TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 DEAL WITH ‘WIN-WIN’ GREENS l l BIG PAGE 6 BANGS Pipiwharauroa Whiringa-ā-nuku 2020 Pukapuka: Rua Tekau Ma Whitu Panui: TeKau INSIDE TODAY AT SPEEDWAY PAGE 2 ā ā Tokotoru ngā wāhine taikaha, ū ki te Kei Kaiti a ia e noho ana, ā, e tino mōhiotia Me mihi ka tika ki ā koutou i whakapau kaha kaupapa kei te tū mo te rohe mo te toru ana mō ana mahi i waenga i ngā takatāpui nei ki te tū, uru noa ki te Whare Paremata, tau e heke mai nei. Ko te Mema mo te me ngā hāpori Kōpere, Āniwaniwa, ngā koutou hei tiaki, hei whakapuaki, hei Paremata Ikaroa Rāwhiti mai i te tau 2013 i kaupapa e pā ana ki te Tiriti o Waitangai me whakatinana i a mātou e hiahia ana, e a Parekura e ora tonu ana ko Meka Whaitiri. te whakapakari taiohi. wawata ana. Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawa E ai ki a ia i tana urunga tuatahi atu ki te nui. Mā te Runga Rawa koutou e manaaki, e Paremata i te kaha tauhou tonu a ia ki ngā tiaki, e ārahi. whakahaere. I taua wā, ki ōna whakaaro e noho ana ia i taua tūranga mo te tekau tau engari kua whakatau kāore e taea te aha ki te taha whawhainga. Ko tāna, ko te tū motuhake mo te kāwanatanga mo te tekau tau. Tino kaha a Kiri Allan ki tōna tūranga, te tūranga arā Rāwhiti Ikaroa, tūturu nō Nāhinara i mua, arā nō Anne Tolley. Ko te mihi kari koa ā Kiri i te huihuinga i te whare whakaruruhau i ana kaitautoko i te putanga o ngā kaute, arā,“Too much whānau.” E tautoko ana hoki rāua tahi, a Meka, a Kiri i te rangatira kaiārahi, arā i te Pirimia i a Jacinda Ardern mō tana kaha ārahi i te rahi, i te nui o Aotearoa i te wā mōrearea o Covid-19. CELEBRATING: Children’s Nā te kaha o Te Pāti Kākāriki ka uru, āe, nō Commissioner Judge Te Tairāwhiti ā Tākuta Elizabeth Kerekere Andrew Becroft and his ki te whare Paremata. new assistant, Glenis unitesPhilip-Barbara, martial arts and alternative hongi education at through a Māori lens. a powhiri marking her Inside this month... appointment, at Reporua Marae yesterday. SEE STORY PAGE 3 Picture by The Black Balloon EASTLAND Port is preparing for upgrades for the slipway are due to the most extensive infrastructure begin early in 2021. upgrades and developments it has seen Construction work will involve in more than 100 years, to help support, removing the old rusted sheet pile future-proof and grow the economy of wall, strengthening the river training Tairawhiti. wall, reshaping the slipway edge and The cornerstone of this is the Twin armouring it with large rock boulders MAJOR Berth project, Eastland Port’s major to stop any further erosion and enhance redevelopment project to expand the the habitat for juvenile crayfish and port’s marine infrastructure. It will marine invertebrates. allow for two Handymax (150-200m The second project, to rebuild Wharf 7, long) ships to be berthed at once, and will begin in the second quarter of 2021. meet the needs of the region’s thriving The wharf was built in the 1960s and industries. is at the end of its economic life and in “While logs are our primary export need of replacement. today, we want to create a coastal Contractors will demolish and then UPGRADE container terminal to expand the options rebuild Wharf 7 so it is strong enough for exporters, enabling more types of for mobile harbour cranes to operate on goods to be exported and imported via it, and provide a stronger, more resilient the blue highway,” says chief operating lifeline asset for Tairawhiti. officer Andrew Gaddum. Next year a second resource consent “Since we first engaged with the application will be lodged by the port community on these plans, several which will encompass the second stage years ago, we’ve worked through details of the Twin Berth development. This with local hapu, iwi and other key consent will cover the extension of AT PORT stakeholders and have made a number the existing Wharf 8 structure; about of significant changes to accommodate 1.5 hectares of reclamation; dredging and reflect their feedback.” the channel and harbour deeper and Stage one of the port redevelopment upgrading the stormwater treatment Plans include twin berth project will begin this summer. systems in the Southern Log Yard. Major maintenance, repairs and CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............10 Racing .......... 15-16 Sport ............ 24-28 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............11 Classifieds .........17 Weather .............27 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ....... 6-9,19 World............ 12-14 Television ...........18 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, November 2, 2020 CRACKER NIGHT Thunderous detonations from the $10,000 Jukes Carriers fireworks show echoed across much of Gisborne city on Saturday night as the Gisborne Speedway put on a show to remember. Club president Clyde McGrory said Pacific Dreams put on a show that wowed the crowd, which was bigger than last year. “It was a huge night, and the 28-race programme was spectacular too,” McGrory said. “Highlights were the saloons, closely followed by the stock cars.” The crowd size approached 3500 people. Picture by Liam Clayton by Murray Robertson involves all five surf lifesaving clubs in Patrols for November on Sunday the region. They have been training for mornings from 10am-12noon, and begin THE first surf lifeguard examination their tests for three months. full weekend patrols from December. of the season was held at Midway Beach “It was a very successful These will run through to mid-March. Clubs on Saturday. Twenty-two new guards examination,” said Gisborne/Tairawhiti Dawson Building Midway and Kaiaponi qualified to join the three Gisborne clubs, Surf Life Saving NZ club development Farms Waikanae will run Nippers patrols along with five patrol support volunteers. officer Sonia Keepa. next Sunday from 10am to 12noon, and They will all be joining their clubs “The candidates were examined in then begin full weekend patrols for the in volunteer surf patrol operations this first aid, resuscitation, patrol operations, remainder of November and running summer. signals, tows, radio procedures and so through to mid-March. Also on Saturday two new instructors on and successfully completed a 400m Uawa Tiaki Tai in Tolaga Bay will gain graduated and a new probationary timed swim in the Olympic Pool, a run- operate from December through to examiner moved a step closer to that swim-run and a surf tube rescue.” February and Ngati Poroua SLSC will qualification. The three city clubs start their patrols patrol Hicks Bay during January. The new guards were trained under the progressively from next weekend. The city clubs start their Nipper Surf Lifesaving Academy umbrella that Riversun Wainui will run Nippers programmes next Sunday morning. 22 new NEW GUARDS: More than 20 new surf lifeguards passed their surf bronze examination on Saturday morning, along with several patrol support volunteers. The SLS Academy candidates were pictured afterwards at Midway Beach. (Standing, from left) Sonia Keepa, Belinda Slement, Tim Petro, Jo Whibley, Jeremy Lockwood, Rachael Matthews, Andrew Shelton, Kylie Pinto, Tanay Goldsbury, Petiata Bowden, Bella Fitzharris-Stevens, Stella Perano, Freya Wilson, Ella Whibley, Jodiesha Kirkpatrick, Alice Sparks, Zephaniah Jackson, Cruz Williams, Andrew Ingoe, Rodney Richards and Adam Glenister. (Sitting, from left) Hamish Swann, William Matthews, Yahni Brown, Sophie Petro, Stevi Reid, Chloe Kapene, Elle Williams, Matti Richards, Naiya Powley and Holly McIntyre. guards Absent: Kirsty Gaddum, Anita Bronlund and Nicola Bronlund. Picture supplied The Gisborne Herald • Monday, November 2, 2020 NEWS 3 Thousands of ‘No better person’ native trees Powhiri celebrates ‘crucial’ appointment for the Coast by Diana Dobson NEW Zealand in restoring the health of the REPORUA Marae yesterday environmental charity Trees land by planting native tree resonated with waiata, pride and That Count has approved species. emotion at a powhiri for the new funding for almost 10,000 HPY Trust Native Tree and Assistant Maori Commissioner for native trees for East Coast Bird Sanctuary will receive Children, Glenis Philip-Barbara. planting projects next year, 1000 trees this year, and are Children’s Commissioner Judge with benefits for the region passionate about planting in Andrew Becroft and staff from the ranging through waterway order to return native bird life Office of the Children’s Commissioner restoration to increased to the area. travelled to Ms Philip-Barbara’s biodiversity. Longbush Ecological marae near Ruatoria to welcome The charity’s native tree Trust, who run the Waikereru her to her new role and celebrate “marketplace”, which collects Ecosanctuary, have similar with whanau and friends who had donations from businesses goals. travelled from far and wide for the and individuals in order to Both say they have already powhiri. fund native tree planting seen the significant increase Many people spoke of the pride nationwide, has funded 35 in native bird populations they felt in having Ms Philip-Barbara projects in the region since as a result of native tree appointed to such an important and 2017 and the number is only planting. crucial role, with several saying there growing. Sheep and beef farms at was simply no better person for the “Native planting efforts Amberly Farm and Turihaua job. in the Tairawhiti region have Station will plant 3600 trees Judge Becroft agreed, saying been steadily increasing, and to improve soil and water they had received a huge number Trees That Count have had a quality and reduce erosion of applicants and Glenis had stood significant role to play,” East risk, with a focus on fencing out.