TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 GOVERNMENT MOVES ON HOUSING CRISIS PAGE 6 • $3.8 BILLION SCHEME TO ACCELERATE NEW-HOUSE BUILDS • ‘BRIGHT-LINE TEST’ FOR TAXING GAINS EXTENDED TO 10 YEARS • INCOME AND PRICE CAPS LIFTED FOR FIRST HOME GRANTS • INTEREST DEDUCTIBILITY FOR INVESTORS BEING REMOVED GISBORNE’S expat Indian community voice to global objections with a peaceful hope, holding signs, sharing our voice to let came out in force at the weekend to back protest on Sunday. the farmers know that they are not alone in farmers back home. “Over 100 families attended a peaceful their ongoing struggle. PEACEFUL Agricultural reforms passed by the Indian gathering at Heipipi/Endeavour Park to “As people drove past, we received government have raised the ire of farmers. support the farmers back home in India who waves and toots of support. We feel blessed The laws allow private retailers to buy farm are continuing to protest and voice their to those who join us, asking questions to goods directly from growers, circumventing concerns against the Modi Government’s gain a deeper understanding — together India’s government-controlled wholesale Farmers Bill,” protest spokeswoman standing up for humanity, our rights to markets. Meredith Stewart said. speak and sharing issues happening in the PROTEST Gisborne Indian residents added their “Together we stood sending messages of wider world.” Picture supplied ‘WE ARE SORRY’ ‘It is horrific, shameful and completely unacceptable that people in our care have suffered abuse’ — Anglican Church THE ANGLICAN Church has apologised recent changes to disciplinary canons and the courage and the strength of those “unequivocally” for abuse in its care while spoke about tikanga and a recommitment to who have given testimony to the Royal giving evidence to the Abuse in Care Royal assist the Commission in its work. Commission of Inquiry. Commission of Inquiry (RCOI). Disciplinary canons are a set of “It was incredibly difficult for us to hear Witnesses for faith-based institutions gave ordinances and regulations made by Church about the abuse you suffered at the hands of evidence before the Abuse in Care RCOI in authority for the government of a Christian people that represented our church and were Auckland yesterday on their processes for organisation or church and its members. meant to uphold all its values,” Archbishop resolving historic and current abuse claims. Archbishop Tamihere read out the Tamihere said. Archbishop of Aotearoa Donald Steven statement at the hearing. “We were horrified and we felt ashamed. Tamihere from Gisborne, Archbishop of “On behalf of the Anglican Church in What we felt, though, was nothing compared New Zealand Philip Richardson from New Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia we to what you suffered and went through.” Plymouth and Archbishop of Polynesia apologise to those who have suffered abuse “This abuse has been sexual, physical, Fereimi Cama have a joint primacy shared while in the care of the church,” he said. verbal and emotional, and was carried out by between the three tikanga of the Anglican “It is horrific, shameful and completely cruel, manipulative and predacious people,” Church — Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha — unacceptable that people in our care have Archbishop Tamihere said. and submitted a joint statement. suffered abuse. “They took advantage of the positions of They offered an apology from the Church “We recognise and acknowledge that abuse trust that they were given and used those APOLOGY: Archbishop Donald to those abused between 1950 and 1999 has occurred within our church and we positions to prey on the weak and vulnerable. Tamihere read out a combined while in the care of the Church and its apologise unequivocally.” witness statement on behalf of affiliated institutions, gave an update on Within the statement they acknowledged CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 the Anglican Church. File picture GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............10 Television ...........18 Racing ................23 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............11 Classifieds ... 20-21 Sport ............ 24-28 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National ...... 6-9, 17 World............ 12-15 Picture page ......22 Weather .............27 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Camp for young birds of a feather by Mark Peters YOUNG Birders New BIRDS New Zealand’s Zealand is a not-for- Gisborne branch has perches profit organisation which available at a six-day youth camp encourages young people for young ornithologists from to get into birding, learn this region. more about the birds in this The Napier-based camp, held country and meet people from April 18 to 24, offers an with similar interests. It also introduction to basic birding — offers free subscription to its finding, identifying, recording online magazine Fledglings and reporting. NZ. Produced every second It includes demonstrations, month, Fledglings NZ is an opportunity to try survey packed with activities for techniques, catching younger members, quizzes and banding birds, and to test the knowledge of responsibilities that go with older ones, information these activities. about New Zealand’s finest “The most important things we birds and competitions. For do are show people some really more information visit www. good birds and find friends of a youngbirdersnz.com similar age and interest,” Birds NZ said in a media release. “This year we will be hosted importance to our ecosystem. by the Hawke’s Bay branch of Those applying for the Birds New Zealand and will be Gisborne subsidy are asked birding in coastal and wetland to write a letter of introduction habitats around Napier then that includes an outline of the moving up to Boundary Stream applicant’s interest in birds, any — a large patch of beech forest involvement with bird watching with intensive predator control and reasons for wanting to and very good bush birds.” attend the camp. The camp is partly funded Email the letter to Gisborne- through Birds New Zealand. The Wairoa regional representative cost to participants this year Geoff Foreman at gaforeman@ is $200. This is a contribution xtra.co.nz. towards accommodation, meals, Birds New Zealand has transport and other course costs. run camps for young people For registration, or for interested in birds since 2015. more information, contact the The camps are held in various organisers at youthcamp@ locations. birdsnz.org.nz The young birders are The Gisborne branch of Birds supervised in the field at all NZ has funds to further subsidise times, with a male and female up to three keen young people adult available to deal with (14 to 18 years old) from this personal issues. region with a view to inspiring A copy of the camp’s safety STATUESQUE: Photographer and passionate conservationist Neil Foster shot this kotuku further interest in birds and their plan is available on application. perched at Waikanae Creek. Birding is wonderful grounding for kids, says Mr Foster. “There’s always that golden moment when the magic happens.” Auckland Writers Festival director to talk in Gisborne by Mark Peters this region — Witi Ihimaera and Marcus is an adaptation of Nobel laureate Jose Akuhata-Brown. Saramago’s 1995 novel of the same name. DESCRIBED as an event not to be Conversations with offshore writers Written by Tony Award-winning missed by anyone who enjoys reading, such as Ai Wewei and Kazuo Ishiguro will playwright Simon Stephens and directed Auckland Writers Festival director Anne be livestreamed. by Walter Meierjohann, the story is O’Brien will be in Gisborne this week to “Writers festivals around the world are about an epidemic of blindness in which talk about the six-day celebration of books doing well at the moment,” Ms O’Brien the government tries to quarantine the and ideas. told The New Zealand Herald. contagion by herding the newly-blind More than 200 writers — international “People are keen to engage in public people into an empty asylum. But their and national — will discuss books, authors discourse at a time when that has attempts prove futile. and ideas at the Auckland Writers retracted in some ways. The desire to take The multi-award-winning creators Festival at the Aotea Centre from May 13 part in live conversation about who we are conceived the story as a sound and light to 19. and how the world works is really of its installation. It is experienced through The festival brings together top writers time right now.” headphones, in socially-distanced pairs of contemporary fiction and non-fiction — The festival, in partnership with and under glowing, fluorescent lights. TALK ABOUT A GOOD READ: Auckland scientists, economists, poets, journalists Auckland Live, will also present Blindness Ms O’Brien will be at Muirs Bookshop Writers Festival director Anne O’Brien is and public intellectuals. — a socially-distanced sound installation to talk about the writers festival on in Gisborne on Thursday to talk about Along with big names such as Jeff and immersive theatre experience beamed Thursday from 5.30pm. the six-day celebration of books. Tweedy, Selina Tustala Marsh, Antony direct from the United Kingdom. For more information on the festival, go NZ Herald picture Beevor and John Boyne are writers from The Donmar Warehouse production to www.writersfestival.co.nz LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND Gisborne Herald • The second dispersal sale at Rangatira Angus at Muriwai yesterday is labelled home-delivered one of the best sales of its type in the country.