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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 69-YEAR COVID-19 • DHB reassures there is no • Border testing ‘absolute ERA ENDS AT Covid risk at Manutuke School failure’: National PAGES 2-4, 6-9, • Planning for the Poverty Bay • Expert confident Covid can be MANUTUKE 11-12, 15, 17-18 A&P Show continues eliminated again GARAGE • Gisborne’s first jury trial • Pacific Island community PAGE 2 since lockdown starts fears ‘wildfire’ outbreak TESTING, TESTING: Covid-19 tests have been done at Eastland Port after the Government ramped up border testing, particularly $1m ‘not at Auckland and Tauranga, in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak in south Auckland. Hauora Tairawhiti health protection staff did testing on Friday and over the weekend, including 32 port staff on Sunday. No crew members of international ship berthed enough’ at the port have come ashore since the change of alert levels. Pictured berthed at the port this morning is the log ship Yochow, which is bound for South Korea. STORY ON PAGE 2 as house Picture by Liam Clayton prices skyrocket Record $2.45m paid for property at Wainui by Andrew Ashton Ms Kay put the high prices down to building costs. MILLION-DOLLAR-PLUS “To try to replicate some of houses here are being snapped these properties today you need up but with one selling for more between $2000 and $3000 a than $1m over its rateable value, square metre. You only have to even high-end buyers are being look at the size of some of these priced out. homes. Data provided by the Real “In order to replicate them you Estate Institute shows there would be up around $800,000 to were seven $1m sales over the $1m to build them. That’s really first half of the year — ranging what’s creating the demand for from $1.04m to a record-breaking these properties. $2.45m. “It’s supply and demand.” The $2.45m property sold for There was also a lack of $1.2m (108 percent) over its RV. available land to build on. REINZ confirmed that was “That’s the biggest problem we a record residential sale for have.” Gisborne but was unable to Bayleys Gisborne franchise reveal the location as the owner Simon Bousfield said he property had not settled yet. had seen a mix of purchasers — However, The Gisborne Herald local and out-of-town buyers. has been told the beachfront “Buyers of the high-end property was on Wairere Road properties we have been at Wainui and was sold through involved with have been locals Solomon Real Estate. with families and also families The number of sales equals the returning to the area,” he said. record for million-dollar sales for “There continues to be strong the first half of the year — set in interest from out-of-town 2019. buyers but most we find have a Realtor Bronwyn Kay said her connection to Gisborne.” agency settled another million- However, the competition for dollar sale last week for a house high-end properties is causing at Parkview in Lytton West and frustration for some. is waiting to settle a $1.4m sale for a Nelson Road house. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-4 Business ............11 Classifieds..........21 Sport ............ 24-28 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........22 Weather .............27 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .......... 6-10 World....... 13-15,18 Racing ................23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Sale of Manutuke garage end of an era for Rickards by Andrew Ashton MEMBERS of the Manutuke farming community are adjusting to a new name behind the township’s garage — for the first time in nearly 70 years. In 1951, Ray Rickard and his wife Fay FOND FAREWELL: Fay and Kevin set up the business that has borne the Rickard say goodbye to the family family name all these years, in an old business, Rickards Garage, in blacksmith’s shed. Manutuke. Picture by Paul Rickard Ray’s son Kevin took over the garage but he has had to sell it, for health reasons. For him and his 90-year-old township over the Te Arai bridge. built. At last we had some luck — it was fun”. mother Fay, memories of the family “Ray was watching movement going like winning Lotto.” Kevin and his wife Sharon took over business are strong. on in the bridge structure so he rang the The couple lived about a kilometre the garage in about 1997. Ray started an apprenticeship at council and told them. away from the garage. “Dad was there right up until the day Ormond Motors but World War 2 “The bridge fell down within a few “We met a lot of nice people over the before he died,” Kevin said. intervened and he joined the Army. He days, taking the city water supply with years,” Fay said. Kevin’s daughter Tracy had spent was in the electrical and mechanical it, in September 1955.” And those people have remembered the a time as a mechanic and his son engineers unit, continuing to learn his Then they had to set up on the other family too. Raymond, his grandfather’s namesake, trade. He served in Egypt and Italy side of the river. “There’s a lot of good memories. I have also worked at the garage until February before being posted to Nagasaki, after “In 1951 we built a removable building had thank you cards from Germany to this year. the atomic bombs that ended the war. on one side of the section to live in and Invercargill, for helping people,” Fay said. Continuing the family theme, Kevin’s “When Ray came back from overseas put the fruit trees in, ready to build the “One was an intermediate-aged child brother Brian also spent some time he went back to Ormond Motors and house later. who didn’t go to school one day. He working at the garage. finished his apprenticeship,” Fay said. “By this time the new road and bridge biked on instead of going to school and “Mum and Dad brought us up there “He was in the truck shop there when had gone through and the ‘house’ section went into the Whareratas for the day, and we brought up five children with it,” he decided, out of the blue, he wanted to became the garage section, with good and being summer time he only had on Kevin said. start up at Manutuke.” access to the new main road. shorts and stuff. He called into the shop Over the years the garage had fixed Fay and Ray met after the war at the “The next snag was the Cook County late in the day and he was freezing, so I a host of farm machinery, vehicles and local tennis club. Council turned down our first application gave him a hot drink and a pie. mowers. “We had no money, no house, no proper on the grounds that there was not to be “Shortly after that, I saw a piece in the Oil companies had changed, starting garage and no wages,” Fay said. any commercial buildings on the main paper where he had saved someone out with BP and then Allied. The self-service “Next, we had to find a section in the road. We re-applied on the fact it was at Wainui.” pumps are a modern change too. Manutuke township to build a garage not on the new main road but on the old Although there had been between 50 “It’s always been a busy place,” Kevin on. At that time the main road south main road — and it was. and 60 thefts and burglaries over the said. “But I have no option, I have to to Napier ran through the Manutuke “Finally, in 1961 the new garage was years, Fay said that was “all part of the sell.” Covid testing stepped up at port FROM PAGE 1 customs staff and one provedore (a The protocols were being enforced at “From day one our port has been business or person who provides supplies all ports across New Zealand. doing everything they can to keep NO crew members from international to a ship). Eastland Port continued to implement our community safe and following all ships berthed at Eastland Port have been Six port staff were tested on Saturday strict regulations for staff, workmates, required protocols.” allowed ashore since the country went and on Sunday Hauora Tairawhiti health customers and the community, said Mr Eastland Port is one of 56 ports into Covid-19 Alert Level 2 conditions protection staff tested 32 port staff. Gaddum. worldwide that are part of the last week. Plans were in place to test more staff. Each arriving ship must submit two international port authorities’ global The port has also confirmed multiple Eastland Group chief operating officer health declaration forms stating there initiative for safe and efficient movement Covid-19 tests have been done, including Andrew Gaddum said international are no health risks, and gain approval of goods and shipping during the more than 30 port staff on Sunday. crews were not allowed ashore unless from the Hauora Tairawhiti health Covid-19 pandemic. The testing follows the Government’s they had completed managed isolation protection team and New Zealand The declaration commits port decision to ramp up border testing to within New Zealand territorial waters Customs. authorities to continue to adopt best include all ports. for 14 days, or been on board the ship for Gisborne District Council practices for shore personnel and ship On Friday Hauora Tairawhiti medical more than 28 days since they last visited harbourmaster Salvatore Ali said he was crews, safe handling of cargo and officer of health Dr Osman David an international port or had a crew confident the appropriate protocols were measures taken in dealing with Covid-19 Mansoor tested two ship agents, two change.