TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PASSIONATE ABOUT RECOVERY ROLE PAGE 3 HAMILTON STATUE TO BE VOTE FOR REMOVED MILLIE PAGE 6 Sometimes Millie Reeves’ mum has to say: “No baking today, the tins are full.” The 10-year-old Wainui Beach School student loves baking so much she entered a bake-off challenge on Facebook. Her OSLO banana and chocolate dumplings were winners and placed her in the top nine out of 60 entries nationwide. The kitchen challenge was MOSQUE run by Dole New Zealand over three weeks, with a different baking challenge each week. Millie will tonight find out if she has won the SHOOTER big prize package of $1000 worth of supermarket vouchers. If she does, Millie has promised to bake her teachers a cake. Millie said JAILED 21 baking was one of her favourite hobbies. And if the tins are full, she shares with the neighbours. Voting closes at 3pm today on the Dole YEARS New Zealand Facebook page. Millie’s entry is number one. Picture by Paul Rickard PAGE 13 COVID-19 FALLOUT Economist predicting 1700 job losses in Tairawhiti by Andrew Ashton Infometrics forecasts it will take until “We can’t just bounce back from this that is less than the 8 percent drop we the end of 2022/23 before economic and everything goes back to normal.” are expecting for New Zealand as a HUNDREDS more job losses are activity returns to pre-Covid-19 levels. Infometrics expects job losses in whole.” predicted as Gisborne’s post-lockdown “Over the next few months we will Tairawhiti to rise. While the economic hit to Tairawhiti adrenaline hit wears off, says a top continue to see New Zealand’s economy There was the first wave of job losses would be “big”, it would be less than what economist. decline,” said Mr Olsen. “We have gone during lockdown which started to ebb most other regions would feel. Speaking at an online webinar through a massive away, he said. A 7.7 percent decline in job numbers yesterday, Infometrics senior economist lockdown, we have had “In the last few is expected over the year to March 2021. Brad Olsen said the economic impacts a lot of work that was weeks, though, we’ve That would equate to about 1700 jobs in across New Zealand had been serious and permanently stopped This is a very significant started to see an the region.” Tairawhiti needed to “pivot and redefine” and are only now ‘economic shock . it is increase in job losses Infometrics modelling shows those job how the region’s economy would function. getting people back to much more on par with the — businesses who losses will be felt most in retail, with 319 “This is a very significant economic work.” are looking at the jobs expected to go. shock . it is much more on par with the Mr Olsen also Great Depression of the market conditions and Another 304 jobs will go in the Great Depression of the 1930s.” pointed to the 1930s not seeing the same accommodation sector and 200 in forestry A total of 1700 job losses are predicted Government wage ’ —Infometrics senior amount of activity, and and agriculture. in Tairawhiti — 319 of those in retail subsidy, which is now economist Brad Olsen are having to adjust Specific modelling around Maori and nearly half of those retail job losses only to businesses their profile. jobs shows Maori are concentrated in Maori. showing a 40 percent “Over the next year accommodation and food services and Mr Olsen said there would be a long drop in revenue. or so Gisborne can forestry. recovery timeframe before returning to “Even then, those businesses are still expect to be facing a nearly 6 percent near-normal. going to be in a very concerning place. decline in economic activity, although CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 You could be eligible for fees-free study*. 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ENROLMENT DAY 0800 22 55 348 | eit.ac.nz | Tairāwhiti Campus | Gisborne Learning Centres: THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 2pm to 6pm Wairoa | Ruatoria | 9am to 3pm 32797-02 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............10 Television ...........16 Racing ................20 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............11 Classifieds ... 17-18 Sport ............ 21-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ...... 6-9, 15 World............ 12-14 Literature............19 Weather .............23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, June 12, 2020 HAND OF NEW ZEALAND: DrainWise Art competition entry winner Hannah McKinlay (left) adds a touch to her design, Hand of New Zealand, as Toihoukura Maori visual arts school tutor Ngaire Tuhua painted the work around the Gladstone Road/Lowe Street corner stormwater drain yesterday. Picture by Paul Rickard Marine message in winning art by Mark Peters wildlife and marine life that lives in and going to go and (it will) make people think.” around the water. The judging panel was made up of Mayor AN ORCA, a crab and a seal smile happily Titled Hand of New Zealand, the half Rehette Stoltz, Four Waters strategy adviser as a two-toned hand prevents detritus brown, half light-tan hand with koru-like Wolfgang Kanz, and artist Derek Lardelli from washing into the drain and ending up waves rippling along the wrist “represents who described Hannah’s design as bold. in the sea in Hannah McKinlay’s winning the multiculturalism of New Zealand and “Does not need wording imagery to DrainWise Art competition entry. our unity or shared responsibility for our carry the message,” said Mr Lardelli in a Painting the winning design around lands and waterways,” said Mrs McKinlay in summary. the Gladstone Road/Lowe Street corner her submission to the competition. “Outstanding! Solid colour should be stormwater drain was delayed by the When rubbish such as cigarette butts and easy to replicate. Clear focus around the lockdown and weather but yesterday polystyrene cups is dropped on the ground drain. Excellent work”. Toihoukura Maori visual arts school tutor and ends up in a stormwater drain it is “out Mrs McKinlay’s design won her a $250 Ngaire Tuhua was able to begin work on the of sight, out of mind”. Warehouse voucher. DRAINWISE: Hannah McKinlay’s design. “I was trying to convey a clear message Eight schools have contributed other submission of a bold, brightly-coloured The aim of the competition was to find it’s our responsibility as a nation to take designs that will be painted around design was the winner of Gisborne a design that would send a clear visual care of our environment in all ways. stormwater drains in various locations. District Council’s DrainWise Art message to people that anything that goes “It was a cool competition because the The school competition winners will be Competition. Picture supplied down a stormwater drain eventually affects stormwater drain is where the design is announced next week. ‘Hard hit’ for Tairawhiti but better than rest of NZ FROM PAGE 1 focus on there is although Tairawhiti Freight and heavy traffic here was with a global recession in swing, he did is not going to be hit quite as hard, operating at about the same level as in not expect that to grow. In those sectors 180 Maori jobs the starting position, the number of February. New Zealand’s building industry are predicted to be lost in the people who are out of work, was higher “In my mind, that speaks to that was also expected to stop, once the accommodation industry, 162 in in Tairawhiti than other parts of the catch-up we’ve seen in forestry over the construction industry had finished those agriculture and forestry, and 136 in the country.” past few weeks.” projects that had been on hold over retail sector. Another positive was the way the However, although forestry was “going lockdown. “Again, that 7.7 percent decline is not region was able to keep working through gangbusters” at the moment, it was Modelling from Infometrics said the as harsh as the 9.8 percent decline we’re lockdown in comparison to the rest of important to remember the industry largest hit to Tairawhiti would be in expecting across the entire country,” the country. was locked down for four-and-a-half transport and warehousing, due to said Mr Olsen. “So again, a hard hit for However, even in Level 1 traffic flow weeks. reduced demand and a fall in spending. Tairawhiti but not as hard as the rest of volumes were still only at 80 percent of “So we are still playing catch-up. The Mr Olsen pointed out those the country. those prior to lockdown. question in my mind is, if this is going to assessments did not take into account “We are expecting unemployment in “So there’s still not as much economic be sustained.” regional efforts to provide support to the the area to rise to 9.3 percent (up from activity happening but it is certainly For forestry, Chinese demand was still economy through things like the draft 6.9 percent). The important thing to getting better.” only about 90 percent of normal, and regional recovery plan. LOOKING AHEAD TOMORROW Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • Zespri reports on a strong home-delivered nearly $2 billion fi nancial year for its kiwifruit. NZ MAORI • About 4000 head presented for sale at today’s sheep COUNCIL sale at Matawhero. • Wilencote Herefords at COMES TO Ngatapa marks 100 years this bull sales season.