TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 SANTA IS IN THE HOUSE ROAST BUSTER PAGE 2 CHARGES LAID PAGE 7 INSIDE

THANK YOU FOR LUNCH: It was a celebratory last day for Eat Smart Tairawhiti on Monday as they had a lunch to acknowledge the work the volunteers have done to feed school children over the last five and a half years. From left are team leaders Denise Weavers and Jackie Frazer with trustee Belinda Mackay, EST manager Cherith Whitley, team leaders Marice Richardson and Janelle Humberstone. Absent: team leader Jill Smith and trustee Huia White. Picture by Liam Clayton Volunteers celebrated as scheme ends

by Matai O’Connor lunch programme where primary, without you. It’s been a long and intermediate and high school great journey. Thank you on behalf Thanks AFTER more than five years children can receive a free lunch of the children who were fed,” and over 200,000 lunches sent to every school day. Ms White said to the room full of hungry Gisborne school children, In the Gisborne region 27 people. Eat Smart Tairawhiti, formally schools are receiving lunches, and “We were always there to meet Gizzy School Lunches has stopped another nine will start receiving a need unless the Government, operations. them from Term 1 next year. the only place that could make Trustees of EST say the need for On Monday, volunteers, sponsors substantial change, came in and for the school children to receive food no and business supporters who had gave free food to tamariki,” she matter who they are or where they worked with Eat Smart Tairawhiti said. come from has been realised by were invited to a lunch to mark “Children don’t have the money the Government and it is the time the end of their journey. to feed themselves. A lot of their for the group to stop providing Huia White, EST founder and parents work two or more jobs, lunches. trustee, said it was the end of an pay all the bills with little left for Last year, the Labour era. food and that shouldn’t negatively Government announced a school “We wouldn’t be who we are impact on children. lunches CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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GISBORNE’S next generation of whizz-kids got stuck into electronics, coding and building racecars at Tonui Collab’s school holiday workshop this week. Children from seven to 12 years of age worked collaboratively to design and build robotic race cars using materials similar to Lego. “Constructing these robotic race cars requires tamariki to develop their spatial skills and divergent problem solving,” said EdTech innovator McKay Burgess. “The ability to imagine and manipulate spatial information in your head can be THIS PIECE GOES HERE: Alexander Dinkel improved through play and that’s what we’re building a robo-car. Picture by Liam Clayton creating the opportunity for tamariki to do during our school holiday workshops,” he said. next generation of scientists, engineers, digital Tonui Collab has only three days of holiday artists, animators and computer programmers.” workshops in December but this is followed by Ms O’Connor believes it is important for three weeks of holiday workshops in the new children to carry on with education over year, starting on Monday January 11. summer. The workshops range from robotics, virtual “Our tamariki are innately curious, they reality, science, animation, music engineering, crave exploration and discovery and are game development and digital art. constantly asking why. Tonui Collab creates Tonui Collab director Shanon O’Connor the space and encouragement to feed their encourages whanau to book their tamariki in curiosity. to some of the half-day workshops happening “We want to enable our tamariki to shift this summer. from consumers of digital technologies to “Our STEM (science, technology, creators of technology-based solutions.” engineeering and maths) workshops expose Children aged seven to 12 years can be our tamariki to the diversity of STEM,” she booked into Tonui Collab’s half-day school SHOWING OFF THE GOODS: Grace Wooton and Riki Reedy at the start said. “We invite them to be creative and holiday workshops online at www.tonuicollab. line with the cars they built at the Tonui Collab. collaborative problem solvers. They are the com/holidayworkshops Picture by Liam Clayton

GETTING ACQUAINTED: Four-month-old Harper Jones-Clough, meets Santa, who just happens to be in Gisborne to tick off a few Christmas wish lists. He will be in his grotto at Treble Court every day from 10am until 2pm until Christmas Eve. He will also be there tonight, from 6pm to 9pm. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell LOOKING AHEAD Get your SPORTS FOCUS ON THE LAND • This weekend we have the Doleman Cup Finals Gisborne Herald between GBHS and OBR. home-delivered • The world school sevens are on this weekend live on Sky Sport with three players with Gisborne East Coast connections - Kelsey Teneti, Kaipo Olsen Baker and Kaia-Hayes Walker Waitoa. • Today is the fi rst day of the fi rst look at America’s Cup racing as the boats get out in the water in the Christmas Regatta. • Heavyweights of cricket Australia and India meet in the fi rst of four test matches, starting this afternoon. TOMORROW SATURDAY

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Appeal frees There is a clear nexus between‘ the appellant’s deprivation, abuse, trauma stemming from teen attacker that abuse, and his offending. from jail term —Justice ’Peter Churchman THE youth who stabbed a PRESTIN Taiapa’s defence counsel “Recent decisions of the Court ONCE IN A LIFETIME: Astronomer/astrophotographer French national after the tourist Adam Simperingham says the High of Appeal show a preference for agreed to give him a lift has John Drummond beside one of his telescopes at his Court’s decision to quash his prison rehabilitation over punishment, and observatories site where people will be able to observe a had his 25-month jail sentence sentence was “obviously a tough call” an increased awareness in relation reduced on appeal to 12 months unique event over three days from Sunday. given the violent nature of his offending, to offenders’ circumstances and Picture by Paul Rickard home detention. and the impact on his victim. backgrounds. Justice Peter Churchman, “Justice Churchman’s decision “The courts are showing an sitting in the High Court at reflects the difficulties that Mr Taiapa increasing understanding that harsh Wellington, accepted submissions faces in life, including a troubled sentences often do not have the desired from counsel Adam Simperingham upbringing, poor mental health, and effect of deterring offending. Biggest planets in by video link from Gisborne, that intellectual disabilities. “Obviously the terrible effect that the original sentence imposed on “He is 18 years old. crime has on victims should be the Prestin Taiapa was manifestly “Despite his difficulties, Mr Taiapa cornerstone for sentencing. excessive. had settled into a solid work and “However, the courts are recognising for great meet-up Taiapa, aged 17 at the time of rehabilitation regime on bail prior to that a more rehabilitative approach is the June attack but now 18, was sentencing. more likely to decrease offending, and originally sentenced in Gisborne “I have no doubt that a term of prison therefore reduce the effect that crime by Mark Peters distances in this rare line-of- District Court after pleading would have exacerbated his personal has on victims. sight event as they orbit the sun. guilty to wounding with intent issues and made him more likely to “Along similar lines, the Chief Judge JUPITER and Saturn are “About every two years Mars to cause grievous bodily harm, reoffend. of the District Court recently announced about to get the closest gets close to us but in my 47 attempted aggravated robbery “The High Court’s decision is the Te Ao Marama initiative, which they have appeared in about years of astronomy I’ve never and driving dangerously causing indicative that the tide is turning in is aimed at looking at the causes of 400 years and Gisborne seen Jupiter and Saturn sitting injury. relation to sentencing practice and offending, as a further attempt to reduce astronomer/astrophotographer in the same telescopic field,” Mr Simperingham said the principle. crime,” said Mr Simperingham. John Drummond is offering says Mr Drummond. sentencing judge erred in giving the opportunity to view the “This is the closest Jupiter Taiapa too little credit for his phenomenon. and Saturn have been together remorse, personal circumstances Mr Drummond’s Patutahi for 400 years. During the last and cultural factors and his youth He allowed 11 months for the for lack of previous convictions observatories have clearer close conjunction in 1623, and rehabilitative prospects. cultural report (originally four and one month for time spent views of the night sky and the telescope had just been Justice Churchman ruled that months). on electronically monitored bail, solar system than the old Cook invented.” more substantial discounts ought “There is a clear nexus between were not changed by Justice Observatory on Kaiti Hill. The The closest Jupiter and to have been granted for all three the appellant’s deprivation, abuse, Churchman. sky at Patutahi is comparable to Saturn will get will be on of these factors, which would trauma stemming from that Christophe Luc Francois Tekapo in that it regularly has Monday December 21 when reduce Taiapa’s sentence to less abuse, and his offending. Bretille, 38, was admitted to skies nearly as dark as Mount the two largest planets in the than 24 months. “The appellant’s childhood was Gisborne Hospital after the June John Observatory in the South solar system will appear to Any jail term of less than two characterised by physical abuse, 22 incident which ended with his Island. almost merge. Online magazine years can be converted to home displacement, lack of cultural car crashing into the side of a During the three-night event Astronomy says the conjunction detention. identity, and low self-esteem. house after Taiapa tried to seize at Mr Drummond’s recently will form a “rare Christmas star”. “I have also concluded that due “His upbringing may have control of the steering wheel. launched Gisborne Astro “Some astronomers believe to the appellant’s youth, strong had some influence on his Mr Bretille received surgery Tours, visitors will first see a the Christmas star was the rehabilitative prospects and the psychological conditions, and to repair his injuries, including short video about Jupiter and conjunction of the two brightest difficulties that he would face likely influenced his mental lacerations to the fingers of his Saturn and the rarity of such planets,” says Mr Drummond. in prison due to his intellectual health, as well as causing him right hand, a stab wound to his an alignment then observe it While the two planets will disability, a sentence of home to struggle academically and left arm (which required surgery for themselves through the seem almost to bump into one detention is appropriate in these mentally without the support that to repair tendon and nerve telescopes. another, during the conjunction circumstances,” he said. he needed. damage) and a laceration to his Although the Jupiter and there will be more than 730 Justice Churchman accepted “This would have inevitably right eye which caused damage to Saturn conjunction is the million kilometres between them. the original starting point for affected his decision-making and his tear duct which will require headline act the Patutahi No bookings are needed for sentencing of 72 months less 18 impulsivity, and consequently further surgery. observatory’s four telescopes Mr Drummond’s guided tour months for Taiapa’s guilty plea, must be considered when taking The victim also suffered a will be in operation so visitors of the once-in-a-lifetime great for 54 months. into account his culpability.” broken jaw, broken teeth and a can view the Moon, Mars, star conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn. But Justice Churchman said Justice Churchman increased broken nose. clusters and more. Just turn up at 23 Bilham Road, discounts from that point should to 21.6 months the discount for His car (which he was also The great conjunction this Patutahi, on December 20, 21 or have been 4.3 months for remorse youth, rehabilitation and mental using as a temporary home) was month of Jupiter and Saturn 22 between 8.30pm and 10pm. (originally two months in district health issues (originally 18 damaged beyond repair. His will be the closest since 1623 Adults $20, under-16 year-olds court sentencing) months). financial losses amounted to and the closest observable $10, families $45. No eftpos is “The appellant expressed He said the appellant had $22,429. since 1226. The closeness of the available so cash only. significant remorse and regret for expressed significant remorse and Mr Bretille requires further two planets makes this a rare If weather conditions are his behaviour, not only through regret for his behaviour, not only surgeries. conjunction. The two planets cloudy or rainy on any of the his statements to the report through his statements to the A Victim Support service won’t appear this close to each viewing nights, the astro tour will writers, but also through a written report writers, but also through co-ordinator, speaking to the other again until 2080. be called off for that night. letter expressing his sincere a written letter expressing his Herald after district court While the planets look close IFor more information about apologies, and an offer to make sincere apologies, and an offer to sentencing last month, said Mr to each other from Earth, in Gisborne Astro Tours, visit www. reparation when he could,” said make reparation when he could. Bretille was unhappy with the reality they are separated by vast gisborneastrotours.com. the judge. Other discounts, four months 25-month jail term. GDC looking to up rates intake by Alice Angeloni by a maximum of 6.5 percent per annum for the next 10 years, including new water infrastructure which will be adopted in June 2021. first three years of the 2021-2031 Long Term Plan, for wastewater management which was needed Other proposed recommendations in the THE total rates take in Tairawhiti could “with the potential” to reduce this to 5 percent to meet legal requirements. financial strategy are to extend the council’s increase by 6.5 percent annually for the next from the fourth year. In addition, there was a new financial historically low debt levels to enable funding three years, backtracking on a commitment to This comes after the council took a “back to landscape for Tairawhiti and Aotearoa due to of “critical” activities and infrastructure. This keep rises to a 5 percent maximum. basics” approach to rates in 2018 — committing factors such as central government driving would align the council’s debt with that of other Gisborne District Council to a 5 percent rates increase limit. legislative reform and posing new requirements councils. said it would cap rates rises Risks included in the paper said the for resource management, central government’s The paper also recommends the council “keep at 5 percent in its 2018-2028 recommended increase was likely to “create declaration of a climate change emergency, the an eye on the future”, providing for forward Long-Term Plan, but a paper concerns around affordability among many Covid-19 pandemic and anticipation of growth in planning for climate change and key resource before councillors today ratepayers”. the region. management services. recommends it be upped to “Council needs to be clear about what we The draft financial strategy proposes an initial It also seeks to support growth in the rating 6.5 percent. are proposing to use the increase for and why spend in the early years of the Long Term Plan on base within the council’s current infrastructure Three workshops between this is essential. For instance, making clear our critical infrastructure and increasing debt levels footprint and to progress securing funding from councillors and staff in legislative requirements and urgent responses to enable this. alternative revenue streams. November have led to the needed following changes to national direction, “Once over the infrastructure hump, the Gisborne District Council chief executive recommendation for new financial limits to be and renewals of critical infrastructure over years council aims to reduce debt and focus on Nedine Thatcher Swann was approached for included in the draft financial strategy. This one to three,” the paper said. maintaining our reserves,” the paper said. comment yesterday, but said she would release strategy will come before the council in January. The paper said the council had some “intense It comes as the council works through the a statement following the discussion with It recommends total rates revenue increases challenges” in funding infrastructure over the “prioritisation” phase of the Long Term Plan, councillors today. 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths Deaths Deaths

FENTON, Irene VAN ZANTEN, WATTON, Russell Deaths (Rene). — 12.5.1920 - Christine James. — 15.12.2020. Passed Te Amohaere. — On Remembering all the BATES, (nee Hand), peacefully with family, 11th December 2020, at fun times together with Edna May. — On 16 in her 101st year. Brisbane Hospital, in you. Our very special December 2020, in the Beloved wife of the late her 68th year. Much brother and brother-in- loving arms of her Samuel. Much loved loved wife of Albert, law and uncle. family. Now at peace, mother, grandmother, and loving mother of Rest easy Russ, you after a short illness. great and great-great- Vincent Barnao. have fought a hard Daughter of James and grandmother. Youngest daughter of battle. We will miss you Jane Hand. Brother of An inspiration to us all, the late Bob and Phyllis so much. Ivan (all dec). a great cook and Quirk. Niece of Grace - With love – Glenis Treasured wife of Ray, gardener. Gray. Sister to Anne Openshaw, Daryl and adored Mum of Thank you to all the and Dave Harvey, Keast, Heather and Aaron and Michelle, wonderful staff at Kiri Linda Beets, Robert and Peter Derby, Jo and Sonya and Brent Te Kanawa Rest Home. Betty Quirk, Michael Mark Feather (Mel- Taylor, and Kelly and The funeral service Quirk, and Paul Quirk bourne), Michelle and Rob Knight. The most will be held at Evans and Nigel Pewhairangi. Rob Wilkin (Toronto), special Nana to Chapel, Ormond Road, A loving aunt to all her Reece and Jaime Stephanie (dec), Caleb at 2pm on Saturday 19 nieces and nephews. Witters (Dunedin), BEST WAY TO BEAT THE HEAT: Cooling off at Waikanae Beach during yesterday’s and Blair Bates, Miesha December, followed by Will be sadly missed by Megan and Ben interment at Taruheru all. heatwave were brother and sister Zayden and Ella Renata. The top temperature was and Jordan Taylor, and Donaldson, Erin 30.9C degrees, according to the MetService weather station at Gisborne Airport, but Jayden Scott, and Lawn Cemetery. A service will be held Valentine (Melbourne), on Friday, 18 December there were reports the inner street temperature got up to 34 degrees. Saturday looks Keeley and Jemma - Evans Funeral Andrew Derby. to be the next scorcher with a forecast high of 28C. Picture by Paul Rickard Bates. Services Ltd FDANZ at 3.30pm, Great Our beautiful Wife, www.evansfuneral.co.nz Southern Memorial Mum and Nana, you are Park, Mt Cotton Road, Bereavements the centre of our world, KINGI, John Ihaia. — Carbrook, QLD. our joy, our love, our Returned Serviceman laughter, our calm, and No. 354-761-400. MARGARET Chopper pilot stable VAN ZANTEN our cornerstone. Passed away peacefully ADAMSON on the 14th December (nee Quirk), Christine CROSKERY Rest easily in peace. Te Amo Haere. — THE Gisborne helicopter pilot hurt in yesterday “Our pilot was very lucky not to have been more We hold you in our 2020. Beloved husband Died peacefully, in The family sincerely morning’s crash on Mahia Peninsula remains seriously injured.” hearts for evermore. of the late Robyn Kingi. thank the wonderful The funeral service Brisbane, Australia, in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital after The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) confirmed If roses grow in after a short illness, caregivers who helped will be held at Evans look after Mum for 10 undergoing a small operation on his injured back this morning that they have started an Heaven Lord, Chapel, Ormond Road 11.12.2020. Beloved yesterday afternoon. investigation into the accident. Then pick a bunch years. To them she was at 11am on Friday 18th daughter of the late The Robinson R44 chopper he was flying went A CAA spokeswoman said the aircraft struck a for us. Robert and Phyllis Mum, Nan or Margaret. December, followed by To the caring Hospice, down at around 6am yesterday in a remote, hilly wire. Put them in our private cremation. Quirk. Loved wife of loved one’s arms. Albert. Loved Mum of Doctors and Nurses and north eastern corner of the peninsula. Mrs Worters said the pilot underwent surgery And tell her they - Evans Funeral Vincent Barnao. District Nurses. We He suffered injuries to his head and back yesterday afternoon to repair the injury to his back. are from us. Services Ltd FDANZ Respected sister of thank family and and the 43-year-old, who has a partner and two “He is stable in a general ward.” www.evansfuneral.co.nz friends for all their love children, was flown to Waikato for more specialist The Worters have thanked everyone for their Funeral details later. Anne, Linda, Robert, Michael, Nigel and and support over this care. messages expressing concern since the crash. - Evans Funeral MCINTOSH, Kevin James. — Aged 84. Paul. Treasured aunty sad time. The helicopter was operated by Eastland Heli “We wish our pilot a speedy recovery and our Services Ltd FDANZ of her many nieces and Services of Gisborne, owned by Ray and Wendy thoughts are with his family at this time.” www.evansfuneral.co.nz Passed away in Rock- hampton, Australia. Ex nephews. Forever in our In Memoriam Worters. He has worked for the company for about five Fire Service. Father of hearts. The accident happened during weed spraying years and flown for them for around 18 months. FENTON, Irene. — Colin, Chris, Gary, A private service will operations on farmland. Mrs Worters said the wrecked helicopter would 15 December 2020, in Karen, Glenn, and be held. JUDITH ELSIE “What happened yesterday came as a real be lifted out of the hilly area where it crashed, WATTS her 101st year. Beloved Andrea. RIP. shock to us,” Mrs Worters said this morning. some time tomorrow. wife of the late Samuel. 31.12.1942 - ROBINSON, Colleen WAIDE, Jan. — Adored mother of 6.9.1942 - 14.12.2020. 17.12.2016 Annette and mother-in- Ellen. — 18.2.1938 - 15.12.2020, aged 82 Passed away peacefully We cried when you law of Allan. Grand- at home, Papamoa mother, great-grand- years. Passed away passed away. Beach. Beloved wife of We still cry today. ‘The best feeling ever’ mother and great-great- peacefully, at Kiri Te Kanawa Rest Home, Robin. Mother and Although we loved grandmother to all her mother-in-law of grandchildren. Gisborne. Beloved you dearly. FROM PAGE 1 mother and mother-in- Donna and Michael We couldn’t make She wanted to thank all the volunteers law of Deborah and Oberan, Michael Waide you stay. “We met a need and it’s great the who were so generous with their time and Tina Pitcher, FENTON, Irene. — Barney, Mark, Robyn Your golden heart Government has stepped in to help. and all the sponsors in Gisborne who had and Grant. Loved Matthew and Kim stopped beating, 15 December 2020. Waide. Cherished There is more refining needed and I hope helped EST operate. Loved Grandmother to grandmother to all her 9 hardworking that every child gets a meal every day at “I want to thank Huia White who was grandchildren and 11 grandmother to Crystal, hands at rest. Neville and Karen, Judy Dallas, Kayleb, school. the one to originally pursue the idea of and Kani, Wendy and great-grandchildren. God broke our hearts “Thank you so much to everyone in creating Gizzy School Lunches,” she said. Lincoln, Murphy and to prove to us He only Paddy. Loved Great- As per her family’s Gisborne who has helped us,” she said. “When Huia posted up on Facebook wishes, a private Hunter. takes the best. Gran to Daniel, The funeral service Cherith Whitley, EST manager and asking for volunteers to make Kendall, Campbell and cremation has been Sadly missed by your held. will be held at Evans trustee, said it was a day to celebrate sandwiches because children were going Dallas – Jaime, Brooke Chapel, Ormond Road loving husband, and reflect on what everyone had hungry, it made me want to help. It made and Tayla – Sam and - Evans Funeral at 1.30pm on Friday family and friends achieved. me cross that my kids had food while Talia – and all their Service Ltd FDANZ 18th December, partners. Loved Great- “I have had the best time working with others would go without.” www.evansfuneral.co.nz followed by private In Memoriam the volunteers, seeing new friendships “We were also so fortunate to have Great Grandmother to cremation. Harlow and Cruz - Jada WATTON, Russell. — blossom and knowing they will stay Cherith — she stepped up right from the and Maia. To our much loved - Evans Funeral connected is awesome. start. It was her, Huia and I as trustees Grundy St Russell. You HOLLIS, Donald “I’ve loved being involved with this Services Ltd FDANZ William George trying to make it all work at the start. will be sadly missed but www.evansfuneral.co.nz whole operation. The friendships I have “Cherith has been a star.” FENTON, Irene. — remembered always 19.2.1968 - 17.12.2011 made and the people I have met are Alena Swannell who was the volunteer Passed away peacefully with love by John and Precious memories wonderful. coordinator before moving on to full- at Kiri Te Kanawa Rest Nancy Stevenson, “It’s a job at the end of the day but it’s time work earlier this year, said it was Home, aged 100 years. Leigh Ann and the keep you near our Beloved Mum of the Donnie, as it dawns a job I have loved getting up and going to sad the programme was ending but she Hamilton Fosters, Karin every day. was happy they could leave feeding the late Rodger and dearly and the Pukekohe nine years since you left loved Mum of Zandra. Lowes. us. Until we meet again. “The hardest part is saying goodbye to children in the capable hands of the My beautiful Mum and Sending our love to Arohanui, Mum and those who have become a daily part of Government. best friends always. Donna and Greg and your namesake, my life,” Ms Whitley said. “We have grown, with over 60 Will forever be in my their families at this William Rangitakaia She said the feedback about EST from volunteers now, and I know that when heart. time. Murray Kopua xx teachers, parents and students had been I’m out in the community and see them phenomenal. I know I have a connection with them. It “Knowing that a child’s behaviour or all came from wanting to give children Farmworker learning ability changed when they have lunches. Name of diver released eaten, is a great feeling.” Volunteer John Giffin said he had hurt in crash Ms Whitley said the Government had a mixed feelings about EST finishing up POLICE have released the big focus on child poverty and the school His companions returned to A FARM worker was after volunteering for the past four years. name of the man who drowned lunch programme was a part of those the island but Mr Peawini opted injured this morning when He has worked with all the volunteers while attempting to swim back efforts. to try to swim ashore to get a the All-Terrain-Vehicle he and said they were the “most lovely” to shore from Motuoroi Island “We are fortunate here in Tairawhiti boat to pick up his mates. was operating crashed on a people. at Anaura Bay on Sunday that we are one of the pilot areas for food His body was found on the hillside on a farm paddock on a “They all have families and yet they afternoon. in schools.” mainland on Monday morning property between Nuhaka and took time out of their days to volunteer He was 48-year-old Temanawa “It’s amazing they have recognised how by a searching helicopter just Morere. here to get food to children who would Peawini from Gisborne. big the need is and are stepping in to do north of where he went missing. The emergency services, otherwise go without.” Mr Peawini was with two something about it . . . I hope it continues The death will be referred to including the Trust Tairawhiti Hayley Baker started volunteering other men diving for seafood on so all schools and children can receive it.” the coroner. rescue helicopter, were called four years ago after seeing there were the island. EST trustee Belinda Mackay said it A rahui moana remains in to the incident at around 9am. students with no lunches. They were caught by a rising was sad to see the programme come to an place in that area until Sunday, The man, aged in his 20s, “Seeing the smiles on their faces when tide, a strong current, and a end but she was glad “they’re not leaving covering Anaura Bay from had moderate neck injuries. He the food was delivered, was the best wind change as they attempted a void in the system”. Motuoroi Island to Waipare Reef was flown to Hastings Hospital. feeling ever,” she said. to swim back to the mainland. (north of Waipare homestead). The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 NEWS 5

FINAL MOMENTS: The burning hulk of Admiral Graf Spee after Captain Hans Langsdorff decided to scuttle the German pocket battleship in the early days of World War 2. He falsely believed Achilles and two other Royal Navy ships had been significantly reinforced outside of Montevideo. He also had concerns about whether his ship had sufficient ammunition for a major battle and if, in its damaged condition, it was capable of making the 11,500-kilometre voyage to Germany. This photograph was taken by Gisborne sailor Bert Millier who served on the Achilles. ‘Some of us made our wills’ Account recalls infamous battle with enemy ship the Graf Spee

TODAY, 81 years ago, in 1939, the first New Zealand-German engagement of World ERIC Chapman was born in Scotland in 1914, War 2 ended when the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled after but grew up in Wales. leaving the port of Montevideo in the neutral country of Uruguay. Among the three He served in the merchant navy before joining outgunned Royal Navy ships that fought the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic on the Royal Navy shortly before the outbreak of World War 2. December 13 was the navy’s New Zealand Division light cruiser HMS Achilles. Last His father had served in the navy during World year the Herald spoke to relatives of three Gisborne men who served on the Achilles War 1. during the Battle of the River Plate, as it came to be known, and identified a fourth. Sub Lieutenant Chapman was posted to HMS Jenny Williams also approached the Herald’s Wynsley Wrigley and presented an Leander, a Royal Navy (New Zealand Division) unpublished book written by her father Sub Lieutenant Eric Chapman, who served cruiser on August 14, 1939. on the Achilles during the battle. Mr Chapman, later a successful businessman, He was on board for 14 days and sailed to New Zealand where he was transferred to HMS never lived in Gisborne, but came here regularly to visit his daughter. Achilles. Only 30 minutes after reporting on board Achilles, the light cruiser was sailing from ALARM rattles, bugle calls and control tower out of action.” Auckland’s Devonport naval base under sealed running feet awoke Sub Lieutenant Eric Achilles retired zigzagging under orders. Chapman only hours after leaving the smoke, and 20 minutes later was out of Mr Chapman wrote in his unpublished naval bridge of HMS Achilles at about 5.40am. range leading to “a short period of relief memoirs that according to “the grapevine” He hurriedly put his uniform over his and self-congratulation”. Achilles was sailing to the west of South America pyjamas and rushed back to the bridge. “The enemy was obviously heading to search for German merchant shipping. “I don’t remember feeling in any way toward the safety of the South American After the war he settled in Christchurch and scared as we saw a great orange flame mainland.” became the general manager of Bill Hamilton’s boom from the guns of the enemy ship,” The traditional tot of navy rum was manufacturing business. he later wrote. given out on Achilles shortly afterwards, Daughter Jenny Williams said her father was “Through the binoculars, I had a good but Lieutenant Chapman was in the like a son to Mr Hamilton, developer of the jet view of the enemy.” chartroom and missed out. boat that bears his name. Shortly afterwards someone said HMS That was followed by bully beef Mr Chapman enjoyed a successful business Exeter was on fire. sandwiches and cocoa and “I managed to career and became president of the New Zealand “We turned aft to look when there was get some of that”. Manufacturers Federation. a clang of noise. Achilles engaged A CHEERING SIGHT: Sub Lieutenant He played a key part in developing trade “The captain was down Admiral Graf Spee again Eric Chapman, who used those words between New Zealand and Australia as High under my feet, and the at sunset with Achilles to describe the scuttled German pocket Commissioner to Canberra. yeoman was also on the Both sides were firing five times and battleship when Achilles passed within Mr Chapman died at the age of 84. deck badly wounded. no‘ doubt feeling Admiral Graf Spee, three. a couple of miles of it on December Mrs Williams said her father lived a full life. 17, 1939. He had been standing next to “The captain (Edward lucky to be alive and “What is certain is that She was proud of him, not just for his war Parry) had been hit in both we did not hang around Achilles’ Captain Edward Parry when he exploits, but for all of his achievements. legs by a large piece of hot enjoying the good very long.” was wounded in both legs by “a piece of cast steel, the same one beer of Buenos The next day four hot cast steel” from a shell fired from the which had smashed into Aires ratings, including two New Admiral Graf Spee. where the crew was saluted as heroes by the knee joints of Yeoman Zealanders, were buried at Picture supplied massive crowds. Martinson. —Sub’ Lt Chapman sea while Captain Parry But in New Zealand Sub Lieutenant “Somehow it had missed “moved painfully on two Achilles later passed within a few miles Chapman was found to have a shadow me”. sticks”. of the wreck. on his lung and was discharged from the Sub Lieutenant Chapman explained The damaged Admiral Graf Spee sailed It was “a cheering sight”. navy. how the crew anticipated the pattern of into Montevideo. After Achilles replenished with food He later rejoined, but was never sent to gunfire from Admiral Graf Spee with its “On Sunday the 17th we got the word and ammunition in the Falklands, it sea again, much to his disappointment. shells being fired a minute apart. that strange things were happening on returned to South America where Sub But he was posted to Dunedin where When a salvo fell short, the zigzagging board and around Admiral Graf Spee in Lieutenant Chapman and other crew he met his future wife Rhondda. Achilles would alter course towards Graf Montevideo.” went ashore at Montevideo and Buenos His illness saved him from certain Spee in anticipation of German gunners Most of the crew had been transferred Aires. death. increasing the range of their next to another vessel before Admiral Graf He went to “paint the town red” in He was about to be posted to another broadside. Spee left port. Buenos Aires but it was “an exercise not ship of the Royal Navy’s New Zealand But the German gunners could be Sub Lieutenant Chapman said his crew attended by much success”. Division, HMS Neptune. aware of Achilles’ tactics and “might do had been “keyed” for a final engagement It was there that he saw sailors from The ship’s crew of 764 included 150 the opposite”. with Admiral Graf Spee. Achilles fraternising with Kreigsmarine New Zealanders, among them Gisborne’s Sub Lieutenant Chapman said the Some had put on clean underwear “as (German Navy) sailors. Darcy Heeney, nephew of legendary boxer engagement lasted about 90 minutes. recommended” and “some of us had made “Both sides were no doubt feeling lucky Tom Heeney. “Our luck held . . . with the exception of our wills”. to be alive and enjoying the good beer of The cruiser was sunk by mines off a couple of near misses, such as the one Late in the evening came a signal that Buenos Aires.” Libya in December 1941 with only one which wounded the captain and put the Admiral Graf Spee had been blown up. Achilles returned to New Zealand survivor. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Horse trainer found Economic outlook brighter than expected guilty in abuse case by Audrey Young, NZ Herald than-expected economic recovery. rise by 8.5 percent in the current year to June HAMILTON — A High Court judge has While the economy had contracted this year, 2021, 4.5 percent in the following year, then by found horse trainer Laken Rose guilty on WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s economic it was forecast to rebound strongly in 2021, 5.2 percent for two years and then 5.5 percent. nearly all of the child sex charges she was outlook is much brighter than forecast in outperforming regions such as the Euro Zone, Robertson, who is reviewing settings around facing. September, with growth forecast to be stronger, Britain and Japan. housing, said he had received advice from the On the remaining charges, Justice unemployment lower and operating deficits Treasury and the Reserve Bank as requested and Matthew Muir found Rose not guilty. slimmer. expected to make announcements in the New She was convicted on the charges At Treasury’s half-yearly opening of the books, Year. she was found guilty of and remanded in unemployment is forecast to peak at 6.9 percent The economy was forecast to He supported “sustained moderation” in custody for sentencing on February 27, by the end of 2021, compared to 7.8 percent in rebound strongly in 2021. house price inflation. 2021. September’s pre-election fiscal and economic “What we cannot accept are 15 to 20 percent She was found not guilty on three update (Prefu). increases on an annual basis.” charges of sexual violation by unlawful Tax revenue is forecast to be $16.8 billion Core Crown Debt in Treasury’s official sexual connection and two charges of higher over the forecast period — to 2025 — than “Global economic activity is expected to forecasts is set to peak at 52 percent of GDP or possessing objectional material. forecast in Prefu. continue to recover over the rest of the forecast $190 billion by 2024-2025 — which is lower than Rose pleaded not guilty to 50 charges Obegal deficits (excluding gains and losses) period, although the pace of recovery is likely to the 55.3 percent in Prefu. of sexual violation, indecently assaulting across the forecast period are all lower, including be uneven as countries contend with renewed But when the effects of the Reserve Bank’s children under 12, making objectionable the current financial year with a $21 billion deficit virus outbreaks and the resulting containment Funding for Lending (FLP) programme to publications, possessing objectionable forecast — which is $10 billion less than forecast measures,” he said. domestic banks are taken out (which is counted material and inducing young persons to in September. “Of course the pandemic is not the only risk to in additional borrowing and not net core Crown commit indecent acts. GDP is forecast to grow by 1.5 percent in June the global outlook,” Robertson said. debt) the picture is better and peaks at 45.6 The charges against Rose relate to four 2021 year compared with a contraction of 0.5 “Ongoing trade and geopolitical tensions, percent of GDP in 2023-2024 or $174 billion. girls aged between three and 14 at various percent forecast in Prefu. in particular tensions between China and the The June quarter GDP contraction of 12.2 locations including Palmerston North, Finance Minister Grant Robertson welcomed United States, have the capacity to affect growth percent was the largest on record, which was Waikato and the Bay of Plenty over a five- the improvements, saying the Government’s and lead to higher levels of volatility.” lower than the 16 percent forecast by Treasury. year period. — NZ Herald decision to act quickly in response to the global Treasury’s forecasts are based on a set of The lastest GDP figures for the September Covid-19 pandemic had contributed to a better- assumptions and it forecasts house prices to quarter are due out today. Minimum wage Govt secures another to rise to $20 an hour in April two Covid-19 vaccines WELLINGTON — Minimum wage will increase to $20 per hour on April 1 with WELLINGTON — The Government the Government following through on its has secured another two vaccines, enough commitment from last term. for every New Zealander and its Pacific The deadline has been welcomed by the partners, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Council of Trade Unions, saying it will help says. the New Zealander’s who are the “working The additional vaccines being pre- poor” facing rent increases. purchased are from pharmaceutical But National’s workplace relations companies AstraZeneca and Novavax. spokesman Scott Simpson called the A total of 7.6 million doses will come commitment “a cynical re-announcement” from AstraZeneca — enough for 3.8 of the last Government’s promise designed million people, and 10.72 million doses to draw attention away from the pressure from Novavax — enough for 5.36 million on Speaker Trevor Mallard. people. Both vaccines require two doses to Simpson said the minimum wage be administered. rise had been signalled last term and The Government already has pre- questioned why a press statement was purchase agreements for 750,000 courses issued on the day Mallard was grilled from Pfizer/BioNTech and five million by a select committee on his $330,000 from Janssen. defamation case. The cost of the new pre-purchase Minister for Workplace Relations and agreements was not disclosed, but the Safety Michael Wood this morning unveiled vaccines will be free to New Zealanders, the April deadline for increasing minimum the Government said. wage and said it would mean a $44 a week Ardern said the new agreements means pay rise for about 175,500 Kiwis. the Government will have three different COVID ROLL-OUT: Every New Zealander will be able to get a Covid-19 vaccination The increase was estimated to boost types of vaccine technology available in with 15 million doses now secured with the roll-out planned to begin in the second wages across the economy by $216 million, case some are found to be unsuccessful. half of next year. AP picture which meant more spending power. She said if the vaccines are proven to The previous Government committed to be safe and effective by Medsafe, then boosting wages to $20 per hour by 2021 the Government’s first priority will be to its Australian counterpart throughout,” building towards population immunity, and Labour included the promise in its vaccinate border workers, essential staff Little said. which will take time.” election manifesto. and their household contacts. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Wood said signalling the wage increases “We expect vaccines to be delivered Hipkins said work is under way to make Mahuta announced that the Government over the past three years meant businesses to our front-line workers in the second sure the roll-out is successful. is preparing to support its Pacific had certainty and time to prepare. quarter of 2021,” she said. “New Zealand has never before partners to access Covid-19 vaccines. Council of Trade Unions president “Our aim is to then commence attempted an immunisation programme Mahuta confirmed $75 million of Richard Wagstaff said minimum wage vaccination of the general public in the of this scale and complexity,” he said. Official Development Assistance had been increases were really important and mean second half of the year. All vaccine roll- “Workforce planning to ensure we have earmarked to support Pacific and global a lot for the many “working poor” who were out will be dependent on Medsafe sign off enough vaccinators is well advanced. vaccine access and roll-out. facing rent increases. and speed of manufacture.” There are around 12,000 health “New Zealand is pursuing a portfolio “We think this is a really important and Minister of Health Andrew Little said professionals already able to administer of potential Covid-19 vaccines to ensure significant step the Government’s taken Medsafe has made changes to its vaccine vaccines and more will be trained. we have flexibility and choice in the and we’re pleased to see it.” approval processes to make it faster. “And, as part of the new National fast-moving global marketplace. We Wagstaff rubbished the argument that He said Medsafe has agreed to allow Immunisation Solution, the Ministry want to make sure Pacific countries can minimum wage increases led to job losses. pharmaceutical companies to make of Health will have an inventory also access suitable options, and have Advice from the Ministry of Business, rolling applications for their Covid-19 management system for Covid-19 the support they need to run successful Innovation and Employment on April’s vaccines, which means they may submit vaccines with accurate information immunisation campaigns.” increase from $17.70 to $18.90 estimated their data as it is completed and ready for about where they are located and the She said New Zealand’s approach will about 65,000 job losses. assessment to speed up the process. temperature in central storage facilities.” be to purchase sufficient vaccines to cover Wagstaff said minimum wage increases “Pfizer, BioNTech and Janssen have Hipkins reiterated that the the Realm of New Zealand (Tokelau, often coincided with historic lows in already started to submit data, and immunisation programme does not mean Niue, Cook Islands) and its Polynesian unemployment and in fact increased timing around Medsafe’s approval process the border will open immediately. neighbours Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu productivity because it forces industries to depends on many factors, such as the “Our border remains the first line of should their governments wish to take move away from cheap labour. data that companies provide and whether defence against Covid-19 from imported these up. The starting-out and training minimum it meets internationally agreed criteria cases. To make any decisions around Included in the $75m support package, wages will also rise to $16.00 per hour, to for safety and efficacy. borders we need to be confident that the New Zealand plans to make a further remain at 80 percent of the adult minimum “Medsafe has streamlined its New Zealand population is sufficiently $10m contribution to the COVAX Facility wage. assessment processes and is prioritising protected. Advance Market Commitment, which The Minimum Wage Act 1983 requires the assessment of Covid-19 vaccines “It means we will need information is the key multilateral mechanism that the responsible Minister (currently the over other pharmaceuticals to obtain a on whether the Covid-19 vaccines are has emerged to support equitable global Minister for Workplace Relations and vaccine more quickly, but there will be no effective at providing individuals with access. New Zealand is also ready to Safety) to review the minimum wage rates compromise on the safety of the vaccine. protection from contracting the virus and contribute to wider Pacific regional by December 31 each year. — NZ Herald Medsafe will remain in close contact with reducing transmission — and a gradual initiatives as they take shape. — RNZ The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Three men face charges in Roast Busters case by Katie Todd, RNZ victims are to blame. “I hope it can bring the survivors In 2013, the gang boasted online some closure because seven years AUCKLAND — It’s hoped about having sex with drunk girls — ago they were let down by the justice developments in the Roast Busters some of them underage. system. It shouldn’t have taken this case will bring justice after a “dark A lengthy police investigation at the long.” time in New Zealand’s sexual violence time identified more than 100 potential In 2014, Jessie Hume delivered history”. victims, but the police said they did not a 115,000 signature-strong petition Two 24-year-old men formerly have enough evidence to prosecute. to Parliament, after the police didn’t involved in the notorious gang have That claim was criticised in an prosecute any members of the Roast been arrested, and a third living Independent Police Conduct Authority Busters. overseas will be arrested if he returns report, and prompted widespread It called for further rape prevention to New Zealand. public outrage. education, including around the issue All three face charges of sexual Ruth Amato, who organised a march of consent — and she said there connection with a person aged against rape culture in Auckland, was still a long way to go. 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Kaikohe, Lower Hutt, Milford, Mosgiel, Newmarket, New Lynn, Richmond, St Lukes, Tauranga, Tokoroa, Tory St (Wellington) or Whakatane stores. 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Childcare centre probed Investigators comb crash after abuse allegations site for clues KAIKOURA — A team of investigators are by Charlotte Cook, RNZ mapping the location of debris and combing the wreckage at the site of Tuesday’s fatal FEILDING — Parents and former helicopter crash north of Kaikoura, which teachers have told the Ministry of killed two parents and seriously injured three Education that the owner and manager children. of a childcare centre in Feilding locked INVESTIGATING Police confirmed Christchurch pilot toddlers in rooms, fed children mouldy COMPLAINTS: Andrew Hamish Davidson, 60, his wife food and smacked them. The Pitter Patter Lin Chen, 39, and three children were on The Pitter Patter Education Centre Education board the EC120 helicopter as it came in had its licence suspended for three Centre is being to land at The Store cafe and campground weeks in November while the Ministry of investigated by at Kekerengu for lunch just before 1pm Education (MoE) investigated complaints the Ministry of yesterday. spanning at least five years. Education and The crash killed the couple and seriously The centre has since reopened, although complaints have injured the three children who were airlifted the investigation is continuing and been passed on to Wellington Hospital. Yesterday two of complaints have been passed on to the to the police. the children were described as in a stable police. Picture supplied condition and a third in a serious condition In statements to the MoE, former in intensive care. teachers claim they and the children Capital and Coast District Health Board were bullied and abused by the manager, says the patients’ representatives have Pauline Murphy. shaming parents, taking lunches off recommended a smack on the bottom as a requested privacy and they can’t give any RNZ has seen some of those statements. children and charging families money to good way to get him to sleep when he was further updates. One teacher said it was common feed children mouldy food or leaving them at home. Yesterday afternoon Medbury Primary practice for misbehaving children to be hungry. The toddler also had a bite mark that School’s headmaster Ian MacPherson locked in the sleep room. “Things would happen like a parent lasted more than two weeks, but the confirmed the couple’s son Angus, a Year 7 “During my first few months there we would bring in food from home and in one manager refused to do anything about student, was one of the children injured in had someone come in because a family particular incident, as soon as a parent finding out what happened. the crash. had laid a complaint against her (the walked out of the door, she went up to The complaints also claim Murphy was In a statement, MacPherson said the manager),” the teacher said. this child, put her fingers in their mouth, applying for funding for children who school would reopen its doors next Monday “It was to do with her using the sleep scooped the food out, took the food off didn’t go to the school, wouldn’t pay staff morning for families in the community to room as a punishment for children.” them and put it in the rubbish bin and properly for their hours, and that there gather to support each other. Another teacher said if anyone brought then pushed the child away to go and were too many children for the number of He said counselling services would also the children out of the room, Murphy play,” the teacher said. teachers. be made available. would yell at them to put them back. “This child went off crying.” The MoE confirmed to RNZ the centre St Andrews College rector Christine Staff said they were constantly bullied, Another mother paid for cooked meals was closed for three weeks. Leighton confirmed the two other children on belittled, called stupid and made to feel like lasagne or macaroni and cheese but “We suspended the licence of Pitter board the helicopter were students. like terrible teachers. said her children told Patter Education Centre on November 23 She said the school was grateful for the A former teacher her they were only as we had received a number of serious support from emergency services and those said she watched Staff said they were given one sandwich. complaints. in the college community. Murphy physically And when the centre “While we are investigating we have Richard Jenman, who is the managing hurt the children constantly bullied, belittled, put on entertainment referred these complaints to police and director of Davidson’s employer, Enatel, said when they did not called stupid and made to for the kids, the the Teaching Council to investigate. the couple’s two children were injured in the behave. feel like terrible teachers. manager would charge “We gave the service until January 11, crash, along with one of their friends. “This particular $5 a child for them to 2021 to address the conditions that were He said he did not know Lin well but she child was, you know, watch it. placed on the suspension.” was very highly regarded and well liked by getting quite angsty The parent said kids It determined the centre had satisfied those who did. and ready to go home, it was probably whose parents did not pay or could not the conditions and it was allowed to Jenman said he had known Davidson for close to the five o’clock mark, and he afford to were excluded. reopen on Monday, December 14. more than 20 years, and he was a stalwart started throwing things and getting quite More than 10 people — parents and The MoE said it would visit the site in of the Christchurch technology sector, and agitated. former teachers — have filed complaints January to ensure the conditions were founded Enatel. “So she sat him on the couch outside with the MoE over the treatment they still being met, but the investigation was Davidson’s last role was as general the office area. and their children experienced at the continuing. manager of the motor power division of “She was holding him on the couch centre under the management of Murphy. Police would not comment to RNZ, but Enatel in Christchurch. trying to entertain them or what-not. A parent of a child who went to the the Teaching Council said in a statement Sales records show Davidson, who also He started kicking off again and he was centre said she felt awful for not believing late on Wednesday that it was in the early runs a BnB with his wife from their lifestyle yelling. As I looked up, I saw her grab her son when he told her he was being stages of considering the information block in Ohoka, North Canterbury, had only his hand and pinch him aggressively and hurt. about the childcare centre and is still purchased the helicopter in October. then she yanked his hair. “My son did tell his dad one day that he deciding its next steps. While the bodies of the couple have been “And then he said ‘ow, why did you pull had been smacked by the centre owner, It would not comment further. recovered from the scene, the helicopter my hair?’, and she said, ‘I didn’t touch but at the time, we didn’t believe him,” The reopening of the centre came as a remains on the beach, covered by a tarpaulin. you, you’re lying’.” she said. shock to those who had complained. A blessing, organised by Ngai Tahu The teacher who witnessed the incident “And looking back now, I hate that I “That’s been the hardest thing,” one leaders, was held at the crash site yesterday said she pretended not to see it because didn’t do anything about it. We brushed it said. afternoon. she was scared of what the manager off and said, ‘no, you’re just being silly, she “We’ve put ourselves on the line as well. The Transport Accident Investigation would do to her and her career. wouldn’t do that’. I mean, that’s the biggest thing. Commission (TAIC) is appealing for any She regretted not speaking out at the “But after hearing from other parents “I’ve still got people out there that witnesses who may have footage of the time but said she was just one of many who have told me of their experiences at know stuff that won’t stand up in fear of accident to come forward. who were afraid because in the past, the centre, I 100 percent believe my son repercussions from this woman.” The helicopter’s components will be complainants had been threatened with now and I feel bad for not supporting RNZ contacted Murphy but she did examined along with maintenance records. legal action. him.” not respond to repeated requests for — RNZ Murphy had also been accused of The mother said the manager had comment. Crews battle Dunedin blaze

DUNEDIN — Police remained on a large area was still burning out of standby last night, ready to evacuate control. Waipori Falls residents as helicopters A police spokeswoman said no and ground crews battled an 80ha blaze properties at the Waipori Falls village in the area. appeared to be under threat last night, Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift but police officers were ready to evacuate manager Andrew Norris said a large residents if it became necessary. area of mainly tussock and scrub caught The fire crews and helicopters fire near Waipori Falls Road at about continued to fight the fire until about 1.20pm. 9pm before standing down. The blaze was attended by eight A small team remained on site helicopters with monsoon buckets and overnight to monitor the fire, and fire crews from Waihola, Outram and helicopters and fire crews returned this Dunedin, including a command unit from morning to continue fighting the blaze. Dunedin. It was hoped a light rain forecast to The fire proved difficult to fight fall overnight last night would help keep 33471-09 because the area was not easily accessed. the fire at bay, Norris said. Norris said about 75 percent of the “Every little bit will help,” he said. fire’s perimeter had been contained but — Otago Daily Times The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 9 1st SPECIALS*

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by Amy Williams, RNZ (INZ) said Hap Fauth, proved to be very successful so I Doug De Vos and think it’s a little bit of a sacrifice AUCKLAND — At least Roger Penske to spend a Christmas five wealthy backers of the were included in without our families, challenger teams to the American Magic’s but I think it’s the America’s Cup are struggling request for a border price we have to pay for to enter the country in time to exception under the this quality of life.” watch their yachts race. ‘other essential worker’ Mr Cattani said he was Information provided to RNZ category. one of many whose family shows the owners of the Italian This was approved by members could not enter the team Luna Rossa, UK team ministers in June. country. Ineos and American Magic have Luna Rossa team “This situation is been granted border exemptions principal Patrizio hard for everybody, for but are not yet here. Bertelli’s and every challenger, It is understood they have Ineos owner Sir especially at been unable to access vouchers Jim Ratcliffe’s Christmas . . . to stay at managed isolation and requests were because here we are quarantine (MIQ) hotels. approved in July living in heaven. It’s The five owners — three of and November, a fantastic quality American Magic, one of Ineos respectively. of life compared to and one of Luna Rossa — are all INZ would not provide UNABLE TO ACCESS MIQ VOUCHERS: Sir Jim Ratcliffe, left, and Europe.” now hoping for a Government any further information Patrizio Bertelli are believed to be among the wealthy backers keen Those who had made intervention. for privacy reasons — to visit Auckland for the America’s Cup. Right, the coveted Auld it here were counting Immigration New Zealand and the teams would not Mug. AFP picture (above), Auld Mug picture via AP themselves as very lucky. says all five were granted visas comment on the movements American Magic boss Terry several months ago. act . . . it’s about getting this happened in Melbourne, and if of their owners. Hutchinson said they put However, they are already right. Servicing the needs of we haven’t got control of this Others who are all their gear on a boat missing the start of the racing Kiwis overseas who want to and something happens then it already in the with no guarantees they where teams battle for the right come home, but also ensuring will be the Government that is country would spend would get into New to take on champions Team New that the men and women who blamed.” Christmas apart from Zealand. Zealand for the coveted Auld have invested millions of dollars Nash did not want to expand their families due to “It all worked to Mug next March. in this can take some part in it.” on options for getting the owners the border restrictions. a certain degree and America’s Cup Minister, Anyone entering the into the country. Spokesman for Luna having come through the Stuart Nash, said his staff were country is required to stay in “We’re having conversations; Rossa, Francesco Longanesi managed isolation to this point, working on it. a Government MIQ facility — I’ll just leave it at that. No Cattani, said his teenage you couldn’t have come across “We do understand that private yachts are still not an promise can be made and MIQ daughter could not come to nicer people to help you through owners have invested a option. is incredibly full at the moment, Aotearoa. “These regulations are a really difficult time so in that significant amount of money “We’ve really resisted bespoke but we’re having conversations.” there to protect the country from light, I think we’ve all been here, so it’s a very fine balancing quarantine. That’s what Immigration New Zealand the pandemic and they have incredibly fortunate.”

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The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 BUSINESS 11 NZ Post experiencing NZ economy bounces out record-breaking period of recession by Katie Todd, RNZ AUCKLAND — New Zealand officially bounced out of recession with a 14 percent AUCKLAND — New rebound in gross domestic product (GDP) Zealand Post workers are in over the September quarter, making it the the thick of a record-breaking strongest quarterly growth figure on record, Christmas amid a nationwide Stats NZ said. online shopping frenzy. Market expectations were for a quarterly With couriers delivering gain of 13 to 14 percent. two million parcels a week, The quarterly gain follows two successive the service is asking the contractions — the official definition of public to send presents as a recession — over the March and June early as possible to avoid quarters. disappointment. However, those two negative quarters At the Auckland Operations dragged the annual GDP number for the year Centre — where every to September down to minus 2.2 percent. CourierPost begins its Stats NZ revised the June quarter journey into the largest contraction to 11 per cent from 12.2 percent. city — automatic conveyer There were fewer restrictions on activity belts, scanners and chutes in the September 2020 quarter than during are helping sort and dispatch the COVID-19 lockdown-impacted June 2020 parcels. quarter, though Auckland was at alert level 3 New Zealand Post’s in August, Stats NZ said. general manager of business “This resulted in the strongest quarterly marketing, Chris Wong, said growth in GDP on record in New Zealand, systems were in overdrive as the economy bounced back from the as was the case in every lockdown earlier in the year when non- operations centre around the essential businesses closed,” national country. accounts senior manager Paul Pascoe said in BUSY, BUSY: NZ Post general manager of business marketing Chris Wong. RNZ picture above, “These are record levels and a statement. — The New Zealand Herald file picture below we expect the two million we received last week, that sort of volume, to continue right up they had sent presents early until Christmas.” — or avoided sending presents Wong said the company’s altogether. A2 Milk goes busy season had begun earlier Wong said the company than usual in November, when was paying close attention New Zealanders swarmed to possible spikes in activity, into NZX trading online shopping sales. including those due to supply After Cyber Monday, Wong chain issues from Covid-19 halt, pending said NZ Post had received disruption. about 300 parcels a minute. New Zealand Post had also About 70 percent were from expanded its fleet of delivery announcement New Zealand businesses. vans and hired hundreds more “Despite everything that’s staff. happening around the world Denis Ozdemir, who was in AUCKLAND — A2 Milk has gone into (with the pandemic and charge of Mount Wellington a trading halt, pending an announcement economic hardship), we’ve deliveries, said staying focused from the company, the NZX said. seen absolute record levels of and always thinking two The exchange said the trading halt online shopping in November,” streets ahead was key to a would remain in place until either the he said. successful day. announcement from the company or the “Kiwis spent about $585 “Before you know it, you market’s opening on Monday. million in November, which have a photographic memory At a2 Milk’s annual meeting in November, is up 27 percent on the same of the address. When you look the company said it remained committed to time last year.” at the parcel, the number, it’s the daigou infant formula trade into China, It is not the first online visual, you know exactly what despite it being responsible for clouding its shopping frenzy New Zealand house it is. short-term earnings outlook. Post has dealt with recently. “As challenging as it sounds, Daigou, “buying on behalf of”, covers the The service was also overrun it’s also quite rewarding and unofficial group of individuals who shop during the nationwide satisfying when you see the and send products to China for a profit. lockdown in March and April. smiles on people’s faces and Over the last three years, the daigou There were backlogs of the children that come to greet trade in a2 Milk infant formula has tens of thousands of parcels, you and sometimes give you a developed along corporate lines, with most and weeks of delays for some hug . . . because you’re pretty operators based in Victoria, which has been customers. much Santa at this time of the hardest hit of any of the Australian On the streets of Botany, year.” states by Covid-19 lockdowns. people out Christmas shopping NZ Post expected that Christmas, along with courier cut-off dates on its website, A2 Milk shares last traded at $14.12, were not particularly confident letters and parcels posted parcels sent before next and send parcels as early as having dropped by 7.11 percent over the about the reliability of sending before Monday, December Wednesday. It suggested possible to guarantee they got last 12 months. — The New Zealand Herald parcels, with some telling RNZ 21, to arrive in time for people keep an eye on the under the tree in time.

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY Spark, which has an attractive dividend yield, deal by the end of the month, and its share price caught the festive season, gaining 13c or 2.95 declined 8c to $7.02. percent to $4.54. With consumers out buying for Pushpay Holdings, which resumed trading WELLINGTON — The New Zealand through the 71c mark against the American Christmas, retailers Briscoe Group rose 23c or with aplomb, raised $97.9m at $1.79 a share sharemarket roared back into life, rising nearly greenback. The NZ dollar traded between 4.54 percent to $5.30, and Hallenstein Glasson to cover the sell-down of a combined 54.68m half a percent on strong trading with the leading US70.81c and 71.12c during the day. was 15c or 2.31 percent to $6.65. shares held by company executives Chris energy stocks being pursued by overseas The energy stocks, included in global clean Retirement village operators Ryman Heaslip and Chris Fowler. investors. energy indices, were in good demand from the Healthcare and Summerset Group Holdings The bookbuild attracted bids from 22 The S&P/NZX 50 Index climbed 61.82 points exchange traded funds, but their price increases are repaying their Covid-19 wage subsidies of institutional investors from New Zealand, or 0.48 percent to 12,828.99, after two days of cooled off by the end of trading through local $14.2m and $8.6m, respectively. Australia, Canada and United States. Pushpay’s falls and hitting an intraday low of 12,761.33. profit-taking. Ryman fell 29c to $14.71, while Summerset share price steadied 5c or 2.65 percent down There were 88 gainers and 53 decliners over the Contact finished down 2c to $8 after reaching climbed 32c or 2.94 percent to $11.20 amidst at $1.84, after going as low as $1.72 during the whole market, with 107.5 million shares worth an intraday high of $8.30; Meridian finally gained other developments. day on impressive trade of 61.48m shares worth $314.6 million changing hands. 3c to $6.63 after hitting an intraday high of Rob Campbell is retiring in April after 10 $110m. Matt Goodson, managing director of $6.955; and Mercury fell from a high of $6.42 years as Summerset chairman, and the company Kiwifruit grower and packer Seeka rose 10c Salt Funds Management, said there was a to close at $6.34, up 13c or 2.09 percent for the upgraded its underlying profit for the year 2.3 percent after announcing a special dividend reasonable overnight in the United States day. Trustpower was down 24c or 3.07 percent ending December to $96m-$98m. Its first half of 12c a share paid on January 27. Allied (the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.13 to $7.59. profit was $45.1m. Farmers climbed 7c or 12.07 percent to 65c after percent to 30,199.31) and the New Zealand and Fisher and Paykel Healthcare had another Utilities investor Infratil said it has executed helping new listing NZ Rural Land Company Australian markets bounced back after being topsy-turvy day. It fell as low as $31.60 before its offer to buy 56 percent of radiology specialist achieve its target of raising $75m in its initial quite weak at the close the day before. recovering to $32.56, up 50c on trade worth Qscan Group Holdings from Quadrant Private public offering. The S&P/ASX 200 Index was up 0.8 percent $45.6m. Equity for A$330m ($351m), and approval from Allied Farmers will take a 50 percent to 6684.4 points at 5.45pm (NZ time), while the Ebos Group, hit by the late fall the day before, the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board shareholding in NZ Rural which will list on NZ dollar strengthened, once again shooting rebounded 62c or 2.37 percent to $26.77. is progressing. Infratil expects to complete the December 21. — The New Zealand Herald 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 EDITORIAL Anti-abortion laws and radicalisation by Gwynne Dyer party loyalists, and last October the court matches the national average, and even among Prepare for 6.5 effectively banned almost all abortions. But the evangelical women it is about half that. “GET your rosaries off country exploded in protest. Abortions in the US are now at the lowest . . . to catch up our ovaries,” chanted the Only 35 percent of Poles now have a positive rate since the key Supreme Court decision that women marching in support view of the Catholic Church, and among the legalised abortion, Roe v. Wade, back in 1973, Gisborne District Council has a of the referendum that made young it’s down to 9 percent. Will this end up but that’s mainly due to better contraception. lot of infrastructure investment abortion legal in Ireland in reshaping Polish politics? Probably yes. Nevertheless, 23.7 percent of American women under way, planned and expected, 2018. Two years later the 2020 In Argentina the lower house of Congress has will get an abortion at some point in their lives, so ratepayers can forget the “5 to election broke the century-long just passed a government-backed bill to legalise most when they are in their 20s. thrive” message of the 2018-2028 stranglehold on power of the two centre-right abortion, currently considered a crime in almost Donald Trump is gone (sort of), but he Long-Term Plan — preparing us for parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. They got fewer all circumstances, and tens of thousands of has packed the US Supreme Court 6-3 with up-to-5 percent average rates rises than half the votes even together. women came out in Buenos Aires to celebrate. conservatives who are thought to be “pro-life”. If for a decade following a few years Did the 2018 mass mobilisation against the They will be out again in strength later this they decide to re-ban abortion, they will certainly of maximum 2 percent rises — and anti-abortion law radicalise Irish politics and month to ensure the Senate passes the new law unleash mass protests on a scale that the US has trigger that shift? Probably. (which it probably will) — and that will unleash not seen before, just like in Ireland and Poland. prepare for 6.5 percent hikes. Another country where the Catholic Church a wave of demands for similar reforms all over The “pro-life” movement is noisy, but 80 That is the message of a report has traditionally dominated politics, Poland, is Latin America. percent of Americans support abortion rights. on the Long-Term Plan (LTP) now seeing a mass mobilisation too. Abortion on Most countries in Central and South America A ban in the US might even trigger a women’s prioritisation process before the demand was legal in Poland under Communist only allow abortion in cases of rape or risk to general strike. The right is already radicalised in council today. The council’s draft rule, but since democracy came in 1989 the the mother’s life, thanks to the traditional power the United States, but the rest of the country is financial strategy recommends rises Catholic Church has been steadily pushing back of the Catholic Church. Until now, only Cuba and ripe for it too. of up to 6.5 percent in the total abortion rights. Uruguay have allowed abortion on demand. But Abortion is an issue mainly in countries of rates take for the first three years Soon after the Catholic-backed Law and for the majority of Latin countries, where most Christian heritage, and in almost every one of the 2021-2031 LTP — “to catch Justice Party (PiS) won the 2015 election it people are no longer rural peasants, the writing of them there’s a huge majority in favour of it up to where we need to be” — “with tried to push a law through parliament banning is on the wall. among the younger population. What message abortions even in cases of foetal abnormality, Which brings us, naturally, to the United does this have for right-wing governments that the potential to reduce this to 5 but the politicians retreated in the face of mass States, where the landscape is quite similar cling to power by waging “culture wars” to cobble percent from the fourth year”. protests, particularly by women. — with evangelical Christians even more together narrow majorities? The report says this draft strategy So the government tried a different approach. militantly opposed to abortion than Catholics. Stay away from the abortion issue. It will “. . . proposes an initial spend in The PiS packed the constitutional court with Yet the abortion rate among Catholic women explode in your faces. the early years of the LTP on critical infrastructure and increasing debt LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS levels to enable this. Once over the ‘infrastructure hump’ council Next steps? Coach who aims to reduce debt and focus on A Christmas reverie on Covid maintaining our reserves.” The art of distraction . . . Covid-19 small and light, because of flying particulates. what on earth is happening gets results The report notes that population charged with sickness, full in flight You might for a present eagerly Re: Gisborne club receives growth has been higher than to the Endeavour models Wear a mask, don’t cough or spit, ask, (are they being hidden in award for Squash New forecast in 2018 and this, sneeze in your elbow, you careless but he can’t hear you through your some shed with the hope Zealand Club of the Year, “combined with other challenges git mask. the public will forget about December 16 story. such as climate change and central No personal contact outside your them)? What is the next I commend my brother government requirements and bubble, The levels come and levels go, step for reinstatement of Willie Donnelly for his community expectations around or you could be in Covid trouble. through heat of summer, winter’s the Wairoa to Gisborne rail dedication to the sport. He how we look after Te Taiao (the snows line (has Eastland Port coaches and gets results in the Use the app to trace where you’ve As from the North Pole Santa heads, interfered with the possibility teams he instructs, and the environment), mean we need travelled, he’ll have to log his reindeer’s to carefully consider how we of reinstatement)? It seems development of young up-and- in case your trips need to be treads there is an obvious hope that coming players. All the best provide long-term sustainable unravelled. If Rudolph’s hooter with virus for 2021 Sun City Squash. infrastructure”. Also: “The need to if we don’t continue to ask Sign your name, no hesitation, glows, questions, then “the problem” reduce financial impacts on the though it is a great temptation he’ll need that long bud up his will go away. NGARANGI JUDKINS community as a result of Covid-19 in To put down Batman, or Clark Kent nose. W BROWN Atlanta, Georgia 2020 meant we revised our starting and leave a trail of where they point for 2021. This meant we were went. A card from Jacinda and Dr. B, who oh so frequently we’d see unable to smooth rates increases Santa’s coming he’ll soon be seen, Best wishes with this sorry mess, for critical infrastructure projects as soon as he’s finished his here’s to a world that’s Covidless. Save traditional 18 holes such as wastewater.” quarantine Re: Park Golf Club: ‘No’ — sincerely believe that the The need for extra rates revenue His ho ho ho, he no longer creates, RON TAYLOR December 14 story. traditional game of 18 holes comes despite generous central As the daughter of an old must be saved. I support Tony government financial support over Gisborne golfing stalwart, Leggett and The Park Golf the past three years. In fact, that whilst I can understand the Club. Look at total, godawful mess reasons behind time restraints KERREN FOREMAN has offset two big financial hurdles I woke recently to gentle rain, them you should. and nine-hole courses, I Whakatane not explicity offered in the report as lush greenery and bird call — what We all know that we are living explanations for needed rates rises. a wonderful world — and gave in unparalleled times. Everyone ■ Bringing forward the second thanks to God. I often marvel at can sense there is something not stage of the wastewater treatment the sheer beauty and design and quite right, but we push any quiet plant upgrade soon after approving wonder of it all. niggle aside and rush on with our On the spirit of Christmas the 2018 LTP, then seeing estimated But then I remember “man”, hedonistic ways. Re: Lacking Christmas A few lights to brighten up costs balloon from $24.4m to man who thought he was capable We are in the days of Noah folks, spirit, December 14 letter. the streets would make a huge of replacing God and could do a and don’t give a damn. Good on ya council. difference. I think Christians and $34.8m; $7.5m has been allocated far better job himself, so began So at least as we go on with to this project from an $11.04m Whether deliberate or not, non-Christians would enjoy that. dismantling the very idea of God. our busy Christmas plans, take a the reduction in focus on I remember the days of the flags grant from the Government’s Three Look at the total, godawful mess moment to remember what we the christian holiday is and coloured lights. My son-in- Waters Reform programme. they are wreaking upon us all. have Christmas for and give thanks welcome. Most of us are not law, from overseas, commented ■ The Waipaoa River Flood Control Laws, laws and more man-made to God for the gift of His only christian. on how drab the main street was Scheme upgrade is now estimated laws that have brought a moral begotten Son Jesus Christ. looking. to cost $32m-$35m — up from a desecration and perversion of all JUST A HOLIDAY DAVE $16.4m budget in the 2018 LTP God’s laws. And if you don’t know ANNE BAULD — offset by $7.5m from the Covid [email protected] Recovery Fund granted in July 2019. ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. ■ And then there was the confidential settlement with owners ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. ■ Always include full name and contact details. of the leaky, earthquake-prone ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. Marina View Apartments. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 WORLD 13 ‘It’s about reducing future risk’ WHO to review Chinese samples to investigate origin of Covid

FALKENSEE, Germany — A German that was pinpointed early on as a scientist who is part of a small team of possible location for the leap from animal experts assembled by the World Health to human. Organisation (WHO) to investigate the “It may also be that it was just the first origins of the coronavirus says they plan mega spreading event or one of the first,” to sift through samples and medical data he said. from China to help determine where the Tracking down the animal in which bug first jumped from animals to humans the virus emerged will be key, and for and which species it came from. this the group will need to take samples The search for the source of the of further bat species and other animals new coronavirus has sparked claims that might harbour it. of cover-ups and fuelled political Leendertz said the team has not been tensions, particularly between the US informed of any restrictions on their administration of President Donald work in China beyond the two-week Trump and Beijing. Most researchers quarantine all travellers currently face. think that the virus, also known as In total, the mission is expected to last SARS-CoV-2, originated in animals in four to five weeks, he said. China, probably bats, and the WHO has “There will be a report from that put together a 10-person team to examine mission, but I’m pretty sure that (it) the science. will not give the full answer,” he said, Mission member Fabian Leendertz, adding that further research will likely a biologist at Germany’s Robert Koch be necessary. Institute who specialises in emerging Leendertz expressed confidence in diseases, said that the goal is to gather China’s “excellent researchers” and said data to be better prepared for possible HUNT FOR VIRUS ORIGIN: Fabian Leendertz, a biologist who specialised in data collected by the country’s extensive future outbreaks. emerging diseases at the Robert Koch Institute, speaks during an interview with the disease surveillance system would likely “It’s really not about finding a guilty Associated Press in Falkensee, near Berlin, Germany. AP picture prove valuable. country,” Leendertz said. “It’s about “Also X-rays from the hospitals — we trying to understand what happened and an Ebola outbreak in West Africa, said clear and dramatic symptoms that people now know quite well what Covid-19 then see if based on those data, we can that while he “would love that to be an remember. patients look like. . . . So that could also try to reduce the risk in the future.” Indiana Jones mission” with scientists Leendertz said scientists would be be a hint,” he said. In an interview on Tuesday with The conducting groundbreaking field work, looking to see whether stored medical “The big scope is to try to find out Associated Press, Leendertz said the “it’s more (. . .) a team effort with Chinese samples from before the first known what happened,” said Leendertz. “How team has already begun discussions colleagues to help identify the necessary case provide evidence that the virus the virus jumped from which animal to with scientists in China and expects to next steps and how to continue.” was circulating earlier than previously perhaps an intermediate host and then to travel to the country next month. They One of the difficulties is that those thought. humans. To reconstruct the scenario.” will likely start in Wuhan, where the who contract Covid-19 can display a wide “Then to see where that track leads us, “The more you know about why outbreak was first reported, though a range of symptoms similar to flu or other if it’s another city or if it stays in Wuhan these spillover events happen, the precise itinerary hasn’t yet been set. diseases, or even no symptoms at all. This or where that goes,” he said. better you can also check if there are Leendertz, who was part of a previous makes tracking the chain of infection Another line of inquiry will be to countermeasures you can take to prevent mission to track down the origins of much harder than with Ebola, which has examine the famous market in Wuhan such transmissions in the future.” — AP Woman has allergic reaction to vaccine Nigerian states JUNEAU, Alaska — Health officials in four times that level, with 27,728 cases Speaking at the European Parliament Alaska reported a healthcare worker had reported on Wednesday by the Robert on Wednesday, EU commission vice- shut schools after a severe allergic reaction to a Covid-19 Koch Institute. president Margaritis Schinas says if the vaccine within 10 minutes of receiving a EMA approves the vaccines on December shot. PORTLAND — The first coronavirus 21, “the commission is ready to provide pupils abducted US health authorities warned doctors vaccines in Oregon were given to nurses, the formal authorisation of placing in the to be on the lookout for rare allergic respiratory therapists, housekeeping market in supersonic fast procedure.” KANKARA — More states in northern reactions when they rolled out the first staff and other healthcare workers on Schinas says “These vaccines will be Nigeria have ordered all schools to close vaccine, made by Pfizer and Germany’s Wednesday. the Christmas gift for all Europeans if following last week’s kidnapping of BioNTech. Britain had reported a few Legacy Health and Oregon Health & everything goes well.” hundreds of pupils in Katsina state. similar allergic reactions a week earlier. Science University in Portland and Saint The commission has secured around Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara and Jigawa The Juneau health worker began Alphonsus Hospital in Ontario, on the two billion doses of potential vaccines for have followed Katsina in closing schools feeling flushed and short of breath Oregon-Idaho border, vaccinated their the 27 member states. The EU’s executive following Friday’s attack. on Tuesday, says Dr Lindy Jones, the first five staff members in the event arm has repeatedly said that once a The Islamist militant group Boko Haram emergency room medical director at broadcast live via Zoom, followed by the vaccine is ready, all EU countries should has said it was behind the raid. Bartlett Regional Hospital. She was other hospitals. The first shipments of have access to it at the same time. More than 300 children are still missing, treated with epinephrine and other vaccine arrived on Monday. raising fears for the safety of other schools, medicines for what officials JERUSALEM — Prime Minister especially those in remote areas. ultimately determined was CHICAGO — Roughly Benjamin Netanyahu says he will get Meanwhile, the Nigerian Union of anaphylaxis, a severe 30 percent of eligible the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday Teachers has threatened a nationwide strike allergic reaction. She Chicago Public Schools night, making him the first Israeli to be unless the government urgently improves was kept overnight and students plan to return immunised. the security situation. has recovered. Unlike to in-person classes Netanyahu says he wants to set an The union said pupils and teachers were the British cases, the when the nation’s third- example for others to follow. Israel has now being actively targeted by gunmen and Alaska woman has largest school district procured hundreds of thousands of doses kidnappers. It said the attack was a sad no history of allergic begins reopening next of Pfizer’s new vaccine and is set to begin reminder of previous raids — dozens of reactions. month. a vaccination campaign next week. girls from Chibok, in northern Borno state, Chicago Public Schools “By the end of January, we will have are still missing six years after they were HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS announced last month millions of vaccines. I worked hard to abducted by jihadists. HAPPENING: that the district would bring them, and I ask you to use them,” Nigerian authorities say they have been resume in-person learning in he said. in contact with the kidnappers in the latest BERLIN — Berlin’s health phases in the New Year because incident, but there are no details of the office says Germany’s 16 states will remote learning wasn’t serving ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s daily discussions. begin vaccinations on December 27, with many students in the largely Black and coronavirus death toll hit a record high The governor of Katsina state, Aminu the first shots going to nursing homes. Latino district. The district has required on Wednesday, with the government Bello Masari, said on Twitter late on Monday: That comes as Germany hit a record level remote learning since March. announcing 240 deaths. “Talks are ongoing to ensure (the pupils’) of deaths from the coronavirus and enters The Chicago Sun-Times reports district The government also announced 29,718 safety and return to their respective a harder lockdown, closing shops and leaders says about 75,000 of eligible new confirmed cases in the country of 83 families.” schools. students from pre-kindergarten through million, pushing the total to nearly two The jihadist group issued its claim of Germany on Wednesday recorded 8th grade and in special education will million. The confirmed total death toll responsibility in a four-minute recording. 179 virus-related infections per 100,000 return in January and February. A date stands at 17,121. However, security and local sources cited residents over the last seven days, a new for high school students hasn’t been set. Turkey has become one of the worst-hit by AFP news agency said Boko Haram had high. countries in the world, with the number recruited three local gangs to carry out the It also passed its previous daily total, BRUSSELS — The European of confirmed cases hovering around attack. with the 16 states reporting 952 deaths Union plans to deploy anti-coronavirus 30,000 per day. One source said the children had been from the virus, the agency says. The shots across the 27-nation bloc using The country has imposed evening taken across the border into Zamfara state previous daily record was 598 on Friday, “supersonic fast procedure” once the EU curfews and lockdowns at weekends to and divided among different gangs “for safe although included two days of figures regulator approves the BioNTech/Pfizer combat the surge without impacting keeping”. Some of the gangs had since from the hard-hit eastern state of Saxony. coronavirus vaccine. the economy. But medical groups and been in touch with authorities over the While daily cases peaked in March The European Medicines Agency is opposition parties say the measures will release of the students. — BBC at about 6000, they are now more than expected to give its go-ahead next Monday fail to curb the spread. — AP 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 FBI accuses Currency manipulators Kenyan man of Vietnam, Switzerland labelled, 10 others on watch list plotting attack WASHINGTON — The Vietnam and Switzerland US Treasury Department including penalty tariffs. in ‘9/11-style’ has branded Vietnam and In addition to China, the Switzerland as currency other countries put on a NEW YORK — Federal authorities on manipulators while putting monitoring list were Japan, Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging China and nine other South Korea, Germany, Italy, a Kenyan man with trying to stage a 9/11-style countries on a watch list in an Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, attack on the United States on behalf of the annual report designed to halt Thailand and India. Taiwan, terrorist organisation al-Shabab. countries from manipulating Thailand and India were put Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 30, who was arrested their currencies to gain unfair on the watch list this year in the Philippines in 2019, was transferred trade advantages. while the other countries to US custody on Tuesday on charges he It marked the first time that were already on the watch list conspired to hijack an aircraft and slam it into the United States has labelled issued with the last report in a building. another country as a currency January. He pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related manipulator since August With regard to Switzerland, charges during a brief court appearance on 2019 when it called out China the country’s central bank Wednesday and was ordered held without at a time when the world’s two has been selling Swiss francs bond. He faces a mandatory minimum 20 largest economies were locked to limit the currency’s rise years in prison if convicted. His defence in tense trade negotiations. UNFAIR TRADE GAIN: Euro banknotes were piled up on and the currency has also attorney declined to comment. “The Treasury Department a table in the foreign exchange department of UBS bank benefited for its reputation Prosecutors said Abdullah got flight has taken a strong step today in Zurich, Switzerland, in December 2001. The US Treasury as a safe haven for investors training in the Philippines between 2017 to safeguard economic growth Department has tagged Vietnam and Switzerland as currency during times of economic and 2019 and obtained a pilot’s license in and opportunity for American manipulators while putting others on a watch list. AP file picture stress. Independent analysts preparation for an attack. During that time, workers and businesses” say that is mainly an attempt authorities said in a news release, Abdullah Treasury Secretary Steven that met all three criteria currency interventions, to keep consumer prices from researched “the means and methods to Mnuchin said in a statement. for being named a currency Vietnam and Switzerland falling — which can hurt the hijack a commercial airliner,” including how to “Treasury will follow up on manipulator. also met the other two economy — rather than to breach a cockpit door and “information about its findings with respect to Those criteria include criteria which are running boost exports to the US. the tallest building in a major US city.” Vietnam and Switzerland the number and size of the large trade surpluses with But the Treasury report “This case, which involved a plot to use an to work toward eliminating interventions a country has the United States and also labelled Switzerland a aircraft to kill innocent victims, reminds us of practices that create unfair made in foreign exchange large surpluses in its current currency manipulator the deadly threat that radical Islamic terrorists advantages for foreign markets to influence the account with the world, the contending that the continue to pose to our nation,” Assistant countries.” value of its currency. A broadest measure of trade interventions in currency Attorney General for National Security John The Trump administration country intent on gaining which includes not only markets were excessive given Demers said in a statement. removed its currency trade advantages will sell goods and services but also the large size of the Swiss Acting Manhattan US Attorney Audrey designation from China its currency in an effort to investment flows. trade surpluses. Strauss called it a “chilling callback to the in January after the two depress its value against other The designation of a The United States has horrific attacks of September 11, 2001.” nations had achieved trade currencies, such as the US currency manipulator will only named three countries Abdullah, prosecutors said, started agreements which the Trump dollar. trigger special negotiations as currency manipulators. In planning the attack in 2016 under the administration hoped would A weaker currency makes with Vietnam and Switzerland addition to branding China direction of an al-Shabab commander who lower China’s huge trade a country’s exports cheaper over the next year. If those as a manipulator last year, was also involved in planning a deadly attack surplus with the United and thus more competitive on negotiations don’t alter the the US imposed that label in 2019 on a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. States. foreign markets and makes two countries’ currency on China from 1992 to 1994. The State Department in 2008 designated The Treasury report said imports more expensive. practices, the United States Treasury also imposed that al-Shabab, which means “the youth” in Arabic, that Vietnam and Switzerland The Treasury report said can move forward to impose label on Japan and Taiwan in as a foreign terrorist organisation. — AP were the only two countries that in addition to extensive economic sanctions on the 1980s. — AP Australia to seek Camp closures force Iraqi families’ WTO intervention in return to devastated hometowns DEBAJA, Iraq — After Aid groups warn the living in a camp for three rapid closings could leave years, 70-year-old Merhi tens of thousands of people trade spat with China Hamed Abdullah returned to homeless in winter months his village west of the city of amid the coronavirus CANBERRA — Australia market for Australian Mosul to find it in ruins — his pandemic. Haphazard will ask the World Trade barley growers. The grain is first glimpse of home since implementation, they say, Organisation to intervene in its among a growing number of Iraq defeated the Islamic threatens to create new dispute with China over barley commodities that China has State group. displacement, cause informal and expects other nations to targeted as bilateral relations To shelter his family of settlements to mushroom and become involved in the case, plumb new depths. seven, Abdullah resurrected fuel resentments in an Iraqi Australian Trade Minister Trade in Australian seafood, the tent he had hurriedly society still reeling from the Simon Birmingham said wood, beef and wine has also packed as the government memories of IS’s brutal rule. yesterday. been disrupted since Australia closed Hamam Alil camp last So far, at least 34,000 China effectively ended angered China by requesting month, forcing him and 8,500 people have been pushed imports of Australian barley in an independent inquiry into others to return to devastated out by the closure or UNCERTAIN FUTURE: Children stand outside the May by putting tariffs of more the origins of the coronavirus hometowns and an uncertain consolidation of 11 formal ruins of their home, in the Hay Tanak slum of Mosul, than 80 percent on the crop, pandemic. future. camps since mid-October. Iraq. AP picture accusing Australia of breaching Australia is seeking All around Abdullah, Aid groups say the number is WTO rules by subsidising clarification of recent Chinese 200 other returnee families likely higher. Another 26,000 displacement,” said Marine were given days to pack barley production and selling state media reports that in the remote village of people are still in the three Olivesi, spokeswoman for the up and leave, prompting the grain in China at below Australian coal imports have Debaja followed suit. The remaining camps in federal Norwegian Refugee Council. management to scramble and production cost. been banned. sweeping plains are dotted Iraq slated for closure. Iraq’s 2014-2017 war prepare three month’s supply Birmingham said Australia Birmingham said China with burned-out shells of More than 180,000 people against IS drove 6 million of life-saving medications. would formally ask the WTO to had “accumulated a series broken homes and, next to live in 25 other camps in the Iraqis from their homes, The UN has raised alarm, intervene. of decisions that look like them, the tents they have Kurdish-run northern region. nearly 15 percent of the finding that 30 percent of “WTO dispute resolution sanctions against Australia.” erected, emblazoned with It is not clear when they population. Over the years, returnees are not in “safe processes are not perfect Chinese Foreign Ministry the unmistakable logo of the would face closure. many returned, and in or dignified” housing since and they take longer than spokesman Wang Wenbin UN refugee agency. Without Expelled camp residents August 2019, the Baghdad leaving camps. would be ideal, but ultimately, declined to say whether running water or electricity, are left to live in wrecked government began closing Government officials say it is the right avenue for China’s trade actions were a Debaja is pitch black at night. homes or in tents, or drain camps. It sped up the process that by pushing IDPs to Australia to take at this point,” form of retaliation, but said Few have steady work. savings renting in expensive in mid-October, when camps return, aid groups can shift Birmingham told reporters. Australia must drop what he The closure of Hamam Alil urban sprawls. The most still held more than 240,000 from managing camps to “It’s quite common for other called a bias against Chinese camp, south of Mosul, was stigmatised — families people. assisting development. countries to become third companies. part of a government push affiliated with the IS group Nearly 75 percent of “We need them to return parties to proceedings in the “What I want to stress is to shut down all camps for — say they have nowhere to Hamam Alil camp’s residents to rebuild their towns and WTO. Australia has done so that the Australian government internally displaced persons, turn. said they couldn’t return villages,” said Najm Jibouri, on many occasions, China has should take seriously China’s or IDPs, by the end of the “Pushing people out because their homes were governor of Nineveh province, done so on many occasions, and concerns and take concrete acts year. Iraq’s cash-strapped of camps might seem destroyed, according to a where Hamam Alil is located. I would anticipate that others to correct its discriminatory government says accelerated like ending displacement, survey conducted by the NRC “Yes, they will suffer . . . But would do so on this occasion,” behaviours targeting Chinese closures are needed to but it doesn’t solve the before the camp closed. that doesn’t mean we should he added. enterprises,” Wang said at a revive lagging reconstruction crisis in terms of offering In Laylan camp, west of keep them in camps without a China has been the largest daily briefing. — AP efforts. durable solutions to that the city of Kirkuk, 7000 IDPs deadline.” — AP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 WORLD 15 China probe with Moon samples returns

BEIJING — A Chinese lunar capsule The spacecraft’s return marked the conditions that could affect a future returned to Earth today with the first first time scientists have obtained fresh extended stay by humans on the Moon. fresh samples of rock and debris from samples of lunar rocks since the former The Moon has been a particular the Moon in more than 40 years. Soviet Union’s Luna 24 robot probe in focus of the Chinese space programme, The capsule of the Chang’e 5 probe 1976. which has said it plans to land landed in the Siziwang district of the Those rocks and debris are thought humans there and possibly construct Inner Mongolia region, state media to be billions of years younger than a permanent base. No timeline or other reported shortly after 2:00am. those obtained by the US and former details have been announced. The capsule earlier separated from Soviet Union, offering new insights China also has joined the effort to its orbiter module and performed a into the history of the Moon and other explore Mars. In July, it launched the bounce off the Earth’s atmosphere bodies in the solar system. Tianwen 1 probe, which carried a lander to reduce its speed before passing They come from a part of the Moon and a robot rover to search for water. through and floating to the ground on known as the Oceanus Procellarum, or China’s space programme has parachutes. Ocean of Storms, near a site called the proceeded more cautiously than the Two of the Chang’e 5’s four modules Mons Rumker that was believed to have US-Soviet space race of the 1960s, set down on the Moon on December been volcanic in ancient times. which was marked by fatalities and 1 and collected about 2 kilograms of As with the 382 kilograms of lunar launch failures. samples by scooping them from the samples brought back by US astronauts In 2003, China became the third surface and by drilling 2 metres into the from 1969 to 1972, they will be analysed country to send an astronaut into orbit Moon’s crust. for age and composition and likely on its own after the Soviet Union and The samples were deposited in shared with other countries. the United States. a sealed container that was carried Chang’e 5 blasted off from a launch The latest flight included back to the return module by an base in China’s southern island collaboration with the European Space ascent vehicle. The successful province of Hainan on November 23. Agency, which helped monitor the mission was the latest breakthrough Flying a Chinese flag, the Moon mission. for China’s increasingly ambitious lander stopped functioning soon after Amid concerns over the Chinese space programme that includes a it was used as a launching pad for the space programme’s secrecy and close robotic mission to Mars and plans for a ascender, which was ejected from the military connections, the US forbids permanent orbiting space station. orbiter after transferring the samples cooperation between NASA and the Recovery crews had prepared and came to rest on the Moon’s surface. CNSA unless Congress gives its helicopters and off-road vehicles to It marked China’s third successful lunar approval. That has prevented China home-in on signals emitted by the lunar landing but the only one to lift off again from taking part in the International spacecraft to locate it in the darkness from the Moon. Space Station, something it has sought shrouding the vast snow-covered The spacecraft’s predecessor, to compensate for with the launching region in China’s far north, long been Chang’e 4, was the first probe to land of an experimental space station and MISSION SUCCESSFUL: The orbiter and returner used as a landing site for China’s on the Moon’s little-explored far side plans to complete a permanent orbiting combination of China’s Chang’e-5 probe after its Shenzhou crewed spaceships. and continues to send back data on outpost within the next two years. — AP separation from the ascender, at the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre (BACC) in Beijing. Picture by CNSA via AP EU delays aid to Ethiopia

JOHANNESBURG — The European of human rights violations, he said. Union has postponed $109 million in “Furthermore, it’s important for the budgetary support to Ethiopia over lack media to have access and the restoration of access to the country’s Tigray region of all communications in Tigray, a process HUMANITARIAN to deliver humanitarian aid amid the that we know has already been started CRISIS: People conflict. by the government. This will be crucial who fled the The delay in the funding, which was to understand the needs on the ground,” conflict in the supposed to be paid at the end of the he said. Tigray region of year, was confirmed to The Associated The EU is one of Ethiopia’s largest Ethiopia, walk in Press by a top EU diplomat in Ethiopia’s donors, allocating $1.4 billion for Umm Rakouba capital, Addis Ababa. development cooperation with Ethiopia refugee camp, in “A 90 million euro budget support from 2014 through 2020, of which $608 Qadarif, eastern disbursement that was supposed to be million has been in direct support to the Sudan. AP picture made at the end of this year has been budget. postponed,” Ambassador Johan Borgstam, Ethiopian officials have not yet EU Head of Delegation to Ethiopia, said responded to the EU’s announcement of in a phone interview. He added that other the postponement. EU aid programmes will continue. Ethiopia’s federal government started “The reason for the decision to postpone taking military measures against the the budget support disbursements is Tigray region’s leadership after it said Ethiopian politics for 27 years until the to Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele, that that the EU first wants to see granting its forces based in the region sustained Nobel Peace Prize-winning Abiy came to federal forces now control. He vowed of full humanitarian access to Tigray for ‘inhumane attacks’ in early November. power in April 2018. to bring the “criminals” who were the relief actors so that people in need can Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, The conflict in Tigray has alarmed the leaders of the regional government of be reached and there is an end to ethnic- declared victory two weeks ago but local international humanitarian community, Tigray to justice and urged reconstruction based targeting,” he said. reports suggest there are still some as communications have been cut off with to start immediately. The EU also seeks the government’s clashes in certain locations. Thousands large parts of the region. The UN refugee Telecommunications and electricity in assurance that civilians who want to of people are feared to have died in the agency said more than 50,000 Ethiopians, Tigray have started to function in some seek refuge in neighbouring countries are conflict that pitted Ethiopia’s federal mainly from Tigray, have fled across the locations but large areas in the region allowed to do so and that mechanisms government against the Tigray Peoples’ border to Sudan. remain inaccessible both for aid workers are put in place to investigate allegations Liberation Front, a party that dominated On Sunday, Ethiopia’s Abiy travelled and journalists. — AP

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36647-01 has free listings in our classified section for Be blessed this Christmas – Meri Kirihimete lost and found animals. Phone 869 0601. 20 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Excitement Cops ‘made oversights’ builds in the in search for two men City of Sails AUCKLAND — Fleets of spectator boats by Caroline Fleming, temperatures. are expected on the water to watch the The New Zealand Herald Forty-nine police staff, 175 America’s Cup races from today. LandSAR and 22 New Zealand The America’s Cup World Series kicks TONGARIRO — Police Defence Force personnel and off with the first race in the lead-up to next missed opportunities in the six dogs were involved in the year’s cup final. search for two men who fled search. The racing will continue into the weekend from police and were later The Taurima whanau and and businesses along the Viaduct Harbour found dead in Tongariro Ngaronoa whanau stayed are expecting — and hoping — for crowds. National Park, an investigation in the Turangi area, with It has been a long, hard year for many has found. Taurima’s father calling upon hospitality businesses in Auckland and Matiu Ngaronoa, 26, and Mongrel Mob members to those along the waterfront are pinning their Vincent Taurima, 21, died after support him during the search. hopes on a busy summer. getting lost in the bush in the The Mongrel Mob presence Rush Worth cafe was among the bars and park in August 2017. during the first week of the restaurants along the main promenade in A report released by search was significant. the Viaduct Basin, and operations manager the Independent Police On September 9, after a Salama Lowe said they had been preparing Conduct Authority yesterday 14-day search and rescue for the start of the America’s Cup racing. found although the search operation, the men’s bodies “We are expecting a busy weekend and for the missing men had were found near a tributary of I think we’ve also been very lucky with the been run “competently the Mangatawai Stream about weather, which always helps,” she said. and professionally”, there 2km in a straight line from the “We have made sure we have had were “oversights”, “missed abandoned car. enough staff over the past few weeks — opportunities” and areas for Both Ngaronoa’s and we’ve recruited a whole bunch of new improvement. Taurima’s whanau raised people.” One point of note was one serious concerns about the The cafe was a favourite spot for the of the men’s parents’ 111 calls delay in starting the search, sailing teams to grab their morning coffee were incorrectly coded, which ONE OF THE MEN WHO WERE FOUND DEAD: Vincent a lack of action based on the from. “delayed critical action” by Taurima, 21, died after getting lost in the bush in August 2017. fact the men were Maori and “There’s lots of mixing and mingling and Search and Rescue teams. He is pictured here with his son Tony Junior. File picture one had known gang links, and it’s all friendly, isn’t it? Well . . . when it’s off The summary of events poor police decision-making the water anyway. It’s nice to have all the outlined in the report showed and communication. teams come in for a coffee. It’s become a that the incident started about car on a track leading off coded incorrectly. The report found there was little hub for them, which is great.” 3pm on August 12, 2017, when Tree Trunk Gorge Road Between 10am and 11am, no evidence of the ethnicity Ms Lowe was also managing a coffee Ngaronoa and Taurima were before heading into Tongariro police received three 111 calls or backgrounds of the men cart within the America’s Cup Village where involved in a police chase on National Park. They ran into from the men themselves, influencing the thoroughness of spectators were expected to gather to State Highway 1 south of the the bush as Taurima thought stating they had hypothermia the search. watch the action on the harbour. Desert Road between Waiouru the police were chasing him and were unable to move. However, police took into Further along the waterfront strip, and Turangi. and he did not want to be Taurima told the call-taker consideration the men may business at North Park restaurant had Taurima was a patched returned to prison. his skin was turning purple, have been armed and Taurima, jumped ten-fold in recent weeks. Mongrel Mob member from At about 4.30pm, a hunter he had taken his clothes off in particular, may have been Executive chef Scott Greer said the place Palmerston North who was called police after finding the as they made him feel colder a threat due to previous was humming with locals and visitors in the on electronically-monitored abandoned car and tracked and he could not move his legs convictions and gang relations. city for the Cup races. bail after being charged with footprints heading into the or feel his fingers or toes. He For this reason, the call “Business has picked up; there’s a lot aggravated robbery, but cut bush but did not find anything. said their phones were dying was made not to send civilian more people around — all the syndicates. off his bail bracelet and began While in the bush, Taurima and Ngaronoa had a “heavy searchers into the bush. The And we’re also keeping their families fed. driving a stolen Mazda with contacted his ex-partner concussion” and had a seizure authority considers that The weather’s helping too.” Ngaronoa towards Gisborne. by cellphone to say he and after hitting his head after a deploying SAR-trained, sworn, He said they were expecting the summer He arranged to meet with Ngaronoa were lost, wet and fall in the bush the day before. armed officers to search was a months to be busy as the racing unfolded. his ex-partner, who was at cold. She and Taurima’s father, A search and rescue justifiable response. “Straight across from us is the English Whakapapa ski field with their a senior Mongrel Mob member, operation was immediately Following Operation team and American Magic, and they come son, in Turangi en route. drove into the area and launched and four police Mangatawai, police have in and out (of the area) all day. Taurima and Ngaronoa were maintained contact with the searchers and a police dog and implemented several measures “So it’s great because you can sit, have driving at speed on the Desert men while attempting to guide handler went into the bush to including updating the a feed and a beer, and just watch all the Road in the car with a stolen them out of the bush. search that afternoon. operating procedures for action and soak up the atmosphere.” licence plate when an officer She beeped her horn and Police used cellphone SAR jobs to include specific Out on the water, each race would be spotted them. flashed her lights into the bush technology to determine a questions in relation to a lost quick — just 25 minutes — and they would A short pursuit began, of to try and help guide them out. search area close to where person. be held in the afternoon, with a racing which Ngaronoa took short Taurima and his father one of the men’s 111 calls was Police also acknowledge the window between 4pm to 6pm. videos. The pair appeared decided against calling police thought to have originated. formal identification process of America’s Cup Events chair, Tina “excited” while speeding and for help at the time as Taurima Despite hearing voices and the two men was delayed. Symmans, said boaties were being asked driving on the wrong side did not want to be taken into sighting two possible objects In a written statement to obey the rules. They were encouraged to of the road, according to the custody. He told them he would using a helicopter-based infra- today, Bay of Plenty District come out on the water to watch, but their finding. They had a police radio wait by the fire. red camera, the men were not Commander Superintendent safety was paramount, Ms Symmans said. scanner on them to listen to At about 6.30am, Taurima’s found by the time searching Andy McGregor said police Spectator boats in Auckland would need police radio transmissions and father went to the Turangi ended about 11pm that day. staff acted appropriately in to keep within the boundaries and those hear where officers might set Police station to get help from The cold weather had set in the challenging conditions but at the helm were being asked to check up roadblocks. police and dialled 111 as the and temperatures were close to acknowledged there were some the official cup website daily for speed Police abandoned the pursuit station was not yet manned. freezing. areas for improvement. restrictions and course boundaries. She before establishing the fleeing The call was incorrectly coded Police and Land Search and “Our thoughts remain with said about 17 course marshals would be car had been stolen. as an information call. Rescue volunteers searched the whanau of the deceased”. out directing spectator boats, and police The men turned off Desert Other calls from Taurima’s for 13 more days in difficult Police accepted the report boats will also be out on the water. — RNZ Road, and abandoned the mother that morning were also terrain, thick bush and cold findings. Gearing up to help families in need ahead of Christmas by Sarah Robson, RNZ at midnight to form queues on Hobson and presents was huge. them in their back seat or car boot. Mr Farrelly said it had come at the Street and wait in the glare of the His team of staff and volunteers One woman who used the service end of a busy year because of Covid. AUCKLAND — Auckland City public gaze, with children and old were working hard to make sure — Edge — went with her son and three During the lockdowns, demand for Mission is getting ready to hand out people, to get a present and run,” Mr whanau got what they needed, he said. nieces. “We won’t have to worry about food parcels trebled. The mission was tens of thousands of presents and Farrelly said. “The process we’ve got this year is getting more food over Christmas and still running about double the demand food parcels to whanau in need in the “Yes, they received something, but it all about mana, mana-enhancement, the kids will be fed,” she said. it would usually see at this time of year lead-up to Christmas. was at the expense of their dignity.” dignity for our whanau.” In previous years, Edge had lined up — and many of those needing help had Instead of the usual lines outside This year, people were being asked At the marae, cars were lined up outside the City Mission. “A group of never asked for a food parcel before, the mission’s CBD headquarters to call an 0800 number, where their on the road outside. People who had us would go out and sacrifice a night’s Mr Farrelly said. however, boxes of Christmas goodies needs would be assessed. They would registered for parcels were being met sleep to stand in a line . . .” The City Mission did not have the are being handed out from distribution then be asked to go to one of the by someone who put a number on This new system was much better, capacity or capability to meet all of the centres across the city. distribution centres to pick up their their windscreen, which matched the Edge said. need that was out there, he said. City Missioner Chris Farrelly said parcels at a specific time. number on their parcels they would Auckland City Mission expected to However, it was working with the change was about allowing people One of those centres was at receive. They drove into the carpark, hand out about 40,000 presents and other organisations to make sure to keep their dignity. Papakura Marae, where chief executive where volunteers wheeled the parcels 10,000 family food parcels in the lead- people would not go hungry over the “People used to have to come out Tony Kake said the demand for food out in supermarket trollies and popped up to Christmas. Christmas period. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 21 KiwiRail agrees Residents’ battle for to a new, multi-use homes comes to end ferry terminal by Charlotte Jones, Whalleys to remain in their Local Democracy Reporter seaside home until March of 2022, subject to some strict by Hamish Cardwell, WHAKATANE — Matata conditions. RNZ residents’ battle for their All other residents have homes has come to an end. until March next year when, WELLINGTON — KiwiRail has All Awatarariki in a New Zealand first, a bowed to pressure and agreed that a residents bar plan change under the new multi-use ferry terminal should one have now Resource Management be built at the current Interislander “reluctantly and Act would take away site in Kaiwharawhara. under duress” residents’ existing use KiwiRail wanted the terminal — signed settlement rights and effectively which could be expanded to include agreements with make them squatters the Bluebridge ferries — to be closer the Whakatane on their own land. to town. District Council. Many have However, this was rejected by the In the end, years already sold to city and regional councils — as well of bitter wrangling the council and as all other harbour users. between residents and moved on. KiwiRail chief operating officer the council came down The plan David Gordon told a Wellington City to an anti-climactic, change and the Council meeting yesterday morning hour-long Environment district council’s that its focus was now on developing Court hearing on Tuesday, managed-retreat process, in the new Kaiwharawhara terminal. during which lawyers tidied which it bought residents He said its current terminal up loose ends. out of their properties, was a infrastructure was crumbling and The only decision to be result of a devastating debris its ferries were old; therefore, the made was how long the flow in 2005 which destroyed project must be pushed ahead in a strongest critics of the several houses and made time-conscious manner. managed retreat, Pam, Rick others unliveable, but did not The project had a $1 billion price and Rachel Whalley, would cause any deaths. tag attached to it, and the clock have left left to live in their After spending seven years SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS RELUCTANTLY SIGNED: The was already ticking, with two new beloved home. and $5 million investigating plan change and the district council’s managed-retreat process supersized ferries — three times the Their home was built in possible engineering solutions, resulted from of a devastating debris flow in 2005. File picture size of existing Interislander vessels 1993 by the late Bill Whalley the district council decided the — due to arrive in the next four to — Pam’s husband and Rick’s risk to life on the Awatarariki Lawyer for the district resort. five years. father. fanhead was too great and council, Andrew Green, told Judge Kirkpatrick said Greater Wellington Regional The Clem Elliott Drive it began a managed-retreat the Environment Court all the 15-year timeframe to get Council chairperson Daron Ponter property was where programme. property owners but one were to this point was “at least said KiwiRail had made a significant grandchildren gathered for The development of the now finalising offers with the unfortunate, possibly more turnaround. Christmas and where pets managed-retreat programme council. than that” but that residents However, Mr Ponter said were brought to be buried. cost the district council a The remaining property had to move forward. the councils should now go to The three watched as further $1.06m. owner had refused to engage He congratulated residents the Government and ask for Judge David Kirkpatrick The managed-retreat with the council at all. and the two councils on confirmation that the project would said the court would make programme itself would cost Mr Green said the council working together to come to be fast-tracked in order to avoid the order sought by the $15m, which would be shared was still hoping to work with a decision in what could only the full Resource Management Act Whalleys, Whakatane District equally by the Government, that property owner and be a difficult situation for all process. Council and the Bay of Plenty the district council and the compulsory acquisition of involved. Regional Council, allowing the regional council. this property would be a last — The New Zealand Herald Restricted fire season Four new cases of Covid in MIQ WELLINGTON — There “A fourth person who were four new cases of is a casual contact was imposed in Canterbury Covid-19 reported in New transferred to the Auckland Zealand yesterday, all of MIQ facility as a precaution which were in managed after developing symptoms. COMMENT by Chris Lynch, Newstalk As tinder-dry conditions continue to isolation and quarantine This person returned a ZB, additional reporting by The New plague Canterbury, it is a shame local (MIQ) facilities. negative test result and Zealand Herald authorities cannot issue a complete ban on Two of the new cases were remained in the quarantine the use of fireworks. part of the same family facility.” Parts of Canterbury could reach 30C who had arrived in New CHRISTCHURCH — A restricted fire today or tomorrow and given the number of Zealand on December 9 Updates over the Christmas season has been imposed in Canterbury serious fires there have already been in the from the Czech Republic, via period after concerns that high temperatures that region, you can understand why authorities Germany and Singapore, the had been forecast for this week would are nervous. Ministry of Health said in a resurgence plan in case of The Ministry of Health increase the fire risk. Tuesday’s blaze above Redcliffs statement. an outbreak of Covid over has also reminded the public It cannot come soon enough. Firefighters highlighted just how unpredictable fires can Both people tested summer, with Kiwis advised it would continue to report across the region have been working in be. positive on day three and to be prepared to stay put if any significant Covid-19 overdrive this week, putting out fires caused Helicopters were forced to return to the were now in an MIQ facility caught up in an outbreak, developments over the by people. scene after the fire flared up later in the in Christchurch. but be ready to return home Christmas period. Emergency services, as usual, have done afternoon coming dangerously close to The other two cases if it had spread widely. an outstanding job protecting property and houses. travelled together and ■ Its four-times-weekly lives. But there is only so much they can do. That fire, which forced the evacuation arrived on December 10 Update on Air NZ aircrew reporting via media updates Sadly, a restricted fire season will not of 16 homes, was started accidentally by a from the US. member — on Monday, Wednesday, stop some people from lighting fires and construction worker. Both people tested Friday and Sunday — would setting off fireworks. Fire and Emergency New Zealand regional positive around day three Final whole genome- continue until Wednesday, One resident said young people using manager, Paul Henderson, said the heat and were being transferred sequencing results for the December 23. fireworks were to blame for starting the combined with the dry and windy conditions to an MIQ facility in positive Covid-19 case of an blaze on Friday night that burned above increased the fire danger and risk of a Christchurch. Air New Zealand aircrew ■ Reporting dates would Hillsborough. wildfire. There were no new cases member who flew from the then be: Sunday, December At its height, 60 firefighters, a mix of full- Even the use of the word wildfire should in the community. US showed the lineage did 27; Tuesday, December 29; time team members and volunteers, worked ring alarm bells for residents. Seventeen previously- not match any genomes Thursday, December 31; to douse the blaze which forced evacuations There have already been three significant reported cases have now previously sequenced in Sunday, January 3; Tuesday, from about 40 homes. fires across Canterbury this fire season. recovered, bringing the total New Zealand, the ministry January 5; Thursday, The rules around setting off fireworks are Mr Henderson has urged people to take number of active cases in said. The same genome January 7; and Sunday, murky. the fire risk seriously. New Zealand down to 43. lineage had been reported in January 10. On a Government website, it says there His plea: please do not let fireworks off The total number of the US. are no rules about when during the year in Canterbury over summer — it is too risky confirmed cases is 1744. And the three aircrew ■ The reporting schedule you can set fireworks off; however, there are with the heat and extreme dryness in the There were 1,352,462 members who were close for the remainder of some rules about where you can do so. area. Covid-19 tests processed on contacts of the aircrew January would be provided Many local councils have laws to stop In these conditions a firework, or spark Tuesday. member who tested positive in the New Year, the people from lighting fireworks in public from machinery, could easily start a wildfire On Tuesday, the had returned negative day- Ministry of Health added. places, such as parks or beaches. which would quickly get out of control. Government detailed its five test results. — RNZ 22 TELEVISION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 THURSDAY—FRIDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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A PACIFIC STORY: Alt-country troubadour Marlon Williams prepares to return to Gisborne as part of his first solo tour in about seven years. Picture supplied

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

its and bobs, smatterings of newer “When I first heard it, I imagined it was The album title was originally going to The album’s opening song Isn’t It songs and much older songs a jam from the 60s that was somehow lost be Cross by the Highway, a song about is one of Williams’ favourites. “It’s a Bwill make up Marlon Williams’ in time,” says Williams. a tragedy on the road to Saskatoon. A country song, but there’s aggression concert, says the alt-country troubadour In fact, an old-fashioned, country sound bluegrass sway accompanies the sombre and symbolism to the lyrics. It really of his return to Gisborne in March. with a clip-clop rhythm that dips into a recollection with lines like, “He was a resonated with me in an abstract and This will be Williams’ first solo tour in waltz tempo with a 60s-sounding country good kid, that’s what they say, on the forceful way, almost like punk.” more than six years. Playing solo means guitar style can be heard in the track Old cross by the highway, with a plastic The song Arahura reflects Williams’ there is no place to hide, says Williams. Fashioned Man. bouquet.” roots as it “brings the South to the North” “You make an intimate connection with “Then, I found out they were younger “It’s a dispassionate relay of the with a Pacific harmonic sensibility, the audience, you’re more focused.” than me,” says Williams. accident like a news story, but, through ethereal melody, and slow burning The tour comes off the back of the “From there, I messaged them and the matter-of-factness, it has this other soundscape. collaborative album, Plastic Bouquet, gushingly praised what they were doing. level of tragedy. It makes the listener “Arahura is a river in New Zealand,” Williams made with Saskatoon cousins We started chatting and decided to make work.” says William. Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum. an album together.” There’s an element of the retrospective “There were a lot of wars fought Williams heard their music by chance in When Williams joined the cousins for and the introspective to the album, says over pounamu. So, the song takes the 2017. Christmas at the Anderson family’s ranch Williams. perspective of the river. I’m wondering “The collaboration came through me in Saskatoon in 2018, they wrote and I Wonder Why pairs creaky guitar and why silly humans are fighting over rocks being on the tour in Europe, driving recorded the bulk of what would become airy slide with the fluttering hook, “You’re when there are so many at the bottom. in the van with the band. I heard Plastic Bouquet over three weeks. fooling ‘round with my heart. I wonder This was a chance for us to tell a Pacific them singing Springtime of the Year “I became a farm boy really quickly,” why”, while Anderson’s voice glides over story on the album.” on a Spotify playlist. It was a ‘eureka’ says Williams. acoustic strumming on Your Mind’s moment.” “I completely jumped into their world. Walking Out as Williams responds with a Having grown up with the sound of We found a dynamic that worked well, warm harmony. ■ An Evening With Marlon Williams, War artists such as Tammy Wynette and because we all love old Bob Dylan and On the chorus, Anderson offers the Memorial Theatre, Friday, March 19, Loretta Lynn, the duo’s country sound Merle Haggard and have the same sense assurance, “Time is on your side, though 7.30pm. Tickets $62.50-$72.50 from resonated with him. of humour. We’re kindred spirits.” you’re looking like you’re barely alive.” ticketek. 24 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Something to get twitchy about

or the first time in Rhythm and Eve countdown, which will be broadcast Vines’ 18-year history, the music to thousands across the globe as New Ffestival will be live-streamed to Zealand pogos out of Coviddy-old 2020 EVERYWHERE the world on live, interactive streaming and into 2021. YOU GO: Take service, Twitch. The show will be hosted by Twitch your cellphone In a year where festivals around the streamer Ron Plays Games, who, with with you — or world have been postponed or cancelled, 50,000 fans of his own, will have the tune into any the world will be watching as New opportunity to gamify the experience device to be Zealand artists put on a show to a sold- for watchers tuning in alongside special part of Rhythm out festival audience of 23,000. guests. and Vines with From December 29 to January 1, live To celebrate the launch, R&V will streaming and pre-recorded performances from broadcast a special stream on their service Twitch’s headline acts, as well as up-and-coming Twitch channel tonight. global live- talent, will be filmed and edited into The stream will feature performances stream. a five-hour showcase that will stream from Quix and Witters as they play to an Picture supplied from 8pm each night. The streamed empty Vines amphitheatre. Tune in at programme includes the New Year’s twitch.tv/rhythmandvines from 6pm.

HAIL TO THE THIEVES: A line-up of top musicians forever influenced by the music of alternative/electronica/experimental/art rock band Radiohead, and who have found each other, possibly in a moon-shaped pool, and formed Hail To The Thieves, are about to return to Gisborne. Made up TOKORAU: Modern materials that range of Ben Throp, Jeff Boyle, Jason Johnston, Willie Devine and Bysshe Blackburn, the tribute band from moulded resin to digital prints feature among derived their name from Radiohead’s sixth album, Hail to the Thief which mixes rock and electronic contemporary works in Toihoukura, Maori visual arts music. Described as one of the more complex, nuanced bands to have appeared in the past 20 years, school’s exhibition, Tokorau, at Tairawhiti Museum. Made Radiohead’s experimental approach is credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock. “They’re a up of works by students and staff, the exhibition includes fascinating band to uncover. The more you uncover their music the more you’re blown away,” Throp told Nathaniel Nathan’s striking painting on unstretched canvas The Guide last year. of a vivid, black, pou-like streak of a column topped with an obscured head and almost scribbled abstraction of a ■ Hail To The Thieves, Smash Palace, Saturday, 9pm. Tickets $23+bf from undertheradar.co.nz carved face. Picture by Liam Clayton YOUR WEEKDAY RADIO PROGRAMME GUIDE

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OUTSIDE OF GISBORNE? FIND YOUR FREQUENCY AT YOUR FAVOURITE STATION’S WEBSITE OR 35319-01 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 25 ThisWeek ArtsGuide

■ Kaituhi Rawhiti: A VISUAL ARTS Celebration of East Coast Writers ■ Off The Canvas Launch event, Waikanae A multi-media exhibition Surf Life Saving Club. featuring Gisborne-born boxer Friday, 5.30pm. Tom Heeney, New Zealand’s first global sporting hero and world 1928 heavyweight title ■ Landslide — Fleetwood contender.Tairawhiti Museum, Mac tribute December 12 - February 28. Dome Bar, Friday. Tickets $34 from eventfinda. SOLD OUT ■ Tokorau An exhibition of work and stories by Toihoukura students ■ Xmas Party at Wrights and staff. Vineyard and Winery Tairawhiti Museum until 1093 Wharerata Road, December 31. Saturday from 11am. Gisborne Concert Band plays live from 1.30pm. ■ Tatara e maru ana — The Bookings essential 027 656 sacred rain cape of Waiapu, 8222 or info@wrightswines. Natalie Robertson co.nz A record of an ancestral tipuna landscape as it is today. OOKY KOOKY: This atmospherically lit detail from Graeme Nicoll’s set design for Tairawhiti Museum until ■ Hail To The Thieves Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of The Addams Family sets the tone for a good January 31. Smash Palace, Saturday, night out. Picture supplied 9pm. Tickets $23+bf from undertheradar.co.nz ■ JB Contemporary, 14 Lowe Street — Parsing Binaries Da-da da dum (click-click) A collaborative project from ■ Naughty X-mas Party Shannon Novak and Daniel Featuring Brazilbeat, Metcalfe. Dizfunk, Slyone, Stix. 69 by Mark Peters Stuart) and Wednesday’s destructive Central, 69 Peel St, Saturday, brother Pugsley (Rosie West), not to 9pm. $5 at the door. THEY’RE creepy and they’re kooky, mention creepy butler Lurch (Sabian ■ Paul Nache Gallery Mysterious and spooky, Coomber-Nickerson), the Addams and Works by Kauri Hawkins. They’re altogether ooky, Beinekes learn a lot about living from The Addams Family . . . each other. COMING UP But they have a dark night of several So when Lucas Beineke (Mike Seymour) singing and dancing souls to get through ■ Smash Summer Sesh 8 from the regular world and crossbow- to get there. Featuring Threat.Meet. toting Wednesday Addams (Tirzah Rolfe) Musical Theatre Gisborne’s Belinda Protocol, The Murder fall in love and want to marry, you bet it Campbell-directed production splatters Chord, Blame Thrower, gets weird for the conservative Beinekes laughs across unexpected themes with Dead Model, Hagseed, No when they visit the Addamses for dinner. great song and dance routines, some fine Brainers, Unruly, and The But with imminent changes in the solos (Fester’s crooning to the celestial Rabbits. Smash Palace, family as Wednesday grows up, Gomez love of his unlife will blow you away), live Sunday, December 27. (Peter Derby), her pencil-moustached, music from the onstage band and another Royal NZ Ballet sartorial, sword-fighting father with fine set design by Graeme Nicoll. The Doors open at 3pm, the Tutus on Tour bands kick off at 4pm. a whiff of brujeria in his background, show runs until Saturday . . . Tickets $20+bf from www. struggles to comes to terms with that. Thursday, March 4th, 6.30pm undertheradar.co.nz or $30 And at some point he has to break the So get a witch’s shawl on at the door. news to his arch, crimson-taloned wife, A broomstick you can crawl on Heath Franklin’s Chopper Morticia (Amanda Maclean). We’re gonna pay a call on The Silencer The Addams Family. Thursday, March 18th, 7.30pm ■ Rolling Stones tribute Their house is a museum band When people come to see ‘em An Evening with Cosmopolitan Club, They really are a scream ■ The Addams Family, Lawson Field December 31, 9.30pm. Free The Addams Family. Theatre, until Saturday, 7.30pm. Tickets Marlon Williams entry for members and from i-SITE or ticketek. Adults $47.50, Friday, March 19th, 2021, 7.30pm guests. Free raffle ticket on Despite the weird family members that 65+ $42.00, child (under 14) $27.50. include comically ghoulish Fester (Paul entry with three chances to The NZ String Quartet, win a prize. 4 Suits & a Soprano Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, 8.00pm ■ Revive — a festival of live music and holistic health Woodlands on Back Ormond Road, January 2-4. Tickets available from ticketfairy.com For more details visit revivefestival. OUT THE co.nz BACK: So many people turned up to ■ Klang Miharo Galley in support of Saturday night’s Auckland underground auction to raise funds techno crew and Yosiah, for mental health/ Clay Louis, Uday. Smash suicide prevention Palace, January 9. groups, Mahisian Wave Warriors and Musical Theatre Gisborne Moko Turongo, the THEATRE crowd spilled on to The Addams Family the footpath and one ■ The Addams Family December 17th, 18th, bidder had to climb 19th 7.30pm Directed by Belinda a pole to get a look Campbell. Lawson Field in. The auction raised Theatre, December 11-19. $17,370 which will be Tickets from i-SITE or split between the two ticketek.- groups. Picture supplied 34614-12 Got something going on? Tickets on sale from Gisborne i-SITE Let The Guide know at [email protected], Accepting bookings for functions, or telephone 869-0635 events, meetings and conferences. Email [email protected] 26 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Robbie’s glamour cuts through dust by Jocelyn Noveck, AP Film Writer

ust, dust and more dust. The parched Texas landscape Dof Dreamland, Miles Joris- Peyrafitte’s Depression-era drama, is CAUGHT BETWEEN RIGHT AND chock full of the toxic grey stuff, which WRONG: An impressionable young billows across fields and coats everything farmer (Finn Cole) is torn between helping in sight. or capturing a seductive fugitive bank And then bank robber Allison Wells, robber, played by Margot Robbie, who he aka Margot Robbie, pops on to the finds hiding in his barn during the Great screen like a bolt of electricity, or “a bat Depression. outta hell”, as one character says — all AP picture via Paramount charisma and brassy sex appeal and old- style glamour. She’s bleeding and she’s dirty, but heck, she’s glamorous. Robbie has always come across as a genuine movie star, but placing her in the 1930s seems to seal the deal. Like the best of the Golden Age goddesses, Robbie can burn up the screen with a mere flash of her blue eyes. Robbie’s Allison, a fictional character, has obvious echoes of Bonnie Parker, the real-life outlaw played by Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde. Only here, her Clyde is gone; he’s been shot in the in your eyes — and the sure-handed aftermath of their last heist, and Allison direction by Joris-Peyrafitte, all the is all alone, wounded. more noteworthy in that it’s only his That’s where Eugene Evans (Finn second feature and he’s still in his 20s. Cole), the impressionable young man who (At some point, his age won’t be an issue falls under Allison’s spell, comes in. The to mention, but not quite yet.) One of story, in fact, is his — narrated by his the director’s most interesting decisions younger half-sister, Phoebe, decades later. is to have Eugene’s reality appear in (She’s played as a little girl by Darby widescreen and his dream world in 8mm Camp, sweet and spunky but not cloying.) film resembling home videos, showing We learn that Eugene’s father Allison and Eugene in beachside frolics abandoned him as a young boy, leaving that may never happen. him with a single postcard to read over But back to that barn, where Eugene and over, filling the youth’s head with makes the momentous decision not to dreams of an eventual reunion in Mexico. turn Allison in and claim the money, Meanwhile, his mother’s new husband which could save his family’s farm. First, FilmGuide is a hot-tempered sheriff’s deputy he pulls a bullet out of her leg. He hasn’t (Travis Fimmel) who runs an oppressive made the leap yet to joining her life of household. crime, to becoming her Clyde (Cole does, Life is precarious; the farmland has by the way, seem to resemble photos of ODEON MULTIPLEX ■ A Christmas Gift from Bob been decimated by a series of brutal the real Clyde). The Dry Luke Treadaway stars as a struggling dust storms. Eugene’s dreary life is Still, it’s clear where this is going. The ■ street musician who becomes the target punctuated by an occasional thrill like final stage of the inevitable seduction Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) returns to his of an animal welfare investigation that stealing a detective magazine from a takes place in a motel room shower, and drought-stricken hometown to attend threatens to take away his beloved cat at newsstand. One day he hears about it’s shot in a distinctive way: for most of a tragic funeral. But his return opens Christmas. Allison, whose latest heist has resulted the scene we only see Eugene. a decades-old wound — the unsolved in five deaths, including a young girl. The effect of this, one of the film’s death of a teenage girl. ■ The Witches There’s a $10,000 bounty on her head, standout scenes along with a vividly The Croods: A New Age Octavia Spencer and Anne Hathaway and she may be hiding nearby, choreographed bank robbery and ■ star in a film of Roald Dahl story about Soon after, Eugene finds Allison in his a beautifully rendered climactic Searching for a safer habitat, the an orphaned boy who goes to live with barn. It doesn’t take long for him to fall confrontation, is to focus more intensively prehistoric Crood family discover an his grandmother in rural Alabama. They under her spell, and the essence of the on the battle happening in Eugene’s soul idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all run foul of some deceptively glamorous film is this seduction. The story itself is (and body.) At this point, he’s already so of their needs. Unfortunately, they must witches. unremarkable, even thin — there are no in love with Allison that he seems more also learn to live with the Bettermans — surprising twists or turns, no big lessons than willing to make himself accept her a family who are a couple of steps above ■ SIX60: Till the Lights Go Out in the script by Nicolaas Zwart — but lies. the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. Within a year of their emergence, SIX60 the relationship at its core is hugely “I’m not a killer,” Allison keeps were winning awards and confounding entertaining to watch. Dreamland insisting. But even that rather dubious ■ the music industry. Some reviewers were And it’s not just the always-impressive claim is not the real point. She is killing Margot Robbie stars as a bank robber dismissive of their music, but a life- Robbie, who also produces the film; Cole Eugene, before our eyes. in Depression-era Texas. On the run and changing injury forced the band to assess is memorable, too, as a young man who wounded, she hides out in a barn, where what they stood for. struggles not only between right and ■ Dreamland, a Paramount release, has she is discovered by a teenage boy whose wrong or between lust and honour, but been rated M by the Motion Picture head is turned by the attractive fugitive ■ Let Him Go between youth and adulthood. Association of America “for some with a convincing hard-luck story. Also to be admired is the evocative violence, language and sexuality/ Diane Lane and Kevin Costner play grandparents out to save their grandson period cinematography by Lyle Vincent nudity.” Running time: 98 minutes. ■ Superintelligence — you can practically feel the dust smart Three stars out of four. and widowed and remarried daughter-in- When a powerful superintelligence law from her husband and his family. chooses to study Carol, the most average person on Earth, the fate of the world ■ Made in Italy hangs in the balance. As the artificial Father and son disagree over Tuscan intelligence decides whether to enslave, house renovations. save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove people are worth saving. Stars ■ Rams Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone. Promote your Feuding brothers must join forces to save ■ Blithe Spirit their sheep. A medium holds a seance for a novelist DOME CINEMA with writer’s block but summons the event here spirit of the writer’s first wife, which leads ■ Brock: Over the Top to a love triangle between the man and Documentary on Australian racing car Talk to us about a marketing package to suit your budget. his wives — one alive and one dead. legend Peter Brock, chronicling his career and the life that led to his success on the ■ Amundsen track, as well as his tragic death.

33239-01 Biographical film of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, first man to reach the ■ Lucky Grandma South Pole. Subtitled. Grandma Wong, a New York octogenarian, is told by a fortune-teller ■ Words on Bathroom Walls that an auspicious day is on its way. She A schizophrenic teenager has to cope withdraws her life savings and goes to with a new school, a changing family the casino. Then, when the old man next dynamic and romance as he tries not to to her dies, she finds herself with a cash- let his condition define him. filled duffle bag. The triads say the money is theirs, so Grandma hires muscle. Call Jane Smith today 869 0617 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 RACING 27

Levin races at Otaki Friday Jetbet 10 TAB Doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Quaddies 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 Place6 5-10 Selections 3 2 Cadeau (9) 55.5 52 S Collett 16 Harvey Specter (15) 58.5 45 16 9470s Kick Start (11) 57.5 60 3 0392s Tormund (12) 58.5 52 T Thornton Race 1: ALTAR BOY, LINCOLN LANE, VINEYARD MCPHEE 4 30s Vin Rouge (3) 55.5 50 D Hirini 17 7 Mi Carol (19) 56.5 45 17 s0696 Bangles (5) 54 55 4 89308 King Kaide (2) 58.5 49 5 84s8 Elusive Joule (11) 55.5 49 18 s8709 Judith (20) 56.5 45 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) Race 2: CADEAU, FLEETWOOD BAY, VIN ROUGE A Goindasamy (a1) 19 79980 Tennessee Rose (18) 56.5 45 7 Shirley’s Strawberries 3.40 5 0 Tickford (3) 58.5 45 Race 3: SOLA POWER, BLUE RATA ELIGIUS, 6 985 Town Belt (4) 55.5 47 T Taiaroa (a3) 20 2s577 Just Ben (7) 57 51 $10,000, maiden, 1400m 6 s5629 Ronin Porotene (14) 57 51 F Lazet (a4) MISS SWEET PEE 7 0s6s Lady Woburn (8) 55.5 46 L Allpress 7 765 Renault (15) 57 47 S O’Malley (a3) Race 4: ORIGINEEL, LINCOLN HANOVER, NUHAKA 8 — Darci La Bella SCRATCHED 5 Racing Live On Facebook 2.28 1 230s0 Retzena (6) 58.5 52 T Taiaroa (a3) 2 430s6 Smart Remark (12) 58.5 51 S Collett 8 s5s42 Reliable Miss (13) 56.5 54 Race 5: RUSTY LANE, PASSIONE, SPLODGE 9 9 Fizzy Moon (6) 55.5 45 R J Bishop $10,000, maiden, 1400m H Schofer (a2) 10 Mels Lily (1) 55.5 45 L Hemi 3 3 Wotaripper (8) 58.5 51 J Riddell Race 6: WONONEOHWON, ENRICHMENT, MOGADOR 1 498 Multi Show (9) 58.5 48 C Johnson 4 Hautapu (13) 58.5 47 L Allpress 9 4650s Fire Dancer (7) 56.5 48 R J Bishop Race 7: WOTARIPPER, HAUTAPU, TRAMORE 11 0 Veloce Sorella (7) 55.5 45 10 9s5 Kombucha (10) 56.5 47 C Johnson 12 Winkle Bay (10) 55.5 45 J Parkes 2 Beadman (10) 58.5 45 5 Hey Hey Hey (3) 58.5 45 Race 8: LADY RUDOLPH, TRIFOLIUM, CROSS ROADS 3 Masso (8) 58.5 45 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 11 Dream Weaver (8) 56.5 45 Race 9: RELIABLE MISS, PERSISTENCE, RENAULT 3 Levin Jumpouts 1.18 4 Newstalk (7) 58.5 45 S J Macnab (a1) 6 358s2 Infared (2) 56.5 53 F Lazet (a4) M J Sanson (a4) Race 10: MR FABULOUS, SILENT APPROACH, SPIJKER 5 Splodge (6) 58.5 45 J Riddell 7 48743 Hermes (5) 56.5 51 12 877 Paris Ruby (1) 56.5 45 S Collett $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1100m 6 Rusty Lane (5) 57 47 8 4 Tramore (20) 56.5 50 L Hemi 13 57s87 Platinum Bordeaux (17) 56.5 45 1 48s44 Blue Rata Eligius (6) 59.5 64 7 For Pepe’s Sake (17) 57 45 R J Bishop 9 Angelina Jay (7) 56.5 45 T Thornton A Goindasamy (a1) Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 8 35s69 Colyton Sky (4) 56.5 51 T Taiaroa (a3) 10 Degilly (19) 56.5 45 D Hirini 14 7s33 Chica Bonita (16) 55 52 L Allpress 2 8153s Boston Strong Boy (2) 59 63 J Parkes 9 49636 Indy Fox (3) 56.5 50 H Schofer (a2) 11 55 Scylla (1) 55 47 S McKay EMERGENCIES: 3 2s656 Holsty (5) 58.5 62 S Collett 10 5s7 Spirit O’Phee (18) 56.5 46 L Hemi 12 0 Floor Show (9) 55 45 R J Bishop 15 7s078 Alpine Charm (4) 56.5 45 4 6s90s Light Up (7) 58 61 C Johnson 11 Te Awe Awe (12) 56.5 45 T Thornton 13 Khant Catch Her (15) 55 45 16 3s008 Royal Inn (6) 58.5 45 1 Vets On Riverbank 12.09 5 0s0s0 Scotch (10) 58 61 L Hemi 12 34s27 Passione (1) 55 53 S Collett A Goindasamy (a1) 17 8s7s0 Megapower (5) 56.5 45 6 s0404 Sola Power (1) 57.5 60 L Allpress 13 8s Solved (15) 55 45 L Allpress 14 Steely Zeb (14) 55 45 S J Macnab (a1) 18 Hey Hey Hey (11) 58.5 45 $10,000, maiden, 2100m 7 5704s Miss Sweet Pee (4) 56 61 14 Surprize Me (16) 55 45 S McKay EMERGENCIES: 19 — Toliman SCRATCHED 1 s0272 Vineyard McPhee (2) 58.5 54 S J Macnab (a1) EMERGENCIES: 15 0 Raani (10) 56.5 45 S J Macnab (a1) 8 1564s Platinum Dubai (8) 55 62 15 0 Raani (11) 56.5 45 16 6 Billy Easton (16) 57 45 10 Courtesy Ford 5.30 2 s8863 Altar Boy (9) 58.5 51 L Allpress A Goindasamy (a1) 16 6 Billy Easton (19) 57 45 17 67 Orbit Jupiter (18) 56.5 45 $10,000, maiden, 1600m 3 45734 Levon (15) 58.5 51 L Hemi 9 0s69s Sainted Pearl (3) 54 57 S McKay 17 67 Orbit Jupiter (13) 56.5 45 18 2660s Caption (17) 56.5 45 4 9s626 Yulong Lanson (4) 58.5 51 T Taiaroa (a3) 10 0s Wort Hog (9) 54 45 18 2660s Caption (20) 56.5 45 19 69s8 Busybeingfabulous (4) 58.5 45 1 32402 Spijker (1) 58.5 54 J Parkes 5 545s0 Ian’s Legacy (5) 58.5 50 19 69s8 Busybeingfabulous (2) 58.5 45 20 79s7 Jaws Of Life (11) 56.5 45 2 542 Mr Fabulous (17) 58.5 52 T Allan 6 s6370 Zeroed (10) 58.5 49 S McKay 4 Courtesy Ford 1.53 20 79s7 Jaws Of Life (14) 56.5 45 3 58524 Sir Caleb (10) 58.5 52 S Collett 7 4s60 Hold My Beer (7) 58.5 48 R J Bishop $10,000, maiden, 1200m 8 Horowhenua Christmas Cup 4.15 4 9034s Abe Lincoln (4) 58.5 51 D Hirini 8 49858 Sanlorenzo (8) 58.5 48 C Johnson 6 Devan Plastics 3.03 5 028 Prince Leo (12) 58.5 51 T Taiaroa (a3) 1 203s4 Lincoln Hanover (2) 58.5 54 $11,000, rating 74 benchmark, 1400m 9 885s0 Lincoln Lane (1) 58.5 46 J Riddell $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m 6 7s508 Atlantic Flyer (14) 58.5 48 10 Establishment (16) 58.5 45 S O’Malley (a3) 1 s0031 Magic Incanto (10) 59 75 H Schofer (a2) S O’Malley (a3) 1 04039 Mikjene (6) 59.5 64 S O’Malley (a3) S O’Malley (a3) 2 90440 Lincoln’s Kruz (12) 58.5 49 J Riddell 2 612s7 Lady Rudolph (7) 58.5 74 S Collett 7 0s Lomo De Plata (5) 58.5 47 J Riddell 3 7 Nuhaka (6) 58.5 47 J Parkes 2 32s26 Enrichment (3) 59 63 (a4) 11 — Toliman SCRATCHED 3 47897 Awatane (1) 58.5 70 8 0 Lord Spencer (15) 57 45 T Thornton 4 6055 See The Lion (17) 58.5 47 L Hemi 3 31 Wononeohwon (7) 59 63 L Allpress 12 00s Zedlee (6) 58.5 45 4 12176 Cross Roads (8) 57 67 9 s4345 Silent Approach (16) 56.5 51 5 Slim (16) 58.5 45 L Allpress 4 6272s The Seagull (12) 58.5 62 C Johnson 13 3s772 Midge Maisel (12) 56.5 52 J Parkes A Goindasamy (a1) S J Macnab (a1) 14 80029 Mongolian Princess (14) 55 51 6 64s8 Share Power (8) 57 50 5 9s208 Swish Az (16) 58 65 D Hirini 5 5s789 Mercy Hill (2) 56.5 70 D Hirini 7 54225 Origineel (4) 56.5 54 S Collett 6 163 Mogador (2) 57.5 63 J Parkes 10 44s80 Quatromosa (7) 56.5 48 L Hemi B Ansell (a3) 6 613s7 Trifolium (4) 56.5 70 L Allpress 11 6 Fireban (8) 56.5 46 C Johnson EMERGENCIES: 8 34553 Thatz Daisy (5) 56.5 54 R J Bishop 7 45s00 Barney Rubble (8) 57.5 60 S Collett 7 31s55 Not Santa (9) 56 69 J Parkes 9 2247s Jaxx Be Nimble (1) 56.5 53 8 1600s Prendido (15) 57.5 60 T Taiaroa (a3) 12 67s Catchouxlater (18) 56.5 45 15 30766 The Bliksem (13) 56.5 45 8 4s131 Tamahine (3) 55.5 68 L Hemi Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 16 807s Herecomesthesun (11) 56.5 45 H Schofer (a2) 9 87s04 She’s A Ripper (17) 57 63 9 s614s Chickaberinda (5) 55 67 10 4s Fabiola (10) 56.5 50 M J Sanson (a4) Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 13 s8s86 Jane O’ (13) 56.5 45 L Allpress 17 80036 Bear Gryls (3) 58.5 50 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 14 0s Scarlet Reign (2) 56.5 45 18 — Jane O’ SCRATCHED 11 436s So Sue Me (11) 56.5 50 10 6s217 Bellesgirl (9) 56.5 62 10 6s15s Pownce (6) 55 67 D Bradley A Goindasamy (a1) 11 8136s Bingwa (1) 56.5 62 EMERGENCIES: 2 Ribbons Plus 12.44 12 72s45 Gurtlyn (9) 55 52 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 12 s52s0 Higher Power (4) 56.5 62 T Thornton 9 Paul Ireland Digger Hire 4.50 15 7s078 Alpine Charm (9) 56.5 45 13 496 Once Bitten (13) 55 49 T Taiaroa (a3) 13 46564 Glamour (10) 56 61 H Schofer (a2) 16 3s008 Royal Inn (3) 58.5 45 $10,000, maiden 3yo, 1100m 14 Liffey (3) 55 45 D Hirini 14 00340 World Tour (13) 55.5 56 $10,000, maiden, 1600m 17 8s7s0 Megapower (6) 56.5 45 1 Fleetwood Bay (2) 57.5 45 B Ansell (a3) EMERGENCIES: EMERGENCIES: 1 7s724 Persistence (9) 58.5 52 L Hemi 18 Hey Hey Hey (11) 58.5 45 2 No Tears (5) 57.5 45 C Johnson 15 Sweywithme (14) 55 45 15 08879 She’s A Goddess (14) 56 61 2 93s35 Rusty O’Ceirin (18) 58.5 52 J Parkes 19 — Toliman SCRATCHED

Auckland harness at Alexandra Park Friday Jetbet 5 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 T. 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Q. 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 PL6 3-8 Selections 3 51546 May Delight (Fr) 3 M Purdon 2 7s713 Delightful Catherine (Fr) 2 T Cameron 2 51221 Christianshavtime (Fr) 2 M McKendry 7 S'bred Yearling Sales 14 Feb 9.38 Race 1: SMOKINHOTCHEDDAR, RAVEN BANNER, 4 09041 Shezadeal (Fr) 4 T Herlihy 3 73611 Outlaw Man (Fr) 3 T Mitchell 3 14151 Cruzee Mach (Fr) 3 S Butcher 5 11448 Dolce Vita (Fr) 5 P Ferguson 4 46368 Mimi E Coco (Fr) 4 B Butcher $12,000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile, 2200m HOT AND TREACHEROUS 4 20837 Check In (Fr) 4 B Butcher 6 14097 Hot And Treacherous (Fr) 6 M McKendry 5 21122 Braeview Kelly (Fr) 5 M McKendry 1 83635 Sing To Me (Fr) 1 B Butcher Race 2: WYNBERG WATCH, ASTERIA LAVRA, IVEGOTBILLS 5 66478 Gambit (Fr) 5 T Herlihy 7 81202 Hezashadowplaya (Fr) 7 T Mitchell 6 71509 On A Roll (Fr) 6 S Phelan 6 13708 Mach Shard (Fr) 6 S Phelan 2 The Missing Sock (Fr) 2 Race 3: ITALIAN LAD, BRAEVIEW KELLY, LA ROSA 8 51344 Raven Banner (Fr) 8 Z Butcher 7 s121s Italian Lad (Fr) 7 M Purdon 7 27740 Triple Eight (Fr) 7 D Butcher 3 3 Waitforever (Fr) 3 T Mitchell Race 4: NATTY PAGGER, MADEAKILLIN, GAZ MAN 9 21587 Smokinhotcheddar (Fr) U1 (J) 8 14235 Dina Brown (Fr) 8 T Herlihy 4 74426 Ruby Mach (Fr) 4 D Butcher 8 39236 On The Cards (Fr) 8 Z Butcher Race 5: MACH SHARD, CHRISTIANSHAVTIME, CHECK IN 9 11212 La Rosa (Fr) 21 D Butcher 5 80752 Alta Madeira (Fr) 5 J Abernethy 9 s52s5 Matt Damon (Fr) 21 P Ferguson Race 6: ANDITOVER, KELVINZ LUCK, PRESIDENTIAL JEWEL 2 Thanks Barbara Ironmonger 7.13 6 20223 Bettor Listen (Fr) 6 Z Butcher Race 7: BETTOR LISTEN, ART NOUVEAU, SING TO ME $12,000, non-winners 3yo+ Trot stand, 2200m 4 HR Fisken & Sons Trot 8.12 7 Cowboys N Bandits (Fr) 7 T Herlihy 6 Happy Birthday Peter May 9.09 8 892P Ezana (Fr) 8 J Dickie Race 8: CYCLONE LUCKY LINDA, MUFASA METRO, $12,000, 3yo+ r44-r53 stand, 2200m 1 3 Mountain Mass (Fr) 1 T Cameron $16,000, 3yo+ r54-r75 Trot discretionary 9 44 Art Nouveau (Fr) 21 D Balle CEPHEUS 2 San Diego Sunrise (Fr) 2 J Dickie 1 40217 Emma Frost (Fr) 1 T Mitchell handicap stand, 2200m 3 032s Ivegotbills (Fr) 3 N Chilcott 2 44826 Safrakova (Fr) 2 L Chin 8 NYE - Family Fun Day Trot 10.08 1 1344s Kristofferson (Fr) 1 J Dickie 4 75579 Anastasia Ashley (Fr) 4 J Wallace 3 82354 Majestic Harry (Fr) 3 M Teaz $12,000, non-winners 3yo+ stand, 2200m 5 73844 Play Footsie (Fr) 5 M McKendry 4 — Caitlin’s Surprise SCRATCHED 2 01235 Son Of Patrick (Fr) 2 S Phelan 6 — Aldebaran Flame SCRATCHED 5 26729 Natty Pagger (Fr) U1 T Herlihy 3 321 Special Way (Fr) 3 M McKendry 1 Cyclone Lucky Linda (Fr) 1 T Macfarlane 7 8 Wynberg Watch (Fr) U1 6 96090 Lollieprop (Fr) U2 D Butcher 4 40970 Saint Michel (Fr) U1 T Herlihy 2 63 Highview Rockn Roll (Fr) 2 M McKendry 8 37500 Just Plain Lucky (Fr) U2 G Martin 7 10s Gaz Man (Fr) U3 D Ferguson 5 46312 Rain Mist And Muscle (15) 1 T Mitchell 3 35s Jasinova (Fr) 3 L Chin 4 2s Storms Acoming (Fr) 4 S McCaffrey 9 2 Doris Rae (Fr) U3 A Matthews 8 38432 Madeakillin (Fr) U4 M W White 6 s0325 Anditover (15) 2 D Butcher 10 6809s Asteria Lavra (Fr) U4 L Hollis 9 06sD6 Call Me Trouble (Fr) U5 Z Butcher 5 96277 Romeo Foxtrot (Fr) 5 (J) 1 Pascoes The Jewellers Pace 6.39 7 25220 Monkey Selfie (15) 3 N Chilcott 6 8 Love And Faith (Fr) 6 M Teaz 3 Bodman Fencing/Healey Build. 7.44 5 Bell Scaffolding Pace 8.40 8 s1821 Kelvinz Luck (15) 4 J Stormont 7 03689 Circus Circus (Fr) U1 O Gillies $12,000, 3yo+ r49-r55. mobile, 2200m 9 0s09s Phoebe Imperial (15) U1 M W White 8 54435 Cepheus (Fr) U2 J Abernethy 1 50892 The Blue Beat (Fr) 1 J Abernethy $14,500, 3yo+ r57-r67. mobile, 2200m $17,500, r72-r102. mobile, 2200m 10 90131 Presidential Jewel (35) 1 B Mangos 9 s7509 Flying Scotsman (Fr) U3 M W White 2 70050 Prodigal Pete (Fr) 2 N Delany (J) 1 46579 Mach Little Soaky (Fr) 1 M W White 1 04407 Dance Time (Fr) 1 J Dickie 11 55434 She Reigns (35) U1 D Ferguson 10 Mufasa Metro (Fr) U4 T Mitchell

NZ Metropolitan harness at Addington Friday Jetbet 8 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 2 IRT. Your Yorse Our Passion 2.53 4 Avon City Ford Pace 3.30 2 0 The Terrorfier (Fr) 2 R May 8 s1242 Rick Reilly (Fr) 22 C Thornley 3 2 Classie Washington (Fr) 3 T Chmiel 9 63634 Voodoo Priestess (Fr) 23 R May Race 1: SHIFFTY, TWO MENNY MUSCLES, ROYAL DIEDRE $10,000, r45-r49. mobile, 1980m $12,500, 3yo+ r51-r54. mobile, 1980m SCRATCHED Race 2: SCARED STIFF, ASHES TO ASHES, NIRVANA BEACH 4 — Still Grinnin 1 45s40 Scared Stiff (Fr) 1 T Chmiel 1 40873 Sweet Loress (Fr) 1 O Thornley (J) 5 80430 Westar Lad (Fr) 4 B Hope (J) 9 First Direct Taxis Trot 5.01 Race 3: LIFES A BEACH, EVANGALIST, LE POLE DANCER 2 87534 Makasar Boy (Fr) 2 G O’Reilly 2 10774 Got You Covered (Fr) 2 J Dunn 6 498s9 Rocket Boy(aus) (Fr) 5 S O’Reilly (J) $17,500, ffa. mobile, 1980m Race 4: GOT YOU COVERED, IFYOUSAYSO, ADMIRABLE 3 12222 Fire Fox (Fr) 3 R May 7 s0440 Friendly Eyre (Fr) 21 K Newman (J) 3 0s756 Nirvana Beach (Fr) 3 B Orange 1 27323 Time In A Bottle (Em1) (Fr) 1 Race 5: MISSUCCI, MAJESTIC CHICK, TIME IN A BOTTLE 4 77763 Pay Me Visa (Fr) 4 R Close 8 0s225 Not Over (Fr) 22 R Close 4 56970 Senorita Margarita (Em1) (Fr) 4 5 s32s2 Ifyousayso (Fr) 5 G O’Reilly 2 57152 Clyde (Fr) 2 (J) Race 6: ROCKET BOY(AUS), BOMBOLLA, THE TERRORFIER 9 853 Serg Blanco (Fr) 23 J Dunn 5 67316 Le Tissier (Fr) 5 S Iremonger (J) 6 s1633 Admirable (Fr) 6 S O’Reilly (J) 3 71040 Monrika (Fr) 3 T Chmiel Race 7: FABRIZIO, STYLISH MEMPHIS, TANGO TARA 10 76000 Bombolla (Fr) U1 C Thornley 6 88750 Refine (Fr) 6 C Thornley 7 4401 Huego Bos (Fr) 21 K Newman (J) 4 13197 Majestic Lavros (Fr) 4 G O’Reilly Race 8: DHAULAGIRI, VOODOO PRIESTESS, LOYALIST 7 00607 Little Rain (Fr) 21 8 12020 Majorca (Fr) 22 C Thornley 7 Kolorful Kanvas Pace 4.24 5 53000 Splash Cola (Fr) 5 R Close Race 9: SPLASH COLA, MAJESTIC HURRICANE, 8 88889 Essence Of Easton (Fr) 22 R May 9 21 No Time Like Now (Fr) 23 B Orange 6 47061 The Dominator (Fr) 6 C Thornley $17,500, r72+. mobile, 1980m PRES THE BELLE 9 0P300 Ashes To Ashes (Fr) 23 J Dunn 5 Hygain & Mitavite Feeds 3.48 7 13600 One Apollo (Fr) 21 R May Race 10: MISS IMPRESSION, INVALUABLE, BOOM 10 83300 Paul’s Verdict (Fr) 24 R Close 1 00674 Mikey Maguire (Fr) 1 C DeFilippi 8 87705 Pres The Belle (Fr) 22 J Dunn 11 13900 Markham Eyre (Fr) U1 B Hope (J) $10,000, r45-r59. mobile, Trot 1980m 2 38270 Tango Tara (Fr) 2 J Curtin 9 22140 Heavyweight Hero (Fr) 23 B Butt 1 64432 Majestic Chick (Em1) (Fr) 1 R Holmes 3 87713 Fabrizio (Fr) 3 B Orange 10 13501 Dark Horse (Fr) 24 C Ferguson 3 Garrards Pace 3.11 2 41044 Luminosity (Fr) 2 J Curtin 4 21322 Stylish Memphis (Fr) 4 R May 11 83310 Majestic Hurricane (Fr) U1 B Orange $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m. mobile, 3 — Full Of Hope SCRATCHED 5 28461 Henry Hubert (Fr) 5 K Newman (J) 1 Welcome To Fast10 Racing 2.35 1609m 4 27323 Time In A Bottle (Fr) 3 R May 6 11643 Classie Brigade (Fr) 6 J Dunn 10 Sam Knudsen Memorial 5.20 5 93472 The Bloss (Fr) 4 B Borcoskie $10,000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile, Trot 1980m 1 68260 Le Pole Dancer (Fr) 1 P Davis 6 8150s Missucci (Fr) 5 B Orange 8 Hydroflow Pace 4.42 $15,000, r55-r61. mobile, 1980m 1 00499 Silverlinings (Fr) 1 B Hope (J) 2 Hot Lips Houlihan (Fr) 2 C Thornley 7 19s01 In Sequence (Fr) 21 M Hurrell (J) 1 01850 Invisible Girl (Fr) 1 J Curtin $10,000, 3yo+ r50,r51 w/c. mobile, 1980m 2 23 Two Menny Muscles (Fr) 2 B Orange 3 643 Katherine (Fr) 3 8 78070 Arran Chief (Fr) 22 A Faulks 2 3s901 Adam Patron (Fr) 2 G Smith 3 Riley Moment (Fr) 3 J Dunn 4 7472 Sudaman (Fr) 4 D White 9 00113 Smokin Bandar (Fr) 23 C Ferguson 1 22176 Loyalist (Fr) 1 B Hope (J) 3 60122 Boom (Fr) 3 R May 4 020s7 Muchacha Bonita (Fr) 4 R Close 5 92042 Fraud (Fr) 5 R May 10 6s542 Spy Da Moment (Fr) U1 K Cox 2 06169 Little Gee (Fr) 2 L O’Reilly 4 43004 Miss Impression (Fr) 4 G O’Reilly 5 94 Royal Diedre (Fr) 5 (J) 6 Ideal Grace (Fr) 6 B Orange 11 s4303 No Fears (Fr) U2 C Thornley 3 0s537 Jaffa Josh (Fr) 3 P Borcoskie 5 86614 Bettor Grunter (Fr) 5 B Orange 6 Heavenly Strings (Fr) 6 C Thornley 7 34008 Rosies Terror (Fr) 21 T Chmiel 6 Buffet 22 & 29 January 4.06 4 s0000 Martin John (Fr) 4 R Close 6 50P99 Invaluable (Fr) 6 S O’Reilly (J) 7 76742 Shiffty (Fr) 21 G Smith 8 8504 Boudica (Fr) 22 B Butt 5 37246 Dhaulagiri (Fr) 5 T Chmiel 7 55018 Eastwood Isabella (Fr) 21 C Thornley 8 Ace The Dream (Fr) 22 T Chmiel 9 s3700 Lifes A Beach (Fr) 23 S Tomlinson (J) $10,000, non-winners 3yo+. mobile, 1980m 6 55508 Bossmaro (Fr) 6 B Orange 8 90687 Razors Edge (Fr) 22 J Geddes 9 6 He’s A Cassanova (Fr) 23 B Butt 10 0s322 Evangalist (Fr) U1 J Thomas 1 Chal Patch (Fr) 1 B Orange 7 s0200 Chal Be (Fr) 21 J Curtin 9 80095 Overarm (Fr) 23 T Chmiel

Legend: T – Won at track. C – Won at this distance on this course. D – Won at this distance on another course. M – Won in slow or heavy going. B – Beaten favourite at last start. H – Trained on track. N – Won at night. S – Spell of three months. F – Fell. P – Pulled up. L – Lost rider. TV – Featured on Trackside TV. 28 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Toa Iwi 10s experience ‘awesome’

RUGBY 10s by Jack Malcolm Health for providing transportation as well as Blitz Surf Shop AFTER not having a team in and John Deere Gisborne for 2019, Turanganui-a-Kiwa were providing the team merchandise. back on the rugby scene at the When the union found out the Toa Iwi 10s over the weekend. tournament had become official, The Poverty Bay side struggled they jumped on to it as soon as to find the winning formula and they could, Tamatea said. failed to earn a victory in their The tournament being live three matches in the iwi-against- broadcast on Sky Sport was just iwi competition over the weekend. an added bonus, he said. Hosted by former All Black “We lost our three games, but Liam Messam and Black Fern the experience was awesome.” Stacey Fluhler, this year was the It took a while for the team inaugural Toa 10s tournament. to find their structure in the The reasoning behind Messam 10-man game, which played more and Fluhler organising the Toa like 15s rugby than sevens, he 10s was to bring Maori together said. to celebrate their love of rugby The tournament was split into and represent their iwi. two pools of three teams, with the Games were in a unique placings after round-robin play format, with 10-a-side games and deciding which team from the ‘bonus zones’ in the corners of opposite pool they would play on the try line. finals day. Turanganui-a-Kiwa coach Kahu Tamatea said in their final Tamatea said it was a great game they were leading with less BACK ON THE SCENE: After not fielding a team in 2019, Turanganui-a-Kiwa were back on the experience for the young team than a minute on the clock when rugby scene over the weekend, at the Toa Iwi 10s. They are, back (from left): Kahu Tamatea (coach), that was selected. their opponents scored as time Tipene Meihana, Stuart Leach, Lisiate Toofohe, Peter Neli, Jared Bott, Keanu Wainohu-Kemp, Taurion He said the team wouldn’t have expired. Colquhoun, Tiaki Keogh, Ron Tamatea (manager). Front: Nico Lauti, Genesis Bartlett-Tamatea, Braedyn been able to compete without the “Unfortunately, we didn’t get to Grant, Billy Priestley, Isaiah Leach, Eruera Ria. 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TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. 25. Discount (6) 21. Skinflint (5) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 SPORT 29 Te Karaka, Kahutia/Wairoa Interclub winners

BOWLS by Starweed Kahutia/Wairoa also finished with 12 points. THE Interclub bowls winners have Going down to differential, Gisborne been found — Te Karaka for the men and ended with plus 34 and Kahutia/Wairoa, a combined Kahutia/Wairoa team for the plus 63, which gave the interclub title to women. Kahutia/Wairoa. Last Saturday the Gisborne-East Coast Special mention goes to the Gisborne Interclub was played at the Gisborne four and Kahutia/Wairoa pair, as they Bowling Club. went through the day unbeaten. Four clubs entered in the men’s It’s exciting for spectators when a competition and four teams contested tournament is so close that three out of the women’s. They are what we call the four teams are still in with a chance till sevens, as each club has a singles player, the last game finishes. a pair and a fours team. The men’s competition also went down For the past few years the Gisborne to differential. Te Karaka singles player club has dominated this tournament in Bob McIlroy, who has been in great form both divisions but this year we have two this season, got the better of Gisborne’s different champions. Jamey Ferris 25-15. In the men’s competition, Gisborne, Te Karaka pair July Williams and Poverty Bay, Kahutia and Te Karaka Arthur Baty dominated their game vied for club supremacy. In the women’s against Poverty Bay’s Lex Kennedy and competition, Gisborne, Poverty Bay, Te Jeff Davis, winning 30-7. Karaka and Kahutia/Wairoa team took Kahutia bowler Lucy Shanks, above, and Gisborne’s Charlie Ure and Robin Te Karaka singles player Bob McIlroy has part. Donna Smith, of Wairoa, were unbeaten in Jefferson were convincing winners been in great form this season and was In the women’s section, Poverty Bay the Interclub pairs. against Kahutia pair Alastair unbeaten in the Interclub singles. got off to a flyer, winning all three Macpherson and Leighton Shanks, while disciplines. winning both pairs and fours. That left Kahutia singles player Murray Murton and Te Karaka locked on 13 match Singles player Joy Davis beat Marie them on 10 game points going into the just toppled Poverty Bay’s Andrew Ball. points. Wright (Kahutia/Wairoa) 25-19, Poverty last round. All fours drew against each other in Differentials would determine the Bay pair Val McGreevy and Lesley Kahutia/Wairoa won both singles and Round 1. victor — Te Karaka had an 84-35 Seymour pipped Gisborne’s Queenie pairs, which put them on six game points. The results were evenly spread in advantage over Gisborne, and so could Takurua and Dayvinia Mills 21-18 and Gisborne won their singles and fours, the second round as Gisborne beat call themselves Fisken Cup champions. the PB four of Anita Vaotuua, Cheryl which left them on eight game points, Kahutia in the singles; Kahutia beat Te Special mention goes to Charlie Ure Jenkin, Jan Powell and Erin Sutherland and Te Karaka had yet to get going. Karaka, and Gisborne beat Poverty Bay and Robin Jefferson, of Gisborne, and Bob were too strong for Janet Baty, Dianne But one round can be the difference in the pairs; and, in the fours, Kahutia McIlroy, of Te Karaka, who went through Murray, Erica Thompson and Barbara between make or break. With three clubs (George Vaotuua, Steve Jenkins, Ropata their campaigns unbeaten; so, too, did the Tui (Te Karaka), beating them 19-9. still in with a chance, contenders needed Ruwhiu, Joe Wimutu) beat Poverty Bay Te Karaka four. Others to get a win in the first round things to go their way not only in their (Steve Berezowski, Barry Denham, John Poverty Bay’s Andrew Ball did well. He were Gisborne singles player Tanya own games but also in clashes between Andrews, Peter Walters) and Te Karaka is still in his junior years and played in Harrison against Jasmine Merrick (Te the other clubs. (David File, John Dawson, Brendan the singles spot against strong opponents. Karaka) and the Gisborne four of Carol In the singles, Te Karaka beat Poverty McIlroy, Willy Murray) beat Gisborne He gave all his opponents a battle, which Hawes, Lyn Trueman, Dianne Phillips Bay. Kahutia/Wairoa beat Poverty Bay (Arthur Hawes, Ricky Miller, Dave should boost his confidence for future and Bobbie Beattie, who scraped home in the pairs, Te Karaka in the fours Beattie, Mark Walker). encounters. 14-12 against the Kahutia/Wairoa and Gisborne in the singles. This gave Again, three clubs were in with a It was good to see five of the six clubs combination of Glenys Whiteman, Glenda Kahutia/Wairoa a clean sweep. chance going into the last round. Kahutia in the region taking part, as this is what Kapene, Paige Richter and Jo Sturmey. Gisborne beat Te Karaka in the pairs and Gisborne had seven match points makes tournaments. Kahutia/Wairoa pair Donna Smith and and Poverty Bay in the fours. This meant and Te Karaka had the edge with nine. As I sign off from doing the reports for Lucy Shanks beat Te Karaka combo Del that Poverty Bay failed to get any match Gisborne had a clean sweep in the last the centre representative tournaments, Tamanui and Alicia Ruru 22-8. points, which left them on 10. round. In one of those games, their pair I wish everyone a Happy Christmas, an In the second round, Poverty Bay kept Gisborne got four match points, so beat Te Karaka. Te Karaka had wins in enjoyable New Year and all the best for themselves in a commanding position by they went ahead of Poverty Bay to 12. the singles and fours, which left Gisborne the rest of the season and future years. Honours shared in Clash of the Associations DARTS Darts Corporation) final. In the last set of six games, the reverse supporters roared with excitement over the For Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association, singles, both teams knew the match was comeback win. THE late Stu (Blondie) Leach started the Ford Falcons team comprised captain there for the taking. Ford Falcons needed For the B Grade contest, Gisborne Club something that has continued into its Harley Ngarangione, Te Kotahi Kaio, three wins, the Kingz, four, to clinch the Darts Association’s 2020 winners weren’t second year and shows every sign of Tahuna Irwin, Jordan Ngarangione, Sam match. available for the clash, so Ange Leach, becoming a local sporting fixture. Kirikino and Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard. Ford Falcons couldn’t get off the mark. leader of runners-up RSA XFMO, captained Turanganui a Kiwa and Gisborne Club For Gisborne Club Darts Association, Arahanga, of 2NZ Kingz, beat the Falcons’ a team comprising daughter Juanita darts associations first contested The Clash the 2NZEF Kingz team comprised captain Irwin 3-2 to make the overall score 8-8. Reeves, moko Bray Reeves, Verna Ngauu, of the Associations last year. Cris Kiri, Tyson Eyles, Joe Kiri, Kanye This inspired his teammates. Tyson Eyles Johnny Hyslop and niece Karlia Waikawa. This year, thanks largely to the Arahanga, Irie Eyles and Hunter Eyles. chimed in with a 3-1 victory over Jordan They brought their A game to the oche organisational skills of Stu’s widow In the first set of singles, Ford Falcons Ngarangione to put the Kingz ahead, 9-8. and didn’t make it easy for Turanganui a Ange Leach, the two associations got took the lead 5 games to 1. Some of the When Irie Eyles beat Te Kotahi Kaio, Kiwa Darts Association’s Knights, who together again last week and contested a games were close, with 3-2 scorelines Kingz led 10-8, and needed just one more comprised Kino White (captain), Lyn tournament split into A and B grades. making the darts exciting to watch. win for the match with three games to go. Edwards, Victor Mackay, Tom Hindmarsh, Honours were shared — a Gisborne Club Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, the youngest Young gun Hunter Eyles took a 2-0 lead Ripeka Te Kira and Anaru Cashmore. Darts Association team won the A Grade member of Ford Falcons, pegged the first over Harley Ngarangione but the Falcons The first set of singles ended 3-3. and a Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association 180 in the singles section. skipper rallied and pulled back the next two In the pairs, White led the Whites close to team won the B Grade. In the pairs, Ford Falcons took a 3-1 games to draw level at 2-2. victory with a 7-2 result that took the overall A Grade teams played a 21-game format, lead. This sparked a revival by the 2NZ Eyles responded with some great darts score to 10-5 before the reverse singles. first to 11 games, best of five, 501 straight Kingz, and in a great comeback they won in the last leg. He eventually pegged The Knights needed one more game for start. It had supporters of both sides the last five pairs clashes to reduce Ford the winning double for the game and an the match and Tom Hindmarsh provided it cheering as if it were a PDC (Professional Falcons’ lead to a single game, 8-7. 11-8 match victory for 2NZ Kingz, whose for an 11-5 scoreline in their favour. Heaviest-ever loss for secondary school rep team CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-Leaf more runs in a 50-over game than any bay 15.4 overs to mark their heaviest-ever loss, as “Our bowling was on-song — clinical. representative team had before in a 50-over Coastlands won by 343 runs. Captain Nathan “We have to lift again in the semi-final against IT was tough going for Poverty Bay at Boord match. Trowell, who injured his left hand while fielding, Counties-Manukau.” Park yesterday. Off-spinner Daniel Stewart — with 3-72 from made their high score, 14, in a 30 ball-stay at the Northern Districts chairman of selectors Pat Ten dropped catches, small boundaries, 10 overs — was their best bowler, knocking wicket from No.5. Malcon has coached teams in difficult times. searing heat and aggressive batsmanship from Coastlands opener Chris Mascall over for 88 Travis O’Rourke, in at No.10, was their next “When you’re chasing a big total, as a coach, last year’s beaten finalists — Bay of Plenty to end the No.2’s 177-run stand for the second leading scorer with seven not-out. you recalibrate: our target is 150. That’s a Coastlands — saw the Gisborne team beaten wicket with Vyver. Big paceman Tommaso Pini (4-15 from six realistic target. Yesterday we made 39, today on Day 3 at the Northern Districts boys’ senior Leg-spinner Liam Barbier, 1-79 in eight overs) was Coastlands best with the ball. we aim for 150 or 180,” said Malcon. “Today we secondary schools cricket tournament in overs, had Mascall’s partner Spencer Wills “Every game we strive to put together a count and save 10 runs each — if we all do that, Rotorua. caught behind by Liam Spring for 28 to claim perfect performance and Ben, who had a point as individuals and as a team we’ve saved 100 Coastlands captain Ben Vyver was their hero Poverty Bay’s first wicket; Wills had put on 71 to prove, did — even though we had to watch runs. of the hour: he won the toss then hit six 6s in 13.1 overs with first-drop Vyver, No.4 Isaac ourselves against their pace bowlers, Max Briant “Redefine success with achievable goals.” and 12 fours in his 88-ball innings of 133, as White (51) being BOPCs’ only other scorer of (1-47 off six overs) and Travis (0-53 off nine),” Poverty Bay were to play Hamilton in their BOPC posted 382-7. Poverty Bay paid a price consequence. said long-serving Coastlands champion coach second 50-over game on Boord Park ground for dropping him six times as they conceded Poverty Bay was then dismissed for 39 in Peter Swan. one today. 30 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020

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Pete Anderson made par the hard Ball 35, M Thomas 33, N Mackie 33, A Twos: H Rasmussen, J Sheridan. An email from Patutahi Golf Club Poverty Bay way on the par-4 seventh hole. After White 33, D Bush 33. source said “Brian would like to say driving out of bounds, he bombed Division 2: J Aitchison 40, W Thompson Electrinet Park it was a 9 iron into the stiff southerly A TEE box blunder, an air shot a second drive into the greenside 38, R Fletcher 37, I Kirkpatrick 36. but in fact it was a low-hit driver that and an out of bounds eagle-par bunker, then holed out for 2 (+2=4) — Twos: M Thomas, H Williams. A SOLID round from Rob Taylor won ran through the bunker and on to the were part of the fun and games at the second time he has done this. Approach: P Clayton. him the men’s stableford on Saturday green”. another successful edition of the First SUNDAY — First Light Frozen/Taste with 76-6-70, for 38 points. Tietjen won with 87-21-66. More to Light Frozen/Taste One Christmas One Christmas tournament, women’s Te Puia Springs Ben Cameron’s 40 points won the come on this. tournament on Sunday. overall stableford: K Reeve 40. Tuesday vets’ stableford last week and SUNDAY — Men’s net: B Tietjen 87-21- Bill Allen clearly likes this Men’s overall stableford: B Allen 41 from JOHN Babbington-Welsh discovered course convenor Ray Grace racked up 66, J Blair 84-15-69, P Malloy 80-10-70,J tournament. He shot an excellent K Daniels 40. his best form in over 1½ years in 21 points to win the Thursday twilight’s Neilson 81-11-70. round in the 2019 edition and his best Women’s gross: A Witters 84. posting the round of the day at Te Puia men’s division on countback from Women’s net: S Robertson 87-16-71. score since then at the 2020 version to Men’s gross: W Brown 71. Springs’ Christmas tournament on Shayde Skudder, who had an eagle-3 Hole-in-one on 6: B Tietjen. win the men’s overall stableford. Women’s stableford: J Muir 40, D Webb Saturday. in his 2-under 34 off the stick for the Eagle on 7: J Marsh. His 85-18-67, for 41 points, would 39, L Shepherd 39, J Utting 39, S Spence JBW fired 83-24-59, including a back nine. FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole stableford, have been more had he not had to take 38, K Shaw 37, Miggles Shanks 37, A quadruple-bogey on the eighth hole, SUNDAY — Men’s net: P Wellard 72, R senior division: G Brown 22, B Wallace a two-strike penalty after teeing off the Gemmell 37, S Johnstone 36. to win the men’s net. It was his lowest Taylor 72, G Hill 73. 21, J Blair 21, G Hawea 19, B Cameron second hole from outside the markers. Men’s stableford, division 1: B Colbert round since April of last year. Twos: R Taylor, R Moore, G Hill. 19. Keith Daniel was runner-up with 40 37, T Donovan 37, N Mackie 37, J Situ Tolaga Bay’s Bruce Yates followed up SATURDAY — Men’s stableford: R Junior division: J Tietjen 23, M White 23, points, thanks to a putter he had to dip 36, G Morley 35, T Goldsmith 35, J Brown success at Electrinet Park’s Christmas Taylor 38, S Peneha 38. S Pittar 22, D Dodgshun 21, S Fookes 21. in ice water after the round. 34, D Twigley 34, B Morrissey 34, Z Rolls tournament by winning the men’s Twos: R Taylor. TUESDAY (Dec 8) — Women’s net: M Anne Witters, a familiar name on the 34. gross at the Springs’ counterpart. THURSDAY (Dec 10) — Twilight 9-hole Philip 96-30-66, M Winiata 96-28-68, K club honours board, won the women’s Division 2: T Green 39, J Kerekere 39, P His three birdies were negated by a stableford, men’s division: R Grace 21, S McLatchie 96-26-70. gross with 84 while greenkeeper Graham 39, C Simpson 38, C Taewa 38, triple-bogey on the par-5 seventh hole Skudder 21. William Brown, on a playing handicap H Johanson 36, A Hayward 36, D Mettrick but his 7-over 73 proved good enough. Women’s division: J McCafferty 17. COMING UP: SATURDAY, Hansen and of +4 off the Bay’s white tees, won the 36, T Reynolds 35, R Foon 35. Opotiki’s Polly White won the Non-golfers: D Pahina (men), T Tomlinson Xmas Hams Tournament, men’s gross with 1-under 71. Division 3: T Reeve 39, R Johnstone women’s gross with 85, while the Montgomery (women). two-tee 8am and 12 midday starts, Opotiki duo Terry and Kala Reeve 38, S Harbottle 38, R Brott 36, M Parkes other major honours went to locals Twos: S Skudder, T Akroyd. men’s and women’s divisions, entry flew the visitors’ flag high — Kala 36, M Allen 36, S Rolls 35, N Jones 35, Doreen Smith (women’s net, 63), Iritana Long drives: T Donovan (on 18), J Lewis includes morning tea and meal, winning the overall women’s gross B Pratt 35. Ngarimu (women’s stableford, 38 (on 9). inquiries to George Brown 027 370 with 40 points and Terry topping the Twos: T Akroyd, C Dean, D Patumaka, points) and James Forrester (men’s Approaches: G Hill )on 7), A Reedy (on 9869 or email [email protected] division 3 men’s stableford with 39. T Sweeney, J Devery, D Boyle, R Wells, R stableford, 39pts, on countback from 14). Event sponsor Richard Owen was Brott, S Harbottle. Ian Sykes). TUESDAY (Dec 8) — Veteran men’s Waikohu once again delighted with the response SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, SUNDAY — Te Puia Springs Christmas stableford: B Cameron 40, B Lumsden- albeit not so impressed at having to division 1: J McGregor 40, B Talbot 39, V tournament, women’s gross: P White 85. Nicholls 39, R McGann 35, A Nairne 35, UMA Chambers sent “the Dolls” a shout for his “whisky” on the first hole. Richardson 39. Women’s net: D Goldsmith 63. P Hogan 34, E Parkin 33, S Peneha 32, warning in the stableford on Sunday. His playing group almost featured Division 2: M Stewart 38, P Goodwin 37, Women’s stableford: I Ngarimu 38. S Mohlmann 31, P Simpson 31, A Reedy Chambers won the stableford with 35 a second air shot. Les Gunther, in M Smith 35. Men’s gross: B Yates 73. 31. points and will be looking for more of tree trouble on the 17th, looked Twos: P Clayton, J McGregor. Men’s net: J Babbington-Welsh 59. Twos: P Hogan, B Cameron. the same in the Guys v Dolls clash on set to suffer the same fate only to Approach: T Donovan. Men’s stableford: J Forrester 39. Saturday. inadvertently hit his ball out of trouble THURSDAY (Dec 10) — Men’s Stableford (men and women): I COMING UP: THURSDAYS, twilight SUNDAY — Stableford: U Chambers 35, during his practice swing. stableford, division 1: A Kirkpatrick 36, F Sykes 39, R White 36, I Logan 36, E 9-hole golf, 3.30pm to 6pm tee-off; K Tamanui 35, P Milner 34, E Wynyard Wynyard 35, N Mackie 35, D Cook 35, P SUNDAY, AGM followed by play the 31. Summersby 34, N Truman 34, P Moana course backwards. Twos: S Te Rito. Junior crossword 1642 34, C Beattie 34, H Schreiber 34, J FRIDAY — 9-hole stableford: K Tamanui Winiata 33, G Roberts 33, J Puha 33, J Patutahi 14, U Chambers 13, P Milner 12. 12 34 5 Lincoln 33, M Paerata 33, M Stock 33. Women’s approaches: D Goldsmith, K BRIAN Tietjen won the men’s net on COMING UP: SATURDAY, club Reeves. Sunday with a little help from golf’s shootout, Guys v Dolls, 2pm tee-off, 6 Men’s approach: J Sheridan. ultimate shot — a hole-in-one. prizegiving and shared meal to follow. 7 8 Results from Karapiro 9 ROWING Women’s club coxless quad sculls (Eva Boys’ u15 double sculls (Phelix Moore, 10 Mirko, Leah Scholefield, Vita Anderson, Ned Clarke): Heat 3, placed 6th (9:51.83). GISBORNE Rowing Club results from Presley Gibson): Heat 1, placed 4th Boys’ u15 double sculls (Eugene Paul, the 2020 Karapiro Christmas Regatta — (8:26.62); A Final, placed 5th (7:45.35). Jackson Horne): Heat 4, did not start. 11 12 Men’s senior coxless four (Oscar Women’s intermediate double sculls Boys’ u15 coxed quad sculls (Phelix Ruston, Sacha Dewancker, Alex Hyland, (Leah Scholefield, Sabine Lapointe): Heat Moore, Theo Mackay, Ned Clarke, Eugene James Brott): A Final, placed 1st (6:49.67). 3, placed 2nd (8:59.16); B Final, placed Paul and Jackson Horne, cox): Heat 3, 13 Men’s club double sculls (Ben McCosh, 2nd (8:25.26). placed 5th (9:46.80). Joshua Kelly): Heat 3, placed 3rd (8:36.46). Women’s club coxed four (Eva Mirko, Girls’ u15 double sculls (Ava Duncan, Men’s club double sculls (Luke Jenkins, Hannah Veitch, Sabine Lapointe, Vita Jasmine Hall): Heat 4, placed 7th 14 15 Alex Hyland): Heat 3, scratched. Anderson and Pippa Jones, cox): A Final, (11:13.94). Men’s club coxless quad sculls (Joshua placed 6th (8:30.65). Girls’ u15 coxed quad sculls (Ella Kelly, Ben McCosh, Jack Notting, Thom Women’s novice coxed quad sculls Knight, Florence Faulks, Jasmine Hall, Ava 16 17 Simmons): Heat 1, placed 6th (7:46.28). (Grace McVey, Eve Meredith, Nattida Duncan and Atahu Kohere, cox): Heat 3, Men’s intermediate double sculls (David Martin, Florence Faulks and Atahu Kohere, placed 3rd (9:24.76); B Final, placed 7th Levy, Beb Blakeman): Heat 4, placed 1st cox): Heat 5, placed 5th (12:20.14). (10:23.03). (8:33.05); A Final, placed 7th (8:08.94). Boys’ u18 coxless pair oars (Oscar Girls’ u15 coxed quad sculls (Grace Men’s intermediate coxed quad sculls Ruston, Sacha Dewancker): Heat 2, placed McVey, Nattida Martin, Samantha Gardner, (Ben Blakeman, Lucky Goel, Jackie Kelly, 1st (7:40.40); A Final, placed 4th (8:07.51). Eve Meredith and Pippa Jones, cox): Heat 18 19 David Levy and Jackson Horne, cox): Heat Boys’ u18 double sculls (Sacha 2, placed 7th (10:33.78). 3, placed 7th (8:35.50). Dewancker, Oscar Ruston): Heat 1, placed Girls’ u15 coxed octuple sculls (Ella Men’s intermediate coxed four (Ben 1st (7:55.06); A Final, placed 1st (7:20.25). Knight, Ava Duncan, Jasmine Hall, Grace Blakeman, Jack Notting, Thom Simmons, Girls’ u17 single sculls (Sabine McVey, Nattida Martin, Eve Meredith, Across Down David Levy and Phelix Moore, cox): Heat 1: Lapointe): Heat 1, placed 5th (10:45.05). Florence Faulks, Samantha Gardner and 1. 1. placed 5th (8:32.71). Girls’ u16 single sculls (Pippa Rogers): Atahu Kohere, cox): Heat 1, placed 8th A prickly plant (6) Young cow (4) Men’s novice double sculls (Eugene Heat 2, placed 5th (10:34.61). (11:01.31). 3. Large boat (4) 2. A drink made from ground- Paul, Theo Mackay): Heat 2: placed 5th Girls’ u16 single sculls (Pippa Jones): Girls’ u16 single sculls (Pippa Rogers): 7. Raise (4) up beans (6) (10:34.65). Heat 2, placed 8th (11:13.74). Heat 2, placed 5th (10:34.61). Men’s novice coxed quad sculls (Phelix Girls’ u16 single sculls (Eve Meredith): Girls’ u16 single sculls (Pippa Jones): 8. Begins (6) 4. An animal like a rabbit (4) Moore, Jackson Horne, Ned Clarke, Heat 2, placed 7th (10:52.33). Heat 2, placed 8th (11:13.74). 10. Bottled scent (7) 5. A pie’s covering (6) Eugene Paul and Theo Mackay, cox): Heat Girls’ u16 double sculls (Sarai Gerrard, Girls’ u16 single sculls (Eve Meredith): 4, placed 3rd (9:27.52); B Final, placed 8th Pippa Rogers): Heat 4, placed 6th Heat 2, placed 7th (10:52.33). 13. Cook in this room (7) 6. A body organ (7) (8:26.56). (10:04.03). Girls’ u16 double sculls (Sarai Gerrard, 16. Say again (6) 9. From Africa (7) Men’s club coxed four (Ben McCosh, Girls’ u16 coxed quad sculls (Pippa Pippa Rogers): Heat 4, placed 6th 17. 11. Jack Notting, Thom Simmons, Joshua Kelly Jones, Tessa Lapointe, Sarai Gerrard, (10:04.03). One time (4) A fuel for cars (6) and Phelix Moore, cox): Heat 2, placed 5th Sophie Lapointe and Vita Anderson, cox): Girls’ u16 coxed quad sculls (Pippa 18. Of great length (4) 12. A game played on a court (8:32.33). Heat 3, placed 6th (10:04.94). Jones, Tessa Lapointe, Sarai Gerrard, 19. Women’s club double sculls (Presley Boys’ u16 double sculls (Harry Naske, Sophie Lapointe and Vita Anderson, cox): Jail (6) (6) Gibson, Hannah Veitch): Heat 2: placed 7th Matua Tibble): Heat 5, placed 6th (9:47.67). Heat 3, placed 6th (10:04.94). 14. Unlock (4) (9:50.12). Boys’ u16 coxed quad sculls (Harry Girls’ u17 single sculls (Sabine 15. Women’s club double sculls (Eva Naske, Matua Tibble, Lucky Goel, T Lapointe): Heat 1, placed 5th (10:45.05). A blood vessel (4) Mirko, Vita Anderson): Heat 1, placed 5th Mackay and Jackson Horne, cox): Heat 3, (9:45.70). placed 7th (8:33.91). CONTINUED ON PAGE 31

1. Passenger, 6. Chair, 7. Right, 9. Even, 10. Bottle, 12. Nearly, 14. Cold, 17. Drums, 18. Lucky, 19. Starboard. 2. Awake, 3. Sore, 4. Narrow, 5. Eight, 6. Cleaned, 8. Tuesday, 11. Closer, 13. Adult, 15. Occur, 16. Also. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 SPORT 31

THIRD IN HEAT: Ben McCosh (left) and Joshua Kelly, of Gisborne Rowing Club, were FIFTH IN FINAL: Gisborne Rowing Club competitors (from left) Eva Mirko, Presley third in their heat of the men’s club double sculls at the Karapiro Christmas Regatta. Gibson, Leah Scholefield and Vita Anderson were fifth in the A Final of the women’s Light and Motion Photography pictures club coxless quad sculls at the Karapiro Christmas Regatta. More Gisborne Rowing Club results from Karapiro FROM PAGE 30 (8:59.16); B Final, placed 2nd (8:25.26). Kelly): Heat 3, placed 3rd (8:36.46). Ben McCosh, Jack Notting, Thom Simmons): Heat Women’s club coxless quad sculls (Eva Mirko, Men’s club double sculls (Luke Jenkins, Alex 1, placed 6th (7:46.28). Boys’ u18 coxless pair oars (Oscar Ruston, Leah Scholefield, Vita Anderson, Presley Gibson): Hyland): Heat 3, scratched. Men’s senior coxless four (Oscar Ruston, Sacha Sacha Dewancker): Heat 2, placed 1st (7:40.40); A Heat 1, placed 4th (8:26.62); A Final, placed 5th Men’s intermediate double sculls (David Levy, Dewancker, Alex Hyland, James Brott): A Final, Final, placed 4th (8:07.51). (7:45.35). Beb Blakeman): Heat 4, placed 1st (8:33.05); A placed 1st (6:49.67). Boys’ u18 double sculls (Sacha Dewancker, Women’s club coxed four (Eva Mirko, Hannah Final, placed 7th (8:08.94). Men’s club coxed four (Ben McCosh, Jack Oscar Ruston): Heat 1, placed 1st (7:55.06); A Final, Veitch, Sabine Lapointe, Vita Anderson and Pippa Men’s novice coxed quad sculls (Phelix Moore, Notting, Thom Simmons, Joshua Kelly and Phelix placed 1st (7:20.25). Jones, cox): A Final, placed 6th (8:30.65). Jackson Horne, Ned Clarke, Eugene Paul and Theo Moore, cox): Heat 2, placed 5th (8:32.33). Women’s club double sculls (Presley Gibson, Women’s novice coxed quad sculls (Grace McVey, Mackay, cox): Heat 4, placed 3rd (9:27.52); B Final, Men’s senior coxless quad sculls (Sacha Hannah Veitch): Heat 2, placed 7th (9:50.12). Eve Meredith, Nattida Martin, Florence Faulks and placed 8th (8:26.56). Dewancker, Oscar Ruston, Alex Hyland, Lewis Women’s club double sculls (Eva Mirko, Vita Atahu Kohere, cox): Heat 5, placed 5th (12:20.14). Men’s intermediate coxed quad sculls (Ben Green): A Final, placed 2nd (6:58.61). Anderson): Heat 1, placed 5th (9:45.70). Men’s novice double sculls (Eugene Paul, Theo Blakeman, Lucky Goel, Jackie Kelly, David Levy and Men’s intermediate coxed four (Ben Blakeman, Women’s intermediate double sculls (Leah Mackay): Heat 2, placed 5th (10:34.65). Jackson Horne, cox): Heat 3, placed 7th (8:35.50). Jack Notting, Thom Simmons, David Levy and Scholefield, Sabine Lapointe): Heat 3, placed 2nd Men’s club double sculls (Ben McCosh, Joshua Men’s club coxless quad sculls (Joshua Kelly, Phelix Moore, cox): Heat 1, placed 5th (8:32.71).

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GOLDEN PAIRING: Sacha Dewancker (at times back) and Oscar Ruston were fourth in the boys’ under-18 coxless pairs and then won the A final of the double sculls in for club the same age group.

ROWING by Jack Malcolm Simmons said. Senior rower James Brott and club The coaching team of Alex Hyland coach Alex Hyland joined Ruston and SILVER MEDALLISTS: Gisborne Rowing Club’s crew for the GISBORNE Rowing Club had an (girls’ u17, u18, intermediate and club), Dewancker to take out the men’s senior men’s senior coxless sculls — (from left) Lewis Green, Alex outstanding weekend of results at the Murray Kendrew (girls’ u15, u16, novice coxless four. Hyland, Oscar Ruston and Sacha Dewancker — took second 2020 Karapiro Christmas Regatta. and intermediate) and Luke Jenkins (all With a change of rigging from sweep place in the A final at the 2020 Karapiro Christmas Regatta. The club had 40 rowers there — the male categories) and Simmons himself to sculling and with Lewis Green Light and Motion Photography pictures biggest team the club had taken to any were “pleased with the efforts of all our replacing Brott, Gisborne contested regatta in years. rowers”. the A Final of the men’s senior coxless Gisborne Rowing Club assistant coach In all, 10 GRC crews made A or B sculls. The team of Ruston, Dewancker, Peter Simmons said it was exciting to finals. The highlights were two firsts Hyland and Green snatched second have such a strong contingent of rowers and a second placing in the A finals of place. travelling to compete. men’s events. In the women’s categories, the “It wasn’t long ago that the club had Sacha Dewancker and Oscar Ruston Gisborne club’s experienced rowers three or four active members rowing.” placed fourth in the boys’ u18 coxless achieved a fifth placing (women’s club Rowers competed in a combination of pair oars, which was a good result coxless quad sculls) and a sixth placing age-group races (under-15 to u18) and as they had trained in the boat only a (women’s club coxed four) in the A skill level races (novice, intermediate, handful of times before this regatta, finals, while intermediate rowers placed club and senior). Simmons said. second in the B Final of the women’s Simmons said the club’s rowers “These boys continued their success intermediate double sculls, Simmons performed exceptionally well in harsh, from the 2020 North Island club champs said. windy conditions at Lake Karapiro. and North Island Secondary Schools Gisborne Rowing Club athletes will “The bends, bridges and increasing regattas by winning the A Final of the next compete at the Hawke’s Bay congestion of our Gizzy rivers make boys’ u18 double sculls.” Cup on the Clive River, Hastings, it hard for us to train to full racing Ruston had stayed on at Karapiro to over the New Year holiday weekend. conditions,” he said. take part in New Zealand Rowing’s u19 That will be followed by the North “These results were great development training camp, which could Island Club Championship regatta at achievements for these rowers.” result in his being selected for the NZ Lake Karapiro at the end of January. For some, it was the first time they had Rowing junior team in March, following A small contingent of senior rowers been able to race over a straight 2000- an incredible string of results, Simmons may head to the New Zealand Rowing metre course. said. Championships on Lake Ruataniwha at “The way our coaches get the results, “He’s been rowing singles and winning Twizel in February. they must be doing something right,” by big margins.” Results on pages 30, 31

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