Elle Perriam had the audience “The relaxed environment and layout meant “Mental health and wellness speaker in the palm of her hand during the Rural Women New Zealand Agri-Women’s we could have some real conversations with Kane-O Brisco was fantastic. He just said luncheon at the East Coast Farming Expo. She spoke with energy and vision about farmers.” it like it was and was a farmer talking to mental health. Picture supplied Mrs Wilson acknowledged how lucky they farmers, so resonated with many . . . and the were that the expo was able to be run. event wasn’t lost on him either. There were also a raft of seminar speakers, covered and it seemed it fitted the crowds “There were so many field days and “Big challenges require big thinking, open including serial technology entrepreneur well.” competitions, including the Northland Field minds and positive solutions. That is exactly Melissa Clarke Reynolds,who drew a huge Fenton Wilson, the MC for the Bayleys Days, Southern Field Days, Golden Shears what you’ll find at the expo,” he said. crowd. Muster, said farmers who made the most of and the Horse of the Year Show all having to Will to Live campaign co-founder Elle “I had one person come up to me after the event would have got a lot back for their cancel,” she said. Perriam was described as a speaker with her talk saying he had a criticism . . . that he day off the farm. “The Wairoa Community Development energy and vision who acknowledged wanted to hear more,” Mrs Wilson said. “I am always amazed at what I learn trustees really appreciate the support from farmers’ generosity in her quest to raise “All of our speakers worked so well and get to take home for the benefit of my sponsors and the business community. It awareness around mental health. together. A great range of topics were business,” he said. speaks volumes.”

Rua Bioscience team hits the Sediment wedge a road for Coast presentations ‘low risk’ in quake by Murray Robertson generate local tsunami. Kaikoura earthquake and “The best-known example it is highly possible some THE Rua Bioscience team will meet with people SEDIMENT build-up is the 1998 Sandaun submarine debris flows around the East Coast later this month in the first of offshore from the mouths earthquake in Papua New resulted from Friday’s Te its 2021 quarterly community roadshows. of the region’s major rivers Guinea. It was a magnitude Araroa earthquake. The series is part of Rua’s commitment to is a potential risk factor 7 quake that generated a “However, the vertical engaging face-to-face with the local community. when it comes to inshore large slump that generated accelerations associated This will be the first such presentation since the tsunami generated by a big a tsunami that travelled with the earthquake were company listed on the NZX last October. earthquake close to shore, along the coast.” quite low, suggesting the Rua Bioscience chief executive Rob Mitchell, says Gisborne District In Friday’s Te Araroa energy released may have chief financial officer Hamish White and co-founders Council scientist Dr Murry event, the risk of such a been too small to trigger Cave. Panapa Ehau and Manu Caddie will generally be submarine landslide was a significant submarine But the risk factor is relatively low because landslide.” present at the roadshows. “relatively low”. of the low vertical and Dr Cave considers the They will take attendees through the recently- Tsunami from last horizontal accelerations risk of tsunami from a published half-year financial results and the Friday’s earthquakes that occurred. major collapse of the progress made toward its key milestones in the offshore of Te Araroa and “But they could occur in sediment that has built past six months as released to all shareholders on the Kermadec Islands a stronger event,” Dr Cave up offshore from the February 26. were small because of the said. region’s major rivers over Mr Mitchell says the team is excited to be hitting distance from land and the “There is strong evidence thousands of years is the road and meeting with the company’s East low tide factor. of a very large collapse of “relatively Coast community kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face). Rivers like the Waipaoa the sediment shelf offshore low”. “Our accountability to our Coast community and and Waiapu had dumped of the Waiapu rivermouth, “However, this is an our engagement with shareholders remain critically large volumes of sediment which has been dated as area where more scientific important, so we’re looking forward to some great on to the seabed just being older than 150,000- GISBORNE DISTRICT information would be dialogue around the Coast and sharing that online offshore over thousands of 130,000 years. COUNCIL PRINCIPAL helpful. with our broader shareholding,” he says. years. “It is probable the SCIENTIST DR MURRY “We are extremely The roadshows are for the community at large, “This is typical of all of Ruatoria event 155,000 CAVE interested in seeing the not just Rua shareholders. the East Coast extending years ago caused a tsunami. detailed results of the work The roadshow itinerary is (all meetings start at down to Kaikoura and “Such large-scale events that has been done by GNS 5.30pm) — beyond,” Dr Cave said. have only rarely been instability of such margins. over the last four years and “These are a potential those results will then be •฀Hinerupe฀Marae฀(Te฀Araroa),฀Monday,฀March฀22.฀ identified in structural “We saw smaller-scale risk factor during settings like the Hikurangi submarine landslides useful in an assessment •฀Hati฀Nati฀Cafe,฀Ruatorea,฀Tuesday,฀March฀23. earthquakes and can Margin despite the inherent and debris flows after the of the risks this sediment •฀Tokomaru฀Bay฀Sports฀Club,฀Wednesdsay,฀ March 24. •฀Tolaga฀Bay฀Inn,฀Thursday,฀March฀25. •฀Turanga฀Ararau฀(Gisborne),฀Friday,฀March฀26. Makauri School Gala a definite for Sunday The broader shareholding will also be able to access the information digitally. MAKAURI School students have the gala went ahead, after considering it to be one of the biggest yet. There The presentation will be made available via been busy this week, preparing for whether to cancel it. will be live music, and fresh flowers the company’s website (www.ruabio.com) and their school gala on Sunday. “It is about much more than raising for sale this year along with the usual Facebook page. The gala was scheduled for March funds for the school. It’s an occasion winning wheel, horizontal bungy, Questions from the floor will be summarised 6, but had to be postponed after New for the Gisborne community in a adventure land truck, white elephant online at the end of each presentation. Zealand entered Covid-19 Alert time when multiple events have been jumble and cake stall. A follow-up series of frequently-asked questions Level 2. cancelled around us.” ■ The Makauri School Gala will be will also be made available in early April. Event coordinator Shay Podjursky The 2021 gala has been given a on Sunday, March 14, from 12 noon – said they had to get creative to ensure refresh, with organisers anticipating 3pm at the school on King Road. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 Australian news report labels NZ deportees as ‘trash’ by Chris Marriner, NZ Herald Jacinda Ardern as having a “corrosive” effect “We’re talking about the most serious that returnees already struggled with thinking on transtasman relations, has been criticised offenders here and our country is safer for that locals recognised them or were looking at SYDNEY — An Australian news network for its indiscriminate nature, which has seen having deported them,” he said. them, when that was not always the case. has been criticised after it was invited on to New Zealanders who have spent a lifetime Given the opportunity to question the female She said that the report didn’t accurately the tarmac to see Kiwis being deported and in Australia deported after committing minor deportee, Fabris asks: “How does it feel to be reflect the ratio of New Zealanders coming back quoted a senior Australian government minister offences. kicked out of Australia?” with relatively minor charges, saying they form describing the New Zealanders as “trash”. The Australian Border Deaths Database, Told to “f*** off” by the woman, Fabris the majority of deportees — and characterised An advocate for the returnees said the report collated by Monash University, has recorded four counters with: “Our country doesn’t want you, Peter Dutton’s comments as “ignorant”, saying was inaccurate and could make life harder for deaths of New Zealanders associated with visa are you excited to go home?” the minister was “ill-informed”. those arriving in New Zealand, many of whom cancellations, among them a man who had been The report shows a number of criminals being She also said that racism played a part in have minor convictions. in Australia since he was a toddler. loaded on the plane, including Grant David how the policy was enforced, saying there were 9News was given the extraordinary access by He committed suicide 18 months after being Mitchell, a New Zealander jailed after murdering “ulterior motives” at play. Australia’s Border Force, with journalist Jordan deported to New Zealand following a prison term his estranged Kiwi girlfriend Nella Poli and She said his comments would hit hard for Fabris thrusting a microphone in front of a for a string of minor offences. He left a young running from police for almost 24 years. returnees, many of whom already needed woman being deported and asking: “Our country child and his immediate family in Australia. But a woman who works with deportees in counselling to “see themselves as people” again. doesn’t want you, are you excited to go home?” The 9News report, which sees Fabris New Zealand says the report didn’t accurately She said she has spoken to one returnee who The issue of the 501 deportees has been a hot questioning deportees directly, also includes reflect the reality of the policy and could make was “really upset” after seeing the report and topic in New Zealand, with the influx of criminals incendiary comment from Australian Home life harder for returnees. concerned that his family in Australia might see making waves in the underworld and leading to Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who told the Aimee Reardon, who works with returnees in it and it might affect the perceptions of people in a series of high-profile crimes. channel the flights were Australia’s way of her role with Prisoners’ Aid and Rehabilitation his new community. The policy, described by Prime Minister “taking the trash out”. Society (PARS), told The New Zealand Herald 9News have been approached for comment. Vaccine roll-out plan unveiled by Amelia Wade, NZ Herald Push for South AUCKLAND — The vaccine roll-out is aiming to reach two million Kiwis within four months, with people at higher risk Aucklanders to if they catch Covid-19 being the next in line behind border and healthcare workers. get the jab first Older people with relevant health conditions living in South Auckland, AUCKLAND — The Government has turned those in aged residential care homes or down calls to vaccinate all adults in South living in a whanau care setting will be Auckland before the rest of the country. offered the vaccine next. However, South Aucklanders over 65 and those Then from May, Kiwis aged over 70, with underlying health conditions will be given then those aged over 65, will receive access to the vaccine earlier, but those who are the vaccine before it is offered to the younger and healthier will have to wait in line. remaining population in July. Given that the August and February outbreaks The relevant health conditions for happened in Manukau, some doctors and health early access to the vaccine include specialists say a bump up the line for everyone coronary heart disease, hypertension, living in the area is the smart thing to do. stroke, diabetes, chronic obstructive The Government knows South Auckland — pulmonary disease/chronic respiratory broadly the Counties Manukau District Health conditions, kidney disease, cancer and Board area — holds a greater risk than average of pregnancy. a Covid-19 outbreak. The concrete roll-out plan comes after Dr Nick Wilson said the Government’s vaccine the Government announced on Monday schedule generally made a lot of sense, but he it had secured enough Pfizer vaccine for believed early access could be expanded. every New Zealander. “Not just the over-65s and those with So far about 18,000 frontline border underlying health conditions, but in fact all of the workers and their families have received HIGH-RISK WORK: Border and healthcare workers have already begun receiving adults in South Auckland. That’s such a critical their first of two jabs and the first Kiwis the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 and the first Kiwis will become fully inoculated with population in terms of protecting the whole will become fully inoculated with two two doses next week. NZ Herald picture nation, because of their proximity to Auckland doses next week. International Airport and because there’s a large About 57,000 front-line healthcare number of MIQ facilities (there). workers who could be exposed to the “The real-world experience (of outbreaks) virus while providing care are next in would support that particular population being a line. Covid-19 vaccination schedule priority area.” By the end of May, the Government Pasifika Medical Association chief executive is hoping 183,000 health workers who Group 1 populations. And anyone who lives Debbie Sorensen agrees with Wilson. could expose vulnerable people and about The 50,000 border and MIQ in the Counties Manukau DHB area Counties Manukau has a Pasifika population 234,000 older people living in South workers, their household contacts and who is 65 and older or who has an three times the rate of the rest of the country. Auckland, in aged-care facilities which the people they live with. This started underlying health condition is also in Sorensen doesn’t buy Covid-19 Response have particular vulnerabilities or living last month and the vast bulk will be Group 2. This started last month and Minister Chris Hipkins’ reasoning not to blanket in a whanau care setting, will be offered completed this month, with at least will continue through to May. immunise South Auckland. the vaccine. one dose administered. Group 3 “Even though there is an assumption that Maori and Pacific health providers will Group 2 Priority populations. Approximately South Auckland residents are included in border be allocated 40,000 courses to distribute. Approximately 480,000 front-line 1.7 million people who are at higher workers and health workers and other categories, The campaign will then focus on workers and people living in high-risk risk if they catch Covid-19. This is it is still an assumption that we will get to older New Zealanders and those with settings. Starting with the 57,000 planned to start in May. everyone who needs to be vaccinated.” health conditions before it reaches the healthcare workers on community Group 4 Auckland Council Manukau ward councillor remaining two million Kiwis in the front lines, and then moving through The remainder of the general Efeso Collins broadly agreed with the vaccine general population in July. to healthcare workers protecting our population — approximately two sequencing but wanted all of Auckland prioritised Covid-19 Response Minister Chris most vulnerable and some priority million people. Starting from July. due to the risk of outbreaks. Hipkins said the target of the roll-out “If we take a very practical, rational approach was to next vaccinate those most at risk we will all know the logic is clear: the outbreaks of getting and spreading Covid-19 and some overlap. Counties Manukau district health board have happened here in South Auckland. It’s those most at risk of getting seriously There also has not yet been a decision prioritised. important South Aucklanders are prioritised, sick if they become infected. about how to roll out the vaccination “That’s because this population is and further to that I think Auckland should be Decisions have not yet been made programme en masse. particularly exposed to border failures prioritised because the last three have been in the about when those needing to head Hipkins said there would be a booking by its proximity to Auckland Airport, Auckland region.” overseas would be offered access to the system, walk-in clinics and guaranteed it and also all the MIQ facilities in South However, Auckland University public health vaccine, with Hipkins anticipating it wouldn’t be organised alphabetically by Auckland. professor Dr Colin Tukuitonga is not convinced being brought to Cabinet in the next few surnames. “And we have seen this risk with some of a strategy to vaccinate all adults in Counties weeks. “I can assure you the Youngs won’t be of the recent border failures. The border Manukau before older or sick people in He would not say whether Olympians disadvantaged by the alphabet.” is going to get safer as we vaccinate neighbouring areas. would be offered vaccinations before An online look-up tool is also set to be border workers — but we’re going to He said the Government had got the balance they leave for Tokyo or whether business launched so Kiwis can work out when continue to have failures.” right and was actually needing to remain people would be included in the priority they will be offered jabs. Act leader David Seymour said the selective. group but said there would be “a high Otago University epidemiologist framework had a “shocking lack of detail” “They have limited that to those groups largely bar”. Professor Nick Wilson said the selected and didn’t give New Zealanders much because I think we still have a limited supply But he did say the lines between the groupings made sense but he wanted more information than what they had of the vaccine, so it’s a sensible, pragmatic groupings were flexible so there could be to see the entire adult population of already been told. approach,” Tukuitonga said. — RNZ The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Scenic closing four West Coast hotels

FRANZ JOSEF — The Scenic Hotel an effort to make up for the loss of European markets together with Group has announced it will close international tourism and ongoing mainstay tourism from Australia. four of its hotels on the West Coast. uncertainty around an Australian “It is, however, unlikely that The Te Waonui Forest Retreat and travel bubble. enabling just a single market Scenic Hotel in Franz Josef and the “Consideration and consultation will facilitate the type of market Heartland Hotel and Heartland Glacier are currently under way with staff of regeneration needed for this region. Country in Fox Glacier will close at affected properties, with the Group What the region needs is certainty of the end of the season in May. undertaking its best endeavours to when, where and how international Scenic Hotel Group managing redeploy staff where they can,” he tourism will return to the West Coast.” director Brendan Taylor said despite said. Taylor hopes the decision to close investment from people in the region He estimates it will be a year to 18 will enable smaller operators on the and a reimagined price point, the months before the company would coast to benefit from the remaining volume and appetite from domestic open up operations in the region tourism dollars. tourists was simply not there. again. “We will continue to promote “Over the past year, the Group has “This will be largely dependent the region where we can through exhausted all avenues to stimulate on the ability to welcome back the redirecting online searches directly to HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BUBBLE: Australian Prime Minister domestic tourism to the region in high-yielding North American and other operators.” — RNZ Scott Morrison is putting the pressure on Jacinda Ardern to open a transtasman bubble. NZ Herald file picture No date for transtasman More Easter bubble: PM under one roof by Jason Walls, NZ Herald matter for the New Zealand Government. WELLINGTON — Prime “I’m happy for them to Minister Jacinda Ardern is open it up as soon as the under fire from both sides of Prime Minister and her No artificial the Tasman, with Australian Government would like to do flavours or Prime Minister Scott that.” colours Morrison and National leader According to Collins, that’s Judith Collins applying the exactly what the Government pressure on her over the should do. She told highly anticipated travel Parliament the Government bubble. needed to move on this issue But Ardern still won’t quickly. “Open the borders, let PRICE DROP commit to a date for the two- people in.” NZ MADE way bubble to officially open She said every day the $ as the Government is still border was not open to $ $ 50 EA assessing the risk. Australians, that was money EA 2 1 Nice Strawberry 3 EA She told Parliament lost for New Zealand. Choc Eggs or Waikato Valley yesterday that the Morrison made similar Cadbury Caramel Popping Candy Chocolates Easter Government does not comments, saying the lack of or Creme Egg 39g Mini Eggs 200g Bunnies 160g “consider it safe to do so” yet. a bubble was “benefiting our #94550146 #9401063715640 #9415402316474 Collins, meanwhile, has economy — particularly, our called on Ardern to show travel and tourism industry”. leadership and commit to a “But if Australians can’t go NEW date for the bubble to come to Queenstown, I’m hoping into force. they are going to Cairns.” “I don’t understand why Covid-19 Response New Zealand is being held Minister Chris Hipkins could back from being able to not say when a bubble would NZ MADE actually access Australia and be in place. to be able to get that money This is despite the $ off the Australians and keep Government stating last year $ $ 50 22EA our tourism industry going,” that it intended to have a Waikato Valley the National leader told bubble in the early part of 4EA 5 EA Chocolates Piñata media. this year. 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Previously, the Government He said an agreement was has mooted the bubble being yet to be reached between FROM opened by the end of March. the two countries on what $ But that plan appears to would happen to travellers have been pushed back after if the safe travel zone was 3 a number of recent Covid-19 suspended. outbreaks in Auckland. “It could well mean we Speaking in Parliament have tens of thousands of yesterday, Ardern also people unable to travel home pointed out that there had and we need to be clear about been a number of outbreaks what will happen in those in Australia as well. circumstances,” he said. 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All offers not in conjunction with any other offers. Trade quantities He said opening the country for business purposes not supplied. Accessories not included. Range, colour and designs may vary between stores. bubble had always been a under strict conditions. 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 UNPAID BILLS MIQ fee dodgers owe $20m

by Danica MacLean and Simon Collins, NZ Herald AUCKLAND — Only a third of travellers staying at quarantine hotels have paid their bills, with almost $20 million still outstanding. Experts and travellers have told The New Zealand Herald they were stunned at the loose policy, which gives new arrivals and returning Kiwis 90 days to pay their fees after leaving managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) — and allows them to leave the country again without paying. New Zealand residents going overseas for fewer than 90 days, and all non-New ENTRY DENIED: The 85m-long pleasure craft Bold had a crew member who Zealand residents, have been required to tested positive to Covid-19 in Fiji. Picture supplied pay $3100 for quarantine since August 11. 90 DAYS TO PAY: The Pullman Hotel But the Ministry of Business, has been one of the MIQ facilities during Innovation and Employment (MBIE) the Covid-19 pandemic. NZ Herald picture Superyacht had Covid on board says only a third of the amount billed for quarantine up to February 28 — $10.7m I had already set aside the money so I by Michael Neilson, NZ Herald difficult time” finding a port, after New out of $30.2m — has been paid so far. paid immediately, but it’s a recipe for bad Zealand rejected it. The explanation is the terms of debts because people will forget to pay.” A superyacht that was denied entry to “We have quite a large quarantine port payment — invoices ask for payment Goodwin said a 90-day credit period New Zealand and instead travelled to Fiji had which makes it a lot easier. They will stay on within 90 days, and the ministry says no was not unusual because there was a Covid-19 on board. the vessel for their 14-day quarantine period,” one has been referred to a debt collection wide range of credit arrangements in The 85m-long pleasure craft Bold received Fong said. agency because any decision to enforce different industries, but hotels normally Ministry of Health approval to enter New “It is a weak infection and from some time debt collection “would only occur after expected to be paid on departure. Zealand in mid-February, but had been ago, so we are not too concerned about it.” 180 days from when the invoice was “Clearly the hotels are all being sheltering at Minerva Reef south of Tonga and The crew would also need to return at least issued”. paid by the Government for the Fiji due to bad weather. two negative test results before they would be New Zealanders who have not paid accommodation immediately so they are Instead, the billionaire-owned superyacht released to enter Fiji. their MIQ debts can even leave the not out of pocket, but obviously the New had diverted to Fiji, saying it had been Fijian health authorities said the yacht did country again, because there is nothing Zealand taxpayer will be out of pocket ultimately denied entry to New Zealand not stop at any other island in Fiji before in the regulations to stop them. for 90 days,” he said. because Immigration NZ considered its crew arriving at the quarantine mooring at Denarau. NZ Credit and Finance Institute Waikato University law professor of more than 20 too big a bubble. This was the first positive case on a yacht director Owen Goodwin said he was Alexander Gillespie said the rules should Now it has been revealed when it arrived arriving through the Blue Lanes initiative, with “startled that there is that level of time be tightened so that travellers could not in Fiji on March 6, a crew member returned a 107 yachts having arrived since last year. lag between invoicing and payment”. leave the country again without paying positive test for Covid-19. The Herald tried to contact the vessel’s “I would have thought that when you their MIQ fees. The superyacht was granted entry through Captain Todd Leech, but has not received a leave a hotel you basically pay on the “To my mind it is fundamentally the country’s special “Blue Lanes” quarantine reply. spot,” he said. unfair that people can rack up a bill programme, designed for yacht arrivals. The superyacht is owned by billionaire Act Party leader David Seymour said: like that and leave the country without Upon arrival, a 44-year-old male crew German industrialist and superyacht builder “I can’t believe that the Government is recompense,” he said. member tested positive for Covid-19 during Guido Krass, who is currently also on board. giving them 90-day Seymour said routine testing as part of the mandated 14-day The superyacht had been approved entry terms. What are they, travellers should have quarantine on board the vessel. to New Zealand under a rule requiring they Noel Leeming?” to pre-pay at least part Fijian health officials said it was a “weak spend at least $50,000 on refit work. Auckland I can’t believe that the of the fee. positive” test result, indicating there was As the crew had been at sea for more than paediatrician Professor Government‘ is giving “If people can afford “little viral material in the sample”. 20 days, they would have only needed to Innes Asher, who them 90-day terms. What to pay for MIQ, they Non-infectious fragments of the virus can quarantine for 48 hours. All those on board visited her son and his can afford to pre-pay,” remain detectable, and cause a positive test would also need to have tested negative for wife and young child in are they, Noel Leeming? he said. result long after the infection has passed, and Covid-19. Sydney for Christmas, —David Seymour’ National Party Covid even after previous negative test results, a A spokeswoman from the Ministry of said she expected to response spokesman statement said. Health said as Bold was not due to enter New pay the $3100 fee Chris Bishop said The person also had no symptoms and had Zealand it was “not appropriate” to comment when she left the M 90-day payment terms tested negative during pre-departure testing on the current situation. Social quarantine hotel on the Auckland were “broadly reasonable” but officials in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea — Bold’s “New Zealand has effective processes waterfront on January 12. Instead she should consider collecting credit card last port of call. for any crew wishing to disembark foreign was told she would get an invoice. When details when people booked MIQ, as Consequently health officials considered it vessels, which includes establishing how the invoice had not arrived three weeks hotels do for normal bookings. He said a “historical case of Covid-19”. long the vessel has been at sea and testing later, she emailed the ministry to ask for people who leave the country with However, he was still transferred from of all crew members before they enter the it. “I was shocked, because we know how unpaid MIQ fees should be pursued the vessel into an isolation ward at Lautoka community,” she said. much it’s costing the country,” she said. in the same way that Inland Revenue Hospital. As of last week, 54 foreign vessels have The Government has budgeted $499m pursues student loan debt. Fiji Acting Permanent Secretary at Ministry been granted an exemption for the purposes to pay for the MIQ system, which is free MBIE said it issued 8419 MIQ invoices of Health and Medical Services James Fong of refit or repair, and nine vessels for delivery for New Zealand residents who have not up to February 28 — apparently for just confirmed to The New Zealand Herald the man to a business. Around 30 of those were left the country since August 11 and are over 10 percent of the 79,841 people who was on the superyacht Bold. “superyachts” — over 24 metres in length — returning for more than 90 days. passed through MIQ between August 11 They had been told the vessel had “a of which 20 were in local waters. Asher said everyone she spoke to in and the end of February. her group at the M Social seemed to be It received 4461 applications for the returning from short-term trips overseas. fees to be waived on various grounds, “There were a number of people like such as being partners or children me — grandmothers with children in of New Zealand residents returning Australia or people who had gone to see permanently. sick relatives. It approved 3473 waivers and was still END OF SUMMER “I just assumed we would be invoiced considering 109 applications on February either on arrival or on departure, so I 28, suggesting that 879 applications for was deeply shocked as a conscientious fee waivers were rejected. There were SUNGLASSES SALE citizen to learn that there was no decent 893 invoices totalling $3.1m classed as system to get me to pay. “overdue” on February 28, meaning that “I said, ‘When do I get to pay the bill?’ they had not been paid within 90 days. They said, ‘Oh, that’s MBIE.’ It was kind The ministry said travellers who were of weird — you’d never leave a hotel invoiced were sent a reminder 30 days 25% OFF without paying, would you?” before the 90-day due date, “including When she emailed to ask for an details of how to pay, how to apply for an invoice on February 2, an MBIE official instalment plan, and what to do if the ALL SUNNIES replied: “Our fees team is a little behind person considers they are not liable or with emailing invoices at the moment are exempt”. unfortunately. However, if you wish to “After the due date a further letter will 33471-12 have your fees paid asap, please email be sent requesting payment. our fees team to arrange to have that “The regulations in their current form done.” do not empower us to stop people leaving 867 3038 Asher said, “The next day I got an the country if they have not paid their Ballance Street Village • Open late 7 days invoice anyway and I had 90 days to pay. MIQ charges.” The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 9 Police culture needs to change

Race relations head The over-policing of Maori communities for low-level crimes such as driving alarmed by tactics offences along with unnecessary violence by police created growing tensions and mistrust, Tamihere warned. used on Maori “When you over-police on dumb crimes, tensions grow because you know you’re by Lane Nichols, NZ Herald being targeted because you’re brown.” While senior police officers were more WELLINGTON — The Race Relations experienced, many younger officers were Commissioner has accused police of more like “Starsky and Hutch” — and “systemic and institutionalised” racial quicker to resort to batons, pepper spray stereotyping following revelations about or Tasers, Tamihere said. the tactical use of pain on Maori suspects. “At times and situations you have to Meng Foon is calling for an overhaul of use those sanctions. But they’re not go-to police culture to weed out racism, while tools straight away.” the Maori Party wants mandatory use of But Tamihere had sympathy for police body cameras to scrutinise police officers’ who were left to deal with many mentally actions and prevent racial profiling. disturbed offenders with addiction A NZ Herald investigation has revealed problems who should be receiving proper police are more likely to use pain to mental healthcare. subdue Maori suspects when applying Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi handcuffs than for other ethnicities. said Maori were more likely to be racially Foon said he was alarmed by the profiled, wrongfully accused and unfairly findings and planned to meet with Police sentenced. His party was campaigning WEED OUT RACISM: Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling for an Minister Poto Williams next week. to legislate the police code of ethics and overhaul of police culture to weed out racism. NZ Herald file picture “Even former police commissioner called for police to wear body cameras. Mike Bush admitted there were issues of Waititi also hit back at “flippant” (police) not being a safe place for Maori, comments by the Police Association that Coster asks for clarity over intel gathering Pacific and coloured people. Maori were more likely to commit violent “These statistics and the wider societal offending. by Audrey Young, NZ Herald comment an area where young people had been involved issues raised here are very concerning. “Therein lies the very issue within the in burglaries and ultimately it might have helped It’s systemic and institutionalised. police. They are very quick to stereotype WELLINGTON — Police Commissioner Andrew prevent further burglaries. “As tangata whenua, Maori have rights Maori by their look, and therefore their Coster is asking for greater clarity from New “The downside of it is potentially those young under Tiriti o Waitangi and domestic behaviour.” Zealanders about what they see as acceptable people were actually not doing anything wrong and international human rights laws Williams said she had received a intelligence gathering by police. and police speaking to them left them feeling to be safe, free from briefing on the issue. He said this week the police had been targeted, left them feeling like they were being cruel, degrading, and “The figures reported criticised both for undertaking routine treated the wrong way, relative to what they were disproportionately severe Waititi also hit earlier this week paint a intelligence collection and for failing to up to.” treatment, and free from back at ‘flippant’ stark picture. Maori are undertake routine intelligence collection. Part of the issue was how they were spoken discrimination in their over-represented in all “Is it just me, or are we having trouble making to. interactions with police comments by the aspects of the criminal up our minds about what we want?” he wrote “But in the end, the process of trying to and the justice system.” Police Association justice system. We know in an opinion piece in today’s NZ Herald. Coster prevent crime and make communities safe Foon said the pain that Maori were more this. And more absolutely said he wanted a balanced public conversation isn’t an absolute science. You can’t surgically statistics indicated current needs to be done to about it. His comments come as he plans to only engage with the people who happen to be policies and systems were likely to commit address this. announce a new panel today that will give the committing an offence because most of the time, not working for Maori. violent offending. “I would note that there police advice on the use of new technology, you are not really sure until you have secured He wanted Poto is already significant work especially emerging technology, including CCTV evidence and you have to engage in order to Williams to “take notice under way — including and the ethics of how it should be used. secure evidence.” and do something about Te Huringa o Te Tai, the In an interview yesterday about his op-ed, Generally people would expect police to be on it”. police’s Maori strategy which aims to Coster said he was not pushing for greater police the lookout for risks to safety. “I’d like to see that she will ensure reduce the over-representation of Maori powers, but there should be debate about what “But the consequences of us being on the there is positive movement in police in the criminal justice system, as well the boundaries should be and what trade-offs lookout can be that we end up speaking to culture — that they will ensure there is as the ongoing success of the co-design were involved. people who were actually doing nothing wrong. less unconscious bias or stereotyping.” model of Te Pae Oranga or iwi panels, Police were criticised for alleged failure to “These are the kind of things we grapple with Figures provided by police show which have led to the reduction of harm scan for threats related to a bomb threat made and we say ‘how should we be encouraging our Maori — who make up 16.5 percent of caused by reoffending by 22.5 percent. against Christchurch mosques. people to engage when it comes to prevention? the population and 42 percent of people “But there is much more to do. Police were also criticised for collecting What are appropriate triggers for police to go charged with an offence — are subjected And I will continue to work with the information — in some cases photographs — and have a conversation with a group of young to painful force at a higher rate than police commissioner on tackling the from young people in various centres in New people? When would it be appropriate for us to other offenders — accounting for over-representation of Maori in the Zealand and recording that information for gather their details as opposed to not doing that 49 percent of such cases. criminal justice system, as well as possible future use. and simply sending them on their way?’.” However, police bosses are rejecting ensuring the police are mindful of the The issue of taking photos is the subject of The questions were not for the police to “inflammatory” claims of racism, insisting significant powers granted to them, inquiries by the Privacy Commissioner and the answer but, for the community. that while officers often deal with violent and that their use of force is always Independent Police Conduct Authority. Relative to the population, police were small in or disturbed offenders, force is always a proportional to the situation at “But it’s not, in the end, just about photos,” numbers “and we rely on the vast majority of the last resort. hand.” Coster said. population to buy in to what we do and how we Waipareira Trust chief executive and A spokeswoman for police said officers One of the stories this week which drew do it because without their support and without former MP John Tamihere said the pain used pain compliance in response to a criticism was about police speaking to a group that sense of legitimacy, we can’t actually compliance figures were likely to be suspect’s behaviour. of young people and recording information about operate”. under-reported by front line police. “Police do not use pain compliance what they were doing and who was in the group. “I just think that is a really healthy Maori were routinely racially profiled, based on ethnicity. The use of force is He said that information might have been in conversation to have.” he said. “I’ve been subject to it myself.” always a last resort.”

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38474-04 10 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 Bridges criticises Police ‘racially profiling anti-terror laws WELLINGTON — The government is defending the law governing returning terror suspects our kids’ says mother as tough enough, even though it gives law enforcement no power to detain someone at the border. by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Radio young people could legally be retained if The likely arrival of 25-year Suhayra Aden NZ the young person had been arrested or raises questions about New Zealand’s anti- had provided their image voluntarily. terrorism laws and whether they will provide the WELLINGTON — There are growing Officers are required to follow an level of national security promised by the Prime suspicions facial recognition technology informed consent process for any Minister Jacinda Ardern. is being used on police photographs of voluntary photographs, which includes Aden and her two young children are being innocent young people. obtaining a signed consent form from held in a Turkish deportation centre after illegally Earlier this week, Radio NZ revealed the young person and their parent or trying to cross the border from Syria. police are approaching innocent young guardian. National says the government is putting New people, photographing them, collecting Police can keep the photographs until Zealanders at risk and should reconsider the their personal details and sending it all a parent or caregiver requests that they law. In 2019, legislation was hurriedly passed to a national database called National be destroyed. Parents or caregivers do not when “Kiwi jihadi” Mark Taylor surfaced in Syria. Intelligence Application (NIA). need to provide a reason for this. As a result, ‘control orders’ can be placed on Gisborne mother Bronwyn Williams Many whanau, including the Williams, those deemed a security risk, which can impose said her son was photographed by police said their young family members did a range of restrictions and obligations, but the late one night while walking home from a not give police their consent and the person cannot be detained. basketball court with his friends. experience left them traumatised. Former Justice Minister Andrew Little She did not know why his photograph “I know that he’s really distrusting describes the security status of someone under was taken, but suspected police would of them now, and that contributed to a control order as “free, subject to conditions”. use the information if he was ever caught it. I think he felt targeted because he’s The law was passed with the support of the offending in the future. brown and I think he felt for his friends,” Greens; Little cut National out of negotiations “This is a form of racism . . . they’re Williams said. after it came forward with a list of demands, racially profiling our kids,” she said. According to a Law Foundation including 72 hours’ detention on arrival. “The message is, ‘we don’t trust you. report, published last year, voluntarily National leader at the time, and now justice You’re gonna f**k up, and when you f**k provided images from children and young spokesperson Simon Bridges says the “chickens up, we already have your information people already exist in a police image are coming home to roost”. and we’re gonna get you’.” management system ABIS 2, which can He says they warned Little about not giving Indigenous data specialist Karaitiana TRAUMATISED: Gisborne mother be searched with facial recognition tools. authorities the power to detain at the border. Taiuru said that was exactly what he Bronwyn Williams says her son was ABIS 2 currently holds 1.8 million “That’s a real gap . . . a law that made believed was happening — that police photographed by police late one night images from 800,000 individuals. Zealanders ‘half safe’ when it comes to were using facial recognition technology while walking home from a basketball Taiuru said it was likely Maori would suspected terrorists and unfortunately half safe to profile young, brown faces. court with friends. “I know that he’s be over-represented in the voluntarily in this sort of environment isn’t safe at all.” “I suspect those images will be used really distrusting of them now, and that provided images stored there. He urges the government to take another look to either profile Maori youth or to train contributed to it. I think he felt targeted “We’re already over-represented at the proposals his party presented in 2019. all their facial recognition AI systems to because he’s brown and I think he felt for in the police database for voluntary Little dismisses that as “once again, Simon pick-up Maori and Polynesian faces.” his friends,” she said. DNA samples, for example, so this is Bridges and the National Party playing politics In a response to a request via the just another form of police bias and with national security”. Official Information Act, police said its Amnesty International campaigns discrimination against Maori.” “They tried to do it last time, it didn’t work and existing NEC facial recognition system director Lisa Woods said she was looking Police are yet to clarify whether it won’t this time.” enabled them to compare still images into the issue, and how facial recognition innocent youth photographs collected It’s a good law, he says, that “strikes the right of unidentified suspects, where those technology could be impeding on young for intelligence is searchable by facial balance”, furthermore he wouldn’t be “drawn images had been submitted as part of an people’s rights. recognition tools. into people’s over-dramatisation of unknown investigation. “It’s a serious issue so it is something Police asked RNZ to provide a privacy security risks”. Police did not say, specifically, whether we’re following and we know that there waiver in order to comment on Williams’ Greens co-leader James Shaw has no regrets this facial recognition system was used are issues when it comes to human rights case, but when RNZ provided them with about how the law turned out, also arguing it hits on images of innocent youths they and surveillance that need to be looked one they said they could not comment a “balance” between “national security concerns collected for intelligence and sent to the at,” she said. while a review into police policy on youth and . . . civil liberties”. — Radio NZ NIA database. Police said photographs of children and photographs was under way. Fundraisers for youngster with brain tumour by Gianina Schwanecke, HB Today will travel to Starship Children’s Hospital where Isla will undergo more NAPIER — It started in August with extensive EEGs and testing before having seizures that made it seem as if seven- her tumour removed. year-old Isla Robertson was having a Following this she will be off school for moment of forgetfulness. four weeks and be slowly reintroduced to She would stop suddenly, in the middle school life. of playing — blank. A Givealittle page set up to help By the end of October, her mother support Robertson, who is a single mum, Olivia Robertson knew something was has already raised more than $6000. badly wrong. The money will go towards the cost of The first time it happened was at a travel to Starship Hospital, psychological cafe with her grandmother, where Isla appointments, Olivia’s time off work and appeared to “space out” for about 20 Isla’s rehabilitation after surgery. seconds. Ashleigh Smith, the friend who set up Robertson mentioned it to her doctor, the page, said Robertson struggled with but was told she had a happy, healthy asking for help. child. Then Isla’s seizures started to come She said Robertson was immensely twice weekly. Then worse. grateful for the support though, “By October, she was having a seizure particularly to those at Te Mata School, every hour and they had changed which Isla attends. dramatically in their behaviour,” “I am absolutely lost for words at the Robertson said. generosity.” Isla was taken to the emergency Robertson was particularly moved by department, where she was admitted the comments included with donations, for five days and started anticonvulsant many resonating with the sentiment “it medication. BRAIN TUMOUR: Isla Robertson, 7, with her mum Olivia Robertson at home in takes a village to raise a child”. An MRI eventually revealed every Havelock North. HB Today picture A Zumba fundraiser has been parent’s worst nightmare, a tumour organised at the school for March 27 growing on her frontal lobe and a cyst on between 2pm and 4pm, with those in her temporal lobe. has been removed and tested. to be.” attendance encouraged to wear purple or “I just felt ill,” Robertson said. A surgery date is yet to be set, In addition to the seizures, Isla has lilac, the colours for cancer and epilepsy “I thought: why an innocent seven- Robertson said. also developed sensory aversions to awareness. year-old? The medication and tumour had taken almost every piece of clothing she owns A mufti day and movie fundraiser are “You can empathise with other parents its toll on Isla, she said. as well as food, bedding and everyday also being organised, with dates to be whose children have been through “She was the epitome of an energiser noises, Robertson said. finalised. something, but until you hear it’s your bunny, but because of medication and the “These little everyday things can set kid, it’s something you don’t understand.” tumour, the last six months have been her off and (it) is traumatic for both of • More information can be found at The neurologists believe it is a slow- hell. us.” givealittle.co.nz/cause/islas-grade-1- growing cancer, but won’t know until it “She’s definitely not who she used Later this year mother and daughter glioma The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 BUSINESS 11 End of an era in Great South Basin Forfeiture of last oil permit a blow to NZ, says industry by Hamish Rutherford, NZ Herald the Government “billions in taxes and royalties”, but now New Zealand was no WELLINGTON — The Great South longer seen as a safe place to invest. Basin — long touted as a possible “new For Andrew Jefferies, chief executive of North Sea” — appears set to produce not NZOG, the move to drop the permit was a single barrel of oil or gas, with the last of personal disappointment. remaining exploration permit set to be An industry veteran, he moved to New surrendered to the Crown. Zealand 14 years ago from the North Sea, Having spent more than $30 million believing that the Great South Basin across two South Island permits, could have represented a new frontier Wellington-based New Zealand Oil & basin, albeit one where discoveries were Gas told the NZX yesterday that it was likely to be cleaner burning than off the dropping the Toroa permit, a permit of coast of Scotland. nearly 5000 square kilometres southeast “Greenpeace and myself agree on one of Stewart Island. particular thing, and that is that you Over several decades a string of don’t want to burn half of the resources companies have spent hundreds of that have been discovered in the world, millions of dollars on seismic testing because they’re heavy oil and bitumen, and drilling wells in the Canterbury and and they take a lot of refining to get to Great South Basins, most recently OMV, something you can use,” Jefferies said. which drilled a well at the start of 2020 For decades, international oil companies off the Otago coast. largely overlooked the South Island Even though OMV’s well did not because it was expected to be “gassy” find enough hydrocarbons to justify a Jefferies said, but now that gas was in commercial development, as recently as favour, a combination of an unwelcoming October 2020, former Energy Minister regulatory regime, unsuccessful wells Judith Collins said she had seen reports nearby and the impact of Covid-19 on rig which suggested New Zealand could have costs and availability meant NZOG could “the North Sea in the south”. not attract partners to invest capital to But in recent months OMV and drill an exploration well. Beach Energy also announced they were He believed it was a lost opportunity to relinquishing permits. provide cleaner fuel. OMV also dropped a massive permit clean, green nation that so many New to be cleaner-burning gas — could have “The opportunity was effectively to help off the Wairarapa Coast, meaning New Zealanders want us to be. Burning dirty been better for the environment than the world push through the next 30 or Zealand now has no active exploration fuels like oil, gas and coal is causing a much of the world’s existing discovered oil 40 years where we’re going to need those permits outside of the Taranaki Basin, climate crisis.” reserves. lighter hydrocarbons.” which for decades has been the only part Siana Fitzjohn, who had to be rescued “A successful find could have helped While the oil industry has been hit by of New Zealand to produce commercial from an OMV contracted drilling rig lower emissions here in New Zealand and increasing protests — much of which have hydrocarbons. after boarding it on a protest vessel around the world by replacing coal for been targeted at OMV, New Zealand’s Industry body Pepanz described the associated with the Extinction Rebellion industrial use and electricity generation,” dominant supplier of gas — Jefferies said news as “the disappointing end of an described the news as a “welcome relief”. Pepanz chief executive John Carnegie he had enjoyed his South Island trips. era and a further blow to New Zealand’s (Greenpeace distanced itself from the said. “Sometimes the strongest support was energy security”. protest amid warnings about legal action.) “Just last month it was announced the not the most vocal,” he said. However, environmental groups “It is testament to the resilience of Huntly power station is bringing a third “Some people are definitely not in celebrated the news. communities who have resisted offshore coal-fired electricity unit out of storage favour of the oil and gas business, but New Zealand’s wildlife was “safe oil and gas in Aotearoa,” Fitzjohn said. due in part to looming shortages in the there’s a lot of people who would like from the risk of a catastrophic oil spill”, “We can look forward to a future with gas market. This is a worrying foretaste to see jobs and opportunities in the Greenpeace campaigner Amanda Larsson no oil drills or oil spills on the horizon.” of the future.” South Island, so that their whanau said. Industry figures have claimed Carnegie said a new field could have don’t have to travel to Western Australia “We are one step closer to being the discoveries in the basin — anticipated created thousands of jobs and earned to work.” Jetstar slashes fares on New Zealand routes to $15

AUCKLAND — Jetstar is selling The airline has also released $49 one way airfare deals throughout its 60,000 seats on its domestic routes for as punctuality performance data for network. low as $15 one-way. departures within 15 minutes of The Kiwi airline today also announced The airline describes the fares as schedule. that Airpoints members are now able to “amazing” and travel dates on offer In February, Jetstar’s on time buy Apple products through the Airpoints include early to mid-April, early May to performance was 96 percent compared Store. early July, late July to late September to 92 percent at the same time last Air New Zealand general manager 2021 and late October to early December. year. There was more domestic traffic in loyalty Kate O’Brien said Apple had The one-way fares include: February last year. been the most searched for brand at the •฀Auckland฀to฀Wellington฀from฀$15 Jetstar, which is also stepping up Airpoints Store for some time. •฀Auckland฀to฀Christchurch฀from฀$15 domestic operations in Australia, says it “Since Covid-19, we’ve seen a dramatic •฀Auckland฀to฀Dunedin฀from฀$47 carries out a range of measures to ensure shift in the way Airpoints members •฀Auckland฀to฀Queenstown฀from฀$55 a safe environment at airports and spend their Airpoints Dollars, with people •฀Christchurch฀to฀Wellington฀from฀$29 onboard, giving customers extra peace of choosing to spend more on products like •฀Wellington฀to฀Queenstown฀from฀$45 mind. technology, homewares, DIY and domestic The Jetstar “You Choose Sale” ends at This includes contactless check-in, tourism experiences while international 11.59pm on Sunday, March 14. your booking and get a credit voucher for enhanced cleaning, and masks and travel has been limited.” “If you think your plans might change the value of your flight, plus any in-flight sanitising wipes made available to She said total redemptions across the before you travel, Jetstar has you covered extras (excluding the cost of FareCredit),” customers. Airpoints Store increased by 122 percent with FareCredit, which lets you cancel the airline says. This week Air New Zealand promoted in 2020. — NZ Herald

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY in a strong New Zealand market. It now expects net profit for the 2021 financial New listing My Food Bag fell another 3c or year to be at least $35m compared with the 1.74 percent to $1.69. previous guidance of $33m-$35m, and the group WELLINGTON — The New Zealand Zealand to reopen its border, and reopening Amongst the property stocks, Stride Property is paying a third-quarter dividend of 6c a share sharemarket rallied nearly 1 percent on the stocks like Auckland International Airport and rose 5c or 2.43 percent to $2.11; Vital Healthcare on March 30. back of a fall in wholesale interest rates and Air New Zealand had better days. was up 7.7c or 2.68 percent to $2.95; and Hospitality group Savor rose 1.9c or increased hopes of beginning a transtasman “The interest rate-sensitive stocks have been Property for Industry gained 2c to $2.80. 10.22 percent to 20.5c after announcing it is travel bubble. whiplashed lately and the pause in long-term Goodman Property Trust said its property adding Auckland eateries Amano, Ortolana The S&P/NZX 50 Index gained 0.88 percent rates increasing has taken the pressure off the portfolio would post a second-half revaluation and The Store to its stable for a total payment to 12,251.90, on steady volume of 51.78 million gentailers and property companies,” he said. gain of about $415m and would be worth of $11m. Me Today jumped 7.79 percent to shares worth $178.84 million. Auckland International Airport climbed 8c $3.8 billion at March 31. Its share price 8.3c after organising a distribution agreement The US 10-Year Treasury bond yield eased to to $7.09; Air New Zealand surged 5.5c or 3.46 increased 1c to $2.20. with MASH Beauty Lab for 10 of its skincare 1.53 percent, from 1.617 percent, overnight and percent to $1.645; Freightways increased 23c or Summerset Group Holdings has bought products into Japan. the energy and property stocks rebounded. The 2.14 percent to $10.98; Synlait Milk collected 7c land in Chirnside Park Melbourne for its third On Wall Street, the technology-driven Nasdaq New Zealand 10-Year Government bond yield or 1.92 percent to $3.71 and Restaurant Brands 200-unit retirement village in Victoria. Its share Composite index recovered well from correction fell slightly to 1.82 percent. The NZ dollar has was up 15c to $12.45. price fell 10c to $12.75, while Ryman Healthcare territory, rising 3.69 percent to 13,073.82 — with weakened to US71.46c. Shane Solly, portfolio Fletcher Building climbed 7c to $6.75 after increased 29c or 1.91 percent to $15.44. electric vehicle maker Tesla jumping manager with Harbour Asset Management, said telling Australian institutions in a presentation Turners Automotive Group rose 19c or 6.11 19.64 percent to US$673.58 ($942.38), and Apple the Australian Government was leaning on New that its residential division was performing well percent to $3.30 after upgrading its earnings. gaining 4.06 percent to US$121.08. — NZ Herald 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 EDITORIAL Issues of interpretation, beliefs Covid vaccine plans by Meredith hold fast to the current election process. interested to see what we are teaching the next Akuhata-Brown You see, the issue I believe is about generation about truth, integrity and relationships. mostly good sense interpretation and some deep-seated beliefs Being Maori in the current climate of our THERE is no doubt we are that are held by a few, that the Treaty is not nation comes with so many mixed feelings. Clarity this week around New living in both exciting and relevant and there is no mention of a partnership Strong feelings about knowing my own Zealand’s Covid-19 vaccination challenging times. For me I am relationship. whakapapa, which creates emotional pain when programme has been welcome, and looking forward to the future of Relationships are vital and a key component you hear how your grandparents were treated — it mostly makes good sense. Maori in both local and national of working together for success. Our community beaten for speaking te reo, their names changed First came news that the country politics. has come a long way in its relationship with because they were too hard to say. How land is going all in with the Pfizer/ People ask me all the time about Maori tangata whenua. However, I believe we are only was confiscated, stolen then desecrated. How BioNTech vaccine, based on its 95 wards and my passion to see institutional just beginning to realise the hopes and dreams over and over you are reminded that you are a percent effectiveness at preventing racism challenged. On reflection I know it’s of our ancestors, and more work is needed to second-rate citizen. because I have been researching my whakapapa understand this relationship. Yes, all issues we are told to “get over, move symptomatic infection, and that (genealogy) and learning all about my Maori, Looking back over the council’s decisions on, that’s in the past”. administering one type of vaccine Scottish, Welsh and English ancestry, as I have regarding Maori wards and engagement it is Well, it has taken this long to remove a racist will simplify the national roll-out. missed out on some key connections. Also, glaringly obvious that this wasn’t deemed piece of legislation and it has been a fierce battle, No doubt a further factor was I realised I had been guilty of being silent to important enough to even discuss or consider a so yes we are moving on, moving forward. But it that other vaccines New Zealand racism and therefore complicit in it. feasible option. Change has happened and I am still comes with such animosity and reminders of has secured, that don’t need to be Therefore, I am so grateful for all the work so grateful it has happened in my lifetime! how some people continue to feel about Maori, kept ultra-cold, will be better suited that has been done to support The Local Recent writings from Hobson Pledge and it hurts. for donations to Pacific Islands and Electoral Maori Wards and Maori Constituencies supporters highlight strong, engrained I believe we all want the same thing but it other developing countries. Amendment Act. The efforts of citizens, Local institutional racism that continues to see Maori depends on basic relationship skills and knowing Yesterday the Government Government NZ, and nine councils who urged the as constantly seeking preferential treatment who you are in all of this; knowing you carry Government to remove a racist law that meant 5 when they already receive so much. beliefs and values from your parents, their announced its vaccine roll-out plan, percent of voters could force a poll against Maori You see, we all come at issues from a personal parents and their parents. which while fairly broadbrush gets wards have succeeded. basis, our upbringing and relationships, and what New Zealand was colonised by England most of the obvious settings right Championing more effective and fairer we continue to learn about our place from history — surely there would come a time when the as it works through three priority representation has meant some very heated and the now. empire’s systems of oppression would be groups before reaching the general debates with constituents who have believed we It is obvious that personal values and beliefs challenged to the point where equality and population, starting from July. currently have a fair and effective system, and carry over from generation to generation. I am fairness were achieved. One area of expert contention is that while vulnerable people in LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS South Auckland — aged 65 and Freedom camping costs older or with an underlying health condition — are prioritised in group Making freedom camping free of summer complaints about Looking forward to it is a dumb idea (Re: March 8 rubbish and other problems 2 (to be vaccinated by May) because “What’s on in council” column). arising from these camping of the higher risk of exposure there, Re: Reliant on a strong and I know the people Obtaining permits to park up spots, so from a community the rest of its adult population is at vaccine uptake, March 10 around me are too. I would did at least give an oversight point of view they are no asset. the back of the vaccine queue with column. encourage everyone to get and was a way of controlling use Over this time concern and the rest of the general population. Thank you. Immunisation their information about of the sites. The minor fee did awareness for our environment Bus drivers, transport workers is the way forward. We can the vaccine from reliable not cover the rubbish removal has grown. Now we have a new prevent unnecessary death, sources and not anti-vaxxers or local toilet cleaning, but it did Mayor and some change in and supermarket staff also aren’t illness and frustrating on the internet. prioritised, with again a strong case provide a way of monitoring our councillors, I had hoped a new lockdowns. I’m looking valuable public areas. respect for our coastal areas for these workers in South Auckland forward to getting mine AIMEE MILNE at least to be further up the queue. Freedom camping is costing would have emerged. our fragile coastal environment The new bylaws may have Contentious decisions are also yet and sand dune wildlife breeding restricted the season, but sites to be made for people needing to areas. Our generosity to visitors should be further limited. head overseas, with sportspeople Felt sorry for them all will end up costing ratepayers in Whoever would have thought and major upcoming events on Re: Fallout from Harry, Meghan predicament and people got sand restoration plantings and that the Pines was a suitable many minds, and applications from interview — March 10 editorial. outraged. restoring wildlife habitats. freedom camping spot? businesses expected too. Covid Well! That interview was pretty 4. Likewise, Meghan and For nearly a decade now print Response Minister Chris Hipkins polarising wasn’t it? Harry are not responsible for and TV media have been full MARGARET THORPE said there would be “a high bar”. I didn’t watch it but I did see the 525,000 and counting Covid It is interesting to compare with a few short clips and a bit of the deaths in America — their Singapore’s vaccine plan which has running commentary. They seem interview didn’t compound the Growing opportunities prioritised its maritime, aviation in love, proud of their baby and trauma of Covid. excited about being pregnant 5. Why would anyone wish Re: Growth industry — living off- the hemp site we worked at last year, and then land transport workers, again. another person ill or dismiss grid while doing EIT hemp course, and growing cannabis with us. A big alongside healthcare, other front- I did think about what some another’s pain? Is it because March 8 story. mihi to Porourangi and Doone and the line workers and vulnerable groups, of the reactions to Meghan and we think wealthy people, or We are so proud of all our students E3C Whanau in supporting them. as part of a strategy to reopen its Harry’s interview might say actresses, or royalty are not who have done this hemp course, past This is my last season running economy as soon as possible. about attitudes and values in our allowed to experience grief and and present — some of whom have this course here in Ruatorea and I’m Here our Government seems very society. loss? passed our course and now work for hoping someone will step up, take the lukewarm on a transtasman travel 1. Why do some people hate a 6. Hands up if you have ever Rua Bioscience cannabis company reins and keep this awesome course bubble. While its polling might couple they have never met? whined about the terrible way (Hikurangi Enterprises). running here on the East Coast. A show that caution is supported, 2. Any intelligent woman would you have been treated by a We say if you have the passion and big mihi to EIT for having faith in commitment in growing cannabis here our dreams, goals and aspirations the risks are very low — especially ghost that hateful big-mouth member of your family. We all Piers Morgan. Meghan’s bull**** love a bit of a moan about how on the Coast, there is a good chance around growing this wonder plant and regarding Queensland and New alert probably went off big time hard done by we are, from time of finding employment with Rua or learning all about the great benefits it South Wales, where there have when she actually met him face to time. others thinking of starting up a small has for our whenua and whanau. been no community cases for more to face. He has outed himself as Never underestimate the or big whanau business around the As we say on our course, “Hemp, than 50 days; and with Australians an abuser. powerful need we all have to be cannabis industry here on the Coast Hemp Hooray”. Ruatorea Hempsters nearly half of all international visitor 3. The Sussex family are not listened to. I thought they spoke and around Aotearoa. growing jah kaupapa of cannabis o te arrivals pre-Covid, it would be a responsible for Prince Phillip’s well and I felt sorry for all of We are proud of Ben and Chris’s Tairawhiti. Blessings to you all. saviour for our tourism industry. age or illness, yet their interview them. commitment in coming to Ruatorea Hipkins said a joint decision- got mashed up with his current LARA MEYER and finding their accommodation at ROB THOMSON, Ruatorea making framework was still being [email protected] negotiated. One issue it seems is that the Australians, who announced ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. their vaccine roll-out strategy on ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. January 7, make decisions faster ■ Always include full name and contact details. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. than our Government can. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 WORLD 13 GLOBAL BRIEFS Landmark Covid relief ‘No evidence’ AstraZeneca jab caused deaths in Austria AMSTERDAM — There is nothing to suggest so far that being vaccinated against the coronavirus bill passed by Congress was responsible for the deaths of two people in Austria, who had been given Oxford- AstraZeneca’s vaccine, the European Medicines US$1.9 trillion relief package approved in a win for Biden, Democrats Agency (EMA) says. Austria’s state health agency — The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) — WASHINGTON, DC — A suspended the use of a batch of the vaccine Congress riven along party after a person was diagnosed with multiple lines approved a landmark thrombosis and died 10 days after vaccination, US$1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief and another person was also hospitalised with bill on Wednesday (local time), pulmonary embolism. as US President Joe Biden “There is currently no indication that and the Democrats claimed vaccination has caused these conditions, which a triumph on a bill that are not listed as side effects with this vaccine,” marshals the government’s the EMA — the headquarters of which is spending might against the based in Amsterdam, Netherlands — said in its pandemic and economic crises statement today. that have upended the nation. “Although a quality defect is considered The House gave final unlikely at this stage, the batch quality is being congressional approval to investigated.” the sweeping package by a Adverse reactions seen in trials of the vaccine near party line 220-211 vote, were mostly short-lived. precisely seven weeks after Blood-clotting issues were not reported. Biden entered the White — Reuters story via RNZ House and four days after the Senate passed the bill without Garland next attorney general a single Republican vote. WASHINGTON, DC — The Senate has GOP lawmakers opposed the confirmed that Merrick Garland will be the next package as bloated, crammed US attorney general, with a strong bipartisan with liberal policies, and vote, which put the widely-respected, veteran heedless of signs the crises judge in the post as President Joe Biden vowed were easing. to restore the Justice Department’s reputation Most noticeable to many for independence. Americans were the provisions COVID RELIEF ON WAY FOR AMERICANS: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks from the Democrats have to provide up to US$1400 praised Garland — direct payments this year to House floor, during the vote on the Democrat’s US$1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill, on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday (local time), in Washington, DC. AP picture a federal appeals most adults and extend the court judge who US$300 per week emergency was snubbed by unemployment benefits into plunged the economy to the programmes could be a benefit unfettered control of the Republicans for a early September. deep lows not seen in America — not a bane — to millions of White House and Congress, seat on the Supreme But the legislation goes far since the Great Depression. people and that spending huge polls showing robust support Court in 2016, as a beyond that. “Today, we have a decision sums on such efforts could be for Biden’s approach, and a highly-qualified and The measure addresses to make of tremendous a cure — not a curse. moment when most voters honourable jurist who Democrats’ campaign promises (impact),” said House Speaker The measure so closely cared little that the national is uniquely qualified and Biden’s top initial priority Nancy Pelosi. tracks Democrats’ priorities debt was soaring toward a to lead the department of easing the twin crises (the It was “a decision that will that several rank it with stratospheric US$22 trillion. after a tumultuous four pandemic and its related make a difference for millions the top achievements of Neither party seemed much years under former economic impact) that first hit of Americans, by saving lives their careers, and despite troubled by the surging red President Donald Merrick Garland the country a year ago. and livelihoods”, she said. their slender congressional ink, either, except when Trump. Since then, many Americans For Biden and the majorities there was never the other was using it to Many Republicans praised him as well, saying have been relegated to hermit- Democrats, the bill was any real suspense over the finance its priorities, be they he had the right record and temperament for the like lifestyles in their homes essentially a canvas on which outcome of the vote. Democratic spending or GOP moment. to avoid a disease that has they had painted their core They were also empowered tax cuts. The vote was 70-30. — AP killed over 525,000 people, and beliefs — that government by three dynamics: their — AP US zeroing in on organised Capitol siege extremists

WASHINGTON, DC — As members institutions of government,” Assistant the least”. of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group US Attorney Jason McCullough said Oath Keepers began readying for shouldered their way through the mob during a recent hearing. violence as early as last November, and up the steps to the US Capitol, The Proud Boys and the Oath authorities said. their plans for January 6 were clear, Keepers make up a fraction of the Communications show the group authorities say. more than 300 Trump supporters discussing logistics, weapons “Arrest this assembly, we have charged so far in the siege that led and training, including “2 days of probable cause for acts of treason and to Trump’s second impeachment and wargames.” election fraud”, somebody commanded resulted in the deaths of five people, “I need you fighting fit” by the over an encrypted messaging app including a police officer. inauguration, one Ohio member, some extremists used to communicate But several of their leaders, Jessica Watkins, told a recruit during the siege. members and associates have become in November, according to court A short time earlier, the ‘Proud the central targets of the Justice documents. Boys’, carrying two-way radios and Department’s sprawling investigation. “If Biden becomes president our wearing earpieces, spread out and It could mean more serious criminal way of life as we know it is over,” she tried to blend in with the crowd as they charges for some rioters. said in another message later that invaded the Capitol and were led by a On the other hand, mounting month. man assigned “war powers” to oversee evidence of advance planning could As January 6 neared, they the group’s attack, prosecutors also fuel Trump’s and his supporters’ discussed stationing a “quick reaction claimed. claims that the Republican former force” outside Washington that could These two extremist groups — the president did not incite the riot and, bring in weapons “if something goes Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys therefore, should not be found liable to hell”, according to court documents. — that travelled to Washington, DC, for it. Days before the attack, one man along with thousands of other Trump Defence attorneys have accused suggested getting a boat to ferry ONE OF AMERICA’S DARKEST DAYS: Police with guns drawn supporters, were not whipped into an prosecutors of distorting their “heavy weapons” across the Potomac watch as rioters try to break into the House chamber. AP picture impulsive frenzy by President Donald clients’ words and actions to falsely River into their “waiting arms”. Trump that day, officials said. portray the attack as a premeditated, “I believe we will have to get violent but have described him as a supporter Two days before the attack, the They had already been laying orchestrated insurrection, instead to stop this,” that man — Thomas who appeared to play a “leadership Proud Boys’ top leader, Enrique Tarrio, attack plans. And their internal of a spontaneous outpouring of Caldwell of Virginia — said in a role” within the group. was arrested shortly after he arrived communications and other evidence election-fuelled rage to stop Congress’ November message to Watkins. There were plans for some Oath in Washington and was charged with emerging in court papers and in certification of Trump’s defeat by On January 1, he took to Facebook Keepers to be there in “grey man” vandalising a Black Lives Matter hearings show how authorities were Democrat Joe Biden. to decry what he viewed as a rigged mode — without their identifiable banner at an historic Black church trying to build a case that small cells And the prosecutors’ case against a election, saying “we must smite them militia gear — so they could blend in during a December protest. hidden within the masses mounted an man described as a leader in the Proud now and drive them down”, authorities with the crowd. Tarrio was ordered to stay away organised, military-style assault on the Boys’ attack took a hit last week when said. “For every Oath Keeper you see, from the nation’s capital, so Ethan heart of American democracy. a judge ordered him to be released Authorities had acknowledged there there are at least two of us you don’t Nordean was then given “war powers” “This was not simply a march. while he awaits trial, calling some of was no evidence Caldwell was a dues- see,” said a January 4 email, sent to to take charge of the group’s January 6 This was an incredible attack on our the evidence against him “weak, to say paying member of the Oath Keepers, members. activities, prosecutors said. — AP 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 Russia slows Myanmar military coup: down Twitter UN to condemn violence as part of its

NEW YORK — United social-media Nations (UN) Security Council members approved a statement on Wednesday (local clampdown time) calling for a reversal of the military coup in Myanmar MOSCOW — Russian and strongly condemning authorities said on the violence against peaceful Wednesday (local time) protesters and calling for that they were slowing “utmost restraint” by the down the speed of military, three council uploading photos and diplomats said. videos to Twitter over The diplomats, who said its failure to remove the presidential statement banned content — part had been approved by all 15 of growing efforts to curb social media council members, including platforms that have played a major role in Myanmar’s neighbour and amplifying dissent. friend — China, spoke on The state communications watchdog, condition of anonymity ahead Roskomnadzor, said it began the slowdown of its official adoption at a after it said Twitter failed to remove content council meeting expected later encouraging suicide among children and on Wednesday. containing information about drugs and A presidential statement is child pornography. a step below a resolution but However, Twitter responded by becomes part of the official emphasising it had a policy of “zero record of the UN’s most tolerance” for any of that kind of content. powerful body. The Russian watchdog warned that if The statement, obtained by Twitter refused to abide by Russian law, it The Associated Press, calls could be blocked entirely, but it voiced hope for the immediate release of MYANMAR IN TURMOIL: Protesters march along the main road in the city of Mandalay, the platform would “take a constructive government leaders, including in Myanmar, during an anti-coup demonstration. The escalation of violence in Myanmar, as stance” and comply with removing the State Counsellor Aung San authorities crack down on protests against the February 1 coup, is raising pressure for more banned content. Vadim Subbotin, the deputy Suu Kyi and President Win sanctions against the junta (the ruling military group). AP picture chief of Roskomnadzor, said in televised Myint who have been detained remarks that Twitter was the only social since the February 1 military platform that had “openly ignored the coup. democracy in Myanmar, sanctions and pouring Buddhist monks, and people of Russian authorities’ demand to remove the It supports the country’s which for five decades had investment into the country. all classes and ages. banned content”. democratic transition and languished under strict Opposition to the coup Security forces have The watchdog said the slowdown would “stresses the need to uphold military rule that led to is being spearheaded by responded with mass arrests apply to all mobile devices and 50 percent of democratic institutions international isolation and young people, who have and, at times, lethal force. desktop users nationwide. and processes, refrain from sanctions. spent years living their lives At least 60 protesters have Roskomnadzor said in a statement that violence, fully respect human As the generals loosened relatively freely under Suu been killed since the military Twitter had failed to remove more than 3000 rights and fundamental their grip, culminating in Kyi’s leadership, and has takeover, according to the posts with the banned content, including freedoms and uphold the rule Suu Kyi’s rise to power after wide support throughout the independent Assistance more than 2500 posts encouraging suicide of law.” Myanmar’s 2015 elections, country from civil servants, Association for Political among minors. The coup reversed years the international community railway workers who were Prisoners. Twitter said in a statement that “we have a of slow progress toward responded by lifting most targeted on Wednesday, — AP zero-tolerance policy regarding child sexual exploitation; it is against the Twitter Rules to promote, glorify or encourage suicide and self harm; and we do not allow the use ‘We were beaten the whole time’ — protester of Twitter for any unlawful behaviour or to further illegal activities, including the buying and selling of drugs”. MYEIK, Myanmar — A protester in that his family had taken them. “We remain committed to advocating Myanmar, who says he was detained The news agency, which spoke for the Open Internet around the world by troops for three hours as part of to the man via telephone, could not and are deeply concerned by increased the crackdown against opponents verify his account. attempts to block and throttle online public of last month’s military coup, has The protesters were put in a conversation,” the statement also said. described being continually beaten truck and handed over to troops Twitter is less popular in Russia than — with belts, chains, bamboo sticks at Myeik air base, where the men other social media services, with about and batons. were separated from the women, 13 million users, or about one-third of the In a rare, first-hand account of the photographed and taken to a room, number that Facebook has in that country, treatment of detained activists in the man said, speaking on condition according to data from web-traffic research Myanmar, the man told Reuters he of anonymity for fear of being firm, Similar Web. was one of about 60 people picked detained again. However, the attack on the platform could up by police in Myeik — a southern Reuters was unable to reach the be “an artillery shot aimed, among other coastal town — as police hid in a air base for comment. things, at scaring other major social media house after a protest was broken up “We got beaten the whole time platforms”, said Artyom Kozlyuk, head of the by them. even while we were walking to the internet rights group, Roskomsvoboda. room,” he said. “The soldiers said, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said ‘This is the hell room, why don’t you on Wednesday that the Russian government We got beaten the guys have a taste?’” had “no desire to block anything”, but added whole‘ time, even while He described being told to kneel that it was necessary to enforce the law. we were walking to the and said five of the group were told The action against Twitter comes as to face each other while they were Russian authorities have criticised the room. The soldiers said, beaten on their backs, heads, necks social-media platforms that have been used ‘This is the hell room, and sides. CULTURE OF FEAR: Troops move in to disperse protesters to bring tens of thousands of people into the why don’t you guys He said he was later freed during an anti-coup demonstration in Myanmar. AP picture streets across Russia this year to demand along with several others without the release of jailed Russian opposition have a taste?’ explanation. Some others were of the injuries on his hips.” down with increasing force on daily leader, Alexei Navalny. —Detained’ activist formally arrested and sent to jail. Myanmar has been in turmoil nationwide protests, and more than The wave of demonstrations served as Reuters was unable to contact the since the army ousted Aung San 60 demonstrators have been killed a major challenge to the Kremlin. Russian jail for comment. Suu Kyi’s elected government in a and 1900 people arrested since the authorities have assailed the platforms for A military spokesman did not Pyae Phyo Aung, a former coup on February 1 and detained coup, the Assistance Association failing to remove calls for children to join answer calls seeking comment on student union member in Myeik who her and other politicians. for Political Prisoners has said. unsanctioned opposition protests. Last the man’s allegations. Myeik police has been in touch with released The military said an election Reuters has not been able to week, Russian President Vladimir Putin station did not answer its phone. protesters, told Reuters 32 people in November won by Suu Kyi’s confirm the figures independently. urged police to act more actively to monitor The army has previously said it is were arrested in the incident, National League for Democracy At least two people, both NLD social-media platforms and to track down dealing with protests “lawfully”. according to a list that he helped (NLD) was marred by fraud — a officials, have died in custody since those who “draw the children into illegal and The man provided photographs, compile for civil society groups. claim rejected by the national last Saturday after being arrested, unsanctioned street actions”. which he said had been taken by his He said he saw another protester electoral commission — and according to party sources, The move against Twitter appeared to be family, showing injuries on his back, with injuries on his back and hip. has set up a junta to rule the although the reason for their deaths part of continuing efforts by the Russian neck and shoulders. “When I met him, he couldn’t country, pending a new vote on an is not known. government to tighten its control over the Reuters has verified that the even sit,” Pyae Phyo Aung said. unspecified date. The military has not commented internet and, in particular, social media. photographs were of the man and “He was lying face down because Security forces have cracked on this. — Reuters story via RNZ — AP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 WORLD 15 Joe Biden has Major trouble US President’s dog in the doghouse after injuring Secret Service agent

WASHINGTON, DC — US FAMILY DOGS spokesperson for Jill Biden, said President Joe Biden has Major ‘STILL GETTING on Tuesday in an email. trouble. USED TO NEW Jill Biden has been Family dogs — Major and SURROUNDINGS’: preoccupied with getting the Champ — have been banished US President Joe German shepherds settled in from the White House for a Biden and first at the White House, which can doggie time-out in Delaware lady Jill Biden walk be a difficult place even for a after Major caused a “minor across the South human to get used to. Joe Biden injury” to a Secret Service agent. Lawn to board said a few weeks ago that even White House press secretary Marine One at the he was still getting used to the Jen Psaki explained the canine White House in trappings of his office. caper on Tuesday (local time) Washington, DC, “I’ve been obsessed with by saying the dogs “are still in late February, getting our dogs settled because getting accustomed to their for a short trip to we have (an) old dog and we new surroundings and to new Andrews Air Force have a very young dog,” the first people”. Base, Maryland, lady told talk-show host Kelly “On Monday, the first family’s and then on to Clarkson in a recent interview. younger dog — Major — was Houston. Their “They have to take the surprised by an unfamiliar family dogs — elevator. They’re not used to person and reacted in a way that Champ and Major that. They have to go out on the resulted in a minor injury to the — have been South Lawn with lots of people individual, which was handled banished from watching them,” she said. by the White House medical the White House “So, you know, that’s what unit, with no further treatment for some doggie I’ve been obsessed with — just needed,” Psaki said. time-out after the getting everybody settled and She would not confirm that a younger dog — calm.” Secret Service agent was injured Major — caused Major, who is about 3 years in Monday’s incident, but an a minor injury to old, burst on to the national kia ora administration official later said a Secret Service scene late last year after Biden an agent was indeed Major’s agent. AP file picture slipped during doggie play time victim. at his home near Wilmington The official confirmed the Welcome to Nicks Bistro and broke a bone in his right gisborne agent was not seriously injured. Biden’s wife, Jill, left town on California. “With the first lady travelling foot. Psaki said plans had already Monday to spend a few days The dogs would be returning for three days, Champ and Major The Bidens adopted Major been made to send the dogs to touring US military installations to the White House soon, Psaki went to Delaware to stay with in 2018 from the Delaware Delaware to be cared for while in Washington state and Stop andsaid. have a delicious familymeal friends,” at the Michael Nicks LaRosa, Bistro. Humane Association. — AP Great food at great prices! Coming Week Special (From the Ala Carte Menu)

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38581-01 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 19 Snake likely Large amount of stolen clothing unrecovered by Lane Nichols, NZ Herald scheduled for May. came from Police have indicated they AUCKLAND — Hundreds of will oppose suppression. thousands of dollars in high- The judge granted a Australia end couture clothing stolen in continuation of interim a burglary from world-famous suppression for the three AUCKLAND — An investigation is fashion designer Dame Trelise defendants, but declined to under way to understand how a snake Cooper last year remains vary the bail conditions of the got through New Zealand’s border and unrecovered. pair who appeared yesterday, on to an Auckland construction site on Two people charged in which prevents them from Tuesday. connection with the high- contacting each other. The snake has been formally profile heist appeared in The court heard they were identified as a juvenile male carpet Auckland District Court in a relationship but the judge python. Carpet pythons are non- yesterday morning — one was unwilling to vary their venomous. sporting a fashionable face bail conditions while the police Biosecurity New Zealand team mask by luxury brand Yves investigation remained live. manager aquatic and environmental Saint Laurent. CHARGES DENIED: Two people charged in connection with “How much property is health Michael Taylor said the snake A third defendant did not the theft of more than 2000 samples from fashion designer unrecovered?” he asked. was too large to be a hatchling but had show and the judge issued a Dame Trelise Cooper have appeared in court. File picture “About three-quarters,” the not yet become sexually mature. warrant for her arrest. police prosecutor replied. “There was nothing in its gut, The break-in happened clothing is still unaccounted for the clothing, knowing it to be The accused were remanded indicating it had not eaten for at least about 4pm on October 17 at — although a police prosecutor stolen. on bail. two to three weeks.” Trelise Cooper’s head office said there was a new lead in Her lawyer claimed she had After the break-in, Cooper He said early indications suggest styling room in Epsom. the case and investigators been suffering migraines but told The New Zealand Herald the snake had made its way into a pipe The stolen loot included hoped “some of it may have the judge refused to excuse her the alleged thief or thieves that had then been sealed at both ends the fashion house’s entire popped up somewhere”. appearance without a proper broke into the styling room before it was imported from Australia. collection of 2021 spring and The pair who appeared medical certificate, labelling a through a vent in an electrical There is no evidence of any further summer samples, valued at yesterday morning are a note produced to the court as room. snakes and there is no threat to the about $500,000. 41-year-old television industry “completely useless”. It was the first time her public. Three people were arrested worker accused of burglary and The trio, who have name head office had been burgled Taylor said the 115cm snake may after police searched a obtaining by deception, and a suppression, all deny the in 25 years, although someone have been alive when it was found by central Auckland property 44-year-old florist who faces charges. unsuccessfully tried to break the contractors. in November where they a charge of receiving stolen Suppression was due to into the building 14 years ago, “The snake was reported as dead recovered “a significant property. lapse but the accused’s lawyers Cooper said. when Biosecurity New Zealand amount” of the stolen garb. The woman who failed indicated they were seeking The building was alarmed was notified, but it appears it may However, it emerged in to appear today, and who is continued secrecy, so the and monitored by security have been alive when found by the Auckland District Court this linked to a cake retailing matter was adjourned for a guards but did not have CCTV, construction worker.” — NZ Herald morning that about three- business, is a 44-year-old suppression hearing in July. A which Cooper said was being quarters of the missing charged with receiving some of case review hearing has been installed after the crime. University’s domestic Air traffic controllers enrolment outstrips to stay at HB Airport NAPIER — Hawke’s like under a number of Bay Airport’s existing scenarios — including the air traffic control service pandemic.” will be kept after an The report provides foreign student loss independent aeronautical data driven modelling study determined that it out to 2045 to inform the was needed. outcome. by John Gerritsen, RNZ In May last year, Airways NZ CEO Airways New Zealand Graeme Sumner said its WELLINGTON — Increased launched a review of goal has been to make sure domestic enrolments have more the air traffic services it there’s an evidence-based than made up for falling foreign provided at seven regional service in place at Hawke’s student numbers at three airports with reducing Bay Airport that means universities. traffic volumes, which safety remains paramount, Canterbury, Victoria and Otago included Hawke’s Bay without imposing have reported that they are Airport. unnecessary cost on the starting the year with nearly 1000 The purpose of the airlines and operators who more students than last year. review was to confirm fly in and out. However, they also warn that that the right level of air The study will not need the net increase will not offset traffic control was provided Civil Aviation Authority the financial impact of losing at the airports and that review. hundreds of foreign students appropriate agreements Air traffic control is because their fees are worth more were in place for funding provided for Hawke’s Bay than double what universities these services. Airport by Airways NZ receive for each domestic student The first step in the controllers working in the in fees and government funding. process was for involved airport tower. The loss of foreign student airports to undertake These controllers oversee fees has prompted the eight ENROLMENTS UP: Despite the increase in student numbers, it is aeronautical studies to aircraft in their first and universities to shed about 700 not expected to offset the financial impact of losing hundreds of fee- examine their individual last stages of flight, as they permanent staff, and cut back on paying foreign students. NZ Herald picture airspace environments. take-off and land at the hundreds of casual and short-term In a statement released airport, while the airspace tutoring and contract lecturing offset the loss of full-fee-paying “An upswing in university on Wednesday, Airways nearby is managed by roles. international students”. enrolments is quite normal at any NZ and Hawke’s Bay Airways NZ’s radar centre Victoria University of “We are reducing costs where time when the labour market and Airport said as a result of based in Christchurch. Wellington reported that it had possible, but this will not impact economy are under pressure, but the review’s findings, they Hawke’s Bay Airport’s 1350 domestic full-time equivalent on personnel costs or course the magnitude of the domestic will now begin discussions control tower has six students, an increase of 9 percent delivery at this time.” increase this time is greater than on a revised commercial employees. and the biggest rise in recent The University of Otago said we have seen in other recent agreement to cover the Ainslie shared his years. it had experienced a net increase periods of economic downturn service going forward. delight that the airport “In contrast, our international of 5.4 percent, or 952 full-time such as the Global Financial Hawke’s Bay Airport will continue to see EFTS (equivalent full-time enrolments, over the same time Crisis,” she said. CEO Stuart Ainslie said local air traffic control students) are 470 below this time last year. Hayne said the overall increase the results present a services for their aviation last year but approximately 150 “Within this, a 1341 EFTS lift should partly reduce the financial robust and comprehensive stakeholders and EFTS better than forecast,” it in domestic student enrolments pressure on the university, which picture of the airport’s air passengers travelling in said. has been more than sufficient to had previously budgeted for a $13 traffic control needs now and out of the region. The University of Canterbury offset a decline of 389 EFTS in million deficit for 2021. and into the future. Sumner added that said it had 1584 or 13 percent international full-fee enrolments,” The remaining five universities “The study has Hawke’s Bay Airport plays more full-time domestic students, it said. had not yet reported their considered input from our an essential role in keeping and 668 or 44 percent fewer University of Otago vice- enrolment figures, but RNZ stakeholders, including the region connected to international students. chancellor Professor Harlene understands at least two have airlines, on what passenger New Zealand, and the local Its vice-chancellor Professor Hayne said the increase in told their staff that domestic numbers and aircraft economy thriving. Cheryl de la Rey said the domestic enrolments was higher enrolment increases have offset movements will look — Hawke’s Bay Today net increase was “unlikely to than expected. falling international numbers. 20 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 Covid interrupts ‘O-week’ party by Ella Stewart, RNZ meet some new people but unfortunately it had to be AUCKLAND — The start postponed a week.” of the university year usually Since the alert level change, means dressing up in togas, AUT has moved to a mix of breaking the ice with new in-person and online teaching. classmates and plenty of According to the Ministry of socialising. But in Auckland, Health guidelines there are no Covid-19 has, once again, size restrictions for lectures and interrupted the party. classes in Alert Level 2. Moving cities can be lonely However, it recommended at the best of times, but finding that tertiary institutions limit your feet and meeting new people capacity to enable physical during a lockdown is an even distancing of one metre, where more daunting prospect. possible. And although the Alert Level Ella Shephard is a law student 3 Auckland lockdown finished at the University of Auckland. on Sunday, the University of She was looking forward to the Auckland and Manukau Institute first week back at uni. EVENT CANCELLATIONS: University orientation parties are known as a ‘rite of passage’ for some of Technology will not be holding “That was so disappointing Kiwi students. RNZ picture in-person classes until the city because it was supposed to be drops back to Alert Level 1. the first week of classes back at was that ‘team of five million for this year was really difficult sense of fatigue about ongoing This Auckland — we’re all in this together’ but and it did take a toll on a lot of changes in alert levels. People means many University, it doesn’t quite feel like that our students. sort of know what they need to students are In the April lockdown there so everyone anymore.” “We didn’t get the chance to do but there was a reflection that continuing was really It was the fourth lockdown for give our students the first-year it’s hard to stay motivated and to stay home was‘ that ‘team of five million excited. We Auckland students in 12 months experience that we wanted to.” focused when things are up and and attend — we’re all in this together’ had all these and Shephard said learning She said some first-year down all the time.” lectures via but it doesn’t quite feel like orientation online was still a bit of a mixed students were feeling lonely and She said a number of Zoom. that anymore week bag. isolated. orientation events were held Tayla activities “Some instructors have “For a lot of our first-year online last week to allow Dayal made ’ —Ella Shephard planned done a great job of moving students, obviously the vast students to engage with one the big move and clubs everything online and are really majority of them are coming out another and make new social from Dunedin expos, so to technologically literate, it’s easy of their last year of high school connections. to study at the Auckland be told 24 hours before we were to keep up and engage. Whereas and that was heavily interrupted “There was feedback from our University of Technology (AUT), supposed to go back to class that other courses are less great by Covid, and to walk into student engagement team that arriving just two hours before the you couldn’t do was really hard.” online.” university and to hope to have there was a really good uptake of city went into a week-long Alert She said studying in Auckland University of Auckland student this brand new experience the social opportunities that were Level 3 lockdown. was particularly isolating. association president Anamika and have it disrupted from the promoted. She had planned to go flat “I think it’s hard (in a) sense Harirajh said last week’s outset that must have been “Students are clearly looking hunting but lockdown made that of camaraderie (for) students lockdown was disappointing disappointing.” for avenues to be able to find and tricky. as well because we can see our because all of the events University of Auckland student meet other people as they are “I don’t really have many peers at Otago and Victoria scheduled for orientation week conduct and care manager Liz starting out at university.” friends up here, so I was hoping going to class and living life had to be cancelled. Hosking Clements said the Both the University of that being at uni and going like normal. We’re the only ones “Going into lockdown on the uncertainty around alert levels Auckland and AUT have support flatting and being able to be learning from home. Sunday before we were supposed was causing fatigue. services that can be accessed out and about, I’d be able to “In the April lockdown there to start the brand new semester “I think there’s a general through their websites. Strike three for Slater Four arrested in major drug bust DUNEDIN — Four men have been arrested Whale Oil blogger at wrong end of defamation ruling for a major drug operation worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in Dunedin. by David Fisher, NZ Herald Oil website which attacked their Detective Inspector Stu Harvey, field credibility and questioned their motives. crime manager, Southern District said the AUCKLAND — Former Whale Oil Graham, who contributed to the operation was targeting the production and blogger Cameron Slater has had a third articles and wrote comments under wholesale supply of MDMA, ketamine and defamation judgement entered against various pseudonyms, has said statements eutylone. his name. he made “were untrue, unfair, offensive, Dunedin’s Organised Crime team, The High Court has ruled Slater insulting and defamatory”. alongside other Dunedin groups, executed has admitted defaming three public The finding that Slater’s posts were a number of search warrants in the Dunedin health experts in a sequel to a similar defamatory comes after the High Court area on Tuesday. admission from public relations found he had defamed former politician As a result, four men aged 25, 26, 29 consultant Carrick Graham. Colin Craig, who was awarded $325,000 and 45 were arrested and face a number It follows two other findings Slater in damages. of charges relating to the production, defamed people who were targeted REPUTATION AT RISK: The High In 2019, the High Court found Slater’s possession and supply of class A, B and C through his now-defunct Whale Oil blog. Court has ruled blogger Cameron Slater attacks on businessman Matthew drugs. The new ruling came after Slater told defamed three public health experts. Blomfield were defamatory. No damages During the operation, police seized the court he wouldn’t mount a defence File picture hearing has yet been set in the case. drugs valued at up to $330,000, along with against accusations he had used the Slater’s fall from grace followed years a pistol and approximately $20,000 in cash, Whale Oil blog to carry out defamatory was working to “advance the interests of of enjoying a high-profile presence as a Detective Inspector Harvey said. attacks on the reputations of public industry”. blogger and media commentator with A large amount of the drugs supplied health experts. Graham settled the case last week links to politicians, including National were being sold as MDMA (ecstasy), He told the court he “consents to after just a few hours of the trial with a leader Judith Collins. however, some is believed to be eutylone. judgement”, citing his bankruptcy and cash payment and an apology. It followed It was a facade that collapsed when Eutylone is a stimulant drug in the “whatever legal capacity I have in an earlier settlement between the Nicky Hager’s 2014 book Dirty Politics synthetic cathinone family and is known to respect to this proceeding”. health professional and the NZ Food and was published, exposing unethical be sold and taken as MDMA as it mimics the Justice Tracey Walker said she Grocery Council, which had contracted behaviour and targeted “hit job” effects. accepted Slater’s statement to the court and paid Graham yet says “it did not pay campaigns in which Slater received cash The drug has recently been linked to a as an “admission” he had published anyone to write any stories on its behalf to harass people online. number of hospital admissions throughout the statements of which the health on Whale Oil, or any other publication”. Since then, the company that ran New Zealand. professionals had complained, and that The health experts who took the the Whale Oil blog — Social Media Detective Inspector Harvey said they were defamatory. case are Dr Doug Sellman, professor of Consultants Ltd — has gone into purchasing or buying synthetic cathinones The health professionals, represented psychiatry and addiction medicine at the liquidation while Slater went into (as a pill, capsule or powder) greatly by barrister Davey Salmon, dropped University of Otago, Dr Boyd Swinburn, bankruptcy. The Whale Oil website, lost increases the chances of accidental their associated damages claims “in view professor of population nutrition through the liquidation, was then bought overdose. of Mr Slater’s bankruptcy”. They also and global health at the University by Blomfield who removed all content. “This is because synthetic cathinones sought reduced costs, again because of of Auckland, and Shane Bradbrook, Slater now writes for a new blog which are active in lower doses — for some this Slater’s bankruptcy. currently a senior adviser at Te Arawhiti, has a fraction of his previous audience. can be as low as 10mg which is a tenth The defamatory posts were a result of the Office for Maori Crown Relations. It is owned by his wife Juana Atkins. of MDMA. If someone takes synthetic a plan by Graham and Slater to attack Each of the three featured in articles Slater did not respond to a request for cathinones in an MDMA-sized dose, it can the professionals. Graham has said he and comments published on the Whale comment. have fatal consequences.” — NZ Herald The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 21 Gisborne’s rural community — the heart of the local economy...

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MV 2019 Action. 3.50 Deadliest Catch PG 4.35 Catfish 3 5.30 Mysteries At The 5pm French Top 14 (RPL) 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 4.40 Motherless Brooklyn 4.45 Gold Rush PG 5.30 Face Off PG 3 Museum PGC Castres v La Rochelle. 5.30 Pawn Stars PG 16VLSC 2019 Drama. 5.40 Outback Pilots PG KEY 0 3 (HLS) (RPL) (DLY) 16 18 Closed captions; Repeat; Highlights; Replay; Delayed; Approved for persons 16 years or over; Approved for persons 18 years or over; 11Mar21 Compiled by C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Arts & Entertainment // Thursday, March 11, 2021 My secret life by Mark Peters with music journalism when he was to radio, then TV in 1986, where The rhythmical, fiery, romantic asked to interview flamenco guitarist international assignments included spirit of flamenco is infused with he art of flamenco guitar Manitas de Plata. Bougainville, Kosovo Afghanistan an instinctive, passionate spirit, so, indirectly led former TV “The writing was dreadful,” says and Iraq. Then, after nearly 2000 while learning flamenco from the Tjournalist Ian Sinclair into war Sinclair. TV stories, he made a giant leap of masters, Sinclair saturated himself in reportage — and back again, and now “But the Auckland University faith to quit and become a flamenco Spanish culture — Romanic culture in the musician is on his way to Gisborne paper Craccum asked me to be a rock guitarist, he says. particular. for his My Secret Life concert. reporter.” “Flamenco is unbelievably “I found being a New Zealander Probably best known as a roving Then 20-year-old Sinclair went on complicated. You have to train yourself helped. One thing I learned from reporter with the dream TV job: to interview the likes of Rod Stewart, in the rhythm.” being a reporter is, as Maori were a chance to explore the world and Ronnie Wood, Elton John, Joan Baez, Flamenco is believed to have so marginalised, Romani too were meet everyone from the Queen to the and flamenco artists from France who originated in Andalusia during cautious about Pakeha. You approach Taliban, Sinclair is arguably first and later became known as the Gypsy the eighth to 15th centuries when them with an open heart and they are foremost a flamenco guitar player. Kings. Spain was under Arab domination. loyal to the end.” He was six years old when his Sinclair’s love of flamenco outshone The invaders’ music and musical grandmother bought him a guitar and rock reporter glory though, and in instruments were adapted by ■ Ian Sinclair – My Secret Life. The his brother bought him a flamenco 1975 he walked out one midsummer Christians and Jews, and later by former TV journalist performs record — Los Desperados. Sinclair still (possibly) morning and flew to Spain the Romani. The Indo-Aryan people, flamenco guitar, Tairawhiti Museum, has the 1967 vinyl disc with the “full where he studied under maestros traditionally nomadic itinerants Saturday March 27, 7pm. Q&A 1950s echo chamber sound” and even Miguel Garcia Jose Luis Postigo and broadly known as gypsies, developed after performance. Tickets $30 plays an excerpt from the album in his Juan del Gastor. a hybrid music we recognise as from www.eventfinda.co.nz Limited concerts. His arrest by General Franco’s flamenco. The first flamenco-schools seats available so early bookings As a young man Sinclair performed secret police prompted him to switch began in the 18th century in Cadiz, are recommended. Presented by with Dave McCartney, Harry Lyon to hard news reporting. Sinclair Jerez de la Frontera and Triana AOTNZ InCahoots with Tairawhiti and Phil Ochs. He enjoyed a brush eventually moved from newspapers (Seville) Museum.

THE REPORTER AND ROMANI: Introduced to flamenco guitar as a six-year-old, the art was always former TV journalist Ian Sinclair’s first love — and now that he has made it his life, he is coming to Gisborne as part of his My Secret Life concert tour. Picture supplied 24 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 ThisWeek

■ The Ashes Smash Palace, Friday, 8pm and March 20, 9pm, $10 door sales.

AT THE SALON: ■ Oceanspace + Sleazy Tuesday “I would rather The Dome, Saturday, 8pm. Entry $10 cash have thirty at the door. minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of ■ Massively Metallica — Harbinger nothing special,” Metallica Tribute says Shelby in Harbinger covering the metal titans’ entire Steel Magnolias, career from Kill ‘em all to Hardwired a play set in a + Shadows in the Darkness’s tribute to 1980s Louisiana System of a Down. Smash Palace, Saturday hair salon where 9pm, $20 door. characters played by (standing, left) Susan Partington, ■ Brazilbeat Sound System with special Scarlett Fawcett, guests MC Dreadeye and DJ Liv Heidi Rice and 69 Central, 69 Peel Street, Saturday, 10pm. Iidil Merlini, Entry $5. (seated, left) Rachel Crawford COMING UP and Julie McPhail, are in a mood to agree. ■ Heath Franklin’s Chopper — The Picture supplied Silencer War Memorial Theatre, Thursday, March 18, 7.30pm. POSTPONED.

■ An Evening with Marlon Williams War Memorial Theatre, Friday, March 19, 7.30pm. Book at i-SITE or ticketek.co.nz

■ Uni-Fi Pull Down the Sun album release tour. Two hours of wonderful Smash Palace, Friday, March 19.

■ The Royal New Zealand Ballet Tutus on Tour — NEW DATE. by Mark Peters “Steel Magnolias is an ensemble piece. White Swan pas de deux from Each scene is a revelation around an Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake; Jules Perrot’s Pas oncerns people who have seen important day in Shelby and M’Lynn’s life; the de Quatre, Andrea Schermoly and Sarah the movie Steel Magnolias would mother-daughter relationship and how their Foster-Sproull. War Memorial Theatre, Ccompare the Hollywood version lives change and grow.” March 23, 6.30pm. Tickets from Gisborne with that of Evolution Theatre Company’s An ensemble work has no main character i-SITE or ticketek, adults $27-$37, children production of the comedy-drama did not last but a small group of people instead of the $12-$22+bf. long for director Elizabeth Boyce. traditional hero. “When I read the script I thought it was The only male in the play is the voice on wonderful, it’s beautiful. It was originally the radio that announces each scene. ■ The Big Blues Up written as a stage play and it all takes place “The radio plays a strong role in the play Smash Palace, March 26, 7pm, March in a hair salon.” and becomes a bit of a character itself,” says 27-28 at 4pm. Tickets $50 presales An Evening with The hair salon, Truvy’s Beauty Spot, is Boyce. (all days) are available at www. Marlon Williams where the women of Chinquapin Parish, “Friendships, relationships between povertybaybluesclub.co.nz. Door sales for Louisiana, go to have their hair done, bond the women — they all have husbands and each day are $20. Friday, March 19th, 7.30pm and talk about their lives, says Boyce. partners who are mentioned in the play, and Shelby, daughter of local socialite, M’Lynn, this bonds the women who gather in the is about to get married and the upcoming salon.” ■ Ian Sinclair – My Secret Life wedding is a topic of discussion among the The women of Chinquapin Parish enjoy Former journalist performs flamenco guitar. ladies. being nice to each other, says one character. Tairawhiti Museum, March 27, 7pm. “Along with her anxious and eager “There’s not much else to do in this town.” Tickets $30, eventfinda.co.nz assistant, Annelle, Truvy styles the hair of “There’s a lot of joking and caring for one many of the women about town; wealthy another,” says Boyce. Royal NZ Ballet widow and former first lady of Chinquapin, “There are great one-liners and come- ■ Mozart Requiem Tutus on Tour – New Date Clairee Belcher, local curmudgeon Ouiser backs but there’s nothing vindictive. There’s Presented by Gisborne Choral Society Boudreaux (“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been gossip but nothing horrendous.” Tuesday, March 23rd, 6.30pm and Hastings Choral Society, St Andrew’s in a bad mood for forty years”), intelligent The play’s title points to the women’s Church, March 28, 2pm. and compassionate career woman M’Lynn, strength. Showtime Entertainment presents and her daughter Shelby, the prettiest girl in “Magnolias are the ultimate Southern Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic town,” says a stage agent synopsis. flower. When they bloom they have beautiful, ■ The Search — Beer Festival after- Thursday, April 22nd, 8.00pm Along with how the women cope with their beautiful flowers but they’re delicate and party conflicts while remaining friends, the plot bruise easily. Smash Palace, Saturday, April 3, 7pm. Entry The Boss: Bruce Springsteen covers events that relate to Shelby’s health “The ‘steel’ in the title means they don’t $10 at the door. and the risk of pregnancy. break. The characters are polite, sweet Tribute Show “The author, Robert Harling, wrote the Southern women but tough underneath. They Saturday, May 1st, 7.30pm play as a result of something that happened have to be. THEATRE with his sister so it’s true to life, funny and “This is a play of light and dark moments; The NZ String Quartet, moving. laughter and tears — often at the same time.” ■ Fearless Fridays Improv Comedy Club 4 Suits & a Soprano Evolution Theatre, 75 Disraeli Street, $5 at door. Sunday, May 2nd, 8.00pm ArtsGuide

Centrestage presents ■ Blackadder the Third Grease The Musical VISUAL ARTS Hiwirori Maynard, Tawera Tahuri, Auditions at Unity Theatre, 209 Ormond Road. Sunday, March 14 at 3pm. June 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, Henare Tahuri, Claudette Collis, and 7.30pm ■ Miharo Gallery aspiring rangatahi artists Tangiahua Kerekere, Maia Kerekere, Te Owaina June 19th & 26th, 2pm & 7.30pm Artworks by local artists. ■ 48-Hour Play Festival 2021 June 20th, 3pm Tangohau, Waiapu Tangianau, Cyene Tahuri, Te Hurutea Hapi, Khama Paul, Lawson Field Theatre, March 19, 7pm - March 21, 10pm. Playwrights, directors, ■ Paul Nache Gallery and Te Whaitiri Tangohau. Tairawhiti Museum, January 30-March 21. actors, and stage managers are invited to Glen Hayward, Mem noir, March 5-25. register at tinyurl.com/14esrlx0

37648-06 ■ Passport Collection – VHoy ■ Tuakana Taina Creative Got something going on? Tickets on sale from Gisborne i-SITE Works by Kaaterina Kerekere, Tai Vee Hoy’s photographic exploration of Let The Guide know at Accepting bookings for functions, Kerekere, Fiona Collis, Michelle diversity in identification. Tairawhiti [email protected], events, meetings and conferences. Kerr, Wendy Whitehead, Johnny Poi, Museum until April 25. Email [email protected] or telephone 869-0635 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 25

We want to inspire artists to‘ explore a new medium Burning down the Banksy for artistic expression ’

by Mark Peters physical presence and can be reproduced. face-masked man who The NFTed work was sold describes himself as a as digital art through NFT A member of a group of technology and the original technology and art enthusiasts destroyed. holds a flame to the corner of “We view this burning event a Banksy artwork and sets it as an expression of art itself,” on fire. Injective Protocol spokesman The man in the YouTube Mirza Uddin told the BBC. clip of the Banksy burning “We specifically chose a is involved with blockchain Banksy piece since he has company, Injective Protocol, previously shredded one of his who bought the US$95,000 own artworks at an auction.” screen print called Morons Ironically, the bloke who set (White), torched it and the artwork alight wears a broadcast the real-life stunt sweatshirt that bears an image live on Twitter. of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon, But the print lives on, only in a copy of which the talented a different, non-physical form. vandal had shredded during an Injective Protocol used the auction of the piece. blockchain technology, which The value of the print is underpins digital currency moved on to the NFT, explains bitcoin, to turn Banksy’s 2006 the torcher. screen print into a virtual asset “By removing the physical called a non-fungible token, or piece from existence, and NFT. only having the NFT, we can An NFT is a special type ensure the NFT — due to the BANKSY AND BITCOIN TECH: A technology and art enthusiast torches a Banksy screen print of cryptographic token which smart contract ability of the after the artwork has been converted into a special digital image. represents something unique blockchain — will ensure no and can be used to create one can alter the piece and it is verifiable artificial scarcity the true piece that exists in the “We want to inspire artists with an ornately framed piece ■ Watch the six-minute in the digital domain, as well world.” to explore a new medium for beside the auctioneer inscribed burning of Banksy’s Moron as digital ownership. While The goal is to inspire artistic expression.” with the words “I can’t believe (White) on YouTube at the NFT provides proof of technology enthusiasts and Banksy’s Morons (White) you morons actually buy this tinyurl.com/n6wddn2t ownership, the art has no artists, he says. depicts a crowded auction room shit.” The Big Blues Up

by Mark Peters Rabbits, and Brilleaux. Sunday wraps up from noon with a Brilleaux acoustic hree days of blues with acts set as band members chill offstage with that range from locals, The punters before a barbecue lunch and a TBlues Butlers, to headliner Build-a-Blues Band jam. band the high-energy, hard driving During The Big Blues Up weekend, Brilleaux, are set to rock the Palace The Rabbits’ school-age band members this month. will have the opportunity to hang out, Poverty Bay Blues Club (PBBC) jam and go through the soundcheck blues aficionados such as the Bridge and other band stuff with Brilleaux. Street Band, Killing Floor, and Ernie J Brilleaux’s vocalist, harmonica, White make up a good part of The Big guitar and theremin player, Graham Blues Up programme, which includes Clark, is keen to help promote young up-and-coming band, The Rabbits. people in music, says Clyne. “Every other band playing over the “That’s our mantra too. Young muzos weekend has been formed through the are our future.” Poverty Bay Blues Club,” says club captain Darryn Clyne. ■ The Big Blues Up, Smash Palace, Rich Alexander, Killing Floor, The March 26 at 7pm, March 27-28 Blues Butlers, and Eru Tamanui hit at 4pm. Tickets $50 presales the stage on the Friday night, while (all days) are available at www. Saturday features Ernie J White, povertybaybluesclub.co.nz. Door Bridge Street Band, 90 Days, The sales for each day are $20. Promote your event here

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BLUES BLASTERS: As headliners for the three-day Big Blues Up this month, high- energy, hard driving, British-style R&B, Tauranga band, Brilleaux, are in a mood to rock Smash Palace. Picture supplied Call Jane Smith today 869 0617 26 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 FilmGuide

ODEON MULTIPLEX by “The Noise” — a force that puts all their thoughts ■ Judas and the Black on display. Having vowed to ELECTRIFYING Messiah REAL-LIFE protect the girl, the man must STORY: Daniel Offered a plea deal by discover his inner power to Kaluuya (second the FBI, William O’Neal do so. infiltrates the Illinois chapter from left) as ■ The Little Things Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party in Judas and the to gather intelligence on Denzel Washington, Rami Black Messiah, chairman Fred Hampton. Malek and Jared Leto star in with, from left, Stars Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith a thriller about the hunt for a Dominique Stanfield and Martin Sheen. serial killer, and the effects of Thorne, Darrell See story this page. that hunt on those it touches. Britt-Gibson and ■ Blackbird ■ Caleb Eberhardt. Cousins Picture supplied Lily and Paul summon their Based on the novel by Patricia via Warner Bros loved ones to their beach Grace. Three Maori cousins house for one final gathering — Mata, Makareta and Missy before Lily ends her long — are separated in childhood. struggle with ALS (motor Taken from her whanau and neurone disease). The plan is placed in an orphanage, Mata for a loving weekend complete lives out her childhood in with holiday traditions, but fear and bewilderment, saved the mood becomes strained only by her imagination. Powerful moment in history when unresolved issues Back on the land, Makareta surface between Lily and flees an arranged marriage her daughters. Stars Susan and Missy takes her place as by Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer As played by Kaluuya, he is oppression — a war, Hoover says, Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate bride, taking on the mantle of a forceful, magnetic orator who, over “our way of life”. Winslet and Mia Wasikowska. kaitiaki (guardian). However, orces of revolution and through toil and charisma, is This makes King’s film a clear the pair never give up hoping oppression collide and building a “rainbow coalition” of counterpoint to Spike Lee’s ■ The Dissident that Mata will come home. Fentangle in Shaka King’s the oppressed in Chicago. BlacKkKlansman, which showed After Washington Post Directed by Ainsley Gardiner blistering Judas and the Black So commanding is Kaluuya the FBI’s Counter Intelligence journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Briar Grace-Smith. Messiah, a potent and vividly- that Judas and the Black Messiah Programme (Cointelpro) aiding, disappears after entering Saudi acted drama about the FBI’s loses some of its punch when he’s not sabotaging, Black radicals. Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, ■ The Croods: A New Age subversion and assassination of not around. (For a spell, Hampton Caught in between the his fiancée and dissidents The prehistoric Crood family Chicago Black Panther leader is jailed.) Panthers and the feds is O’Neal. around the world are left to discover an idyllic, walled-in Fred Hampton. It’s not that the rest of the cast For Stanfield, the gifted actor piece together the clues to a paradise, but they must also King’s film, which he wrote isn’t superlative; especially good of Sorry to Bother You and Knives brutal murder and expose a learn to live with a family a with Will Berson, plunges into as Hampton’s partner, Deborah Out, it’s a compelling tightrope global cover-up perpetrated by couple of steps above them on the dark chapter in American Johnson, is Dominique Fishback of a slippery performance, poised the very country he loved. the evolutionary ladder. history when J Edgar Hoover’s — a memorable presence on The between empathy and judgement FBI used surveillance, infiltration Deuce, and, I suspect, a future for the pitiable O’Neal. ■ Never Too Late and worse to check the ascent of star. But Judas and the Black As damning as the film’s title DOME CINEMA Black movements both peaceful Messiah is best when Kaluuya’s is, Stanfield’s O’Neal is never Former prisoners of war ■ and more militant. Hampton is in full, fiery voice and quite aware of the seriousness of who broke out of their camp Cousins Hampton, played by Daniel King’s film is directly channelling the game he’s playing until its during the Vietnam War Three Maori cousins — Mata, Kaluuya, was just 21 when he the Black power movement of the gruesome and appalling end. devise a plan to break out of Makareta and Missy — are was shot and killed in an FBI era. It’s a balance reflective of their retirement home. Stars separated in childhood. Taken raid in 1969. The raid was carried If Kaluuya gives Judas and King’s film overall. Judas and James Cromwell, Dennis from her whanau and placed out, in part, due to information the Black Messiah its strength, the Black Messiah, resurrecting Waterman and Jacki Weaver. in an orphanage, Mata lives from Hampton’s own security Stanfield supplies its unease. a painful saga of police racial ■ Raya and the Last Dragon out her childhood in fear and chief, William O’Neal (LaKeith King doesn’t dwell on O’Neal’s injustice, is a self-evidently bewilderment, saved only by Stanfield), a car thief turned psychological stress as an timely film without stating its A lone warrior must find the her imagination. Back on informant four years earlier by informant the way that Sidney contemporary resonance literally. last dragon to stop monsters the land, Makareta flees an the FBI’s Roy Mitchell (Jesse Lumet’s police corruption opus If anything, you want it to draw that dragons and humans once arranged marriage and Missy Plemons). Prince of the City does. Stanfield and Kaluuya together fought and defeated together. takes her place as bride, taking In the movie’s first scenes, King relies on juxtapositions of more often than it does. Instead, on the mantle of kaitiaki O’Neal storms into a bar in a O’Neal’s time among the Panthers the movie devolves and grows ■ Trash 2 Dash (guardian). However, the pair trench coat and fedora, flashing a and sit-downs with Mitchell. The more sorrowful as Hampton’s Documentary about Dean never give up hoping that fake badge — a ruse that nearly FBI agent believes he’s on the movement is stymied, and we’re Hart’s ambition to build a jet- Mata will come home. scores him a car. When he’s side of justice. left feeling the loss of a history powered car from secondhand caught, the police ask him why Comparing the Black Panthers that might have been. parts to try to become New ■ Never Too Late not use a knife or a gun. to white supremacists, he says: Zealand’s fastest man. Former prisoners of war “A badge is scarier than a gun,” “You can’t cheat your way to ■ Judas and the Black Messiah, who broke out of their camp he answers. equality and you certainly can’t a Warner Bros release, is ■ Chaos Walking during the Vietnam War Faced with a lengthy prison shoot your way to it.” rated R13 by the Motion A young man finds a devise a plan to break out of term or going undercover with But Mitchell is an operative Picture Association of America mysterious girl who has crash- their retirement home. Stars the Black Panthers, O’Neal in Hoover’s FBI. When Hoover for violence and pervasive landed on his planet, where all James Cromwell, Dennis opts to work for Mitchell. This (Martin Sheen) makes an language. Running time: 126 the women have disappeared Waterman, Roy Billing, Jack brings us into the heady orbit of appearance, Judas and the Black minutes. Three and a half stars and the men are afflicted Thompson and Jacki Weaver. Hampton. 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AUCKLAND — Matamata trainer Graham On The Bubbles and Sword of State, Gr.3 winner with Gr.1 black-type on the line for Bonny Lass, decided to have a go. I jokingly said we would go Richardson wasn’t planning to run Bonny Lass in Magneto, and the maiden filly Seven Twenty. Richardson decided to have a go. as long as we draw barrier one, and we have.” the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) until he saw the Richardson was planning to bypass the Sistema “I was a little bit confused about why there Richardson said his reluctance to start Bonny nominations — or rather, the lack of them. Stakes with Bonny Lass, winner of the Gr.2 were so few nominations. It’s actually a little bit Lass was because he thought she might need Remarkably for a Gr.1 race, just four horses Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) on February disappointing to be fair,” said Richardson, who more time to recover from her Matamata exertions. were originally nominated for the contest on 27, and instead concentrate on the Gr.1 Manawatu trains at Matamata with Rogan Norvall. But he said she has every chance of being in the Tuesday — the Jamie Richards-trained stablemates Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) on April 3. But “But when I saw there were only four we finish at Ellerslie. — NZ Racing Desk

Counties races at Pukekohe Friday Jetbet 10 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10 Selections 3 Amorous Stu (13) 57.5 45 J M Fillmore 6 62 Contribute (7) 55.5 60 S McKay 16 73976 Hetty (14) 56.5 45 2 00300 Jaydeear (6) 58.5 49 D Danis (a2) Race 1: OCEANA LAD, CERYS, STOPALLTHECLOCKS 4 Bitethedust (8) 57.5 45 7 3 Faithful Feat b (3) 55.5 51 A Calder 17 0s98 Just Kroozin (3) 58.5 45 3 065 Winafortune (12) 58.5 47 W Pinn (a2) 5 Lebanese Trader (14) 57.5 45 M McNab 8 06s34 Taupo Missy (9) 55.5 51 D Johnson 4 — Khan Hunter SCRATCHED Race 2: COOL CHANGE, BIFROST, LA DOLCE VITA 6 3s Cool Change h (1) 55.5 65 A Calder 9 Dear Oh Dear (2) 55.5 47 S Weatherley 7 Haunui Farm 2.57 5 6 Brancatelli (19) 58 46 J Riddell Race 3: AUNT CINDY, CASTLE OF LOVE, LAMPUS 7 2 La Dolce Vita (12) 55.5 52 10 Elysian Fields h (1) 55.5 45 $10,000, 3yo sw+p, 1400m 6 26332 Gitche Gumee b (4) 56.5 54 D Johnson Race 4: CONTRIBUTE, FAITHFUL FEAT, TAUPO MISSY A Goindasamy (a1) T Yanagida (a1) 7 4s933 Pipsqueak Rose (11) 56.5 53 Race 5: BRIMSTONE, SCREEN BELLE, DESIGNER GENES 8 44 Corista (5) 55.5 50 D Johnson 11 8 Lavita Vishvi h (4) 55.5 45 S Collett 1 9s261 Anduin t (3) 57.5 63 L Satherley T Yanagida (a1) Race 6: MALT TIME, ARRIVO, MARCHING ON TAVI 9 Pride Of Aspen h (6) 55.5 47 S Collett 2 51564 Jimmy Five h (7) 57.5 62 S Wynne 8 s4065 Arabia h (5) 56.5 49 T Thornton 10 5 Star Trail (9) 55.5 47 C Grylls 5 Haunui Farm Stallions 1.46 3 Hot Salsa (9) 56 47 M McNab 9 55 She’s A Maneater (18) 56.5 47 S Collett Race 7: ATISHU, ANDUIN, FLORENTIA 4 7006 Carlito h (6) 56 45 J Fawcett Race 8: THE REAL TEST, CASTLE BAY, ANOTHER ENTREE 11 Elusive Express (10) 55.5 45 L Satherley $10,000, maiden 3yo, 1200m 10 46 Miss Onaki b (15) 56 49 M McNab 12 O’Dua (2) 55.5 45 5 7 Smoldering Yacht (1) 56 45 11 5 Kimmy Be Cool (14) 56 47 (a3) Race 9: INDEEM, GITCHE GUMEE, PIPSQUEAK ROSE EMERGENCIES: 1 2222 Brimstone b (11) 57.5 54 O Bosson 6 813s8 Florentia d (2) 55.5 63 C Grylls 12 0 Alta Bella h (7) 56 45 R Elliot Race 10: VISTOCK, SAILOR JERRY, PAGE THREE 13 7 Barrow Boy (7) 57.5 45 2 s24s7 Jamieson’s Tipple (5) 57.5 51 C Grylls 7 239s3 Atishu (4) 54 69 D Johnson 13 7 Love Shack (10) 56 45 L Satherley 14 9s Lady Maroal h (4) 55.5 45 3 4s37 Chandler (4) 57.5 50 J Fawcett 8 9 Last Leg (5) 54 45 D Danis (a2) 14 7 Portofino (3) 56 45 L Innes 4 4s Designer Genes h (10) 57.5 50 S Collett 9 0 Queen Sugar (8) 54 45 W Pinn (a2) EMERGENCIES: 3 NZB Pearl Series Race 12.40 5 8467s Lowry (8) 57.5 48 R Elliot 15 60 Punchline (17) 58 45 6 7s Irish Moonshine h (1) 57.5 45 8 Fiber Fresh 3.31 $10,000, maiden f&m, 1200m 16 0s0 Spirit Of Baz (16) 56 45 T Yanagida (a1) $10,000, maiden, 1400m 17 s8708 Jack Of Hearts (2) 58 45 1 Mount Shop 11.38 1 30s54 Mini Mystic (9) 57.5 50 J Fawcett 7 Tempting Heart (9) 57.5 45 Callum Jones (a3) 1 0s2 Glen Frey (14) 58.5 52 C Grylls 2 660s Cannsea Clearly h (11) 57.5 45 A Calder 8 Oseleta (6) 55.5 47 D Johnson 18 080 Jimmy Who (13) 58.5 45 $10,000, maiden, 2100m 2 3 Another Entree (11) 58.5 51 A Calder 3 Cubic Moon (5) 57.5 45 M McNab 9 Screen Belle h (7) 55.5 47 S Wynne 19 879s0 Witness (9) 58.5 45 1 23243 Oceana Lad (12) 58.5 54 R Elliot 3 236s9 Mr Fox (6) 58.5 51 T Thornton 4 73976 Hetty (7) 57.5 45 10 Daads Express (3) 55.5 45 20 37080 Millie Georgia (1) 56 45 2 00545 Jojakk (15) 58.5 50 J Fawcett 5 60 Ms Candee Lane h (8) 57.5 45 M Hashizume (a2) 4 0400s Red Rushin (17) 58.5 48 3 8s864 Perfect Dimension (1) 58.5 50 J Riddell T Thornton 11 60696 Swey My Way (2) 55.5 45 T Newman (a2) Callum Jones (a3) 10 Pukekohe Park 24 March 4.36 4 478 Oh Our Wyatt (8) 58.5 48 T Thornton 6 — Contribute SCRATCHED 5 4072 The Real Test (9) 58 52 V Colgan $10,000, maiden, 1600m 5 09607 Youknowhatimean (10) 58.5 45 7 0832 Aunt Cindy (15) 57 53 C Grylls 6 Dunstan Speedfeed 2.21 6 43073 Flavius h (2) 58 51 S Weatherley E McCall (a3) 8 34s Lampus h (13) 57 51 D Johnson $10,000, maiden, 1200m 7 65 Earle Of Buckland h (7) 58 47 S Collett 1 59s23 Sailor Jerry (6) 58.5 54 C Grylls 6 042 Granados (18) 58 52 O Bosson 9 65 Fonteyn (4) 57 47 T Newman (a2) 8 Let’s Sea (8) 58 47 D Johnson 2 436s8 Charred (10) 58.5 52 S McKay 7 7605 Daqiansweet Junior (3) 58 47 S Collett 10 Picual (3) 57 47 S Collett 1 4s240 Patch Prince (10) 58.5 53 9 5050 Billy Bold (5) 58 46 D Danis (a2) 3 7s846 Outage (8) 58.5 49 A Calder 8 0 Tycoon Warrior (5) 58 45 L Satherley 11 6 Castle Of Love h (1) 57 46 V Colgan T Yanagida (a1) 10 6 The Mighty Spar (12) 58 46 O Bosson 4 4s08 Stonehenge (16) 58.5 48 9 07642 Cerys (6) 56.5 52 T Yanagida (a1) 12 0 Zaffiro Belle h (14) 57 45 2 486 Marching On Tavi h (7) 58.5 48 S Wynne 11 3 Castle Bay h (13) 56.5 51 5 9386 Canadian Mountie (19) 58 49 R Elliot 10 097 Lot Of Zees (11) 56.5 45 J M Fillmore Callum Jones (a3) 3 8088s Copper Xpress (2) 58.5 45 E McCall (a3) A Goindasamy (a1) 6 006 Dunhill (20) 58 45 D Johnson 11 70 Pearl Hart (2) 56.5 45 A Goindasamy (a1) 4 2222 Brimstone b (6) 58 54 C Grylls 12 404 Ironic (20) 56.5 50 L Satherley 7 79 Quiet Michael (17) 58 45 J Riddell EMERGENCIES: SCRATCHED 12 523 Stopalltheclocks b (16) 56 53 C Grylls 13 9s054 Arrivo h (2) 57.5 52 E McCall (a3) 5 — Brian Lamont 13 42 Marchioness (3) 56 52 M McNab 8 24223 Vistock b (5) 56.5 54 L Innes 13 98303 Lovingyourwork (7) 56 52 D Johnson 14 4 Malt Time (10) 57.5 50 6 Castle Of Kings h (4) 58 45 J Riddell 14 2704 Bendermerry (15) 56 50 W Pinn (a2) 9 250 Allbright (1) 56.5 51 S Wynne 14 970 Heart Of A Lion (13) 56 45 15 Elysian Fields h (6) 57 45 7 69s Precision Shooter (13) 58 45 D Johnson EMERGENCIES: 10 04 El Fiesta Girl (14) 56 50 S Weatherley EMERGENCIES: 16 — Daads Express SCRATCHED 8 9s054 Arrivo h (16) 56.5 52 T Thornton 15 Hezashocka (1) 58 45 11 29575 Golden Eagle (3) 56 50 L Satherley 15 008 Giuliana’s Joy (9) 56.5 45 17 60696 Swey My Way (12) 57 45 9 4 Malt Time (11) 56.5 50 16 Taumalolo (19) 58 45 12 5 Page Three (7) 56 47 S Collett 16 070s0 Incy Wincy Spider (14) 56 45 10 8 Annexception (15) 56.5 46 W Pinn (a2) 17 7 Darci’s Queen (16) 56 45 13 86 Thinkso (18) 56 46 17 79890 Cash Me Ousside (4) 56.5 45 4 Dunstan Horsefeeds 1.12 11 078s Addicted To You (5) 56.5 45 18 9 Electric Whiskers (18) 58.5 45 14 7 Kwaussie Girl (9) 56 45 M Hashizume (a2) B Rogerson (a4) EMERGENCIES: 18 80 Wilewink (17) 58.5 45 $10,000, maiden 3yo, 1200m 19 54070 Extersea (4) 58.5 45 12 70s86 So Charming (12) 56.5 45 20 8088s Copper Xpress (10) 58.5 45 15 60 Punchline (4) 58 45 V Colgan 2 Patumahoe Plumbing 12.08 1 20s2 Nozi Cyclone b (10) 57.5 53 J Riddell Callum Jones (a3) 16 0s0 Spirit Of Baz (2) 56 45 2 48s Encantador (5) 57.5 49 V Colgan EMERGENCIES: 17 s8708 Jack Of Hearts (12) 58 45 $10,000, maiden 2yo, 1200m 9 Franklin Auctions 4.06 3 4057 Brian Lamont (6) 57.5 48 D Danis (a2) 13 Cubic Moon (9) 56.5 45 18 080 Jimmy Who (15) 58.5 45 1 Bifrost (3) 57.5 47 O Bosson 4 Banish (8) 57.5 45 L Innes 14 Banish (8) 58 45 $10,000, maiden, 1600m 19 879s0 Witness (13) 58.5 45 2 6 Quicken Away h (11) 57.5 46 L Innes 5 — Packing Tavi SCRATCHED 15 60696 Swey My Way (1) 56 45 1 92 Indeem (8) 58.5 52 O Bosson 20 37080 Millie Georgia (11) 56 45

Westport harness at Patterson Park Friday Jetbet 8 TAB D. 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 T. 1-2-3, 5-6-7, 9-10-11 Q. 2-3-4-5, 8-9-10-11 PL6 6-11 Selections 4 29746 Billie Vista (Fr) 3 S Tomlinson (J) 10 96408 Foreigner (Fr) 10 H Clarke 2 76907 The Diva (Fr) 2 J Thomas 6 01941 Emma’s Boy (Fr) 6 R Holmes Race 1: BROMAC HYPE, LE POLE DANCER, FULL OF DESIRE 5 27s07 Adhika (Fr) 4 J Curtin 11 75859 Abadabado (Fr) 11 E Barron (J) 3 70441 Madame Frost (Fr) 3 R Holmes 7 11386 Longview Lady (10) 1 J Dunn 6 70 El Sirrar (Fr) 5 K Cameron 4 50000 Mrs Beau K (Fr) 4 T Walsh 8 21192 Peraki Seelster (10) 2 J Curtin Race 2: BILLIE VISTA, JENNY GUMP, WEBS REACTOR 7 70256 Manzini (Fr) 6 C Thornley 5 Buller Refrigeration Pace 4.16 5 37634 Caesar’s Quest (Fr) 5 B Hope (J) 9 75321 Mogul (20) 1 S O’Reilly (J) Race 3: VENUS TYRON, OUR PEGASUS PEARL, KENNY KEKO 8 90340 Charlie’s Ace (Fr) 7 G Thornley (J) $8000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile pace, 6 1 Nikol Franco (Fr) 6 C Thornley 10 14119 Quarterback (20) 2 A Cameron (J) Race 4: THE BLOSS, MARTHA STUART, SALLY LINDENNY 9 059 Love A Dance (Fr) 8 P Davis 2600m 7 02455 Kusanova (Fr) 7 G Smith Race 5: DELTA THREE, JIMMY ARMA, IDEAL GRACE 10 24 Jenny Gump (Fr) 9 R May 8 52441 Sport Mental (Fr) 8 A Cameron (J) 10 Team Teal Women Drivers 6.34 1 27 Delta Three (Fr) 1 R Holmes SCRATCHED Race 6: HIGH FLYING HARRY, MARTIN JOHN, MORDECAI 11 Sweet American (Fr) 10 R Close 9 — Le Pole Dancer $8000, 4yo+ r40-r54. inv.d mobile pace, 12 00600 The Hyena (Fr) 11 K Newman (J) 2 0 Ali X (Fr) 2 R May 10 87079 Terrier (Fr) 9 R Close Race 7: SONGBIRD, NIKOL FRANCO, MADAME FROST 3 0P906 Conquistador (Fr) 3 K Newman (J) 2600m Race 8: DONEGAL CARRICKFIN, JEREMY WELLS, 13 05500 Sharp Lou (Fr) 12 G Smith 11 21048 Tas Girl Bromac (Fr) 10 J Dunn 4 07809 Didjaseethat (Fr) 4 C Thornley 12 23972 Westburn Bliss (Fr) 11 J Curtin 1 10000 Pocket Rocknroll (Fr) 1 K Gill DONEGAL CARNBOUY 3 The Georgie Burgess 3.14 5 Gosakhi (Fr) 5 E Barron (J) 13 54034 Songbird (Fr) 12 R May 2 90957 Lincoln Skipper (Fr) 2 A Tomlinson Race 9: MOGUL, LONGVIEW LADY, GAYLE FORCE 6 46590 Owhatanight (Fr) 6 P Davis $8000, non-winners 3yo+ stand trot, 2600m 14 64500 Pine Cone (Fr) 13 K Cameron 3 90000 Absolut Russian (Fr) 3 A Mugford (J) Race 10: UNFAZED, CONQUER ME, WEE RING THE CHANGES 7 00567 Unchanged Memory (Fr) 7 K Cameron 15 18000 Changeover Jo (Fr) 14 S O’Reilly (J) 4 70880 Honour Scroll (Fr) 4 R Heads (J) Race 11: THE PLAYER, BOYZ INVASION, OVERZEALOUS 1 Aiguille (Fr) 1 K Townley 8 60904 Shadow Aveross (Fr) 8 A Mugford (J) 16 04180 Tombelina (Fr) 15 K Newman (J) 5 31077 Wickenheiser (Fr) 5 D V Til (J) 2 05803 Our Pegasus Pearl (Fr) 2 D Morrison 9 80442 Sense Of Occasion (Fr) 9 G Smith 17 97816 Hello Adele (Fr) U1 J Herbert 6 35743 Cab Calloway (Fr) 6 S O’Reilly (J) 3 60068 Tuscan Sun (Fr) 3 H Clarke 10 — Prop Rock SCRATCHED 7 1 Swedish Franco (Fr) 7 G Thornley (J) 4 73595 Monaro Mako (Fr) 4 K Newman (J) 11 05500 Sharp Lou (Em2) (Fr) 21 8 Cosmopolitan Hotel Pace 5.36 8 52423 Wee Ring The Changes (Fr) 8 5 80200 Moonlight Angel (Fr) 5 C Markham 12 74700 Melando Chief (Fr) 22 J Curtin A Cameron (J) 6 65s93 Venus Tyron (Fr) 6 J Dunn $8000, r40-r46. mobile pace, 2600m 13 Blitzem Bromac (Em1) (Fr) 23 9 43780 Takemybreathaway (Fr) 9 K Tomlinson (J) 7 Tinted Stuart (Fr) 7 M Heenan 1 03607 Jeremy Wells (Fr) 1 G Smith 14 7504s Khal Drogo (Fr) 24 R Close 10 02210 Dennis Denuto (Fr) 21 J Herbert 1 Freshchoice Westport Pace 2.03 8 Ginas Majesty (Fr) 8 K Cameron 2 83724 Donegal Carnbouy (Fr) 2 A Cameron (J) 15 7777 Ideal Grace (Fr) 25 T Bamford (J) 11 68009 Speciale Uno (Fr) 22 H Clarke $8000, non-winners stand pace, 2000m 9 68844 Kenny Keko (Fr) 9 G Smith 3 00000 Archaic Lustre (Fr) 3 R Holmes 16 240s Jimmy Arma (Fr) 26 J Dunn 12 01404 Conquer Me (Fr) 23 E Barron (J) 1 42443 Le Pole Dancer (Fr) 1 P Davis 10 9060s Moons Way (Fr) 10 R Holmes 4 0000s Mister Mighty (Fr) 4 P Davis 11 Harbour Queen (Fr) 11 S O’Reilly (J) 5 63400 Donegal Carrickfin (Fr) 5 J Dunn 13 F4414 Unfazed (Fr) 24 S Tomlinson (J) 2 0s848 Fernleigh Colleen (Fr) 2 C Thornley 6 TRT Builders Pace 4.42 12 00s Samantha Bee (Fr) 12 S Tomlinson (J) 6 99s60 Kansas City Jim (Fr) 6 G Thornley (J) 3 7P608 Nadira Franco (Fr) 3 H Clarke $9000, 3yo+ r49-r58. mobile pace, 2600m 11 Criterion Hotel Trot 7.03 13 8708 Superfast Gorsey (Fr) 13 G Thornley (J) 7 50020 Sonic Reign (Fr) 7 K Cameron 4 06440 Bromac Hype (Fr) 4 R May 14 67P76 Ella Of Mot (Fr) 14 L McCormick 1 05000 Mordecai (Fr) 1 K Tomlinson (J) 8 01000 Truehawk (Fr) 8 L McCormick $9000, 3yo+ r40+ discretionary handicap 5 5065 Arden Country (Fr) 5 R Close 15 s90s0 Brandy And Dry (Fr) U1 S Iremonger (J) 2 68608 Sister’s Delight (Fr) 2 M Heenan 9 00009 Aveross Rustler (Fr) 9 K Newman (J) stand trot, 2600m 6 77478 Rocknizzy Rulz (Fr) 6 G Smith 16 s0090 Goose Healy (Fr) U2 N Burton 3 517P7 Jenabella (Fr) 3 A Cameron (J) 10 85109 President Pat (Fr) 21 N Burton 1 01000 One Over Dover (Fr) 1 C Thornley 7 78982 Full Of Desire (Fr) 7 B Borcoskie 4 35216 High Flying Harry (Fr) 4 D V Til (J) 11 53754 Olde Oak Emma (Fr) 22 R Close 8 47040 Pennetta (Fr) 8 J Curtin 2 82380 Take After Me (Fr) 2 K Newman (J) 4 Team Teal Women Drivers 3.48 5 69213 Jazelle (Fr) 5 J Dunn 12 40680 Malinka (Fr) 23 T Walsh 3 16204 Maui (Fr) U1 L McCormick 9 80088 Ars Gratia Artis (Fr) 9 C Markham 6 68152 Martin John (Fr) 6 R Close $8000, 4yo+ r40-r54 inv.d stand trot, 2000m 13 56P00 Fun In The Dark (Fr) U1 R May 4 00900 Ideal Invasion (Fr) U2 S O’Reilly (J) 10 9s090 Kiwi Dream (Fr) 10 R Holmes 7 9040s Morningstar Gold (Fr) 7 R Holmes 5 06940 Michelle (Fr) U3 W Higgs 11 26900 Pembrook Tilly (Fr) 11 J Dunn 1 02323 Sally Lindenny (Fr) 1 S O’Reilly (J) 8 20904 Peraki Reactor (Fr) 8 J Curtin 9 Kawatiri Cup Pce 6.06 6 34000 That’s The Story (10) 1 K Tomlinson (J) 12 5s688 Maximilian (Fr) 12 K Newman (J) 2 Miss Bacardi (Fr) 2 J Herbert 9 6011P The Black Shadow (Fr) 9 R May $13,000, r55+ discretionary handicap stand 7 18039 Bright Glow (10) 2 I Cameron 3 30860 Gin Rummy (Fr) 3 A Tomlinson 10 31334 Hes Fast And Furious (Fr) 21 pace, 2600m 8 10877 Tequila Sunset (10) 3 K Cameron 2 Canterbury Print Pace 2.38 4 08499 Rachmaninov (Fr) 4 G Thornley (J) K Newman (J) 5 82380 Take After Me (Fr) 5 D V Til (J) 1 20554 Champagneandwine (Fr) 1 R May 9 44008 Girls Let Loose (10) 4 R May $8000, non-winners 3yo+ stand pace, 2000m 6 56950 Danangus Fella (Fr) 6 R Heads (J) 7 Coast To Coast 5.08 2 21349 Scelta Uno (Fr) 2 G Smith 10 76653 Prince Teka (10) 5 G Smith 1 Blitzem Bromac (Fr) 1 J Dunn 7 03003 Martha Stuart (Fr) 7 S Tomlinson (J) 3 52531 Gayle Force (Fr) 3 C Thornley 11 67239 Boyz Invasion (10) 6 M Heenan 2 95625 Webs Reactor (Fr) 2 C Markham 8 07390 Gotta Ticket (Fr) 8 K Gill $9000, 3yo+ r40-r54 stand pace, 2000m 4 09147 Johnny Eyre (Fr) 4 B Hope (J) 12 63264 Overzealous (20) 1 P Davis 3 — Camleigh Rose SCRATCHED 9 70855 The Bloss (Fr) 9 K Tomlinson (J) 1 80108 Caballe Beach (Fr) 1 T Bamford (J) 5 68241 Queenofdance (Fr) 5 R Close 13 73911 The Player (40) 1 J Dunn

Auckland harness at Alexandra Park Friday Jetbet 5 TAB Doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 Quaddies 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 6 1110s Mexicana (20) 1 J Dickie 8 35317 Anditover (30) 1 D Butcher 7 51859 Cruzee Mach (Fr) 7 B Mangos 8 PGG Wrightson Trot 9.21 Race 1: SON OF PATRICK, MEXICANA, 7 56111 Son Of Patrick (20) 2 S Phelan 9 11012 Rain Mist And Muscle (40) 1 T Mitchell 8 26865 Havtime (Fr) 8 N Delany (J,Cl) 10 44173 She Reigns (50) U1 D Ferguson $12,000, non-winners 3yo+ stand trot, 2200m BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 2 Crombie Lockwood Pace 6.25 11 21445 Kay Cee (50) U2 J Dickie 6 Pasoces The Jewellers Pace 8.21 1 6 Jay Rowe (Fr) 1 J Dickie Race 2: ALTA WISEGUY, MONTANA STORM, SETTLE PETAL $12,000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile pace, $14,500, 3yo+ r54-r61. mobile pace, 2200m 2 2322s Constellation (Fr) 2 J Stormont Race 3: ANDITOVER, MONKEY SELFIE, 2200m 4 Caduceus Club Pace 7. 26 3 0 Sonsofthemerch (Fr) 3 S Phelan RAIN MIST AND MUSCLE 1 23s12 Last Tango In Heaven (Fr) 1 T Herlihy 1 7 Harder Than Diamonds (Fr) 1 A Neal $14,500, 3yo+ f&m r52-r57. mobile pace, 4 733 Drum N Bass (Fr) 4 S Reid Race 4: SMOKINHOTCHEDDAR, DOWN THE HATCH, 2 23221 Bettor Listen (Fr) 2 Z Butcher 2 522 Four Kisses (Fr) 2 L Hollis 1700m 5 50475 Play Footsie (Fr) 5 J Abernethy CASHLODO FLYBYE 3 07714 Hezashadowplaya (Fr) 3 S Abernethy 6 8850s Te Kouka Dawn (Fr) 6 M Nicholas 3 3 Settle Petal (Fr) 3 T Herlihy 1 07849 Adieu Flirt (Fr) 1 J Abernethy SCRATCHED Race 5: DANCE TIME, B D JOE, RAVEN BANNER 4 — Franco Riot 7 Cruise Control (Fr) 7 T Cameron 4 5 Letsgodancing (Fr) 4 J Dickie 2 21s94 Cloudy Bay (Fr) 2 D Butcher 5 64645 Tartan Robyn (Fr) 4 M McKendry Race 6: BETTOR LISTEN, LAST TANGO IN HEAVEN, MAILMAN 8 6 Willis Graham (Fr) 8 T Mitchell 5 4 Montana Storm (Fr) 5 S Phelan 3 6s2s3 Cashlodo Flybye (Fr) 3 A Harrison (J) 6 11457 Aladdin (Fr) 5 P Ferguson Race 7: CYA DOIT, MAJOR THOMAS, MIKI MONTANA 6 Lord Verde (Fr) 6 T Cameron 4 76553 Smokinhotcheddar (Fr) 4 Z Butcher 9 3442 Trifolium (Fr) 9 L Neal 7 23412 Mailman (Fr) 6 T Cameron 10 082 Aldebaran Flame (Fr) U1 B Hackett Race 8: WILLIS GRAHAM, CONSTELLATION, TRIFOLIUM 7 4s422 Alta Wiseguy (Fr) 7 B Butcher 5 62043 High Point (Fr) 5 D Ferguson 8 15479 Jack Ryan (Fr) 7 B Butcher 11 46526 Cepheus (Fr) U2 A Matthews Race 9: KAYLA MAGUIRE, FRANKIE JONES, PRODIGAL PETE 8 Mr Perfect (Fr) 8 D Butcher 6 77233 Down The Hatch (Fr) 6 B Butcher 9 26436 Te Amo (Fr) 21 S Abernethy 7 8291s We Have A Mach Two (Fr) 7 J Stormont 7 NZB Standardbred Pace 8.51 8 55187 Weren’t Watching (Fr) 8 P Ferguson 9 Grand Park Pace 9.51 3 HR Fisken & Sons Trot 6.53 $12,000, non-winners 2yo. mobile pace, $8000, 4yo+ r40-r52. mobile pace, 2200m 5 Woodlands Stud Pace 7.51 1700m 1 Lone Star Alexandra Park 5.56 $17,500, 4yo+ r40-r81 discretionary handicap 1 76767 Mr Incredible (Fr) 1 J Kriechbaumer stand trot, 2200m $17,500, 3yo+ r63-r73,r88 w/c. mobile pace, 1 Obsession (Fr) 1 B Butcher $14,500, 3yo discretionary handicap stand 2 55336 Kayla Maguire (Fr) 2 S Wigg 2200m 2 Miki Montana (Fr) 2 Z Butcher trot, 2200m 1 76658 Lollieprop (Fr) U1 Z Meredith (J) 3 69492 Peter Forsberg (Fr) 3 J Darby 2 74265 Bro Fawkes S (10) 1 T Macfarlane 1 25148 B D Joe (Fr) 1 B Butcher 3 Montana Glory (Fr) 3 S Phelan 4 42P18 Mighty Monica (Fr) 4 T Hopkins 1 143 Ya Know (Fr) 1 D Ferguson 3 s6231 Who’s Queen (10) 2 S Phelan 2 31145 Raven Banner (Fr) 2 Z Butcher 4 Hail Lucius (Fr) 4 M McKendry 5 58404 The Blue Beat (Fr) 5 B Hadley 2 s560s I See Fire (Fr) 2 T Cameron 4 42166 Doris Rae (10) U1 A Matthews 3 34312 Ideal Agent (Fr) 3 M W White 5 Cya Doit (Fr) 5 B Mangos 6 20800 Maurice (Fr) 6 C Wigg 3 16 Bohemian Rhapsody (Fr) 3 T Herlihy 5 50939 Saint Michel (10) U2 T Herlihy 4 69221 J Bee (Fr) 4 T Herlihy 6 Arden’s Horizon (Fr) 6 D Butcher 7 07068 Frankie Jones (Fr) 7 R Herbert 4 13P5 Mufasa Metro (Fr) U1 T Mitchell 6 16525 Monkey Selfie (20) 1 N Chilcott 5 55018 Dance Time (Fr) 5 D Butcher 7 58 Major Thomas (Fr) 7 J Dickie 8 98085 Edamfast (Fr) 8 J Brownlee 5 10s7 Gaz Man (Fr) U2 P Ferguson 7 0P1PP Crazy (20) U1 T Hall 6 66560 Warloch (Fr) 6 J Dickie 8 Spirit Of The Game (Fr) 8 J Stormont 9 08933 Prodigal Pete (Fr) 21 B Wilmott 28 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 Southampton to host final DRAWS CRICKET impact of Covid-19 minimised for all and better protect the health and safety of involved. everyone involved in delivering the final,” F1B, Manu Tahi v Te Wharau Chiefs; THE final of the ICC World Test In selecting The Hampshire Bowl, the statement says. Cricket F2A, Mangapapa Kahurangi v Waikirikiri Championship between India and New the ICC drew on ECB’s experience “Should the UK government’s phased SENIOR A, DJ Barry Cup semifinals, Y1/2; F2B, Central Thunder v Mangapapa Zealand will be staged in a bio-secure of delivering a summer of bio-safe easing of Covid-19 lockdown measures SATURDAY, 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve Kowhai. bubble at the Hampshire Bowl in international cricket, an ICC statement proceed as planned, it is anticipated that a 1, Galaxy World Gisborne Boys’ High Year 3 and 4 grade, 4pm: F3, Awapuni Southampton. says. limited number of fans will be allowed into School v Horouta (umpire Jason Trowill); Kareareas v Wainui Blue Thunder; F4, Te The decision, taken by the International “The venue provides world-class the Hampshire Bowl to watch the final.” HBR 2, Coastal Concrete OBR v Wharau Blues v St Mary’s Dragons; F5, Cricket Council (ICC) board, follows playing and training facilities, giving both New Zealand were the first team to Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys Manu Rua v Waikirikiri Y3/4; F6, Central discussions with the England and Wales teams the best possible environment make the ICC World Test Championship (Stewart Patrick). Cougars v Wainui Speedy Tigers. Cricket Board (ECB), where options were in which to prepare, while the on-site final and they were joined by India Senior B, Hope Cup semifinals, Year 1 and 2 grade, 4.35pm: F1A, considered to ensure the inaugural final accommodation will significantly reduce following their win against England in the SATURDAY, 2pm: HBR 3, Rawhiti Legal Ormond Minis v Central Lightning; F1B, could be staged safely with the potential the risk around Covid-19 transmission series that concluded on Saturday. OBR v Siteworx Horouta (Gary Coutts); Manu Tahi v Te Wharau Lions. HBR 4, Bollywood HSOB Presidents v Year 3 and 4 grade, 4.35pm: F2, Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa (Martin Mangapapa Whero v Te Hapara Rua; F3, Bennett, James Raroa). Central Tigers v Ormond Quick Steps; Conway, Young, Mitchell called up Challenge Cup, T20, WEDNESDAY F4, Mangapapa Karaka v Mangapapa CRICKET of a strong domestic and test season. The first game of the series will be a (March 17), 3.30pm: HBR 1, Campion Kikorangi. With regular captain Kane Williamson special occasion for captain Latham and Gold v Campion Green; HBR 2, The Year 5 and 6 grade, 4.35pm: F5, DEVON Conway, Will Young and Daryl ruled out with an elbow injury, Canterbury his Canterbury teammate Nicholls, with Admiralty v The Blues and Royals; HBR Awapuni Toroas v St Mary’s Rangatahi; Mitchell have earned their maiden Black left-hander Tom Latham will lead the side the pair set to play their 100th and 50th 3, Tairawhiti Women’s Cricket Club Senior F6, Manu a Tu 1 v Tangaroa Maraeroa Caps one-day international squad call- and be wicketkeeper. ODIs respectively. Girls v The Life Guards. (Y5/6). ups for the three-game Alesha Mart ODI The remainder of the 13-man squad Selector Gavin Larsen said the decision Primary Hardball, SATURDAY, Year 5 and 6 grade, 5.05pm: F1, Series against Bangladesh, starting in has a settled look, with Mitchell nabbing to carry one spinner in the squad was a 8.30am: Nelson Park 3, TWCC v Central Central Avengers v Te Hapara Tahi; Dunedin on March 20. the third all-rounder’s spot alongside reflection of the expected pitch conditions. Stags; NP 4, Makauri/Makaraka v Central F2, Mangapapa Kauri v Te Wharau Conway has been a star turn for the Jimmy Neesham and Mitchell Santner, BLACK CAPS ODI squad for games Knights; NP 5, PBCA Mixed Schools v Hurricanes; F3, Mangapapa Totara v T20 side this summer and has now been who is also the specialist spinner. against Bangladesh: Trent Boult, Devon Wainui Wizards. Ormond Hot Steppers; F4, Riverdale Y5/6 rewarded with a chance in the one-day Martin Guptill has been passed fit Conway, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle v Te Wharau Crusaders; F5, Mangapapa set-up, while Young notched two one-day and is set to open the batting with Henry Jamieson, Tom Latham (captain, wk), Daryl Touch Rimu v St Mary’s Rangatahi; F6, hundreds for a New Zealand XI against Nicholls after the pair’s strong series Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Henry Nicholls, THE draw for Gisborne Touch Waikirikiri Y5/6 v Wainui Y5/6. an Australian XI in Brisbane in early 2019, against India in February last year. Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Module games at Barry Park on Year 7 and 8 grade, 5.40pm: F1, before shoulder surgery curtailed his year. Trent Boult, Matt Henry, Tim Southee Will Young. 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Rising (5,2) STAR RATINGS practice; 3 Irene; 5 Acrobat; 15. Panegyric (6) FIVE STARS: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold. 6 Trial marriage; 7 Pre-war; 21. Discovers (5) FOUR STARS: You can pretty much do as you please. It’s a good time to start new projects. 8 Cease; 13 Discard; 15 Profit; 22. Wise man (4) 16. Letter (7) THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals. 16 Bride; 17 Ascent; 20 Pique. TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. 23. Simulation (8) 17. Wandering (7) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 SPORT 29 Senior B leaders OBR SPORTS BRIEFS Roglic wins Paris-Nice Stage 4 to take overall lead VUELTA a Espana champion Primoz Roglic claimed the overall leader’s yellow jersey in bounce back . . . hard the Paris-Nice by winning the fourth stage, a 188km hilly ride between Chalon-sur-Saone and Chiroubles. CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-Leaf him caught and bowled. Ngatapa, his first-ever “five-for” and the The Slovenian, who also finished runner-up in Kamboj and veteran Alan Knight only one taken in Round 14. last year’s Tour de France after cracking in the GREAT teams rebound from losses. (18 from No.3) were The Waka’s best- Ngatapa’s Ryan West (4-9), HSOB final time trial, powered away from the pack in the And Senior B club cricket competition performed batsmen in the chase. Presidents’ Yegan Lanka (4-13) and final ascent, a 7.3-km climb at an average gradient leaders OBR, who won 12 games in a row OBR’s Amit Vyas (4-47), like Page, all of 6 percent. before going down to Ngatapa by seven OBR (39 points) are to take on the bowled out for their respective teams. German Maximilian Schachmann took second wickets, bounced back hard in the last fourth-placed Siteworx Horouta (21) When GBHS MVP Page went around- place and France’s Guillaume Martin finished weekend of round-robin play with a 143- and the Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa the-wicket to bowl left-handed No.5 third, both crossing the line 12 seconds behind run thumping of Horouta. Green Caps (33) will clash with team Hamish Briant for a golden duck Jumbo-Visma rider Roglic. Rawhiti Legal Old Boys’ Rugby number three — the Bollywood High with the last ball of the 10th over, the Giro d’Italia champion Tao Geoghegan Hart skipper Craig Christophers was proud School Old Boys’ Presidents (21) — in competition’s No.2 team were in peril at abandoned the race after crashing in the descent of his tightly-knit team’s performance: the 1 v 4, 2 v 3 semi-finals this Saturday 55-5. from the Mont Brouilly 15km from the finish. “Everyone contributed: Matt Henwood at the Harry Barker Reserve. And while Page’s out-swinger to openers Jack Overall, Roglic leads Schachmann (Bora- with 87 (50 from 21 balls), Peter a play-off for third is possible on March Jefferd (2), Grant Walsh (21), angle in Hansgrohe) by 35 seconds and American Stewart’s unbeaten 54 — his first half- 20 — finals day — for tailenders GBHS to trap another leftie, veteran Richard Brandon McNulty (UAE-Team Emirates) by 37 century this season — Amit Vyas took (2) and Campion College the quest for the Briant (9 — leg-before-wicket), and Green seconds. — Radio NZ 4-47 off six overs and Matt McFatter took Hope Cup is over. Caps skipper Mike Gibson (6) were magic his first catch in two seasons.” Campion took on HSOB in Round 14, deliveries: both openers and Gibson were Breakers beat Cairns Taipans Horouta left-arm orthodox spinner with the Presidents under Ollie Needham caught by wicket-keeper Kelan Bryant. MELBOURNE — Tom Abercrombie hit a buzzer Clarence Campbell (2-19 in Round determined to make a statement before Ngatapa nevertheless reached 218 in beating three pointer to lift the New Zealand 11 against Campion College and 3-17 the semis. 29.3 overs courtesy of a 128-run stand Breakers to a 76-73 win over the Cairns Taipans in against the winless Gisborne Boys’ High Campion captain Liam Spring won for the sixth wicket between second-drop their Australian National Basketball League clash School seconds a fortnight ago, bowling the toss and chose to bat on HBR 2, the Charles Morrison (56 from 57 balls), an in Melbourne. a full complement of six overs in each college then being dismissed for 90 in accomplished, busy technician, and the The victory lifts the Breakers off the bottom of 30-over game) bowled four wicketless 28.5 overs. caps’ third leftie, seventh man in Ryan the table above Cairns. overs for 40 on Saturday. His captain, off- Spring hit six boundaries from No.2, West (56 off 44). The Breakers had opened up a 19-point lead spinner Mel Knight — who didn’t play in but his 71-ball knock of 37 was his young Ngatapa MVP West hits the ball hard, early in the third quarter, but had to withstand a The Waka’s 95-run loss to OBR in Round team’s only innings of consequence: eight and with Morrison raised the older team fight back from the Taipans in the final stages of 4 — on this occasion shared the new ball players scored four runs or fewer. to a position of strength. Both chose to the game. with her daughter, New Zealand under-19 Second-change seamer Yegan Lanka retire, at which time deceptive off-spinner The Taipans levelled the score with 40 seconds representative pace bowler Kayley. took 4-13 off six overs to be HSOB MVP, George Gillies took centre-stage for remaining before the Breakers would go ahead Knight senior was tidy but went with a special mention for paceman Jason GBHS with 3-37 in 3.3 overs. Batsmen again, only to be answered by the Taipans. without, nought for 25 from five, and Lines (2-16 from six) and leg-spinner retiring-out, as opposed to retiring hurt, The Breakers had one last shot to avoid later said: “OBR batted really well, we Nathan Quimpo, who bowled No.10 under the Laws of Cricket may only overtime, but at first the Taipans denied Tai had absolutely no luck — it was just one Gagandeep Singh (1) to finish with 2-5 in return by consent of the captain of the Webster a good look on his drive. of those days. 1.5 overs. fielding side: this was not sought, and so However, Abercrombie grabbed the offensive “However, we have the chance this Presidents opener Matt Jefferd made the first innings concluded. rebound, got out beyond the three-point line and week to learn from what didn’t work on an unbeaten 46 from 57 balls with eight The Boys’ High total of 146-9 in 30 span and rose to release the shot. — Radio NZ Saturday, to try to come up with a plan.” boundaries, and was at the wicket with overs saw three senior players get Christophers won the toss, chose to bat number five Jeff Chambers (20 not-out) “starts”: No.6 Noah Torrance-Cribb (a Saunders to captain Steel and OBR amassed 257-1, Christophers when HSOB won the game by eight run-a-ball 28), captain Dylan Foster (24 MIDCOURTER Shannon Saunders will captain (40), Stewart (54) and first-drop Jannie wickets in 15.5 overs. from 49 at four) and opener Bekko Page the Southern Steel in neball’s ANZ premiership Jacobs (34) all retiring not out. They lost Campion Y10 strike bowler Rhys (24 in 45 balls). this season. No.4 Henwood with the score at 252 — Grogan (1-18 in four overs) and Hamish The only Year 12 student in the side — Saunders, 30, is in her tenth season with the two balls into the 30th over. Swann (1-11 from two), first-change, Daniel Watts, who played for the GBHS franchise and was a member of the Silver Ferns It was a display of nearly unremitting continued their good post-Christmas first 11 in Napier on Tuesday-Wednesday world cup winning squad and has played 80 tests dominance. Christophers hit the first ball form. Spring spoke of Lines’ skill to — batted with urgency for 18 off 22 balls for New Zealand. of the match from Kayley Knight for four, control out-swing and Lanka’s startling in 16 minutes at the crease. “It will definitely be a challenge for me and push that over costing 14. ability to make the ball nip around. Like opener Bryant (11), Page and me outside my comfort zone at times into being OBR were 99 without loss at the A week after he and his men were first-drop Kavindu Withanage (nought), more vocal,” she said. drinks break; the 24th over, bowled by knocked over for 63 by Horouta, the Watts was bowled by West in a display of “I tend to lead by actions rather than telling Daniel Walters, was the most expensive, transformation in HSOB’ fortunes was consistent, full-length pace. In Bryant’s people what to do so I am going to have to find with a 21-run price tag while Piumal not lost on Needham. case, a good length delivery was followed my voice more.” — Radio NZ Madasanka — who terrorised HSOB “It was a very good team performance by the yorker. Presidents with the new ball and 3-7 in and confidence-boost after three straight The game was played in fine spirit: ‘Too many concussions’ five overs a fortnight ago — on Saturday loses,” said Needham. “Campion showed Ngatapa deserve special recognition for LONDON — The frequency of concussions came on at second-change. Madasanka some pluck with the bat to dig in under their encouragement of the youngest in English rugby is “totally unacceptable” and had OBR ‘s Most Valuable Player, pressure from the consistency of our team in Poverty Bay senior club cricket. authorities must take further action to protect Henwood, caught by Walters and took attack, however their two best batsmen That said, though he is only 15 years old players, head injury specialist Willie Stewart said. 1-12 from three overs. — Liam and Reuben Swanepoel (10) at and the burden of command is weighty, A study conducted by the Rugby Football Then came OBR’s Amit Vyas. His 4-47, No.3 — both got out at the wrong time. Foster has grown as a captain: the Union (RFU) revealed that 166 concussions were complemented by the efforts of spearhead Reuben looked the most comfortable, responsibility to read the game and direct recorded during matches in the Premiership’s Lloyd van Zyl (who likewise sent down seldom playing a false stroke and putting the team on the field, being his. 2018-19 season, accounting for 20 percent of six quality overs, 2-25) and dutiful away the rare bad ball before he was run Foster said: “Saturday’s game stand-out injuries suffered by players. medium-pacer Phil Viljoen senior (2-15 in out.” performer was Bekko with his five-wicket Concussions and their long-term effects have 3.1 overs). haul. He was outstanding with the ball. been in the spotlight since former players filed Viljoen put paid to the contest — and a IT was the bowling performance of the He, Kelan, Noah, Dan and I all made a class-action lawsuit against governing bodies ferocious assault by Horouta MVP Aman weekend. double-figures against a top bowling unit World Rugby, the RFU and the Welsh Rugby Union Kamboj (35 off 23 with a six and six fours Bekko Page of the Gisborne Boys’ from Ngatapa — we’ve had a fun season alleging a failure to protect them from the risks. in 24 minutes from eight) — by having High School second 11 took 5-37 against and the boys have improved.” — Radio NZ Federer back with win after year-long layoff TENNIS stamina following his long break. Federer beat Malek Jaziri 6-2 6-2. saved a set point at 6-5 down in the first- Top-seeded Dominic Thiem rallied to DOHA, Qatar — After more than a set tiebreaker and saved two break points beat Australian Open semifinalist Aslan year out, Roger Federer started his 24th at 3-3 in the deciding set before sealing Karatsev 6-7 (5) 6-3 6-2 for a place in the season on tour with a win. the win with a break of Evans’s serve. quarters. It was far from easy for the former No. He showed flashes of his usual Thiem’s next opponent is fifth-seeded 1, though, as he was pushed hard by Dan brilliance along the way, clinching Roberto Bautista Agut, who didn’t face Evans at the Qatar Open before winning the first set with a perfect cross-court a single break point in his 6-4 6-3 win the second-round match 7-6 (8) 3-6 7-5 on backhand winner as Evans charged against Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Wednesday. into the net. Having failed to convert a Third-seeded Andrey Rublev advanced It was Federer’s first match in 405 days match point at 5-4 in the decider, he used without stepping on to the court after his after having knee surgery following the another backhand down the line to clinch opponent Richard Gasquet withdrew with 2020 Australian Open. the win on his second attempt. ROGER FEDERER a leg injury. “Feels good to be back,” Federer said in Federer said he used Evans as a Denis Shapovalov won an all-Canadian an on-court interview. training partner as he prepared for his “It has been a huge challenge of mine match against Vasek Pospisil 7-5 6-4. “I’m happy to be standing here comeback, playing more than 20 sets in my tennis career and to come back That set up a quarterfinal against Taylor regardless of if I won or lost. But against the Briton in the previous weeks. at my age is not something that is very Fritz of the US, who upset sixth-seeded obviously winning feels better.” “It has been a long and tough road simple.” David Goffin 6-1 5-7 7-6 (9). Fritz saved Playing for nearly two and a half hours for me; I enjoyed it though,” the 20-time Federer will play Nikoloz Basilashvili a match point at 6-5 down in the decider tested the 39-year-old Swiss player’s Grand Slam champion said. in the quarterfinals after the Georgian and twice more in the tiebreaker. — AP 30 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021

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selected. second round of the Poverty Bay COMING UP: SUNDAY, Foster Approach: T Goldsmith. Electrinet Park Shannon Toa was the week’s women’s pennants at Wairoa on (women) and Connolly (men) THURSDAY (March 4) — Men’s star player after an outstanding Saturday are Doreen Goldsmith, Hiria stableford competitions and LGU. stableford, division 1: J Pittar 36, C BRING on the Te Kanawa. performance on Saturday. McClutchie, Iritana Ngarimu and Christie 35, C Dean 34. Individual glory was savoured Toa ran away with the men’s Hazel Miratana. Poverty Bay Division 2: P Mullooly 35, H Williams after the Handicap Cup finals at the stableford courtesy of his personal SUNDAY — Jo Hale Memorial, 34, M Reynolds 34. weekend but the focus will soon shift -best 75-11-74, for 44 points. first round, net: I Logan 62, Doreen THE semifinalists have been sorted Approach: C Christie. to pairs success. SUNDAY — Women’s Handicap Cup Goldsmith 63, B Clark 64, N Dewes 64, in the Hutchinson Cup women’s Zane Boyle claimed the Holmes final: M Marino def C Pipi. T Rangi 65, W Ngata 65, P Harrison 65, matchplay. Patutahi Cup senior men’s honours with a 3 Women’s stableford: P Johansen H Rasmussen 66, I Sykes 66, R Walker Top qualifier Odette Thompson and 2 win over Ray Walford in their 97-24-73, 36. 66, F Walker 66, R Smith 67, I Ngarimu got a free pass into the last four, THOSE of the Phil Mickelson matchplay final. Twos: S Maisey. 67, J Puha 67, D Cook 68, G Roberts with round 2 opponent Teresa Lewis persuasion proved too good for the Tom Reynolds was too strong for Men’s Handicap Cup finals, senior 68, P Savage 68. defaulting. mainstream swingers in the Righties Tamanui Hill in their intermediate division: Z Boyle def R Walford. Maxine Francois advanced with a v Lefties fixture on Sunday. men’s clash— a 14th-hole win putting Intermediate: T Reynolds def T Hill. COMING UP: SUNDAY, Te Puia win over Jan Utting, Leigh Fletcher The sinistral, or Lefties, won the his name on the Presidents Cup. Junior: J Hayes def D Gregory. Springs open opening day, one-tee beat Rochelle Taewa on the 18th in a handicap matchplay clash 7-1. Josh Hayes had a battle royal with Endeavour winner: J Taylor. start, 11.30am, no rolling start, mixed match played on Monday and Sally Martin Weaver was the standout Darrell Gregory before getting across SATURDAY — Men’s stableford: S pairs and men’s sections. Spence ousted Rosie Spence. player on Sunday, winning the junior the line on the 18th in the Chrisp Cup Toa 44, R Walford 39. Colin Christie had a profitable men’s net with 78-16-62. junior men’s final. Twos: A Pahina. Waikohu couple of rounds over the week. TUESDAY — Women’s net and Josh Taylor won a trophy without Christie was second in the division putting: J Smith 102-32-70, 35 putts; K having to contest a final. Te Puia Springs HANDICAP golf earned Larry 1 men’s stableford last Thursday with McLatchie 96-26-70, 29; J Ewart 94-22- Taylor collected the KKK Cup as Green men’s stableford glory on 87-14-73, for 35 points, then went one 72, 34. the endeavour player to progress A NIGHTMARE hole couldn’t stop Sunday. better on Saturday to win with 83-14- SUNDAY — Righties v Lefties, men’s the furthest in the combined junior/ Ian Logan from making a dream start Green broke 80 for the second time 69, for 39. net, senior division: P Hokianga 68, G endeavour men’s division. to the 2021 Jo Hale Memorial series this year — his 79-9-70, for 36 points WEDNESDAY — Women’s stableford: Brown 70, B McKenzie 70, A Hindmarsh Mihi Marino and Carney Pipi had on Sunday. heading off Tipi Ruru on 34. P Dymock 38, R Willock 35. 70, T Hindmarsh 70. a humdinger battle in the women’s Logan made 10 on the par-5 SUNDAY — Stableford: L Green 36, Hutchinson Cup women’s matchplay, Junior division: M Weaver 62, G final. Marino won on the 18th. seventh hole but softened the blow T Ruru 34, U Chambers 32, P Milner second round: O Thompson def T Lewis Watson 68, M Wiersma 68, D Quinn 69, Talk among the men has turned with several pars to finish with 86-24- 31, E Wynyard 38, M Tuapawa 35, V by default, M Francois def J Utting, L D Skudder 70. to the popular Te Kanawa Cup pairs, 62. Grace 33. Fletcher def R Taewa, S Spence def R Women’s net: H Humble 71. which starts in May. His net-winning score was one Twos: T Ruru, P Milner. Spence. Twos: L Anania. However, before that is the Lunken shot ahead of Doreen Goldsmith with Sue Bunt 9-holers’ net competition, FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole Cup mixed pairs on Sunday, March Bill Clark and Nehe Dewes posting COMING UP: SUNDAY, no club round 3: J Ngarimu 34. stableford, senior division: R Pardoe 22, 21. 64s. competition. Twos: L Daniels. G Brown 21, O Willimott 21, J Neilson Club officials are keen to see Te Puia’s open opening day is on MONDAY — Women’s flag match: J 21, D Russell 20. as many pairs as possible in the Sunday, with a one-tee start from Mahia Utting 74+11=85. Junior division: D Quinn 23, J Tietjen competition from which Park’s team 11.30am. Twos: J Utting. 22, D Dodgshun 20, S Maynard 20, B for the ER Black Cup interclub will be The Te Puia Springs team for the WADE Wesche and Fairlane SUNDAY — Men’s stableford, division Tietjen 19. Wesche were the Aces net winners 1: B Morrissey 38, B Brown 38, C Taewa on Sunday. 38, J Situ 38. Tolaga Bay Wade had three birdies in his Division 2: C Carmody 39, C Simpson Junior crossword 1654 men’s section-winning 75-5-70 while 38, K Travers 37. ZAK Horomia was the best of a trio Fairlane was best of the women with Twos: J Situ, M Mulrooney. of 37-pointers on Sunday. 12 345 83-14-69, despite a nine on the third Approach: D Twigley. Horomia’s 105-37-68, highlighted hole. SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, by three pars, headed off Rongo SUNDAY — Aces net, men: Wade division 1: C Christie 37, J McGregor 37, Pomana and Peter Stevenson on Wesche 70, R Bremner 73, I Parker 73, D Jenkins 36. countback. R Smith 73. Division 2: W Thompson 35, B Read 6 78Women: F Wesche 69. 34, K Goldsmith 33. COMING UP: SATURDAY, working Bluck putting: R Bremner (men), 27, F Twos: V Richardson, S Andreassen, N bee; SUNDAY, March 21, Tolaga Bay Wesche (women) 26. West, J McGregor, W Thompson. open opening day tournament.

9 10 11 Smith retires after 19 seasons RUGBY LEAGUE by Dennis Passa, AP MANY great sportspeople retire 12 13 14 and later have statues erected in their honour. National Rugby League star Cameron Smith turned the tables on 15 that scenario on Wednesday when he officially ended a record-filled 19-season playing career while a statue of himself 16 17 18 was unveiled. The ceremony outside Melbourne Storm’s home stadium came as the 37-year-old goal-kicking hooker retired after playing a record 430 games for the club. He’s the only player in league 19 history to go beyond 400. He made his debut in 2002 for the Storm, where he played his entire career. Across Down Smith also played 42 matches for Queensland in the high-stakes and even 1. To think something over 1. Someone who makes things higher-profile annual State of Origin LEAGUE LEGENDS: Retiring NRL player Cameron Smith (left) and carefully (8) out of wood (9) series against New South Wales. He former NRL player Billy Slater during the unveiling of statues of represented Australia in 56 matches, themselves outside AAMI Park in Melbourne yesterday. AAP picture 6. Boulder (4) 2. More pleasant (5) winning the World Cup with the 7. 3. Kangaroos in 2013 and 2017. the “immeasurable contribution to our In addition to holding the record for Make a choice (6) This bird quacks (4) Fittingly, he led the Storm to the 2020 club on and off the field” and a legacy most NRL appearances, he also has the 9. Mistake (5) 4. This bird crows (7) league title in his last match. that “will be remembered in Melbourne most NRL points (2786 from 48 tries, 11. 5. “I couldn’t ask for more than finishing forever”. 1295 goals and four field goals), most A postage sticker (5) Large passenger vehicle (3) with a premiership with a club I’ve Smith was the consummate captain, wins, 310; and most State of Origin 12. The capital city of Japan 8. Costing a lot (9) played my whole career with,” Smith leading the Storm for 327 matches, the match wins for Queensland, 26. 10. said while his statue and that of another Queensland Origin team for 21 and Playing in eight grand finals, Smith (5) World games held every Storm legend, Billy Slater, was unveiled. Australia for 33. steered the Storm to previous NRL 13. Use this when thinking (5) four years (7) “I think I might just put my feet up for He made his NRL debut on April premierships in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 16. 14. 12 months.” 13, 2002 and played his last game on 2017, although the first two titles were A very small wave (6) Looking similar (5) Smith said relocating back to October 25 of last year, when Smith later stripped from the club for salary- 18. Where Fijians live (4) 15. Stitched (4) Queensland’s Gold Coast with his family scored a try and kicked four goals to cap breaches. 19. Hard stuff made with 17. Liquid in pens (3) had helped him realise it was the right help lead Melbourne to a 26-20 over the He was a four-time winner of the Wally time to retire. Penrith Panthers in the championship Lewis Medal, the annual award given to cement (8) The Storm paid tribute to Smith for grand final. the State of Origin player of the series. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, March 11, 2021 SPORT 31

TOP 10-YEAR-OLD: Central School student Celia Willoughby on her way to winning the 10-year girls’ 25-metre breaststroke final at the Eastland primary interschool swimming championships held at Sisters rule the Enterprise Cars Swim Centre yesterday. Celia went on to top the overall points for the 10yr girls’ age group while sister Charlotte was overall winner of the 9yr girls’ age group. Picture by Paul Rickard pool for Central SWIMMING

A SISTER act led Central School to overall victory at the Eastland primary interschool swimming championships yesterday. Celia Willoughby, 10, and sister Charlotte, 9, were overall winners for their girls’ age groups and contributed vital points to their school’s total. Central finished on 177 points, heading off Wainui Beach on 158 and St Mary’s on 77, with Mangapapa a point back. “After two and a half hours of heats it came down to some very exciting finals after lunch,” meet director Gary Martin said. “Some of the races were decided by tenths of a second, which really got the full house amped up. “Even with Covid restrictions being lifted last week and the event being under a cloud until that happened, the swimmers did a wonderful job. As children do, they just got on with it.”

OVERALL AGE GROUP TOP THREE — 8yr-and-under girls: Brooke Williams (Wainui) 41pts, 1; Sophie Phelps (Central) 19, 2; Zoe Keepa (Wainui) 12, 3. 8yr-and-under boys: Matty Moore (Makauri) 36, 1; Te Oranga Hape (Nga Uri a Maui) 21, 2; Ollie O’Connell (Makauri) 10, 3. 9yr girls: Charlotte Willoughby (Central) 39, 1; Lola Stewart (Wainui) 17, 2; Charlotte Gray (St Mary’s) 7, 3. 9yr boys: Jakob Alexander (St Mary’s) 43, 1; Luke Wright (Ormond) 24, 2; Roger Wihongi (Kaiti) 19, 3. 10yr girls: Celia Willoughby (Central) 48, 1; Holly Boyle (Mangapapa) 28, 2; Charlotte McDiarmid (Wainui) 7, 3. 10yr boys: Taylor Kijowski (Mangapapa) 36, 1; Rori Fukushima-Hall (Wainui) 17, 2; Kaeto Sasamoto (Central) 16, 3. OVERALL SCHOOL POINTS: Central 177, 1; Wainui Beach 158, 2; St Mary’s 77, 3; Mangapapa 76, 4; Makauri 55, 5; Nga Uri a Maui 33, 6; Makaraka 28, 7; Kaiti 26, 8; Ormond 24, 9; Te Wharau 6, 10.

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SAILING by Christopher Reive, NZME AHEAD of the 36th America’s Cup there was plenty of talk about how much faster Team New Zealand’s AC75 was compared to that of Luna Rossa, and not if but when the defender would retain the Auld Mug. It took just two races for that to be laid to rest. Luna Rossa, who have sailed the most races and have been improving their performance at every stage, matched their counterparts for boat speed on the opening day of racing as the sides finished the day 1-1. For many, the competitive racing seemed to come as a surprise, with even the broadcast team acknowledging that those doubting Luna Rossa were being made to eat their words. When asked by a local reporter whether he had a message to those who wrote Luna Rossa off before racing even started, co-helmsman Jimmy Spithill responded: “You mean people like you? You guys never get it wrong, do you?” In the opening race of the best-of-13 series, Team New Zealand’s average upwind and downwind speeds were about 1kt faster than Luna Rossa, however the Italians’ maximum speed of 48.01kts was faster than that of the Kiwi outfit (46.90kts). In the second race, Team New Zealand were again the faster boat — this time by less than a knot on both the upwind and downwind legs. In that race, Team New Zealand reached a top speed of 51.11kts to Luna Rossa’s top speed of 49.78kts. Luna Rossa co-helmsman Francesco Bruni said they were yet to see Team NZ’s supposed speed advantages. “There was a lot of talk about Team New Zealand being five, eight, 10 knots faster. That was clearly not the case,” Bruni said. “We’re glad that we can just race and try to win this.” As Luna Rossa have shown, making the boat faster via off-water development is key to a successful America’s Cup campaign and, as the schedule is set out, CLOSE RACING: Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa vie for a telling advantage during the first day’s racing of the 36th the teams may now have just one more America’s Cup on Waitemata Harbour yesterday . . . it wasn’t to be found, though, with predictions the New Zealand boat was day to find the best version of their boat. considerably faster proved wrong. Emirates Team New Zealand picture The crews have a day off racing today, before returning to action tomorrow, and the day off could prove to be vital. opportunity for a full day. but we’ve got a few things planned and every day following until a winner is “The team that’s able to (keep “It’s very, very important how we use we’re looking forward to it — the boys found. developing and get faster) will win, and that. We’ve got to go through all the data have already started ripping into it in the Speaking to Newstalk ZB, Spithill said both teams now really only have the and have to go through all the footage, sheds.”

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