TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI SATURDAY-SUNDAY, AUGUST 1-2, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.70 MISSING DOG COAST’S SOLD ON PRISTINE IMAGE FACEBOOK THE NEXT STAGE UNDER HEARTBREAK FIRE FOR FAMILY PAGE 2 PAGE 3 SILVER More than 50 grape pruners from LeaderBrand and the district’s horticulture contractors went head to head yesterday at the Ashwood Park SECATEURS vineyard at Makaraka as the Silver Secateurs competition made a comeback after a break of 10 years. The standard of competition was REVIVED described as “first-class”. Among the field were Sole Toki (left) and Mere Ngamoki (above). STORY ON PAGE 4 Pictures by Liam Clayton Hundreds have say Chance to comment on models sparks wildly different reactions by Aaron van Delden Anyone can make a public submission issue is an important one and people from Those models were refurbished in 1999 at tellus.gdc.govt.nz/endeavour. outside the region are open to comment,” and again in 2010, before being taken DEBATE continues to rage over the Submitters are required to provide only she said. “Our target audience, however, down in 2016 because they were falling Endeavour models, with more than 400 an email address and their comments is the people of the Gisborne district.” to bits. comments already posted on Gisborne are uploaded immediately, although the The council kept its Fitzherbert Street The council has put $28,000 towards District Council’s consultation website. council said they were screened for swear headquarters open until 7pm from reinstating the models, which have Public outcry saw the council backtrack words. Monday to Thursday for people to make a vocal proponent in former district on its decision in May “We count multiple submissions from submissions in person. councillor Malcolm MacLean, who was to reinstate the models the same email as one valid submission,” Submissions can still be dropped off voted out at the 2019 election. in Gisborne city without customer engagement manager Anita at the council or HB Williams Memorial Along with Martin Kibble, whose late consultation. Reedy-Holthausen said. Library, or sent to [email protected], father John helped restore the original To tangata whenua, The council admits it will not be until August 16. models, Mr MacLean led a campaign the ship can be a able to tell if a person makes multiple The two original Endeavour models, to raise the $48,000 needed to get new symbol of colonisation submissions by using various email built from lightweight marine plywood, aluminium models of the Endeavour and oppression. addresses —“just as if someone chooses were installed in 1969 for the 200th built. The council decided to write more than one hard-copy anniversary of James Cook’s landing at The new models, completed in in June to instead seek submission using false names and Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. September 2019, each weigh 200 feedback on where to addresses”, Ms Reedy-Holthausen said. The models were expected to be kilograms and require new poles, at a cost put the models, launching a website for People can anonymously “like” or temporary but remained on poles in of about $30,000, to hold them. submissions on July 20. “dislike” comments submitted online. Gladstone Road, at intersections with The council said its decision to The comments and proposed locations Ms Reedy-Holthausen said likes and Peel and Grey streets, until they were financially support the models’ put forward online swing wildly from dislikes were a gauge of public opinion replaced in 1978 by models built by restoration preceded the Covid-19 returning the models to their original but would not be treated as submissions, Gisborne Boys’ High School students. pandemic. Gladstone Road location or to “the “nor do they give additional weight to the The students’ models were also in “If the council was posed with the same bottom of the ocean and then blown into original submission”. Gladstone Road but near intersections funding decision in the current climate smithereens”. “We believe the Endeavour models with Chalmers Road and Derby Street. the outcome may have been different.” GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Opinion ........ 10-11 Sport ............ 29-32 Classifieds ... 25-28 Births & Deaths ...4 World............ 12-14 Weather .............31 Television ....W9-11 TOMORROW National ......... 6,8-9 Farming ...........18-20 Business ...... 23-24 977 1175467004 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, August 1, 2020 Tankers added to firefighting arsenal FIRE and Emergency New Zealand in Tairawhiti has taken delivery of two new firefighting water tankers, one to be based in Gisborne and the other in Tolaga Bay. The new appliances were manufactured by Mills Tui Ltd in Rotorua. Each vehicle holds 5800 litres of water, along with associated discharge and portable pumps, and other firefighting gear. “They are excellent machines, brand new and will serve the Coast and the Gisborne community for many years to come,” said principal rural fire officer and Tolaga Bay fire chief Ray Dever. “Water availability for firefighting is a key requirement for our rural and other unreticulated communities like Wainui. “The Tolaga Bay-based vehicle will be an extremely valuable asset for the East Coast,” Mr Dever said. “It will also provide back-up for large fires up towards Tokomaru Bay and down in Gisborne.” The Gisborne appliance will be based at the city fire station. Mr Dever (right) and area fire commander Charlie Turei are pictured with the tankers outside Gisborne Fire Station. Picture by Paul Rickard LOVED HER PUPPY: Amora-Rose with her five-month old fox terrier her family called Little Puppy. The ‘Who would steal someone’s puppy went missing in Kaiti last Sunday and ended up being sold on Facebook to an unsuspecting woman. Little Puppy was euthanised by a vet after contracting canine parvovirus from the address she was taken to puppy and then sell her? and sold from. Picture supplied Heartbreak for family after missing dog is sold on Facebook by Sophie Rishworth the puppy and she ran off. vet, who confirmed the puppy The aunty carried on — thinking had the highly contagious and A GISBORNE family have been the puppy would come back or go deadly canine parovirus — more left crushed after their puppy was home, which was just down the commonly known as parvo and stolen, then sold over Facebook. road. particularly virulent in dogs under Their hopes of being reunited Instead, by 3pm that same day, one year old, even if they have had with their pet were dashed when the puppy had been offered for sale a parvo shot. they found out the puppy had to on Facebook for $70 and was sold The puppy had to be euthanised. be put down after it contracted the by that night. Meanwhile, the family who deadly parvovirus at the address The 20-year-old woman who owned the dog had been holding from where it was sold. bought the puppy said she had out hope for a happy ending. And the woman who unwittingly been excited. She had wanted a The mum said Amora-Rose was bought someone else’s pet is $350 puppy for a while and asked over walking around home and calling out of pocket — the $70 the puppy Facebook if anyone had one for for her puppy. was sold to her for and a $278 vet sale. But a plea on Facebook for bill. “There was this lady messaging anyone who had seen their missing The foxy puppy was given to me,” the woman told The Gisborne dog brought devastating news. 16-month-old Amora-Rose three Herald. “She said she had a Jack Eagle-eyed Facebook users months ago. Russell puppy for sale and I asked recognised the puppy from an “She had a lot of names but we her for details and photos. earlier post by the woman who called her ‘Little Puppy’,” said “I told her it looked like a foxy had bought her. Upset the puppy Amora-Rose’s mother, who did not and said I would pass, but she kept had died, she posted a warning to want to be named.“She was given messaging me, then she sent me a check animals were not sick before to us by a friend. She definitely video.” selling them. wasn’t sick here. She had her parvo The woman found the video so “On Thursday afternoon I put shots and was such a happy dog.” cute she agreed to buy the puppy all the pieces together and worked The sad story started last and went to the address supplied out what had happened,” said Sunday at around 11am. to pick up her new pet. Amora-Rose’s mother. “I can’t stop The puppy followed Amora- But over the next two days the thinking about it and am still so Rose’s aunty along Owen Road in puppy’s health deteriorated to the confused. Who would steal someone Kaiti as she walked to basketball point where it was suffering from else’s puppy and then sell her?” practice. diarrhoea and vomiting. The mother said she would be On the way, another dog scared The woman took her to a contacting the police. LOOKING AHEAD Get your ALL THE LATEST NEWS, INCLUDING: Gisborne Herald • Questions are raised over the accuracy of a report on home-delivered the district council’s greenhouse gas emissions • Toihoukura Maori visual arts school is offering two scholarships to Year 13 students • Thousands of native trees planted in the 30 years of the Women’s Native Tree Project Trust • Reviews and results of local sport, including premier club rugby and premier grade netball MONDAY The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O.