TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PAGE 2 DAIRY GREECE, MURAL TARGETED TURKEY, BRIGHTENER AGAIN CALIFORNIA PAGE 5 ABLAZE PAGE 13 GOLDEN K1WI Lisa Carrington is on the cusp of becoming New Zealand’s most prolific Olympian after her sensational kayak sprint double at the Tokyo Games yesterday. Carrington, whose iwi affiliations include Ngati Porou, won the K1 200 metres final then about an hour and 10 minutes later teamed with Caitlin Regal to win the K2 500 final. It was Carrington’s fifth Olympic medal and drew her alongside Kiwi greats Ian Ferguson, Paul MacDonald and Sir Mark Todd. Carrington and Ferguson are the only New Zealanders to have won four golds. She has two chances to surpass that at Tokyo as she is in the K1 500 and K4 500. See editorial (page 10) and pages 21 and 24. AP picture Seeking sculpture solution by Wynsley Wrigley ago. hydrocarbons had shown varying results. remediation work would have to be dug A Te Wananga o Aotearoa Facebook The first 50mm was “clean soil”, but and given the costs involved, we want to GISBORNE District Council continues posting about the sculptor Matt Randall, asbestos and other contaminants were make sure we get it right.” to work with iwi in trying to erect dated June 2015, says Hawaiki Turanga found from one metre down and other Murray Palmer, in a recent Herald the Hawaiki Turanga sculpture at its “will soon be erected”. debris from two metres. column, said there was enough intended site close to where Waikanae The council gave up on plans to have Water was also present which was no information to make decisions and Stream meets the sea. the sculpture erected in time for Tuia surprise as Waikanae Stream was close progress the sculpture. There has been frustration from 250 commemorations held at Labour by. Mr Wilson said three possible options various parties at the lack of progress. Weekend, 2019. Mr Wilson said the council was looking for remediation had been discussed The scenic walkway in front of Council director of community for practical solutions. with representatives of Te Runanga Harbourview Apartments continues to be lifelines David Wilson told the Herald “We are committed to finding a way o Turanganui a Kiwa (TROTAK) and blighted by fencing erected following the investigations into the site known to forward. discovery of asbestos nearly two years be contaminated with asbestos and “But it remains unknown how deep any CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 IF YOU ARE ON A WAITING LIST FOR SELF STORAGE IN GISBORNE, GET OFF IT NOW! 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Picture by Rebecca Grunwell by Akula Sharma She started the mural as an art project of Campion College for some ideas. community. last year, before the Covid-19 lockdown. “Neighbours looked at the blank wall, “It was the longest mural we have ever CAMPION College student Angela “Maurice wanted the picture copied and we wanted something on it. One done and first major one outside school,” Gibson Sam spent a whole year painting on the wall, I just added some of my of them had a postcard exactly like the he said. a wall of Maurice Allan’s house in Lytton own ideas. It was my first-ever mural mural so I took that back to the school Angela said she did most of the West. painting,” she said. and asked them to do it,” Mr Allan said. art work at weekends and on Friday It wasn’t just any old paint job though Mr Allan and his neighbours were Campion College art teacher Matt afternoons. — she copied an image from a postcard keen to have the wall made more King said he was pleased with Angela’s She is in year 13 and hoping to follow on to the blank wall. interesting and he went to the principal work and how she had helped the her passion for art further. Homecoming for Historic Places Tairawhiti’s guest speaker NEW Zealand’s leading Maori paper CONSERVATOR: Alexander Turnbull Library for a year and started conservator, Vicki-Anne Heikell, will be back in Vicki-Anne Heikell’s to run workshops that would teach people how her home town this month as guest speaker at job as a field to care for their whanau collections, including Historic Places Tairawhiti’s annual meeting. conservator with the photos, stories of tupuna (ancestors) and A field conservator with the Alexander Turnbull Alexander Turnbull whakapapa (geneaology) books. Library’s National Preservation Office since 2010, Library’s National Before gaining her current position, she held Ms Heikell was earlier this year made a Member Preservation Office various paper conservator positions at the of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to has taken her all National Library of New Zealand and the National heritage conservation and Maori. over the country. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Her job takes her around the country as she She will talk about where she supported the National Services Te provides training and advice in the preservation her career at the Paerangi and iwi outreach team to develop and of documentary heritage items and collections to Historic Places run marae and museum-based preservation individuals, groups, iwi and other organisations. Tairawhiti annual workshops. Ms Heikell (of Te Whanau a Apanui descent) meeting on She has been involved with nationally will talk about her start in conservation, Maori August 14. significant projects, including the He Tohu conservators and the people who encouraged Picture by exhibition of several of Aotearoa’s key them, and her work with hapu and iwi. Mark Beatty constitutional documents, sits on the Ngati Porou She will accompany her korero with images. Taonga Advisory Board and is a past president The eldest daughter of Agnes and the late a 1989 summer holiday job in Tairawhiti . She on the scholarship committee, who identified of the New Zealand Conservators of Cultural John Heikell, Ms Heikell attended Mangapapa worked with artist and heritage advocate Cliff the need for Maori conservators, she gained a Material collective. School, St Mary’s School and Campion College Whiting, Ben Pewhairangi, Nick Tupara and Dean scholarship to study in Canberra for a Bachelor Ms Heikell’s talk is at Tairawhiti Museum on before going to Victoria University in Wellington Whiting cleaning carvings at the Porourangi of Applied Science in conservation of cultural Saturday, August 14, and is open to the public. to study for an arts degree majoring in sociology. meeting house at Waiomatatini. materials, specialising in paper conservation. Doors open from 5.30pm with the AGM at 6pm, Her first experience in conservation work was Thanks to the foresight of a group of women Back in New Zealand, she worked at the followed by the guest speaker. Get your Gisborne Herald home-delivered • After a hiatus of nearly 20 years, Gisborne’s Muse nights are back at Smash Palace. • Vieux Amis bring together culture, music and old friends, at Tirimoana. • Get your glow on — a Kiwi-fi ed version of Alice in Wonderland, in lights. • Tenor Vili Moore makes his debut at Tairawhiti Museum. TOMORROW PLUS: MUSIC GUIDE • FILM REVIEWS • GUIDE GOSSIP 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 • Wednesday, August 4, 2021 NEWS 3 Findlays taking sliced bread to the Wairarapa GISBORNE baker Walter Findlay Ltd has which will help to keep the Gisborne-based purchased Breadcraft, the Quality Bakers bakery sustainable. The entire Gisborne-based Co-Operative supplier for Wairarapa, from the team have been very supportive. They have Cockburn family of Masterton. really risen to the challenge to help make our Both bakeries are multi-generational family new addition possible and we can’t thank them businesses and have been supplying Quality enough.” the Findlays said. Bakers breads including Natures Fresh, Walter Findlay will have a local depot in Molenberg and Freyas as well as many of the Masterton for dispatch, with the Masterton- supermarket brands since the early ’80s. based sales and marketing team coming over In a drive toward industry efficiency gains to Walter Findlay. and business sustainability, Quality Bakers “This change brings further strength to our Co-Operative members Walter Findlay Ltd respective operations to ensure that we are (Gisborne) and Breadcraft (Wairarapa) have both well placed for future developments,” worked together to improve productivity at Breadcraft owners John and Julie-Anne both bakeries, with Findlay’s taking over the Cockburn said. manufacturing of the Wairarapa Quality Bakers “Selling the licence opens up much needed range of products and Breadcraft concentrating capacity so we can focus on growing our FRESH: Walter Findlay Gisborne plant manager Connor Findlay ships off some on growing its specialty baking business.