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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 ARTS & LOOKING WHILE COOKING ENTERTAINMENT COVID-19 PAGES 6, 8-9, 11-12 PAGES 19-22 MESSAGE FAILING PAGE 3 • South Auckland set for mass vaccination • Exemption for parents of assaulted Brit • Kiwis in Victoria told to return now • NSW lockdown extended INSIDE TODAY Three Waters reforms boost ■ Govt announces $2.5bn package ■ Gisborne to get $28.8 million ■ Wairoa to receive $18.8 million GISBORNE and Wairoa have change the shift in these assets been given a multimillion-dollar means for council balance windfall to fix ageing water sheets, so the remainder of infrastructure. the package seeks to ensure The Government today councils are better off despite announced a $2.5 billion this change to their asset base. package to support local “To do this we have set government transition through aside $2 billion for councils to its Three Waters reforms to invest in the future for local New Zealand’s drinking water, government, urban development wastewater and stormwater and the wellbeing of their services. communities.” As part of the package, Local Government Minister Gisborne will receive $28.8m on Nanaia Mahuta said central top of the $11m of government and local government had funds awarded in October last similar goals and it was year. important the two tiers of Wairoa will receive $18.8m. government approached these The package will also challenges together. stimulate local economies while “New Zealand’s water system creating jobs and unlocking is one of the country’s most infrastructure for housing, significant infrastructure Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sectors, touching every aspect of said. our lives. Our communities will “New Zealand’s water systems need to invest between $120-185 are facing a significant crisis billion over the next 30 years to and will continue to do so maintain, replace and upgrade without major transformation,” ageing assets and to provide for she said, “Overhauling our growth,” Ms Mahuta said. drinking, waste and stormwater “We acknowledge the services will benefit all New significant pressures that Zealand communities, no matter all councils are facing with where they are in the country. considerable change on the “The support package way. The water reforms have announced today will ensure provided an opportunity for that no council is worse off as Government and local councils LOADS TO DO: The log boat Mount Adams is nestled into position a result of the reforms — $500 to work together to ensure the alongside the Gisborne export wharf yesterday afternoon — the first ship to million is set aside to provide reforms are fit-for-purpose. certainty for local authorities We are pleased to be working dock at Eastland Port since last Saturday due to persistent swells. Eleven that they will be supported closely with Local Government other log ships are still at anchor waiting their turn to load. It is expected it through the transition process New Zealand, not just on these will take a month to clear the backlog of ships. MORE ON PAGE 4 and to ensure the financial reforms, but on other challenges Picture by Liam Clayton impacts of reform will be and opportunities.” managed. We also want to acknowledge the significant CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Opinion ..............11 Business ............17 Racing ................23 Births & Deaths ...4 World............ 12-13 Television ...........18 Sport ............ 24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .......... 6-10 Classifieds .........16 The Guide ... 19-22 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, July 15, 2021 TEXTURAL TAKE ON TUATARA: Lily-Rose Cairns, 9, with her tuatara-inspired artwork at Tairawhiti Museum’s school holiday programme. Picture by Liam Clayton Reptile creativity TUATARA was the theme of Tairawhiti Museum’s school holiday programme for Wednesday. Kids learned how to make textured artwork inspired by the rare reptile found only in New Zealand. The week one programme started on Monday with contemporary Maori wheku artwork, followed by rock art on Tuesday. It continued today with triptych painting and ends tomorrow with artist trading cards, where FAMILY EFFORT: Caleb and Ilum Orotaunga, 5, enjoying the textured artwork school participants create a series of miniature works to exchange with others. holiday programe session at Tairawhiti Museum yesterday. Picture by Liam Clayton WOOL ART WOOL was brought to ocean life at the HB Williams Memorial Library yesterday as artist Lina Marsh received some helping hands for an upcoming exhibition. Adults and children alike helped Marsh to make a coral reef out of wool. Marsh took the time to share her love of the ocean, repurposing materials and crafting creations that will become part of the collaborative exhibition Colonies, which opens at Tairawhiti Museum in August. HELPING HANDS: Artist Lina Marsh (middle) gets some help from Sally McIntosh (left) and Megan Hansen- CREATIVE KIDS: Giving a younger perspective on coral life using wool are (from left) six-year-olds Maya Vera, Knarhoi with reams of wool for Marsh’s contribution to an Lennox Keyworth and Phoebe McIntosh, and Taika Cleland, 12. Picture by Liam Clayton exhibition. Picture by Liam Clayton LOOKING AHEAD Get your SPORTS Gisborne Herald • The formula is simple for Gisborne United to win home-delivered the Pacific Premiership football league . beat Western Rangers. • Ngati Porou East Coast’s club rugby champions will be crowned on Saturday. • Two holes-in-one in two days at Poverty Bay Golf Club. • Vaccination message to be made loud and clear in FOCUS ON THE LAND All Blacks’ second test against Fiji. TOMORROw SATuRdAy The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To fi nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, July 15, 2021 NEWS 3 Failing to heed ‘keep looking while cooking’ message by Murray Robertson SAFETY messages about the dangers of unattended cooking are not getting through. In the 12 months to June, Tairawhiti firefighters attended 35 home and business fires caused by unattended cooking. Almost all of the fires were in kitchens of homes. Three incidents have occurred in the past few weeks, including a close call last week at a Wainui Road home where overcooked food was found just in time. An unattended food fire led to the destruction of a small dwelling at Waituhi at the end of June. Firefighters at the time said the man living there was lucky to get out alive. A house on the corner of Queens Road and Karaka Street in Elgin was badly damaged earlier that month after a fire started in the kitchen. The family living there had to scramble to safety as the flames spread through their home. “The 35 cooking-related fires in the year to the end of June here was about what we normally see,” specialist fire investigator Derek Goodwin said, “The scary thing is despite all our messaging around the issue — like ‘keep looking while you are cooking’ — the number of call-outs like it has stayed pretty much the same over the years. “It’s clear the messages we push are not getting through to everyone.” CONSEQUENCES: This house fire in Queens Road in Elgin last month was caused by unattended cooking and fire investigator Mr Goodwin said not all cooking issues Derek Goodwin says it clearly illustrates the dangers of not ‘looking while you are cooking’. File picture developed into fully-fledged house fires but there have been instances where dwellings were badly shows on television, and so on. “As our messaging goes — ‘don’t drink and The last time there was a fatality as a result of damaged, even destroyed. “Our plea to people is if you put food on the fry’!” a kitchen fire here was about six years ago. “We have also noticed that ‘distraction’ has stove, don’t walk away from it until it’s cooked Mr Goodwin said it was fortunate more lives “That is something that no one wants to see been the principal reason why kitchen fires and you’ve turned the element or the oven off. had not been lost as a result of unattended happen so we appeal to the public to listen to our get started — normal living distractions like a “Don’t cook while you’re impaired by alcohol cooking here over the years. messaging. cellphone going off, the demands of children, or drugs. “We have had some close calls, though.” “Keep looking while you are cooking.” Mahia surfer ‘Mess we’re in today’ pulls off rescue in risky laid at council’s door conditions Strong opposition to river discharge application A COURAGEOUS effort by a Mahia surfer in by Alice Angeloni discharges were culturally unacceptable malfunction or blockage in the system cold and challenging surf conditions averted a and had been ignored by the council (dry water overflows). tragedy off Whangawehi harbour on the northern THE Gisborne community is fed up since iwi raised concerns in the 1990s. On average, there were 2.5 wet coast of Mahia Peninsula on Tuesday. with sewage being discharged into the Ngati Oneone had “no confidence” weather overflows annually. Two men found themselves fighting for their city’s rivers, as it has been for decades, that the council would resolve the There had been 36 dry weather lives in the sea when their dinghy capsized 30 a panel of independent commissioners discharges if an application was overflows since the 2015/16 year, metres offshore.