TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT // PAGES 23-26 PUNCHED WOMAN IN FACE: MAN ON A SPACE Suppression MISSION PAGE 3 PAGE 9 appeal fails INSIDE TODAY IN THE RED ZONE: Queens/ Titirangi Drive, the road over Titirangi/Kaiti Hill, is open to vehicles again after contractors finished line- marking the new one-way system. The line markings define the one-way route (red) for cars and the cycle and walking lane (green). The entire project is expected to be finished next month. Busy with the rollers on the red side of the road are, front, Coastline Markers Waikato foreman Simon Costain and, from left, Fred Chapman, site traffic management supervisor Joerena Wharehinga, Omar Bashe and Morehu Enoka. Picture by Liam Clayton Frustrated OIympic ‘WE’RE OUT’ Pool Redevelopment Group calls it quits A WATER sports advocate The Gisborne Herald (April 3) that “With the amount of government Mrs Keepa said widening the pool and group is disbanding with “intense councillors, during a public excluded support this project received, the group being able to change the depth at one end disappointment” at being “kept in the meeting (on March 18), approved the don’t want to see money taken away with a moveable floor would “maximise dark” over plans for the new Olympic moveable floor but only if the group from other critical projects in Tairawhiti, the usability for the community — aqua Pool Complex. secured the $1.5 million required for it including many other facilities due to be fitness, injury rehabilitation, family use, The Game-Changing Opportunity by April 30. updated. waka ama, scuba diving, water safety, Olympic Pool Redevelopment Group was The report “We asked casual and squad swimmers, learn to formed last year by a variety of aquatic from that As this whole thing has played out for the swim, water polo, synchro swimming, users and those keen to “futureproof” the closed meeting ‘ opportunity canoe polo and underwater hockey”. new 50-metre pool for a wider scope of was released on — going over budget again, not being to discuss “Clear examples of benefits from the users. April 1. informed, not being taken seriously . the pool to proposed changes are that swimming It put forward proposals on how to Group all those things considered, we met as a make sure classes can take lessons on 25m width, do this and met with Gisborne District spokeswoman group and decided there’s no point... GDC and all rather than take up half a 50m lane, Council, redevelopment concept designers Sonia Keepa ’ stakeholders and that enhanced usability reduces the and stakeholders in late August of last said the group — Glen Sutton are making financial burden on families involved in year. “haven’t been the most of water sports. Its proposals were to widen the pool to on the inside of the $50.07m “We have to fork out a lot for our kids 25m and instal a moveable floor, allowing any meetings project.” to go away to take part. the depth at one end of the pool to be and was quite surprised to find out it However, the group had only been “When it comes to pool sport we are changed. was obligated to secure $1.5m to fund invited to one meeting with a specific constantly having to bear the costs of However, the group was surprised the inadequacies of the proposed pool steering group before Christmas, she travelling out of Gisborne.” to find out through an article in design”. said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds ... 16-18 Racing ................27 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........22 Sport ............ 28-32 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ..... 6-10,21 World....... 13-15,20 The Guide ... 23-26 Weather .............31 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, April 22, 2021 Musicians present folk tunes from the East STRINGS FROM CHINA: Playing the Chinese stringed instrument called the er hu are Nancy (back) and Xiazi. DIFFERENT SOUNDS: A group of musicians from the New Zealand Multicultural Exchange and Experience in Auckland presented a concert of Chinese folk music at Tairawhiti Museum on Monday. Playing here are, from left Yulin Li, playing the yang qin, Du Ming Chen playing the flute and Cui Mao playing the pi pa. Right is Weihui Zhao on the sheng, a reed pipe wind instrument and Wei He is behind him playing the cello. The group also played at the inaugural Tairawhiti Lantern Festival on Sunday. Pictures by Paul Rickard DUET: Zuoquan Tian (left) accompanies Niuniu who is playing the Chinese instrument gu zheng. Chinese collection donated to library AFTER last week’s the corresponding page in Tairawhiti Lantern Festival, translated — but most of the the New Zealand Multicultural collection is in Mandarin. Experience and Exchange The books come in a range of Centre, and the Asian Library reading levels from children’s Trust, donated 100 Chinese novels to adult reading and books to HB Williams cover covering a wide range of Memorial Library. subjects. “It’s going to support more Tairawhiti Cultural Festival community members and and Events chairwoman broaden the appeal of the Li Dan said it was great to library for other community expand the region’s reading members,” said HB Williams material. Memorial Library principal “We see the need of librarian of collection services providing Chinese books to Sharon Cornwall. the local growing Chinese “There might be some people community, and for the out there who only speak community to see various Chinese or who want to parts of Chinese culture, support their children to learn including food, architecture Chinese and now the library and tourism language can support those learning learning.” LILAC LILT: Juan Liu sang a famous Chinese needs.” The books will be ready for folk song, I Love You Pure and White One or two of the books are in lending as soon as they have NEW BOOKS ON THE BLOCK: Principal librarian of collection Snow, at the Chinese folk music concert at English and two are bilingual been processed, sorted and services Sharon Cornwall and Jennifer Liao at the presentation on Tairawhiti Museum on Monday. — one page in English and catalogued. Monday of the donated Chinese books. 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Williams is keen to make contact with the “mystery” Group member Glen Sutton, a long-time Russian couple who sold the 2.1-metre, soft vinyl pool user and swimming instructor, also banner that originated from the first Anglo-Soviet voiced his frustration. space mission. “We haven’t been updated in any The banner originated in either the UK, the meaningful way since (the pre-Christmas Baikonur cosmodrome launch site, the cosmonaut meeting). We had the odd email but that training facility, the Star City Gagarin Cosmonaut was usually in retrospect after we read Training Center, or the RKA Mission Control Centre in something in the paper,” he said. Moscow, Mr Williams says. “We said all along that value- It was sold at a Mount Maunganui garage sale in engineering of this project is required. 2002, and has now splash-landed in Gisborne. “As this whole thing has played out, “The Russian woman who originally sold the going over budget again, not being banner said her husband worked on the Juno informed, not being taken seriously . mission,” says Mr Williams. all those things considered, we met as He discovered this after he made contact with the a group and decided there’s no point — person who bought it from the woman at the garage we’re out. sale and put it up for sale on Trade Me. “We have always been focusing on the “The fact that a Russian couple originally had the hugely concerning statistic that only banner leads me to think it must have had a Russian 42 percent of teenagers in this region origin, which is way more exciting,” Mr Williams said. participate in sport. “Was it smuggled out of Russia and if so who was “How are we meant to change that game enough to grab it as a souvenir? How does a if we can’t offer greater access to some joint UK and Soviet Mission banner end up on the fun water sports that go beyond just other side of the world? swimming up and down the black line? Mr Williams’ quest has taken him to odd and “We’re really disappointed nothing exciting places and people, as will be revealed in The happened.