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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.70, RETAIL $2.00 INSIDE TODAY SHOOTING GANG-LINKED CHINA VIRUS POLICE PRESENCE REMAINS TARADALE BRAWL HUMAN-TO-HUMAN PAGE 3 FUELLED BY METH TRADE PAGE 7 TRANSMISSION CONFIRMED PAGE 14 THINKING MORE WIDELY: Waka are welcomed to Te Tii Bay at Waitangi for MUKAI HURA (NGAPUHI AND NGATI HINE) LEADS THE WELCOME OF WAKA TO TElast TII year’s BAY FORWaitangi THE DayWAITANGI ceremony. CEREMONIES.06 Inset, Dame Jenny FEBRUARY Shipley, pictured 2019 NEW here ZEALAND HERALD PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL CRAIG with Tuia 250 co-chair Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr in Gisborne in December, has suggested New Zealanders mark the national day by visiting other places with stories to tell in our history, including Gisborne and Mahia. File pictures WAITANGI DAY HERE? Tuia 250 challenge to ‘think more deeply about who we are’ by Andrew Ashton Speaking to The Gisborne Herald of events that saw more and more events in Te Ha and Turanganui-a- Dame Jenny said there were many Pakeha arrive in New Zealand and Kiwa mean so many things have begun JUST two weeks out from Waitangi stories, including Gisborne’s story, subsequently led to the need for the that this will not end now. The Tuia Day, all New Zealanders should around both the encounter between treaty. challenge really is two or three-fold. consider celebrating the national day Maori and Cook and the Pacific arrivals “I think Tuia 250 has broadened New “It’s a personal challenge for every in Gisborne or Mahia, Dame Jenny pre-Cook that needed to be part of Zealanders understanding of who they New Zealander to think about who they Shipley says. a national conversation in order to are and subsequently I think where the are, where their whanau and ancestors Following the conclusion of Tuia 250 understand what the treaty meant to treaty sits in that conversation.” came from when they arrived, what commemorations marking 250 years people. Dame Jenny said the Tuia 250 they have learned from that but also from the arrival of the crew Endeavour “The treaty was an agreement and events marked 250 years since the first who else was here and what we know to Tairawhiti in October, Tuia 250 a commitment to how we would live encounter but now they had concluded about those people.” co-chair Dame Jenny Shipley said those together beyond that point in 1840 but in October in Gisborne and last month The Tuia challenge was an invitation commemorations were still relevant, prior to that, Maori had clearly been in Mahia, the challenge that Tuia 250 to think more deeply about who we are and even more so when considered in here for many hundreds of years and presented still remained. the context of the Treaty of Waitangi. Cook’s arrival in 1769 set off a series “The insights gained by the Tuia CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Your journey to ENROL NOW! eit.ac.nz success starts here START FEB 2020 Check out FEES-FREE STUDY* CREATIVE ARTS 28974-05 feesfree.govt.nz IT’S NOT TOO LATE * conditions apply Visual Art | Design | Fashion GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............10 Racing ................16 Kids page ..........19 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............11 Classifieds .........17 Sport ............ 20-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ...... 6-9, 15 World............ 12-14 Television ...........18 Weather .............23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, January 21, 2020 A VOICE FOR OUR ANIMALS GISBORNE’S new animal welfare people about the right way to treat inspector says he has not looked back animals to improve their lives in the since joining the 70-strong SPCA community. inspectorate. An inspector also responds to Bal Riki was put through his paces emergency situations where animals while training to be an inspector during require immediate assistance. the four-month SPCA inspectorate Some instances may necessitate court internship programme. action so inspectors gather evidence and The SPCA is the only charity with the prepare prosecution files, holding people power to protect all animals, including to account for better animal outcomes. prosecuting people under the Animal The Animal Welfare Act 1999 gives an Welfare Act 1999, and SPCA Inspectors inspector certain powers to inspect an act as law enforcers. animal that might be in distress. Bal is a familiar face If the inspector around the region. He has reason to believe is the third generation I have an open door an animal has been of his family to live and policy.‘ People are mistreated, they are able work in the area. to take the animal into He has had a varied ringing me already and SPCA care. career — serving in the it’s fantastic being able If the animal has been military for over two to help where I can deliberately hurt or decades, working as an neglected, inspectors can ambulance officer, 15 ’ seek justice through the years as an advanced courts, acting as the voice paramedic for St John, and then several for animals. years working at a logging company “The internship programme was when he returned to Gisborne in 2013. fantastic,” said Bal. Bal grew up with many pets and has “The challenge of learning the experience with large animals. language involving law and veterinary He lives happily with his pet cat. medical terms was hugely fascinating His day-to-day duties include to me, and it made me hungry to learn responding to animal welfare complaints more”. about the ill-treatment or neglect of Asked about what he was looking animals. forward to the most in his new role, Bal Another significant part of his duties said he wanted to help shape people’s is education, as sometimes animals are attitudes towards caring for their SUCCESS STORY: One of the things Bal Riki enjoys most about his new role as SPCA unintentionally neglected. animals the best way they can. animal welfare inspector is seeing the animals recover once they come into care. One The role requires good investigation “I have an open door policy. People example is Charlie the rottweiler, who was only 10 kilograms when Bal first brought and people skills as the SPCA are ringing me already and it’s fantastic him in. He is now under vet care and back to his ideal weight of 26kg. Bal said Charlie inspectorate works hard to educate being able to help where I can.” had a lovely nature and should find a new home in no time. Picture by Liam Clayton School holidays, exams reason for Spate of calls to five rubbish fires FIREFIGHTERS were called out five times in delays in setting up youth council an hour-and-a-half last night to put out backyard rubbish fires that had sparked phone calls of by Aaron van Delden what was happening with elections in October 2019. complaint from neighbours. her application despite The review recommended the youth council’s A senior firefighter said the public needed GISBORNE District Council has confirmed making inquiries. primary purpose be the “facilitation of youth to get the message that rubbish fires remain a youth council will be established this year, Two other youth council engagement with council decision-making”. banned under the prohibited fire season. with candidates to find out if they have been candidates had approached Members of the community development and The spate of backyard fires started at shortlisted in the next two weeks. her with the same issue, she services committee, who received the review, around 9pm and by 10.30pm the fire crews had As The Gisborne Herald reported on Saturday, said. were keen to see a youth council representative responded to four incidents across the city and 19-year-old Alice Kibble was waiting to hear Ms Reedy-Holthausen sitting alongside them and helping to make one at Wainui. whether she had made it on to the 2020 said the council aimed to decisions. “They were widespread — in Mangapapa, Tairawhiti Youth Council after nominations have its youth council sworn in by the end of Josh Wharehinga, now deputy mayor, called Riverdale, Kaiti, Te Hapara and out at Wainui,” a closed on November 8. next month. on his colleagues to “put our money where our senior firefighter said. “The fires were reported Candidates were originally due to be Youth councillors would undertake an mouth is and invest our own personal time in by neighbours.” shortlisted and interviewed by councillors and induction programme and hold their first official helping to mentor these youth councillors”. He said the fire crews put all the fires out. council staff in the week after nominations meeting in March, she said. Speaking to The Herald yesterday, Mr “That had to happen because this is a closed closed. A Gisborne youth council was not established Wharehinga said any youth representation on fire season, and backyard rubbish fires are But the council’s customer engagement for 2019/20, with a recruitment process not Gisborne District Council would be a good thing. banned. manager, Anita Reedy-Holthausen, said undertaken due to council staff changes. The youth council costs between $20,000 “Even it wasn’t a closed fire season it is illegal candidates were told last year interviews would Miss Kibble said the youth council had not and $25,000 a year to run, with members to have any fire burning after dark, even in an not take place until after the summer school had much to do with the district council in the compensated for attending meetings. open fire season.” holidays had wrapped up and exam results had past. Youth council candidates must be aged Permits have not been issued since the been received.