SENSATIONAL START TO ANGUS BULL WEEK

by Matai O’Connor

TAIRAWHITI could be the first region in New Zealand with its own biorefinery, using waste wood and doing away with the need for oil-based products.

The company behind the project, Futurity, was founded by Tairawhiti’s Jacob Kohn, Rupert Paterson of Queenstown and Dr Gaetano Dedual of Taupo.

“Our focus is on creating advanced biomaterial and biochemicals, not biofuels, to move us away from oil dependency,” said Futurity chief executive Mr Kohn.

“Everything we use today is made with or transported by oil and oil derivatives.

“We use proven technologies which take waste wood, remove the bark, break it into a fine chip, digest the fine chip down to its core chemicals and use it to create advanced materials to utilise in

everyday products, with real markets, so that oil can stay in the ground,” he said.

Being from different regions across New Zealand, the company founders say their project can create economic resilience and jobs.

“That’s a main motivation for us — to focus our efforts towards regional New Zealand,” Mr Kohn said.

An overarching theme of Futurity is inclusive development, working with all stakeholders, communities and the environment, with a focus on integrated land use, diverse ecosystems and creating a better Tairawhiti together.

“We recognise there is a massive global

shift to more sustainable materials, greener supply chains and production of less intense chemicals,” said Dr Dedual, the company’s chief technological officer.

“New Zealand is the largest exporter of softwood logs in the world, meaning there is a large opportunity to add value to this industry.”

Dr Dedual said companies overseas were producing advanced bio-based

biochemicals and materials from wood.“We thought we could do it here in New

Zealand. “There’s no reason why not.”New Zealand’s “intensive forestry” was

underutilised, Mr Kohn said, with a lot of the wood going to China.

“We foresee that a lot of the wood will still go to China but reliance on one export supply chain or market route creates risk and volatility.

“Biorefineries can provide a high-value, reliable value stream to bring job creation and resilience into the regions, reducing risk through diversified markets.”

The parallel benefit was more sustainable practises, with less environmental impact.

“We are already a country which is heavily reliant on biomass and biological industry like horticulture and agriculture.

“The biorefinery is a way to take it to the next level and be a world leader in the bioeconomy and circular economy,” Mr Kohn said.

Refining the futureMoving away from oil dependency through biorefinery project

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FOR TODAY, SHE’LL REMEMBER THEIR SMILES: New Zealand singer and songwriter Annie Crummer gives Campion College student Levi Alexander a helping hand as he works on a piece of music he created as part of a two-day workshop. While it was a great learning opportunity for aspiring young musos, Crummer said it was also an inspiring and enjoyable experience for her as well. Campion College head of music Jarrod Seaton said she brought a deep love for music to the workshop and insight into how to bring out the best in young people. STORY ON PAGE 2 Picture by Liam Clayton

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• Angus Bull Week has got off to a strong start. We have pictures from the Tangihau, Kaharau and combined sales.

• The weekly AgriHQ report for the week beginning June 22.

TAIRAWHITI’S newest knight, Professor and now Sir Derek Lardelli, was saluted and celebrated yesterday at a ceremony at the place where he was the founding tutor.

Maia Gallery at EIT Tairawhiti’s Maori art and design school Toihoukura was the venue for the recognition of Sir Derek, who was knighted for his services to Maori art in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List on June 1.

Of Ngati Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngati Konohi and Ngai Te Aweawe descent, Sir Derek has earned an international reputation for his knowledge of ta moko (traditional Maori tattooing) and its spiritual significance. He has worked to retain and develop the rituals, karakia (prayer) and oral histories associated with ta moko.

Sir Derek is also a painter, carver, kapa haka performer, composer, graphic designer, researcher of whakapapa (genealogy) and oral histories and whaikorero (speech).

He is the founding principal tutor at Toihoukura where he has developed a suite of programmes across a range of Maori visual arts.

With a Master of Fine Arts and a Diploma of Teaching, Sir Derek has consistently focused on the need to improve Maori educational outcomes using art as a medium.

In 2011, he was awarded the title Professor/Ahorangi.

In May 2019, an Honorary Doctorate was bestowed on him by the University of Waikato.

EIT Tairawhiti campus manager Waata Shepherd said it was a special occasion for EIT.

“He is one of our own. We recognise we have a knight among us.”

EIT chief executive Chris Collins said: “We feel proud of you and the recognition of not just you but the field of art you work in.”

He also paid tribute to Lady Rose Lardelli, who played an important part in Sir Derek’s journey.

Mr Collins asked what was in the water at Whangara.

“There is a lovely marae and a lovely little beach, but how come all these great people come out of there?”

EIT executive dean professor Nat Waran said Sir Derek was an incredible leader.

“You are inspirational and you inspire students. People want more of you and you spread yourself around.”

EIT glowed in refractive glory from his work and achievements, she said.

EIT Tairawhiti kaumatua Taina Ngarimu said he noticed Sir Derek’s skills in leadership and art early in his life, and thanked him for bringing back ta moko.

“You have reinvigorated us and we are incredibly proud.”

Inspirational leader salutedKNIGHTHOOD CELEBRATION: Sir Derek Lardelli and EIT director of Maori Tuhakia Keepa share a hongi at a special ceremony marking Sir Derek’s recent knighthood. Below, Sir Derek with (from left) EIT Tairawhiti campus manager Waata Shepherd, Sir Derek’s wife Rose Gould-Lardelli and EIT chief executive Chris Collins.Pictures by Liam Clayton

by Kim Parkinson

STUDENTS at Campion College’s music department got to jam with acclaimed New Zealand singer-songwriter Annie Crummer at a two-day workshop this week.

Crummer shared her extensive knowledge and helped the students come up with their own musical compositions.

Campion College head of music Jarrod Seaton said it was an amazing opportunity provided by the New Zealand Music Commission.

“It’s a healthy injection of inspiration and encouragement and Annie tells us she learns so much from the students, also,” he said.

The students were given 50 minutes to put together a song from scratch, to collaborate and be open to each other’s input.

Crummer is known for her work as a solo artist but has also worked with New Zealand bands such as Netherworld Dancing Toys,

When The Cat’s Away and Herbs.She has performed with Australian singers

John Farnham and Jimmy Barnes.There was no one way to write a song, she

said, and she encouraged students to work in their own style and explore the process.

“Some may start with a melody, others with a lyric. There is no one right way of doing it.

“This generation seems so much more confident than high school students in my time. It’s great and they have all this

technology to work with, and so much opportunity these days.”

She was brutally honest with the students about pursuing a career in music.

“I’ve shared the wows and the woes. You become addicted to the creative process, which can result in delirious highs, but it is not an easy path.”

The Campion students worked in groups or solo and presented their music to the rest of the group today.

Among the students was Roman Benson of rising local band Sit Down In Front. He recorded his own instrumentals — keyboards, bass and guitar — and vocals, and mixed it through a computer programme.

The workshop was aimed at developing confidence and performance skills.

Crummer spent the weekend working with Gisborne Girls’ High School students preparing for the SmokefreeRockquest.

Kiwi diva giving back to aspiring musosMUSICAL MENTOR: New Zealand singer and songwriter Annie Crummer with Campion College students Anaya Menzies, Caitlin Winchester and Alex Stoltz as they craft a song from scratch at a workshop.

Picture by Liam Clayton

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BEN and Kylie Johnson from Orere Angus at Rere took home the Wonder Cup for the second year in a row yesterday for the bull judged the champion in the combined sale at the Matawhero Saleyards.

Lot No.2 in their line-up was chosen by judge Patrick Crawshaw, from Kenhardt Angus, as his top pick because of the bull’s all-round appeal.

“The combined catalogue was quite an impressive line-up of bulls from different studs and I had my work cut out,” Mr Crawshaw said.

“Orere’s No.2 had good balance, was really athletic and projected himself well — all in all a worthy winner.”

Bulls from Alpine Angus placed second and third.

Ben Johnson said he and Kylie were rapt to win the trophy for a second year.

“It says we are headed in the right direction.”

The winning bull sold for $12,000, and all 10 from Orere sold for an average of $9500.

“We sold the lot and we’re really happy about that,” Ben said.

Alpine Angus from Rere sold seven from seven at an average of $7928.

Studmaster Steve Herries said he was “very pleased” with how his bulls went in the sale.

“It was a complete clearance and that’s the

main thing. “The average was back

a bit but we’re still happy with it. We always knew it could be harder this year.”

Only three of Waimata Angus’s bulls sold — the others were passed in — at an average of $5000.

Pat Watson from Waimata was a bit disappointed but philosophical about it.

“This will be the last year that we sell without

data. Next year there will be some new blood coming through, too.

“It’s just good to be back in the combined sale again.”

Auctioneer Neville Clark said it was “a handy enough sale”.

“The bulls presented well across the sale and the ones that stacked up on paper were well-received without being excessive,”

And still the champs

‘WORTHY WINNER’: Lot 2 won the Wonder Cup for best bull at the combined sale in a packed Matawhero Saleyards rostrum yesterday. Judge Patrick Crawshaw described the champion animal as “a worthy winner” but said his work was cut out coming to a decision. Picture by Paul Rickard

TWO FROM TWO: Ben Johnson, of Orere Angus, with the Wonder Cup for top bull at the combined sale at Matawhero Saleyards. Orere Angus won the trophy on debut at the sale last year. Picture by Paul Rickard

Two Wonder Cup wins on the trot for Orere Angus

COMBINED SALE DETAILS

Orere: E J Gordon Livestock (Lot 1) $14,000; Taimoti Station $12,000, $7000; Avondale Farming $9500, $8000; Tahunga Station $10,000; Kia Ora Station $9500, $6000; Rimunui Station $9000; Hereheretau Station $10,000.

Alpine Angus: Pehimatea Farm P/ship $8500; B J Clarke $9000; Monte Farm & Forestry $7500; Marika Station $12,000; D H L Littin $7500; Pakowhaiu Blocks $5000; Awanui Farm $5500.

Waimata Angus: Kouka Land Co $5000, $4500; Tapahia Farming Co $5500.

by Murray Robertson

CRICKLEWOOD Angus Stud from Nuhaka got the 2020 Angus Bull Week sales off to a sensational start yesterday with a top price that will be tough to beat across New Zealand this sales season.

Bidding in the $92,000 auction for Lot 1 in the joint Tangihau-Cricklewood sale at the Tangihau Angus Stud at Rere was described as “electric”.

The joint auction winners for the rising-two-year-old were Kenhardt Angus from Nuhaka and Mount Mable Angus from Woodville.

Former PGG Wrightson auctioneer Bruce Orr said Lot 1 was clearly the standout bull in the sale.

“You had two traditional studs who decided that he was the bull for them.”

Yesterday’s auctioneer Neville Clark said the bull had been a good one all the way through.

“He’s a bull with lovely presence, good balance and one that will be around for a long time.”

Cricklewood sold another of the four bulls it presented

for $35,000, purchased by the Ratanui Stud from Tolaga Bay.

Cricklewood finished with an average of $50,333 across the four bulls sold.

Tangihau Angus put up 35 young bulls and sold 26 for an average of $9076.

The stud auctioned off one of their lineup in support of the Trust Tairawhiti rescue helicopter. It sold for $6500.

Cricklewood studmaster Humphrey Bayly said they were “absolutely delighted” with the top price.

“It was such a delightful surprise. That’s a huge amount of money.”

Mr Bayly said other people had talked to him about the bull potentially being that

valuable.“I just wasn’t so sure myself,

so what a thrill. Well done to Ben White our stud manager.”

Tangihau studmaster Dean McHardy said the joint sale was a very good one.

“We had a full rostrum for it which was good — great to see Tangihau and Cricklewood supported like that.

“We sold a couple of stud bulls and that’s always pleasing.

“Congratulations to Humphrey and Ben for such a great price. It will take a lot of beating for the top price in New Zealand this season.”

Tangihau recorded the top price in the country last year for an Angus bull at $86,000.

Top price hard to beat SALE DETAILS

Cricklewood: Grant Crawshaw Kenhardt Angus/Friel Farms $92,000; M J and N Story (Ratanui Angus) $35,000; Waimaha Station $14,000; Okare Station $10,000.

Tangihau: Jolly Ltd-Livestock $21,000; Waimaha Station $12,000, $12,500, $10,000; Mangatawhiti Station $12,000; A and R Reeves $11,000; Glen Alva Ltd $6000; Te Whanga Station $18,000; Te Uranga B2 $7500, $8000, $6500; Willis Family Trust $7500; Okare Station $5000, $7000; Kohunui Station $12,500, $6000; Monte Farm & Forestry $8000, $6500; Makaroro River Ranch $5500; Marewa Station $14,500; Paparatu Station $7500, $6000, $5000; Stockerau Station $9000, $5500; Ngati Pahauwera Co $6000.

by Murray Robertson

KAHARAU Angus on Rimunui Station off Riverside Road achieved a top sale price of $50,000, a complete clearance and sold 13 bulls to stud in their on-farm sale last night.

A packed rostrum watched as all 59 of the stud’s rising two-year-old bulls sold for a solid average of $12,838.

“What a wonderful sale of lovely cattle,” said auctioneer Neville Clark from Carrfields Livestock.

“The average tells the story of this sale. The number of bulls sold to stud was amazing.

“It was such a consistent sale, and we sold a bull for everyone.”

On top of the $50,000 top price, two bulls sold for $30,000 and $31,000, seven for $20-$22,000, and 24 for between $10,000 and $19,000.

The lowest price was $5000.“It was a wonderful catalogue right

across the sale, and it shows a lot of heart for the direction that Kaharau is going in,” Mr Clark said.

Studmaster Penny Hoogerbrug was thrilled with the result.

“What a great sale. I’m overwhelmed. To sell 13 to stud was such a thrill.

“It’s really terrific that there is such a demand for Kaharau genetics,” she said. “We are so grateful for all the support.”

Kaharau thrilled to sell 13 bulls to stud

SALE DETAILS

McGimpsey Farm Trust $9000; Quailburn Downs $20,000; M J and N Story (Ratanui Angus) $22,000 and $20,000; Benmore Ltd $31,000; Rolling Rock Farm Ltd $30,000; Orere Angus $20,000; Herrick Land Co $14,000; D R Sherson $22,000 and $50,000; Rimu Partnership $15,000; H O’Grady $20,000; Hereheretau Station $11,000, $9000; Toromiro Station $12,000; C N A Marr $14,000, $10,000, $9000, $11,000, $9000, $9000, $11,000, $9000, $11,000, $10.000; Stuart Farms Ltd $16,000; Marika Station $12,500; A G Donaldson $20,000; Sterndale Farm Ltd $19,000; Te Tiki Station $10,500; Shannon Partnership $9000; Pukemata Station $8000; Siberia Station $15,000; Mangatoitoi Station $11,000; Pakihiroa Farms $10,500; L and R Fisher $5500, $6000; Hakurenga Inc $7500; Tawhara Farm $8000; Ordway Holdings Ltd $18,000; Paparatu Station $8500; K M L Trust $15,000; Williams Agriculture $8500, $9000, $5000; Monte Farms & Forest $8000, $9000; C and N Alabaster Family Trust $15,000 and $5000; Shian Farms $15,000; T W E King $9500; Kokohu Station $11,500; Papatu Station $7000; Gisborne Paddock Account $5000; Okare Station $5000; Marika Station $10,000; Ricky Alabaster Family Trust $8500, $12,000; Robert Burke $7000.

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 2020 NEWS 3

by Murray Robertson

RESIDENTS in a house in Ranfurly Street in Kaiti got a shock last night when a car left the road and crashed into the side of their home.

Emergency services were called to the crash at around 11pm.

“The car went off the road near the Cambridge Terrace corner and went straight into the side wall of the house,” a senior firefighter said.

“I would say the car would be a write-off, and the house had a sizeable hole in the weatherboards and foundations in one corner of it.”

He said the car hit a wall near one of the bedrooms in the house.

The driver of the car was treated by St John ambulance for minor injuries and taken to Gisborne Hospital for a check- up.

“We had to assist him out of the vehicle because his car was jammed up against another vehicle in the driveway.”

No one in the house was injured in the incident.

Police have an inquiry under way into how the crash happened.

Car slams into house

by Aaron van Delden

THE axe has not yet fallen on the Gisborne to Wairoa rail line as it vies for a slice of the $3 billion the Government has set aside for shovel-ready infrastructure projects.

Gisborne District Council is blaming human error for the railway being omitted from a shortlist it supplied to The Gisborne Herald earlier this month of local infrastructure projects that are still in the running for taxpayer funds.

Nationwide, more than 1900 projects were put forward for funding and 802 made the shortlist.

The rail line was included in the council’s funding application.

But the council made it clear that while it supported reopening the track, it would not be in charge of the project.

That responsibility would fall to KiwiRail, whose group chief executive Greg Miller has told The Herald the line doesn’t stack up economically.

The council, in its application, said up to $23.3 million was needed to get the line open, but Mr Miller believes it could cost up to five

times as much.Despite this view, he was in Gisborne last

week to meet with project stakeholders, including the council, and he said there was more commercial support for the rail link than he realised.

The line has been closed since 2012 due to storm damage.

The shortlisted projects are being weighed up by Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones.

Mr Jones has previously said he will not overrule KiwiRail’s view that it doesn’t currently make sense to reopen the line.

When asked this morning if that meant it was a forgone conclusion the rail project would not be funded, a spokesperson for Mr

Jones said he stood by his earlier comment.The five council projects that have

made the shortlist are the redevelopment of Gisborne’s Olympic Pool Complex and upgrades to the city’s wastewater treatment plant, Waipaoa River stopbanks and residential wastewater and stormwater systems.

Rail line still in with a chance

Every human activity had an impact on the environment, Dr Dedual said.

“It’s about reducing the impacts and mitigating the negative impact.

“We will use sustainably-managed trees that take carbon dioxide out of the air, keeping fossil fuels in the ground. This is the basis for Futurity.”

The plan is for an anaerobic digestion system to produce biogas to power the whole biorefinery process, meaning self-sufficiency for energy requirements.

“The benefits to the environment are multifaceted,” Dr Dedual said.

They plan on using low-grade pinewood and pine waste wood but in the future will be looking into other plant materials.

They envisage the biorefinery using 160,000 tonnes of wood a year.

Pine stands out as an exotic species managed for harvesting on a sustainable rotation basis.

“What we are trying to achieve with the forestry industry is creating more

sustainable forestry factors to improve the image and process,” Mr Dedual said.

“On a technological basis there is no reason why other biomass sources like hemp couldn’t work but we need to understand there needs to be a large supply chain of hemp or other biomass sources for a biorefinery.”

Dr Dedual said having a biorefinery in Tairawhiti could attract interest in the different features of the material it produced.

The three are keen to use the forestry plantations because they are a managed resource.

“There is potential to use waste wood that is currently left on slopes. We are actively working with a number of forestry companies to realise this, investigating logistics and economic feasibility to reduce the environmental impact of forestry activities,” Dr Dedual said.

They decided on Tairawhiti because there’s a lot of wood here.

“We see that as a huge opportunity,” Mr Kohn said.

“The sheer volume of what’s created means there’s a large waste problem. With Futurity creating high value products we can justify paying enough to get the waste off the slopes..

“It will benefit everyone through the supply chain.”

Another benefit was removing the risk of flooding and damage.

“It’s a win-win,” Mr Kohn said.Earlier this month the three made

a presentation at Gisborne District Council’s Sustainable Tairawhiti meeting.

Mr Kohn said the reception from GDC was “great”.

The next step is presenting to the Tairawhiti Economic Action Plan group.

Futurity has also had “positive conversations” with the Government.

“We are looking to work very closely with the Government on multiple levels to try to achieve this,” Mr Kohn said.

Many benefits to the environmentFROM PAGE 1

OIL IS NOT THE FUTURE: New bio-venture Futurity is trying to establish the first biorefinery in Gisborne. The company’s founders are (from left)chief technology officer Dr Gaetano Dedual, chairman Rupert Paterson and Gisborne’s Jacob Kohn, chief executive officer.

Picture by Ellen Mary Taylor

TE Runanganui o Ngati Porou is nearing completion of the first phase of korero (conversations) with the Gisborne District Council about the Waiapu Catchment Plan.

Hui are planned for June 27 and 28. On Saturday June 27 is a hui for Ngati Ira/Whanau a Ruataupare ki Tokomaru. It will be at Tuatini Marae, Tokomaru Bay, and starts at 2pm.

On Sunday June 28 there are two hui.One is for for Hikurangi Takiwa at

Hiruharama Pa, Ruatoria between 10am and 11.30am.

The second is for Te Riu o Waiapu and will be at Hinepare Marae, Rangitukia between 2pm and 3.30pm.

A copy of the report can be obtained by contacting Rapaea Parata at TRONP on (06) 867 9960 or rparata@tronp.org.nz

For more information go to: https://ngatiporou.com/article/waiapu-catchment-plan-hui

Talks on Waiapu Catchment Plan

ROBINSON, IanJames (Lofty). —Peacefully at home, on21 June 2020, aged 67years. Much lovedhusband of Annette. ADad, Nampa, son,brother and friend. A private service hasbeen held. The familywish to thank thewonderful ladies fromHospice.

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FLYNN,Kathrine Blanche(nee Mitford-Burgess).— Of Greytown, bornTolaga Bay 20September 1922, passedpeacefully, with herchildren, Carterton, 21June 2020.Gracious and sparklingin dress and con-versation, her gift wasto make everyone shemet feel special,remembered and oftenwell fed.Being in the garden washer peaceful place andcaring for people washer calling. Kath’snursing career touchedthe lives of WW2soldiers, the SolomonIslands and GreytownHospital.Married to Peter(pre-deceased), andMother toKathrine-Mary (Kathy),Stephen, Peter, Patrick,Premtej, Michael,Joseph, Philothea, andpartners. Grandmotherto Josie, Alex, Kate;India, Hermione,Magnus; Seamus,Patrick; Tze-Wen,Xian-Meng; Robbi, Jay;Olivia, Genevieve,Caroline; Lily, Flynn,Ella; and partners.Great-Grandmother toEmmylou, Billy andBlake. Service 1pm Wednes-day 24 June at 119Main Street, Greytown.All welcome.Messages can be left onKath’s tribute page atwww.tributes.co.nz

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The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 20204 NEWS

GISBORNE District Council’s Sustainable Tairawhiti committee’s State of our Environment 2020 report was released earlier this month, providing an environmental overview of the region over the last five years.

The five sections cover our land and soil, biodiversity and biosecurity, freshwater, coast and estuaries and air, climate and waste. The full report can be viewed at https://www.gdc.govt.nz/state-of-our-environment/

State of our environment

ENVIROSCHOOLS WaiRestoration is an innovative approach to restoring waterway health and biodiversity, bringing together the energy of young people, educators, farmers, kaumatua, scientists, Gisborne District Council and many others.

Restorations to date include Waikanae Stream (fencing, planting 1300 trees and laying stoat and rat traps) and Pakowhai Stream (a spawning zone for inanga, the smallest of the whitebait species — the project involved fencing, planting and pest management).

In 2019, WaiRestoration fenced and planted Pakowhai Stream, near Muriwai.

Gisborne Boys’ High School and Gisborne Girls’ High School students were hands-on with the fencing project, utilising skills they had picked up during an earlier restoration of Waikanae Stream.

Matawai School, Waikirikiri School,

and Wainui Beach School propagated and grew native trees in their school nurseries, while Girls’ High, Gisborne Intermediate School, Lytton High School and Muriwai School were involved in the planting of the Pakowhai Stream site.

“Enviroschools WaiRestoration is a fantastic initiative that gets our

young people involved in protecting our waterways.

“It teaches them practical skills like fencing, pest control, native tree and plant propagation and planting, along with giving them an understanding of ecosystem health and diversity,” GDC environmental monitoring team leader Peter Hancock said.

Student collaboration to restore waterways

HANDS-ON: Enviroschools WaiRestoration is an innovative approach to restoring waterway health and biodiversity. Picture supplied

WASTE Minimisation is a key focus for the Gisborne District Council, with many initiatives under way to ensure sustainable waste management into the future.

The average waste sent to landfill in our region was 506kg per person a year in 2017, against a national average of 701kg.

However, since 2015 there has been an increase in the amount of waste sent to landfill, while the amount of recycling has dropped slightly.

This is in line with national figures.Last year GDC introduced significant

changes to kerbside recycling as a result of global market changes that have impacted plastic recycling worldwide.

Since June 2019, only plastic grades one and two are accepted at kerbside

collections, the Waste Management drop-off centre and rural transfer stations.

Plastic grades three to seven are now sent to landfill.

GDC staff have actively promoted the avoidance of single-use packaging in favour of reusables or at least recyclable packaging wherever possible.

The community has transitioned well and adhered to the key messages of recycling — wash, squash and lids-off.

We support initiatives such as Plastic-Free July to encourage the community to consider their waste footprint and choose alternatives to plastic.

Our Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2018-24 proposes a number of targets to reduce waste

generation in Tairawhiti, including: •20percentreductioninthetotalwaste

sent to class-one landfills by 2024.•40percentdecreaseinorganicwaste

by 2024 (kerbside collections).•20percentincreaseinrecyclingby

2024.GDC provides up to $10,000 annually for

community-led initiatives that reduce waste in the district.

Projects that look to reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose or compost waste and use resources wisely and without harm to the environment are suitable candidates for the funding.

Funding recipients in recent years have included Gisborne’s Toy Library, Gisborne Farmers’ Market and Gizzy Kai Rescue.

Sustainable waste management a key focus

PAUL and Sarah Williams of Turihaua Angus Stud have planted four water reservoirs with funding from Gisborne District Council’s Natural Heritage Fund.

Six hectares of native wetland and tree species were planted in 2017 and 2018 along the reservoirs’ riparian margins and are now well established.

Pest control and repeated release spraying of the plantings was essential.

Three kilometres of the Turihaua Stream flows through Turihaua Angus Stud, ending in Turihaua Bay.

Turihaua Bay is well-used by day trippers, campers, and recreational and commercial fishers.

Concerns have been raised about the poor water quality of the stream flowing into the bay.

An ecological restoration plan is being implemented which includes pest control, fencing and riparian planting along the entire length of the stream to minimise bank erosion, help filter the farm’s run-off, and protect the water quality of the lagoon.

The Williamses anticipate long-term benefits of the planting, including shading of the stream to support its animal and plant life and providing a corridor for native birds between bush blocks.

“As custodians of the land for future generations, the Williamses are committed to preserving and enhancing their land.

“In our region many important areas of native bush are on private land so landowner action is key to protecting them from threats like weeds, livestock, wild deer and goats.

“Council encourages landowners to apply for funding for similar projects using the Natural Heritage Fund,” GDC integrated catchments manager Kerry Hudson said.

Stream restoration

TURIHAUA STREAM: Paul and Sarah Williams of Turihaua Angus Stud have planted four water reservoirs with funding from Gisborne District Council’s Natural Heritage Fund in 2017 and 2018. Picture supplied

GISBORNE District Council is returning a large portion of Gisborne’s largest forestry asset — Pamoa Forest — to native bush in an effort to enhance the region’s biodiversity and protect Gisborne’s water supply, the Waingake drinking water pipeline.

Along with planting natives, the project involves extensive pest control and eradication measures.

Pamoa forest is a 1613ha area that was purchased by GDC to protect Gisborne’s main water pipeline from the Mangapoike reservoir and the Te Arai River.

The pastoral farming land and scrub was planted in pine forest to prevent erosion and to ensure future income.

With the harvesting of pine trees under way, GDC decided to return a large section near the pipeline into native forest.

This will create a biodiversity corridor linking Pamoa forest with Waingake bush, as well as providing long-term protection for the reservoirs and the pipeline. Protection will also be granted for the headwaters of the Te Arai, Nuhaka and Mangapoike rivers, all of which are ecologically valuable.

Pest and weed management will be key to successfully establishing native trees in the harvested areas, as well as enabling native wildlife to rebound.

“Waingake bush is the largest remnant of coastal lowland bush in our region, so the Pamoa restoration is a fantastic opportunity to increase the area of native forest and the pest-control buffer.

“Waingake has the potential to be a biodiversity haven for indigenous flora and fauna and therefore a major asset for our region” GDC science programme manager Dr Graeme Card said.

GDC has implemented a five-year animal control and monitoring programme to protect and enhance the area’s biodiversity and to maintain and improve the quality of the water supply.

Regenerating Pamoa

AIR quality in Gisborne is generally good, according to a report.

The main cause of air pollution is smoke from wood fires in the winter months, while vehicle emissions also impact on air quality all year round.

The National Environmental Standards for Air Quality (NESAQ) set a minimum level of health protection for New Zealanders.

Local councils are required to monitor levels of particulate matter of less than 10 micrometres in diameter (PM10) to meet the set health protection levels.

In Gisborne, there was only one occasion when this level was exceeded in 2018 and 2019.

Air quality has been monitored from a representative site at Gisborne Boys’ High School since 2004, using equipment that measures levels of particulate matter in the air every minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

This equipment was upgraded to more modern technology earlier this year, and is now measuring PM2.5 as well as PM10.

Breathing in these tiny suspended smoke particles can be harmful when larger deposits (between 2.5 and 10 micrometres) end up in the airways, lungs or enter the bloodstream.

A project using low-cost sensors over the winter of 2018 showed

spatial differences in air quality around the city, largely related to the use of wood fires and proximity to main roads.

Households can help improve air quality by ensuring they use suitable, dry firewood (not treated timber) and keep chimneys cleaned and maintained.

In Tairawhiti, all trade and industrial premises that discharge air pollutants are required to hold resource consents, or

demonstrate an ability to meet stringent standards to control these pollutants.

Concerning pollutants include sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and carbon monoxide.

This region reflects many of the trends being seen nationally, described in Our Air 2018, which can be found at https://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/environmental-reporting/our-air-2018, published by the Ministry for the Environment.

Positive results for air quality in Gisborne

HIGH STANDARDS: According to the report, the air quality in Gisborne is generally good. Picture supplied

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by Katie Scotcher, RNZ

WELLINGTON — People travelling to New Zealand may soon have to help cover the cost of their mandatory two-week stay at a quarantine hotel.

Cabinet will consider a co-payment scheme in a matter of weeks, as the cost of managing people in isolation facilities climbs.

But the Government is being warned to think very carefully about such a step.

The border controls are protecting New Zealand from the accelerating Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that came at a cost but “the cost of another outbreak is far, far worse”.

The cost of isolation and quarantine is $81 million and counting. Nearly $300m has been budgeted for the rest of the year, to help cover the skyrocketing hotel bill.

Cabinet will soon consider whether those wanting to come back here should help pay for their two-week hotel stay in managed isolation, Ardern said.

“What we need to consider as a government is the fairness of a potential co-payment system, so we need to factor in a whole range of issues and keep in mind we cannot stop New Zealanders from coming back to the country where they are citizens, and so that will have to underpin all of our decisions,” Ardern said.

Australia is the only other country to isolate arrivals at hotels and Queensland is the first state to introduce a co-payment scheme.

From next month, all international arrivals there will need to pay up to $200 a day to help cover the cost of their two-week quarantine.

Hayley Jordan, who is hoping to return to New Zealand in August, said she couldn’t pay if the Government here wanted the same amount.

“I have no idea how I would pay that. If I have to pay that up front, I can’t come home,” Jordan said.

She has been stuck in her London flat for 12 weeks and doctors have warned her not to travel yet because she has chronic health problems.

A co-payment scheme would feel like a punishment from the Government.

“I’ll be coming back without a job, a lot of things have fallen through here, I’ve lost a lot of money because of the pandemic. So, I’m really not looking forward to that possibly being a reality,” she said.

Human Rights lawyer Michael Bott had this warning:

“I would say, potentially, it’s in breach of the Bill of Rights Act, because you have a right of entry in terms of your country and to impose a cost on New Zealand citizens who are overseas and wish to come back home . . . is something which may be considered disproportionate and severe,” Bott said.

In Hong Kong, people who have recently returned there can isolate for two weeks at home, instead of hotels, but must wear a tracking bracelet so officials can ensure they are not going outside.

Jacinda Ardern said that would not be happening here.

“Our view is you then can’t regulate and enforce who then may visit a property, or visit a home. So this is still the best thing we can do to assure ourselves we’re keeping New Zealanders safe,” Ardern said.

Govt considers co-payments

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Pedestrian dies after being

hit by rubbish truck in AkldAUCKLAND — A pedestrian is dead after they

were hit by a rubbish truck in West Auckland during rush hour this morning.

A section of Glendale Road is closed in Glen Eden after a serious crash involving a Waste Management rubbish truck and a person crossing the road.

A St John spokesperson confirmed the emergency service received a call at 8.04am.

The manager of the nearby Pecks Cottage Bakery, Bonat Toun, said a witness to the crash was one of the first to help at the scene and told him a local woman had died.

A crowd of onlookers had gathered soon after the accident but he said there was little that could be done to save the woman. — NZ Herald

Collision caught on cameraAUCKLAND — A CCTV camera has captured a

shocking collision which saw the passenger of one vehicle crash through the windscreen.

In the aftermath, the man, who was wearing a hi-vis vest and was a passenger in a van, calmly steps out of the windshield while the other vehicle is at a standstill and sporting a scrunched-up front. Debris litters the road.

The dramatic crash in Weymouth was captured in what appears to be home security footage and then uploaded to YouTube on Sunday.

A white car is seen travelling down the wrong side of the road before it smashes into a van coming from the left at an intersection.

Seconds later, a person wearing an orange hi-vis jacket — a passenger in the van — is seen stepping out of the windshield and onto the footpath.

Authorities confirmed the crash happened just before 5.30pm that day at the intersection of Greers Road and Weymouth Road.

A St John spokeswoman said they received a report of a car crash at 5.20pm. Two ambulances and a rapid response unit were called to the scene as a result.

It is not yet known whether any charges have been laid in relation to the crash. — NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye is writing to Stamford Plaza Auckland, ministers, and the Ombudsman after legal action was threatened against residents who went public with concerns about managed isolation.

Last Friday, RNZ’s Checkpoint revealed several busloads of returning travellers would be arriving at the Stamford, an Auckland hotel where some spaces are shared with permanent residents, the next day to isolate for 14 days.

Permanent residents living in apartments at the top of the building went public with their concerns, saying the shared areas meant it was not possible to completely separate residents and incoming travellers. Many of the residents are

older and have health issues.The hotel owner, Stamford Land Corporation

Ltd, has since sent some of the residents legal letters blaming their “wrongful interference” for the Ministry of Health pulling out of the isolation contract.

The letter goes on to say “Stamford Hotel and Resorts has, through your misconduct, suffered substantial damages and losses . . . we are at the moment quantifying such damages and losses. Take notice that we will be seeking from you the full compensation of such damages and losses, including any legal costs.

Residents said they saw the letter as heavy handed.

Checkpoint has contacted the Stamford Plaza’s management, financial controller and its legal counsel for comment but have not heard back.

Nikki Kaye is equally concerned about the rights of those who live there and told the programme she would be sending a communication to Stamford and ministers shortly.

“I am concerned for the residents. I think what they’re asking for is entirely reasonable — to understand what is going on in their building and whether they’re going to have people isolating. I think they have every right to understand that.”

Her communication asks that residents of the Stamford get some clear guidance on what is occurring. — RNZ

Kaye confronts hotel over legal action threat

FROSTY MORNING: Southerners had to scrape the ice off their cars — and cows — after the coldest morning of the year yesterday. The coldest spot in Otago and Southland was Wedderburn, which recorded -7.8 degrees, followed closely by Dunedin Airport at -6.5 degrees and Shotover Country at -4.9 degrees. Meteorologist Lewis Serris said most of the South reached negative temperatures on Sunday night. A lack of weather fronts moving through the South, combined with clear skies and the longest night of the year, meant temperatures plummeted. Dunedin recorded its coldest night of the year so far, below the previous coldest on June 14. Meanwhile, in Wellington, fog has disrupted flights this morning. Wellington Airport is warning travellers there will be delays and potential cancellations due to the murky conditions. Picture supplied

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by Kelly Makiha, Rotorua Daily Post

ROTORUA — Bay of Plenty residents are being told to take a breath, calm down and trust the Government has made the right move in allowing Rotorua to be a quarantine base.

But others still aren’t convinced, saying the local economy is already fragile and this has the potential to “destroy” the city’s domestic tourism market.

There are 232 Kiwis now in quarantine in the Ibis Hotel and the Sudima Hotel in Rotorua after the Government needed more quarantine beds once the Auckland hotels it was using reached full capacity.

The two Rotorua hotels had not been open since before lockdown and there is strict security around the hotels.

The travellers will be tested after three days and just before leaving unless showing symptoms of coronavirus. Anyone who has symptoms or who has tested positive is not kept in Rotorua.

Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield today reassured the public of Rotorua, saying the Government had “a lot” of experience on how to handle managed isolation safely.

“We will be taking very, very strict precautions to make sure facilities are well cleaned.”

New Zealand’s 24-day run of zero cases came to an end last week and there are now nine active Covid-19 patients in the country.

Waiariki MP Tamati Coffey said he was disappointed with some people’s attitudes in Rotorua.

“My message to locals is to calm down and take a breath. These are our people, they are New Zealanders and they are coming home.

“In Rotorua, we do manaakitanga well and so I would really like us not to drop the ball on this one. These are our own people.”

He also warned against spreading rumours on social media that weren’t true.

“We do live in a world of rapid news and fake news so people need to be really aware of the things that are coming out. Is it a legitimate source that you are reading from?”

He reminded locals that anyone who tested positive for Covid-19 or had symptoms would be kept in Auckland and that the Government had shut down compassionate leave for things

such as funerals.

“I know that our locals will be nervous and they will be anxious but we are just trying to insert some facts.”

Coffey said one of the hotel’s workers contacted him and thanked him for providing balance to the situation.

“She said ‘Our people we have here at Ibis are here for many reasons. Some have terminal cancer and are coming home and some are the family of the fallen police officer’.”

Coffey said that, as an MP in Rotorua, he wasn’t asked for approval but he didn’t expect to be.

“These hotels volunteered themselves to be part of this. This wasn’t something that was forced on them.”

The hotels were approached for comment but didn’t respond.

Rotorua police area commander Inspector Phil Taikato said locals shouldn’t be alarmed.

Taikato said some of the New Zealanders returning might find it difficult to adjust to their strict quarantine conditions but there would be no bending of rules.

“Many have been living overseas where there are relaxed lockdown rules but here in New Zealand we have lived it and made the sacrifice.”

Treewalk co-founder and director Bruce Thomasen said Rotorua needed to trust the process.

“A well-managed quarantine process and system are the next steps for repatriating Kiwis over the next several months. It is essential that this is managed

well so we can all trust the process.”

He said a lot of the hysteria was around Rotorua being the first city outside of Auckland or Christchurch as a quarantine base.

However, he had no doubt there would be more cities used in the future as it was estimated there would be 60,000 to 100,000 Kiwis returning in the coming months.

He said as long as it was managed well, there was no difference from having them in Auckland hotels.

However, former Rotorua mayor Grahame Hall felt differently, saying those who decided to send them to Rotorua had no idea how fragile the local

economy was.Hall said those in quarantine

should be kept in the large metropolitan areas and not spread down to vulnerable provincial cities like Rotorua.

“This latest move could have a devastating effect on the numbers of people coming to Rotorua for the school holidays and others looking for a safe destination to visit in the coming weeks. The security system has already had a major breach. Because of this, the level of trust by many has diminished.

“It is not a matter of being unsympathetic, unfair or dramatic. It is simply a matter of our district economy not being able to afford the risk of another big hit.”

‘Calm down and take a breath’

NO NEED FOR ALARM: Overseas arrivals have been transported to two hotels in Rotorua, the Ibis and Sudima (below), for the duration of their 14-day quarantine. Some locals are outraged that they were not consulted about the move. NZ Herald pictures

City leaders ask locals to trust quarantine process in Rotorua

‘ In Rotorua, we do manaakitanga well and so I would really like us not to drop the ball on this one. These are our own people. ’ —Tamati Coffey

AUCKLAND — Police have frozen $140 million in bank funds linked to a Russian in the largest ever restraint of funds in New Zealand police history.

The money was controlled by a New Zealand registered company and has been frozen as part of a global investigation into a Bitcoin exchange run by Alexander Vinnik who is alleged to have laundered billions of dollars for criminal syndicates.

In a statement, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said Vinnik previously operated cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e.

Coster alleged that criminals and cyber criminals laundered proceeds derived from a range of criminal activities including computer hacking, ransomware attacks, theft, fraud, corruption and drug crime through BTC-e, which operated from the United States.

Vinnik was arrested on money-laundering allegations in Greece in 2017 and has since been extradited to France where he remains in custody.

Vinnik was arrested in Greece on an extradition warrant from United States authorities accusing him of facilitating money laundering, identity theft, drug trafficking and computer hacking.

The 37-year-old was alleged to have operated BTC-e, one of the world’s largest and most widely used cryptocurrency exchanges.

According to the unsealed US indictment, BTC-e had a base of operations in the Seychelles Islands and its web domains are registered to shell companies in, among other places, Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, and New Zealand.

Companies Office records show Vinnik registered a business, WME Capital Management Ltd, to a North Shore address in 2008. It was removed from the register in 2012, as the Companies Office thought it had ceased operating.

Around $140m in offshore bank accounts have been clawed back to New Zealand, where the assets have been restrained under the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Act. — NZ Herald

Bitcoin probe freezes $140m

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WELLINGTON — New Zealand First has put the brakes on proposals to overhaul how rape trials are run following concerns about the impact on fair trial rights.

The Sexual Violence Legislation Bill was supported by all parties at the first reading last year and was hoped to be passed into law earlier this year.

But Justice Minister Andrew Little confirmed the bill’s progress had stalled until issues raised by NZ First could be resolved.

Those issues stem from concerns raised by defence lawyers that the bill would compromise a defendant’s right to a fair trial, which is enshrined in the Bill of Rights Act.

NZ First Cabinet Minister Tracey Martin said caucus was “still gathering information” as her discussions with Labour and Greens continued.

She rejected any speculation NZ First had reversed its support for the bill because of Labour opposing her proposal to use internet service provider filters to

ban porn websites for those under 18.The Sexual Violence Legislation Bill

aims to make the court process less traumatic for complainants, but the Bar Association, the Criminal Bar Association and the Auckland District Law Society have raised two main concerns.

The first is the entitlement for complainants to be cross-examined via pre-recorded video, which would protect them from the potentially intimidating experience of giving evidence before a jury and the accused.

The second is introducing a higher threshold before evidence can be used about the complainant’s sexual disposition, reputation or experience, including any sexual history with the accused.

The National Party, in its minority view in the select committee report on the bill, said the former issue defeated the purpose of the bill; if new evidence emerged after the pre-recorded video and the complainant had to give evidence a second time, it could be doubly traumatic. National also opposed the higher threshold for evidence about the sexual

history between a complainant and a defendant.

In submissions, defence lawyers argued that this sexual history was often central to the defence’s case, but under the bill it would be assumed to be irrelevant.

The defence could apply for a judge to review the intended evidence, but in trying to prove its importance, the defence would have to “show its hand” by telling the judge and the prosecution the nature and scope of its questions.

The bill is in part based on recommendations from the Law Commission, which said the higher threshold was appropriate because it put the focus on the relevancy of the evidence rather than the relationships of those involved.

Previously granted consent does not mean future consent should be assumed, the commission said.

National’s courts spokesman Chris Penk said the caucus was yet to make a decision on how the party would vote on the bill if its concerns were not addressed.

In the meantime, lawyers who are vehemently opposed to the bill are lobbying politicians of all stripes.

A letter signed by 20 Wellington women criminal defence lawyers has been sent to the Green Party, urging the bill to be changed to reflect National’s proposed changes.

Top of the list of signatures was Elizabeth Hall, vice-president of the Criminal Bar Association, whose submission on the bill said that it “crushes defendants’ rights to offer an effective defence”.

Little rejected this, saying the bill balanced fair trial rights with making the process less hostile for complainants, who often don’t come forward at all because of a lack of trust in the system.

He wouldn’t rule out progressing the bill with National’s proposed changes on the basis it would still improve the status quo.

Rape trial revamp halted over fairness concerns

Andrew Little

DUNEDIN — Otago Polytechnic has been convicted for health and safety failings after a student’s finger was partially amputated during a pre-trade carpentry course.

The student was using a draw saw to cut a length of timber in April 2018 when his fingers slipped in front of the blade partially amputating his middle finger.

His finger was later reattached in hospital.WorkSafe found the machine was not

adequately guarded and the polytechnic’s risk assessments were ineffective.

The Court Ordered Enforceable Undertaking (COEU) under the Health and Safety at Work Act will see Otago Polytechnic spend a minimum of $275,000 on health and safety measures and initiatives, including scholarships, awareness campaigns and safety training.

It was also ordered to pay the student $15,000 in reparation.

Otago Polytechnic is required to report to the court every six months over a two year period, with additional reporting from an independent auditor as to Otago Polytechnics completion and compliance with the terms of the COEU. — RNZ

Otago Polytechnic convicted after partial amputation

WHANGAREI — Samuel Hemuera Pou has been charged with the murder of 43-year-old Bridget Odelle Simmonds while another man faces a charge of using her bank card three days after she was reported missing by her family.

The murder charge comes after the body of Simmonds was excavated at a rural property at Parakao, 40km west of Whangarei, on June 12.

Police converged on the 20ha block of land on Wilson Road, 40km west of Whangarei, after new information came to light which caused investigators to believe foul play was involved in the disappearance of the mother of two.

Pou, represented by lawyers Arthur Fairley and Julie Young, appeared via an audio visual link before Judge John McDonald in the Whangarei District Court yesterday.

The 57-year-old, from Otangarei, is charged that

between February 23, 2019, and March 14, 2019, he murdered Simmonds.

He also faced a charge that, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, he wounded Simmonds on February 14, 2019.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded in custody to the High Court at Whangarei on July 9.

Pou pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of cannabis relating to a

search warrant on June 9, 2020.Also appearing in the Whangarei District Court

yesterday was 32-year-old Te Koha Samuel Pou, of Otaika, who was charged with obtaining a pecuniary advantage by using an ANZ bankcard belonging to Bridget Simmonds on March 9, 2019.

He entered a not guilty plea to the charge, opted for a judge-alone trial and was remanded on bail to July 31 for a case review. — NZ Herald

Murder accused appears in court

by Audrey Young, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — Health Minister David Clark is set to require district health boards to proactively step up surveillance testing for Covid-19 in the general population.

Influenza normally spikes during winter and allows testing of other infections — which would have included Covid-19 — but because influenza chains of transmission were reduced during lockdown, other ways of surveillance testing have to be found.

Clark is due to release a new testing strategy today for the general population as the number of Covid-19 cases in arrivals increased to nine.

The number of cases has increased since the policy of testing at day three and 12 of isolation, which has been in place in place since June 9, has been more rigorously enforced.

The nine comprise five arrivals from India, two from Pakistan and two from Britain — the latter two being two women given compassionate leave after the death of their mother to drive from Auckland to Wellington without being tested first.

Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has been repeatedly asked how many of the 55 granted a compassionate exemption between June 9 and June 16 left isolation without being tested but has been unable to answer.

Now, nobody can leave an isolation facility without returning a negative test result, something that has been explicitly spelled out in a new Health Order which took effect at midnight last night.

It was previously clear, Ardern said.“Now what we are doing is making it

crystal clear.”Outlining the order, Prime Minister

Jacinda Ardern reiterated the World Health Organisation’s latest descriptions of Covid-19, saying the world was now in a “new dangerous phase”.

She said the current ban on cruise ships would continue from June 30 and she said from then, any shore leave for crew on cargo ships could occur only if they had been at sea for 28 days.

She also said David Clark would be talking to Air New Zealand about crew, currently exempt from isolation requirements, arriving from at-risk countries — and she specifically mentioned flights from Los Angeles.

Ardern does not attribute the higher numbers in Covid-19 cases to lax testing of arrivals during the 24 days of Covid-free cases, but to a doubling in arrivals in the past month and from parts of the world where the virus is rampant.

Plans to step up testing

TESTING STRATEGY: Health Minister David Clark wants DHBs to monitor the population more closely and ramp up surveillance testing after Covid-19 cases rise to nine. NZ Herald picture

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WELLINGTON — Distrust and disrespect, delays and allegations of discrimination and bullying are outlined in an independent report into the decision-making process for asylum-seekers.

The review paints a picture of relationships between some lawyers and staff at the Refugee Status Branch (RSB) breaking down and long waits for claimants.

Among its recommendations, the report said the Refugee Status Branch should set out clearer rules and timelines for submitting information, and not subject asylum-seekers to seven-hour interviews.

Report author Victoria Casey QC described high turnover of refugee and protection officers (RPOs), understaffing and problems with the practical implementation of the application process.

“The tension between RPOs and at least some of the lawyers engaged in this field has reached a level that is clearly compromising the proper operation of the system,” she said.

“While these concerns were not shared by all, and the content of the concerns varied considerably between the people I spoke with, reference was made to high levels of perceived disrespect and distrust, to endemic non-compliance with timeframes, and to alleged incidences of discrimination and bullying. These concerns were raised both by practitioners and by RPOs.

“What was apparent to me from my interviews was that both RPOs and practitioners were fed up, and there was an increasing loss of trust and respect.”

The Refugee Status Branch’s 16 staff conduct about 500 refugee claim interviews every year. Half had been in the job less than two years and five of them less than a year.

That “obviously has consequences in terms of the experience and expertise of the

decision makers” and had led to concerns about quality control and asking unnecessary questions in interviews.

The interviews themselves lasted seven hours and were completed in one day,” Ms Casey’s report said.

“While breaks are provided during the day, to an outsider the length and depth of this interview appears to be an extraordinary burden to place on a claimant,” she said. “Answering questions over a seven-hour period is exhausting for any person at the best of times, but the stakes for a refugee claimant are incredibly high.

“It is likely that they will be very anxious and probably will have been so for a considerable period leading up to the interview. In addition, the content of many of the questions and answers, especially towards the end of the interview when the RPO is exploring the basis of the claim, are likely to be harrowing and distressing.”

The RSB should consider interviewing claimants about the events that led them to seek asylum first, leaving background questions until afterwards and possibly spread the interview over two half-days.

A third to a half of all cases rejected by the Refugee Status Branch (RSB) were overturned on appeal to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal (IPT), and Ms Casey said improvements were needed to ensure quality processes were in place.

A ‘second-person check’ had failed to pick up an error that led to a Supreme Court case, after a claimant was rejected without an interview.

The report said different

information would sometimes be available to the IPT, but recommended refugee officers review those cases that were successfully appealed.

“I understand that the RSB does not actively review the IPT decisions for this purpose, or collate or interrogate data that might be informative of whether there are potential quality issues arising in relation to some issues or some individual RPOs, that may warrant further attention.”

About 150 asylum seekers were given refugee status last year and a third of all approved in the last three years were from China.

In a statement, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) said it had met with claimant representatives and relevant stakeholders to discuss the review and its recommendations.

“INZ is working through how the recommendations will be implemented; however, this was impacted by INZ’s response to Covid-19,” its general manager of Refugee and Migrant Services, Fiona Whiteridge, said.

“INZ has recently set up a cross-sector joint working group with key stakeholders involved in the refugee and protection status determination process. The group is expected to have its first meeting in mid-July 2020.

“The working group will discuss all the review recommendations, including the procedural timeframes, quality assurance processes and the number and length of interviews. This cross-sector approach will enable stakeholder input to ensure that the system for making refugee and protection status determinations is fit for purpose, supports quality decisions, and is efficient, fair and timely.”

The Government had increased its budget from next year, she added, but lockdown and border restrictions had affected decision processing times, with claims now taking an average of a year to be decided.

Distrust in refugee decision process

RARE SIGHTING: People turned out to admire the orca feeding at Marsden Cove Marina near Whangarei on Sunday. Picture supplied

The interviews lasted seven hours and were completed in one day.

WHANGAREI — Orca whales thrilled Kiwis at the weekend with sightings reported near Whangarei and Whanganui.

For the first time in eight years, a pod of orca whales was spotted in the shallows of Marsden Cove Marina in pursuit of a feast of stingray.

In the weekend’s “foul weather”, whale researcher and scientist Dr Ingrid Visser said “we got very lucky to catch a blow-off in the distance”.

At 3pm on Sunday, a tug-boat reported seeing the pod of nine make its way into the narrow channel.

The pod spent 30 minutes hunting stingray in the marina in company of the Marsden community that arrived to catch a rare glimpse of the wildlife.

Four more of the whales kept their distance, coming in only as far as the harbour.

Rob van Gelder, a Marsden Cove resident of 15 years, says he spotted pods of orca at Marsden Cove once or twice a year.

He also hasn’t seen a pod of this size in

the marina for about 10 years.Further south, people at Whanganui’s

Castlecliff Beach were excited to see a pod of 20 to 30 orca on Sunday afternoon — and people lined up yesterday in the hope of spotting them again.

Suzanne Perrin, who has lived in Castlecliff since 1977, said she thought she was hallucinating when she saw at least 20 orca swimming around the river mouth at North Mole.

Perrin said she tried to take photos but, geared with a new camera and the murky conditions, wasn’t able to get a clean shot.

“They weren’t coming out. The water was quite brown and was very turbulent. There must have been fish underneath.”

A former environment teacher at Aranui School, Perrin couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

“One was so big he couldn’t come close to shore.”

The Orca Research Trust currently identifies and traces more than 60 of the 200 orca around the NZ coast on its trust site orcaresearch.org. — NZ Herald

Orcas spotted at Marsden Cove

by Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald

CHRISTCHURCH — A teenager badly hurt in a horror car crash that injured seven people sneaked out of bed in the middle of the night, it’s understood.

The family of a 13-year-old girl with critical injuries were yesterday at her Christchurch Hospital bedside.

She suffered life-threatening injuries after the car she was travelling in crashed about 17 minutes after reportedly failing to stop for police.

A “suspicious” car with eight people inside it was seen by police in Rolleston, just south of Christchurch, at 4.22am on Sunday.

Officers tried to stop the car but it fled, starting a pursuit that was abandoned soon after “due to the nature of driving”. Police found it more than 30km away in Rakaia. It appears to have hit a fence and rolled.

The NZ Herald understands one mother thought her child had been asleep in bed. But it’s understood the teen sneaked out to join friends.

The mother found out she was gone only when police phoned with the terrible news in the early hours.

A St John spokeswoman said they got the call at 4.39am from police. Two Westpac rescue helicopters and at least three ambulances were sent.

She said of the seven people rushed to hospital, two were critical, four were serious and one moderate.

St John said those hurt included a 13-year-old girl who was critical.

A spokesman for the Canterbury District Health Board said one patient was discharged on Sunday. One was in a stable condition while four had asked for privacy. The DHB said it was unable to get the necessary consent or permission to provide an update for the two other patients at this stage.

Police said inquiries were ongoing.The police serious crash unit examined the scene and the road

was reopened by late on Sunday morning.The tragedy has renewed calls for a ban on police pursuits.Youth health doctor Sue Bagshaw says it could’ve easily been

avoided, claiming police don’t understand that chasing young drivers panics them.

She said police need to stop chases but reviewing curriculums and tackling poverty should also be on the list.

Many lower-income young people get trapped in a mentality of “live fast now — because you might be dead tomorrow”, Bagshaw says.

A Greymouth mum who lost her son in a police pursuit also said the smash shows they should be scrapped. Joe Hall lost her teenage son Judd in 2014 and says the pain never goes away.

She says Sunday’s crash will have left eight more families hurting.

Hall says the decision-making centres of teenagers’ brains aren’t developed enough to understand the consequences of fleeing.

Teen hurt in car crash sneaked out

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 9

AUCKLAND — A multimillion-dollar divorce case that could be one of the country’s largest has got under way in Auckland, with the husband being accused of “dragging the chain” over a $700,000 payment.

Former Queenstown woman Sophie Annabelle Biggs is battling to get her share of an estimated $59 million from her husband Stephen Timothy Biggs in a divorce fight.

The couple began living together in 2010 and had a child before separating in 2016.

They lived in a $8.6m home on Closeburn station in Queenstown but both now reside in Australia.

The Court of Appeal this month ruled Stephen Biggs must pay his wife $700,000 “without delay”, after the mother of three young children with no independent income sought funds to fight her corner.

Her lawyer, Lady Deborah Chambers QC, previously said Stephen Biggs’ advisers were being paid but Sophie Biggs was being asked to soldier on and they should be put on an equal footing.

As the hearing got under way in the High Court at Auckland on Monday, Chambers Justice Gerald Nation said despite sending letters, there had still been no payment received from Stephen Biggs.

“He is verging on contempt of court . . . there appears to be a dragging of the chain, by Mr Biggs.”

But counsel for Stephen Biggs, Jan McCartney QC, said the funds were being made available, though she was not sure of the exact timing.

Sophie Biggs is seeking half of the couple’s relationship property and is also attempting to get a share of the wealth which she says her husband has available to him through trusts and companies she claims he controls.

Stephen Biggs, however, argues he was wealthy when the relationship began. And he said whatever interest he has in the companies and trusts, it is not relationship property.

His position is that because his ex-wife is seeking a share of the substantial wealth he had before their relationship began (including properties he owns in Australia and Argentina), the case was not one where there should be equal sharing of relationship property.

Sophie Biggs’ accountant has estimated companies and trusts associated with Stephen Biggs are worth $59m. Stephen Biggs, however, argues that this is at least a $25m over-valuation.

Sophie Biggs asserts that the couple’s former family home, $16m allegedly owed to her husband by a trust and a company, Stephen Biggs’ shares in another firm and his $1.4m superannuation fund is relationship property.

Stephen Biggs denies that Sophie Biggs has any entitlement against trust property or against him in respect of property owned by the trusts.

In her opening submission, Chambers said would be a “complicated” case, with key issues around the division of relationship property and how trusts were used.

The business interests had been “tremendously successful” during their

marriage, and grew by tens of millions of dollars.

“She should be entitled to a fair share of that increase.”

She alleged Stephen Biggs had used his trusts as a “means of sheltering wealth accumulated during the relationship”.

Justice Nation responded that New Zealand law meant there was a distinction between trusts, and personally owned property.

Chambers said the common law system around the world was “moving” — as in

Australia — to remove that distinction.“Some lawyers say trusts are OK,

meanwhile others, and I feel the majority, say they are cloaks to avoid obligations everyone else has.”

Legislation was designed to ensure the “fruits of a marriage” were shared, and the “equality of women was maintained and enhanced”, and Chambers said those principles needed to be taken into account.

The hearing is expected to run for three weeks. — NZ Herald

Multimillion-dollar divorce case

AUCKLAND — A wily stoat that was on the loose on one of Auckland’s pest-free islands appears to have either died or swum away.

The stoat was first detected on Motukorea/Browns Island by a conservation dog in mid-March, just before the Covid-19 lockdown.

Teams also spotted footprints in the sand, found stoat poo and discovered where the stoat had been hiding its kills.

Dozens of traps and cameras were set up and hours have been spent scouring the island with dog teams.

Despite that, Auckland Council conservation rangers have not been able to find the pesky mustelid.

Senior ranger Miranda Bennett said the latest search on Friday did not find anything and they were pretty confident the stoat was no longer there.

It is possible the stoat ate one of the baits set out for it and died, or that it swam away.

“It swam to get to the island, so it’s more than possible that it decided to leave again,” she said.

A stoat was detected recently on nearby Motutapu Island and Bennett said it was possible it could be the same animal.

“It’s a bit of a coincidence it turned up around the same time.”

Bennett said monitoring and trapping for pests would continue on Motukorea/Browns Island to make sure it remained pest-free. — RNZ

Stoat terrorising pest-free island mysteriously disappearsHAWKE’S BAY — Eighty-

one percent of Covid-19-infected passengers on a cruise ship had no symptoms, according to new research.

The MV Greg Mortimer was on day nine of a cruise to the Antarctic when someone on board became ill with the virus.

Argentina and the Falkland Islands refused the ship permission to dock so it sailed to Uruguay where it was provided assistance.

Onboard doctor, Hawke’s Bay GP Jeff Green and passenger Alvin Ing, who is a professor of respiratory medicine at Macquarie University, documented the spread of the virus on the ship. Their study has now been published in the British Medical Journal.

Dr Green had estimated that 20 percent on board were infected but was shocked when positive test results came back for 60 percent.

“What it’s taught me about Covid-19 is how easily we can become relaxed about it, because it spreads so easily,” Dr Green told Nine to Noon.

“The fact that over 80 percent of infected people had no symptoms at all shows that the virus can be carried on the back of seemingly well people.”

He said it was a holiday which turned into a medical experiment.

“At the beginning it was touch and go if we were even going to depart, so when no-one was sick for the first few days we thought we had got away with it,” he said.

“When the first person got sick on day nine, it started to spread quickly and some people started to go downhill quickly.”

Once the ship was granted permission to dock at Montevideo, eight passengers were medically evacuated.

Dr Green said strict protocols were enforced on board as soon as the first case was confirmed and everyone was confined to their rooms.

“Myself and the other doctor on board would take everyone’s temperatures twice a day and we had appropriate PPE gear.”

Professor Alvin Ing said the study showed there were 10 cabins where there was one person with Covid-19 and the other person tested negative.

“I was in a cabin with my brother-in-law, he had the virus but I tested negative,” Prof Ing said.

“I think this study is unique in the fact it was a small isolated community dealing with the virus, but it could be compared to communities like prisons or rest homes where people are living together in a confined space.” — RNZ

Husband ‘dragging the chain’ over $700k payment

MARRIAGE BATTLE: The couple’s home overlooked Lake Wakatipu with views of The Remarkables. Former Queenstown woman Sophie Annabelle Biggs is battling to get her share of an estimated $59 million from her husband Stephen Timothy Biggs in a divorce fight. File picture

Research finds many people on cruise ship were asymptomatic

NIGHTMARE HOLIDAY: Above, Australian cruise ship Greg Mortimer off the port of Montevideo on April 7, 2020. Right, Alvin Ing and Jeff Green in PPE gear. According to Dr Green, it was a holiday which turned into a medical experiment as he had estimated that 20 percent on board were infected but was shocked when positive test results came back for 60 percent. AFP picture/Picture supplied by Alvin Ing and Jeff Green via RNZ

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 202010 NATIONAL NEWS

WELLINGTON — New Zealand shares fell as investors grow increasingly concerned about a second wave of Covid-19 disrupting the global economic recovery.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index dropped 0.9 percent to 11,158.46. Within the index, 24 stocks fell, 18 rose, and eight were unchanged. Turnover was $115.8 million.

Investors, once excited by economies reopening, are becoming increasingly nervous about the apparent link between communities reopening and renewed outbreaks.

While China closes parts of Beijing due to an unexpected flare-up of 200 new cases, other parts of the world continue to ease lockdowns.

Recent data shows rising Covid-19 cases in parts of the United States. For the first time since the start of May more than 30,000 new cases have been recorded in a single day in the US.

Experts say increased testing accounts for some, but not all, of the rise.

Markets turned weaker as investors were

forced to balance the positive impacts of economies reopening with the increased risk of a virus flare-up that goes with it.

On Wall Street overnight, the S&P 500 fell half a percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.8 percent.

The New Zealand market followed that lead. This country’s own difficulty keeping incoming Covid-19 cases contained at the border also reminded investors a second wave in New Zealand remains a present, if low, risk.

“Over the last week the news around the risk of a second wave, and what we are seeing locally in terms of re-emergence, has been detrimental,” said Sam Trethewey, portfolio manager at Milford Asset Management.

The recent weakness in travel stocks showed that investors were being put off by bad data, and were unlikely to let share prices continue to rise without a material improvement.

“After the strong recovery we have seen in April and May, it is difficult to see any more positive catalysts to push the market further.”

Stocks directly exposed to travel took a tumble: SkyCity Entertainment fell 3.9 percent to $2.74, Auckland International Airport dropped 3.4 percent to $6.58, Air New Zealand fell 2.3 percent to $1.475 and Tourism Holdings declined 1 percent to $1.96.

A2 Milk led the market lower, falling 4.7 percent to $19.38. Australian media speculated the Kiwi dairy giant was seeking to buy producer Mataura Valley Milk for $400 million. A2 confirmed it was in talks to expand manufacturing capability but didn’t address the Mataura rumour directly.

Trethewey said the day’s share price movement was more related to the price settling after Friday’s NZX 50 rebalancing and the stock’s inclusion in the ASX 50 on Friday night. A2’s share price rose 8 percent last week.

Synlait Milk, which supplies all of a2’s infant formula, fell 4.2 percent to $7.14. Trethewey said a2 adding its own manufacturing capability would increase its negotiating power with Synlait.

Napier Port declined 2.8 percent to $3.79 on its first day of trading as part of the NZX 50, giving up some of the rally it saw in lead-up to its inclusion. The stock rallied 8.6 percent

last week.Port of Tauranga held last week’s 13 percent

gain at $8.09 today.Kiwi Property fell 0.9 percent to $1.07. The

company announced it would resume paying dividends later this year as visitors to its shopping portfolio had recovered 1 percent above pre-Covid levels.

Pushpay Holdings — which has now doubled in value this year after gaining another 14 percent last week — climbed a further 5.1 percent to $8.66, the day’s biggest gain.

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare rose 2.2 percent to $1.25. Trethewey said the healthcare manufacturer was attracting attention ahead of its annual earnings report next Monday.

Investors would be looking closely to see if the sale boost from the pandemic would lead to long-term revenue gains.

Outside of the NZX 50, transport fleet tracking company Eroad fell 1.2 percent to $3.25.

Jarden analysts raised Eroad’s target share price to $4.39, saying the company was operating in attractive markets and was supported by increased regulation in the transport space. — BusinessDesk

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY

by Chris Keall, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND —“Eleven years after the birth of 2degrees, and a billion dollars later, we’ve finally completed our network,” says the telco’s chief technology officer Martin Sharrock.

He is talking about a new infrastructure-sharing deal with Vodafone NZ that will give 2degrees nigh-on 100 percent national coverage for the first time — meaning it can leave domestic roaming behind, which formerly meant a speed-hit for its customers in some rural areas.

Since it launched in 2009, 2degrees has built its own network to cover 98.5 percent of the country by population.

The deal involves around 200 Vodafone NZ cell towers covering the remaining 1.5 percent of the country by population — or around 20 percent of the country by area.

How is the new setup different from 2degrees’ old roaming deal with Vodafone?

Where previously 2degrees customers piggybacked on the same spectrum used by Vodafone customers, the 200 or so Vodafone towers covering the final 1.5 percent of customers have now been fitted

with “MoRAN” (Multi Operator Radio Access Network) gear that means they can send and receive 2degrees’ own 4G spectrum.

A variation on the multi-operator concept was first deployed in New

Zealand by the Rural Connectivity Group, a joint venture between 2degrees, Vodafone, Spark and Crown Infrastructure Partners that connects remote rural communities and removes mobile blackspots as part of phase two of the public-private Rural Broadband Initiative.

Sharrock calls it 2degrees’ own motorway. Its customers will now be able to hit full-speed.

He won’t say what 2degrees is paying Vodafone for the privilege, but says it involves a move from a cap-ex to an op-ex model — and that the new arrangement works out much cheaper that the cost of his company building another 200 or so cell sites to cover the 20 percent of the country, by geography, involved.

That will free up funds for investment in 2degrees’ urban network, Sharrock says — which will include the company’s 5G upgrade, although there is still no timetable for that project.

Sharrock, who joined 2degrees

from Chorus in March, says planning is now “well under way” for 5G.

That follows a shift in rhetoric from 2degrees chief executive Mark Aue, who said last month that the telco had been assessing different vendors — hinting for the first time at a possible move away from longtime partner Huawei, which remains sidelined by the GCSB.

Sharrock says, “Operators will share infrastructure where it makes sense, including in sparsely populated areas of New Zealand because it extends the benefit of competition to less populated areas while reducing costs for network operators.

“The three mobile operators have invested in their own infrastructure in urban areas. In remote and rural areas, there are fewer customers, so recovering the cost of a new duplicate cell site becomes very challenging. In either instance, operators are able to differentiate their services and offer competition.”

2degrees completes network with infrastructure-sharing deal

‘OWN MOTORWAY’: The new infrastructure-sharing deal with Vodafone NZ will give 2degrees nigh-on 100 percent national coverage for the first time. File picture

by Aimee Shaw, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — The uptake in online shopping exploded during lockdown as New Zealanders were forced to shop digitally during the pandemic.

But the convenience it afforded many during lockdown has become a driving factor in why a large chunk of New Zealand consumers are choosing to continue to shop online, with Kiwis increasingly swapping the shops for e-commerce.

Online sales accounted for about 9 percent of all retail sales in New Zealand prior to the Covid-19 pandemic hitting home in March.

In just a matter of months that proportion of spending conducted online has almost doubled — and Retail NZ believes the initial surge in e-commerce sales has come down and settled at a rate of about 20 percent.

Data from price comparison website PriceSpy shows that online shopping in New Zealand had grown by almost a third in May.

Compared to the same time last year, PriceSpy website impressions and clicks across its product logs were significantly higher between May and June.

The data shows that online traffic first began to increase when Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the Covid-19 alert system on March 21.

By March 26, when New Zealand went into full lockdown, online visitors to

its site had dropped to its lowest point, reflecting the drop in spending intentions.

From April 12 onwards, when online shopping for essential goods opened up, PriceSpy visitor numbers surged, with the number of online visitors exceeding total visitor numbers on the previous year.

When the reported numbers of Covid-19 cases consistently stayed at zero, from May 23, consumer confidence changed with shoppers optimistic, PriceSpy NZ country manager Liisa Matinvesi-Bassett said.

“Despite the current economic climate, our historical click insights for May indicate consumer shopping habits have substantially changed because of Covid-19,” Matinvesi-Bassett told the NZ Herald. .

“The virus obviously had a massive impact on how people shopped, as at first, consumers could no longer go into a store, so needed to use online shopping. However, as we gradually dropped down alert levels, consumers still continued to shop online and visitor numbers gradually increased — perhaps because they still felt safer to continue shopping online rather than heading instore.”

Retail NZ chief executive Greg Harford said the biggest change Covid-19 had brought about within retailing was the mainstream shift to online spending.

“We are now spending more online and more through digital channels than we were pre-Covid,” Harford told the Herald.

“People have become more attuned to

shopping online over the last couple of months.”

Harford said the pandemic had also brought about “value-seeking behaviour” whereby consumers were now seeking significant discounts and increasingly swapping designer goods for unbranded cheaper alternatives.

“People are nervous about spending, and they are looking for downgrades, moving away from luxury brands, and to more basic things where they can get better value for money.”

While the number of people out, about and spending had not decreased, and in some instances increased, Harford said people were spending significantly less than they were pre-Covid-19.

During Alert Level 4, shoppers and options was constrained. All retail stores were closed except for the major supermarkets and dairies. But the spending trends during that time were shoppers were spending more all at once.

Once non-essential non-food products were permitted for sale, more spending occurred but consumers remained cautious about spending on goods outside of the essentials, he said.

In Alert Level 3, shoppers remained cautious about spending up large on discretionary goods, Harford said, and spending was down significantly as stores remained closed.

Once New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2, shops, malls and hospitality venues were permitted to reopen; that brought “a

bit of a boom in sales” as consumers were buying things they were unable to get.

During that time there was good consumer appetite brought on by “pent-up demand” and consumers flocked to home improvement, garden and homewares stores, perhaps reflecting changing wants and inspiration to change their living environments.

Retailers of these categories experienced record sale days.

While Level 1 brought a surge in sales, it was not a rosy picture for retailing as retailers desperately tried to recover from the financial position of having no revenue during the past eight weeks.

Today, sales are still down on monthly averages, but the majority of New Zealand consumers were enjoying spending again, albeit not to the levels they were previously. Many consumers are spending money that they typically would have spent on an international holiday at this time of the year.

Harford said some businesses were experiencing a rosy period while others were struggling to survive.

Climbing new Covid-19 cases and how well those were handled by the Government would determine how much of a dent consumer confidence would take over the next three to six months, he said.

“We are looking at quite a recessionary trough that will lead to lots of consumers having household incomes reduced through unemployment or a cut back in hours.”

Shoppers staying online ‘ Consumer shopping habits have substantially changed ’

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 2020 BUSINESS 11

Re: KiwiRail chief in town, June 20 story.

Greg Millar was very polite how he handled BERL’s Gisborne to Wairoa rail report. BERL was able to convince all those armchair supporters that it would stand by its study, when I was saying to get $600,000 for the report was a joke. Only a $150m shortfall. Still, BERL got away with it.

The only thing I thought BERL got close with was the $13m for annual maintenance a year from Gisborne to Napier. Surely this will tell all you stakeholders how bad the Gisborne to Wairoa line is.

Then Mr Millar says what I have said all along: the line will need a huge rebuild in a lot of places. It’s not a quick fix for the repairs either.

I have always agreed with the stakeholders that the projection of

freight out of Gisborne is going to be a problem. As employers, I feel for the trucking firms that say they are struggling to find drivers. I know what that is like.

I think it will take quite a few years to rebuild, totally repair and reopen the Gisborne to Wairoa line. You can’t compare this railway to the Kaikoura line.

My biggest concern for the rail rebuild is the 2-3km of rail and road along Blacks Beach. Then the one kilometre of line along Waikokopu. All dropping into the sea. Not if, but when. Then what are you going to do?

Then there are parts of the line dropping into the Kopuawhara River.

I’m sorry to say it, but the only way is to close the line.

MERV GOODLEY

Line rebuild just too costly

Re: Son attacked, June 20 story.

Children must be taught values. Love, kindness, respect and honour are good values that will make one happy always and will go a long way. Obedience to elders will help teachers cope with teaching this, children.

Be strong Ian. You’re a hero for not fighting back.

KRIS GOLDCOMB

Aroha mai to my great nephew Ian Hollis-Harvey. I was so gutted to hear of this awful assault at school where he should have felt safe and protected. Although Aunty doesn’t have favourites, I have always admired and enjoyed Ian’s open ahua and loving wairua. Respectful, helpful and

caring, always a joy to be around, he sure didn’t deserve this attack.

Parents and schools do indeed need to get together to work on better strategies to “educate out” bullying in all its forms at schools.

I know Ian and his brother Ryan will come through these experiences stronger and wiser because they are have an Amazing Grace whanau supporting them.

CHARMAINE FOUHY

Kia kaha Ian, your mum is raising you to be a real man.

AUDREY TUKITamaki Makaurau

Nga mihi whanau. Arohanui.

BERNIE BROUGHTON

‘Educate out’ bullying

Do you think the Swiss weren’t aware of costs and economic risk when they built the Gotthard tunnel 57km long and 2.3km deep under the Alps? They were, and they still built at unfathomable cost because they did not want trucks polluting their country and destroying their roads. This was a decision based on vision.

The discussion around this region’s stretch of railroad is basically flawed, stuck in mid-20th century Thatcherite logic. The stretch is part of a national rail network and the whole network benefits from maintaining it as a whole, even if some parts “may bring in less money”.

I was flabbergasted when this part of national infrastructure was left to fall into disrepair — unthinkable in any other OECD country. I am even more flabbergasted that there is a debate over whether it needs to be repaired or even rebuilt. The money to fix it is stolen from the budget to maintain it in the first place.

We have a historic opportunity to catch up on the

woeful state of our national rail grid. For any company to profit, it needs to invest. Money will never be cheaper to borrow than now, and the need to stimulate our economy by investment has never been higher. This is a simple leadership question. “Build it and they will come.”

If we want to be credible as a low-carbon nation we need to truly reduce our carbon footprint, not just look better by planting more trees. Taking thousands of trucks off the road is a no-brainer; without needing to let investment in our roading network go down.

Please do not let our important decisions be dominated by cost projections, and profit and loss statements; they are but a drop in the ocean over time.

A KiwiRail executive is there to “execute” leadership decisions, not to lead.

Please do let our important decisions be made by our leaders, guided by our vision, benefiting our people and our environment now and forever. Be bold, be brave.

FREDERIK PAUWELS

Swiss had tunnel vision

Re: Cook’s Plaza at museum . . . June 19 letter.

I say leave the icons where they are, we just have to give balance to historic events. Plaques and information should relate “The Good, The Bad and The Raw Ugly” for people to then have a fully-informed understanding and

opinions on how history went down and how it shaped the lives, directions and fortunes of the people of Aotearoa.

Until whole truths instead of half truths are addressed, there can be no real healing or harmony in this country.

CHARMAINE FOUHY

Display with whole truths

Re: ‘Time to let dream go’, opinion piece by BusinessDay’s Pattrick Smellie.

I don’t think this is correct at all — has he driven SH2 Auckland to Tauranga or SH35 lately? SH2 is a superhighway while SH35 is in many places dangerous…!

“State Highway 35 north

to Hicks Bay and beyond lacks regular overtaking lanes, but is otherwise far better maintained than the SH2 link between Auckland and Tauranga, presumably reflecting the heavy wear and tear of logging traffic.”

RUSSELL HOLLAND

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EDITORIAL

Council-owned Gisborne Holdings Ltd (GHL) had a reasonable first half to the end of December, reporting gross profit of $2.6 million that was $100,000 below expectations due to Gisborne Vehicle Testing falling $200,000 short of budget. Its main asset Tauwhareparae Farms Ltd (TFL) had a positive start and was $100,000 ahead of budget.

In his six-monthly report for the council’s Audit and Risk Committee, which meets tomorrow, GHL chairman Rob Telfer said the farming operation had benefited from strong commodity prices and favourable climatic conditions. Lamb numbers were up about 4000. Market conditions had become more challenging but TFL was in a good position, with sufficient feed and water reticulation meaning they could hold back stock sales until later in the season.

Forest harvesting budgeted to restart in the first half of 2020 had been delayed. Because of this TFL’s year-end gross profit was forecast at $4.1m, $400,000 under budget.

GHL’s property division had all assets occupied in the first half and its year-end gross profit was forecast to be $300,000 ahead of budget, however “this could be challenging as the continued uncertainty around the Banks St land prevents development opportunities being progressed. This uncertainty, together with debt cap constraints, is having a knock-on impact on other investment progress and decisions (financial and people resources),” wrote Mr Telfer.

GHL’s bank debt ratio is 17 percent, within the 20 percent cap set in its Statement of Intent.

The Waikanae Beach Top 10 Holiday Park was in line with budget for the first six months and ahead of the previous year, “a trend we expect to continue through to year-end due to increased accommodation offerings”.

Gisborne Vehicle Testing was being impacted by a nationwide shortage of qualified inspectors which meant fewer vehicles were being processed. This combined with high expectations (budgeted gross profit was a third higher than for 2018/19) had resulted in the large shortfall. “While we are continuing to explore all possible avenues to address the resource issue and revise the business model, no significant improvement in the profit is expected this financial year.”

Mr Telfer said GHL had a number of growth opportunities at various stages, including a residential property development at the former St Mary’s site on Childers Road and a carwash development beside the vehicle testing station.

GHL’s first half close to budget

It is disappointing that The Gisborne Herald chose to print Pattrick Smellie’s article from the NZ Herald, without offering up any further comment or dialogue.

The main points of the article provide a good background and history of rail in the region, however, the disparaging comments he made about our logging truck drivers makes the region out to be a “wild west (out east)” sort of town . . . as though the events he mentioned are commonplace. It is the only part of the article that becomes a personal rather than an objective view.

So Pattrick was here for a week; what did he do and who did he talk to?

As a self-identified “city dweller”, perhaps he should have spent more time in the region understanding what makes us tick.

Our logging truck drivers are the

very public face of our industry. The drivers are professionals who have a challenging job, in often challenging conditions, with some of the worst roads in the country.

We are thankful for the government investment in improving the roading infrastructure and network for the benefit of all road users.

I am going to extend an invitation to Pattrick to come back, so he can see what the forestry industry is about, and what the region has to offer, with both eyes open. I am sure there will be plenty of people in our sector who will volunteer to show him how professional they are, and the high standards of health and safety they adhere to every day.

KIM HOLLANDEastland Wood Council

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I’m certainly not experiencing any downturn in new painting contracts for my little company. Not yet anyway. The phone has been ringing off the hook since we went to level 1. Some clients have said they are spending

their holiday money on home maintenance this year.

Early days I know, but so far so good — my main problem is finding suitably-skilled painters to employ, as I can’t meet demand at present.

GRAHAM WILLERSWaikato

Meeting demand main issue

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Trump staffers test positiveWASHINGTON — Two more staff members of

President Donald Trump’s campaign who were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for his rally on Saturday have tested positive for the coronavirus, a Trump campaign spokesman said on Monday.

The campaign said on Saturday hours before the rally, Trump’s first since March, that six members of the campaign’s advance staff had tested positive.

“After another round of testing for campaign staff in Tulsa, two additional members of the advance team tested positive for the coronavirus,” spokesman Tim Murtaugh said. “These staff members attended the rally, but were wearing masks during the entire event.”

The White House and Trump campaign largely brushed away concerns ahead of the event about holding a rally with thousands of people despite warnings from health officials against gathering in large groups. Most people at the rally did not wear masks. — Newshub

International pilgrims barredMEDINA — Saudi Arabia has banned

international visitors from making the Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, this year in a bid to control coronavirus.

Only a very limited number of people currently living in the kingdom may take part, an announcement on state media says.

An estimated two million people would otherwise have visited Mecca and Medina this summer for the annual gathering.

There had been fears the Hajj might be cancelled altogether.

In normal times the pilgrimage is one of the most significant moments in the Muslim religious calendar. But only citizens from countries around the world who are already resident in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to attend this year. — BBC

Ex-judge harassed womenSYDNEY — An independent inquiry

commissioned by Australia’s High Court has found that one of its former judges, Dyson Heydon, sexually harassed six staff members.

The country’s top court apologised to the six women, saying it had been told of the allegations in 2019.

High Court Chief Justice Susan Kiefel said recommendations from the inquiry had been adopted.

Lawyers for Mr Heydon, who retired in 2013, have “categorically” denied the allegations to Australian media.

They stressed that the investigation was an “internal administrative inquiry . . . conducted without having statutory powers of investigation”.

— Agencies

NEW YORK — A New York City police officer suspended from duty after he was recorded on Sunday putting a man in what the police commissioner said was a banned chokehold could face criminal charges for the second time in his career.

Queens prosecutors said on Monday they’ve opened an investigation into officer David Afanador’s actions on the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach, adding that “there must be zero tolerance for police misconduct”.

Afanador was acquitted in a previous case stemming from allegations he pistol-whipped a teenage suspect in Brooklyn and broke two of his teeth.

The police department moved quickly to suspend Afanador without pay after Sunday’s confrontation. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced his suspension just hours after video was posted on social media and called the swift action a sign of “unprecedented times”.

“I think we have an obligation to act swiftly, but we also have to get it right and to inform the public about what’s going on,” Shea said on Monday.

It’s at least the second time Afanador has been suspended from the force. The officer was sidelined after his 2014 arrest, only to return to duty after a judge acquitted him and his partner of all charges in 2016.

In that case, Afanador was seen on video using his gun to hit a 16-year-old boy during a marijuana bust. The

beating continued until the boy dropped to the ground and was handcuffed. That altercation, which came six weeks after the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, also made headlines.

Afanador was involved in eight incidents that were the subject of complaints to the city’s police watchdog agency since joining the police department in 2005, according to records obtained on Monday under a new state law making disciplinary files public.

They ranged from using discourteous language to using physical force and refusing to seek medical treatment. All of the allegations to the city’s Civilian Complaint Review were either unsubstantiated or led to exoneration except for the ones stemming from the altercation that led to his arrest.

In Sunday’s incident, in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis, a video shot by one of the men involved in the altercation showed officers tackling a black man and Afanador putting his arm around the man’s neck as he lay face down on the boardwalk. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz has declined to prosecute any charges against the man.

Body camera footage released later by

police showed that for at least 11 minutes before the arrest, three men were shouting insults at the police while the officers implored them to walk away.

“You had four officers engaged with three gentlemen on the boardwalk for probably 10 to 20 minutes exercising extreme restraint,” Shea said, testifying at a hearing on recent clashes between police officers and protesters.

“I think people should be condemning the acts, in my opinion, of the individuals — the language they used,” Shea continued. “I feel most bad for the people

that have to walk by on that boardwalk. But at the end of that story, an officer, put his hand around a person’s neck, and that (officer) was dealt with swiftly and was suspended.”

Chokeholds have long been banned by the NYPD and their use has been especially fraught

since Garner died in 2014 after an officer put him in a chokehold while trying to arrest him. Governor Andrew Cuomo last week signed a statewide ban on police chokeholds.

The speed with which the NYPD suspended Afanador stood in sharp contrast to the drawn-out police disciplinary process of years past. Shea agreed to testify at Attorney

General Letitia James’ hearing on the department’s response to recent protests after she publicly rebuked the police department and Mayor Bill de Blasio last week for ignoring invitations to participate.

Shea told James that fewer than 10 officers were being disciplined for alleged misconduct toward protesters, including one who was suspended without pay and later charged with assault after he was caught on camera shoving a woman to the ground on May 29. Shea said he was “very disturbed” by the incident.

Shea, however, defended officers seen on video driving their police department SUVs into a crowd, saying a preliminary internal investigation has concluded the officers were under siege and attempting to avoid harm. The matter remains under investigation by several city agencies.

James, a Democrat, is expected to issue a report on her findings by the end of the month.

In his testimony, Shea also underscored the plight of officers met with violence, such as bricks and bottles hurled at their heads. He said about 400 officers were injured in the unrest, with about 100 yet to return to duty.

“This was some of the worst rioting that occurred in our city in recent memory,” Shea said. He commended officers for their performance “in policing these protests, ending the riots and upholding the rule of law”. — AP

Officer in ‘chokehold’ video is focus of criminal probe

NEW YORK — New York City ventured into a crucial stage of reopening as stores let people in on Monday, offices brought workers back, restaurants seated customers outdoors and residents both welcomed and worried about rebounding from the nation’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak.

From Macy’s “Miracle on 34th Street” store to the World Trade Centre’s office towers, the city was getting back to business, though with new virus-safety measures after a three-month shutdown.

Larry Silverstein, for one, couldn’t wait.The 89-year-old World Trade Centre

developer was eager to return to his office there as Silverstein Properties staffers started coming back on staggered schedules on Monday. Employees have to wear masks in the World Trade Centre lobby, and footprints mark where to stand in elevators now limited to about a quarter of their usual capacity.

To Silverstein, returning to office life and in-person teamwork brings “a joy, a fulfillment, such a sense of being able to function”. He doesn’t buy into arguments that the pandemic bodes poorly for office work or New York City.

“I went through 9/11. I remember people telling me we were never going to be able to get people to come back to lower Manhattan,” said Silverstein, who leased the twin towers six weeks before the 2001 terrorist attacks destroyed them.

“Never bet against New York, because New York always comes back, bigger and better than ever before.”

At Macy’s famous flagship store, Tammi Marilus was in line when doors opened at 11am.

Shoppers have to wear masks. Workers must undergo temperature checks. Makeup testing is temporarily banned.

Still, with the store reopening, “it feels like it’s coming back to normal, even though we all know it isn’t over yet”, said Marilus, 42, who brought hand sanitiser with her and was pleased to see workers disinfecting counters. “We have to live our

lives. We have to take risks,” she said.But some New Yorkers were

apprehensive.Alex Michaels may return soon to a

retail job. He agreed it’s important to revive the economy, but he worries about potential coronavirus exposure from working with the public, even with new safety measures.

“Something’s got to give. I get that,” said Michaels, 30, but there could be “a high price to pay.”

Eve Gonzalez, who’s not yet back at her food-industry job, feels it’s too soon to relax restrictions.

The virus has been blamed for over 22,000 New York City deaths, with the toll down to single and low double digits in recent days. Infections have plummeted from an early-April peak, but the last two weeks have still averaged about 250 positive tests a day, city data shows.

Reopening began on June 8 with

construction, curbside-pickup retail, wholesaling and manufacturing. The city estimated 150,000 to 300,000 additional workers would return to their jobs on Monday.

Meanwhile, cooped-up kids finally could climb playground monkey bars instead of apartment walls. And shaggy heads could get salon haircuts.

Victor Suarez had a socially distanced full house for much of the afternoon at his barbershop in Queens’ East Elmhurst neighbourhood.

“It’s a lot of changes, a lot of rules we have to follow,” Suarez said. “But it’s the new normal. We’re excited to be back.”

Monday marked just the second of four reopening phases, but Mayor Bill de Blasio called it “the biggest step”. The Democratic mayor said he and wife Chirlane McCray planned to mark the occasion by dining out. — AP

NY takes ‘biggest step’ in re-opening

GRADUAL RETURN TO BUSINESS IN NY: Brian Nieh wears a protective mask as he receives a haircut at Ace of Cuts barbershop, on Monday in the Manhattan borough of New York. For the first time in three months, New Yorkers will be able to dine out, though only at outdoor tables. AP picture

Afanador has been involved in eight incidents that were the subject of complaints to the police watchdog agency.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he did not sanction Chinese officials further over the detention of Muslims in Xinjiang as he was in the “middle of a trade deal”.

Mr Trump told the Axios news site that achieving a “great” deal meant he could not impose “additional sanctions”.

China has held about a million Uighurs and other ethnic groups in camps in Xinjiang for indoctrination and punishment but denies mistreating them.

The issue arose after allegations in a book by ex-Trump aide John Bolton.

Mr Bolton had alleged that at a summit last year Mr Trump gave Chinese President Xi Jinping the green light on building the camps in its western region, with the US leader saying it was “exactly the right thing to do”. Mr Trump denies the allegation.

What did Mr Trump tell Axios?

The president’s comments were made in an interview last Friday, which was then published by the US news website on Sunday.

Axios says that when Mr Trump was asked why he had held off imposing further sanctions on Communist Party officials over the issue of the camps, he said: “Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal.

“And when you’re in the middle of a negotiation and then all of a sudden you start throwing additional sanctions on — we’ve done a lot. I put tariffs on China, which are far worse than any sanction you can think of.”

As part of a bitter trade war, the US imposed tariffs on more than $US360bn of Chinese goods and China retaliated with tariffs on more than $US110bn of US products before a “phase one” deal was signed in January.

Asked why he did not use the Global Magnitsky Act — passed by Congress in 2016 to counter human rights violations — Mr Trump said “nobody has mentioned it specifically to me with regard to China”.

Axios also pressed Mr Trump on the allegation from Mr Bolton, his former national security adviser, that he had asked President Xi to help him win re-election by buying agricultural produce from US farmers.

“No, not at all. What I told everybody we deal with, not just President Xi,

I want them to do business with this country. What’s good for the country is good for me.

“But I don’t go around saying, ‘Oh, help me with my election.’ Why would I say that?”

What is China accused of in Xinjiang?

Activists say China is trying to assimilate Muslim ethnic groups by force, by destroying their culture and banning their practices. China says the camps in the autonomous territory are vocational educational centres that target Islamic extremism.

A report in March said tens of thousands of Uighurs had been transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China.

Chinese state media said any labour transfer was voluntary. — BBC

Bolton claims Trump put trade deal above Uighurs

VOICES AND CULTURE SUPPRESSED: Protesters in Hong Kong stand in support of Uighurs and their fight for human rights in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang. AP Photo

SCHOOL COMMUNITY GATHERS: Colleagues and pupils take part in a period of silence at Holt School, in Wokingham, in memory of history teacher James Furlong — a victim of the knife attack in nearby Reading that left three men dead. AP photo

LONDON — The English town of Reading mourned yesterday for three people stabbed to death as they sat in a park in what is being treated as a terror attack, while police questioned the alleged lone attacker.

More than 100 students lit candles and laid flowers in memory of history teacher James Furlong, one of the victims. At Holt School in nearby Wokingham, where he taught, a flag in the courtyard had been lowered to half-staff.

“He was so passionate and enthusiastic about history and about learning, and anything that was boring, anything you didn’t find interesting, he would make it interesting,” former student Molly Collins told the BBC. “He would spend time with you, he got to know people individually, and he just always went the extra mile for everyone.”

Furlong’s friend, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was named by his family in Philadelphia as the second victim. The third victim was named today as David Wails.

The stabbing rampage took place on Saturday evening as groups of people relaxed in Forbury Gardens park in Reading, a town of 200,000 people 64km west of London. A 25-year-old suspect is in custody and officials say the motive for the carnage is unclear.

Chief Constable John Campbell of Thames Valley Police said officers were called to reports of stabbings just before 7pm and arrived to find a “horrific” scene. Unarmed officers detained the suspect within five minutes.

Police have not identified the suspect, but Britain’s national news agency, Press Association, and other media outlets named the alleged attacker as Khairi Saadallah, 25, a Libyan asylum-seeker living in Reading.

Saadallah had been depressed and received psychological treatment because of the chaos in Libya after the Nato-backed uprising that toppled and then killed dictator Moammar Gadhafi, a family member in Tripoli told AP.

The relative said Saadallah was born to a

wealthy family in the city of Tripoli. He lived in a villa and went to private schools in Libya. Though he supported Gadhafi’s ouster, he became disillusioned with the chaotic aftermath.

The relative said Saadallah had lived in Britain since he was 17 and had adopted a Western lifestyle, with a girlfriend and tattoos.

The BBC reported that Saadallah was investigated by British security services last year over concerns he planned to travel abroad to join a jihadi group, but that he was not determined to be a major threat.

Questions were immediately raised about whether he should have been under closer watch. But Mark Rowley, former assistant commissioner for specialist operations in the Metropolitan Police, told the BBC that the task was daunting, given that some 40,000 people had touched the system. “And in that 40,000 are lots of volatile people who dip in and out of interests in extreme ideology, and to spot one of those who is going to go from a casual interest into a determined attacker, which can happen in a matter of days, is the most wicked problem that the services face.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted the father of Ritchie-Bennett as saying his son had moved to England from the US around 15 years ago. His father, Robert Ritchie, said his son worked for a law firm in London before taking a job about 10 years ago at a Dutch pharmaceutical company that had its British headquarters in Reading. He called him an “absolutely fabulous guy,’’ whom he loved with all his heart.

As news of the deaths seeped out into the community, friends grieved. Martin Cooper, chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, said both Furlong and Ritchie-Bennett were great supporters of the community.

“Their loss is a tragedy to so many people,” said Cooper, who often socialised with them. “They should be remembered as extremely friendly gentlemen who were always fun, engaging and a pleasure to be around.” — AP

Victims of knife attack mourned

BEIJING — Eight children drowned in a river in southwestern China after one fell in and the others jumped in to help, state media said Monday.

The children, described as elementary-school age (primary school), had gone to play at a beach on Sunday on the Fu River, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Their bodies were

recovered by Monday morning. They came from Mixin, a town near

Sichuan province on the outskirts of the sprawling metropolis of Chongqing. No further details were immediately available.

Heavy rain had been forecast for the area, but it wasn’t clear if the weather was a factor. — AP

Eight children drown in China

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LOS ANGELES — Joel Schumacher, the film director behind two Batman films and The Lost Boys, has died.

The 80-year-old died in New York on Monday (local time) after fighting cancer, entertainment magazine Variety reports.

Schumacher began his career in film as a costume designer, working on Woody Allen films Sleep and Interiors before moving to screenwriting and directing.

Among his biggest hits were the Brat Pack films St Elmo’s Fire and The Lost Boys. He also directed two adaptations of legal fiction writer John Grisham’s books, The Client and A Time to Kill. He took over from Tim Burton to direct the 1990s Batman film series, with Val Kilmer taking over from Michael Keaton in Batman Forever. He returned for Batman & Robin. Both films were heavily criticised.

The last film he directed was 2011’s Trespass, but he also dabbled in television, directing two episodes of David Fincher’s House of Cards in 2013. — Newshub

Hungary media at riskBUDAPEST — Hungary’s leading online news

site says its editorial staff and independence are at risk because of a reorganisation attempt that could compromise its journalistic integrity.

Index.hu is among a handful of independent media outlets which have suffered financially and seen their freedom to operate curtailed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s efforts to control an ever larger segment of Hungary’s media.

While Index did not give details about its possible reorganisation, 24.hu, another independent Hungarian news site, said on Sunday that sections of Index would be outsourced to external companies, practically dismantling the newsroom. — NZ Herald

Protest arrests in The HagueNETHERLANDS — Dutch police arrested scores of

protesters and used a water cannon after violence erupted around a demonstration in The Hague against measures put in place by the government to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.

A peaceful protest turned violent when dozens of what police said were soccer fans arrived and clashed with riot police near the city’s central railway station.

The protesters argue that a proposed law formalising the coronavirus measures goes too far and is unconstitutional.

The official death toll in the Netherlands is 6090, though the true toll is higher because not everybody who died of suspected Covid-19 was tested. — AP

Miners die in mine collapse NICARAGUA — Three young men have

been found dead following a mine collapse in northwestern Nicaragua, officials said yesterday. Juan Fernando Gómez, mayor of the town of Villanueva, confirmed the deaths at El Rincón de García mine.

The miners, aged 16, 19 and 26, had been hunting for bits of gold when the mine collapsed on Thursday following heavy rains. — AP

Siberia heat record SIBERIA — A town in Siberia has recorded the

highest temperature in the Arctic’s known history, reaching 38C.

Verkhoyansk, which is just inside the Arctic Circle at 67.5 degrees north, typically reaches a summer high of about 20C.

Scientists had previously predicted that temperatures this hot would not be seen within the Arctic Circle until the year 2100.

Scientists say the spike in temperature was likely caused by a combination of man-made climate change and changing weather patterns.

The Arctic Circle has seen a 50 percent reduction in sea ice volume over the past four decades. — NZ Herald

Archipelago ‘coup’ Socotra — Yemeni separatists backed by the

United Arab Emirates have taken control of most of the Socotra Archipelago, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in what the government called a “coup”.

The island of Socotra, which sits at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, 370km south of Yemen where it is politically governed, is recognised as globally important for its biodiversity.

More than 90 percent of the reptiles and molluscs on the islands do not live anywhere else. — NZ Herald

LIMA, Peru — Clara Arango wakes at 4am daily and checks on the ingredients for breakfast.

Eighteen pounds of oats, 13 pounds of sugar and a pound of cinnamon sticks, all ready. An hour later, Arango, 43, is using a shovel to stir 30 gallons of sweet oatmeal in a stainless-steel pot over a fire of wood scraps alongside a cinder-block community centre in the hills overlooking Peru’s capital.

By 9am, more than 150 of Arango’s neighbours in New Hope have paid 14 cents each for a plastic bowl of oatmeal from the “community pot”, a phenomenon that’s become ubiquitous across Peru in recent months as coronavirus quarantines and shutdowns have left millions of poor people with no way to feed their families.

Often operating with help from the Catholic Church and private charities, soup kitchens and community pots have become a symbol of the conundrum facing a region where most of the working population labours outside the formal economy.

Economic shutdowns have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based efforts unseen in large numbers since crises like Peru’s 1990s civil war or Argentina’s financial crash two decades ago.

Still, without unemployment benefits or the ability to work from home, a cut-price plastic bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, some lentil stew or noodles in tomato sauce for lunch, and leftovers for dinner aren’t proving enough to keep poor Latin Americans from leaving their homes each day to earn a living as construction workers, street vendors or other types of day labourers.

The inability to keep people at home is proving a major factor in the spread of the coronavirus around the continent, where new cases and deaths are rising unchecked as an unbent curve of infection pushes intensive care wards to their limits.

Despite some of the strictest antivirus measures in the region, Peru has diagnosed 237,000 cases of coronavirus and counted 7000 deaths, the highest number of cases per capita in the region and the second-highest per capita count of deaths.

At the same time, Peru is facing a 12 percent drop in gross domestic product this year, one of the worst recessions in the hemisphere, according to the World Bank.

“I barely have anything to eat at home,”

Arango said. “Here I have a community pot and I can pool my resources with my neighbours and we can support each other and work together.”

A single mother of two, she lost her job as a janitor when her employer closed his shopping mall in Lima’s wealthiest neighbourhood due to the antivirus shutdown that began on March 16.

Government figures show more than 2.3 million other Lima residents also lost

their jobs by April, out of a working population of roughly 16 million nationwide. The figure is expected to leap again when May numbers are released.

In Peru, thousands of community pots are steaming at breakfast and lunch in neighbourhoods at levels not seen since inflation topped

7000 percent in 1990 in the middle of the civil war with Shining Path Maoist guerrillas.

More than a third of Peru’s 32 million people have had to engage in some form of community cooking due to lack of money, according to a May poll by the private, nonpartisan Institute of Peruvian Studies.

On a recent morning, a brief tour by Associated Press journalists in a mile radius of Arango’s pot found more than 15

groups of neighbours cooking food together. Waiting in line at one was Estéfany

Aquiño, 11, who is helping her mother raise her two-month-old sister after a caesarean section that left the woman unable to leave her house to look for food.

Estéfany said the community pot was her only defence against a hunger that’s become a constant feature of life.

“Your stomach starts to hurt, to grumble, and then to talk to you,” the girl said.

Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra says the pandemic has revealed the weakness of the Peruvian system, which topped Latin America in economic growth for decades, but has one of the region’s weakest social safety nets.

“We’re far from being an example of efficiency as a state,’’ he said on Monday. “We have so many failings, so many problems.”

But Peru is far from the only country wrestling simultaneously with the virus and hunger.

In Buenos Aires, the church and local soccer clubs have been organising community pots in some of the capital’s poorest neighbourhoods, and volunteers say their clients were becoming more desperate as virus-driven shutdowns continued.

“We used to put food for three people in a plastic container,’’ volunteer Emanuel Basile said as he worked in the hard-hit neighbourhood. “Now they want us to cram in food for five.” — AP

Hunger grows in Peru’s coronavirus lockdown

STRUGGLING TO FEED FAMILIES: Eleven-year-old Fiorella Mendieta, left, and her eight-year-old sister Flavia, sit at a kitchen table as they wait to be served lunch at their home in the Nueva Esperanza neighbourhood of Lima, Peru. In recent months, quarantines and shutdowns meant to slow the spread of the new coronavirus have left millions of poor people with no way to feed their families.

COMMUNITY POT: Residents stand in line to receive a free lunch from a “community pot”, in Lima, Peru. Often operating with help from the Catholic Church and private charities, soup kitchens and “community pots” have become a symbol of the conundrum facing a region where most of the working population labours outside the formal economy. AP pictures

Despite some of the strictest antivirus measures in the region, Peru has diagnosed 237,000 cases of coronavirus and counted 7000 deaths.

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POETRY IN MOTION The sweet sound of multiple marimbas emanated from Gisborne’s Unity Theatre last week as the Aurora Drama group rehearsed for their upcoming performance, Manaakitia Papatuanuku (Perform Me a Poem). Here Honor Phillips and Alia Sims concentrate on getting the notes right as they practise on their marimbas. The Aurora Drama group is made up of children from 11 Gisborne city and rural schools selected because of their abilities in the performing arts and high literacy levels. Under the guidance of specialist music teacher Michelle Hall, they have crafted a performance based on the works of poet Hone Tuwhare and other New Zealand-inspired poetry. The show is made up of four poems set to music, accompanied by movement, and will take place at Unity Theatre on Wednesday, July 1.

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1 68248 Sedgebrook Comet nwtd Fred Kite 2 48587 Bigtime Fred 30.29 Agent & Williams 3 66546 Tuff Treasure 30.81 Bernie Mitchell 4 54874 Zipping Luther nwtd J & D Bell 5 43786 Black Mags nwtd Sammy Stone 6 78s78 Marley Farley 31.16 Ross & Voyce 7 67754 Opawa Lara nwtd Nathan Udy 8 67536 Three Of Hearts 30.82 Bill HodgsonEMERGENCIES: 9 53675 Opawa Tai 30.66 Nathan Udy 10 55655 Race Me Home 30.68 Bill Hodgson

6 Book Your Table @ Hatrick Hts 1.43 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 14543 Big Time Lenny 17.90 Lisa Cole 2 64666 Big Time Rose 17.94 Agent & Williams 3 56882 Homebush Jordie nwtd John McInerney 4 21224 Go Blue 17.96 Nathan Udy 5 35356 Sedgebrook Saint 17.78 Liz Doody

6 48562 Dapper Rapper 17.88 Brian Marsh

7 42862 Idol Little Girl 18.13 Marcie Flipp

8 88364 Bigtime Hannah 17.80 Sue Gommans

EMERGENCIES:

9 45675 Millie Prince 17.72 J & D Bell

10 85577 Punch On Ruby 17.78 John McInerney

7 Wanganui Toyota Heats 2.01 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 72462 Star Way 18.11 Carol Morris

2 67727 Trajan nwtd John McInerney

3 64473 Bombshell Blonde 18.02 Nathan Udy

4 84742 Not Shackley 17.73 Jim Black

5 4755s Big Time Lorna 18.16 Lisa Cole

6 71744 Rockoneva 18.27 Bill Hodgson

7 68727 Small Boy 18.32 Agent & Williams

8 17534 Idol Leo 18.10 Marcie Flipp

EMERGENCIES:

9 45648 Ahuroa Prince 18.11 Robert Murray

10 85685 Raining Sixes 18.32 Brian Goldsack

8 Red Snapper Seafoods Hts 2.19 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 88s45 Xanthe Jewel 17.99 Pauline Blanche

2 66575 Cool Beans nwtd John McInerney

3 22448 Bigtime Maci 17.67 Susie Kite

4 1675 Allegro Skye 18.12 Lisa Cole

5 8s475 Homebush Vassy nwtd John McInerney

6 72367 Elouera Mist 18.11 J & D Bell

7 85645 Clansman Douglas 18.16 Brian Goldsack

8 33246 Double Change nwtd Sue Gommans

EMERGENCIES:

9 54s58 Mister Booze 18.09 John McArthur

10 16888 Watch Marjen 18.20 Marcie Flipp

9 Hatrick Supporter’s Club Hts 2.39 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 62378 Johny Mowhawk 18.03 David Denbee

2 s7424 True Testament nwtd Bill Hodgson

3 52416 Idol Ziggy 17.80 Marcie Flipp

4 78716 Homebush Jozie 18.03 John McInerney

5 75738 Big Time Rusty 18.13 Agent & Williams

6 64478 Token Vikkers 17.75 Nathan Udy

7 47686 Big Time Eilish 18.21 Colleen Brider

8 45424 Judge Me Jackie 17.91 Lana Pearce

EMERGENCIES:

9 577s8 Slick As Jewels 18.75 L E Dunkerton

10 76586 Tuff Mr. Tee nwtd Sue Gommans

10 Kernow Construction Heats 2.57 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 55663 Poppy Rocket 17.96 M S Clark

2 47463 Hurricane Al 17.85 Carol Morris

3 1281 Allegro Tammy 17.89 Lisa Cole

4 48323 Bigtime Roll 17.65 Sue Gommans

5 64747 Bigtime Baxter 17.67 D P Symes

6 8767s Auros Advantage 18.01 Tim Pilcher

7 62678 Bigtime Coco 17.72 Nathan Udy

8 86534 Mitcham Nikorima nwtd John McInerney

EMERGENCIES:

9 64F68 Black Widow Baby 18.07 Agent & Williams

10 82856 Leslie Albert 18.06 Brian Goldsack

SelectionsRace 1: PAVING WAY, AHUROA WHIZZ, TELLTALE SIGNS

Race 2: BOOT CAMP TIARA, MY EMMETT, WIFI SOPHIE

Race 3: WIFI FLEE, HARDCORE KYLIE, BIG TIME DAWSON

Race 4: ZARA DAIKEN, KING THEODEN, PUNCH ON SCOOBY

Race 5: OPAWA TAI, THREE OF HEARTS, ZIPPING LUTHER

Race 6: GO BLUE, IDOL LITTLE GIRL, SEDGEBROOK SAINT

Race 7: NOT SHACKLEY, BOMBSHELL BLONDE, IDOL LEO

Race 8: DOUBLE CHANGE, BIGTIME MACI,

HOMEBUSH VASSY

Race 9: JUDGE ME JACKIE, TRUE TESTAMENT, IDOL ZIGGY

Race 10: BIGTIME ROLL, ALLEGRO TAMMY, HURRICANE AL

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.

Victoria races at Sandown Hillside Wednesday Jetbet 12 TAB doubles 3-4, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8

1 Ladbrokes Odds Boost Exotics 2.25 $40,000, 2yo Fillies, 1000m

1 s1515 Divine Caprice dw (16) 59.5 96 D Stackhouse 2 187s Diamondesque dn (15) 57.5 91 D Yendall 3 6s51 Miss Bosetti dw (5) 57.5 97 C Williams 4 02s Parlophone (12) 56.5 94 D Oliver 5 1 Sure Am Invincible d (4) 56.5 96 J Mott 6 157s Award Winner d (7) 56 97 C Newitt 7 22s31 Peggy Selene dw (18) 56 99 8 2 Kick It Baby (17) 56 92 B Melham 9 4 Paxos Miss (2) 56 95 J Winks 10 6s3 Zesty Belle b (6) 56 100 L Nolen 11 Diamonds Inthe Sky (3) 56 93 N Callow 12 Holyfox (1) 56 90 M Walker 13 Licciardi (13) 56 88 L King (a) 14 Tonnarella (8) 56 89 D Thornton

EMERGENCIES: 15 Euphegenia (9) 56 89 16 Benyatta (19) 56 89 D Dunn 17 0 Quiller’s Delight (11) 56 88 L Riordan (a) 18 5 Donna Natalina (14) 56 87 19 8s0 Chavanne (10) 56 85

2 Ladbrokes Back Yourself 3.00 $40,000, 3yo Fillies Benchmark 64, 1000m

1 155s9 Gimme The Goss wn (8) 61.5 90 Ms G Cartwright (a2) 2 1 High Risk d (9) 60 95 J Maskiell 3 5s12s The Natural (6) 60 94 D Oliver 4 214 Beatrix dwn (7) 59.5 98 J Noonan 5 617s Chica Bonita dw (11) 59.5 90 B Mertens 6 2221s Finesse Tess n (1) 59.5 94 D Stackhouse 7 31 Madam Etak w (10) 59.5 93 Ms T Hope (a2) 8 2s216 Miss Hayworth w (3) 59.5 96 W Price (a3) 9 415s2 Madlenka (2) 59 94 D Thornton 10 23s31 Flirting dw (5) 58.5 100 M Poy (a1.5) 11 13362 Ocean Drive w (4) 57.5 94 Dean Holland

3 Clanbrooke Racing 3.35 $40,000, 3yo Benchmark 70, 1600m

1 11425 Tooradin dwbn (8) 58.5 97 J Allen 2 33591 Walking Flying d (7) 58.5 100 J Mott 3 435s4 Maserartie Bay (11) 58 93 C Williams 4 6s141 Motakhayyel (3) 58 91 L Nolen 5 s3521 Jimmy’s Secret dw (12) 57.5 89 M Rodd 6 03262 Miroku (6) 57.5 92 B Thompson 7 4s014 Laybuy wb (5) 56 91 D Stackhouse 8 3s102 Scantoon wn (9) 56 95 D Oliver

9 5821 Vistabelle (10) 56 88 B Melham 10 3s341 Intellective d (2) 56 87 D Yendall 11 s3154 Sebsilk n (4) 56 88 D Dunn 12 32316 Dance Ready b (1) 56 88 W Price (a3)

4 Ladbrokes Same Race Multi 4.10 $40,000, Benchmark 70, 1500m

1 44521 Moscow Red cdwn (7) 60.5 96 W Price (a3) 2 0s843 Mr Tipla twn (10) 60.5 95 M Poy (a1.5) 3 42452 Kent Street wbn (8) 60 97 C Newitt 4 s6616 Taksu cwb (11) 60 100 J Allen 5 49s24 Willby Rules (6) 60 95 L King (a2) 6 10s88 Gasworx dw (9) 59 96 M Rodd 7 90s52 Stocktaka t (1) 58.5 99 B Melham 8 13s68 Darlamax w (4) 57.5 96 D Stackhouse 9 s4131 Key To The Mak w (3) 57.5 99 D Oliver 10 17s70 Patricia Anne w (2) 57 91 W Gordon 11 17279 Taberna n (5) 56 100 B Mertens

5 Ladbrokes Handicap 4.45 $40,000, Benchmark 84, 1800m

1 1135s Bedford cw (8) 63 91 J Mott 2 0s514 Savaheat cdw (10) 62 99 Jaden Lloyd (a3) 3 044s4 Bartholomeu Dias (7) 60 100 C Williams 4 08340 Nobu dn (2) 59 97 B Melham 5 082s6 Our Peaky Blinders wn (4) 59 95 M Poy (a1.5) 6 59148 The Black Leopard cw (5) 58.5 98 Ms G Cartwright (a2) 7 s3474 Reserve Street (3) 58 99 T Nugent (a2) 8 s5621 Patch Adams w (11) 57.5 91 D Yendall 9 45s87 Master Shuhood w (1) 56.5 96 D Thornton

10 9s083 So We Are w (9) 56 93 L Nolen 11 92280 Main Stage cdw (6) 56 97 D Oliver

6 MRC Foundation 5.20 $40,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 78, 2400m

1 11961 Budd Fox tdw (8) 61.5 100 Jaden Lloyd (a3) 2 66202 Fanciful Toff dw (18) 60 92 T Nugent (a2) 3 s5210 Shepard dwb (3) 60 97 L Nolen 4 s7560 The Statesman w (11) 60 86 Ms T Hope (a2) 5 s0040 Berisha dw (17) 59 87 B Mertens 6 96806 Beau Balmain (15) 58 90 L German (a2) 7 1s988 Desert Path d (9) 58 94 B Melham 8 42338 Nashville Sound w (20) 58 91 J Allen 9 23303 Arctic Shock n (2) 57.5 93 N Callow 10 35301 Converging w (13) 57.5 94 F W Kersley 11 4s311 Crimson Ace wn (19) 57.5 93 D Oliver 12 13052 Lucabelle wn (5) 57 94 C Newitt 13 1s212 Stellar Impact wbn (1) 57 95 C Williams 14 31151 Flag Edition wn (4) 56 93 Ms M Payne EMERGENCIES: 15 18s09 Da Deputy dw (12) 56.5 91 D Stackhouse 16 7s443 Meteor Light dwb (14) 56.5 91 M Poy (a1.5) 17 45231 Cernan dw (16) 56 93 L Nolen 18 44221 Yulong Captain d (7) 56 94 J Mott 19 00616 Pharrell w (10) 56 89 M Cartwright (a3) 20 03548 Takumi (6) 56 89

7 Ladbrokes Switch 5.55 $40,000, F&M Benchmark 70, 1000m

1 0s011 Flostar d (10) 62.5 98 N Callow 2 s769s Island Daze bn (2) 62 86 T Nugent (a2)

3 61219 Mockery cdw (5) 60.5 95

M Cartwright (a3)

4 23267 Lady Solly cdw (4) 60 91 M Poy (a1.5)

5 7s161 Bombshell Belle dw (3) 59.5 94 D Moor

6 197s4 Doves Cry dwn (11) 59 89

Jaden Lloyd (a3)

7 227s3 Pinyin w (8) 59 100 W Price (a3)

8 s033s Neurotic (1) 58.5 89 D Oliver

9 219s3 Balle D’Or dn (12) 58 91 B Melham

10 42s11 Bless Her w (9) 57.5 95 D Dunn

11 89s33 Salty Kisses dw (6) 57 91 M Rodd

12 1130s Vahvuus dw (7) 57 85 C Williams

8 Ladbrokes Cash In 6.30 $40,000, Benchmark 70, 1300m

1 s2541 Yeldarb w (7) 64 91 Ms T Hope (a2)

2 s4403 Scottish Rogue w (8) 62.5 95

M Poy (a1.5)

3 s211s Falls twn (3) 61.5 90 D Oliver

4 9s220 Mean Mister cdw (1) 60.5 95 L King (a2)

5 50s39 Good Therapy wbn (4) 60 92 B Melham

6 99s23 Sabotage n (11) 60 89 B Rawiller

7 s1680 Alsvin wn (9) 59.5 90

Ms G Cartwright (a2)

8 28192 Wilde Gem wn (13) 59.5 91

M Cartwright (a3)

9 42533 Zaidin (10) 58 90 W Price (a3)

10 33s13 Cataracta wb (5) 57.5 100 T Nugent (a2)

11 35200 Rossman t (14) 57.5 88 B Mertens

12 3110s Bacchus n (12) 57 91 C Williams

13 44433 Heyington Station wb (2) 57 90

B Thompson

14 s10s4 Snowfire (6) 56 92 D Dunn

SelectionsRace 1: PEGGY SELENE, AWARD WINNER, MISS BOSETTI

Race 2: FLIRTING, THE NATURAL, HIGH RISK

Race 3: TOORADIN, WALKING FLYING, INTELLECTIVE

Race 4: MOSCOW RED, KEY TO THE MAK, STOCKTAKA

Race 5: THE BLACK LEOPARD, BARTHOLOMEU DIAS,

SO WE ARE

Race 6: YULONG CAPTAIN, FLAG EDITION, STELLAR IMPACT

Race 7: FLOSTAR, BOMBSHELL BELLE, BLESS HER

Race 8: FALLS, CATARACTA, YELDARB

Extra Whanganui greys at Hatrick Wednesday Jetbet 9 TAB D. 1-2, 4-5 T. 3-4-5 Q. 2-3-4-5

1 CPF Insurance Heats 3.14 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 25113 Idol Lucy 17.93 Marcie Flipp 2 14654 Gotcha Marshall 17.96 John McInerney 3 84551 Taranaki Brie 18.00 Colleen Brider

4 67754 Big Time Ricky 18.10 Agent & Williams 5 37663 Paradox Prince 18.43 Bill Hodgson 6 46426 Rowdy Ruby 17.75 Susie Kite 7 65773 Bright Concept 17.84 Leanne Bell 8 36464 Lucy Lingers 18.02 John McInerneyEMERGENCIES: 9 876s8 De Blonde 17.78 Brian Hunt 10 47828 My Pablo 17.92 Nathan Udy

2 Adept Accountants Heats 3.32 $1450, C1, heat, 305m

1 28s72 Small Paige nwtd Agent & Williams 2 24452 Idol Wilson 18.19 Marcie Flipp 3 53857 Nippa-A-Spot 17.82 John McInerney 4 7137 Wifi Sapphire 18.03 G & S Fredrickson 5 5F575 Shrewdy 18.14 L E Dunkerton

6 68742 Thrilling Ivy 18.10 Sue Gommans 7 77s57 Manimal 17.77 Nathan Udy 8 58122 Allegro Pippa 18.16 Lisa ColeEMERGENCIES: 9 16764 I’ll Be Loyal 18.05 Bill Hodgson 10 75676 Homebush Jennia 17.92 John McInerney

3 Accell Canine Therapy 3.49 $2505, C1, 520m

1 1576 Big Time Roxy nwtd Lisa Cole 2 82218 Big Time Tommey nwtd Lisa Cole 3 22314 Big Time Roonie 30.63 Lisa Cole 4 F5488 Skinny Binny 30.60 Ross & Voyce 5 67352 Slam It 31.26 John McInerney 6 58F53 Mainline Lil 31.21 Bill Hodgson 7 34427 Penny Mowhawk nwtd David Denbee

8 55533 Bigtime Ava 30.70 Peter ClarkEMERGENCIES: 9 66482 Arm Turner nwtd John McInerney 10 85375 Bigtime Diesel 31.16 G & S Fredrickson

4 Member’s $12 Roast On Friday’s 4.06 $1685, C2, 305m

1 53621 Viking Ash 17.79 Nathan Udy 2 77861 Dottie Bell 18.09 Leanne Bell 3 73631 Big Time Harper nwtd Peter Clark 4 63747 Lucky Scar 17.88 Nathan Udy 5 2414F Cockney Rip Off 17.72 Melissa Olden 6 83478 Guru’s Choice 17.76 Agent & Williams 7 74422 Go Ash 17.61 Marcie Flipp 8 88716 White Comet 17.75 Diane DonlonEMERGENCIES:

9 57348 Allegro Kyle 17.76 D P Symes 10 58683 Arthur’s Crown 17.76 Richard Waite

5 See You Friday @ Hatrick 4.24 $1685, C2, 305m

1 17552 Hashtag Blessed 17.81 Nathan Udy 2 45421 Born Quick 17.65 Marcie Flipp 3 84385 Big Time Tatum 17.86 Agent & Williams 4 45138 Paris End 17.66 Lisa Cole 5 75731 Hypothetical 18.13 Melissa Olden 6 16861 Midnight Molly 17.73 Bill Hodgson 7 87716 Choice Sister 17.99 Carol Morris 8 28173 Sahara Dream 17.91 Marcie FlippEMERGENCIES: 9 3186s Big Time Abbi 18.04 Peter Clark 10 55785 Chilli Ragnar 17.84 Nathan Udy

SelectionsRace 1: IDOL LUCY, ROWDY RUBY, PARADOX PRINCE

Race 2: ALLEGRO PIPPA, IDOL WILSON, WIFI SAPPHIRE

Race 3: BIG TIME ROONIE, BIGTIME AVA, BIG TIME TOMMEY

Race 4: COCKNEY RIP OFF, BIG TIME HARPER, VIKING ASH

Race 5: HASHTAG BLESSED, BORN QUICK, HYPOTHETICAL

Queensland races at Ipswich Wednesday Jetbet 14 TAB doubles 3-4, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8

1 Carlton Mid Handicap 2.33 $27,500, 2yo Maiden, 1350m

1 Master Richard (4) 59 79 M R Du Plessis 2 Without Thinking (6) 59 81 L V Cassidy 3 5 Scottish Prince (9) 58.5 89 R Fradd 4 8 Moonlight Eclipse (2) 58 81 Ms B Ainsworth 5 5 Pure Deal (1) 58 91 M Cahill 6 0s Zimboombah (7) 58 81 D Smith 7 23 Nicci’s Spirit b (5) 57.5 100 B Nothdurft (a) 8 39s4 Hairdo (3) 56.5 95 J Huxtable (a2) 9 9 Amy Ekcels (8) 56 88 A Mallyon

2 Sirromet Handicap 3.08 $35,000, 3yo, 1690m

1 33019 Rebel Rock dw (1) 60 98 A Thompson (a2) 2 22342 Class Of Royalty wb (3) 59.5 97 L R Dittman 3 5s2s1 Knight Mariner w (5) 58.5 100 B Nothdurft (a) 4 33910 Accessory tcw (2) 57 99 M R Du Plessis 5 44311 Expert Eye (4) 57 97 J Orman 6 50087 Reagan’s Mistake w (6) 55.5 92 Ms B Ainsworth 7 73775 Mishani Romance tw (7) 55 93 R Fradd

3 Schweppes Plate 3.43 $27,500, Maiden SW, 1200m

1 8s032 Kerbside Kaos (12) 58.5 81 2 530s Outback Gladiator (3) 58.5 85 J Huxtable (a2) 3 230s3 Private Universe (13) 58.5 91 R Maloney 4 s5332 Tigerpower (16) 58.5 84 5 96 Dollareuro (1) 58 83 R Fradd 6 0s7 Hecanrockme (2) 58 88 Ms M Wishart (a3) 7 242s3 Playthefield (7) 58 100 J Bayliss 8 40s58 Zeeluck (14) 58 84 J Taylor 9 00979 De Nova Stella (9) 56.5 79 Ms R Palmer 10 940 Gomathi (5) 56.5 85 Ms E Ljung 11 63080 Out Fox’em (6) 56.5 76 Adam Spinks 12 20s53 Kallie (15) 56 80 13 2 Zoukina (11) 56 98 L V Cassidy 14 33 Top Babe b (4) 54.5 94 M Cahill

EMERGENCIES: 15 5s6 Arizona Sun (8) 58.5 85 C Taylor 16 s8756 Styk At It (10) 56.5 81 C Bayliss (a2)

4 Under The Louvre 4.18 $35,000, Benchmark 70, 1520m

1 2114s Fighting Heart wbh (11) 63 85 2 56038 Pressway w (4) 61 97 J Huxtable (a2) 3 28s50 Tycoon Street (9) 60 100 A Mallyon 4 8s009 Smokey Diamond tw (7) 59.5 95 M Hellyer 5 39988 Sugar Buzz w (10) 59.5 95 Ms B Andrew 6 s0840 Shuda Known Better twn (2) 59 96 B Nothdurft (a) 7 8116s Fencourt w (1) 58 88 N Tomizawa 8 0s442 Hidden Budget w (6) 58 88 Ms M Wishart (a3) 9 63717 Joymaker (3) 58 95 10 s3804 Don’t Waiver wb (5) 57.5 94 R Maloney 11 51041 Zoulou Dancer w (12) 57 95 S Galloway EMERGENCIES: 12 23221 Got My Thrills twn (8) 55 96 13 83708 Careering Away wn (13) 56 91 C Bayliss (a2)

5 Sky Racing 4.53 $35,000, Benchmark 78, 1690m

1 0740s My Giuliano w (2) 64 77 A Thompson (a2) 2 4247s Follow Suit w (10) 60.5 81 M Murphy 3 98253 High Power w (5) 58 100 A Mallyon 4 64692 Polemic (9) 57.5 89 J Bayliss 5 064s0 Travistee wn (3) 57 77 R Fradd 6 30s32 Tatcee (8) 56.5 95 R Maloney 7 63717 Joymaker (1) 55 89 J Orman

8 55223 Fairy Me Home w (7) 55 92 M Cahill 9 35722 Scoutabout tcdw (11) 55 87 M Hellyer 10 2s461 Momentum To Win (4) 55 93 M R Du Plessis 11 43s99 Eira d (6) 55 85 Ms R Palmer

6 Follow @ipswichturfclub 5.28 $35,000, Benchmark 68, 1200m

1 s4605 High Degree tw (4) 61.5 87 Ms M Wishart (a3) 2 33728 Brinkmanship (1) 59.5 90 J Taylor 3 0s206 Amschel dwn (3) 59 87 J Guthmann-Chester 4 108s0 Suilven td (10) 59 87 M Murphy 5 2522s Vibrato dbn (7) 59 96 B Stewart 6 35218 Barefoot Tycoon cdwn (13) 58.5 91 M Hellyer 7 64347 King Mombassa dw (11) 58.5 87 R Maloney 8 2642s Let’s Go Bobby twbn (2) 58.5 90 Ms T Harrison 9 74s11 Socialising d (6) 58 100 B Nothdurft (a) 10 043s6 Versetto db (5) 58 92 J Orman 11 66915 Bobby Axelrod (14) 57.5 92 M Shimodaira (a3) 12 756s7 I Like Candy dw (8) 56 89 A Chau 13 3144s Miss Alle Be (12) 55 87 M R Du Plessis 14 4389s A Little Crafty tw (9) 55 82 Adam Spinks

7 TAB Handicap 6.03 $35,000, C,H&Gs Class 3, 1350m

1 10s7s Cloak w (8) 60 84 R Maloney 2 36645 Magic Fox tw (13) 59.5 91 L V Cassidy 3 18791 Chicago O’Brien twn (9) 57 96 J Orman

4 18s85 Louie La’joy wn (1) 56.5 100 L Tilley 5 630s3 Cordoned w (10) 56 91 S Cormack 6 921s9 San Pierre w (12) 55.5 87 A Chau 7 78s09 Candescence h (5) 55 89 N Tomizawa 8 288s0 Soaring Heart cdw (3) 55 91 D Smith 9 436s8 Hot Sock w (6) 55 85 Ms S Thornton 10 s6803 Broncks c (2) 55 89 Ms T Harrison 11 417s3 Reset’s Son wn (11) 55 87 J Taylor 12 427s3 Scottish Lad (7) 55 86 13 15443 Patrick’s Me Mate (4) 55 88 M Hellyer

8 Bendigo Bank Booval Branch 6.34 $35,000, F&M Class 3, 1350m

1 42793 Light Up The Room dw (14) 61 91 B Nothdurft (a) 2 44s48 Take Tea tw (5) 60 100 J Huxtable (a2) 3 60s31 Champagne Daisy w (15) 59 99 R Maloney 4 51041 Zoulou Dancer w (13) 58.5 92 S Galloway 5 105s2 Dream Big (8) 57.5 94 D Griffin 6 380s5 Rossmay tw (10) 57 94 Ms S Thornton 7 23221 Got My Thrills cwn (7) 56.5 92 J Bayliss 8 17463 She Za Boss (11) 56.5 94 R Fradd 9 53923 Abb Roy dwbn (12) 55 91 M Hellyer 10 8917s Romani Countess w (16) 55 83 J Taylor 11 458s7 Vienna Moon w (3) 55 92 M R Du Plessis 12 s4956 Skye And Me d (2) 55 88 Ms S Lacy 13 8Ps67 The Last Sequalo tw (6) 55 88 M Cahill 14 524s4 Charlotte’s Girl w (1) 55 87 N Fazackerley (a3)EMERGENCIES: 15 0s900 Evening (4) 55 77 Ms R Palmer 16 70247 Miss Makepeace w (9) 55 89

SelectionsRace 1: NICCI’S SPIRIT, HAIRDO, WITHOUT THINKING

Race 2: KNIGHT MARINER, EXPERT EYE, CLASS OF ROYALTY

Race 3: DOLLAREURO, TOP BABE, PRIVATE UNIVERSE

Race 4: HIDDEN BUDGET, GOT MY THRILLS,

ZOULOU DANCER

Race 5: HIGH POWER, MOMENTUM TO WIN, TATCEE

Race 6: SOCIALISING, VIBRATO, LET’S GO BOBBY

Race 7: CLOAK, CHICAGO O’BRIEN, MAGIC FOX

Race 8: CHAMPAGNE DAISY, GOT MY THRILLS,

SHE ZA BOSS

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 202020 RACING

ALL Black Ack (Alistair) Soper, who played eight games in the black jersey and more than 100 times for Southland, has died in Invercargill at the age of 83.

Soper, a Northern Southland farmer, leaves behind a strong legacy both on and off the rugby field.

He played eight times for the All Blacks on their 1957 tour of Australia, had a stint with London club Blackheath in 1960-61 and helped Southland lift the Ranfurly Shield in 1959 in a 23-6 win against Taranaki.

As a young No.8 in the 1955 New Zealand under-21 tour of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), he was rated as the most likely to succeed at the highest level in a team that included Colin Meads and Wilson Whinerary.

But arguably his greatest services to New Zealand rugby were to Southland, where he became the first player to play 100 games for the province after debuting at the age of 17 in 1954.

Soper, whose father Clarence was also a Ranfurly Shield winner with Southland, remained involved in provincial rugby throughout his life and was Southland Rugby Union president in 1985 after retiring from playing in 1966.

In 2001, Soper was awarded a

Southland rugby life membership for his services to the club, joining his father who was also a life member.

Last year, Rugby Southland named its division one competition prize the Ack Soper Shield.

However, Soper was also passionate about the Southland community beyond rugby and was awarded the Southland District Community Service Award in 2004 for his work and voluntary contributions to the local community.

He was also a passionate supporter of the Southern Stings netball team.

“When you look at the calibre of these young women and how much they have managed to achieve in their lives, how can they fail to be an inspiration,” Soper told the Southland Times in 2002.

Kevin Laidlaw, a former teammate of Soper, remembered him as a leader.

“He wasn’t the type of player who would say a lot, but he would say ‘follow me’ with his actions,” Laidlaw said.

“He was an 80-minute man; you could count on him playing 80 minutes.

“Off the field, he would do anything for you as well.

“You were always welcomed when you stopped in to see him on the farm (at Athol).’’ — NZ Herald

Soper leaves legacy on and off the rugby field

RUGBY LEAGUE by Matt Encarnacion, AAP

SYDNEY — Melbourne Storm’s NRL home game against the New Zealand Warriors on Friday night has been moved from AAMI Park to Sydney because of the spike of coronavirus cases in Victoria.

The match will now take place at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, with the league’s Apollo team saying the health and safety of players, staff and the wider community was paramount.

Storm officials had earlier yesterday been locked in emergency discussions with the NRL, accepting the relocation of the match to interstate was likely.

In a dramatic day at league HQ, Thursday’s game between Penrith and South Sydney has also been moved, due to surface concerns in Campbelltown.

The Panthers-Rabbitohs match will also be played at Kogarah’s Netstrata Jubilee Oval.

The shifting of the Storm game comes after Victoria’s number of coronavirus cases increased by 16 overnight.

The state’s active Covid-19 case numbers are the highest they have been in more than two months after six days of double-digit growth.

It was only last week that the Storm had a request for 296 corporate attendees

for the Warriors game rejected by the state government.

The AFL Round 4 schedule has yet to be affected, with Victorian clubs still set to host games at Marvel Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground this weekend.

Storm players were already preparing for an indefinite move out of town.

“We’ve braced for the potential that we might need to relocate and potentially play some of our home games in Queensland or New South Wales,” prop Christian Welch said.

The Storm would be the second NRL team to temporarily relocate, with the New Zealand-based Warriors already staying on the NSW central coast.

They have not been in Auckland since May 3.

“The problems in Australia economically — people are out of jobs and we’re heading into a recession — this is a serious thing,” Welch said.

“If we need to relocate and play some games in another state, we’re more than happy to do that. Every player here is happy to do that.

“And the team we’re playing, the Warriors, the sacrifice they’ve made to leave their families in New Zealand and fly across and stay here for so long, it’s incredible.”

Warriors game moved because of spike in coronavirus cases

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 2020 SPORT 21

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

THE LAST WORD IN ASTROLOGY

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:Minka Kelly, 40; Mindy Kaling, 41; Sherry Stringield, 53; Jeff Beck, 76.

Happy Birthday:Look for interesting ways to use your skills. Making adjustments as you get used to the changes or new rules or regulations that affect you or the industry you work in will help you feel conident. You stand to prosper this year if you are lexible and show interest in learning new techniques and technology. The changes you make will pay off. Your numbers are 9, 16, 20, 24, 31, 37, 45.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):Reach out to someone you haven't seen for some time and catch up. The information you share will lead to an opportunity to make a lucrative change. Put everything in place before you give up one thing for another. 5 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Check your motives before you say or do anything. Respond out of courtesy and with factual information, not out of fear or due to an emotional situation. Set the pace, and stick to what works best for you. 2 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Consider what you know and what you can learn. Taking responsibility for the way you look and feel will lead to a healthier routine geared toward better eating habits, regular exercise and less excess. A romantic gesture seems promising. 4 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22):Taking a different approach to an old idea will gain approval from those you live with or deal with daily. A change will turn out to be inspiring and prompt you to take on new challenges. A positive attitude will attract upbeat people. 3 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):Keep your life simple, plans realistic and intentions honorable. The vibe or attitude you have will determine how others react to your requests. Getting involved in a physical pursuit will encourage you to take better care of yourself. 3 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):A change will turn out to be in your best interest. Don't ight the inevitable; expand your mind, take a step forward and try something new. A venture that requires you to use your attributes differently will spark your interest. 3 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):Take action. If you take too long to decide what you are going to do next, you'll get left behind. Put some effort into the way you present what you have to offer, and wow everyone with your smart, unique input. 4 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):Clear your head, rebuild your strategy and make it known what you plan to do next. Change begins with you, and your happiness is in your hands. Express your desires, and forge into the future with vim and vigor. 2 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):Be honest about the way you feel. Address bothersome issues or people who try to take advantage of you. Free yourself from demanding situations. Pour your energy into self-improvement and boosting your ego. 5 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):Change will excite you. Look at all your options, and consider what you want to do with the rest of your life. Someone unfamiliar to you will grab your interest. Explore prospects, and you'll discover something that excites you. 3 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Self-discipline will help you reach a goal you set for yourself. Whether it's getting in tiptop shape, pursuing something you want to do or making plans with someone you love, much can be accomplished if you are persistent and willing to work hard. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):Don't let anger set in when you should be putting your effort into something worthwhile. Find a way to offer your services, and reach out in a way that is safe, realistic and needed in your community. 3 stars

Birthday Baby:You are engaging, smart and productive. You are unpredictable and sensitive.

STAR RATINGSFIVE STARS: Nothing can stop you now. Go for the gold.

FOUR STARS: You can pretty much do as you please. It’s a good time to start new projects. THREE STARS: If you focus your efforts, you will reach your goals.

TWO STARS: You can accomplish a lot, but don’t rely on others for help. ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid conflicts. Work behind the scenes or read a good book.

DOUBLE CROSSWORD No 11,022

ACROSS

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execute (5,8) 18. Check (8) 19. Inform (4) 20. Put on trial (7) 21. Fundamental (5) 22. Neat (4) 23. Reputation (8)

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SOLUTIONS TO

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5. Continent, as I am to start with (4)

9. Give out when it’s time to come back (4)

10. Fit as a lithe cat may be (8)

11. Entangle wool and express displeasure (5)

12. Bitterly continues a row with the French (7)

13. Paper clip, perhaps, to keep things secure (5,8)

18. It’s quite fair to sing about wine (8)

19. Look for support in return (4)

20. He’s particular about his fare (7)

21. Suitable tobacco for Oliver? (5)

22. Ties for position (4) 23. They’re important to

one’s standing as a rider (8)

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4. Amusement for which I rent men a tent, perhaps (13)

6. Prepared scheme - for winning a game of tennis? (3,4)

7. He charges a couple of hundred to the employer (7)

8. Aircraft at the end of the flight in the sky (6)

13. Have the company of constables on a ship (7)

14. One of those self-expressive types (7)

15. Begin to put the plan down on paper (3,3)

16. Authorise a rising Middle East nation (7)

17. Balances used in eleven supermarkets (5,2)

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column and 3x3 grid within the larger grid must end up containing each number from 1 to 9, and each number can only appear once in a row, column or box.

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CorrectionTHE Ngatapa rugby player identified on page

26 of The Gisborne Herald yesterday as first five-eighth Tom Mueli was in fact second five-eighth Pete Livingston, who was wearing No.10 for the match. Apologies . . . our photographer had it right all along. The mistake was in the sub-editing.

Australia, NZ hot favouritesMELBOURNE — Australia and New Zealand

will be hot favourites to be named hosts for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup this week, with rivals Japan pulling out of contention to stage the event and pledging their support for the joint bid.

Japan yesterday officially withdrew its proposal to host the tournament, leaving Colombia as the only other bidder in competition with Australia/New Zealand.

The Japan Football Association (JFA) confirmed its withdrawal from the process yesterday evening, throwing its support behind the Australia and New Zealand joint bid.

“The decision to withdraw from the bid was taken after careful and thorough consideration in the Japan Bid Committee as well as the JFA Executive Committee,” JFA president Kohzo Tashima said in a statement.

“Now, we can show the solidarity of (the) Asian football family, to lead to a successful bid.”

“Japan will co-operate with FIFA and the host nation(s) to ensure women’s football in the world continues to advance, expand and ascend to a higher level.”

The FIFA Council will make its decision on the host in an online meeting and open vote on Thursday this week with an announcement expected in the early hours of Friday, Australian/NZ time. — AAP

SPORTS BRIEFS

RUGBY by Ben O’Brien-Leaf

WORD of it has spread like wildfire.The quality of Courage Cup rugby has

been sensational in the past fortnight and Week 3 of the six-team competition at Barry Park tomorrow promises more of the same.

The top-of-the-table clash between two unbeaten teams — cup holders Team Whetukamokamo Douglas and challengers Team Charlie Ngatai — on Barry Park No.1 will be the biggest game to date.

The second-placed Ngatai beat Team Brendon O’Connor 34-29 in Week 1 and last Wednesday won again, this time against Team Toa Halafihi, 19-15 on Rectory No.1.

Team Douglas defeated Team Rico

Gear 31-24 to open their campaign, and followed up with a 39-24 victory over Team Hosea Gear.

All the teams contain must-see talent. Halfback Qkylau Leach and openside flanker Maui Kururangi — Douglas’s MVPs (most valuable players) in the past two weeks — have great flair for the game.

Douglas Year 9 hooker Bekko Page is loving his rugby: “We’ve all missed the game and we’ve all enjoyed the hit-out, especially because people of all skill-levels can play.

“That’s what makes the Courage Cup not just a competition, but a brotherhood.”

On Barry Park No.2, Team Hosea Gear will host Team Rico Gear. Team Rico are looking for their first win, the O’Connors having won their Week 2 clash 34-12.

Team Hosea beat the Halafihis 41-17 on June 10 and have try-scoring firepower in spades.

Fullback Apirana Kirkpatrick and No.8 Luke Bidois, Team Hosea’s two MVPs, are in superb form.

“It’s been challenging but enjoyable, even for those of us who haven’t played rugby before,” said Team Hosea first-five Cohen Loffler.

“Kyle Smith debuted for us last week on the left wing. His tackling was impressive throughout the whole game, and in the second half, he even took two guys over the line with him to score in the corner.”

Team O’Connor take on Team Halafihi on Barry Park No.3 and both teams have players who are getting a huge amount out of their involvement.

Promising Year 10 player Noah Torrance-Cribb has had the chance to play both second-five and blindside flanker for the O’Connors in the Courage Cup. He scored a brilliant second-half try last Wednesday.

Gisborne Intermediate School teacher and former Ngati Porou East Coast front-rower Puri Hauiti has a son, Duke, who plays prop for Team Halafihi.

Hauiti senior is “sold” on the Courage Cup.

“My boy hasn’t played since Uawa under-8s and now he’s learning to play in all three front-row positions.

“But more than that, he loves being in a team well-coached by Tom Cairns and Michael Morrissey, with other great male role models like Kahu Tamatea refereeing the games.”

Courage Cup quality impresses

TRYING TO CHECK THE MOMENTUM: Wheturangi McGhee, of Team Whetukamokamo Douglas, goes to ground as Tevita Akauola, of Team Hosea Gear, tries to rip the ball from his grasp in Gisborne Boys’ High School Courage Cup action last Wednesday. More cup games will be played tomorrow.

LOOKING FOR SUPPORT: Mahaki Albrett-Tureia, of Team Whetukamokamo Douglas, helps to halt the progress of Cohen Loffler, who tries to offload to another Team Hosea Gear player.

Pictures by Paul Rickard

FOOTBALL

MANCHESTER — Burnley have placed on record their disgust after an “offensive” banner with the message “White Lives Matter Burnley” flew above the Etihad Stadium during their 5-0 English Premier League defeat at Manchester City today (NZ time).

The message stood as a stark and unwelcome contrast to the shows of unity and support that have taken place since football’s Premier League resumed, with all players wearing “Black Lives Matter” on their shirts and taking a knee before kick-off.

A statement released at halftime read: “Burnley Football Club strongly condemns the actions of those responsible for the aircraft and offensive banner that flew over The Etihad Stadium on Monday evening.

“We wish to make it clear that those responsible are not welcome at Turf Moor. This, in no way, represents what Burnley Football Club stands for and we will work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and issue lifetime bans.

“The club has a proud record of working with all genders, religions and faiths through its award-winning Community scheme, and stands against racism of any kind.

“We are fully behind the Premier League’s Black Lives Matter initiative and, in line with all other Premier League games undertaken since Project Restart, our players and football staff willingly took the knee at kick-off at Manchester City.

We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter.”

Burnley captain Ben Mee spoke angrily about the banner, saying the players on the field were sickened by what they saw above their heads.

“We as a group of players condemn it, we’re ashamed, we’re embarrassed,” he told BBC Radio Five Live.

“It completely misses the point of what we’re trying to achieve as a football community.

“It’s a minority of our supporters. I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that. It definitely had a massive impact on us to see that in the sky.

“We were embarrassed, disappointed, upset. We are embarrassed that our name was in it. That they tried to attach it to our club. It doesn’t belong anywhere near our club. Fans like that don’t deserve to be around football.” — PA

Burnley lash out at ‘offensive’ banner

TENNIS by Jonathan Veal, PA

LONDON — Former world No.1 Andy Murray will play his first match in seven months when the Battle of the Brits tennis tournament gets under way this week.

The three-time grand-slam champion has been out of action since November with a bruised bone that hampered him during Great Britain’s Davis Cup campaign, but makes his comeback against Liam Broady in the all-British tournament at the country’s National Tennis Centre.

Murray was set to return to action on the ATP Tour in April, but that was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Murray says he is looking forward to competing at the US Open and French Open this year but only if it is safe enough amid the Covid-19 pandemic that shut down the sport in March.

“Playing the grand slams would be my priority,” Murray said.

“I think the schedule is tricky and I understand the reason why it is like that.

“I don’t mind what the situation is, providing it is safe. If I was told I could take one person with me . . . you can make that work. I’d probably go with a physio and some coaching could be done remotely.” — PA

Murray set to get back on the court

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 23, 202022 SPORT

RUGBY LEAGUEby Daniel Gilhooly, AAP

WELLINGTON — Warriors management say the early-season dismissal of Stephen Kearney was deliberate, to allow a new coach plenty of runway to reshape the NRL playing squad.

With 13 players off contract at the end of the season, an overhaul is looming at the Kiwi club and chairman Rob Croot said it was important the coach in charge should drive it.

Croot said he could sympathise with those who regarded the abrupt sacking of popular coach Kearney as heartless, particularly with the squad forced into its long quarantine stay on the Central Coast.

However, he said new owners Autex Industries — of which he is chairman — were ambitious and didn’t want to waste half a season when a new direction was clearly needed to lift the team’s standards.

Croot said a “wishlist” of preferred candidates had been compiled, although he insisted that process didn’t begin until after Kearney was dismissed on Saturday.

Expressions of interest had flowed quickly but Croot saidthe appointment process would

be rigorous.“Part of the reason for the

decision-making is that now it gives us that opportunity to take that breath,” Croot told NZME.

“There is no timeframe we are working to but ideally we would have somebody lined up fairly quickly, so that person can have due influence over selections and signings for next year.”

Master coach Wayne Bennett has been linked with a move by one report, although he still has 18 minths to run on his South Sydney contract.

Few coaches have publicly voiced interest aside from former Manly mentor Geoff Toovey.

Croot said Autex had made its expectations of Kearney and the team clear when taking ownership late last year.

“I appreciate that it seems really tough with Covid and the boys based in Australia to make the decision now,” he said.

“But we expected a change and to move forward. We haven’t seen that consistency and we have called it.

“It allows us to go to market and choose the best person to drive the change we are looking for.

“The timing also allows the new coach to be involved in recruitment for the 2021 season, which is critical.”

New coach to drive changes

THE COACHING TURNSTILE: Stephen Kearney, above, has been sacked from the position of Warriors coach early in the season to give his successor time to reshape the squad, while South Sydney coach Wayne Bennett, left, has been linked to the vacancy. NZ Herald pictures

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SPORTTuesday, June 23, 2020

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Wayne Bennett among those linked to Warriors job

Standard on display in Courage Cup games impresses PAGE 23PAGE 22

RUGBY LEAGUE INSIDERUGBY

MOTORSPORT by Jenna Fryer,AP auto racing writer

BUBBA Wallace steered the No.43 to the front of pit road, NASCAR champion Kyle Busch pushing the famous car on one side and close friend Ryan Blaney pushing on the other.

The entire 40-driver field and all their crew members followed. After the car came to a stop, Wallace climbed out, sat on the window ledge and sobbed. Richard Petty, his Hall of Fame team owner, gently placed a hand on Wallace’s shoulder.

As federal authorities descended on Talladega Superspeedway on Monday to investigate the discovery of a noose in Wallace’s garage stall, the entire industry rallied around the Cup Series’ only Black driver.

“The news has disturbed us all and of course we want justice and know who and why,” said seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson.

“And we want to stand with our friend.” The 82-year-old Petty, at his first race

since the coronavirus pandemic began and at Talladega on race day for the first time in more than 10 years, stood side by side with Wallace during the national anthem before Monday’s rain-postponed event. Everyone stood behind the car while Brad Keselowski held the American flag at the front of the display of solidarity.

The idea to stand with Wallace started with Johnson, while former series champion Kevin Harvick suggested they all push the car to the front of the grid, Wallace said.

One by one, after the anthem, they hugged Wallace. He then had a long embrace with Petty.

And then he went racing. It was Wallace who successfully

pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues less than two weeks ago and he was the target when the noose was found hanging in the Richard Petty Motorsports garage stall on Sunday afternoon at the Alabama track. A member of Wallace’s crew reported it to NASCAR, and by Monday morning US Attorney Jay Town said his office, the FBI and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were involved.

“Regardless of whether federal charges can be brought, this type of action has no place in our society,” Town said.

NASCAR president Steve Phelps said security has been stepped up for Wallace — his team were also granted unusual access to their car on Monday morning to ensure it had not been tampered with overnight — and the FBI was at the track.

He said the FBI director had told agents in Birmingham to “use all their resources” to find the perpetrator.

“Unequivocally they will be banned from this sport for life,” Phelps said.

“There is no room for this at all. We won’t tolerate it. They won’t be here. I don’t care who they are, they will not be here.”

The stock car series has tried to distance itself from the flag for years at the risk of alienating a core group of its fan base. At Wallace’s urging, it

went ahead with the ban as the nation grappled with social unrest largely tied to George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died in the custody of Minneapolis police.

NASCAR has not outlined how it will enforce the restriction and this week’s race at Talladega, in the heart of the South, presented the series with its biggest test in the early going.

Disgruntled fans with Confederate flags drove past the main entrance to the track all weekend and a plane flew above the track on Sunday pulling a banner of the flag that read “Defund NASCAR”.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said she was “shocked and appalled” by the “vile act” against Wallace.

“There is no place for this disgusting display of hatred in our state,” Ivey said.

“Bubba Wallace is one of us; he is a native of Mobile and on behalf of all Alabamians, I apologise to Bubba Wallace as well as to his family and friends for the hurt this has caused

and regret the mark this leaves on our state.”

Petty said in a statement he was “enraged” by the “filthy act” of racism.

Retired champion Jeff Gordon called it a “cowardly” act, while retired champion and current team owner Tony Stewart seethed in a social media post: “Angry. Outraged. Disappointed. Those words don’t fully describe how I feel. #IStandWithBubba and I’ll damn sure stand up to anyone who engages in this

kind of behaviour.”Phelps said he was the one who told

Wallace about the noose.“It was a difficult moment for Bubba, a

difficult moment for me,” he said.“He’s handled it with the grace that he

has handled everything that’s happened over the last few weeks.”

The 26-year-old Wallace has not commented since a statement on social media late on Sunday in which he declared: “This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.”

Wallace has worn a shirt that says “I Can’t Breathe” over his firesuit and sported a Black Lives Matter paint scheme in a race last month in Martinsville, Virginia.

Talladega is one of the more raucous stops on the NASCAR schedule, but the pandemic prompted the series, like all sports, to ban or sharply limit fans. Up to 5000 fans were allowed in, but there were far fewer than that on Monday and none of them had access to the the infield or the Cup Series garage.

Under strict new health guidelines, a very limited number of people can access the garage. That would include crew members for each of the 40 teams, NASCAR employees, Talladega staff members and any contracted safety crews or security guards.

Phelps declined to discuss whether cameras in the garage area might have captured anything of value but noted NASCAR had an approved list of who was allowed access that had been turned over to authorities.

“It will be part of what the FBI is looking at,” he said

Drivers back Bubba

Disgruntled fans with Confederate flags drove past the main entrance to the track all weekend and a plane flew above the track on Sunday pulling a banner of the flag that read ‘Defund NASCAR’.

SHOW OF SUPPORT: Kyle Busch (left) and Corey LaJoie (right) join other drivers and crews as they push the car of Bubba Wallace to the front of the field before the start of the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, on Monday. In an extraordinary act of solidarity with NASCAR’s only Black driver, dozens of drivers pushed the car belonging to Wallace to the front of the field before Monday’s race as FBI agents nearby tried to find out who left a noose in his garage stall over the weekend. Inset,Bubba Wallace walks to his car in the pits before the start of the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at the Talladega Superspeedway. AP pictures