TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 PAGE 3 PAGE 5 BARS OFF: COUNCIL OUTRAGE AT CITY SEATS LIFTS MAN’S CLOSURE OF RETURNED EMAIL CUP COURSES TO NORMAL BLOCK PAGE 8 RUA ON NZX: Rua director and co-founder Panapa Ehau blowing the conch shell at 11am making RUA going live on the NZX. Picture by Liam Clayton. RUA ON NZX Rua Bioscience went live on the NZ Stock Exchange yesterday. Signalling the moment co-founder and director Panapa Ehau blew the conch shell at 11am at Uepohatu Marae in Ruatorea at the same time as Rua Bio chair Trevor Burt rang the bell at the Auckland event at the NZX. SEE STORY PAGE 4 Pictures by Liam Clayton HURT VS HISTORY Councillors hear 19 submitters on future of Endeavour models by Alice Angeloni Many oral submitters used dedicated to him in the area. replicas, and suggested the story of the models as a symbol to “Why should we honour and celebrate the Endeavour could best be told by TWO controversial Endeavour models discuss differing verions of this man by re-erecting his boat, rather re-homing them to a museum. symbolise “hurt and trauma” for some, history, colonisation, Maori than honouring our tupuna who were “Ngai Tamanuhiri believe that while for others they mark a point in versus Eurocentric world murdered?” Mr Harrington said. Gisborne District Council underestimated history which they say should not be views, and a shared cultural “What about the Ngai Tamanuhiri the feelings and thoughts of our people “suppressed”. future. story? Putting up replicas of the towards the replicas before they made Gisborne District Council’s Sustainable Tamanuhiri Tutu Poroporo trustee Te Endeavour boat which symbolises so their decision,” he said. Tairawhiti committee yesterday heard Aorangi Harrington, who has whakapapa much hurt and trauma to many of our As the Treaty partner, they sought submissions on the future of the to nine tupuna ancestors “murdered” by whanau and iwi here in Turanga is not “active partnership” and “co-governance” Endeavours, which were built to replace Cook and his crew when they arrived the right thing to do.” in undertaking the next steps for the old wooden ones that stood on large poles in Turanga Gisborne, said there were He welcomed the idea of a double- models. in the city. already statues, monuments and places hulled waka as an alternative to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Television ...........18 Racing .......... 22-23 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Literature ..........19 Sport ............ 24-28 National 6-10,16-17 World............ 13-15 Classifieds ... 20-21 Weather .............27 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Friday, October 23, 2020 THANK YOU EVERYONE: Harata Gordon, Tracey Edmonds and Wiki Mill-Tamahere all got into the party atmosphere at YIPPEE: A look of pure glee from Kamaiah Mihaka yesterday’s whanau fun day at EIT. United Students Association student advocate and events co-ordinator Julie Walker as she whizzes down the bouncy castle yesterday said the annual event was a way to say thank you to the students and their families for a year of study. “At this time of at the whanau fun day run by the United Students year it boosts morale and well-being,” she said. Pictures by Rebecca Grunwell Association (USA) in conjunction with EIT. GAMES A-PLENTY: Natalya Williams and her daughter Kylah Williams enjoyed a game together FLOWER POWER: Vayga Hovell had her face painted in the colours of a at the whanau fun day. sunset. Classic cars get together for aviation museum fundraiser by Murray Robertson “We expect about 40 cars to take part on Saturday and Sunday. The local ‘classics’ join in at GAS guzzlers from across the North Island the Gas Guzzlers Breakfast swelling the number to descend on Gisborne this weekend for the around 120,” Mr Brenchley said. ‘Classics Out East’ American car club rally, GAPS will be open from 9am on Sunday and culminating in a display at the Gisborne Aviation the cars returning from Tolaga Bay about 3pm will Preservation Society (GAPS) museum at the boost the number of cars already on display. The airport. display will continue until 5pm. The event has been organised by the Gisborne “There will also be a 800 horsepower dragster American Car Club, and to support GAPS. firing up around 4pm at the GAPS hangar.” The New Zealand classics and US-made GAPS spokesman Roger van der Zanden said vehicles begin arriving in the district on Saturday. they would be starting up the Grumman Avenger The rally starts with a breakfast on Sunday aircraft at some stage. morning in Reads Quay, then they head up to “Doug Bell will have his Allison aircraft engine Tolaga Bay for a display at the wharf. revved up as well. “We expect around 120 at the Gas Guzzlers “I will be flying Harvard 66 over on Friday from breakfast,” said car club spokesman Rick Tauranga to be part of the mini Wings and Wheels Brenchley. show, and flights in it will be available,” Mr van der “The cars range in age from 1934 upwards Zanden said. and include Fords, Chevy Impalas, coupes and “It should be a good day.” ON SHOW: Shane Horne will take his American classic cars out of the garage at American muscle cars. It’s a really wide cross- The entry fee is $5 a head, with no charge for the weekend to take part in Classics out East on Saturday. He is the proud owner section. children under 5. of a 1970 Cadillac and a 1977 Chrysler Newport. Picture by Paul Rickard LOOKING AHEAD Get your FOCUS ON THE LAND • The Real Estate of NZ stats Gisborne Herald point to a lift in farm sales across New Zealand in the home-delivered September quarter • Detailed results from the Dairy Goats competition at the Poverty Bay A and P Spring Show last weekend • Prices and comment from today’s weekly sheep sale at Matawhero — around 300 head on offer. TOMORROW TOMORROW 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 nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Friday, October 23, 2020 NEWS 3 Bars on seats removed “LET The People Lie Down” is the message ”We need to be thinking of how we can help, not printed on white stickers where bars installed on how to remove our homeless from being seen. four city benches in Gisborne’s inner city have “We take what little they do have, which is been removed. fundamentally wrong. Ask now how we can give They appeared yesterday, less than 48 hours back and we will see more positive community after bars were drilled into the benches to stop actions.” people lying down on them. Ms Crawford said the homeless were with us It is not known who removed the bars and to show how much more there was to be done to replaced them with the stickers. prevent stigma, discrimination and injustice. Oasis Community Shelter founder Lizz Crawford Gisborne District Council declined to comment said it was great to see community in action. this morning on the bars being removed. “It shows that we do care about the homeless On Wednesday The Herald reported a decision we have. I am proud to be living among such a was made by Gisborne District Council to trial bars caring community and to be walking alongside our on four seats in the inner city in response to an homeless who are gifted and talented. ongoing issue for retailers. Shop owners had told GONE: Screw holes are all that remain of the bars installed on bench seats The stickers sent a strong message, she said. the GDC about passers-by being verbally abused. in the CBD this week. Picture by Matai O‘Connor ‘He could have just talked to me and Shooter jailed told me to go away’ Judge denies Patutahi man home detention “WHEN I got shot, I frustrated her — it was only thought I was gonna die. I because she organised public THE MAN who shot an eight-year- The subsequent effects of the original charge come before him, the felt scared, worried and in meetings and addressed old Patutahi boy has been jailed, a incident were profound, not only for starting point would have been much pain. I am afraid of going to media, that police were judge refusing to grant him home the boy and his family, but the wider higher, Judge Cathcart said. sleep now. I like going to my motivated to act. detention to the address from which community too, Judge Cathcart said. In reductions for mitigating factors, nannie’s and grandfather’s Davis’ lone nature he pulled the trigger. His concern about it was captured he gave 20 percent discount (six-and- to sleep because I feel safe concerned her. He hid behind Kirk Brian Davis, 43, was in the boy’s father’s statement for a-half months) for guilty pleas. Davis there. his mother, who condoned sentenced by Judge Warren Cathcart the court in which he pointed out previously challenged the Crown’s “I don’t know why the man and enabled his “deranged” in Gisborne District Court yesterday Davis had loaded a gun, pointed it identification of him and was entitled is not in jail and I don’t know behaviour.