brain building interns

Like many teenagers Haylea Rodgers, Ruby Westrupp and Jade Keelan decided to take up an internship this summer, but unlike many, managed

to reconstruct their brains in their fi rst week on the job.

� e three are among seven summer interns at the Gisborne-based Matai medical research institute. � e internships are

sponsored and supported by Matai, Turanga Health, the University of Auckland, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, and the Fred Lewis Enterprise Foundation.

“Before I started the internship, I would have described myself as technologically challenged, but within a week I managed to process my own MRI brain scan data using mind numbingly fantastic computing

software,” intern Haylea Rodgers said.“I had my brain scanned in the Matai MRI,

and took the data from the scan to create a model. � is was a surreal experience to see and learn fi rst-hand, how medical technology has progressed and is being applied.

“� e outcome was remarkable colourful images, which show the white matter connectivity of my brain using diff usion

tensor MRI. � is imaging technique can be used to study diseases of which the underlying pathology causes changes to the brain wiring or disruptions in axonal tracts within the brain. � e process involved uses neuroimaging software and coding scripts to manipulate the data to then load onto viewing platforms. Continued on page 2

� is summer seven university students are enjoying the chance to be involved in cutting edge projects as summer interns with the Gisborne-based Matai Medical Research Institute. Andrew Ashton spoke to some of those involved about what they will be getting up to.

Brain building internsJUMP START: Matai interns exercising before having MRI scans to test how exercise aff ects the brain. Picture by Paul Rickard

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“Under the guidance of the team at Mātai and Dr Jerome Maller, a globally renowned neuroscientist at GE Healthcare, I navigated the software and have uncovered a new magnifi cent world of technology hiding in my laptop. It was a challenging task, however, using my own data was very exciting. I became so engrossed I found myself working on this every moment I had, including evenings and the weekend, to complete the processing. It was incredibly rewarding to transform my original images to showcase the complexities of the brain.

“I was the fi rst of the interns to begin at Mātai, so as more arrive, I am excited to provide tautoko (support) through their journey. I have now started processing my data though another MRI technique called Functional MRI, which gives information about blood fl ow to diff erent parts of the

brain, from which we are able to interpret what areas of the brain are showing activity or simply resting. I am excited to apply this knowledge to the current studies happening at Mātai during my internship and beyond, into my Bachelor of Medical Sciences with Honours in 2022 and clinical years in medicine.”

Mātai Research director Dr Samantha Holdsworth, said while that might “sound like a simple project”, the work the interns were contributing could potentially enhance understanding of disorders that aff ect brain movement.

Intern Ruby Westrupp said reconstructing her own brain with the help of Dr Maller was “completely rewarding”.

“However, this is only the start of the projects that we are working on at Mātai. We are also involved in a study to learn what happens while the brain is under various conditions, such as when the heart rate is being increased and how the brain

moves while under stress. “With this study, I helped the team create

a method to incorporate exercise before and during the scan in order to get the heart rate up to a certain standard. With the increase of heart rate, the body pumps more oxygen to the brain. Working on this project is adding to my knowledge of how the body functions, which ties into what I was studying — a Health, Sport and Human Performance degree — majoring in Human Performance Science.”

Mātai senior research fellow Dr Eryn Kwon said the study used a new MRI technology developed by Mātai scientists and national and international collaborators.

“We are applying this technology, and other imaging methods, to try to understand how and why the brain moves with an elevated heart rate (for example after exercise), which might help us to understand the range of normal brain

movement. If we know how a typical brain moves, we may then be able to understand what happens to the brain when there is a disease or disorder that obstructs normal brain motion.”

Jade Keelan has just completed First Year Health Sciences at the University of Otago, and aims to transition into a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree next year.

Working as an intern was helping her gain relevant health and medical perspectives.

“As an intern I have the opportunity to become competent within research study design, MRI acquisition, community involvement and mātauranga Māori.

“I have also been given the privilege to be a part of a cardiogenesis project. I will be helping on a project that looks at how a baby’s heart is formed, at the earliest stages of its development.

“� is could potentially shed light into heart defects at birth.”

RESEARCHING BRAINS: Interns Jade Keelan, Haylea Rodgers, Ruby Westrupp working at Matai where they reconstructed models of their own brains. Pictures by Paul Rickard

MRI TECHNOLOGY IN PLAY: Interns exercised then used MRI technology to understand how and why the brain moves with an elevated heart rate.

Complexity of the brain

BRAIN MODELLING:

The fi nished model of Haylea

Rodgers’ brain.Image supplied

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Taonga Takiwātanga (autism) Charitable Trust founder Dorothy Taare-Smith was born and brought up in Kaiti.

It was a household where community service was a given.

“My dad was instrumental in the development of Ilminster Intermediate school swimming pool back in the late ’80s when he was chairman of the board.

Ms Taare-Smith’s parents Wis Taare and Hinemoa Nikora had always been involved in the community. They coached sports teams and were on several committees. “That’s where my love for the community stems from.

“It was naturally instilled into me from a very young age that I was destined to do my part for our people.

“I’d like to think I am walking in my dad’s legacy because he was a union delegate and would always stick up for the people who couldn’t stick up for themselves.

“My parents would always say no matter where you get to in your life or career you make sure you are always grounded and look after your people.

“I am really strong in that regard. I love being with the people at the grassroots.”

Ms Taare-Smith has worked for more than 20 years in the disability sector.

“I was in Auckland for 17 years and when I came back here (Tairāwhiti) I noticed there wasn’t much here for our people in terms of kaupapa Māori disability support services. So, I started a trust called Taonga Takiwātanga Charitable Trust.

“We provide support for our whānau who need it. A lot of our whānau here on the coast, particularly our Māori whānau, don’t like going into offices, they don’t like filling out thousands of forms and they don’t know what the eligibility criteria is to receive services.

“I also started a Facebook page which

gave our whānau the autonomy to send a private message at 2 o’clock in the morning if they want support and advice with their struggles because they often don’t know what to do or how to access the services.

“I have been doing a lot of community mahi here — filling the gaps for our whānau because the disability sector is difficult to navigate.

“For me it is also personal, because my mokopuna (grandchild) is takiwātanga (he was diagnosed in 2019). Through my work, I need to make sure that he’s taken care of when I’m not here.

“If I can leave a legacy in his name, that’s what I want to do here in Tairāwhiti. Not only for him but for a lot of our other whānau who struggle.”

Ms Taare-Smith said whānau should have the autonomy to choose who they want for care and support, not for those people to be chosen for them by external services.

“Especially for Māori, you need to resonate with the person before you agree to work with them.

“It is not about taking the clipboard into their home, it’s about taking a packet of biscuits, sitting down, having a cup of tea with them, talking about their whānau (how they have been) and then getting into the formalities. But you must sit down with our whānau and they need to trust you.

“Statistics for Māori with takiwātanga are not great,” she said.

Her journey with takiwātanga started in the ’90s, while she was working as a teacher aide in Auckland. During that time, and later in her teaching career, she found resources and services were there for pākehā but not for Māori, in a way that Māori could understand.

“I think there is a need for more kaupapa Māori-led disability service providers in Tairāwhiti because from what I know, our people respond better to Māori than they

do in most cases to non-Māori. “We have a way of talking to our people

and I think I am lucky along with a lot of my colleagues to have gone away to universities, return home and use all those skills to work with our people. We have the beauty of walking in two worlds, the pākehā and Māori world.

“In the Māori world is where we are most comfortable with our people.

“For me I have become a voice for our people and if they don’t know what to do, I can come with them to meetings and just advocate for them.

“The systems have so many hoops which whānau need to jump through in order to get support — which is very hard for them — and most often they won’t engage, they’d stay home and try to manage on their own.

“I want to make sure our people with disabilities are looked after.”

Ms Taare-Smith said takiwātanga whānau miss out on a lot of activities because of the lack of education and awareness in our community.

“These kids and families whakapapa back to Tairāwhiti so they shouldn’t be excluded from going to the Olympic pool, local park and supermarket.

“A lot of whānau have shared that their kids would play up in The Warehouse and Pak’nSave and the parents would get judgemental looks.

“Our kids have every right to be in this community and they shouldn’t be judged or stared at. More importantly their parents shouldn’t be judged while out in the community — their community.

“It’s already hard for whānau and if we exclude them from being part of our community, they would feel isolated.”

Ms Taare-Smith is organising a Christmas party for children with special needs, which came about when she saw there was a

national event but Gisborne was not a part of it.

“My thinking is that our kids shouldn’t miss out.”

Ms Taare-Smith ran a takiwātanga wānanga (workshop) series for whānau and professionals — the first of its kind — to raise awareness about takiwātanga.

“Thanks to Trust Tairāwhiti they gave us funding to run marae wānanga for the most highly populated Māori communities in Tairāwhiti.

“We hosted our wananga at Te Wananga o Aotearoa, Tikitiki, Waituhi and Frasertown. Frasertown wasn’t funded (but) our community helped to fundraise.

“Right now we are on hold because our marae are dealing with the Covid-19 situation. We are looking at doing online wānanga.

“We have offered free professional development to teachers in low decile schools with a high population of Māori children.

“I have been invited to sit on a National Living Guidelines group. This is a group of experts in autism who advise the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health. I have been invited to advise on takiwātanga — how we are here on the coast and how our parents struggle.

“We know autism doesn’t discriminate. You can be Māori or pākehā, rich or poor it doesn’t matter so I’m privileged to be a voice for our people.

Ms Taare-Smith’s work in Tairāwhiti is gaining momentum around New Zealand and the globe.

“A professor from Canada has got in touch with me because she has heard about the good work we have done here in Tairāwhiti.

“We have been approached about the wānanga from many regions in New Zealand but my first priority is Tairāwhiti.”

Community advocate Dorothy Taare-Smith is breaking stereotypes about takiwātanga (autism) on a national level through her mahi (work) in Tairāwhiti. She talked to Akula Sharma about how it all started and what’s to come.

‘DOING MY PART’

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Taonga Takiwātanga (autism) Charitable Trust founder Dorothy Taare-Smith.

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3SaTurDay, DeCember 11, 2021

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Christmas and New Year’s festivities are the perfect motivators for whipping your garden into shape before guests

arrive. Here are a few simple ways to spruce up outdoor areas before Santa gets here!

Trimming hedges — give hedges a light trim to create a lovely crisp look. For less formal hedges and shrubs, just trim back any untidy, wayward or dead stems as well as any spent fl owers.

Weed control — weeds can ruin the look of your garden. Spot spray weeds with

fast acting Yates Nature’s Way Organic Weed Gun Ready to Use. It contains natural ingredients and is certifi ed for use in organic gardening.

Mulching – applying mulch around fl ower and shrub beds helps unify the garden, fi lls in bare spots and is a great water saving strategy during the hottest months. An additional bonus is when organic mulches are used (such as bark chips). As they break down they add valuable organic matter to the soil.

Quick lawn green up — Yates Lawn Fertiliser Hose On is a convenient hose-on

lawn fertiliser that’s high in nitrogen for rapid greening, plus added potassium to encourage strong healthy grass. It’s fast acting and will give the lawn a quick green up.

Watering — give your garden some thorough, deep waterings in the weeks leading up to Christmas. � is moistens the soil down into the root zone, encourages plant roots to grow deeper and helps freshen up the garden.

Mowing — don’t be tempted to give your lawn a harsh low mowing just before Christmas. � is can scalp the lawn and

create bare patches, which are unattractive and will invite in weeds. It’s better to mow little and often, removing no more than a third of the grass foliage each time.

Add pops of colour — a simple way to bring festive pizzazz into outdoor entertaining areas is to plant up a few pots with fl oral colour. Red and white fl owering petunias look very Christmassy, geraniums add vibrant splashes of fl owers and hanging baskets of cascading calibrachoas add a lovely vertical dimension to a patio, veranda or deck.

Your guests (and Santa) will love it!

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Two thngs I never liked about traditional Christmas cakes — the marzipan icing and glace cherries.

Twenty-two years ago this recipe arrived, thanks to New Zealand food writer and Sunday Star Times food columnist at the time, Annabelle White. No soaking of fruit overnight, plenty of brandy (if that’s what you like) or substitutes if you don’t. No thick white icing. No sticky cherries. Best of all, one pot! Fantastic.

I’ve made the cake every year since 1999, when I cut out the recipe and stuck it in my recipe book. My family weren’t great fruit cake eaters so it was just the right size, and often it lasted right through to Easter.

Bella’s Super SimpleChristmas Cake

Ingredients1 kg dried fruit (mix of raisins, currants and

sultanas)250g chopped apricots250g butter1 cup brown sugar1/2 cup brandy or orange juice1/2 cup cold tea or water3 tsp fi ne grated orange rind2tsp fi nely grated lemon rind1 tbsp treacle5 large eggs, lightly beaten2 cups high grade fl our1 tsp baking power1/2 tsp baking sodawhole blanched almondsextra brandy

MethodLine a deep 23cm round or 20cm square cake tin

with three layers of paper, bringing paper 5cm above edge of cake tine. Combine all dried fruits in a large pot. Add butter, sugar, brandy/orange juice and cold tea/water. Stir over heat until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature. Stir in orange and lemon ride. Add treacle and eggs. � en sift and add dry ingredients.

Mix in with gentle, folding movements. Spread mixture evently into the prepared tin, and decorate with almonds.

Bake in a slow (150C) oven for 2½-3 hours. When cake comes out, splash a little extra brandy over the top. Cover hot cake with clean tea towels and leave it to cool in pan. ( Although this is how long the recipe recommends for cooking time, it’s worth keeping an eye on the cake after the fi rst hour or so because I have never cooked it for that long.)

NOTE: My mother always decorated her Christmas cakes with almonds, rather than marzipan icing, but I remember she had a Christmas decorative wrapper which she would place around the cake. It looks as though you can get these online now, so that might be my plan for next year.

Christmas in the cakeChristmas cake with no marzipan icing? No glace cherries? Mary-Jane Richmond found the perfect recipe 22 years ago and has been making it ever since.

TRIED AND TRUE: The recipe as it appears in my recipes folder, looks as though it was cut out in haste and its origin scribbled on the page.

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LINING THE TIN: Two layers of newspaper topped with a layer of baking paper (yet to go in here) make a good insulation for the cake while it sits in a slow oven, ensuring the fi nished product isn’t too dry.

READY TO GO IN THE OVEN: The cake mix has been spooned (actually I used a glass jug which worked well) into the prepared tin, smoothed over with a spatula and decorated with blanched almonds.

5SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2021

FOOD

New Zealand’s stone cold border, that kept out Covid-19 for so long, has begun to crumble.

As the world opens up and international travel is once again on the cards, you will have to decide: What kind of traveller do you want to be?

There’ are myriad ways of exploring the world. Some people book a one-way ticket and let the road guide them, explorers find mountains, gullies and adventure. Holidaymakers lie at the beach.

None is better than the other — it depends

on what you want to take from, or give to your travels.

I argue it’s time to try something different. Don’t bother with the Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower or Stonehenge. One is a very pretty tomb, one is a metal tower and the other is a bunch of rocks. If you want a real experience, get off the beaten track and have a yarn with some locals. It is time you tried volunteering abroad.

There are many methods. Depending on what you want to do you can sign up for Wwoofing (Willing Workers on Organic

Farms) or contact charities directly. When I gave it a go back in 2016, I signed up to Workaway because I’m afraid of calluses.

Workaway members arrange homestays for a cultural exchange. Volunteers are expected to contribute a pre-agreed amount of time per day in exchange for lodging and food, which is provided by their host.

I contacted Naveen Godiyal, a teacher who lives in the Himalayas mountains in the north of India. After explaining I had no idea how to teach English, Naveen invited me to one of the schools he helped run, so

I stepped on to a Boeing 747 at Auckland Airport.

If you are fortunate enough to visit India you will never forget the smell of the country. The dust, chai, food and aroma of gasoline make it seem like the world has been spiced with cardamom and cinnamon.

Merchants crouch on the side of the road selling thimbles of chai tea rich with spice and sweet beyond comprehension for a few cents. At first taste, the chai is sickly sweet to the Kiwi pallet, but within a day or two you will be seeking out a chaiwala for your fix.

What kind of traveller do you want to be? Jack Marshall suggests giving volunteer tourism a go.

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HAZY DAYS: Watching the sunset over Goa,

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THE SIGHTS: Although the writer (in the paisley jacket) asks you to skip the tourist sites, he has visited the Taj Mahal twice and loved it.

I boarded a train in Mumbai — what many, even in airport terminals, still call Bombay — and spent three days in a railcar, bus and four-wheel-drive before my first step in Barkot city, 4000 feet above sea level, population 15,000.

Nestled in the mountains, Barkot overlooks the often timid, sometimes torrential Yamuna River, the main tributary of the Ganges, the holiest river of Hinduism.

Both the Yamuna and Ganges are sacred in Hinduism, to the extent they are worshipped as the goddess Yamuna and Ganga.

Off the bus and with the holy river flowing below, I sat around in my t-shirt and jeans, sipping chai tea while watching a cow eat tomatoes from a crate. As I watched, a man parked up beside me on his motorbike and smiled.

“Welcome to the Himalayas! Did you bring some warm clothes?”

I hadn’t. Three days ago it was 40 degrees in Mumbai. In Barkot it felt like winter.

India is enormous.As well as the weather, it takes a while to

culturally acclimatise to India. Things are done differently. Poverty and beauty are on

display like nothing in New Zealand. The key is to not fight it.

“Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win,” wrote Gregory David Roberts, author of Shantaram.

After buying a rather nice lime milkshake-coloured hoodie, I sat on the back of his motorbike and leaned into the corners as we sped down a single lane road carved into a cliff face, to a village called Kharadi, population 300, where I would teach English for a month.

I worked six days a week teaching English, singing songs on ukulele and playing I Spy for the kids. And at the same time I ate breakfast, lunch and tea with the family down the road and talked about the weather. I had a home instead of a hostel.

It is one of my favourite adventures I, not because it was exciting, but because it was boring.

There were no tourists, no monuments, and instead I spent a month in a culture completely separate from what I’d known, and at the same time I got to give back to the community that took me in.

So as the world opens up, think about taking your time and going off the beaten track where you can do a little good. PRAYERS: Along the river Ganges, the holiest in India, ceremonies are done at night

bringing thousands of people to the water.

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Since we tend to blame Covid for most of today’s problems, it’s probably fair to assume that no Christmas Parade in Gisborne has

something to do with our plague de jour. But a line of trailers draped in tinsel with kids waving from each never seemed to do much to fi re up seasonal spirit, although the Pipe Band and that bloke in red from the North Pole always went down well along Gladstone Road.

What a long and venerable tradition parades have — as have most of our

December traditions. Before anyone had heard of a festival named Christmas, clowns and musicians capered their way through the Roman Forum each December, inaugurating the season of goodwill that ran for a week, culminating about the time of the winter solstice. Saturn, the god of harvests was celebrated at this time and effi gies of an infant cradled in a winnowing basket of wheat were honoured while evergreens were draped over doorways to symbolise eternal life and the inevitable return of the sun.

In the late 3rd century C.E. one of

those intriguingly disagreeable emperors, Diocletian, attempted to establish a state religion that would unify all the peoples of his vast empire. � e Persian sun god Mithras, supposedly born of a virgin mother in a rock cave on 25th December, was one convenient fi gurehead since he was already widely worshipped among the legions. To promote the cult, Diocletian ordered a purge of that strange minority movement originating in Judaea with a crucifi ed rebel as its fi gurehead. Christian scriptures were burned, places of worship torn down. It

was brief but bloody, distinguished rather strangely by mutilations of priests rather than your run of the mill mass slaughters.

Diocletian was the last of those very few emperors who occasionally persecuted Christians. Despite Hollywood’s misconceptions that seem to have largely shaped modern views of antiquity, you could believe whatever you liked in the Roman world, so long as you acknowledged the supremacy of the Pontif Maximus in his imperial purple. Christians tended not to do so and were on rare occasions oppressed for this intransigence. By 305 C.E. Diocletian had done his worst and retired to his vast holiday palace at Split in Dalmatia where he could enjoy his hobby of growing cabbages. Yet strangely, within a matter of decades, Christianity emerged as a fully-fl edged state religion, largely due to the eff orts of morose and murderous Constantine, persuaded by his Christian mother, Helena.

All those mid-winter festivities so enjoyed by the masses became synonymous with remembering the birth of Jesus, although no one could be sure of the exact date. In the early 5th century the task of researching was given to a monk, Dionysius Exiguus, who thought it was dead easy since Luke’s Gospel says it was in the seventh year of the reign of Augustus. Originator of that history divider, B.C. and A.D. (Anno Domini), Exiguus badly miscalculated. � at is why his theoretical Year One A.D. was out by at least four years and according to most historians, more like seven. It means we are actually celebrating not 2,021 years since that Bethlehem birth but probably about 2,028 years since the event.

Does it matter? Not to the vast majority in an increasingly secular world. But it should be acknowledged that a radical new faith with a heavy emphasis on socialism — a dirty word today in America, especially among ultra-conservative Christians — was an extraordinary phenomenon. Never before had it been reasonable to give a twopenny damn about the poor, the oppressed, the weakest in society. Sadly, the new Faith was rapidly codifi ed, dissent not tolerated and the full weight of imperial authority put its stamp on what had begun as a defi ant Judaic cult, off ering a startling challenge to the world’s high and mighty.

But a little December light was lit when in 1223, Francis of Assisi came up with the notion of representing the Nativity with real animals alongside monks garbed as Biblical fi gures. � e Italian town of Greccio was transfi xed by this living drama and the world-wide tradition of the Christmas Creche has never looked back. Garbed in classical robes, Mary and Joseph crouch or kneel while shepherds and Magi pay homage to the human deity. Diocletian, who had once declared himself to be an incarnation of Jupiter, would have been outraged if he could have seen how a stable-born peasant infant would come to be regarded as a manifestation of the highest.

Gods in human guise were commonplace in his day while we, so many centuries later, have diffi culty with the mind-boggling implications of everything from DNA to the infi nitely elusive matter of just how our minds can function in a lump of tissue that, rendered into dry chemicals, might cost as much as a cheap chain-store gift.

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BAD MOMS 2: A BAD MOMS’ CHRISTMASSunday, 8.35pm, TVNZ 2The bad moms are back, and this time they are struggling to cope when their own mothers show up for the holiday season.Starring: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn.

KUNG FU PANDA 3Saturday, 7pm, TVNZ 2

Dragon Warrior Po has to deal with challenges galore when circumstances com-pel him to train a bunch of awkward pandas in martial arts so that they can defeat a wicked supernatural warrior.

Featuring the voices of: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Kate Hudson, Bryan Cranston.

on tv this weekend

AKEELAH AND THE BEESaturday, 7pm, MAORI TVA young and gifted girl, who is from a dysfunctional family and who is on the verge of quitting school in south Los Angeles, competes in a national spelling competition in this coming-of-age movie.Starring: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne.

LILTINGSunday, 8.30pm, MAORI TVA young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his four-year male lover, who both learn to grieve together, despite not speaking a word of each other’s language.Starring: Andrew Leung, Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei.

DR SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMASSaturday, 7pm, THREEOn the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch, who plans to ruin Christmas for all of Whoville’s citizens. Starring: Jim Carrey

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5pm The Chase 3 0

6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

7pm F Space Invaders 0

8pm Lotto

8.05 Heathrow: Britain’s

Busiest Airport 0

Life behind the scenes

at Europe’s biggest

airport.

8.30 M The Queen

M 0 2006 Drama.

After Princess Diana’s

death, the tradition-

bound Queen Elizabeth

II finds herself in conflict

with the new Prime

Minister, Tony Blair.

Helen Mirren, Michael

Sheen.

10.35 Dinner Date 3 0

11.35 Manifest PGV 3 0

Ben and Saanvi join

forces with Vance in

his newest venture to

understand Flight 828;

Michaela and Zeke pivot

to aid a non-passenger.

SUNDAY

12.25 Blindspot MV 3 0

As Ivy races to retrieve

the ZIP bombs, the rest

of the team must rely

on the help of Kathy

Gustafson.

1.10 Nashville PG 3 0

Juliette’s new song

catches the ear of a

high powered producer;

Rayna takes control in

the aftermath of recent

events.

2.40 Infomercials

6am Attitude 3 0

6.25 Cowboy Builders 3 0

7.15 Tagata Pasifika 3

7.40 Praise Be 3 0

8.10 The Living Room 3 0

8.55 Shop Well For Less 3 0

10am Milk And Money PG 0

Baz MacDonald travels

New Zealand exploring

the impact of the

dairy industry on the

environment, health and

community.

10.25 My Maori Midwife 0

10.55 The New Zealand

Agriculture Show

2021 PG 0

11.55 The Attitude Awards

2021 0 Preview.

12.25 Fair Go 3 0

12.55 Supershoppers 3 0

1.30 L Cricket: Men’s

Super Smash 0

Otago Volts v

Northern Brave.

5pm The Chase 0

5pm Border Security:

Canada’s Frontline M

6pm Massive Engineering

Mistakes PGC

7pm The Force MC

Real-life Australian

police drama.

7.30 Pawn Stars PG

Chum checks out

a mask from Power

Rangers; Rick causes a

storm with his windmill

restoration.

8.30 RBT MC

9pm Sewer Squad MLC

10pm Trauma Rescue Squad M

11pm Border Security:


11.30 Traffic Cops

SUNDAY

12.20 Massive Engineering

Mistakes PGC

1.20 The Force MC

1.50 Pawn Stars PG

2.50 RBT MC

3.20 NXT PGV

4.05 Sewer Squad MLC

5.05 Trauma Rescue Squad M

6am Traffic Cops

7am FBI: Most Wanted MV

7.55 NXT PGV

8.50 Border Security:


9.15 Mountain Men PG

10am Pawn Stars PG

11am RBT MC

11.30 Hawaii Five-0 MV

12.30 FBI: Most Wanted MV

1.30 Border Security:


2pm Raw MVC

4.45 NXT PGV

5.45 SmackDown MVC

5.15 Summerland PGC 2020

Drama. Gemma Arterton,

Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

6.55 The New Mutants MVLC

2020 Action. Maisie

Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy.

8.30 Honest Thief MVL 2020

Action. Wanting to lead an

honest life, a notorious

bank robber turns

himself in, only to get

caught up in a violent

conflict with two crooked

FBI agents. Liam

Neeson, Kate Walsh.

10.10 Greed 16L 2020 Comedy. Isla

Fisher, Steve Coogan.

11.55 The Craft: Legacy MC

2020 Drama. Cailee Spaeny,

Gideon Adlon.

SUNDAY

1.28 The Kindness Of

Strangers MLSC 2020

Drama. Zoe Kazan, Andrea

Riseborough.

3.20 Outback MVLC 2020 Thriller.

Lauren Lofberg, Taylor

Wiese.

4.45 Locusts 16VLSC 2019 Thriller.

Ben Geurens, Jessica

McNamee.

6.09 Rams PGVL 2020 Drama.

Sam Neill, Michael

Caton.

8.04 Honest Thief

MVL 2020 Action.

9.40 Red Joan MS 2018 Drama.

11.20 Infinite MVLC 2021 Action.

1.05 Antebellum 16VL 2020

Thriller.

2.50 Music MVLC 2021 Drama.

4.35 Bad Boys For Life

16VLSC 2020 Action.

5.40 Richard Hammond’s

Big PG Super Stadium.

6.35 Rocket Around The

Xmas Tree PG Spatial

Delivery.

7.30 Maine Cabin Masters PG

Oyster Farm Shack.

8.30 Building Off The Grid PG

Ohio Valley Hut.

9.30 Barnwood Builders PG

Restoration Week.

10.30 How The Universe

Works PG Curse of the

White Dwarf.

11.25 How The Universe

Works PG The Next

Supernova.

SUNDAY

12.15 How It’s Made PG

12.40 How Do They Do It? PG

1.05 Blowing Up History PG

1.55 Aussie Gold Hunters PG

2.45 What On Earth? PG






6.55 Ancient Unexplained

Files PG

7.45 Barnwood Builders PG

8.35 Homestead Rescue PG

9.25 Building Off The Grid PG

10.20 Mysteries At The

Museum PG

11.15 Gold Rush MLC

Ground War.

1.05 Gold Rush MLC

2pm Naked And Afraid MLC

2.55 Naked And Afraid MLC




6pm The Cube 0 7pm M Kung Fu Panda 3 PG

2016 Adventure. Po must face two serious, but different threats, one supernatural and the other a little closer to home. Voices of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie.

8.55 M Fool’s Gold

MV 3 0 2008 Adventure. An estranged couple rekindle their romance when they discover a clue to a long-lost treasure. Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson.

11.10 M The Campaign

18LS 0 2012 Comedy. Will Ferrell.

SUNDAY 12.55 M Grudge Match

16VL 0 2013 Comedy. Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone.

2.50 M Wonder Woman:

Bloodlines

PG 0 2019 Animated. Rosario Dawson, Jeffrey Donavan.

4.15 2 Tunes

4.45 Will And Grace M 3 0 5.30 Religious Programming

6am Blaze And The Monster

Machines 0 6.40 Powerpuff Girls 3 0 7.05 Ben 10 3 7.25 Moomin Valley 0 7.45 Island Of Mystery 0 8am M Scooby-Doo! And

The Curse Of The 13th

Ghost 0 2019 Animated. Frank Walker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard.

9.15 Almost Never 3 0 9.45 Shortland Street

Omnibus PG 3 0 11.50 Home And Away

Omnibus 3 0 2.10 American Housewife

PG 3 0 3.05 M Home Fries

PG 0 1998 Comedy. Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson.

5pm The Voice US PG 0

5pm Cannonball 3 0

6pm Newshub Live At 6pm

7pm M How The Grinch

Stole Christmas PG 3

0 2000 Fantasy. The Who

family of Whoville love

Christmas, but the

cave-dwelling Grinch is

determined to put an

end to their festivities.

Jim Carrey, Christine

Baranski.

9pm M Crawl 16 0 2019

Action. During a hurricane,

a girl and her father

become trapped in a

flooded house, but they

face an even bigger

threat lurking below the

surface.

10.50 M I Do, Or Die: A

Killer Arrangement M 3

2020 Thriller.

SUNDAY

12.40 Infomercials

5am Brian Houston @

Hillsong PG

5.30 Charles Stanley PG

6am Life TV PG

6.30 Brian Houston @

Hillsong TV PG

7am Charles Stanley PG

8am Life TV PG

8.30 Turning Point PG

9am Life Of Kai PG 3 0

9.30 The Hui 3 0

10am One Of A Kind 3 0

10.50 Dr Jeff Rocky Mountain

Vet PG

11.35 Rescue My Renovation

Noon Ultimate Tag PG 3 0

1pm Motorsport: Muscle

Garage PG

1.30 Motorsport: Supercars

Championship (HLS)

Bathurst 1000.

From Mount Panorama.

2.45 Motorsport: DTM

3.45 Motorsport: Monster

Jam

5pm The Fishing Show

Classics PG 0

5pm Football: A League (HLS)

Newcastle Jets v

Wellington Phoenix.

From Newcastle

International Sports

Centre, Newcastle.

5.30 Prime News

6pm Hellfire Heroes PGC 3 0

7pm Storage Wars PGL 0

The bidders hope for big

scores in trendy North

Hollywood.

7.30 Tough As Nails PGL 0

In the team competition,

the crew want to convert

a stadium from a

concert venue into a

football field.

8.30 F Designing

Dreams 3 0

9.30 Midsomer Murders MVLC

0

A body is found

surrounded by ritualistic

symbols in a village

known for its annual

Psychic Fayre.

11.30 NXT PGV

SUNDAY

12.30 Love Island UK 16LS

Exclusives and hilarious

unaired moments from

the previous week.

1.30 Infomercials

6am Religious Programming

6.30 Believe It Or Not 3

7.30 Religious Programming

10am Which Car PGC 3 0

Dan takes the Range

Rover on an alpine

adventure through the

snow.

11am NXT PGV 3

Noon Outback Truckers PGL 0

1pm Surveillance

Dashcam PGV 3 0

2pm L UFC: 269 Prelims

4pm Weather Gone Viral PGC

3 0

5pm Fish Of The Day PGC 3 0

5.30 Prime News

5pm The Hui

5.30 Tangaroa With Pio 3

6pm Shear Bro 3

6.30 Haka Global 3

7pm M Akeelah And The

Bee 2006 Drama. A young

girl from South Los

Angeles tries to make

it to a national spelling

bee. Keke Palmer,

Laurence Fishburne,

Angela Bassett.

9pm M Learning To

Drive MLS 2014 Comedy

Drama. As her marriage

dissolves, a writer takes

driving lessons from an

instructor with marriage

troubles of his own and,

together, they find the

courage to get back

on the road. Patricia

Clarkson, Ben Kingsley,

Grace Gummer.

10.40 Putauaki: He Maunga

Korero

11.40 Closedown

SUNDAY

6.30 Waiata Mai 3

6.40 Kia Mau 3

6.50 Taki Atu Taki Mai 3

7am Mahi Pai 3

7.10 Tamariki Haka 3

7.20 Te Nutube 3

7.30 Purakau 3

7.40 Smooth 3

7.50 Polyfest 3

8.20 Potae Pai 3

8.30 Whanau Living 3

9am Oranga Ngakau 3

10am Waiata Nation 3

10.30 Whaikorero 3

11am Te Ao Tapatahi

11.30 Iwi Anthems 3

Noon My Party Song 3

12.30 Haka At Home 3

1.30 M Akeelah And The

Bee PG 3 2006 Drama.

3.30 Pio Terei Tonight 3

4.30 Tagata Pasifika

5pm Te Ao Toa

5.30 Antiques Roadshow

6.30 American Pickers

7.30 Aussie Lobster Men PG

Seven days into a nine-

day run and Skipper

Danny is no closer to

finding a buyer for his

1,000kg of lobster.

8.30 Missing Pieces

9.30 Alone: Million Dollar

Challenge PG

11pm Luke Nguen’s Railway

Vietnam PG

11.30 Wildlife SOS PG

SUNDAY

12am Wildlife SOS PG


1.30 Alone: Million Dollar

Challenge PG

3am Aussie Lobster Men PG

4am Missing Pieces

5am American Pickers

6am Luke Nguen’s Railway

Vietnam PG

6.30 Through The Bible With

Les Feldick PG

7am Leading The Way PG

7.30 Key Of David PG

8am Dream Gardens

8.25 Giada’s Holiday

Handbook

8.50 Choccywoccydoodah

9.45 Strip The City


11.35 Location, Location,

Location

12.30 Wildlife SOS PG

1pm Wildlife SOS PG


2.30 Aussie Lobster Men PG

3.30 Dual Survival M

4.30 Jamie’s Super Food

Classics


5.35 Keeping Up With The Kardashians PGLC

6.35 Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles

7.35 Hoarders PG 8.30 Kitchen Nightmares 16L 0 9.30 Vanderpump Rules M 10.30 Accident, Suicide Or

Murder? 16C 3 11.25 Snapped MVC 3

SUNDAY 12.15 Infomercials 2.40 Infomercials 5am Love It Or List It 3 6am Love It Or List It 3 6.45 Love It Or List It 3 7.35 Love It Or List It 3 8.20 Love It Or List It 3 9.10 Millionaire

Matchmaker PGLS 3 10am Millionaire

Matchmaker PGLS 3 10.50 Hoarders PG 3 11.40 Undercover Boss PG 3 12.30 Botched PGLSC 3 1.30 Botched PGLSC 3 2.30 Million Dollar Listing: Los

Angeles PG 3

5pm The World At Five 5.10 Focus On Politics 5.30 Tagata O Te Moana 6.06 Nashville Babylon 7.06 Saturday Night With Phil O’Brien.

SUNDAY 12.04 All Night Programme 6.08 Storytime 7.10 Features Hour 7.45 The House 8.06 Sunday

Morning 9.06 Mediawatch 9.36 Sunday Morning 12.12 Standing Room Only 1.10 At The Movies 2.05 The Laugh Track On

Standing Room Only 3.05 Classic Drama 4.06 The Arts Hour From The BBC

World Service 5pm The World At Five 5.10 Heart And Soul 5.35 Te Manu Korihi

The Queen 8.30pm on TVNZ 1

Kung Fu Panda 3 7pm on TVNZ 2

How the Grinch Stole Christmas 7pm on Three

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8.35 L Cricket: Big Bash

League

Sydney Sixers v Hobart

Hurricanes.

From the SCG in Sydney.

SUNDAY

12am L Cricket: Big Bash

League

Perth Scorchers v

Adelaide Strikers.

From Sydney

Showground Stadium,

Sydney.

3am Between Two Posts

Australian rugby show.

4.10 L Heineken

Champions Cup

Bordeaux v Leicester.

From Stade Chaban-

Delmas, Bordeaux.

6.25 L Heineken

Champions Cup

Clermont v Ulster.

From Stade Marcel-

Michelin, Clermont-

Ferrand.

8.30 Football: A-League (HLS)

Newcastle v Wellington.

8.55 L Heineken

Champions Cup

Exeter v Montpellier.

From Sandy Park, Exeter.

11am Cricket: The Ashes (HLS)

Australia v England: First

Test, Day Four.

From The Gabba,

Brisbane.

Noon L Cricket: The Ashes

Australia v England: First

Test, Day Five.

From The Gabba,

Brisbane.

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KEY 0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; (HLS) Highlights; (RPL) Replay; (DLY) Delayed; 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence.

5pm The Chase 0 Quiz show where contestants must stay one step ahead of The Chaser.

6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 The latest news, sport, and weather.

7pm Country Calendar 0 A couple manage a luxury lodge at their sheep and beef station on the wild Wairarapa coast.

7.30 1 News Special: Anger,

Anxiety And Us PG 0 John Campbell delves into the Covid-19 pandemic and how New Zealand has reacted to it.

8.30 Inside Chernobyl 0 Ben Fogle gains privileged access to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He spends a week inside Control Room Four, where the infamous disaster first unfolded.

10pm Border Patrol 3 0 A lovesick Lithuanian begs for mercy; Customs find enough cigarettes to sink a ship; Biosecurity deal with a sneaky pest.

10.30 Bancroft 16S 3 0 Elizabeth is forced to intensify her private investigations.

MONDAY 12.15 Infomercials

6am Breakfast 0 9am The Ellen DeGeneres

Show PG 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am The Chase 3 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12.30 Emmerdale PG 0 1.30 Country Calendar 3 0 2pm Kirstie’s Handmade

Christmas 0 Kirstie Allsopp presents a celebration of festive crafts and Yuletide magic.

3pm Te Karere

3.30 Supershoppers 0 4pm 1 News Special

The latest updates regarding Covid-19 and how it will affect people. For more information, visit www.covid19.govt.nz.

4.30 Extreme Cake Makers 0 A mechanical masterpiece with rotating edible boots.

5pm The Chase 3 0

5.45 SmackDown MVC


A militia opens fire on

teenagers crossing the

Canadian border. The

team race to find the

ringleader and his final

target.


9.30 Shades Of Blue MVLSC

10.30 Knightfall 16VLS


MONDAY

12.15 SmackDown MVC






6am Jeopardy!

6.25 Wheel Of Fortune

6.45 Pawn Stars PG

7.10 Storage Wars PG


8.25 Border Security M

8.50 Ice Road Truckers PG

9.40 The Cops MV

10.30 FBI MV

11.30 Pawn Stars PG

Noon Jeopardy!




2.30 The Cops MV


4.10 Jeopardy!


5pm Storage Wars PG

5.30 Pawn Stars PG

6.35 Embattled

16L 2020 Action. Stephen Dorff, Darren Mann.

8.30 The Last Duel 16VLSC

2021 Action. King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel. Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer.

11.05 Voyagers

16V 2021 Adventure. Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp.

MONDAY 12.55 Irresistible MLS 2020

Comedy. Steve Carell, Rose Byrne.

2.35 Dragged Across

Concrete 18VLSC 2018

Thriller. Mel Gibson. 5.10 Lost Transmissions 16C

2019 Drama. Simon Pegg, Alexandra Daddario.

6.55 The Doorman

16V 2020 Action. Ruby Rose, Jean Reno.

8.30 Alone 16VL 2020 Thriller. Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca.

10.10 Hard Kill 16V 2020 Action. Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis.

11.50 The Nest 16L 2020 Drama. Jude Law, Carrie Coon.

1.35 Black Water: Abyss

16VL 2020 Horror.

3.15 Charm City Kings

16VLC 2020 Drama.

5.15 Misbehaviour

ML 2020 Comedy.


Mile High Clubbed. 6.35 Naked And Afraid MLC A

Tangled Web in Texas. 7.30 Naked And Afraid MLC

The Devils Woods. 9.30 Blowing Up History PG

10.30 Ancient Unexplained

Files PG Secrets of Mayan Murders.

11.25 Homestead Rescue PG

Raney Ranch: Living on the Edge.

MONDAY 12.15 How It’s Made PG



Museum PG


2.45 Naked And Afraid M






6.55 House Hunters

Renovation PG

7.45 House Hunters

International PG

8.10 House Hunters

International PG

8.35 Gold Rush MLC

10.20 Gold Rush MLC

11.15 Aussie Mega

Mechanics PG




2pm Naked And Afraid M


3.50 Deadliest Catch MLC

4.45 Gold Rush MLC

5.40 Fast N’ Loud PG

5pm The Voice US PG 0 6pm 5 Gold Rings 3 0 7pm Kung Fu Panda Holiday PG

0 7.30 Harry Potter: Hogwarts

Tournament Of Houses 0 8.35 M Bad Moms 2: A Bad

Moms Christmas 16L 3 0 2017 Comedy. Three under-appreciated and over-worked mothers band together to rebel against the most stressful time of the year, Christmas. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell.

10.35 M Annabelle 2: Creation 16V 3 0 2017 Horror. Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto.

MONDAY 12.40 Mysteries And

Scandals 16C 1.25 Hashtag Murder 16 0 2.15 The Price Of Duty PG 0 3am AP Bio M 3 0 3.50 2 Tunes 4.05 Infomercials 4.35 Religious Programming 5am Infomercials 6am Les Mills Born To Move 0 6.25 Hey Duggee 0 6.35 Clifford The Big Red

Dog 3 0 7am Eliot Kid 0 7.25 SpongeBob

SquarePants 0 7.50 The Deep 0 8.15 Darwin And Newts 0 8.25 Dorothy And The Wizard

Of Oz 0 8.35 Book Hungry Bears 3 0 8.45 Daniel Tiger’s

Neighbourhood 0 9am Chuggington: Tales From

The Rails 3 0 9.10 Infomercials 10.05 Les Mills Body Attack 0 10.40 Neighbours 3 0 11.10 Friends 3 0 12.05 The Royals PGC 0 1.05 Doctor Who PGC 3 2.30 Home And Away PGC 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PG 3 0 3.35 Bluey 3 0 3.40 Get Clever 3 0 4.05 We Bare Bears 0 4.30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons PG 3 0 5.30 The Big Bang Theory 3 0

5pm The Fishing Show

Classics PG 0 Fishing action from around New Zealand and the world.

6pm Newshub Live At 6pm

7pm The Block Australia PG 0 The judges decide who takes home $10,000 for the master bedroom and walk-in wardrobe.

8.25 M Men In Black 3

M 0 2012 Sci-fi Action. Agent J travels back in time to MIB’s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin.

10.30 Emergency Call USA M

11.30 NCIS M 3 MONDAY 12.25 Infomercials

7am Animal Cribs PG 0 7.55 Ninja Warrior UK 3 8.55 Infomercials

10.35 Bondi Vet 3 11.30 Lakefront Bargain

Hunt 0 Noon House Hunters

Renovation 0 1.05 How Do Animals Do

That? 0 1.35 M Homegrown

Christmas 0 2018 Romance. Maddie heads back to her hometown and runs into her high school sweetheart. Tensions rise when they are forced to organise a Christmas dance. Lori Loughlin, Victor Webster, Gwynyth Walsh.

3.30 Lakefront Bargain

Hunt 0 4pm Yard Crashers 0 4.30 Newshub Live At

4.30pm

5pm Outback Opal

Hunters PGL 0

5pm Fish Of The Day PGC 3 0

5.30 Prime News

6pm Walking Britain’s Lost

Railways 3 0

Rob starts his journey

in the steel town

of Sheffield where

he follows the old

Woodhead Line through

the Pennines, to

Manchester.

7pm Storage Wars PGC 3 0

7.30 Outback Truckers PGL 0

Bush trucking veteran

Jeff Fulwood battles the

remote dirt roads of

Arnhem Land.

8.30 Mountain Men MVC 0

Eustace and Raleigh

battle a polar vortex

to get their lumber

business back online.

9.30 F Seal Team 16VLC 0

Bravo takes a

devastating hit that will

change the team forever.

10.30 SmackDown PGV

11.30 Love Island UK 16LS

MONDAY

12.30 Love Island UK

Aftersun 16LS

1.30 Infomercials

8am Ready Set Dance 0

8.05 Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles 3 0

9am Fishy Business 3 0

10am The Office PGC 0

11am Shipping Wars PGL 3 0

11.30 Qi PGC 3

12.35 American Pickers 3

1.35 Parks And

Recreation PGC 0

2pm The Late Show With

Stephen Colbert PG 3

3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3

3.30 Jeopardy

4pm American Pickers 3

5pm Tagata Pasifika

5.30 Prime News

5pm Te Ao Toa

6pm Marae 3 6.30 Te Ao Marama

7pm Waka Huia PG 3 7.30 Heritage Rescue

8.30 M Lilting ML 2014

Drama. A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his male lover. They learn to grieve together despite not speaking each other’s language. Pei-Pei Cheng, Ben Whishaw, Andrew Leung.

10.15 Putauaki: He Maunga

Korero

11.15 Closedown

MONDAY 6.30 E Ki E Ki 3 6.35 Tamaiti Tu

6.45 Takaro Tribe 3 7am Taki Atu Taki Mai 3 7.10 Potae Pai 3 7.20 Kia Mau 3 7.30 Paia 3 7.40 Darwin And Newts 3 7.50 He Rourou 3 8am Pukana 3 8.30 Oranga Ngakau 3 9.30 Whanau Bake-Off 3 10am Traditional Kai 3 10.30 Whanau Living 3 11am My Party Song 3 11.30 Tangaroa With Pio 3 Noon Te Ao Tapatahi

12.30 Heritage Rescue 3 1.30 Toku Reo 3 2.30 Ako 3 3.30 E Ki E Ki 3 3.35 Tamaiti Tu

3.45 Takaro Tribe 3 4pm Taki Atu Taki Mai 3 4.10 Potae Pai 3 4.20 Kia Mau 3 4.30 Paia 3 4.40 Smooth 3 4.50 He Rourou 3 5pm Pukana 3 5.30 Te Mana Kuratahi 3



7.30 Outback Opal Hunters PG

8.30 The 1990’s: The

Deadliest Decade M

9.30 Aaron Hernandez M

NFL football player Aaron

Hernandez is a suspect

in two killings.


11.30 Outback Opal

Hunters PGL

MONDAY


1.30 Luke Nguen’s Railway

Vietnam PG

2am Choccywoccydoodah

3am The 1990’s: The

Deadliest Decade M

4am Aaron Hernandez M

5am Location, Location,

Location

6am Money For Nothing

7am Choccywoccydoodah

8am Dual Survival M

9am The Great Food Truck

Race PG

10am Gino’s Italian Escape

10.30 Outback Opal

Hunters PGL


12.30 Dual Survival M


2.30 Jamie’s Super Food

Classics

3.30 Orang-utan Island

4.30 Gordon Ramsay’s

Ultimate Christmas


Museum PGC

5.30 Shark Tank PG 3 6.30 Love It Or List It 3 7.30 M The Hulk

MV 0 2003 Adventure. A research scientist turns into a powerful green monster when his emotions get the better of him. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly.

10.10 M How Do You Know? MLS 3 0 2010 Comedy. Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson.

MONDAY 12.35 Infomercials 6am Infomercials 10am Catfish PG 3 10.50 Botched PGLSC 3 11.45 Snapped MVC 3 12.40 Killer Couples MVC 3 1.35 The Real Housewives Of

New York City M 3 2.35 Catfish PG 3 3.30 Face Off PGC 3 4.30 Love It Or List It 5.30 Shark Tank PG

5pm The World At Five 5.10 Heart And Soul 5.35 Te Manu Korihi 6.06 Te Ahi Kaa 6.40 Voices 7.04 Smart Talk 8.06 The Sunday Night Retro

Show 10pm The 10 O’Clock Report 10.10 Mediawatch 10.45 The House 11.04 The Retro Cocktail Hour With Darrell Brogdon.

MONDAY 12.04 All Night Programme 5am First Up With Nathan Rarere. 6am Morning Report With Susie Ferguson and Corin Dann. 9.06 Nine To Noon Noon Midday Report 1.06 Afternoons 3.45 The Panel 5pm Checkpoint

Inside Chernobyl 8.30pm on TVNZ 1

Bad Moms 2: A Bad Moms Christmas, 8.35pm on TVNZ 2

The Block Australia 7pm on Three

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Saturday, December 11 ▶ She Kills Monsters (to Dec 12). A classic

tale by Qui Nguyen of high-school teacher Agnes Evans as she deals with the death of her younger and weirder sister, Tilly. Evolution Theatre Company, 75 Disraeli St, 7.30-9.30pm Dec 11 and 4pm-6pm Dec 12. Tickets+Bfee: $35A, $28Snr & $24 17/u at trybooking.com/nz

▶ CANCELLED: Gisborne Speedway: Saloon Champs & Bruce Ellmers Memorial.

Sunday, December 12 ▶ Gisborne Runners and Walkers Club.

Join in for a walk, cuppa and chat. Meet: EIT staffroom, Derby St, 8am or txt 027 900 9622.

▶ Gisborne Yacht Club Learn to Sail: Week 3 of 4. For ages 8-80 (dependent upon weather/sea conditions); a course to learn how to sail in Optimist/Phase 2 dinghies. Gisborne Yacht Club, Kaiti Beach, 9.30-11.30am. Details: see Facebook.

▶ Lions Express Train Rides. Take the kids for a train ride around the playground. Starts near Gisborne Wainui Lions Junior Cycle Park, Centennial Marine Dr, 11am-3pm, $2.

▶ Carols at the Pa. Bring whanau, friends and neighbours along for entertainment, waiata, stalls and Santa. Te Poho O Rawiri, cnr Queens Dr & Ranfurly St, 1pm-4pm.

▶ Toihoukura School of Maori Visual Art Exhibition: Koaka o Whakaaro (to Feb 13, 2022). See new works by the students and staff, showcasing the latest in emerging talent. Tairawhiti Museum, 10 Stout St, Sun 1.30-4pm, Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, locals free, visitors $5A, u/12s free, ph 867 3832.

▶ Be the Taniwha Exhibition (to Mar 20, 2022). Tai and Kaaterina Kerekere pay tribute to leaders who challenged the status quo. Tairawhiti Museum. Details: see above.

▶ Gisborne Petanque Club Day. Join in for a fun tournament. Kahutia Bowling Club, 165 Cobden St, meet 2pm, starts 2.30pm, free. Register in advance: Graeme ph 027 204 8053 or tinyurl.com/eme5393p

▶ She Kills Monsters, 4pm. See Dec 11. ▶ St Andrew’s Concert Series Christmas

Extravaganza. Come along for a performance

by local pianists, the Gisborne Choral Society, the Gisborne Concert Band and women’s quartet, Euphoria. St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 176 Cobden St, 6pm, koha/donation to performers for expenses or piano maintenance.

Monday, December 13 ▶ Badminton Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd.

New players welcome and rackets available. Social morning, 9am-11am, $4, ph 867 2584. Summer Badminton; Year 11-13s & seniors, 7pm-9pm, $7/night 11-13s, $10 snr, ph Justin 021 216 6700.

▶ Bowlers’ Club: 500. Come along and have some fun. Learners welcome. Poverty Bay Bowling Club, 111 Ormond Rd, 1pm-4pm, $2 incl smoko, ph Tony 863 3468.

▶ Fun Dancing Gisborne. Modern, sequence and social ballroom. St Andrew’s Church Hall, 176 Cobden St, learner class 7.30-8pm, advanced finishing 8pm-10pm, $5 door sales plus supper, ph 867 0074, [email protected]

▶ POSTPONED TO JUNE 24: 7 Days Live, War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright St.

Tuesday, December 14 ▶ VIRTUAL – He Kakano: Little Seeds.

Fun sing-along and read for u/2s, 10.30am, See www.facebook.com/GisborneLibrary

▶ Mahjong Club. Enjoy a friendly fellowship. Gisborne Town & Country Women’s Club, 42 Emily St, 1pm, ph Liz 281 0187.

▶ Prostate Cancer Group’s Meeting. Informally discuss pre- and post-prostate issues. Cancer Society Gisborne, Gate 2, Gisborne Hospital, 421 Ormond Rd, 4.30pm.

▶ Surfing for Farmers (and Dec 21, then weekly from Jan 18, 2022). Get off-farm for some quality downtime, learn to surf, have a BBQ and catch up. Midway Beach (meet beside Midway Surf Life Saving Club), 5.30-7.30pm, free, incl wetsuit, board and BBQ. Details: Stephen ph 027 450 6531.

▶ POSTPONED TO DEC 2022: A Taste of Ireland; A Celtic Christmas, War Memorial Theatre.

Wednesday, December 15 ▶ Fifties Forward. Low-impact aerobics

class for all fitness levels. YMCA Stadium,

447 Childers Rd, 9.30am, $4, first class free. ▶ Mainly Music. A fun music group for pre-

schoolers. St Andrew’s Community Centre, 176 Cobden St, 9.45am, $4/Fam. Details: Trish ph 867 2789 or 868 5513.

Thursday, December 16 ▶ Bridge & Rummikub Club. Enjoy a

friendly fellowship. Gisborne Town & Country Women’s Club, 42 Emily St, 9am, ph Liz 281 0187.

▶ Casual Badminton Group. Come along for a game. Badminton Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd, 9am, $5. Details: Raewynne ph 027 256 4351 or [email protected]

▶ VIRTUAL: Te Pihinga – Little Sprouts. Fun

sing-along and read for ages 2-5, 10.30am. See www.facebook.com/GisborneLibrary

▶ Gisborne Volunteer Centre: Peer Networking Group. An opportunity for volunteer-involving group coordinators to meet, share and discuss volunteer management and support each other. PBC Cafe, 38 Childers Rd, 11am-midday.

▶ Mahjong Club, 1pm. See Dec 14. ▶ Build-a-Band. Let’s jam. Smash Palace,

24 Banks St, 7pm-11pm, free entry, R18.

Friday, December 17 ▶ Vinyl Night. DJs Steve King and Campbell

Ngata spin some favourite tunes. PBC Bar, 38 Childers Rd, 8pm, free entry, R18.

Saturday, December 18 ▶ Earlybird Market. Pre-loved treasures,

home baking, fruit, veges and plants. Behind the Gisborne i-Site, 209 Grey St, 6am-8.30am. Stallholder inquiries: Wendy ph 862 5860.

▶ Gisborne Wainui Lions: Pre-cut Christmas Trees and Christmas cake. Come along and pick up a tree or a Lions Christmas cake and get into the spirit of the festive season. Salvation Army carpark, entrance from 389 Gladstone Rd, 7am-10.30am, $30/tree & $25/cake. Fundraiser for local community organisations.

▶ Tairawhiti Coffin Club. Design and decorate a personalised coffin; constructed by a joiner. BCR Joinery, 522 Gladstone Rd, 9am-midday. Details [email protected]

▶ Gisborne Farmers’ Market. Locally-grown produce, flowers and seedlings. Cnr Stout & Fitzherbert Sts, 9.30am-12.30pm.

▶ Gisborne Woodturners’ Group: Club Open Day. Come along to see what the group does and purchase wooden toys or ornaments for Christmas. Clubrooms beside Enterprise Pool carpark, Nelson Rd, 10am-1pm. Details: Bill ph 027 450 7719 or [email protected]

▶ Ballance Street Upmarket. Local art, food and artisan wares for sale. Between Retro and Pharmacy 53, Ballance St, 11am-2pm, unless wet. Stall inquiries; ph Ro 021 844 480.

▶ Lions Express Train Rides, 11am-3pm. See Dec 12.

▶ Tennis for players of all skill levels. Ormond Tennis Club, Hill Rd, Ormond, 2pm-4pm, ph 862 5741 or 862 5856.

▶ POSTPONED TO APRIL 2, 2022: Fight For Life Gisborne Fundraiser, Farmers Air Event Centre (Showgrounds Park).

Sunday, December 19 ▶ Gisborne Runners and Walkers Club,

8am. See Dec 12. ▶ Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club walk,

Mangahua Station, Maraenui Rd, Wharerata Hills, departs 8.30am, $10. An 8km farmland and bush remnants walk with some stream crossings, along farm or forestry tracks and regenerating open country. Great views on a good day. Register: Barry ph 867 4591, 027 449 7131 or [email protected]

▶ Gisborne Yacht Club Learn to Sail: Final week, 9.30-11.30am. See Dec 12.

▶ Gisborne Sceptic Group, 11am. Details: Topics and venue ph 867 3715, 867 7122.

▶ Lions Express Train Rides, 11am-3pm. See Dec 12.

▶ Gisborne Speedway: Ministock 100. Come along for a great night of racing. Eastland Group Raceway, 357 Awapuni Rd, gates 2pm, racing 3pm. Gate sale tickets: $50Fam (2A+4C), $20A, $10Snr, $8 ages 5-15, u/5s free. See Facebook; cancelled if in Red traffic light system after Dec 13.

▶ Oktoberfest. Try German beers and hear a traditional Oktoberfest band. Neighbourhood Pizzeria, 57 Ballance St, 3pm. Tickets+Bfee: $35 tinyurl.com/ucbzuh2d or trybooking.com/nz

WHAT’S ON in GisborneTo help promote events you are involved in, e-mail:

[email protected] for a listing on

the What’s On page, or [email protected] for a

listing on the Tairawhiti Gisborne events diary.

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK – YELLOW POHUTUKAWA, WAINUI BEACHBy daVE BEaRdBy Gay yOunG


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