TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PAGE 3 MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES NZ KEEPING BOMB PAGE 4 CLOSE EYE THREAT POLICE ON NEW FOLLOWING STRONG LEADS STRAIN PAGE 6 STORMY WEATHER An “exceptional” storm front that crossed the district on Saturday afternoon produced 436 lightning strikes. This made Gisborne the third most active region storm-wise in New Zealand on a day on which 3009 lightning strikes were recorded nationwide. The storm moved over the city at around 4pm, said MetService meteorologist Tom Adams. It was a localised, shortlived and intense event that dropped more than 12 millimetres of rain in an hour at Gisborne Airport. Mr Adams said there were shades of last week in this week’s forecast. Rain is forecast for Friday, with heavier falls on Saturday. Until then it is expected to be fine and humid, with a high of 28 degrees on Thursday. Amateur photographer Janice Feyen captured this shot at Whales in Okitu on her Samsung 10 phone. Janice says she saw the storm coming from her deck and there was a lot of running up and down the beach to get the right spot. “I spend hours down at the beach. I’m up at 5am waiting for the colours to come so to have a photo come out so amazing is wonderful.” Janice’s photo received the most reactions on the Current Gisborne and Surrounding Districts Facebook page to date, with 700 people “liking” her photograph. Training more tradies ‘Growth in apprentice numbers in Gisborne is going through the roof’ by Jack Marshall Gisborne is going through the roof.” employers who train have both had a big nationwide have started an apprenticeship For the year to date (late 2020), impact,” said Mr Durkin. programme. This was up from about 7500 APPRENTICESHIP numbers have 85 people had signed into a BCITO The Government’s Targeted Training for the same period in 2019. rocketed as business booms for the trades apprenticeship in the area. and Apprenticeship Fund pays Some in the construction industry feel and construction industry in Gisborne. At the same time businesses to take it is finally having a resurgence of image The value of non-residential consents in 2019, BCITO sign- on apprentices and after years of being second fiddle to alone have doubled to $53 million over the ups in Gisborne were Some in the construction funds foundational universities. past 12 months and this has significantly around 40. industry feel it is finally having courses ranging An example is the Prime Minister’s boosted demand for workers in trades. A similar rise from construction to Vocational Excellence Award, which “The growth in the number of people had happened at a resurgence of image after viticulture. started in 2019 and is presented annually training within our trade sectors in Eastland Institute of years of being second fiddle to Businesses who at secondary schools alongside other top the Gisborne region is very high at Technology Gisborne universities. employ an apprentice academic prizes. the moment, with well over 100 people campus, with the are paid $1000 a Currie Construction project manager actively learning on the job with us right number of carpentry month for the first Mark van Wijk is happy with the new now,” said Building and Construction students around 30 year and $500 a brush with which trades are being Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) percent higher than usual. month for the second year. painted. interim chief executive Greg Durkin. “The Government initiatives of no fees Since the launch of the apprenticeships “Growth in apprentice numbers in and the apprenticeship boost incentive for scheme in July, close to 14,000 people CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ..............9 Racing ................15 Kids page ..........19 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............10 Television ...........16 Sport ............ 20-24 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ............ 6-8 World............ 11-14 Classifieds ... 17-18 Weather .............23 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Kindred spirits enjoy Revive FLOW: Claudia Stewart (left) leads by Mark Peters emotional for us because the a group of Revive festival-goers festival has been so hard to through a series of postures during AFTER an overwhelming year organise.” a vinyasa yoga session. Vinyasa the inaugural Revive festival On the second day of Revive is a style of yoga in which the was a nice way to restore some a collective, ecstatic dance was practitioner moves fluidly from one positive, calm energy, said Revive held in the evening. Five hundred posture to another. visitor Dacia Goble. people stood in a circle and the The three-day alcohol and drug- ecstatic dance facilitator asked free festival that followed Rhythm Sam and Jock to stand in the and Vines centred on holistic centre. Each person in the circle health and spiritual wellbeing. touched or hugged the brothers. With yoga, breathwork, meditation, “Then they chanted the mantra African drumming, sound healing om to recharge us, to give us and a cacao ceremony among energy back that we had put into ACOUSTIC DUO: Brother and sister duo Jasper and Jane workshops at various sites under the festival.” Hawkins perform under the trees at the inaugural three-day the trees, the atmosphere was Sam and Jock expect the Revive Festival at Woodlands on the Back Ormond Road. relaxed, quiet and uncrowded. festival to at least break even. All pictures by Liam Clayton The festival included two They plan to run Revive again REBALANCE: stages for artists who included next year. Left, Pix Tree of Nadia Reid, One Tribe, and “I like the no-alcohol side of the Coromandel eclectic indie-folk band Good Revive,” said Adrienne Kozlowski Wilderland Habits. Stalls under canopies set of Wellington. community, tried up between rows of sunflowers “R&V feels a bit chaotic. Here slacklining. offered incense, oils and crystals, is nice and cleansing. I like the hand-crafted jewellery, and energy integration of music and yoga healing. retreat.” Founded by brothers Jock and The opportunity to learn and Sam Barns-Graham, the Revive to grow was an attraction for festival attracted an average of Rachel Cooper who came up from about 700-750 people over the Wanaka for the festival. three days. “Other people are in the same “We expected fewer people mindset, which makes this a good so we’re really happy with such space to learn from each other.” a wonderful community of like- For free-diver/underwater minded people coming together,” photographer Vitek Tuma of said Jock. Tauranga, the festival provided “So many people came up to an opportunity to engage in us and said the festival was life- breathwork. changing. We had quite a few from “You have to calm yourself Rhythm and Vines. They said it down there,” he said. was good to ‘rebalance’ after a “This is also my first time trying high-energy time at R&V. yoga. I prefer Revive because FAMILY AFFAIR: Gisborne family “There were tears and laughter there is no drinking but the CHILLING: Laura Reinisch (left) of Napier, Muriel Klavers Daniel, Oriana, Tomas (5) and Josefa — it’s been special and very festival still has a perfect rhythm.” (Havelock North) and Johanna Scholz (Napier) share a (12) Contreras-Rojas made sure they hammock hung in the leafy shade at the Revive Festival. were prepared for the sun at Revive. LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE Gisborne Herald LAND home-delivered We focus on the fi fth annual on-farm stock sale at Puketoro Station today, and set to draw another big crowd of would-be buyers and supporters to the property inland from Te Puia Springs – 9300 sheep and 700 steers were on offer. THE GUIDE TOMORROW THURSDAY 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: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To fi nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, January 5, 2021 NEWS 3 COLLISION AFTERMATH: No one was injured in a crash involving these three cars at the intersection of Lowe Street and Childers Road this morning. The car on the right ended up in the frontage of the Equippers Church. Pictures by Paul Rickard Church damaged in three-car crash A VEHICLE ploughed into a church One of the cars left the road and “We checked out the people in the frontage in a three-car collision smashed into the frontage of the vehicles but there were no injuries,” at the Childers Road/Lowe Street Equippers Church, damaging the a St John Ambulance spokesman intersection this morning. entranceway. said. No one was injured in the crash Police and St John Ambulance “No one needed to go to hospital, which happened at around 7.50am. responded. which is a good thing.” Still plenty of Strong leads room for growth in hunt for in trades industry FROM PAGE 1 percent for 5-10 apprentices. The report said there could “It is good the Government be between 45 and 85 spaces is appreciating the vocational for apprenticeships available pathways,” he said. in the region. “The industry suffered for Those jobs could be key to bomb hoaxer a couple of generations from reducing the rising benefit the idea clever people go to numbers. university and don’t go into Ministry of Social Phone call threat came from outside district trades.” Development statistics show Currie Construction a 26 percent increase in takes on between four and working-age people getting by Murray Robertson six apprentices a year and Jobseeker Support in the year currently boasts around 30 ending September 2020.