Nupepa o Te Tairawhiti THE GISBORNE HERALD RĀHINA, MAHURU 9, 2019 I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 HOME-DELIVERED $1.70, RETAIL $2.00 TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI RAHINA, MAHURU 14, 2020 I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 TEARS FLOW AT C COMPANY HOUSE PAGE 3 PUKANA: Kereru class students at Te TOLAGA BAY CIVIL DEFENCE PAGE 4 ‘All day, every day, te reo is our way’ Hapara School practise their te reo Maori every day. Te Wiki o te reo Maori VOLUNTEERS RECOGNISED is another week where the students UNHEARDOFSAVINGS! IT is Te Wiki o te reo Maori Ms Neilson said. what they teach us every embrace te ao Maori. The children are (Maori Language Week) but “Singing connects us morning so we will become pictured with teacher Tanya Neilson. te reo Maori is used at Te and brings us together better performers, therefore Picture by Liam Clayton. Hapara School every school and creates memories and incorporating the intrinsic day. memory space in our brains. link to culture and identity PAGES Each day the kereru “We know our students and the essential element 5-8,11, whanau class have the enjoy our morning sessions of whanaungatanga (the 12, 13, 16 same routine of performing and they could independently importance of people and a waiata (song), karakia run it on their own. connectedness),” said Ms (prayer) and haka and “We are a culturally diverse Neilson. HEARING• Mask refusal halts Fullers ferry trip practise use of te reo Maori whanau and celebrate and “The school’s focus this •NEW Political party leader’s Covid theories kupu (words) and commands respect all people.” year has been about creating raising fears for Maori health because that is a part of who Te Hapara has two kapa a sense of belonging and PBL they are as a class, says haka tutors — Papa Pura and we feel that through culture, • Expecting ugly GDP figures for quarter teacher Tanya Neilson. Koka Tahua — who teach singing and music we do PAGE 3 “Music ignites all areas of them haka and waiata on this. All day, every day, te reo • Melbourne lockdown protesters a child’s development and Thursdays. is our way.” arrested skills for school readiness,” “We believe in practising SEE STORY, PAGE 2 by Andrew Ashton Jones’ announcement, taking to because nobody up at Facebook at the weekend to label Wharekahika spoke up in support A GOVERNMENT Mr Jones “a knob”. for a wharf or a barging facility, or announcement to put aside “For the record, the Gisborne anything like that. Port not $45 million for a barging District Council’s spatial plan “In fact, the day before we were facility on the East Cape has rejected this idea. Our community told the opposite. been slammed as “bizarre” and is speaking. You’re not listening “It is just silly, just such a silly unwanted. - Knob behaviour of the highest announcement.” Infrastructure Minister order,” he stated in a Facebook Mr Wharehinga added it was Shane Jones on Saturday said post. also apparent during the visit to the Government had approved The idea was rejected for the area how low river levels were. wanted in principle an allocation of inclusion in Gisborne District “Even if the community up to $45m from the Crown Council’s Tairawhiti 2050 strategy, supported it, which they don’t Infrastructure Partners with submissions highlighting — the practicality of barging up infrastructure fund for a marine environmental impacts, a lack of and down the river, there’s no transport facility on the East consultation and concerns over practicality there.” Coast, with two suitable sites wahi tapu (sacred sites). The ability of roads to hold log identified for the facility — Speaking to The Gisborne trucks to get logs to a wharf would on Cape Wharekahika/Hicks Bay and Te Herald today, Mr Wharehinga also create more problems for Araroa. said councillors had visited infrastructure in the area. However, members of the local Wharekahika the day before the The announcement was met ‘It is just silly, just such community and local politicians announcement and, unprompted, with caution by Te Runanganui o have scoffed at the idea. locals had told them they did not Ngati Porou. Gisborne Deputy Mayor Josh want a wharf. a silly announcement’ Wharehinga was scathing of Mr “It’s a bizarre announcement CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 NEW Gisborne Thu, 24 Sep, 7.30pm ZEALAND War Memorial Theatre SYMPHONY Miguel Harth-Bedoya Conductor Vesa-Matti Leppänen Violin Stalls $30 ORCHESTRA Anthony Ritchie Remember Parihaka Eroica Sibelius Violin Concerto PODIUM SERIES Beethoven Symphony No. 3 Eroica GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Racing ................17 Sport ............ 20-24 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........18 Weather .............23 National .... 6-10, 16 World............ 13-15 Classifieds .........19 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Monday, September 14, 2020 - WHUTUPORO/RUGBY: Gisborne Boys’ High School hooker Nathaniel Hauiti reaches out to score what proved the winning try in a Super 8 secondary school rugby match on the Rectory field on Saturday. Left, Gisborne players celebrate their 18-17 victory over the second-placed New Plymouth side. It was Gisborne’s last home game of the season. They face Palmerston North BHS away in a play-off for fifth. - Pictures by Paul Rickard HAKINAKINA/SPORT - POIKIRI/SOCCER: Gisborne United’s Josh Harris goes over the top of Gisborne Thistle’s NETI PORO/NETBALL: Ritana Senior A wing defence Amoe Wharehinga Tomek Frooms in a title-deciding Pacific Premiership football game at Childers Road and Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A wing attack Briah Allen reach for the ball Reserve on Saturday. Thistle needed to win by three goals to pip Port Hill United for the in a premier grade netball game at the Victoria Domain courts on Saturday. championship. They won 3-1, meaning Port Hill and Thistle finished on the same points — Ritana (Lytton) won the battle of the high schools, 25-23. Whangara Old 36 — and with the same goal differential — 25 — but Port Hill took the title because they Girls, YMP, High School Old Girls and Waikohu will contest the top-four scored more goals than Thistle over the season — 39 to 38. Port Hill players and supporters playoffs. More on Saturday’s games on page 23. Picture by Paul Rickard made a special trip from Napier to watch the game. Match report on back page. Picture by Liam Clayton ‘KIA KAHA TE REO MAORI’ WELCOME to Te Wiki o te Reo Maori hard and aim for one million participants. Hemi Henare said: ‘We have come too far “It’s an emotional read for us to go — Maori Language Week. The Maori Language Moment is where not to go further; we have done too much through the reasons people are signing Today is Maori Language Day. you commit to doing one thing in te reo not to do more: Tawhiti rawa i to tatou up. It commemorates the presentation Maori at noon today — whether that be haerenga atu te kore haere tonu’.” “Maori New Zealanders sharing photos of the 1972 Maori language petition to saying “kia ora”, asking someone “kei te While most are from New Zealand, of their children, grandchildren or parents Parliament. pehea koe? (how are you?)”, or singing a thousands are also joining from overseas and grandparents. The chosen theme for 2020 is “Kia Kaha waiata. — from Australia to the United States, “Pakeha people telling us te reo is part te Reo Maori”. The Maori Language Moment is an Scotland, South Korea, Japan, South of their identity as a New Zealander that Kia Kaha is well understood in New open invitation to all New Zealanders to Africa and Denmark. they’re proud of. Zealand English as “be strong”. celebrate what makes Aotearoa unique — “We’re absolutely amazed, ecstatic and “New migrants telling us that te reo We often talk about languages as if te reo Maori. quite emotional to see more than 500,000 is something that makes them feel so they are people — talking about language No matter where you are from or how champions of te reo Maori will join us on grateful to be a new New Zealander and health, strength and revitalisation. So well you can speak, you can be one in a today,” Mr Apanui said. they want to be good Treaty partners,” Mr when people say “Kia Kaha te Reo Maori”, million. “We set a goal of one million for our Apanui said. it means “let’s make the Maori language “Never before have this many people moment because we are aiming to see one “The country is going through some of strong”. gathered to celebrate te reo Maori,” Maori million speakers of te reo by 2040. It’s not our toughest times right now and we are Over 900,000 New Zealanders have Language Commission chief executive too late to join us.” rallying together behind a language that signed up to make history today in the Ngahiwi Apanui said. The sign-up website has struggled to was once banned and shunned.” inaugural Maori Language Moment at “We are making history today. But why cope with the rate of people signing up. 12pm. stop there? Let’s go hard and reach 1 At one stage people were joining every MORE ON TE WIKI O Organisers are asking Aotearoa to go million. As the great New Zealander Ta few seconds. TE REO MAORI, PAGE 9 The Gisborne Herald • Monday, September 14, 2020 NEWS 3 One flown to hospital after Coast crash THREE people were taken to hospital yesterday after the ute they were in left State Highway 2 on a bend south of Ruatoria and crashed.