TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 31-AUGUST 1, 2021 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.70 GOING SMOKEFREE COVID-19 AT LYTTON ■ Anti-vaccination meeting held in Gisborne ■ ‘‘Like going 20 rounds with Mike Tyson’ WEST ■ Sydney braces for military enforcement DOUBLE-ACT WIN ■ Baby among the dead in Fiji outbreak PAGE 3 PAGES 3, 8, 10-11, 14, 15 TEAM TAYLER: If support was an Olympic Games sport, Tayler Reid’s cheerleader squad would be gold medal contenders. A large contingent gathered at the West Inn Tavern this morning to watch Gisborne triathlete Reid in action in the mixed team relay at the Tokyo Games. Many were wearing REID NZL T-shirts and almost all had on bushy wigs to emulate Reid’s mop of blond hair, although the 24-year-old cut his hair in anticipation of the hot and humid Tokyo weather. Unfortunately, the New Zealand team were well adrift of the leaders after the first leg completed by Ainsley Thorpe, with Reid running the second of the four legs. Meanwhile, Gisborne sprint kayaker Alicia Hoskin is counting down to her Olympic Games debut. Hoskin is paired with Teneale Hatton in the K2 500 metres and will be in action in the heats from 11.08am on Monday. Hoskin is also in the K4 500 crew which features New Zealand kayaking great Lisa Carrington. The K4 heats are on Friday morning. Picture by Paul Rickard ‘We’ll be in Government’ ACT leader sure of sharing Treasury benches with National by Wynsley Wrigley which brought him and fellow ACT MP the Opposition but ACT is the leader of He said the 47 Honest Converstions Nicole McKee to Gisborne. proposition,” (as in proposing ideas), Mr meetings ACT had scheduled across the ACT leader David Seymour is confident ACT would increase its current 10 MPs Seymour said. country were drawing large attendances of forming a coalition government with by six, according to the most recent polls, He accepted the polls showed 65 (80 to 100) in small centres, despite it National after the 2023 election. and increases of that size for the next percent of New Zealanders believed the not being an election year, because of “We will be in Government,” he boldly two years would see the party serving on country was “going in the right direction”, government policy. told The Gisborne Herald during his the Treasury benches. but that had been 70 percent a month The Government appeared to be Honest Conversations national tour “Judith Collins may be the Leader of before. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 IF YOU ARE ON A WAITING LIST FOR SELF STORAGE IN GISBORNE, GET OFF IT NOW! Now OPEN at 68-72 Aerodrome Road (turn into Aerodrome Road off Awapuni Road at the Allied 68-72 Aerodrome Road • safeguardstorage.co.nz • 06 242 3004 Petrol Station) for all your storage requirements. 41316-02 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ...... 11-12 Classifieds ... 22-26 Farming..............16 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............13 Television ....W9-11 Sport ............ 27-32 TOMORROW National .......... 6-10 World....... 14-15,19 Racing ................21 Weather .............31 977 1175467004 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, July 31, 2021 SMOOTH OPERATORS Mobile unit bringing kidney stone treatment to the community STONE REMOVAL: Inside the mobile unit used for kidney stone procedures are, from left, anaesthetist David Baxendale, urological surgeon Jon Cadwallader and anaesthetist David Freschini. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell EVERY year around 500 people across On one of its quarterly visits to Aotearoa New Zealand are identified as Tairawhiti last week, it was all hands on suitable candidates for lithotripsy, a non- deck in a brand new mobile unit. invasive medical procedure for treating Each procedure requires an kidney stones. anaesthetist, anaesthetic technician and For more than 30 years, urological medical imaging technologist. surgeon Jon Cadwallader has been A team of local nurses who are crucial part of the solution, co-founding a to service operation ensure everything state-of-the-art mobile unit that delivers runs smoothly on the day. lithotripsy to whanau in need around the “One of the greatest benefits of country. Mobile Medical is being able to bring “Approximately 8 percent of the this service to communities like population will experience kidney stones Tairawhiti where we can reduce the need at some point in their life,” he says. for people to travel elsewhere to get that “The technology in Mobile Medical is kind of treatment”, says Mr Cadwallader. very effective but comes at a high cost, Lithotripsy treats kidney stones by so it makes sense to share that around,” producing concentrated, high-frequency he said. sound waves that break the stones down “This style of service delivery is into tiny pieces which are then flushed designed to do just that, as well as naturally from the body. simplifying treatments.” The type of treatment provided to Most regions do not have enough people suffering from kidney stones suitable candidates for lithotripsy is determined by a urologist who will to justify the purchase of their own consider all factors about a person’s equipment, making a shared mobile health before a decision is made on ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Urological surgeon Jon Cadwallader and anaesthetist David Baxendale facility a cost-effective solution. whether lithotripsy is suitable. from the mobile lithotripsy theatre. 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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 • Saturday, July 31, 2021 NEWS 3 ‘Forever thankful’ by Jack Marshall mouth to sing.” Amy said the world came flooding back once GISBORNE scored a double-act win with both it was time to hear the judges’ critiques. the Amazing Graces and Amy Maynard taking “I owe a lot of my love for singing to being out top places in Maori Television’s 5 Minutes of raised in a musical family on both sides,” said Fame last night. Amy. The final episode saw eight contestants “My grandfather David Thompson used to run competing head-to-head before the top four — the Gisborne Country Music Club when I was a teen, a female, a male and a group — then growing up, and it was my music teacher at high faced off in song to win the overall title. school, Jane Egan, who convinced me to study Amazing Graces won the group category music when I left school.” singing Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth and Amy On Facebook Amy thanked her friends. Maynard from the group took out top female “To everyone who has supported me on vocalist singing When We Were Young by Adele. this crazy journey, I can’t thank you enough. I Then Amy — who is from Gisborne but based wouldn’t have been able to do this without your in Hamilton — went up against Pereri King from support so I will forever be thankful. Hawke’s Bay for the supreme winner award. “I did what I set out to do, I proved to myself The pair sang Torea as a duet before Pereri that I could sing every song that I was ever was named the competition’s supreme winner. afraid of. The category winners and overall title winner “I proved that I could silence my inner shared a prize pool of $15,000. saboteur long enough to be on that stage Amy said the singing was easy. It was completely alone and hold an audience captive, everything beforehand that was hard. surrounded by cameras and people in an “It was the mental preparation of being in incredibly unfamiliar and foreign environment, such a competitive environment against people and I not only held my own but I thrived up DOUBLE ACT: Maureen Maynard, Jasmine Taare and Amy Maynard took out who you grew to love. It was hard moving there on that stage.” top places in Maori Television’s 5 Minutes of Fame last night winning in both the forward and watching others go. Amy Maynard and her partner Aaron Gott group and female vocalist categories. Picture supplied “The lights and cameras faded into the perform as the band Looking for Alaska who background for me as soon as I opened my released their self-titled album in 2016. Medsafe’s approval of Tenant hosting ‘A vaccine the AstraZenica vaccine this week showed the Government was “always meeting on reactive, never proactive stroll-out’ in relation to Covid”. anti-vaccination by Alice Angeloni said. FROM PAGE 1 ACTING The owner TOGETHER: THE representative of the of the floor treating landlords like a terrorist ACT leader David owners of the Marina View declined to group, the rural sector was facing Seymour and fellow Apartments in Gisborne comment. an avalanche of regulations, ACT MP Nicole does not support an anti- Complaints employers were dealing with McKee say strong vaccination meeting being about a leaflet increasing costs and had attendances on their held at the building.