TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 SOLD! PAGE 3 HOSPITAL GOES $260m in house sales GREEN FOR ARTS & over 2020 ENTERTAINMENT CHRISTMAS PAGE 2 PAGES 23-26 ‘BUBBLE EXPEDITIONS’

Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay will once again be graced by the presence of a cruise ship when luxury ship Le Laperouse visits Gisborne in March. French-based cruise line Ponant has been granted conditional approval for Le Laperouse to resume operations exclusively in New Zealand waters, and for New Zealand passengers, from February of next year. The cruises are being promoted as “Bubble Expeditions” for Kiwis and the ship is scheduled to arrive in Gisborrne on March 13. STORY ON PAGE 2 Picture by PONANT/Nick Rains

GUNS, DRUGS SEIZED Multiple arrests from Eastland district police operation

GANG members from Gisborne, Te for supply,” said Detective Senior Sergeant District Court on January 13. committed to reducing. Karaka and Wairoa are among those Kevin Ford of Gisborne police. The Hawke’s Bay arrests included a “Police will target anyone who involves arrested in an ongoing police operation “Police were very pleased to be able to 58-year-old Hastings man, a 49-year-old themselves in illicit drug manufacture and following recent drive-by shootings and get the seized firearms out of the hands of Eskdale man and a 37-year-old Bay View distribution. violent attacks in Hawke’s Bay. gang members. woman on various charges. “The number of high-powered firearms Police executed search warrants across “We encourage anyone who has illegal “These arrests highlight real concern seized indicates a willingness to Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay, including firearms to contact us and arrange to around the apparent ease of access by perpetrate intimidation and violence in Raupunga, in relation to unlawful surrender them.” criminals, including gang members, to order to achieve illegal activity.” possession of firearms and drugs by gangs. Eastern investigations manager firearms and ammunition,” Det Insp Jones Det Insp Jones said police would Seven people were arrested. Detective Inspector Rob Jones said said. continue to have dialogue with gang and Twenty-one firearms have been ammunition, methamphetamine, cannabis “Eastern Police are committed to community leaders in an ongoing effort to recovered and seized, including a high- and $26,000 in cash was seized at one targeting organised crime activity in the prevent future violence. powered military-style semi-automatic address. area and those individuals who are in “The recovery of these firearms is a rifle, numerous sawn-off weapons and a “A 50-year-old man was arrested and unlawful possession of firearms.” huge relief to us and those individuals in revolver. has appeared in Wairoa District Court on A number of addresses searched where unlawful possession of firearms should Several of the firearms were loaded. firearms charges. firearms and ammunition were located expect to be targeted by police. One of the gang members arrested is “A 35-year-old Gisborne male was were connected to members and associates “Inquiries are continuing to locate from Gisborne, another is from Te Karaka arrested and charged with supplying of Black Power and the Mongrel Mob. people involved in this offending and and a third is from Wairoa. The others are methamphetamine, and we expect to lay “We want to send a clear message that establish how these firearms have come from places further south. further charges relating to firearms and such criminal activity won’t be tolerated,” into the possession of gang members. “All three were charged with unlawful receiving offences.” Det Insp Jones said. “As such, we are unable to rule out the possession of firearms, and one faces That man has been remanded in “It causes immeasurable harm in possibility of further arrests or charges charges of possessing methamphetamine custody and will appear again in Gisborne our communities — harm that we are being laid.”

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE: Ward 9 Surgical nurses (from left) Varsha Sheela, Kelly Burns and Chris Dyson share the Christmas cheer of their ward which CHRISTMAS won them the people’s choice category of the Gisborne Hospital Christmas decorations competition. Picture by Paul Rickard

A VARIATION on Bing Crosby’s timeless classic White Christmas provided the theme for this Gisborne Hospital’s annual Christmas decorations competition. Honours went to the Orderlies and Ward 9 Surgical. “I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas” was the theme for this year. The Orderlies won the judges’ competition while Ward 9 narrowly won the people’s choice award (by vote on Facebook), depriving second-placed Orderlies of the double. But the real winners were those visiting or working at Gisborne Hospital. “We all get to enjoy a bit of Christmas magic for a few weeks of the year, thanks to the decoration crews’ hard work,” said a hospital staff member. The Orderlies, whose office is right by the main entrance, have shared their Christmas spirit with many children, big and small, the staff member said. “Visitors and staff have been taken on a shortcut through their magical Christmas forest.” The captain of the Orderlies decorating team was Justine Nuku, who recruited a team of “orderly elves” to help. The surgical ward creation included hundreds of precisely cut-out leaves, animals and jungle creatures. Many of the decorations around the ORDERLY ELVES: hospital were created by staff working The Orderlies team created this winning green wonderland for Gisborne Hospital’s Christmas in their own time or by night-shift staff decorations competition. Admiring their work are (from left) Kaea Nepia, Sharyn Henry-Wainui, William Morris and when they had spare time. Andy Tamanui. Picture by Paul Rickard Kiwi-exclusive cruise ship to visit Gisborne by Andrew Ashton NZCA chief executive Kevin application into an exemption process, expeditions to visit remote and often O’Sullivan confirmed the vessel, able to which has strict criteria.” difficult-to-get-to parts of New Zealand. GISBORNE is back in the cruise carry 184 passengers, was scheduled to Ponant Asia Pacific chairman Sarina “Ponant’s relaxed, refined and game, with a luxury ship scheduled to arrive in Gisborne on March 13. Bratton said it was a privilege to offer French-inspired style complements this berth here in March. “This is good news. It’s something “bubble expeditions” for Kiwis. extraordinary experience. A statement from the New Zealand we’ve been arguing for since June. “Kiwi travel agents, tour operators, “This is an important step forward Cruise Association (NZCA) said the There are limitations to it but it’s good ground operators, airlines, port and it takes us closer to the time when move was the result of months of news Ponant is able to operate in New authorities, food and beverage suppliers, borders reopen and cruising resumes engagement with New Zealand’s Zealand. technical suppliers, fuel suppliers, in Australia, and to when we will be Ministry of Health. “The cruise line, in particular Ponant, service and waste suppliers all benefit able to confirm the return of our luxury It means French-based cruise line has put a lot of effort into strict from our small ship operation,” said Ms expedition small ships. Ponant has conditional approval for protocols and a lot of the screening Bratton. A 21-page Covid-19 policy, which its small luxury expedition vessel, Le processes involved,” he said. “Whilst presently in Australia, we mandates mask wearing and social Laperouse, to recommence operations “I think the Ministry of Health cannot travel internationally. distancing, will be provided to exclusively in New Zealand waters, for accepted that side of it some time ago. “I am so pleased that Ponant is passengers, who must undergo a medical New Zealanders, from February, 2021. It was just a case of massaging the once again able to offer Kiwis local and temperature check before boarding.

LOOKING AHEAD Vicki Coley Sells Real Estate

The Gisborne Herald will be back on Saturday December 26th. Vicki Coley Residential Sales Consultant The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 For a free no obligation appraisal call me. Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies P 021 641 997 E [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz 32806-02 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 NEWS 3 In with the new, out with the old at Te Wharau by Jack Marshall

A 14-TONNE excavator made quick work of turning two old classrooms at Te Wharau School into rubble this week. The buildings did not meet the building requirements so were no longer fit for purpose. “Initially these classrooms were to be demolished in 2014 but this was delayed due to roll growth,” said Te Wharau principal Steve Berezowski. They were identified as needing earthquake strengthening and it was decided new classrooms were a better option. Currie Construction recently demolished classrooms in similar states at Ilminster Intermediate and Te Hapara School. “We currently have four new classrooms being built — two of which are replacing the two being demolished and two for roll growth,” said Mr Berezowski. The two replacement rooms were installed at the school in October. These new modular rooms were built at a factory in Auckland and trucked to Gisborne in sections. After the interlocking pieces were taken off the trucks by crane, Currie Construction bolted the sections together. “The new classrooms will be ready for the start of next year,” said Mr Berezowski. “After many years of having to use office space, resource rooms, the library and cloak bays as teaching spaces, we will finally have enough class space to CLASS DISMISSED: A Currie Construction excavator demolishes classrooms at Te Wharau School six years after they were initially meet the needs of the programmes we to be destroyed to make way for new rooms. Roll growth gave the rooms a stay of execution but the recent installation of two new run.” modular rooms sealed their fate. Picture by Liam Clayton Ka Pai REAL ESTATE BOOM Kaiti Xmas

by Andrew Ashton between first-home buyers “It’s very important. brekkie initially and now more We really feel for people, By the numbers HOME BUYERS here dominated by investors,” especially first-time buyers, pumped an extra $10 REINZ regional director who might do their due at Oasis million into an “almost Neville Falconer said. diligence and get building 260 million: The unprecedented” housing “A lot more money has gone reports and LIM reports only market this year. into the market. to miss out on properties time Church total houses sold for in The Real Estate Institute’s “Gisborne has smashed and again. THOSE in need of a Christmas Gisborne in 2020 annual review of New records month on month. “That’s a really tough call breakfast are welcome to join Ka Zealand’s residential property “It’s the Covid recovery, and it’s a discouragement for Pai Kaiti tomorrow morning at market in 2020 shows houses combined with pent-up buyer them to go ahead and do their Oasis Community Church, 3.3: Percent up on 2019 sold for a total of $260 million demand, combined with lack due diligence properly on the 1 Ida Road. — 3.3 percent more than in of supply, combined with New one they finally do get. That’s Lizz Crawford, Ka Pai Kaiti 2019. Zealand being a heck of a an issue. chairperson, said this is for those 477,000: The median This does not include place to come to. “Were it a perfect world who find themselves without lifestyle properties, farms and “Treasury thinks things are we’d love to be able to say to company or family or just need a house price sections. going to continue as they are every vendor ‘you provide a meal and would otherwise miss The extra spending reflected for a while yet.” LIM report on this property out on a Christmas get together. a higher median price, Mr Falconer said most for every purchaser’. Many The breakfast starts at 9am 494: House sales, 95 which rose from $385,000 to surprisingly over the year was of them do and they benefit and there will be a variety of fewer than last year $477,000, with 95 fewer sales how wrong the economists had through doing it, but we can’t foods, including cake and treats. this year. been in April. dictate that to everyone. “Families, whanau or Of those 494 sales for the “It’s been stunning, the “The market is what it is individuals are most welcome to 22: Residential 11 months ending November, difference between what was but do your homework.” spend the morning with us,” Ms 2020, the Gisborne region expected and the reality.” Nationally, spending on Crawford said. properties sold for $1m or saw 22 residential properties However, he warned the homes rose 24.7 percent from “We wish to thank all our more fetch $1m or more, REINZ “fear of missing out” could $48.7 billion for the 11 months contributors, donors and confirmed. lead to some frustrated buyers ending November 2019 to volunteers for giving on * These figures do not include lifestyle “The last six months have skimping on pre-purchase $60.8bn for the 11 months Christmas morning to support properties, farms or sections been almost unprecedented building and LIM reports. ending November 2020. others.” Divers’ pest surveillance timely reminder to boaties

BIOSECURITY divers have and removed by divers. team leader Phil Karaitiana “Plan your journey and The Mediterranean fanworm’s been back in Gisborne’s inner Fanworms have previously “Vessel owners should have be ready to supply all the fast growth rate and prolific harbour searching for marine been found in the marina but no their hulls regularly antifouled necessary paperwork to prove breeding habits make it likely to pests. other new pests were detected and recreational users should your vessel is clean before out-compete native species for A dive team from Bay of during the latest surveillance ensure all gear is clean and dry you arrive. This will avoid the space and food, reducing native Plenty Regional Council did a dive. before entering a new marine disappointment of being turned marine diversity. routine surveillance, inspecting All vessels inspected were area. away,” Mr Karaitiana said. Any suspicious findings “hotspots” in the marina. clear of visible marine pests. “This reduces contamination The Mediterranean fanworm should be reported to the It is part of ongoing efforts “It’s a timely reminder to by marine pests” can be found in ports or Gisborne District Council from Gisborne District Council, all vessel owners to ensure Boaties planning to head to estuaries at depths ranging biosecurity team or the with support from Biosecurity hulls are kept clean and free this region over the summer from one to 30 metres. They Ministry for Primary Industries NZ, to eradicate Mediterranean of invasive pests, particularly season need to be aware of the attach themselves to a biosecurity hotline. fanworm. when travelling between strict rules regarding clean range of surfaces in various For more information go to Several fanworms were found regions,” said GDC biosecurity hulls. environmental conditions. gdc.govt.nz/marine-pests 4 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020

FAMILY NOTICES Deaths

O’NEILL, Maud. — Deaths 19.4.36 - 20.12.20. A day at the races Loved daughter of the BALLANTYNE, late Thomas and Douglas James. — Catherine O’Neill, and Passed away peacefully much loved sister of in Gisborne, on 23 Thomas Junior and December 2020, aged Paschal (dec), all of 84 years. Much loved Eire. After a short battle husband of the late with cancer, Maud Shirley. Father of the returned home to God late Brian, Lesley, John whilst listening to the and David. Irish Blessing. As per Doug’s As per her wishes, a wishes, a private private cremation was cremation was held. held. A celebration of - Evans Funeral Maud’s life will take Services Ltd FDANZ place at St Mary’s Star www.evansfuneral.co.nz of the Sea Church, Gisborne. Details to SIBLEY, Agnes Jane follow. (Nancy). — On 23rd Correspondence C/- December 2020, peace- 22/36 Disraeli St, fully at Gisborne Gisborne 4010. Hospital. Devoted and loved wife of the late In Memoriam Peter. Adored mother and mother-in-law of DIANE (DI) Cheryl and Dennis, and NISBETT Malcolm and Janice. (nee McKerchar) Loved grandmother and great grandmother. Nine years today, Special friend of Trish 24 December 2011 and Johnny, and loved To my Diane, friend of many. “We’ll get there” - “We I cannot hear your finally got there”. voice, nor take your hand in mine. In accordance with THIS TIME: Race five of the Tolaga Bay Beach Races last year. At this year’s event on Monday, more than 40 horses are Mum’s wishes, a But no one can rob me private cremation has of my dreams or take expected to take part. The Metservice is forecasting a southwesterly and top temperature of 19C. Picture by Paul Rickard been held. my hopes away. - Evans Funeral You are forever in my by Jack Marshall in multiple races and she is returning to the and children have a run of their own. Services Ltd FDANZ thoughts and always races this year to show the youth how it is Organised and supported by locals, all the www.evansfuneral.co.nz in my heart. GET your togs and towel — the Tolaga Bay done. profits go straight back to community groups. Love you always. Charity Beach Races are back for some post- Seven races are on the card for the day, with Race announcers Neville Clark and his son Jim and Family Christmas fun. divisions for local station horses through to Cody will be there giving their time to entertain Deaths Having celebrated their 50-year anniversary thoroughbreds. About 40 horses will be racing the crowd with East Coast banter. ELEANOR GRACE last year with over 1000 visitors, this summer this year. The races are on Monday, December 28, at ANDREW the races return for the second half of their The races are run over 600m of beach and, Kaiaua Beach, 3km north of Tolaga Bay. The 19 years ago on century. in between, spectators can flock to the sea to road will be well signposted. The first race is Christmas Day you left While racers must be over 15 years old there cool off. at 10am. us Mum. Life has is no upper limit. As well as the horses, humans can try out Organisers advise visitors to bring cash as certainly not been the Last year 83-year-old Dinah Atkins competed for prizes in separate speedo and bikini races internet and eftpos can be patchy. same. Now you are joined by your hubby WOOD, Herbert Wrey. Harold (Bert). – In We are happy that you loving memory of finally have Dad by Herbert (Bert) Harold your side. Claimed car stolen Wood, who passed away peacefully, on Tuesday, Always in our hearts, 22 December 2020, in and the stars at night. his 91st year. Beloved Kaye, Lisa and husband for 60 years familes Jail for spate of offences including making false declaration of the late Patricia. BYCIE SADLIER Treasured and much- AFTER he and two mates used his car turned sharply and sped along Mahia striking a woman in the face. He said it loved Dad to Peter 7.3.58 - 21.12.18 for a burglary, a man tried to avoid being Avenue, hitting and breaking off a give was unintentional — he was just trying and Andrea, Sally and Laid to rest with our caught by going to police and falsely way sign on a centre traffic island. to grab her to stop her arguing with her Nick, Alan and Julie. reporting his car as stolen days earlier, The pursuers lost sight of his vehicle Dearly loved brother Mum and Dad and all partner. to David, Doug, Doris, our loved ones gone on. Gisborne District Court has heard. on Kopu Road, where police later found The drink-driving offence on and the late Margaret "Sunshine passes and The man’s story did not stand up to it abandoned near the riverside with September 12, last year, was and Pauline. Pop and shadows fall. But love scrutiny though and ultimately Jimmy most of the stolen items. McClutchie’s seventh. He was driving Great-Granddad to and remembrance Tiopira McClutchie admitted the offence McClutchie went to the police station contrary to his zero-alcohol licence, with Alex, Bevan, Autumn, outlasts them all." and one of making a false declaration. to report the vehicle as stolen. He was a breath-alcohol level of 137 micrograms. Brooke, Natalie, Zak, Love from all your He was jailed by Judge Warren advised there was evidence of him The wilful damage charge related to Isabella, Carolyn, Mark, whanau. x Cathcart for 22 months on those, a driving it and that it was an offence to him kicking a hole through a large glass Jade, Kayleigh, Paige, related charge of careless use, and make a false statement but he chose to window in a Wairoa service station, Rachel and Amy. Loved NISBETT, Diane other separate, unrelated make one nonetheless. which was closed at the time — about brother-in-law and Christmas Eve 2011 offences. These were The sustained loss of 11pm on September 21, last year. Uncle. Will be forever operating a vehicle causing As they were traction charge arose out McClutchie ran home but to his credit loved and remembered. ’You always believed sustained loss of traction, of a late night incident handed himself in to police a couple of The family would like to that you should never removing items, miss a rainbow or a breach of a protection in March 2018, when days later, Judge Cathcart said. express heartfelt thanks order, cultivating cannabis, they discovered a McClutchie drove into a For the lead set of offences — the to all the Summerset on sunset because you are looking down.’ driving contrary to a zero- householder was reserve on Kopu Road, burglary, careless use, and false the Coast team, for their alcohol licence, common turned off his headlights, extraordinary care. declaration, the judge set a starting With love, Karen, assault, wilful damage, home. The group revved his vehicle’s engine point of two years imprisonment. He A service to celebrate Tony, Vicky and Nick the life of Bert will be and four breaches of bail. fled. and slid and spun the noted numerous aggravating features. held at the Whenua Tapu Leave to apply for home vehicle around. He drove For the rest of the offences, there was Crematorium Chapel, detention was granted. it over a concrete footpath an uplift adjusted for totality of four Airlie Road, Pukerua Reparation of $340 was ordered on the causing the tyres to squeal, then months then six months discount for Bay, Porirua, on burglary charge. decamped on foot. He was alone. guilty pleas. Tuesday, 29 December, He was disqualified from driving for The breach of protection order Judge Cathcart refused to grant commencing at 1pm. six months, for the driving charges. happened about 3.30pm on January an adjournment of the sentencing for Should you not be able The burglary, on March 17, last year, 25, last year, when McClutchie and his McClutchie to proffer a suitable address to attend, Bert’s service involved McClutchie and two associates partner of about 15 years were having a for an electronically-monitored sentence, will be livestreamed entering a Frasertown house, where meal with their three young children. after a probation officer opposed it on and please email info@ they thought no one was home, through An argument developed and the grounds McClutchie failed to attend ninness.co.nz for link PLEASE an unlocked back door. McClutchie threw food and yelled in a an appointment for a pre-sentence report details. Messages may HAVE FAMILY As they were removing items, they threatening manner. and had a history of non-compliance be sent to “The Family discovered a householder was home. The The children showed police who with community-based sentence of Bert Wood” C/- PO NOTICES group fled but was seen and pursued attended three cannabis plants that requirements. Box 50347, Porirua 5240. IN BY 9AM by two other occupants as they arrived were growing. McClutchie said they were Leave to apply for home detention DAY OF home. for his personal use. would be a real incentive for McClutchie Ninness Funeral Home McClutchie was driving, trying to The common assault was on May to comply with the Probation Service, Porirua PUBLICATION evade the pursuers. At one point he 16, last year, and involved McClutchie the judge said. (04) 237-4174 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 NEWS 5

THE near-completion of a launching from our new pad — take place from the company’s second launch pad at Rocket Pad B. US launch site. We’ll have Lab’s Mahia base marks “By operating two pads we “In 2020 Rocket Lab a busy 2021 for the space can reduce the turnaround acquired satellite components company. time between missions. manufacturer Sinclair “We’ll be working towards “We’ll also begin launching Interplanetary and in 2021 launching monthly from from Launch Complex 2, our we’ll continue to grow this lift-off from Launch Complex 1, where we’ll launch site in Virginia, USA.” division of the business to have two operational pads On top of that, 2021 will supply spacecraft components from mid-year,” said Rocket also see Rocket Lab launch for small sats around the Lab head of communications the CAPSTONE mission to the world.” Morgan Bailey Moon for Nasa on an Electron With three launch pads two pads “All Electron launches have launch vehicle and Photon across two countries, Rocket so far taken place from Pad A spacecraft platform. Lab will be able to launch at Mahia but next year we’ll also start That mission is scheduled to more than 130 times a year.

DOUBLING LAUNCH CAPACITY: Rocket Lab’s second launch pad at Onenui Station nears completion. Picture by Rocket Lab

Gisborne District Court news Stash of $10k

A 66-year-old man embroiled in an sentence on February 9. pleaded guilty to threatening to kill and ongoing dispute with his neighbour of the The case was referred to the restorative wilful damage. found in guitar past four years was told by Judge Turitea Justice process. Convictions were withheld. Bolstad it was time both men grew up and The matter was referred to the Family sorted out their issue in an adult way. FOR breaching an extended supervision Harm Intervention Court. Lee was further Denis Erwin Callinicos, a cleaner, order, which he admitted, Cayna Paul remanded on bail and scheduled to appear case forfeited pleaded guilty to assault. Broughton was convicted and ordered on February 9. Judge Bolstad further remanded him on to come up if called upon within nine bail for sentence on February 9. months. A Corrections officer told the court WARREN Jacques Tarawa, 39, who The adjournment was to enable an Broughton was now complying with the appeared via AV link from a prison remand opportunity for restorative justice, which the order. unit, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, to the Crown judge said she hoped could proceed. failing to stop, and driving while disqualified She suspected the case might involve FOR offending arising out of family harm for a third or subsequent time MORE than $10,000 police guilty to a representative a history of police being lenient with both incidents, William Johann Baucke Puhia, Sentencing was scheduled for February found hidden in a guitar charge of possession of parties but now it was time for them to 33, pleaded guilty to injuring with intent 12 when he will also be sentenced on case when they searched methamphetamine for the grow up and deal with things in an adult to injure, assault with a sharp weapon, earlier matters — possession of an a suspected drug dealer’s purposes of supply. fashion, the judge said. assault with a blunt object, and threatening offensive weapon, intentional damage, house in early 2018, has been Tainted property is any forfeited to the Crown. property that has been She further remanded Callinicos on bail to kill. injuring with intent to injure, and unlawfully Justice Jill Mallon made acquired as a result of, or for sentence on February 9 and varied a The matter was transferred to the Family taking a vehicle. the order after a recent derived from, significant non-contact condition of his bail to allow for Harm Intervention Court. Puhia was further Tarawa was further remanded in custody application in the High Court criminal activity — that a restorative conference. remanded on bail to appear there on until then pending an application for at Gisborne by the Police is, activity that if charged Counsel Alison Bendall told the court February 23. electronically-monitored bail. Commissioner to have the as a criminal offence, Callinicos had hoped to resolve matters Counsel Eric Forster told the court he money recognised as tainted would be punishable by a without the court’s direction. RENEE Margaret Herapia Titoko, 40, is still awaiting disclosure in respect of property under the Criminal term of at least five years’ pleaded guilty to assaulting someone in a recently-laid drugs charges alleging Tarawa Proceeds Recovery Act 2009. imprisonment. A WOMAN facing three charges of child family relationship. She was sentenced to and co-accused Lara Atkins were jointly The cash was found when Moses’ conviction for the neglect and other serious offences was 80 hours community work. in possession of methamphetamine for Valentine Atiriana Moses, 44, supply charge constitutes further remanded for a specialist mental Counsel Manaaki Terekia said the supply. was arrested on January 31, significant criminal activity. health report. assault was limited to a single punch to The drugs charges are scheduled to be 2018, during the termination Evidence of her legitimate The woman, who is in her early 30s, another woman’s face — someone who called next at a registrar’s list on January of a police operation during annual income showed that cannot be named due to automatic was previously Titoko’s friend. 11. 2017 and early 2018, only averaged $17,988.03 for suppression that applies for child witnesses Titoko had few relevant previous targeting methamphetamine the six years preceding her and victims. convictions, the most recent of which was SHANNON Light, 33, produce worker, dealing in Gisborne. arrest. Bail was continued. She is scheduled to in 2012. She has four children in her care pleaded guilty to drink-driving (664mcg) for In addition to $10,530 Justice Mallon noted it appear again in court on January 25. and is an otherwise law-abiding person. A a third or subsequent time – his third, the cash found in the guitar was not contested Moses was The other charges she faces are dispute just boiled over on this occasion — two previous being in 2011. case, police also found 10.8g generating significant income of methamphetamine and a from methamphetamine common assault (laid under the Crimes Titoko’s offending was out of character, Mr He was sentenced to 250 hours further $250 cash in Moses’ dealing. No alternative Act), two counts of possessing offensive Terekia said. community work and disqualified from handbag. legitimate explanation weapons, assaulting police, resisting police, No alcohol or drugs were involved. driving for a year and a day. Moses, a sentenced had been proffered for the dangerous driving, refusing a request for While matters between Titoko and the Judge Bolstad said the offending was prisoner, has not challenged presence of the cash, at her a blood specimen, two counts of wilful complainant were not yet resolved, it was aggravated by Light’s attempt to evade the forfeiture order or given address. damage, and a breach of bail. a situation that would likely improve over a checkpoint. He could have faced any other indication she “I am therefore satisfied time, Mr Terekia said. imprisonment were it not for the nine-year wanted to participate in the that it is more likely HURIWAKA Maitairangi Rore pleaded Judge Bolstad reminded Titoko she gap since his last drink-drive charge. proceedings. than not that the cash guilty to three counts of being in charge of could not resort to violence to solve issues. Light also pleaded guilty to driving She is serving a jail term comprises the proceeds of a vehicle and dangerous driving. unlicensed and a breach of bail, for each of of seven years and five methamphetamine dealing,” He was further remanded on bail for ROBERT Moran Lee, 34, forest worker, which he was convicted and discharged. months, having pleaded Justice Mallon said. 6 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 National calls on govt to address virus concerns WELLINGTON “Christmas — National says the is a time for Government needs to front relaxation over concerns about a new and holiday, strain of Covid-19 in the but it’s also a UK, thought to be up to 70 time at which percent more contagious. we must More than 40 countries not become have barred UK arrivals complacent. due to the new variant of There will be Chris Bishop coronavirus there. people coming As of today, Britain has into New Zealand every day, detected another variant in we need to make sure our contacts of cases who have border is secure. travelled from South Africa “People want to know that Public health experts, the border is secure. I would including professors Nick expect some more answers Wilson and Michael Baker from the Government in the have called for more coming days”, he said. stringent border measures in Bishop said the response. Government needed to In a statement, a respond to the new strain by spokesperson said they introducing pre-departure were in communication tests for arrivals from the with health authorities in UK. ISOLATION: Antarctica can no longer lay claim to being the only continent free of coronavirus after 36 the UK and “monitoring the “No one is saying that Chileans there reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. Picture supplied situation closely”. it’s a silver bullet, it’s not “The Ministry of Health something that’s going to is confident New Zealand’s magically eliminate Covid current use of PPE, testing overnight, but we think it’s No changes for Kiwis in Antarctica strategy and 14-day an important part of a suite managed isolation for all of tools that can be used ANTARCTICA — Antarctica New Covid away from Antarctica if we can. “ health status of those at its stations arrivals is appropriate. The to make sure our border Zealand says it is not changing its Williamson said there was no contact and perform PCR tests for Covid-19, ministry continues to review response is as top notch as Covid-19 response at this stage, despite between Scott Base and the Chilean in co-ordination with Chile’s Health these tools in light of any possible,” he said. an outbreak at a Chilean research station. base, which was about 4000km away. Authorities.” new and emerging evidence. Bishop said the Spanish-language media has reported She said there was often a bit of COMNAP said it was yet to receive “The Ministry of Health situation in the UK was up to 36 people connected with the contact between Scott Base and its further formal information, but remained has consistently said another example of why Chilean Army base, General Bernardo neighbour, the US McMurdo Station, in close contact with INACH. that our most important the Government should O’Higgins Riquelme, known as O’Higgins but this season they had been much It said its guidance for national protection at the border is introduce a ‘traffic-light Base, tested positive for the virus on more cautious with the level of contact Antarctic programmes was last the 14 days in isolation and/ system’ to grade the risk of Monday. depending on who was at the base and reviewed on November 9 by its Covid-19 or quarantine, together with incoming travellers. Antarctica New Zealand chief how recently they arrived. subcommittee, and it continued to have the daily symptom checks “That would allow a much executive Sarah Williamson said people The Council of Managers of National confidence in those guidelines. (and testing if symptomatic). more intensive regime for heading to Scott Base already had two Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) said it “Given the global situation, the “We are also confident our people coming from the weeks’ isolation before travel, and had had received information on December document foresaw the possibility current PCR testing would UK for example, compared limited contact with other bases once 18 from Chilean Antarctic Institute of an outbreak in Antarctica and detect this and any new to people from Australia. there. (INACH) manager saying they had been includes provision for prevention of the strains,” the statement said. That’s what people like “We have some comprehensive pieces informed of the positive Covid cases. intracontinental spread of SARS-CoV-2 But National’s Covid-19 Professor Baker and others in place this year to make sure we Those people would have disembarked should the virus present in personnel Response spokesperson have been calling for, and I keep Covid out of the Ross Sea region in the ports of Punta Arenas and stationed in Antarctica, protocols for Chris Bishop said at a time think it’s now time to look at as best we can. I don’t think it’ll make Talcahuano from the vessel Sargento prevention of spread within a station of heightened public concern, implementing that,” Bishop any changes to what we do but we are Aldea from the Chilean Navy, INACH said. and guidance in regards to response that was not good enough. said. — RNZ constantly reassessing to make sure “For this reason, the Chilean Antarctic in case of further Covid-19 outbreak in we have what we need in place to keep Program has decided to monitor the Antarctica.” — RNZ BRIEFS Te reo enrolments up Arrest after hot pools attack ROTORUA — A 19-year-old man has been WELLINGTON — The number of years ago that on average, one-in-four not able to supply the demand for te reo arrested after an incident last week at a public teenagers studying te reo Maori at students was taking an international Maori. We’ve got twice as many people on swimming stream on the Waiotapu Loop Road, secondary school has passed 30,000 for language at secondary level. That’s now waiting lists as we have in classes. near Rotorua. the first time. dropped off to one-in-six.” “We have an immediate need now Police said the incident happened at 11.30pm on Education Ministry figures showed East said some schools struggled to for 3000 teachers in the Maori medium December 19, and the man had been charged with in 2020, 30,626 studied te reo and 1324 maintain language courses for budget alone and tens of thousands of teachers injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm studied Te Reo Rangatira, which is for reasons. required in schools . . . 30,000 is and theft. native speakers. He said many New Zealanders seemed encouraging but it should be more.” He is due to appear in the Rotorua District Court The figures showed enrolment in to think they did not need to learn The commission’s target is one million today. international languages also rose in 2020 another language because English was so te reo speakers by 2040. Police said they were still trying to identify and with 55,531 enrolments, up from 53,215 widely spoken. “We think that’s an achievable goal but apprehend the other offenders involved. in 2019. “Part of the solution to that is it needs investment. We need to sit down Anyone with information was asked to call French and Spanish were the most continuing to challenge this monolingual and come up with a plan.” police via 105 and quote file number 201220/7605, popular foreign languages, attracting mindset that says that English is the He said the commission was working or anonymously to Crimestoppers on 14,652 students and 13,237 students most important language. with other parties so that it could advise 0800 555 111. — RNZ respectively. the Ministry of Education on the best However, French enrolments have ways to meet the goal. Sudden death in Glen Innes nearly halved since 2006 and fell again in The commission’s target is one Apanui wants the ministry to roll out a AUCKLAND — A person has been found dead 2020 while enrolments in Spanish have million te reo speakers by 2040. national te reo programme. on a public walkway in Glen Innes. been steadily increasing. “The most logical thing to do is to work Police said this morning they were at the scene Japanese was the most popular Asian with the teachers who are already there, of a sudden death incident near the Glen Innes language with 12,068 students, although who are already committed, already have train station. that was well below highs of more than “We need to help students see the value the teaching skill.” Inquiries were under way and the death was 18,000 students in 2006-8. of learning a language. Not just the value He said with much of the Government’s being treated as unexplained. No further details Chinese was the next most popular in terms of what it might do for them in focus on “the Covid-affected landscape” were available. Asian language with 6368 students. the future, but also the value in terms of it was up to the commission “to create Cordons were in place at the scene and the Chinese had more students in Year 13 being able to learn about another culture, the narrative” around te reo and the walkway between Felton Mathew Avenue and the than any other language bar te reo Maori. being able to understand how language sense of wellbeing it brings and hopefully train station was closed. Train services were not It had 824 Year 13 students, te reo Maori works,” he said. that outlook would be funnelled into the affected. had 1811, and Japanese had 720 students. Ngahiwi Apanui who is the chief provision of more teachers. A person who worked in a building alongside Association of Language Teachers executive of Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori, While the children of middle- the walkway said there were five or six police cars acting president Martin East said the Maori Language Commission, class Maori were being raised in an at the scene and a forensics van with eight staff the increase in te reo enrolments was welcomed the 30,000 figure for those environment where they could make working at the site. exciting. studying te reo but told Morning Report it the most of the te reo experience, there Another worker nearby said the police and However, he said international needed to be higher. needed to be more opportunities for ambulance were at the walkway when they arrived languages were not as popular as they “One of the big issues that faces children from less well-off parts of society at work just before 6am. used to be. compulsory education is teacher supply to establish that connection, he said. A person was carried out in a body bag soon “It used to be the case up until a few and we’ve known for a while that we’re — RNZ after, they said. — NZ Herald The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7 Christmas weather a mixed bag

AUCKLAND — The majority of the North should be in for a decent Christmas, Island is in for relatively fine weather on but stretching down the east coast from Christmas Day, while some in the south Christchurch to Dunedin looks like with their hearts set on the classic Kiwi they will see wet weather and cooler barbecue may need a back-up plan. temperatures.” MetService said Christmas Day in MetService meteorologist Peter Little Auckland will be slightly cooler and less said those in the south planning on a humid than the scorching temperatures Christmas meal outdoors may need to the city has seen recently. rethink their plans. A fine day with high clouds is on the “Snow is forecast down to 1000m over cards for Auckland with the southwesterly the South Island this weekend, and a winds set to make the big day feel cooler. maximum temperature of just 13 degrees Meteorologist Lewis Ferris said the is forecast for Ashburton on Saturday, same settled weather is forecast across which is around 8 degrees below average the majority of the North Island on for this time of year.” December 25. Niwa has touted the possibility of a Rain was initially forecast for Wellington “White Christmas” in the high peaks of tomorrow — but it’s now looking drier the South Island — where temperatures with cloudy periods, light winds, and are set to dip below zero. northerlies developing in the evening, with Like the below-average temperatures a high of 19 degrees, Ferris said. set for Ashburton — places across the But the story isn’t so good for country are set to be noticeably colder KIWI CHRISTMAS: Fine weather is forecast for the North Island tomorrow, but some South Christmas Day in the South, he said. from Christmas onwards, Ferris said. Islanders could be in for a ‘White Christmas’. NZ Herald picture “Places like Nelson and Marlborough — NZ Herald Review uncovers Chopper crash victims farewelled CHRISTCHURCH — The North Westpark Chapel in Christchurch before Canterbury couple who died in a a private cremation this afternoon. helicopter crash north of Kaikoura Hundreds of mourners attended the Weta complaints — leaving their two young children service, including many school children in orphaned — were farewelled at a funeral uniform. service yesterday. Funeral notices described Davidson as by Bernard Orsman, NZ Herald independent review in September Andrew Hamish Davidson, 60, and a loved husband, father, brother, brother- after a 1 NEWS investigation. Dean his wife Lin Chen, 39, died when their in-law and uncle, and Chen as a loved WELLINGTON — An independent found despite improvements, policies helicopter crashed into the beach at wife, mother and daughter. review of Wellington visual effects and processes were not adequate in Kekerengu last Tuesday afternoon. The devastated family also gave company Weta Digital uncovered dozens safeguarding workers, and HR didn’t get Their two children and another child “special thanks” to the emergency of complaints about bullying and more enough management support and wasn’t survived the crash but were injured and services and volunteers who “provided than 100 complaints about inappropriate trusted by workers. pulled from the wreckage by locals who help and care at the scene”. conduct. In a statement provided by Weta rushed to the scene. It is understood Davidson was flying The review followed an investigation Digital, Dean said the company “stands in The couple were remembered at from his North Canterbury home to which uncovered complaints of the top league of the world’s digital effects a “celebration of life” service at the Kekerengu Beach for lunch. — NZ Herald misconduct at the company. companies”. The independent review, led by Miriam But she added: “The problem with this Dean QC, found the infamous “porn visual effect adult is, at heart, it remains Friday”, which saw explicit content the teenage start-up that opened its doors shared on the internal network, “probably all those years ago. This is the backdrop ceased in 2014 and definitely ceased by to, and a prime cause of the complaints I 2018 at the latest”. It was considered a investigated during my 11-week review. “problem of the past”. The company’s workforce is not toxic, Dean received 80 complaints from crew but as my interviews and survey results about incidents they regarded as bullying, revealed, there is a problem in pockets of as well as another 120 complaints of the organisation, and it has manifested in inappropriate conduct, either experienced these complaints.” or witnessed by interviewees, going back “Turning around the ship” did not have many years. to be a “difficult or lengthy task”. It took the form of aggression, passive- Recommendations to change its culture aggressive behaviour, withholding “can be acted on quickly and will produce relevant workplace information so immediate results”. colleagues wouldn’t excel, overloading of That included the introduction of a code work and hazing. of conduct. There were also 19 complaints of sexual The founders of the company, Sir Peter harassment, dating back to 2001, while Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh, also Dean found “the gender pay gap is real”, acknowledged the role of the crew. “You with people describing an “old boys’ club” have been an integral part of the ongoing 33471-10 with unconscious bias and sexist banter. success of Weta Digital and we thank you Weta Digital announced an for contributing to the review.”

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37247-01 8 NATIONAL NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 Airline sacks Kiwi Racism ‘well and alive’ pilot blamed for Mosque and kura attacks condemned by commissioner rare Covid case WELLINGTON — The Race Relations TAIPEI — Taiwan’s EVA Airways Commissioner has condemned two has sacked a Kiwi pilot the Taiwanese recent attacks targeting a mosque and government blamed for the country’s first a kura, saying they show how rampant locally-transmitted case of Covid-19 since racism is in New Zealand. April. The Queenstown Islamic Centre, In a statement, the nation’s Centres for which opened earlier this month, had Disease Control said the Kiwi pilot tested anti-Muslim posters plastered over positive for the virus on December 20, after it this week, and Maori immersion flying between Taiwan and the US. school Te Wharekura o Arowhenua in The agency said the pilot, in an initial Invercargill had a racist slur painted on interview, could not recall all activities and its welcome sign on Tuesday. didn’t mention a contact history with the Police are investigating both incidents new case. and said all reports of hate speech are The health agency also said a failure to taken very seriously. provide truthful contact information could Race Relations Commissioner violate the Infectious Disease Prevention Meng Foon said it was sad to see and Control Law and result in fines of up to the communities targeted so close to NT$300,000 (NZ$15,000) Christmas. The case has angered Taiwanese locals, “I’m saddened for the kura and with one Taiwan television network labelling mosque, I (condemn) this behaviour — it the Kiwi pilot a “public enemy”. shows racism is well and alive in some They claim he did not report all his parts of people’s minds.” INHERENT HATRED: Racist attacks at a Queenstown mosque and an Invercargill contacts and places he had been and failed He said an example needed to be made kura are being investigated by police. NZ Herald picture to wear a face mask in the cockpit. of people who committed such acts. In a meeting of its disciplinary committee, “We are very supportive of separate to help clean up their mess. on the Queenstown mosque. EVA Air decided to terminate the pilot’s hate crime legislation and we hope the “There is no way we can support or The mosque did not want to discuss contract, effective immediately, saying he Government puts that through quickly condone these sorts of degrading and the incident with media while police had breached government regulations and in the new year,” he said. racist comments but I’m convinced were investigating, but Southland the communicable disease transmission law. “We are pleased police are collecting that when this person gets over their Mosque Imam Reza Abdul-Jabbar “EVA Air has always abided by the hate crime data now as that will personal hurt, they will realise the hurt said Queenstown was a melting pot of Government’s epidemic prevention policies, strengthen the punishments for the they have caused to others,” Davis said. cultures so the local mosque had been and most crew members also followed the people that continue to spread messages “It would be appropriate for them to left shaken by the incident. epidemic prevention regulations,” it said. of hate.” clean up their mess also, but I’m quite He said Muslims understood that “However, the behaviour of an individual He said racism was deliberate. happy to help them.” incidents like this could come from employee has undermined everyone’s “There is an inherent hatred among Maori Language Commissioner misunderstanding, not hate, and offered efforts at epidemic prevention.” people that are racist and I think it’s Professor Rawinia Higgins said targeting to meet with those responsible for the The pilot is currently being treated in a disease that can be brought out schoolchildren was a new low. posters. hospital. of people. However, some people are “This is what hatred looks like. It’s “We would love to speak to you face to Taiwan, which has a population of more entrenched in their hatred and it’s not overseas, it’s right here in our face. We don’t hate you because we know than 23 million people, has reported just difficult to curb their behaviour.” communities and it’s targeting our the only reason you have done what you a total of 777 Covid-19 cases — mostly Te Wharekura o Arowhenua principal children, our language and our identity.” have done is because you don’t know imported — and seven related deaths. 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Father of three But just two weeks ago, further testing found his cancer had spread to his nerves advised lump likely and was tracking towards his brain stem. “I remember saying, ‘Well, how do we a tooth abscess ... it treat it’, and the doctor just said, ‘Once cancer reaches the nerves, there’s nothing was actually cancer we can do’.” George has been given a terminal by Emma Russell, Whanganui Chronicle diagnosis. “I was in absolute shock, I just wanted WHANGANUI — A 33-year-old to leave the room and then anger kicked Whanganui dad is dying of brain cancer in . . . and then I was like, how are we after being told the deadly tumour meant to tell the kids their dad was “eating away at his bone” was likely a dying?” tooth abscess. The couple decided to tell their two George Moana can no longer open his oldest children, 11-year-old Jade and mouth wide enough to eat a burger. He four-year-old Ezekiel, separately. Their can only see out of his right eye because youngest Willow is only one. his left one has been removed. “We don’t know how long he’s got. Some He won’t grow old with his wife or live people with this type of cancer have to see his three young children grow up. months, others have years. “Telling the kids their dad was dying “It’s almost worse not knowing because was the hardest thing we have ever had we are trying to plan trips to tick off his to do,” George’s wife, Nicole, told the NZ bucket list and it seems like we need to Herald through tears. do it now.” The electrician had been planning to His bucket list includes taking his kids start his own business and buy a bigger to Wellington Zoo, going glamping with home for his family when a lump started Nicole, going sky diving and getting his growing on the left side of his face in motorcycle licence. March. The family plan to keep Christmas At that time New Zealand had gone simple and focus on spending what into lockdown due to Covid-19. CHRISTMAS HEARTBREAK: George Moana, 33, is making the most of the time precious time George has left with family. “He had been in pain for a while but, he has left with wife Nicole and his three children Jade (middle), 11, Ezekiel, 4, and His nine siblings and his parents will typical male, he just kept saying, ‘She’ll Willow, 1. Picture supplied be travelling to Whanganui to join them. be right’, and eventually I had enough A Givealittle page was set up on and took him to ED,” Nicole said. but none worked. was cancer. Sunday to support the family and has “As he had no Covid symptoms he “All the while, the tumour was growing George had surgery to remove his left already raised more than $20,000. wasn’t a priority and they said it was rapidly, it was extremely aggressive . . . eye, most of his upper jaw and many of Unfortunately, George’s life insurance likely a tooth abscess and he was referred it was literally eating away at his face,” his teeth near the tumour. won’t be enough to cover his funeral and to the dentist.” Nicole said. For three months he was travelling two support his family when he’s gone. She said the dentist performed an “His face just kept getting bigger and hours every day for chemotherapy and “The generosity from people has X-ray and said after it could potentially bigger and I just kept thinking why can’t radiation treatment, with the hope he been insane, even from people we don’t be a root canal gone wrong and removed they just take whatever it is out.” would soon be cancer-free. know. The community spirit at this time the tooth. By May, a CT scan showed the growth Nicole said she couldn’t believe it when of year brings tears to my eyes,” Nicole George tried several types of antibiotics was abnormal and a biopsy confirmed it doctors told them an MRI showed George said. Teachers who lost jobs PROTECTION share $164,000 payout from burns and bites

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It was one of five council buildings that Insurance Council figures released to “suffered surface water ingress and likely Hawke’s Bay Today show the November to incur significant costs to remedy”, 9 storm, which dumped more than including museum and arts centrepiece 200mm of rain in 12 hours, is the fourth the MTG, where there was a “waterfall” most costly natural disaster since the down to the basement level, but no loss of Kaikoura earthquake in 2016, calculated collection items. to have cost $2.27 billion. Separately, it has been reported that A preliminary report prepared for vehicle claims with just two of the Napier City Council meetings earlier this companies totalled more than 1050, while month, revealed it had been the wettest IAG was said to have more than 900 day in Napier in 57 years, and the property claims from home owners, more second-wettest in the history of written than 500 contents claims and more than records. 160 business damage and disruption claims. Meanwhile, the Insurance Council says insurers are paying more than There were still 115 dwellings $200 million across the “severe” weather that were uninhabitable, 386 events of the nation in 2020, with the that were flood damaged, but Napier and Plimmerton events to be still inhabitable, and a further added. Chief executive Tim Grafton said about 589 that were flood-affected on 12,000 claims have been met. November 26. “The uncertainty 2020 delivered (a reference to the Covid-19 pandemic) was magnified by the number of flood and other severe weather events right across SLIP DAMAGE: A house in Lucknow Terrace after a slip crashed down from a the country,” he said. A report for a committee meeting property in Havelock Road, Hospital Hill, among the damage in a storm now costing At the other extreme was the Ohau fire on December 9 said that on November insurers over $70 million. 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WELLINGTON — Youth offending He said many had Foetal Alcohol there seems to be systemic bias.” rates are falling, but Oranga Tamariki Spectrum Disorder (FASD), autism and He also admitted there was racism says that is no excuse to take the foot off communication disorders. within the wider system. the pedal. There was also a high prevalence of “Racism is a hard word, but I think A new Justice report has revealed head injuries, a dislocation from school that our chief executive has said offending rates among young people fell and early onset mental illness. that there is systemic racism within by 64 percent in the past decade, and for Between 2016/17 and 2019/20 the the system and I think we have to children they fell by 63 percent. number of rangatahi Maori who appeared acknowledge that. Principal Youth Court Judge John in the Youth Court fell by 41 percent, “I’m sure that every individual who Walker said it reflected a push for early from 1375 to 810. works in the system would say ‘well, I’m intervention, and effective work by Police But their Youth Court appearance not a racist, that’s not me, that’s not the Youth Aid. rate was more than eight times higher way I come to work’.” “It also reflects what I’m seeing in than that of European and other “But there’s something in the terms of numbers of current cases in the groups. system that makes it easier to amplify Youth Court, which have been steadily They were also more likely to be the impact of discrimination and dropping now for sometime.” remanded in custody, and commit an we have to understand that and tackle One of the real strengths of the Youth offence serious enough to lead to a family it.” Justice System was diversion, which was group conference or court action. While the drop in offending was the result of about 70 percent of all police PUSH FOR EARLY INTERVENTION: Oranga Tamariki youth justice system promising, Dinham said it wasn’t a cause apprehensions. Principal Youth Court Judge John Walker development director Phil Dinham for complacency. Judge Walker said that was a says the figures reflect a push for early said intergenerational deprivation and “When you see momentum and testament to the amount of work done intervention. HB Today picture exclusion definitely played a role. progress like this, it’s not a time to take outside of court, to keep young people “What we can’t walk away from is the your foot off the pedal. away from the courtroom. fact that sometimes, our decision making “Now is the time to go hard and go It meant more time and energy could Judge Walker described them as a amplifies that,” he said. strong, because momentum is with us, be dedicated to intervention for the group of high-risk and high-needs young “You’ll see wherever the arrest rates for so let’s make all the gains we can and smaller numbers who ended up in the people, with a history of trauma, physical, tamariki Maori . . . you’ll find that maybe keep as many kids as possible out of the Youth Court. sexual and family violence. at each consequential decision making, system.” — Radio NZ

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Harmoney chief executive David Stevens rings the bell GDP over the September Since then it has fallen at the company’s listing in November. The celebration quarter. to A$2.51 on the ASX and has died down since then. Picture supplied Electronic payments $2.62 on the NZX as of company Paymark Tuesday’s market close contrast to some of its Harmoney’s shares were spokesperson Paul Brislen although rallied yesterday peers, to limit originations placed into a hot fin-tech told Morning Report the to close at $2.95. The NZ in response to macro market where investors trends over the last month Herald understands one uncertainty.” were chasing anything suggested any retailers New Zealand investor But they said loan that was in that sector. who were not reliant on has requested the NZX originations had since “So the pricing may have the tourism sector had regulator and Australian bottomed and Harmoney reflected the enthusiasm.” bounced back to the same Securities and Investments had seen growth of It’s understood some levels as last year. Commission look into the 12 percent over the first large institutional “I think in the depths price falls, which have half of November — a investors sold large parcels of lockdown — the first come despite no negative rate which they expected down on the first day lockdown — a lot of announcements from would accelerate with dragging the share price retailers were thinking: Harmoney and amid a the activation of a second down and retail investors ‘Well that’s it, we’ll be rising sharemarket. New Zealand funding appear to have followed lucky to get to Christmas’. The NZX50 index is warehouse. them out the door. “Here they are with up 2.6 percent since “We forecast around Deal fatigue by fairly normal looking Brislen said. “This will be the first November 19 while 20 percent year on year Australian investors who levels of spend throughout Traditionally, the two real year where we’ve seen the ASX200 has risen volume growth over have seen a raft of IPOs the year which suggests biggest spending days of such a massive spike in 0.8 percent in markets November — June, with come to market in the quite the bounceback for a the year are Christmas terms of spending over bolstered by news of Covid Australia up around last few months may also lot of retailers.” Eve and Boxing Day, but Black Friday and the vaccines being approved 40 percent.” be affecting the share Unsurprisingly, the in the last couple of years following weekend. It will and distributed. Ord Minnett analysts price alongside the Covid Auckland region is leading the retail market has be interesting to see just Harmoney’s joint also initiated research environment making new the way in terms of the embraced Black Friday how Boxing Day balances lead managers for the with a buy on the stock investors feel nervous amount spent. Spending and the days around it that out and whether or IPO were New Zealand and a target price of about debt servicing. is 11.1 percent higher this with major spending on not it can retain the crown investment bank Jarden A$3.90. Rival Australian non- week compared advertising and strong as the busiest spending and Australian firm Ord The analysts said bank lender Plenti Group with versus last week, support from consumers. period of the year.” — RNZ Minnett. This week Jarden Harmoney held a has seen its share price investment analysts technology and customer fall from its A$1.66 offer released their first acquisition advantage price in September to research report with a buy versus major banks, trade around A$1.06. A2 Milk plans expansion rating on the company and allowing it to grow market Harmoney has been a 12-month target price of share and supported by approached for comment. WELLINGTON — A2 Milk is a step ATM will pay $268.5 million for its A$3.30 — A20c below its efficient operating systems, On Tuesday it closer to taking a controlling stake in stake, with the Chinese company, which listing price. can ultimately convert a announced it had secured Mataura Valley Milk, but says it will be owns one of a2 Milk’s main partners in The firm offered no higher share of income its third debt warehousing at least a couple of years before it starts China, holding the balance. comment when asked if growth to profit. facility — a three-year making profits. A2 Milk is paying for the stake from the IPO was over-priced, They forecast a first $200 million facility from ATM disclosed its intentions in August cash reserves. considering the now lower half result in line with asset manager M&G and has now entered binding agreements The acquisition needs approval from valuation from its retail expectations, but a likely Investments. to buy a 75 percent stake in the the Overseas Investment Office, but it is analyst. upswing in domestic credit It now has $465m in Southland based infant formula maker. expected to be settled by the end of May. The Jarden analyst conditions to confirm a warehouse funding — a The move is part of ATM’s plans to Babidge said MVM would complement note said the share price return to 10 percent plus key plank in its move away diversify its production and broaden its a2 Milk’s existing supply arrangements underperformance against loan growth from January from using retail peer-to- range of products. with Synlait Milk and Fonterra, and allow its peers and the ASX 2021. peer lending as a way to “MVM provides a unique opportunity it to produce additional infant nutrition small ordinaries index “Trading on a 36 percent fund its loans — a model to acquire a new world class nutritional products for China and other markets. A likely reflected Harmoney’s discount to sector peers we that is more expensive and products manufacturing capability in New medium term plan is being developed to more modest near term see the current price as an resource heavy. Zealand, alongside a highly respected expand Mataura’s production beyond the growth outlook compared attractive entry point.” Chief executive China state owned enterprise in China current range of milk powder products to peers. One institutional David Stevens said the Animal Husbandry Group (CAHG),” a2 into consumer packaged nutritional “This largely reflects investor who bought facility would speed that Milk chief executive Geoff Babidge said. products. — Radio NZ Harmoney’s decision, in shares in the IPO said transition.

34c to $28.35; a2 Milk is making a strong Quadrant Private Equity and existing doctor and SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY recovery, up 40c or 3.48 percent to $11.89; and management shareholders. Its share price rose a recent laggard Port of Tauranga gained 15c or 23.5c or 3.22 percent to $7.54. 2.07 percent to $7.40. AFT Pharmaceuticals is launching its WELLINGTON — Transport and logistics come into the blue chips, with some stocks The renewable energy stocks are still being Maxigesic pain relief tablets into Canada operator Mainfreight struck the $65 price level having been sold down and now being powered by global exchange traded funds, with through its wholesale distribution partner and the leading index smashed the 13,000 re-rated. Contact rising 48c or 5.78 percent to $8.78, BioSyent Pharma, and AFT’s share price shot up points mark in another breathless and historic “The United States government is voting on Meridian gaining 50c or 7.46 percent to $7.20, 35c or 7.45 percent to $5.05. day on the New Zealand sharemarket. the new $US900 billion coronavirus stimulus and Mercury up 8c to $6.43. Tourism Holdings had a testing day after The S&P/NZX 50 Index closed at an all-time bill, and this added to the positive sentiment,” With the NZ dollar falling against the United telling the market its 2021 full-year loss will high of 13,020.21, up 1.38 percent. The previous Sullivan said. “Covid-19 is still going to be a States greenback (it was trading at US70.57c at be greater than the analysts’ average forecast closing high was 12,919.25 on December 11. The major story next year.” 5.45pm), apple exporter Scales Corporation rose of $12.8m, though it can’t presently provide a index began the year at 11,491.90 points and fell Some investors filled up their Christmas 10c or 2.06 percent to $4.95. Air New Zealand creditable guidance. to a low of 8498.69 on March 23. stockings with Mainfreight shares. Its price climbed 4c or 2.62 percent to $1.76. Its share price closed down 2c to $2.52 after There were 83 gainers and 54 decliners over soared to all-time high of $65 — unprecedented Market leader Fisher and Paykel Healthcare falling as low as $2.34. the whole market on solid trading of 69.5 million for New Zealand stocks — after rising $1.75 or was down 2c to $33.90, and Ryman Healthcare Direct consumer lender Harmoney jumped shares worth $168.22m. 2.77 percent during the day. Mainfreight chair lost 15c to $15. Fellow retirement village 33c or 12.6 percent to $2.95 — still below its Jeremy Sullivan, investment adviser with Bruce Plested’s Christmas present operator Summerset Group Holdings was up listing price of $3.50 — after announcing it has Hamilton Hindin Greene, said: “There are some is a shareholding in the company worth 11c to $12.05. secured a $200m facility to help grow its loans cheery investors out there as we go into the $1.035 billion. Utilities investor Infratil confirmed it is now and expand its product offering. holiday season. There’s still a lot of money Ebos Group, one of those stocks that had holds a majority 56.25 percent stake in Australia Carpet maker Cavalier increased 5c or 14.49 looking for a home and bargain hunting has been sold down, continued its rebound, climbing radiology chain Qscan after paying $309.5m to percent to 39.5c. — NZ Herald 12 OPINION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 EDITORIAL Religions don’t have monopoly on spirituality Re: We are both human and thousand years. of the left, “woke” beliefs that Lara I am woke, I will take that as Have fun and be spiritual beings, December 22 Your belief system, and espouses so virulently. They are the a compliment and feel glad letter. theirs, may have been a logical most judgemental and bigoted of that I am not the opposite. safe, considerate Tena Koe Wally, response to help explain the political beliefs at the moment — a If you think it is wrong to Nicely said, I don’t agree world in the past but it has kind of “if you’re not with us you are be woke, do you value the As the clock ticks down to with any of it, however. had its time. against us” bunch while parading as opposite? Do you prefer people Christmas, most Kiwis look set for I would like to unpack one Actually, new-age mantras if they alone know moral truths. And to be ignorant, disinterested, a surprisingly normal and traditional paragraph: do not say there is no God. as for the belief in religion being selfish and greedy? summer holiday. “What you and others are They say that God is not some dangerous — it pales in comparison What seems more bigoted After a year knocked wildly off challenging comes from an element man who sits in judgement to the Marxist/leftist regimes that and judgemental, to be “woke” course by a pandemic that quickly who interpret their faith as being over us with a set of arcane have literally killed millions in the or to be asleep? developed into the biggest global absolute, set in concrete, scripture rules to live by. last century alone. But actually Tim, the is to be literally believed. Us against It is possible to be spiritual I would recommend reading the commentary above was about shock since World War 2, the the world syndrome. They then without being religious. gospels for the best understanding whether Christianity, Islam or hardships of which New Zealand has become easy pickings to rebut and Adherents of patriarchal of what Christ represented. I do Judaism have the monopoly mostly escaped but we still bear refute in a pluralistic, secular society religions do not have the not believe the inner truth of those on spirituality (I don’t believe many scars from — not the least because science, technology, and monopoly on spirituality. teachings have “had their time” they do), so I am not sure why of which are the personal costs to new-age scepticism rule supreme in So, as much as it pains me (another dismissive, left-wing you raised “wokeness” and so many whose jobs disappeared, the early 21st century.” to disagree with someone as statement). You may even have an your dislike of the need for and the heavy financial costs to I am not refuting and obviously gentle and kind as awakening and find some humility more socially-just approaches. the country — everyone deserves rebutting those commentators you appear to be, I will. in those beautiful words of the man I seriously doubt whether a well-earned break for some rest, because I think they are Aku mihi and harakoa called Jesus. you understand Marxism or recuperation and reflection. easy pickings. I respond to kirihemete koe. Enjoy your TIM STEWART communism any more than I them because in my opinion Christmas celebrations. do. You sound like you watch While doing that, those on the patriarchal religion and Hi Tim, too much Hannity or Tucker, move are asked to do their bit to monotheism have proven LARA MEYER The term “woke” means to or Newsmax or OANN or help protect our nation’s privileged to be relatively dangerous. be aware, awake, concerned Infowars . . . and if that is situation by scanning QR codes with Dangerous is not a word I use Interesting reply from Lara to and interested in addressing true, that helps explain your the Covid tracer app . . . and to put lightly. I just need to look at Wally Te Ua’s lovely letter on being some of the issues that impact commentary and opinion. their holiday plans on hold if they what religion has wrought both human and spiritual beings. I negatively on people’s lives. So Cheers become sick. in the world of the past few certainly see no spirituality in any thank you for suggesting that LARA MEYER That is the message to all our guests here in Tairawhiti over the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS summer holiday too: have fun, and Rural water levy a joke be safe and considerate. Our border is much better Re: We all benefit directly or are what the council says we protected than it used to be, but Support group amazing indirectly, Nov 19 column. must instal, and there is no It’s obvious that Meredith need to dump anything into we now know this tricky virus can After four amazing and development journey. I will Akuhata-Brown wrote this the council’s sewerage system find its way through with even the enjoyable years, our playgroup miss seeing those little faces article on the proposed water 10 years down the track as smallest of lapses. has closed. and they will hold a special and sewerage levy to help the the bacteria takes care of the In a world where Christmas As the co-ordinator I want to place in my heart forever. council to get its view accepted solids . . . so I don’t see how, as gatherings have been cancelled in take this opportunity to thank Thank you for the privilege by rural homeowners. a ratepayer, I should be paying many countries, forced to implement those families that attended of being able to work alongside I have lived at Haisman a water and sewerage levy for further lockdowns in the face of and supported this wonderful you, and thanks for the Road for the past eight years something I have provided!! Covid-19 cases surging through their programme. To those families awesome relationships and and last year built a new It’s a joke. The council will populations — and elsewhere in the that went the extra mile and friendships that have been home with a cost for water be asking rural landowners many more nations that can’t afford helped with the day-to-day formed. It has been such an and sewage reticulation at next to conserve water, so we running — a special thanks honour for me. $47,610. I also had to do heavy can supply reticulated users such measures, people are living in and “Kia ora”. All the very best for 2021 — maintenance on an existing when they run out. It beggars fear as they go about what business What an absolute pleasure Merry Christmas. biocycle treatment system for belief, but good luck. they can — we are so fortunate. it has been for me to be part Arohanui the separate shed complex, Whether you are religious or of your children’s growth and JELAIRE POI costing $7000. These systems ALLAN KELLETT not, this Christmas we have extra reasons to give thanks, and to hope for the fastest path possible out of the pandemic next year. Approvals Wrong to encourage harbour diving Thank you! lately for the first vaccines for this It is quite clear from a recent Yet now, by providing access and suspension or exemption will not coronavirus, as not only safe but meeting and emails with Gisborne’s a ladder, then asking Maori Wardens endanger the safety of the public After the article last night with high efficacy, are a light at the Mayor and Harbourmaster that our to supervise (which were the words and that appropriate consultation about the truckie wanting end of a dark tunnel that will grow District Council places the needs used) where the kids can jump with parties who may be adversely to give thanks to the man brighter as 2021 progresses. of kids swimming at the inner from, this is encouragement. You affected has been undertaken.” who helped him, I want to harbour boat ramp far above the can put any spin on it you like but By proceeding with this trial it thank a young woman who Hopefully humanity can come concerns and safety of the boating the fact remains that the council is is in effect endangering the public, was so honest and kind to me together to ensure developing community. condoning this behaviour. ie all those who use the boat ramp yesterday. countries get if not equitable Whether it is or isn’t the It is erroneous of the council, to launch from. It is also seeking Visiting Gisborne in the access to vaccines, then subsidised Harbourmaster’s intention to entice through the Harbourmaster as its consultation during the course of Tokomaru Bay senior citizen’s and rapid delivery to vulnerable new people to the inner harbour authorised officer, to think that this trial and not before; usually van, to do the last of the populations, followed quickly by with this trial of an alternative diving they can get around this “trial” by consultation is done before any Christmas shopping, I had a wider vaccination programmes. site, my view is that undertaking the invoking clause 5.2 Suspensions decision is made. The council “senior’s moment” getting cash For now, though, our families have trial will indeed encourage both new & Exemptions. Currently Gisborne is also required as per sub- out at an ATM. I pressed the been gathering and it is a time to and existing kids to the area. District Council is in breach of its clause 5.2.3 to publicly notify the wrong button as the sun was share, love and be merry. As explained to the own Navigation & Safety Bylaw suspension or exemption — which I shining on the screen, and Harbourmaster and Mayor, the 2.2, 2.2.1 by allowing swimmers think council has failed to do. didn’t realise I had withdrawn Of course, not everyone will get council should be trying to at the ramp and is justifying the The boating community will be cash. a summer holiday. Remember the discourage kids from heading to the decision for this trial on bylaw the ones who will ultimately pay A big thank you to the essential workers we celebrated area to swim. If Maori Wardens were 5.2 and its sub-clause 5.2.2: should there be an accident, which woman who ran after me to through our lockdown? From medical able to effectively do this with their “An authorised officer of the none of us want. give me $150. and emergency personnel through presence, then well and good. council must be satisfied that the CRAIG MILLER HINE WILCOX to supermarket checkout operators and shelf-fillers, most are on the [email protected] job again keeping us safe and fed ■ The maximum length for letters is 350 words. . . . so make sure they get all the ■ Anyone can write a column, 600 words maximum, but a photo is required. appreciation they deserve as you ■ Always include full name and contact details. enjoy your holiday. ■ If you use a nom de plume, there is a higher bar for acceptability. ■ Letters may be edited for clarity, length or legal reasons. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 WORLD 13 Virus restrictions Trump vetoes defence bill to remain in place for Christmas SYDNEY — Authorities in Sydney have President prepares to stand off with GOP lawmakers extended Covid restrictions on social gatherings across Christmas in a bid to WASHINGTON — President aggression. Other GOP backers curb an outbreak in Australia’s largest Donald Trump on Wednesday of the measure, including city. vetoed the annual defence Sen. John Thune of South Most Sydneysiders will continue to policy bill, following through on Dakota, the second-ranking be able to have 10 adult visitors to their threats to veto a measure that Senate leader, and Rep. Mike home over the holiday period. But in a has broad bipartisan support Gallagher of Wisconsin, a slight relaxation of rules, young children in Congress and potentially member of the House Armed can be included on top of that number setting up the first override Services Committee, have between December 24-26. vote of his presidency. tweeted that the bill would Sydney saw just eight new cases on The bill affirms 3 percent counter threats from countries Wednesday, fuelling optimism about pay raises for US troops and such as China. efforts to contain the outbreak. authorises more than $740 Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode The New South Wales (NSW) state billion in military programmes Island, the top Democrat on government said a total of 98 cases had and construction. the Senate Armed Services been found in the state capital since last The action came while Committee, said Trump’s week. More than 124,000 residents had Trump was holed up at the declaration that China was the been tested in the past three days alone White House, stewing about his biggest winner in the defence — a local record. election loss and escalating his bill was false. Reed also noted The outbreak was discovered last week standoff with Republicans as he the shifting explanations in the city’s Northern Beaches region, pushed fraudulent conspiracy POSSIBLE OVERRIDE: According to Trump, the defence bill Trump had given for the veto. prompting an immediate lockdown of theories and tried to pressure fails to include critical national security measures. AP picture “President Trump clearly residents. them to back his efforts to hasn’t read the bill, nor does However, Premier Gladys Berejiklian overturn the results. Hood that honour Confederate first in our national security he understand what’s in it,” said officials were still unable to trace The House was poised leaders. Without going into and foreign policy actions. It is Reed said. “There are several how the virus got into the community so a to return on Monday, and detail, he has claimed the a ‘gift’ to China and Russia.” bipartisan provisions in here lockdown will continue until Sunday. the Senate on Tuesday, to biggest winner from the He also wrote: “Numerous that get tougher on China than “We want to make sure that there consider votes to override the defence bill would be China. provisions of the Act directly the Trump Administration has aren’t strains or lines of community President’s veto. In his veto message to the contradict my administration’s ever been.” transmission that we haven’t found yet,” Long before issuing the veto, House, Trump cited those foreign policy, particularly The measure guides she said on Wednesday. Trump offered objections and my efforts to bring our troops Pentagon policy and cements She revealed that the southern half of a series of stated that home. decisions about troop levels, that community would be allowed to host rationales for Numerous provisions the measure Both the House and Senate new weapons systems and 10 visitors for Christmas. In the northern rejecting it. He “fails to passed the measure by margins military readiness, military half — where the outbreak began — only has called for of‘ the Act directly include critical large enough to override a veto personnel policy and other five visitors would be permitted. lawmakers to contradict my national from the President. Trump had military goals. Many But residents in both zones were still include limits administration’s foreign security vetoed eight bills previously, programmes can only go into barred from leaving their local area, she on social media measures, but those vetoes were sustained effect if the bill is approved, added. companies he policy, particularly my includes because supporters did not gain including military construction. Sydney residents have been told they claimed are efforts to bring our provisions the two-thirds vote needed in McConnell, in a rare break should not visit nursing homes over biased against troops home. that fail to each chamber for the bill to with Trump, had urged passage Christmas and mask-wearing in public him — and respect our become law without Trump’s despite Trump’s threat to has been encouraged. to strip out —Donald’ Trump veterans and signature. veto it. McConnell said it was They also remain banned from language that our military’s In advance of the veto, important for Congress to travelling to other states and territories, allows for the history, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch continue its nearly six-decade- preventing holiday plans for many renaming of military bases contradicts efforts by my McConnell, R-Ky., has said the long streak of passing the families, after restrictions imposed earlier such as Fort Benning and Fort administration to put America bill would help deter Chinese defence policy bill. — AP this week. — BBC Clogged UK port reopens in chaos, truckers await Covid test DOVER, England — Gridlock at an although many remain in place. Still, it English port kept thousands of truckers was France’s ban on freight that caused and travellers stranded on Wednesday, the most alarm and led to a feeling of despite a deal with France to lift a two- intense isolation on the island nation, day blockade imposed because of a new since the UK relies heavily on its cross- variant of the coronavirus that had Channel commercial links to the continent isolated Britain and raised fears of food for food at this time of year, especially shortages. fresh fruit and vegetables. While some goods and passengers began Fears of food shortages added to an arriving on French shores in the morning, already glum run-up to Christmas many still struggled to get through. With in Britain, where authorities have officials warning that the backlog would scaled back or cancelled plans to relax take days to clear, frustrated truckers restrictions for the holiday as daily virus scuffled with police at the port of Dover. infections soar and many hospitals are Some have suggested the chaos was a nearing capacity. precursor to what Britain may face if it Britain reported another 744 deaths doesn’t come to a trade agreement with and a record 39,237 confirmed cases on the European Union before it leaves the Wednesday, and the health secretary said bloc’s economic embrace on December 31. that millions more people in England “Looking around, it doesn’t really seem would come under the country’s most that there’s a lot of progress being made severe restrictions from December 26. The here,” said Ben Richtzenhaim, a financial rules, which close all non-essential shops services worker who drove overnight and ban households from mixing indoors, DEADLOCK: Vehicles wait at the entrance to the Port of Dover, blocked by police, as from Scotland in hopes of getting home already cover London and surrounding they queue to leave, in Dover, England on Wednesday. AP picture to Germany by car. “People are still not areas. moving out of the way, and the authorities Under a deal to lift France’s ban, and he didn’t expect any until night time. and customs union at the end of the year. are not doing something either. So it’s a anyone arriving from Britain is required The Calais port normally brings in up to French authorities have insisted real deadlock.” to have a virus test capable of detecting 4000 trucks a day. that this week’s blockade was based on Nations around the world began barring the new variant, and soldiers and contact- British Communities Secretary Robert scientific concerns and not politics, but people from Britain over the weekend tracers were sent to the Dover port to Jenrick said it would take “a few days” to some noted it may have offered a glimpse after Prime Minister Boris Johnson administer the tests. But drivers said test all the drivers who are currently in of what Britain can expect next year. announced that scientists said a new traffic chaos in the area was delaying the county of Kent. “We thought we were OK, preparing version of the virus whipping around that. By late afternoon on Wednesday, for December 31 (and Brexit), and London and England’s southeast may Rail operator Eurotunnel said more than 6000 trucks were estimated then kaboom, we are in chaos already,” be more contagious. The announcement some trains carrying freight and car to be trying to get across the Channel, Puissesseau, the French port director told added to anxieties at a time when Europe passengers were allowed to cross to the with more than half — around 3750 — The Associated Press. The slowdowns has been walloped by soaring new virus continent beneath the English Channel scrunched up at Kent’s disused Manston could be worse when Brexit kicks in and infections and deaths. on Wednesday. The director of France’s Airport awaiting their cue to leave. French authorities will have to check On Wednesday, British Health Calais-Boulogne port, Jean-Marc Testing facilities were in place at the customs documents as well as virus tests, Secretary Matt Hancock said that another Puissesseau, said two cargo vans had so airport. he warned. new variant — from South Africa — has far arrived by ferry, while some truckers The chaos came as many Britons were Clement Beaune, France’s European turned up in Britain, and announced simply loaded their goods directly onto already bracing for travel and commerce- affairs minister, told BFM television restrictions on travel from the African ferries so a colleague could pick it up on related disruptions, if the UK and the during a discussion about the Brexit talks country. the French side. European Union can’t agree on a post- that when it comes to trade, “the British Some European countries relaxed their He said no freight trucks have made the Brexit trade deal by the time the country side has much more dependence on travel limits on Britain on Wednesday, journey yet because of testing troubles, leaves the EU’s tariff-free single market Europe than the reverse”. — AP 14 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 GLOBAL BRIEFS UK, EU on cusp of Hundreds killed in massacre NAIROBI, Kenya — The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says more than 100 people have been killed in the latest massacre along ethnic lines in the western part of the country. The Amhara Mass Media Agency, affiliated with the country’s Amhara region, in a separate report Brexit trade deal cited witnesses as saying the attack occurred early on Wednesday in the Metekel zone of the BRUSSELS — European Union Benishangul-Gumuz region. and British negotiators closed in on a The attack occurred a day after Prime Minister trade deal on Wednesday with only a TIME IS Abiy Ahmed visited the region and spoke about disagreement over fishing remaining, RUNNING the need to bring those responsible for recent raising hopes a chaotic economic break OUT: attacks to justice. Ethnic tensions are a major between the two sides on New Year’s European Union flags, challenge as Abiy tries to promote national unity Day could be averted even as soon as in a country with more than 80 ethnic groups. before midnight, officials said. seen through Christmas The attacks are separate from the deadly After resolving a few remaining fair conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. — AP competition issues, negotiators were decoration lights, dealing with EU fisheries rights in UK flutter in the Israel heads to new elections waters as they worked to secure a deal wind outside the European JERUSALEM — Israel is to hold its fourth for a post-Brexit relationship after nine elections in two years after the two main parties months of talks. Commission headquarters in in its unity government failed to meet a deadline Two EU sources said the negotiations in a row over state budgets. were in a final phase now, with one Brussels. AP picture Voters will return to the polls in March, just 12 saying: “I expect to see some white months after the last round. smoke tonight.” The official asked not to Two previous elections were inconclusive, be identified because the talks were still resulting in a rare government of national unity. ongoing. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for Customs checks and some other alleged corruption, is hoping to return to office barriers will be imposed under whatever for a sixth time. He denies the criminal charges circumstances on January 1, but a trade However, some EU nations insisted approved. against him, dismissing them as politically deal would avert the imposition of tariffs that upon close scrutiny, Britain’s latest Over the past few days, Johnson and motivated. and duties that could cost both sides proposals on quotas for EU vessels in EU Commission President Ursula von At midnight (on Tuesday), Israel’s parliament, the hundreds of thousands of jobs. Britain UK waters were far less conciliatory der Leyen have been drawn more and Knesset, was automatically dissolved as required withdrew from the European Union on than first met the eye. more into the talks and have been in by law after a deadline to pass the 2020 state January 31, and an economic transition On Wednesday, the brokering on contact by phone seeking to unblock budget expired. period expires on December 31. quotas and transition times for EU negotiations. An 11th-hour attempt to avoid this failed after a British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vessels to continue fishing in UK Businesses on both sides are bill to allow more time was voted down, against has always insisted the UK would waters were in full swing, with progress clamouring for a deal that would save expectations. — BBC “prosper mightily” even if no deal were reported from several sides. tens of billions in costs. reached and the UK had to trade with In London, UK Cabinet minister A failure to reach a post-Brexit deal UN retakes CAR town from rebels the EU on World Trade Organisation Robert Jenrick said, “We will need to get would lead to more chaos on Britain’s MOSCOW — The United Nations says the town terms. those final issues resolved, and there’s borders with the EU at the start of 2021, of Bambari in the Central African Republic (CAR) But his government has acknowledged some way further to go on that.” He said when new tariffs by both sides would has been retaken from rebels who seized it on that a chaotic exit is likely to bring he nonetheless felt optimistic. add to other impediments to trade. Tuesday. gridlock at Britain’s ports, temporary The EU has long feared that Britain The border is already reeling from A spokesperson said UN peacekeepers and shortages of some goods and price would undercut the bloc’s social, new restrictions placed on travelers national security forces were in control, having increases for staple foods. environmental and state aid rules to from Britain into France and other pushed the militants back into the bush. Tariffs will be applied to many UK be able to gain an unfair edge with its EU countries due to a new coronavirus He said civilians who had fled the fighting exports, including 10 percent on cars exports to the EU. variant sweeping through London and were starting to return. The CAR is due to hold and more than 40 percent on lamb, Britain has said that having to meet southern England. elections on Sunday. battering the UK economy as it struggles EU rules would undercut its sovereignty. While both sides would suffer The government has accused the former to rebound from the impact of the On those issues, a compromise had economically from a failure to secure president, François Bozizé, of joining up with coronavirus pandemic. been reached, a diplomat from an EU a trade deal, most economists think armed groups in an attempt to stage a coup — Rumours of a pre-Christmas trade country said. If both sides fail to meet Britain would take a greater hit, at least something he has denied. Russia and Rwanda deal surfaced in recent days based on the January 1 deadline, it’s unclear in the near-term, as it’s relatively more have sent hundreds of additional troops to bolster progress on the outstanding issues under what conditions trade would take reliant on trade with the EU than the the government, as the rebels try to advance beyond fishing. place before a deal would eventually be other way around. — AP towards the capital Bangui. — BBC Trump condemned for pardoning Blackwater guards WASHINGTON — The UN has US prosecutors said Slatten was the Slough, Liberty and Heard killed in Nisoor Square, told the BBC sharply criticised President Donald first to fire, without provocation, killing subsequently had their sentences reduced that Trump’s decision “broke my life Trump’s decision to pardon four former Ahmed Haithem Ahmed Al Rubiay, an to 15, 14 and 12 years respectively. again”. Blackwater contractors jailed over the aspiring doctor who was driving his “He broke the law. He broke everything. killing of 14 Iraqi civilians. mother to an appointment. Why did President Trump pardon them? He broke the court. He broke the judge,” Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan The contractors said they mistakenly he said. “Before (this) I felt that no-one Liberty and Dustin Heard opened fire in believed that they were under attack. A White House statement said Slatten, (was) above the law.” Baghdad’s Nisoor Square in 2007 while The incident caused international Slough, Liberty and Heard had a “long UN Human Rights Office spokesperson guarding an American diplomatic convoy. outrage, strained relations between the history of service to the nation” as Marta Hurtado expressed deep The UN Human Rights Office US and Iraq, and sparked a debate over veterans of the US Army and US Marine concern and said pardoning the guards warned that the pardons would serve the role of contractors in war zones. Corps, and that their pardons were “contributes to impunity and has the to embolden others to commit similar “broadly supported by effect of emboldening others to commit crimes. What charges did the the public . . . and elected such crimes in the future”. The father of a nine-year boy who died contractors face? Pardoning the officials”. “The UN Human Rights Office calls said Trump “broke my life again”. guards‘ contributes to It added that the on the US to renew its commitment There was no immediate response from In 2014, a US federal Court of Appeals to fighting impunity for gross human the Iraqi government. court found Slatten guilty impunity and has the “ruled that additional rights violations and serious violations of of murder, while Slough, effect of emboldening evidence should have international humanitarian law, as well What happened in Nisoor Square? Liberty and Heard were others to commit such been presented at Mr as to uphold its obligations to ensure convicted of voluntary Slatten’s trial”, and that accountability for such crimes,” she Slatten, Slough, Liberty and Heard manslaughter, attempted crimes in the future. prosecutors recently added. were among 19 Blackwater private manslaughter and —Marta Hurtado’ disclosed “that the lead Hina Shamsi, director of the American security contractors assigned to guard a other charges. Slatten Iraqi investigator, who Civil Liberties Union’s National Security convoy of four heavily-armoured vehicles was sentenced to life in prosecutors relied heavily Project, said Trump had “hit a disgraceful carrying US personnel on 16 September prison, and the other three were handed on to verify that there were no insurgent new low with the Blackwater pardons”. 2007. 30-year terms. victims and to collect evidence, may have “President Trump insults the memory According to the US Justice However, the US Court of Appeals had ties to insurgent groups himself”. of the Iraqi victims and further degrades Department, at about noon that day reversed Slatten’s conviction and ordered Brian Heberlig, a lawyer for Paul his office with this action,” she added. several of the contractors opened fire that the three others be resentenced for Slough, said the contractors “didn’t Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy in and around Nisoor Square, a busy their roles in the crime. deserve to spend one minute in prison” tweeted: “Pardoning these murderers is a roundabout that was immediately Slatten was retried in 2018, but a and that he was “overwhelmed with disgrace. They shot women and kids who adjacent to the heavily-fortified Green mistrial was declared after the jury was emotion at this fantastic news”. had their hands in the air.” Zone. unable to reach a verdict. The second “But it’s all part of a plan to limit When they stopped shooting, at least retrial began later that year and Slatten What has been the reaction? (President-elect Joe) Biden’s national 14 Iraqi civilians were dead — 10 men, was found guilty of committing first- security tools. These pardons will greatly two women and two boys, aged nine and degree murder. He was sentenced to life Mohammed Kinani, a US-Iraqi dual damage US-Iraq relations, at a critical 11. 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The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 19 HOLIDAY PUZZLE EXTRA

Giant crossword 12 3 45678 9 10 11 12 ACROSS 98 Stab of pain (6) DOWN 85 Book for photos (5) 1 Greatest (7) 99 Temporarily 1 Copper-zinc alloy (5) 86 Broadcast over radio 13 14 15 16 4 Ancestry chart (6,4) stitched (6) 2 Branch of maths (8) (8) 17 18 9 Smoked plant (7) 100 Score (7) 3 Magnate (6) 87 Foil (6) 13 Tiny particle (4) 103 Masked ball (10) 4 Scowl (5) 88 Church council (5) 19 20 21 14 Educate (6) 104 Settle in (anag) 5 Thaw (4) 89 Finished (4) 22 23 15 Writer (6) (8) 6 Pays attention (7) 90 Young cats (7) 16 Train stop (7) 105 Direct (5) 7 Shelled animal (6) 91 Titillate (6) 24 25 26 27 28 19 Enthralled (10) 108 Oscillates (6) 8 Hot coal (5) 92 Happening (5) 29 30 31 20 109 10 94 Generals (anag) (8) Comes in (6) Pledge (4) Bench clamp (4) 32 33 34 35 21 Lost colour (5) 111 Extra (9) 11 Entice (7) 95 Division in book (7) 24 Go after (6) 116 Schedule of events 12 Barrel maker (6) 96 Go beyond (6) 36 37 25 17 101 Passes out (6) (8) Sudden downpour (10) Protective eyewear (10) 38 39 40 41 27 Madden (9) 117 Season (6) 18 Happen again (5) 102 Soft hat (5) 32 Outdated (8) 118 Grand residence 22 Grounded (anag) (8) 106 Inherited object (8) 33 Eerie (6) (7) 23 Body organ (5) 107 Normal (5) 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 34 Quicksilver (7) 122 Hold dear (8) 24 Foretell (7) 108 Prison term (7) 38 Excite the curiosity 123 Calm (6) 26 Region (4) 110 Naked (4) of (8) 124 Cast off (4) 28 Planet (7) 112 Card game (7) 55 56 57 58 39 Worshipped (6) 125 Confidence (5) 29 Scuttlebutt (6) 113 Rubble (6) 59 60 40 Hideous (4) 126 Stops (5) 30 Interfere (6) 114 Pressing (6) 41 Elevate (5) 129 Large fuss over 31 Emergency (6) 115 GP (6) 61 62 63 42 33 117 Assignation (5) something trivial Freight (5) Glossy fabric (5) 64 65 45 Be an unwanted (5,2,1,6) 35 Allege (5) 119 Quota (5) third party with a 136 Core (5) 36 Supporting brace (4) 120 Tangible (4) 66 67 68 69 139 couple (4,10) Varlet (5) 37 Disparaging remark (4) 121 S American country (4) 70 71 72 52 Entertain (5) 140 Middle East 43 Airstrip (6) 127 Quantity (6) 55 Smithy’s block (5) country (4) 44 Motionless (5) 128 Jeer at (5) 73 74 75 76 77 78 56 Roman garment (4) 141 Reached 46 Appearance (4) 130 Ripped (4) 79 80 57 Frozen drip (6) maximum (6) 47 Longed for (7) 131 Ask for (7) 58 Nice (8) 142 Aromatic spice (8) 48 Source (6) 132 Weaken (6) 81 82 83 84 61 Security device (7) 145 First (7) 49 Grab (5) 133 Lessen (5) 62 Ill-considered (6) 146 Dwell (6) 50 Denigrate (8) 134 Time without end (8) 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 63 Scrupulous (8) 147 Recent arrival (8) 51 Primary colour (6) 135 Penal institution (6) 66 Take the place of 150 Star (9) 52 Merge (10) 136 From now on (10) 152 53 137 (9) Inventor’s US state (4) Intentions (4) 97 98 99 100 68 Stumble (6) document (6) 54 Severe (7) 138 Rent payers (7) 69 Polluted (6) 153 Adds up (6) 59 Threaded fastener (5) 143 Sanctuary (5) 101 102 73 Thigh bone (5) 157 Group of eight (5) 60 Painful (4) 144 Graceful bird (4) 103 104 105 74 Airship (8) 158 Small parrot (8) 64 Lopsided (5) 148 Snap (5) 76 Rival (10) 160 Judge (10) 65 Take away (8) 149 Put at risk (8) 106 107 81 Umpire (7) 165 Akin (7) 67 Stringed instrument (7) 151 Gemstone (7) 108 109110 111112 82 Occur (6) 166 Sea robber (6) 68 Provide money for (7) 152 Earthenware (7) 83 Circa (6) 167 Disinterest (6) 70 Flaw (6) 154 Plan (6) 113 114 115 84 Sloping path (4) 168 Eye amorously (4) 71 Mistake (4-2) 155 Request forcefully (6) 116 117 118 119 85 169 72 156 Endeavour (7) Title (7) Light cake (6) Accident (6) 120 121 88 Retailer (10) 170 One’s finest 75 Hunt illegally (5) 159 Farewell (5) 93 Kicked out (7) clothes (6,4) 77 Scent (5) 161 Separated (5) 122 123 124 125 97 Girder (4) 171 Depict (7) 78 Quick (5) 162 Foe (5) 79 Retain (4) 163 Stingy (4)

80 Twist out of shape (4) 164 Donated (4) 126127 128 129130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138

Mishap, 159 Adieu, 161 Apart, 162 Enemy, 163 Mean, 164 Gave. 164 Mean, 163 Enemy, 162 Apart, 161 Adieu, 159 Mishap,

Demand, 156 156 Demand, 155 Scheme, 154 Pottery, 152 Emerald, 151 Endanger, 149 Break, 148 Swan, 144 Haven, 143 Tenants, 138

forth, 137 Aims, Aims, 137 forth, Amount, 128 Taunt, 130 Tore, 131 Request, 132 Impair, 133 Abate, 134 Eternity, 135 Prison, 136 Hence 136 Prison, 135 Eternity, 134 Abate, 133 Impair, 132 Request, 131 Tore, 130 Taunt, 128 Amount, 139 140 141 142

al, 121 Peru, 127 127 Peru, 121 al,

108 Stretch, 110 Nude, 112 Canasta, 113 Debris, 114 Urgent, 115 Doctor, 117 Satin, 119 Share, 120 Re 120 Share, 119 Satin, 117 Doctor, 115 Urgent, 114 Debris, 113 Canasta, 112 Nude, 110 Stretch, 108 143 144

loom, 107 Usual, Usual, 107 loom, Heir 106 Beret, 102 Sunglasses, 101 Exceed, 96 Chapter, 95 Vice, 94 Event, 92 Excite, 91 Kittens, 90

Synod, 89 Over, Over, 89 Synod, up, 72 Sponge, 75 Poach, 77 Odour, 78 Rapid, 79 Keep, 80 Warp, 85 Album, 86 Transmit, 87 Thwart, 88 88 Thwart, 87 Transmit, 86 Album, 85 Warp, 80 Keep, 79 Rapid, 78 Odour, 77 Poach, 75 Sponge, 72 up, 145 146 147

0 Defect, 71 Slip- 71 Defect, 0

Amalgamate, 53 Utah, 54 Extreme, 59 Screw, 60 Sore, 64 Askew, 65 Subtract, 67 Ukulele, 68 Finance, 7 Finance, 68 Ukulele, 67 Subtract, 65 Askew, 64 Sore, 60 Screw, 59 Extreme, 54 Utah, 53 Amalgamate, 148 149 Belittle, 51 Yellow, 52 52 Yellow, 51 Belittle, 50 Seize, 49 Origin, 48 Yearned, 47 Look, 46 Still, 44 Runway, 43 Slur, 37 Stay, 36 Claim, 35 Cargo,

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60 Magistrate, 165 165 Magistrate, 60

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LM BST 20 WORLD The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 Fire engulfs squalid migrant camp in Bosnia

BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A huge this point but disaster nevertheless,” Van Der fire broke out on Wednesday at a temporary Auweraert said on Twitter. migrant camp in northwestern Bosnia that has He later told reporters the fire was under been strongly criticised by rights groups as control, but that most of the camp was either unsuitable due to its lack of resources. Officials destroyed or damaged. He said most camp said former residents started the blaze. residents were still around the area because Thick black smoke rose from the Lipa tent “there’s no alternative accommodation camp near the Croatian border that once available” in Bosnia for them. housed 1200 migrants. Residents were seen He said some migrants planned to head running away in panic from the fire but no to Croatia as “quickly as they could,” some injuries were immediately reported. were aiming to travel to the Bosnian capital of Bosnia has become a bottleneck for Sarajevo while others intended to stay in the thousands of migrants hoping to reach Bihac area through the winter in squatter’s neighbouring European Union member Croatia camps. and then head toward richer EU nations. Most Witnesses said the fire appeared to have are stuck in Bosnia’s northwestern Krajina started in a fuel storage facility and then region as other areas in the ethnically divided quickly spread to the tents where the migrants nation have refused to accept them. lived. The Lipa camp was to be closed on Natasa Omerovic, the camp director, told Wednesday and moved to another location, the Bosnian Klix.ba. news portal that the arson but officials said that since its tents and other started because the planned closure of the facilities were almost entirely destroyed in the camp had triggered anger among migrants. fire it cannot immediately be moved to another “As we see, the tents are being set on fire in spot. a chain action, and I think we are talking about DESTRUCTION: Smoke rises from a fire at the Lipa migrant camp on Wednesday “As far as we know now, a group of former vandalism,” she was quoted as saying. “The near Bihac in western Bosnia. AP picture residents set three tents and containers on migrants are upset and angry, we can hear fire after most of the migrants had left the them cursing the state.” of migrants face a freezing winter without abandoned houses with no facilities in the area, camp,” said the International Organisation for The Lipa camp was only set up as a shelter, and it urged the country’s bickering which saw the first snow earlier this month. Migration’s chief of mission in Bosnia, Peter temporary shelter during the summer to cope politicians to set aside their differences and Many migrants in Bosnia have also alleged Van Der Auweraert. with the coronavirus pandemic. take action. Thousands of people have been pushbacks and violence at the hands of “Luckily, no casualties to our knowledge at The EU has warned Bosnia that thousands sleeping outdoors in makeshift tent camps or Croatian border police. — AP How to keep virus at bay Global Christmas rules: Tough, mild or none at all

IN PERU, you can’t drive your car on is banned for 16 days, and a curfew Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a begins at 10pm. nightclub, but you can’t dance. In South From December 24-27, “red” rules kick Africa, roadblocks instead of beach parties in, closing all shops except food stores, will mark this year’s festive season. pharmacies and hairdressers — since How many people can you share looking one’s best is essential in Italy. a Christmas meal with? France Two people can visit the home of another recommends no more than six, in Chile family member and bring children it’s 15, and in Brazil it’s as many as you younger than 14 with them. Restaurants want. Meanwhile, Italy’s mind-boggling, and cafes can’t serve customers, although colour-coded holiday virus rules change takeout and home delivery are allowed. almost every day for the next two weeks. From December 28-30, Italians segue Countries around the world are trying into ‘’orange” rules, when non-essential to find the right formulas to keep their shops can re-open, although dining out people safe for Christmas, especially will still be banned. Things turn red again as new virus variants prompt renewed for December 31-January 3, orange for travel bans and fuel resurgent infections, January 4, then red again on January 5-6 hospitalisations and deaths at the end of for the national holiday on Epiphany. an already devastating year. Here’s a look at some of the restrictions SOUTH KOREA around the world for the holiday season: South Korea is clamping down on private social gatherings of five or more BRITAIN SANITISED CELEBRATIONS: A man dressed as Santa Claus sanitises his gloved people and closing tourist spots from It was meant to be a time when families hands, to protect against Covid-19, during a day of being photographed with children Christmas Eve through until at least across the UK could enjoy something like at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, South Africa. AP picture January 3. a normal Christmas despite the pandemic. National parks and coastal tourist sites, Authorities planned to relax restrictions, Many beaches and restaurants in Rio still allowed; outdoors up to 250 people where thousands travel to watch the sun allowing up to three households to mix in de Janeiro were packed last weekend, can congregate. rise on the new year, will close. So will the days around December 25. despite a city measure forbidding drivers Police are setting up roadblocks to churches and skiing, sledding and skating The emergence of a new, more to park along the shore. slow a second surge of infections that venues. Restaurants could face fines of contagious variant of the coronavirus No national restrictions have been authorities and scientists say is being up to $2700 if they serve groups of five or changed that. imposed ahead of Christmas, though fuelled by another variant of the virus, more. The four nations of the UK — England, the governor of São Paulo ordered that one distinct from the variant affecting Forty-eight Covid patients have died in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — only essential services such as public England. the deadliest two days since the pandemic are all in various states of shutdown and transport, supermarkets and pharmacies began. have ditched their Christmas plans. No remain open around Christmas and New LEBANON indoor mixing of households is allowed in Year’s Eve. Unlike much of the world, Lebanon THE UNITED STATES London and southeast England. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador eased restrictions during the holidays, The US has issued no nationwide Instead of Christmas joy, a sense of have also called off their December 31 hoping to inject foreign currency into restrictions on travel, a decision left to dread and isolation is looming. Dozens firework displays. a tanking economy. Tens of thousands state governments, but a federal agency of countries have limited flights from of Lebanese expats have arrived home is advising against criss-crossing the Britain, and daily new infections are SOUTH AFRICA for the holidays, leading to fears of an country for the Christmas season. running at record highs. Hospitals across South Africa is targeting beaches and inevitable surge in infections. Still, millions of people have passed the UK, which has Europe’s second- booze as it imposes new restrictions for Last week, the Interior Ministry through airport security in recent days. highest virus-related death toll at over the Christmas season amid resurgent allowed nightclubs to reopen — but said The travel company AAA predicted that 68,000, are heading towards capacity at a infections. dancing will be prohibited. That triggered nearly 85 million Americans would be time of year when other illnesses abound. Alcohol can only be sold Monday a debate on social media about what journeying during the holidays — a 29 through to Thursday, and a night time constitutes dancing. percent decline from last year. BRAZIL curfew is in place. Beaches — major The US has reported by far the most In Brazil, Christmas 2020 will look tourist attractions this time of year ITALY virus infections and deaths in the world, much like normal — even though the — will be closed on Christmas Eve, Newspapers in Italy are running colour- over 18 million cases and 322,800 deaths, country has been among the world’s Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The coded graphics that resemble children’s according to a tally by Johns Hopkins hardest-hit by the pandemic and new government is urging people to avoid board games to help people keep track of University. Even before Christmas, new Covid infections are now on track to crowded Christmas celebrations, but the rules aimed at limiting new infections cases have been rising over the past two match the peak of the first surge. indoor gatherings of up to 100 people are over the holidays. Travel between regions weeks. — AP The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 TELEVISION 21 THURSDAY—FRIDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

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Festive Feast 10am How Do They Do It? PG 4.25 David Tutera: Unveiled 3 12.30 Adele: Live In London Final (RPL) Hawke’s Bay v 11.10 The Hunters Club M 6.56 The Art Of Racing In 10.25 How Do They Do It? PG 6am Million Dollar Listing NY 3 1.40 Breaking The Magician’s Northland. 12.05 Jeopardy! The Rain M 2019 Comedy. 10.50 How It’s Made PG 9.20 The People’s Court 3 Code: Magic’s Biggest 12.45 Mitre 10 Cup: 12.25 Wheel Of Fortune 8.43 Booksmart 11.15 How It’s Made PG 3 11am Bethenny & Fredrik PG Secrets Finally Premiership Final (HLS) 12.50 NCIS: New Orleans MV 16LSC 2019 Comedy. 11.40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11.25 How To Look Good Naked: Revealed PGC Auckland v Tasman. 1.40 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10.24 Knives Out ML 2019 Drama. 12.30 Swamp Murders M UK PG 3 3.15 Farah Palmer Cup 2.30 Pawn Stars PG 12.34 Godzilla II: King Of The 3 2.30 Elton John Music Man PGC 1.20 American Monster M 12.20 Million Dollar Listing NY Final (RPL) Canterbury v 3.20 The Hunters Club M Monsters MVL 2019 Action. 1.10 The People’s Court 3 3.30 Choccywoccydoodah 2.10 Top Gear PG 2pm The Real Housewives Of 4.15 World’s Most Luxurious Waikato. 4.20 The Simpsons PG 2.44 Berlin, I Love You 3pm Aussie Gold Hunters PG Orange County PG 3 5pm Travel Man: 96 Hours In 5.30 Super Rugby 4.45 Jeopardy! MLS 2019 Romance. 3.50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 2.50 Vanderpump Rules 3 Jordan Aotearoa (RPL) Crusaders 5.10 Wheel Of Fortune 4.40 Gemini Man 4.45 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 4.15 Hoarders PG 3 5.50 Salvage Hunters v Highlanders. 5.35 Pawn Stars PG MVL 2019 Action. 5.40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG KEY 0 3 (HLS) (RPL) (DLY) 16 18 Closed captions; Repeat; Highlights; Replay; Delayed; Approved for persons 16 years or over; Approved for persons 18 years or over; 24Dec20 Compiled by C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. 22 TELEVISION The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 FRIDAY—SATURDAY’S TELEVISION GUIDE

TVNZ 1 © TVNZ 2020TVNZ 2 © TVNZ 2020 THREE PRIME MAORI TV 5.10 The Celebrity Chase 3 5.30 M A Sunburnt 5.10 Millionaire Hot Seat 0 5.30 Prime News 5pm Pipi Ma 3 0 Christmas PG 0 2020 Drama. 6pm Newshub Live At 6pm 6pm American Restoration 3 5.05 Takaro Tribe 3 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 Sullivan Stapleton, Daniel 7pm M The Grinch PG 0 5.20 Waiata Mai 3 6.50 The Queen’s Christmas Henshall, Ling Cooper 0 2018 Family Animated. A A 1920s chainsaw 5.30 Tamariki Haka 3 Message 0 Tang. grumpy Grinch plots to arrives in the shop for 5.40 Potae Pai 3 7pm M Home Alone 2: Lost Her Majesty Queen ruin Christmas for the restoration; a customer 5.50 ZooMoo 3 In New York PG 0 1992 Elizabeth II delivers her village of Whoville. brings in a unique slot 3 Finding Your Feet Family. When the McAllister 6pm Cube annual address in the Benedict Cumberbatch, machine, one that 6.10 Huritua 3 7pm on TVNZ 1 family goes on holiday, Cameron Seely, Rashida Christmas Message dispenses golf balls 6.20 Paia 3 son Kevin finds himself Jones. instead of coins. to the Nation and 6.30 Tangaroa With Pio 3 in New York, where 8.30 M The Shawshank 6.25 Shipping Wars PG Commonwealth. he encounters his old 7pm M The Road To Redemption 16 0 1994 7pm QI PG 3 7pm M Finding Your enemies. Eldorado 2000 Family. Drama. A banker, wrongly 7.35 Secrets Of The Royal Feet PG 0 2017 Comedy. Macaulay Culkin, Joe imprisoned for murder, Servants 3 Two swindlers get their With retirement on the Pesci, Daniel Stern, creates an innovative From the Queen’s hands on a map to the horizon, a woman’s life Catherine O’Hara. fabled city of gold, El M resolution to his favourite treat to an is changed when she 8.55 Guardians Of The predicament. Dorado. MV 3 2017 embarrassing gaffe discovers her husband Galaxy Vol 2 Tim Robbins, Morgan Kevin Kline, Kenneth Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Action. The intergalactic involving wine and is having an affair with Freeman. Branagh, Rosie Perez. 8.55pm on TVNZ 2 avengers must defend Princess Margaret, find her best friend. 10.50 The Graham Norton M their family as secrets of out what really goes on 8.30 Scrooged PGC 1988 Joanna Lumley, Imelda Show Quill’s past come to light. behind closed palace Comedy. A selfish, cynical Staunton. Christmas special Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. doors. television executive is 8.45 includes guests George Gordon, Gino And Fred 11.10 M Phenomenon PG 0 8.25 Princess Margaret: The haunted by three spirits Desperately Seeking 1996 Romantic Fantasy. Clooney, Michael Sheen, Rebel Royal PG 3 bearing lessons on 0 Santa 16L John Travolta, Forest David Tennant, Viola 9.25 The Story Of The Christmas Eve. Davis, Vanessa Kirby, Determined to celebrate Whitaker, Robert Duvall. Royals PG 3 (Part 1) Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Michael Ball and Alfie the season in all its SATURDAY 10.55 Raw PGV John Forsythe. Boe. festive-glory, the trio 1.15 Infomercials 11.45 The Late Show With 3 The Shawshank Redemption 11.40 Fresh Off The Boat PG 3 10.20 Ki Tua embark on a boys’ 2.20 2 Overnight Stephen Colbert PG 8.30pm on Three Eddie informs Jessica 10.50 Closedown trip away before the 4.25 The Middle 3 0 that he wants to spend SATURDAY SATURDAY madness of a family 4.50 Neighbours 3 0 Christmas with friend 12.35 Closedown 6.30 Waiata Mai RNZ NATIONAL Christmas kicks in. 5.35 Disney Andi Mack 3 0 3 0 12.04 All Night Programme Nicole in New York. 6am Top Wing 6.40 Kia Mau 3 9.35 Mrs Brown’s Boys 6am Thomas And Friends 0 SATURDAY 6.50 Teenage Mutant Ninja 6.50 Potae Pai 3 A selection of the best RNZ Christmas Special 16L 3 6.10 The Wiggles’ World 3 0 Turtles 3 0 3 0 12.10 Infomercials 3 7am Darwin And Newts National interviews, features, 0 A Wonderful Mammy. 6.20 Tinpo 7.15 Danny Phantom 3 0 3 0 6am Charles Stanley 3 7.10 Purakau 10.15 Miranda PG 3 0 6.30 PJ Masks 7.40 Ben 10: Omniverse 3 0 music and drama. 0 6.30 Infomercials 3 7.20 Pukoro Miranda has been caring 6.55 Love Monster 8.05 Teen Titans 6.08 Storytime 7am 3 0 9.30 Better Homes And 7.50 Polyfest Kapa Haka for her ill mother for five Zak Storm 8.30 Batman: The Animated 7.25 The Amazing World Of Gardens 8.20 Tamariki Haka 7.08 Country Life long days. Trapped in her Series 0 Gumball 0 Tara is sharing some 8.30 Pukana 3 Memorable scenes, people, and flat and being barked at 9am Samurai Jack PGV 3 0 7.50 Dragon Ball Super PG 3 0 great ideas for a table 9.30 Korero Mai 3 by Penny, she is forced 10am SmackDown PGV 3 places in rural New Zealand. 8.15 Bakugan: Battle Planet 3 setting that works Noon F Waka Ama Sprint to think about her life 11am Raw PGV 3 12.10 The Sampler 0 for weddings, parties Nationals regrets. and lots of events in Noon Storage Wars PG 3 0 With Nick Bollinger. 8.35 Pokemon Journeys: The 1pm The Pits TV 3 11.15 The Queen’s Christmas Series 0 between. 1pm Judge Judy PG 3 0 2pm Poitukohu Nga Kura The latest CD offerings. Message 3 0 9am Ninjago 0 11am Mexican Fiesta With 1.30 Which Car Tuarua 3 2pm Song Crush 11.25 The War Of The 9.15 Pickle And Peanut 3 0 Peter Kuruvita 3 2pm Whose Line Is It 3pm Kai Safari 3 Worlds M 3 0 (Mini- 9.35 The Simpsons 3 0 11.30 Love At First Flight 0 Anyway? PGC 3 0 A selection of music from 3 0 3.30 M The Road To El series) (Part 1) 10.30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 12.35 Arranged 3 0 3pm Hellfire Heroes PG Aotearoa and abroad. 3 0 1.35 MasterChef UK 0 4pm Fish Of The Day 3 0 Dorado 2000 Animated. SATURDAY 11.25 Black-Ish 3.15 Christmas Drama Joyful and N 0 0 3 Kevin Kline, Kenneth 1am Te Karere 3 12.30 The Bachelorette 2.50 Unplugged Nation PG 4.30 Hot Bench 0 0 3 0 Triumphant #3. 1.30 Infomercials 4pm God Friended Me PG 3.45 Wild Lives 5pm The Loggers PG Branagh. 5pm The Simpsons PGV 3 0 5pm Lego Masters USA 3 0 5.30 Prime News 5pm Korihi 3 4pm The Mix Tape 6am Te Karere 3 0 6.30 Country Calendar 3 0 PAY TV 7am Te Radar’s Chequered CHOICE Past 3 0 5pm Travel Man: 96 Hours In Jordan SKY SPORT 1 SKY 5 MOVIES PREMIERE DISCOVERY 7.30 Infomercials 0 5.30 Super Rugby 5.10 Wheel Of Fortune 6.35 I Still Believe 5.40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 5.50 Salvage Hunters 8.30 Religious Programming Aotearoa (RPL) Crusaders PGC 2020 Drama. 6.35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6.40 George Clarke’s 5.35 Pawn Stars PG 9am People On Bikes 3 0 v Highlanders. KJ Apa, Britt Robertson. 7.30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG Amazing Spaces 6pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It 9.30 Tagata Pasifika From Christchurch. 8.30 The Call Of The Wild 8.30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7.30 M Brooklyn MCL 2015 Away MVL 10am Pacific Island Food 7.30 Tri-Nations (RPL) PGV 2020 Adventure. A sled 9.25 Demolition Down Drama. An Irish immigrant 7pm Border Security: Revolution 0 Australia v All Blacks. dog’s life gets turned Under PG lands in 1950s Brooklyn, Australia’s Frontline PGC 11am Cash Trapped 0 From ANZ Stadium, upside down when he 10.15 Expedition Unknown PG but soon she must 7.30 Ice Road Truckers PG Noon Cowboy Builders PG 0 Sydney. is uprooted from his Secrets of Brother XII. choose between two 8.30 Highway Thru Hell PG 1pm The Living Room 0 9.30 Black Ferns v NZ California home and 11.05 Naked And Afraid MVL countries. Saoirse 9.30 Pawn Stars PG 2pm Impossible Builds 3 0 Barbarians (RPL) Game transplanted to the wilds Bad Blood. Ronan. 10pm Pawn Stars PG 3pm Doctor Who PG 0 Two. of the Yukon. Harrison 11.55 How It’s Made PG 9.30 Escape To The Chateau 10.30 NCIS MV (Part 2) From Trafalgar Park, Ford, Omar Sy. SATURDAY 10.20 Big Ben: Countdown To Nelson. 11.20 NCIS MV 10.10 Rocketman MLSC 2019 12.20 How Do They Do It? PG 4.25 Jamie’s Quick And Easy New Year Food 3 11.30 Tri-Nations (RPL) SATURDAY Musical. Taron Egerton, 12.45 Car Crash Global 11.10 Escape To The Chateau: Argentina v All Blacks. 12.05 The Hunters Club M Jamie Bell. Caught On Camera PG 5pm The Chase 3 0 DIY From McDonald Jones 1am Wheel Of Fortune SATURDAY 1.35 Gold Rush PG SATURDAY Stadium, Newcastle. 1.25 Jeopardy! 12.10 Welcome To 2.25 Moonshiners: Whiskey BRAVO 12am Brooklyn MCL SATURDAY 1.45 Border Security: Acapulco 16VLC 2019 Action. Business PG 5.05 David Tutera: Unveiled 3 2am Stars In Their Cars 1.30 Maori All Blacks v Australia’s Frontline PGC Michael Kingsbaker, 3.15 Alaska: The Last 5.55 Keeping Up With The 2.30 Celebrity Motor Homes Moana Pasifika (RPL) William Baldwin. Frontier PG 3 2.10 Highway Thru Hell PG Kardashians PG 3am World’s Most Luxurious From FMG Stadium, 1.40 Godzilla II: King Of The 4.05 What On Earth? PG 6.50 2.55 Pawn Stars PG Million Dollar Listing 4am Escape To The Chateau Waikato. Monsters MVL 2019 Action. 4.55 Naked And Afraid MVL NY 3 3.20 Pawn Stars PG 5am George Clarke’s 3.30 Pacific Brothers Kyle Chandler, Millie 5.45 Gold Rush PG 7.40 M Wimbledon Amazing Spaces 4am Sir Michael Jones 3.40 SVU MV Bobby Brown. 6.35 How It’s Made PG M 3 2004 Romantic Comedy. 6am Ultimate Sportsman’s Cup (HLS) 4.25 Pawn Stars PG 3.54 Berlin, I Love You MLS 7am How It’s Made PG 9.35 Cults & Extreme Belief M Lodge 4.50 Highway Thru Hell PG 3 From Waitemata 2019 Romance. Keira 7.30 Gold Rush: Parker’s 6.30 Discovering… Duran, 5.35 The Simpsons PG 10.25 3 Rugby Football Club, Knightley, Helen Mirren. Trail PG Trial by Fire. Snapped PG Duran PGC 11.15 Accident, Suicide Or Henderson, Auckland. 6am The Amazing Race PG 5.55 Gemini Man MVL 2019 8.20 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7.30 Turtle Beach Murder M 3 6am Ignite7 (HLS) Final Day. 7am Ice Road Truckers PG Action. Will Smith, Mary 9.10 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8.30 Travel Man: 96 Hours In 7.30 Condor Sevens (HLS) 8am Pawn Stars PG Elizabeth Winstead. 10am Aussie Gold Hunters PG SATURDAY Jordan 12.10 Infomercials 3 Day One. 8.30 Lazy Boy Garage PG 7.53 I Still Believe PGC 2020 10.50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9.30 Escape To The Chateau 6am Infomercials 3 From King’s College, 8.55 The Simpsons PG Drama. KJ Apa, Britt 11.40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10.30 Big Ben: Countdown To 10am Bethenny & Fredrik 3 Auckland. 9.20 The Amazing Race PG Robertson. 12.30 Barnwood Builders PG New Year 10.30 Worst To First 3 9am Condor Sevens (HLS) 10.10 Highway Thru Hell PG 9.53 The Call Of The Wild Mountaineer Volunteers. 11.30 Salvage Hunters Day Two. PGV 2020 Adventure. 1.20 Building Off The Grid PG 11.30 Worst To First 3 11.10 Pawn Stars PG 12.30 World’s Most Luxurious 10.30 World Schools 7’s (HLS) 11.36 Rocketman Maine Straw Bale Cabin. 12.30 David Tutera: 11.35 Pawn Stars PG 3 1.30 George Clarke’s Noon Black Ferns v NZ MLSC 2019 Musical. 2.10 Homestead Rescue PG Celebrations Noon Salvation MV 1.25 David Tutera: Amazing Spaces Barbarians (RPL) 1.40 Midway MVLC 2019 Action. Quake Shattered. 1pm NXT PGV Celebrations 3 2.30 Forged In Fire PGC Game Two. 4pm Jay And Silent Bob 3pm Gold Rush: Parker’s 2.25 M The First Wives 3.30 Hope For Wildlife 2pm Tri-Nations (RPL) 2pm SmackDown MVC Reboot 16LSC 2019 Comedy. Trail PG Trial by Fire. Club PG 3 1996 Comedy. 4.30 Hairy Bikers’ Chicken Australia v All Blacks. 4.05 Ax Men ML 5.48 Once Upon A Time In 3.50 What On Earth? PG 4.30 Hoarders PG 3 And Egg 4pm Tri-Nations (RPL) 4.50 The Force MC Hollywood 4.45 What On Earth? PG 5.30 Songland PG 3 5.30 Irish Pickers Argentina v All Blacks. 5.40 Ice Road Truckers PG 16VLSC 2019 Comedy. 5.40 What On Earth? PG KEY 0 3 (HLS) (RPL) (DLY) 16 18 Closed captions; Repeat; Highlights; Replay; Delayed; Approved for persons 16 years or over; Approved for persons 18 years or over; 25Dec20 Compiled by C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Arts & Entertainment // Thursday, December 24, 2020

The Mono menu, 1943 CHRISTMAS WITH KILLER KANE: The name of Gisborne serviceman “Killer Kane” features on a wartime menu from the Pacific theatre. Gisborne woman Bonnie Dwyer came across the 1943 menu while using her time during lockdown to sort through boxes of family photographs, clippings and memorabilia. Picture by Paul Rickard by Mark Peters fashioned, polite, particularly on this presumably because Christmas in these The entree’s oysters are “a la Bluff”, Christian occasion, way of saying “bullshit men’s culture signifies a time of peace and and the whitebait has no bones. The n a volcanic island in the artists?” goodwill. author queries the army’s assertion northwest of the Solomons Treasury Islands was the name given Near the bottom of the menu a line the turkey is fresh, the plum pudding Oin 1943, the New Zealand to a small group of islands to the south reads “RSVP. Our island paradise (like is minus brandy sauce, the fruit salad Expeditionary Force’s 36th Battalion’s of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. H-!)”. The irony is like the healthy and cream is “tinned cow”, the fruitcake, men took a creative approach to their The 36th Battalion was one of three griping Captain Miller talks about, but chocolate and biscuits — “genuine dog” Christmas dinner menu. infantry battalions raised to help stop the circumspection around swearing — while beverages include coffee (“spelt A good part of the parchment’s the Japanese military’s advance south is touching. Then again, who wants to kawfee”) and tea “for the ladies — what significance is that it is a window into through the Pacific. invoke Hell in wartime? ladies?” how grunt humour, lightly spiced with The mortar platoon was based on Mono, As the signatures on the menu show, The suggestion any gripes about the cynicism, defuses the pang of separation one of the largest islands in the Treasury the mortar platoon’s men came from all food should be referred to the war cabinet, from home. group, to help American allies clear the over New Zealand. Three or four (the ends the menu. As Captain John Miller says in the island of Japanese defenders. names are hard to read) were from Wairoa As if hailing from the Northern movie Saving Private Ryan when asked if Having landed on the island in late while “Killer Kane” was a Gisborne man. Hemisphere, the almost calligraphic line the men will be alright, “They’re fine. As October, 1943, the New Zealanders were The New Zealanders were joined by in the holly pattern near the bottom of long as they can gripe, they’ll be alright.” still there by Christmas Day. Bob Odell of Hollywood, California and the menu will strike an atavistic chord for The wit in charge of the menu, its light- The menu heading, “Xmas Dinner, another from California but whose name many. hearted gripes and old-fashioned jokes 1943” is decorated with a little sketch of a is mostly illegible. The holly pattern is a very English describes his company, in a subtitle to tiny island with a single tent and a palm The artist who created the Christmas habit and the hand behind the simple the heading “36BN mortar platoon HQ tree. A man paddles nearby in a canoe as dinner menu hits his stride with the rhythm in the design here seems as coy NZEF”, as “stove pipe artists of the cumulus clouds rest on the Pacific horizon. list of entrees, main, dessert, extra practised as the annual dragging out of Treasury Group”. The sketch captures a sense of isolation dessert, drinks and cigarettes. Dishes are the Christmas decorations box before its Could “stove pipe artists” be an old- but it is peaceful, even idyllic, in tone, annotated with jokey asides. return a few weeks later. 24 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 The spirit of Christmas by Mark Peters original Christmas Song internationally. “We love all the US and British er family’s love for Christmas Christmas songs and now people can play was the inspiration for former one of ours as well.” she says. HEast Coast woman Caii-Michelle “I am so happy I can share the power Baker’s recently released song, I Love of a positive song from Aotearoa at a time This Time of Year. when families come together with their Based in a snowy, festive setting a loved ones.” long way from the seasonal summertime As a passionate humanitarian, Baker occasion on the East Coast, the music is glad a portion of proceeds from the sale video for the singer’s old-fashioned tune of Blue Aeris’ album, Joy, on which I Love recalls the Christmas sentimentality and This Time of Year features, will support musical style of crooner Bing Crosby. Futures Without Violence. “I wanted to have a Christmas song Futures has provided programmes, like a classic because I love that classic policies, and campaigns for people and sound,” says the Wellington-based singer. organisations who work to end violence “You remember the dream you see on against women and children around the TV — snow, the sparkle of fairy lights world. and the music captured my heart for “The work that Futures Without Christmas. That was the magic feeling of Violence does for women, children and Christmas to me as a child. transgender is near and dear to my “I believe in the spirit of Santa Claus.” heart,” says Baker. “I am so glad that Hope and joy is the message she I can share Christmas music and also wanted to convey in I Love This Time of help this organisation to continue their SEASONAL MAGIC: Originally from the East Coast, singer Caii-Michelle Baker has Year. essential work. released a Christmas classic, I Love This Time Of Year, in the old-school style of the “I was one of 16 kids but our parents “I am honoured to have been given the likes of Bing Crosby. She really does love this time of year. Picture supplied tried to make Christmas special for us. opportunity to create this song about all We all came together and got one present the things that make this time of year each. It wasn’t about spending money, it special for me.” ■ Caii-Michelle Baker’s recently platforms Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes was about being together.” Last in Gisborne for Christmas nine released Christmas song, I Love Store, YouTube, Soundcloud and Of Rongowhakaata and Ngati Porou year ago, Baker looks forward to her This Time of Year, features on the others. descent, Baker is the first adult, return home this week to spend the Blue Aeris album, Joy, which is The music video can be viewed at contemporary Maori woman to release an festive occasion with her family. available now on streaming https://youtu.be/Bp0VwnaDgUI The Superturtle session

by Mark Peters Smash and other venues, and after punk, garage and rock — is the Covid, bands are pumped to get on name he gives to the overall sound hristmas and Boxing Day stage again.” generated by his choice of bands. have gone, the rellies and Part of White’s inspiration to The line-up for the eighth Cmates are still here, but stage a summertime, multi-band instalment of the Smash Summer the Rhythm and Vines, and Revive event was Tauranga act Threat. Sesh is made up of Threat.Meet. festivals are days away — so what Meet.Protocol’s vocalist/bassist Protocol, The Murder Chord, Blame to do, what to do? Austin Cunningham. Thrower, Dead Model, Hagseed, Rori White has the answer. Get “He put a festival on called No Brainers, Unruly, and Gisborne down to Smash Palace on December Woodcock. It’s underground but still band The Rabbits.” 27 for the eighth edition of Smash well known.” Smash Palace owner Darryl Summer Sesh. Cunningham also organised two Monteith (Demon Teeth) and “I started it in 2002 because we Japanese punk bands to perform on White (Superturtle) are a good wanted a place where locals and a boat as guests sailed around the combination, says White. visitors could go to meet in one harbour. “Darryl provides the venue, place,” says White. “He knows how to pull these gigs bar and staff and trusts me to “It’s almost like a reunion for off. He’s inspired me to get back bring in good bands. He’s a very locals.” into organising gigs like the Smash accommodating host and supportive White hand-picks bands for Summer Sesh again.” of local music.” Smash Summer Sesh and while White enjoys scouting out-of-town some couldn’t make it this year, venues for bands. ■ Smash Summer Sesh 8, Smash they’re keen to stay on the books for “I have a notebook and write Palace, Sunday. Doors open next year. down the name of the bands then at 3pm, the bands kick off at “Gisborne is isolated but our have a yarn with them afterwards 4pm. Tickets $20+bf from www. beaches and venues are a drawcard. to get a picture of their genre.” undertheradar.co.nz or $30 at the I get pumped promoting music at Grunk or crunge — a mix of alt- door.

AMPED: Smash Summer Sesh organiser Rori White looks forward to seeing his selection of hand-picked bands rock Smash Palace on Sunday. Picture by Liam Clayton

YOUR WEEKDAY RADIO PROGRAMME GUIDE

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KATE MIKE KERRE JAMIE ANDREW SI & PHIL HEATHER D’ARCY MARCUS MCIVOR HAWKESBY HOSKING MACKAY DICKENS 1PM - 4PM DU PLESSIS ALLAN WALDEGRAVE LUSH 5AM - 6AM 6AM - 9AM 9AM - 12PM 12PM - 1PM 1PM - 4PM TUES - FRI 4PM - 7PM 7PM - 8PM 8PM - 12AM MON

FLETCH, VAUGHAN & MEGAN GEORGIA BURT BREE & CLINT CAM MANSEL 107.4/ 6AM - 10:30AM 10:30AM - 3PM 3PM - 7PM 7PM - 12AM 107.7FM

90.9 JONO & BEN DAVE NICHOLAS LAURA MCGOLDRICK STACE, MIKE & ANIKA ESTELLE CLIFFORD 6AM - 9AM 9AM - 3PM 3PM - 4PM 4PM - 7PM 7PM - 12AM

HAURAKI MATT HEATH & JEREMY WELLS TRACEY DONALDSON GREG PREBBLE THANE KIRBY CHRIS KEY 105.3FM 6AM - 10AM 10AM - 2PM 2PM - 4PM 4PM - 7PM 7PM - 10PM

JASE, TONI & SAM LORNA SUBRITZKY JON DUNSTAN JASON TIKAO 6AM - 9AM 9AM - 3PM 3PM - 7PM 7PM - 12AM 88.3FM

ANDREW DICKENS GEORGIA CUBBON ROBERT TAYLOR RICK MORIN 6AM - 9AM 9AM - 3PM 3PM - 7PM 7PM - 11PM 106.1FM

OUTSIDE OF GISBORNE? FIND YOUR FREQUENCY AT YOUR FAVOURITE STATION’S WEBSITE OR 35319-01 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 25 ArtsGuide

VISUAL ARTS

■ Off The Canvas A multi-media exhibition featuring Gisborne-born boxer Tom Heeney, New Zealand’s first global sporting hero and world 1928 heavyweight title contender. Tairawhiti Museum, December 12 - February 28.

■ Tokorau An exhibition of work and stories by Toihoukura students and staff. Tairawhiti Museum until December 31.

■ Tatara e maru ana — The sacred rain cape of Waiapu, Natalie Robertson GET REVIVED: Don’t be fooled by the comfy hammock. Brothers Jock and Sam Barns-Graham, founders of the Revive A record of an ancestral tipuna festival that starts on January 2, are working hard to ensure the festival site is ready for festival-goers. The all-ages event will be landscape as it is today. Tairawhiti held at Woodlands on Back Ormond Road and includes acts such as eclectic indie-folk band Good Habits, Moses Mackay of Museum until January 31. operatic pop trio Sol3 Mio, along with partner Ana Mackay; Josh Clark, Ben Wilkinson, David Shanhun and Shimna Higgins. The brothers plan to walk around town offering Christmas specials and discounts on tickets sales for the unique, alcohol-free event with yoga and breath-work instructors, sound healing, fire dancers, art installations, a drum circle, a meditation space and food ■ JB Contemporary, 14 Lowe stalls with local products. Street — Parsing Binaries A collaborative project from ■ For more details visit revivefestival.co.nz. Tickets are available from ticketfairy.com Shannon Novak and Daniel Metcalfe.

ThisWeek ■ Paul Nache Gallery Works by Kauri Hawkins.

■ Smash Summer Sesh 8 Featuring Threat.Meet. Protocol, The Murder Chord, Blame Thrower, Dead Model, Hagseed, No Brainers, Unruly, and The Rabbits. Smash Palace, Sunday. Doors open at 3pm, the bands kick off at 4pm. Tickets $20+bf from www. undertheradar.co.nz or $30 at the door.

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■ Rolling Stones tribute band EASTERN SCRIBES: The many contributors to the recently released anthology Kaituhi Rawhiti celebrate their achievement at the launch. Picture by Tom McGregor Cosmopolitan Club, Thursday, Royal NZ Ballet December 31, 9.30pm. Free Tutus on Tour entry for members and guests. Free raffle ticket on entry with Thursday, March 4th, 6.30pm three chances to win a prize. Spread the words ■ Revive — a festival of live music and holistic health by Mark Peters on Huxley Road. Woodlands on Back Ormond A mix of almost conversational yarns, such Road, January 2-4. Tickets pen of writers (the jury is still out on as Hughie Hughes’ Saving Des, Alison McKay’s available from ticketfairy. the collective noun) filled the Waikanae straightforward account of a UFO sighting on com For more details visit A Surf Life Saving Club conference room the East Coast in the late 1950s, and Dan Witters’ revivefestival.co.nz on Friday for the long-awaited launch of the profound story told with a light touch, View From Heath Franklin’s Chopper anthology Kaituhi Rawhiti (Eastern scribes). a Fruitbox, can be found in the autobiographical Edited by Aaron Compton, Christopher section. The Silencer ■ Klang McMaster, Gillian Moon and Claire Price, the “The rangitahi section was amazing,” McMaster Thursday, March 18th, 7.30pm Auckland underground techno book is described as a celebration of East Coast told guests at the launch. crew and Yosiah, Clay Louis, writers. He had worked with several to help them focus An Evening with Uday. Smash Palace, January 9. Once the Tairawhiti Writers Hub members their ideas and shape their stories. He met with Marlon Williams picked up the idea suggested by Moon, they young authors, discussed their stories then called out for contributions and helped some they would take them away to work on them and Friday, March 19th, 2021, 7.30pm THEATRE writers shape their works for the publication. bring them back for the next session, honing and Kaituhi Rawhiti opens with an enthusiastic polishing their works each time. Until . . . introduction by Witi Ihimaera who likens the “You’re published writers and in a book,” he ■ Evolution Theatre Company collection to hanging out with a group of said. Auditions for Queen by Sam Coasties at a beach barbecue before glasses are While the Covid-19 alert response contributed Brooks, Robert Harling’s topped up and the guitars come out. to the delay of publication, it did provide time and Steel Magnolias, and “These contributors each sing a mean waiata,” space for some writers. Tennessee Williams’ The Glass says the celebrated New Zealand author. Among them is Susan Partington who The NZ String Quartet, The anthology is made up of parts titled Story, contemplates the silence and solitariness (a Menagerie. Evolution Theatre, 4 Suits & a Soprano 75 Disraeli Street, January 2 at Autobiography, That year called 2020, Graphic different thing from solitude) of lockdown and 11am. Email interest at info@ Story, Kaituhi rangatahi, Poetry, and Speculative asks “Does an extrovert even exist in isolation?” Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, 8.00pm evolutiontheatre.org.nz, or and science fiction. A brief note introduces each Moon, on the other hand, took the opportunity to message Evolution Theatre on section. write poetry and letters daily. their Facebook page. The passage of time and reflections on a life Variety is key to the collection, which, as past runs through several stories in the first part the cover design suggests, can be taken to the and opens with Norman Maclean’s Stream of beach to dip into. All available copies sold out 34614-13 Thought, a smart play on the theme of a man’s at the launch but can be ordered for $21.54 (incl Got something going on? Tickets on sale from Gisborne i-SITE Let The Guide know at life as like the river he watches as he recalls GST) via a print-on-demand service via Book moments from the course of his life and ends Depository at tinyurl.com/y8j56468. Delivery is [email protected], with such perfectly attuned bathos the reader will free. Accepting bookings for functions, or telephone 869-0635 want to go back over it several times. All funds raised from sales of the book will events, meetings and conferences. In the same section is Robyn Owen’s powerful, go towards future writing projects such as gut-wrenching story of good intentions, A House workshops or another publication. Email [email protected] 26 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 All the thrill of a comic book by Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer

f you’re going to make a movie about wish fulfilment, 1980s IAmerica is about as good as you can do for a setting outside the Arabian Desert. Wonder Woman 1984, Patty Jenkins’ time-travelling sequel to 2017’s record- setting Wonder Woman, shuttles Gal Gadot’s warrior to the era of Regan economics, parachute pants and “Rio.” All have their cameos in Wonder Woman 1984, a superhero parable of greed and fanny packs with pointed references to today. Two movies in, it’s clear that Jenkins and DC Comics have a thankfully performance, more sweet than sinister, is different concept for Wonder Woman as scintillatingly over the top. a film franchise. Like its predecessor, Wonder Woman 1984 will close out a Wonder Woman 1984 is spirited, year largely absent of superheroes in a purposeful and blessedly lacking in release plan that has upended the film grandiosity. industry. It’s a very big film heading Both films place Wonder Woman not primarily to small screens around the under the burdensome heft of world world, at a time when the pandemic building or even universe saving — or has made the escapist, popcorn-eating at least Gadot comes across as too TIME-TRAVELLING SEQUEL: Wonder Woman’s second big screen adventure finds moviegoing that superhero movies are resplendently regal to ever seem weighed her facing two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheetah. AP picture via Warner Bros made for impossible, or nearly so. That down. She’s more a moral and muscular makes Wonder Woman 1984 a nostalgia counterweight to ego-driven male act in more ways than one. misdirections, steering history through William Moulton Marston.) or predictable — a preciously rare the repeating pitfalls of megalomaniacs Jenkins opens the film with an commodity in the genre. ■ Wonder Woman 1984, a Warner Bros. intoxicated by power. Amazonian flashback to an obstacle As its characters awaken to their release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Last time, it was German and British course race on the island of Themyscira powers, turning from recognisable people Picture Association of America for military leaders under the sway of where a young Diana learns the value to monsters, the film keeps changing sequences of action and violence. Ares, the god of war. This time, it’s a of truth. “No true hero is born from lies,” shape, enlarging as it goes. Jenkins’ pop Running time: 151 minutes. Three stars struggling entrepreneur/TV personality says Antiope (Robin Wright). cinema craft is limber and lucid. Pascal’s out of four. who, in stealing an ancient gem — the The dream stone transforms “dream stone” — from the Smithsonian another, too: Barbara Minerva, a meek FilmGuide in Washington, DC (where Gadot’s Diana archeologist played by Kristen Wiig. now works), gains the power to grant Awkward in heels and most everything wishes. else, she mutters that she’d like to Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) goes from be more like Diana when holding the deadbeat dad to despot, turning into a stone, setting off a metamorphosis that ODEON MULTIPLEX chooses to study Carol, the most average conman of mythical dimensions. He’s a person on Earth, the fate of the world playfully remakes Wiig’s typical screen ■ diabolical genie without a bottle, or to presence, and creates another foe for Wonder Woman 1984 hangs in the balance. As the artificial paraphrase Robin Williams’ Aladdin, he’s Wonder Woman. The story of Diana Prince is updated intelligence decides whether to enslave, got phenomenal cosmic powers sans the Just as in Wonder Woman, Jenkins to 1984, when she is working as a senior save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol itty, bitty living space. has left some opportunities on the table. anthropologist at the Smithsonian to prove people are worth saving. Stars A snake oil salesman who placates The first film, despite being set in 1918 Institute in Washington, DC, while Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone. cravings while stealing everything else during WW1, omitted any real interaction continuing to fight crime as Wonder is, you might say, a touch timely. Wonder with the era’s then-flourishing women’s Woman. Aspiring businessman Maxwell ■ Blithe Spirit Woman 1984 plays up its Trump critique rights movement — a vital source Lord visits the Smithsonian in search A medium holds a seance for a novelist about as much as it does its 80s style. of inspiration to Marston. Likewise, of a mysterious dreamstone that grants with writer’s block but summons the spirit In one scene, Steve Trevor (Chris Wonder Woman 1984 — more focused wishes to anyone who touches it. Diana of the writer’s first wife, which leads to Pine), summoned from the grave by on the “greed is good” decade and its (Gal Gadot), admiring co-worker Barbara a love triangle between the man and his Diana’s own wish while holding the gem, contemporary resonances — doesn’t Minerva (Kristen Wiig) and Lord (Pedro wives — one alive and one dead. giddily tries on all the period-appropriate pause to interrogate the 1980s gender Pascal) each come in contact with the clothing like Ken’s fashion show in Toy imbalances. stone, with far-reaching consequences. ■ Amundsen Story 3. Like the last movie, Wonder Woman ■ Biographical film of Norwegian explorer Best in the first Wonder Woman were 1984 becomes consumed by its A Call to Spy Roald Amundsen, first man to reach the the screwball fish-out-of-water scenes of (admittedly quite good) antagonist. It In the early days of World War 2, South Pole. Subtitled. Diana experiencing London with Trevor; drags in the third act in a messy White Winston Churchill orders his new spy this time the roles are reversed, and the House battle and a prolonged finale. agency, the Special Operations Executive ■ Words on Bathroom Walls charm a little less. Even so, the films are more enjoyable (SOE), to recruit and train women A schizophrenic teenager has to cope with What does Max’s rise have to do with than some other superhero films. They as spies. Their mission is to conduct a new school, a changing family dynamic Wonder Woman? A huckster is a kind of feel campier and more real than Marvel sabotage and help build a resistance. and romance as he tries not to let his perfect foil to Diana, conceived from the movies — more like the page-turning SOE “spymistress” Vera Atkins (Stana condition define him. start as a force for truth. (Her lasso of thrill of a comic book. The ambitions of Katic) recruits two unusual candidates — truth was modelled after the polygraph, Wonder Woman 1984 may be just outside Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an ■ A Christmas Gift from Bob an invention of Wonder Woman creator its grasp, but it seldom feels predestined ambitious American with a wooden leg, Luke Treadaway stars as a struggling and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Apte), street musician who becomes the target an Indian Muslim pacifist. They help to of an animal welfare investigation that undermine the Nazi regime in France. threatens to take away his beloved cat at Thomas not only starred in the film, she Christmas. wrote and produced it. Directed by Lydia Promote your Dean Pilcher. Inspired by true stories. ■ The Witches ■ The Croods: A New Age Octavia Spencer and Anne Hathaway star in a film of Roald Dahl’s story about Searching for a safer habitat, the an orphaned boy who goes to live with prehistoric Crood family discover an his grandmother in rural Alabama. They event here idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all run foul of some deceptively glamorous of their needs. Unfortunately, they must witches. also learn to live with the Bettermans — a family who are a couple of steps above the ■ Let Him Go Talk to us about a marketing package to suit your budget. Croods on the evolutionary ladder. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner play ■ Dreamland grandparents out to save their grandson

33239-01 and widowed and remarried daughter-in- Margot Robbie stars as a bank robber law from her husband and his family. in Depression-era Texas. On the run and wounded, she hides out in a barn, where ■ Made in Italy she is discovered by a teenage boy whose head is turned by the attractive fugitive Father and son disagree over Tuscan with a convincing hard-luck story. house renovations. ■ Superintelligence ■ Rams When a powerful superintelligence Feuding brothers must join forces to save their sheep. Call Jane Smith today 869 0617 The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 RACING 27

Auckland races at Ellerslie Saturday Jetbet 2 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10 Selections 10 01047 Wordsworth (2) 55.5 65 R Elliot 7 40s61 Appellant (11) 56 70 A Goindasamy (a1) 4 86723 Royal Prince (18) 54.5 69 D Danis (a2) 13 2s325 Devotioninmotion (6) 56.5 60 L Innes SCRATCHED Race 1: THE MITIGATOR, STAR OF BOMBAY, OUR ALLEY CAT 11 s3083 Couturiere (4) 55 68 S Collett 8 1s036 O’Charm (3) 56 70 S Spratt 5 — Arrivederci 14 32 Camarosa (13) 56.5 53 S Weatherley 12 33325 Super Gee (3) 55 64 D Johnson 9 s4642 Showboat (2) 56 70 D Danis (a2) 6 46562 Jakkalbomb (5) 54 71 15 70882 Arancia (15) 56.5 52 J Fawcett Race 2: SWORDS DRAWN, ORAKEI OVERLORD, BECAUSE 13 02373 Flomiline (1) 54.5 67 S McKay 10 — Vamos Bebe SCRATCHED 7 52211 Deep Beauty (17) 54 68 C Grylls 16 — Sainte Elisabeth SCRATCHED Race 3: PALAMOS, SNEAKY SHARK, MISS IPENEMA 14 0s023 Iskander (13) 54 61 E McCall (a3) 11 112 Entriviere (7) 55.5 69 D Johnson 8 22114 Edit (7) 54 68 L Innes Race 4: ENTRIVIERE, ACUTUS, RIPPED 12 32531 Lookseasy (4) 55.5 69 M Hashizume (a2) 9 21341 Mai Tai (8) 54 68 D Johnson 9 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic 5.15 Race 5: MADAM HASS, VAMOS BEBE, FAMILIA 3 Skycity 1.40 10 10334 Make Time (11) 54 68 $200,000, group 1 wfa, 2000m Race 6: BRANDO, PLAY THAT SONG, SUFFUSED $50,000, 2yo sw+p, 1100m 5 Hallmark Stud 2.50 11 5s953 Quick Preview (14) 54 68 S Collett Race 7: SUPER STRIKE, EDIT, JAKKALBOMB $60,000, listed open handicap, 1200m 12 91356 Wild West (4) 54 67 1 7s211 Rock On Wood (3) 59 104 R Elliot 1 112 Follow Your Dreams (9) 58.5 67 Race 8: HELSINKI, FLEETWOOD MACA, SWEET ANNA 13 0s461 Mighty Aslan (16) 54 65 S Spratt 2 64599 Tiptronic (6) 59 103 S Spratt M McNab 1 12s73 Its Destinys Child (4) 60 93 A Calder 3 s3231 Gino Severini (1) 59 98 M McNab Race 9: ROCK ON WOOD, CONCERT HALL, SUPERA 14 — Secret Amour SCRATCHED 2 1 Palamos (8) 57.5 63 O Bosson 2 17132 Monaco (9) 60 89 T Newman (a) 4 00028 Charles Road (10) 59 96 C Grylls 3 s3343 Vigor Winner (1) 58.5 86 T Harris 15 s7072 Virtuoso Lad (12) 54 65 Race 10: TABATA, GIANT GEM, LAURANT 3 1 Sophisticardo (12) 57.5 63 T Harris 5 s5401 In A Twinkling (2) 59 95 O Bosson 4 13s05 Rocket Fuel (5) 56 85 S Collett A Goindasamy (a1) 4 236 King Of Reds (2) 56 52 S McKay 6 s0070 On The Rocks (11) 59 94 S Collett 5 169s9 Love Squirrels (3) 55.5 84 L Innes 16 2s133 Mouton (1) 54 63 S McKay 5 2 Sneaky Shark (4) 56 52 D Johnson 7 01335 Vadavar (7) 59 94 T Harris 6 4 Bergheim (10) 56 50 S Weatherley 6 84987 New York Jazz (8) 54 77 J Fawcett EMERGENCIES: SCRATCHED 8 0s721 Vernanme (8) 59 92 C Ormsby 1 Blue Bubble Taxis 12.30 7 4 Coyote (17) 56 50 7 5s441 Breezon (6) 53.5 76 S Spratt 17 — Manrico 8 6s221 Familia (10) 53 79 C Grylls 18 22155 Lord Painton (3) 54 62 L Satherley 9 s2112 Concert Hall (9) 57 102 V Colgan $50,000, open handicap, 1400m 8 Burgundy Dancer (15) 56 47 L Satherley 10 s2662 Supera (4) 57 101 D Johnson 9 6 Berbizier (16) 56 46 9 s5141 Madam Hass (7) 53 79 S Weatherley 19 42105 Light Brocade (9) 54 62 1 00120 The Mitigator (3) 62 102 S McKay 11 s6016 Fiscal Fantasy (5) 57 100 L Innes 10 2217 Miss Ipenema (6) 55.5 63 A Calder 10 s2112 Vamos Bebe (2) 53 70 D Johnson 20 — Loose Cannon SCRATCHED 2 5s007 Amarula (6) 57 92 21 26s77 Medalza (15) 54 64 3 28448 Battle Time (2) 54 85 M Kareem (a3) 11 4 Beldarra (13) 54 64 L Innes 10 Barfoot & Thompson 5.53 12 5 Lady Pristina (11) 54 54 S Collett 6 Shaw’s Wire Ropes Uncle Remus Stks 3.25 22 s3317 Foodie King (6) 54 62 4 4s341 Star Of Bombay (4) 54 83 C Grylls $50,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m 5 6s316 Raposa Rapida (8) 54 80 D Johnson 13 3 Dragon’s Kiss (7) 54 51 C Grylls $60,000, listed 3yo sw+p, 1400m 8 Jamieson Park Eight Carat Classic 4.35 6 48326 Money Trail (1) 54 79 M Hashizume (a2) 14 3s Seven Twenty (5) 54 51 1 83511 Opalescence (2) 58.5 78 J Fawcett 1 108s6 Giant Gem (13) 60 65 T Harris 7 97963 Braavos (7) 54 76 J Fawcett M Hashizume (a2) 2 211 Brando (8) 58.5 72 O Bosson $100,000, group 2 3yof sw, 1600m 2 96843 Manrico (1) 59.5 64 T Newman (a2) 8 41001 Our Alley Cat (5) 54 76 S Collett EMERGENCIES: 3 124s3 Play That Song (4) 57.5 79 D Johnson 1 65102 De La Terre (14) 56.5 80 R Elliot 3 367s7 Memories Only (4) 59.5 64 S Weatherley 15 The Night King (3) 56 45 4 1925 Suffused (7) 57.5 69 L Innes 2 82362 Moana (11) 56.5 70 C Ormsby 4 40s44 O’He Can (7) 59.5 64 C Grylls 2 Dunstan Stayers Champs Qual. 1.05 16 8 The Charging (1) 56 45 S Spratt 5 15s The Irishman (5) 57.5 63 M McNab 3 5126 Sweet Anna (8) 56.5 70 M McNab 5 s5002 Silent Truth (9) 58 65 L Innes $50,000, rating 74 benchmark, 2200m 17 97 Molinara (14) 54 45 6 1s435 Tokorangi (9) 55.5 72 A Calder 4 s2322 Helsinki (9) 56.5 68 D Johnson 6 4sP47 Loose Cannon (14) 57.5 64 M McNab 7 14 Illumination (3) 55.5 63 C Grylls 5 513 Fleetwood Maca (3) 56.5 67 A Calder 7 26s77 Medalza (8) 57.5 64 S Collett 1 38220 Orakei Overlord (12) 62.5 79 4 Auckland Co-op Taxis 2.15 8 21 So Gorgeous (10) 55.5 63 S Collett M Hashizume (a2) 6 21 Amarelinha (12) 56.5 63 O Bosson 8 45120 Sussex (6) 57.5 64 J Fawcett $50,000, rating 74 benchmark, 1200m 9 16 One More Time (6) 55.5 62 7 1 Cheaperthandivorce (10) 56.5 63 9 s10s2 Tabata (3) 57.5 64 D Johnson 2 s0144 Swords Drawn (5) 60 74 O Bosson 10 253 El Roseay (1) 54 53 S Weatherley 3 43745 Sweet Clementine (14) 58.5 75 A Calder 1 41s07 Acutus (8) 61.5 77 V Colgan V Colgan 10 32s75 Three Sixty (5) 57.5 64 C Ormsby 4 s6070 Za Za Gabor (8) 58.5 75 C Grylls 2 84987 New York Jazz (10) 61.5 77 7 Stella Artois C'ship Final 4.00 8 6371 Royce Roca (4) 56.5 63 S McKay 11 22155 Lord Painton (15) 57 62 O Bosson 5 16100 Plushenko (10) 58.5 71 S Weatherley 3 s1752 Ripped (5) 57.5 69 A Calder 9 1 Shezdelicious (1) 56.5 63 L Satherley 12 54802 Rusavy (10) 57 59 M Hashizume (a2) 6 42712 Because (9) 57.5 69 T Newman (a2) 4 1361s Pimms ‘n’ Pearls (9) 57 72 L Innes $80,000, sp cond, 1500m 10 71 Slave To Love (5) 56.5 63 13 250s9 Tiny Terror (16) 57 59 C Dell 7 15025 Rising Renown (7) 57 68 J Fawcett 5 47327 Je Suis Tiger (6) 56.5 71 J Fawcett 1 s1121 Super Strike (2) 60 80 A Calder A Goindasamy (a) 14 97853 Makabar (11) 56.5 58 R Beemud (a4) 8 12781 Cassio (6) 56.5 67 M Kareem (a3) 6 60892 Mumms Jewel (1) 56.5 71 2 s2211 Marroni (13) 57.5 75 O Bosson 11 s8167 Tango Love (7) 56.5 63 S Collett 15 44s72 Laurant (2) 55.5 60 L Satherley 9 s9103 Monlula (11) 56.5 67 V Colgan T Newman (a2) 3 2s243 Hasabro (10) 54.5 69 S Weatherley 12 176 Needle And Thread (2) 56.5 62 C Grylls 16 30s60 William Tell (12) 55 55 M Kareem (a3)

Manawatu races at Awapuni Saturday Jetbet 4 TAB Doubles 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Trebles 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 Quaddies 2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9 Place6 4-9 Selections 2 Aberdeen On Broadway 12.52 9 422s7 Flickering Shadow (14) 56.5 53 2 35123 Rockoneve (4) 58 74 L Allpress 8 Manawatu Standard Summer Cup 4.22 Race 1: DARCI LA BELLA, NOD OF THE HEAD, D Bradley 3 s5056 Very Appealing (2) 56 70 J Parkes $32,500, open handicap, 1200m 10 87430 Hermes (1) 56.5 50 J Parkes $32,500, open handicap, 1550m RUBY’S LANDED 4 1s532 Cabochon (3) 55 68 T J Bau 1 6114s Malo Bik (3) 62 86 H Schofer (a2) 11 783s6 Sunlit Lane (4) 56.5 50 R J Bishop 5 924s6 Flying Meg (13) 55 68 L Hemi 1 14335 Deerfield (4) 62 98 J Riddell Race 2: STUMPY, ROCK ‘N’ AFFAIR, CASAQUINMAN 2 0s816 Rock ‘n’ Affair (1) 61.5 89 L Allpress 12 2660s Caption (3) 56.5 45 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 6 43147 Akela Belle (12) 54.5 67 F Lazet (a4) 2 s2271 Beefeater (5) 61 96 H Schofer (a2) Race 3: BELLE PLAISIR, COLORADO STAR, JUST FABULOUS 3 45613 Casaquinman (4) 57.5 77 R J Bishop 13 58s36 Parisian Poppy (5) 55 50 F Lazet (a4) 7 s7931 La Mia Sirena (5) 54.5 67 3 11s3s Sergeant Blast (2) 60.5 95 T Taiaroa (a3) Race 4: MR FABULOUS, PARISIAN POPPY, SEE THE LION 4 3821s Grand Mayson (2) 57.5 77 14 Khant Catch Her (6) 55 45 S J Macnab (a1) 4 03625 Mauna Kea (3) 58 90 J Parkes Race 5: KAITLIN ROSE, SILENT APPROACH, RIP US OFF S J Macnab (a1) S J Macnab (a1) 8 61967 Miss Sher Nan (8) 54 65 D Bradley 5 20344 Guillada (9) 56 90 L Allpress Race 6: WAISAKE, FLYING MEG, ROCKONEVE 5 112s5 Blondlign (5) 57 80 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) EMERGENCIES: 6 02012 Pep Torque (8) 55 84 W Pinn (a3) 9 6s030 Rukita (10) 54 62 T Taiaroa (a3) SCRATCHED Race 7: HYDROEXPRESS, ON SHOW, MAROTIRI BELLE 6 s6758 What A Smasher (8) 57 80 T Thornton 15 2s866 Glide Queen (15) 56.5 45 T Taiaroa (a3) 10 50063 The Rippa (1) 54 62 W Pinn (a3) 7 — Cutting Up Rough 16 4s877 Ohiti Lass (12) 56.5 45 8 35s52 Hartley (7) 54 79 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) Race 8: HARTLEY, BEEFEATER, GUILLADA 7 s4224 Stumpy (7) 57 76 T Taiaroa (a3) 11 02208 Rex Royale (9) 54 61 9 30043 Father Lenihan (6) 54 77 L Hemi Race 9: SALTBUSH BILL, PUKE PARK, ABBEY ROAD 8 34153 Kapinos (6) 54 70 W Pinn (a3) 5 Mad Butcher 2.37 12 66420 Carpe Diem (11) 54 54 10 30036 King Cougar (1) 54 75 S J Macnab (a1) 3 Power Farming 1.27 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) $10,000, maiden, 1400m 13 034s8 Abe Lincoln (7) 54 50 D Hirini 9 Tui Backing A Winner Since 1889 5.00 $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 1400m 1 03s40 Lincoln Hanover (12) 58.5 53 J Riddell $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1550m 1 s7404 Princess Amelie (2) 60 78 2 005 Favoloso (4) 58.5 47 R J Bishop 7 NZB Insurance Pearl Series 3.47 1 1s770 Abbey Road (10) 60 65 W Pinn (a3) H Schofer (a2) 3 798 Monty (15) 58.5 45 $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1200m 2 13s18 Just Fabulous (8) 57.5 73 W Pinn (a3) 4 Putorino (7) 58.5 45 L Allpress 2 1s069 Bruno Magile (16) 60 65 T Thornton 3 2s2s3 Colorado Star (4) 57.5 69 L Hemi 5 52s Rip Us Off (6) 57 52 H Schofer (a2) 1 s0230 Free To Shine (14) 60 65 J Riddell 3 s1027 Cetus (6) 59.5 64 T Allan 4 46623 Belle Plaisir (1) 57 72 R J Bishop 6 50327 Kaitlin Rose (11) 56.5 52 R Aukett 2 s2s72 Galway Bro (7) 59 63 J Parkes 4 40393 Mikjene (20) 59.5 64 L Allpress 5 6s031 Heirloom (3) 57 72 T Taiaroa (a3) 7 43457 Silent Approach (14) 56.5 50 3 165s Tavattack (6) 58.5 62 H Schofer (a2) 5 s5314 Horopito (8) 59 63 J Riddell 1 Murray’s Irish Bar 12.17 6 10158 If You Dance (5) 56.5 67 J Parkes S J Macnab (a1) 4 s29s0 Rainbow Dundee (11) 58 61 D Hirini 6 9s51s Jackaroo (5) 59 63 7 s0001 Petrachor (7) 55 68 L Allpress 8 4s0 Fabiola (10) 56.5 49 J Parkes 5 33042 Hydroexpress (5) 57.5 64 7 10465 Mauna Loa (15) 58 61 H Schofer (a2) $10,000, maiden 3yo, 1200m 8 s1314 Tamahine (6) 55 68 T Thornton 9 5s7 Spirit O’Phee (1) 56.5 46 L Hemi S J Macnab (a1) 8 6100s Saltbush Bill (3) 58 61 M J Sanson (a4) 1 2 Nod Of The Head (8) 57.5 52 J Riddell 10 79s7 Jaws Of Life (13) 56.5 45 W Pinn (a3) 6 65642 Glamour (12) 57 63 L Allpress 9 16 Puke Park (7) 57.5 63 J Parkes 10 94296 Du’blues (9) 57 63 F Lazet (a4) 2 44 Arklow (2) 57.5 50 T Thornton 4 More FM Manawatu 2.02 11 0999 Thatz Tigerlily (9) 56.5 45 T Allan 7 7s274 Horlistic (1) 57 63 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 11 1 Wheels (13) 57 63 S J Macnab (a1) 3 5 Fleetwood Bay (5) 57.5 47 B Ansell (a3) $10,000, maiden, 1400m 12 05 Sasha (2) 55 47 T Thornton 8 5s15 Marotiri Belle (2) 57 63 D Bradley 12 00080 Floral Belt (17) 56.5 62 T Taiaroa (a3) 13 0 Floor Show (3) 55 45 T Taiaroa (a3) 9 5s202 On Show (10) 57 63 W Pinn (a3) 4 Wind In My Wings (1) 57.5 47 1 5423 Mr Fabulous (2) 58.5 53 T Allan 13 07292 Flying Surf (14) 55.5 60 L Hemi R J Bishop 14 9s0 Lindt (8) 55 45 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) 10 00146 Trendy Belt (8) 57 63 T Taiaroa (a3) 2 60555 See The Lion (7) 58.5 47 L Hemi EMERGENCIES: 14 41s77 Sanibel (11) 55.5 60 R J Bishop 5 5s756 Bradman (9) 57.5 46 J Parkes 3 06 Rocktilyoudrop (10) 58.5 46 R Aukett 11 610 Chikira Lass (15) 55.5 63 L Hemi EMERGENCIES: 6 0 He’s Gary (3) 57.5 45 15 2s866 Glide Queen (5) 56.5 45 12 3s037 Got The Call (13) 55.5 60 4 69s80 Busybeingfabulous (9) 58.5 45 16 4s877 Ohiti Lass (16) 56.5 45 15 9s024 Regal Reward (4) 57.5 60 Ashvin Mudhoo (a4) M J Sanson (a4) M J Sanson (a4) 16 50593 Fattore Otto (18) 57.5 60 7 0s Valhalla Rising (7) 57.5 45 W Pinn (a3) 5 0 Kerala (8) 58.5 45 W Pinn (a3) 6 Inspire Net 3.12 13 5s873 Alice Tinker (3) 55 62 B Ansell (a3) 17 0s858 Power ‘n’ Passion (19) 55.5 60 8 Ruby’s Landed (4) 55.5 47 L Allpress 6 — Kingston Flyer SCRATCHED 14 s067s Dauphine (9) 55 59 18 88790 She’s A Goddess (2) 55 59 9 Darci La Bella (6) 55.5 45 H Schofer (a2) 7 65 Billy Easton (13) 57 47 H Schofer (a2) $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 2100m EMERGENCY: 19 70395 My Father’s Gun (1) 56.5 58 10 Going Steady (10) 55.5 45 T Taiaroa (a3) 8 Champagne Sunday (11) 57 47 J Riddell 1 41331 Waisake (6) 60 74 H Schofer (a2) 15 70860 Destiny One (4) 54 55 20 08039 Outa Cash (12) 56.5 58

Otago races at Wingatui Saturday Jetbet 6 TAB Doubles 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddies 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 Place6 3-8 Selections 2 Wingatui Functions Centre 1.16 4 Ben Patston Media 2.26 16 87060 Deceptio Visus (10) 56.5 58 10 9s091 He’s Mi Brother (11) 57.5 69 Race 1: HOMBRE, SWAMPMAN, CARISBROOK R Mudhoo (a2) A Bohorun (a3) $22,500, 2&3yo sw+p, 1200m $32,500, open handicap, 2200m 17 00849 Johnnie Redmond (7) 55.5 56 11 77493 Hee’s Our Secret (8) 57.5 69 J Lowry Race 2: GRAND GESTURE, CEDDY SMITH, OHIO SHOWGIRL 1 191 Grand Gesture (8) 58.5 67 J Lowry 1 02593 Wild Jack (8) 62 88 A Bohorun (a3) 18 s08s0 Out Of Aces (3) 54 56 12 16240 Bronte Beach (15) 56 70 T Comignaghi Race 3: YING RESOLUTE, GERRY JOYCE, COLOSSAL 2 21s1s Chokito (6) 57.5 70 R Beeharry (a3) 2 6s325 Kilowatt (12) 60.5 85 K Asano (a1) 19 s7000 Epic Dreamer (15) 54 55 13 81371 Glorious Ocean (18) 56 70 S Wynne Race 4: DR VELOCIOUS, NESTA, BEACHED AS BRO 3 6s415 Ceddy Smith (3) 57.5 63 S Wynne 3 1s179 Picture Me Rollin (3) 59 86 S Wynne 14 1424s Skaaboom (19) 56 70 Race 5: EXUBERANT, SECRET SOUND, OCEAN POINT 4 66211 The Gift (9) 56.5 68 K Asano (a1) 4 87209 Sitarist (7) 57.5 83 T Comignaghi 6 Alleviate Admin Hazlett Stks 3.37 EMERGENCIES: 15 10319 Rock Sensation (7) 57 68 Race 6: PRINCE OZ, WEKAFORCE, SHEEZALLMINE 5 63854 Lovebug (10) 56.5 65 M Gestain (a4) 5 21221 Beached As Bro (4) 57 78 K Mudhoo $50,000, listed open handicap, 1200m 16 3s295 Cabernet (17) 55 68 Race 7: EL GLADIADOR, WHALE SONG, ROCK SENSATION 6 Fangio (1) 56 45 R Cuneen 6 03680 Diorissimo (9) 56 80 B Murray 7 33348 Dr Velocious (5) 56 76 R Mudhoo (a2) 1 1s986 Enzo’s Lad (9) 60 100 L Callaway 17 s1360 Severine (1) 55 68 Race 8: WATCHMAKER, PONIARD, CANNOLI 7 8s Fantasea (7) 56 45 R Mudhoo (a2) 8 89081 Nopele (1) 56 76 G Jogoo 2 s0601 Prince Oz (2) 58.5 97 T Moseley 18 28450 Yamuna (16) 55 68 8 7s Our Clarry (2) 56 45 G Jogoo 9 04538 Sister Monica (6) 54.5 77 T Moseley 3 57171 Johnny Jones (3) 57 94 T Comignaghi 19 56137 Montserrat (9) 54.5 67 9 535s2 Ohio Showgirl (4) 55.5 65 10 23186 Nesta (11) 54.5 73 C Johnson 4 2s115 Wekaforce (6) 56.5 97 K Mudhoo 20 s0005 Selfie (2) 54.5 63 K Chowdhoory (a1) 11 61027 Asathought (10) 54 70 C Campbell (a1) 5 41400 He Kin Fly (4) 56.5 93 R Cuneen 10 1s754 Petty’s Legacy (5) 55.5 62 C Barnes 12 34113 Chitter Chat (2) 54 68 R Beeharry (a3) 6 63362 Rocanto (7) 55.5 91 S Wynne 8 Alleviate Administration 4.47 3 White Robe Lodge C'pions Day 6/2 1.51 5 Waikouaiti Races 16th Jan 3.02 7 s5936 Sheezallmine (1) 53 89 C Johnson $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1600m 8 49207 Shirley Maude (5) 53 83 C Campbell (a) 1 42132 Henley (6) 60 65 S Toolooa (a3) 1 Alleviate Administration 12.41 $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 2200m $22,500, rating 65 benchmark*, 1200m 9 73422 Khimar War (11) 53 80 C Barnes 2 s4L49 Poniard (7) 60 65 R Mudhoo (a2) $10,000, maiden, 1400m 1 22602 Ying Resolute (13) 59.5 64 T Moseley 1 s0756 Exuberant (14) 61.5 68 R Beeharry (a3) 10 04720 Tobilicious (12) 53 80 K Asano (a) 3 s0s50 Fire Show (8) 58.5 62 K Mudhoo 2 69010 Colossal (10) 58.5 62 T Comignaghi 2 15089 Ricky Baker (18) 59.5 64 B Murray 11 14115 Our Girl Gilly (13) 53 79 4 s0007 O’Guy (18) 58.5 62 K Asano (a1) 1 52s33 Hombre (8) 58.5 54 C Johnson 3 23214 Gerry Joyce (5) 58.5 62 G Jogoo 3 05816 Straight Sets (19) 59.5 64 S Wynne K Chowdhoory (a) 5 10454 Seriously (5) 58.5 62 T Moseley 2 2s34 Swampman (9) 58.5 53 J Lowry 4 690s3 He Ain’t Heavy (9) 58.5 62 4 022s7 Plutonium (5) 58.5 62 L Callaway 12 9s003 Amastar (8) 53 77 B Murray 6 92125 Sure Is (13) 58 65 T Comignaghi 3 Gary (11) 58.5 45 D Bothamley 5 39s13 Secret Sound (13) 58 65 C Johnson 13 50419 Waimate Bill (10) 53 77 A Bohorun (a) 7 s0043 Aristotle (19) 58 61 S Wynne 4 55 Carisbrook (15) 57 47 C Campbell (a1) A Bohorun (a3) 5 80028 Shanzino (1) 58.5 62 T Jonker 6 s0263 Our Rosette (2) 57.5 64 8 07918 Running Man (4) 58 61 J Lowry 5 09 William John (12) 57 45 T Jonker K Chowdhoory (a1) 7 Speight’s 4.12 9 s0041 Ginny (12) 57 63 C Campbell (a1) 6 6323s Raise Ya Cards (14) 56.5 54 C Barnes 6 16571 Belindabella (4) 58 65 K Mudhoo 7 13009 Our Boy Ritchie (3) 57.5 60 7 s0025 Not Usual Litening (12) 57.5 60 $27,500, rating 74 benchmark, 1400m 10 45147 Watchmaker (11) 57 62 7 64628 Lugano’s Ace (5) 56.5 52 K Asano (a1) K Chowdhoory (a1) R Mudhoo (a2) T Comignaghi 8 390 Robina Joy (4) 56.5 49 B Murray 8 1 Giveherago (17) 57 63 C Barnes 1 171s2 El Gladiador (12) 60.5 75 M Gestain (a4) 11 22s02 Larippa (16) 56.5 62 C Barnes 8 20000 Coup Dreamwood (12) 56 57 9 049s5 Verdigris (3) 56.5 49 S Wynne 9 1s Imakeepa (11) 57 63 K Asano (a1) 2 00216 Whale Song (20) 60.5 75 K Asano (a1) 12 16020 Aquattack (15) 56 61 G Jogoo 10 0s Nevets (10) 56.5 45 R Beeharry (a3) K Chowdhoory (a1) 10 54637 Ripa Ruby (6) 56.5 62 3 s3281 Ripnroll (3) 60 74 K Mudhoo 13 88083 Cannoli (14) 56 61 M Gestain (a4) 11 8s679 Sadler’s Lass (7) 56.5 45 R Cuneen 9 0s057 Scandalous (7) 55 59 C Barnes 11 20957 Arnage (9) 56 61 M Gestain (a4) 4 15253 Golden Harvest (4) 59 72 14 61705 Vardon Road (3) 56 61 D Prastiyou 12 8s308 Chamonix (1) 55 49 K Mudhoo 10 80080 Francis Drake (6) 55 55 S Toolooa (a3) 12 7s310 Authentic Charm (8) 56 61 D Bothamley 5 s2406 Zabay (6) 58.5 75 C Campbell (a1) EMERGENCIES: 13 99 Belle De Val (13) 55 45 T Moseley 11 33466 Countess Ruby (2) 54.5 58 13 4555s Blue Eyed Susie (16) 56 61 6 43873 Final Savings (13) 58.5 71 G Jogoo 15 s4090 Monash (9) 57.5 60 14 0s060 Miss If Formax (2) 55 45 C Campbell (a1) C Campbell (a1) 7 400s6 Manhattan Flame (5) 58.5 71 R Cuneen 16 907s6 Heidi Hi (17) 54.5 58 K Chowdhoory (a1) 12 s8000 Lady Byron (8) 54 56 C Johnson 14 814 Ocean Point (1) 55.5 63 K Mudhoo 8 14s10 Ray’s In Command (14) 58.5 71 17 59s00 Havana Heights (10) 54 57 EMERGENCY: 13 30066 Rumour Has It (14) 54 55 K Asano (a1) EMERGENCIES: C Johnson 18 00868 Master Lincoln (1) 55.5 56 15 700 Listenlikethieves (6) 58.5 45 L Callaway 14 0s0 Nippy The Hippy (11) 54 45 L Callaway 15 9s69s Full Of Grace (4) 57.5 60 9 24400 Meara Mary (10) 57.5 73 19 50808 Friday Knight (2) 55 55 28 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 Messi goes past mark set by Pelé FOOTBALL by Joseph Wilson, AP Koeman has tried several different line- ups since he took over Barcelona last BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi summer with the mission to fix a team that broke Pelé’s all-time scoring milestone for had hit rock bottom in a historic 8-2 loss to their clubs by netting his 644th career goal Bayern Munich. for Barcelona yesterday (NZ time). After seeing his side not win away from Messi, who helped Barcelona win 3-0 home in four games, Koeman opted for his at Valladolid, had equalled Pelé’s all-time most profound makeover at Valladolid. He scoring tally at the weekend. His 643rd deployed a defence of three centrebacks career goal for Barcelona since his 2004 and kept Antoine Griezmann and Philippe debut matched Pelé’s tally for Santos from Coutinho — the club’s star signings in 1957 to 1974. recent seasons — and midfield leader For his 644th — Barcelona’s third of the Sergio Busquets on the bench. night — Messi had help from 18-year-old That left Martin Braithwaite alone to spear Pedro “Pedri” González. the attack behind two playmakers in Messi After receiving the ball near the edge of and Pedri. The scheme also allowed Sergiño the area, Pedri deftly rolled his boot over Dest to attack deeper on the right flank. the ball to push it behind him to meet the “(The win) shows that we have a strong Argentine’s run. The slick pass left Messi squad, where there is a lot of competition clear to finally beat goalie Jordi Masip, who for playing time,” Koeman said. had denied him twice. “It proves that, with a calendar packed “When I began playing, I never thought I with games, we can rest some players. We would break any record, much less the one got this win by playing good football. The I have surpassed today that belonged to team was focused from the start.” Pelé,” Messi wrote on Instagram. Messi lobbed a pass forward for Clement “I only want to give my thanks to all those Lenglet to head in for the 21st-minute who have helped me all these years — my opener. Messi then played the ball wide to teammates, my family, my friends and those Dest, who squared it low for Braithwaite to RECORD-SETTING GOAL: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (right) scores his side’s third who support me every day.” tap home in the 35th. goal during a Spanish La Liga football match against Valladolid at the Jose Zorrilla Messi scored his team’s final goal at The connection between Pedri and Messi stadium in Valladolid, Spain, yesterday. With this goal, Messi broke Pelé’s all-time Valladolid as Barcelona excelled in an clicked throughout, but it shone in the 65th scoring milestone for goals with one club. It was Messi’s 644th career goal for experimental line-up by coach Ronald when the teenager set up the veteran. Barcelona since his debut in 2004. Pele scored 643 goals for Santos from 1957 to Koeman. Messi also hit the post in stoppage time. 1974. Picture by Cesar Manso/Pool via AP THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY Friday, December 25, 2020 SUDOKU CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Annie Lennox, 66; CCH Pounder, 68; Sissy Spacek, 71; Jimmy Buffett, 74. Happy Birthday: It's your turn to make a move. Size up what's happening around you, and SUDOKU is a logic puzzle made consider what will make you happy. Put the past behind you, and get ready to up of 81 squares on a 9x9 grid. make decisions that will change your life, direction or the way you live. Make To solve the puzzle, each row, decisions based on your needs, and walk away from situations that cause insecurity. Choose intelligence over brawn. Your numbers are 7, 12, 18, 23, column and 3x3 grid within the 34, 40, 44. larger grid must end up containing ARIES (March 21-April 19): each number from 1 to 9, and Don't feel pressured to do something you think is unsafe or might put each number can only appear someone you love at a disadvantage. Be the voice of reason, and you'll once in a row, column or box. get the backing you need to carry out your plans and feel good about your A sudoku grid has a single decisions. 3 stars unique solution, which can be TAURUS (April 20-May 20): reached without using guesswork. Keep events safe and straightforward. Look out for those less able to do for themselves. Use your intelligence to overcome situations that are causing SOLUTION IN NEXT PUBLICATION. uncertainty or divisiveness. An emotional situation will turn in your favor. Don't give up or give in. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Communication will help clear up issues of concern. Let loved ones know how much you care. Stick to the rules, and dismiss anyone who plans to do otherwise. Romance is in the stars, and cozy festivities look inviting. 3 stars DOUBLE CROSSWORD No 11,179 CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are overdue for a change. Consider your options, and discuss your plans CRYPTIC CLUES with those who will be affected by the decisions you make. You'll be surprised by the support you receive and the physical help offered. 4 stars ACROSS DOWN LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 1. Where hearing really 1. 100 exist because of Emotions will spin out of control if you don't share the same opinions as a him (5) friend or relative. Be careful not to overreact or send the wrong message. It's counts? (5,2,3) easier and to your advantage to avoid a feud as things heat up. 2 stars 7. Made the attempt in 2. Nude quite disordered by frenzy wasn’t old VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): 1Ac. perhaps (5) You'll be offered information that will change the way you think and do things 8. Course for the officer enough (5-3) 3. Making use of the office as you move forward. A change of plans will help you make a decision that commanding in will keep you out of harm's way. Handle a manipulative situation with care. 5 keys? (6) journalism (7) stars 4. Beat learner lost in the 10. From which the driver mist (4) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Anger won't solve problems that arise due to family dynamics. Try to see gets his directions (8) 5. Assert length of life to 11. Twice 16Dn.? (4) every angle of a situation, and don't pick sides. Relax, and pay more attention be the normal run (7) to someone you love. Avoid getting involved in other people's affairs. 3 stars 13. Become an apostate 6. Unbroken like elastic amongst brethren, e.g. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): near breaking- Uncertainty will prevail this festive season. Listen to the powers that be and embrace heresy (6) point? (2,1,7) do what's right, not what others want you to do. A decision someone makes 15. The sad state of a 9. The plight of an will change the way you feel and what you do. Follow your heart. 3 stars niggard? (6) apologetic SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 17. City band round country? (5,5) Don't be tricked into doing something you shouldn't. Someone will lead you wheel (4) 12. Ignore the trade astray if you don't stand up for yourself. Someone from your past will come 18. The skill needed to fly reduction (8) to mind. Make a point to reconnect via social media. Romance is favored. 3 14. Tell how rare tan may it? (8) stars be acquired (7) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 21. Moving towards title (7) 16. A one-way ticket for 22. Disturbed an elevated You are in the driver's seat. Don't waste time, and leave nothing to chance. those who have not You are on the right path to say what's on your mind and see who is with you SOLUTIONS TO group (5) walked up the 19Dn. (6) and who isn't. Success is within reach. 5 stars Quick Crossword answers 23. Right in the middle of PUZZLE 11,178 19. Beer is included in this AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): also fit the large grid lifeless part of the church (5) Don't make a premature decision. Reflect on the past, and you'll come up QUICK moderates? (4,6) 20. Benevolent sort (4) Across: with solutions and make better decisions. A change someone makes will turn 6 Retinue; 7 Rebel; out better than anticipated. Be patient, and concentrate on what you need to 9 Toy; 10 Indigence; 12 Concomitant; QUICK CLUES do. 2 stars 15 Depredation; 17 Repellent; PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): 19 Mad; 21 Vogue; 22 Immense. ACROSS DOWN Your intuition won't let you down, but someone close to you will. Be careful Down: 1 Felon; 2 Pin; 3 Turn; 1. Well- 1. Swoon (5) what you say and how you treat friends and relatives. It's essential to be 4 Detection; 5 Descend; upfront and to look out for your interests as well as those who are vulnerable. disposed (10) 2. Reverence (8) 4 stars 8 Kismet; 11 Courteous; 7. Pretend (5) 13 Cuddle; 14 Develop; 3. Excessively (6) Birthday Baby: 8. Throw away (7) 16 Cause; 18 Name; 20 Keg. 4. Too (4) You are insightful, resilient and smart. You are convincing and ambitious. CRYPTIC 10. Fully (8) Across: 6 Charges; 7 Cover; 11. Omit (4) 5. Chief (7) 9 Sty; 10 Transport; 12 Royal 13. Rouse (6) 6. Womanish (10) assent; 15 Transfer fee; 15. Crib (6) 17 Canneries; 19 Fry; 21 Venus; 9. Confused (10) 22 Witness. 17. Shivering-fit (4) 12. Declaim (8) Down: 18. Dig (8) 1 White; 2 Arm; 3 Bear; 14. Wariness (7) STAR RATINGS 4 Compasses; 5 Hearing; 21. Gourmet (7) FIVE STARS: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold. 8 Unfair; 11 Joining up; 22. Snarl (5) 16. Scope (6) FOUR STARS: You can pretty much do as you please. It’s a good time to start new projects. 13 Affirm; 14 Creates; 16 Frost; 23. Laying out 19. Concerning (5) THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals. 18 Emit; 20 Ant. TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. money (10) 20. Impolite (4) ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 SPORT 29 Maradona autopsy: no drink, illegal drugs SPORTS BRIEFS FOOTBALL the Buenos Aires Scientific Police, said The charismatic 1986 World Cup Maradona had problems with his kidneys, winner, who was regarded as one of ‘Ghost tickets’ total 72,000 ARGENTINE football legend Diego heart and lungs. the greatest footballers of all time, had DRESDEN — German third-tier football club Maradona did not consume alcohol or Investigators are looking into various battled alcohol and drug addiction for Dynamo Dresden says it sold more than 72,000 illicit narcotics in the days before his facets of his death, which rocked much of his life. tickets for a game played in an empty stadium death, an autopsy has revealed. Argentina and the wider football world. A judge last week ruled that with no fans. Maradona, who died in November aged The more detailed autopsy confirmed Maradona’s body could not be exhumed The former East German champions offered 60, had taken seven different medicines the results of one done immediately or cremated in case DNA was needed at supporters the “ghost tickets” — named for the to treat depression, anxiety and other after his death that said the former a later date for use in paternity or other German habit of dubbing empty-stadium matches ailments but “there was no presence of Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli cases. “ghost games” — for five euros ($NZ8.59) as (illegal) drugs”, a judicial official told player died from “acute pulmonary Maradona has five recognised children a way to raise funds for the club during the Reuters. edema secondary to exacerbated and six with filiation requests. coronavirus pandemic. The autopsy, which was based on chronic heart failure with dilated They are part of a complex inheritance The total of 72,112 tickets sold for yesterday’s blood and urine samples and released by cardiomyopathy”. process under way in Argentina. — AAP German Cup game against Darmstadt is more than double the capacity of Dresden’s Rudolf Harbig stadium. Only two matches in the club’s history, both away games, had more people in attendance, Dresden said. Dresden lost the game 3-0 to second-tier Darmstadt. — AP Fittler learned lesson from loss SYDNEY — A month on and New South Wales rugby league coach Brad Fittler isn’t losing any sleep over his team’s shock State of Origin series loss to Queensland. But he says he learned one invaluable lesson during his first series defeat in three years as Blues coach. In future, Fittler won’t pick any players that aren’t 100 percent healthy. Skipper Boyd Cordner and superstar fullback James Tedesco both entered the series under fitness clouds, while playmaker Luke Keary was cooked after an exhaustive NRL campaign with the Sydney Roosters. None of the trio completed the series, although it was a head knock and not his knee injury that ended Tedesco’s series. Jack Wighton hurt his knee in Game 1 and battled on, while Cameron Murray succumbed to a hamstring injury. “Health is such a big part in this game because it’s so intense so I’ll most probably learn something about that,” Fittler said yesterday. “Everyone’s different, obviously, so some players can carry injuries better than others.” Fittler remained loyal to most of the squad that won the 2019 series and doesn’t plan on making mass changes in 2021 either. Fittler would love another coaching crack at CONGESTED GOALMOUTH: Stoke City goalkeeper Andy Lonergan (centre) tries to clear the ball during the English League Cup Maroons mentor Wayne Bennett next year after quarterfinal football match against Tottenham Hotspur at the Bet365 Stadium in Stoke on Trent today. Tottenham won the match the master motivator orchestrated one of the 3-1. AP picture great Origin series upsets in history. — AAP Spurs two wins away from drought-breaker FOOTBALL around to take a pass from Martial, cut Chelsea — on three occasions — and Mourinho said. inside on his left foot and score with a Manchester United, has always been a “While he was walking to the dressing LONDON — Manchester United and low shot from the edge of the area. title he targets. room, he told me he couldn’t come for the Tottenham Hotspur joined Manchester Martial scored the second with Each time Mourinho has reached the second half . . . something in his calf, I City and Brentford in the League Cup virtually the last kick of the game on a semifinals, he has gone on to win the think.” semifinals with wins against Everton and counter-attack. competition. Jordan Thompson equalised for Stoke Stoke City respectively. Earlier in the night, Jose Mourinho He fielded a strong team at Stoke with in the 53rd but Davies put Tottenham Edinson Cavani and Anthony Martial moved within two wins of leading Spurs Kane playing the full match amid a busy back in front with a fierce low drive from scored late goals as United grabbed a 2-0 to a first major trophy since 2008. run of games in the Premier League. 25 metres. victory at Everton, while Tottenham won Gareth Bale, Ben Davies and Harry Bale glanced in a cross from Harry Kane clinched victory in the 81st by 3-1 at second-tier Stoke today (NZ time). Kane scored for Mourinho’s men in the Winks to give Tottenham the lead in the running on to Moussa Sissoko’s pass and If the competition used VAR, Cavani win at Stoke. 22nd minute with his third goal since smashing a rising shot into the roof of mightn’t have been on the field to put Manchester City and Brentford, a returning to the club in September for a the net. United ahead in the 88th minute after team from the second-tier Championship, second spell. “It’s a cold, wet and windy Wednesday replays showed him grabbing the throat reached the last four yesterday. The draw The winger didn’t come out for the night (local time) at Stoke so it was of Everton defender Yerry Mina midway takes place today. second half, having looked to be moving tough,” Winks said, repeating an oft-used through the second half of their quarter Mourinho was brought in by Tottenham uncomfortably as he went off the field for cliché about Stoke stretching back to final at Goodison Park. to end the club’s long trophy drought halftime. when they were in the Premier League As it was, the Uruguay striker was still and the League Cup, which he won with “It was his decision, something he felt,” and hard to beat at home. — AP Roberts recalls brain-fluid taste in throat RUGBY “My head was really painful. “I looked to my left and the doc had Rugby is still evolving as a professional “I was aware of the incident getting been following me on the touchline, so I game and part of that has involved VETERAN Welsh centre Jamie Roberts shown on the big screen and a big groan signalled to him I wasn’t right. adapting to protect players better. can recall a time when he stayed on the from the fans. So I knew it was a big “As I came off, every step I was taking “Let’s not pretend that rugby is a very field with a horrific skull fracture and the collision; there was no doubt about that.” my head was squeaking. There was this safe sport,” he said. taste of brain fluid in his throat. He felt sluggish and a nose bleed creaking sound in my head.” “It’s a collision sport; it always has As sport around the world deals combined with a salty taste had Roberts A CT scan and X-rays were done, and been and, if rugby continues, it always with the frightening concussion issue, — a medical student at the time — really a fracture at the base of his skull was will be. the 34-year-old Roberts — who played worried. discovered. But he was back playing six “The game is looking after its players nearly 100 tests — says rugby has made “I was under the posts. I dipped my weeks later. now better than ever and it’s doing that significant advances to protect players head and my nose started bleeding and I “I look back on it and I am pretty off the back of a body of evidence in a from a decade ago. could taste a stream of salt water down fortunate I didn’t take another knock on sport that’s relatively young. It needed to, judging by his the back of my throat,” he said. it during the game,” he said. “The knowledge around head injuries is recollections around an incident in 2008, “I knew straight away it was cerebral Roberts has now told Talking Rugby still relatively young and we’re learning when he clashed heads with Australian brain fluid. You are taught about the Union he made an informed decision to more about it day by day, and certainly captain Stirling Mortlock. salty taste as a medical student. play a game he loved, knowing the risks. the latest cases will add to that mountain “What I remember is being in a “I could just feel it trickling down the He admits it has been hard reading of evidence that will best allow the rugby massive amount of pain on the floor,” back of my throat. I was thinking this the recent stories around other players authorities to make the best decisions Roberts told WalesOnline. was not right. It was a bit scary. taking legal action. possible for the players.” — NZ Herald 30 SPORT The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020

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points), Waikohu’s Tipi Ruru (div 2 Gross: T Ruru 77. the women. Twos: D Pirimona. Patutahi men’s gross, 77), Park’s Ray Grace Stableford: R Grace 40, N Dewes 39, Paul Wellard was not wearing a Approach: M Stewart. (div 2 men’s stableford, 40pts), and T Brodie 39, S Toa 38, H Schrieber 38, skirt on Saturday but there was a THURSDAY (Dec 17) — Men’s PUTTING a ham on the Christmas Patutahi trio Mason Smith (div 3 T Hindmarsh 38. feminine quality to his game. He won stableford, division 1: N Mackie 39, A Day table brought out the golfing gun men’s gross, 83); Dave Maloy (div 3 Division 3 men, net: C Taylor 62. the men’s stableford off the women’s Kirkpatrick 36, I Murphy 36, A White 35. in several players at Patutahi’s Xmas men’s stableford, 41pts); and Shelley Gross: M Smith 83. yellow tees with 42 points. Division 2: C Christie 39, B Allen 37, Hams open tournament on Saturday. Robertson (women’s stableford, Stableford: D Maloy 41, J Harawira SUNDAY — Play the course B Read 37, D Bush 36. A field of nearly 120 filled the 41pts). 41, T Koopu 37, S Eder 37, H Brothers backwards net, women’s division: P Twos: T Goldsmith, S Harbottle, N Tahi course over the day, including Tony Green had an eagle-2 on 37, C Brown 36. Johansen 73. Mackie. contingents from Opotiki and Mahia. the 297-metre 11th hole . . . and a Women’s division, net: I Ngarimu 64. Men’s division: D Rameka 66, L Approach: S Harbottle. But it was a couple of locals who quadruple bogey-8 on the fourth in Gross: D Johnston 78. Green 67, D Harrison 68, R Walford 69. were the cream of an impressive his 39-point haul. Stableford: S Robertson 41, M SATURDAY — Men’s stableford off Tolaga Bay crop. Blair went back out the next day Tuapawa 39, H McClutchie 39, L Steel yellow tees: P Wellard 42. Joe Blair was in sensational form and combined with Helen Humble 37, G Roberts 37, M Philip 37, H Twos: G Williams, P Wellard. NEW members dominated the in winning the division 2 men’s net to win the Guy Farmer Trophy mixed Humble 32, V Kyle 36. TUESDAY (Dec 15) — Veteran men’s stableford on Sunday. with 76-14-62. pairs South African stableford. Men’s long drives: J Halley, A stableford: B Cox 37, E Parkin 36, D Te Joe Sheridan won with 39 points, Charlie Taylor was equally Robertson also continued her Haughey, S Eder. Maro 36, E Morley 36, C Carpendale one ahead of fellow newcomer BJ impressive in winning the division 3 winning form in topping the women’s Men’s approaches: P Molloy, N 35, P Simpson 35, P Hogan 3, W Brown Sydney. men’s net with 82-20-62. stableford with 40 points while Andy Dewes, D Quinn. 34, A Lewington 34. SUNDAY — Stableford: J Sheridan Te Puia Springs member Iritana Nimmo’s 41 was the best of the men. Women’s approaches: H Pomana, H Twos: B Cox, E Morley. 39, BJ Sydney 38, Joe Lincoln 36, P Ngarimu was the pick of the women. SUNDAY — Guy Farmer Trophy McClutchie. Stevenson 36. She won the women’s net with 92-28- mixed pairs South African stableford Twos: C Taylor, J Brown, H Brown, T Poverty Bay Two: P Stevenson. 64. winners: J Blair/H Humble. Sweeney, W Brown, T Petro, L Green, T Denise Johnston equalled her best Men’s stableford: A Nimmo 41, D Brodie, P Molloy. COLIN Christie is ending 2020 on Te Puia Springs round of the year — 78 — to win the Quinn 38, J Blair 37, G Tattersfield 37, P Eagle 2 on 11: T Green. a roll. women’s gross. Hokianga 37. FRIDAY — Meat pack 9-hole Christie won the division 2 men’s DICK Cook ended the club’s Electrinet Park’s Anaru Reedy Women’s stableford: S Robertson 40, stableford, senior division: P Molloy 21, stableford last Thursday with 83-14-69 golfing year in style by claiming the made the jaunt over the Waipaoa H Humble 39, M Philip 38, L Haisman B Wallace 20, G Brown 19, J Brown 19, and followed it up on Saturday with Chaffey Cup on Sunday. Bridge a successful one by winning 38. A Nimmo 19. 80-13-67, for 41 points, to win the Cookie had 12 bogeys and six pars the division 1 men’s gross with Twos: J Blair, M Stock. Junior division: J Tietjen 25, S Fookes division 1 stableford. in his 78-19-59, for 43 points. It was 3-under 67 — his round featuring SATURDAY — Hansen and 24, D Quinn 21, H Humble 21, C John Holmes and Rob Johnstone his first sub-80 score in over two seven birdies. Tomlinson Xmas Hams open Blumfield 21. combined to take out the Sunday years. Home-course member Jace Brown tournament, division 1 men, net: J School’s 6x6x6 Christmas SUNDAY — Chaffey Cup stableford: had six birdies in his division 1 men’s Brown 66. Electrinet Park competition. D Cook 43, P Harrison 39, D Goldsmith net-winning 68-2-66, which featured a Gross: A Reedy 67. The six-hole best-ball net, six- 39, J Forrester 37, P Summersby 36, H front-nine score of 4-under 31. Stableford: E Brown Jr 39, D Russell PUTTING their games into reverse hole, Canadian foursomes, six-hole McClutchie 36, G Roberts 35, N Dewes Others to enjoy a victory drink on 39, T Green 39, H Maxwell 39, R Pohatu gear proved no problem for Dave ambrose format was appropriate 35, K Waitoa 35, I Ngarimu 35, B Clark the 19th were Patutahi’s Eddie Brown 38. Rameka and Pat Johnansen on as the pair turned in a hell of a 35, W Ngata 34, R Ngatai 34, M Higham Junior (div 1 men’s stableford, 39 Division 2 men, net: J Blair 62. Sunday. performance. 33, G Summersby 33, J Devery 33. The pair posted the leading scores SATURDAY — Men’s stableford, Twos: W Ngata. as members played the course division 1: C Christie 41, M Norman 39, backwards. A Hayward 38. COMING UP: SUNDAY, January 3, Junior crossword 1643 Rameka won the men’s section Division 2: W Thompson 39, B Payne first round of Summer Cup (men and with net 66 while Johansen’s 73 led 38, B Allen 37. women). 1 2 3 4 5 6 Swimming results 7 MAJOR results from the Hawke’s (Comet). Female 4x50 medley, 10 and under: Bay-Poverty Bay Summer Swimming Lewis Cup, female 800m: Jaimee Fisher Enterprise A. 8910 11 Championships at Gisborne’s Olympic (Enterprise). Male 4x50 medley, 10 and under: Pool — AGE-GROUP INDIVIDUAL WINNERS Sundevils A. CLUB POINTS CUPS Female — Female 4x50 free, 12 and under: Napier 12 Junior Aggregate Cup (13 and under): 16 years: Jaimee Fisher (Enterprise). Aquahawks. Enterprise. 15 years: Sophie Bryant (Napier Male 4x50 free, 12 and under: Napier Herald Aggregate Cup (14 and over): Aquahawks). Aquahawks. 13 Enterprise. 14 years: Jodiesha Kirkpatrick (Comet). Pufflett Shield, female 4x50 medley, 12 and United Trophy (most titles): Napier 13 years: Evie Skidmore (Napier under: Napier Aquahawks A. Aquahawks. Aquahawks). Chas H Summons Memorial Shield, Presidents Cup (overall): Enterprise. 12 years: Kate Hurley (Napier Aquahawks). male 4x50 medley, 12 and under: Napier AGGREGATE CUPS 11 years: Harriet Morunga (Enterprise). Aquahawks A. Miles Cup (female 16 and over): Jaimee 10 years: Millie Skidmore (Napier Beth Meade Memorial Cup, female 4x50 14 15 16 17 18 Fisher (Enterprise). Aquahawks). medley, 15 and under: Napier Aquahawks. Cooper Memorial Cup (male 16 and over): 9 and under: Katherine McEntee Beth Meade Memorial Trophy, male 4x50 Josiah Ney (Comet). (Heretaunga Sundevils). medley, 15 and under: Comet A. Simmonds Memorial Cup (female 14/15): Male — Shields Cup, female 4x50 free, 15 and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick (Comet). 16 years: Josiah Ney (Comet). under: Comet A. 19 Colin Kirkley Memorial Cup (male 14/15): 15 years: Caleb Carlisle (Greendale Swim Kinross White Cup, male 4x50m free, 15 Tyron Evans (Enterprise). Club). and under: Comet A. Goodall Cup (female 12/13): Evie Skidmore 14 years: Tyron Evans (Enterprise). Swain Memorial Cup, male 4x100 free, (Napier Aquahawks). 13 years: Rixon Skudder (Comet). open: Comet A. Meade Cup (male 12/13): Jyde Low 12 years: Jyde Low (Napier Aquahawks). Life Members Cup, female 4x100 free, (Napier Aquahawks). 11 years: Sam Skidmore (Napier open: Enterprise A. FASTEST-TIME CUPS Aquahawks). Twisleton Cup, female 4x100 medley, open: Across 2. Penny Compton Memorial Cup, female 10 years: Finley Day (Heretaunga Enterprise A. Part of your face (4) 50-metre freestyle winner: Grace Jones Sundevils). Martin Swimming Cup, male 4x100 medley, 6. A machine for washing 3. One of the planets (4) (Heretaunga Sundevils). 9 and under: Luke Wright (Comet). open: Comet A. 4. Brendon Long Memorial Cup, male 50m RELAY CUPS Seymour Cup, female inter-district 8x50 plates, knives, forks (10) Wear this on your foot (4) freestyle winner: Joshua Taylor-Martin Female 4x50 free, 10 and under: free: Gisborne. 8. A keyboard instrument (5) 5. Trumpet player (9) (Enterprise). Enterprise A. Seymour Cup, male inter-district 8x50 free: 10. Boiling water gives off 7. A spiny animal (9) Johnstone Cup, male 1500m: Josiah Ney Male 4x50 free, 10 and under: Sundevils A. Gisborne. STORY ON BACK PAGE ___ (5) 9. A room under the roof (5) 13. Where washing is hung 11. A flowering bulb (5) Marinos new Rugby Australia boss (11) 12. Fast aeroplane (3) SYDNEY — Zimbabwean Andy Marinos executive for five years. Newport Gwent Dragons. 14. A piece of material over a 15. A place with houses, says he’s humbled by his appointment as It’s understood the 48-year-old father He also sat on the board of the Welsh hole (5) shops, streets and schools (4) Rugby Australia’s new chief executive after of six impressed the RA board with his Rugby Union. being formally announced as Raelene extensive credentials. He most recently A former professional rugby and rugby 17. A pip fruit (5) 16. Jumps along on one leg Castle’s long-term successor. played a pivotal role in negotiating the new league player, Marinos played for the then- 19. Daily publications (10) (4) Marinos will officially take over from broadcast deal with Nine and Stan. Natal Sharks, Western Province and the interim chief executive Rob Clarke in Sydney-based Marinos has strong Stormers before moving to Newport and Down 17. Mountains (4) February after serving his notice period experience in Europe from his time spent playing 97 times for the Dragons, where he 1. Finger jewellery (4) 18. Meat from a pig (4) with Sanzaar, where he has been chief working in Wales as chief executive of the then earned test honours for Wales. — AAP

1. Cactus, 3. Ship, 7. Lift, 8. Starts, 10. Perfume, 13. Kitchen, 16. Repeat, 17. Once, 18. Long, 19. Prison. 1. Calf, 2. Coffee, 4. Hare, 5. Pastry, 6. Stomach, 9. African, 11. Petrol, 12. Tennis, 14. Open, 15. Vein. The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 24, 2020 SPORT 31 Southee expecting tough test CRICKET “A bit of dew came in, which probably sort of made the ball TIM Southee is gearing up skid on a little better but I think for the Black Caps’ toughest Pakistan played exceptionally challenge of the summer so far well, especially Rizwan.” in the Boxing Day cricket test Southee said that he and the against Pakistan, following rest of the bowling group weren’t New Zealand’s first loss since at their best. March in the third Twenty20 on “We were probably just a Tuesday. little bit off. We set very high After a dominant test series standards as a bowling group against the West Indies, the and there were probably just a Black Caps pace bowler believes couple of big overs where if we his side are in for a sterner test could’ve minimised them a little this week when they take on bit then who knows, with those Pakistan. wickets late in the piece. “I think Pakistan are a “But we probably needed to quality side,” he said about the take more wickets up front. upcoming test series. We’ve seen in the series so far, “They have an exciting if you do take those wickets, bowling attack; they offer it makes it harder for them to different challenges from what get that back end, that death the West Indies did. phase.” “They’re obviously missing However, there will be little a couple of experienced guys time to linger on the loss with through thumb injuries in the Black Caps quickly moving that first test, but I’m sure it on to the test format in what is a presents an opportunity for busy summer period. another couple of guys to step “It’s been the story of the up. CHALLENGE AHEAD: New Zealand’s Tim Southee appeals for a leg-before-wicket decision during the summer,” Southee said. “It’s a new challenge. The second test against the West Indies, at Basin Reserve in Wellington this month. Southee believes the “It’s chopping and changing West Indies are gone and a Boxing Day test against Pakistan will be a tougher challenge. Picture by Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP reasonably quickly. No time new challenge awaits with the to dwell. It’s change of format, Pakistan side.” T20. He claimed two scalps for starred with a superb 89 to help “It was a tough surface fresh personnel come in and join Southee was the brightest 25 runs. Pakistan avoid being swept in at times, just talking to the back up for test cricket for a big spark in New Zealand’s bowling But a lack of early wickets the series. batsmen, so I think the way push to finish the year and start attack in the four-wicket loss to ended up costing the Black “We thought we had enough,” Devon (Conway) played at the the next year in a good manner Pakistan in the third and final Caps as Mohammad Rizwan Southee said after the match. end there gave us a real sniff. as well.” — NZ Herald

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SWIMMING Enterprise Cars Swim gives them the best chance of by Jack Malcolm Team coach Matt Martin said being overall winner for their MATTHEW SUNG it was the largest team they’d age group, but Hamblyn says he (Enterprise) in the GISBORNE swimming had competing in many years. wants to change the emphasis. 100m breaststroke. clubs Enterprise and Comet “It was great to have quite a He wants swimmers to focus had a successful meet at the few new children at their first more on their preferred discipline, 2020 Hawke’s Bay-Poverty swim meet outside of our own and believes this will make the Bay Summer Championships. club nights, to experience the club more successful. Over 100 local athletes racing journey as part of our He says it’s not enough to rely competed across the amazing team. on raw talent and strength at the weekend in the final “Huge thanks to my national level. competitive event to be coaching staff and our A little bit more focus on their hosted by Gisborne’s Olympic fantastic managers for helping own performance would set Pool before its renovation. to get every one of our swimmers up for the next step, Enterprise won the Junior swimmers to every race — no “when they’re going to have to Aggregate Cup for club small feat with a team of this focus on their event”. points for swimmers 13 and size.” The Summer Champs provided under, the Herald Aggregate He said he didn’t like the first opportunity to see how Cup for swimmers 14 and to single out individual the early phases of the change over and the Presidents performances. He was proud have been working. Cup for most points overall; of “such a massive overall Hamblyn said he was proud of aggregate cups for female 16 team effort”. and happy with the club’s results, and over (Jaimee Fisher) and “I was especially proud of in what he said was a tough male 14 or 15 (Tyron Evans); our 10-and-under boys and weekend with long days and hot and fastest-time cups for girls, who did an awesome weather. male 50m freestyle (Josh job over a long weekend with “We’ve put work into doing Taylor-Martin) and female very long hot days,” Martin things differently, and the kids 800m (Jaimee Fisher). It had said. have taken to it really well,” he age-group individual winners “They all kept on fighting said. in female 16 years (Jaimee with smiles on their faces.” “It’s the responsibility with what Fisher) and 11yrs (Harriet The meet was the first they do themselves (at training) Morunga) and male 14yrs opportunity for Comet Swim and engaging with what you’re (Tyron Evans); and won four Club head coach Glenn training. relays. Hamblyn to see the club in “It’s been a really good start . . . Comet won the aggregate action at a big event. Comet did really well.” cups for male 16 and over Hamblyn started in the (Josiah Ney) and female 14 role two months ago and RESULTS ON PAGE 30 or 15 (Jodiesha Kirkpatrick); has been assessing how the and fastest-time cup for male club operates before making SIERRA BLUMFIELD (Comet) in the 100m breaststroke. 1500m (Josiah Ney). It had changes to improve overall age-group individual winners performance at swim meets. in female 14yrs (Jodiesha He said the HBPB champs Kirkpatrick) and male 16yrs reinforced his thinking on (Josiah Ney), 13 years (Rixon the changes he wanted to Skudder) and 9 and under implement in the new year. (Luke Wright); and won five “Change up the groups relays. and training a little bit . . . Teams representing it’s a long-term plan, not an Gisborne won the Seymour overnight thing,” he said. Cup for female and male Most competitors in the inter-district 8x50m freestyle HBPB scene enter as many relays. events as possible, which

WILLA NEEMS (Comet) in the 50-metre freestyle. LENNOX WEATHERLEY (Enterprise) in the 50m freestyle. Pictures by Paul Rickard We wish you a Merry Christmas Christmas Trading Hours Thanks for the support • Open 23-24 December 7.30am-5.30pm • Closed 25-28 December this year. Here’s to a • Open 29-31 December 7.30am-5.30pm • Closed January 1- 4, 2021. better 2021. • Reopening 5th January 7.30am business as usual. Cheers

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