TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 11-12, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.70 STARS PAGES 5-6, 8, NEW ALIGN FOR COVID-19NEW 10-13, 18 PBL CONCERT AT •PBL Electronic bracelets a possibility at isolation facilities A cuppa . • Call for extension to wage-subsidy scheme PAGE 3 THE CLOCK PAGE• Australia’s 3 largest daily increase of cases — 288 and a kōrero • Bolivian president tests positive for Covid-19 PAGE 3 • Study suggests unborn babies can contract virus EAST MEETS EAST: Buddhist lamas (teachers) Karma Dorjey and Damcho visited Gisborne this week on a mission to find a suitable site for a stupa (spiritual monument). It would be the first stupa in the world to see the sun and Gisborne was chosen specifically for this. The pair looked at locations from Muriwai to Tatapouri. If a suitable place is found, once completed, the stupa would be gifted to Gisborne District Council for the people of Gisborne. The pair are pictured visiting a Gisborne Buddhist centre. STORY ON PAGE 5 Picture by Paul Rickard Freedom camping issues Need to get facilities in order at Kaiti Beach: councillor by Wynsley Wrigley stationwagons and cars parked at the help homeless keep warm in their cars. The only occupied van belonged to freedom camping site at 7 in the morning. Donations can be made to SuperGrans French tourists Etienne Pfister and HOMELESSNESS and human waste “There are so many vans at Kaiti Tairawhiti at 185 Childers Road. Adelaide Creusot. are major issues at Kaiti Beach as Beach it’s unbelievable — it’s like Gisborne District Council monitoring They arrived in New Zealand in March freedom camping continues to be popular summer.” and compliance team leader Kate Sykes before the Covid-19 lockdown and decided despite the winter weather. However, the removal of a toilet at told The Herald they were aware of the to stay because they have 12-month work Gisborne district councillor Larry Kaiti Beach last summer meant there freedom camping issues at Kaiti Beach. visas. Foster, who lives on Kaiti Bearch Road, was now only one toilet in the area. “Staff are dealing with infrastructure The pair worked in Northland on a expressed his concern at a recent council A second toilet was needed. matters as they arise and issuing dairy farm and picked raspberries for meeting at what he said were a large “Every morning I see people walking infringement notices where appropriate. a while before ending up in Gisborne, number of people freedom camping at the behind the yacht club,” he said, referring “Staff are also developing a proposal which they said was a lot warmer than area. to them going to the toilet. “It’s starting to deregister summer camping areas and the South Island. “New Zealanders, or someone is on the not to be nice.” include them within a revised freedom The recent rain had not deterred them move,” he said in relation to the volume Cr Foster said some of the people camping bylaw in a move to address and they were still enjoying themselves. of vehicles. “That is great to see but we parking at Kaiti Beach were homeless summer camping and compliance issues”. However, the wet weather prevented need to get our facilities in order.” and were sleeping in their vehicles. There were only seven vehicles, mainly them from meeting other freedom Cr Foster said it was not uncommon SuperGrans Tairawhiti has been vans, at Kaiti Beach when The Herald campers at Kaiti Beach. to see 40 vehicles consisting of vans, seeking donations of clean bubblewrap to visited on what was a cold and wet night. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Opinion ..............11 Farming ........ 20-21 Teleivsion ...W9-11 Births & Deaths ...4 Business ...... 12-13 Racing ................24 Sport ............ 29-32 TOMORROW National .... 6-10, 23 World.. 14-15, 18, 22 Classifieds ... 25-28 Weather .............31 977 1175467004 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, July 11, 2020 HOLIDAY CREATIVITY Geometric art from the minds of children SQUARED AWAY: Marh Love watches daughter Te Atawhaioranga carefully paint in masked-off areas of her geometric design. A BRUSH WITH COLOUR: Kiyogi Lewis-Whaangara, with help from artist mother Maiko, has an audience of soft toys as he heads into the painting stage after making geometric forms from masking tape as part of a school holiday workshop at Tairawhiti Museum. Pictures by Paul Rickard THE grid-like geometrics of Dutch The activity was also about “seeing”. modernist Piet Mondrian, Gordon “We walked the children through the Walters’ linear, Maori-motif inflected exhibitions,” says workshop teacher Sue- works and patterns on Japanese cloth Ann Blandford. were among sources of inspiration for “They looked for geometric shapes GEOMETRICS: Josie Keas children at a school holiday workshop and everywhere they looked they saw creates a pattern of brightly- this week. patterns — in everything from Maori THE JOY OF PAINT: Young artist Hughey coloured squares and triangles Held at Tairawhiti Museum, the artworks to (Gisborne artist) Richard Fraser (left) feels the creativity before his that will reveal themselves as workshop was about creating geometric Rogers’ sculptures. mum Briar Fraser has even finished laying strong geometric forms once the patterns by using masking tape and “It was amazing the things they saw down masking tape. masking tape is removed. paint. that I didn’t pick up.” LOOKING AHEAD Get your ALL THE LATEST NEWS, INCLUDING: Gisborne Herald • Another ASB 5-star rating for the region’s economy home-delivered • Erosion problems continue at Sponge Bay • Pictures from the free Matariki concert at the Town Clock • The latest from the landfill breach at Awatere River • A round-up of local sport including premier club rugby, premier netball and Pacific Premiership football MONDAY The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, July 11, 2020 NEWS 3 CONCERT AT THE CLOCK: A special stage has been set up at the Town Clock site for a Matariki-celebrating concert featuring the likes of Ria Hall (main picture) and, Stars out inset, Maisey Rika and Rob Ruha, among others. The concert runs from midday to 5pm tomorrow. Ruha picture by Erica Sinclair for Matariki Photography, Hall and Rika pictures supplied by Mark Peters To support the star power under the celebration, an area with heaters will be The concert will start at 12 midday and tower, concert co-organiser Tyna Keelan arranged for kaumatua and kuia. is scheduled to finish at 5pm. A CONSTELLATION of top acts, has arranged to instal the Rhythm and A range of food vendors will be All approaches to the Gladstone Road including Troy Kingi, Maisey Rika and Vines garden stage and a JBL VerTec available and education providers will and Grey Street intersection will be the Modern Maori Quartet, will help the sound system under the clock. be on hand to give information about closed to traffic from 8pm tonight to people of Tairawhiti celebrate Matariki, Other acts lined up for the concert are courses. about 8pm tomorrow, so organisers can the Maori New Year, tomorrow. Ria Hall, Rob Ruha, the Modern Maori The event is more than a concert, set up and run the free, whanau-friendly The free concert will be held not Quartet, The Witchdoctor, Angelique Te Keelan told The Gisborne Herald last event. under the star cluster that legend says Rauna, Supreme Brother Sound, The month. Closure points will be on Grey Street is wind god Tawhirimatea’s seven eyes Ashes, King Dynamite and DJ Murdurah. “It’s about bringing people together and between Childers and Palmerston Road, that he threw into the sky in anger, but The weather forecast is for a sunny having a good community celebration,” and Gladstone Road between Bright Gisborne’s Town Clock. day but since Matariki is a winter Keelan said. Street and Derby Street. Tiwai closure could reduce power prices by Andrew Ashton short-to-medium-term impact on the Eastland Generation THE planned closure portfolio will be less than of New Zealand’s biggest might be supposed. electricity user will have “This is due to a mix of significant impact on factors that might play out the energy market but across the wider industry, also an added bonus of including transmission cheaper electricity for some, constraints limiting the geothermal energy generator impact in the North Island; Eastland Group says. the accelerated mothballing Earlier this week it was or retirement of thermal announced the Tiwai Point generation (Contact Energy aluminium smelter would has already said it would put wind down operations, a off investing in its Tauhara move that would see 1000 geothermal power station); jobs go and the closure of the the postponement of some smelter, which uses about 13 large-scale new generation HAPPY CAMPERS: Adelaide Creusot and Etienne Pfister dry and happy as they freedom camp at percent of the nation’s power planned by other energy Kaiti Beach, which remains a popular camping site despite the recent wet weather. Gisborne district supply. companies; and increasing councillor and Kaiti Beach Road resident Larry Foster says he has seen up to 40 vehicles at the Gisborne-based Eastland electricity demand on the campsite at 7 in the morning. Picture by Paul Rickard Group, which owns lines back of climate change company Eastland Network mitigation measures and new and operates two geothermal energy-intensive businesses.