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by Wynsley Wrigley

GISBORNE Pistol Club is asking the public to help it find a suitable site to relocate to after an Environment Court decision which members say threatens the club’s viability.

A club spokeswoman said the court’s conditions were “severely restrictive”.

The interim decision requires the club to reduce its hours of operation and noise levels at the Gaddums Hill site where it has been based since the late 1980s.

Richard Davis, supported by other

residential neighbours of the pistol club, succeeded in his appeal against the club and Gisborne District Council, and a previous commissioner’s review of the conditions of a 2001 resource consent.

Submissions by Mr Davis and other neighbours in the appeal included — noise controls were ineffective and the district council had done “nothing about it”; that police training at the club one night had been “particularly frightening; that gun fire could be heard through double-glazed windows; and that children “generally” had to stay inside during shooting.

Environment Court Judge Melinda Dickey said experts agreed with residents that noise discharge was unreasonable.

The existing noise levels were too high, too intense, went on for too long and were unreasonable by a “significant degree”.

The interim decision comes into effect on July 29, with noise limits set.

For the period ending June 30, 2022, the noise limit is 65 dB LAFmax (an exception is made for police Glock pistols), and the noise limit is then further reduced to 55 dB LAFmax.

The interim decision says there should

be no shooting on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays or Sundays, all public holidays and in the period from December 23 to January 2. Shooting may only occur on Tuesdays from 9am to 5pm, Saturday from 9am to 4pm and every second Wednesday from 9am to 5pm for the period to June 30, 2022, and on every fourth Wednesday after that date.

Police may undertake shooting up to 9pm on a maximum of two of the permitted weekdays in any calendar year.

PISTOLS HOLSTEREDEnvironment Court rules noise discharge ‘unreasonable’

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NGATAPA rugby player Isaac Thomas will have an operation at the end of this week to repair serious ankle and leg injuries he sustained in a premier club game against High School Old Boys on Saturday.

The hard-charging centre had been a standout player for the green and whites in his first two outings with the side, including player of the day in their Tiny White opening day win over Pirates.

However, he was badly injured shortly before halftime in Saturday’s match at the Oval.

“Isaac dislocated his ankle and broke his leg just above the ankle in what was a freak tackle,” said Larsawn Ngatapa

coach Stephen Hickey. “It’s absolutely gut-wrenching to see a young guy injured like that.”

Hickey visited Thomas in hospital yesterday afternoon.

“He’s in pretty good spirits. He will undergo surgery later this week to repair the damage leg, once the swelling goes down.”

The 21-year-old shepherd at Paparatu Station came to Gisborne from Hawke’s Bay two years ago to work. He is originally from Manawatu.

“Other players on the field reacted instantly on Saturday when the injury occurred and so did the referee, (Les Thomas, no relation to the player),” said Hickey.

“Isaac was in agony and we did our best to keep him as warm and comfortable as we could before St John Ambulance arrived.”

The ambulance got stuck in mud at the gateway to the Oval. Players and supporters pitched in to push it out and across to where Thomas was lying on Ground 2.

Halftime was called immediately after the mishap occurred and the game resumed about 30 minutes later. Ngatapa won 18-8.

“It’s such bad luck for Isaac. He was playing such tremendous rugby,” his coach said. “It’s a real shame and he’s such a good bugger, too.”

Hickey said the club wished Thomas a speedy recovery.

“We also want to thank the St John officers who looked after him.”

Gut-wrenching blow

TURF’S UP: Hockey players have joined their rugby, netball and football winter sport counterparts back in action as the Poverty Bay club season got under way on the Property Brokers Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. Herald photographer Paul Rickard snapped this shot from a women’s clash between GMC Green and Ngatapa on Saturday. GMC’s Jade Stafford, with support from Anita Stewart, is about to let fly as Andrea Ferris stands in her way, Emily Willock closes in and Katie McKibbin drifts back. Green won 6-2. More on the hockey in tomorrow’s Herald

Dislocated ankle, broke leg in freak tackle incident

by Sophie Rishworth

IT wasn’t a porky but it was a pig.Friendly bush pig Boris created quite a

stir when he had night out in downtown Gisborne on Friday.

Dominos delivery expert Philly Haerewa was working a busy night shift when she walked straight past the pig outside the pizza restaurant.

“I stopped, turned around and was like: ‘Is that really a pig?’

“It was grunting and everything.“I looked around to see if anyone was

running and yelling ‘where’s my pig?’

People were running across the road but it was to see the pig. No one knew who the pig belonged to or where it had come from.

“When I got back from my deliveries people were buying pizzas just to feed the pig. It was very bizarre.”

A video posted to Facebook in the early hours of Saturday morning show Boris eating potato chips off the pavement outside Shipwreck Bar.

Boris is a pet bush pig raised by Gisborne man Fionn Thomas.

The Herald was unable to contact Fionn but spoke to his neighbour Diane Reilly.

“Boris is so friendly and gorgeous, and

thinks he is a dog,” she said.Boris was last night moved out to the

country where is able to roam free.Diane said whenever Fionn left the

house, Boris wanted to follow him, which is what happened on Friday.

Fionn went to town for a few beers and Boris tagged along.

Fionn went for a drink at Shipwreck while Boris waited outside.

He had looked after Boris since a mate of his went hunting and brought back a baby bush pig a few months ago.

Diane said Boris quickly grew as Fionn and his neighbours fed him scraps.

“Boris became a little friend. He has grown so well. Fionn washed him every day.”

Diane recalled the day she found Boris in her house asleep on her dog’s bed.

“Every time I checked the mail he would oink and squeal away.

“I would cut up an apple and feed it to him.”

A couple of weeks ago Boris went walkabout in Riverdale, was found and returned to Mr Thomas.

Boris will be enjoying the country life from now on but a Friday night out on the town again cannot be ruled out.

This little piggy did not stay home . . .

BEFORE DISASTER STRUCK: Centre Isaac Thomas had been in superb form for Ngatapa early in the Poverty Bay premier club season only to suffer serious leg injuries shortly after this action shot from Saturday’s game against High School Old Boys at the Oval. The other pictures show concerned players assisting Thomas, who was in agony; players pushing the ambulance to the scene after it got stuck in mud at the ground; and Thomas on a stretcher being put into the back of the ambulance. A Ngatapa win was a silver lining to his injury cloud. Pictures by Paul Rickard.

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Judge Dickey said there was variable evidence on what hours the club operated, but the court was satisfied the club operated outside the hours of the 2001 consent, and the police “substantially more”.

The club spokeswoman said Gisborne District Council initiated the commissioner’s hearing to review the club’s consent after complaints from neighbours. The outcome of the review was a serious reduction in the number of days and hours the club could operate.

The club could have lived with that.“The neighbours, not being happy with that

decision, went to the Environment Court and this led to the decision which now threatens

the existence of the club.”“The club has been trying hard to find an

alternative site but Resource Management Act hurdles thrown in its path have been very high.”

In 2017, the club, with assistance from the council, gained a consent to operate at a site at Waerenga-o-Kuri.

But the club cancelled the consent as it did not have sufficient finances to fight legal action from a neighbour.

“The club has now lost nearly half of its membership over recent years due to this ongoing issue and now faces enormous financial hurdles to continue to operate.

“If any member of the public knows of or has a small area of land suitable to relocate

the club to and sufficiently far away from residential homes, please contact the club.”

Judge Dickey said she did not accept that the court’s decision threatened the club’s viability.

Viability could not be assessed on the ground that it operated on the days and hours it had in the past, or operate at levels of “shooting noise, loudness and intensity that continue to cause adverse effects on the amenity and health of nearby residents”.

An interim period of two years “provides sufficient time for the club to seek a variation to its existing consent to allow other activities or to seek new consents for more activities at the site or an alternative site”.

Decision ‘threatens existence of the club’FROM PAGE 1

‘ If any member of the public knows of, or has a small area of land suitable to relocate the club to and sufficiently far away from residential homes, please contact the club’ — Gisborne Pistol Club

spokeswoman

GISBORNE District Council is advising people to avoid swimming, fishing or gathering shellfish in rivers and beaches for at least five days.

Due to large volumes in the city’s wastewater system coming from Kaiti, the emergency sewer valve at the Gladstone Road Bridge was opened at 7.50am on Friday.

The council today confirmed the emergency sewer valves were closed at 1.40pm yesterday and the discharge has stopped.

“We advise no swimming, fishing or gathering shellfish in rivers and beaches until at least five days after the valves are closed, and warning signs are removed,” a council statement said.

“We don’t make the call to discharge to rivers lightly. We do this to prevent sewage from overflowing back into people’s homes and properties and on to roads, causing a significant health risk.

“A large amount of stormwater is getting into the wastewater system from private properties.

“Our DrainWise team are inspecting properties and working with homeowners to fix stormwater drainage to reduce the risk of discharges happening in the future.”

Sewer valve closed but no swimmingor fishing

HOSPICE Tairawhiti has decided to postpone its auction fundraiser Celebrate Gisborne - The Grand Finale until next year.

The event was to be held on Friday, March 20 this year. However, this was the first day New Zealand closed its borders.

Hospice Tairawhiti manager Barbara Grout said when they looked at setting a new date, they wanted to make sure it did not impact on other charitable organisations that had supporters in common with the hospice.

“The Eastland Rescue Helicopter Trust and Eastwood Hill already had dates locked in.

As well, Poho-o-Rawiri marae, where the event was to be held, was not available for the alternative date being considered this year.

“So we felt the best thing for hospice and the community was to postpone until next year.”

Mrs Grout said tickets that had been bought for this year’s event would still be valid for next year. There was an option for a refund if they could not attend — “just in case there are people out there with tickets who aren’t on our database.”

Hospice Grand Finale fundraiser postponed RETIRING East Coast MP Anne Tolley

says conversations with her husband Allan during the Covid-19 lockdown made them reconsider whether she should serve another parliamentary term, and put off their “bucket list” for another three years.

Mrs Tolley, the East Coast MP since 2005, announced over the weekend she would retire at the General Election on September 19.

“The family have all been very supportive over the years but are looking forward to me having more time with them,” she said.

In December Mrs Tolley, the Deputy Speaker of the House, announced she would stand in the General Election as a list party candidate only as she had ambitions to become Speaker of the House.

Then last month Mrs Tolley said she would not be returned to Parliament on current polling, although last week’s 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll, where National’s rating increased significantly, made that less certain.

But Mrs Tolley said the time had come to put family life first.

“I have had tremendous support from

my family throughout my political career which has spanned 34 years.

“My husband has lived a political widower’s life, too often taking second place to the needs of my job.

“So the time has come for me to put life with him and our family first and to do the things we’ve talked about but struggled to fit into a busy political schedule.

“There is no greater privilege than to be trusted to represent your community in Parliament, and for 15 years the people of the East Coast electorate have given me that trust and support.

“I’m also extremely grateful to the National Party for the many amazing opportunities it has afforded me.”

Mrs Tolley first served in Parliament as a list MP from 1999 to 2002.

After several attempts to win the Napier electorate, she won East Coast in 2005 and has held the electorate since.

Mrs Tolley served as the National Party’s first female whip and has held a wide range of ministerial portfolios including education, corrections, police, tertiary education, social development, youth, children and local government.

More recently Mrs Tolley has been the Deputy Speaker of the House. She was elected as the second vice-president to the Bureau of Women Parliamentarians at the 138th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in 2018.

Mrs Tolley gave the keynote address at the United Nations Development Programme’s Pacific Women in Power Forum and was invited to help lead a workshop in Turkey for women’s political participation, to increase their representation in Turkish Parliament

Before her parliamentary career, Mrs Tolley served on Napier City Council and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and was deputy mayor of Napier from 1989 to 1995.

Rotorua Lakes district councillor Tania Tapsell has been selected as National’s East Coast candidate.

Mrs Tolley said she was confident National had the leadership and the team to win the upcoming election.

“I know our fantastic, hard-working candidate Tania Tapsell will win the East Coast seat, so it is a great time for me to step back, relaxed, knowing I leave it all in good hands.”

Time to go says Tolley

ELECTION 2017: National MP Anne Tolley surrounded by supporters celebrating her return to the East Coast seat at the last election. Mrs Tolley has announced she is to retire at the September general election. File picture

East Coast MP to retire after 34 years in local and national politics

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 2020 NEWS 3

CLIFTON, PeterEdward. — Peacefully,at Gisborne Hospital,on 25 June 2020, aged78 years. Lovedhusband of Susan.Brother of Margaret.Father of Sarah andHeath, and grandfatherof Sam, Lilly, Grace,Theo, Isabelle, andJasmine. At peace aftera long, tough, bravebattle. A private familyservice is to be held.

- Evans FuneralServices Ltd FDANZwww.evansfuneral.co.nz

TE KANI, Peter. —Finally at peace. Ourdear, respected friend, atrue gentleman, arespected localmusician. Our sincerecondolences to ourdevoted friend Junieand her family. RIPPete. Aroha from Mariaand Alan Gee andfamily.

TE KANI, Arapeta(Peter) Paranihi. —30.6.51 to 26.6.20.Dearly loved andtreasured husband ofJune. Much loved andprecious Dad to Vaughnand Kim, Ricky andLuana, Bruce andJessica, and AprilStevens. Adored Koroto Chester, Prestin,Ricana, Niqua, Neosha,and Shanea. Great-Koroto Rhythm and Cascius.Much loved brother tohis sisters Katerina,Riti, and brothersDonald and Wiremu.Respected uncle to allhis nieces and nephews.Brother-in-law toGeorge (dec), Doris(dec), Rex (dec), Hine,Ngaire, Joey, Daphne(dec), Malcolm, Ann(dec), Peter. Son-in-lawto Mihi (dec), Vetti(dec), Ben (dec), June(dec). A lifetimefriendship to Alan andMaria Gee.A special thank you toall staff at Ward 8, andto the Hospice andDistrict Nurses. In accordance withPeter’s wishes, a privatecremation has takenplace. Peter was aprivate person, and as afamily, we haverespected his wishes.At peace my darlingafter a long, bravebattle. Fly free ourRangatira.

NEPE, Mavis (Noi)

Left us June 29, 2019

You touched our liveswith colour of everyharmony. The strands

so gently threaded on aliving tapestry.

You wove a beautifulfabric that would lastfor us, your family.

A vibrant star that willradiate her light

eternally. Sad are thehearts that loved you.

Your sisters Sue,Anne, and brother

Jack (Sydney),and their families

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beside us every day.Unseen, unheard,but always near.

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GIBBS, IhiperaTe Hauauru Porou. –13 February 1933 - 27 June 2020, (87) years young. Passed away peacefully in her sleep, surrounded by her loving whanau. The ninth child of 11 born to Wiremu Kaapo Porou and Ngaroimata Henare Apatari of Te Muriwai. Beloved wife of Trevor (Weka). Adored mother of Stephen and Kiri, Leigh, Kim and John, Edwin, Eana and Chris. Grandmother to Duncan, Maia, Pera (Holland), Matthew (Sweden) and Oliver. Great-Grandmother to Tamahae Te Hukinga (London), Eric and John. Mum will lie in state at 27 Sirrah Street for two days, 27-28 June, thereafter Monday 9am, 29th to Te Poho o Tāmanuhiri Marae for two hours. Final service will be held at Evans Funeral Home at 1pm (Monday 29th) and then interment at Taruheru Cemetery.Everyone is welcome to come to Tatapouri Fishing Club afterwards for refreshments.

DAYTIME top temperatures in the district will drop by several degrees later this week, and the night time temperature will plummet too.

This is in stark contrast to the milder average temperatures over the past week.

“Last week Gisborne was treated to above average temperatures thanks to an influx of subtropical air,” said MetService meteorologist

Lewis Ferris. “This also aligned with a period of wet weather, so it’s likely the warm weather was not as enjoyable as it could have been.

“Historically we expect daytime highs around 15C for this time of year in the Gisborne district, with overnight lows around 6C.”

On Friday morning the overnight temperature only got down to 12 degrees at the airport.

The daytime temperature has been forecast to reach 14C degrees tomorrow, 4C overnight, then fall to 11C on Wednesday with an overnight of 3, 12 and 6 degrees on Thursday and 12 and 2 degrees on Friday.

“After a fine start to the week today, tomorrow marks a change with a southerly making its presence felt,” Mr Ferris said. “The southerly

change due around midday tomorrow will bring a period of rain and drop the temperature considerably.”

He said a low pressure system was forecast to sit out to the east of the North Island, which will funnel in a continuous, showery, southerly flow through the working week. Frosts could be on the cards, he said.

Wintry temperatures forecast from tomorrow, chance of frost

by Andrew Ashton

GISBORNE-TATAPOURI Sports Fishing Club members considering leaving the sport’s national body, do not seem to be aware of the benefits of staying, the New Zealand Sports Fishing Council (NZSFC) says.

Members were last week split over whether to leave the council, after a vote failed to decide on a clear path forward.

NZSFC president Bob Gutsell told the Gisborne Herald membership benefits included fisheries advocacy, as well as individual fuel and energy discounts, and marine insurance discounts.

“First and foremost, there is a very long-standing relationship with NZSFC and the Gisborne club. They were one of the first to join after the council was formed, and that was almost 60 years ago. They’re a big part of NZSFC’s heritage and we are part of theirs.

“Then, back in the mid-90s, we underwrote a $20,000 loan to help them set up the building there.”

Mr Gutsell said associate (or non-fishing members) paid a lower membership fee, compared with full fishing members, to join the Gisborne-Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club, but were recognised by the NZSFC as fully entitled to affiliation benefits .

He said the council levied membership fees, based on $9 for an affiliation fee and an extra $2 donation to the New Zealand Marine Research Foundation, per member.

Juniors were levied at a rate of $5.50,

plus a $2 donation.“The way we talk about it with people

is every member is paying just over two cups of coffee per year and that consolidates through the club. For a club that size it does seem like a big wad of money ($70,000) but it’s still two cups of coffee, and less than two beers, per member, per year and for that you get 11 cents a litre off at the gas station, 15 percent cheaper power bills, discounted marine insurance and access to other affiliated clubs around the country.

“Our perspective is that they are not taking advantage of the benefits we are working really hard to provide for our member clubs.

Mr Gutsell said the fishing council spent around $200,000 a year on fisheries advocacy.

“We are doing an awful lot to lobby on behalf of our member anglers for their rights to continue catching fish.

“The Gisborne area has some interesting challenges around their coastline, so we have been stepping up there to resolve that, particularly the issue with the local crayfishery.

“We have also just launched a rescue fish programme, which is an alternative to the quota management system, For years and years, people have given feedback that the quota management system is not working. So we have come out and proposed a solution for discussion.

“Last year the addition of a new, paid, chief executive officer increased our number of paid employees to two and led

to the creation of a power bill discount offer with Genesis Energy and the increase of our existing fuel discount to 11 cents per litre. Fill it up once a month and that’s $120 bucks straight back in your pocket, per year, even if you only fill up once a month.”

“All members of the club are eligible to sign up with Genesis, get $50 in their pocket, $50 goes to the club and they get about 15 percent off their power bill. We have other deals with office products as well. In addition to that we lobbied the government very hard, during the Covid-19 lockdown, to get funding support for our member clubs through Sport NZ.”

NZSFC was now able to lodge funding application requests with Sport NZ.

“We’ve not had an application from the Gisborne club on that. So, on one hand they are saying our fees are too high and we are “fleecing it” as described in the meeting the other night, and on the other hand we are doing our utmost to provide benefits back to them, which aren’t being communicated to the membership or being taken up by the membership.”

It appeared the associate members of the club were not aware of those benefits.

“We are just really keen to help get that message out to them. The whole of Gisborne should know that joining that club and getting that value is a really cool thing.”

Mr Gutsell said members should be given a club code to use to sign up with Genesis when joined.

Sports fishing council defends membership

A LIFE in theatre, music and film will be part of New Zealander of the Year Jennifer Ward-Lealand’s talk in Gisborne next week. Organised by the Gisborne branch of international organisation, Business and Professional Women, the high energy performer’s talk is open to the public.

One of Ms Ward-Lealand’s first TV performances was as a 10-year-old in the 1972 New Zealand film, Gone Up North For While. The film is said to have effected social change by stirring up public debate about the DPB for single mothers.

From the kitchen sink drama about a pregnant young woman who goes against the tide of advice from her family and welfare authorities and keeps her baby, to working with actors and directors on performing scenes that involve nudity, simulated sex, and intimacy, Ms Ward-Lealand’s career has covered a lot of ground.

Her first ongoing television role was in the TV soap opera Close to Home then after leaving school she spent a year touring New Zealand with a community theatre group in which she clowned and performed the works of Anton Chekhov.

Ms Ward-Lealand recently returned to performing Chekhov in an Auckland Theatre Company online production of the Russian playwright’s comedy, The Seagull, in which the actors performed in their respective bubbles.

In the production, Chekhov’s characters congregate over Zoom and search for meaning in their lives while battling love, jealousy, dissatisfaction and malfunctioning video calls.

In the 1980s Ms Ward-Lealand trained at Auckland’s Theatre Corporate. By the 1990s she had starred to international acclaim in the New Zealand film Desperate Remedies, toured with Harry

Sinclair and Don McGlashan in music /theatre group The Front Lawn, and was a core cast member of the Australian comedy sketch show Full Frontal. In more recent years she has directed theatre, especially musicals and, as a singer, has presented her own shows, Falling in Love Again and The Look of Love, Evocative/Provocative, at festivals and venues in New Zealand and offshore.

Most recently she starred in the Silo Theatre’s hit production Brel, to five-star reviews.

Along with training as a stage and screen intimacy coordinator, Ms Ward-Lealand has dedicated herself to learning te reo Maori and will cover that journey as well in her talk here.

She has also been an advocate for improving actors’ working conditions and pay.

Described as elegant but down-to-earth, Ms Ward-Lealand is in demand as an MC. She hosted the then Montana Book Awards three times as well as a range of events held by Auckland convention centre The Edge.

■ New Zealander of the Year Jennifer Ward-Lealand will be guest speaker at the Gisborne Business and Professional Women event at the Lawson Field Theatre on Tuesday July 7. Doors open at 5.30pm and the talk begins at 6pm.

Tickets are $20 for members, non-members $35, and are available from The Gisborne Herald or gisbornebpw@hotmail.com

CLOSE TO HOME: Actor/director/intimacy coordinator and New Zealander of the Year, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, has come a long way since her television role in the TV soap opera Close to Home, and will be in Gisborne for a talk next week. File picture

A night with NZer of the YearThe Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 20204 NEWS

A PATRON who punched a bar manager twice in the head, breaking his jaw, has been sentenced to three months home detention.

James Campbell Cooper Wati, 52, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court to injuring with reckless disregard, in relation to the incident just after midnight on January 4 this year.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of up to five years imprisonment.

Counsel Lucy Rishworth advocated for a community work sentence, as recommended in a Department of Corrections pre-sentence report, and cited comparable cases that resulted in similar sentences.

But Judge Warren Cathcart said despite a constellation of mitigating factors in Wati’s favour, such a sentence would not be punitive enough to mark the gravity of this offending.

He noted police had taken the unusual step of filing written sentencing submissions, suggesting a starting point in line with a tariff case of between 18 months and two years imprisonment.

He favoured that assessment, albeit with a lower starting point of 12 months.

In his view, Wati’s offence demanded nothing less than home detention. He would only have stepped back from it if there was some risk it might jeopardise Wati’s employment. But the probation service told the court it would not.

It was important the victim did not get lost in the sentencing process, the judge said.

“Often everyone forgets about the impact on the victim and focuses almost entirely on the offender but that’s wrong — there are two sides to crime,” the judge said.

The bar manager needed surgery in Hamilton to reset his jaw and had to take time off work, which impacted on him financially.

The incident also had an emotional effect on him. He couldn’t eat or speak properly for a while. He found communicating difficult and demeaning.

In a statement for the court, the bar manager said the attack was unprovoked. He did not understand Wati’s actions. He was only doing his job and had nothing to do with Wati or his drinking companion that night.

Judge Cathcart said there was no suggestion Wati was overly intoxicated at the time but that he simply took umbrage with how an associate was dealt with by the bar manager.

The judge accepted the offence was out of character for Wati.

Ms Rishworth said Wati felt his associate had been bullied all evening by the bar manager and “just snapped”.

Wati fully accepted his behaviour was not OK. He had not behaved that way ever before and

was unlikely to do so again, she said.He was extremely remorseful and was willing

to undergo restorative justice, had the victim agreed.

The pre-sentence report writer assessed him as being of a low risk of reoffending and harm to others, and likely to be highly compliant with court orders.

He had worked for the same employer for 24 years and was regarded as a reliable worker. He had a structured lifestyle and a strongly supportive partner, Ms Rishworth said.

From the 12 month sentence starting point, Judge Cathcart gave one month’s discount for remorse. There was a three month discount for a combination of other mitigating factors, including Wati’s work ethic, lack of recent offending, willingness to attend restorative justice and strong family support.

There was a full 25 percent discount for his guilty pleas.

The resulting six months’ prison term was converted to home detention.

Home detention for assaulting bartender

A WOMAN already warned several times by police for breaching Covid-19 lockdown conditions, was charged with obstruction under the Health Act after further flouting the rules.

This time she was discovered in the early hours of April 24, driving in town for non-essential purposes with friends from outside her bubble.

Lyndsey Henerita Hawea, 30, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court to obstruction under the Health Act.

Police spotted Hawea driving on Lowe Street about 10 kilometres from her lockdown address with two passengers, who she claimed to be giving rides home.

None of the three were in the same bubble, the court was told.

Hawea gave an excuse that involved looking for a petrol station but police noted she had already passed several before being stopped.

Judge Turitea Bolstad convicted Hawea and ordered her to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

Counsel Lucy Rishworth contended that sentence was appropriate.

Hawea was subject to a 24-hour curfew for three weeks after the offence. It was effectively a term of home detention, Ms Rishworth said.

She accepted the curfew might not have been viewed that way had Hawea been on it during Level 4 — when all the country was essentially confined to their homes.

But apart from the first three days of it, Hawea was on it when the country had returned to Level 3.

TEMEPARA Hataraka Gray, 31, shearer, admitted possessing methamphetamine.

A small amount was found on him when police executed a search warrant at a Stout Street address.

It was accepted the drug was for personal use. Gray was convicted and discharged. A charge of receiving was withdrawn.

WITH 21 active charges still progressing through the Napier District Court, Marie June Taiapa, 27, was further remanded on bail to appear next in that court.

Taiapa pleaded guilty to a Health Act charge of breaching Covid-19 rules and four breaches of bail, all arising in Gisborne. Those charges were transferred for call with her other matters in the Napier court on August 7.

FACING 30 charges, after police withdrew seven, Rachael Iritana Te Aho, 24, pleaded guilty to all of them.

The charges were for three thefts, theft from a car, five shoplifting offences, four uses of a document (laid on a party basis), seven uses of a document (in her own right) two wilful trespasses, driving while her licence was suspended, failing to stop, dangerous driving, and five breaches of bail.

Te Aho, who appeared via AV-link from a prison remand unit after being taken into custody for breaching her electronically-monitored bail, was readmitted to bail and further remanded for a report and sentence on July 22.

The judge warned Te Aho any further breach of her EM-bail would see her remanded in custody. She needed to avoid black spots at her bail address, including a garage, which affected signal.

The pre-sentence report will traverse all sentencing options, including electronically-monitored ones.

‘ Often everyone forgets about the impact on the victim and focuses almost entirely on the offender but that’s wrong — there are two sides to crime’ —Judge Warren Cathcart

by Matai O’Connor

GIVING back to the community and learning how to look after the environment was the goal of a planting session on Wednesday.

The YMCA received a donation of about 200 trees from the Women’s Native Tree Planting Trust to help beautify the area around the YMCA.

YMCA alternative education youth development officer Cam McCreedy helped organise the day in partnership with the Department of Conservation (DoC).

“We have been working with DoC for the last four years doing restoration projects and pest control in local areas to get the students involved in the community and environment,” Mr McCreedy said.

He said it was a chance for the students to learn about giving back to the community, and taking care of the environment.

“It helps increase a sense of belonging. They enjoy getting out there and getting dirty.

“It’s way better than maths.”Mr McCreedy said the students

did not fit in conventional classrooms so appreciated hands-on work, while providing a great service for the native birds.

YMCA grounds person Janette Boyd said this was a chance to beautify the YMCA.

“We got donated native plants from the Women’s Native Tree Project Trust and we asked Eastland Port for some bark which they donated.

The bark will be used as mulch to

keep moisture in the soil. The plants are native hibiscus and

libertia, the NZ iris. “They are pretty hardy so hopefully

will handle the traffic that goes past,” Ms Boyd said.

The plants were coupled together to create variation.

The students are part of the YMCA alternative education programme for children who have been disconnected from mainstream school education system for whatever reason.

In the programme, students will be challenged to develop all aspects of their well-being through a range of lessons and activities that give them opportunity to step out of their day-to-day routine, and grow into self-assured young people that have positive direction for their future.”

YMCA students on plant duty

MULCH FOR MOISTURE: Above, Boy Bishop and Leonard Kawana (right) getting bark ready for the plants. Right, Kawhena Winitana and YMCA groundsperson Janette Boyd planting native hibiscus and libertia to beautify the area around the YMCA. Left, Villami Liku makes sure the native plants are covered with enough mulch to keep the moisture in.

Pictures by Paul Rickard

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The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 2020 NEWS 5

by Audrey Young, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — National MP Judith Collins says she felt “absolutely hurt” after former Prime Minister John Key stripped of the title “honourable”, after she had been forced to resign shortly before the 2014 election.

She said Key had thrown her under a bus.

She also says she’d had the permission of Key to hold meetings with Chinese officials to discuss problems with meat exports during a visit to China that later got her into hot water.

She had discussed it with him in the Koru lounge at Auckland Airport before her visit to China, in front of her senior private secretary, Megan Wallace.

They are some of the revelations Collins makes in a memoir to be published this week, Pull No Punches.

Collins was forced to resign as a minister in 2014 after private third party emails surfaced from blogger Cameron Slater (Whale Oil) suggesting she may have been trying to undermine Serious Fraud Office chief executive Adam Feeley.

But it was widely seen at the time as the culmination of events that had begun months earlier over her activities in China.

She had been accused of using her ministerial position and official visit to undertake activities that would benefit Oravida milk company, of which her husband was a director.

“The thing is John Key did know about it,” she told TVNZ’s Q and A yesterday in an interview about the book.

“It wasn’t anything to do with Oravida’s business. It was to do with the meat exports that had been messed up by officials.”

Asked if she felt Key had thrown her under the bus, she said: “Absolutely, that’s how I felt.”

“He couldn’t remember the discussion we had had in the Koru lounge in front of my private secretary months before and then after he had done that, he then remembered it.”

The revelations and accusations about the dinner with Chinese officials plagued the Key Government for some time.

Collins did not believe Key had been untruthful.“I’d like to take him at his word that he genuinely forgot.”And she said that when she was forced to resign during the

election campaign after the Slater email suggested she was “gunning” for the SFO chief, she understood that Key was trying to secure an election win for National.

She was not reinstated as a minister until the Chisholm report cleared her over a year later, but in the meantime, Key had removed the honorific “honourable” that all cabinet ministers and former ministers are entitled to use.

“At that time I felt very disappointed in him,” Collins said.

Collins claims Key threw her under the bus

by Claire Trevett and Derek Cheng, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — National Party MP Paula Bennett will bow out of politics at the election and venture into the “business world”.

Her decision follows last month’s leadership change in the National Party after Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye rolled Simon Bridges and Bennett. Bennett was also removed as the party’s campaign chair and replaced by Gerry Brownlee.

She informed Muller of her decision at 9am today. She told media this morning he had thanked her for what she had done for the party and that she would be missed.

Bennett summed up her rise in politics, from “a 17-year-old solo mum who dropped out of school ended up being Deputy Prime Minister of this country”.

She said that making the call to quit was not “tough at all”, and it was time to put herself first. Life was too short for regrets.

“I have had an incredible time in politics for the past 15 years and now I am looking forward to my next career.”

She had been reflecting on what she wanted to do in the past weeks.

She was “open to opportunities” in the business world and did not

have anything specific lined up at this stage.

She joked that she would like to stay married so she didn’t plan to spend more time with her family.

She looked forward to more fishing.

Former Prime Minister John Key had told her to sort her golf swing, and she would look to do that, but she was most excited about business opportinities.

She had no plans for a tell-all book at this stage, she said.

Bennett said the past two and a half years in Opposition is where she has “probably learnt the most”.

“The whole thing has been a hell of a ride and I have loved it.

“Now it is time for the next chapter. I am excited to take the skills I have out of Parliament and into the business world.

“I have always wanted another career after politics and now is the right time for me to go and pursue that.”

She said she “had many people to thank”.

“I believe that much of my success has been due to the incredible people who have worked with and for me.

“I am particularly proud of my work as Minister for Social Development and Child Youth and Family for more than six years.

“Many think being a Minister is a hands-off role. I loved being

hands-on. I implemented those reforms, drove the change and the daily execution, and most importantly saw people’s lives and livelihoods improve.”

Asked about welfare changes, she said: “There is an expectation that a lifetime on welfare is an option for people, and almost feels encouraged when it should be a back-stop that is there if you need it.”

It is understood Muller made it clear to Bennett he wanted her to leave after the leadership change, but Bennett stared him down and was given the 13th ranking with the portfolios of Women and drug reform.

Soon after that, Bennett found herself in the position of having to defend Muller as he faced flak for the lack of Maori on his front bench — Bennett was the highest-ranked.

Bennett said just after the leadership change that she had been “hit pretty hard” but it was a part of politics and she wanted to stay on as an MP.

This morning, Bennett said she wouldn’t have stayed if she had been higher on the party list.

She said she never wanted to be the leader, and she was more about people and strategy and organising skills.

“Those skills were best suited to a deputy role.”

Bennett calls time on politicsJudith Collins

by Audrey Young, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine facilities are under “extreme stress” and unable to respond to increasing demands as more New Zealanders return home, a review has found.

Air Commodore Darryn Webb and Housing Minister Megan Woods — appointed the minister in charge of the facilities — announced the outcome at Parliament yesterday.

Woods called it a system under stress and Webb said it was under strain.

He said the system needed to be ramped up to meet demand.

Demand continued to grow, the system was complex and they needed more resources for things such as tests and to communicate with returnees, Webb said.

Woods said the country needed to get it right as it was a situation that was going to be “with us for some time”.

She said the Government was determined to put a system in place for as long as needed to protect the gains made, and signalled it could be in place until at least October.

The audit said there needed to be better oversight of passengers as they were transferred from the airport to managed isolation or quarantine facilities.

It said an immediate review of the policies of various Government agencies regarding the wearing of personal protective equipment was also required. Different entities appeared to have different policies about the wearing of PPE.

The recommendations were among several from the audit commissioned over a week ago by Webb, who has taken over the MIQ facilities. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the review on June 17.

Woods said a range of improvements were under way in response to the rapid review, which was conducted by senior officials from Defence Force, Corrections and Police.

Woods said there was no “play book” for this type of pandemic and that no system was going to be perfect.

She said they could never guarantee it would be fail safe but the enhanced measures would ensure it would further reduce risk.

New Zealand had the strictest isolation measures of which they were aware, she said.

So far, 22,000 people have been through managed isolation and she believed the facilities had done their job stopping people at the border.

There were currently 6000 people in quarantine and she expected that to rise

to 7000 people.They planned to separate people in

isolation so they would not come into contact with members of the public and that included using the old Jetstar domestic terminal.

Woods said they would be making sure a 12-day Covid-19 test was a priority so they could increase the turnaround and people leave at the end of the two weeks.

Webb said to say the system needed to be finely tuned was an understatement.

“This system relies on those returning New Zealanders understand and abide the rules.”

The Government would be increasing the resourcing of on-the-ground defence staff and 238 defence staff were already supporting the system.

He said they were also ensuring consistent operational delivery no matter what facility people were in.

There would be a formal system of communicating with returnees before they departed, at arrival and throughout their stay.

They hoped this would help reduce some of the negative behaviour they were responding to in the facilities.

People would not be allowed to leave managed isolation facilities until they returned a negative Covid test which would be taken on day 12.

Woods said they weren’t satisfied the processes in place were robust enough yet to re-allow exemptions.

“I don’t think anyone needs reminding about the stakes we are attempting to protect here.”

She said while they had empathy for people’s circumstances, they also had a job to do in protecting New Zealanders.

Webb said they would own the system around how people granted exemptions were transferred from isolation and how they could be managed outside of isolation.

Woods said it was a system that had worked in making sure Covid-19 had not left the isolation facilities.

‘System under stress’ Isolation by numbers■■ 22,832 returnees housed in

isolation since April 10.

■■ 53 confirmed Covid-19 cases in facilities or 0.2 percent.

■■ 5764 beds at 21 facilities is current capacity in four cities.

■■ 4692 currently occupied.

■■ 5877 beds is projected demand in seven days.

■■ 6584 beds is projection to meet that demand.

■■ 238 Defence Force staff involved in a workforce of over 600.

SWITCHING FOCUS: Paula Bennett has announced her retirement from politics ahead of this year’s election, saying she plans to focus on the business world. NZ Herald picture

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by Nicholas Jones, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — Auckland DHB will test ways of prioritising Maori and Pacific patients to “substantively cut waiting times” for some surgeries — including with algorithms and “care navigator” roles.

Documents lift the lid on the overhaul, which comes after a review of patient feedback highlighted problems including poor communication, late rescheduling of appointments, expensive car parking and food and perceived disrespect.

“As Auckland DHB restarted planned care after Covid-19 restrictions, our objective was to focus on equity. Evidence suggests that in times of resource constraint, inequities will develop as services are prioritised and redirected,” senior managers wrote in a report produced this month.

“We need to fully understand the patient journey . . . patients currently sit on the surgical wait list of the ‘suspend list’ without identified actions to support them through the next step of their pathway.”

Similar work is happening around the country. Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley DHBs have confirmed Maori and Pacific ethnicity will be used to help rank patients once they are already within a priority band, along with clinical urgency and wait time.

Eight other DHBs are considering or have left the door open to similar changes, to be permanent or while surgery backlogs are cleared after Covid restrictions.

Auckland DHB will set-up Maori and Pacific clinical leadership/advisory groups, hire “care navigators” to manage Maori and Pacific patients through the system and ensure their care isn’t unnecessarily delayed, and test approaches to applying an equity adjuster to the surgical waitlist.

“Service by service analysis by ethnicity is required to understand the whole pathway for patients. Nuanced approaches are being delivered to identify where inequity exists and address barriers to care,” the June report explains.

The objective of the fast pathway is to substantively cut the time Maori and Pacific patients are on the surgical wait list. The DHB wants to better understand what might delay a patient from becoming sick to having surgery, and look at options including an algorithm with an “augmented equity component”.

The issue could be vexed, the report noted, and it was important to intervene at the right time and that wouldn’t always be when patients were waiting for surgery.

“We must put the effort into primary care access and earlier referral, consideration of ethnicity and clinical risk of cancer at the time we grade the FSA (first specialist assessment) and at access to diagnostics at earlier time points if we are seriously going to improve cancer inequities.”

Another ADHB “equity sprint” document from September looked at cardiovascular, surgical and women’s health services and found evidence of disparities for Maori and Pacific patients, from first appointment to surgery.

A review of Maori and Pacific patient feedback found problems including breaching Tikanga best practice — one family was having karakia and a doctor

walked in and kept talking — and rescheduling appointments late and without notice or acknowledgement of patients having taken time off work and travelled.

In one instance, a 10-year-old was asked if she could be pregnant, in front of her “horrified” parent. Another patient was upset after a doctor “just pulled up my clothes roughly and revealed me like a piece of meat to all the students”.

Language barriers and poor communication were issues, and some patients felt “fobbed off” or belittled.

Auckland DHB chair Pat Snedden is strongly supportive of the equity work but a minority of elected members oppose prioritising Maori and Pacific patients. The issue will be debated at the next board meeting.

Some studies and reports show Maori and Pacific people are less likely to be referred or accepted for treatment in the first place, and generally get less treatment in the system.

The equity work at some DHBs comes amid controversy over the release of a “once-in-a-generation” report into the health sector, which recommended a new Maori Health Authority.

Most of the Health and Disability System Review’s panellists and its Maori expert advisers said the proposed structure risked the authority being an advisory group only, and put forward an alternative plan with beefed-up powers.

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has backed the alternative model.

“On average, Maori will die seven years earlier than Pakeha,” said Dr George Laking, its NZ president.

“If the Maori Health Authority is not established with the teeth to drive the systemic change needed, this is an admission by the Crown that this life expectancy gap is not only tolerated, it is accepted as an inevitability.”

DHB wait times targetedSurgery delays to be slashed for Maori and Pacific

The objective of the fast pathway is to substantively cut the time Maori and Pacific patients are on the surgical wait list.

HAMILTON — A stoush has broken out over a 106-year-old house as a group of people living in it try to prevent the demolition of what they believe should be a heritage-listed building.

But the property owner says the residents are squatters and the Hamilton house is not protected, not structurally sound, and not safe to inhabit.

It is thought the five-bedroom, ramshackle bungalow atop Memorial Drive in Hamilton East dates back to 1914, but a former resident believes the house was built in 1883 because of period features consistent with the time.

Last week Hamilton City Council prepared to issue a dangerous and unsanitary notice on the house because services such as water, sewage and electricity have been disconnected.

The process was halted when councillor Dave Macpherson asked for further investigation because of the house’s potential historical value.

Macpherson said the land where the house sits was first surveyed as part of Hamilton East almost 150 years ago.

Tim Folkema lived at the house as a Wintec music student and still spends some nights there, along with seven other residents and a dog called Jeff.

Folkema has researched architecture from the 1880s and believes the kauri timber floors and walls, sash windows, high ceilings, vents for gas lanterns and other features pinpoint construction to that era.

“We are going to be celebrating its 140th birthday in three years.”

The colourfully decorated house is next to Hamilton East School, the oldest in the district, and for 40 years it has been a haven for unconventional lifestylers and bohemians.

Folkema and long-term resident Eden Heke, who has been returning to the house every winter for 17 years, said students, artists, musicians, filmmakers and politicians had been leaving their mark on the home for decades.

They say the McGillicuddy Serious Party wrote its satirical policies there.

A vine is growing through the walls and ceiling of one room. Posters, art, photographs and album covers plaster the walls and incense fill the air at the house, which Folkema says has attracted a community of like-minded people.

Together they have salvaged a toilet, rigged up a hose to give running water to the kitchen sink, created an outside fire-heated bath for washing, and organised solar power to light each room.

Tensions came to a head in February when owner Grant Griffiths had the services disconnected.

“He’s trying to get the house condemned as unsanitary,” Folkema said. “He himself removed

water pipes, one sewage pipe on one toilet and had someone disconnect the electricity, knowing that we were there.”

However, Griffiths, a developer who bought the $1.5 million house and flats as a rental investment in 2012, said the occupiers were not paying rent and were squatters.

Griffiths said he couldn’t, therefore, complain to the Tenancy Tribunal but he had complained to the police.

“They are illegal occupants. The original tenancy was with nobody in that house. Those people are squatting.”

Griffiths said the occupiers were living in a fantasy. “I’m the one paying the mortgage and rates.” — NZ Herald

House stoush as ‘squatters’ oppose demolition

‘LIVING IN A FANTASY’: Eden Heke and Ema-Rose Stewart at the house known as “Mem Drive”. The pair are part of a community who don’t want the 100-year-old house demolished. NZ Herald picture

AUCKLAND — The funeral of slain police officer Constable Matthew Hunt is likely to take place next week.

Final plans are expected to be released closer to the service date.

Hunt’s lifelong dream was to become a police officer and he started working on the front line in October 2017.

It was on that front-line — during what should have been a routine traffic stop — that he was killed.

The 28-year-old was shot multiple times in a West Auckland street on Friday, June 19, and died soon after.

His colleague was also shot, but survived.

Hunt’s funeral has not been able to go ahead yet as family members have been in managed isolation after rushing home from overseas.

A man has been charged with Hunt’s murder, and the attempted murder of the second officer he allegedly shot.

He has been granted interim name suppression and was remanded in custody until his next appearance in the High Court at Auckland in July.

The Police Association has set up a fund to support Hunt’s family, with 100 percent of donations going directly to them. — NZ Herald

Funeral for slain officer planned for next week

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CHRISTCHURCH — Muslim leaders are calling for an interview with the man convicted of killing 51 members of their community to be made public.

The Royal Commission into the Attack on the Christchurch Mosques set up to find answers about the attack announced yesterday it had spoken to the shooter, Brenton Tarrant, as part of its inquiries.

Tarrant is awaiting sentencing for the murders of 51 people and the attempted murder of 40 others, in the attacks on Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Mosque on March 15, 2019.

Those in the Muslim community say they and the victims’ families deserve to know what he said in the interview.

Aya Al-Umari still gets the urge to tag her brother, Hussein, in something on social media, or call him to talk.

“And I’ll just be like oh, OK, hang on a minute. That feeling is definitely still there.

“It’s not easy, especially for my mum. Burying a son before (a mother) is not the natural way of how things go.”

Hussein Al-Umari was 35 years old when he was killed in the attack at Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch.

After pleading guilty, the killer will never face a trial, so Aya Al-Umari said her family was relying on a Royal Commission report into the attacks for answers.

“From us as families, we really

want answers. We want to know why, what happened. I’m personally expecting the Royal Commission report to answer these questions.”

The Government directed the commission to investigate the killer’s activities in the lead up to the attacks on March 15, 2019.

The Royal Commission declined to be interviewed for this story.

But in a statement, its chair, the Honourable Justice Sir William Young, said the commission had spoken to the gunman to “help with some areas of uncertainty”.

It is also part of a principal of natural justice — which gives anyone mentioned in a royal inquiry a right of reply.

Commissioner Jacqui Caine said it was a carefully considered decision driven by the need to observe natural justice and the ultimate goal of providing answers in the final report.

“We have given a commitment to the public that we would leave no stone unturned and interviewing the individual is another way we have sought to fulfil that commitment.”

While the final report will be public, RNZ understands a decision is yet to be made on whether a full transcript

of the interview will be included.New Zealand Muslim Association

president Ikhlaq Kashkari said detail will be distressing for the community, but it is necessary.

“It will be nice to get a full script of what interview took place and what questions were asked and what answers were given.”

Kashkari, who is also on the Muslim reference group for the commission, said going to trial would have provided many more opportunities for questions to be asked.

“Since he has pleaded guilty, our concern is that interest that reporters would have had or if they could have dug more into it — our concern is that could be lost.”

Anjum Rahman, from the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand, said she will be pressuring the Government for as much detail as possible to be publicly released.

“I think that people really want to make sure that something like this never happens again.

“For the country’s healing and for the healing of our community as well, we need to see all the information and as much of what they gained in this interview that they can put into the report.

“It needs to be shared with the wider public.”

The gunman’s sentencing was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and a date is yet to be set.

The commission’s report is due to be completed by the end of July.

Gunman’s interview ‘needs to be shared’

TAUPO — The Taupo District Council has slashed half-a-million dollars of funding for its regional tourism agency.

The council had promised not to increase rates in the aftermath of Covid-19, which meant it was having to make cost savings elsewhere.

With the borders closed to international visitors, council chief executive Gareth Green said Destination Great Lake Taupo has shifted its focus to the domestic tourism market.

“In light of this stronger focus on the domestic market, along with the need to deliver operational savings in the annual plan, Destination Great Lake Taupo (DGLT) and council have

agreed to a reduction in operational funding for the 2020/21 financial year of $500,000.

“As part of this decision, DGLT will maintain the same level of marketing spend for the region, effectively boosting the domestic spend to entice more Kiwis to visit the district.”

Green said any decisions about staff cuts as a result of the funding reduction would be up to DGLT itself.

DGLT would keep some base-level connections with key international markets in anticipation of the borders opening at some point.

The council was making cuts across a range of areas as it tried to make savings in the wake of the impact of Covid-19. — RNZ

Taupo cuts tourism funding

by Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald

INVERCARGILL — A teenage babysitter who murdered a 9-year-old boy will be sentenced today.

The babysitter, who was 15 at the time, earlier pleaded guilty to murdering the child on October 30 last year in Otautau, 40km northwest of Invercargill.

The youth, now aged 16, will be sentenced this afternoon in the High Court at Invercargill.

Interim name suppression orders covering both the defendant and victim remain in place until sentencing.

The summary of facts says the youth had been paid to babysit the child on at least 10 previous occasions.

The child’s mother had gone out that Wednesday evening about 6pm for a regular social outing.

She texted the babysitter earlier in the evening and at 10.10pm to check if her son was asleep.

However, the babysitter did not respond.Between 7.40pm and 8.35pm he messaged friends,

saying “help” to one, and asking others what they would do and think of him if he killed someone.

At 10.30pm, he texted his mother to say, “I’m sorry come get me”.

When the victim’s mother returned home at about 10.30pm, she went to check on her son but did not see him in bed.

The mother then saw the boy lying on his back on the floor at the foot of the bed. He had a large knife in his stomach and he appeared to be dead. She ran from the house screaming.

Emergency services rushed to the scene but the boy had been dead for some time.

An autopsy indicated the child had been killed within 90 minutes of being in the care of the babysitter.

The child had suffered three large knife wounds to his torso and chest area. He also had marks around his neck that were consistent with asphyxia as well as a moderate head injury.

The babysitter arrived home just before 11.30pm and was arrested by police an hour later.

Babysitter who killed boy to appear in court

‘ From us as famlies, we really want answers. We want to know why, what happened. ’ —Aya Al-Umari

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NEW PLYMOUTH — The settlement of Parihaka in Taranaki is being given $14 million to build a visitors centre to preserve its history of non-violence resistance.

The centre, funded from the Provincial Growth Fund, is also expected to create up to 130 jobs and help boost the local economy.

It will house taonga and an exhibition of the Parihaka story as well as providing a large space for wananga, conferences and tour groups.

The historic site was attacked and occupied by Crown troops in 1881, and the Crown apologised in 2017.

Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones said the invasion caused “generations of grief” for the people of Parihaka.

“When the Crown apologised in 2017 for this shocking episode in our history, its sincerest hope was that Parihaka and the Crown could acknowledge their shared past, move beyond it, and begin to work together to fulfil the vision of peaceful co-existence that Tohu and Te Whiti described.

“It is now our hope that this investment will go some way towards achieving this vision. Parihaka remains a vital symbol of non-violent action and our shared heritage. All New Zealanders should know its story and this project will help tell that story,” Jones said.

Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Andrew Little said the funding would help make the story of Parihaka accessible to more New Zealanders.

South Taranaki Mayor Phil Nixon said everyone needed to know and understand what happened at Parihaka and the centre would help rebuild the once thriving community.

“I am delighted for the people of Parihaka as they have waited a long time for this to happen,” Nixon said.

“The investment comes at a time when the region is looking to support the local construction sector and is therefore particularly welcome. Locals helping locals with welcome support from government.” — RNZ

PGF funding gives boost to Parihaka

$14 MILLION REVAMP: Sculptor Rangi Kipa looks down on the settlement of Parihaka ahead of the Crown’s apology for atrocities committed there in 1881. RNZ picture

by Simon Collins, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — Childcare centres are offering big discounts for new customers as centres open up in fast-growing suburbs just as demand falls due to Covid-19.

Four out of 13 centres in the expanding Kumeu-Huapai area in Northwest Auckland are offering 50 percent discounts for new enrolments in the next two, three or six months, and a fifth is advertising free fees until the end of July.

Early childhood planning consultant Logan Whitelaw said discounting is also occurring in Silverdale and Beachlands in Auckland, and at Rolleston near Christchurch.

In all those places, new centres have just opened or are about to open when many parents have pulled back from childcare because they have lost their jobs, are working more from home or are still worried about the risk of children catching Covid-19.

The trend is one of several discovered by the NZ Herald in a new series called Choosing Childcare, an in-depth look at the proliferation of ECE (early childhood education) centres in New Zealand, the costs of childcare, and its pros and cons.

Dr Sarah Alexander of the sector group Child Forum said some high-quality centres were now struggling “through no fault of their own”.

“Supply in many areas of New Zealand is outstripping demand in a way that we have not seen before in ECE,” she said.

“The upside of this for children and families is that, instead of going for a service that has a vacancy, parents are now more likely to be able to choose from several and can shop around.”

Ministry of Education data shows that early childhood attendance rates on Tuesdays, the highest day of the week, have recovered from 51 percent on May 26 to 55 percent on June 9 and 60 percent on June 16.

The attendance rate is always well below 100 percent because many children only attend on certain days of the week, but Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ chief executive Kathy Wolfe said many were attending less than they did before the lockdown.

“The feedback we are getting is that we have 95 percent of the children who have come back, however they have had a reduction in the hours they are spending in the centre,” she said.

“Parents who have lost their jobs, or have children at home and are still working from home, are utilising the (Government-paid) 20 hours free, and they are looking after their children outside of those hours.”

Early Childhood Council chief executive Peter Reynolds agreed that “demand is down”.

Michelle Pratt, who owns the New Shoots chain based at Whenuapai, said there was already “a massive over-supply” of ECE places before the pandemic in Kumeu and Huapai, and also in fast-growing Papamoa in the Bay of Plenty where some centres are offering eight weeks’ free care.

She said developers often included ECEs in new areas to help get resource consents.

Price war for childcare as demand dips

WHALE STRANDING: A sperm whale that was stranded off Caroline Bay in Timaru for more than nine hours has started to swim “under its own power” following earnest efforts from rescuers. According to the Department of Conservation, the whale came off the tension strap earlier on Sunday evening with the Coastguard then trying to shepherd it into deeper water. While it is possible the whale could beach again, it is a step in the right direction. Earlier on Sunday, a digger was used to remove sand between the whale and the ocean to create a channel before the tide returned. NZ Herald picture

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 9

WELLINGTON — The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to leave a lasting scar on the world’s economies but New Zealand is likely to fare better than most, according to a credit ratings agency.

A review by S&P Global said the recession would be uneven across the Asia Pacific region and New Zealand would be among the countries to escape with less permanent damage, the agency said.

New Zealand was in a small group of countries with well-targeted economic stimulus and management of the pandemic, including China, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Japan and Singapore.

“New Zealand definitely is one of those economies that has exited the most severe periods of the pandemic first, and that clearly was just because what that allows the economy to do is reopen those face-to-face service activities that are so important for the labour market, and that hopefully should get jobs restarted people can go back to work,” S&P Asia-Pacific chief economist Shaun Roache said.

The long-term cost to New Zealand’s real GDP would be an estimated 2.7 percent, on par with Japan and Australia, and far lower than the cost

of the Global Financial Crisis. “That’s going to be really important for how

quickly economies bounce back but still it’s going to be a pretty big hit we think this year,” Roache said.

New Zealand’s economy was expected to shrink 5 percent this year, but bounce back with 6 percent growth in 2021, followed by 3.4 percent growth in 2022 and 3 percent the following year.

“This is not business as usual, and one drag on the New Zealand economy will continue to be international travel and tourism.

“It’s a pretty large share of New Zealand’s GDP, and that’s not going to come back anytime soon.”

Unemployment was expected to peak at 5.8 percent this year, and drop back to 4.9 percent by 2023.

Inflation was expected to pick up to 1.8 percent next year and 2 percent in 2022 — the middle of the Reserve Bank’s target of between 1 and 3 percent.

The Reserve Bank was expected to keep the Official Cash Rate at 0.25 percent until 2022, while the exchange rate was expected to remain under 68 US cents for the next three years. — RNZ

NZ economy predicted to emerge from Covid-19 better than most

BETTER RECOVERY: New Zealand’s economy was expected to shrink 5 percent this year, but bounce back with 6 percent growth in 2021, an S&P Global review said. Picture supplied

AUCKLAND — New data has revealed the financial impact of the lockdown on the nation’s housing market and identified the best and worst-performing regions.

Data crunched by OneRoof and its partner Valocity shows New Zealand property values have fallen just 1 percent since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, as measured by a new index, despite a plunge in values during the four-week nationwide shutdown.

The situation is better than many pundits had expected, though it comes on the back of strong price growth in the months before the lockdown began.

Experts attribute the relative buoyancy to the low number of listings coupled with strong demand from buyers and record low interest rates.

Of the 15 major regions, 12 have seen declines since March 25 — the day before the country went into lockdown — with values in the remaining regions stalling.

Property values in the Greater Auckland region dropped 2 percent on the index in the weeks after March 25, but have since recovered, and are now just 1.6 percent off where they were before lockdown.

Similarly, New Zealand property values on the index dropped 2.4 percent during the lockdown period but the surge in market activity since alert level two has seen them recover much of that loss.

Dollar-wise, Auckland City’s median value on March 25 was $1.03 million. It now sits at $1.02 million.

Economists are still trying to quantify the likely impact of the pandemic on the country’s housing market.

Global ratings agency S&P last week tipped New Zealand house prices

to fall 10 percent.However, OneRoof editor Owen

Vaughan says the new index shows clearly that overall the housing market is doing better than was forecast at the start of the crisis.

“While the full impact of Covid-19 won’t be clear until mortgage deferrals and the wage subsidy scheme come to an end, it seems the housing market has rebounded from the lockdown.

“The index shows that values in many locations are back to where they were at the start of the year, when the market was starting to run hot. The question for buyers and sellers is whether or not the bounce back will be short-lived.”

OneRoof and Valocity created the new index to solve the challenges of measuring a housing market that suffered an unprecedented shutdown and faces an uncertain future.

The index sets as a baseline property values on March 25, 2020. Every sale since that date has then been analysed and tracked, allowing subtle changes in the market to be measured.

Valocity valuation director James Wilson said: “When we looked at the market using traditional methodology, comparing activity now to activity 12 months ago, we saw that only two territorial authorities — Kaipara and Selwyn — have seen declines in property values and that 38 have enjoyed more than 10 percent growth.

“This gives a false impression of what’s going on in the market. Yes, property values are up but that’s more a reflection of the fact that these locations were experiencing value growth in the three to six months before lockdown.”

Wilson says the drop in sales volumes forced OneRoof and Valocity

to look at a range of different market metrics, not just median sale prices.

“By breaking down what’s been selling together with the nature of the housing stock in any given location allows us to track more effectively the actual changes in individual submarkets.”

The index shows the impact of the lockdown and the extent of the bounce-back in each territorial authority.

The biggest fallers were North Shore (- 3.8 percent) and Christchurch (-3 percent). Others include Queenstown Lakes (-7.7 percent), Far North (-4.4 percent), Waitaki (-3.9 percent) and the Coromandel (-3.8 percent) — but those areas had low sales volumes so the numbers weren’t as reliable.

The best-performer was Lower Hutt (up 1.1 percent). Rotorua was also high at 4.6 percent as was Waikato (4 percent), Matamata (3.7 percent), and Kaipara (3.1 percent) but those areas also had low sales volumes.

Wilson says the index clearly shows the erosion in property values isn’t a crash.

“For example, North Shore values are where they were at the start of February, when the market there was picking up speed. Auckland City is back to where it was at the end of January,” he says.

Loan Market mortgage adviser Bruce Patten said the market was busy, driven by a low number of listings and strong demand from first home buyers looking to cash in on

record low interest rates.“A lot of parents are helping

children into properties because the cost of a mortgage is actually less than what they’re paying in rent.”

While this boded well, the real impact of the pandemic would not be known till thousands of homeowners came off their mortgage holidays in October to December.

This could see many people forced to sell their homes if they had lost their job and not found re-employment, he said.

Barfoot and Thompson national auction manager Campbell Dunoon said the company sold a 1950s three-bedroom home last week in double grammar zone for $3.584, more than $500,000 over CV, and at the end of last month sold what could be this year’s most expensive piece of real estate - a 1960s clifftop home in Remuera that went for $8 million.

And while many auction rooms are full, not everything is selling under the hammer. Some auction clearance rates have been low with properties selling for under CV.

Ray White chief auctioneer John Bowring puts recent successes down to not enough houses on the market to meet buyer demand.

“Even if the new normal is that we’ve only got half the stock (to sell), we’ve still got more buyers looking for properties. It’s always going to be a supply and demand issue.”

Harcourts Cooper & Co auctioneer Andrew North, who operates on Auckland’s North Shore says supply is tight.

“Until we see a flood to the market, there’ll be no fall in prices.”

He suspects would-be sellers are choosing to renovate rather than trading houses. — NZ Herald

Covid effect on housing market

AUCKLAND — Respiratory products maker Fisher and Paykel Healthcare said its net profit shot up by 37 percent to $287.3 million in the year to March, and said the number would swell to $325 to $340m for the 2021 year.

The March 2020 net profit compares with the company’s own earnings guidance of $275m to $280m. The company, whose sales have been boosted by the Covid-19 outbreak, said its revenue for the 2021 financial year would be about $1.48b.

Capital expenditure would lift to $160m. The company’s fourth manufacturing facility in New Zealand has been completed. The company’s shares last traded at $32.00 — a record high — having more than doubled over the last 12 months.

F&P Healthcare said that for the first three months of 2021 its hospital product group growth had continued to accelerate, with hardware growth of over 300 percent and hospital consumables tracking at over a one-third increase, compared to the first three months of 2020.

The company also signalled plans to increase its dividend as its earnings grow. Excluding the impact from tax changes, being the R&D tax credit and building tax depreciation, net profit after tax grew 23 percent.

The increase in revenue for the year just passed was largely driven by growth in the use of the company’s Optiflow nasal high flow therapy, demand for products to treat Covid-19 patients, and strong hospital hardware sales throughout the course of the year, the company said. “The 2020 financial year was already on track to deliver strong growth before the coronavirus impacted sales,” managing director and

chief executive Lewis Gradon said in a statement.

“With new processes, new procedures and new ways of working safely, we managed to double and in some instances triple, output for some of our hospital hardware products over just a few months at the end of the year,” he said. For the Hospital product group, which includes products used in respiratory, acute and surgical care, operating revenue increased 25 percent or 21 percent to $801.3m for the year.

Sales from new applications consumables, which includes products used for nasal high flow therapy, increased by 23 percent constant currency over the previous financial year. For the homecare product group, which includes products used in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnaea (OSA) and respiratory support in the home, revenue rose 9 percent, or 4 percent in constant currency, to finish at $457m.

The company’s gross margin fell by 73 basis points to 66.1 percent primarily driven by additional air freight costs.

The company said it expected to increase dividends as earnings grow, while taking into consideration its target gearing ratio.

Directors have approved a final dividend of 15.5 cents per share, an increase of 15 percent on the final dividend last year, bringing the total to 27.5 cents per share.

Gradon said management could not predict the scope, duration or impact of Covid-19 and its effects on the company’s operations and financial results.

F&P Healthcare expects capital expenditure for the 2021 financial year to be about $160m. — NZ Herald

F&P Healthcare sees record profit lift of 37pc

BEYOND EXPECTATION: According to OneRoof editor Owen Vaughan, the new index shows clearly that overall the housing market is doing better than was forecast at the start of the crisis. Picture supplied

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 202010 BUSINESS

WHAT’S ON IN COUNCIL THIS WEEK by Pay Seymour

THERE are no formal council meetings this week. Interested councillors will join a Local Government NZ-initiated climate change webinar on Thursday.

Last week the council endorsed the post-Covid-19 response and recovery plan for Tairawhiti, Rau Tipu Rau Ora.

Chaired by Mayor Rehette Stoltz, iwi leaders of Ngai Tamanuhiri, Rongowhakaata, Ngati Porou and Mahaki have been working with Trust Tairawhiti, Hauora Tairawhiti and Eastland Group to prepare this plan for the region and for Government. Eastland Group is there as the provider of critical infrastructure.

It is not a council document but a district plan with parts for all the leadership of the region to make happen.

The principles cover vision and focus, supporting whanau and community, getting our economy moving, our environment and our workforce. The document brings together elements from previous plans for economic development that the region has discussed and it creates a vision for a stronger, healthier Tairawhiti. The plan strongly reflects the

bicultural nature of this region and aspirations for all in Tairawhiti to be stronger together.

Like the refreshed Tairawhiti Economic Action Plan, this plan identifies various deliverables. The overall governance group still has more work to do in setting time frames and accountabilities if this is to be more than just another document.

Housing is one element and we have long heard of the need for more affordable housing.Last year Manaaki Tairawhiti gave an excellent presentation to GDC on their study of the immediate housing needs of the region.

This plan proposes a Housing Taskforce for Tairawhiti, to build 400 affordable homes. It looks to create local employment and trades apprenticeships, to supply locally-processed timber for the building programme and include scope for papakainga housing for whanau Maori.

We would all support every one of these goals, but how will the combined best intention of the group take this to the next step?

Each item in Tairawhiti Rau Tipu Rau Ora has an impact statement and a workforce development goal, a time frame and suggested partners. The housing workforce goal suggests 200 jobs, 33 percent local contractors and 33 percent Maori trainees and Maori contractors. Also, support of in-region wood processing. The partners are identified as all the players in the governance group and government agencies and

the tertiary providers in our region. The time frame suggests an imminent delivery

of the proposal to government and very soon after, a decision on consents.

To achieve this the council would need to provide analysis of all land currently zoned residential where building could commence as soon as there were plans in place and builders free to move. Capital will be necessary for these builds. Is this where the Government is expected to provide at least a small amount of investment capital to get the project off the ground? We can’t expect the industry to build too many homes until an ownership structure is determined, although there will certainly be scope for the private purchase of ready-built affordable homes.

Our local tertiary providers provide trades training; that could be tooled up for new students and current funding support for the employment of apprentices could be utilised. The building industry needs to be brought on board ASAP.

We need to consider sustainability for an upskilled and grown industry. The builds need to go on for some years if this is to be a sustainable, longer term project

A warm, dry, stable home is recognised as one of the essentials of wellness, of kids being able to get to school and participate, and for older people to keep well.

Let’s get this project moving.

Let’s get housing plan into gear

Relax Patrick Cooper! “The Crucible” being an allegory on paranoid America in the 1950s is widely recognised and is naturally one of the reasons why it is to be performed locally. Political conspiracy theories continue to haunt many — so a heads-up on that note!

New Zealand does not vote in America’s elections, so perpetual expressions of devoted support for the preposterous international joke that is Donald Trump amounts to futile effort, persuading no discerning unfortunate who has watched and listened to his performances.

As for your deep concern over those devious Russians supposedly determined to

undermine the West, their duplicity is to be condemned just as much as America’s tactics internationally of the same kind. But worse, deeming it America’s responsibility for law and order everywhere, or in pursuit of their own interests, blatant attacks around the world now amount to a total of 21 countries bombed since World War Two.

Those who live by the sword most certainly die by the sword, which may be why the United States now appears to be in terminal condition. That self-proclaimed, “very stable genius” personifies this decline every single time he . . . er . . . blows his own Trumpet.

NORMAN MACLEAN

US decline personified

EDITORIAL

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS

In a virus-stricken world, New Zealand is looking like a rare safe haven and thousands of Kiwis are streaming home — in the process creating problems for what was an ill-prepared isolation regime at the border.

The reverse diaspora has seen the country’s managed isolation facilities stretched to the limit, with fresh locations being established in Rotorua and Hamilton as Auckland puts out the No Vacancies sign.

A review has shown a system that is not broken but under extreme pressure. Already $80 million of the $300m allocated to pay for people returning has been spent, and the rest will go comparatively soon.

Nobody would reasonably dispute the right of New Zealanders to come back here but there is some angst over taxpayers footing all the bill; Cabinet is set to discuss potentially requiring a contribution this week.

The other side of the issue is that there has been a steady stream of new Covid cases detected among those in isolation, as well as the two sisters who tested positive while on compassionate release. Public trust has taken a knock with the recent testing fiasco and there are fears more cases could get through, restarting community transmission.

Our geographic isolation and the fact we have no land borders is to our advantage, but vigilance has to be a lot higher than it was.

There are also more risks than Covid-19 to consider if a bleak report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, among Cabinet papers released last Friday, is to be believed.

MFAT sees a threat to global liberal interests with the UN failing, protectionism rising and the countries that once led the free world abdicating that responsibility — and this was before the new coronavirus struck. Fallout from this virus could lead now to governments collapsing, people being driven from their homes and a rise in violent terrorism. Also, the fight against climate change could be put on hold leading to more instability.

It is a depressing world picture, which tended to overshadow some major developments in New Zealand last week such as the light rail connection to Auckland Airport, a key plank in Labour’s 2017 election policy, now dead in the water, at least for now, thanks to the intransigence of Winston Peters.

Never mind, there was one huge piece of good news. New Zealand and Australia have won the right to host the 2023 FIFA women’s world cup, the biggest female team sport event in the world. Someone else wants to come here.

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Vigilance at the border essential

Re: Lockdowns cause mortality spike, not Covid-19.

Does Ms Williams also believe that eating ice cream is a leading cause of drownings in New Zealand? After all, it is well known that as ice cream sales increase, so do drowning rates: yes, one of the well known examples where correlation is not causation.

Her major reference is an unpublished essay by someone who has not done “extensive research” but merely drawn upon public information to support his pre-formed opinion on lockdown and civil liberties. His association with a “civil liberties association” is a bit of a clue! He has used all the tricks to attempt to demonstrate causation (scales of graphs, unlinked data) while stating 50-year-old reports as the basis for coronavirus behaviour. Yes, the behaviour of a virus that was unknown less than seven months ago is demonstrated by a report from 1961. In short, Rancourt’s writing is “it’s just another flu”,

showing complete disregard (or more likely, ignorance) for the transmission and epidemiology of the SARS coronavirus 2 — a virus that is often spread by someone even before they know they’re infected (if they ever do have symptoms).

To say that those who died of Covid-19 in rest homes would have died soon anyway is callous to the extreme and once again demonstrates ignorance on the transmission paths of this novel virus. You are privileged Ms Williams and shouting it from your safe haven. Respiratory viruses are not equitable and research has shown they unfairly burden Maori and Pacific Islanders in NZ. And this research? This is research that we call “published”, “peer-reviewed” and “accepted”.

And thanks for the quote. Here’s one in return from Abraham Lincoln: “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet just because it has my photo next to a quote.”

JOHN MACKAY

Covid facts disregarded

Re: Diligent vs disgraceful . . . June 27 letter.

Not someone to kick a man when he’s down (or at any other time), I thought it would be appropriate for

Dr Clark to have an opportunity to reply to his antagonists.

Dr Clark, are you out there?…..

PJ REED

Keen to hear Dr Clark’s side

Re: Tourist attacked, June 26 story.

We visited the French tourist at the hospital on Saturday. My husband is a French national so we wanted to see how we could help.

He is still in a lot of pain from his injuries and unfortunately he has a long road to recovery. He is such a humble guy who is feeling overwhelmed but very grateful

for the kindness he has been getting from our community.

I think he appreciated being able to speak in French and really express his emotions. Not only had Covid-19 put his working holiday on hold, but now this hideous incident has. This poor guy can’t work and he won’t leave NZ until the offender has been caught.

LINDA

Long road to recovery . . .

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 2020 OPINION 11

GLOBAL BRIEFSMelbourne backyard to be dug up in 40-year cold case

MELBOURNE — A Melbourne backyard will be dug up in the search for a Melbourne mum who went missing more than 40 years ago.

Veronica Green, who would now be 82 years old, was 38 when she was last seen on February 13, 1976.

Her disappearance left behind her two children, aged 14 and seven at the time.

Detectives have made a number of inquires and investigated several reported sightings in subsequent years, but none have been confirmed.

On the day of her disappearance, Ms Green left her Ardeer home in her car and drove to the Albion railway station.

She parked the grey Morris Minor at the station and caught the train to work in Melbourne but did not return to pick the vehicle up. — AAP

‘Australia is spying on us’BEIJING — China’s state media has claimed

Australia is ramping up spying efforts against Beijing as diplomatic ties come under heavy pressure.

The Chinese Communist Party-run Global Times tabloid accused Australia of waging an intensifying espionage offensive through sending spies to China.

It also claimed Australia was instigating defections, spying on Chinese students and feeding “fake news” to the media to hype up theories about Chinese spying.

The story, which was based on an anonymous source from a Chinese law-enforcement agency, said Australia tried to install wire taps in the Chinese embassy in Canberra.

It came days after an obscure NSW upper house MP was raided by ASIO and federal police over allegations Chinese agents had infiltrated his office. Shaoquett Moselmane was last week kicked out of the Labour Party and faces a suspension from parliament. — AAP

Trump ‘unaware of bounties’WASHINGTON, DC — US President Donald

Trump says he was never briefed about Russian efforts to pay bounties to militants who killed American troops in Afghanistan.

Trump blasted a New York Times report saying he was told about Moscow’s cash rewards and did not respond. “Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians,” Trump tweeted yesterday, calling on the newspaper to name its anonymous source. “Everybody is denying it and there have not been many attacks on us.”

According to Friday’s Times report, US intelligence concluded a Russian military intelligence unit linked to assassination attempts in Europe offered rewards for successful attacks on American and coalition soldiers last year. Islamist militants were believed to have collected bounty money, the newspaper reported.

The White House and Director of National Intelligence on Saturday denied the report. Russia’s foreign ministry also dismissed it.

— AAP

WASHINGTON, DC — US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci says as 16 states reel from a spike in Covid-19 cases, even parts of the country doing well will be affected.

At the first White House task-force briefing in two months, Dr Fauci said: “The only way we’re going to end it is by ending it together.”

As health experts said more must be done to slow the spread, US Vice-President Mike Pence praised US “progress”.

The US hit an all-time daily high of 40,000 new infections on Friday (local time).

During the briefing, the White House task force also urged millennials to get tested, even if they were asymptomatic.

Pence said the president requested the task force address the American people amid surges in infections and hospital admissions across southern and western states.

In Texas, Florida and Arizona, reopening plans have been paused due to the spike — much to the anger and dismay of many business owners.

While some of the increase in daily cases recorded can be attributed to expanded testing, the rate of positive tests in some areas is also increasing.

Health officials in the US estimate the true number of cases

is likely to be 10 times higher than the reported figure.

Dr Deborah Birx, coronavirus response co-ordinator, thanked younger Americans for heeding

official guidance on testing.“While before we told them to

stay home, now we are telling them to go and get tested.”

She noted this “great change”

in testing guidance would allow officials to find “the asymptomatic and mild diseases that we couldn’t find before”.

— Agencies

CALLING FOR UNITY: Dr Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus ‘task force’ in Washington, DC. Dr Fauci has said ‘the only way we’re going to end Covid is by ending it together’. AP picture

US has serious problem with Covid-19: Fauci

BALTIMORE, MD — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has passed the milestone of 10 million, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US.

Or, if you were to take the figures from the live statistical website www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/, then the figure was sitting at precisely 10,196,563 this morning, at the time of going to press.

The virus, which emerged in China late last year and spread across the globe, has led to half a million deaths.

Half of the world’s cases have been in the US and Europe, but Covid-19 is now rapidly growing in the Americas.

The virus is also affecting South Asia and Africa, where it is not expected to peak until the end of July.

Outbreaks are still spreading in many parts of the world, with 1 million new cases recorded in the past six days.

The US has reported a total of 2.6 million cases and 128,000 deaths with Covid-19 so far — more than any other country.

US states that emerged from lockdown in recent weeks — notably in the south — have been reporting record increases in new infections.

The spike has led officials in Texas, Florida and other states to tighten restrictions on business again.

Statistics from several countries have shown that people from black and Asian ethnic groups are more likely to be severely affected by the virus than white people.

The country with the second-highest number of recorded cases is Brazil, with a total

of 1.3 million, and deaths in excess of 57,000. Despite a wave of new infections, the state of Rio de Janeiro said it will allow football stadiums to reopen to fans from July 10 — initially at one-third capacity.

Over the weekend, China imposed a strict lockdown near Beijing to curb a fresh outbreak.

Nearly half a million people will be barred from travelling in and out of Anxin county in the province of Hebei.

In the UK — the country with the greatest number of deaths in Western Europe — the government said it could impose its first local lockdown following a surge in new cases in the English city of Leicester.

— BBC story via RNZ

10m cases worldwide

WASHINGTON, DC — US President Donald Trump retweeted a video showing one of his supporters loudly shouting “white power”.

The supporter was among a group of people taking part in a pro-Trump rally at a retirement complex in Florida.

The footage showed supporters and opponents of the president hurling abuse and swearing at one another.

Trump has denied accusations that he is seeking to capitalise on racial tensions. His spokesman said he did not hear the “white power” comment.

In the tweet, which was later deleted, the president thanked “the great people of The Villages” — referring to the retirement community north-west of Orlando, where the rally took place.

“The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!,” he

wrote.The video included in the tweet

showed a Trump supporter in a golf cart raising a clenched fist and shouting “white power”. He appeared to be responding to a protester calling him a racist and using profanities. Other anti-Trump protesters shouted “Nazi” and other accusations at the rally-goers.

Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the US Senate, said in an interview with CNN on Sunday (local time) that the video was “offensive” and called on the president to remove his tweet.

“There is no question that he should not have retweeted it and he should just take it down,” Scott told the network.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said the president “did not hear the one statement made on the video”, and that Trump had only seen “tremendous enthusiasm from his

many supporters”.The US Secretary of Health and

Human Services, Alex Azar, told CNN that “neither the president, his administration nor I would do anything to be supportive of white supremacy”.

Trump has previously faced accusations of sharing or promoting racist content. In 2017, he retweeted three inflammatory videos from a British far-right group, prompting a rebuke from then UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

He was widely criticised in 2019 when he said in a tweet that four US congresswomen — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar — should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came”. Three of the four congresswomen were born in the US and all four were US citizens.

— BBC story via RNZ

Trump tweets clip of supporter yelling ‘white power’

SAYS HE ‘DID NOT HEAR’ RACIST STATEMENT: US President Donald Trump has previously been accused of racism. AFP picture

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 202012 WORLD

BRUSSELS — A global fundraising meeting has raised 6.15 billion euros (NZ$10.7bn) from the US, the European Commission and numerous other countries to fight Covid-19, with many participants stressing that an eventual vaccine should be available to anyone who needs it.

The pledging summit, held in Brussels and part of a joint initiative by the EU executive and advocacy

group Global Citizen, also included a globally-televised and streamed fundraising concert, featuring Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Chloe X Halle, Usher and others.

The Commission together with the European Investment Bank pledged 4.9bn euros, the US pledged US$545m million and Germany 383m euros.

A total of 40 governments took part in the summit.

The money will be used for Covid tests, treatments and vaccines, and also to support the world’s poorest and most-marginalised communities.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was crucial that everyone who needed it should have access to a vaccine. “I am trying to convince high-income countries to reserve vaccines not only for themselves but also for low- and

middle-income countries. This is a stress test for solidarity.”

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson concurred.

“If and when an effective vaccine is found, then we as world leaders have a moral duty to ensure that it is truly available to all.”

French President Emmanuel Macron was adamant about pooling efforts. Italy echoed his sentiment.

The EU has been championing global co-operation in efforts to control and end the pandemic, in contrast to the United States’ and China’s focus on national initiatives. — Reuters story via RNZ

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TEHRAN — An explosion that rattled Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photographs showed on Saturday (local time).

What exploded in the incident early on Friday that sent a massive fireball into the sky near Tehran remained unclear, as did the cause of the blast.

The unusual response of the Iranian government in the aftermath of the explosion, however, underscores the sensitive nature of an area near where international inspectors believe the Islamic Republic conducted high-explosive tests two decades ago for nuclear weapon triggers.

The blast shook homes, rattled windows and lit up the horizon early on Friday in the Alborz Mountains.

State TV later aired a segment from what it described as the site of the blast.

One of its journalists stood in front of what appeared to be large, blackened gas cylinders, although the camera remained tightly focused and did not show anything else around the site.

Defence Ministry spokesman Davood Abdi blamed the blast on a leaking gas which he did not identify and said no one was killed in the explosion.

Abdi described the site as a “public area”, raising the question of why military officials and not civilian firefighters would be in charge.

The state TV report did not answer that.

Satellite photos of the area, some 20km east of downtown Tehran, showed hundreds of metres of charred scrubland, which was not seen in images of the area taken in the weeks ahead of the incident.

The building near the char marks resembled the facility seen in the state TV footage.

The gas-storage area sits near what analysts describe as Iran’s Khojir missile facility. The explosion appears to have struck a facility for the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, which

makes solid-propellant rockets, said Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.

The Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies identified Khojir as the “site of numerous tunnels, some suspected of use for arms assembly”.

Large industrial buildings at the site which were visible from satellite photographs also suggested missile assembly being conducted there.

The US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) said Iran overall had the largest underground facility programme in the Middle East.

Such sites “support most facets of Tehran’s ballistic missile capabilities, including the operational force and the missile development and production programme”, the DIA said in 2019.

Iranian officials themselves also identified the site as being in Parchin, home to a military base where the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) previously said it suspected Iran had conducted tests of explosive triggers that could be used in nuclear weapons.

Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons, although the IAEA previously said Iran had done work in “support of a possible military dimension to its nuclear programme” that largely halted in late 2003.

Western concerns over the Iranian atomic programme led to sanctions and then eventually to Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in 2015.

The US under President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord in May 2018, leading to a series of escalating attacks between Iran and the U.S. and Tehran abandoning the deal’s production limits.

Iran’s missile and space programmes have suffered a series of explosions in recent years.

The most notable came in 2011, when a blast at a missile base near Tehran killed Revolutionary Guard commander Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, who led the paramilitary force’s missile programme, and 16 others. Initially, authorities described the blast as an accident, though a former prisoner later said the Guard interrogated him on suspicion Israel caused the explosion. — AP

Explosion in Iran near suspected missile site

EVIDENCE OF A BLAST: These combined images from the European Commission’s Sentinel-2 satellite shows the site of an explosion, before, left, and then afterwards, right, that rattled Iran’s capital. Analysts say the blast came from an area in Tehran’s eastern mountains that hides an underground tunnel system and missile-production sites. The explosion appears to have charred hundreds of metres of scrubland. European Commission combined satellite images via AP

The blast shook homes, rattled windows and lit up the horizon early on Friday in the Alborz Mountains.

READING — A suspect has been charged with three counts of murder over a knife attack in the English town of Reading described by police as a terrorist incident, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Saturday (local time).

A man wielding a five-inch knife attacked people out enjoying the sun at Forbury Gardens, a Reading park, on the evening of 20 June, killing three people and injuring three others.

“The Crown Prosecution Service has today authorised Counter Terrorism Policing South East to charge Khairi Saadallah, 25, with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder,” the CPS said on Saturday.

Saadallah would appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday — UK time.

A security source had previously told Reuters that the suspect, a resident of Reading, was a Libyan national.

Police named the victims as Britons James Furlong, 36, and David Wails, 49, and US national Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39.

Ritchie-Bennett’s family said in a statement on Saturday: “We LOVED Joe so much and we are in such deep sorrow. We need all your prayers for Joe and the Ritchie and Bennett families.”

Local authorities in Reading held a memorial on Saturday evening at which civic and religious leaders and a police chief paid tribute to the victims and to members of the public who had tried to help, some by tearing their shirts to make bandages.

While the speeches were televised, residents of Reading were encouraged not to gather in large numbers due to the ongoing coronavirus-related social-distancing measures, but to light candles on their doorsteps.

Neil Basu, the national head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said that as the lockdown was beginning to ease, members of the public should play their part in protecting themselves and others from what he called the “scourge of terrorism”. — Reuters via RNZ

Suspect charged in UK terrorist attack

LONDON — The Rolling Stones have warned US President Donald Trump that he could face legal action if he continues to use their songs at his campaign rallies.

A statement from the band’s legal team said it was working with the performing rights organisation — the BMI — to stop the unauthorised use of their music.

The Trump campaign used the song You Can’t Always Get What You Want at last week’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The same song was used by the Trump campaign during the 2016 US election.

“The Rolling Stones do not endorse Donald Trump,” the band tweeted in 2016.

In a statement released yesterday, representatives for the group said that “further steps to exclude” Trump from

using Rolling Stones’ material in future presidential campaigning was necessary after previous “cease-and-desist directives” had been ignored.

The BMI has reportedly notified the Trump campaign on behalf of the Stones that the use of their songs without permission will constitute a breach of its licensing agreement, and would be subject to legal action.

In April, the Rolling Stones — fronted by 76-year-old singer Sir Mick Jagger — released their first new single in eight years, Living In A Ghost Town.

Earlier this month, the family of rock musician Tom Petty issued a cease and desist letter to the Trump campaign over the unauthorised use of his song I Won’t Back Down at the Tulsa rally.

In a statement posted on Twitter, the family said that the

late artist would “never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate”.

Petty died in 2017 of an accidental drug overdose after taking painkillers, aged 66.

Campaigning will continue in the coming months as Trump prepares to face Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden in November’s presidential election.

— BBC

The Rolling Stones tell Trump not to use their songs

HEY, TRUMP, GET OFF OF MY CLOUD!: Members of The Rolling Stones, from left, Sir Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ron Wood pose for photos from their plane at Jose Marti international airport in Havana, Cuba. The Rolling Stones are threatening US President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his re-election campaign rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. AP picture

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BEIJING — Construction activity appeared under way on both the Indian and Chinese sides of a contested border high in the Karakoram mountains, a week after a deadly clash in the area left 20 Indian soldiers dead, satellite images showed.

The images released by Maxar, a Colorado-based satellite-imagery company, showed new construction activity along the Galwan River Valley — even as Chinese and Indian diplomats said military commanders had agreed to disengage from a standoff there.

The images appeared to show that the Indians had built a wall on their side and the Chinese had expanded an outpost camp at the end of a long road connected to Chinese-military bases further from the poorly-defined border, according to experts.

The contradictions in words and deeds showed the fragility of an agreement following the worst violence since the Asian giants went to war in 1962 over their competing claims to

the arid border region, experts said.

China has said that India first changed the status quo last August when it split the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two federal territories — the territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the territory of Ladakh, parts of which are contested by China.

The new maps released by India following the move drew criticism from Beijing because they showed Aksai Chin — an area administered by China but contested by India — as part of Ladakh.

Indian officials said the standoff that culminated in this month’s deadly clash in the Galwan Valley, part of a remote stretch of the 3380km ‘Line of Actual Control’, or LAC, established following the 1962 war, began in early May when large contingents of Chinese soldiers entered deep inside Indian-controlled territory at three places in Ladakh, erecting tents.

After a few skirmishes in May, Indian and Chinese

commanders met on June 6 to hash out an agreement that would reduce tensions.

The two sides agreed to build observation posts on either side of the mouth of the Galwan River, China’s ambassador to India, Sun Weidong, told the Press Trust of India news agency last Tuesday.

Indian foreign ministry spokesperson, Anurag Srivastava, said that during the June 6 meeting “both sides had agreed to respect and abide by the LAC and not to undertake any activity to alter the status quo”, but did not address whether they had agreed to observation posts.

Around midnight on June 15, soldiers attacked each other with rocks, clubs and their fists in the Galwan Valley, which was the deadliest violence between the two countries in 45 years.

Indian security officials said the fatalities were caused by severe injuries and exposure to subfreezing temperatures.

China has not said whether it suffered any casualties in

the clash.India and China have

blamed each other for the melee and staked fresh claims on the area where it occurred.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday that the confrontation occurred on China’s side of the LAC, and that Indian forces had illegally entered Chinese territory.

“The responsibility for the incident is not on the Chinese side,” Zhao said.

However, Srivastava said on Thursday that China had provoked the fight when its soldiers “sought to erect structures just across the LAC” on the Indian side.

He said Indian soldiers foiled the attempts.

However, a sequence of Maxar images of the river bend where the clash occurred in the weeks before and after the clash showed that construction had expanded up the Galwan Valley toward the LAC from Chinese bases, Maxar Vice President Steve Wood said.

— AP

Images show buildup on ‘Line of Actual Control’

EVIDENCE OF CONSTRUCTION: This combination of May 22, left, and June 23 satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows construction in the Galwan river valley near the disputed border known as the ‘Line of Actual Control’ between India and China. On June 22, military commanders of both nations agreed to disengage their forces in the disputed area of the Himalayas following a June 15 clash that left at least 20 soldiers dead. Maxar Technologies Satellite images via AP

MELBOURNE — A further 49 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the Australian state of Victoria, taking its toll above 2000.

Four new cases were connected to known outbreaks, 26 were from routine testing and another 19 cases were under investigation.

The figures came as Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced compulsory testing for returned travellers in hotel quarantine.

Andrews said many parents had refused testing of their children because the nasal swab test was uncomfortable.

He added that there would be the option for people to be tested via a saliva test rather than the back of the throat, which was “much less painful”.

Those who still refused would have to stay in hotel quarantine for an extra 10 days — in line with rules imposed in New South Wales.

Andrews said seven cases were in hospital, with one person in intensive care. — RNZ

49 new cases of Covid-19 reported in state of Victoria

DUBLIN — Ireland’s parliament picked veteran opposition leader Micheál Martin as prime minister on Saturday (local time) to head the first coalition uniting the two parties that have battled each other for power since a civil war nearly a century ago.

He pledged to rescue Ireland from the “the fastest-moving recession ever to hit”, brought on by the coronavirus crisis.

Martin’s Fianna Fail party was forced to join forces with its foes Fine Gael, after a surprise election surge for leftist Irish nationalists Sinn Fein left neither of the traditional centrist parties with enough support to govern on its own. They are joined in coalition by the environmentalist Greens.

Martin is expected to step aside half way through the five-year term to allow Fine Gael’s leader, outgoing

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, to return to the post.

“There is no question about what our most urgent work is. There is no community, no part of our country which has escaped untouched” by the coronavirus,” Martin told a special sitting of lawmakers, held in Dublin’s Convention Centre as the houses of parliament were too small to maintain social distancing.

To overcome the recession, “we must act with urgency and ambition”, said Martin, close to tears as he thanked his family who were unable to travel from his native city of Cork due to coronavirus restrictions.

He was elected by 93 votes to 63 after also securing support from some independent members of parliament.

The appointment represented a turnaround for Fianna Fail and Martin, who was a member of the

government that signed up to an EU/IMF bailout a decade ago and led to an unprecedented 2011 electoral collapse just after he took over as leader.

The 59-year-old former history teacher, who has held several senior ministries, including health, trade, foreign affairs and education, faces another economic crisis now, with 26 percent of the country either temporarily or permanently unemployed.

The jobless rate was just 4.8 percent when the election was fought in very different circumstances in February. The main issue then was over how to allot the spoils of what was Europe’s fastest growing economy. Instead, Martin will now oversee a stimulus package next month for the sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus lockdown.

Pashcal Donohoe, a candidate to

head the Eurogroup of 19 euro zone finance ministers, was reappointed finance minister, as was his Fine Gael colleague, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney. Deputy PM Varadkar was named trade minister.

The new coalition will also split Irish politics along more explicitly ideological lines than in the past, with Sinn Fein taking over as the main opposition.

Though Fianna Fail and Fine Gael emerged from opposite sides in the civil war of the 1920s, they have mainly pushed similar centrist agendas for decades.

Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army that fought an insurgency against British rule of Northern Ireland, shocked the political establishment in February by securing the most votes with a call for more generous social programmes. — Reuters via RNZ

New Irish PM named, vows to fight recession

Apparent construction activity on disputed India-China border

Micheál Martin AFP picture

GLOBAL BRIEFSPolish president Duda faces tough run-off vote on July 12

WARSAW — Poland’s nationalist incumbent Andrzej Duda has won the first round of a presidential election but will have to face the centrist mayor of Warsaw in a run-off on July 12. — AAP

Bomb kills six in AfghanistanLASHKARGAH — A roadside bomb has killed

at least six Afghan civilians in the southern Helmand province, including a woman and two children, an official says. — AAP

Hong Kong protests continueHONG KONG — Hong Kong police have

arrested at least 53 people after scuffles erupted during a relatively peaceful protest against planned national security legislation to be implemented by the mainland Chinese government. — AAP

Coca-Cola takes a standATLANTA — Coca-Cola will suspend

advertising on social media globally for at least 30 days, as pressure builds on platforms to crack down on hate speech.

“There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media,” Coca-Cola’s chairman and CEO, James Quincey, said.

It came after Facebook said it would label potentially-harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would also ban advertising containing claims “that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status” are a threat to others. — AAP

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WATER CRISIS: A storm front moves across Auckland bringing rain, low temperatures and thunder and lightning. Auckland’s current water storage levels currently sit at 53.85 percent — 25 percent lower than the average for this time of year. File picture

by Nikki Preston, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — Waikato Regional Council’s chair has called for an urgent summit to help find a “pragmatic solution” to Auckland’s water crisis without it taking what it describes as a “back-door approach”.

But Auckland Council and Watercare say they are double booked to have a full council meeting about the water crisis and won’t be attending the meeting with just three days’ notice.

Instead Auckland Council and Watercare claim they had already agreed to a date in two weeks’ time to discuss the matter.

The two councils have been at loggerheads over Auckland Council and Watercare’s attempts to take hundreds of millions of litres more water each day from the Waikato River to address its dire water shortage.

Auckland’s current water storage levels currently sit at 53.85 percent — 25 percent lower than the average for this time of year.

Waikato Regional Council chairman Russ Rimmington last week slammed the council and Watercare for surprising them and taking a “back-door approach”

by asking the Government to fast-track its 2013 water consult to allow it take 200 million litres a day.

Rimmington said the purpose of the urgent water summit — which he only invited Waikato River Authority, Waikato-Tainui, Auckland Council, Watercare and the Environment Minister David Parker to on Saturday night — was not to relitigate history, but to find a positive pathway to avert Auckland’s water supply crisis.

But a spokesperson for Auckland mayor Phil Goff ’s office said the late night request had come as a surprise as it already agreed along with the chairs and chief executives of Waikato Regional Council, the Waikato River Authority, Watercare to attend a meeting in two weeks time.

Waikato-Tainui’s confirmation was still pending.

“Unfortunately, both Watercare and the council’s governing body are having a preplanned workshop on Auckland’s water crisis on Wednesday and therefore will not be able to go to Hamilton at such short notice.”

However, Watercare and Auckland Council were more than happy to attend on the previously agreed date or work

to find a date that suited all parties, he said.

Meanwhile Rimmington said he was supportive of Watercare’s most recent application lodged in May for 100 million litres per day to only be taken during high winter flows.

The previous 2013 application was to take a further 200 million litres of water for future needs and Rimmington said it could tie up the water for about a decade preventing Waikato Regional Council from allocating it to others if Auckland didn’t need it.

“With this 100 million litres per day there can be more reliance on the Waikato River and in turn the use of the reservoirs can ease over winter, enabling the dams time to recover ahead of the high-demand summer months. This would increase Auckland’s resilience.”

Watercare is currently working on its infrastructure to allow it to treat that much water and is expected to be able to process more by August.

Waikato Regional Council chief executive Vaughan Payne said the application was on hold while it consulted with mana whenua, but he believed the May application fitted the conditions to be granted.

Storm brews over water

WELLINGTON — According to new research, the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders.

The New Zealand Asian Mental Health and Well-being report, commissioned by charity Asian Family Services, found high levels of anxiety and nervousness, as well as racism.

The research surveyed 580 Asian New Zealanders across the country and found almost 44 percent of them experienced some form of mental distress since Level 4 lockdown. Nervousness and anxiety are the most widely experienced (57 percent), followed by little interest or pleasure in doing things (55.2 percent), uncontrollable worrying (47.4 percent) and feeling down and hopeless (44 percent).

Asian Family Services director Kelly Feng said isolation, lack of support, family issues, academic or work pressure, new migrants adjusting to a new environment can all cause mental stress.

She said the findings correlate to what they’re seeing on the ground.

“That’s quite true when over the

lockdown, our service has also experienced high demand about emotional support and counselling services.”

The report also finds that Asians primarily seek help from friends (44.1 percent) and family (42.6 percent), with just over a quarter (28.3 percent) saying they would see their doctor, compared with the national figure of 69 percent according to the Health Promotion Agency.

A small portion (13.8 percent) don’t seek any support at all, and Feng said it’s concerning. “That gives me an indication that we really need to promote or even do a campaign about mental wellbeing and addiction issues and raise awareness among Asian communities so people can seek help in the early stage and get a bit of early intervention rather than at the bottom of the cliff,” she said.

Just over 16 percent of respondents reported experiencing racial discrimination during the pandemic, and those who faced discrimination were also more likely to have mental health concerns.

Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon said the findings were alarming. “I feel gutted and sad that people are receiving discrimination and racism. It doesn’t matter what

the numbers are. It’s really important that we continue to try and implement progress in systems and education to eliminate racism,” he said.

“It’s good to have an analysis report on mental health and discrimination. I think there’s a lot of work to do ahead of us. It’s good to know where we can actually target our resources to support mental health.”

The study said the overall messaging of being kind to one

another during the pandemic has likely contributed to the relatively low percentage of discrimination. But Dr Andrew Zhu, director of Trace Research which carried out the study, said it was still serious.

“On a percentage base, it’s relatively small which means we’re on the way to achieving racial harmony, however if you translate this number into a population-based number, that’s around 84,000 adult population of Asian ethnicity which could still be counted as serious,” he said.

Koreans reported to have experienced discrimination the most, with 30 percent of those surveyed saying they’ve been discriminated against, followed by Chinese at just over 22 percent. However, Chinese accounted for nearly half of the overall discrimination cases as it has the largest population base among all Asian ethnicities.

Data for this study was collected online between 22 May and 3 June, and quota sampling was used to ensure representatives of all Asian ethnic groups according to the 2018 census of Asian adult population distribution. — RNZ

RAUMATI — Cancer doesn’t wait in a crisis. That’s the message Bowel Cancer New Zealand are sending out by continuing on with their annual Bowel Cancer awareness month and Move your Butt challenge despite Covid-19 disruptions.

For Raumati South father of three Marcel Sandland catching his bowel cancer early was key to his recovery. Being the second highest cause of cancer death in New Zealand, bowel cancer is curable in 75 percent of cases if caught early.

“Bowel Cancer NZ’s motto is don’t sit on your symptoms, something in hindsight I did,” Marcel said.

With intermittent abdominal pain that grew worse and worse over a couple of months, it wasn’t until Marcel also had a reduced appetite, drastic weight loss, inflammation and pain that would keep him awake at night that he went to his GP to get a check-up.

“I was lucky that she was very thorough and also noticed that I was looking anaemic.

“She ordered a blood sample, a stool sample, and referred me on for an ultrasound first, which lucky for me I managed to get on the same day. She rang up radiology to see how long it would be for the wait time and they said probably about two weeks.

“Lucky for me she pretty much said that they could do better and they managed to get me in that afternoon.”

The scan could see an obstruction and inflammation. “From there my GP referred me to a colonoscopy, which I had two weeks later, to have a look and see what was happening.

“During the colonoscopy they detected the tumour in my bowel and without any further testing they could tell me it was cancer.

“It was pretty horrible and I was in shock at that point. I tuned out, didn’t really take anything in and my wife had to ask all the questions, like how they even knew it was cancer with barely any testing.”

With the doctors confident of the diagnosis, two days later Marcel was booked in for a CT scan to see if the cancer had spread any further. This determined what stage Marcel was in. “The worst part was the wait between finding out I had cancer and getting the results of the scan to find out how far it had spread. When they said they think they can take it out with surgery and six months chemotherapy, I felt pretty good at that point but before that it was a tough time, there was no way to tell which way things would go.

“The point of not knowing was the worst part mentally.”

Not long later he had surgery which removed the tumour from his bowel and found that it hadn’t spread to his lymph nodes, taking him down from stage three to stage two. “It was then 50-50 on whether I would need chemotherapy or not, and I decided to go for it.”

With his youngest child just 2 and a half years old, Marcel wanted to make sure he had done everything he could to make sure he was clear. Genetic testing has revealed Marcel has a condition similar to Lynch syndrome. Marcel will be screened regularly for the rest of his life and so too will his children when they are old enough.

“I would say from my experience to get checked out if you’re showing any symptoms, a lot of stuff doesn’t fix itself.

“To put it into perspective, a month after visiting my GP with abdominal pain, I was being discharged from hospital post-surgery.”

More information on bowel cancer and Bowel Cancer New Zealand can be found at www.bowelcancernz.org.nz — NZ Herald

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WHANGAREI — A tornado touched down in a Northland boat yard leaving a trail of destruction toppling boats and tossing a dinghy in the air where it was left dangling in the mast of a yacht.

It was just 12 seconds but in that time the swirling column of wind blasted through the Norsand Boatyard on Fraser St, in Whangarei, about 6pm on Friday.

Boats in cradles in the yard were blown over and others left twisted in the cradles. A dinghy was left high and dry on the mast of a yacht.

Murray Wilkinson, owner of Norsand boat yard which hauls, repairs and paints boats, said he was thankful no one was injured as normally at that time there are plenty of people moving about on the site.

“It was 12 seconds and it came down and hit the yard, did a bit of a swirl and then out. It was like a big vacuum cleaner,” Wilkinson said.

“If there had been a person in its path they wouldn’t have survived.”

Since the tornado touched down Wilkinson and his staff have spent the weekend checking the safety of boats at the yard and cordoned off a section where it was deemed unsafe due to the precarious position of some vessels.

This week two cranes will be used to right the boats that were knocked over and reposition others that were left twisted in their cradles.

“There’s a dinghy hanging in the spreaders of a yacht and we don’t know where it has come from but it shows the height the stuff was during the blast,” Wilkinson said.

There could be up to 117 boats in the yard and 5 or 6 were knocked over, with about four of them damaged as a result.

“It could have been a lot worse and we are very thankful no one was hurt.”

Mangroves which bordered the yard and slipway were torn out as well.

Wilkinson had just made it home on Friday when a staff member living in the yard rang and alerted him to the destruction.

“He was in his boat when it hit and the boat started to shake violently. He knew

it was something serious but didn’t really know if it was an earthquake or what until he had a look outside.”

Wilkinson said what had given the team a lift at the yard was the numerous messages from former boaties who had previously had work completed there offering their support and best wishes.

The same weather system had moved through Oakura Bay, 50km north of Whangarei, saw a water spout develop off the coast and then move towards land, then ripped up the valley knocking over

trees in its path.Oakura Bay Store owner Travis

O’Malley said a pine tree had blocked the road to the coastal settlement when the tornado went through between 3pm and 4pm on Friday.

But locals with a chainsaw made quick work of cutting up the tree and removing it in about 15 minutes.

O’Malley said another tree had fallen on an old kauri house but fortunately it had not been damaged and there were no reports of roofs blowing off.

“It came from the east and rattled through the back section here then roared up the valley,” he said.

About the same time, a tornado in Mangawhai lifted roofs and caused other damage.

Builder Samuel Garratt said he saw at least two roofs being blown off buildings, around 4pm while other Mangawhai residents reported seeing street signs and debris flying.

The freak weather event lasted only a few minutes with the first calls to residential properties on Cove and Bagnal Rds.

The MetService was forecasting showers today which could turn into periods of rain as a front moves across the region. Along with that, there could be thunderstorms and a possibility of some small tornadoes.

Meteorologist Mmathapelo Makgabutlane said from Tuesday the wet weather would continue for the rest of the week. Met Service records showed that from midday Friday to 2pm yesterday 37mm of rain fell in Whangarei, 13mm in Dargaville, 7mm in Kerikeri and 9.1mm at Kaitaia Airport.

Wind wreaks havoc in boat yard

NORTHLAND — Steps have been taken to stop people accessing a sacred Northland mountain after visitors uncovered ancestral remains.

A Northland family walking around the base of Taratara Maunga, near Kaeo, found bones and skulls tucked inside rocks. They did not touch the bones, left the remains in place and alerted local police who then contacted local Maori.

The discovery prompted a hui with local hapu, Ngati Rangimatamomoe and Ngati Rangimatakaka of Whangaroa, making a collaborative decision to restrict all access to Taratara Maunga to protect the tupuna koiwi — ancestral remains — that are secured within the mountain.

Temporary signage has been put at the three access points to the mountain and it is hoped they will be made permanent in about two weeks.

Electric tape has also been erected around the mountain base with the hapu working with local farmers to put up permanent fencing.

The mountain, off State Highway 10, on Otangaroa Rd between Kaeo and Mangonui, is significant and within local Maori lore is known as wahi tapu, or a sacred place, and has been designated as such in the Far North District Council District Plan.

The magnificent rock formation rises some 300 metres above sea level and is covered in native flora. Local kaumatua Harry Brown said the restrictions were put in place to mitigate any further disturbance.

“Taratara is a resting place for our tupuna. We are taking steps to ensure they remain at rest,” Brown said.

“We acknowledge that our maunga is majestic, and curiosity gets the better of visitors to our area. The restrictions are to protect people, not penalise them and is the most responsible action in stewardship by our local hapu,” Mr Brown said.

He said hapu had long-established relationships with local landowners surrounding Taratara, who supported the decision to stop access.

Kuia Patricia Tauroa said the remains had been concealed and hapu would be taking steps to educate the wider population with a vision for the significance of the mountain to be introduced into local education and curriculum.

“The significance of Taratara to our people is known and understood here in Whangaroa,”

Tauroa said.“We seek to extend the scale of

that understanding to safeguard any further confusion and intrusion.”

The local iwi authority, Te Runanga o Whaingaroa, supported the decision of the hapu to make the mountain off limits.

It was a five-and-a-half-year old boy out with his family who found the skulls.

His mother said her son had peered into a rock crevasse and found the eight skulls. She said the family had not been to the mountain before and there were no signs to indicate it was sacred and off limits, and there was a well-worn path that led them across paddocks to the mountain.

“It’s a beautiful place to explore but when my son found the bones I knew it was sacred and to be respectful. I would be interested to learn more about this place,” she said. — NZ Herald

Sacred Taratara Mountain off limits to the public

WARNING: Temporary signage has been put at the three access points to the mountain and it is hoped they will be made permanent in about two weeks. NZ Herald picture

AUCKLAND — The Auckland mum who welcomed a new bonny wee boy into the world after a tornado struck the ambulance she was in says she feared for her life.

Raylene Bishop, was in labour and had just been put into an ambulance outside her Franklyne Rd home when a tornado struck the Otara and East Tamaki areas.

She told One News the experience “was crazy”. When she first called for an ambulance the weather was reasonably calm with some spitting rain overhead.

But as she was making her way into the ambulance it started “pouring down” with rain and the wind picked up.

“Our ambulance literally lifted and slammed back down,” she told One News.

The neighbour’s shed was also picked up by the tornado and came crashing into the side of the ambulance, shattering the windows.

“I was shocked, scared — I did fear for my life.”Ambulance staff rushed to take care of Bishop inside the

home, attending to some cuts she had sustained.A second ambulance arrived five or 10 minutes later and

Bishop, accompanied by her partner Toks Ngau’s mother Vaine Tapora, was taken first to Middlemore Hospital and later to a birth care unit.

About 3pm, the couple’s little boy arrived safely.Bishop told One News she had needed a Caesarean section

because her stressed baby boy had turned to his side during the ordeal.

“He’s perfectly fine, he’s healthy, he’s warm, he’s safe.”The couple have not decided on his name just yet but

Storm was becoming something of a favourite considering the circumstances. — NZ Herald

Otara mum feared for her life during ‘crazy’ ordeal

DESTRUCTION: A dinghy was tossed into the air by a tornado and became stuck on the mast of a yacht at Norsand boat yard in Whangarei. NZ Herald picture

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To come to terms with

the events of the last

24 hours, the Home

Secretary’s bodyguard

himself falls under

suspicion.

9.40 Autopsy: Kurt

Cobain 16C 3 0

On April 8, 1994, Kurt

Cobain was found dead

in his Seattle home, and

it seemed a clear-cut

case of suicide, but

many people refused to

believe he had taken his

own life.

10.35 1 News Tonight 0

11.05 Reprisal 16VL 0

Doris navigates the

obstacles of finding a

crew; Joel must work out

why the Ghouls went to

such lengths.

TUESDAY

12.10 Q+A With Jack Tame 0

Local political-affairs

programme.

1am Emmerdale PG 3 0

1.50 Te Karere 3

2.15 Infomercials

5.35 Te Karere 3

6am Breakfast

9am The Ellen DeGeneres

Show PG 0

Ellen is joined by

American folk-rock band

The Avett Brothers.

10am Tipping Point 3 0

11am The Chase 3 0

Noon 1 News At Midday 0

12.30 Emmerdale PG 0

1.30 Rachel Hunter’s Tour Of

Beauty 3 0

2pm The Ellen DeGeneres

Show PG 3 0

3pm Tipping Point 3

4pm Te Karere

4.30 Let’s Brunch 0

5pm The Chase 0

5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG

5.30 Hardcore Pawn PG

6pm Storage Wars PG

6.30 Storage Wars PG

7pm The Force MC

7.30 Hawaii Five-0 MV

8.30 Demolition NZ M

9pm The Loggers PG

9.30 A1: Highway Patrol MVLC

10.30 SVU MV

11.15 Storage Wars PG

11.40 Storage Wars PG

TUESDAY

12.05 Storage Wars PG

12.30 Storage Wars PG

12.55 Wheel Of Fortune PG

1.20 Jeopardy! PG

1.40 The Force MC

2.05 A1: Highway Patrol MVLC

2.50 Demolition NZ M

3.15 The Loggers PG

3.40 SVU MV

4.25 Hardcore Pawn PG

4.50 Hawaii Five-0 MV

5.35 The Simpsons PG

6am Jeopardy! PG

6.25 Wheel Of Fortune PG

6.45 The Simpsons PG

7.10 Storage Wars PG

8am The Force MC

8.25 Storage Wars PG

9.15 Hardcore Pawn PG

9.40 Hawaii Five-0 MV

10.25 SVU MV

11.10 Storage Wars PG

Noon Raw Live MVC

3.05 Storage Wars PG

3.35 Storage Wars PG

4pm The Simpsons PG

4.30 Jeopardy! PG

5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG

5.30 Hardcore Pawn PG

7.02 Do I Say I Do?

PGC 2017 Romance.

Forced to work with her

former boyfriend, an

author begins to realise

there may still be a

spark between them.

8.30 Blue Iguana

16VLSC 2018 Comedy.

Two small-time New York

crooks find themselves

in over their heads when

a British lawyer hires

them to fly to London

and steal a rare jewel.

10.12 Acquainted

16LS 2018 Drama.

11.54 The Extraordinary

Journey Of The Fakir ML

2018 Comedy.

TUESDAY

1.29 Bob Fosse: It’s

Showtime MC 2018

Documentary.

2.32 Extra Ordinary 16C 2019

Comedy.

4.04 Touchback M 2011 Family.

6.04 Do I Say I Do? PGC 2017

Romance.

7.29 Blue Iguana 16VLSC 2018

Comedy.

9.07 Acquainted 16LS 2018

Drama.

10.45 The Extraordinary

Journey Of The Fakir ML

2018 Comedy.

12.18 Touchback M 2011 Family.

2.18 Blue Iguana 16VLSC 2018

Comedy.

3.58 The Founders PG 2015

Documentary.

5.28 The Curse Of La

Llorona MVC 2019 Horror.

5.40 Outback Opal

Hunters PG

6.35 Outback Opal

Hunters PG

7.30 Top Gear: The Races PG

8.30 Vegas Rat Rods PG

9.25 Towies PG

10.15 Car Crash TV

10.40 Car Crash TV

11.05 Naked And Afraid MC

11.55 How It’s Made PG

TUESDAY

12.20 How Do They Do It? PG

12.45 The World’s Deadliest

Weather Caught On

Camera PG

1.35 Gold Rush PG

2.25 Bering Sea Gold PG

3.15 Alaskan Bush People PG

4.05 Codes And

Conspiracies PG

4.55 Naked And Afraid MVL

5.45 Gold Rush PG

6.35 Fast N’ Loud PG

7.30 Codes And

Conspiracies PG

8.20 Top Gear: The Races PG

9.10 Vegas Rat Rods PG

10am How Do They Do It? PG

10.25 How Do They Do It? PG

10.50 How It’s Made PG

11.15 How It’s Made PG

11.40 Outback Opal

Hunters PG

12.30 The Perfect Murder M

1.20 People Magazine

Investigates MVLSC

2.10 Top Gear

3pm Alaskan Bush People PG

3.50 Gold Rush PG

4.45 Fast N’ Loud PG

5.40 Outback Opal

Hunters PG

5.05 The Simpsons PG 3 0

5.35 The Big Bang Theory PG 3

6pm Neighbours 0

6.30 Home And Away 0

7pm Shortland Street PGS 0

7.30 MasterChef Australia:

Back To Win M

9.05 My Kitchen Rules: The

Rivals PGL 0

House Manu seeks

revenge, and rivalries

become personal as

House Colin tackles the

fine dining Restaurant

Takeover.

10.10 Grey’s Anatomy PG 0

11.05 Mom PG 3 0

11.30 Whiskey Cavalier MV 3 0

TUESDAY

12.20 The Walking Dead

18VC 3 0

1.05 Shortland Street PGS 3 0

1.30 Regular Show 3

1.40 Infomercials

2.45 Marvel’s Inhumans M 3 0

4.15 Emmerdale PG 3 0

5.05 Neighbours 3 0

5.30 Infomercials

6.30 Code Fun 0

6.40 Darwin And Newts 0

6.50 Tinpo 3 0

6.55 Kiri And Lou 0

7am Quimbo’s Quest 3 0

7.25 The Jungle Bunch To The

Rescue! 3 0

7.40 Spongo, Fuzz, And

Jalapena 0

7.50 Super Dinosaur 3 0

8.15 Papa Kainga: Home

Learning 0

9am Infomercials

10am Neighbours 3 0

10.30 Murphy Brown PG 0

11.25 Army Wives MV 3 0

12.15 MasterChef Australia:

Back To Win M 3

1.50 Cougar Town PG 3 0

2.40 Home And Away 3 0

3.10 Shortland Street PGS 3 0

3.40 Get Clever 0

4.05 Brain Busters 0

4.35 Friends 3 0

5.05 The Simpsons PG 3 0

5.35 The Big Bang Theory

PG 3 0

5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0

6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm The Project

7.30 Big Brother Australia M

Four new housemates

arrive at night; Big

Brother reveals a

winter wonderland that

will lead old and new

housemates to break

the ice, but one will be

evicted.

9.05 SVU 16 0

The female CEO of

a popular wellness

company says she was

raped, but her business

partner claims her

accusation is part of an

embezzlement cover-up.

9.55 SVU 16 3

Fin crosses international

borders to catch

a fugitive rapist;

allegations against

Benson lead to the

return of an old friend.

10.45 NewsHub Late

11.15 The Hui 0

11.50 NewsHub Nation 3 0

An in-depth weekly

current-affairs show.

TUESDAY

12.55 Infomercials

6am The AM Show

9am The Café PG

10am Infomercials

11.25 Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0

12.20 Face The Truth PG 3

12.50 Dr Phil PG 3

1.45 Big Brother Australia

M 3 0

3.30 Tropical Gourmet

Queensland 3

4pm Sandcastles 3

4.30 NewsHub Live At

4:30pm

5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0

5pm Frasier 3 0

5.30 Prime News

6pm Rugby Nation

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild

7.30 American Pickers

Mike and Frank take

a break from the barn

scene, and go looking

for sports memorabilia.

8.30 Years And Years 16VLS 0

9.45 Ross Kemp: The Fight

Against Isis 16VL 3 0

With the threat of Isis

prevalent globally,

Ross Kemp presents a

documentary following

the Kurds in Syria and

Northern Iraq in their

fight against Isis.

10.55 Loosehead Footy

TUESDAY

12am The Late Show With

Stephen Colbert PG

1am The Doctors PGC

1.55 Closedown

6am Jeopardy 3

6.50 Krypto The Superdog

3 0

7.40 Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles 0

8.05 The Thundermans 0

8.30 Game Shakers 0

9am Antiques Road Trip 3

10am The Doctors PGC

11am The Chase Australia

3 0

Noon Hot Bench PG

12.30 Madam Secretary PG

3 0

1.30 Married… With

Children PG 3

2pm The Late Show With

Stephen Colbert PG 3

3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3

3.30 Jeopardy

4pm A Place In The Sun:

Winter Sun 3

5pm Frasier 3 0

5.30 Prime News

5pm Waiata Mai

5.10 Te Mana Kuratahi 3

5.40 Tamariki Haka

5.50 E Kori 3

5.55 He Paki Taonga I A

Maui 3

6pm ZooMoo

6.10 Te Nutube

6.20 Darwin + Newts 3

6.30 Te Ao Marama

7.30 Marae Kai Masters

Special 3

8pm Te Ao With Moana

8.30 M Lo And Behold:

Reveries Of The

Connected World

ML 2016 Documentary.

10.15 Nga Pari Karangaranga

O Te Motu 3

11.15 Iwi Anthems 3

11.30 Closedown

TUESDAY

6.30 Paia

6.40 Pukoro

7.10 He Rourou 3

7.20 E Kori 3

7.25 E Ki E Ki

7.30 Mahi Pai 3

7.40 Purakau

7.50 Huritua

8am Tapatahi

9am Easy Eats 3

9.30 Ako 3

10am Whakatauki 3

10.30 Tamaki Paenga Hira 3

11am Matangireia PG 3

11.30 The Negotiators 3

Noon The Ring Inz PGLC 3

12.30 Game Of Bros PG 3

1pm Nga Pari Karangaranga

O Te Motu 3

1.30 Ako 3

2pm Toku Reo 3

3pm Nga Kapa Haka Kura

Tuarua 3

3.30 Grid

4pm Swagger

5pm Paia

5.10 Pukoro

5.40 He Rourou 3

5.50 E Kori 3

5.55 E Ki E Ki

5.30 Mysteries At The

Museum

6.30 Salvage Hunters

7.30 The Persians: A History

Of Iran

8.30 Secrets Of Royal Travel

9.30 The Greek Islands With

Julia Bradbury

10pm Travel Man: 48 Hours In

10.30 Salvage Hunters

11.30 Mysteries At The

Museum

TUESDAY

12.30 River Cottage: Winter’s

On The Way

1.30 A Taste Of South Africa

2am Escape To Costa Rica

3am The Persians: A History

Of Iran

4am Secrets Of Royal Travel

5am Mysteries At The

Museum PGC

6am Tiny House Nation

7am River Cottage: Winter’s

On The Way

8am Hope For Wildlife

9am A Taste Of South Africa

9.30 Building The Dream

10.30 Mysteries At The

Museum PGC

11.30 Salvage Hunters

12.30 Secrets Of Royal Travel

1.30 The Greek Islands With

Julia Bradbury

2pm Travel Man: 48 Hours In

2.30 The Persians: A History

Of Iran

3.30 Wildest NZ

4.30 Jamie’s 30-Minute

Meals

5pm Choccywoccydoodah

5.30 Mysteries At The

Museum

5.10 Judge Jerry

5.35 Hoarders PG 3

6.30 Love It Or List It

7.30 Snapped M

8.30 Deadly Cults M

9.30 The Mark Of A Killer 16

10.30 Snapped M 3

11.20 60 Days In 3

TUESDAY

12.10 Infomercials

10am Hollywood Medium With

Tyler Henry PG 3

10.55 Snapped M 3

11.50 The Kelly Clarkson Show

12.50 The Real Housewives Of

Beverly Hills M 3

1.50 Below Deck:

Mediterranean M 3

2.50 Keeping Up With The

Kardashians M 3

3.45 Don’t Be Tardy PG 3

4.15 Dance Mums UK PG 3

5.10 Judge Jerry

5.40 Hoarders PG 3

5pm Checkpoint News and current affairs programme. 6.30 Trending Now Programme highlighting the RNZ stories people are sharing online. 7.06 Nights With Bryan Crump. 8.30 Windows On The World International public-radio features and documentaries. 10pm News At Ten 10.15 Lately With Karyn Hay. 11.04 Nashville Babylon

TUESDAY 12.04 The All Night Programme 5am First Up 6am Morning

Report 9.06 Nine To Noon 10.45 The Reading Noon Midday Report 1.06 Afternoons 4.06 The Panel 5pm Checkpoint

Bodyguard 8.30pm on TVNZ 1

My Kitchen Rules: The Rivals 9.05pm on TVNZ 2

The Persians: A History of Iran 7.30pm on Choice

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5pm Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Crusaders v Chiefs. 5.30 The Pod 7pm The Season: The Brisbane Boys 7.30 Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Blues v Highlanders. From Eden Park in Auckland. 7.45 Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Crusaders v Chiefs. 8pm Loosehead Footy 9pm Super Rugby Aotearoa (RPL) Crusaders v Chiefs. 11pm The Season: Brisbane Boys College 11.30 Super Rugby Aotearoa (RPL) Blues v Highlanders.

TUESDAY 1.30 The Pod (RPL) 3am Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Blues v Highlanders. 3.15 Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Crusaders v Chiefs. 3.30 Loosehead Footy 4.30 Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Blues v Highlanders. 5am Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Crusaders v Chiefs. 5.30 The Season: Brisbane Boys College 6am Loosehead Footy 7am Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Crusaders v Chiefs. 7.30 Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Crusaders v Chiefs. 7.45 Super Rugby Aotearoa (RPL) Blues v Highlanders. 9.45 Ranfurly Shield Flashback 2010 (RPL) Southland v Wanganui. 11.45 Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Blues v Highlanders. Noon Super Rugby Aotearoa (RPL) Crusaders v Chiefs. 2pm Loosehead Footy 3pm Super Rugby Aotearoa (HLS) Blues v Highlanders. 3.30 RugbyPass Legends Dan Carter. 4pm Super Rugby Flashbacks 1997 (RPL) Highlanders v Crusaders.

SKY SPORT 1

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 202022 TELEVISION

Legend: T – Won at track. C – Won at this distance on this course. D – Won at this distance on another course. M – Won in slow or heavy going. B – Beaten favourite at last start. H – Trained on track. N – Won at night. S – Spell of three months. F – Fell. P – Pulled up. L – Lost rider. TV – Featured on Trackside TV.

Palmerston North greys at Manawatu Tuesday Jetbet 3 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 Q. 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 PL6 5-10

1 Formpro REvery Tuesday 12.10 $4735, C5, 457m

1 76561 Big Time Kobe 25.89 Lisa Cole

2 11464 Allegro Lanie nwtd Lisa Cole

3 25166 Diddilee 25.92 Angela Turnwald

4 24425 Big Time Vegas 26.29 Lisa Cole

5 51227 Emgrand Park 25.92 Angela Turnwald

6 26571 Funky Facts 26.09 G & S Fredrickson

7 26123 Big Time Mac 26.02 Lisa Cole

8 17386 Bigtime Brody 25.64 Lisa Cole

EMERGENCY: 9 37273 Big Time Jackson 26.13 Lisa Cole

2 Greyhound As Pets C3/c4 12.28 $4030, C3/4, 457m

1 46542 Big Time Baby 26.01 Lisa Cole 2 51233 Bigtime Levi 25.75 Lisa Cole 3 62444 Bigtime Benji 25.74 Lisa Cole 4 73452 Broke Brad 26.03 Angela Turnwald 5 51467 Big Time Chad 26.50 Lisa Cole 6 11368 Cavatate 26.50 J & D Bell 7 15666 Silent Dismissal 26.11 Angela Turnwald 8 33352 Electrical Storm 26.30 Mark Goodier

3 Affordaries C1/c2 12.46 $2860, C1/2, 457m

1 75553 Big Time Anton 26.16 Lisa Cole 2 82178 Gray Bale nwtd W Woods 3 52331 Bigtime Bailey nwtd Lisa Cole 4 11613 Big Time Jimmy 26.25 Lisa Cole 5 77888 Rambo nwtd W Woods 6 41111 Big Time Lantao nwtd Lisa Cole 7 77846 Eye Kno 26.34 W Woods 8 76223 Bigtime Alfie 26.25 Lisa Cole

4 Kernow Distance Feature 1.03 $4620, C2, distance, 660m

1 24122 Grunty Mama nwtd S & C Blackburn 2 65464 Rich Lister nwtd Maree Gowan

3 87777 Bigtime Chloe nwtd Mark Goodier

4 73445 Hot Platter 38.72 Angela Turnwald

5 55655 Race Me Home nwtd Bill Hodgson

6 68763 Waitohi 39.43 Angela Turnwald

7 63113 Emgrand Rose 38.33 Angela Turnwald

8 61271 Kamada Park 38.50 Angela Turnwald

5 J P Print, Petone 1.21 $2505, C1, 457m

1 74375 Thomas William 25.97 David Denbee

2 64723 Plan Stan nwtd Lana Pearce

3 81118 Big Time Jewel 26.51 Lisa Cole

4 37866 Black Mags nwtd Sammy Stone

5 F5758 Shrewdy nwtd L E Dunkerton

6 23142 Big Time Roonie 26.52 Lisa Cole

7 31361 Big Time Rocket nwtd Lisa Cole

8 12332 Yasawa Lights nwtd Angela Turnwald

6 Red SnapC4/c5 1.38 $2860, C4/5, 410m

1 21131 Cheese And Chalk 23.35 Lisa Cole

2 36257 Big Time Gwyn 23.22 Lisa Cole

3 8133s Rapid Fire 23.30 G & S Fredrickson

4 14518 Big Time Billie 23.38 Lisa Cole

5 33524 Big Time Kevin 23.34 Lisa Cole

6 17824 Allegro Curtis 23.27 Lisa Cole

7 26113 Big Time Fairy 23.13 Lisa Cole

8 44125 Big Time Pluto 23.28 Lisa Cole

EMERGENCIES: 9 37273 Big Time Jackson nwtd Lisa Cole 10 88443 Bigtime Pearl nwtd Lisa Cole

7 Paul Claridge Electrical 1.56 $2390, C4, 410m

1 3685F Bigtime Emjay 23.44 G & S Fredrickson 2 54416 Sub Twenty Three 23.37 Lisa Cole 3 5215s Bavaro nwtd G & S Fredrickson 4 43366 Allegro Lexxi nwtd Lisa Cole 5 55862 Big Time Frosty 23.33 Lisa Cole 6 11158 Softy Burgess 23.20 Lisa Cole 7 16472 Bigtime Bee 23.51 Lisa Cole 8 23178 Tuff Temptress 23.72 Bernie MitchellEMERGENCIES: 9 67s33 Bigtime Kiss 23.08 Lisa Cole 10 58s55 Big Time Marlisa 23.37 Lisa Cole

8 Total Bodys C2/c3 2.13 $2035, C2/3, 410m

1 61428 Bigtime Sheer 23.73 Lisa Cole 2 15625 Little Scamp 23.33 David Denbee 3 62464 Bigtime Jetty 23.29 Lisa Cole 4 F7352 Bigtime Banjo 23.10 Lisa Cole 5 6s121 Pick A Pascal 23.59 G & S Fredrickson 6 23332 Bigtime Daisy 23.61 Lisa Cole 7 77873 Big Time Tina 23.42 Lisa Cole 8 77342 Running Freer 23.47 Melissa OldenEMERGENCIES: 9 68614 Midnight Molly nwtd Bill Hodgson

10 45878 Big Time May 23.52 P B Briggs

9 Outback Trading Company 2.31 $1685, C2, 410m

1 76445 Fool’s Russian 23.33 Lisa Cole

2 52131 Mother’s Touch 23.41 J & D Bell

3 57145 Bigtime Chris 23.44 G & S Fredrickson

4 51382 Paris End 23.74 Lisa Cole

5 23174 Big Time Dusty 23.76 Lisa Cole

6 84485 Bigtime Leads 23.30 Lisa Cole

7 34365 Belmonts 23.45 Lisa Cole

8 52446 Big Time Spot 23.43 Lisa Cole

EMERGENCIES:

9 86326 Dynamite Danger 23.55 G & S Fredrickson

10 25586 Spring Fox 23.63 Maree Gowan

10 mes @ pngreyhounds.kiwi 2.48 $1450, C1, 410m

1 53323 Allegro Rory 23.62 Lisa Cole

2 66334 Triple What 23.66 J & D Bell

3 71231 Wifi Wilbur 23.58 G & S Fredrickson

4 12812 Allegro Tammy nwtd Lisa Cole

5 23677 Elouera Mist 23.90 J & D Bell

6 16751 Allegro Skye nwtd Lisa Cole

7 15 Big Time Dawson nwtd Lisa Cole

8 45432 Big Time Lenny nwtd Lisa Cole

EMERGENCY:

9 48741 Zipping Luther 23.46 J & D Bell

SelectionsRace 1: EMGRAND PARK, FUNKY FACTS, BIG TIME MAC

Race 2: BIGTIME LEVI, BROKE BRAD, BIG TIME CHAD

Race 3: BIG TIME ANTON, BIGTIME BAILEY, BIG TIME JIMMY

Race 4: HOT PLATTER, RACE ME HOME, WAITOHI

Race 5: THOMAS WILLIAM, BIG TIME JEWEL,

BIG TIME ROONIE

Race 6: ALLEGRO CURTIS, BIG TIME FAIRY, BIG TIME PLUTO

Race 7: BIG TIME FROSTY, SOFTY BURGESS, BIGTIME BEE

Race 8: PICK A PASCAL, BIGTIME DAISY, BIG TIME TINA

Race 9: BIG TIME DUSTY, BIGTIME LEADS, BELMONTS

Race 10: ALLEGRO RORY, ALLEGRO TAMMY, ALLEGRO SKYE

Christchurch greys at Addington Tuesday Jetbet 9 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12

1 The Fitz Sports Bar Dash 3.14 $1450, C1, 295m

1 56726 Cold Affair 17.37 Lisa Waretini 2 66653 Cointreau Time nwtd Rosemary Blackburn 3 32543 Lakota Scout nwtd Heather Cairns 4 37848 Cosmic Marty 17.65 John McInerney 5 2164 Taieri Breeze 17.57 Ray Casey 6 75562 Goldstar McQueen 17.58 S & B Evans 7 78484 Homebush Boden 17.44 John McInerney 8 41724 Horse Range 17.73 Malcolm GrantEMERGENCIES: 9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey 10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

2 christchurchgreyhounds.co.nz 3.31 $1450, C1, 295m

1 67215 Girl Midori 17.51 Rosemary Blackburn 2 36885 Homebush Fairy 17.85 John McInerney 3 27337 Cash No Stash 17.85 S & B Evans 4 46886 Goldstar Hurley 17.47 Lisa Waretini 5 13232 Bold Bidder 17.31 M & P Binnie 6 53546 Pontiac Pat 17.35 John McInerney 7 75s88 Go Ladybird nwtd Robin Wales 8 84437 Dapper Danny 17.56 John McMillanEMERGENCIES: 9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey 10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

3 Clarkson’s Sign Studio 3.49 $2505, C1, 520m

1 76447 Opawa Mason 30.29 Robin Wales 2 45637 Lakota Micco nwtd Heather Cairns 3 45733 Meatloaf nwtd Sharon Hindson 4 28351 Goldstar Darwin 31.18 S & B Evans 5 38725 Ohoka Carsen 30.88 Lisa Waretini 6 65686 Punch On Buzz 30.27 John McInerney 7 77433 Goldstar Truman 30.54 S & B Evans 8 15173 Seductive Kiwi 29.98 Calum WeirEMERGENCIES: 9 87676 Tikao Jackie nwtd Mitchell & Smith 10 68488 Ain’t He Lucky 30.82 Norman Wanhalla

4 Amber Cleaning Services 4.06 $1450, C1, 295m

1 71724 Horse Range Gold 17.47 Malcolm Grant 2 87867 Jingili Jill 17.42 Mitchell & Smith 3 56657 Platonic Affair 17.47 Lisa Waretini 4 14462 Kingi Reigns 17.29 Ashley Bradshaw 5 4371 Crystal Corvette 17.74 John McInerney 6 56687 Grey Wind nwtd Norman Wanhalla 7 67426 Goldstar Galaxie 17.40 S & B Evans 8 16877 Homebush Captain 17.71 John McInerney

EMERGENCIES: 9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey 10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

5 Beach Cafe & Wine Bar 4.23 $1450, C1, 295m

1 45653 Smash Calling 17.34 Malcolm Grant 2 52436 Precious Payton 17.49 S & B Evans 3 41781 Opawa Donal 17.45 Robin Wales 4 52468 Opa’s Dream 17.52 Ray Casey 5 667s5 Homebush Dolphy 17.80 John McInerney 6 16782 Lakota Wichapi 17.59 Heather Cairns 7 56877 Mitcham Manering 17.69 John McInerney 8 47443 Yi Feng 17.28 J M LaneEMERGENCIES: 9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey 10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

6 greyhoundauctions.co.nz 4.41 $2505, C1, 520m

1 43474 Goldstar Vale 31.08 S & B Evans 2 65466 Goldstar Dawson nwtd S & B Evans 3 73238 Little Secret 30.44 Lisa Waretini 4 22352 Making News nwtd Bruce Dann 5 25554 Go Punter Go nwtd Robin Wales 6 35554 Goldstar Spook 30.48 S & B Evans 7 74757 Opawa Jane 30.49 Robin Wales 8 18685 Tom Fox 30.61 J M McCookEMERGENCIES: 9 87676 Tikao Jackie nwtd Mitchell & Smith 10 68488 Ain’t He Lucky 30.82 Norman Wanhalla

7 A2C Asphalt 2 Concrete 4.58 $1450, C1, 295m

1 65331 Take A Hint 17.46 John McInerney 2 11 Taieri Missile 17.35 Ray Casey 3 46786 Regal Jock 17.28 John McInerney 4 24463 Tonkawa 17.42 Mitchell & Smith 5 44746 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S & B Evans

6 58433 Smash Dragon 17.49 Malcolm Grant 7 78s75 Jay Shirley nwtd Robin Wales 8 42861 Sweet Mary Ann 17.51 Rosemary BlackburnEMERGENCIES: 9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey 10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

8 Addington Events Centre 5.15 $1450, C1, 295m

1 168s3 Curly Bill 17.37 Michael Dempsey 2 4s263 High Sparrow nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 3 16728 Our Cook 17.15 Robin Wales 4 33225 Goldstar Power 17.49 S & B Evans 5 75772 Rosies Choice 17.81 Norman Wanhalla 6 18776 Homebush Showoff 17.72 John McInerney 7 63574 Baldrick 17.54 John McInerney 8 12882 Horse Range Opal 17.59 Malcolm GrantEMERGENCIES: 9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey 10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

9 Swimming Goat @ Stud 5.33 $2860, C1/2, 520m

1 8s663 Sefton Joy 30.38 Robin Wales 2 35523 Student Loan 30.32 J & D Fahey 3 67222 Opawa Lyn 30.19 J & D Fahey 4 341s8 Know Talent 30.75 Garry Cleeve 5 14343 Mr Blackjack 30.16 J & D Fahey 6 12171 Opawa Nova 30.35 Robin Wales 7 84354 Rivalries 30.16 J & D Fahey 8 57364 Opawa Dan 30.37 J M McCookEMERGENCIES: 9 58668 Homebush Fonzie 30.29 John McInerney 10 87676 Tikao Jackie nwtd Mitchell & Smith

10 Christchurch Casino Sprint 5.50 $1450, C1, 295m

1 85781 Goldstar Rebel 17.59 S & B Evans 2 57864 Mulberry Minx 17.34 Ken Cassidy

3 32211 Homebush Ivy 17.52 John McInerney

4 66233 Ghost Mode 17.51 Hart & Taylor

5 42413 Tabby 17.33 Sharon Hindson

6 46765 Gotcha Pixie 17.55 J M Lane

7 61552 Yappy Yap 17.81 Robin Wales

8 87s57 Punch On Woody 17.38 John McInerney

EMERGENCIES:

9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey

10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

11 kiwikiwihounds.co.nz Adoption 6.08 $1450, C1, 295m

1 87774 Impressive Mood 17.59 John McInerney

2 12788 Penny Jane 17.37 Hart & Taylor

3 87123 Justin Lincoln 17.46 S & B Evans

4 47562 Ohoka Lacey 17.47 Lisa Waretini

5 44331 Homebush Poppy 17.69 John McInerney

6 62233 Dyna Trevor 17.42 Howard Anderton

7 83877 Sefton Force nwtd J M Lane

8 847s5 Frosty Kate 17.71 Michael Dempsey

EMERGENCIES:

9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey

10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

12 Livamol Dash 6.26 $1450, C1, 295m

1 35162 Sneaky Snitch 17.33 Hart & Taylor

2 67868 Right On Time 17.51 Howard Anderton

3 74436 Mulberry Brit 17.43 Ken Cassidy

4 81646 Go Great 17.75 Robin Wales

5 3F582 Black Eye Bill 17.47 Michael Dempsey

6 55644 Goldstar Whitey 17.45 S & B Evans

7 88576 Homebush Sayer 17.54 John McInerney

8 43312 Miss June 17.89 John McInerney

EMERGENCIES:

9 878s7 Caramel Rose 17.52 Michael Dempsey

10 76888 Cosmic Jase 17.42 John McInerney

SelectionsRace 1: COINTREAU TIME, TAIERI BREEZE, HORSE RANGE

Race 2: BOLD BIDDER, PONTIAC PAT, CASH NO STASH

Race 3: SEDUCTIVE KIWI, OPAWA MASON,

GOLDSTAR TRUMAN

Race 4: KINGI REIGNS, HORSE RANGE GOLD,

CRYSTAL CORVETTE

Race 5: OPAWA DONAL, YI FENG, SMASH CALLING

Race 6: MAKING NEWS, LITTLE SECRET, GOLDSTAR SPOOK

Race 7: TAIERI MISSILE, TAKE A HINT, SMASH DRAGON

Race 8: OUR COOK, HIGH SPARROW, CURLY BILL

Race 9: OPAWA LYN, STUDENT LOAN, OPAWA NOVA

Race 10: TABBY, HOMEBUSH IVY, GOLDSTAR REBEL

Race 11: PENNY JANE, JUSTIN LINCOLN, DYNA TREVOR

Race 12: SNEAKY SNITCH, GOLDSTAR WHITEY, MISS JUNE

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1 Aussie Night Markets Hcp 2.10 $31,500, Maiden, 1900m

1 752 Prince Six (10) 59 100 K Jennings

2 56s66 Past Tense (7) 57 100 T Berry

3 0s073 Austinmer (1) 56 89 B Cray

4 02677 Darcy Ekcels b (9) 56 94

5 s8753 Dundee h (5) 56 100 T Sherry (a1.5)

6 24264 Les Amoureux (8) 56 90 Ms R King

7 96 Lord Nova (3) 56 92 C O’Brien

8 78s06 Our Destiny (4) 56 90 Ms K O’Hara

9 33449 Sassy Em (2) 56 91 Ms A Skerritt

10 s4753 Todwick (6) 56 97 S Clipperton

2 EVE Security Services 2.45 $31,500, Maiden SW, 1000m

1 26s22 Killin b (6) 59 92 B Avdulla 2 43 Light And Dark b (5) 59 100 T Clark 3 s6486 Mesmer (8) 59 86 A Layt 4 33844 No Doubt A Star b (10) 59 92 M Bell 5 s8s20 Taikun (2) 59 90 A Adkins 6 3038s Enamour b (4) 57 96 Ms R Murray 7 Plaka (7) 57 84 J Collett 8 42s55 Princess Sunlight (3) 57 88 J Innes Jnr 9 0989s Schnell (9) 57 83 C O’Brien 10 55s Romper Stomper (1) 56.5 77 T Berry

3 Kentan Machinery Plate 3.20 $31,500, 2yo Maiden SW, 1100m

1 Bytact (2) 57 79 J Innes Jnr 2 2 Camerlengo b (6) 57 100 T Clark 3 Mandalorian (17) 57 78 J Collett

4 — Mr Colorful SCRATCHED

5 Opal Glory (5) 57 79 B Cray 6 Oscar Zulu (4) 57 80 L Magorrian 7 Rise’n’shine (18) 57 77 G Buckley 8 Amungee (14) 55 80 Ms W Costin 9 In Awe Of Me (1) 55 80 A Hyeronimus 10 Mezzaluna (16) 55 79 J Ford 11 Symo’s Girl (13) 55 80 Ms R Murray 12 Templates (12) 55 81 T Berry 13 Zabavno (11) 55 81 Ms R King 14 Zou Island (9) 55 82 R Dolan (a)EMERGENCIES: 15 3 Nicator (10) 57 81 M Bell 16 4 Canton Kid b (7) 57 95 T Sherry (a1.5)

17 69s3 Galierro (8) 57 86 R Hutchings 18 74 Tout De Suite (3) 55 84

4 Tanti Financial Services 3.55 $31,500, 3yo Maiden, 1600m

1 549 Star Of Success (3) 59 97 T Clark 2 65s61 Elder Price (1) 57.5 90 A Hyeronimus 3 4 Final Showdown b (11) 57.5 86 J Collett 4 4852 Jazirat (4) 57.5 100 T Berry 5 5s452 Misty Brook (10) 57.5 91 A Layt 6 868 Aunt Belle (6) 56.5 88 C O’Brien 7 90784 Company Line h (2) 56.5 89 R Hutchings 8 79578 Doin’ Shots (8) 56.5 88 M Bell 9 956 Flatout Elle (9) 56.5 83 Ms C Graham (a2) 10 8694 Mexican Standoff (7) 56.5 91 A Gibbons 11 25664 Miss Keira (5) 56.5 94 T Sherry (a1.5)

5 Walker Bros Timber 4.35 $31,500, Class 1, 1000m

1 4143s Phoenix River t (4) 60 96 T Berry 2 3896s Innisbrook (9) 59 97 Ms R King 3 147s9 Coco Cuber t (2) 58.5 95 J Collett 4 212s0 Tourmaster w (8) 58 94 M Bell 5 79521 Debrief d (10) 56.5 92 R Hutchings 6 00s97 Fifteen Rounds d (5) 56.5 89 J Ford 7 28s15 Vulpine dw (1) 56.5 98 S Guymer 8 43s71 Absolutely Foxy dw (7) 55 100 Ms K O’Hara 9 90s18 Gottabe Red dw (3) 55 92 Ms C Graham (a2) 10 10s99 Versifier (6) 55 83 Ms W Costin 11 170s4 Dicko’s Mate (11) 55 91 A Layt

6 Gosford RSL Handicap 5.10 $31,500, 3yo & up Benchmark 64, 2100m

1 31961 Crown Affair dw (4) 59.5 96 A Hyeronimus 2 04684 Temprado wh (13) 58.5 89 R Dolan (a) 3 3s096 The Bounty w (15) 58.5 92 R Hutchings 4 5s796 De Valera wn (6) 58 94 T Sherry (a1.5) 5 57374 Ocean Walzer dbn (14) 58 90 C Lever 6 17583 French Response w (8) 57.5 96 Ms C Graham (a2) 7 43831 Arabolini dwh (2) 57 100 T Clark 8 3s411 Dinado w (10) 57 95 T Berry 9 55522 Kelvinside w (5) 57 92 G Schofield 10 96915 Misty Summer tcw (1) 57 95 L Magorrian 11 s5132 Dream Maiden w (16) 56.5 91 12 1s081 Private Detective wn (7) 56.5 91 Ms K O’Hara 13 2s525 Mr Costigan t (11) 55.5 91 J Collett 14 s7904 Real Time Warrior dw (9) 55 91 A Adkins 15 00836 Never Been Another cdw (3) 55 90 A B Collett 16 98048 Frozen Asset w (12) 55 88 Ms A Skerritt

7 BJ Howes Metaland Hcp 5.45 $31,500, Class 2, 1200m

1 s1241 Spaceboy w (13) 62 100 Ms K O’Hara 2 634s2 Exceltic t (3) 59 97 Ms R King 3 1s5 Targarian (12) 56.5 95 Ms D Panya 4 31501 Carte Blanche cw (7) 56 94 T Berry 5 1133s Express Princess w (8) 55.5 93 S Clipperton 6 2221s Patrina wh (2) 55.5 97 T Sherry (a1.5)

7 611s3 Stoked dwb (9) 55 97 T Clark

8 310s5 Two Seas dw (10) 55 94 C Lever

9 43539 Arrogant Lass (1) 55 94 J Ford

10 s25s8 Cliff’s Choice w (4) 55 89 R Dolan (a)

11 s39s9 Duble Gaze d (5) 55 88 Ms R Murray

12 08658 Mosht Up w (6) 55 90 A Layt

13 14705 Judge’s Daughter w (11) 55 87

T Wolfgram

8 Bigger Backyard Cent. Cst 6.25 $31,500, Benchmark 64, 1600m

1 91121 In Ya Skyrocket dw (7) 60.5 91

K Wilson-Taylor (a3)

2 8s238 Vienna Rain b (6) 60 99 A Hyeronimus

3 s3470 Just Society (12) 59.5 98 B Avdulla

4 0s630 Sky Diamonds d (1) 59 100 R Dolan (a)

5 35161 Ladies’ Gem cdw (10) 58.5 91

T Sherry (a1.5)

6 s3696 Live The Moment (5) 58.5 91

R Hutchings

7 96s35 Hurricane Harbour c (2) 57.5 94

S Guymer

8 31s4 Ladylovestogamble dw (11) 57.5 97

J Collett

9 0s571 April Thunder dw (14) 57 94 L Magorrian

10 4s790 Dancing Rachel cdh (3) 56.5 89

C O’Brien

11 83132 Delicately (4) 56 93 T Berry

12 — Dummy Run SCRATCHED

13 15s6 Trackman (8) 55.5 90 A B Collett

14 — Raziel SCRATCHED

SelectionsRace 1: TODWICK, LES AMOUREUX, DARCY EKCELS

Race 2: KILLIN, LIGHT AND DARK, PLAKA

Race 3: CAMERLENGO, AMUNGEE, TEMPLATES

Race 4: STAR OF SUCCESS, JAZIRAT, FINAL SHOWDOWN

Race 5: VULPINE, COCO CUBER, PHOENIX RIVER

Race 6: DINADO, CROWN AFFAIR, ARABOLINI

Race 7: SPACEBOY, EXCELTIC, PATRINA

Race 8: LADYLOVESTOGAMBLE, VIENNA RAIN,

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The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 2020 RACING 23

MOTORSPORT by Oliver Caffrey, AAP

MELBOURNE — It might be a different trackside experience, but Scott McLaughlin’s hunger for success remains after he won two races in Sydney at the Supercars’ first round in over 100 days.

The Ford flyer dominated yesterday’s second race from pole, making it three wins from five starts in the pandemic-affected season.

Not even an almost four-month hiatus and persistent speculation he will race in an Indy Car next year can stop McLaughlin’s charge towards a third-straight title.

The 27-year-old did it easily at Sydney Motorsport Park for his 46th career victory, a day after he held off Holden rival Shane van Gisbergen to win the first completed race since February.

“The determination of the whole group has been great,” McLaughlin said.

“We can do as many cartoon (Eseries) races as we want but there’s nothing like going out there for the very first time and revving the engine.

“It’s pretty awesome and I can’t wait for the fans to come back because it’s going to be so much better as well.”

Tickford’s Lee Holdsworth made it a

Ford one-two with an impressive drive after qualifying fourth fastest.

Seven-time champion Jamie Whincup completed a consistent spectator-less round with his third podium finish of the Sydney Supersprint.

The Holden legend appears to be McLaughlin’s only legitimate title threat with Kiwi rival Shane van Gisbergen struggling for consistency.

Earlier, Holden dark horse Nick Percat denied McLaughlin a weekend three-peat by winning his first Supercars race since 2016 after eclipsing Whincup in the Holden legend’s 500th career start.

Percat started the first of two Sunday races from sixth but flew past Whincup, who led from pole until Lap 23.

It was the 31-year-old Brad Jones Racing driver’s third career victory in his 200th start and first in four years since an Adelaide 500 triumph.

“It’s taken a few more years than I would’ve wanted but, as soon as we’re in a good position, we throw everything at it.”

Percat joins McLaughlin (three) and Whincup as the season’s only winners, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing the championship into shutdown since the Australian F1 Grand Prix was abandoned mid-event.

McLaughlin wins twice as Supercars resume racing

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 202024 SPORT

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:Michael Phelps, 35; Monica Potter, 49; Mike Tyson, 54; David Alan Grier, 64.

Happy Birthday:Find something you love to do, and enjoy the process of discovering, developing and completing something that makes you feel accomplished. Going through a change is never easy for you emotionally, but if you have something to do that eases stress or takes your mind off the harsher realities of everyday life, you will ind the happiness you deserve this year. Your numbers are 9, 14, 20, 26, 31, 47, 49.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):An unusual proposal will turn out to be better than anticipated. Don't rule out a suggestion before giving it a chance. Start small, and let your plans develop into something big. Build a strong base, and achieve long-lasting success. 3 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Make the changes that suit you best, and keep moving forward, regardless of what others decide to do. It's up to you to control what happens and to make time to get your ideas up and running. Don't fold under pressure. 3 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Put your head down, focus on what you want to achieve and keep moving until you reach your destination. Discipline and hard work will help you gain recognition for your accomplishments. Reward yourself with something that makes you feel special. 3 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22):A conversation you have with someone you used to work with will lead to an interesting prospect. Elaborate on what you feel you can contribute to a new project that excites you. A personal gain is heading in your direction. 5 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):Stay centered and calm. Refuse to let what others do or say bother you. Follow your own path, and you will be happy with the results you get. Personal improvements and growth will help you build a healthy attitude and conidence. 2 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Bring up issues that you want to resolve. The sooner you can put things in perspective, the easier it will be to explore your next move. Don't let personal emotions interfere with making the right decision professionally. 4 stars

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FOOTBALL by John Gillies

GISBORNE teams continue to set the pace in football’s Pacific Premiership after weekend matches, but only one of them had to break sweat doing it.

Thistle beat Napier Marist seconds 3-1 in Napier, while Gisborne United took the points when Maycenvale defaulted their away fixture.

The two Gisborne teams have maximum points from three rounds, although Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle have the edge on goal difference.

Maycenvale’s default has given Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United more time to get a fully fit squad on the field, but coach Corey Adams would have preferred 90 minutes of game-time. After the lockdown, that’s what all the teams are lacking.

Thistle led 2-0 at halftime against Napier Marist, through goals in the 30th and 40th minutes by striker Tomek

Frooms and midfielder Nick Land respectively.

Frooms opened the scoring with a clinical finish to a good team move by meeting a Sam Patterson right-wing cross as it streaked across the face of the goal, five metres out.

Ten minutes later, the ball came in from the right again, a goalmouth scramble ensued and Land got the decisive touch.

In the 70th minute, left-flank midfielder Travis White, having come on for Brandon Josling 10 minutes earlier, put Thistle 3-0 up.

Darting in from wide, White ran on to a through ball from Frooms, picked his spot and put the ball away.

Marist scored a consolation goal from the penalty spot 10 minutes from time, for handball given against leftback Daniel Venema.

Thistle coach Garrett Blair said the boggy surface and rain, which fell for

much of the second half, meant the Jags had to change their tactics.

All but a few tactics fall apart when the ball gets stuck in the mud.

Nevertheless, Thistle generally had the better of play, except for a 20-minute spell in the second half when Marist mounted a strong effort to close the gap.

Thistle were composed at the back, with centreback Ander Batarrita outstanding. He was well supported by fellow central defender Ema Martos, and fullbacks Emerson Araya and Venema.

Goalkeeper Mark Baple did not have a lot to do but made one excellent save. Marist, 3-0 down, counter-attacked and their striker hit a shot towards the bottom right corner of the goal. Baple dived to his left and deflected it wide, where Venema got on to it and cleared the danger.

While Blair described the game as “scrappy”, the players did not lack commitment. The slippery conditions

meant sliding tackles had to be well timed and executed not to be judged reckless, and the referee showed the yellow card to “about three” players in a keenly competitive Marist side.

Thistle skipper Land and Ashley McMillan had a running battle with their Marist counterparts in central midfield, while Patterson on the right and Josling on the left tried to make the most of the better going out wide.

Nineteen-year-old Tomek Frooms had another good outing in a deep-lying striker’s role, Blair said.

“They didn’t know what to do with him.”

Up front, Davie Ure got into scoring positions and had his chances but, this time, was unable to turn them into goals.

Frooms and Ure both seem to thrive in the deep-lying striker’s role. Both are in good form. How to use them together and make the most of their gifts is a question bursting with possibilities.

Thistle, United keep the points coming

FOOTBALL by Jerome Pugmire, AP

HOLDERS Manchester City reached the FA Cup semifinals today after goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling secured an untroubled 2-0 win at Newcastle.

City conceded the Premier League title to runaway champions Liverpool this week, and must beat 13-time FA Cup winners Arsenal to reach another cup final.

The draw was made today.Chelsea will face 12-time winners

Manchester United in the other semifinal.The games will be held over the

weekend of July 18 and 19 at Wembley, with no fans present.

Earlier today, Chelsea won 1-0 at Leicester and Arsenal needed an injury-time winner to edge a 2-1 win at Sheffield United.

City’s win was far more comfortable.

De Bruyne put City ahead from the penalty spot in the 37th minute of a dominant first half.

Dwight Gayle missed a great chance to equalise for Newcastle midway through the second half, blazing Allan Saint-Maximin’s pinpoint cross over from close range.

It was a rare opportunity for Steve Bruce’s side and a costly miss as Sterling scored moments later, curling a shot in from the edge of the box following a quick counter-attack in the 68th.

Substitutes made the difference for Chelsea and Arsenal.

Chelsea midfielder Ross Barkley turned in a cross from Willian in the 63rd.

Spanish midfielder Dani Ceballos netted in the 91st for Arsenal with a low shot, just four minutes after David McGoldrick had equalised from close range.

Forward Nicolas Pépé’s penalty put Arsenal ahead midway through the first half, after United midfielder John Lundstram had an early header ruled out for offside. Defender John Egan’s header early in the second half was also chalked off, much to the frustration of the home fans.

Man United beat Norwich 2-1 yesterday in the other quarterfinal.

In today’s only Premier League game, striker Danny Ings scored twice to reach 18 goals as Southampton won 3-1 at struggling Watford.

Ings struck in each half to move one goal behind top scorer Jamie Vardy, who is enduring a lean spell for third-placed Leicester.

Southampton moved up one place to 13th and are a comfortable 13 points clear of the relegation zone. But 16th-place Watford remain one point above the drop zone with six games left.

Big-name teams in Cup semifinals at Wembley

BOOT? WHAT BOOT? Newcastle United’s Fabian Schaer puts his head in harm’s way as he contests a ball with Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling in an FA Cup quarterfinal at St James’ Park, Newcastle, today. City won 2-0. AP picture

RUGBY LEAGUE by Scott Bailey and Matt Encarnacion, AAP

SYDNEY — Melbourne and Parramatta are anxiously awaiting scan results on key playmakers Cameron Munster and Mitchell Moses respectively after a horror weekend of injuries across the NRL.

The Storm will be waiting on the outcome for star No.6 Munster who has so far been unable to have his injured knee assessed fully due to Melbourne’s travel.

Moses had scans yesterday morning on his calf, the halfback having left Bankwest Stadium on Saturday on crutches during the ladder leaders’ golden-point win against Canberra.

Medical staff won’t be able to determine what rehabilitation is needed until swelling subsides on the same muscle Moses hurt during the game’s shutdown.

Initial fears for Munster are that he’ll be out of action for up to six weeks with the injury, picked up in the Storm’s drubbing of the Warriors.

They must find a new half to partner Jahrome Hughes for at least the short term, with hooker Cameron Smith a possible surprise option.

Munster has been the Storm’s best player this year, setting up five tries and busting 15 tackles in the five games since the competition’s restart.

The 25-year-old said he had been one of the real beneficiaries of having to live in the NRL’s bubble.

“I guess no pubs or alcohol or partying with teammates or stuff like that,” Munster said.

“I haven’t had a beer in probably six or seven weeks. I’ve been knuckling down to make sure I was fit coming back from the mini pre-season we had. I’m 90 kilograms and I haven’t been that since probably 2016. I’m feeling fit and lean and really sharp with my ball-handling at the moment.

“I guess that’ll have to take a back seat for the next couple of weeks.”

Munster, known previously as a party boy, said the change in lifestyle had also helped to improve his diet.

“I found that I’ve been more consistent now in games with my diet and having a balance off-field around alcohol,” Munster said.

Moses and Munster’s injuries were two of several blows to the competition’s front-running teams in what could prove a crucial weekend of NRL.

Melbourne’s next opponents, the Sydney Roosters, lost Victor Radley and Sam Verrills to season-ending knee injuries, while Isaac Liu broke a rib in the win against St George Illawarra.

Canberra lock Corey Horsburgh will require scans on a foot injury.

Canterbury also lost Will Hopoate to an ankle injury in last night’s 34-6 loss to the Wests Tigers, leaving them last on the ladder below Brisbane.

The Broncos at least had some good news after their 30-12 loss to Gold Coast, with Matt Lodge some chance to face the Warriors on Saturday after limping off with a knee injury.

Manly felt the pain of their high-profile injuries, flogged 40-22 by Cronulla on Sunday in their first game without Tom Trbojevic and Dylan Walker.

NRL Round 7 results: Penrith 20 South Sydney 12, Melbourne 50 NZ Warriors 6, Sydney Roosters 26 St George Illawarra 12, North Queensland 32 Newcastle 20, Gold Coast 30 Brisbane 12, Parramatta 25 Canberra 24, Cronulla 40 Manly 22.

NRL round-up

The Gisborne Herald • Monday, June 29, 2020 SPORT 25

NETBALL by Murray Robertson

HIGH school teams provided the highlight of premier-grade netball in Gisborne on Saturday.

Gisborne Girls’ High School beat Ritana Senior A from Lytton High 25-23 in a clash that lived up to expectations.

Lytton led 6-4 at the end of the first quarter and 12-11 at halftime, but Girls’ High came back and led 18-16 at the end of the third quarter and held on to win by two goals.

“It was a close game that could have gone either way,” netball commentator Sherrill Beale said.

“Both teams gave a good display of skills, and all players worked together on attack and defence.

“Both teams’ circle defenders worked well together, resulting in the ball going up and down the court often, before a goal would be scored.”

Ritana picked up a bonus point for finishing just three goals behind.

Beale said the top-seeded teams still

led the grade, with wins to both Taste One High School Old Girls and Whangara Old Girls.

YMP Sunshine Brewing had the bye.HSOG beat Horouta Gold 40-20.“HSOG played strongly from the first

whistle and moved the ball confidently, at speed, through the court,” Beale said.

“Their coach, Tanya Owen, made several changes, but they were seamless, and the movement of players and the flow of the ball continued effortlessly.

“Horouta struggled with the ‘sea of blue’ in the first half and were down by 21 goals at halftime.

“However, they played their own style in the second half with better results. In this half they outscored HSOG by one goal to make amends for the poor start.”

In the other premier match, Whangara Old Girls defeated Claydens Waikohu (1) 36-31.

Whangara led throughout — 12-5, 19-15 and 27-23 at the quarters.

“It was an even contest for the whole game,” Beale said.

“In both teams the understanding between players is developing well and there were some good passages of the ball flowing through court.”

Beale said the scores in the other senior grades were not as close as they were last week, but some good skills were on display.

Other results — A Grade: Tatapouri Sportsfit 36 Horouta Taimana 27; Claydens Waikohu Masters 52 Old Girls Whangara 12; YMP Masters 31 Gis Fluid and Machinery HSOG 25; Claydens Waikohu Masters 42 Horouta Taimana 24.

A Reserve Grade: Farmlands Ngatapa 34 YMP TimberPro 22; FarmCare HSOG 31 Campion Snr A 10; YMP TimberPro 38 Campion Snr A 18; Gis Denture Clinic HSOG 36 Claydens Waikohu (2) 19.

First Grade: Tyre General Ngatapa 18 Steve Craill Builder Ngatapa 16; OBM Blue 34 Thistle Storm 20; The Stingerz 34 GGHS Snr B 17; GGHS Jnr A 41 Uawa Ngarangikahiwa 17.

First Reserve/Second Grade: Tatapouri Sportsfit Social 27 GGHS TSA 11; Ritana Toa def The Cuddys by default; Gis Glass Ngatapa 27 Thistle Phoenix 17; Uawa Kahukuraiti 41 Kotahi Aroha 20; Uawa Kahukuraiti 53 Thistle Phoenix 21.

School teams provide highlight

THREE PLAYERS, ONE BALL: Horouta Gold wing defence Ngahuria Akania (left) contests possession with High School Old Girls wing attack Courtney Stubbins (right) as HSOG goal defence Kelly Wood waits in premier-grade netball at Victoria Domain on Saturday. HSOG won the match 40-20.

Picture by Paul Rickard

RUGBY LEAGUE by Scott Bailey, AAP

SYDNEY — The slumping Warriors have signed Penrith prop Jack Hetherington as their latest loan player after being forced to release Poasa Faamausili back to the Sydney Roosters.

Hetherington will join the club immediately, getting the chance to return to NRL action after not being picked by the second-placed Panthers since the opening round.

“Ivan Cleary, the Panthers and the

NRL have been terrific in making Jack available so quickly after we lost Poasa,” Warriors recruitment manager Peter O’Sullivan said.

“Jack had a breakout year in 2018 and will give us the qualities we’re looking for — a big man in the middle who carries the ball strongly and is tough defensively.”

Under the terms of the agreement, the Panthers can recall Hetherington if required.

His move caps off a dramatic weekend

for the Warriors (5-2).Players met with NRL bosses Peter

V’landys and Andrew Abdo on Saturday to discuss their immediate future, with some wanting to return home to New Zealand immediately.

Players with non-Australian partners are desperate to see their families again, after leaving home to begin preparations for the NRL’s resumption almost two months ago.

The club’s homesick players agreed to remain in Australia for another two

weeks amid attempts with government to have their families allowed into the country.

However, their future beyond that point remains unknown.

It comes after the squad was rattled with coach Stephen Kearney’s sacking last week, before their 50-6 flogging at the hands of Melbourne on Friday night.

Captain Roger Tuivasa-Sheck also faces a one-game ban for that match, after being pinged for a shoulder charge in the loss to the Storm.

Hetherington on loan to Warriors

RUGBY LEAGUE

SYDNEY — Queensland Rugby League has extended the contract of State of Origin coach Kevin Walters for another year, taking him through to the end of 2021.

The Maroons announced the deal last night, saying the decision gives the Maroons more stability heading into this year’s series.

“Kevie is an immensely popular and respected figure amongst the playing group and support staff, and he understands Origin and what makes the players tick,” QRL managing director Robert Moore said. “Loyalty and respect have been

cornerstones of the Maroons’ success, and the opportunity to extend his time with our Origin and representative programme is certainly in line with these values.”

The re-signing comes just days after the NSWRL extended the contract of their own Origin coach, Brad Fittler, for the same term.

It also comes with NRL side Brisbane in the midst of a horror stretch of form under coach Anthony Seibold.

Walters was heavily linked to the role before Wayne Bennett left the club in 2018. Bennett subsequently swapped with Seibold, who was with South Sydney at the time.

The extension means Walters, who took on the Maroons gig in 2016, will be in charge of their Origin side for six straight series.

This year’s three-game series has been delayed until November due to Covid-19.

“While I am pleased to get the contract talks finalised for next year, my focus has always been on the 2020 series and making sure we get our preparation spot-on,” Walters said.

“Our wider squad had a really productive weekend together in February, and while the schedule change because of Covid-19 will certainly throw up some new challenges, we’ll adapt and be ready for game one.” — AAP

Maroons extend Walters’ contract

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RUGBY by Liam Napier, NZME

TRAVELLING to Christchurch to face the Crusaders is one of the toughest assignments any rugby side can confront. Scott Robertson’s men last lost there in 2016, and on a wet Sunday afternoon the Chiefs gave it a decent dig but like so many before they, too, fell short of ending that run.

The Crusaders beat them 18-13.The character of the Chiefs is not in question.

Down 15 points in the second half as the rain drove in, it would have been easy to drop heads and start thinking about heading home. Instead they dug deep and gave themselves a chance of stealing this match, battering away at the red wall in the closing stages only to be repelled again and again.

It’s worth pausing to ask what has happened to Warren Gatland’s Chiefs? Even Sam Cane’s return from a back injury could not stop a third straight defeat that has them slipping into a major Super Rugby Aotearoa hole.

Lockdown was not good for the Chiefs. While others such as the Highlanders returned a vastly improved unit, the Chiefs have instead regressed into a team seemingly bereft of confidence.

Injuries to their second row are still hurting their set-piece but the skill execution and lack of tries will be causing Gatland headaches.

Credit must be given to the Crusaders, of course. Even in challenging conditions such as these they can make even the best look average at times.

Whether it was holding ball carriers off their feet or forcing handling errors in contact, the superb Crusaders defence set the tone for their second victory in this derby competition after they put away the Hurricanes in Wellington last week.

The final passages said everything about how difficult it is to break down this Crusaders team as they collectively held firm while the Chiefs launched

a desperate, and ultimately futile, late onslaught.Abrasive blindside Cullen Grace was often at the

heart of the defensive efforts and dominant hits in contact by leading the line speed, while on attack Will Jordan delivered another sparkling effort.

Jordan produced the most telling moment of the first half when he snaffled Richie Mo’unga’s high hoist out of Damian McKenzie’s grasp and sprinted away to score the opening try.

Just after halftime Sevu Reece set up Jordan with a quick lineout throw that sent the Crusaders fullback flying down the touchline and bumping Brad Weber off to score.

In the end, those two moments of magic proved the difference.

It speaks volumes of Jordan’s captivating form, which has produced 12 tries in 14 outings, that he is keeping the equally influential David Havili on the bench.

Aaron Cruden did his best to spark the Chiefs with darting half-breaks but his attempted offloads didn’t go to hand as the Crusaders defence scrambled all game long.

This was a frustrating theme for the Chiefs, turnovers at key moments and the failure to convert attacking momentum proving costly. The intent was there from the Chiefs as they turned down shots at goal and kicked to the corner but time after time the staunch Crusaders were up to the task.

Cane’s trademark hits were to the fore and he singlehandedly snuffed out one Crusaders rolling maul five metres out from the line just before halftime, but his efforts and a second-half try from Sean Wainui were not enough to get the Chiefs off the mark.

CRUSADERS 18 (Will Jordan 2 tries; Richie Mo’unga con, 2 pen) defeated CHIEFS 13 (Sean Wainui try; Damian McKenzie con, 2 pen).

HT: 10-3 (Crusaders).

THE Blues remain unbeaten in Super Rugby Aotearoa — but only just — after they the Highlanders 27-24 in Auckland on Saturday night.

Nearly everything Leon MacDonald’s men touched in the first half turned to gold as the Blues powered to a 22-10 halftime lead after scoring three tries and controlling the game through precise tactical kicking.

At that point, the Blues were so dominant it seemed they would canter to victory but they then went to sleep and were pushed to the brink.

The second half turned into a dogfight, and the Highlanders will feel unlucky not to have stolen an upset victory after an inspired second half.

Highlanders first five-eighth Mitchell Hunt scored a solo second-half try to bring his team back into the game but he could not nail a 73rd-minute penalty to tie the scores.

On the back of two ruck penalties from referee Paul Williams, the Highlanders set up camp in the Blues 22 during the closing stages but they could not find the killer punch.

The Blues defended one rolling maul that finished metres out from their line, this effort ultimately the difference between maintaining their seven-game unbeaten run and suffering their first defeat in the New Zealand derby competition.

Caleb Clarke can claim much of the praise for the Blues victory, having channelled an emotional evening at Eden Park.

As the 27,000-strong crowd paused before kick-off to honour slain Constable Matthew Hunt, who died in the line of duty in Auckland last week, Clarke was in tears. The promising wing had lost his grandfather that day and was clearly a swarm of emotions as he prepared to take on a spirited Highlanders side rejuvenated since lockdown.

Clarke is a man of deep faith, and after scoring the opening try he pointed to the sky in tribute. In amemorable performance, he laid on another try and

showcased his talents in the air by snaffling a restart.Despite those efforts, the Highlanders never

stopped coming.While their backline wasn’t as slick, the visitors’

forward pack competed well all night, No.8 Marino Mikaele Tu’u snaffling turnovers and enjoying a quality battle with opposite Hoskins Sotutu.

Blues playmakers Otere Black and Beauden Barrett orchestrated a tactical kicking masterclass, particularly in the first half, as they regularly nudged the ball in behind the inexperienced Highlanders wingers and into the corners to control much of the territory battle in wet conditions.

With the Blues applying pressure through the boot, Highlanders fullback Scott Gregory shelled several kicks and gifted Dalton Papalii the first of his double after a Sotutu charge-down.

Blues captain Patrick Tuipulotu and Papalii, who scored two tries, often put their side on the front foot but MacDonald’s men did not have it all their own way.

Defensively the Blues will rue their sloppy start to the second half when they dropped off several tackles and lost two lineouts, which allowed the Highlanders back into the match.

The Highlanders did not need a second invitation. First Hunt sold a dummy and waltzed through. The Highlanders then had Ngane Punivai’s try scrubbed out after a Hunt error at the breakdown was belatedly spotted. From the resulting penalty, Rieko Ioane was sent to the bin and Shannon Frizell crashed over to give the Highlanders the lead.

The Blues, however, again found the composure to hang on when it mattered most, just as they did in previous wins over the Hurricanes and Chiefs.

BLUES 27 (Dalton Papalii 2, Caleb Clarke, Rieko Ioane tries; Otere Black 2 cons, pen) def HIGHLANDERS 24 (Ash Dixon, Mitchell Hunt, Shannon Frizell tries; Hunt 3 con, pen).

HT: 22-10.

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CRASH, BANG, WALLOP: Waikohu forward Jarryd Broughton takes on the Pirates defensive line, with hooker and tryscorer Tapu Dixon (left) in support, during a Poverty Bay premier rugby game that Waikohu won 38-7 at the Oval on Saturday. Picture by Paul Rickard

WAIKOHU GO TO THE TOPRUGBY by Ben O’Brien-Leaf

WAIKOHU now top the table.Their 38-7 bonus-point win against

a committed Pirates side on Oval No.1 in Week 2 has given them the lead in Civil Project Solutions premier rugby.

Last week’s competition leaders, Larsawn Ngatapa, also remain unbeaten, despite the loss of quality centre Isaac Thomas to a serious leg injury before halftime in their 18-8 victory over Contract Consultants High School Old Boys.

Meanwhile, East Coast Farm Vets YMP beat Enterprise Cars OBM 28-12 for their first win of the season.

GT Shearing Waikohu have 10 competition points, Ngatapa 9, YMP 4, HSOB 4, OBM 1 and Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 0.

Waikohu committee member and sub-union chairman Bob Morse cast a critical eye over both his own crew and their opponents.

“We expect a lot of our fellows — best backline we’ve ever had — but I was impressed by the effort from Pirates,” he said.

“They made us think, made us work hard for that.”

Kevin Hollis has been involved with Pirates for 53 years and appreciated the toughness of the contest.

“Both sides played good rugby; Waikohu are slick, though,” he said.

“Kelvin Smith runs their backline from first-five beautifully, just as he

did when he played for us at Pirates.“I enjoyed the game. It was hard

and quick but played in good spirit.”The game was hard-fought up front.

Veterans Eru Wharerau, at lock, and Keith Henderson, at halfback, spearheaded Pirates’ defensive effort at close quarters before Waikohu player-coach and halfback Ra Broughton scored nine minutes into the contest.

In the 15th minute, from an attacking lineout 15 metres from the right corner, human cannonball-cum-hooker Tapu Dixon burst through to score for 12-0.

In the 19th minute, on the right side of the ground, the Buccaneers were unable to tidy up or clear the ball on their goal-line, and Waikohu fetcher Adrian Wyrill pounced.

All three of Waikohu’s first-half tries were converted by fullback Ethine Reeves, for 21-0.

Despite what the scoreline may imply, much hard rugby was played by both teams at and around halfway, although Pirates made it into Waikohu’s 22 on just three occasions in the first half.

Waikohu put Pirates under pressure at scrum-time throughout the match but the Willie Waitoa-coached Buccaneers never buckled or lost a tighthead. The penalty count was 10-7 to Pirates, the scrum-count was 13-9 their way, and of completed lineouts, they won 9-6.

In the 26th minute, Pirates’ lineout

— in which Williamson Maraki switched from 4 to 2, changing places with second-row partner Wharerau — worked a treat. Athletic big man Maraki seized upon the flat throw and then stormed down the right touch over halfway.

Pirates had a new weapon.Waikohu led 21-0 at the break

but Pirates’ accuracy and ability to execute at the lineout bore fruit seven minutes after the resumption when, 10m out from the right corner, they ran the Wharerau-Maraki move again. This time, Maraki scored from it.

First five-eighth Jacob Leaf converted to make it 21-7.

Waikohu scored three second-half tries.

Having done duty by his core roles, tighthead prop Toru Noanoa was rewarded for his mobility and effort — in support of Dixon — with a try in the 56th minute. That try, the team’s fourth, earned Waikohu a bonus point.

Smith’s cross-field bomb 75 minutes in was scooped up by powerful reserve right wing Te Mana Barbarich, whose try was converted by Smith for 33-7.

Waikohu fullback Reeves, who — like teammate Wyrill and Pirates’ Will Bolingford — has remarkable strength and tackle-breaking ability, scored in the 78th minute to make it 38-7. His try marked the only time Waikohu got outside Pirates to score.

Ra Broughton had an incident-filled game. Three minutes before

halftime, he was fighting to break the tackle of Pirates blindside flanker Paora Mullany, in the 69th minute he was shown the yellow card by referee Mark Greene, and throughout he showed himself to be a tough competitor. He wants his team to keep their feet on the ground.

“We’ll try not to think about leading the competition and just take it one game at a time,” he said.

“We’re proud of what was a good effort, but we need to tidy up a few areas.”

Willie Waitoa gave his player-of-the-day award to the Pirates back row (Mullany, Koro Miringaorangi and Bolingford) and also gave a level-headed take on the game.

“Waikohu had the wind in the first half; they played a good territorial game and were clinical,” he said.

“We had parity at set-piece and mauled well in patches. We’re just working on combinations with our backs — that takes time.”

Referee Greene, in his eighth season with the whistle, made his premier debut at the weekend having controlled Senior 1 fixtures last season.

“I played and coached the game, and I still like to keep fit,” he said.

“I expected physicality — both Waikohu and Pirates wanted to play positive rugby, and did. It was a pleasure to be out there.”

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