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‘NO PLANET B’: Students from around Gisborne went “on strike” at Heipipi Endeavour Park yesterday as part of the nationwide School Strike 4 Climate protest. They received plenty of support for their stand, with car horns tooted and shouts of encouragement from passing vehicles. “We want to reinforce the idea that climate affects every single aspect of life and if we don’t look after it today we’re going to have problems,” said co-convener Sumita Singh. STORY ON PAGE 3 Picture by Rebecca Grunwell ‘His legacy

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip sit in the Rugby Park grandstand during their royal visit to Gisborne in 1977. Next to them are Henare will live on’ Ngata (right) and Archdeacon Kingi M Ihaka. Herald file picture Prince Philip ‘the ‘secret ingredient’ of the Queen’s success

LONDON — World leaders and people Commonwealth and around the world.” 20,000 royal engagements to boost “His legacy will live on not only on the street honoured Prince Philip’s life “We are a kingdom united both in grief British interests at home and abroad. through his family, but in all the of service to his wife, Queen Elizabeth and in gratitude,” Johnson said. “Grief He also led hundreds of charities, charitable endeavours he shaped.” II, and the British nation today after at Prince Philip’s passing, and gratitude started programmes that helped British Soon after the announcement of hearing of the death of a man who had for his decades of selfless service to the schoolchildren, and helped raise his four Philip’s death, people lined up outside been at the centre of public life longer country.” children, including eldest son Prince Buckingham Palace to see the official than most of them have been alive. Philip, who served in the Royal Charles, the heir to the throne. notice that had been attached to the gate. At Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s Navy during World War II, married the US President Joe Biden offered It was removed soon afterward because London residence, members of the public future queen in 1947 and kept up a full condolences to the Queen “on behalf of of concerns it would attract crowds, laid daffodils at the gates, and the flag schedule of public appearances until he the people of the United States.” violating social-distancing rules during was lowered to half-staff. retired in 2017. “The impact of his decades of devoted the Covid-19 pandemic. The BBC interrupted programming On March 16, he was released from public service is evident in the worthy The government later issued a to broadcast the national anthem, “God hospital looking tired and gaunt after causes he lifted up as patron, in the statement asking people not to gather Save the Queen.” receiving treatment for an undisclosed environmental efforts he championed, in or leave flowers outside royal residences Prime Minister Boris Johnson said infection and a heart problem. the members of the Armed Forces that around the country to protect public Philip, 99, “earned the affection of Known for his sharp wit and loyalty he supported, in the young people he health. generations here in Britain, across the to the monarch, he fulfilled more than inspired, and so much more,” he said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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THE Gisborne region is in the grip of what might be termed extended “slow” drought conditions. Weather and climate data show the whole district has had no decent steady rain since mid-July last year, and the whole of last year was a dry year. Gisborne and the Flats received just 26mm last month, and so far this month just three millimetres. The soil moisture deficit on the Gisborne Flats is now around 130mm. This is the equivalent of five or six days of decent rainfall. WAITING TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY: Present at the Tititiki launch and blessing of the new East Coast Health Shuttle were The latest data from MetService (from left) Reverend Boycie Te Maro, Minister Li Rerewa Pomana, local St John patron Hughie Hughes, health shuttle team leader and the National Institute of Water and Vencie Hartshorne and St John national community care manager of health and iwi engagement Julie Taverner. Atmospheric Research (Niwa) show the Picture by Paul Rickard soil moisture anomaly for the coastal strip from Wairoa, Mahia to Gisborne and Tolaga Bay is between 30-50mm. The rest of the district to the top of East Cape and across to Opotiki has a soil moisture anomaly of 50mm or more. EC health shuttle ready to go The anomaly is the difference between current soil moisture levels and historical levels for the time of year. by Wynsley Wrigley happened without you”. It would predominantly offer transport Niwa’s definitions would indicate the Mr Hughes said St John had always services to the Waiapu community district is severely dry and on the edge of PASSION, energy and community been strong in Tikitiki. (Te Araroa, Rangitukia, Tikitiki, drought conditions. commitment are the forces behind the “I want you to keep it strong. I want Ruatoria) with the main destinations Niwa forecaster Ben Noll says, “It’s new St John East Coast health shuttle you to take ownership; don’t let anyone being the Ruatoria Community Health quite a dry state of play as we go into launched this week at its Tititiki base. take it from you. Centre, secondly Te Puia Hospital for mid-autumn”. The service and its brand new vehicle, “This community needs it to take physiotherapy and X-rays, and lastly However, Noll does not expect the first St John health shuttle on people to doctors, nurses, dentistry and Gisborne Hospital, dental services and meteorological drought to be declared, as the East Coast, will provide safe and optometrists. any other health providers. evapotranspiration rates drop off at this reliable access to healthcare services for “The vehicle is for that.” The service is available Tuesdays. time of year. Coast residents. Mr Hughes said the service would Wednesdays and Thursdays, excluding All the same, he says a soil deficit of St John community engagement need fundraising and the support of public holidays. 50mm below normal is a “substantial manager Kathryn Elsmore, speaking funders to remain viable. “Our final goal is establishing a fleet margin”. at the service’s launch and blessing, The time had come for St John to of vehicles that will cover the area from The dry areas cover not only the said the service was the result of three provide a professional service. Potaka to Tokomaru Bay, and every Gisborne-East Cape region, but or four years of hard work from the St John were experts “who knew place in between. eastern parts of the South Island from community after the Tikitiki Health what they were doing, who cared” and “We would like to have a scheduled Marlborough to Canterbury, Otago and Clinic was destroyed by fire in 2017. maintained health and safety standards. health shuttle to Gisborne Hospital, at Southland. St John national community care Mr Hughes thanked local residents least once a week, so people can make While more normal rainfall patterns manager of health and iwi engagement, such as Dianne Michelle who took their appointments for that day. are expected to the end of June, the last Julie Taverner, said St John was proud patients to Ruatoria in her own car after “At this stage, we will try to help meaningful rain here was on March 11. to bring the service to the Coast. the Tititiki health clinic was destroyed, anyone who calls our 0800 824 325 Water tankers are doing brisk business It was a community service which Jenny and the late John Reedy who number.” resupplying country residents whose needed the support of whanau and replaced him as the chair of St John Bookings can also be made at tank water has run out. the community but could not operate in the region, and helpers from the [email protected] Temperatures have also been without volunteers. original health shuttle such as Terry The shuttle service is also looking for fluctuating, with very clear skies and Great gratitude was expressed for Miringorangi. volunteers with driving and non-driving some great sunny days. But at night East Coast St John advocate Hughie Speakers thanked the numerous roles available. those clear skies have seen the mercury Hughes, a prime instigator of the funders who have supported the service Would-be volunteers, who can also plummet and temperatures fall well below original locally-provided East Coast while Mr Hughes presented a donation ring on 0800 824 325, need to be 18 or normal on some nights. shuttle which began in 1992, and who from the Ruatoria Op Shop. older, and able to commit to shifts on a These chilly evenings have seen helped bring the St John service to the “We call ourselves the Friends of St regular roster. They must also be able autumn leaf fall start early in quite a few coast. John,” he said. to attend on-going training and courses trees, triggered by a succession of night Ms Taverner described Mr Hughes, St John East Coast health shuttle funded by St John and to pass a full temperatures dropping to the growth- who has been a member or supporter administrator Helga Posavec-Scott told police check. critical 10-degrees and below mark. of St John for more than 70 years, as a The Herald the service would enhance As well, volunteers need to hold a full, On the morning of Sunday the 4th, legend, an icon and a great man. individual and community wellbeing clean, Class 1 driver’s licence (health the mercury dropped to a very crisp 4.5 “We love you for all you have done,”she by providing safe, personal and reliable shuttle driver role only) and be able to degrees — well below the average April said. access to healthcare services. pass a medical clearance (health shuttle minimum of 9.8. — RH The new service “would not have It would a koha-based service. role only). 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MOndAy The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To fi nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 NEWS 3 Students praised for taking a stand FROM PAGE 1 protests for years, she was delighted by Jack Marshall to see a greater diversity of people involved. OVER 80 students and supporters “It’s good to see more mainstream went “on strike” and took over Heipipi people, the youth in particular, ready to Endeavour Park to demand climate take a stand.” action yesterday. Indigenous people have been making It was part of the nationwide School these protests for decades so it was Strike 4 Climate campaign which saw good that a wider section of the public thousands of students around the were joining in, she said. country march and wave placards out “Maori don’t get positive media of concern for the future of the planet. attention about protecting Papatuanuku “We want to reinforce the idea that (Mother Earth) our environment, so climate affects every single aspect of when mainstream students and people life and if we don’t look after it today start to make a stand and you get a bit we’re going to have problems,” said more publicity, that raises the attention co-convener Sumita Singh from Girls’ of the people.” High School. Some students told The Herald not Many of the passing vehicles all teachers were supportive of the motoring along State Highway 35 protests. leaned on their horns in support and Campion principal Paul McGuinness WE GOT THIS COVERED: Te Wharau School students in dress-up for a St John fundraiser. cheered while the students led chants had no concerns about students Front is Misty Grace. Back (from left) are Duncan Chisholm, Pahker Taumata, Aaliyah Tuhou- and listened to speeches. protesting. Nepe Mason Poi Felix Tong and Amiee Braybrook. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell Co-convener Henarata Kohere “I understand the view that English Pisheif, also from Girls’ High, said and maths are really important but this it was great to see students come is just as important. It’s another part of together for a such an important cause, what schools are trying to do, which is Bandaged for fun . . . and St John but was disappointed that some people to teach youth in a more holistic way. disregarded their views because of “My view and the view of the school TE WHARAU School pupils are a ambulance service. questions that had come to mind.” their age. is that this is an important part of little bit wiser on how to treat minor “We had a St John activity week St John staff also provided tips The pair thanked the influential education. This is as important as first aid injuries and have a better so the kids have been learning for when pupils encountered injuries people from the community who sitting in the classroom because this is understanding of the sterling work about little bits of first aid and the at school. attended. living what you’re asking them to be — done by St John Ambulance staff. like,” said Mr Berezowski. “One of the things we noticed “Having their continued support citizens of the world.” Principal Steve Berezowski said “It wasn’t just a fundraiser. For was when a kid trips, or something makes us more difficult to ignore,” they Mr McGuinness said he was there to after three days of learning about the three days this week they had like that, our kids are straight away said. be in the background and support the St John the school ran a dress-up activities in class. wanting to stand them up and move Among those supporters were students. fundraising day yesterday with “We’d like to thank St John for them. So that sort of first aid came Deputy Mayor Josh Wharehinga and “I think it’s great that youth are pupils dressing up as injured bringing the ambulance. There into it as well, with staff talking to district councillor Meredith Akuhata- involved in something so critical — just people. were also people from St John classes about making sure the kid Brown. seeing them involved in things. The school raised $310 for the going through classes answering can stand up.” Yesterday’s strike came over 1½ “People talk about youth being self- years after a similar campaign when centred but they’re not. They’re worried 170,000 marched throughout New about a lot and for them to be active Zealand demanding action. and coming down here says a lot. Around the world, more than 14 “They’re concerned about where the million people have been involved in future is going. Searching for person after boat overturns climate emergency protests. “These particular movements have Sharon Campbell (Te Aitanga a been going for a few years now,” Mr A PERSON was reported missing responded to the incident at around raise the alarm and a search was Mahaki), who attended yesterday’s McGuinness said. “It’s great to see after a boat overturned in the 5pm. started to locate the second person. event, said she was excited to see the them bringing about a change, not only Waiapu River near Tikitiki early last A boat with two people onboard Two helicopters were deployed. next generation making their voices in a protest but in their daily lives.” night. overturned south of the rivermouth. No update was available at the heard. Police and emergency services One person made it to shore to time of print. Having been involved in such SEE STORY, PAGE 9 Tributes from around the world

FROM PAGE 1 Even Russian President Vladimir my sincere condolences to Her Majesty Putin, who has been at odds with and to all the Royal Family. Prince “I’m quite emotional actually even Britain over issues ranging from election Philip will be fondly remembered for the just talking about it,” Louisa Crook, a interference to the poisoning of a former encouragement he gave to so many young 41-year-old London resident, said outside spy in England, sent a telegram of New Zealanders through The Duke of Buckingham Palace. condolence to the queen. Edinburgh’s Hillary Award.” Around the country, others marked The Russian Embassy in London noted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Philip’s death in their own way. Philip was the great-great-grandson of tweeted that “Britain has lost a wise The tenor bell at Westminster Abbey is Czar Nicholas I. elder who was imbued with a unique being tolled 99 times to mark each year The prince’s fictional family also spirit of public service.” of the Duke of Edinburgh’s life. reached out to the queen. The team Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta A two-minute’s silence was held at behind Netflix’s hugely popular royal called him a “towering symbol of family cricket matches in England’s county drama The Crown said they were “deeply values and the unity of the British people championship and at the Grand National saddened” to hear of his death. as well as the entire global community”. horse racing meeting. Robert Lacey, a royal biographer and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le The government said official flags adviser to The Crown, told the BBC that Drian said his country “celebrates the would fly at half-staff throughout the UK Philip was the “secret ingredient” of the European and British destiny of a man until after Prince Philip’s funeral. queen’s success. who, not without panache, served as the Justin Welby, the Archbishop of “He’s been a part of our life, hasn’t contemporary to a century of ordeals and Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the he,” Lacey said. “We must all, of course, hopes for our continent”. Anglican Church, gave thanks to God for be thinking of the Queen, of whose Australian Prime Minister Scott Prince Philip’s life of dedicated service. life he has been such an integral part Morrison tweeted that the duke “As we recover and rebuild after the . . . I would not want to diminish the “embodied a generation that we will terrible trial of the coronavirus pandemic, wonderful achievement of the Queen in never see again” while Canada’s Prime we will need fortitude and a deep sense her reign, but so many of her fresh ideas Minister Justin Trudeau described of commitment to serving others,” Welby and fresh initiatives came from this Philip as a “man of great purpose and wrote. Throughout his life Prince Philip remarkable man.” conviction”. displayed those qualities in abundance, Condolences poured in from statesmen And Indian Prime Minister Narendra and I pray that we can take inspiration and royals around the globe — many of Modi recalled the duke for his from his example.” whom noted Philip’s wit and personality, “distinguished career in the military” The royal families of Denmark, as well as his service during World War II and work “at the forefront of many Monaco, the Netherlands, Qatar and the and beyond. community service initiatives”. United Arab Emirates sent messages Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Prince William and Prince Harry ROYAL VISIT: Prince Philip talks to a to the Queen. World leaders including expressed New Zealand’s “deep sorrow”. marked their grandfather’s death in full- child during the Royal Visit in 1977. Prince Australia’s Scott Morrison, Israel’s “Our thoughts are with Her Majesty page tributes on the websites of their Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has died at the Benjamin Netanyahu, India’s Narendra the Queen at this profoundly sad time. respective foundations. age of 99 and tributes from around the Modi and Canada’s Justin Trudeau also On behalf of the New Zealand people and globe have poured in. Herald file picture expressed their sadness. the Government, I would like to express MORE ON PRINCE PHILIP, PAGES 6, 14, 30 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths

HOPE, David Deaths Hemsley. — David passed away peacefully, An exceptional talent DERBYSHIRE, on 23 March 2021, aged Philip. — 85 years. Much beloved Philip passed away husband of Lyn, and peacefully, on the 29th loved father of Roger of March 2021. and Kenneth. Loved OBITUARY Beloved husband and brother, uncle, father- eternal soulmate of in-law, grandfather, and Guy Kirkpatrick Ingrid. Loved father of friend of many. Rachael and Shelley. A celebration service of David’s life has been Grandfather of Shannon THE huge respect enjoyed and Elouise. Great- held. Grateful thanks to Grandfather of Jacob Beetham Healthcare for by the late Gisborne polo and Harry. all their care and player Guy Kirkpatrick A private cremation Stonehaven for their and his family will be has been held. funeral services. recognised at a service this A memorial service month, giving the Gisborne and wake to celebrate community the chance to Philip’s life will be held STEPHENS, grieve for a man who touched at the Senior Citizens Keitaharahara many lives with his quiet and Hall, Grey Street, (nee Haig) (Kitty). — caring manner. Gisborne, 10am on 31.7.1931 - 9.4.2021. Guy Kirkpatrick’s death Saturday 17th April. In Mum passed away in Australia devastated the lieu of flowers, please peacefully, in Jehovah’s polo community as well as GUY KIRKPATRICK: An send donations to arms. Farewell, with the tightly-knit Patutahi/ Hospice Tairawhiti, outstanding and popular polo love from your 12 Ngatapa community and player. Picture supplied Private Bag 7001, children, their partners the extended Gisborne-East Gisborne 4040. and all your many Coast region. contribution to sport — Stonehaven - Proudly grandchildren. Guy suffered fatal injuries particularly polo and rugby. making a difference Mum will lie at 10 in a workplace accident on Guy, the son of Colin Attlee Place until RICHARDSON, Lyall Ellerston Station, owned and Caroline, grew up on Monday at 8am. by the Packer family, in the Robina. — 1927 - Her funeral service the Kirkpatrick property 2021. Died peacefully, will be held at Evans Upper Hunter Valley, New with older brother Tim and at Dunblane. Loved Chapel at 11am, she South Wales, on January 7. twin brother Sam. He was wife of the late Nolan. will then move on to the The massive property educated at Patutahi School Loved mother of Kingdom Hall at 12pm has five polo fields, two and Gisborne Boys’ High Rachel, Marice, Stewart followed by private practice fields, and an 18-hole School. (dec) and Rora, Vance cremation. golf course, among other He was a relative and Karen. Loved amenities. latecomer to polo and indeed Grandma of Micheal, - Evans Funeral Services Ltd FDANZ The Kirkpatrick family riding horses, not entering Kelli and Matt, Jesse, www.evansfuneral.co.nz spent the weeks since Guy’s the sport until his late teens. A GREAT EYE: Guy Kirkpatrick, with brother Tim in the Hana, and Haze, Amy, death arranging his affairs It quickly became apparent background, was a relative latecomer to the game but it Kate and Nick. Loved and the return to New he was an exceptionally quickly became apparent he was a highly talented sportsman. Great- Grandma and GRANT, Paul George. Zealand of wife Cathy and talented horseman, with a Great- Great-Grandma. — Passed peacefully at their sons Henry (7) and natural polo swing and great It was an honour for Colin tribute to him in a statement, Funeral details to home on Mahuru, follow. Alec (5) — a task made much eye for the ball. to play with his three sons. saying his tragic death “has Makarika Valley, on harder by the restrictions Guy became an outstanding Guy is warmly remembered shocked and devastated our - Evans Funeral 9th April 2021. Dearly imposed because of the Covid polo player who represented for his ability to patiently community”. Services Ltd FDANZ loved husband and pandemic. New Zealand on multiple develop young horses. Special “Guy was loved and greatly www.evansfuneral.co.nz soulmate of Francis for 44 years. The tragedy was made occasions. mention was respected and we will miss RICHARDSON, Lyall “Think of me at rest, I even more poignant by the He applied made, when he him deeply.” Robina. — Loved have no pain, no fact he and his family were his expertise Kirky was a was farewelled Kerry Packer’s wife Ros mother and mother-in- troubled thoughts for I in the process of moving back while playing in Australia, and daughter Gretel Barham- law of Vance and am just asleep. The to Ngatapa and buying an and working charismatic‘ and of the positive Packer and family donated Karen. Loved Grandma living thinking me that interest in the family farm. in England talented player. He impact he had a trophy in Guy’s memory to of Amy and Dean. Kate was, is now forever Guy worked in England, and Australia was well respected on young players be presented yearly to the and Mike Te Moana. still, as life goes on Queensland and New South for many and people in the player showing exceptional Nick and Renee. Loved without me as time Wales, and played polo in years. in our community polo community. horsemanship. Great-Grandma of Jaia, forever will. Amity and Awatere. many other countries. During and will be sorely They all loved Others to pay tribute If your heart is heavy He first went to Ellerston at his six years missed working with included the New Zealand Monumental now because I’ve gone the age of 18 in January 1993 playing in him. Polo Association, which said Masons away, dwell not long and then again for the 1994 England and —NZ Polo’ Association Away from in a statement that “Kirky upon it friend for none polo season before heading nine years in polo and horses, was a charismatic and of us can stay. to England for the next six Queensland he Guy was a talented player. Those of you who liked STONEHAVEN me, I sincerely thank polo seasons, and then to would return to Gisborne each special and fun father to “He was well respected in for you all; Those who Queensland from 2002-2010. summer and play for Poverty Henry and Alec and adored our community and will be Funerals befriended me, I thank He returned to Ellerston Bay Polo Club — following in husband of Cathy. sorely missed”. you most of all.” in July 2011 and had spent the footsteps of father Colin He was very proud of his A memorial service is Proudly Qualified, In accordance with almost 10 years on the and uncles David and the late family. to be will be held at the Registered and Paul’s wishes, a private giant property developed by John. His funeral service was Showgrounds Park Event Making a Difference. cremation has been Australian billionaire, the late In his early polo playing held on School Polo Field at Centre in Gisborne on held. A memorial Kerry Packer. days he competed alongside Ellerston Station on January Saturday April 24 at 2.30pm. 601 Nelson Road service will be held at a The Kirkpatrick family are his two brothers and father in 22. Ph 867 1800 later date. well known here for their local competitions. The Packer family paid — Obituary by John Jones Wharf hot topic at LTP meeting by Jack Marshall although the council had not put it in Bill Hughes spoke about his concern asked the same thing every year and the plan, the site was in the Tairawhiti with the vibrancy of the township. nothing had changed. Ms Thatcher TOKOMARU Bay turned out in force Economic Action Plan, meaning it would “I drive around and I think, ‘where are Swann said that was unfortunate but it with dozens of residents showing up for be more likely to get external funding in all the people? Look at all these beautiful was because some of the issues were not the district’s council’s long-term plan the future. empty houses.’ But when you’ve got necessarily council responsibility. public meeting on Thursday. Residents also spoke of the need for houses going for $800,000 here, how are An example of that was wandering Residents raised their concerns about a toilet at the wharf, which is a popular our whanau going to afford to come back stock. At least two people in the room water and road rate increases, erosion tourist attraction. In the past there has here to live? “We were in Raglan recently had been in cars that crashed into stock near the river mouth and wandering been a range of toilet options from porta- and the people from there can’t even buy wandering at night, and they wanted stock. However, the uniting concern in loos to alternative toilets, but nothing or rent in their own home town because something done about it. the room was Tokomaru Bay’s wharf, permanent. prices are so exorbitant.” However, it was pointed out to which is closed and in need of repair. Money had been put aside by the It had been over two years since the them that Waka Kotahi New Zealand “Is it in the plan? It is your asset,” council and they were waiting for more residents had aired issues with the Transport Agency held jurisdiction over asked Lois McCarthy-Robinson from the funding to become available. council — Covid-19 having forced the state highways. There was little the Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust. “I think it’s disgraceful we haven’t got cancellation of such meetings last year. council could do for residents, citing the Gisborne District Council chief a toilet down at the wharf,” said Andy While many of the questions on laws they had the power to enforce were executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said it Jefferd, who grew up in Tokomaru but Thursday had nothing to do with the often toothless. was not a priority in the long-term plan. now lives in Gisborne. long-term plan, Mayor Rehette Stoltz Councillor Pat Seymour said she and “So let it fall into the sea basically,” “It’s a very important part of Tokomaru said it was a good way to hear from Cr Bill Burdett had raised it with NZTA. someone said to the person sitting next Bay. The tourists come down there, the constituents. Ms Thatcher Swann and Mayor Stoltz to them. locals all go down there, our whanau . . . A major annoyance for many in the said they would continue to push the Ms Thatcher Swann clarified that people need to go to the loo. community was that it felt like they issue with NZTA. The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 NEWS 5 On the web On Last week’s question

Are you intending to make a submission on the the council’s 2021-2031 Long-Term Plan? street adam morris: sienna Peter mike Parsons: mercedes “No, because I have anderson: staPLeton: “It’s great that it’s naPoLitano: to go there a lot for “I reckon that’s good. “I think it’s great to open and I’ll be able “Not really. We’re not work.” I’ve wanted to go see families reunite.” to see my folks.” going to be going “Were you there for ages but there.” then I’d rather be happy safe.” when you heard about the travel 18% 68% 14% bubble

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VOTE ONLINE: www.gisborneherald.co.nz ‘What is the Population growing moderately point of making Gisborne numbers projected to reach 55,200 by 2048 by Wynsley Wrigley taking the country’s population to neutral effect. 5,343,900. About half of New Zealand’s GISBORNE’S population will grow Fifteen of New Zealand’s 16 regions population growth between 2018 and a submission’ by an average annual rate of 0.4 will likely have more people in 2048 2048 will likely be in Auckland. ONLY one theme was “It’s not rocket science percent — from 49,500 three years than in 2018 with the exception being Auckland’s population could reach expressed by the 101 but unfortunately the Mayor, ago to 55,200 in 2048. the West Coast, down from 32,400 two million in the early 2030s and people out of 148 who said councillors and council This is half of the equivalent three years ago, to 30,600 in 2048. three out of four New Zealanders will “no” to this week’s webpoll staff have become more national average, according to the The population growth rate is live in the North Island by 2048. question: “are you intending focused on racial-woke latest Department of Statistics projected to slow in all regions The Department of Statistics says to make a submission on issues than the basics.” projections. between 2018 and 2048 after the their projections are not predictions. the council’s 2021-2031 Among the few The department’s projections country’s population increased by 2.3 “They should be used as an Long-Term Plan?” comments made by the 18 give low, medium, and high growth percent in the year ended June 2020, indication of the overall trend, rather The sole sentiment from percent (26 votes) who said projections for the country using the highest growth rate since the than as exact forecasts. that 68 percent of voters “yes” was the assertion different combinations of fertility, 1960s. “We update the projections every was the Gisborne District “Everyone, no matter their mortality, and migration assumptions. All regions will be home to many two to three years to maintain Council takes little notice of age, or amount of rates The above figures refer to medium more people aged 65 and over in 2048. their relevance and usefulness, public opinion and has its paid, should submit on the projections. Gisborne is projected to have nearly by incorporating new information own agenda. LTP”. The high projection figure gives double the 2018 population, 7500, of about demographic trends and The council’s handling Another commented he Gisborne a 2048 population of 64,300, over 65s. By 2048 that number is developments in methods.” of the Endeavour models or she would be submitting an average annual increase of 0.9 expected to be 13,400. The new projections incorporate question and railway was with an organisation. percent compared to a national In younger age brackets, the the latest demographic information. cited by four people as an “With an organisation I’m average increase of 1.3 percent to a numbers are 10,400 Gisborne people This includes national population example. involved with, it’s always new national population of 7,134,300. aged between 0 and 14; 14,500 projections (2020, base – 2073, What really is the point important to have our say.” The low projection indicates a between 15 and 39 and 16,900 released 8 December 2020); of making a submission, One lengthy comment Gisborne population of 46,400, an between 40 and 64. subnational population estimates; asked one respondent. came from the “yes” corner average annual decrease of 0.2 The department expects 3300 birth and death registrations and “GDC waste so much but was critical of the percent compared to a national Gisborne births and 3100 deaths in international travel and migration money and never listen to LTP consultation process. average increase of 0.3 percent, 2048 and net migration to have a data. rate payers as it is. Take “The process was “hugely the Endeavour project prescriptive . . . and has for example. They went placed false expectations for the consultation and in the wider community Seeking Matawai views on catchments still ignored the wishes that this is the place to A SECOND public meeting to help develop The Motu Catchment Plan will quantify the through the details. expressed by the majority.” contribute to democratic a plan for the Motu and Koranga catchments expected results, limits and actions for how “This group was established in November Other respondents on decision-making.” is set for Thursday next week from 6pm-8pm the quality and quantity of water levels, and last year and meets monthly to work on the “no” camp said the “To genuinely be able at the Matawai fire station. the land uses that affect them, are managed the main issues and the plan’s content,” Mr council put their spin to listen to the community Gisborne District Council is inviting the under the Resource Management Act. Slupski said. on submissions and do the legislation would need Matawai community to the meeting to share “We are aware of the excellent work being “But we welcome views from everywhere whatever they want, to put the emphasis on their thoughts. done by the Motu Catchment Group to and everyone — from scientists and “They already know what engagement processes,” GDC project manager Janic Slupski said improve water quality and the health of the landholders to local children who know their they are going to do and said the respondent. the council was collaborating with local iwi to river and we’ll keep working with them and waterways from swimming in them.” nothing is going to change “Shifting the dial and develop the plan. other groups such as local iwi to contribute that,” said one. enabling much greater “This is our second public meeting their knowledge to this plan,” Mr Slupski said. ■ More information about the Motu Similarly, another said ability for people to be and we’ll be running more as the plan is GDC is seeking views to develop the plan Catchment Plan is available on the council the council had already participants in influencing developed to ensure everybody has a chance through varied means, such as establishing website at gdc.govt.nz/environment/our-rivers/ decided “what to waste outcomes would require to be involved,” Mr Slupski said. a community stakeholder group to work motu-catchment-plan ratepayers money on”. a transformation in the “And unfortunately way that local government it’s not on what most works.” Still time left for Anzac Day speech contest ratepayers want, eg clean The sole comment left by water, effective sewage one of the 21 (14 percent) of YOUNG New Zealanders fascinated by Entries close on Monday for the M.E. aged between 12 and 15 to speak at the 6am system, quality roads, a people who were undecided their country’s war history, or aware of Jukes and Sons Ltd-sponsored contest dawn service for three minutes on the topic tidy and inviting city centre, repeated the theme relatives who served in combat, can still which has cash prizes of $500, $200 and What Anzac Day dawn service means to me. and to do this in a fiscally expressed by those who enter the Gisborne RSA Anzac Day speech $150. Entries must be sent to info@gisbornersa. responsible manner. said “no”. contest. Gisborne RSA is looking for students co.nz by 5pm on Monday. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 Ardern shows decisiveness after period of sluggishness

COMMENT by Audrey Young, recommendations. still want to come should have their The New Zealand Herald The steadily-increasing numbers MIQ fees waived in recognition of the reached such heights that Prime upheaval they have endured. AUCKLAND — Among the range Minister Jacinda Ardern was jolted A day-of-departure test won’t pick of reactions to the suspension of into action. up every case. But it would surely arrivals from India have been some Since February, 54 percent of reduce the number of positive cases pretty wild assertions. positive cases in managed isolation boarding flights for New Zealand. The first is that it was a racist and and quarantine have arrived from Ardern talked yesterday about populist move by the Government, India. In the past two weeks, 80 seeking quality assurance processes a claim astonishingly suggested by percent of all positives (60 out of 75) in India for its Covid-19 testing, which several Green MPs, among others. have just arrived from India. is just not enough. In a country as Second, it has been suggested The decision by Ardern and Covid challenging as India, you would need that it is a response to the wave of Response minister Chris Hipkins to to have quality assurances about infections affecting India. It is not. step in and override the Ministry of the processes being undertaken to It was a response to the large Health’s slower timetable has restored assess the quality assurance. number of people arriving in New some confidence in their ability to New Zealand setting up isolation Zealand already infected with Covid act decisively, in contrast to their facilities in another country would be and the apparent failures of pre- sluggishness over the transtasman ridiculously impractical. departure testing and behaviour to bubble and the vaccination roll-out. ‘JOLTED INTO ACTION’: The steadily-increasing numbers of The best way for New Zealand minimise such arrivals. It was also no coincidence that Covid cases arriving in NZ has forced the prime minister’s hand to to restore confidence in processes Imagine for a second that similarly the decision was made on the same make a move to slow it down. NZ Herald picture by Mark Mitchell for India arrivals is for New Zealand large numbers of people arriving in day that another border incursion to assert a little control in a way Auckland from Sydney — or Sydney was announced, the week that slow have been thrown into chaos with no departure but add another layer of that does not impinge on India’s from Auckland — had Covid-19 when progress in the vaccination roll-out notice. protection — several hours before sovereignty. they arrived. The borders would have became apparent, and the week that When Ardern in February of last the flight, require all passengers Underpinning New Zealand’s been snapped shut until the situation the Australian travel bubble was year announced a restriction on departing for New Zealand to undergo response to Covid-19 is a need for had been addressed. signed off. arrivals from China, an exception a saliva test and a temperature test at confidence at various levels. The wonder about the response They are all linked. was made for New Zealand citizens the airport, with product supplied by The public needs to trust what to the India situation is that it took The sheer volume of positive and residents. It was a move that New Zealand and overseen by a New the Government is telling them is so long to get any action from the arrivals from India presents a higher risked diplomatic relations but was Zealand official. true. The Government needs to trust Government. risk that the virus will escape into justified on the basis of protecting The same added requirement what public officials are telling them. The Ministry of Health possibly the community if the vaccination New Zealand. The Greens raised no could be made of passengers from Officials need to be able to trust what took its lead from the politicians who programme is not tip-top and that it objections back then, by the way. countries whose arrivals to New officials in other countries are telling have shown no sense of urgency and will jeopardise the quarantine-free The move on arrivals from India is Zealand test positive on arrival at an them. have been batting away journalists’ travel arrangement with Australia that across the board. agreed threshold specified by a group Other governments need to be questions for weeks about pre- has been so long coming. The answer for the India situation of experts. able to trust what the New Zealand departure tests from India. It is, of course, a big deal legally could be pretty simple: keep the Those passengers from India who Government is doing. The Government sought advice, and at a human level — you have to requirement for passengers to have were blocked from entering New Events this week have eroded that which it received on Monday with no feel for the people whose travel plans a nasal swab within 72 hours of Zealand between April 11 and 28 and trust at many levels. ‘NZ’s thoughts with the Queen’ by Scott Palmer, Newshub. In Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald’s front page bore the headline: WELLINGTON — Prime Minister “Queen’s ‘strength’: Philip dies at 99”. Jacinda Ardern has expressed New It featured a photo of the couple with Zealand’s deep sorrow following the death their two oldest children, Prince Charles of Prince Philip, aged 99, last night, NZ and Princess Anne, in the 1950s. time. The outlet’s homepage was covered wall- Prince Philip’s death was announced by to-wall with pictures and stories of Prince Buckingham Palace in London at 12pm Philip. It featured a live blog, a picture local time. spread and details about his upcoming Ardern said in her statement: “Our funeral — codenamed Operation Forth thoughts are with Her Majesty The Bridge. Queen at this profoundly sad time. On “Beneath all the gaffes, Prince Philip behalf of the New Zealand people and the ran deep,” one opinion piece said. Government, I would like to express my A line in an obituary described the sincere condolences to Her Majesty and to relationship between the prince and the all the Royal Family. Queen as “She wore the Crown; he wore “Prince Philip will be fondly the trousers”. remembered for the encouragement he Just after midday in the UK, the TV gave to so many young New Zealanders show Paramedics on Scene faded to through The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary darkness. Then a BBC-branded, black- Award”. and-white title card appeared, with the The 99-year-old prince had recently words ‘News Report’. been hospitalised in February 2021 for BBC news presenter Marine Croxall, what Buckingham Palace said was a dressed in black, then delivered the news “precautionary measure” after he felt ill. that the prince had died. Ardern said flags on all New Zealand “We are interrupting our normal Government buildings and naval vessels programmes to bring you an important would be flown at half-mast. announcement,” she said. She also said that following his funeral “A short while ago, Buckingham in London, a national memorial service Palace announced the death of His Royal would be held in Wellington. Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of During his lifetime, Prince Philip visited Edinburgh.” New Zealand 15 times — 10 with the The BBC then displayed the prince’s Queen, and five without her. Coat of Arms, depicting his Greek and In 1953, he was at the side of the newly- Picture via NZ Herald Danish lineage on his paternal side, and crowned Queen as the couple visited 46 twitter account his succession from the Mountbatten towns and attended 110 functions. family on his maternal side. “New Zealanders will also remember The British national anthem, God Save The Duke of Edinburgh’s enormous The Queen, then played over a smiling support for Her Majesty The Queen,” Member of the Order of New Zealand on Aviation New Zealand, and the Tin Hat image of Prince Philip. Ardern says. June 4, 2012, for services to New Zealand, Club. The BBC has since halted its regular “His time as royal consort exceeded and also received the New Zealand 1990 He was an honorary member of the programming — across all five of its that of any other royal consort in British Commemoration Medal. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Veterans’ channels, which have been dedicated to history. He was made Admiral of the Fleet of the Association, and an honorary fellow of the airing specials on the “extraordinary” life “His Royal Highness accompanied The Royal New Zealand Navy in 1958, and in New Zealand Institution of Professional of the Duke of Edinburgh. Queen on her ten visits to New Zealand — 1977 he was made Field Marshal of the Engineers, and the Royal New Zealand The news is also front and centre on the first being in 1953, and the last being New Zealand Army, and Marshal of the College of General Practitioners. Britain’s online news sites, including in 2002.” Royal New Zealand Air Force. As Kiwis slept overnight, international tabloid publisher The Sun, which has The Duke of Edinburgh held a His New Zealand connections included journalists went into overdrive, reporting labelled the prince’s death as “a nation’s number of New Zealand honours and his roles with the Royal New Zealand on the first royal death since the passing grief”. — Additional reporting by agencies appointments. Yacht Squadron, Royal New Zealand to the Queen Mother — Queen Elizabeth He was appointed an Additional Returned and Services’ Association, — in 2002. See also page 14 The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 NATIONAL NEWS 7 New Covid-19 Husband speaks out vaccine clinic after Remuera death operating at by Carolyne Meng-Yee, 20pc capacity The New Zealand Herald by Louise Ternouth, RNZ AUCKLAND — The husband of the woman who AUCKLAND — A new Covid-19 vaccination died under unexplained clinic in Otara could be vaccinating five times circumstances at their the number of people that are booked in. Remuera home says he is South Seas vaccination clinic was on its being treated as a “person of second day of operation yesterday, working suspect” by police. ‘FOUND through people in group one and two who Philip Polkinghorne, an WIFE DEAD’ were due to get their Covid-19 vaccinations. Auckland eye specialist, told ON EASTER Tavita Otto was receiving his vaccine with the Weekend Herald he was MONDAY his wife and said it was an opportunity he did advised by his lawyer not to MORNING: not want to miss. “My daughter works at the talk; however, he wanted just Pauline Hanna airport at customs. So, yeah, we’ve got an to say his wife Pauline Hanna and Philip appointment to have our vaccinations today.” was the most “remarkable” Polkinghorne Northern Region Covid Co-ordinator Centre woman who was adored by her in 2018. Ms Pacific incident controller, Meg Poutasi, family. Hanna was explained it was a quick and easy process. “The loss is insurmountable. found dead in “Find a time to come in that suits you, you I just can’t think straight,” he her home on can bring your family members in too, there’s said. Easter Monday. a quick health check, a short wait and then Ms Hanna, 63, died at her Picture by Norrie you’re basically called in for a vaccine.” home in the Auckland suburb Montgomery They were also well-resourced. of Remuera on Easter Monday. “There’s a team of at least 20 of us, four Police are still investigating vaccinators a day and they work really the circumstances around her efficiently to help people through the process. death, which authorities are We can do 500 vaccinations a day and there treating as unexplained. are larger sites in Auckland where we could “As you may or may not “Our relationship wasn’t “After dinner, the pair whether she was stressed. do 1000 a day.” know I am a person of suspect fine, it wasn’t fine at all . . . it watched television together “I know there was stuff she Yesterday, however, there were only 100 so I need to talk to my legal was perfect.” and Ms Hanna helped Mr wouldn’t talk about. people booked in with the possibility of a few counsel whether I should say The couple met through Polkinghorne to write a letter. Her mother had died some walk-ins booked by a GP. It meant they would or shouldn’t say anything,” Mr work and have three “I said goodnight to her. I six weeks earlier after a only be vaccinating 20 percent of the number Polkinghorne said. adult children from Mr went to bed and she went to lengthy illness. they could be vaccinating. Polkinghorne’s first marriage. bed. That was the last time I “I believe Pauline was Thursday’s numbers were even lower, with One son is back from saw her alive.” overworked but she was just 50 people booked in for their vaccinations A source told The New London in quarantine and A source told The New extremely highly regarded by due to a half day at the clinic. Zealand Herald that the other two children live in Zealand Herald Ms Hanna her work colleagues. People Immunisation Advisory Centre director, Dr Ms Hanna had had her Auckland. was still sending work emails would ask me what her role Nikki Turner, put that down to the decision to Mr Polkinghorne is at 10pm on Sunday and that was and I didn’t really know, vaccinate with just the Pfizer vaccine, which second Covid vaccine currently staying with his she had had her second Covid but she could fix any problem.” had specific storage needs. on Easter Sunday sister while the couple’s vaccine earlier that day. Mr Polkinghorne said he did “The Pfizer vaccine requires ultra cold morning. Upland Road home is being The following day, Mr not believe an intruder had temperatures and once it’s taken out of those examined by police. Polkinghorne got up to make come into the house because it temperatures, you’ve only got a five-day “The children are taking it breakfast at around 7am. was alarmed and monitored. window (to administer it). one day at a time, but we are The pair had planned to go “I don’t think there was “If you don’t have well-organised clinics, Ms Hanna worked at all in shock, she was a lovely, to the gym after breakfast. anything nasty like that at you stand to lose a lot of vaccines and these Counties Manukau District lovely person.” “Normally I go before her, all.” vaccines are a precious commodity.” health board as an executive Mr Polkinghorne said but she wanted to go to the Mr Polkinghorne has not When vaccinating the wider public, it was project director. she was always involved gym at 9am. been able to return home all about getting the right numbers, Dr Turner “She was incredibly in the children’s lives and “I think she had a meeting but he was allowed to get his said. hardworking, a magnificent was so happy to later have at 10.30. I got up to make her wallet and car. Mayor Phil Goff was at the clinic yesterday woman who worked very hard a grandson. “She always tea and toast — that’s what A memorial service for a visit. Because of his age and the fact he for her community — she considered them to be ‘her she always had. She is the for Ms Hanna was held lives in Counties Manukau DHB area, he was gave everything she had to children’. She adored them.” only person in the world that at Middlemore Hospital in group two in line for a vaccine. make a success of the Covid Mr Polkinghorne said Ms I know who can have a cup yesterday. “I’m just waiting for my call from the programme, making sure Hanna worked all through of tea lying on her back,” Mr There was no funeral date district health board, that will probably come the hospitals had the right Easter, but they were able to Polkinghorne said. set but Mr Polkinghorne said up this month. Nobody likes having injections equipment and supplies. spend some time together on “Then I found her dead. It his children were organising but it’s really important that I do . . . for me, “She worked night and day, Sunday. was just horrible, horrible, the details. for my family, and for my community.” and Sunday was the last time The couple went to Highland horrible.” “Pauline was a beautiful As well as over 65s in Counties Manukau, she had a bit of time off.” Park, where Ms Hanna Mr Polkinghorne said there lovely, lovely, lovely lady. I older Maori and Pacific people being cared Mr Polkinghorne said he checked in on one of the had been no problems in their failed her. I failed her. I don’t for by whanau, rest-home residents and staff found his wife of nearly 30 vaccination stations, before marriage and he was not at want to have to remember are also in group two alongside front-line years dead early on Monday having lunch together and liberty to comment about anything about her, I just want healthcare workers. morning. going home. Ms Hanna’s state of mind or her to come back into my life.” SPONSORSSPONSORS Eastland Wood Council FORESTRY AWARDS 2021

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Constable one of the most popular Nick Turner said police were called to Russell and lively events in the Street, Dunedin, about 2am yesterday, after the Auckland calendar, returns windows were broken. The 34-year-old man who this weekend after two years had been shooting the bottles was charged with of disappointing cancellations discharging a firearm near a dwelling. — ODT — and for the first time at Mt Smart Stadium. MPs meet with Capital cops There has been much WELLINGTON — A week on from Wellington’s anticipation for the festival #LetUsLive rally, Wellington MPs say they have after the past two events were met with police to discuss ways to help solve called off: firstly, because of violence problems in the capital. the Christchurch shootings of Hundreds took to Courtenay place last 2019; and then for the Covid Wednesday to rally for a city free of sexual lockdown last year. violence after swathes of recent reports However, those upsets highlighting the issue of safety in the city. would be set aside today. The Wellington Central Labour MP Grant Robertson drums of the Pacific, once a told The New Zealand Herald it should be the right feature of Warriors games at of every Wellingtonian to feel safe but he said, Mt Smart, will be heard again sadly, the issue of violence had been a feature in as nine island cultures come society for a very long time. He met with police to life in the eight festival last week to talk through their approach and to villages, through traditional offer support, and he said they had increased and contemporary dance resources to provide more front-line staff. performances, live music, Robertson said he had been working with storytelling, fine arts, crafts, groups across the community in Wellington for food and market stalls. many years. In recent times he said he had been Even the weather was BACK AFTER TWO DISAPPOINTING CANCELLATIONS: The popular, annual Pasifika Festival supporting the city council, hospitality industry expected to play ball with is back on this weekend in Auckland. Above, Ura Tabu is a dance collective made up of Pasifika and police to make a plan for city safety. conditions familiar to the and Maori women. From left are: Ina Tulafasa, Nikki Upoko, Atina Venasio Lipa Patau and “I am also working with my ministerial islands. The outlook was Lahaina Toleafoa. Picture by Jason Oxenham colleagues to ensure those who live in the for high humidity with the central city have the support that they need from slight chance of a shower and the Bluetooth tracing function NZ Herald Pacific affairs between the newly-formed agencies like the Ministry of Social Development moderate northerly breezes switched on on their mobile reporter, Roy Vaughan, worked South Pacific Island Nations and Kainga Ora, and non-governmental — carrying greetings and phones. QR codes would with community leaders Development Association organisations such as the Downtown Community warm wishes from Pacific be prominently displayed such as Cook Islands Consul and the then-Auckland City Ministry.” — The New Zealand Herald homelands. throughout the venue. Hand General Bill Te Ariki and Council, to celebrate and share Pasifika will take place sanitiser stations and a Reverend Leuatea Sio to bring Pacific Island cultures and Wellingtonian ‘lucky to be alive’ under Alert Level 1 and will Covid Sani Squad would be together Pacific communities, bring Pasifika communities WELLINGTON — A Wellington man is “lucky be staged in line with Ministry available as well. Anyone who churches and leaders around together. to be alive” after an unsecured load fell off a of Health Covid-19 guidelines. was unwell or displaying any an idea of a “South Pacific Malo lava, talitali lelei, moving van on the motorway and crushed his Festivalgoers were encouraged Covid-19 symptoms was urged Week”. fakaalofa atu, Bula, kia orana, windscreen. to scan in using the QR code to stay at home. The first festival, held in nau mai . . . welcome back The man was driving his work truck along at the main gates and to have In the early 1990s, former 1993, was a joint initiative Pasifika! — NZ Herald the motorway between Upper and Lower Hutt yesterday when a load of poles fell from a moving van travelling in the opposite direction and hit his He’s 76, she’s 25 and vehicle, crushing the windscreen and throwing shards of glass everywhere. both are accused of “I spoke to his boss, who says he’s lucky to be alive,” the man’s father told The New Zealand importing liquid cocaine Herald, hours after the incident. The driver, a 20-year-old scaffolder, was home CHRISTCHURCH — A 76-year-old man has and in shock after the incident, which left him been arrested for importing drugs after 1.5kg mostly uninjured, save for a few cuts from the of liquid cocaine was discovered in a package shattered glass of his broken windscreen. at an Auckland mail centre. “He text me, and asked me where I was. I knew Customs discovered the liquid drug in late something was wrong,” the man’s father, Jeremy March after intercepting the package when it Rima, said. arrived at the International Mail Centre. It was just after midday when Mr Rima received That led to police executing a search the text from his son. warrant at a Christchurch address on “My son’s work truck was a write off,” he said. Wednesday, where they discovered cocaine “That just shows the impact of how much that and a significant amount of cash, police said load really damaged the vehicle. As a father I was yesterday. so upset,” Mr Rima said, adding he had previously A 76-year-old man was charged with witnessed a similar incident. importing a Class A controlled drug and “A few years ago, at Paekakariki, (I witnessed possession of cocaine for supply, and he the) same situation, but that person wasn’t so was remanded in custody to reappear in fortunate and died at the scene. 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They venues in Kapiti, including Pram Beach and the took their demands Waterfront, have come up with a hybrid vodka, to Civic Square which sold out in just one day through their and to Parliament distillery — The National Distillery Company. in the capital, to Just days out from Easter, The National Cathedral Square Distillery Company’s chief mixologist, Shaanah in Christchurch and Evans, posed a question to Mr Nicholl. to Queen Street in “What’s the chance we could make a vodka Auckland. that smells and tastes like a hot cross bun?” RNZ pictures After a few late nights —and plenty of tastings, the answer is history with their Hot Cross Bun Vodka selling out straight away. “We came up with the idea of making a vodka which tasted like a hot cross bun, and we nailed it,” Mr Nicholl said. “We cracked a product that smelled and tasted School Strike 4 Climate uncannily like a freshly-toasted hot cross bun.” Producing 50 bottles of the “slightly sweet, yet savoury” vodka, the hope was to sell them over the week leading up to Easter weekend. “We were only going to make 50 but they sold Thousands of students march for climate change out in one day, so we went large and sales have skyrocketed.” CHRISTCHURCH — Thousands While not wanting to disclose exact numbers, of students marched yesterday in the team were making the product day and night New Zealand’s first School Strike 4 from March 25 when they created their first batch. Climate protest since Covid-19 hit, It has also garnered the attention of The Spirits taking demands to Parliament and Business publication in the USA. clashing with Christchurch’s mayor. Bottled at 40 percent ABV and selling at $65, In Christchurch, a mix of the 700ml bottle and its labelling is inspired by students and older protesters the classic nursery rhyme Hot Cross Buns. shouted down mayor Lianne “We are bartenders by trade, every product Dalziel after her response to their we create starts at the bar with the customer in demands. mind,” Mr Nicholl said. They marched from Cathedral Based in Hawke’s Bay, The National Distillery Square to the Civic building Company produces gin and vodka, including with local demands, including Hemp Gin and a navy-strength bottling. investment into green and free public transport, greater emphasis on climate education, and to stop CHRISTCHURCH MARCH PAY OFF YOUR development of the Tarras airport. HEATED: Right, the Dalziel told the crowd their Christchurch march. Above, PEST CONTROL demands were important, and march organisers speak face- change “requires work from to-face with Christchurch in 4 interest-free payments everyone”. As she said change was Mayor Lianne Dalziel. needed, there were calls of “what RNZ pictures by Hugo Cameron are you going to do about it?” from the crowd. The mayor said young people In Auckland, more than 1000 change is taking over our world in an open mic session outside should make submissions to students marched up Queen Street and even though in New Zealand Parliament. CALL ME TODAY… Environment Canterbury’s long- chanting: “Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Climate we aren’t really feeling a lot of the Climate Change Minister James PROFESSIONAL SERVICE! term plan, and the crowd then change has got to go.” impact — the brunt of what it’s Shaw met with the students, began shouting her down. Most of the crowd were students doing to our world, there are so who marched from Civic Square SERVICES Dalziel said she would meet with and many held placards demanding many people in lower economically- to the steps of Parliament, and Pest Control Property Professional protest leaders over their demands, a change in attitudes to stop global developed countries that are not received a list of demands calling Residential & Commercial but would not go into details with warming. able to make changes. for Government action on climate Pest Management Systems the crowd. Marist College Year 13 student “But, with us doing something, change. FROM HICKS BAY TO WAIROA One of the Christchurch march Maddie Atkinson said she wanted with us changing, we can speak up They urged Shaw to make sure Urban & Rural properties organisers then made an emotional to show her school how important for them.” the transition to a zero-carbon EMAIL: [email protected] and hoarse plea for the mayor to it is to use their voices. In Wellington, about 4000 economy was done in a just and : make the right choice. “This is a big issue . . . climate students listened to speakers equitable way. — RNZ PHONE Tony Pereira 021 823 797

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www.eastlandwood.co.nz � @eastlandwood � @Drive35 39131-01 10 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 Crackdown on freedom campers Tougher penalties proposed for those who break the rules

WELLINGTON — A spoiling the experience for more communities with high visitor crackdown on irresponsible responsible campers and for numbers but small ratepayer freedom camping is being locals who are left to clean up bases can afford tourism proposed with plans to increase the mess,” Nash said. infrastructure. penalties for those who break “In Northland, growing the rules. pressure from a surge in Main proposals: Proposals include limiting freedom camping saw Whangarei vehicle-based freedom camping ban the practice at coastal sites ■ Potentially limiting vehicle- to those certified as self- this summer. based freedom camping to those contained, tougher penalties “Marlborough District Council certified as self-contained, or and fines, strengthening the found 500 vehicles had tried to requiring non-self-contained, standard for self-contained illegally camp over summer. vehicle-based freedom campers vehicles, and additional grounds “Golden Bay locals say bird- to stay at a site with toilets. to confiscate vehicles breaching nesting sites are threatened by That would not apply to freedom the rules. campers. campers on public conservation Penalties include $1000 fines “In Queenstown, freedom land and regional parks. or vehicle confiscation. camping is banned within city ■ Stronger powers to enforce The burden of collecting the limits.” the rules, including ensuring fines from campers who hire The rules were not intended there is a regulatory system for vehicles may fall on to rental to try to stamp out freedom certifying self-contained vehicles companies. camping, but to ensure that that involves checking the Tourism Minister Stuart there was clarity around plumbing work and centralised Nash has released a discussion expectations, he said. vehicle register, tougher document to seek public “Backpackers and budget INCREASE IN PENALTIES ON THE CARDS: A crackdown on penalties and fines, requiring feedback on the proposals. travellers are welcome. irresponsible freedom camping is being proposed, with plans to rental vehicle companies to Research from the Ministry Responsible campers in increase penalties for those who break the rules. File picture collect fines, and additional of Business, Innovation and motorhomes, caravans or budget grounds for confiscating vehicles Employment shows there vehicles in campgrounds are to take a rest from driving and small business owners who run when campers breach the rules. were an estimated 245,000 welcome. But it must be a case are not intended to allow local campgrounds or backpackers’ ■ Strengthening the standards freedom campers in 2019 with of ‘right vehicle, right place.’ authorities to target homeless hostels, who have lost business. for self-contained vehicles, which international visitors accounting “This document asks for people. Private campgrounds offer sites could include testing whether for more than 60 percent. public feedback on the future “Improving freedom-camping from around $20 a night. toilets should be required to be Nash said the proposed of vehicles that are not self- regulations will go a long way “The Department of permanently plumbed in to self- rules were aimed at improving contained.” to changing campers’ behaviour Conservation has hundreds of contained vehicles rather than freedom camping, protecting The freedom-camping rules and protecting Brand New campsites — many of which are merely portable. the environment and removing do not apply to camping in Zealand. free or as low as six dollars a Submissions can be made unfair burdens on locals. remote or wilderness areas that “Abuse of the system threatens night.” online, by email or mail until “The most consistent are more than 200 metres from the unique and precious Government funding has been May 16, with Government complaints I hear about the where you can drive, Great Walk qualities that make us such a granted over the last three years tourism officials hosting public tourism sector relate to abuse Tracks or coastlines. desirable tourism destination in to invest in council facilities and information sessions and of the freedom-camping rules. They have never applied the first place,” he said. programmes to help manage webinars around Aotearoa. A sub-group of visitors are when people pull off the road “Changes will also support freedom camping and ensure — RNZ Historic building may get the Whanganui ‘H’

by Moana Ellis, building still maintenance. preference for the spelling of Local Democracy Reporter carrying the New signage with the Whanganui without the ‘h’, old spelling. correct spelling could and concerns over the Royal WHANGANUI — “Whanganui” go up when exterior title. Whanganui city’s historic has been the painting and repairs The opera house was given Royal Wanganui Opera House official spelling are completed later this a Royal title as part of its is a step closer to adopting an of the city since month. centennial celebrations in ‘h’ in its full name. 2017 when the The council consulted 1999. Whanganui District Whanganui District name change was with Friends of the Council has informed the Council’s property and officially gazetted, Opera House, Palace and the Ministry for services committee has agreed reflecting the views of 74 percent of Culture and Heritage has unanimously to change the Whanganui District whom were confirmed that changing the name of the Opera House to Council, local iwi and in support of spelling does not need the include an ‘h’ in Whanganui. public submitters. adding the ‘h’. approval of the Queen or the The 120-year-old building Councillors have Eight Governor-General. is the last remaining working heard that changing the percent were neutral and Approval for the Victorian theatre in the name now would be timely 13 percent were opposed committee’s decision would be 35813-06 southern hemisphere and and cost-effective because to the idea because of sought at the next full council is the only council-owned the building is undergoing likely mispronunciation, a meeting. — RNZ

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To find out more contact Jane Smith, [email protected] PH: 06 869 0617 39206-01 The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 BUSINESS 11 PRICES ON THE INCREASE Consumers face pain at the checkout by Aimee Shaw, NZ Herald worse scenario of deflation) for years, so they may be quietly pleased with this progress, to AUCKLAND — Price hikes across all retail some degree.” categories are expected in coming months as Retail NZ says the message it has received increasing and compounding cost pressures on from its retailer members was that “prices are businesses flow through. expected to start creeping up” over the next three Increases to the minimum wage rate and months across a broad range of goods. incoming sick leave entitlements, paired with Increases to costs were being felt across all the cost of freight almost doubling since the portions of the market, and no categories of onset of coronavirus and increasing international goods would be immune from the price hikes, procurement prices, are expected to push up Harford said. the prices of everything from clothing, footwear, While retail was often considered cut-throat appliances, through to homewares, hardware, and competitive, the increasing costs businesses sporting goods and grocery items. were footing were no longer able to be absorbed Retail NZ says businesses’ cost bases and or delayed, Harford said, adding that the hikes overheads are growing at alarming rates and had been a long time coming. increased costs at the shelves are only a matter “What we’ve seen over quite a long period is of time. pressure on costs and prices. A lot of that hasn’t The latest Retail Radar survey of Retail NZ necessarily in past years flowed through in the members shows two thirds of retail businesses way that we might have expected it to, but the expect to see prices increase over the next cost increases we are seeing now are of such a quarter. substantial nature that it is likely they will move Retail NZ’s Greg Harford told The New Zealand through pretty quickly.” RISING PRICES: Cost of trip to shops to go up as retailers in all sectors feel burn of Herald that multiple factors were at play making Employers and Manufacturers Association rising costs. There are fears increasing prices could put the brakes on retail spending. it more expensive than ever to run a profitable chief executive Brett O’Riley agrees — he says NZ Herald picture business. price hikes are the last resort for businesses, and “There’s been a big explosion in demand for he believes rising inflation does have the potential “It’s not a bad thing, but it does have flow-on ‘Unprecedented’ times product overseas so the cost of buying goods to derail the country’s economic recovery. impacts to retailers’ abilities to hold prices.” internationally has increased, the cost of freight “You just can’t keep laying more costs O’Riley said increases to the minimum wage Retail commentator Chris Wilkinson, managing has more than doubled — and that’s a big on businesses without it having an impact. were redundant if a big portion of earnings were director of First Retail Group, said businesses component of the costs we face here in New Unfortunately this outcome was entirely cut at the other end of the scale with higher were facing unprecedented times, and there Zealand — and we’ve had the big minimum wage predictable,” O’Riley told the Herald. goods costs. had never been a time prior to this whereby hike kick in a few days ago, which is driving “It’s the perfect storm or imperfect storm “You can’t just move the cost dial in one part of businesses were facing such rapidly increasing (increased costs) of employing people and not because you’ve got the global supply chain and the economy and think that it’s not going to have costs on all fronts. “We’ve got a double whammy just people on the minimum wage. “Right across freight issues that are massive and businesses an impact . . . if (government) is trying to improve in terms of supply challenges, freight, but also retail, employers are trying to maintain relativity have nowhere else to go — if you reduce service the cost of living for people there is no point source issues; factories not being able to secure within their teams, they have effectively given you lose customers so your only other choice choosing a blunt instrument like minimum wage products to produce these items, which has many people a pay rise, and there are more becomes increasing prices.” without recognising that it is going to have an meant that there is scarcity, which also drives (increases) coming down the track,” said Harford. The National Party has called for no new impact somewhere else in the economy,” he said, price increases,” Wilkinson told the Herald. “There “The cumulative impact of all of that has business legislation for the next two years. adding that he would not be surprised if the price are unprecedented challenges.” resulted in huge pressure on margins and in a O’Riley said EMA supported this as it would increases that flow through are “significant”. Wilkinson expects supply issues to continue world where the net retail margin is 3.9 percent, it minimise disruption and put the brakes on “Businesses have very limited levers they can further into the year, and the costs of goods to is not sustainable to absorb those costs.” rising costs in an area of business that could be pull.” continue to increase outside of the next three A report by Craigs’ Investment Partners controlled. O’Riley fears the price hikes would be felt most months, particularly within the home improvement questions whether rising cost pressures and “With the minimum wage increase, we argued greatly by those with the least money. and construction sector, and appliances category. inflation could derail New Zealand’s economic that the increase should be made smaller — to The Retail Radar survey found two-thirds of “Globally, the world is seeing similar types of recovery. acknowledge the fact that we are in a very difficult firms expected the minimum wage increases will demand. With Europe and North America coming The Reserve Bank expects headline inflation time. We’ve been willing to be prudent and have an impact on their business in the quarter back online and lockdowns ending, people are to increase from its current 1.4 percent level to cautious around public health, what about being ahead. back out spending and demand from those as high as 2.5 percent through the middle of prudent and cautious around business health?” About 37 percent of retailers said they would countries will be ramping up as well so New the year. However, this could be short lived, the The Herald had not received a response from be less able to reward staff performance, while Zealand will be quite a way down the food chain report outlines, with forecasts suggesting it won’t Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister David 34 percent said they would have to decrease the as far as suppliers are concerned.” exceed 1.6 percent in 2022. Clark or predecessor Kris Faafoi’s offices at the number of hours of work they offered employees. The ANZ Business Outlook survey shows that time of publication. Thirty percent of retailers said they expected to ‘Cautiously optimistic’ expectations of cost increases are at the highest “At the time when the economy is starting to cut the number of people they employ over the level in more than a decade. About 74 percent get (back) on its feet, you don’t want to provide next three months. According to Retail NZ’s Sales Index there was of firms expect higher costs over the next 12 disincentives for businesses to be able to hire Retailers have for more than six months been a strong lift in spending in March. Average retail months, while 49 percent plan to raise their prices people or to be able to operate,” said O’Riley. riding the Covid-19 wave of increased consumer spending per site was up 29.8 percent compared in response. spending as the borders have remained shut to with the same month last year. Firms expect inflation to remain slightly below Rising costs and legislation international travel. Despite ongoing challenges, Harford said he 2 percent — the highest level in two years. While a big portion of the country’s largest and remained “cautiously optimistic” about the trading Craigs’ private wealth research team argue that Increasing business costs are largely a result mid-sized retailers had significantly increased outlook for the sector over the next few months. some inflation is not necessarily a bad thing — of the coronavirus pandemic, which has put their profits and sales revenue since the middle The key to maintaining business positivity providing “it doesn’t get out of hand and that it severe pressure on international supply chains at of last year, Harford said those gains were short- lay with ensuring Auckland and the rest of the goes hand in hand with improving growth”. both shipping and manufacturing levels. term and businesses couldn’t easily absorb rising country does not return to operating under alert They outline that the global economy is The cost of freight has more than doubled costs. level restrictions, he said. expected to gain momentum over the next two since the middle of last year and some retailers Then there were also small retailers that had Trade could also be affected by the years as vaccine roll-out efforts accelerate and had reported paying up to three times the typical not been afforded the same luxuries, he said. transtasman bubble opening up from April 19. countries gradually reopen their borders. rate to get goods into the country following “Increased sales is what we’ve seen across While good news for Aotearoa, it would likely International Monetary Fund forecasts point to shipping constraints and delays. the retail sector, (but) increased sales do not mean heightened domestic spend in recent world growth of 6 percent in 2021 — the biggest The minimum wage increased by $1.10 to necessarily equal increased profitability — it just months would pull back, he said. global growth boom in 40 years. $20 per hour on April 1 and later this year the means that there is more cash going through the The biggest risk remained increasing retail Craigs’ analysts say corporate earnings Government is set to double paid sick leave store. prices which, if substantial, could cool spending, “should recover in a similar fashion”. entitlements from five days per year to 10 days. Secondly, that positive spending that we have he said. “I think things will go okay over the They say modestly higher inflation would be The increase to the minimum wage on its own seen has been very unevenly spread across the next few months, the problem is that you’ve welcomed by many policymakers. was significant, Harford said, particularly for sector, there are businesses that have done well got more cost increases on the horizon; if that “Central banks have been desperately trying smaller firms. This had crept up by 30 percent in terms of sales but there are . . . those that have flows through to price increases that might flow to generate some inflation (and to avoid the far over the past four years, he said. done truly terribly.” through to reduced spending.”

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY $33.76m worth of its shares changing hands. is installing 4000 Eroad electronic distance Mercury Energy gained 3.5c to $6.525. recorders in its Australian and New Zealand Cancer diagnostics company Pacific Edge fleets, and will be paying a monthly subscription WELLINGTON — The New Zealand “People were anticipating a capital raise surged 21c or 21.21 percent to $1.20 after for five years. Eroad’s share price has risen $1 sharemarket faltered on the surprise move by by Air New Zealand in June and now it’s been announcing a new agreement in the United in the past three weeks, after sitting at $3.94 on Air New Zealand to delay its capital raising and pushed out to September. And the cleaning States. The company’s Cxbladder tests will March 19. the continued uncertainty over the activity of the out of the exchange traded funds holdings in be covered by United Healthcare, the largest Market leader Fisher & Paykel Healthcare had offshore clean energy exchange traded funds. Contact and Meridian is taking longer than healthcare group in the US, and including a late fall, losing 18c to $33.42 on trade worth The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell 58.25 points expected,” he said. previous deals Pacific Edge now has access to $23.9m after reaching an intraday high of $34.14; or 0.46 percent to 12,574.35, after reaching Air New Zealand’s share price gained 2c to more than 110 million Americans. and a2 Milk gave back its gain of the previous an intraday high of 12,686.33. There were 81 $1.83. The stock has now doubled in 12 months, Solly said Pacific Edge gained “a real ripper day, falling 29c or 3.26 percent to $8.60. gainers and 62 decliners over the whole market having been 90c on April 4 last year. of a client in the US and it is now well on track Investore Property increased 5c or 2.42 on volume of 56.59 million share transactions Contact and Meridian headed the trading to being profitable.” percent to $2.12 following a $57.5m property worth $219.47. by value, suggesting the iShares Global Clean Transport technology company Eroad rose valuation gain for the six months ending March. Shane Solly, portfolio manager for Harbour Energy ETFs were still in selling mode. Contact 26c or 5.56 percent to $4.94 after also signing Investore’s portfolio is expected to be worth Asset Management, said there was a lot of noise finished at $7.05, up 1c, on trade worth $30.77m, up a large and meaningful Australian customer. $1.038 billion at March 31, with a loan to value on the market. and Meridian also gained 1c to $5.45, with Infrastructure services company Ventia ratio of 26.8 percent. — NZ Herald 12 BUSINESS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021

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37249-01 The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 OPINION 13 EDITORIAL Challenging them and their status by Joe Naden and hatred is unleashed on them so that peace have done. Three waters at a returns to their minds and their lives; hatred is Excuses are easy to find — “Maori is a RE: The trouble with Hate a simplified method for managing differences, primitive and dead language, it cannot handle crossroad this LTP — a reassessment? March 27 such as those that arise from religion, language economics and technology etc, etc”. But Meng The area of “three waters” poses column and comment trail. or race; or when these differences become too has gained an insight into the tikanga, the This discussion was about much to bear, such as in the recent wards spat, customs of the Maori as well as how Maori think, significant challenges for councils racism and hate speech as that threatened the status quo of local politics which better fits him for the job he does. When around the country, including how introduced by Tim Wilson but in Te Tairawhiti and out came the hate letters — he comments on racism and police brutality, ie, to fund large infrastructure deficits; it was hijacked and led off to a those damn Maoris are acting undemocratically; those subjects which he is paid to deal with, he compliance with safety standards scrap over the hackneyed description of those we must maintain our grip on power! Colonialism is not as his local critics openly say, doing it with and environmental expectations; who have ruled Aotearoa since the 1850s (“pale, . . . rubbish! no basis — he uses information from hundreds building resilience to natural hazards stale, male”) — and is really a nice way of saying Another commentator says we are taught to of letters he receives every day from victims of and climate change into drinking they have had their day and should be put out to hate the different, the challenger, the other . . . racism and hatred in our “fair” land. He has told water, wastewater and stormwater grass. Only those who know this description is witness the flood of complaints from those who us so. Believe him. networks; and supporting growth. of them are angered about it. The rest of us laugh are different, in Aotearoa and more so in the Clive could not hold a candle to Meng and his Here in Tairawhiti we have a city and watch them squirm. USA. What more proof do you need that it is knowledge of Ngati Porou and Te Aitanga a Hauiti And most commentators on racism and racist happening? kawa, and his belief that he has his racism under water supply reaching its limits speech agree that this is the very situation that Meng Foon, Aotearoa’s Race Relations control is away with the fairies. E Clive, mohio and with pipes at the end of their allows racism and hatred to rear their ugly heads Commissioner, is well-equipped for the role, koe ki te korero Maori? useful life; regular calls for the — someone is challenging them and their status; having experienced the effects of being different Racism and hatred are not in our genes . . . council to speed up its approach to vide the reaction of several writers here. all his life. He has also taken the time and put they are learned behaviours and the teachers limiting wastewater overflows into Another commentator asks why we hate and in the energy to do what all New Zealanders can be adult family members, neighbours, school city rivers; a decision on a second offers several explanations — to define who is in should do and that is learn to speak one of the mates and the media. Anything learned can be stage of wastewater treatment our group and who is not; when one feels tension other official New Zealand languages, Te Reo unlearned but it takes courage to admit you are made for the current Long-Term Plan after a challenge arises, a scapegoat is looked for Maori, which is more than his local detractors racist, and effort to purge yourself of it. (LTP) overturned soon after it was adopted to fast-track this, and costs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS for it ballooning to $34.8m from Most glaring gap in LTP the original $24.4m; and continuing Re: New cycleways rely The city cycleways promised pressure to stop pumping treated Young ones dead right on external funding, April 9 for Kaiti have no new wastewater into the bay, which will Full marks to the students creativity, caring, repairing editorial. ratepayer funds assigned involve building a wetland. who demonstrated yesterday and community organisation Thank you for pointing out in the next 10 years — that With a spotlight firmly on the for climate action. Now that (and of course for consuming the most glaring gap in the would have been the very least need to lift investment in this it has restarted, I can see this less, so the basic income is not draft Long-Term Plan. GDC could do to encourage a area, perversely local bodies are movement growing fast. automatically inflating). While the council shift to more active transport incentivised to be less ambitious The young ones are dead It is a matter of degree: a makes climate emergency options for thousands of on three waters infrastructure in right — there is real urgency surge in the koha or informal declarations and says climate commuters who could easily the 2021-2031 LTPs they are now for faster change than the economy, and thus a drop in mitigation is a priority, the make the switch. consulting on. This is because the politically-respectable goals the formal economy — that detail of the LTP reveal While we worry about of the Climate Change dirty word, recession. It is basically no commitment to what kind of world the next Government is set to finalise major Commission — and the logical a surge in local socialism changing from the status quo. generation will inherit, our reform of three waters service next step for them, with their — literally, that dirty word, Emissions from road elected leaders seem opposed delivery arrangements in mid-2021, open minds, is to find the communism in its original transport in this country have to do any real leading right just as LTPs are adopted, to come appropriate new economics. conception. It is a huge nearly doubled since 1990 now on the issues that could into effect in 2023/24. Stuart Moriarty-Patten change in freedom and what and 41 percent of transport make a real difference for the Its starting intention is to reform argues well for a society the psychologists call mental emissions come from private future. three waters services into a small of common ownership and bandwidth, and thus a key motor vehicles. MANU CADDIE number of multi-regional entities control to reverse the evil of to mental health, just as with a bottom line of public profit-based, growth-based ending poverty is the key to ownership — ie councils handing capitalism, but this requires physical health. It could be Coppicing trees an option organisation and cooperation, called anarchism in the good control of their water services not the anarchism he suggests. historical sense, to a degree Re: Road running out on to some than harvesting replanted to these entities, and central A universal basic income, — but it is not anarchy, which exploitative land use, April 7 letter. NZ natives or of regrowth; even if government helping to fund what it which costs nothing as it means chaos. Manu says: “Permanent native using helicopters to avoid clear- has identified as a need to boost is just sharing what we While a dramatic change, cover of highly erosion-prone felling (at more cost and fossil fuel planned investment over the next 30 already have, frees people to it is only one of degree, hillsides — estimated at something use). It’s what peasant populations years by $30 billion-$50bn. quit destructive or useless returning to but improving like 80 percent of land in the region were used to doing for thousands jobs, foreseeably halving on the mixed economy of the — is the only option.” of years before fossil fuels suddenly Hence our council’s explanation Permanent root systems, yes, but took over the hardest workloads. for a preferred option of spending industrial activity and all that past; keeping capitalism, but commuting, and giving a spell keeping it in its place, which not only NZ natives. “Finding economically $33.1m, rate-funded, to continue There are a few exotic trees sustainable alternatives” for land its programme of three waters pipe of time for good, unforeseeable is to exchange surpluses and new developments. luxuries, not to profit from which will give the required erosion use is what some locals have renewals over the next 10 years Reducing our gross over- basics. protection, and an occasional been doing for many a year, a.k.a. (rather than another option of employment frees people for GAVIN MACLEAN harvest of useful timber. These are cannabis production. Other cropping taking on $3.3m extra debt as well, called coppicing trees: such as is possible, but not many of them to replace old pipes faster): “This some eucalypts, Sequoia, some are financially rewarding enough. means we wouldn’t over-commit Technology finds a way . . . oaks, Casuarina, walnuts, plane, There are enthusiasts from bees our budgets while we wait for more elm, poplar, willow, Liquidambar, to truffles, nutters to aromatics, Re: Hydrogen news ‘hot air’, Does anyone remember the alder, sycamore, Tilia, some ginseng to boutique porkers. detail about the Government’s three April 9 letter. petroleum tragedy of Piper Acacia, Racosperma, Liriodendron, Trouble is, even the enthusiasts water reforms.” The preferred option The same types of Alpha, or Deepwater Horizon, Sambucus, Paulownia, some maples. have to afford to eat until their for a wetland is to start building it in discussions were had with or Exxon Valdez etc etc. Most of these could be managed project covers costs, pays the 2032 and to spend $1.8m in this LTP the dawning of the petroleum Technology finds a way to hold the soil, and still supply rates, pays a living wage, and then cycle, rather than another option to age. Coal was good, why do — after all, who wanted a small and large wood products for pays enough to match the best start in 2029 and increase planned away with horse and cart for smartphone 30 years ago or upwards of a thousand years (at alternative investment. So far, that is debt-funding for this to $11.4m. noisy, inefficient, unreliable the internet, and look at us enormous cost per tonne compared a blanket of P. radiata. The council is likely to face a combustion engines which now. to clear-felled young P. radiata). Bring it on. conundrum when it considers catch fire etc etc. MATHEW BANNISTER Still, that may be more acceptable WILL DOBBIE submissions on its LTP related [email protected] to three waters, though, as those calling for faster action on ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. wastewater overflows and disposal ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. ■ Always include full name and contact details. at sea are unlikely to be satisfied ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. with more of the status quo. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021

ROYAL SPOTLIGHT: In this June 2, 1953 photo, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London, following the Queen’s coronation at Westminster Abbey. Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip, husband of The Queen, has died aged 99 on Friday. AP file picture

The man beside the monarch Prince Philip: 99 years, 143 countries and one very famous wife

LONDON — The Duke of Edinburgh, his mother was committed to a secure ardent young man with a new sense of monarchies must adapt to survive. arguably the world’s most famous psychiatric centre after suffering a purpose. He set up informal lunches where the husband, has died at the age of 99. nervous breakdown. He wrote to his soon-to-be mother-in- Queen could meet people from a broader He spent seven decades in the shadow Philip saw little of either parent in the law: “I am sure I do not deserve all the range of backgrounds. The footmen of his wife, the UK’s Queen Elizabeth years that followed. His father retreated good things that have happened to me. — palace servants with a traditional II — but his force of personality meant to the French Riviera with a mistress, and To have been spared in the war and seen uniform — stopped powdering their hair. he would never be simply a professional his mother’s relatives in the UK helped victory, to have been given the chance to And when he learned the palace was spouse. So who was the man beside the raise him. He would later adopt their rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen running a second kitchen exclusively to monarch, and how did he come to marry surname, Mountbatten — an anglicised in love completely and unreservedly, feed the royals, he had one shut down. the Queen? form of the family name Battenberg. makes all one’s personal and even the Some changes were more personal, and A Scottish boarding school, world’s troubles seem small and petty.” reflected his childlike love of gadgets. A husband but never a king Gordonstoun, passed for home during his King George gave Philip permission to Before the Coronation, when Philip and teens. Its founder and headmaster was marry his daughter. But first there were the future Queen moved into Clarence First things first: The Duke, also known Jewish educational pioneer Kurt Hahn, some tweaks to make. House in 1949, he happily installed an as Prince Philip, was never in line for who had been forced out of Germany for The erstwhile Prince of Greece and array of labour-saving devices, including the throne — which his eldest son stands condemning the Nazis. The school gave Denmark became a naturalised British one in his wardrobe that would eject a to inherit — and never held the title of Philip structure, and nurtured his self- subject, formally joined the Church of suit at the push of a button. king. That’s because in the UK, a woman reliance. Its somewhat Spartan regime England and abandoned his foreign titles. At Buckingham Palace, Philip had who marries the monarch can use the saw pupils rise early for a freezing shower On his wedding day, November 20, intercoms put in so that servants no ceremonial title of queen — but men who and cross-country running, which Hahn 1947, he was made Duke of Edinburgh, a longer had to ferry written messages to marry the monarch can’t use the title believed would combat the “poisonous name he was widely known by for the rest his wife. king, which can only be used by male passions” of adolescence. of his life. He was 26, and his wife 21. He carried his own luggage, and cooked sovereigns. The royal couple would have just over his own breakfast in his rooms with an The Queen and Prince Philip had four How did Philip court the Queen? four years (and two children) together electric frying pan — until the Queen children together: Prince Charles, 72, before duty came knocking. objected to the smell. Princess Anne, 70, Prince Andrew, 61, and When Philip left school, Britain was The fateful news reached them at a 57-year-old Prince Edward. on the verge of war with Germany. He game lodge in Kenya, during their 1952 How did he spend his time? As they tell it, Philip often exerted his joined the Britannia Royal Naval College tour of the Commonwealth. King George will when they were young. in Dartmouth (the UK’s naval academy), VI, Elizabeth’s father, was dead at 56. As the longest-serving consort in Royal biographer Ingrid Seward quotes where he proved a brilliant cadet and Commander Michael Parker, the British history, the prince took on some Prince Andrew as saying of his childhood: graduated top of his class. Duke of Edinburgh’s friend and private 22,191 solo engagements. When he retired “Compassion comes from the Queen. And When King George VI paid an official secretary, described the moment he from royal duties in 2017, he was said to the duty and discipline comes from him.” visit in July 1939, Philip was charged realised his wife was now Queen. be patron, president or a member of more But Andrew also remembered how his with entertaining his young daughters, “He looked as if you’d dropped half the than 780 organisations. father made time to invent bedtime tales, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. world on him. I have never felt so sorry Accompanying the globetrotting Queen or listen to his children read Rudyard Their governess, Marion Crawford for anyone in all my life. He just breathed on Commonwealth tours and state visits, Kipling’s Just So Stories. (employed as a guardian for the heavily, in and out, as though he were in he visited 143 countries in an official Prince Philip lived long enough to see princesses), recalled later that Philip shock. He saw immediately that the idyll capacity, making use of his fluent French his eight grandchildren grow up, and to had “showed off a great deal”. He made of their life together had come to an end.” and German. welcome 10 great-grandchildren. quite an impression on the 13-year-old Philip’s naval ambitions were curbed. The countries included Vanuatu, a Elizabeth, as would soon become clear. The new Queen Elizabeth would need South Pacific island nation where he is Where did he start out in life? Prince Philip served with distinction her husband by her side. The Duke of revered by one rainforest community as in World War 2, seeing military action Edinburgh was named as the Queen’s the reincarnation of an ancient warrior. Curiously, Philip’s journey to for the first time in the Indian Ocean. By consort. His primary function was to But one of his most enduring legacies is Buckingham Palace began back in 1922, October 1942, he was 21 years old — and support his wife. the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, founded in a crib made from an orange box. one of the Royal Navy’s youngest first A long-running row broke out in the in 1956 at the urging of his former He was born on 10 June 1921 on the lieutenants. early 1950s when Philip wanted the Royal headmaster, Kurt Hahn. Greek island of Corfu, the youngest child The teenaged princess and the officer Family to take his surname, Mountbatten. In his spare time, Philip was a and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece kept in touch by letter. Over Christmas in “I am the only man in the country not talented sportsman. He learned to sail and Princess Alice of Battenberg. 1943, after Philip had been to stay with allowed to give his name to his children!” at Gordonstoun, and became a regular That heritage made him a prince of the Royal Family, a photograph of him in he fumed when the Queen was persuaded competitor in the regatta at Cowes, on the Greece and Denmark, but the following naval uniform appeared on her dressing to keep Windsor. “I’m nothing but a bloody Isle of Wight, where sailing races are held year the family was banished from Greece room table. It was a decisive gesture from amoeba!” each summer. after a coup. a reserved but determined young woman. Philip struggled to find purpose in He loved equine sports, including A British warship carried them to Some aides were sceptical. A famous the limited role set out for him. But as a carriage driving, and was among the UK’s safety in Italy, with baby Philip dozing in sneer (since attributed to more than one natural pragmatist, he was determined top four polo players in the mid-1960s. a makeshift fruit crate cot. official) claimed the prince was “rough, to blow fresh air through the stuffier He was also a committed environmental ill-mannered, uneducated and would corridors of Buckingham Palace. campaigner and wildlife advocate, What was his upbringing like? probably not be faithful”. But naysayers becoming president of the World Wildlife could do nothing to deter the future How did Philip change the monarchy? Fund (UK) in 1961 — though he faced Philip’s childhood was fragmented, and Queen. criticism when a picture emerged of him darkened by a series of losses. According to biographer Philip Eade, The Duke never forgot his family’s on a tiger shoot with the Queen in India In 1930, when he was eight years old, Philip’s letters from 1946 reveal an forced exodus from Greece, and believed the same year. — BBC via RNZ The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 WORLD 15 Australia secures extra 20 million Pfizer vaccines Israel to snub

CANBERRA — Australia said yesterday in Australia’s overall approach and is that it has finalised a deal to buy an extra likely to delay plans to have everybody ICC war crimes 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine as it inoculated by October. rapidly pivots away from its earlier plan A major part of Australia’s strategy had to rely mainly on the AstraZeneca vaccine. been the ability to make its own vaccines Prime Minister Scott Morrison at home and not rely on shipments from announced the deal just hours after abroad. It had planned to manufacture investigation saying Australia would stop using the some 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca AstraZeneca vaccine for people aged vaccine, enough for 25 million people. under-50. Australia had made no plans to make any JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday and has no right to investigate, citing its He said the deal means Australia will other vaccines at home. (local time) said it would formally reject own judicial processes and the fact that get a total of 40 million doses of the Pfizer Even before the change, the government the International Criminal Court’s the Palestinians have neither a state nor vaccine by the end of the year, enough to was facing criticism for a roll-out decision to launch a probe into potential defined borders. inoculate 20 million people in the nation programme that’s lagging behind those war crimes against the Palestinians, “In addition to totally rejecting the of 26 million. in most other developed nations. So far, denying that it has committed such crimes claim that Israel commits war crimes, Australia’s pivot came after the Australia has administered just over 1 and saying the court lacks the jurisdiction Israel reiterates its unequivocal position European Medicines Agency said this million vaccine doses. to investigate. that the Hague Tribunal has no authority week it had found a “possible link” Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese A panel of judges at the ICC ruled to open an investigation against it,” the between the AstraZeneca vaccine and rare said the roll-out was a debacle and in February that the court does have government said in a statement, detailing blood clots, though regulators in the UK Australians needed certainty about when jurisdiction, allowing the investigation a letter it plans to send to the ICC. and the EU emphasised that the benefits they would be vaccinated. to proceed. Israel’s response to a formal “Israel is committed to the rule of law of receiving the vaccine continue to “This government has failed. This notification sent out last month is not and will continue to investigate any outweigh the risks for most people. government couldn’t run a choko vine up expected to reopen that debate, though charges against it regardless of the source, After the European agency’s a back fence,” Albanese told reporters, judges may reconsider the issue of and it expects the tribunal to refrain from declaration, Australian drug regulators referring to a plant that produces pear- jurisdiction later in the process. violating its authority and sovereignty,” held a series of urgent meetings on shaped fruit and grows easily in the The court is expected to look at possible the statement said. The letter is in Thursday and recommended the Pfizer Australian climate. war crimes committed by Israelis forces response to an official notice sent to all vaccine become the preferred vaccine for Health Minister Greg Hunt said there and Palestinian militants during and parties by the ICC last month. Israel people under-50. would be some adjustments but everybody after the 2014 Gaza war, as well as could have argued that it was capable of Morrison said there was no prohibition would be kept safe and would get Israel’s establishment of settlements in investigating and prosecuting violations on the AstraZeneca vaccine and the vaccinated. the occupied West Bank and annexed east on its own, potentially deferring or even risk of side effects was remote. He said Australia has managed to stamp out Jerusalem that now house over 700,000 cancelling the ICC’s investigation. the change was being made out of an community spread of the virus, allowing settlers. International law prohibits the Experts have said Israel might have abundance of caution. life to continue much as before the transfer of civilians into occupied territory. succeeded in deferring investigations The pivot represents a significant shift pandemic. — AP The Palestinians have hailed the probe into possible war crimes by citing its own as a rare opportunity to hold Israel to investigations into alleged misconduct by account for what they say are serious, its soldiers. But the establishment and longstanding violations of international continuing expansion of settlements has law. The Palestinians were granted been an official state policy for decades nonmember observer status in the UN and is allowed under Israeli law. General Assembly in 2012, allowing them Israel is not a member of the ICC, but to join international organisations like the Israeli officials could be subject to arrest ICC. in other countries if the court issues Israel says the court is biased against it warrants against them. — AP

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LISSE — Finally, after bleak winter months The limited opening — six days spread over of a coronavirus lockdown, springtime shoots two weeks in April — is welcome to the 40 of hope emerged on Friday as restrictions were gardeners who spend months preparing for relaxed at a Dutch flower garden and other the annual spring season. In a normal year, the public venues. garden — the size of 50 soccer fields — can Under a government-approved pilot scheme, accommodate 10 times as many visitors each the world-famous Keukenhof garden opened day. its gates to let a few thousand people tiptoe Park director Bart Siemerink had mixed through the 7 million tulips, hyacinths, daffodils feelings. “Of course, happy today. It’s the first and myriad other flowers meticulously hand- day of Keukenhof 2021,” he said, but added that planted throughout its manicured lawns by a the park still felt different with such a relatively small army of gardeners. small number of visitors. A maximum of 5000 visitors were allowed On Friday, small groups of visitors were into the garden, nestled amid the pancake flat scattered around the lawns. You could get bulb fields between Amsterdam and The Hague, a plate of poffertjes — a Dutch treat of tiny if they could show proof that they had just pancakes covered in icing sugar — without tested negative for Covid-19. having to wait in a long line. Minke Kleinen, who visited the central city The Dutch government announced this of Arnhem with her friend Ilse van Egten, said week that hundreds of public venues would be it felt like their “first legal day out.” The friends allowed to reopen under strict conditions to took rapid tests before setting off and got their evaluate whether rapid testing can safely help negative results by email as they drove. the country ease coronavirus restrictions amid “It feels strange that we can stand next to rising levels of vaccinations. one another,” said Van Egten, giving Kleinen a Under the scheme, visitors to the Keukenhof quick hug. “It’s nice!” — as well as museums, zoos and other venues The Keukenhof lost an entire season last — are allowed entry if they order a ticket online year to the pandemic as the first deadly wave and get a negative virus test within 40 hours of of infections swept over the Netherlands. Its their visit. All virus tests are free and a result Proudly supporting

Huringa Pai 37620-01 scheduled March 20 opening this year never is emailed within an hour to the tested person. ENTER NOW! #964MoveWhanauHeart happened because of strict virus lockdown. — AP Entry forms available online ww.sportgisborne.org.nz or pick up at Sport Gisborne on Grey Street. For more information contact Sport Gisborne (06) 868-9943 16 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 Volcanic unrest rocks Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An positive would be taken to an isolation explosive eruption rocked La Soufriere centre. volcano on the eastern Caribbean Emergency management teams have island of St. Vincent on Friday after been going out to communities in the the government ordered thousands to red zone and providing transportation evacuate their homes nearby. to safer locations, including prearranged Experts said the ash column rose shelters, according to Joseph. more than 6 kilometre high and that the By late Thursday evening, shelters majority of the ash was headed northeast were filling up as a string of car lights into the Atlantic Ocean. making their way to safer ground However, heavy ashfall also was twinkled through the darkened reported in communities around the mountains. volcano and beyond, with authorities John Renton, a school principal who saying some evacuations were limited by was in charge of one shelter, said in a poor visibility. phone interview that they had plenty Several flights also were cancelled and of masks and other personal protective islands including Barbados, St. Lucia and equipment but needed more cots. While Grenada prepared for light ashfall as the talking, he was interrupted by a phone 1220-metre volcano continued to rumble. call from a government official asking “More explosions could occur,” about the state of things. “We’re over Erouscilla Joseph, director of the capacity,” he responded, noting that the University of the West Indies Seismic shelter could hold 75 people and was Centre said in a phone interview, adding already filled up. that it was impossible to predict whether EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION: Ash rises into the air as La Soufriere volcano erupts on the Meanwhile, the government warned of they might be bigger or smaller than the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, seen from Chateaubelair on Friday. Erouscilla water shortages, given that people were first one. Joseph, director of the University of the West Indies Seismic Centre said “More stocking up after the alert was issued. There were no immediate reports of explosions could occur.” AP picture Scientists alerted the government about casualties from the eruption that occurred a possible eruption after noting a type of four days short of the 42nd anniversary of the roughly 16,000 people who live in the efforts. seismic activity at 3am on Thursday that the last sizable eruption. red zone near the volcano in the island’s Gonsalves said people have to be indicated “magma was on the move close In the coastal town of Barrouallie, northern region. More than 2000 people vaccinated if they go aboard a cruise to the surface,” Joseph said. about 14 kilometres from the volcano, were staying in 62 government shelters. ship or are granted temporary refuge A team from the seismic centre arrived evacuees trudged toward shelters “We have had hiccups here and there in another island. He said two Royal in St. Vincent in late December after the carrying backpacks, duffel bags and . . . but by and large we are proceeding Caribbean cruise ships and two Carnival volcano had an effusive eruption. They shopping bags stuffed with personal pretty well,” Prime Minister Ralph Cruise Lines ones arrived on Friday. have been analysing the formation of a belongings after the explosion. Some Gonsalves said in a press conference. Islands that have said they would accept new volcanic dome, changes to its crater prepared to stay there, while others were He later wiped tears from his eyes and evacuees include St. Lucia, Grenada, lake, seismic activity and gas emissions, expected to board cruise ships or go to apologised for crying while he thanked Barbados and Antigua. among other things. nearby islands that have offered help. people and other governments in the He said he was talking to Caribbean Seventeen of the eastern Caribbean’s Others still waited for transportation region for opening their homes and governments to accept people’s ID cards if 19 live volcanoes are located on 11 to a shelter, including one family who countries to St. Vincentians. they don’t have a passport. islands, with the remaining two under stood for at least an hour by the side of “On the dangerous road to Jericho, we “This is an emergency situation, and water near the island of Grenada, a road under the sun with their children have the good Samaritans,” he said. everybody understands that,” he said. including one called Kick ‘Em Jenny that and suitcases as they awaited a ride from He said that depending on the damage Gonsalves added that he highly has been active in recent years. someone. done by the explosion, it could take up recommends those who opt to go to a The region’s most active volcano in The volcano last erupted on April 13, to four months for things to go back to shelter in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, recent years has been Soufriere Hills 1979, and a previous eruption in 1902 normal. an island chain of more than 100,000 in Montserrat, which has erupted killed some 1600 people. As dozens of people streamed toward people, be vaccinated. Authorities said continuously since 1995, destroying the The new eruption followed mandatory safer ground, officials worried the those staying in shelters would be tested capital of Plymouth and killing at least evacuation orders issued on Thursday for pandemic could hamper evacuation for Covid-19, and that anyone who tests 19 people in 1997. — AP

SUCCESSFUL Pandemic, hunger force LAUNCH: This photo shows the Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster thousands into sex work with Soyuz MS-18 space ship carrying MEXICO CITY — Hardships caused by the Street Brigade in Support of Women said her a new crew to coronavirus pandemic have forced former sex group found 15,200 sex workers on Mexico City’s the International workers in Mexico back into the trade years after streets in August, about twice the number before Space Station, they left, made it more dangerous and reduced the pandemic. ISS, blasting off some to having sex in cars or on sidewalks for “The surprise was that there were more. On at the Russian- lack of available hotels. every street corner — it was surprising,” she said. leased Baikonur Claudia, who like most of the sex workers Madrid estimates 40 percent of those on the cosmodrome, interviewed asked to be identified only by her streets now are women who had left the trade but Kazakhstan on first name, had stopped working the streets a were forced to return by the pandemic, another Friday. AP picture decade ago after she married one of her former 40 percent are new to the profession and 20 clients. But when her husband lost his job early percent are part-time or occasional sex workers. in the pandemic, the couple fell four months “A lot of the other ones — the other 40 percent behind on rent for their apartment. — had been waitresses who had never worked in The only solution Claudia saw was to go back the sex trade before,” she said. “You know, when US, Russian spacemen dock to working the streets. they closed the restaurants, people have to eat “It was an income in order to eat, to pay the and have to give their kids what they need. And at International Space Station rent we owe,” said Claudia, who now owes only then the single mothers — most of them worked one month back rent. “It is hard to come back and in stores, clothing shops, bars, cosmetics.” MOSCOW — A trio of Russian and reasons we were so successful at the see so many of my fellow workers from the old “They cried because they said, ‘I don’t want to American space travellers launched beginning of human space flight,” Vande days, my era, going back to do the same thing . . . do this, but I have to feed my kids,’” Madrid said. successfully and reached the International Hei said at a pre-flight news conference on to see all the problems out there.” “But there was another 20 percent that surprised Space Station on Friday. Thursday. Laura, a 62-year-old transgender woman who us more. They were housewives, women with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and “And as time went on, we realised that began working Mexico City’s streets 40 years grocery bags who did it for 50 pesos, or whatever Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and by working together we can achieve even ago, wages a daily battle to stay housed. If she they needed to buy food. They didn’t protect Pyotr Dubrov blasted off as scheduled at more. And of course, that’s continuing to this gets a client that day, she can perhaps afford a themselves (use condoms) because they didn’t 12:42pm (0742 GMT, 3.42 am EDT) aboard day and I hope that it will continue into the cheap hotel room for the night. If she doesn’t, she consider themselves sex workers.” the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft from the future.” sleeps on the street. Madrid estimates sex workers have lost 95 Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in The three will work on hundreds of Laura said many of her clients have lost their percent of their income due to the pandemic. Kazakhstan. experiments in biology, biotechnology, jobs and can no longer pay her. At one point she Madrid said that after hotels closed or raised They docked at the station after a two-orbit physical science and Earth science. had to pawn her telephone, her only contact with prices, some people started renting rooms journey that lasted just over three hours. On the International Space Station, they some of her regulars. or storefronts to sex workers, who found the It is the second space mission for Vande are joining NASA’s Kate Rubins, Michael “Some days you don’t have anything to eat landlords were taping them with clients and Hei and the third for Novitskiy, while Dubrov Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, . . . You might eat one day and not the next,” said demanding payment in exchange for not posting is on his first mission. Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud- Laura. As for avoiding coronavirus, “I put my trust the videos on the internet. The launch came three days before the Sverchkov and Japan Aerospace Exploration in God” and hand sanitiser.” In spite of fewer clients, lower earnings and 60th anniversary of the first human flight to Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Things are even harder for older sex workers more risks, thousands of women see no option space by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Rubins, Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov like Laura, because thousands of new sex amid the pandemic but to stay out on the streets the 40th anniversary of the first launch of arrived in a Soyuz ship in October; Hopkins, workers have pushed onto the streets as the of the capital, spending hours waiting in the hot NASA’s space shuttle. Glover, Walker and Noguchi — the crew of pandemic forced closure of restaurants and sun or on dark corners. And on many days they “When we started, we were competing the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience — joined shops. still go home to hungry families with no income with each other and that was one of the them in November. — AP Elvira Madrid, who leads the activist group at all. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 FOCUS ON THE LAND 17 THE Overview STOCk by TOM LANE Rural Real Estate Agent 37298-01 REPORT Prices remain strong for better lambs

by Trevor Brown male store lambs, being paid $132 for a pen of 140. Te Wera Station were paid More store lambs came forward for sale the best price of $109 for their pen of 268 yesterday at the Matawhero Saleyards, store ewe lambs. comprising 2873 of the total of 2964. The average body size and condition Best prices: is declining each week, as the district experiences drought conditions. Store male lambs: K.J and R.E The hills are dry and grass and winter Fisher, 140, $132, 146, $117, 65, $80, 11, JOBLOADS: Influencers: Leighton crop growth is very slow. Prices remain $61; C.N.A and J.M Marr (Te Wera), 175, Clarke (Uncle Tics) Jack Tai Poa strong for the better lambs but are easing $122.50, 327, $113.50, 206, $100; Waikura (Uncle Jack) Nixon Stoddart, and on the lambs that will take longer to Ltd (Waikura Valley), 74, $114, 197, $102, Bhaskar Sharma (Buskey) and Judah fatten. 103, $89. V.C and J.L Hill sold 3 prime lambs A number of themes to note Metu-Teaukura (front). Store ewe lambs: Picture by Ruby Productions NZ for $152 and 6 for $148. D.N and D.K Te Wera Station, with our Rural Property market Oates received $180 for 3 prime 4 tooth 268, $109, 65, $100; C.N.A and J.M when we compare the 13mths to wethers. Marr, 108, $101.50, 495, $95.50, 97, $75; January 2021 with the same prior K.J and R.E Fisher at Motu topped the Waikura Ltd, 74, $100, 152, $85, 102, $70. period to January 2020: Using TikTok In a nutshell it’s really been a game of two halves over the last 13 months, the first half to June to connect New MIQ spaces: an 2020, significantly impacted by a slow real estate market and Covid-19 operating restrictions, opportunity for workers the second half reflecting a all ‘jobstars’ rebound in national confidence FEDERATED Farmers hope that the initiatives don’t address the immediate in support of our primary sector A GISBORNE tech start-up is helping the Government will take the opportunity of labour problem. We need people in our as export receipts continue to nation’s horticulture picking shortage by newly available space in MIQ to bring fields, orchards and cowsheds now.” anchor NZ’s economic recovery; taking to social media platform TikTok to fill much-needed workers for the primary Federated Farmers have asked the notably dairy by both value and “hundreds” of jobs. industries into New Zealand. Government to allow 500 skilled dairy The fledgling company, founded by Covid-19 Response Minister Chris staff into New Zealand for the new volume of farm sales. Gisborne’s Candice Pardy, has launched a Hipkins estimates that the Australian milking season. A survey was undertaken Nationally, sales 20ha and over three to six month social media campaign, quarantine-free travel bubble will free up in March to gain a better understanding were steady at 1200 annualised after bringing five top Kiwi influencers 1000 to 1300 beds in MIQ a fortnight. of the staffing issues on dairy farms. The for $2.6bn all of which is very together in Gisborne to assist in signing up “MIQ space has been continually survey had 1150 responses in just one similar to the prior period to new ‘Jobstars’ to fill hundreds of live jobs quoted as a barrier for getting the week. in Horticulture around Gisborne and the workers we need. With more beds “Survey results showed that 49 January 2020 at $2.5bn rest of New Zealand. becoming available it should now allow percent of dairy farmer respondents were Horticulture: despite the record “The influencers have a combined TikTok those with agricultural skills to enter currently short-staffed; 46 percent had export returns, total property following of over 2.9 million @uncletics, @ the country,” said Federated Farmers vacancies unfilled for more than three sales to Jan 2021 equalled unclejacktai, @judaxx, @whoisbuskey & @ immigration spokesperson Chris Lewis. months, and nearly a quarter had been $431m, remarkably similar to nixonsto with many Gizzy locals rushing up “With continued low unemployment unable to fill a gap on their team for more to them on the main street to take pictures and the majority of available workers than six months,” Mr Lewis said. the year-prior period at $434m, during meal breaks,” the company’s head remaining in the urban centres, all of “Federated Farmers acknowledges the noting a $105m positive swing of marketing and community Kristy Burden the primary industries are crying out for Government has already made some in the post Covid-19 period said. labour.” limited border exceptions for agricultural recovery, to get things back to “We spent a couple of hours visiting Farm Source, a leading job website for machinery operators, veterinarians, sheep square again. different orchard sites in the region where the dairy industry, currently lists over shearers, animal pregnancy scanners and the team of content creators all in their 1100 vacancies on farm, far higher than some skilled dairy staff to date. Dairy sales 20ha and over, is early to mid-twenties directed, shot and the usual number for this time of year, “However, these limited exceptions the big mover at 157 sales for edited a variety of exciting content for us. Mr Lewis said. aren’t going to go very far with the $663m, up from 101 sales for The content creation was quick — these “All of the primary industries have been number of workers needed across $436m the prior year. Dairy sales guys can produce a final version in working hard to attract and upskill Kiwis the primary industries in the coming last autumn were back by $91m minutes, a true craft. to work on farms, but unfortunately these months.” at the end of Covid-19 but had a “After the mahi was done we spent time $308m recovery over and above meeting local school children at Kaiti Mall, Wainui and the skatepark, who were so the prior spring in 2019. excited to see the crew who they instantly B+LNZ encourages farmers to For all your rural real estate recognised from TikTok in their hometown.” requirements, from lifestyle, Jobloads is a job marketplace helping horticulture and farms, feel free people find meaning and thrive at work. set up or join Action Groups to contact me. If you are thinking The app puts respect for the human of coming to the market and rights of every worker in the supply chain BEEF and Lamb New Zealand encourages the topics and expertise that are most relevant to at its centre. Miss Burden said the new sheep and beef farmers to set up or join Action their businesses,” said B+LNZ spokesman John would like an absolutely-no- campaign, which is independent of the Groups to put their ideas into action, make Ladley. obligation proposal or you are government’s Help the Harvest campaign positive changes on farm and improve their “The small-group setting and facilitator support looking at a property out of the to recruit pickers, would run for three to six productivity and profitability. helps build trust and confidence, providing region we are here to help. months. Developed with input from sheep and beef members with the opportunity to ask the questions As we are now in Autumn and “We are an app connecting growers with farmers and rural professionals as part of the Red they want to ask, gain learnings specific to their a screened workforce, we just identified Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP), the approach has farm business and to put real change into practice enjoying some warm days let’s where our audience was and that was on been proven to support farmers to make changes to improve productivity and sustainability. hope we get some much-needed TikTok and so we took the plunge to give in a range of areas such as farm systems and the “Action Groups also enable farmers, rural rain for the district sooner than it a go, something that really hasn’t been environment. professionals and the sector to adapt to changes later. done before. B+LNZ has adopted the Action Group extension in Government regulations, help farmers to better “It was quite a big investment but it’s and adoption model to ensure all sheep and beef tell their stories and meet the changing views of already paying off and we have had 15 new farmers have the opportunity to benefit from the consumers and the wider public.” Jobstar applications just in the first ten success of this small-group learning approach. Farm businesses committed to an Action hours. The principles of the Action Network model Group can expect: A professionally-facilitated, “We are hiring for hundreds of jobs — have also been used to support farmers setting up results-focused small group supporting their there are 15 live jobs in Gisborne but there Catchment Communities groups. business through change, support for group set- are hundreds in Auckland, Taupo and most Each Action Group is eligible for kick-start up with kick-start funding and external support, of the North Island.” funding of $2,000 to help pay for their facilitator, help with finding solutions to support the farm Job vacancies were for apple and assist group set-up or their choice of expert input. business in a changing world, connection to kiwi fruit and potentially wine growers in There are currently 186 active Action Groups in trusted, independent expertise, access to B+LNZ Marlborough also. New Zealand. resources, tools, and expertise and to tap into the “We also verify the growers we work with With an average of eight farm businesses per knowledge and experience of other farmers. and we are really trying to lift standards in group, this means about 1500 farm businesses are “Farmers can connect with other farmers terms of pay and the environment and what involved in this nationwide initiative that results interested in forming an Action Group in various people are learning on-site. So, we are not in individual farm businesses working with others ways,” Mr Ladley said. just verifying the people who are going to in their group to develop and implement a group “Several farmers may get together to form work, we are also verifying the growers to plan. an Action Group, they may already be part of a make it better for everybody,” Miss Burden “Action Groups enable farm businesses to work discussion group which they can turn into an pb.co.nz said. together with like-minded farmers to learn from Action Group, or they may be approached by a 26841-05 experts and also from other farmers, focusing on rural professional who is pulling together a group.” Property Brokers Ltd Licensed REAA 2008 36614-05 18 FOCUS ON THE LAND The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 NZ Shears under way in Te Kuiti Smedley MARK Barrowcliffe may be top boss in one previous win, also at Marton, but for the Shears by being top qualifier the shearing industry but he also runs was now looking forward to mixing it for the National All-Breeds Shearing runs faster a gang of some of the top up-and-coming with the big guns of the open grade next Championships, which will be shorn talent, as was evident on the opening season. on Saturday afternoon and which day of the New Zealand Shears in Te Among Kerr’s mentors has been Te would otherwise have also been held in Kuiti on Thursday. Kuiti’s Keryn Herbert, who retained the Masterton. with FarmIQ Staff of the Piopio-based NZ Shearing North Island Open Woolhandling Circuit Thursday’s semifinal comprised 12 Contractors Association claimed title, in a final normally held at the qualifiers from an earlier curtailed series the first two titles of the three-day Golden Shears in Masterton, which were of four shows. by Richard Rennie championships, the junior woolhandling cancelled last month because of Covid-19 It was a disaster for Hawke’s Bay- final won by Rahera Kerr, 31, from Alert Level 2. based Scotsman and former world and TO RUN a 5660ha dry stock operation Hauturu, and the senior final by Herbert’s win, qualifying for a place Golden Shears champion Gavin Mutch. would be a big ask at the best of times, but Azuredee Paku, 36, from Masterton. in the New Zealand transtasman series Mutch was the top qualifier from the add in a teaching role and it can prove a Both from intergenerational shearing team next summer — if the series goes preliminaries but was held up by car juggling act which Smedley Station manager families, they were unofficial favourites ahead — was some consolation for problems en route, and made it with Rob Evans has been more than up for. as the top performers in their grades missing out on a place in the five for the barely 30 seconds to spare, only to tail Rob admits having a young crew of cadets during the season. New Zealand Shears open final, to be the field on the day. to oversee helps him stay sharp, and has also Kerr reached 10 finals and added contested on Saturday night. Entries for the championships reached encouraged him to look harder at the new Thursday’s success to earlier wins at Herbert, and nine times winner and the highest level in Te Kuiti for several technology out there that young cadets will the Central Hawke’s Bay A&P Show 2010 World Teams Champions teammate years, with more than 270 shearers and be engaging with in their farming careers. in Waipukurau in November and the Sheree Alabaster, of Taihape, were both woolhandlers expected to have taken This includes FarmIQ, and for the past two Rangitikei Shearing Sports North Island eliminated in the semi-finals. part by the end on Saturday night. years Smedley has been gradually adopting Championships in Marton in February. Former Southland shearer Troy Pyper The championships weren’t held last many of the features FarmIQ offers into its Paku reached nine finals, with just the justified his late decision to fly north year because of the Covid-19 lockdown. day to day operations, and for bigger-picture planning during the season. Initially, when he started using FarmIQ Rob had been inputting stock numbers and feed budget data to give himself and staff a more up-to-date picture of feed supply-demand. Hawke’s Bay primary sector This enabled him to share potential options with staff via the computer or cellphone. It has also meant he can get a real-time picture across the station’s four blocks. In the past 18 months, Rob has moved recognises best performers use of FarmIQ along, picking up many of its additional functions as he and staff have become more confident using it. THE champions of the Hawke’s Bay “We are using the planning and recording primary sector have been celebrated tools for cropping, fertiliser and chemical use for their success at a sell-out awards across the four blocks, and bringing in the function at the Tomoana Showgrounds EID data we have on sheep,” he said. Hawke’s Bay. “There is no point in having an EID animal Among the major winners of The running around out there and not using that 2021 Napier Port Hawke’s Bay Primary data when we are recording it anyway. We Sector Awards were Central Hawke’s may as well put it into the system where we Bay’s Andrew and Maddy McLean, can track it.” who scooped the supreme Hawke’s Bay It has taken the guesswork out of decision- Farming trophy — the Silver Fern Farms making, and he can easily bring his managers Hawke’s Bay Farmer of the Year. in on that decision, sharing the data on their Judges reported that despite farming smartphones. in “extreme circumstances” was a reality “Throttling up or down on feed levels can for many in 2020, how the finalists be determined against recorded weight gain navigated this crisis was of “significant rates, conserving feed where necessary if interest” to the judges as they visited the those gains are already achieved,” Rob said. properties. He has also adopted the popular Health The winning couple farm 885 hectares and Safety facility within FarmIQ, providing with simple bull and lamb trading peace of mind about staff and contractors’ systems alongside a ewe breeding locations across the properties at any given operation. time. The farm’s erosion control and “Once someone has come on, I can link sediment loss management has been SUPREME AWARD: Central Hawke’s Bay’s Andrew (right) and Maddy McLean in the rest of the staff to know who is on the established to protect the land over scooped the Silver Fern Farms Hawke’s Bay Farmer of the Year title at an awards property.” the long term and their succession ceremony on Thursday night. Picture by Simon Cartwright With multiple blocks and stock types, process has seen the winners go from FarmIQ has made keeping track of animal management to farm ownership. finest and most innovative, industrious Year — Mark Warren health simpler, with an auditable trail of The awards, organised by the Hawke’s primary producers in the country and •฀Hastings฀District฀Council฀Primary฀Sector฀ reports generated, reducing compliance Bay A&P Society, was held on Thursday produce some of the highest-quality food Industry Leader of the Year — Kate Radburnd burden, while a shared diary system ensures night. and fibre to be found anywhere in the •฀Unison฀Hawke’s฀Bay฀Primary฀Sector฀ no-one misses important dates on the animal General manager Sally Jackson said world.” Professional฀of฀the฀Year฀—฀Rex฀Newman health calendar. the awards “contribute significantly to The 2021 winners: •฀BWR฀Hawke’s฀Bay฀Primary฀Sector฀Innovation฀ “This year has been a bit of a difficult one the primary industry across the region”. •฀Silver฀Fern฀Farms฀Hawke’s฀Bay฀Farmer฀of฀ Award — MyEnviro with Covid, but we are continually working on “This year marks the 50th year of the the Year — Andrew and Maddy McLean •฀Lawson฀Robinson฀Hawke’s฀Bay฀Scholarship฀ it, and have had good support from Garth and Silver Fern Farms Hawke’s Bay Farmer •฀Horticentre฀Trust฀Hawke’s฀Bay฀ — William MacDonald his team at FarmIQ — it’s a good system and of the Year award and entrants across all Horticulturalist of the Year — R J Flowers Ltd •฀Laurie฀Dowling฀Memorial฀Award฀—฀Marie฀ we have got a lot out of it in a short time.” categories have represented some of the •฀Pan฀Pac฀Hawke’s฀Bay฀Farm฀Forester฀of฀the฀ Taylor.

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122฀Disraeli฀Street,฀Gisborne฀•฀Phone฀06฀867฀1613฀•฀offi฀[email protected] 37086-07 The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 WORLD 19 Gloomy global forecast Intelligence report offers grim view of world’s future WASHINGTON — US intelligence officials are painting a dark picture of the world’s future, writing in a report released on Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened economic inequality, strained government A day out resources and fanned nationalist sentiments. Those assessments are included for monkeys in a Global Trends report by the government’s National Intelligence BERLIN — About two dozen monkeys Council, a document produced every four broke out of a southwestern German zoo years. and spent the day lolling in the sun near a This year’s report is designed to help forest before being recaptured, authorities policymakers and citizens anticipate the said on Thursday. economic, environmental, technological The Barbary macaques, commonly known and demographic forces likely to shape as Barbary apes, escaped from the zoo in the world through the next 20 years. Loeffingen, southwest of Stuttgart and not The document focuses heavily on far from the Swiss border. It was not entirely the impact of the pandemic, calling it clear how they got away, but construction the “most significant, singular global work at the zoo might have been a factor, disruption since World War 2, with DARK, STARK REALITY: People wait outside the office of the Chemists Association police said. health, economic, political, and security to demand necessary supply of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir, in Pune, India. The primates were spotted roaming the implications that will ripple for years to According to an intelligence report Covid has shaken every aspect of life. AP picture area in a pack, but zoo employees were come.” unable to recapture them and eventually lost Nations in different parts of the world of climate change are likely to worsen climate change and disease, but can also track of them. A few hours later they were set new records on Thursday for Covid-19 the problem of food and water insecurity provoke new tensions, the report says. spotted, recaptured and returned to their deaths and new infections, underscoring in poor countries and hasten global “State and nonstate rivals will vie for cages without incident, police said. the lingering global toll of the virus. migration. Though health, education leadership and dominance in science and “The animals apparently took advantage “Covid-19 has shaken long- and household prosperity have made technology with potentially cascading of the nice weather and spent the afternoon held assumptions about resilience historic improvements in recent decades, risks and implications for economic, on the edge of a forest near the zoo,” police and adaptation and created new continued progress will be hard to military, and societal security,” the report said. uncertainties about the economy, sustain because of “headwinds” not only says. The Barbary macaque is native to the governance, geopolitics, and technology,” from the effects of the pandemic but also The report also warns of eroding trust Atlas Mountains of North Africa and has a the report says. aging populations and “potentially slower in government and institutions and of a small but famous presence across the water The document finds cause for concern global economic growth.” “trust gap” between the general public in Europe, in the British territory of Gibraltar. in virtually all aspects of life. Advances in technology have the and the better informed and educated — AP It warns, for instance, that the effects potential to address problems including parts of the population. — AP Afghans work to stem polio rise amid violence, pandemic

KABUL — Afghanistan is “But at the end of the day, I 2010, the country has been trying to inoculate millions love my job — I serve my people, carrying out regular inoculation of children against polio after especially children,” she said. campaigns in which workers go pandemic lockdowns stalled the “Such attacks can’t stop us from door to door, giving the vaccine effort to eradicate the crippling what we are doing.” to children. Most of the workers disease. But the recent killing of In Pakistan, officials have are women, since they can get three vaccinators points to the struggled to overcome deep better access to mothers and dangers facing the campaign as public suspicion over vaccines, children. turmoil grows in the country. particularly since the US used Last year, authorities had to The three women were gunned a fake vaccination campaign to call off four planned inoculation down in two separate attacks unearth the hideout of al-Qaida rounds because of lockdowns on March 30 as they carried out leader Osama bin Laden. Hard- against the coronavirus door-to-door vaccinations in the line clerics and militants have pandemic, though they did eastern city of Jalalabad. stoked the fears by depicting manage to conduct two rounds. It was the first time that polio vaccinations as a Western Authorities say nearly 10 vaccination workers have plot to sterilise Muslim children. million children are now in need INOCULATIONS AGAINST THE CHILDREN’S DISEASE: A child been killed in a decade of In Afghanistan, some of vaccination against polio. Of receives a polio vaccination in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan. door-to-door inoculations have also been suspicious of those, authorities are unable to Afghanistan is inoculating millions of children against polio after against the children’s disease vaccinations, but that rarely if reach some 3 million children pandemic lockdowns stalled the effort to eradicate the crippling in Afghanistan. Such attacks ever translated into violence. living in areas under the control disease. AP picture have been more common in The new of Taliban neighbouring Pakistan, where killings insurgents. capital, and most families she patients received treatment at least 70 vaccinators and appear to Afghanistan and Pakistan One round of approaches allow their children in the programme, including security personnel connected reflect the inoculations to be given a dose. Public physiotherapy, medical to vaccination campaigns have disturbing are the only two countries was carried worries over the coronavirus and equipment and orthopedic been killed since 2011. rise in chaos in the world where polio is out earlier eagerness for treatment have devices. Afghanistan and Pakistan in the past still endemic, and both have this year, made some more open to polio Maiwa Gul, 35, a polio patient are the only two countries in year, when and a second vaccinations, she said. from eastern Khost province, the world where polio is still the country seen a disturbing increase in was launched Still, she regularly faces was at the centre on a recent endemic, and both have seen a has seen cases in recent years. on March sometimes angry resistance day getting repairs to the leg disturbing increase in cases in increasing 29 — and from some families who claim prostheses that he needs to recent years. targeted continued vaccines are forbidden by walk. He urged that all children In Afghanistan, 56 new cases killings, despite the religion or harm children. “There be vaccinated. were reported in 2020, the sometimes of professionals or killings the next day. During are families who don’t even Merjan Rasekh, head of highest number since 2011, civil society figures, sometimes the four-day second round, more open their gates for us, they just public awareness at the Health when 80 cases were registered. just seemingly at random. than 6 million children were shout, if we don’t leave, they will Ministry’s Polio Eradication Adela Mohammadi, a 21-year- The Islamic State group vaccinated, according to Health come out and beat us,” she said. Program, said the killing of the old vaccinator worker in Kabul, has claimed responsibility for Ministry spokesman Ghulam The continued impact of polio three vaccinators was “painful.” said her parents didn’t want her some of the violence. But the Dastagir Nazari. can be seen at the International “If this situation continues, it to go out to do inoculations on perpetrators of many attacks In Afghanistan’s deeply Committee of the Red Cross’ would definitely have a negative the day after the three women remain unknown, including conservative society, traumatised Orthopedic Programme in impact on the morale of our were killed in Jalalabad. the killings of the vaccination by decades of war, some are Afghanistan. It mainly provides health workers,” he said. “I went, but with a lot of workers. suspicious, viewing inoculations artificial legs to the many But the young women at the worry,” she told The Associated The violence adds a new as a Western trick. wounded in war or by roadside forefront of the vaccination drive Press. worry as Afghanistan struggles Mohammadi has been bombs or mines. But it also said it must continue. “If we are “I was thinking, ‘what if to stamp out a disease that has participating in door-to-door offers services to anyone with afraid to go out to vaccinate, someone was waiting for us and largely been eliminated around campaigns the past three mobility issues — including our children and all of us will suddenly started shooting at the world. In children, polio can years. She works in somewhat people affected by polio. face problems,” said 22-year-old us.’” cause partial paralysis. Since better educated parts of the In 2020, nearly 5000 polio Shabana Maani. — AP 20 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 Grand Millennium MIQ Gold Coast charity-bin worker Covid-19 case death: victim People in ‘at least five’ Auckland homes now self-isolating a Kiwi mum by Lynley Ward, The New Zealand Herald of three AUCKLAND — Health authorities still do not know GOLD COAST — A mother-of-three who how an Auckland MIQ worker was found dead in a Gold Coast charity bin contracted Covid-19, after this week was originally from Greymouth. an inconclusive result on the Charmaine (who was mostly known as first attempt at whole genome ‘Mikki’) O’Shea was found half inside the sequencing of the infection. bin, which was behind Stockland Burleigh A repeat sequencing test Heads Shopping Centre, on Easter Monday. was taking place, with results Police were called to the rear of expected today, along with Stockland Burleigh Heads Shopping Centre those of serology testing, the on West Burleigh Road after the discovery Ministry of Health said. of the body at about 7am local time on The update comes as a man Monday. required to stay home for a Police believe O’Shea, who at one time week claims there are at least ran a Kiwiana market stall at the popular five Auckland properties with Carrara Markets, was crushed when the residents in self-isolation or lid fell as she tried to retrieve something quarantine connected to the inside. infected security guard. The tragedy came five years after the The man, who shares a flat 43-year-old’s life took a dark turn when she with a close contact of the was charged by police over threats against infected Grand Millennium a woman her husband was having an affair worker, told The New with, the Daily Mail reported. Zealand Herald he was one The threats related to photos O’Shea of three people in his central found on the phone of her husband — Auckland household under fellow Kiwi Paul Woods, also know as Paul strict health orders to not go O’Shea — showing three children sleeping out for seven days. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The MIQ guard is the second Grand Millennium worker to test positive in and swimming naked. His flatmate was now weeks. Picture by William Terite Woods threatened to send the explicit undergoing a 14-day pictures to the friends and family of the quarantine stint at the Jet The 24-year-old guard, health declaration as well as The man in self-isolation children’s mother unless she was paid Park Hotel. employed by a private undergoing health screenings said despite testing negative $100,000. The man said there were at contractor, had been at the airport. he wasn’t able to leave his The mother was later given an 18-month least five households across transferred to the Auckland Meanwhile, the man in home for seven days under suspended sentence for making and the city that were in a form of quarantine facility. self-isolation, who is already public health orders. distributing child exploitation to Woods, lockdown because of the front- As of yesterday no further fully vaccinated, told The “I can’t do work at home. while Woods was sentenced to almost line worker’s Covid infection community or border-related New Zealand Herald he Today I got really frustrated.” four months’ jail — although the Daily that was detected on Tuesday. infections had been detected felt frustrated at having to Investigations were Mail understood he was deported to New The Ministry of Health did since the guard’s positive spend a week away from his continuing and public health Zealand, having also served eight years in not respond directly when result, including from testing workplace, where he was officials were carrying prison for heroin trafficking in 1994. asked how many people were of his contacts. required in person to carry out scoping interviews to O’Shea escaped conviction, with the now self-isolating as a result In other good news, Western out duties. determine any locations of court told she’d acted “impulsively” at a of the case. Australia Premier Mark “Myself and my friend, we interest, the Ministry of time of “severe distress” after discovering “Case investigations McGowan also confirmed have to be in quarantine. Why Health said. her husband’s affair, the Daily Mail reported. continue. Any further yesterday Kiwis will be do we have to suffer because At this stage, there were no A GoFundMe page has been set up by relevant information should allowed to travel to the of one person who wasn’t locations of interest to report. friends to pay for O’Shea’s funeral and be provided in the ministry’s state without undergoing vaccinated?” The security guard is the support her family. next update”, a ministry quarantine when the The guard was initially second worker at the Grand Almost $5000 has already been donated. spokeswoman said. transtasman bubble opens on said to have missed two Millennium to test positive “Mikki was a vibrant, creative, and just So far, 10 people had been April 19. appointments due to for Covid this year. all-round amazing person who was a identified as close contacts of That had been in doubt “personal reasons”, but Last month a cleaner tested devoted single mother to her three kids”, the guard, who first showed after this week’s transtasman authorities did not elaborate positive. wrote Kasey-Maree Taylor, who set up the signs of a sore throat four bubble announcement, given further. Whole genome sequencing fundraiser. days before being tested, and the state’s hard-line border Prime Minister Jacinda results showed she was “She was the most generous person all were self isolating. Five stance. Ardern later said the infected infected with the UK variant someone could ever meet. had returned negative test Arriving Kiwis will need security guard did not miss and found to be a close match “She was such a joyful woman who results, and the rest were still to get a special pass, called his appointments due to with a returnee who had always lived life vicariously.” to be processed. a G2G, by filling out a vaccine hesitancy. stayed in the facility. — The New Zealand Herald Council urged to get tough on those who pollute environment by Karoline Tuckey, RNZ responsible, it’s an environmental a bigger difference, why they are not “Polystyrene is the worst product littering and polluting: “There’s a disaster. I’m furious.” taking more action, and what could be ever, it’s so bad for the environment — series of fines we can issue, and WELLINGTON — Residents are The incident has led to an outcry done to create a better system. and there were millions of them. infringement notices under the Litter furious that polystyrene waste has on local Facebook groups for action “I’m disappointed this happened the Wellington City Council chief Act. been scattered across more than against ongoing pollution blown from scattering of rubbish, but I’m hopeful infrastructure officer Tom Williams said However, actions taken against 7km of Wellington’s south coastline, three nearby landfills on Happy Valley it’ll be a catalyst for some productive the source of the trail of polystyrene people under the Litter Act were rare, including a marine reserve, and are Road, and from unsecured loads being conversations,” Mr Holloway said. balls has been found using CCTV he said. calling on authorities to do more about driven to them. A man who asked not to be named footage, and officers were considering “Once or twice a year, it’s a such incidents. Lawyer Adam Holloway was among told RNZ he had spotted the driver as action under the Litter Act. relatively infrequent event. Most Owhiro Bay resident Jade Lorier those cleaning up the polystyrene they were shedding the polystyrene. “The person in question has come Wellingtonians do behave responsibly was among those out collecting the and said there was “constant fresh He followed the trailer into the tip round from Lyall Bay all the way when it comes to this sort of thing.” waste from streets and front lawns, rubbish” being blown onto the street on Happy Valley Road, where he round to Owhiro Bay, and there’s been Another southern bays resident and said it was blowing into streams, and the coastline. confronted the driver, telling him he actually polystyrene all the way round Kedron Parker said the council’s drains and out to sea. “It’s disheartening,” he said. should cover his load, and that the that coast. This is a lovely maritime response to the ongoing problem was Polystyrene is not biodegradable. “I’m sure we didn’t get them all, and balls he was shedding could kill fish. environment, and a single act of just about invisible. “I’m really worried about the health next time it rains whatever is left over He then reported the incident to the stupidity can ruin it for everyone.” “Today, there are people all over of our stream. We’ve got native eels, will flow into the gutters, and from council, but said the staff member was A street-sweeping truck was sent the coast sweeping up these little as well as fish, I’m worried about the there into the stream, and from the dismissive and said it was a minor out to help clean up, and sumps balls. These minor issues, over time, wildlife in the marine reserve,” Ms stream into the marine reserve.” issue, and he did not hear back from were checked and in good condition are building up and having a big Lorier said. He is among those who have called them. and should block the polystyrene environmental impact, so we need “We’re trying to protect and restore for councillors and staff to front up “The beans were blowing out like it from flowing through them into the the environmental authorities to this area, and this is just an absolute to a meeting to tell residents what was Christmas. The man driving was a stormwater system. know what’s happening. There are nightmare for the south coast. powers they have to act, what powers contractor, but he should know better, He disagreed that council was decades of community anger and “I’d like this person to be held they need to have to be able to make he could have covered his load. toothless in enforcing rules against disappointment around this.” The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 RACING 21

Counties races at Pukekohe Sunday Jetbet 4 TAB Doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Trebles 2-3-4, 5-6-7 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6-7 Place6 2-7 Selections 3 s8006 The Rebel Knight (13) 59 63 S Spratt 13 70s02 Incy Wincy Spider (1) 56 54 3 480s Colin Oscopy (5) 58.5 48 S Collett 5 4s39s Mazzuro (3) 58 70 D Johnson Race 1: FLORENTIA, GRANADOS, VALZACELLA 4 615 Fast Willie (10) 58.5 63 T Yanagida (a1) E McCall (a3) 4 5 Leave It To Me (14) 58 47 L Innes 6 59177 Ranger (11) 57.5 69 C Grylls 5 88157 Patsys Lad (3) 58 61 J Riddell 14 057 Alta Bella (13) 56 46 S Collett Race 2: MASTER PAINTON, THE REBEL KNIGHT, 5 40433 Ironic (7) 56.5 52 L Satherley 7 87905 Plushenko (2) 57 68 M Hashizume (a2) 6 73s13 Isola Sacra (1) 57.5 64 D Johnson EMERGENCIES: 6 6200s Five Schillings (9) 56.5 51 A Calder 8 1s474 Kinshasa (10) 56.5 71 S Collett ISOLA SACRA 7 90250 Trigon Lad (5) 57.5 60 T Thornton 15 070 Tycoon Warrior (15) 58 45 Race 3: CLEVERCONVERSATION, GLEN FREY, KHAN HUNTER 7 3365s Geri (3) 56.5 51 D Danis (a2) 9 910s8 Twin Spinner (13) 56.5 67 S Weatherley 8 0s090 King’s Cross (11) 57 59 C Grylls 16 0s989 Just Kroozin (3) 58.5 45 8 6063 Ms Candee Lane (12) 56.5 51 S McKay 10 48491 Virtuoso Lad (5) 56.5 67 S Spratt Race 4: ALL PAID UP, LAMPUS, SPOIL SPORT 9 90105 Virginia Reel (8) 56.5 62 S Collett 9 38 Castle Bay (2) 56.5 50 S Spratt 11 50s38 Sonofabutcher (12) 55 64 E McCall (a3) Race 5: LEAVE IT TO ME, IRONIC, FRANCESCA 10 000s8 Locally Sauced (12) 56.5 58 4 Haunui Farm 2.15 10 85 Annexception (19) 56.5 47 12 93133 Volitivo (1) 54 63 T Thornton Race 6: MARRONI, VIRTUOSO LAD, AOTEA LAD T Newman (a2) $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m T Newman (a2) 13 800s5 Zenntari (9) 54 56 T Yanagida (a1) Race 7: NOTORIOUS, POSER, TOPKAPI 11 77074 Master Herb (6) 55.5 56 (a3) 12 21008 Wasp (4) 55 59 E McCall (a3) 1 00422 All Paid Up (3) 60 65 V Colgan 11 42s Francesca (1) 56 52 C Grylls 13 31009 Shocking Penny (7) 54.5 58 2 — Sonofabutcher SCRATCHED 12 4 Saint Alice (4) 56 50 D Johnson 7 NZ Modern School Of Music 3.59 M Hashizume (a2) 3 — Rose Bowl SCRATCHED 13 05558 Targhee (15) 56 49 T Yanagida (a1) $10,000, maiden 3yo, 1600m 4 02027 Willy Away (5) 57.5 60 T Yanagida (a1) 14 75 Dear Oh Dear (11) 56 47 T Thornton 1 876s2 Capaldi (6) 57.5 52 C Grylls 1 Manco Environmental 12.30 3 Wharfe Bros 1.40 5 2234s Barbara (4) 57 63 Callum Jones (a3) EMERGENCIES: 2 3 Notorious (7) 57.5 51 D Johnson 6 17070 Dragon Run (6) 57 59 M Hashizume (a2) 15 555 La Rapide (6) 56 47 $10,000, 3yo sw+p, 2100m $10,000, maiden, 2100m 3 650 Earle Of Buckland (5) 57.5 46 A Calder 7 34s1 Lampus (9) 56.5 63 D Johnson 16 0 Carnival Lady (16) 56 46 1 04241 Granados (6) 57.5 63 O Bosson 1 03202 Cleverconversation (2) 58.5 54 4 80s70 Dragon Realm (9) 57.5 45 8 301s0 O’Jude (2) 56.5 62 S Spratt 17 — Hot Pinx SCRATCHED 2 3s831 Florentia (3) 56.5 68 C Grylls T Thornton 9 5018s Elle D’berry (1) 56 61 A Calder 5 8 Packing Tavi (13) 57.5 45 (a3) 18 7 Paramount Prince (18) 58 45 3 7s752 Lowry (4) 56 52 L Satherley 2 0s203 Glen Frey (4) 58.5 52 C Grylls 10 0538s Raaj (7) 56 57 S Weatherley 6 57s7 Rock Of Cashel (8) 57.5 45 19 0 Roctheparty (8) 56.5 45 4 77704 Eagle Hunter (5) 56 50 A Calder 3 80684 Anhedonia (14) 58.5 50 S Weatherley 11 78330 Letz’av Bubbles (8) 55.5 60 C Grylls T Newman (a2) 20 58767 Legal Lady (17) 56 45 5 80s70 Dragon Realm (1) 56 45 4 60794 Youknowhatimean (5) 58.5 50 A Calder 12 — Leica Warrior SCRATCHED 7 8 Taumalolo (11) 57.5 45 J Riddell 5 70468 On The Rivet (9) 58.5 48 T Newman (a2) M Hashizume (a2) 13 480s7 Spoil Sport (10) 54 56 S Collett 8 0600 Zac Black (4) 57.5 45 Callum Jones (a3) 6 650s7 Zinzan (16) 58.5 46 J Riddell 6 Fasttrack $5k 3.26 6 65434 Valzacella (2) 54 51 D Johnson 9 4s5 Poser (12) 55.5 50 L Satherley 7 07796 Amabo (8) 58.5 45 5 Dunstan Horsefeeds 2.49 $16,000, rating 74 benchmark, 1600m 2 Mount Shop 1.05 8 6s888 Charred (6) 58.5 45 10 3496 Topkapi (3) 55.5 50 S Weatherley 9 43 Khan Hunter (12) 58 51 O Bosson $10,000, maiden, 1400m 1 28331 Aotea Lad (7) 62.5 79 (a3) 11 75s8 Tavi With Me (2) 55.5 46 $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 2100m 10 09735 Lot Of Zees (7) 56.5 51 J M Fillmore 1 375s3 Dawnting (10) 58.5 53 O Bosson 2 119s4 Marroni (8) 60.5 75 O Bosson M Hashizume (a2) 1 47303 Master Painton (9) 59.5 64 L Satherley 11 443 Thalassa (10) 56.5 51 D Johnson 2 4864 Marching On Tavi (13) 58.5 50 3 8130s Junior (6) 59.5 73 Callum Jones (a3) 12 7 Bayarmaa (10) 55.5 45 S Collett 2 63560 Rising Renown (2) 59.5 64 A Calder 12 7066 Pearl Hart (11) 56.5 45 S Spratt M Hashizume (a2) 4 15167 Initiative (4) 58.5 75 T Newman (a2) 13 00 Daads Express (1) 55.5 45 C Dell

Methven harness at Mt Harding Sunday Jetbet 8 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12 Selections 2 Shearmac Aluminium 12.35 11 333s Taurus (Fr) 11 J Hay 4 011P4 She’s Tough (10) 1 M Williamson 8 33018 Hope For Love (Fr) 8 S Tomlinson (J) Race 1: TOOBUSY BEING FAMOUS, TOP HAT AND TAILS, 12 07 Pure Courage (Fr) 12 C Thornley 5 76145 Buckskin (10) 2 S O’Reilly (J) 9 60756 Jeremy Wells (Em1) (Fr) 9 J Harrington $8500, non-winners 3yo+ mr40 to mr46 13 99 Cheekygrin (Fr) 13 S Ottley 6 82014 Dhaulagiri (10) 3 J Cox 10 35734 Classy Kid (Fr) 10 A Lethaby THE FUTURE stand, 1700m 14 Maren Franco (Fr) 14 L O’Reilly 7 93431 Homebush Lad (10) 4 B Hope (J) 11 60840 Flamboyant (Fr) 11 Race 2: DAGGY LAMB, CHARLIE’S ACE, BROMAC HYPE 1 098s9 Don’t Write Me Off (Fr) 1 15 06579 Fine By Me (Em3) (Fr) 15 8 51613 Dodgethebullet (10) 5 M Hurrell (J) 12 82040 Khaki Nui (Fr) 12 R Jenkins Race 3: CRISTIANO BUCCINI, GYPSY, ROCKET BOY(AUS) 2 40430 Bromac Hype (Fr) 2 R May 16 29s Whole Lotta Rosie (Fr) 16 T Chmiel 9 10019 Manjimup (10) U1 R Cameron 13 07827 The Diva (Fr) 13 J Dunn Race 4: TAURUS, SWEET HEAVEN, HEAVEN HELPUS 3 30097 Evidently (Em2) (Fr) 3 G O’Reilly 17 35 Sweet Heaven (Fr) 17 10 46806 Mikey Maguire (20) 1 B Orange 14 22000 Bettor Believe It (Fr) 14 C Thornley Race 5: THIS TIME GAMBLE, HARBOUR QUEEN, 4 25206 Full Of Desire (Fr) 4 B Borcoskie 11 9s660 Back In Black (20) U1 T Chmiel 15 09494 Spanna (Fr) 15 S O’Reilly (J) LINE A LOVE 5 07068 Nadira Franco (Fr) 5 H Clarke 5 Mid Canterbury Toa Trot 1.51 16 33106 Ruby’s A Delight (Fr) 16 R May Race 6: RICK REILLY, TAKEMYBREATHAWAY, 6 — Rocknizzy Rulz SCRATCHED $8500, 3yo+ r40-r49, w/c stand, 1700m 8 Past Presidents Pace 3.20 17 — Mongolian Marshal SCRATCHED SPICY GIRL BECQUI 7 00590 Dancemyster (Fr) 6 C Thornley $9000, 3yo+ f&m r45-r59. mobile, 1609m 8 70809 Franco Hatton (Fr) 7 M Hurrell (J) 1 04300 Majestic Sunset (Em2) (Fr) 1 J Curtin 11 Phat Duck Restaurant & Bar Trot 4.44 Race 7: HOMEBUSH LAD, SHE’S TOUGH, 9 90580 Dalness First (Em1) (Fr) 8 B Orange 2 99560 Rogie Falls (Em3) (Fr) 2 S McNally 1 00533 Majorca (Fr) 1 C Thornley NO NUKES SKIPPER 3 54314 Summars (Fr) 3 K Tomlinson (J) 2 81204 Invisible Girl (Fr) 2 J Curtin $9000, r45-r67 special handicap stand, 10 46023 Kennedy (Fr) 9 J Curtin 3000m Race 8: QUEENOFDANCE, KUSANOVA, TERROR MARIA 11 85992 Buckingham (Fr) 10 M Williamson 4 s00s2 Quik Shot (Fr) 4 J Harrington 3 54502 Kusanova (Fr) 3 M Williamson Race 9: DUFFY HOLLOW, SERG BLANCO, 12 07346 Piece Of Gold (Fr) 11 R Cameron 5 80504 Silverlinings (Fr) 5 B Hope (J) 4 05459 Baileys Diamond (Fr) 4 S O’Reilly (J) 1 40059 Global Flight (Fr) 1 A Lethaby 6 — Tres Magnifique SCRATCHED 5 17528 Am I Dreaming (Fr) 5 J Cox JOHN JAMES PRESTON 13 32365 Daggy Lamb (Fr) 12 L O’Reilly 2 03300 Sunnivue Phileah (Fr) 2 S Ottley 7 32087 Majestic Rollon (Fr) 6 A Lethaby 6 26601 Rocknsnap (Fr) 6 J Morrison (J) SCRATCHED Race 10: REFLECTIONSOFMYLIFE, MARK DUNNETT, 14 0670 Yankee Jay (Fr) 13 J Cox 3 — Majestic Sunset 8 32214 Go Marg (Fr) 7 S Tomlinson (J) 7 40871 Immer Besser (Fr) 7 G O’Reilly 4 92255 Rachmaninov (Fr) 3 T Grant MAYHEM IN MALIBU 15 06560 You Can Fly Arden (Fr) 14 S Ottley 16 — Taliesin SCRATCHED 9 60702 This Time Gamble (Fr) 8 J Dunn 8 43095 Terror Maria (Fr) 8 T Williams 5 07500 BK Dawn (Fr) 4 P Wakelin Race 11: BJ LINDENNY, ZSA ZOE, GIRLS LET LOOSE 17 03255 Charlie’s Ace (Fr) U1 (J) 10 86197 Superfast Gorsey (Fr) 9 C Thornley 9 24132 Queenofdance (Fr) 9 S Ottley 6 55795 Momentous (Fr) 5 G O’Reilly Race 12: PLAY BY EAR, KEY REACTOR 11 00343 Martha Stuart (Fr) 10 T Williams 10 50010 Not Really Blonde (Fr) 21 R Cameron 7 00000 One Over Dover (Fr) 6 C Thornley 3 Bayleys Ashburton Pace 1.00 12 581 Harbour Queen (Fr) 11 S Ottley 11 46210 Senorita Margarita (Fr) 22 8 92607 Full Of Hope (Fr) 7 P Nairn 13 65180 Break Free (Fr) 12 K Hadfield 12 82709 Passion And Power (Fr) 23 J Dunn $8500, non-winners 3yo+. mobile, 1609m 9 50909 Rusty I Am (Em1) (Fr) 8 14 43428 Line A Love (Fr) 13 J Patterson 13 21310 Jazelle (Fr) 24 B Orange 10 74063 Take After Me (Fr) 9 B Orange 1 34840 Maldito (Fr) 1 T Williams 15 90970 Royal Del (Fr) 14 (J) 14 18430 Who Made Who (Fr) U1 T Chmiel 11 90180 Boyz Invasion (10) 1 M Heenan 2 98850 Sophie (Fr) 2 R May 16 03706 Dd’s Super Stuart (Fr) 15 J Markham SCRATCHED 12 07410 Ideal Invasion (10) 2 S O’Reilly (J) 3 — King Arthur 17 00080 Ready I Am (Fr) U1 P Wakelin 9 Pat McGirr Memorial Pace 3.54 13 08136 Girls Let Loose (10) 3 R May 4 00472 Cristiano Buccini (Fr) 3 C Thornley $8500, 3yo+ r50-r54. mobile, 1609m 14 00010 Call This Fun (10) 4 J Ford 5 0880s Rosies Terror (Fr) 4 G O’Reilly 6 Jonny Cox Racing Stables 2.25 1 34013 Duffy Hollow (Fr) 1 T Williams 15 63015 Bj Lindenny (10) 5 T Chmiel 6 Alene (Fr) 5 L O’Reilly $8500, 3yo+ r40-r44,r45 w/c. mobile, 1609m 16 04031 Prince Ranier (10) 6 J Dunn 7 7s940 Manhattan (Fr) 6 J Dunn 2 74408 Johnny Eyre (Fr) 2 B Hope (J) 17 41858 Beyond The Horizon (10) 7 J Smith 8 Dr Kananga (Fr) 7 J Morrison (J) 1 06073 Takemybreathaway (Fr) 1 B Orange 3 P3253 John James Preston (Fr) 3 1 Doug McCormick Mem. Trot 12.10 18 08907 Sioux Princess (10) U1 K Tomlinson (J) 9 7s7 Special Dream (Em2) (Fr) 8 J Curtin 2 76326 Pete’s Dash (Fr) 2 4 92481 Four Starzzz Shiraz (Fr) 4 M Hurrell (J) 19 23840 Zsa Zoe (20) 1 S Tomlinson (J) $8500, non-winners 3yo+ stand, 1700m 10 5 Major Collect (Fr) 21 S Ottley 3 82409 Playboy Prince (Fr) 3 S Tomlinson (J) 5 99307 Razors Edge (Fr) 5 J Geddes 1 63300 Ella Of Mot (Fr) 1 L McCormick 11 09503 Ashes Of Desire (Fr) 22 M Smolenski 4 40480 Conquer Me (Fr) 4 R May 6 32331 Serg Blanco (Fr) 6 J Dunn 12 Speights Pace 5.14 2 03533 Trixton Time (Fr) 2 S O’Reilly (J) 12 28343 Gypsy (Fr) 23 M Williamson 5 81008 Times Are A Changin (Fr) 5 J Dunn 7 27132 Caesar’s Quest (Fr) 7 L McKay (J) 3 0s409 Samantha Bee (Fr) 3 S Tomlinson (J) 13 s950s Rocket Boy(aus) (Fr) 24 B Orange 6 88607 Prospect Park (Em1) (Fr) 6 C Thornley 8 26033 Glen Elgin Tomson (Fr) 8 B Orange $8500, 3yo+ r45-r49. mobile, 1609m 7 86587 Spicy Girl Becqui (Fr) 7 M Williamson 4 50 Tahir Trouble (Fr) 4 M Heenan 14 8 El Terror (Em1) (Fr) 25 9 98846 Scelta Uno (Fr) 9 G Smith 1 33805 Cab Calloway (Fr) 1 B Orange SCRATCHED 10 22809 Kiss The Girls (Fr) 21 D White 5 95 That’s Entertainment (Fr) 5 J Harrington 15 09843 Sheezagoldengirl (Fr) 26 (J) 8 — Motoring Major 2 98758 Paul’s Verdict (Em2) (Fr) 2 11 24198 Jenny Gump (Fr) 22 R May 6 42 Toobusy Being Famous (Fr) 6 C Thornley 16 59003 Owhatanight (Fr) U1 P Davis 9 00023 Rick Reilly (Fr) 8 T Williams 3 00975 Speciale Uno (Fr) 3 R May 10 76009 President Pat (Fr) 21 N Burton 12 44651 Beeps (Fr) 23 B Borcoskie 7 95476 Brandy And Dry (Fr) 7 S Iremonger (J) 4 — Jenabella SCRATCHED 11 88050 Rafa Novak (Fr) 22 L O’Reilly 13 55815 Taumata VC (Fr) 24 8 0s000 Cheeky Monkey (Em5) (Fr) 8 C McDowell 4 Happy 21st B'day Kipp Ross 1.25 5 80100 Iksaka (Fr) 4 J Morrison (J) 12 00700 Changeover Jo (Fr) 23 (J) 14 P0176 Star Reactor (Fr) 25 (J) 9 00s50 Inquizitive Man (Em4) (Fr) 9 B Hope (J) $8500, non-winners 3yo+ mr47 to mr50 6 53602 Precious Sara (Fr) 5 J Dunn 13 60756 Jeremy Wells (Em2) (Fr) 24 J Harrington 15 — Perfect Cut SCRATCHED 10 3 The Future (Fr) 10 T Chmiel stand, 1700m 7 68666 Krystal Delight (Fr) 6 B Hope (J) 14 68504 Woodlea Diego (Fr) 25 J Morrison (J) 11 s87s2 Jay Bee And Lou (Fr) 11 R May 8 31459 Play By Ear (Fr) 7 1 50007 Rollwithit (Em2) (Fr) 1 T Trathen 15 05204 Sonic Reign (Fr) 26 J Curtin 10 Mainland Wool Pace 4.19 9 26760 Alexy (Fr) 8 M Hurrell (J) 12 06 Tinted Stuart (Em3) (Fr) 12 2 700 Antoinette (Fr) 2 C McDowell 16 — Magical Matty SCRATCHED 13 6 Myshout (Em1) (Fr) 13 (J) 3 0s7 Total Eclipse (Fr) 3 J Morrison (J) $8500, 3yo+ r40-r49 stand, 1700m 10 — Olde Oak Emma SCRATCHED 14 08768 Goose Healy (Fr) 14 N Burton 4 0923 Royal Ruby (Fr) 4 K Hadfield 7 Woodlands Mount Hutt Pacing Cup 2.55 1 90031 Pembrook Tilly (Fr) 1 B Orange 11 — Sense Of Occasion SCRATCHED 15 — Shiffty SCRATCHED 5 44 Cali Franco (Fr) 5 R May 2 43672 Reflectionsofmylife (Fr) 2 T Chmiel 12 37050 Judgement Bay (Fr) 21 L O’Reilly 16 072 Top Hat And Tails (Fr) U1 B Orange 6 8 Prettyboycoby (Fr) 6 G O’Reilly $13,000, r55+ discretionary handicap stand, 3 81088 Starkers (Em3) (Fr) 3 13 60331 Prop Rock (Fr) 22 K Newman (J) 17 7 Majestic Upstart (Fr) U2 S McNally 7 08 Blitzem Bromac (Em1) (Fr) 7 J Harrington 3000m 4 81062 Mayhem In Malibu (Fr) 4 S Ottley 14 95213 Key Reactor (Fr) 23 O Thornley (J) 18 02979 Bourbon On The Rocks (Em2) (Fr) U3 8 2 Heaven Helpus (Fr) 8 G Smith 1 P9724 No Nukes Skipper (Fr) 1 J Dunn 5 42931 Megarock (Fr) 5 G O’Reilly 15 04500 Tiger Lou (Fr) 24 T Williams J Versteeg 9 Marciano (Fr) 9 2 11494 Last Of The Mohicans (Fr) 2 R May 6 73221 Mark Dunnett (Fr) 6 16 31000 Mongolian Marshal (Em1) (Fr) 25 19 47s Latina Hall (Fr) U4 G O’Reilly 10 7 Jonty’s Brother (Fr) 10 B Orange 3 12514 Makasar Boy (Fr) 3 S Ottley 7 0s940 Delightful Gloria (Fr) 7 K Tomlinson (J) S Tomlinson (J)

Auckland greys at Manukau Sunday Jetbet 9 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12 Selections 2 At Full Speed With Snc 1.15 8 You Ready Boots nwtd T & L Craik 5 11618 Chipper’s Choice 18.64 Phil Green 2 31454 Medusa Who 18.58 M Prangley Race 1: NIGHT ACE, STAY RICH, BIGTIME BREMNER 6 8s132 Portland Toy 18.60 T & L Craik 3 27727 Express Emporium 18.46 W & T Steele $1425, C0, 318m 5 Wayne Baxter Electrical 2.20 7 61143 Portland Art 18.47 T & L Craik 4 s817s Burning Rain 18.59 Udy & Cottam Race 2: STONES, GO AHEAD CALLER, VEGAS CHOPS 1 36567 Pachinko nwtd Linda Martin $1510, C1, 318m 8 81724 Allegro Rory 18.36 Robert Roper 5 41672 Canya Moneymaker nwtd W & T Steele Race 3: GOLDEN FERN, KNUCKLES NUGGET, BIGTIME OTIS 2 Go Ahead Caller nwtd T & L Craik EMERGENCIES: 6 4s461 Thank You Next 18.47 T & L Craik 1 75431 Up Your Quota 18.64 Phil Green Race 4: THRILLING ROGUE, THRILLING GEM, OTAKI RIVER 3 53 Barney Parrot nwtd T & L Craik 9 43527 Rod’s Girl 18.70 Udy & Cottam 7 2163s Choo Choo 18.65 Glennis Farrell 2 47683 Bigtime Cutie 18.70 R & N O’Regan Race 5: UP YOUR QUOTA, NEXUS, GO ALL LIN 4 683F8 Trevor nwtd R & L Udy 10 63548 Sherlock Squash 18.65 Udy & Cottam 8 67515 Fernando Charm 18.49 Thayne Green 3 63433 Sadowski 18.86 Linda Martin Race 6: THRILLING OTIS, TRIGGERED, BORING 5 22 Stones nwtd Phil Green EMERGENCY: 4 42562 Nexus 18.60 Glennis Farrell Race 7: CALF KING, PORTLAND TOY, COSMIC METEOR 6 6s Big Time Fendi nwtd R & N O’Regan 8 Mitre 10 Waiuku Easy As 3.31 9 67748 Our Hemi 18.50 Udy & Cottam 7 House Surgeon nwtd T & L Craik 5 65287 Opawa Roy 18.93 Marsha Black Race 8: JUST OLIVE, BOOT CAMP TIARA, MY MATE SPEIGHT 6 57742 Waiterimu Ripper 18.51 R & L Udy $1745, C2, 318m Race 9: SERBIAN ACE, OPAWA BIG, KEA VIKING 8 77342 Vegas Chops nwtd Raewyn McPhee 11 Designmax Sprint 4.27 EMERGENCY: 7 14763 Go All Lin 18.56 S O’Neill 1 56233 Just Olive nwtd Sam Lozell $2920, C4/5, 318m Race 10: THANK YOU NEXT, CANYA MONEYMAKER, 9 8678 Dubstep nwtd Udy & Cottam 8 54335 Audrette 18.45 Bob Bond 2 13485 Big Time Lenny 18.70 R & N O’Regan IT’S A LAUGH EMERGENCIES: 3 68126 Hillbilly Brewed 18.75 Howard Scott 1 22s22 Buddy Boom 18.20 Udy & Cottam Race 11: BUDDY BOOM, PORTLAND WONDER, 3 Chopper & Goose Famous In Waiuku 1.35 9 3787s Dundee Spectre 18.77 Robert Roper 4 54382 Pacemaker 18.51 S O’Neill 2 63161 Portland Wonder 18.25 T & L Craik 10 28874 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R & L Udy 5 57871 Smash Out 18.73 R & L Udy PORTLAND BLONDE $1510, C1, 318m 3 32183 Thrilling Hudson 18.51 Thayne Green Race 12: SPRING TIMMIE, MITCHAM GREG, COOLIBAH KID 6 24146 My Mate Speight 18.81 Udy & Cottam 4 26516 Prerogative 18.65 Udy & Cottam 1 48366 Smash Zone nwtd R & L Udy 6 Hang Em High Stakes 2.42 7 33785 Belmonts 18.54 R & N O’Regan 5 53743 Wild Kiwi 18.24 Udy & Cottam 2 217 Knuckles Nugget 18.89 Hayley Mullane $2565, C1, 527m 8 52722 Boot Camp Tiara 18.59 R & L Udy 6 21686 Last Star 18.48 D R Laing 3 87553 Bigtime Otis 19.11 R & N O’Regan EMERGENCIES: 7 s7373 Portland Blonde 18.38 T & L Craik 4 18152 Golden Fern 18.58 Thayne Green 1 31 Triggered nwtd W & T Steele 9 31448 Railing Raccoon 18.83 Sean Codlin 8 46414 Call Me Leo 18.48 Thayne Green 5 83672 It’s Complicated 18.68 R & N O’Regan 2 42211 Thrilling Otis 30.70 Karen Walsh 10 868s8 Go Diego nwtd Robert Roper EMERGENCY: 6 45826 Hardcore Kobe nwtd Marsha Black 3 17336 Overtaking nwtd W & T Steele 7 77733 Sir Yens 18.82 K T Herbert 4 45727 Thea Who 31.34 M Prangley 9 Counties Garden Bags 3.48 9 67748 Our Hemi 18.50 Udy & Cottam 5 24442 Boring nwtd W & T Steele 1 Mt Wellington Tab Sprint 12.50 8 45842 All Day Long 18.99 Robert Roper $2920, C2, 527m 12 Carol’s Tab Clendon Inn 4.52 EMERGENCIES: 6 36762 Master Brady 31.05 Sean Codlin $1560, C1, 318m 9 62468 Just Nia 18.67 Marsha Black 7 3F643 React Respond 30.77 R & L Udy 1 22146 Serbian Ace 30.82 T & L Craik $1745, C2, 318m 1 26555 Smash Trust nwtd Udy & Cottam 10 26888 Always Dreaming 18.55 Glennis Farrell 8 32255 Bigtime Alfie nwtd R & N O’Regan 2 87511 Opawa Big 30.69 Glennis Farrell 1 85681 Paris End 18.74 R & N O’Regan 2 77666 Apollo Tom 19.24 D R Laing EMERGENCIES: 3 23547 Kea Viking 30.95 W & T Steele 2 67877 Noise Maker 18.70 Phil Green 3 378s7 Allegro Payton nwtd R & N O’Regan 4 Retirement And A V8 Holden 2.00 9 s2374 How’s The Enemy nwtd Robert Roper 4 76518 Happy Medium 30.69 R & N O’Regan 3 75835 Our Hotrod 18.64 Udy & Cottam 10 35486 Vibe nwtd Sean Codlin 5 54464 Glow Up 30.46 T & L Craik 4 56776 My Snuggles 18.74 Marsha Black $3450, C0, 527m 4 11138 Coolibah Kid 18.64 Udy & Cottam 6 53352 Nana Molly 30.85 Udy & Cottam 5 45765 Jinja Lad nwtd Raewyn McPhee 5 73754 Ford Man 18.68 R & L Udy 1 43 Thrilling Gem nwtd Karen Walsh 7 Haines Stichbury Landscaping 3.06 7 87247 Opawa Delight 30.52 T & L Craik 6 86867 Night Ace 18.53 Justin Foot 6 37671 Mitcham Greg 18.55 S O’Neill 2 Ammonite nwtd T & L Craik 8 33664 Gao Gao 30.53 Glennis Farrell 7 84765 Bigtime Bremner 18.68 R & N O’Regan 3 2 Thrilling Rogue nwtd Karen Walsh $2095, C3, 318m 7 8s875 Allegro Ella nwtd R & N O’Regan 8 77555 Stay Rich 18.55 M & J Smith 4 Otaki River nwtd T & L Craik 1 14441 Calf King 18.42 Phil Green 10 The Kimber Classic Sprint 4.08 8 15171 Spring Timmie nwtd R & L Udy EMERGENCIES: 5 67 Chinese Byrns nwtd Howard Scott 2 61458 Cosmic Meteor 18.56 D R Laing EMERGENCIES: 9 28874 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R & L Udy 6 56565 Xena Poppy nwtd R & L Udy 3 86714 Botany Thommo 18.60 Phil Green $2450, C4, 318m 9 868s8 Go Diego nwtd Robert Roper 10 26888 Always Dreaming 18.55 Glennis Farrell 7 Wheels On Fire nwtd T & L Craik 4 31767 Opawa Donal 18.71 W & T Steele 1 28733 It’s A Laugh 18.34 Sam Lozell 10 31448 Railing Raccoon 18.83 Sean Codlin

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. 22 CLASSIFIEDS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021

NOTICE BOARD Entertainment LOST & FOUND Work Wanted Work Wanted Situations HOME & LEISURE Fruit and Vacant Produce Entertainment QUEEN BEE Lost ALL tree removals, tree MESSY GARDEN?? Firewood trimming, greenwaste HAULER DUCK shooters. We removed, 027 466 8201. "Let us do it for you." DUO Ph 027 659 2915. OPERATOR have whole maize at DOG, male, lost 1.4.21 ASAP Tree Work. MANUKA GOLD reduced rates in bulk ODEON 5 MUSIC FOR ALL Putere lakes area, 1yr Required for Gisborne bags. Ph 867 8105, or OCCASIONS Removal, chipping & based, 30 mins from WOODSTOCK 2yrs Phone 867 3339 old brown and black, stump grinding. Ph a/h 863 3723. med size. Please ph or Stand Out CBD. Excellent dry. 027 455 3722. Affordable rates 0274 485 188. machine, 2020 Madill VOYAGERS (TBC) txt 0273 381 838. TEESDALE ORCHARD SAT, SUN 10.50am, Ph 863 0955 Give your 124. Must be able to 3.50pm, 8.30pm advertisement pass pre-employment APPLES, tree-ripened Gisborne District Council MON 3.50pm a boost with a drug and health checks. For Sale Pacific Rose & Pacific GIRLS CAN’T SURF (M) $55 per hour plus Queen, Royal Gala, SAT, SUN 10.50am, vehicle. Red & Golden 1.20pm, 6.10pm Meetings HIGHLIGHTER LATHE, near new, Delicious & Ballarat MON 1.20pm, 6.10pm Call Ray 027 631 3209 700mm between Cookers. Winter Nelis NOBODY (R16) NOTICE OF centres, excell cond. Ph & Packham pears, SAT, SUN 8.30pm 863 3043. PETER RABBIT (G) HEARING Sport NZ Rural Travel tomatoes, sweetcorn, SAT, SUN 11am, 1.10pm, Buttercup squash, Whareongaonga Gisborne District Council pumpkin & much more. 3.50pm, 6.10pm 5 Blocks Trust MON 1.10pm, 3.50pm, Fund Winter Sports Back Ormond Rd, open 6.10pm Replace Matene 7 days, Eftpos avail- THE FATHER (M) Blandford with Joanne NOTICE PUBLIC Codes Public Notices able. DAILY 1.30pm Pleydell as Trustee. GODZILLA VS KONG WINTER FUNDING ROUND (M) SAT, SUN 1.20pm, The Maori Land Court GISBORNE BOYS’ 3.30pm, 6pm, 8.30pm hearing will be held on Council are calling for applications to Board Member HIGH SCHOOL Garden Plants MON 1.20pm, 3.30pm, Wednesday 5th May assist young people aged between 5 6pm 2021 at 11AM, and 19 years of age from rural schools Appointments COUSINS (PG) SWAN plants, potted SAT, SUN 1.30pm, at Gisborne Maori Land or clubs with transport expenses to 6.20pm, 8.30pm Court, Nga wai e Rua participate in local winter sporting NOTICE PUBLIC GISBORNE HOLDINGS LIMITED individually, $4ea or 3x MON 1.30pm, 6.20pm Building, 60 Reads competitions (GHL) $10. Ph 0274 302 502. RAYA & THE LAST Quay, Gisborne. Application forms are available from DRAGON (PG) Council is a publicly accountable DAILY 3.40pm Rachel Porou-Wetere Council offices or www.gdc.govt.nz/ shareholder and is seeking a dynamic THE COURIER (M) Chairperson council/funding-streams/sport-nz-rural- and diverse individual to help build on SAT, SUN 11am, 3.40pm, travel-fund and develop the Council’s commercial BOARD OF Situations 8.20pm. MON 3.40pm TRUSTEES BOOK ONLINE NOW! Closing date for applications: 5pm Friday operations for its Council Controlled Vacant WWW.ODEONGISBORNE.CO.NZ Wanted Known 30 April 2021. Trading Organisation (CCTO) Gisborne CASUAL VACANCY Times may vary Holdings Limited (GHL). FOR A PARENT FORESTRY subject to late changes REPRESENTATIVE DUCK shooting ponds The role of GHL is to operate profitably PLANTERS or maize paddock for and provide a non-rates income stream A casual vacancy has WANTED occurred on the school Classifieds Dad, Granddad and to Council – so that we can deliver Season starts 19 May Phone aspiring teen! Box of board for an elected 2021. beer as koha. Very www.gdc.govt.nz better outcomes for the communities of parent representative. 869 0601 Tairāwhiti–Gisborne. To help achieve this No experience needed respectful and refs The board has decided available. Ph Jason 022 15 Fitzherbert Street we are looking to appoint an (will train onsite). PO Box 747 Gisborne 4040 to fill the vacancy by Starting rate $20 an 126 8785 experienced board director with a strong selection. PHONE 06 867 2049 commercial background. hour with travel FREEPHONE 0800 653 800 If 10% or more of (training). The Council is working collaboratively Gisborne District Council EMAIL [email protected] eligible voters on the Piece rate after training with its CCTO to set the direction and school roll ask the offered from $27.50 a investment strategy for the future. This board, within 28 days box (100 stems Gisborne District Council is an exciting and challenging time to of this notice being bareroot). join the board and the need to create published, to hold a Will pay up to $35 a sustainable economic opportunities for by-election to fill the box with bonuses, vacancy, then a holiday pay and travel Long Term Plan our region’s wellbeing. by-election will be held. included. You will have a strong public service Good planters can earn DRAFT PLANS AND POLICIES Request for a $500-600 a day. ethos and demonstrate awareness by-election should be Gisborne District Council is developing Motu Catchment Travel provided daily in PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC and understanding of Council’s (and sent to: its Long Term Plan 2021 - 2031. We’re Gisborne. Plan therefore GHL’s) commitment to Te |Reference from last also consulting on some draft plans and Mr Craig Clarke Tiriti o Waitangi. In addition to your (chair) employer and policies including: NOTICE PUBLIC COMMUNITY MEETING commercial experience you will possess: Gisborne Boys’ High pre-employment drug Draft Development Contributions Policy. Gisborne District Council is developing • exceptional financial experience and School Board test required. This policy sets fees payable on new of Trustees Mandatory: must be a Catchment Plan for the Mōtū and business skills; drug and alcohol free, developments such as subdivisions and PO Box 97 Koranga Catchments in collaboration • strategic leadership and risk GISBORNE 4040 fit, honest and reliable. buildings. The draft document proposes with local community and iwi management experience; a small increase in development representatives. • sound professional judgement and by: Monday 10th May Contact Jason 2021. contribution charges compared to the decision making; and 027 338 8524 The Mōtū Catchment Plan will set previous version. The proposed charges • strong networks, links and relationships outcomes, limits and actions for the Public Notices reflect the balance between the costs of to the communities, iwi and hapū of Te management of water quality and planned infrastructure and forecasted Tairāwhiti. urban growth and development. quantity in the Mōtū and Koranga catchments, as part of implementing One Director is due to retire by rotation Fees and Charges Policy. Council fees government requirements around and has indicated their desire to re- and charges fund a variety of services freshwater. apply. We encourage anyone with an to the community. Most have increased interest to apply. by the rate of inflation of 2.2%, however A community meeting with residents some fees have had to increase further and whānau from the Mōtū and Matawai The term of appointment is for up to to recover actual costs. A 7% increase communities will be held on Thursday, three years. 15 April at 6pm, Matawai Fire Station. to dog registration fees is proposed to To express your interest in being a The meeting will focus on environmental VINTECHPACIFIC POVERTY recover the cost of providing this service. director of GHL, please send your CV outcomes and actions for managing BAY CUP $50,000 STAKE with a covering letter to heather.kohn@ More information on these policies water quality and quantity within the gdc.govt.nz before 4pm Friday 30 April At Hawke’s Bay Racing and others is available on the Council catchment. website at https://www.gdc.govt.nz/ 2021. Saturday 17 April 2021 More information about the Mōtū council/have-your-say/2021-2031-long- A Fact Sheet and Council’s Board Catchment Plan is available on the The Poverty Bay Turf Club is pleased term-plan Appointment and Remuneration Policy Council website at https://www.gdc. to be able to provide a free bus to and is available on Council’s website Tell us what you think, submissions are govt.nz/environment/our-rivers/motu- from the racecourse with free entry to www.gdc.govt.nz or from Heather Kohn. welcome until 5pm Friday 23 April 2021. catchment-plan the Power Farming Hawke’s Bay Cup meeting. 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GISBORNE PRESBYTERIAN PARISH Rev Jin Sook Kim www.standrewsgis.org.nz St Andrew's TAMARAU CHURCH IN Church ANGLICAN CHURCH COMMUNITY CHURCH CHRISTIAN COMMENT www.waiapu.com Matthews Rd (off Wainui Rd) CHRIST 176 Cobden Street Roebuck Road When things are out of our control, we all 10.30am: PARISH OF GISBORNE 10.30am: respond differently. Some experience fear and Worship Service Kidzone, Worship OPEN worry, while others excitement as they relish Easter 2 HOLY TRINITY Speaker: 10am Service new opportunities. These responses are partly Matawhero 8.00am: Holy Communion David Hughes “hard wired”; based on learned behaviour and Historic Church 10.00am: Holy Communion All welcome temperament. However, as adaptable, creative A warm welcome. beings we are able to choose different ways of No Service Ph John 027 7751 656 Waipaoa Parish Ph 867 4563/868 4735 responding. 9.30am: Holy Communion at St Luke's, Enjoyment in life depends on our thoughts OASIS Waerenga-a-Hika and attitudes. Thinking affects our emotions, emotions affect our thoughts and both affect COMMUNITY ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH of our behaviour. Different chemicals are CHURCH St Mary Star of the Sea activated and produced depending on our thoughts, emotions and behaviour. So what we SUNDAYS 10am think, feel and do affects our well-being. The WORSHIP & MINISTRY WEEKEND MASS TIMES good news is that we can control our thoughts, "The Shelter" for the Literal attitude and behaviours. & Spiritually homeless Saturday 6.00pm The Bible advises us to “take every thought In the Heart of the Community Sunday 9.00am captive to make it obedient to Christ” (2 with the Community at Heart Corinthians 10:5). This means controlling East Coast Naumai Haere Mai - Tolaga Bay 2nd Sunday 11.00am what we think about and getting it in line with ALL WELCOME Tokomaru Bay 3rd Sunday 11.30am Christ’s thoughts. 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We have so much to be Sunday 10am: 'Noah Found Grace In The thankful for: safety from war, good food to 10am Eyes Of The Lord' - Genesis 6:8 you compassion. eat, a beautiful outdoor environment, homes, Speaker: Andrew Russell For the Lord is a God of families and a COVID vaccine! ALL WELCOME Kids Programmes available during Service May you know God’s peace at this time! Find us on Facebook - Mangapapa Union Parish www.mup.org.nz justice. Nicola Hawkins 28 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 Finau, Keepa mix it with the best SWIMMING Bridge results (2:12.87), now with the Heretaunga Sundevils club. GISBORNE swimmers Tyler Finau Finau’s efforts over the week have TUESDAY, April 6 — Jackson Family Pairs 1 and Jack Keepa have been mixing it with included a personal best in the 100m North/South East/West the country’s best at the New Zealand butterfly. She made the B final of the Hans van der Kuijl, Katrina Duncan 61.81 Elizabeth Jackson, Trish Corson 65.87 Swimming Championships in Auckland. 100m backstroke, finishing sixth, and was Raewynne Cook, Amanda Matthews 59.38 Katrine Matthews, Bette Parker 56.35 The Enterprise Cars Swim Team pair eighth in the B final of the 50m back. Helen Kerisome, Delwyn Arthur 55.56 Jean Turnbull, Diana Styche 54.37 have been what coach Gary Martin Keepa had a strong 200m breaststroke WEDNESDAY, April 7 — Emerre & Hathaway Pairs 1 describes as “swimming themselves into on Thursday, qualifying 11th in a time of North/South East/West the meet” over the week-long champs 2:30.16, then placing third in the B final Caroline Taylor, Ann McCombe 57.74 Rosemary Rowell, Brent Turnbull 56.25 being held at the Sir Owen Glenn in 2:26.86. Caroline Kirkpatrick, Joy Marden 55.36 Sally Knight, Elizabeth Jackson 56.25 National Aquatic Centre. He was 12th qualifier in the 100m Robin Corson, Trish Corson 54.46 Ora Peipi, Sue Hayward 55.95 Both have made it to finals, and Finau breaststroke in 1:07.50 and went on to Sally Falkner, Carolyn McMurray 54.46 Beryll Preston, John Rouse 51.79 had an A final last night. place fifth in the B final in 1:08.20. The 16-year-old qualified seventh from Former Gisborne swimmer Chris THURSDAY, April 8, 15, 22 — Eastland Vets Restricted Teams her heat of the 200 metres backstroke in Dawson, now with Auckland’s Coast Results will not be available until the conclusion of the third week of teams competition. a time of 2 minutes 19.70 seconds. She Swimming Club, has proved age is no FRIDAY, April 9 — Stenersen Lifestyle Pairs 1 went on to place eighth in the final in barrier. North/South East/West 2:20.88. The 27-year-old was second in the 50m Nola McKee, Robin Bennett 64.93 Bobby Thomson, Carolyn McMurray 62.70 The final was won by former Gisborne butterfly A final and third in the 100m Jean Bennett, Glenys Evans 64.24 Diana Styche, Sally Falkner 59.52 swimmer and top qualifier Emma Godwin fly A final. Adele Walters, Robin Corson 52.78 Bette Parker, Trish Corson 57.94 Traoré screamer earns Wolves win at Fulham FOOTBALL hopes of escaping relegation, while Fulham could have climbed out of the the drop zone for the first time since Wolves secured their first victory since bottom three on goal difference, at the December while Wolves are in 12th LONDON — Adama Traoré has mid-February. expense of Newcastle United, with a win place. smashed home a brilliant finish from Spain winger Traoré was sent clear at Craven Cottage but barely created a Wolves looked to have taken the lead an acute angle in the second minute down the right and his blistering effort clear-cut chance and slumped to a fourth- on the stroke of halftime when Willian of stoppage time for Wolverhampton from just inside the penalty area beat straight loss. José headed home from Daniel Podence’s Wanderers to beat Fulham 1-0 in English Fulham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola Scott Parker’s Cottagers are third- cross from the right, but VAR spotted the Premier League football today. at the near post for his first goal since bottom with six games to play and have most marginal of offside positions against The result further damaged the hosts’ December 2019. now wasted three chances to get out of the provider. — AP THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Monday, April 12, 2021 SUDOKU CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Akai Osei, 22; Claire Danes, 42; Jennifer Morrison, 42; Ed O'Neill, 75. Happy Birthday: Pick up the pace. You have plenty to do if you want to reach your SUDOKU is a logic puzzle made expectations. Set goals, deadlines and plans in motion, and draw on those up of 81 squares on a 9x9 grid. who can offer information, assistance and emotional support. 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The Maunga led 15-10 at halftime, having THE title aspirations of TVC got a massive out wide and are always dangerous, so we’re City fullback Leethan Tipene-Rawiri scored scored the opening try through centre Karauria boost while Ruatoria City returned to action with stoked.” four tries, lock Nathaniel Fox scored one, and Keelan. It was converted by second-five Jacob a vengeance in Week 2 of Ngati Porou East Coast No.8 Hoani Te Moana and right-wing Tawhao Fox also kicked four conversions. Leef. club rugby. Stewart scored tries for TVC; centre Tutere Their opponents, led by loosehead prop Mike Hikurangi’s other first-half points-scorers were TVC beat Uawa 26-20; City — who did not Waenga kicked two penalty goals and two Chambers-Raroa, fought hard to contain them. fullback Fabyan Kahaki, with a penalty, and No.8 have a team in the competition last year — conversions, and locks Manaia Nyman and Peeti “Our tight five scrummaged well but we Barry Solitt, with a try. opened their 2021 account with a 48-5 victory Delamere each kicked penalties. still have work to do defensively, in terms of They were worth their five-point lead in a hard- over Tokomaru Bay United; and Hikurangi Delamere and hooker Te Taawhi Takuira-Mita making first-up tackles, and around the fringes,” fought, intensely physical meeting. subdued Hicks Bay 20-17 for their first win were named TVC MVPs (most valuable players). Chambers-Raroa said. Hooker Hone Brooking scored Hikurangi’s last of Round 1 of the Enterprise Cars-sponsored Uawa openside flanker Te Atapo Kirikiri and United coach Kuru Gray acknowledged the try and only points of the second spell. competition. halfback Sam Parkes scored tries. courage shown by his side. Halfback Hona Delamere, first-five Shaun Te Araroa-based Tokararangi had the bye. Parkes converted both and landed two “Our boys reduced City’s scoring in the Murtagh and centre Rawiri Hoerara scored tries TVC captain and openside flanker Moana Mato, penalties. second half and stuck it out for 80 minutes,” he for Hicks Bay, with one conversion coming from who led Cape Runaway’s finest to their first title TVC led 13-6 at the break. said. the boot of lock Manahi Brooking. in 2017, got what he knew his team would need Ruatoria City’s last campaign ended on July 6, Tokomaru Bay United’s try-scorer was fullback TVC top the table with the maximum 10 points discipline-wise after their long haul to Uawa 2019, with a 31-5 loss to Tokararangi at Te Araroa Uzi Parata while their MVP was fetcher Barney from two games. Uawa are on six (2 games Domain. Domain. Devery. played), Ruatoria five (1), Tokararangi four “Our boys stayed in their structure and played Two years on, the Lisa Muller-coached City Hikurangi bounced back from their opening (1), Hikurangi four (2), Hicks Bay one (2) and 80 hard minutes,” Mato said. returned in triumph and all that was wanting loss to TVC with a pressure-filled win against Tokomaru Bay zero (2).

These days, even after Tiger Woods broke down so many Payback for Elder racial barriers, golf remains largely white at its highest . . . but he’ll never be paid in full levels.

HONORARY GOLF by Paul Newberry, AP STARTERS: Lee Elder waves as he AUGUSTA, Georgia — Lee Elder was is introduced and 40 years old when he made history as applauded by fellow the first Black player to tee it up at the honorary starters Masters after so many prime years had Gary Player and already been stolen from him by the Jack Nicklaus at the scourge of racism. ceremonial tee shots When Augusta National finally to begin the Masters extended him the long-overdue honour golf tournament at of serving as an honorary starter, Elder’s Augusta National fragile, 86-year-old body wouldn’t allow Golf Club. Elder, him to take even a single swing alongside the first Black Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. player to tee it up Sitting in a chair at the first tee, an at the Masters (in oxygen tube running beneath his nose, 1975), was too Elder listened intently to a glowing frail to tee off with introduction by club chairman Fred greats Player and Ridley before struggling to get to his feet Nicklaus, but his on Thursday morning. presence marked an Player reached over to help him up. acknowledgement Elder raised his driver to acknowledge of past wrongs done the heartwarming cheers, bit his lip to to Black players and hold back the tidal wave of emotions, caddies over many then sat down. years. Below, Elder “I think that having Lee there was during the 1975 the right thing to do, a nice thing to do,” Masters. Nicklaus said. AP pictures Yet, it also was a sad reminder of how much the game of golf missed by excluding so many for so long. Masters finally allowed a Black player, taunts and violent threats. Many of their names came up again on extending an invitation to Elder in 1975 But Elder and his fellow pioneers — the opening day of the Masters. after he won the Monsanto Open for his players such as Charlie Sifford, who Nicklaus recalled a Black caddie first tour victory. broke the PGA tour’s colour line in 1961 named Pon, who was on the bag for the Like most Black players of his era, — were more fortunate than many of Golden Bear’s first Masters in 1959. Elder came up through the caddie ranks. their contemporaries. “Pon, that’s all I knew him by,” He learned the finer points of the game For those handful who made it, there Nicklaus said. by watching others swing. He took that were countless others who never got a Another Black caddie, Willie Peterson, knowledge to the course in his free time, chance. was at Nicklaus’s side for five of his six honing his skills at public facilities that Player remembered a caddie named Masters titles, which came during an allowed Black golfers to play. Ernest Nipper, who was at the South era when players were required to use a “If you played around a lot of the African’s side when he made his Masters looper who worked at the club. places that I played, you had better be a debut in 1957. This was a group made up largely good golfer, especially if you were trying “He was the best caddie I ever had,” of African Americans who lived in the to hustle a buck or two, because there Player insisted. “He was a very good Augusta area. Many of them were pretty were so many bandits out there,” Elder golfer. He lived here. He knew these decent players in their own right but said. greens inside out.” in jeopardy after a high-speed car crash never got a chance to show what they “I’m talking about guys that were real Player can still recall the back-and- left him with serious injuries. could do on the course. good players that always sat around and forth as they studied a 6-foot putt to save In the wake of protests that roiled Their skin was deemed the wrong waited for somebody to come along. And par at the fourth hole. the nation last summer, when tens of colour. So they settled for lugging the when they found out that I was a pretty “Nipper,” Player said, “this is left lip.” thousands demanded racial and social bags of white golfers. good player, all of them wanted to kind of “Black Knight,” the caddie countered, justice, Augusta National endowed two “The trouble that Willie got into — I be partners with me.” “this is on the right lip.” golf scholarships in Elder’s name at don’t know who it was matched by, but it After a stint in the Army, Elder joined When Player insisted again that he nearby Paine College, a historically black was hard to match,” Nicklaus said with a the United Golf Association, a tour for should aim at the left side of the cup, college. chuckle. “But Willie was a wonderful guy. Black players. He dominated that low- Nipper came back with, “If it’s not on the The PGA Tour, meanwhile, has allowed I loved Willie, and I miss him. ” paying circuit, saved up his money and right lip, you don’t have to pay me.” a mini-tour composed largely of Black We can only imagine what Peterson finally earned his PGA card in 1968. Player followed Nipper’s advice. golfers to use courses in its TPC network and others would’ve brought to the game Elder won four times on the PGA Nipper got paid. for its events. if allowed to realise their full potential. Tour, competed in the four major These days, even after Tiger Woods Elder was joined at the first tee on They loved golf. Too bad it didn’t championships (finishing as high as broke down so many racial barriers, Thursday by representatives from Paine always love them back. 11th in both the PGA Championship and golf remains largely white at its highest College, along with a group of Black PGA The PGA had a Caucasian-only rule US Open), and became the first African levels. professionals. until 1961 — 14 years after Jackie American to earn a spot in the Ryder There are just four players of Black They got to see a bit of payback. Robinson broke baseball’s colour barrier. Cup. heritage on the PGA Tour — and that list But Elder — like so many others — It took another 14 years before the All along the way, he faced racist includes Woods, whose brilliant career is will never be paid in full. 30 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 Gisborne Club Darts SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF Smith, not Wilson in picture highlights reels for years to come as he carded a six- under-par 66 to charge up the leaderboard today. Association results THE name of the Fast Pitch Sliders catcher in the At the par-five 15th yesterday, Wiesberger had a softball picture on The Herald’s back page on Thursday super-fast, slick 40-foot downhill eagle putt. was incorrectly given in the caption as Craig Wilson. It In his excitement, he misjudged the speed and INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Tristan Reeves (P2 S1 T7) 100 (4) 125, 131, should have read Craig Smith. Apologies. watched in dismay as the ball trickled past the cup, 180s: Marcus Leach, Jono Griffiths (both 140; Angela Leach (P2 S1 T0); Shay Waikawa and went on and on, gathering pace and rolling into from RSA Men of Mayhem); Tobias Campbell- (P1 S0 T2) 100 (2); Bray Reeves (P1 S0 T2) Wiesberger makes amends the pond guarding the green. — AAP Ratapu (2NZ Vikings); Matt Reedy, Monty 100, 139. AUGUSTA, Georgia — A day after enduring the Reedy (Cossy Done & Dusted). Cossy Spandangles 13 RSA (1) 2: Mikey blooper of putting from the green straight into a water Kart club racing tomorrow Highest start (140): Mike Jones Evans (P3 S1 T7) 100 (3), 140, 100st (2), hazard at slippery Augusta National, Bernd Wiesberger EASTLAND Kart Club will hold its seventh points (Roseland); Kayne Arahanga, Tyson Eyles, 140st; Jackson Pratt (P3 S1 T1) 100; Rendall has made amends by not only making birdie at the Irie Eyles (2NZ Kings); George Vaotuua (2NZ McDonald (P3 S1 T1) 140; Ike Te Aho Rangi meeting of the season tomorrow. same hole but also shooting into contention at the All classes get three races each, and drivers will get Rebels); John White, Matt Reedy 2 (Cossy (P3 S1 T3) 100 (2), 125; Sean Gooch (P2 S1 Masters golf tournament. Done & Dusted). T3) 100st, 118, 121; Neil Gooch (P2 S0 T1) a front, middle and back start during the day. The strapping Austrian put behind him an Racing starts at 10am. Spectators can watch free of Highest finish (120): Hunter Eyles (2NZ 108; James Kelleher (P0 S0 T1) 121st; Frank embarrassing blunder that will be shown on blooper Kings); Robert (Lee) Barbarich (2NZ Rebels). Hooper (P0 S0 T4) 100 (2), 101, 133; Willie charge. Most tons (14): Matt Reedy, Brian Leach Aston (P1 S0 T1) 100; Chris Holmes (P1 S0 T3) (Cossy Done & Dusted). 100 (2), 125; Aroha Shields (P0 S0 T0); Kehu Beauchamp (P0 S1 T1) 115. TEAM RESULTS Cossy (2) 6 Roseland Dilligaf 9: Steve SPORT HONOURS P = pairs won. S = singles won. T = total Nesbitt (P1 S0 T7) 100 (2), 133, 135, 140, tons. 100st, 136st; James Witika (P1 S1 T3) RSA Men of Mayhem 13 Cossy 100,120,140; Allen Wildbore (P1 S0 T2) 100, 6-Shooters 2: Jono Griffiths (P2 S1 T6) 121, 156; Min Vette (P1 S1 T2) 108, 140; Puna 125, 134, 140, 180, 123st; Thao Duncan (P2 McRoberts (P1 S1 T6) 100 (5), 136; Lionel S1 T8) 100 (2), 120, 121; 123 (2), 140 (2); Vette (P1 S1 T1) 120. Pete Archbold (P2 S1 PRINCE PHILIP Marcus Leach (P2 S1 T10) 100 (5), 125 (3), T5) 100 (2), 140 (3); Mike Waikari (P2 S0 T3) 140, 180; Dudley Reeves (P2 S1 T2) 100, 140; 100, 125 (2); Junior Akurangi (P2 S1 T6) 100 TRIBUTES Edinburgh. Toby Ratapu (P3 S1 T8) 100 (3), 121, 140 (2), (3), 140 (3); Ronnie Pomana (P2 S0 T2) 100, “His passion for the game we all love was 100st (2); Tahuna Irwin (P3 S1 T9) 100 (6) 123; Tipi Eyles (P2 S0 T2) 100, 125; Heiwari LONDON — Two-minute silences have well known and the trophies presented to the 104, 140 (2); Richard Moore (P2 S0 T1) 100st; Phillips (P2 S1 T1) 100. been observed at top British sports venues men’s and women’s county champions are a Terry O’Neil (P2 S0 T5) 100 (3) 116 125; 2NZ Tao Spartans 8 Cossy Double as the sporting world paid tribute to Prince tribute to his dedication to our sport. We owe Glenn Higgins (P2 S0 T6) 100 (3) 121, 100st, Seekers 7: Mihimoana Waihape (P2 S0 T2) Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, following his him a great debt for his support and passion 140st; Dean Allen (P0 S0 T4) 100 (2), 105, 100, 120; Paul Waihape (P2 S0 T5) 100 (3), death at the age of 99. over many decades.” 125; Rio Edwards (P0 S0 T0); Craig Watson 119, 120; Chalet Mikean (P2 S0 T1) 100; Football’s English Premier League and other The Rugby Football League, the Rugby (P0 S0 T0). Royce Kaa (P2 S2 T6) 100 (2) 120, 140; sports competitions will pay their respects this Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union 2NZ Wahine Toa 7 2NZ Tao Vikings 8: Brayden Pokai-Giddens (P1 S1 T3) 100 (2), weekend after Buckingham Palace announced also paid tribute to Prince Philip’s lifetime of Hups Haapu (P1 S0 T1) 140; Mihi Awatere 116; Kaui Namana (P1 S1 T2) 100 (2); Gary on Friday that Prince Philip had died. service. (P1 S0 T6) 100 (3) 125, 140, 100st; Tania Harding (P3 S1 T2) 100, 119; Kevin (P3 S1 Tributes to his lifetime of service poured in RFL chair Simon Johnson said: “As a sport, Kiri (P3 S1 T7) 100 (4) 110, 100st (2); T2) 104, 128; Karen Harding (P1 S1 T1) 132; from the world of sport, and sportsmen and we will stand in tribute and reflection at our Destiny Barbarich (P3 S1 T5) 100 (2), 105, Steve Deedman (P1 S0 T2) 100, 132; Lindsay women up and down the country will observe Challenge Cup matches this weekend to mark 138, 140; Hinehou Namana (P1 S0 T1) 130; Grenfell (P0 S0 T6) 100 (3) 125, 138, 140. silences and wear black armbands as a mark the life of The Duke of Edinburgh, whose life Tina Aspalter (P1 S0 T2) 100, 101; Tobias 2NZ TCL 1 2NZ Kings 14: Vanessa of respect. was a model of dedication to public service.” Campbell-Ratapu (P2 S1 T9) 100 (5), 135, Fraider (P0 S0 T2) 100, 140; Josh van der The Football Association announced that Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho said: “I 140, 100st, 180; Apirana Taukamo-Pohio (P2 Lem (P0 S0 T2) 121, 140; Chris Giddens (P1 flags at Wembley and St George’s Park would would like to express my condolences to the S1 T10) 100 (2), 101, 123, 140 (4), 100st, S0 T4) 100st, 100 (3); Ngata Monika (P1 S0 fly at half mast. Royal family and to be very honest and say I 125st; Apanui Kaiwai (P0 S0 T3) 100 (2), 125; T2) 100, 115; Mere-Kingi Nepe (P0 S0 T0); “The FA will be recommending that black have the utmost respect for the Royal family. Fabian Waihape (P0 S0 T2) 100 (2); Jarrod Bob Fraider (P0 S0 T0); Cris Kiri (P2 S1 T8) armbands are worn and a minute’s silence “I believe that it is not just this country that Waikawa-Nepe (P2 S1 T2) 100, 133st; Matiu 100 (4), 100st (2), 121, 140; LeRoy Eyles (P3 observed before matches are played, including is going to be sharing these feelings, because Hawea (P2 S1 T5) 100 (3), 100st, 140. S1 T2) 100 (2); Kayne Arahanga (P3 S1 T7) tonight’s England women’s international I’m not English and I know that many like 2NZ Tao Valkyries 9 v 2NZ (3) 6: Meshelle 120, 140, 134, 100 (3), 140st; Tyson Eyles fixture in France,” the FA said in a statement. myself, we have the utmost respect.” (Mel) l Ahuriri (P2 S1 T3) 100, 140, 111f; (P3 S1 T8) 125 (2), 100 (4), 140, 140st; Irie A two-minute silence was also observed Aintree held a two-minute silence before the Amelia Campbell-Ratapu (P2 S1 T3) 100, 121, Eyles (P3 S1 T8) 100 (5), 104, 100st, 140st; before the afternoon session at Friday’s start of racing on Day 2 of the Grand National 129; Jessie Richardson (P1 S0 T3) 100 (2), Hunter Eyles (P3 S1 T7) 100 (4), 140, 100st, County Championship cricket matches. meeting. 140; Jennifer Waihape (P1 S1 T2) 100, 121; 120f. Players and other staff wore black The Duke of Edinburgh was an honorary Kiri Hawea (P2 S1 T1) 100st; Ani Kaa (P2 2NZ Rebels 8 Cossy Done & Dusted 7: armbands and flags at grounds were lowered member of the Jockey Club and a two-minute S0 T1) 100; Lane Cook (P3 S0 T7) 100 (5), Lorenzo Kaa (P1 S1 T7), 100 (2), 123, 127, to half mast. silence took place on course before racing got 121, 140; Tom Aranui (P3 S0 T3) 100 (2), 110; 140; Kathy Penfold (P1 S0 T3) 100 (2), 138; England and Wales Cricket Board chairman under way. Eria Thomas (P0 S1 T3) 100, 102, 111; Carol Robert (Lee) Barbarich (P2 S0 T6) 100st, Ian Watmore said: “I’m sure I speak for the Jockeys were invited to wear black Wood (P0 S0 T0); Heni Pewhairangi (P1 S0 120f, 100 (3), 118; Jess Noanoa (P2 S1 T7) entire cricket family when I say how sad armbands, and flags at Aintree were flown at T2) 100, 108; Rangi Te Pou (P1 S1 T4) 121 100 (4), 134, 140 (2); George Vaotuua (P2 S0 I am to hear of the passing of the Duke of half mast. — PA (2), 140 (2). T6) 100 (5), 140st; Charlie Reiri (P2 S1 T1) RSA Stallions 2 Roseland 13: Kas Unuwai 100; John White (P2 S0 T9) 100 (2), 121, 123, (P0 S0 T3) 100, 114, 100st; Kelvin Tamihere 140, 121st, 140st, 105f, 117f; Sha Hohipa (P2 (P0 S0 T5) 100 (3), 100st, 140; Jandy Solomon S1 T1) 101; Matt Reedy (P2 S1 T14) 100st (2), Alert level to rise in Tokyo (P0 S0 T0); Chris Beattie (P0 S0 T2) 100, 140; 140st (2), 100 (8), 140 (2); Monty Reedy (P2 Arthur Kerisome (P1 S1 T4) 100, 105, 140, S0 T2) 100, 180; Brian Leach (P0 S1 T14) 100 OLYMPICS Minister Yoshihide Suga recently spread to offices, 100st; Eddie Brown (P1 S0 T3) 100 (2), 140; (8), 121, 139, 140, 100st (2), 121st. yesterday will allow Tokyo’s elderly-care facilities and Mike Jones (P3 S1 T8) 100 (5), 100st (2), TOKYO — Japan is to raise governor to mandate shorter schools, experts say. 140st; John Collier (P3 S1 T4) 100, 121, 123, DRAW for TUESDAY (drop off the coronavirus alert level opening hours for bars and Suga also raised the alert 135; Wayne Morrell (P2 S1 T1) 133; Kevin scoresheets at RSA or to Kehu) — in Tokyo to allow tougher restaurants, along with level for Kyoto in western Morrell (P2 S0 T2) 100 (2); Fred Moreland (P3 COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: Cossy measures to curb the rapid punishments for violators and Japan and the southern S1 T1) 100; Steve Lascelles (P3 S1 T9) 100 (4), Done & Dusted v RSA Stallions, Cossy spread of a more contagious compensation for those who island prefecture of Okinawa, 121, 125, 132, 100st (2). Spandangles v 2NZ Wahine Toa. variant ahead of the Summer comply. where cases have surged in Roseland Say My Name 6 RSA xFMO 9: ROSELAND: Roseland v Roseland Olympics. The measures are to begin recent weeks. Walter Whaitiri (P1 S0 T3) 100 (3); Nyoka Fox Dilligaf. Japan’s national vaccination on Monday and continue The steps come less than (P1 S0 T3) 100 (2), 140; Crevice Lewis (P0 RSA: RSA Men of Mayhem v 2NZ Tao drive has lagged and most through to May 11, ahead of three weeks after a non- S0 T9) 100 (7), 125, 100st; Malachi (P0 S0 Valkyries, RSA xFMO v 2NZ Tao Spartans. people in the capital still the Olympics scheduled for binding state of emergency T0); Tui Duncan (P3 S1 T8) 100 (4), 115, 134, 2NZEF: 2NZ (3) v Cossy Double Seekers, have not been innoculated as July 23 to August 8. was lifted for Tokyo and 140, 100st; Webster Lewis (P3 S1 T3) 100 (3); 2NZ Kings v Cossy 6 Shooters, 2NZ TCL v infections have surged. Many of Tokyo’s cases have underscore the difficulty of Chiarn Waikawa (P2 S1 T8) 100 (4), 116, 120 Roseland Say My Name, 2NZ Tao Vikings v The raised status been linked to nightlife and balancing anti-virus measures (2), 100st; Karlia Waikawa (P2 S1 T1) 119; Cossy (2), 2NZ Rebels v RSA (1). announced by Prime dining, although they have and the economy. — AP Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS Tigers 13 Ruahine Rua 4: J White 138, 125 (3), 120, 100st (5), 100 (9); R Whanau Magic 13 Knights 4: H DRAW FOR APRIL 15, 7pm: Falcons 180s: Ripeka Te Kira (Ruahine Tahi); 140 (4), 125 (2), 121 (3), 100 (12); D Awatere-Kohunui 122, 101, 100 (2); P Ratapu 140 (2), 132, 125 (2), 100 (2); K v Tigers, Kidz & Himz v Ruahine Rua, Tahunu Irwin (Falcons); Shay Waikawa Reeves 140 (3), 120f, 105, 100st (2), 100 Haapu 134st, 120, 105, 100 (4). White 140st, 140 (2), 101, 100st (2), 100 Hummingbirds v Waihape Whanau, (Waihape Whanau); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, (8); S Henry 100 (3); W Edwards 135, Kidz & Himz 17 Waihape Whanau 0: (5); J Waikawa 162, 140, 114, 105, 100st; Knights v Ruahine Toru, Ruahine Tahi v Te Kotaha Kaio, Tristan Reeves (Kidz & 129, 100 (6); J Smith 132; A Cashmore I Kaio-Wynyard 180, 171, 140st (2), 140 K Waikawa 140, 109st, 100st, 100 (5); Whanau Magic. Himz). 122, 120, 100 (5); W Heurea 140 (2), 135 (2), 125 (2), 101, 100 (2); T Kaio 180, V Mackey 154, 140, 121 (2), 116, 100st, Highest start (180): Shay Waikawa (2), 125, 121 (2), 100 (2); B Awatere 140, 140st (3), 140 (6), 105st, 105f, 100st (3), 100 (2); F Waihape 121, 119, 100st, 100; ■ Junior and youth players will be (Waihape Whanau). 125, 100 (2). 100 (8); C Kaio 138, 133, 125, 123, 121 B Edwards 103, 100; H Reeves 140, competing in a selection tournament at Highest finish (126): Tahuna Irwin Falcons 13 Ruahine Tahi 4: T Irwin (2), 117, 110, 100 (2); T Reeves 180, 100st, 100. the RSA tomorrow for a Region 7 team (Falcons). 180, 140st, 140 (3), 126f, 123, 121 (2), 140st, 140, 135, 130, 125 (2), 23, 121st, Ruahine Toru 10 Hummingbirds 7: to travel to Wainuiomata in July to Most tons, men (23): Te Kotahi Kaio 100st, 100 (11); Tama Irwin 140, 133, 100st, 100f, 100 (8); J Reedy 140, 100 K Hartley 125, 100st; I Jahnke 140, 100; play against other regions throughout (Kidz & Himz). 116f, 100 (3); S Kirikino 140, 132, 125, (2); C Waikawa 140st, 123, 120 (2), 115, P Pomana 111, 108; C Te Moni 140, 125, New Zealand. Start time is 9.30am and Most tons, women (24): Mihi Awatere 124, 123st, 120, 110f, 100st, 100 (8); 100; S Waikawa 180st, 140, 135, 125, 100st, 100 (8); E Kirikino 116, 105; C seniors are encouraged to head down (Ruahine Tahi). P Tom 171, 140st, 140, 123, 121, 119, 121 (2), 117 (2), 100; M Waihape 140 (3), Woods 125, 104, 100 (3); M Kaio 140, there to support the young ones or TEAM RESULTS 100st, 100 (6); M Awatere 140st, 140 (4), 120, 100 (2). 123st, 100 (7); S Tom 100 (2). even play some games. The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, April 10, 2021 SPORT 31 Leishman revives Australian hopes GOLF by Ben Everill, AAP opening seven holes today. “I couldn’t be more excited,” The two-time Masters runner- Leishman said. AUGUSTA — Marc Leishman up was able to rebound with “This is why I came here. This has reinvigorated hopes of a three late birdies to post an is the position I wanted to be in. Masters green jacket heading even-par 72 for the clubhouse “My game’s finally feeling down under after leader Justin lead at seven under. good. It’s the Masters so I’m Rose opened the door during the But his four-shot overnight excited for the next two days, second round. buffer was down to just one with but there’s a lot of good shots Englishman Rose defied tough Americans Will Zalatoris (68) that have to be hit and a lot of conditions in the opening round and Brian Harman (69) tied for good putts made to give myself a with a career-best seven-under second. chance going into the back nine 65 at Augusta National but the Australian Leishman posted a on Sunday (Monday (NZ time).” 40-year-old was looking shaky tidy five-under 67 to be just two Also lurking ominously was after dropping three shots in his shots behind Rose. three-time major winner and 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth, posting a 68 to join Leishman at five under in a share of fourth. Spieth is a last-start winner at the Texas Open, a result that broke a near four-year drought for the Texan. Leishman, who had four birdies in his first six holes yesterday before giving them all back, shot out of the blocks with three birdies in a row in the second round. He moved to four-under on the day with a birdie at the ON A ROLL: Marc Leishman reacts to a par putt during the second 13th and shared the lead with round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National today. another birdie on the 15th until Pictures by Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Rose pushed back late, making birdies at the 13th, 14th and It was rocks and diamonds for Matt Jones made his first 16th. Smith who got his score to five- Masters cut at one under while Cameron Smith carded a under with an eagle on the 13th Adam Scott (73) was three-over, three-under 69 to be two under, but leaked three shots coming to be on the cut line. PACESETTER: Justin Rose tees off during the second round of the to maintain his goal of going one home with a double-bogey on the Jason Day was nine over late Masters golf tournament at Augusta National in Augusta, Georgia, better than his runner-up result 15th after a water ball. in his round and was set to miss today. Rose’s overnight four-shot lead was trimmed today. in November. A three-under 69 ensured the cut.

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BAROMETRIC PRESSURE Sydney fine 13 22 strong about the coast at For the latest weather info including Weather Warnings visit At 5pm 9 Apr (hPa) 1016.5 Tokyo fine 8 18 fi rst. metservice.com At 5pm 9 Apr (inches) 30.02 Toronto showers 9 15 GOLF INSIDEGOLF Swimming ...... 28 Rugby, golf ...... 29 Olympics, darts.. 30 SPORT Golf ...... 31 Saturday, April 10, 2021 Trailblazing Lee Elder honoured Rose comes back to the at the Masters 29 chasing pack PAGE 31PAGE Pipped in last second RUGBY LEAGUE by Matt Encarnacion, AAP GOSFORD — A last-second field goal from skipper Daly Cherry-Evans has given Manly a dramatic 13-12 victory over the Warriors and delivered their first win of the NRL season. The Sea Eagles were staring at a crushing fifth straight defeat to start the year when Sean O’Sullivan claimed a go-ahead try for the Warriors early in the second half in Gosford last night. However, youngster Josh Schuster bagged a try to level the scores with 20 minutes to go, setting up a thrilling finish as both teams struggled to land the knockout punch. O’Sullivan sprayed the Warriors’ only field-goal attempt wide with five minutes to go, while many were left scratching their heads when Schuster, not Cherry-Evans, lined up a shot in the 79th minute. The Warriors scrambled and charged down that kick. However, Cherry-Evans stepped up shortly after with his field goal to land a morale- boosting win. “Josh was an option (for field goal),” Manly coach Des Hasler said. “It was something we spoke about from time to time. “But in the end, it’s something that ‘Chez’ does well, those big moments. He’s handled them before. BIG MOMENT: Daly Cherry-Evans kicks a field goal in the dying moments of play to secure a win for the Manly Sea Eagles in a Round 5 “There were a lot of positives. NRL match against the New Zealand Warriors at Central Coast Stadium, Gosford, last night. AAP pictures We’ll take that, move on to Mudgee next week and get ready before the return of several trouble with early-play kicking, The Warriors looked on their half of the table. for the Titans.” troops, led by their star fullback. it was a 70-metre kick from a way when O’Sullivan dummied “If Addin did play tonight, The victory was soured by a Points were hard to come by scrum that resulted in Jason past a tired Sean Keppie in the it wouldn’t have changed the suspected hamstring injury to for most of a scrappy first half Saab burning off Ken Maumalo 46th minute, but Schuster set way we went about our offence,” Manly fullback Dylan Walker. at Central Coast Stadium, with for the opening try in the 28th up the exciting finish when he Warriors coach Nathan Brown Walker, filling in at the back the Warriors twice denying the minute. pounced on a loose ball to score. said. for the injured Tom Trbojevic, Sea Eagles the first try with It was the first time the Sea The loss for the Warriors, on “Our players in the key limped off the field and failed to desperate goal-line defence. Eagles had led in a game this the same day it was revealed positions just didn’t quite get us return, while second-rower Jack It wasn’t until some out-of-the- season. Three minutes later, a that star prop Addin Fonua- in the right areas enough, and Gosiewski is facing a season- box thinking from Cherry-Evans Jack Murchie line break ended Blake could be out for up to four that sent Roger (Tuivasa-Sheck) ending ankle injury. that the deadlock was broken. with Maumalo ensuring the months with a fractured patella, on a bit of a wild goose chase The victory comes a week Forced to drag his team out of ledger was squared at the break. leaves them mired in the bottom chasing the ball.”

VICTORY JOY: Manly players celebrate the last-gasp, match-winning field goal WRAPPED UP: Roger Tuivasa-Sheck of the Warriors is tackled by Lachlan Croker by Daly Cherry-Evans against the Warriors at Gosford last night. Manly won the (left) and Sean Keppie of Manly during an NRL match at Central Coast Stadium, match 13-12. Gosford, last night.