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Monday, April 20, 2020 Home-Delivered $1.90, Retail $2.20 Training Covid Day TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 TRAINING COVID DAY . 19 AND NIGHT Trust Tairawhiti Rescue Helicopter team members during a winching exercise above Gisborne yesterday. It was the first of two training exercises for the chopper crew on the day. They later practised night-time landing and using night • Five arrested for vision goggles. In between the lockdown breaches exercises, the crew got a taste of the real thing, attending a job in Te • Planning for Araroa to deal with a male patient in his early 60s who had fallen over post-pandemic in Wairoa on a concrete path at his home. The crew administered pain relief • Scissors on hold until and transported the man back to Gisborne Hospital for further Level 2 for hairdressers treatment. MORE ON PAGE 3 Picture supplied • Are we set for an Alert Level reduction? • Infected infant reaffirms ‘anyone is susceptible’ • Consequences if ‘Chinese virus’ was intentional, says US president • Music stars pay tribute to front-line workers • 2.4 million cases, 165,000 deaths, 625,000 recovered SEE PAGES 2-14, 17, 21-23 RATES ‘HOLIDAY’ Council announces more short-term financial relief options RATEPAYERS struggling with the with our customers on a case-by-case trouble paying your rates, or a waiver of People not able to pay GDC financial burdens of living in lockdown basis. fees (penalties) for late payment.” infringement notices due to office closure might be able to take a rates holiday next “This package, while small, is another The announcement marked a wider should contact the council to see if the month to ease those worries. step in acknowledging the questions position in the knowledge there would timeframe before referral to court can be Gisborne District Council today that are being asked by our community a bigger relief and recovery exercise to extended. introduced more short-term financial and how we wish to undertake. The council can also arrange a six- relief options for the community in the respond.” Covered in today’s month repayment programme for wake of Covid-19. Rates are due for announcement are internments. Council chief executive Nedine payment on May 20, The council understands the payment of rates, Timeframes around building and Thatcher Swann said she knew only however, the council is ‘fully the stress that some which are due on May resource consents can also be negotiated. too well how much the situation was discussing the options families are under 20, dog registration, “There are various options available impacting on the region, with many out available for setting —Chief executive’ Nedine which has been across each and people with concerns are of work and facing uncertain financial rates for 2020/21. Thatcher Swann extended until the being encouraged to contact the council futures. “The council end of August, council directly to see if they are eligible for “We have been doing a lot of work understands fully infringement notices, concessions,” said Ms Thatcher Swann. behind the scenes,” Ms Thatcher Swann the stress that some possible rent holidays Customer service can be contacted on said. families are under. for those with community leases, delayed 0800 653 800 or by emailing service@gdc. “We are developing a comprehensive “We urge you to discuss your payment for cemetery interment fees govt.nz plan for recovery but in the interim, our circumstances with our team. You may be and extensions of building and resource staff have been working through issues eligible for a rates remission if you have consents. FOR FURTHER DETAILS, SEE PAGE 8 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............10 Classifieds .........19 Sport ............ 20-24 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............11 Television ...........15 Weather .............23 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ........6,9,17 World............ 12-14 Racing ................18 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, April 20, 2020 Rocket Lab’s PPE put to community use during lockdown ROCKET Lab staff working from communities we’re part of,” the Covid-19 lockdown. the global leader in small satellite home in Mahia are planning a flight spokeswoman said. “Any extra equipment to help launch, we have also been able to to the Moon on top of donating face “We are confident we can meet the ensure those volunteers’ safety, like retain jobs at Rocket Lab throughout masks and hand sanitiser to the local requirements under Alert Level 3 to sanitisers, has been offered by Rocket this ongoing pandemic, including iwi during the lockdown. ensure a safe working environment, Lab to Rongomaiwahine through the those full-time staff living and Operations at Rocket Lab’s Mahia which include keeping one metre Mahia Beach Store as well.” working in Mahia while launch launch pad and those in Auckland between workers, recording who is Staff have also been using the time operations remain on hold. were halted just before the company’s working together, limiting interaction in lockdown to prepare for future “With every industry across the 12th Electron launch was due to lift- between groups of workers, missions, including the CAPSTONE world impacted by Covid-19, and off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia disinfecting surfaces and maintaining mission, which will see Rocket Lab knowing there have been job cuts because of Alert Level 4 restrictions. high hygiene standards. launch a satellite to the Moon for and losses occurring at other launch “The mission was scheduled to lift “All of our 400-plus team members NASA early next year. companies, we’re doing everything we off on March 30 and a new launch across New Zealand — including The mission is scheduled to lift off can to keep people in jobs throughout date has not been set,” a company those in Mahia — are working from from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 this crisis.” spokeswoman said. home during Alert Level 4, and many in Virginia. The company last week announced “We are working with our mission of them will continue to do so under “While working from home during it had signed a deal with Japanese partners and the New Zealand Alert Level 3 if and when the New the lockdown, our teams have been satellite company Synspective to Government to determine when Zealand Government announces that able to work on trajectory analysis launch a synthetic aperture radar launch operations can safely resume” change. to determine how we’ll get to the (SAR) satellite from Mahia in late The Government is expected to “With a new launch date still to Moon, while other teams are working 2020. make a decision today on whether be determined, some of the PPE on refining the design of our Photon The satellite will be the first in restrictions can be relaxed. (Personal Protective Equipment) satellite bus, which will carry NASA’s the StriX constellation, through Rocket Lab has discussed with the set aside for launch operations — satellite to lunar orbit.” which Synspective hopes to provide Government and the New Zealand including 500 protective gloves Beyond mission preparation, the companies, governments, and Space Agency on what a move from and some reusable face masks lockdown has also given Rocket research organisations with high- Alert Level 4 to 3 might mean for — have instead been provided by Lab the opportunity to catch up quality and user-friendly information launch operations. our Mahia-based team to local iwi on administration work, such data that can be used for urban “Rocket Lab’s priority is the Rongomaiwahine in support of their as documenting procedures and development planning, construction ongoing health and safety of our volunteers’ efforts to distribute care completing paperwork. and infrastructure monitoring, and workforce, our families and the packages to locals affected by the “From our strong position as disaster response. WAITING IN THE WINGS: An image of what the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite due for launch in late 2020 from Mahia will look like. The company is also working on a mission to send a satellite to the Moon, scheduled for early next year. FLY ME TO Picture supplied THE MOON Five arrested for persistent lockdown breaches by Murray Robertson police spokesman said this morning. across Tairawhiti over the weekend. Police also visited supermarkets and “They were men and women, and they “In the vast majority of cases the other essential service outlets over the POLICE arrested another five people ranged in age from 28 to 38 years of motorists stopped were out and about weekend to check on public compliance across the region over the weekend age.” for legitimate reasons, things like going with the regulations relating to social for persistent breaches of the The five were all released on bail, and to the supermarket, for other essential distancing, and customer numbers in Covid-19 lockdown movement their charges were put before the court supplies or going to pharmacies for stores. regulations. today with a date set for an initial court example. “In the main we found the public were Close to a dozen people now face appearance after the lockdown period “We did notice a further increase in complying well. charges as a result of persistent ends. the amount of traffic on the region’s “Everyone understands that we are all breaches of the Health Act during the They have been charged with roads over the weekend.” in the same situation,” he said. current crisis. obstructing a medical officer. He said police would keep going with “Overall we would say that behaviour “The five were arrested in separate The spokesman said police stopped their checkpoints. generally over the weekend here was incidents from Wairoa up to Ruatoria,” a hundreds of vehicles at checkpoints “That will certainly continue.” pretty good.” The Gisborne Herald • Monday, April 20, 2020 NEWS 3 Supplies low after rush of requests for perspex screens by Murray Robertson Mr Hollis said he had never seen anything like it.
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